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OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between early discharge from hospital after birth and readmission to hospital for jaundice among term infants, and among infants discharged early, to investigate the perinatal risk factors for readmission for jaundice.
METHODS: Birth data for 781 074 term live-born infants born in New South Wales, Australia from 2001 to 2010 were linked to hospital admission data. Logistic regression models were used to investigate the association between postnatal length of stay (LOS), gestational age (GA), and readmission for jaundice in the first 14 days of life. Other significant perinatal risk factors associated with readmission for jaundice were examined for infants discharged in the first 2 days after birth.
RESULTS: Eight per 1000 term infants were readmitted for jaundice. Infants born at 37 weeks' GA with an LOS at birth of 0 to 2 days were over 9 times (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 9.43; 95% CI, 8.34–10.67) and at 38 weeks' GA were 4 times (aOR 4.05; 95% CI, 3.62–4.54) more likely to be readmitted for jaundice compared with infants born at 39 weeks' GA with an LOS of 3 to 4 days. Other significant risk factors for readmission for jaundice for infants discharged 0 to 2 days after birth included vaginal birth, born to mothers from an Asian country, born to first-time mothers, or being breastfed at discharge.
CONCLUSIONS: This study can inform guidelines or policy about identifying infants at risk for readmission for jaundice and ensure that appropriate post-discharge follow-up is received.
What's Known on This Subject:
Studies examining early postnatal discharge and readmission for jaundice report conflicting results. Infants born 37 to 38 weeks' gestation have an increased risk for readmission for jaundice; however, the impact of early discharge on this group has not been investigated.
What This Study Adds:
Early postnatal discharge was significantly associated with readmission for jaundice. Of the infants discharged early, those born 37 to 38 weeks' gestation, born via vaginal delivery, born to Asian mothers, or were breastfed had the greatest risk for readmission.
The length of stay (LOS) in hospital after the birth of a child has been a controversial topic over the past few decades. A Cochrane Review found early postnatal discharge, defined as earlier than standard care, to have no adverse effects on breastfeeding and maternal depression when accompanied by a policy of nursing/midwifery home visits. However, they reported more research is needed to investigate infant morbidity, mortality, and hospital readmissions.1
One of the major concerns for infant health after early discharge is readmission for jaundice, because bilirubin levels do not peak until days 5 to 7 in some infants.2 Although mild jaundice is extremely common among healthy term infants and requires no intervention, it can develop into severe jaundice and in extremely rare cases can lead to kernicterus, a condition that can cause neurologic damage and death. Failure to initiate and establish adequate breastfeeding can also play an important role in the development of severe jaundice, because caloric deprivation and/or dehydration is known to increase plasma bilirubin levels.3 Early discharge from hospital may impact the establishment of breastfeeding if appropriate support and advice is not available, because face-to-face professional support has been shown to increase breastfeeding success.4
Literature examining the association between early postnatal discharge and readmission for jaundice has reported conflicting results. Ecological and time trend studies using population data in North America have shown both an increase5,6 and a decrease7 in readmissions for neonatal jaundice after the introduction of legislation or guidelines for early discharge. Case control studies have also shown inconsistent results.8–10 Studies have also found that infants born at 37 to 38 weeks' gestational age were at increased risk for developing hyperbilirubinemia11,12 and were more likely to be readmitted to hospital for jaundice compared with infants born at >40 weeks' gestational age;10 however, the impact of early discharge on this group of infants has not been assessed.
To date there has been no population-based study investigating early discharge and readmission for jaundice that comprehensively adjusts for known major risk factors for jaundice, such as gestational age, breastfeeding, and Asian race,2 and risk factors for readmission to hospital, including maternal age, birth order, and maternal smoking.13 The aims of this study are to (1) examine the association between early discharge from hospital after birth, week of gestational age, and readmission to hospital for jaundice among term infants; and (2) investigate the perinatal risk factors for readmission to hospital for jaundice among infants discharged early.
Study Population
All term infants (gestational age 37 to 41 weeks) born to women residing in NSW from January 2001 through December 2010 who were discharged from hospital in the first 14 days after birth were included in the study population. Infants born with severe neonatal morbidity in the birth admission were identified using the Neonatal Adverse Outcome Indicator and were excluded.14 The adverse outcome indicator comprises a range of conditions and procedures including exchange transfusion; as such, infants who had severe jaundice requiring an exchange transfusion in the birth admission were excluded.
Data Sources
Data were obtained from the NSW Perinatal Data Collection (PDC) and the Admitted Patient Data Collection (APDC). The PDC is a legislated, population-based surveillance system of all births in NSW, including home births, of ≥20 weeks' gestation or an infant ≥400 g birth weight. The APDC is an administrative database of all hospital admissions in NSW and is based on information from hospital medical records, with diagnoses coded according to the 10th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases, Australian Modification (ICD10-AM) and procedures coded using the Australian Classification of Health Interventions.
The 2 databases, PDC and APDC, were linked by the NSW Centre for Health Record Linkage using probabilistic linkage. This process enables each infant's PDC birth data to be linked cross-sectionally to their own hospital birth admission, and then longitudinally linked to subsequent admissions. Over 98% of birth records linked to an infant hospital record. The proportion of missing data were small: maternal age, 0.02%; mode of delivery, 0.04%; infant gender, 0.05%; and parity 0.07%.
Study Outcome
The primary outcome of the study was whether infants had been admitted to hospital after discharge home from the birth admission, in the first 14 days of life, with a diagnosis of jaundice (ICD10-AM codes P58, P59, R17). A validation study comparing data in the APDC to medical records found neonatal jaundice had a sensitivity of 80.0% and a positive predictive value of 90.9%.15 As a test of face validity, we found 87% of infants who had a diagnosis of jaundice received a procedure code for phototherapy, similar to the reported high positive predictive value.
Primary Explanatory Variables
The 2 primary explanatory variables were LOS in hospital during the birth admission and gestational age. The LOS at birth was calculated by subtracting the day of discharge from date of birth. Inter-hospital transfers during the birth admission were included as part of the calculation for LOS at birth. The LOS variable was divided into 3 groups: 0 to 2 days (discharged up to 72 hours after birth), 3 to 4 days, and ≥5 days. An LOS ≤2 days will include all infants discharged from hospital <48 hours, defined as a short stay for a healthy newborn by the American Academy of Pediatrics.16 Gestational age was obtained from the PDC and divided into weeks of gestation (37 through 41). Reporting of gestational age (in weeks) has been shown to have 98% agreement with medical records.17
Other Explanatory Factors
Other explanatory variables included were known risk factors for jaundice as reported in the literature.9,10 Covariates available for analysis from the PDC included maternal age, maternal smoking during pregnancy, parity, gestational diabetes, maternal country of birth, type of hospital at birth (public or private hospital), mode of birth (normal vaginal delivery, vacuum-assisted delivery, forceps-assisted delivery, caesarean section), infant feeding status at hospital discharge (exclusively receiving breast milk at discharge or not), and infant gender; phototherapy in the birth admission was obtained from the infant's APDC record. Infant feeding status at discharge was collected in the PDC from 2006.
Firstly, descriptive statistics for maternal and infant characteristics in each of the 3 LOS groups were calculated. The frequencies of infants readmitted for jaundice for each LOS group were then stratified by gestational age and parity. Secondly, univariate analysis was performed to examine the association between gestational age, LOS, and readmission to hospital for jaundice. Because of a significant interaction between gestational age and LOS, these 2 variables were combined to create 1 variable with 15 categories (3 LOS variables stratified by 5 weeks of gestational age). To adjust for confounding factors, multivariable logistic regression was performed, and all variables associated with jaundice (P < .20) were included in the multivariable logistic regression model. As infant feeding status was only collected from 2006, the multivariable logistic models were also run for the years 2007 to 2010 to include breastfeeding. This sensitivity analysis was performed to examine whether infant feeding status confounded the association between LOS/gestational age and jaundice. If exclusive breastfeeding changed adjusted odds ratios (aOR) by >10%, then it was considered a confounder.
