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2018 California Legislative Update: What Survived the House of Origin Deadline?
By Kristina M. Launey & Melissa Aristizabal on June 7, 2018
Seyfarth Synopsis: Several bills of concern to California employers failed to receive the house of origin blessing and passage by the June 1 deadline, including this year's attempts at PAGA reform, criminal history inquiries, and medical marijuana accommodations, while a boatload of others, most notably sexual harassment-related bills, sail on. The measures being passed to their opposite house for consideration are described below.
Friday, June 1, marked the deadline for the state Senate and Assembly to pass bills introduced in their respective houses to the other house. Several employment-related bills (see links at the end of this post) failed to make it out of the house of origin. Many others, detailed below, continue their onward progress toward possible enactment into law. Most notable in number and publicity are the many pending sexual harassment bills. Here's what is still alive, that we are watching:
AB 1867 would require employers with 50 or more employees to retain records of all internal employee sexual harassment complaints for ten years, and would allow the Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) to seek an order compelling non-compliant employers to do so. The bill, which would add Section 12950.5 to the Government Code, is scheduled for hearing in the Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee on June 13.
SB 1300 would amend the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) to require a plaintiff who alleges the employer failed to take all reasonable steps necessary to prevent discrimination and harassment to show: (1) the employer knew the conduct was unwelcome, (2) the conduct would meet the legal standard for harassment or discrimination if it increased in severity or became pervasive, and (3) the employer failed to take all reasonable steps to prevent the same or similar conduct from recurring.
This bill would also (a) prohibit an employer from requiring a release of claims or rights under FEHA, or a nondisclosure agreement or other agreement not to disclose unlawful acts in the workplace, in exchange for a raise or a bonus or as a condition of employment or continued employment, (b) require employers, with five or more employees, to provide two hours of sexual harassment prevention training, including bystander intervention training, within six months of hire and every two years thereafter to all California employees—not just supervisors, and (c) prohibit a prevailing defendant from being awarded fees and costs unless the court finds the action was frivolous, unreasonable, or totally without foundation when brought or that the plaintiff continued to litigate after it clearly became so.
SB 1343, which closely resembles SB 1300, would require employers with five or more employees—including temporary or seasonal employees—to provide at least two hours of sexual harassment training to all employees by 2020 and then once every two years thereafter. SB 1343 would also require the DFEH to develop (or obtain) and publish on its website a two-hour interactive online training course on prevention of sexual harassment in the workplace. The bill would also require the DFEH to make the training course, as well as posters, and fact sheets, available in multiple languages (i.e., English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Korean and any other language spoken by "a substantial number of non-English speaking people").
AB 3080 would prohibit (1) a person from, as a condition of employment or as a condition of entering into a contractual agreement, prohibiting a job applicant, an employee, or independent contractor from disclosing to any person instances of sexual harassment suffered, witnessed, or discovered in the work place; (2) mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment claims; and (3) retaliation against an applicant or an employee who refuses to sign an arbitration agreement. Governor Brown vetoed AB 465 in 2015, which would have prohibited the use of mandatory arbitration agreements as a condition of employment. In his veto message, Governor Brown said he was "not prepared to take the far-reaching step proposed by this bill" and that this sort of blanket ban on mandatory arbitration "has been consistently struck down in other states as violating the Federal Arbitration Act" (FAA). Supporters of AB 3080 have attempted to "preemptively" address such arguments: Floor Analyses cite the ACLU as citing the California Supreme Court's 2000 Armendariz decision, as well as Civil Code sections 1668 and 3513, to argue that the FAA does not exempt arbitration clauses from general principles that apply to all contracts, and that contracts attempting to exempt people from fraud or illegal activity are unenforceable and against public policy.
AB 3081 would: (1) extend Labor Code prohibitions on discrimination against employees who are victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking to include employees who are victims of sexual harassment, as well as employees who take time off to assist a family member who is a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, sexual harassment or stalking; (2) create a rebuttable presumption of unlawful retaliation against an employee if any adverse job action occurs within 90 days of reporting sexual harassment, participating in an investigation, or similar acts; (3) increase the time an employee has to file a complaint with the DLSE for violation of Labor Code section 230 (provides protected time off for jury duty and victims) from one year to three years; (4) require an employer, at the time of hiring and regularly on an annual basis thereafter, to provide to each employee a written notice that includes prescribed information about sexual harassment; and (5) require an employer with 25 or more employees to provide sexual harassment prevention training to all nonsupervisory employees at the time of hire and once every two years thereafter. The bill would also require the Labor Commissioner to create a means for employees to report sexual harassment or assault that occurs in the workplace.
AB 3082 would require the state Department of Social Services (DSS) to develop a policy addressing sexual harassment of in-home supportive services (IHSS) providers and to provide the Legislature with a summary by September 30, 2019. AB 2872 would require the DSS to adopt a peer-to-peer training course for IHSS providers and to ensure that every authorized provider has received at least two hours of peer-to-peer training by December 31, 2019. Beginning January 1, 2020, the bill would require all new or returning IHSS providers to receive at least two hours of peer-to-peer training within their first year of employment.
SB 1038 would make an employee who intentionally retaliates against a person who has filed a complaint, testified, assisted in any proceeding, or opposed any prohibited practice, under FEHA, jointly and severally liable, regardless of whether the employer knew or should have known of that employee's retaliatory conduct. Previous versions of this bill would have extended personal liability for retaliation, similarly to the liability that already exists for harassment.
AB 2770 would include as "privileged" communications for: (1) complaints of sexual harassment made without malice by an employee to an employer based upon credible evidence; (2) communications between the employer and "interested persons" made without malice regarding the complaint; and (3) non-malicious statements made to prospective employers as to whether a decision to not rehire would be based on a determination that the former employee had engaged in sexual harassment. The bill is scheduled for hearing in the Senate Committee on Judiciary on June 12.
AB 1870 would extend the time an employee has to file an administrative charge with the DFEH alleging an unlawful practice under the FEHA, including, but not limited to, allegations of a sexual harassment, from one year to three years from the alleged incident.
SB 820, the "Stand Together Against Non-Disclosure" (STAND) Act, would make void as a matter of law and public policy provisions in settlement agreements, entered into on or after January 1, 2019, that prevent the disclosure of factual information related to cases involving sexual assault, sexual harassment, sex discrimination, and failure to prevent sex-based harassment and discrimination. The bill would, however, allow such a confidentiality provision to be included upon the request of the claimant unless the opposing party is a government agency or public official; and would allow a provision requiring the monetary settlement payment be kept confidential. Senator Leyva thanked her colleagues when this bill passed the Senate on May 21: "SB 820 shreds the curtain of secrecy that has forced victims to remain silent and empowers them to speak their truth so that we can hopefully protect other victims moving forward." SB 820 would build on AB 1682, signed into law in 2016, which prohibits confidentiality provisions in settlement agreements in cases involving child sexual abuse or sexual assault against an elderly or dependent adult.
AB 3109 would make void and unenforceable a provision in a contract or settlement agreement, entered into on or after January 1, 2019 that: either (1) waives a party's right to testify regarding an alleged criminal conduct or sexual harassment by the other party to the contract or agreement in an administrative, legislative, or judicial proceeding; or (2) substantially restrains a party's right to seek employment or reemployment in any lawful occupation or industry, unless the other party to the contract or agreement is the current or prior employer (except for public employers and a private employer that "so dominates the labor market" so as to effectively restrict the employee from being able to secure employment). The bill is scheduled to be heard in the Senate Committee on Judiciary on June 17.
SB 224 would extend liability for claims of sexual harassment where a professional relationship exists between a complainant and an elected official, lobbyist, director, or producer. This bill (a two year bill introduced in February 2017) has been held at the Assembly desk since January 23, 2018. AB 2338 would require talent agencies to provide to employees and artists, and the Labor Commissioner to provide minors and their parents (prior to issuing the minor a work permit), training and materials on sexual harassment prevention, retaliation, nutrition, reporting resources, and eating disorders. This bill would authorize the Labor Commissioner to charge up to a $25 fee to train each minor, and to impose a $100 fine each time a talent agency fails to provide training, education, or fails to retain specified records. The bill would require a talent agency to request and retain a copy of the minor's work permit prior to representing a minor.
AB 2079—the "Janitor Survivor Empowerment Act"—would: (1) prohibit the Division of Industrial Relations (DIR) from approving a janitorial service employer's registration or a renewal that has not fully satisfied a final judgment for certain unlawful employment practices; (2) require the DIR to convene an advisory committee to develop requirements for qualified organizations and peer trainers that janitorial employers must use to provide sexual harassment prevention training; (3) require the DIR maintain a list of qualified organizations and qualified peer trainers and employers to use a qualified organization from the list; and (4) require employers, upon request, to provide an employee a copy of all training materials. AB 2079 builds upon AB 1978 (2016)—the Property Services Workers Protection Act, effective July 1, 2018—which established requirements to combat wage theft and sexual harassment for the janitorial industry.
AB 1761 would require hotel employers to: (1) provide employees with a free "panic button" to call for help when working alone in a guest room that the employee may use, and allow the employee to cease work, if the employee reasonably believes there is an ongoing crime, harassment, or other emergency happening in the employee's presence; (2) post a notice on the back of each guestroom door informing guests of the panic buttons entitled, "The Law Protects Hotel Housekeepers and Other Employees from Sexual Assault and Harassment"; and (3) provide an employee subjected to an act of violence, sexual harassment or assault, upon request, with time off to seek assistance from law enforcement, legal or medical assistance, and/or reasonable accommodation. The bill would prohibit employers from taking action against any employee who exercises the protections afforded by this bill, and impose a $100 per day penalty, up to $1,000, for a violation of these proposed provisions.
SB 1284, as presently drafted, is a less onerous version of last year's effort to mandate annual reporting of pay data a la EEO-1. The bill would require, on or before September 30, 2019, and each year thereafter, that private employers with 100 or more employees submit a pay data report to the DIR. If enacted, the law would require employers to include in the report the following for each establishment, and a consolidated report for all establishments:
The number of employees by race, ethnicity, and sex in the following categories: all levels of officials and managers, professionals, technicians, sales workers, administrative support workers, craft workers, operatives, laborers and helpers, and service workers; and
The number of employees by race, ethnicity and sex whose earnings fall within each of the pay bands used by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupation Employment Statistics Survey, determined by each employee's total earnings for a 12-month look-back period, including total hours worked by each employee for part-time/partial-year employment.
Employers that are required to submit the EEO-1 Report could instead submit that report to the DIR. The DIR would maintain the reports for 10 years and make the report available to the DFEH upon request. Non-compliant employers would be subject to a $500 civil penalty for the initial violation and $5,000 for each subsequent violation as well as citation by the Labor Commissioner. The bill would prohibit the DIR and DFEH from publicizing any individually identifiable information obtained through this process but authorize the DIR or the DFEH to develop and publicize aggregate reports based on the information received that are reasonably calculated to prevent association of any data with any business or person.
This year's Fair Pay Act bill, AB 2282, attempts to clarify some ambiguities in Labor Code sections 432.3 and 1197.5 created by prior pay equity legislation, AB 1676 (2016) and AB 168 (2017). AB 2282 would clarify that "pay scale" means a "salary or hourly wage range," that "reasonable request" by an employee for a position's pay scale means "a request made after an applicant has completed an initial interview with the employer," and that "applicant" or "applicant for employment" means an individual who is seeking employment with the employer and is currently not employed with that employer in any capacity or position. The bill provides that nothing in section 432.3 prohibits an employer from asking an applicant about his/her salary expectation, and that nothing in section 1197.5 should be interpreted to prohibit an employer from making a compensation decision based on a current employee's existing salary as long as any wage differential resulting from that compensation decision is justified by one or more of the factors specified in the statute. AB 2282 is scheduled for hearing in the Senate Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations on June 13.
Pay Statements: SB 1252 would amend Labor Code section 226 to grant employees the right "to receive" a copy of (not just inspect) their pay statements. This bill is scheduled for hearing on June 20 in the Assembly Committee on Labor and Employment.
Port Drayage Carriers: SB 1402 would require the DLSE to create and post a list on its website of "bad actor" port drayage motor carriers, i.e., companies with any unsatisfied judgments or assessments, or any "order, decision, or award" finding illegal conduct as to various wage/hour issues, including independent contractor misclassification and derivative claims. This bill would extend joint and severable liability to those companies' customers for future wage violations of the same nature by those drayage motor carriers. This bill is part of a very broad and multi-pronged attack on port drayage motor carriers serving the LA and Long Beach ports, mainly regarding alleged independent contractor misclassification of drivers.
Lactation Accommodations: AB 1976 would ensure employers' already-required reasonable efforts to provide a room or location for lactation consists of providing something other than a toilet stall or bathroom (by deleting "toilet stall" and inserting "bathroom" in the statute). This bill is scheduled for hearing in the Senate Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations on June 13. SB 937 would more substantively change existing lactation accommodation requirements, by requiring a lactation room to be safe, clean, and free of toxic or hazardous materials, contain a surface to place a breast pump and personal items, contain a place to sit, and have access to electricity. The bill would exempt employers with fewer than 50 employees that can show that the requirement would impose an undue hardship by causing significant expense or operational difficulty when considered in relation to the employer's size, financial resources, or structure. SB 937 would allow employers to designate a temporary lactation location, instead of providing a dedicated room, due to operational, financial, or space limitations. SB 937 would require employers to develop and implement a new lactation accommodation policy describing an employee's right to a lactation accommodation, how to request an accommodation, the employer's obligation to respond to the request, and the employee's right to file a complaint with the Labor Commissioner. The bill would also require employers to maintain accommodation request records for three years and to allow the Labor Commissioner access to the records. The bill would require the DLSE to create and make available a model lactation policy and model lactation accommodation request form on the DLSE website, as well as lactation accommodation best practices. The bill would deem a denial of reasonable break time or adequate lactation space a failure to provide a rest period in accordance with Labor Code section 226.7.
Paid Family Leave: 2017 legislation effective January 1, 2018, removed the seven-day waiting period before an eligible employee may receive family temporary disability benefits (under the paid family leave program, which provides wage replacement benefits to workers who take time off work to care for a seriously ill family member or to bond with a minor child within one year of birth or placement). AB 2587 would remove the requirement that up to one week of vacation leave be applied to the waiting period, consistent with the removal of the seven-day waiting period for these benefits. This bill is scheduled for hearing in the Senate Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations on June 13.
Criminal History: SB 1412, the sole criminal history bill of four still alive, would allow employers to inquire into a job applicant's particular conviction, regardless of whether that conviction has been judicially dismissed or sealed, under these specified conditions: (1) the employer is required by federal law, federal regulation, or state law to obtain information about the particular conviction, (2) the job applicant would carry or use a firearm as part of the employment, (3) the job applicant with that particular conviction would be ineligible to hold the position sought, or (4) the employer is prohibited from hiring an applicant who has that particular conviction.
Mediation Confidentiality: SB 954 would require that, except in the case of a class action, before engaging in a mediation or mediation consultation, an attorney representing a client participating in a mediation or a mediation consultation must provide the client with a written disclosure containing the mediation confidentiality restrictions provided in the Evidence Code. The bill would require the attorney to obtain a written acknowledgment signed by the client stating that the client has read and understands the confidentiality restrictions. However, an agreement prepared during a mediation would remain valid even if an attorney fails to comply with the disclosure requirement. The bill would also add to the mediation privilege of Evidence Code section 1122 any communication, document, or writing that is to be used in an attorney disciplinary proceeding to determine whether an attorney has complied with the above requirements, and does not disclose anything said or done or any admission made in the course of the mediation.
Immigration Status: AB 2732 would make it illegal—and subject to a $10,000 penalty—for an employer to knowingly destroy or withhold any real or purported passport, other immigration document, or government identification, of another person, in the course of committing trafficking, peonage, slavery, involuntary servitude, a coercive labor practice, or to avoid any obligation imposed on the employer by the Labor Code. This bill would require an employer to post a workplace notice stating the rights of an employee to maintain custody of the employee's own immigration documents, that the withholding of immigration documents by an employer is a crime, and "If your employer or anyone is controlling your movement, documents, or wages, or using direct or implied threats against you or your family, or both, you have the right to call local or federal authorities, or the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 888-373-7888.". Further, the bill would require an employer to provide employees with the "Worker's Bill of Rights," to be developed by the DIR by July 1, 2019, which would inform employees of the same rights. Employers would be required to have employees sign the "Worker's Bill of Rights" and maintain the records for at least three years.
SB 785, which the Governor signed and went into effect immediately May 17, 2018 (to sunset on January 1, 2020), prohibits the disclosure of an individual's immigration status in open court in a civil or criminal action unless the party wishing to disclose the information requests a confidential in camera hearing and the judge deems the evidence relevant and admissible.
Bills that failed… for now:
The following bills did not survive the house of origin deadline or were struck down prior to the deadline. See our prior legislative update for summaries of these bills.
AB 2016 (PAGA); AB 2482 (Flexible Work Schedules); AB 2946 (DLSE Complaints extension); AB 2366 (Victims of Sexual Harassment); AB 1938 (Familial Status Inquiries); AB 2223 and AB 2613 (Wage Statements); AB 2069 (medical marijuana reasonable accommodation); AB 2841 (paid sick leave increase); AB 2680, SB 1298, AB 2647 (criminal history inquiries).
Stay tuned for our next Legislative update coming around the August 31st deadline for bills to pass both houses and make their way to the Governor's office.
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On Privacy, Foreign and Domestic
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In my piece yesterday, I drew a clear distinction between the National Security Administration's wide-ranging domestic surveillance, which I would like to see curtailed, and its foreign exploits, with which I am largely fine. Specifically, I argued against "extending globally the protections of the Privacy Act of 1974 and according to foreigners bulwarks to which they have no claim," and I suggested that much of the criticism of the NSA was predicated less on an objection to its overreach as on a general conviction that the United States was a global bully and needed to be restrained.
Today, the Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf has published a thoughtful response to my column, much of which I agree with wholeheartedly. Friedersdorf accepts my basic claim that "a government spying on its own citizens really does present unique dangers," but considers that I've understated the degree to which a foreign power can do me harm, and also that I don't go far enough "to protect foreigners from current and future excesses of the U.S. surveillance state, both for their sake and for ours." These are reasonable objections, of course.
After laying out a few basic principles, Friedersdorf lays out a few hypothetical "policy preferences" to illustrate where he's coming from:
I don't have language worked out that could be dropped into a piece of reform legislation, but I can lay out some tentative hypotheticals that fall on both sides of my line. I make no comment on their plausibility. They're offered as thought experiments.
Compromising all computer hardware sent to North Korea so that much of what's typed by its government is available to the United States? I've got no objections. Doing the very same thing to South Korea? That should be forbidden.
Eavesdropping as a Chinese general discusses his country's intentions toward Japan and their broader strategy in the Pacific? Kudos. Eavesdropping on a random sampling of typical Chinese city-dwellers to gauge public opinion about America? That should be forbidden.
Spying on British political candidates in order to surreptitiously leak damaging personal information to the British press, facilitating the rise of the party friendliest to U.S. interests? That should be forbidden. Gathering blackmail material on German bureaucrats to facilitate the awarding of lucrative bids to U.S. companies? Forbidden.
Mass surveillance on foreign nationals that is turned over to foreign governments?
Conducting surveillance of David Frum's family members in Canada in hopes of pressuring them to pressure him to write favorable articles about the Obama Administration?
Constructing an exhaustive database that contains all emails sent and received in France for a five-year period, just in case it comes in handy later for some unknown reason?
(Even if we never abused it, are we confident that we could prevent the data from being hacked or leaked? Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden suggest otherwise.)
For what it's worth, I agree with almost of these general suggestions, and also with Friedersdorf's related contention that "the notion of unconstrained NSA spying on foreigners would seem to permit all manner of mischief." I would, however, note a couple of things. While I certainly think that the United States should behave with restraint on the foreign stage, I'm not sure that I want it to be legally required to do so. Extending the 1974 Privacy Act to those abroad would do just that, blocking the extent to which America could spy on non-Americans outside of its borders. Friedersdorf's hope that the rules will prevent "us from being corrupted by too much power" and show "a determination to avoid becoming bullies" is a noble one. Nevertheless, I would argue that in the case of foreign sleuthing, the legal balance is about right as it is — even if the practical balance has not been.
Friedersdorf concedes admirably that he doesn't "have language worked out that could be dropped into a piece of reform legislation." Nor do I, so I'm certainly not about to criticize him for lacking specifics. Nevertheless, I suspect that the lack of such language is at least in part because writing it would be nigh on impossible. What, for example, is an "ally"? For these purposes, do we count Egypt or Turkey — both countries in which we have real strategic interest but in which the governments are of dubious and sometimes incomplete loyalty? How would the distinction between North and South Korea be codified? How would we decide who was to be deprived of protections in a country whose government is friendly (take the IRA, for example)? And if Lord Palmerston was right to say that "we have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies," are we to ask Congress to redraw the rules each time something changes, or would it not make vastly more sense to rely upon the judgment of the executive branch? At home, we require warrants to distinguish between suspects and everybody else (a principle that the NSA has grossly violated). Does this system work in a foreign context?
Second, I couldn't help but notice that a significant number of these scenarios range beyond the collection and storage of foreigners' information and into its use. One of the suspicions I laid out in the post was that those who wish to impose restrictions on this country's foreign spying are often "as vexed by the activities that it enables as by the spying itself." Friedersdorf's list seems to bear this out. Other than his objection to the general collection of data, most of his points involve a step beyond spying — that is, the United States's interfering with the outcome of British elections, the government's attempting to secure contracts from German companies, and the blackmailing of David Frum's family in the hope that it will be to be nice to the president. It strikes me that these things can easily be made illegal, or at least restricted so as to require good justification, without extending the general privacy protections to foreigners that we expect to enjoy at home.
I accept Friedersdorf's essential concern, which is that once data has been collected it is there to be abused. I also acknowledge that I would absoutely not accept at home the compromise I have laid out above. Ultimately, though, this has to come back to my basic view, which is that because the scope for abuse is so much higher domestically a different calculation is necessary than it is abroad. Friedersdorf writes that he'd "much prefer constraining the NSA, in accordance with [his] beliefs, than giving the foreign surveillance agency carte blanche to spy abroad however its officials see fit." I respect that. It's a tough and unpleasant question. But, on balance, I'd rather leave the door open.
Charles C. W. Cooke is the editor of National Review Online. @charlescwcooke


