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SeaWorld may be bouncing back from 'Blackfish' backlash
By Hugo Martin - Los Angeles Times (MCT)
After falling 4.2% in 2014, attendance rose 5.6% in the first three months of this year at SeaWorld's 11 theme parks and attractions, although an early Easter helped boost crowds.
(Credit: Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
On video at Shamu Stadium, a baby gray whale named JJ, found near death off Marina del Rey, swims out to sea after 14 months of rehabilitation at SeaWorld San Diego.
"Our commitment to animals goes beyond the boundaries of our park," an announcer intones over the din of uplifting music and applause.
The scene moved Andrea Longlade from Toronto, watching with her 6-year-old daughter. "I think it's good that my money is going toward good things," she said.
That's exactly the response SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. wants.
The park is still reeling from the 2013 documentary "Blackfish," which accused the company's parks of mistreating killer whales. The backlash damaged the company's attendance, earnings and stock price, along with the wholesome image it projects.
In recent months, the Orlando company has been pushing back against the documentary, which it decried as unfair and inaccurate. It has hired a new chief executive, announced plans for larger orca tanks and launched a $10-million advertising campaign defending its treatment of whales and promoting the company's work to benefit animals.
As part of its new $10-million pledge to fund conservation of orcas in the wild, SeaWorld last month committed $1.5 million to a partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to help rebuild the population of endangered "southern resident" killer whales found off the Pacific Northwest.
SeaWorld's efforts to rescue its reputation may be helping.
After falling 4.2% in 2014, attendance rose 5.6% in the first three months of this year at its 11 theme parks and attractions, although SeaWorld noted an early Easter helped boost crowds. Revenue rose just 1% because the company had to use "promotional offerings" to help attract visitors, who spent less on average than a year earlier.
Joel Manby, SeaWorld's new CEO, told investors he was encouraged by the results so far.
"It's very early, though, and it's part of a long-term, very targeted initiative," Manby said in a conference call discussing the firm's first-quarter financial results. "We have heard from our partners, our employees, most importantly, our guests that they're happy that we're out there disseminating the facts."
Analysts disagree on whether the counterattack will work, or whether the "Blackfish" controversy will permanently damage SeaWorld's future profitability.
Standard & Poor's credit analyst Shivani Sood said that negative press could hurt the park's ability to raise ticket prices and draw advertisers.
But Alex Petti, an analyst with Seeking Alpha, disagreed. Eventually, he said, customers will forget about the movie and it "will have less of an effect this year."
The company acknowledges that the documentary, along with activity by ardent animal rights groups, has prompted it to recognize that attitudes toward animal welfare are evolving among the public.
"The sensitivities have changed," said Brad Andrews, chief zoological officer at SeaWorld. "There is a lot more sophistication out there."
Wendy Patrick, a lawyer and business ethics lecturer at San Diego State University, said companies have to adjust the way they do business: "It really is a sign of the times that any time you are working with animals you have to be completely transparent and proactive."
Indeed, in the last decade, 1,100 animal care laws have been adopted across the country, including regulations to expand cage space for hens and increase the fines for cockfighting, said Wayne Pacelle, president and chief executive of the Humane Society of the United States, whose budget has ballooned from $75 million a decade ago to $190 million last year.
12:29 p.m., June 6:
SeaWorld and 'Blackfish': In a story in the June 6 Business section about SeaWorld Entertainment Inc.'s efforts to rebound from allegations in the documentary "Blackfish" that its parks mistreat killer whales, the last name of Wayne Pacelle of the Humane Society of the United States was misspelled as Parcell. Additionally, the organization was incorrectly identified as the Humane Society of America.
SeaWorld isn't alone in feeling the pressure.
Audience members of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus won't find elephants under the big top in future years.
In March, the famed touring circus said it would relocate 13 Asian elephants to a conservation area in Florida by 2018. The circus said it could no longer battle local laws that ban the use of sharp bull hooks to manage the elephants.
"It makes it difficult, if not impossible, to run this circus," said Stephen Payne, a spokesman for Feld Entertainment Inc, parent company of Ringling Bros.
Animal rights activists take credit for increasing the public's awareness of animal welfare issues.
"A lot of these animal-abusing businesses are taking a lot of heat from the public as a result of increased awareness of abuse of animals in captivity," said Brittany Peet, deputy director of captive animal law enforcement for PETA. "The market is forcing them to come out and get in front of the public concern."
Although attendance at zoos and aquariums across the country has remained steady for years, many have augmented their conservation efforts to appeal to the public's animal-friendly attitude.
"Going to a zoo today is a much different experience than going to a zoo 20 years ago," said Rob Vernon, senior vice president of the Assn. of Zoos and Aquariums, a nonprofit that represents more than 200 attractions in the U.S.
"The exhibits are different. What people see is different. The educational programs are vastly different. Now more than ever zoos and aquariums see themselves as conservation organizations," he said.
SeaWorld has a long history of rescuing sea animals. But the "Blackfish" accusations forced the company to more heavily promote its work.
The company's campaign of TV, print and online ads launched in March to correct what the company says are "inaccuracies" repeated by "animal extremist" organizations.
"Caring for the whales, we have a great responsibility to get that right," SeaWorld veterinarian Lara Croft says in one of the TV commercials.
In addition to the $10-million pledge for killer whale conservation and research, SeaWorld intends to establish an independent advisory committee of scientists to oversee its orca program.
SeaWorld representatives say their efforts are not an act of contrition.
"We don't have anything to apologize for," SeaWorld spokesman Fred Jacobs said.
CEO Manby, who wasn't made available for an interview, previously ran Herschend Family Entertainment, which owns the Harlem Globetrotters, Dolly Parton's Dollywood theme park and other attractions.
He replaced Jim Atchison, who resigned in December as chief executive and president but stayed on as a director and consultant.
For some SeaWorld fans, the accusations leveled by "Blackfish" and animal rights groups don't ring true.
"The staff members here love the animals," said Darlene Timson, a retired legal secretary and annual pass holder for 51 straight years. "PETA is the dumbest group out there."
Shawnee Hale, a 30-year-old online video producer from Burbank, has vowed never to return to the park since seeing "Blackfish."
"Watching the movie highlighted the fact that SeaWorld lies to its guests, which makes me feel untrusting of the company overall," she said.
