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Sanjay Basu
Jeremy Freese
David Rehkopf
Leaders: Sanjay Basu, Mark Cullen, Jeremy Freese, David Rehkopf
The affiliates within the Health Disparities RG are using new computer modeling and statistical techniques to examine how poverty affects the health of children and adults and how some anti-poverty programs are reducing those effects. Here's a sampling of our projects.
Income, geography, and life expectancy: Using deidentified tax data and Social Security Administration death records, Raj Chetty and his coauthors have shown that the richest 1 percent live 14.6 years longer, on average, than the poorest 1 percent. Although poor people typically have much shorter lives, Chetty also shows that the extent of this disadvantage depends on the place of residence, thus suggesting that there may be opportunities for policy to reduce the gap in life expectancy.
Infant health and poverty: Which poor neighborhoods are associated with very low birth weights? By identifying neighborhoods that are yielding very low birth weights, we can start to target home visiting and related programs.
Biological mechanisms of disadvantage: We all know that poverty "gets under the skin" and creates lasting disadvantage. Is this because children exposed to poverty-induced stress experience epigenetic changes? We're going to know very soon.
Income and the developing brain: The prevailing view is that poverty is especially likely to shape children's early development because of the high plasticity and rapid growth of the brain during the first three years of life. It's high time for a rigorous study of how income affects the brain function and development of infants and toddlers.
Health - CPI Research
Ethics of Inclusion: Cultivate Trust in Precision Medicine Lee, Sandra Soo-Jin, Fullerton, Stephanie M., Saperstein, Aliya, Shim, Janet K.
Ethics of Inclusion: Cultivate Trust in Precision Medicine
Author: Lee, Sandra Soo-Jin, Fullerton, Stephanie M., Saperstein, Aliya, Shim, Janet K.
Publisher: Science
Precision medicine is at a crossroads. Progress toward its central goal, to address persistent health inequities, will depend on enrolling populations in research that have been historically underrepresented, thus eliminating longstanding exclusions from such research (1). Yet the history of ethical violations related to protocols for inclusion in biomedical research, as well as the continued misuse of research results (such as white nationalists looking to genetic ancestry to support claims of racial superiority), continue to engender mistrust among these populations (2). For precision medicine research (PMR) to achieve its goal, all people must believe that there is value in providing information about themselves and their families, and that their participation will translate into equitable distribution of benefits. This requires an ethics of inclusion that considers what constitutes inclusive practices in PMR, what goals and values are being furthered through efforts to enhance diversity, and who participates in adjudicating these questions. The early stages of PMR offer a critical window in which to intervene before research practices and their consequences become locked in (3).
State of the Union 2019: Health Mark Duggan, Jackie Li
State of the Union 2019: Health
Author: Mark Duggan, Jackie Li
Publisher: Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality
Millennials benefited from the expansion of health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act. The share of adults in their 20s without health insurance fell by more than half from 2009 to 2017.
This expansion led to a reduction in racial and ethnic inequalities in health insurance coverage.
Due primarily to increasing suicides and drug overdoses, mortality rates increased dramatically among young adults from 2008 to 2016. Because the increase was more rapid among non-Hispanic whites than non-Hispanic blacks, racial inequality in mortality rates declined.
Food Deserts and the Causes of Nutritional Inequality Hunt Allcott, Rebecca Diamond, Jean-Pierre Dubé, Jessie Handbury, Ilya Rahkovsky, Molly Schnell
Food Deserts and the Causes of Nutritional Inequality
Author: Hunt Allcott, Rebecca Diamond, Jean-Pierre Dubé, Jessie Handbury, Ilya Rahkovsky, Molly Schnell
Publisher: Quarterly Journal of Economics
We study the causes of "nutritional inequality": why the wealthy eat more healthfully than the poor in the United States. Exploiting supermarket entry and household moves to healthier neighborhoods, we reject that neighborhood environments contribute meaningfully to nutritional inequality. We then estimate a structural model of grocery demand, using a new instrument exploiting the combination of grocery retail chains' differing presence across geographic markets with their differing comparative advantages across product groups. Counterfactual simulations show that exposing low-income households to the same products and prices available to high-income households reduces nutritional inequality by only about 10%, while the remaining 90% is driven by differences in demand. These findings counter the argument that policies to increase the supply of healthy groceries could play an important role in reducing nutritional inequality.