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Order of Osmania
Order of Osmania, Civil Division, I Class
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This Order was awarded to foreign and national personnel, within both civil and military realms, for extraordinary services for the Sultan.
It was initially instituted in three classes, however in 1867 the Order was extended to four classes. The I Class was limited to 50 recipients, II Class to 200, III Class to 1000, and IV Class to 2000.
In 1915, the Order was awarded for military merit and two crossed swords were added behind the central medallion.
The Order was awarded until 1922, when the Ottoman Empire ceased to exist.
There is a version that displays only red enamels, it is believe this version stopped being manufactured around 1867. This was only awarded for Civil Division.
There are several variations in the design attributes of this Order, including the addition of diamonds.
The ribbon of awards conferred during WWII are decorated with a clasp of crossed swords.
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Provider charges relative to Medicare rates, 2012-2017
Loren Adler, Sobin Lee, Kathleen Hannick, and Erin Duffy Thursday, December 5, 2019
This analysis is part of the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy, which is a partnership between Economic Studies at Brookings and the University of Southern California Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics. The Initiative aims to inform the national health care debate with rigorous, evidence-based analysis leading to practical recommendations using the collaborative strengths of USC and Brookings.
Loren Adler
Associate Director, USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy
Twitter LorenAdler
Sobin Lee
Senior Research Assistant - USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy
Kathleen Hannick
Research Assistant - USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy
Erin Duffy
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow - USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics
Provider charges represent a list price for their services and are typically unilaterally set by the provider. For most people, most of the time, a provider's list price is irrelevant – what typically matters is the negotiated price between your insurance plan and the provider and the cost-sharing that's required of you – but provider charges matter greatly in two main circumstances. First, uninsured patients are often liable for a provider's full charge, although some state laws attempt to limit this liability and many times uninsured patients are able to obtain discounts. Second, when a patient is treated by a provider outside of their insurer's network, he or she can be billed at the provider's charge amount – or list price. In this situation, the insurance company usually pays only a portion of the bill (often roughly in line with what they would have paid an in-network provider), potentially leaving the patient to make up the difference between the provider's list price and what their insurance paid – a practice known as "balance billing." The size of balance bills, then, depends on the magnitude of a provider's charge.
Experience with New York's arbitration process for surprise out-of-network bills
What is surprise billing for medical care?
Christen Linke Young, Matthew Fiedler, Loren Adler, and Sobin Lee
For out-of-network providers that patients proactively choose, charges face some market constraint because the provider may wish to attract out-of-network patients, for whom cost is a factor. But for certain services, patients are unable to choose their provider, and therefore can unknowingly receive care from an out-of-network provider, potentially resulting in a large, unsuspected bill – what has been termed a surprise out-of-network bill. Most commonly, this can occur during an emergency (where some combination of the ambulance, hospital, or clinicians may be out-of-network) or when treated by ancillary or similar providers (such as anesthesiologists, radiologists, and pathologists) at an in-network facility during elective care. Providers that patients do not proactively choose, therefore, have an ability to treat a significant number of unsuspecting patients on an out-of-network basis. Because charges are unilaterally set and patients typically have no choice over the specific provider who treats them regardless of cost, charges for emergency and ancillary clinicians are subject to minimal market constraint.
This analysis examines data on charges for providers treating Medicare patients released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) from 2012-17, similar to previous analyses focused on these charges in 2014 and 2016. While the charges reported to Medicare do not affect Medicare payment, we believe these generally represent providers' charges across payers.
Consistent with previous analyses, we find that specialties possessing the ability to surprise bill out-of-network patients – emergency and ancillary physicians – have charged notably higher amounts relative to Medicare rates than other specialties, both on average and among the highest chargers in a specialty.
In addition to being higher, average charges have been growing especially fast relative to Medicare payment rates in the two specialties most commonly associated with surprise billing – emergency medicine and anesthesiology – at 6.7 and 4.4 percent annually on average from 2012-2017, respectively, compared to the 1.6 percent average annual growth in the charges-to-Medicare rates ratio across all other specialties. Interestingly, though, while still at high levels relative to other specialties, radiology and pathology charges relative to Medicare rates have grown roughly in line with other specialties since 2012.
Growth in the 80th percentile of charges relative to Medicare rates by specialty has been even more pronounced for emergency medicine and anesthesiology, with roughly 40 percent growth over the five-year period.
The ratio of mean charges to Medicare payment rates for these specialties also varied significantly state to state in 2017. For example, mean anesthesiology charges around the country varied from four times Medicare rates for the same services in Oklahoma to over 11 times in Wisconsin.
Similarly, the ratio of average emergency medicine physician charges to Medicare rates varied from 7.5 times Medicare rates in Texas to only 3.1 in Montana.
APPENDIX: METHODOLOGY
We use the Medicare Provider Utilization and Payment Data: Physicians and Other Supplier Public Use File from 2012 to 2017 that is publicly released by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). We focused on providers located in the fifty U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
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By Charles R. Morris
The OECD Health Project
By Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD
Toward a Containment Strategy for Smallpox Bioterror
By Joshua M. Epstein, Derek A. T. Cummings, Shubha Chakravarty, Ramesh M. Singha, and Donald S. Burke
The following observations were removed prior to calculations:
Provider types listed as All Other Suppliers, Ambulatory Surgical Center, Clinical Laboratory, Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility, Mammography Center, Portable X-Ray Supplier, Radiation Therapy Center, Slide Preparation Facility, Undefined Physician type, Unknown Physician Specialty Code, and Unknown Supplier/Provider.
Ground and air ambulance mileage claims.
The CMS data includes observations aggregated for each provider / billing code combination during a full year. Providers are identified by their national provider identifier (NPI) and billing codes are from the Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS). The average billed charge and average Medicare allowed amount are included for each provider / code combination in each year (that is, these fields represent the average billed charge and Medicare allowed amount for all services matching a given HCPCS code provided to Medicare patients by a given provider in a given year). The provider specialty and address are also provided.
To calculate the 20th and 80th percentiles of physicians by average charge-to-Medicare ratios, we analyze the distribution of charge-to-Medicare ratios for each NPI-HCPCS code combination within a given specialty, weighted by the volume of services provided. The mean charge-to-Medicare allowed amount ratios are calculated by dividing the sum of all submitted charges by the sum of all Medicare allowed amounts for each specialty in each year.