A subgroup analysis was then performed to examine risk factors associated with readmission to hospital for jaundice among infants discharged early. Univariate and multivariable logistic regression was performed for the specific population of infants discharged in the first 2 days of birth. All significant variables (P < .20) were included in the final model. The multivariable logistic models for this subgroup analysis were run for the years 2007 to 2010 to include breastfeeding status.
Finally, to estimate the number of infants who would need to stay in hospital at birth longer than 2 days to avoid 1 readmission for jaundice, the number needed to treat was calculated for groups of infants who had the greatest risk for readmission. The number needed to treat was calculated using the inverse of the absolute risk reduction of readmission for jaundice between infants discharged in the first 2 days and those discharged after 2 days. This study had ethics approval from the NSW Population and Health Services Research Ethics Committee.
There were 804 350 term infants born in NSW from 2001 to 2010 who had a linked birth and hospital admission. Almost 2% (n = 15 389) of these infants were identified as having severe neonatal morbidity in the birth admission and were excluded. Of these infants, 781 074 were discharged from the hospital in the first 14 days after birth. One third (33.5%) of these infants were discharged from hospital in the first 2 days after birth, 43.2% were discharged on days 3 or 4, and 23.3% stayed in hospital for 5 days or more (Table 1). The infants who were more likely to be discharged in the first 2 days were infants of mothers aged 20 to 29 years, infants who had mothers who smoked, infants who were not the first born, infants born via normal vaginal births, infants born in a public hospital, or infants born at ≥40 weeks' gestational age (Table 1).
Eight infants per 1000 were readmitted with a diagnosis of jaundice in the first 14 days of life (Table 2). In 91% of the readmissions, jaundice was the principal diagnosis, whereas in 2.2% of readmissions feeding difficulty was the principal and jaundice the secondary diagnosis. The majority of readmissions (66%) occurred on days 3 to 6 after birth and the mean LOS for each readmission for jaundice was 2.0 days.
The proportion of infants readmitted for jaundice declined as gestational age and LOS increased (Fig 1). Infants discharged in the first 2 days were twice as likely to be readmitted to hospital with jaundice compared with infants discharged on days 3 or 4 (OR, 1.99; 95% CI, 1.87 to 2.01; data not shown). After adjusting for all other covariates in the multivariable analysis, the infants who had the greatest risk for readmission for jaundice were infants born at 37 weeks' gestation who had an LOS at birth of 2 days or less (Table 2). Almost 1 in 20 (4.6%) infants in this group were affected and were >9 times (aOR, 9.43; 95% CI, 8.34 to 10.67) more likely to be readmitted for jaundice than infants born at 39 weeks' gestation who had an LOS at birth of 3 to 4 days (Table 2). These estimates did not significantly change when breastfeeding was added to the model in the sensitivity analysis. Maternal parity was particularly important, with 7.3% of infants at 37 weeks' gestation to first-time mothers and 3.7% of infants born to multiparous mothers readmitted for jaundice (Fig 1).
When we looked specifically at infants discharged in the first 2 days after birth, the most significant risk factors for readmission were births at 37 to 38 weeks' gestation, those following a vaginal delivery, those who were breastfed, and those who had a Southeast Asian country of birth (Table 3). Infants who were first born, born to mothers aged <20 years of age or born to mothers who had gestational diabetes were also at risk for readmission for jaundice. Using the unadjusted analyses to calculate the number needed to treat, we estimated that 31 infants born at 37 weeks' gestation, or 83 infants born at 38 weeks' gestation, would have to stay in hospital for 3 days or more during the birth admission to avoid 1 infant being readmitted for jaundice.
This is the first study to look at the association between early discharge from hospital after birth and readmission for jaundice for term infants stratified by gestational age. We found that infants discharged from hospital in the first 2 days after birth were more likely to be readmitted for jaundice compared with infants who stayed ≥3 days, and this association decreased with increasing gestational age. Infants born at early term (37 to 38 weeks) and discharged in the first 2 days after birth were the group most likely to be readmitted to hospital for jaundice. Other significant risk factors for readmission for jaundice among infants discharged in the first 2 days included being born via a vaginal delivery, being exclusively breastfed at discharge, being born to a primiparous mother, having a mother aged <20 years, and being born to a mother who had an Asian country of birth.
Early discharge from hospital after birth has previously been shown to be associated with readmission to hospital for jaundice. However, previous studies used data from >20 years ago, conducted in single centers, and had various methodological limitations, such as not adjusting for known confounders.8–10 Although these studies had limitations, our study had an unadjusted twofold odds ratio (OR, 1.99) of readmission to hospital for jaundice for infants discharged early compared with discharge on day 3 or 4, which is in the mid range of the 2 aforementioned studies (aOR, 1.34; 95% CI, 1.10 to 1.649; and aOR, 2.40; 95% CI, 1.09 to 5.3010). The results in the 2 previous studies may also be underestimated given the interaction with gestational age. Another study conducted in the United States in the early 1990s found no association between LOS at birth and readmission for jaundice; however, 97% of the study population were discharged from hospital in the first 48 hours.8
Among infants discharged in the first 2 days after birth, we have shown for the first time a number of maternal and infant characteristics to be significant risk factors for readmission for jaundice; infants born via a vacuum-assisted vaginal delivery, to an Asian mother, or to a mother who did not smoke. However, these factors have been shown to be associated with jaundice in the birth admission.18,19 We have also shown that first-time mothers, and although not quite statistically significant, younger mothers age <20 years were more likely to have infants who were readmitted for jaundice, adjusted for all other risk factors. A study comparing newborns discharged <30 hours after birth with those discharged 30 to 78 hours after birth found infants of mothers aged <18 years and discharged early had the greatest risk for readmission for jaundice.9
Infants born at 37 to 38 weeks' gestation have been shown to have an increased risk for readmission for jaundice previously10; however, the impact of early discharge on these infants has not been investigated. An increasing amount of research about early term infants has shown these infants have more neonatal morbidity,20 poorer long-term general health,21 higher health service use and costs,13 and poorer educational results22 than infants born at 39 to 41 weeks' gestation. Clinically, these infants should be treated differently from infants born at ≥39 weeks' gestation, however, keeping infants in hospital longer during the birth admission is not an economical solution, because we found that 87 infants born at 38 weeks' gestation would have to stay in hospital for longer than 2 days to avoid 1 readmission for jaundice.
Early follow-up visits from health professionals may reduce hospital readmission for early postnatal discharge infants.23 In NSW, the Midwifery Support Program offers mothers midwifery support at home after early discharge, however, there are many variations of early discharge criteria and protocols across hospitals.24 Postnatal home visits provide health checks for mother and infant, and can also provide lactation counseling to ensure effective feeding and avoid dehydration. A home visit to identify infants who have jaundice would need to occur within 2 to 3 days of discharge. A limitation of our study was that individual details regarding the number or frequency of postnatal home visits were not available for infants who were discharged from the hospital early.