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Similar to the United States (US) Natural Resource Damage (NRD) program, defined under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or "Superfund") and the Oil Pollution Act (OPA), the European Union's (EU) Environmental Liability Directive (ELD)imposes liability for, and requires remediation of, significant damage to natural habitats and species protected at Community and national levels, surface and ground waters covered by the Water Framework Directive, and land.The ELD was first published in 2004 and has since been transposed into the national laws of all EU Member States. However there is little guidance available to authorities and industry in interpreting and applying the ELD and meeting its prevention and restoration objectives. This volume is the first to describe the EU's ELD and to examine the emerging issues and practices in its application. While there are differences between the US and EU regimes, some of the underlying concepts, approaches and definitions embedded in NRD are also mirrored in the text of the ELD. The book includes a comparison of similarities and differences as well as synergies in practice; hence, this book will be of interest to both US and European readers. The ELD imposes liability for significant damage to natural habitats and species protected at Community and national levels, surface and ground waters covered by the Water Framework Directive, and land. Prior to the ELD's adoption many Member States had programs in place for the restoration of soil and groundwater contamination, but none had a regime for addressing harm to unowned natural resources. This volume presents a comprehensive legal commentary on the legal issues arising under the ELD, as well as an overview of administrative, technical, and legal issues and practices in applying the ELD regimes to cases of actual or threatened environmental damage. In doing so, it discusses both substantive issues and important procedural and process-related issues. Several case studies are presented to illustrate the issues and practical solutions. In addition, emerging best practices relating to practical ELD application are identified and presented. Identifying and discussing a wide range of emerging administrative, technical, and economic practice issues arising under member state legislation transposing and implementing the ELD, this book will be a valuable resource for all those whose work is affected by the ELD.
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Freelance Isn't Free and the future of freelancing
By Sara Horowitz
https://blog.freelancersunion.org/2016/10/28/sara-freelance-isnt-free-act/
October 27th, 2016 signifies a landmark victory for the nation's 55 million freelance workers: The New York City Council passed The Freelance Isn't Free Act, which extends unprecedented protections against nonpayment for millions of New York City's freelance workers. It's first-of-its-kind legislation that could have national implications by serving as a model for other cities to follow.
The bill, led by NYC Council Member Brad Lander, is a milestone moment in freelancers' rights – and it couldn't have happened without the collective efforts of the freelancers of New York City and the support of freelancers nationwide.
7 out of 10 freelance workers face nonpayment and freelancers are stiffed an average of $6000 annually. Under this legislation, clients will be compelled to use a contract and could face penalties for nonpayment, including double damages, attorney's fees, and civil fees. Just as full-time employees are protected against wage theft, the Freelance Isn't Free Act would offer protections for freelance workers.
Hundreds of freelancers came to share their stories and stand together with our allies in labor and business to form a powerful coalition to stand up for this issue. Today, we reached the conclusion of that journey. The Freelance Isn't Free Act passed unanimously at City Hall with 51 votes in favor of better payment protections for freelance workers.
Freelancers now represent 35% of the workforce and contributed $1 trillion to the economy in 2015. Independent workers are emerging as a powerful political constituency and the passage of the Freelance Isn't Free Act is the first step in creating a better system for freelancers. We did it – and we did it together. Now, let's take this legislation to new cities and make the future of freelancing better for all.
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Socioeconomic differences in waiting times for elective surgery: a population-based retrospective study
Alessio Petrelli1,
Giuliana De Luca2,
Tania Landriscina1 &
Giuseppe Costa3
Widespread literature on inequity in healthcare access and utilization has been published, but research on socioeconomic differences in waiting times is sparse and the evidence is fragmentary and controversial. The objective of the present study is the analysis of the relationship between individual socioeconomic level and waiting times for in-hospital elective surgery.
We retrospectively studied the waiting times experienced by patients registered on hospital waiting lists for 6 important surgical procedures by using the Hospital Discharge Database (HDD) of the Piedmont Region (4,000,000 inhabitants in the North West of Italy) from 2006 to 2008. The surgical procedures analyzed were: coronary artery by-pass (CABG), angioplasty, coronarography, endarterectomy, hip replacement and cholecystectomy. Cox regression models were estimated to study the relationship between waiting times and educational level taking into account the confounding effect of the following factors: sex, age, comorbidity, registration period, and Local Health Authorities (LHA) as a proxy of supply.
Median waiting times for low educational level were higher than for high educational level for all the selected procedures. Differences were particularly high for endarterectomy and hip replacement. For all considered procedures, except CABG, an inverse gradient between waiting times and educational level was observed: the conditional probabilities of undergoing surgery were lower among individuals with a low to middle level education than for individuals with a higher level of education after adjustment for sex, age, comorbidities, registration period, and LHAs. For most procedures the effect decreases over the follow up period.
The results of the study show evidence of inequalities in access to elective surgery in Italy. Implementation of policies aimed to promote national information initiatives that guarantee wider access to those with low socio-economic status is strongly recommended.
Over recent decades, long waiting lists for elective surgery have become an issue of great relevance for several National Health Services [1]. Waiting lists are used as a mechanism to allocate scarce resources, but health care systems should aim to provide healthcare to those with the greatest need first, in order to prevent adverse outcomes [2]. To this purpose, in recent years the health authorities of several western countries, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Canada, Sweden, Norway and Italy amongst others, have promoted several initiatives mainly aimed at supply but, as in the case of New Zealand, Canada and Italy these initiatives include strategies for demand, patient prioritization on the basis of clinical conditions and maximal waiting times to be met [3, 4]. The mechanism should be independent from the socioeconomic status in order to guarantee equity of access.
