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enjoy your vacation in our private and amazing place far away from hustle and bustle of the city , feel and see paddy's field along away heading to the villa, suitable for retreat vacation and gathering with family. Learn More
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TOWARDS UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE IN RWANDA Summary Notes from Briefing by Caroline Kayonga* Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Rwanda 10/22/2007 – 10/23/2007 OUTLINE 1. A brief history of health in Rwanda a. Pre-Genocide b. Post-Genocide 2. Key elements of Rwandan community-based health insurance a. Vision and support b. Community-based health insurance c. Financing d. Services e. Quality of care f. Organization and management 3. Keys to success and challenges a. Keys to success and sustainability b. Challenges 4. Results DISCUSSION 1. A brief history of health in Rwanda Pre-Genocide—The Rwandan vision for health care was supported by the Bamako Initiative of 1988, which was adopted by many Sub-Saharan nations and aimed to revitalize health care strategy and strengthen equity in access to health care via decentralization to the local level. Following the Bamako Initiative, Rwanda decentralized management and district-level care strategy with the development of provincial-level health offices for health system management. Although progress was made toward decentralizing management to the province-level and, even further, to the district-level, this progress was disrupted at the time of the 1994 genocide. Post-Genocide—The genocide of 1994 destroyed the strides made by Rwandan government: Rwanda was left with a hollow government infrastructure and a society plagued by ill health and disease. With the advent of peace, the government began working to restructure health care and to decentralize management to the most local levels in order to increase utilization rates and improve overall health. Despite the promise that the government offered free health care to all, the system was significantly under-resourced, which affected availability and quality. To address this problem, the government implemented user-fees in 1994 to supplement meager health center budgets. However, a survey in 2001 found that utilization of primary care declined to just 23% of the population, and health outcomes were deteriorating, with HIV/AIDS and other *These synthesized notes were compiled based on Ms. Kayonga's comments at two public Brookings Institution presentations as well as several private meetings with Brookings fellows and staff. infectious disease burdens on the rise. The decline in utilization and health indicators was attributed to high user-fees for primary-, secondary-, and tertiary-level care. 2. Key elements of Rwandan community-based health insurance Vision and support—To increase utilization and improve health outcomes, the ministry of health decided in 2001 that changes would have to be made to the overall vision for the nation's healthcare. This new vision was comprised of three pillars: • Investment in strong prevention interventions of major diseases: Prevention services should be delivered free-of-charge to the entire population. • Access to curative care through voluntary, pre-paid health insurance: Curative care will be accessible to Rwandan citizens via voluntary, community-based health insurance schemes. • Performance based financing to improve quality of care: All entities involved in health care and insurance delivery and management will engage in performance-based contracts and financing to encourage high quality of care. This national-level strategy was supported by district-level governing bodies, as well as sector- and local-level government and organizations. In addition, development partners and faith-based organizations played a role in supporting (via financing and service delivery) the ministry's vision. Community-based health insurance—The Rwandan health care system fully subsidizes preventive health services for the entire population. However, curative services (primary-, secondary-, and tertiary-care) are not (and will not be) fully subsidized by the government. Insurance for curative care has existed for some time in the formal sector, with civil servant, military, and private health funds. However, over 50% of the population is employed outside of the formal sector, leaving them financially vulnerable. To make curative services affordable, to increase utilization, and to ensure sustainability of financing for these services within the informal sector, Rwanda has implemented sector-based health insurance schemes known as mutuelles de santé to raise revenues for curative health services. Mutuelles are community-based health organizations that offer voluntary, non-profit health insurance schemes for the informal sector. They are formed on the basis of mutual aid and the collective pooling of risks at the local sector level for primary care, with larger pools at the district level for secondary care, and the national level for tertiary care. Financing— Approximately 50 percent of mutuelle funding is comprised of annual member premiums. Households pay annual premiums (standardized in January 2007 to the equivalent of US$1.81) per person, per year. Where citizens cannot pay the individual