Australia does not have national clinical guidelines for detection and management of neonatal jaundice; however, some state and hospital-based guidelines are available with varying recommendations. Guidelines from the United States,25 Canada,26 and Norway27 recommend the use of transcutaneous bilirubinometers (TcB) or serum bilirubin measurements (TSB) to universally screen all infants before discharge. An aim of universal TcB screening is to assess the risk for the infant developing hyperbilirubinemia and TcB screening levels can be used to determine the timing and location of post-discharge follow-up.2 Routine TcB screening has been associated with reduced hospital readmissions for jaundice,28,29 however, screening infants using TcB levels has a number of possible limitations; it may lead to unnecessary use of phototherapy30 and possible increase in costs and use of hospital resources.29 Infants below standard TcB or TSB cut-offs may still develop hyperbilirubinemia, so even infants who have low pre-discharge screening levels should receive postnatal follow-up.31 Studies have shown that the use of TcB and TSB in outpatient settings are also reliable32,33 and can reduce readmissions for phototherapy.34 The results of this study could be used by hospital postnatal discharge programs to ensure the most at-risk infants receive adequate information or screening before discharge and follow-up at home.
The main strength of this study is the large, contemporary linked population-based dataset, with very few missing data, minimizing loss to follow-up. Validation studies comparing these linked population datasets to medical records have shown that gestational age and jaundice are accurately reported.35 We have also adjusted for a comprehensive list of known risk factors for jaundice. The limitations of the study include the calculation for LOS at birth; we were only able to calculate LOS in days rather than hours. However, in NSW during our study period the median LOS did not vary, ranging between 3.4 and 3.7 days,36 suggesting our cut-off for early discharge, <3 days, was consistent and reliable over time. Information about bilirubin levels at discharge and at readmission was also not available in our routinely collected datasets, however, future prospective studies could address these limitations.
Infants discharged in the first 2 days after birth were more likely to be readmitted to hospital for jaundice compared with infants who had a longer postnatal hospital stay, particularly infants born "early term" at 37 and 38 weeks' gestation. All parents should receive information about neonatal jaundice, however, national or state guidelines are imperative for universal risk assessment of infants. This study can be used to inform clinical guidelines, to ensure at-risk infants receive pre-discharge screening and post-discharge follow-up, and to reduce infant readmissions for jaundice.
We thank the NSW Ministry of Health for access to the population health data and the NSW Centre for Health Record Linkage for linking the data sets.
- Accepted October 29, 2014.
- Address correspondence to Samantha Lain, PhD, Department of O&G, Level 2, Building 52, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW, Australia, 2065. E-mail: Samantha.lain{at}sydney.edu.au
Dr Lain participated in the study design, took primary responsibility of the data analysis, and drafted the initial manuscript; Associate Professor Roberts participated in the study design and data analysis and interpretation, and reviewed and revised manuscript; Dr Bowen participated in interpretation of the data and revision of manuscript for important clinical content; Associate Professor Nassar participated in the study design and data analysis and interpretation, and reviewed and revised manuscript; and all authors approved the final manuscript as submitted.
FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE: The authors have indicated they have no financial relationships relevant to this article to disclose.
FUNDING: Linkage was funded through a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Project Grant (457302). Dr Lain is supported by an NHMRC Early Research Career Fellowship (1054751), Associate Professor Roberts is supported by an NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship (1021025), and Associate Professor Nassar is supported by an NHMRC Career Development Fellowship (1067066).
POTENTIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST: The authors have indicated they have no potential conflicts of interest to disclose.
- Copyright © 2015 by the American Academy of Pediatrics


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I harnessed my horses
Hitched them to the sleigh,
Because of the forecast
I heard from Miss Day.
The storm Cindy forecast
Must have gone astray,
There is just no sign of it
Coming our way.
Perhaps the high pressure inland
Pushed it out to sea
Or forces from the ocean
Sent it up to Miramichi
She promised us thirty
We didn't even get three,
But I still have faith
In our forecaster Cindy
It's not a fine science
By no means at all,
Regardless of the season
Winter spring summer or fall.
I am sure next time
She will be spot on,
Just as she was
When she predicted White Juan!
When I hear her next snow-cast
I'll hitch up my team,
So Cindy Day's promise
can fulfill my dream!
She's an amazing forecaster
Correct most every day,
Enhanced when reflecting
On what Grandma would say!

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Imperial Delusions
Rice said Tehran's vision of the Middle East was totally opposed to Washington's. She reiterated accusations Tehran is backing "terrorist activates" in Iraq, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and in Lebanon.Someone ought to tell her that America no longer gives a flying shit what Washington's 'vision for the Middle East' is.
"We may face no greater challenge from a single country than from Iran, whose policies are directed at developing a Middle East that would be 180 degrees different than the Middle East we would like to see developed," she told a congressional hearing.
Besides, it's glaringly obvious that Washington has been overrun by rightwing Likudniks that DO NOT have American interests in mind.


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Welcome to my brand new blog and comments page!
I want start by saying a few thank you's to those who have supported me on this wonderful journey,
1. Most importantly a huge thanks to my amazing 90 year old father Irv who is the greatest father a son good dream of! Pops has supported & inspired me, bought me a printer and made sure I never had sell to my 600mm!!
2. Don Parker and the former Chicago Wilderness Team! I met Don while shooting the Peregrine Falcons behind the Uptown Theater. He asked me who I worked for, and when I no one, he started telling me what images the magazine needed. He proceeded to publish my work in 7 issues until the economy & CWM collapsed. Don also referred me to The Peggy Notebaert Museum which has led me to be in two permanent exhibits. Here's to a rebirth of CWM under the Don in the near future!
3. All the very talented birders who share their sightings with me and on the Illinois's two brilliant list serves:
IBET founded by Sue Friscia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ILbirds/
IBF founded by Greg Neise & Jeff Skrentney: http://www.ilbirds.com/index.php
4. A special shout out to: Peggy Hanna, Patrick Connolly, John Purcell, Larry Krutulis, Jeff Reiter, Josh Engel, Sheryl DeVore, Joe Lill, Mary Hennen Bob Hughes, Geoff Williamson, Matt Cvetas, Karen Mansfield, Beau Schafer, The Gyllenhaal Family and all the Montrose Dunes & Magic Hedge crew!!
5. Finally, thanks to one of the best bird photographers in the country Rob Curtis! Rob has been a teacher & an inspiration to me all birders & photographers! See what I mean:


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When I had my son five years ago, I instantly adopted my grandmother's insane obsession with kids having enough to eat. Nonnie is the prototypical Italian grandmother who cannot rest until she has stuffed everyone, but most especially children, full of food. It's not a hip or cool position to hold but that's how I am now. If my kids refuse to have breakfast in the morning and I have to send them to school with just a few bites of apple or a handful of Cheerios, I spend all day agitated by the thought that their little stomachs are rumbling.
So the idea that there are children out there whose little stomachs really are rumbling, and not because they're pesky and picky, but because there's just no food for them to eat, is agonizing. Which is why I was thrilled to learn about a program that's trying to help, called The Great American Dine Out, which is underway right now, and in which you can participate all week. Here's the deal:
From Sept 19-25, participating restaurants nation-wide (and here in NY, that's everything from The Palm and Blue Smoke to Boston Market and TGI Fridays) will donate a portion of the money you spend there to the No Kid Hungry campaign, run by Share Our Strength, whose goal is to eradicate childhood hunger by the year 2015. Basically, for this week, you donate by dining out. You can search for participating restaurants by entering your zip code here.
Here's exactly what the program helps to achieve (from the Share Our Strength site):
- Enroll more eligible kids in school breakfast, after-school snacks and meals, and their families in SNAP (food stamps).
- Bring community gardens and farmers markets to low-income neighborhoods
- Bring affordable, fresh fruits and vegetables to urban corner stores.
- Teach at-risk families how to plan, shop for, and prepare healthy, low-cost meals at home.
- Help local food pantries, food banks and soup kitchens meet the pressing demand for more nutritious food.
- Increase awareness and understanding of childhood hunger and solutions to it.