Barriers generated by factors relating to both supply and demand may still prevent access, thereby bringing about an exacerbation of existing inequalities in health. The former may be due to financial factors such as out-of-pocket money, insurance coverage, the existence of health benefit packages, geographical factors such as distance from health care resources, or organizational factors such as opening hours and waiting time [5]. The latter deals with individual characteristics, including age, gender, ethnicity, income, education, health literacy, communication skills and health status perception, which may affect healthcare-seeking behaviour [6]. Because of these barriers, more vulnerable groups may suffer much more than others [7]. The relative weight of the various access barriers should be disentangled in order to design effective measures for limiting access inequalities.
Unlike the widespread existing literature on inequity in healthcare access and utilization [8–12], research on socioeconomic differences in waiting times is less systematic and the evidence is fragmentary and controversial. Some studies conducted in Northern Europe and North America during the previous decade have shown an inverse socioeconomic trend, as in Scotland for cardiac surgery [13] and in England for ophthalmologic surgery and hip replacement [14, 15], whilst others have found no or a weak association, as in Canada [16], Australia [17] and Norway [18]. A large retrospective English study shows decreasing inequalities in waiting times during the last decade for elective hip replacement and cataract repair [19].
Two recent studies show wider socioeconomic differentials [20, 21]. The first study, based on the International Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), provides evidence of inequity in waiting times that favour the more educated patients in seven European countries (Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden). The inverse association between education levels and waiting times is evident regardless of the organizational characteristics of health systems. In Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden for non-urgent inpatient/outpatient surgery, individuals with higher levels of education wait significantly less than individuals with lower levels. Income is also negatively associated with waiting times in Greece for non-emergency surgery.
The second study is based on administrative data (2001 National Hospital Episode Statistics data) and produces evidence of an inverse association between socioeconomic status and waiting times for elective total hip replacement in England using an aggregate deprivation indicator.
In Italy, research in the area of equity in waiting lists is limited to a study that found an inverse relationship between socioeconomic status and waiting time for surgery after hip fracture, using an aggregate indicator of socioeconomic status, but only using pre-surgery length of stay as a proxy measure of the waiting time [22].
The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between individual socioeconomic level and waiting time for in-hospital elective surgery.
Record selection and data collection
We retrospectively studied the waiting times experienced by patients registered on hospital waiting lists for 6 of the 14 surgical procedures identified by the "National monitoring plan to reduce waiting time for elective surgery", by using the Hospital Discharge Database (HDD) of the Piedmont Region (4,463,000 inhabitants in the North West of Italy) from 2006 to 2008. The capital of Piedmont is Turin (907,000 inhabitants).
In Italy the health service is universalistic: each citizen has the right to health care, free of charge or following a co-payment fee, for a wide range of health problems [23] Enrolment on the elective surgery waiting list occurs directly, through the specialist hospital physician or through the patient contacting the chosen hospital under the guidance of the general practitioner. The National Health System is organized on a regional basis: the Regional Health System (RHS) of Piedmont Region is divided into Local Health Authorities (LHA), which provide medium and low-complexity hospital-based healthcare and community care, and Hospital Trusts (HT), providing high-complexity hospital care. Finally, there are a small number of private hospitals, mainly religious, funded by the RHS, that provide medium or low-complexity care.
The HDD is the administrative database that covers all episodes of care for hospital patients (n = 820,000) provided in the hospitals funded by the RHS. The HDD includes information on admission and discharge dates, coexisting medical conditions, patients' characteristics (sex and age), diagnosis codes (up to 5 digits), surgical procedure codes (up to 5 digits) according to the International Classification of Disease, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM), the patient's LHA of hospitalisation and educational level, classified into seven categories. The database is directly managed by the regional authority for information system. The study population consisted of patients undergoing surgery between 2006 and 2008. It is worth noting that since the HDD records discharges some individuals could be registered before 2006.
The surgical procedures analyzed were: coronary artery by-pass (CABG), angioplasty, coronarography, endarterectomy, hip replacement and cholecystectomy. The time on the waiting list was computed as the number of days from registration (the decision to treat or referral) to surgery.
Exclusion criteria for the present study were: 1) missing values from the education variable; 2) providers with very few cases; 3) waiting times higher than the 99th percentile.
The percentage of missing values from the education variable for the overall sample including all hospitalisations for the 6 selected procedures was 34.6%, 51.3%, 45.9%, 51.3%, 34.2%, 26.2% respectively for CABG, angioplasty, coronarography, endarterectomy, hip replacement and cholecystectomy. In order to reduce this percentage we conducted two record linkage activities: 1) by means of anonymous record linkage between the HDDs over the period under consideration (2006–2008), we were able to reduce the percentage of missing values by attributing the highest level of education reported for the three years of observation, 2) exclusively for residents in Turin, a record linkage based on gender, place and date of birth was conducted between our dataset and the municipal registry, which included information about educational level. After the linkage process, missing values dropped to 12.6% for CABG, 24.6% for angioplasty, 21.8% for coronarography, 24.2% for endarterectomy, 16.1% for hip replacement and 17.4% for cholecystectomy. Table 1 summarises the cases recovered by types of record linkage and the cases excluded from the analysis by reasons for exclusion for each operation.
Table 1 Sample selection criteria and resulting sample size
In order to make the results comparable with international classification, educational level was grouped into three categories: no education to primary education; lower secondary education; upper secondary education and higher education (reference category).
To examine the relation between waiting times and education, we first estimated the cumulative probability of undergoing surgery by waiting time since registration using the product-limit method. The log-rank test was used to compare waiting times across education groups. Cox proportional hazard models [24] without censored data were then estimated to study the relationship between waiting times and educational level taking into account the confounding effect of sex (reference: female), age (reference: > = 75), and registration period (reference: 2006) [25, 26]. Moreover, in order to take into account differences in the severity of clinical conditions, models were adjusted for the Charlson Comorbidities Index (CCI) [27, 28] (reference = no comorbidities).