or family premium up-front, microfinance institutions provide individual loans for the premium, to be paid within a year of disbursement with a 15% rate of interest. Further, donors and government programs support mutuelles by paying fees for those that cannot afford any level of coverage. The remaining half of mutuelle funding is obtained via transfers from other insurance funds, charitable organizations, NGOs, development partners, and the Government of Rwanda. This funding is allocated in the following way: 2 • 13% from the Ministry health annual budget • 12% from the annual contributions of Civil Servant's social insurance • 12% from the annual contributions of the Military Medical insurance • 12% from the annual contributions of the Genocide victim's fund • 1% from the annual contributions of private's health insurance • <1% from development Partners • < 1% from local government Services— Mutuelle members are entitled to three complementary benefit packages † : • Primary care: Primary care delivered at the sector level via clinics, which are run either by government or NGOs. • Secondary care: Specialized care delivered at the district level via district hospitals and specialists • Tertiary care: Specialized care delivered at the national level via one of just a few specialized, national medical institutions Mutuelle-funded services are provided through public or private non-profit, contracted facilities. ‡ (Mutuelle insurance does not cover care at private for-profit centers.) Providers are paid by mutuelles directly, either through monthly capitation rates, on a fee-for-service basis, or via (recently introduced) performance-based payments. Quality of Care— Quality of health care services in Rwanda is mandated and maintained via stringent performance-based financing for public and private non-profit health centers. All district mayors are required to sign performance contracts with the President of Rwanda for all public sectors (e.g., agriculture, hygiene, infrastructure, etc.), including health. District mayors, in turn, utilize performance-based contracts with health facilities to encourage fulfillment of standards, with subsidies and financing contingent on performance. Health performance targets include indicators for declining morbidity and mortality associated with prevention and curative care, as well as access to care. Performance against indicators is monitored with quarterly evaluations and through analysis of results in annual reports. Organization and management—The government of Rwanda has tried to decentralize all implementation of health care policy, with the central government responsible for stewardship activities only (e.g., including policy development, capacity building, monitoring and evaluation, and resource mobilization). The government decentralizes all other implementation activities: • Sector-level: A sector comprises roughly 50,000 people. Each sector must have at least one health center for primary care. Each sector has a mutuelle that is managed by people who are elected by the community. • District-level: A district is comprised of multiple sectors (usually about 5), with roughly 250,000-500,000 people in each District. (There are 30 Districts in Rwanda, which now has about 10 million people total.) Each District has at least one hospital/secondary care facility. † Under new law and harmonized tariffs, it is possible for any mutuelle member to seek health care at any health center across the country. However, this new law has not been realized in practice, as capacity to transfer bills and funds are still limited. ‡ 90% of the nations health care facilities are run by the public sector or private non-profit organizations; 10% of the nation's health care facilities are private and for-profit. 3 • National level: Tertiary care is provided at national-level teaching hospitals Risk pooling for mutuelles is managed at both the central and district levels. The central level manages subsidy funds obtained through non-mutuelle insurance funds, charitable organizations, NGOs, development partners, and the Government of Rwanda. This national solidarity fund channels subsidies down to the district mutuelle solidarity funds as well as to tertiary hospitals for care of mutuelle members who are referred by district hospitals. While the national solidarity fund manages mutuelle subsidies, member premium contributions are managed at the district level. These contributions are pooled from sector-level mutuelle groups up to the district levels, and disbursed by the district-level mutuelle management entities to the appropriate district- and sector-level facilities based on need and service utilization. At the district level, mutuelle funds are managed by a designated government entity. The district entities employ district agents that are responsible for monitoring and supervision of the various sector mutuelle organizations that comprise each district mutuelle management entity. The district entities are also responsible for the management of the district-level solidarity funds. At the sector level, mutuelle organizations are owned and managed privately by their members; members elect management officials to be trained in sector-level mutuelle organization and management. 