Oh, and get this: the 150 year-old Australian wine company, Jacob's Creek, has joined Share Our Strength and will donate $1 for every glass or bottle of wine ordered in a restaurant and for every glass of wine virtually shared (to do that, click on www.sharejacobscreek.com)
Yes, what I'm saying here is you can help hungry children by drinking (great vino, too, I might add – tried the Pinot Noir last night and yum yum, hit the spot)
Drink booze. Save yourself a night of cooking. Help kids. Who DOESN'T that appeal to?


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The mayor whose town was apparently punished by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's aides during last year's campaign said Sunday "I take him at his word" that Christie had no prior knowledge of lane closings leading to the George Washington Bridge.
Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich visits Meet the Press to share details of his meeting with Gov. Chris Christie regarding 'Bridgegate.'
The lane closings in Fort Lee, N.J., were an apparent effort to retaliate against Mayor Mark Sokolich, a Democrat, who had not endorsed Christie in the campaign. Sokolich met with Christie on Thursday to accept Christie's apology for the incident, which created massive traffic jams in Fort Lee.
Sokolich said on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday that Christie was "candid" during their meeting, but added "there's just a lot of stuff out there," a reference to unanswered questions about the bridge episode and other allegations that Christie is heavy-handed in his governing style.
"If he didn't know, he certainly should have known" that his aides had ordered the lane closings, Sokolich said. "I've always understood that the governor ran a very, very tight ship…. He was in control of a lot of things and he would review everything, and he made sure that anything that his name was even remotely involved in, he was involved in."
A potential contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, Christie faces the prospect of being entangled for months in investigations of the bridge episode by both the Democratic-controlled state legislature and by United States Attorney Paul Fishman in New Jersey.
On ABC's This Week, a prominent Republican, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, said that Christie had "handled it the best way you can possibly handle it. He's held a press conference. He's flatly denied it. If for some reason it's not true, the man has put his political career completely at risk."
He added, "If it turns out that there's some evidence that he knew about it, he's taken the complete risk that his political career is over. I don't think he'd do that if there's any suggestion he knew about this."
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, a contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, said the e-mails revealed so far from Christie appointees had made it "very clear that the personnel there" were "not sensitive to what seemed to be a fairly obvious wrong thing to do."
Also on Meet the Press, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus argued that the bridge episode did not necessarily indicate a lack of attentiveness by Christie.
"New Jersey is a huge, complicated government and so is the Port Authority. People made decisions at the Port Authority that they shouldn't have made – and those people are gone," he said.
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Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich addresses a news conference at Fort Lee, N.J., City Hall, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014.
He also said despite the revelation of thousands of documents "not one single link to Chris Christie has been found."
Priebus argued that "everyone is fallible…. But the real question is, what do you do when mistakes happen?" Christie honestly admitted that his subordinates made mistakes and "he admitted that he trusted people that lied to him," Priebus said.
"Americans are forgiving people. But they're forgiving when you take ownership, you admit mistakes, you take corrective action – and that's what Chris Christie showed."
Priebus praised Christie's candor in being willing to answer reporters' questions for nearly two hours at his press conference on Thursday.
Christie told reporters that he was "stunned by the abject stupidity" of his former deputy chief of staff Bridget Kelly who, according to leaked e-mails, was directly implicated in the bridge lane closings. Christie said that Kelly lied to him about the lane closings and that he was blindsided about the episode.
Christie's critics contend that the bridge episode proves that he is vindictive. Christie "set a tone that makes abusive actions acceptable," said the New York Times in an editorial condemning him on Friday.
This story was originally published on Sun Jan 12, 2014 10:15 AM EST


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Recommendations to improve our 1115 Behavioral Health Transformation Waiver:
What's an 1115 waiver?
Recently, the state proposed an ambitious plan to transform the Medicaid behavioral health system in Illinois. As part of its plan, the state proposes to use an 1115 waiver which would allow certain federal rules to be used so that federal funds could be used in ways that are otherwise not allowed. The catch is that the state must keep all efforts budget neutral for the federal government meaning that services provided have to be equal to what the feds would have spent within the state without the waiver.
The state plans to use both the 1115 waiver and state plan amendments to realize its transformation plan
As a reminder, Medicaid is paid for jointly by both federal and state funding. Illinois has proposed several things within this waiver, some of which will be allowed through the waiver, and others that will be included in state plan amendments. State Plan amendments are used to change program policies, benefits, or operational approaches of the Medicaid State Plan for Illinois. 1115 waivers and state plan amendments both change the way that Medicaid is delivered, but there is a significant difference between the two. The 1115 waiver is a demonstration that will last five years and allow the state to try new ideas within Medicaid that are not necessarily permanent, and can target certain populations. By contrast, the state plan amendment codifies (into law) Medicaid services that apply across the State. The 1115 waiver and state plan amendments will be used together to transform the Medicaid Behavioral Health delivery system.
Expanded benefits and new initiatives
The long-term vision for Illinois' behavioral health system as articulated in the Behavioral Health Transformation 1115 waiver draft deserves applause. It includes a commitment to addressing social determinants of health, and expanding the Medicaid benefit package for people with serious mental illness and substance use disorders.
Expanded benefits proposed in the draft waiver include supported employment services and pre-tenancy supportive housing services, and new initiatives such as loan forgiveness and training for providers, integrated behavioral health homes, and expanded use of telemedicine. There's even more, if you would like to read the draft yourself.
Recommendations for the transformation of the behavioral health system in Illinois
With any great system transformation, we need to contend with the realities of the short term. In order to implement many of the benefits and initiatives proposed in this waiver, we need to address systemic capacity, clarify roles of payers and providers, as well as improve infrastructure and accountability.
Invest in Mental Health Workforce and Infrastructure
Illinois would be wise to use the waiver to make much needed strategic investments in workforce and infrastructure in the short and long term. In order to enhance access to services and reduce unnecessary expenditures, prioritizing the assessment and diagnosis of mental illness and substance use disorders outside of the Emergency Department, the most expensive entry point to the health system, is paramount. Assessment and diagnosis should happen in community and outpatient settings. Because eligibility for services proposed in the waiver is closely tied to diagnoses, Illinois' workforce challenges must be adequately addressed. Without much needed workforce improvements, the work simply can't be done, and Illinois will fail to take full advantage of services promised through the proposed waiver.
Further, while the services are critical to proposed cost savings, Illinois needs enough providers, who are paid enough to cover their costs. This is not the current reality. Illinois needs rate reform for behavioral health providers, as well as reform to allow providers to work at the top of their license. Loan forgiveness and training, as described in the 1115 waiver draft, by themselves, are simply not enough. Though the waiver does reference expanding telehealth, which will likely help increase access to care, adequate rates are still needed to pay a provider on the other end of the screen.
The state should incorporate Medicaid infrastructure dollars to allow providers to keep pace, build capacity to bill, contract, and hire to provide services. We need to make sure that providers are sufficiently armed to do what is expected and best within their roles by investing in the infrastructure of the behavioral health system.
Clarify Roles of Providers and Payers
The waiver as drafted needs greater clarity on the roles of Managed Care Organizations vs. the roles of providers. As currently crafted, it appears the State is outsourcing a good deal of responsibility to MCOs and that Managed Care Organizations will be expected to implement service delivery. But the problem is that MCOs are payers, not providers. When the waiver addresses implementation of health homes and subsequent creation of a state plan amendment, providers and other stakeholders must be at the forefront of designing them. We don't call our MCO when we need care, we call our doctor because that's where the expertise lies.