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Mayor 'should be strong on health'
The King's Fund has called for London's new mayor to be given a much stronger role in promoting health.
The greater London authority bill to establish an assembly and a directly elected mayor received its second reading in Parliament this week. But King's Fund public health programme director Anna Coote said the draft legislation was 'disappointingly vague' about health. 'Duties and powers must be clarified so the mayor and assembly can do their job properly,' she told a conference on health, the London mayor and the greater London assembly last week. 'This is an opportunity we cannot afford to miss.'
Among ideas canvassed at the conference was a public health team within the assembly to have a well-defined role in promoting the health of Londoners.
'We are not calling for the mayor to meddle in the management of health services,' said Ms Coote. 'Londoners' health can only be improved through a range of policies which tackle the roots of the problem.'
The conference was supported by a survey carried out with the Evening Standard which showed the majority of Londoners think the capital is an unhealthy place to live. Most felt it was likely to be worse in the next five years, with increasing air pollution a particular concern.
Public health minister Tessa Jowell stressed that the mayor would have a duty to promote improvements in health and a responsibility to make explicit the health implications of their policies. But she said improvements would also depend crucially on a partnership between the mayor and the NHS Executive London regional office.
She also said there was little support for the idea that the mayor and assembly should manage and provide health services. Ms Jowell declined to offer a blueprint for how the mayor and the assembly would handle health. But she said: 'Partnership is critical to delivery.'
London Research Centre director Anne Page told the conference that social and economic deprivation was widespread, with a million adults on income support.
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Huntsville City Schools board member asks state for audit of finances
Posted 10:35 pm, August 20, 2018, by Kristen Conner
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Michelle Watkins, a Huntsville City Schools Board of Education member, sent a letter to Eric Mackey, the State Superintendent of Education. She wants him to provide for a state audit of the district's financial situation.
This comes after news of a budget shortfall as the district approaches an important threshold. At its last meeting, Bob Hagood, the Deputy Superintendent of Finance, said the district was in danger of going under one month's operating budget reserve. It could mean disaster, board members learned.
Now, Watkins is asking Mackey to step in to "provide emergency insight on Huntsville City Schools financial status."
"Since the start of my term, I have publicly suggested, requested and demanded an independent forensic audit of all contracts and fiscal affairs. However, my reasonable, public and professional request (sic) have been ignored which has left me no other choice but to respectfully request your immediate support in a state audit of Huntsville City Schools finances," she wrote.
Watkins gives multiple reasons for her request for an audit:
Revenue projections that were more than the money the district received
Concerns that land transactions were not properly done
"Potential violations" of bid laws on several contracts: Appleton, Information Technology Services, and Pinnacle Schools
Increases in instructional support services
Construction expenditures on new and improved schools
Click here to view Michelle Watkins full letter to Eric Mackey
We talked to Watkins about why she decided to go to the state for the audit, which she has repeatedly asked for.
"It hadn't been addressed," she said of her requests, "and now it's time for it to be addressed." She added, "I just felt it's time for someone to step in and figure out what happened to our finances."
Watkins said the budget shortfall is disturbing to her.
"I'm concerned that taxpayers dollars were not utilized effectively," she said. "We knew the money wasn't there like we had been told it was there. I guess what really boggles my mind is the contracts. The contracts have me worried, the way they were awarded. Some of them were 'no bid,' which goes against our No Bid law in Alabama. So someone needs to come in and find out were things done correctly? If they were done correctly, why were the markups on some of these positions so high?"
Watkins said she wants to find out what was done incorrectly.
"If people owe us money, I want them to pay. I think the biggest issue is, we're in an education system and I want to make sure that those contracts touched instruction. Did the kids benefit from those contracts?" she asked. "There's too many unanswered questions."
Watkins said she is also concerned that some of the blame is about to be laid upon the current financial officer, Bob Hagood. She doesn't think that's right.
"Well, he inherited this. This happened before him. These contracts were handed out before him. A lot of these deals that were made, were done before him. So let's not try to blame the person who is currently on board. So let's find out: who did what, when did they do it and lie the blame there," she stated.
She sent the letter as an individual board member, and not on behalf of the entire board Watkins said. She wanted to be clear that she was not doing it to rock the boat or call anyone out. She believes all can benefit from having the right information about what's going on.
"If there's nothing wrong and everything has been done by the book, let's do a public audit and let the public know we did our finances correctly. If we didn't, let's understand what was done wrong and let's move forward," she stated.
Watkins added she is also forming a budget committee to watch the district's finances in the future. She said anyone who is interested in being a part of it can email her, but she plans to keep it small. Her plan is to fill it with "key players within the community" and parents.
"No one that has ulterior motives," she said. "Just want to come in and make sure the finances are sound and that we are addressing the needs of the students."
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My Mom was hoping that they'd give her the post-surgery x-ray. I asked and received a strange look with a "uhhh, I don't think so?" as the response. The nurse then thought that I was a little nuts for asking to take a photo of the x-ray. My mom and I think alike. How could you not want a copy of this?!
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When I picked the girls up at school today, I was handed four handmade cards. When you have two moms, this is a busy time of year ;) The girls promptly snatched the cards and gifts back wanting to hold them and inevitably open them.
Quinny has proven to be quite helpful since she started walking. I didn't compare her to a Border Collie for nothing. In the last few months, she has started asking constantly if she can help me in the kitchen. Mealtime is usually a bit chaotic. At lunchtime, we are rushing home. They're often hungry and tired. At dinnertime, it is much of the same. A few months ago, I would dismiss her requests to help (and feel bad about it). During those hectic mealtimes, I felt that getting the meal on the table as fast as possible was priority number one. Then she started being more persistent. (No clue where she gets it from!) I made the decision to rarely say no to her offers of help. On most days, I now have my sous-chef next to me, propped up on a small chair. On the weekend, she chopped veggies and apples for a salad. It proved to be difficult with her horribly dull kiddie knife, but she didn't mind.
Here she is happily making guacamole. Below that she is very focused while grating Cheddar onto poached eggs and asparagus.
Jenn and I got away for a night on the weekend courtesy of the most amazing babysitters in the world, Rob and Kelly. We were both feeling a little burnt out, needing a bit of space from our little cherubs. We went down to Niagara-on-the-Lake and stayed at the Pillar and Post. This is proving to be the perfect location for a quick getaway from Toronto. There are some beautiful inns and B&Bs and great restaurants. There are shops, wineries and great trails along the lake. We had a fantastic meal and had a great time recharging. While walking around on Saturday, I commented on a couple who were there with their three very young children. "Not everyone has a Rob and Kelly," Jenn said. So true. So, to Rob and Kelly, when your triplets arrive, we will be your "Rob and Kelly".
Just kidding…she's going to kill me. That photo and this one were staged. She drank responsibly.
The spring weather seems to have finally arrived in Toronto. The girls and I are loving the outdoor time. They can spend ages flying around on their scooters.
I'd want the x-ray too. Why not? I took pics of Quinn's leg x-rays when he broke his leg.
I'm from St. Catharines so NOTL (Niagara-on-the-Lake) was my backyard pretty much. We'd go as a family for tea, window shopping and then wading in the pool in the park while listening to music. It's beautiful. Which wineries did you visit? I love Inniskillin (reisling) and Konzelmann.