Lastly, LHAs (reference: LHA - city of Turin) were added in the models to adjust for possible variations in geographical and access management. We estimated models by progressively adding subsets of covariates according to the following pattern: 1) education; 2) age; 3) CCI; 4) LHAs and 5) registration period. Table 2 describes the subset of variables used in the analysis along with their codes and values.
Table 2 Data dictionary for the variables used in the study
The models were compared using the Akaike information criteria. The assumption of proportional hazards was evaluated:
adding to the model the interaction of the covariate with the time for each variable and testing the statistical significance with the Wald test;
through the Schoenfeld residual graphic obtained from the model without the interaction term.
The instantaneous probability of undergoing surgery at time t, given that a patient has not been operated yet, was expressed as:
h t , x = h 0 t exp ∑ j β j x j j = 1 , 2 , … , n
where h 0 t is the hazard rate at time t for a reference subject and β j is the log hazard ratio associated with covariate j. To simplify, assume that there is one covariate x, then the hazard ratio between two subjects with covariate values x 1 and x 2 is:
H R = h x 2 t h x 1 t = exp β x 2 − x 1 .
When x 2 = x 1 + 1 the hazard ratio is equal to H R = exp β j and measures the effect of one unit increase in x on the probability of undergoing surgery. If the HR is greater than 1 (β j >0), the probability of undergoing surgery increases for subjects with covariate value x 2 compared to subjects with covariate value x 1, while a HR lower than 1 (β j <0) indicates a decreased probability of leaving the waiting list. The HR is assumed to be constant over time. To assess this assumption we add a time-varying coefficient γ in the hazard function:
h 0 t = h 0 t exp β x + γ x g t
The hazard ratio for a unit increase in the variable x is:
H R t = h x + 1 t h x t = exp β + γ x g t
where γ measures the change in the hazard ratio with time, i.e. non-proportionality. If γ>0 (γ<0) than the HR increases (decreases) over time. Testing for non-proportionality of the hazards is equivalent to testing whether γ is significantly different from zero. No ethical approval was required by Italian law 211/2003 which explains why no ethic committee's permission is needed for this kind of study in Italy (anonymous data from administrative database).
Characteristics of the population
As shown in Table 3, during the study period, most patients who underwent hip replacement (54.7%) and cardiovascular procedures (CABG, 49.1%; angioplasty, 43.2%; coronarography, 46.2%; endarterectomy, 63.1%) were in the group with a lower educational level. Cholecystectomy was balanced across education groups. Most subjects undergoing cardiovascular procedures were male whereas most of those undergoing cholecystectomy and hip replacement were female. At registration, the majority of patients, among those who underwent cardiovascular procedures, were aged 65 and over. The reverse was observed for cholecystectomy, where younger patients underwent more surgery than older ones. The proportion of patients with at least a comorbidity at the time of the registration in the list were particularly high, as expected, among subjects awaiting cardiovascular procedures and, to a lesser extent, among those performing hip replacement and cholecystectomy. As for the geographical location, it is worth noticing that 34.2% of CABGs were performed at the HT of the Piedmont Region; 31.7% of angioplasties and 23.4% of coronarographies at Turin LHA; about two thirds of endarterectomy procedures at the two regional Health Trusts, around 20% of hip replacement surgery at the LHA of Southern Piedmont; and 21.7% of cholecystectomies at Northern Piedmont LHA.
Table 3 Characteristics of cohorts
Table 4 summarizes median waiting times of the cohort for the selected elective surgeries by education. Median waiting times for lower educational levels were higher than for higher educational levels for all the selected procedures. Differences were particularly high for endarterectomy and hip replacement. Mean waiting times were systematically greater than median waiting times, indicating that the distribution was highly skewed (data not shown). High geographical heterogeneity was also observed between LHAs.
Table 4 Median waiting times and 95% CI for variables used in the study
Statistical models
As measured by the log-rank test, statistically significant differences (p < 0.001) in access to surgery between education groups were observed for CABG, angioplasty, coronarography, endarterectomy and hip replacement, with shorter waiting times for individuals with a higher education level (data not shown).
Table 5 presents the results of fitting for the main effects and Table 6 shows linear-time interaction coefficients with educational level.1 For all considered procedures except for CABG an inverse and statistically significant gradient between waiting times and educational level was observed: the conditional probabilities of undergoing surgery were lower among people with low and middle education levels than for more highly educated people after adjustment for sex, age, comorbidities, registration period, and LHAs.
Table 5 Hazard ratios and 95% CI for Cox proportional hazards models
Table 6 Hazard ratios and 95% CI for interaction between time and covariates (Cox proportional hazards models)*
The interaction terms between education and follow up time are statistically significant for all procedures except for CABG suggesting that the adjusted hazard ratios associated with education were not constant over time (Table 6). Specifically, hazard ratios higher than 1 show that the difference of probability of undergoing surgery between the two groups decreases with increasing follow up.
In models with statistically significant interactions, both the low and middle level education groups at the start of follow-up show a lower probability of leaving the waiting list compared to the higher level education group with the hazard ratio for the low level education group being slightly lower at the start of follow up compared to the middle level group, statistically significant for all procedures except for CABG. At the start of follow up (Table 5), subjects with a middle level of education registered for angioplasty, coronarography, endarterectomy, hip replacement, cholecystectomy have access to surgery at a rate that is respectively 9.5%, 4.4%, 25.5%, 14.8%, 7.5% lower than for subjects with a higher level of education. The estimated gap between the two groups at the median waiting time decreases to 8.2% for angioplasty, 17.4% for endarterectomy, 8% for hip replacement and 4.5% for cholecystectomy, while for coronarography the estimated gap is constant over time.
Similarly, subjects with a lower education level registered for angioplasty, coronarography, endarterectomy, hip replacement and cholecystectomy have access to surgery at a rate that is respectively 12.0%, 8%, 34%, 23.9%, 16.2% lower than for subjects with a higher education. The estimated difference between lower and higher education in terms of median waiting time decreases to 9.5% for angioplasty, 7.4% for coronarography, 24.9% for endarterectomy, 17.8% for hip replacement, 13.5% for cholecystectomy. The reduction is more pronounced in the lower level education group compared to the middle level education group for angioplasty and endarterectomy but is less pronounced for hip replacement and cholecystectomy. Moreover, the chance of delayed surgery increases for males undergoing angioplasty while it decreases for males awaiting endarterectomy and cholecystectomy. The probability of longer waiting times for surgery are statistically significant for older patients scheduled for CABG while they are shorter for older patients waiting for coronarography, hip replacement and cholecystectomy. Coexisting illnesses extend waiting times for most procedures as well.