Establish an Illinois Behavioral Health Transformation Team
In line with providing greater clarity of roles, the State needs to remain accountable for service delivery. The State should establish an Illinois Behavioral Health Transformation Team, comprised of stakeholders representing providers, advocates, and consumers, to provide guidance on the implementation of the waiver. With our state at a crossroads, operating with limited resources, taking advantage of the time and expertise of smart, dedicated, caring providers, advocates, and consumers, can help to shape the long-term transformation envisioned within this demonstration waiver. Advocates and others stand ready to help.
This waiver proposal contains several promising elements, but more is needed. The State must have a commitment to:
- Increase capacity in the short term with Medicaid infrastructure investments and rate reform
- Clarify roles - to make sure the right people are doing what they are best suited to do
- Create responsive mechanisms for accountability
Without this, all the good ideas within this proposal will lack the critical support necessary to transform our behavioral health system for the better.
Emily Gelber-Maturo
Associate Director, Strategic Health Initiatives
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This involved both self reflection and viewpoint on people I deal with. I realized that because my husband and I enjoyed spending the majority of our free time together without the involvement of others I am in the habit of doing things on my own rather than calling a friend to go with me. Now that my husband is deceased I need to train myself to make contact with people, become more social. Habits are hard to break and I am concerned that people may view my lack of initiating contact as lack of interest. I need to break the mold and step outside my safety box into new thinking.
I realize that people who reached out to me about getting together for dinner, etc. may think I'm not interested in maintaining the friendship when I don't reciprocate with similar suggestions, when in reality it is because I need to reprogram my brain to reach out to others for friendship. I will say that when people suggest a get together I am happy to join them. I am also responsive on social media or email, and will make first contact on social media. I am not totally unsocial, I just have areas that need improvement. I did take a step in the right direction last week when a couple artists were talking about going out to dinner after an event and I asked if I could join them. It was a wonderful, fun evening.
Now on the other side of the coin, we all know people we have made the effort to maintain contact with and yet the responses are not forthcoming or we get excuses of "I was going to write/call/respond but have been busy." I can understand that from time to time, but when the lack of response become repetitive you have to wonder where you fall on their list of friendship priorities. Somewhere you have to draw the line and decide you are moving on and if they want to be a part of your life they will notice your disappearance and seek you out. If they don't you haven't lost anything.
We live in a busy, fast-paced world where people don't interact on a personal level so much as on a social media level. We need to re-establish the art of friendship. Reach out to people. Respond when they reach out to you. When you are with a friend put down the phone and talk to the person you are with. Make people you want to spend time with a priority in your life. If people don't make you a priority in theirs then you know where you stand and it is time to move on.


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"I'm actually more a rocker like Number Six," Palmer revealed to AfterEllen during the press junket for the Dreamworks release. Palmer, along with co-star (and Glee fave) Dianna Agron, also talked about the challenges in doing fight kicks in tight-fitting leather, Agron's branching out from TV work and also provide a hint at the sexy ladies being two parts of a future sexy triangle in the sexy, kick-ass franchise.
In terms of how the sultry style of her alien-character crossed over to influence her own fashion palate, Palmer also said, "I definitely channel that rock-star look [of Number Six] in my own fashion." One thing she still has her eye on even though the movie wrapped months ago – Number Six's hot leather jacket.
"I wanted to keep the jacket big time but they usually hold onto the clothes just incase we have a re-shoot but hopefully in a few months I can ring [the film's costumer] to give me one. I know there are like 10 of them so she can spare one for me!" Palmer said.
While Palmer's wardrobe in the film is mostly made of form-fitting leather to extenuate her figure, the actress explained that there were some challenges in the fight sequences, especially some that fell between her long, slender legs.
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Why Study the Historical Jesus?
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- AnonymousJanuary 27, 2011 at 8:44 PM
That we often project ourselves onto others, it is not surprising that historians have made Jesus in their image rather than we in His image. Denise AbstonReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 27, 2011 at 9:01 PM
Professor Goodacre shares a good word and it is certainly encouraging. I appreciated that the NT text invites us to study the history of Jesus and that non-canonical texts raise questions that send us on a search as well. As historians (which may certainly all who are interested in studying history), we find ourselves comparing and contrasting in our own search. It can be fascinating. I enjoyed hearing him say, "constructing," "re-creating," and "capture," and listened to this combination of words twice. History is indeed all these words. But, why study beyond the reasons given? For cultural significance to us; for understanding in the Jewish as well as Muslim context, and to realize that Jesus is the Christ of faith - God in the flesh who came to dwell among us. He is not just man, but God.ReplyDelete


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United States District Court, D. Hawaii
January 26, 2016
NELSON A. CHUNG, Plaintiff,v.CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU, a Municipal Corporation, PAMELA OKIHARA, and ELIZABETH TSURUDA, Managing Employees; JOHN DOES 1-56; JANE DOES 1-56; DOE PARTNERSHIPS 1-56; DOE CORPORATIONS 1-56; DOE ENTITIES 1-56; and DOE GOVERNMENTAL UNITS 1-56, Defendants.
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Plaintiff Nelson Chung claims that his former employer, the City and County of Honolulu, and his former County supervisors, Pamela Okihara and Elizabeth Tsuruda (collectively "Defendants"), discriminated against him on the basis of gender and sexual orientation in violation of state and federal law. Because the discriminatory acts of which Chung complains were alleged to have occurred in the months leading up to his March 2008 departure from the County, and because Chung did not initiate administrative complaints regarding these acts until May 2012, well beyond the applicable statute of limitations, the Court GRANTS Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment. Dkt. No. 34.
I. Chung's Employment with the City and County of Honolulu
In December 2006, Nelson Chung began his employment with the City and County of Honolulu, Parks and Recreation Department (the "County"), as a Recreation Director I. Dkt. No. 35-1, Declaration of Pamela Okihara ("Okihara Decl.") ¶ 4. According to Chung, shortly after he started, his immediate supervisor, Elizabeth Tsuruda, began asking him questions about his personal life, leading him to disclose that he is gay. Dkt. No. 43, Declaration of Nelson Chung ("Chung Decl.") ¶¶ 5-7. Tsuruda then began making unsolicited, and apparently offensive, comments about gays. Chung Decl. ¶¶ 8-14.
On February 22, 2007, Tsuruda completed Chung's probationary performance evaluation in which she rated him as "satisfactory." Dkt. No. 35-2, Declaration of Elizabeth Tsuruda ("Tsuruda Decl.") ¶ 2. Pamela Okihara, the Complex Supervisor/Recreation Director IV, completed Chung's subsequent evaluation reports. Okihara Decl. ¶¶ 2, 7; Tsuruda Decl. ¶ 3. Okihara rated Chung as "substandard" on various levels. Okihara Decl. ¶¶ 7-9; Dkt. No. 35-6, Def. Exh. C. Chung submitted written responses to these evaluation reports, in which he attempted to refute Okihara's substandard ratings. Dkt. No. 35-6, Def. Exh. C at 7-8, 13-14, 21-22, 26-27. These written responses did not include references to being discriminated against on the basis of gender or sexual orientation, or being exposed to a "hostile work environment." Id .
After one of his co-workers left at the end of August 2007, Chung claims to have been "saddled" with all of his former co-worker's duties. Chung Decl. ¶¶ 16-25. Chung also felt as though his supervisors subjected him to heightened scrutiny by requiring him to keep weekly schedules detailing his duties and to attend weekly meetings with Okihara. Chung Decl. ¶¶ 26-27.