Local Food Prices, SNAP Purchasing Power, and Child Health Erin T. Bronchetti, Garret S. Christensen, Hilary W. Hoynes
Local Food Prices, SNAP Purchasing Power, and Child Health
Author: Erin T. Bronchetti, Garret S. Christensen, Hilary W. Hoynes
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly food stamps) is one of the most important elements of the social safety net. Unlike most other safety net programs, SNAP varies little across states and over time, which creates challenges for quasi-experimental evaluation. Notably, SNAP benefits are fixed across 48 states; but local food prices vary, leading to geographic variation in the real value – or purchasing power – of SNAP benefits. In this study, we provide the first estimates that leverage variation in SNAP purchasing power across markets to examine effects of SNAP on child health. We link panel data on regional food prices to National Health Interview Survey data and use a fixed effects framework to estimate the relationship between local purchasing power of SNAP and children's health and health care utilization. We find that lower SNAP purchasing power leads to lower utilization of preventive health care and more days of school missed due to illness. We find no effect on reported health status.
U.S. Employment and Opioids: Is There a Connection? Janet Currie, Jonas Y. Jin, Molly Schnell
U.S. Employment and Opioids: Is There a Connection?
Author: Janet Currie, Jonas Y. Jin, Molly Schnell
This paper uses quarterly county-level data to examine the relationship between opioid prescription rates and employment-to-population ratios from 2006–2014. We first estimate models of the effect of opioid prescription rates on employment-to-population ratios, instrumenting opioid prescriptions for younger ages using opioid prescriptions to the elderly. We also estimate models of the effect of employment-to-population ratios on opioid prescription rates using a shift-share instrument. We find that the estimated effect of opioids on employment-to-population ratios is positive but small for women, but there is no relationship for men. These findings suggest that although they are addictive and dangerous, opioids may allow some women to work who would otherwise leave the labor force. When we examine the effect of employment-to-population ratios on opioid prescriptions, our results are more ambiguous. Overall, our findings suggest that there is no simple causal relationship between economic conditions and the abuse of opioids. Therefore, while improving economic conditions in depressed areas is desirable for many reasons, it is unlikely to curb the opioid epidemic.
health - CPI Affiliates
David Rehkopf Health Disparities Research Group Leader; Associate Professor of Medicine; Associate Professor (By courtesy), Health Research & Policy
Jeremy Freese Health Disparities Research Group Leader, Professor of Sociology
Mark Cullen Senior Associate Dean for Research, Stanford University School of Medicine; Health Disparities Research Group Leader, Director of Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences
Fernando Riosmena Associate Professor, Population Program, Institute of Behavioral Science and Geography Department
Jack Shonkoff Director, Center on the Developing Child, Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development, Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital
Health - Other Research
XX>XY?: The Changing Female Advantage in Life Expectancy Claudia Goldin, Adriana Lleras-Muney
XX>XY?: The Changing Female Advantage in Life Expectancy
Author: Claudia Goldin, Adriana Lleras-Muney
Females live longer than males in most parts of the world today. Among OECD nations in recent years, the difference in life expectancy at birth is around four to six years (seven in Japan). But have women always lived so much longer than men? The answer is that they have not. We ask when and why the female advantage emerged. We show that reductions in maternal mortality and fertility are not the reasons. Rather, we argue that the sharp reduction in infectious disease in the early twentieth century played a role. The primary reason is that those who survive most infectious diseases carry a health burden that affects organs, such as the heart, as well as impacting general well-being. We use new data from Massachusetts containing information on causes of death from 1887 to show that infectious diseases disproportionately affected females between the ages of 5 and 25. Increased longevity of women, therefore, occurred as the burden of infectious disease fell for all. Our explanation does not tell us why women live longer than men, but it does help understand the timing of the increase.
Tracking Health Inequalities from High School to Midlife Jamie M. Carroll, Chandra Muller, Eric Grodsky, John Robert Warren
Tracking Health Inequalities from High School to Midlife
Author: Jamie M. Carroll, Chandra Muller, Eric Grodsky, John Robert Warren
Publisher: Social Forces
Educational gradients in health status, morbidity, and mortality are well established, but which aspects of schooling produce those gradients is only partially understood. We draw on newly available data from the midlife follow-up of the High School and Beyond sophomore cohort to analyze the relationship between students' level of coursework in high school and their long-term health outcomes. We additionally evaluate the mediating roles of skill development, postsecondary attendance and degree attainment, and occupational characteristics. We find that students who took a medium- to high-level course of study in high school have better self-reported health and physical functioning in midlife, even net of family background, adolescent health, baseline skills, and school characteristics. The association partially operates through pathways into postsecondary education. Our findings have implications for both educational policy and research on the educational gradient in health.