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The Magic Cafe Forum Index » » Not very magical, still... » » Godfather 1 or 2? (0 Likes)
kcg5
who wants four fried chickens and a coke
Lobo, that's a great movie. that first speech by baldwin is pure acting. you know what it takes to sell real estate? it takes...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-AXTx4PcKI&feature=related
Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!!!!!
"History will be kind to me, as I intend to write it"- Sir Winston Churchill
MickeyPainless
I totally agree Lobo! Been ages since I've seen it so I may just have to rent it this weekend!
vinsmagic
Eternal Order
sleeping with the fishes...
Father thank you ...Mickey where is your loyalty?
Lobo use to be loyal but ever since he passed the bar he forgot the Godfather.
Chrystal the godfather hasen't spoke to you for along time I hope it wansn't our time in Sicily together ??/...
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Canada/France
Thanks Mickey!
Vinnie!! You're unforgetable. Sicily! Of course I remember...
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On 2008-10-24 02:50, vinsmagic wrote:
Vinnie, I'm gonna fly in from the tip of the boot and kiss the ring soon! Like Michael Corleone, even when I've been away, The Family is still The Family.
Con tutto rispetto...
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley.
"...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us."
ah, the godfather himself!!!! It is helpful to have friends in powerful places. I hope your first child is a masculine child.
ed rhodes
I remember they ran both films on television as a "miniseries" by starting with the first part of #2, going to #1 then where Michael takes on the mantle of the Godfather, they ran the second half of #2! (I don't think they went as far as running #3, but I could be wrong.)
It was fascinating to watch.
I like #2 because I like the flashback sequence as to how Vito Correlone got to where he was. I also liked watching De Niro develop the character traits Brando set up as the older character. (Same thing watching the guy who played the younger Obi Wan in the "third" movie developing the moves that Alec Guiness had shown in the "fourth" film!)
"There's no time to lose," I heard her say.
"Catch your dreams before they slip away."
"Dying all the time, lose your dreams and you could lose your mind.
Ain't life unkind?"
Leave the gun, take the canolis.
Nothing Personal-Strictly Business
***Mickey where is your loyalty?***
Vin,
By keeping the other families confused about my loyalty I feel it makes me a stronger asset to the one and ONLY true Famiglia!
On 2008-10-24 15:37, ed rhodes wrote:
I might be wrong, but I think this is called the "USA" version, a style set up for the tv station. they ran it out of sequence, and place it correctly timewise. they also placed in a lot of deleted scenes, such as- one of Michaels bodyguards (the one who betrayed him in italy) is seen living in america, owing a pizza place. he blows up.
many people wish this version was available for purchase.
Speaking of Scarface, Just saw the 2 hour long COCAINE COWBOYS (which comes on Showtime late Halloween night or early morning the next day) and it is all about the influx of Colombian and Cuban cocaine into Miami during the 1970's and 1980's and the resulting drug wars that led to years of 500+ people being killed on the streets in the most dangerous place on earth at the time. It interviews the smugglers, dealers, police and killers and is fascinating. It shows how much money came into Miami, how banks and business came in to support the hundreds of millions constantly coming into the economy and how the drug wars and killings ended it all and businesses folded and Miami was left in a state of depression, Until the TV Show, Miami Vice began to be filmed there. Hollywood would paint and refurbish the locations for the sets and suddenly the very rich of Miami realized that it was a good idea to invest in the cities real estate and overnight money was pumped back in and the city went from looking like Detroit to the rich international city we see today. I don't if you can rent this at a place like Block Busters but it is certainly worth renting if you can. It was fascinating. We didn't leave our chairs or really even look at one another much or chat during the show, it was so interesting. You should see this if you can! Part of the show even compared what happened in Miami to the gangster days in the 1920's and the Mafia and concluded it was MUCH more violent and there was more money that the Mafia could have even imagined. We'd like to see it again.
Did they mention a Mr. Pablo Escobar? Great book about him and his death by Mark Bowden, "Killing Pablo". At one point he was on Fotunes richest 50 people world-wide list. The book goes into our governments role in the death of escobar.
I am straying off my own topic, again.
Yes, they did but they said that people believe he was the leader, but actually it was the old man of the Mediin family who ran everything! You HAVE to see this show if you can find it. It was GREAT! Really fascinating. It was really rough and tough in Miami. People there now talk with pride about surviving it. For a few years the news didn't think it was news unless the killing were of 5 or 6 people, one or two didn't make the news, whole houses full of people had to be wiped out. They talked about how it started, dealers going from selling too much pot to cocaine and how they couldn't get enough cocaine from the Cubans to meet the demand, so they met the Colombians and started bringing that in. Then the Colombians (Mediin family) started sending their own people up to Miami, illegal immigrants and filled up the town with these people to do the selling and dealing and killing and then a former Colombian Prostitute started killing the competition (Cubans) en masse and the Mediins gave her a pass to keep wiping out the Cuban competition UNTIL these Cocaine Cowboys made the killing so horrendous that the FEDS had to come in and they cleaned it up much the same way the Brits did with their outlaw gangs, killing them on the street or locking them up. Then the Colombian prostitute tried to move the whole operation to California but she killed a family member in order to keep the money from a sale and that was the end of it basically. This was a REALLY interesting show. You've got to see if you can get it.
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The First is beter due to the fact that it started it all.The second one was good though.
I left out the name of one Colombian family. The TWO families that ran the business were the Mediin and Ochoa families, but old man Mediin was the Godfather mastermind. (The names are pronounced Meddy-een, and Oh-ChO-uh.) The Prostitute who moved the operation to California killed an Ochoa family member and then the Colombians killed her sons and later her. Very detailed and fascinating history.
BTW, I do know about Killing Pablo. I thought he was the head honcho until I saw this film. They interviewed one of the dealers and he talked about money and what was coming into Miami dwarfed Escobar's operation. He personally dealt with hundreds of millions of dollars and threw away $50 million. I can't remember what the figures were with Escobar, but if you look at the skyline of Miami, it was built from the cocaine trade. They said MORE money was going through the Fed bank in Miami than through ALL the Fed Banks Combined! Think of that. The Colombians had about 100,000 Colombian nationals IN Miami illegally, selling for the 2 families! Escobar was not in charge of 100,000 Colombians, but the Mediin and Ochoa ran it.
Chessmann
I think the TV movie spliced together from I and II was called, "The Godfather Saga" if I remember right.
My ex-cat was named "Muffin". "Vomit" would be a better name for her. AKA "The Evil Ball of Fur".
Funny little Godfather-inspired news item, that was in the news this past week:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew......eat.html
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.