In February 2008, a staff meeting was held at which time Okihara discussed the upcoming summer work assignments. Okihara Decl. ¶ 15. Okihara told Chung that he would be responsible for the teen program and the Manoa Gym facilities. Okihara Decl. ¶ 15. Okihara went on to joke, "that is, if you are still here in June." Okihara Decl. ¶ 17. Okihara maintains that she was "joking because in all likelihood [Chung] would be assigned to Manoa Valley District Park and would not be detailed to another park during the summer as he was the summer before." Okihara Decl. ¶ 17. However, Chung did not take Okihara's comment as a joke and construed it to mean that she would either make his job so burdensome that he would quit or she would terminate him by that time. Okihara Decl. ¶ 18; Chung Decl. ¶ 43.
On March 2, 2008, Chung was involved in a motor vehicle accident. Chung Decl. ¶ 31; Dkt. No. 35-10, Def. Exh. G at 3. Chung claimed that the accident was a result of inattention due to work-related stress. Id . Following the accident, Chung returned to work only to retrieve his personal items on March 18, 2008. Okihara Decl. ¶ 21; Tsuruda Decl. ¶ 10. He never again returned to work after this date, and neither Okihara nor Tsuruda had any contact with him again. See Tsuruda Decl. ¶ 10.
II. Chung's Workers' Compensation Claim
On April 1, 2008, Chung filed a workers' compensation claim asserting a workplace "stress" injury arising out of Okihara's comment at the February 2008 staff meeting. Okihara Decl. ¶ 15; Dkt. No. 35-10, Def. Exh. G. On November 14, 2008, the Director of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations denied Chung's claim. Dkt. No. 35-11, Def. Exh. H. Chung appealed the Director's decision to the Labor and Industrial Relations Appeals Board ("LIRAB"), which affirmed the decision of the Director in its September 28, 2011 Decision and Order.[1] Dkt. No. 35-12, Def. Exh. I.
Although Chung had stopped going to work in March 2008, he had never been terminated from his County employment during the pendency of his worker's compensation claim, including his appeal to the LIRAB. Okihara Decl. ¶ 22. After Chung exhausted his paid time off shortly after March 2008, he was placed in leave of absence without pay (LWOP) status. Id. When the LIRAB denied his appeal in September 2011, Chung was informed by letter dated October 24, 2011, from Parks and Recreation Department Director Gary Cabato, that he had to return to work by November 8, 2011, or his continued absence would be deemed a resignation from his position as Recreation Director I. Okihara Decl. ¶ 22; Dkt. No. 35-8, Def. Exh. E. Chung did not return to work. Okihara Decl. ¶ 22.
III. Chung's Commencement of the Instant Lawsuit
On May 3, 2012, Chung filed a Complaint with the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission ("HCRC"), alleging discrimination on the basis of gender and sexual orientation. Dkt. No. 35-14, Def. Exh. K. Several days later, on May 8, 2012, Chung filed a charge of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC"). Dkt. No. 35-15, Def. Exh. L. Both the HCRC and the EEOC declined to pursue Chung's claims. Specifically, Chung's HCRC Complaint was dismissed on ...
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Betty fell asleep in a movie theatre the other day, lulled by the soothing sounds of Invasion: Battle Los Angeles. Cor crikey. What a load of tripe. Will she sleep through Sucker Punch, the punkiest surrealist musical romp of the year? Not likely.
Betty fell asleep in a movie theatre the other day, lulled by the soothing sounds of Invasion: Battle Los Angeles. Cor crikey. What a load of tripe. Will she sleep through Sucker Punch, the punkiest surrealist musical romp of the year? Not likely.
Well, the Denny's garden burger has gone the way of all flesh. Betty and the husband person dropped in there, nostalgically, after a movie the other night; but although the waiter remembered the old menu, it was club sandwiches or nothing on the vegetable front.
Still, though. The movie was this one:
And a fine job it is too. It's the story of Mattie Ross, a fourteen-year-old girl determined to bring her father's killer to justice. The killer's identity is not in question, but the authorities seem to operate on a very freelance and as-desired basis; Mattie selects a trigger-happy marshal (Jeff Bridges) as the pursuer, and strikes a deal with her father's money. She insists on going along — after all, she's the one with the hundred dollars — and the pair are joined by a hapless Texas ranger (Matt Damon), who has been ineffectually searching for the same man for some time, and who expects a large reward.
The film is beautifully and unhurriedly paced, brilliantly cast (Matt Damon is genuinely horrible for the first half hour, and Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie is an unsettling combination of ferociously untamed eyebrows and blankly literal determination), and set in the spacious forests and deserts of Fort Smith. There plot twists are simple and straightforward; bit parts, though they stray easily into the semi-ridiculous (like a travelling medical man dressed in an entire bearskin) somehow don't pull the story too far into crude hick humour. Even the dialogue, excessively stylised and formal, doesn't become cutesy. What could easily be a cheap trick, a forgettable kid-with-gun caper, manages — effortlessly, at that — to hold its own.
The true centre of the film, though, is in the tension between Mattie's unshakeable faith in "grit" — the kind of strength of character that leads her marshal to lose count of the suspects he has taken on himself to shoot — and the haunting simplicity of the score that accompanies nearly all of the story's significant moments. Even before the adult Mattie opens the film by declaring, in retrospect, that "there is nothing free, except the grace of God", the musical phrase is a line from the hymn "Leaning on the everlasting arms". It is repeated in every crisis, before every action, whether reaching for a gun, or standing outnumbered among a group of desperate fugitives. Safe and secure from all alarms…
There is crime and pursuit here, but no mystery; Mattie's faith can admit no defeat. The film, like her mission, moves steadfastly on. Its climax is shocking on paper, but consummately logical and satisfying in the flesh. What have I to dread?, Mattie's unperturbed countenance seems to say. What have I to fear? And her tumultuous story ends in peace, as she and her guardian hymn together declare that true grit is born of a blessed assurance, and of nothing else, and most certainly not the other way around.
The boy person friend ummed and ahhed a little before deciding to show Betty The Brothers Bloom. It turns out he had seen the trailer and suspected that the film was nothing more than a ho-hum heist movie. Indeed, had /Film not suggested otherwise, he might have let it utterly pass him by.
He also has an irrational disinclination to like Rachel Weisz, which Betty finds remarkable. Rachel Weisz, surely, is one of the modern masters of the simultaneously brains-before-beauty and deprived-of-oxygen-at-birth-for-just-a-wee-moment, just-as-well-father-has-money kind of effect otherwise made so famous by Nigella Lawson. How could anyone resist?
You perceive? At any rate, Betty enjoyed The Brothers Bloom very greatly. It is an energetic semi-fantastical caper in which Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo play notorious, albeit one-trick, con-men. After an unfortunate childhood, succinctly covered — in rhyme — in the first reel, the brothers develop a signature con, which they use to great effect in a number of lucrative jobs. But Adrien Brody, the sensitive one, finds the whole thing hard to stomach; his more beefy brother has to drag him bodily from a foreign clime to perform what he promises will be their last job.
Rachel Weisz is the mark, a beautiful heiress named Penelope who collects hobbies and takes fits. Along with the obvious tasks of falling in love with the sensitive brother and saying quirky things with her eyebrows, she does wonders for the plot.
And, not to be girly, but she has an amazing wardrobe. The cape… the hat… the endless coats… the whole thing is quite delicious.
Betty saw the trailer to this Keats biopic the other day and was somewhat nonplussed. It has that slightly adenoidal BBC feel to it, don't you find? Not, of course, that that would put Betty off: far from it. But still… However, Jane Campion deserves half a chance, and an awesome blogger who temporarily escapes Betty's memory rated it very highly, so it's going on the to-watch list.
John Keats, incidentally, is an important medical humanities figure; he was an apothecary's assistant, and hated it with a passion.