Exploding Asthma and ADHD Caseloads: The Role of Medicaid Managed Care Anna Chorniy, Janet Currie, Lyudmyla Sonchak
Exploding Asthma and ADHD Caseloads: The Role of Medicaid Managed Care
Author: Anna Chorniy, Janet Currie, Lyudmyla Sonchak
In the U.S., nearly 11% of school-age children have been diagnosed with ADHD, and approximately 10% of children suffer from asthma. In the last decade, the number of children diagnosed with these conditions has inexplicably been on the rise. This paper proposes a novel explanation of this trend. First, the increase is concentrated in the Medicaid caseload nationwide. Second, nearly 80% of states transitioned their Medicaid programs from fee-for-service (FFS) reimbursement to managed care (MMC) by 2016. Using Medicaid claims from South Carolina, we show that this change contributed to the increase in asthma and ADHD caseloads. Empirically, we rely on exogenous variation in MMC enrollment due a change in the "default" Medicaid plan from FFS or MMC, and an increase in the availability of MMC. We find that the transition from FFS to MMC explains most of the rise in the number of Medicaid children being treated for ADHD and asthma. These results can be explained by the incentives created by the risk adjustment and quality control systems in MMC.
The Non-Market Benefits of Education and Ability James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, Gregory Veramendi
The Non-Market Benefits of Education and Ability
Author: James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, Gregory Veramendi
This paper analyzes the non-market benefits of education and ability. Using a dynamic model of educational choice we estimate returns to education that account for selection bias and sorting on gains. We investigate a range of non-market outcomes including incarceration, mental health, voter participation, trust, and participation in welfare. We find distinct patterns of returns that depend on the levels of schooling and ability. Unlike the monetary benefits of education, the benefits to education for many non-market outcomes are greater for low-ability persons. College graduation decreases welfare use, lowers depression, and raises self-esteem more for less-able individuals.
Multi-Generational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation's Health Chloe N. East, Sarah Miller, Marianne Page, Laura R. Wherry
Multi-Generational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation's Health
Author: Chloe N. East, Sarah Miller, Marianne Page, Laura R. Wherry
We examine multi-generational impacts of positive in utero and early life health interventions. We focus on the 1980s Medicaid expansions, which targeted low-income pregnant women, and were adopted differently across states and over time. We use Vital Statistics Natality files to create unique data linking individuals' in utero Medicaid exposure to the next generation's health outcomes at birth. We find strong evidence that the health benefits associated with treated generations' in utero access to Medicaid extend to later offspring in the form of higher average birth weight and decreased incidence of very low birth weight. Later childhood exposure to Medicaid does not lead to persistent health effects across generations. The return on investment is substantially larger than suggested by evaluations of the program that focus only on treated cohorts.
Health - Multimedia
State of the Union 2018: Health - Mark Duggan
Podcast: Are Unplanned Pregnancies Always Unplanned?
Podcast: Fertility and the Recession in Red and Blue
The Impact of Early Experience on Childhood Brain Development: Ruth Kagi


This wine is the perfect food-pairing partner. Chardonnay is one of the world's most popular white wine grapes. Its origins come from France where it has been growing for centuries. It can now be found in winemaking regions across the world, such as California, New Zealand, Australia, Italy, and parts of South America and Canada. Harvesting time is crucial as the grape rapidly loses acidity as soon as it ripens.
Typically, Chardonnay wines exhibit fruit flavours ranging from tropical and stone fruits to citrus and apple. The styles of Chardonnay can range from heavily oaked and toasty to light and unoaked. Oaked Chardonnays have a buttery, vanilla, spice and creamy flavour to them, whereas unoaked Chardonnays tend to be more crisp and fresh.
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Footage has been released depicting the moments of Friday's shooting attack in Tel Aviv, in which two people were murdered and seven wounded, according to an updated tally.
The shooter can be seen in the right hand corner while the people at the HaSimta Pub on Dizengoff Street take cover.
One of the victims has been named as 26-year-old Alon Bakal, who was one of the owners of the pub which was the target of the shooting.
A second victim has been identified as Shimon Roimi of Ofakim.
Two of the wounded are listed in serious condition, and the rest are in light condition. The victims were evacuated to the Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv and the Wolfson Hospital in Holon. Most of the victims were young people who attended a birthday party at the pub.
A manhunt continues for the shooter, who fled the scene on foot.