The effect of the registration period is also statistically significant for most procedures and tends to decrease over time. More precisely, patients registered after 2006 for hip replacement and cholecystectomy (2008 only) have a higher probability of waiting less than those on the list in 2006 whereas the opposite was observed for those registered for CABG after 2006.
Lastly, the results show a large geographical variation in elective surgery rates for all surgical procedures with differences not spatially structured and often changing over time. Such differences may reflect variations in clinical judgment or resource levels.
In order to study the risk of bias due to missing values we carried out a sensitivity analysis comparing the distribution of the covariates and the outcome in the subgroups made up respectively of subjects with:
The ascertained education level;
The education level attributed through record linkage;
The missing education level not attributed through record linkage.
The distributions result as being highly homogeneous between them and, in any case, no statistically significant differences were observed; so it is unlikely that the presence of missing values may produce relevant bias in the results.
Similarly, to exclude the risk of bias due to record linkage through the City of Turin municipal registry, we observed that the distribution of the educational level of hospitalised individuals obtained using record linkage is similar to that of hospitalised Turin residents with valid values. The results are not shown but are available on request.
To our knowledge, this study is the first to examine the relation between education and waiting times, using a population-based database and individual measure for socioeconomic status. Piedmont is the only Italian Region for which it is possible to use an individual indicator of educational level in so large a population. There are several important findings in this study. First, a lower education level is significantly associated with longer waiting times. This association persists after adjustment for demographic variables, comorbidity, registration period and supply. The effect of education on the waiting time changes with time: a lower education level has the largest effect, however over time this effect decreases.
Several issues can be cited to explain the results: differences in composition of social networks can determine a heterogeneous level of access to information. Individuals with a lower education level could face higher transaction costs (information and search costs) when choosing among alternative providers. Moreover, more educated people looking for alternative providers may have access to direct information about the waiting times for single hospitals, for example through relationships with health professionals. They may be more able to negotiate with them, to express themselves, explain their health problems and make care choices. By contrast, individuals with a lower education level are less able to overcome bureaucratic hurdles and navigate complex modern healthcare systems, to deal with several aspects of healthcare administration ranging from registration to form submission. Also, individuals with a lower education level may be less able to keep in touch with the hospital and make or attend appointments for admission. They could also experience greater difficulty in having their rights guaranteed due to lack of information on their basic rights and ways in which to access healthcare [21].
Such differences may reflect variations in clinical judgment or resource levels.
Furthermore, since socioeconomic inequities reduce over time, the longer the waiting time, the more these mechanisms seem to act in a more significant way. While the measurement of equal access to health care is a complex task involving multidimensional aspects of both access and equity [29], these results show evidence of inequalities in access to elective surgery in Italy.
Implications and recommendations
The study involves the implementation of policies aimed at tackling inequity, acting through revision of enrolment mechanisms in waiting lists in order to reduce inequity in access [30]. In particular, a policy implication for the government is to simplify access to comparative information on waiting times across different providers. Indeed, in Italy a booking system is being implemented: general practitioners will be able to access on-line information of waiting times across providers and book patients directly with the provider with the shortest waiting times. This might reduce inequalities in waiting times by reducing the differences for accessing information systems.
The results of the study also suggest the need for further investigations aimed at exploring the association between waiting times and outcome of care; in fact, if waiting times are a likely determinant of worse quality of care, they may well assume the role of determinants that could amplify the socioeconomic differences in the outcome of medical treatments.
The main limitation of this study is its retrospective, observational nature. Only patients who underwent surgery provide any information, since patients removed from the waiting list without surgery have no chance of contributing their waiting times to this analysis [31].
Another potential source of limitation of the study is the elevated number of missing values for educational level, although the sensitivity analyses show that the risk of bias due to the presence of missing values and possibly due to the record linkage process is very low.
Lastly, our definition of waiting time does not take into account the time between the general practitioner referral and the consultation.
This study provides evidence on the effect of socioeconomic status on waiting times for elective surgery by using individual records and administrative databases. Inverse trends were observed between educational level and waiting times for all procedures except for CABG. The results of the study suggest the need for implementation of key policies aimed at promoting regional information initiatives to guarantee wider access to those with a low socio-economic status by increasing their knowledge of available services and their ability to act.
aConventional Cox proportional hazard estimates are available from the authors upon request.
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The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/12/268/prepub
The authors acknowledge the Italian Epidemiologic Association (AIE) and the Italian Association for Health Economics (AIES) for making it possible to present the paper in the relative conferences and therefore obtain important peer-review contributions.
Epidemiology and Public Health Unit, Piedmont Region, Turin, Italy
Alessio Petrelli
& Tania Landriscina
Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Calabria, Cosenza, Italy
Giuliana De Luca
Department of Hygiene and Public Health, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
Giuseppe Costa
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Correspondence to Alessio Petrelli.
AP conceived of and designed the study. GDL participated in the design of the study, performed the statistical analysis, interpreted the findings and drafted the manuscript. TL created the study analytic dataset and performed the statistical analysis. GC conceived of the study. All authors critically read, revised and approved the final manuscript.
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Чортківський міський центр науково-технічної творчості і дозвілля учнівської молоді — профільний навчально-виховний заклад освіти в м. Чорткові.