3. Keys to success and challenges Keys to success and sustainability—The following attributes have been identified as keys to success and sustainability for the community-based health insurance schemes in Rwanda: • Quality services: Ensuring high quality of services delivered is essential in maintaining and expanding mutuelle membership. Members must feel that they are receiving quality care in order to renew membership; potential members must see benefits of membership in quality services. • Financial access: Annual premiums and out-of-pocket payments must be priced in a manner that is affordable to the informal sector. There should be subsidies for the very poor who will not be able to afford any contribution but require coverage. • Community-orientation: There is a strong sense of community in Rwanda that was essential in building community-based health insurance and scaling it to the national level. In Rwanda, most government programs have roots in the strong community- orientated culture (e.g., community pooling in agriculture, hygiene, and health). • Bottom-up Architecture: To capitalize on the strong community culture, instead of a top-down approach, mutuelles were built from the grassroots levels up to the national level. This bottom-up approach was essential in ensuring large uptake and scale-up. • Political Will: In order to be successful in implementing any kind of large scale scheme, there must be a clear vision and related policy objectives set forth by the government. Ideally, donors and other stakeholders help the government develop policy—or at the minimum, they should support the policy and its goals. In order to scale-up mutuelle pilots in Rwanda, there was a strong commitment from all stakeholders, including the government, communities, donors, and providers. Not only is political will essential to successful implementation, it is essential for maintaining program success since stakeholder buy-in and support is required for refining existing strategic frameworks when required. 4 • Large, uninsured informal sector: Community-based health insurance offers insurance options to those left uninsured by the formal sector. Where a large informal, uninsured sector exists (as in Rwanda), there is a market for community- based health insurance. • Results-driven atmosphere: The results-driven atmosphere created by the President of Rwanda is an essential element in the success of mutuelles. Results-driven contracts with district mayors and with health facilities incorporated both quality and quantity indicators, ensuring that quality services were delivered to a large quantity of people. The resulting quality of services delivered to mutuelle members encourages membership renewals and attracts new members. • Continual improvement: To coordinate and improve health service delivery, mutuelle leaders are divided into health clusters that are organized into several technical working groups. These working groups (e.g., the family planning working group, the maternal and child health working group, the strategy working group, the mapping working group, etc.) meet to discuss, analyze, and identify methods for improving service delivery. Ongoing Challenges—The following areas have been identified as ongoing challenges to the community-based health insurance schemes in Rwanda: • Numerous Priorities: In Rwanda, initially it was difficult to implement any kind of comprehensive reform because there were too many priorities in the public health arena. After targeting the most important areas of health, the government was able to build strategies to address these issues. • Financial gaps: Often the cost of care is higher than mutuelle payments are able to cover. This puts the sustainability of mutuelles in question. In order to understand the costs of service delivery and to ensure sustainability of the system, Rwanda is undertaking a costing study in partnership with RTI, USAID, and a school of public health. § • Increasing participation: Attracting more mutuelle members is an ongoing challenge faced at the local and national levels. In the last year 73% of the population joined a mutuelle, though many enrollees enrolled mid-year, after they had a health episode, rather than at the beginning of the year. There is still a need to communicate the benefits of joining. • Quality of care: Maintaining the quality of care is essential to sustaining and growing mutuelle membership. Rwanda has started to utilize performance-based contracts to ensure that service quality is preserved (and improved). • Human resource constraints: Rwanda, like many developing nations, faces human resource constraints in the health care field due to brain drain. The nation needs to build its health care workforce to ensure sustained, quality service delivery. • Institutional capacity and management ability: Post-genocide Rwanda faces tremendous resource constraints, including a lack of institutional and management capacity to govern the nation and to build its private sector. Capacity is a particularly an issue in management of the sector-level mutuelles. To address these issues and to build sustained institutional and management capacity within the public and private sectors, the nation has developed organizations that build skills and train high-potential individuals to undertake management and governing positions within both the public and private sectors. §Results of this study should be available by early November of this year. We will follow-up with CKayonga to obtain findings of the study. 