While the attack may have been a Palestinian terrorist attack as part the ongoing terror wave in Israel, police are not ruling out the fact that it may have been a criminally-related shooting.
Witnesses say at least 10 gunshots were heard at the scene, apparently from an assault rifle.
One witness who works at the pub targeted by the gunman said the killer first sat on a nearby bench and waited calmly until the bar filled with people, and then began shooting randomly.
Israel has seen an unprecented number of "Loan Wolf" attacks with the murder of 33 Israelis in just a few months. Israel is the canary in the coal mine, this is what we will see in the USA unless we can up our guard a thousand per cent (major surveillance), as well as revoke all visas for Muslims here on temporary and green card visas. The liberals will be calling for it soon but only after the liberals start to get killed in huge numbers.


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Press-Hating Peers Pave Way for Leveson 2
Unelected, unaccountable and unknown to the British reading public, a gang of press-hating peers last night forced a double defeat on the government which could pave the way for Leveson 2. Lords voted by a majority of 29 to effectively green light the proposed second part of the Inquiry. Lengthy Leveson 1 already produced a 2000 page report at a cost of £5.4 million to the taxpayer – and left the press with legal bills in the tens of millions.
The Conservative manifesto pledged in black-and-white that the Inquiry would not be reopened. Despite this promise, Leveson 2 will now face a vote by MPs in the spring. Commons maths means the outcome is far from certain. Tom Watson can hardly conceal his glee. Cop-thumper Max Mosley will consider it a spankingly good development…
The peers, led by Baroness Hollins, effectively hijacked the Data Protection Bill, twisting consumer protection measures into yet another press-bashing free-for-all. Their illiberal agenda includes introducing measures akin to the harsh Section 40, which would mean newspapers could have to pay both their own and their opponent's legal costs even if they were successful in data protection cases.
Guido understands government concessions are in play. A 'press sustainability review' may be put on the table. There's a danger opponents of a free press will run away with any concession and try to force through their anti-freedom agenda. The government last night said it will seek to overturn the Lords' amendments in the Commons.
The press has been publicly scrutinised to an extraordinary level in recent years, put under the spotlight unlike any other industry, with lengthy inquiries and multiple (fruitless) police probes. The threat of yet another inquiry was described in last night's debate as amounting to "harassment" of the press by the state. Some politicians are still on their hellbent crusade to muzzle the free media, the force that exposes their wrongdoing and holds them to account…
Tags: House of Lords, Leveson 2, Press Regulation

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Liars' Club: 'About Elly,' The Age of Adaline,' and 'True Story,' Three Movies About Hiding the Truth
Cinema Guild
by Wesley Morris
Two years before the 2011 Oscar-winning divorce drama A Separation, the director and very good screenwriter Asghar Farhadi made a mind-games thriller called About Elly. It's just been released in the United States and is making its way around the country. About Elly doesn't seem like much of a title, I know. Gradually, though, you get hung up on the "about" part. It's not because Elly (Taraneh Alidoosti) is inherently fascinating. She's mild and reserved in the way you would be if you'd received a last-minute invitation to be the guest of strangers. It's more because once Elly vanishes, her absence provokes questions that prove difficult for her hosts to answer with certainty. I've never seen gestures of kindness and inclusion presented the way Farhadi does here: as selfishly cruel.
The hosts are college friends: three youngish married couples, with three small children, and Ahmad (Shahab Hosseini), who's handsome, unattached, and briefly home in Tehran from Germany, where he now lives. It occurs to Sepideh (Golshifteh Farahani) to invite Elly in order to set the two of them up. According to Sepideh, Elly hasn't been told about the invitation's ulterior motive. Would the rest of the group be polite enough not to say too much? All Elly knows is that she's been asked to spend a weekend with genial, comfortably middle-class people among cottages near the Caspian Sea.
Farhadi doesn't point your attention to any one place in the frame. The action unfolds in a mix of the oblique and direct. This is the fourth of his six movies, and by this point he's begun to perfect the art of withholding and is close to mastering emotional suspense. That suspense tends to arise from one character's poor decision — or, in Sepideh's case, an entire bouquet of them. Within a few scenes, it becomes clear that Sepideh is the one doing all the withholding. Not only has she kept Elly in the dark, but when the group arrives to pick up the key for their rental, the proprietor reminds Sepideh that she told her that the cottage is available for only one night because the owner is due back the following day. But Sepideh twists the woman's arm with a fib that they've come to Chalus to celebrate the marriage of two newlyweds. Her fiction works. Soon everyone is sweeping into an alternative rental arrangement, a gated, vast, threadbare place right on the sea — a beachfront Havisham house. They vote to stay and clean it to make it habitable.