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housing market housing market
Roman Borisovich is a Russian banker-turned-anti-corruption activist and founder of ClampK, the Campaign for Legislation Against Money-laundering in Property by Kleptocrats. Here Borisovich stands in front of a multi-million dollar London house owned by Dmitry Firtash, a Ukrainian billionaire indicted in the U.S. for money-laundering. Lauren Frayer for NPR hide caption
Lauren Frayer for NPR
As The Global Rich Buy Up London Homes, Britons Ask If The Money Is Legit
May 30, 2016 • Many of London's expensive homes are owned by obscure foreign companies. Critics say the city has become a haven for those hiding ill-gotten gains, and the government is starting to respond.
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Your Money And Your Life
Millennials Make Up Biggest Share Of Homebuyers
March 24, 2016 • The kids of the housing crisis — those 35 and under — are among the most eager to buy today. Here are some tips, for everyone, on how to weigh whether renting or buying makes the most sense for you.
Forget Generation Rent: More Younger Americans Aim To Buy
University of Michigan professor Peter Allen lectures to students during his real estate investing course. Jason Margolis/NPR hide caption
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Professor Delivers A Crash Course In Real Estate Investing To Detroiters
July 17, 2015 • Housing prices there have dropped, opening up investment opportunities — but only if you know how to invest. One professor is teaching inner-city residents how to get in on the market.
A realty sign in front of a home in The Lakes neighborhood in Las Vegas. Nevada, which was hit hard by the housing bust five years ago, remains the state with the highest number of homes with negative equity. Isaac Brekken/AP hide caption
Isaac Brekken/AP
Report: 6.4 Million U.S. Homes Still Have Negative Equity
December 17, 2013 • The percentage has been steadily shrinking thanks to rising home prices, but the highest percentage of underwater mortgages can still be found in a handful of states hardest hit by the housing crisis.
Lam Thuy Vo / NPR
New Home Sales And (Maybe) Good News About The Housing Market, In 2 Graphs
September 26, 2012 • The housing market is recovering — very slowly.
A sign of the times at a new housing development in Danville, Calif., last year. David Paul Morris/Getty Images hide caption
David Paul Morris/Getty Images
New Home Sales Dipped In January
February 24, 2012 • But they were still up from a year earlier. And late-2011 estimates have been revised upward. So the news appears to add to signs that the housing sector is stabilizing.
It's All Politics
Obama's Executive-Power Use Shows He Still Holds Some Cards
October 24, 2011 • An advantage of being the incumbent in the Oval Office seeking re-election was readily evident Monday in President Obama's roll-out of his administration's latest effort to help struggling homeowners. The president's executive power allows him to actually put into effect real changes as opposed to merely proposing them which is pretty much all the Republican presidential candidates can do.
June 9th: What's On Today's Show
June 9, 2011 • In the first hour of Talk of the Nation, changing attitudes in practicing safe sex, and the latest developments in Syria. In the second hour, a housing market update that looks at why Americans aren't buying homes, and the re-trial of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.
More from housing market