5 4. Results Rwanda has lost ten years in health gains due to the genocide: Health indicators have improved significantly since 2001, but by 2005 they are only back to pre-genocide levels. Nonetheless, the nation has seen significant improvement in health even in the past several years. For example, the use of modern contraceptives jumped 20% between 2005 and 2007, and bed net utilization increased. The Minister of Health seems confident that other indicators have seen similar improvements in the past few years. She is considering implementing an interim Demographic Health Survey to evaluate these gains. It is important to note, however, that the Minister is hesitant to attribute all health gains to mutuelle membership and primary care utilization (as opposed to preventative care utilization), but she maintains that there is certainly a correlation between primary care service utilization and health improvements. By 2006, nearly 75 percent of Rwanda's population had enrolled in mutuelles and independent evaluations have found evidence of increased access and use of health care among beneficiaries, as well as lower levels of out of pocket spending. Chart I: Mutuelle Membership, 2003-2007: 73% 74% 44% 27% 7% 2003 2004 2005 2006 October 2007 THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036-2118 Tel: 202-797-6000 Fax: 202-797-6004 www.brookings.edu/global/health 6
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Cisco 7914 IP Phone Expansion Module (CP-7914=) The Cisco Unified IP Phone Expansion Module 7914 extends the capabilities of the Cisco Unified IP Phones 7960G 7961G 7970G and 7971G-GE with additional buttons and an LCD display. Cisco 7914 Features Adds 14 buttons to the existing six on the 7960 and 7961G and the existing eight on the 7970G and 7971G-GE Can add up to two 7914 expansion units Each of the buttons can be programmed as a directory number (DN) line key or speed-dial key Buttons are illuminated allowing easy identification of calls Includes RS 232 connection cable Does not include single or double footstand (see accessories below) Compatibility Compatible with 7960G 7961G 7970G and 7971G-GE Power requirements Cisco IP Phone powered via Power over Ethernet (PoE) With one or two 7914 expansion modules a Cisco power cube is required (not included; see option below) Cisco IP Phone powered by local power supply With one 7914 no power supply needed. With two 7914's a Cisco power cube is required (not included; see option below) Buy with Confidence. Your order also includes: MetrolineDirect's Rock Solid One Year Warranty
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Brandon Costner
|No. 23 – Jiangsu Monkey King
|Power forward
|Chinese Basketball Association
|Personal information
July 21, 1987
Montclair, New Jersey
|Listed height
|6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)
|Listed weight
|235 lb (107 kg)
|Career information
|High school
|Seton Hall Preparatory School
(West Orange, New Jersey)
|NC State (2005–2009)
|NBA draft
|2009 / Undrafted
|Pro career
|Career history
|Belfius Mons-Hainaut
|Utah Flash
|Los Angeles D-Fenders
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|Los Angeles D-Fenders
|Jiangsu Monkey King
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Brandon Jay Costner (born July 21, 1987) is an American professional basketball player for the Jiangsu Monkey King of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He played college basketball at North Carolina State University.
College career[edit]
Just 5 games into the 2005–06 season, Costner sustained a season ending injury, earning a medical redshirt and therefore making 2006–07 his freshman season. His highest scoring game was in the 2007 ACC Tournament against Duke in which he scored 30 points in the Wolfpack victory.
Pro career[edit]
In March 2009, Costner announced that he would forgo his senior season at North Carolina State and enter the 2009 NBA draft. After going undrafted, he joined the Chicago Bulls for the 2009 NBA Summer League. Later that year, he signed with Belfius Mons-Hainaut of Belgium for the 2009–10 season.
In November 2010, he was acquired by the Utah Flash as they selected him with the 8th pick in the 2010 NBA D-League Draft.[1]
In November 2011, he was acquired by the Los Angeles D-Fenders. Following the conclusion of the 2011–12 D-League season, he joined Limoges CSP Elite of France for the remainder of their season.
In November 2013, he was re-acquired by the Los Angeles D-Fenders.[2]
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- African-American basketball players
- American expatriate basketball people in Belgium
- American expatriate basketball people in China
- American expatriate basketball people in France
- Basketball players from New Jersey
- Jiangsu Monkey King players
- Limoges CSP players
- Los Angeles D-Fenders players
- McDonald's High School All-Americans
- NC State Wolfpack men's basketball players
- Parade High School All-Americans (boys' basketball)
- People from West Orange, New Jersey
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No significant interest has been expressed in drilling off Oregon's coast, but supporters of the ban don't want to take the risk by letting the law die.