In a typical movie, these obstacles are mundane inconveniences. But Farhadi builds them into ethical symposia. Imagine the exasperation of spending the weekend (or a marriage) with someone so indifferent to reality that she concocts her own. Sepideh's lies are white, but they're only one unforeseeable event away from darkening and multiplying. Elly's vanishing does the trick. It's a niftily disorienting sequence. Elly is on the beach, flying a kite with the kids, and the camera keeps her alone in a tight, medium close-up as she runs, her head tilted ecstatically skyward. The cutting gets jumpy. The resulting effect is that she's spinning so fast that if she lets go of the kite — or the camera lets go of her — she'll go flying into the sea. The next shot is from inside the house, where we see the kite sail by, with the expanse of sea in the background. When two of the children run up, screaming that the third has drifted into the water, the men terminate their volleyball match to begin a frantic search. They do a lot of panicked sprinting and swimming and screaming. Eventually, the women join in, while trying to keep their head scarves in place. First they locate the missing kid, and then look for Elly, who's gone.
The ensuing recriminations and second-guessing are to be expected. The couples' bonds start to warp. Sepideh's husband, Amir (Mani Haghighi), turns on her. Peyman (Peyman Moaadi, the husband in A Separation) gets snippy with his wife, Shoreh (Merila Zare'i), and their kids. The stress angers the men and sends the women into coughing fits. The vanishing devastates Sepideh. She's human, of course. She's also got something that she ought to get off her chest about Elly. Farahani is a beauty capable of both opacity and waterworks. She makes premeditated deception seem like an unhappy accident. It takes a certain daring not to stop there, not to let the search party just rancorously devour itself. But Farhadi keeps peeling the onion. A ninth adult appears, which calls for everyone to debate yet agree to tell more lies, in part for Elly's honor, in part for their own. This goes for the children as well, who are comically coached in what not to say about Elly. Once what's going on has been laid out and argued over, none of it seems like such a big deal. But Farhadi makes films about class and domestic propriety in modern Iran, the way they intermingle and poison each other in modern Iran. The opening credits flash by in the darkness of some kind of receptacle. You see paper shoved through the slot, then something magnetized furtively affixed. I didn't realize that we were likely inside a ballot box until hours after a second viewing. The movie doesn't return to it. (It also doesn't explain the loud crash that occurs during that kite sequence or that magnet, which could be an explosive device.) But every time we see the group vote (for where to stay and how to lie), we're watching Farhadi make a clever, resonant, multipronged argument about democracy in Iran (2009 was the year of a volatile election): It's wonderful, it's illusory, it's palliative. The ethos of religious honor and its maintenance continue to usurp secularity and even notional freedom. There's only a sliver of light in that box.
The film's immediate, obvious comparison is to Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Avventura, from 1961. That, too, was the story of a woman by the sea whose disappearance rattles her friends. Antonioni was a black-and-white existentialist, not a dramatist. He did his thinking in images. His way has its advantages. He could mesmerize you with a tracking shot and a close-up. The highlight of that movie is reached anytime the camera finds its way to the sensually remote face of Monica Vitti, who plays one of the friends. The unknowns of that movie are maddening, and yet you accept that its maker was too much of a philosopher to bother with conventional suspense or surprise. Life is question marks and ellipses, not exclamation points. Antonioni was Hitchcock from the temples up. The film feels as if Farhadi saw The Big Chill and said it would have been better as L'Avventura, with the crashing waves standing for the Temptations and Procol Harum.
I like Farhadi's movies quite a lot. They're arithmetically moral. Every choice adds up — or, given the tragedies under his belt, subtracts. But he prefers characters to explain what the camera — what his camera, anyway — cannot. Here and in his most recent, most ornate film, The Past, this leads to a blitz of last-minute exposition and confessions that are engrossing on the one hand and somewhat inadequate on the other. They don't quite satisfy the anticipation of the filmmaking that's led up to it. Farhadi has things happen offscreen or out of earshot, then later reveals, through dialogue, what took place — the explanation of the peeling of the onion. The triumph of A Separation was the cinematic stereo it made of words and action. There, he left you unsure of your own eyes and ears. It was a thriller that refused to explain itself entirely.