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National Authority Reports on Air Passenger, Cargo Traffic
EghtesadOnline: Iran's airports are witnessing strong growth in aircraft movement as well as passenger and cargo transportation, according to Iran Airports Company's statistics.
IAC is an arm of Ministry of Roads and Urban Development managing 54 airports across the country.
The company registered more than 387,000 takeoffs and landings during the 10 months to January 19, 2017, which shows a 16% rise compared with the similar period of the previous year.
More than 48 million passengers and 459,500 tons of cargo were transported during the period, indicating an 18% and 12% rise respectively over last year's corresponding period, Financial Tribune reported.
As for domestic flights, 317,472 takeoffs and landings were registered during the 10 months, up 20% year-on-year. As many as 38.2 million passengers and 281,511 tons of goods were also transported to domestic destinations, showing a 23% and 20% growth respectively.
On the international front, aircraft movement recorded a 1% decline to register 69,552 takeoffs and landings. Also, 9.8 million passengers and 178,000 tons of cargo were transported to and from overseas destinations, indicating a 2% increase each.
Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport was Iran's busiest airport during the period. It recorded 111,303 takeoffs and landings during the period, indicating a 19% rise. The airport handled 13.8 million passengers and 93,800 tons of cargo, up 21% and 18% respectively.
Mashhad International airport (60,500 takeoffs and landings) and Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport (45,700 takeoffs and landings) ranked second and third respectively.
IAC's data show 319,137 international flights flew over Iran's airspace during the 10-month period, registering an 11% rise.
> Post-Sanctions Boom
Following the lifting of sanctions in January last year, as part of the nuclear deal between Iran and the world powers struck a year earlier, international airlines have started, resumed or increased flights to and from Iran.
In October, KLM resumed flights between Amsterdam and Tehran after a three-year hiatus. The resumption, part of a planned Air France-KLM comeback, includes four return flights from the Dutch capital per week.
Paris-Tehran flights also resumed earlier than the previously scheduled date in January.
British Airways resumed direct flights to and from the Iranian capital on September 1 after four years.
Lufthansa has been flying non-stop once again between Munich and Tehran early July. With this new connection, Lufthansa Group is expanding its daily offer with a Boeing B747-400 from Frankfurt after the removal of anti-Iran sanctions.
A Thai Airways' plane landed in Tehran early October. The flag carrier's launch of four flights per week substantially increased the number of Iranian arrivals to Thailand and likewise Thai visitors to the Islamic Republic.
Late-June Kazakhstan's Air Astana launched a new non-stop flight from Almaty to Tehran. Flights operate three times a week (Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays) and will be served by Embraer 190 aircraft.
In January, AirAsia X, the long-haul low-cost arm of budget carrier AirAsia, said it is adding more flights to Tehran from Kuala Lumpur six months after resuming its flight to the capital of Iran.
Many other global carriers are also planning to either establish new flights to Iran or increase their presence.
Cyprus' flag carrier Cobalt Air announced in November that it would begin regular flights to Tehran as of next year (2017), having secured a permit from Cypriot authorities to launch the route.
Austrian Airlines has announced that it will be operating four weekly flights from Vienna to Shiraz starting on July 2, with a stopover in Isfahan. This comes in addition to the existing services of up to 14 weekly flights to Tehran and four weekly flights to Isfahan.
Iran's Mahan Air is planning to operate direct flights to Barcelona as of June, with plans to launch direct flights to Madrid in the near future.
The Islamic Republic is also in talks with Air Canada, Air India and Korean Airline to establish a direct flight.
> Air Transport Gains in Popularity
Figures show the government has been able to increase the share of air travel in overall passenger transport.
According to the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development, 18.9 million Iranian passengers travelled by air in the last Iranian year (March 2015-16), up 8% over the previous year. Air transport is predicted to grow 22% this year.
This is while road passenger transport has seen an average annual decline of 5% over the past three years, which indicates a shift from road to air.
As part of Iran's sixth five-year development plan (2017-22), the annual number of passengers transported via air is stipulated to reach 48 million.
The plan also envisages an increase of Iran's share from international flights passing through the region. Officials are planning to turn the country into a hub of international flights by developing the area surrounding IKIA to create an airport city.
Iran Aviation Iran airports Iran aircrafts
Free Services to State Bodies Sapping IAC Finances
Indian Airlines Reconsider Plans to Conduct Iran Flights
Iran, Ireland aviation sign MoU to broaden cooperation
Trump's Move on Iran Could Cost Jobs at Boeing
ATR representatives due in Tehran on Feb 5