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W: R. Nolasco (11-7) L: B. Zito (8-6)
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|4th Inning
Dan Uggla (19) solo shot to left off Zito.
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Michael Stanton (8) solo shot to left center off Zito.
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Aaron Rowand (9) 2 run shot to left off Tankersley, Burrell scored.
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It really isn't yuri-ish at all; don't get your hopes up. It pretty much is an Ikkitousen knock-off with a budget of a hentai series. The fight scenes and the attempts of ecchi scenes were surprisingly and disappointingly sub-par.
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On Tuesday, Louisiana civil liberties groups filed a lawsuit against Gov. Bobby Jindal's recent "Marriage and Conscience" executive order, which allowed businesses and government employees to refuse service to gay couples. The order, these groups claim, exceeds Jindal's power under the Louisiana constitution. Jindal's executive order named a certain class of people—marriage equality opponents—and granted them a special right to discriminate against gay couples. But the Louisiana constitution doesn't authorize the governor to impose a substantive right by executive order. Jindal's "Marriage and Conscience" order should thus be rendered invalid.
It's hard not to feel a little sympathy for Jindal here. As the lawsuit notes, the state constitution is designed to prevent the governor from usurping legislative functions—namely, making laws. Had Jindal claimed his order was merely an interpretation of already existing legal principles, he might've gotten away with it. Instead, the governor issued his order soon after the legislature failed to pass a nearly identical measure. Jindal then declared that his order was designed to "accomplish the intent" of the bill. He didn't just revive a failed piece of legislation through executive fiat. He bragged about it.
As I explained in May, Jindal's willingness to legislate from the governor's mansion is especially galling in light of his criticism of the president:
Jindal has been a vituperative critic of President Barack Obama's executive orders, especially his order deferring deportation for many undocumented immigrants. In a press release, Jindal castigated Obama for "bypassing Congress" and "ignoring the American people," slamming the order as "an arrogant, cynical political move." Jindal seemed to be keenly concerned that Obama imposed his policy preference by executive fiat rather than allowing the people, through their elected representatives, to have their say. Now, though, the people's representatives have firmly rejected Jindal's bill—and rather than persuading the legislature to reconsider the measure, Jindal has simply imposed it by executive decree.
By the way, Obama's immigration executive orders are actually materially different from Jindal's anti-gay one. Through those orders, Obama simply instructed the Department of Homeland Security to defer deporting the parents of American citizens and lawful permanent residents. Why is he allowed to do that? Because Congress gave him permission to do so. Federal law explicitly directs DHS to establish such "national immigration enforcement policies and priorities," thereby granting the president discretion over deportation policies. Far from seizing legislative authority, Obama is just following Congress' directive. That's how an executive leads without breaking the law. Jindal should take note.
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When the Supreme Court handed down its decision in King v. Burwell, the health care case, last Thursday, there was no end of talk about how the court had just cemented a critical part of President Barack Obama's legacy. But the health care decision wasn't the only one that will rightly be considered an important part of Obama's legacy. The other is marriage equality—and not only because of what the president did, but also because of what he didn't do.
Obama made headlines in 2012 when he revealed that his opinion on marriage equality had "evol[ved]" and that he now supported it. (Vice President Joe Biden may have helped speed along the president's public evolution when he announced a few days earlier that he was "absolutely comfortable" with the idea of marriage equality and that gay and lesbian couples "are entitled to the same exact rights" as heterosexual couples.) This was a huge moment, and the president and vice president both deserved the considerable credit they received for making their support for marriage equality public. Even though their views surely reflected what was then an ongoing shift in public opinion, their announced support likely helped continue the move toward greater support for marriage equality. Indeed, by the time the Supreme Court heard oral argument in the marriage equality case in April, support for marriage equality was at a record high.