Farhadi likes to do a lot of telling when you crave more showing. But we don't understand everything either way. During that kite sequence, for instance, there's the sound of that crash. Hearing it a second time only compounds the uncertainty. That and the ballot box are tricks with which a director like Michael Haneke would do a little more. But here the ambiguities remain, and Farhadi entrusts us with them. They are human black holes. Even once you know what's happened to Elly, you really don't. A dead end here is another grim beginning.
The Age of Adaline feels like a new low for vanity films. It's not just that Blake Lively has to spend an entire movie pretending to be sad that she'll never age past 30. It's that Ellen Burstyn has to play Lively's daughter, and Harrison Ford a man from her past (1966!), and that every time they see her, some awe or affection has to overwhelm them. They have to be blinded by her. It's one thing for Joan Crawford or Meg Ryan or Susan Lucci to ask for this kind of treatment. It's quite another for an actress whose "lifestyle brand" is called Preserve. Lively cuts a long, striding figure and has a stunning face with acute angles (you really could look at her all day), but it's not a face that expresses much (at the movies, "all day" lasts about two scenes).
She might be one of those Halle Berry–style actresses, who's better as a wreck, like the stubbed-out junkie Lively played in The Town. Here, she's supposed to represent the picture of timeless glamour, and thanks to some inspired costuming, she does. Adaline was born in 1908. An auto accident leaves her cursed with agelessness and the movie cursed with a laughable narrator who explains Adaline's entire life up to the crash in the stentorian tone of an episode of Frontline. (The voice belongs to Hugh Ross, whose narration was the best thing about The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.)
When Adaline's car hits the water, it's explained that she suffers a kind of anoxic seizure and that a half-billion volts and many, many amps of electricity defibrillate her back to life. Sometimes, an accident like that will turn you into the blob. Sometimes, it's Botox. When that Frontline voice starts up, it usually signals the cosmos reanimating her from a state of hypothermic death. This is unfair to Lively, since it's as much a job for an actress as for a cadaver.
Anyway, Adaline marries, has a daughter, is widowed, and at about 45, wins the suspicion of the FBI, which puts her permanently on the run. She winds up in San Francisco, a city famous for being a place where you can become who you want to be. Who she wants to be is a librarian. (Stacks-chic never fades.) She works at someplace called the Heritage Society, where, in the 21st century, a swarthy, affluent gentleman with a dubious American accent, named Ellis (Michiel Huisman, who's Dutch), is holding a donation worth $50,000 hostage until Adaline goes out to dinner with him. These are the stakes: Will Adaline — who goes by "Jenny" — stop the lies and settle down or flee?
Having Adaline use the curse to have even a whiff of fun would represent creative ambition. But she's a mannequin instead of Zelig or Forrest Gump. Still, sitting through the fashion show doesn't require as much Novocain as I'd feared. It's a good-looking production (even if it plunks its heroine in Chinatown without her having to acknowledge the existence of a single Asian person, except a coworker who's British). The strands of science fiction and romantic fantasy harmonize well enough with the flashbacks and glut of domestic strife that forms when Ellis takes Jenny to meet his mother (Kathy Baker) and father (Ford) and the father can't believe his eyes. (Movie ironists take note: Fugitive of the law meets fugitive of life.)
Ford, in a gray goatee and short matching haircut, might look even better at his age than Lively does at hers. He gives off the intangible wattage of a star. It's a light that never truly goes out. But you have to have it to begin with, and Lively doesn't quite have it. This is a film that needs Amy Adams's twinkle or Sandra Bullock's nervous stammering. It needs a star with life. Her name aside, you rarely feel it from Lively. She does have a specific throwback panache, though. She seems like an exceptionally lucky cigarette girl.
What's the opposite of stealing a movie? Putting it back? Looking the other way? Laziness? Whatever it is, that's where I am with James Franco. Lately, he's like a tennis player who can't put a ball in the service box. The wrong thing comes off him: contempt. It doesn't come from the characters he plays, but rather is directed at them. He's judging them before we've had a chance to make up our minds. He's attached to 19 projects as an actor, director, or producer with "2015" next to them. His well-documented busyness may have emptied him out. Or maybe it has emptied me out. Spring Breakers was three years ago, and perhaps the nuclear foolishness of that part — the daring to simultaneously break character and maintain it — has soured him on doing much else as a performer. That was his Scarface, his Mommie Dearest: a breaking point.