Відомості
У вересні 1970 року засновано Станцію юних техніків. Позашкільний заклад знаходився за адресою Леніна, 13, де на 3-му поверсі займав 3 кімнати.

У 1984 році навчальний заклад отримує статус районної.

9 грудня 1992 року Станція юних техніків перейменована в Центр науково-технічної творчості і дозвілля учнівської молоді.

Від 2013 до 2021 року навчальний заклад розташовувався у орендованих приміщеннях, наданих школами району та міста Чорткова.

До 15 січня 2021 року підпорядковувався Чортківській районній раді. 15 січня 2021 року перейшов у підпорядкування Чортківської міської громади.

26 лютого 2021 року навчальний заклад ліквідовано.

Приміщення
З 1973 до  2013 року центр науково-технічної творчості і дозвілля учнівської молоді розміщувався в Новій синагозі.

Діяльність
До 2021 року функціонувало 18 гуртків та 34 групи.

Діяли гуртки:
 Початково-технічні;
 Спортивно-технічні;
 Художньо-технічні;
 Інформаційно-технічні;
 Предметно-технічні;
 Художньо-естетичні гуртки.

Керівництво
Директори
 Гаєвський С. І. (1970—1974),
 Білявський Л. П. (1974—1977)
 Данилко І. В. (1977—1980),
 Свергун М. М. (1980—2012),
 Зуляк Оксана Богданівна (2012—2021).

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Джерела
 Історія  // Чортківський РКЗ «Центр НТТДУМ»
 Нова хасидська синагога в Чорткові занепадає духом // Чортків.City, 12 лютого 2021 р.

Посилання
 Чортківський РКЗ «Центр НТТДУМ»  // Офіційний вебсайт
 Центр НТТДУМ // Опендатабот.

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Just how concerned is he?
If the Knicks trade Kristaps Porzingis for Anthony Davis and Davis pledges to re-sign, that'd be great for New York.
Porzingis is a good young player. His torn ACL causes concern, but his future still looks bright. He's the type of player many teams would like to build around – the type of player who makes the Knicks more attractive to free agents like Kevin Durant.
That said, there's nothing inherently wrong with trading him. Maybe the Knicks could get value for him.
But they'd be operating from a weak position. Everyone now knows Porzingis wants out, and he's currently injured. It seems unlikely New York would find a beneficial trade in that circumstance.
Would the Knicks accommodate him, anyway? That could head off a brewing chemistry problem. But New York is in the driver's seat unless Porzingis is willing to take a huge risk. He'll be a restricted free agent this summer. He could become an unrestricted free agent in 2020, but that would require taking a $4,485,665 qualifying offer. Even if he must sign an offer sheet to get his max, that projects to be worth $117 million over four years.
So, there's big difference between Porzingis wanting to be traded and Porzingis actually getting traded. But that gap could be shrinking.