But that's not the only reason Obama deserves some of the credit for last week's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges (along with the justices who reached it, the marriage equality advocates who've been fighting for this day for decades, and the Framers of the 14th Amendment who embedded a commitment to equality and liberty in our Constitution). Another reason Obama deserves some of the credit is because of a decision he made the year before he announced his support for marriage equality: the decision not to defend in court a key provision of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman for purposes of federal law. Because of that provision, same-sex couples who were legally married under their state's law still couldn't enjoy the numerous and important federal benefits enjoyed by other married couples.
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The first clerk, Dana Guffey of Cleburne County, Arkansas, announced her resignation when she realized the court's ruling would require her to fill out paperwork officially recognizing same-sex couples' marriages. "It is definitely a moral conviction for me," Guffey said.
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When it was announced last year that openly gay director Roland Emmerich—of Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow fame—would be helming a film covering the Stonewall riots, some observers sounded a note of … concern. Perhaps the flashpoint of the modern LGBTQ civil rights movement was not ideal material for an artist who seems to prize world-ending disasters over small-scale defiance? Nevertheless, the production has continued apace, and today we've been granted the first stills from the set.
An initial reaction here at Outward HQ: Good god, Emmerich has turned Stonewall into a musical.
What follows is an edited version of our internal conversation regarding the stills, which, as you'll see, quickly turns into a very productive brainstorm of lyrics for the show. Roland, you know where we can be reached!
Bryan Lowder: But for real, why does this look like a musical? I am concerned. It's like a cheaper Rent, which is not a good thing.
June Thomas: Just the words "Roland Emmerich" in close proximity to Stonewall are kind of problematic. Also, major American Horror Story vibe. Like, are some of those homeless kids actually zombies?
Lowder: Gay, mafia-supporting zombies … in a musical. Wait, let's write the songs!
Thomas: That guy's got an amazing butt/ If only I hadn't gotten a disease from the filthy glasses in the/ STONE-waaaaaal! (I guess, strictly speaking, Stonewall should rhyme with ball.)
Lowder: Here's a song title: "Burying Judy, Unearthing Resolve." Our drinks are watered down/ but I won't sport a frown/ instead I'll shake my ass/ except when coppers pass
Thomas: MAFIA BARMAN: I hate these effin' 'mos/ Why don't they wear appropriate clothes/ We have to pay off the fuzz/ Good job the drinks are too weak to give off a buzz (Super-complicated music playing, hence the wordiness and APPARENTLY non-working rhyme scheme.)
Lowder: I want the mafia bar man to have an unexpected emotional arc.
Thomas: But that guy in the Mod Squad dress/ And the Judy Garland tress/ He's kind of a loner/ But he gives me a boner
Lowder: Uh oh, here comes the Village Voice reporter: Up in my office, having a smoke/ look out the window, think it's a joke/ the fags are all fighting, who woulda thunk?/ there's one in heels! that boy-girl's got spunk!
Thomas: High prices, bad hygiene/ But the men—oh, hey, hi Gene!
Lowder: This is a guaranteed hit.
Want to hang out with Outward? If you'll be in or near New York City on Monday, July 13, join June Thomas, J. Bryan Lowder, and Mark Joseph Stern—and special guests Ted Allen, of Queer Eye and Chopped fame, and marriage-equality campaigner extraordinaire Evan Wolfson—for a queer kiki at an Outward LIVE show, hosted by City Winery. Details and tickets can be found here.
John Roberts' Gay Marriage Dissent Is Wrong About Polygamy—and the Constitution
In his wide-ranging dissent in the Supreme Court's landmark ruling on same-sex marriage, Chief Justice John Roberts set out a simple proposition: "If same-sex marriage, then polygamy." Indeed, the chief argues boldly that it would have been less of a stretch if the Supreme Court had embraced not same-sex but plural marriage, declaring, "[F]rom the standpoint of history and tradition, a leap from opposite-sex marriage to same-sex marriage is much greater than one from a two-person union to plural unions, which have deep roots in some cultures around the world. If the majority is willing to take the big leap, it is hard to see how it can say no to the shorter one."