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package com.google.cloud.datastream.v1.samples;

// [START datastream_v1_generated_Datastream_ListConnectionProfiles_async]
import com.google.api.core.ApiFuture;
import com.google.cloud.datastream.v1.ConnectionProfile;
import com.google.cloud.datastream.v1.DatastreamClient;
import com.google.cloud.datastream.v1.ListConnectionProfilesRequest;
import com.google.cloud.datastream.v1.LocationName;

public class AsyncListConnectionProfiles {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    asyncListConnectionProfiles();
  }

  public static void asyncListConnectionProfiles() throws Exception {
    // This snippet has been automatically generated and should be regarded as a code template only.
    // It will require modifications to work:
    // - It may require correct/in-range values for request initialization.
    // - It may require specifying regional endpoints when creating the service client as shown in
    // https://cloud.google.com/java/docs/setup#configure_endpoints_for_the_client_library
    try (DatastreamClient datastreamClient = DatastreamClient.create()) {
      ListConnectionProfilesRequest request =
          ListConnectionProfilesRequest.newBuilder()
              .setParent(LocationName.of("[PROJECT]", "[LOCATION]").toString())
              .setPageSize(883849137)
              .setPageToken("pageToken873572522")
              .setFilter("filter-1274492040")
              .setOrderBy("orderBy-1207110587")
              .build();
      ApiFuture<ConnectionProfile> future =
          datastreamClient.listConnectionProfilesPagedCallable().futureCall(request);
      // Do something.
      for (ConnectionProfile element : future.get().iterateAll()) {
        // doThingsWith(element);
      }
    }
  }
}
// [END datastream_v1_generated_Datastream_ListConnectionProfiles_async]

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L'accertamento sospetto abuso su minore è un metodo di scienza forense adoperato dall'unità valutativa multidisciplinare (UVM), in forza alle istituzioni di polizia o dei servizi sociali, per indagare e rilevare abusi nei confronti di minorenni.

In Inghilterra, l'équipe lavora di concerto col Operational Command Unit all'interno del Specialist Crime Directorate.