Franco is currently in an orange jumpsuit and scraggly beard for True Story. He looks like a man who hasn't slept since the last Bush administration. He's playing Chris Longo, an Oregon man standing trial for the murder of his wife and three children. The film is based on actual events, and it features a handful of prison-visit scenes between Longo and the journalist Michael Finkel, whom Jonah Hill tries to play with some purpose. It's a lost cause. Franco isn't the reason this antsy, intellectually clueless movie doesn't work. But his long face and soft, droning delivery are advertisements for its dreariness.
This is one of those reporter-talks-to-killer movies. Hill is even given a pair of black glasses with thick frames to recall Truman Capote. The film purports to be obsessed with the truth, with the power of certainty that reporting the news bestows upon a writer. At the start of the movie, Finkel stands guilty of abusing his power, having fabricated details in a story about African laborers. He's dismissed from his job at The New York Times Magazine and heads to Montana to mope near his girlfriend, Jill, who, mysteriously, is played (with a hard American accent) by Felicity Jones, who must surely be tired of doing the acting equivalent of changing bedpans.
Locked out of journalism, he's almost delighted to hear that Longo was apprehended having stolen Finkel's identity. He smells a comeback. HarperCollins is on speakerphone. Longo sends him reams of personal history and, it must be said, serial-killer sketches, all of which Finkel tacks up around Jill's big, handsome house the way a detective would in any homicidal-maniac movie. It's obvious in their first meeting that these two, as played by Hill and Franco, are made for each other. They talk about mutual fascination and share warm looks. These aren't interviews. They're conjugal visits. During most of the movie, Jones is shown reshelving books, playing piano, and looking quizzical and hungry. If Franco won't eat the scenery, let her. Robert John Burke makes out best, lending some moral authority and classical masculinity to his 4,000th role as a law-enforcement professional.
We see the conversations between the men, Longo's trial, plus too many restagings of the murders, and we still have no idea what this movie hopes to make of any of it. The director Rupert Goold shares the screenwriting credit with David Kajganich (it's based on Finkel's book True Story), and the movie seems to think that having two men swat around the words "truth" constitutes an investigation of its nature. Really, it's rhetorical badminton. Filming the process of creation — corrupt and otherwise — requires some sense of imagination and curiosity. I'm afraid that shots of Hill trudging in the snow or Franco sitting in dark profile don't cut it. Finkel just wants the truth from Longo and is petulant that he can't have it. Longo understands the concept of truth to be self-servingly pliable. How was Finkel enlightened? How was Jill able to cope with having her home turned into an episode of NCIS? What did the journalist and the murderer get out of their relationship? A book, obviously. But, according to this movie and the title cards that close it out, they also got something less noble: each other.
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MESOPOTAMIAN NIGHT BRINGS TO LIFE THE STORY OF "BADRI" BY THE LATE JOHN ALKHAS
The story of "Badri" the little eleven years old Assyrian girl, who witnessed the exodus of her people from Urmi on the eve of July 18, 1918, is coming to life on stage at the Caliornia Theatre in San Jose, CA, on August 1, 2015. This Assyrian literature masterpiece was created by the late John Alkhas.
About John Alkhas
The late John Alkhas was born in city of Urmi, Iran in 1908. He studied in Catholic missions in Tehran and Tabriz. In 1926 he left for India and expanded his education and literary knowledge. In 1948 in Tehran he established Assyrian printing capabilities and in 1952 along his brother Addai Alkhas founded the Assyrian printing press of Khooneen and published the Assyrian magazine Gilgamesh.
Most of John Alkhas contribution to Assyrian literature has been through poetry. He is recognized as the best Assyrian poet of 20th century and mostly is known as the Poet in Exile. "The Badri Tragedy" is one of his handful prose writings which has received many reviews, and republications
The Tragedy of Badri
By John Alkhas
Translated by Dr. Arianne Ishaya
Introductory Note:
By Daniel David Bet Benyamin (translated and abridged by A. Ishaya)
Mr. John Alkhas, an eminent Assyrian writer and poet, wrote the "Tragedy of Badri" based on the events that took place on Thursday, July 18, 1918, on the plain of Urmia.[1]
Three years prior to that the Assyrians from the Highlands of Hakkari, having come under the attack of neighboring tribes, had fled from their homes and were living as temporary guests of the Assyrians of Urmia.
To clarify the mind-set of this group of Assyrians at that time, it is necessary to mention that since the mid-1800s,European and American Christian missionaries had established mission schools in the region. Consequently, Assyrians became literate in several languages and learned about their ancient history through books and periodicals that were published in Urmia by local educated Assyrians.For the first time the Assyrians discovered they were descendants of a great nation with a glorious history. Along with the local authors, there were Assyrianscholars who were educated in foreign countries and upon their return, awakened the spirit of
nationalism among fellow Assyrians.