The chief justice is on to something important that goes to the heart of the constitutional controversies that now swirl around traditional marriage, monogamy, and same-sex marriage. Elsewhere in Slate, William Saletan says Roberts is wrong to link same-sex marriage with polygamy, but from the perspective of the constitutional vision defended by the chief justice, polygamy is indeed far easier to swallow than same-sex marriage. From the point of view of an alternative framework that Justice Anthony Kennedy seems to accept, however, same-sex marriage and polygamy appear in very different lights, with the one contributing to and the other undermining the Constitution's core commitment to equal liberty.
The problem, in other words, lies not only in Roberts' flawed description of marriage and its history—though he does err there—but rather in his approach to interpreting the Constitution. Only by seeing this can we appreciate why the court's same-sex marriage decision strengthens marriage as a constitutional matter.
Istanbul's Gay Pride Parade Broken Up by Police
Over the weekend, thousands of jubilant marchers poured onto the streets of many major cities, including San Francisco, New York, and London, to celebrate pride month and the Supreme Court's recent legalization of same-sex marriage throughout the United States. Things were considerably less joyous at the annual pride parade in Turkey's most populous city, which was cut short when the police used aggressive force to break up the gathering.
As Quartz reports, "For more than a decade, the Turkish city of Istanbul has held one of the most visible gay-pride events in the Muslim world." This year, the government denied permission to the organizers since the parade coincided with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
While the police claimed to have use proportional force, they fired tear gas, rubber bullets, and water cannons to disperse participants. This episode is the latest in a series of alleged incidents of police brutality under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and is reminiscent of the 2013 Gezi Park protests. Amnesty International accused Turkey of committing human rights violations in their brutal treatment of the Gezi protestors.
Will Same-Sex Couples Reinvigorate the Declining Institution of Marriage?
In his opinion for the Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges, recognizing same-sex couples' constitutional right to marry, Justice Anthony Kennedy referred to marriage as "a keystone of our social order" and "a building block of our national community." Is this still true today? In the late 1940s, nearly 8 in 10 households in the United States were headed by married couples. Now it's less than half. Marriage is in steady decline.
Perhaps Kennedy's language is more specifically directed at same-sex couples, who have made marriage a cornerstone issue in the LGBT movement. In the last year alone, the number of married same-sex couples in the United States tripled.
Obama Administration: Federal Benefits Can No Longer Exclude "Gender Transition Services"
A hard-won victory was granted to the LGBTQ community last week when the Supreme Court decided to strike down state bans on same-sex marriage. But the battle for LGBTQ rights is still an uphill one—a fact that John Oliver highlighted on the most recent episode of his HBO show Last Week Tonight, in which he dedicated 16 minutes to transgender civil rights issues. "For all the strides transgender people have made lately, let's not get too complacent about how far we've come," Oliver said. He pointed to official rules that legitimize prejudice, such as laws that force people to use bathrooms corresponding with their biological sex and DMV practices that make transgender women remove their wigs before being photographed for licenses. Oliver noted, "When you're transgender, any interaction with bureaucracy can be humiliatingly difficult."
Bathroom laws and disrespectful treatment are just two examples. The transgender community faces a slew of social and legal difficulties that have been systemically dismissed by the government. But at least one particular difficulty has finally been taken seriously—the issue of transgender-specific health care. More than a half-dozen U.S. states, including New York and California, recently began offering health insurance coverage to state workers for transgender-related treatments such as gender reassignment surgery and hormone therapy. Starting this week, Nevada is the latest state to adopt such policies. And thanks to a quiet announcement last week by the Obama administration, change will soon come at the national level: Beginning next January, all transgender federal employees will be eligible for at least some forms of transition-related health care coverage.
A Progressive Agenda for Married Queers
Since the Supreme Court constitutionalized a right to marriage for same-sex couples last Friday, most social critics have cautioned that there remain many more items on the gay rights to-do list: enacting antidiscrimination laws, addressing transphobia and the high incidence of homelessness among LGBTQ teens, allaying the disproportionate number of LGBTQ people in immigrant detention, ending homophobic bullying and violence in the schools, and remedying the over-criminalization of people of color in the LGBTQ community. The list, as you can see, is long.