The first trailer that Betty saw for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland movie was, sad to say, a little underwhelming. Though he has gone to town with the visual lunacy for which he is justly famous, there were distinct hints of lazy Disney remix syndrome going on. With this longer and more revealing trailer, however, Betty begins to feel that there may still be something there. Please, Mr Burton, please let there be something there…
Betty finished teaching early yesterday, and in celebration, she decided to take the boy person friend to Botany Downs. Botany Downs is a mall built like a proper village, in which one wanders around actual lanes and sees the sky; it's nice, but it takes about half an hour to get there. On the way, the boy person friend decided to get something to eat at Sylvia Park, and so they nipped in for a few minutes. Sylvia Park is the nearest thing this forgotten country has to a decent mall. It has a Borders, a cinema, a Theobroma chocolate cafe, many shoe shops, a Kathmandu, a vertical bungee, and a place where one can cast one's hands in wax. They took a keek at the foodcourt, but it was uninspiring; the boy person friend then lit up a little inside and led the way to Wagamama.
Betty had the yasai katsu curry with crumbed kumara and eggplant, and miso and pickle on the side. It was, as always, awesome.
Then they lost interest in going to Botany Downs and started looking around. The boy person friend bought a pair of shoes to replace his extremely dead ones, which he left rather forlornly in a bin.
Then Betty and the boy person friend went to see Up in the Air. They saw it on the Extreme Screen, or some such, which apparently holds the Guinness world record for the biggest 35mm projection screen in the entire world. The movie had been hotly anticipated in the Bettiverse for a couple of weeks, for reasons that are now obscure; it had Jason Reitman, Jason Bateman, and, of course, Clooney. It was long, and dragged a bit in the second act; in the interests of veracity, Betty must report that it was also tatty with plot-holes and occasionally (and forgive the cheap allusion) kinda phoned in some of the conflict.
Nevertheless, Betty was sold. Nice, she said to herself as soon as it finished. Nice work. It was bleak, and not just in the ways that were immediately obvious from the trailer, but really bleak; and it was crafted in such a way that it turned out much like its leading man, smooth, but still rough around the edges. Its three central characters were uniformly ambitious and, in fact, loathsome; and yet they managed to trundle on with their lives in parallel, never truly intertwining, and therefore illuminating each other from all angles. Vera Farmiga, as the older woman with a crush on Clooney (as opposed to the younger woman with a chip on her shoulder) was remarkable. The final scene, in which Clooney gave a pithy voiceover, was both sad and satisfying, and therefore awesome.
And then Betty and the boy person friend went to the supermarket, which is one of his most favourite things in the world to do, and then they left. The end. It was nice.
January 8 was Elvis's 75th birthday. The Academy Cinemas, a small independent theatre based in the public library, showed a double feature to celebrate:
Betty was in with knobs on. She and the boy person friend reported for duty at three o'clock and found a small but devoted bunch of Americans hanging out in the lobby. The cinema had suggested costumes, but nobody seemed to have dressed up — thankfully, according to some.


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- how I hope to never be a monster-in-law
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Testosterone Modulates Altered Prefrontal Control of Emotional Actions in Psychopathic Offenders.
"…the quantity of testosterone a person produces influences the parts of the brain responsible for regulating emotions…psychopathic offenders are mainly known for their planned and targeted form of criminality. They are generally classed as calculating and set to work with a high degree of apparent cold-bloodedness. Less well known is that psychopathic offenders exhibit impulsive behavior and experience problems in regulating their emotions. These problems often lead to difficulty in social contacts and police arrest because at vital moments, they lose their cool.
in people with psychopathy, this prefrontal region — necessary for controlling emotional behavior — showed a blunted response and reduced connectivity with the amygdala when they were engaged in controlling their emotional action tendencies. This cerebral pattern was strongest in psychopathic individuals with high endogenous testosterone levels."


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PRAGUE — The mayor of one hilly district of Prague, just across the Vltava River from the fairy-tale towers of Old Town, has some bodies he wants to bury, between 50 and 100 of them. He's not sure exactly how many. Some are just parts.
He has a tomb all picked out, an underused facility in one of the city's largest cemeteries. It is his duty under Czech law, said the mayor, Jan Cizinsky, who leads a district known as Prague 7.
That is so despite the fact — or perhaps because — the bodies are part of "Body: The Exhibition," yet another of the traveling events made up of the plasticized dead. The exhibitions have defied most attempts around the world to shut them down. But this attempt is unusual, employing an obscure ordinance regulating funerals.
"We couldn't believe it," said Kveta Havelkova, marketing manager for JVS Group, a local company that stages concerts and shows, including the body exhibit. "We thought it was insane."
Various body exhibitions began in the mid-1990s, made possible by a process called "plastination," developed by Gunther von Hagens, a German anatomist, that promised intensely detailed and color-coded looks at human insides. They have been controversial from the beginning.
A lot of the scrutiny has involved concerns that the bodies — most of which were created by a university in Dalian, China — came from executed political prisoners and dissenters, which the university denies.
Attempts to block the show have succeeded in a few places.
In 2010, the French Supreme Court declared the commercial exhibition of human remains illegal, effectively closing down all such exhibits. Two years later, the Israeli Supreme Court issued a similar ruling. Hawaii banned the shows, as did city councils in Seattle and elsewhere.
New York forced an exhibitor in 2008 to place a sign at the front of its show admitting that it could not prove the provenance of its bodies, and demanded that all future shows arrive with complete documentation of the bodies.
Usually, the protests peter out, or move too slowly to shutter a temporary exhibition before its scheduled closing.
Mr. Cizinsky, the mayor in Prague 7, said his crusade had been spurred by complaints from citizens, including a man named Jiri Benda, a medical company representative.
"This should not be done with dead bodies," Mr. Benda said, drawing on a Christian faith that he said demands respect for people "from unborn babies to dead bodies."
The last time one of these exhibitions came to Prague, a few years ago, Mr. Benda seethed from afar as protests failed to close it down. This time, he was determined to do more.
So he researched the country's law governing funerals.
The law dictates that all dead bodies that turn up in a city — whether floating in a river or destitute in the streets — be buried with all necessary speed, Mr. Benda said, and that they cannot be displayed without the prior written permission of the deceased.
Mr. Benda was unswayed by the exhibitor's contention that the bodies were so transformed by the plastination process, which replaces body fluids with hardening silicone, that they have become "exhibit artifacts," the term used in customs documents that allowed them into the European Union.
Soon after the exhibition opened in late February, Mr. Benda wrote to the town hall in Prague 1, the central district, and was puzzled by the lack of a swift response. He contacted the police and found sympathy, but no action.
Finally, someone clued him in that, in Prague, each district has its own mayor and that the jurisdiction for the exhibition space was Prague 7.
Enter Mayor Cizinsky, who was already ill disposed to the exhibit, which he found distasteful.
"And then this letter arrived asking whether the exhibit was breaking the law on funerals," he said. "This was a new approach to me."
An aide wrote to the Ministry of Regional Development's Department on Funerals to seek guidance. The May 16 reply from Tomas Kotrly, head of the funeral department, surprised the mayor.
Yes, Mr. Kotrly wrote, there is "no doubt those are balmed and unburied human remains" covered by the law, but he noted that there were no specified penalties for violators and that no criminal charges were possible.
However, he added, the law clearly stipulates that any bodies that cannot be identified must be buried "without unnecessary delays" and that it is the duty of the mayor to get it done.
"I didn't know anything about that," the mayor said. "I was left with two choices: Do nothing, or proceed according to the letter."
He decided to proceed.
First, he wrote to the Chinese Embassy. The embassy responded that China's government had no connection to the exhibits.
So, Mr. Cizinsky asked the police for help claiming the bodies. The police were sympathetic, he said, and mulled it over for a couple of weeks, but finally on Thursday declined to take on the job, saying their reading of the law differed.