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So is IKF
Jul 14, 2022 -- 2:11PM, manbot wrote:
Wade is a better glove than IKF, who's a much better hitter than Wade has shown.
Wade is as good as IKF - and that means that the competition is between Anthony Volpe and Oswaldo Peraza for the future.
Jul 14, 2022 -- 2:23PM, Paterson wrote:
Wade is definitely more versatile, but no way I'd swap Wade for IKF. IKF has made some outstanding plays at SS, and knows who he is offensively...doesn't try to do too much.
Jul 14, 2022 -- 2:28PM, SSBob wrote:
I give IKF a lot of credit for knowing who he is and playing his best game. I do get nervous with the errors. I like both players but I don't think either of them is in the future plans for the Yankees. Championship teams do not need a star at every position. Of course, it is nice not to have a black hole in the outfield.
I think it's a given that whoever plays SS is a placeholder...if it's possible to be one for 2-3 years, or however long it'll take before one of the prospects is ready. And, of course, a star isn't needed, or even realistic, at every position.
As for the OF...IMO any option the Yanks have to replace Gallo is a major upgrade.
Wade and his .554 OPS are in AAA for the Yanks now.
agree about IKF. he does make some great plays which makes me all the more surprised when he makes an error. believe his 11 is tied for the league lead. offensively he stays within hin
overall the IF defense is much improved having gone from one of the worst at -39 DRS to #2 at +25 DRS.
Jul 14, 2022 -- 3:02PM, bumper wrote:
Yeah...I've acknowledged that Wade is a better glove than IKF, and Velazquez was even better than Wade. Not really into the advanced stats, so I don't know how IKF rates using those, but I have no complaints re his overall play at SS. Not all that uncommon for some players to make web gem plays and ocassionally struggle with the routine play.
not the guy, meaning IKF, you want leading off an inning and need base runners when you are trailing, but he has had some HUGE hits with men on in clutch situations


This post looks at actions taken to Strengthen Community Planning and Preparedness under Executive Order (EO) 13650 - "Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security" - which was issued by President Obama on the heels of the disaster in West, TX. The West, TX incident killed 11 First Responders, injured 226 people, and damaged or destroyed 150 buildings, which included an apartment complex and middle school. Chemical Safety Board findings show that poor communication, unclear regulatory standards, and lax oversight lent itself to the disaster taking place. A 2015 Fact Sheet shared the progress made to date since the Working Group formed.
The first of 5 areas of improvement identified in the EO is Strengthening Community Planning and Preparedness. It seeks to re-invigorate the State Emergency Response Commissions (SERCs) and Local Emergency Planning Committees (LEPCs), which are voluntary groups of emergency planning authorities and industry participants who work together to plan against hazardous chemical disasters. SERCs and LEPCs were put in place at each state after the Bhopal Incident of 1984, coined the "Worst Industrial Accident in history", in which 15,000 people were killed and over 500,000 people were effected by the leak of an extremely hazardous chemical. Since these groups are voluntary, they see a varied level of activity across the country. The SERC is appointed by the Governor. LEPCs are voluntary organizations headed by the Emergency Management Agency in each County. Most LEPCs are funded with grants from the state, and run on a shoe-string budget. The Executive Order identifies several funding sources for SERCs and LEPCs seeking to support their work in Emergency Plan development and risk assessment.
DHS has created a list of courses for first responders and emergency planners regarding explosives.
DHS/FEMA is working with the 10 counties with the highest combination of Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) and Risk Management Program (RMP) facilities to ensure they are using the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS), which provides public notification of incidents at local chemical facilities.
ATF is facilitating a conversation with SERC, LEPC, and storage facilities to develop training for emergencies.
These activities help to improve competence and infuse momentum into LEPCs which are vital local authorities closest to the chemical risks and responsible for responding when an emergency occurs. Strong, active LEPCs and SERCs are essential to identifying local safety risks. They need clear guidelines, funding, and tools to accomplish their goals. The EO activities are solid first steps toward providing a common baseline of training and information sharing between Federal, State, and Local bodies.