But as we redirect our energies and resources to those causes, it's also important to recognize that marriage itself remains a space worthy of ongoing critical attention. Once the gay pride dust has settled, we should expect to see "nose-holding" pragmatists marry to protect their legal and economic interests even as they remain ambivalent about the institution—and in that, we have an opportunity to put progressive politics to work from the inside of marriage.
Why the Oxford English Dictionary's Addition of Cisgender Matters
While Friday marked a historic victory for the LGBTQ community, it turns out there's another advancement to celebrate: Last week, the Oxford English Dictionary released a list of 500 new entries, and among the more notable additions was cisgender. The word—which is defined as "designating a person whose sense of personal identity matches their gender at birth"—is seen as an opposite and complementary term to transgender.
To be considered for the OED, a word must have been in use for several consecutive years. While cisgender has been around since the 1990s, The Cutpoints out that until recently it was largely used by academics in scholarly circles and was not widely known.


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Foreign direct investment (FDI) in India fell by nearly a quarter in the first seven months of 2010 and the much-publicised chaos around preparations for the Commonwealth Games has added to worries foreign firms could put off further investment.
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In Photoshop and Bridge CS5 for Photographers New Features, author Chris Orwig explores the enhancements in Photoshop CS5 and Bridge CS5 from a photographer's perspective. This course introduces the Mini Bridge, a brand new panel to browse and open images without leaving Photoshop, expanded layer functionality, improved sharpening and noise reduction in Adobe Camera Raw, cleaning up and enhancing photographs with the new Bristle Brush and content-aware tools, and working with the new High Dynamic Range (HDR) toning controls. Exercise files are included with the course.
Here, I want to look at how we can begin to open files from Mini Bridge either into Adobe Camera Raw or into Photoshop. Let's start off with a RAW file here. I'm going to click on this file, which is called antelope_valley. In order to see this file a little big bigger, I'll press Shift+Spacebar. This will then take this image into this Preview mode. Well, now that I've seen the image, I've determined, yeah. This is the one that I want to open. I'll go ahead and click Close here. Now because this is a RAW file, all that I need to do is to double-click the image that will then open this up inside of Adobe Camera Raw.
From here, if I wanted to open this up in Photoshop, I would simply click Open Image. That would exit Camera Raw and open this image up inside of Photoshop. Well, what about JPEGs? Let's go ahead and make a selection of a JPEG here. To open up a JPEG in Photoshop, simply double-click. That will then open the image up in Photoshop. Here I'm going to go ahead and just ignore this Profile Mismatch and click OK. We can see that we now have this image open in Photoshop.
If ever I want to close the image, simply close it and then go on my way. All right. Well, let's say that I scroll through these images and I come to one of my JPEGs. I realize for this particular JPEG, I want to open it up inside of Adobe Camera Raw. Well, how can I do that? Well, what we can do is right-click or Ctrl+Click, and then we can select Open in Camera Raw. We'll go ahead and choose that option. Here we can make some changes to the Contrast and the Vibrance and the Color Saturation, just adding a little bit of snap to the image. Press the P key.
There is our before. Press the P key again. There is our after. Let's add even more and just have a little bit of fun with this photo. All right, and then we click Open Image. That will then open up that image with those Camera Raw settings applied to it. All right. Well, so far so good. We've seen how we can open up RAW files, JPEGs and also open JPEGs or TIFFs in Camera Raw. Well, what about opening up something directly from Mini Bridge? Like, let's say that what we want to really do is we want to bring this image in to this file here.
Well, what you can do is click on a file and simply drag and then drop. Now when we do that, it gives us this icon here showing us that what's going to happen is, when we press Enter or Return, we now have an icon next to the thumbnail. Now what this is showing us is that this has been placed in this other document. Let me just reposition this a little bit so that we can illustrate what's happening here. So, if I move this off to the right, I'll go ahead and change the size of Mini Bridge, so we can focus in on the image.
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