Obiettivi dell'UVM:

Condurre indagini su casi di sospetto abuso
Determinare un'ipotesi di accusa di colpevolezza
Prevenire ulteriori abusi
Offrire sostegno ed assistenza alla vittima
Promuovere l'attenzione sul problema
Monitorare gli aggressori conosciuti

Nell'ambito della polizia municipale, il Child Abuse Investigation Command è una delle cinque sezioni speciali di investigazione criminale:

L'équipe principale investigativa: si impegna verso quei casi di infanticidio e abusi complessi relativi al contesto familiare;
L'unità anti-pedofilia: effettua indagini sulla pedofilia organizzata e verso coloro che producono e distribuiscono materiale pedopornografico;
L'unità anti-crimine Hi-Tech: fornisce supporto tecnico ed informatico sulle indagini;
L'unità di salvaguardia minorile fornisce informazioni alle su dette unità sul sistema di difesa sociale e sulle iniziative in corso da parte della Commissione per la difesa del ragazzo. Supporta inoltre il Gruppo di sostegno indipendente di prevenzione minorile e altri servizi sociali impegnati nella lotta contro l'abuso.
L'unità aeroportuale di prevenzione: sono piccoli gruppi di investigatori di stanza presso i principali aeroporti che si occupano di prevenire il Traffico di esseri umani, la Tratta di immigrati e l'induzione al lavoro minorile.

Note

Bibliografia
Chen W. (2010) The contribution of a hospital child protection team in determining suspected child abuse and neglect: analysis of referrals of children aged 0–9, "Children and Youth Services Review", 12, pp. 1664–69, .
Flaherty E.G. (2006) Analysis of caretaker histories in abuse: Comparing initial histories with subsequent confessions, "Child Abuse & Neglect", 7, pp. 789–98,
Fogarty K. (2010) Just say it in your own words': the social interactional nature of investigative interviews into child sexual abuse, Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Adelaide, School of Psychology.
Pandya N.K. (2010) Humerus fractures in the pediatric population: an algorithm to identify abuse, "Journal of pediatrics Orthopaedics", 6, pp. 535–41.
Sege R.M.D., et al. (2011) To Report or Not to Report: Examination of the Initial Primary Care Management of Suspicious Childhood Injuries, "Academic Pediatrics", 6, pp. 460–66,
Schwartz C.M. (2008) A Matter of Questionable Death: An Analysis of Physical Child Abuse, Louisiana State University.
Tursz A., et al. (2010) Underascertainment of child abuse fatalities in France: Retrospective analysis of judicial data to assess underreporting of infant homicides in mortality statistics, "Child Abuse & Neglect", 7, pp. 534–544

Voci correlate
Abuso minorile
Analisi retrospettiva
Criminologia applicata
Violenza sessuale
UACV - Unità Analisi Crimine Violento

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Criminologia
Integrazione sociosanitaria
Scienze forensi

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TV Preview
Will There be a Chico Bon Bon Season 5?
Anisha Dutta
'Chico Bon Bon: Monkey with a Tool Belt' is a kids' animated web television series that airs on Netflix. Based on the eponymous illustrated book series by Chris Monroe, the story follows the super-resourceful monkey, Chico Bon Bon, and his buddies, Tiny the mouse, Clark the elephant, and Rainbow Thunder the daredevil cat — as they solve issues faced by the people of Blunderburg.
Armed with mechanical know-how, engineering smarts, and the epic Fixed-It Force, there is nothing that Chico cannot solve! He even uses STEM concepts. No doubt, with such an educational yet entertaining concept, the series is one of the most beloved tot-centric titles on the streamer. Four seasons in and counting, let us now get into the details of its fifth edition!
Chico Bon Bon Season 5 Release Date:
'Chico Bon Bon' season 4 released on October 27, 2020, on Netflix. It consisted of eight 14-minute episodes. When the series was originally commissioned by the streamer, it was ordered for a total of 4o episodes. And Netflix has released 38 episodes to date (segmented into three seasons of 10 episodes each and one season of eight episodes).
The two remaining episodes from the initial order might get incorporated into the fifth edition — which is yet to be given a go-ahead. But noting the positive response, we are sure that the new season will be announced soon. In all probability, 'Chico Bon Bon' season 5 will premiere sometime in 2021. On a good note, a holiday special, 'Chico Bon Bon and a Very Berry Holiday' will release on December 3, 2020.
Chico Bon Bon Season 5 Cast: Who Can be in it?
Chico Bon Bon, the titular protagonist, is voiced by Robbie Daymond. Chico is an energetic monkey who can be recognized because of his signature get-up — a sweatband, a pair of sneakers, and his iconic tool belt. The smart Chico leads the Fix-it Force crew but, maybe, because he is always so occupied, he often forgets things and loses track of events. He is well-versed in several engineering concepts and tools.
Rainbow Thunder, the cat in the white bodysuit, is Chico's friend. She is voiced by Dayci Brookshire. Rainbow happens to be the main driver for the Fix-it Force and she operates Tool Force 1 and Glittercycle. She is the one who describes the STEM concepts used in each episode. Clark (voiced by Anthony Tedesco) is the gentle giant of an elephant in the red and white tracksuit. Clark is a math and science expert.
Winding up the lead roster of characters is Tiny, the mini mouse who is also a member of the Fix-it Force. She is well-versed in the skills of martial arts. In season 5, the entire roster of lead characters and their respective voiceover stars will make a return.
Read More: Best Animation Movies on Amazon Prime


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Q: openACC: memory management I'm using caps openacc compiler. I wonder something that can i manage memory myself?
For example regular openacc code with CUDA is :
 #pragma acc kernels copyin(a,b) copy(c)
  for (i = 0; i < SIZE; ++i)
    for (j = 0; j < SIZE; ++j)
      for (k = 0; k < SIZE; ++k)
        c[i][j] += a[i][k] * b[k][j];

I want change in this way
//allocation
cudaMalloc((void**)&a, num_bytes);
cudaMalloc((void**)&b, num_bytes);
cudaMalloc((void**)&c, num_bytes);

//transfer-in
cudaMemcpy(hostA, a, num_bytes, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
cudaMemcpy(hostB, b, num_bytes, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);

//computation
//i think it will be generated as codelet by CAPS openACC compiler.
#pragma acc kernels
  for (i = 0; i < SIZE; ++i)
    for (j = 0; j < SIZE; ++j)
      for (k = 0; k < SIZE; ++k)
        c[i][j] += a[i][k] * b[k][j];

cudaMemcpy(c, hostC, num_bytes, cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost);
cudaFree(&a);cudaFree(&b);cudaFree(&c);

A: Yes, you can allocate the memory yourself. In your example it should be possible to achieve this using the  device_ptr pragma, so something like:
cudaMalloc((void**)&a, num_bytes);
cudaMalloc((void**)&b, num_bytes);
cudaMalloc((void**)&c, num_bytes);

cudaMemcpy(hostA, a, num_bytes, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
cudaMemcpy(hostB, b, num_bytes, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);

#pragma acc data deviceptr(a, b, c)
#pragma acc kernels
  for (i = 0; i < SIZE; ++i)
    for (j = 0; j < SIZE; ++j)
      for (k = 0; k < SIZE; ++k)
        c[i][j] += a[i][k] * b[k][j];

cudaMemcpy(c, hostC, num_bytes, cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost);
cudaFree(a);cudaFree(b);cudaFree(c);

[disclaimer: written in browser, never compiled or tested, use at own risk]
This should declare that a, b and c are pre-existing allocations to the compiler. You should also be able to use the OpenACC acc_malloc routine to allocate memory in place of cudaMalloc, if you so wish.
Thanks to @user2054656 for pointing out my incorrect use of device_resident in the first version of this answer.

A: I agree with the talonmies' post, except that you should use the deviceptr clause of the data pragma. I say this because device_resident does request the OpenACC implementation to allocate memory, while device_ptr does not.
You don't need to allocate memory because it's already allocated by the user with cudaMalloc()


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