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Tags: Age of Extinction, Hercules, Paramount Summer movie box office analysis, Paramount summer movie schedule, Paramount summer movies, spotlight, studio summer movie guide, summer movie analysis, summer movie box office, summer movie predictions, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, transformers
The summer movie season is officially underway, just in time for us to finish our look at the line-ups and prospects for each of the big studios. That brings us to Paramount Pictures, the least busy but hardly the quietest of the group. Our previous examinations:
LAST SUMMER: Paramount had only two summer openings in 2013, and both were big gambles. STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS ($229M US/$467M worldwide) outgrossed the first of the JJ Abrams Star Trek reboots internationally ($258M US/$386M worldwide), but a chunk of that increase was offset by an unexpected slump at home, and the enterprise as a whole barely justified the much bigger budget Paramount gave Abrams this time around with the hope of pushing Star Trek into the A-level franchise elite, a title that still eludes it. Although Star Trek will of course continue, now that Abrams is occupied with his new Jedi Master duties, the next entry in the series will probably be less pricey. By the time WORLD WAR Z ($202M US/$540M worldwide) opened, the pre-release buzz was so poisonous that even though it ended up only moderately profitable due to its gigantic cost, it felt as though Paramount had dodged a bullet. (There's talk of a lower-budgeted sequel, but whether that will actually happen is unclear, among other reasons because of the complicated relationship between the studio and Brad Pitt.)
MAY: The studio is taking its time joining the summer parade and sitting May and most of June out.
JUNE: TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (June 27) is a reboot of the hugely successful franchise (the 3 films have steadily climbed from $709M worldwide to $836M to $1.124B), although the new version is still directed by Michael Bay. There's no question that Mark Wahlberg is a trade-up in the driver's seat from Shia LaBeouf, and this one adds giant robotic dinosaurs to the mix as well, so it's safe to say that Extinction will make a fortune, especially overseas. But the bar is high, and any decline from Transformers 3 will be seen as a misstep.
JULY: Paramount's HERCULES (July 25) is a higher-class (and more expensive) piece of beefcake than Spring's version of the story, with Dwayne Johnson in the lead and the much-maligned but still fairly reliable Brett Ratner behind the camera. The earlier Hercules flopped, though, as did Pompeii, and the recent 300 sequel didn't cause much box office excitement, so the question is how much audience enthusiasm there is for yet another sword and sandals epic.
AUGUST: More Michael Bay, this time as Executive Producer of the rebooted CG and live-action TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (August 8), starring a rebooted Megan Fox alongside the cartoons. It's going to go after the audience that turned up for the Smurfs movie a few years ago, but that crowd didn't return for the Smurfs sequel, so the level of interest for a franchise that was last seen in 1993 (with a lousy $42M gross) is unclear.
EARLY ODDS: All that matters is Transformers; the summer's other openings are window dressing for Paramount. With so much depending on that one project, the studio has to hope that fatigue hasn't set in for fantasy antagonists trashing CG cities, and that adding Wahlberg to the mix reignites the franchise's coolness factor.
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The weekend predictions will return next week, when Exodus: God and Kings and Top Five are released nationally. This weekend, typical for the post-Thanksgiving weekend, is extremely quiet. Only The Pyramid is opening at a very small 589 theaters.
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SHOWBUZZDAILY'S Studio Summer Movie Guide: Disney
The summer movie season will be underway momentarily on the east coast, as 7PM screenings commence for The Amazing Spider-Man–which isn't exactly riding a rave of critical support (56% positive at Rotten Tomatoes, and 35% among "top critics"). At Sony tonight, uneasy lie the heads that wear a crown. …
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MITCH SALEM has worked on the business side of the entertainment industry for 20 years, as a senior business affairs executive and attorney for such companies as NBC, ABC, USA, Syfy, Bravo, and BermanBraun Productions, and before that, at the NY law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. During all that, he has more or less constantly been going to the movies and watching TV, and writing about both since the 1980s. His film reviews also currently appear on screened.com and the-burg.com. In addition, he is co-writer of an episode of the television series "Felicity."
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NSA to Destroy Phone Records, But 'Devil May Be in the Details'
Spy agency promises to delete metadata collected under USA Patriot Act 'as soon as possible,' although lawsuits filed over surveillance program add ironic dynamic
by: Nadia Prupis
The National Security Agency (NSA) will destroy all the metadata it swept up from U.S. citizens while operating a secretive surveillance program first exposed in 2013 by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)announced on Monday.
That amounts to five years of phone records, which the ODNI said would be expunged "as soon as possible"—though it seems that will not be before the program's official November 29 expiration date.
"These records were collected in a manner that violates the law, the Constitution, and basic human dignity, but they are just a tiny sliver of the surveillance records the government is illegally gathering on millions of people." —Tiffiniy Cheng, Fight for the Future
In May, a federal appeals court ruled that the NSA's bulk spying program was illegal. That decision paved the way for Congress to enact some small measure of surveillance reform by passing the USA Freedom Act and allowing the sunset of key provisions of the USA Patriot Act—particularly Section 215, which the NSA previously claimed gave it the right to conduct its metadata sweep.
Under the Patriot Act, the NSA was obligated to destroy all phone records after five years, but had free rein to conduct the dragnet which was first put into place after September 11, 2001. The USA Freedom Act requires the NSA to end its surveillance program within six months. Investigations have shown that the agency queried its metadata archives roughly 300 times a year to reference phone numbers allegedly tied to terrorism, even as the operation proved largely useless in detecting or thwarting terror plots.
As Tiffiniy Cheng, co-founder of the civil liberties group Fight for the Future, told Common Dreams: "These records were collected in a manner that violates the law, the Constitution, and basic human dignity, but they are just a tiny sliver of the surveillance records the government is illegally gathering on millions of people…. President [Barack] Obama should know better where the line between free speech and unchecked powers should be and know that he should immediately take executive action to curtail the twisted legal reasoning that the government uses as justification."
ACLU staff attorney Alex Abdo, who argued the ultimately successful case against the dragnet in front of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, told The Intercept on Monday that although the organization is "pleased that the NSA intends to purge the call records it has collected illegally… the devil may be in the details."
At least one of those details includes the NSA's quiet admission that "technical personnel" will still be allowed to access the expunged data for three months after the grace period ends in November. The agency says that would be "solely for data integrity purposes to verify the records produced under the new targeted production authorized by the USA FREEDOM Act."
But in the end, the NSA's waffling may serve to strengthen the growing call to dismantle it.
In an ironic twist, what is now preventing that metadata from being erased are the numerous civil liberties lawsuits pending against the NSA.
That includes litigation brought by the ACLU. Even stranger, one of those cases is a request for the NSA to halt its phone records program before its six-month deadline.
The government "continues to claim that no one has standing to challenge the legality [of] these programs because no one can 'prove' that their telephone records were included," Cindy Cohn, executive director of digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, toldCommon Dreams. That includes high-profile cases that helped shine a light on the program, including Jewel v. NSA and Klayman v. Obama. "This legal position is largely why this information must be preserved. If the government admitted that the plaintiffs in these cases had their telephone records collected, it might be possible for the government to destroy at least some of them."
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