Mr. Cizinsky said he would ask the courts to order the police to help him. He needs them, he said, certainly if he hopes to finish by the time the exhibition closes on July 23. But even if, in the end, he can't claim these bodies, that won't end the matter, he said.
"I will go the courts and try to get a ruling, at least, that this cannot happen again," he said.
In the meantime, of course, the JVS Group, which is holding the exhibition, has hired its own lawyers and is preparing to fight any attempt to seize the bodies. But it has not exactly tried to sweep the controversy under the rug.
"At first, we were surprised," Ms. Havelkova said. "Now, we are happy about it. It really is great advertising for us."
More than 100,000 people have visited the exhibition — 40,000 of them students.
On a recent day, Ms. Havelkova glided past throngs of students at the exhibition grounds, stopping to point out the educational and public health aspects.
See how so many students are being taught anatomy using our exhibition? she asked. And exhibits like the one comparing a diseased lung with a healthy one are sure to dissuade smoking, she said.
"We legally rented this exhibit," Ms. Havelkova said. "It was created at a university in China with all the necessary paperwork, but we have no business relationship to the Chinese university."
For now, JVS is hoping to ride out the controversy, Ms. Havelkova said, but it has not been easy. "It is very difficult to read some articles claiming we are just a bunch of bloodthirsty creeps," she said.
Mr. Cizinsky said that if — somehow — he prevailed and was able to entomb the bodies, he would do so quietly and with dignity. And he doesn't plan to reveal where the bodies would rest.
"I don't want people to go there and steal them," he said.


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Aside from the sports, weather, and the occasional feel good story, much of the local, state and national news seems to be often filled with arguing, violence and tragedy.
How does this type of news make you feel?
How is this type of news of use to you in your daily life and as a citizen of world?
Does this type of news influence how you act in the world?
I ask these questions, partly because I'm still not sure what to do about the news.
I confess that my approach to the news is to consume very little of it. I have adopted this approach because the news often does not cover the part of life that I'm most interested in, the countless positive acts that people engage in everyday; the beauty of art, architecture and technology; and the wonder of nature. I find that the more I look for this uplifting part of life, the more I find that it is in evidence everywhere.
So what to do about the news? I have more questions:
How much news do we need to consume to be informed citizens?
If we are overwhelmed by the sadness in the world that often comes through the news how are we going to create a world of happiness, satisfaction and love?
How do we feel for all the people suffering in the world, and at the same time limit our exposure to the graphic details of the news?
We each have the opportunity to answer the questions I pose here for ourselves. I must admit I don't yet know how to answer many of these questions for myself, but I believe they are important for all of us to consider.
Game of the Day
How do you choose to relate to the news?
How do you choose to relate to the uplifting part of life?
Jason Freeman is a professional writer, and a one-of-a-kind public speaker. He is the founder and CEO of Heroic Yes! Productions. Jason has an MFA in Poetry from the University of Nebraska. He knows the pain of perceiving one's life through a lens of limitation and also the thrill of moving beyond that mindset. For more information on Jason's powerful message, or to book him to present to your organization, go to www.HeroicYesProductions.com.


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Nasa's oldest and most travelled space shuttle flew into retirement – after an awe-inspiring flypast over the US capital.
Discovery soared over the White House and other landmarks before landing at Washington's Dulles International Airport, from where it will be taken to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum on Thursday.
The spacecraft left Cape Canaveral, Florida, on the back of a 747 jet and headed north to fly over the city at just 450m (1,500ft) before it was grounded for good.
Nicole Stott, a member of its final space mission, said: 'It's sad to see this happening. But you look at it and you just can't help but be impressed by it.'
Mike Mullane, who flew three shuttle flights, said: 'It's a very emotional, poignant, bittersweet moment. When it's all happening you think, "This will never end" – but we all move on.'
Pictures: check out more pictures of Discovery's last flight here:
Discovery is the first of three retired shuttles to head to a museum after the programme ended. It flew nearly 240million km (149million miles) since 1984 before retiring last year.
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Classic Studies on the Assyrian Language is an excellent resource for any scholar learning the basics of cuneiform and the Assyrian language. Written by such renowned Assyriologists as Friedrich Delitzsch and A. H. Sayce, the volumes in this collection present a plethora of useful information, like outlines of Assyrian grammar, lists of common signs, examinations of syntax, historical context, and more.
Delve into cuneiform texts with line-by-line translations for a look into ancient Assyrian culture. Deepen your understanding of the basics with helpful glossaries, charts, and abbreviations. Or simply enjoy learning this ancient language which had such an impact on history.
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First Steps in Assyrian is designed to furnish the beginner with everything needed to study the Assyrian language and cuneiform inscriptions. This volume presents useful facts on the cuneiform system of writing, an outline of Assyrian grammar, a list of common signs and ideograms, and a series of texts in Assyrian cuneiform with interlinear transliteration and translation. The texts are chosen to represent the main divisions of Babylonian and Assyrian literature, including historical, mythological, religious, magical, epistolary, and more.
Leonard William King (1869–1919) was an English archaeologist and Assyriologist. He graduated from King's College, Cambridge, and later became professor of Assyrian and Babylonian archaeology there. Later, he was assistant to the keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities at the British Museum, and was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. King contributed to the Encyclopaedia Biblica (1903), translated ancient works, and published many works on archaeology, including Egypt and Western Asia in the Light of Recent Discoveries and Chronicles concerning Early Babylonian Kings.
Assyrian Grammar provides scholars with the the full complement of research on Assyrian grammar up to 1889. Written by German Assyriologist Friedrich Delitzsch and translated into English by University of Aberdeen professor A. R. S. Kennedy, this volume offers an introduction to excavations, cuneiform literature, and the Assyrian language.
Friedrich Delitzsch (1850–1922) was a German Assyriologist. He was a professor at the Universities of Breslau and Berlin, and cofounder of the German Oriental Society. He was also director of the Near Eastern Department of the Royal Museums.
A. R. S. Kennedy, or Archibald Robert Stirling Kennedy, (1859–1938) was professor of Hebrew and Semitic languages at the University of Edinburgh and professor of Hebrew at the University of Aberdeen from 1887 to 1894. His other works include The Second Book of Moses Called Exodus, The Unique Claims of the Jews, The Medals of Christ with Hebrew Inscriptions, and Creeds and Churches.
This volume comprises a series of nine lectures given by Oxford professor A. H. Sayce to his students in the Archaic department. Topics include the syllabary and its propagation, Assyrian phonology, pronouns, the paradigms of the Assyrian verb, syntax, cultural affinities, and more.
A. H. Sayce, or Archibald Henry Sayce (1846–1933) was educated at Queen's College in Oxford before becoming a professor of philogy at the University of Oxford. He later went on to become the chair of Assyriology. Sayce is the author of An Introduction to the Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther, and is notable for his many works on Assyriology, including An Assyrian Grammar, Lectures upon the Assyrian Language, Assyria: Its Princes, Priests, and People, and Social Life among the Assyrians and Babylonians.
David Gordon Lyon wrote An Assyrian Manual for the use of beginners in the study of the Assyrian language. This volume includes abbreviations, a list of signs, an outline of grammar, transliterated texts, cuneiform texts, notes, and a glossary.
David Gordon Lyon (1852–1935) graduated in 1875 from Samford University, Alabama. He studied at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and then the University of Leipzig, receiving his PhD in Syriac in 1882. He occupied the Hollis Chair at Harvard Divinity School from 1882 to 1910, and then took the Hancock professorship of Hebrew and other Oriental languages until his retirement in 1921. He coedited Studies in the History of Religions with George Foot Moore.