This spirit of nationalism sparked hope in the heart of the young and old alike. They began to nurture the idea that, in the near future, they would return to their homeland to live as a sovereign nation. What they didn't know was that their enemies were secretly plotting obstacles to prevent them from ever attaining their goal. Overnight their dreams were dashed and their hope of becoming a sovereign nation was lost.
On that fated day, John Alkhaswas just 11 years old. He was not old enough to have written downthe events of that ominous day as they happened, with the level of artistry and literary expertise contained in them. But the description of events is so vivid that we can only assume John was standing next to little Badrias she stood on top of that calvary [hillside].
On that day our people faced one of the worst calamities in their history. Johnhas skillfully sketched those torturous events in the Tragedy of Badri. Even though the account is written in prose, elements of poetic style such as rhythm and rhyme are present
in some of the passages.
Let us now turn to the "Tragedy of Badri"
daya [mother],......OhShimun,......Oh brother,......Oh Laya,........
These were sounds of despair uttered by young lads and maidens in long-drawn out syllables, in sobbing voices heard separately, heard collectively, heard from everywhere in the surrounding hills of a dark Tamuz [July] night.
Mingled with the responses of the parents who were present, were the sounds of bleating sheep, neighing horses, bellowing cattle,coming from a small meadow alongside a wide road where the smoke of burnt straw, and the smell of roasting flour clouded the presence of small children crying, the disabled groaning, the wounded complaining; of children mourning over their dead parents and of parents lamenting the loss of their children.
The sounds of pandemonium [chaos] burst into the sky; but the sky was unmoved. It hid its face behind athick, black fog.
There, on the side of the road, in the cleft of a high cliff, Badri, only 12 stood motionless as a stone statue staring at the movements of people, animals, and carts that looked like a moving stream leaving behind the old and worn out men and women; the sick, the abandoned children, pregnant women, carpets, household furnishings, food, exhausted animals........
A human stream on the move, not knowing for how long, not knowing where, all day long it moved, and all night long it flowed. Sometimes well-equipped they went, and sometimes protected they went. Each went on his own; all went collectively. Without a guide they went; without a supporter they went; without a leader, without being led, without a set time and hour they went. With no thought of survivors, with no thought of the dead, with an empty heart, with a resolute intent, they walked. With no clothes or shoes they walked; toward a clear goal they walked; always forward they walked.
From all the unburied dead; all those abandoned without protection; from the bound soldiers, from everything left behind broken,their heavy hearts heard this urging:
"Leave me and go; cut me loose and go, flee and go, do not delay and go."
For the cause of liberation, for this vision, for this new awareness, this urging on, they were walking; they were flying. Hungry, unaware of the loads of wheat and grain, without laying ahand on the abandoned cattle, sucking on wet mud to quench their thirst, without wasting time, they rushed on......
To lighten their headgear, to cool their back, to rest their feet, they cast away woolen hats, expensive clothing, and their leather shoes. They wrapped their feet in straps of burlap; they left their head bear, and covered their bodies in light shirts.
The perilous risks they took were not to save their lives. They knew well that if Shimun was to be renamed Kassim, and Martha Zeinab, no bodily harm would come to them. It was not for the sake of their personal lives that these self-sacrificing Assyrians were climbing the hill. Their exodus was not aimed at dispersion in different countries to be enslaved by various nations for the sake of a loaf of bread.
They had chosen a single path in order to return back and reaffirm their identity as a people.
They were not going on their own volition. They were driven as by hidden arms. They were being pushed by the hands of the self-sacrificing Assyrians; by the spirit of their national martyrs.
Among them were those who had slowed down. Weeping quietly, they stopped and looked longingly on those who were abandoned by the roadside. Then crazed
with anguish, they hurried on to catch up with the advancing convoy.
They all had a single thought: to preserve at least a remnant of the Assyrian nation in the hope of safe-guarding its identity, and salvaging its language. So onward they walked in order not to lose their heritage, that sweet and sad legacy which their forefathers had guarded for 26 centuries amid fire, massacres, turmoil and
upheavals.Inspired by the prospect of freedom, they were also fulfilling their duty. These free spirits, rising from the depths of the sea, had broken the yoke of bondage. They were escaping the shackles of enslavement. They were hurrying away without looking at others. Each on his own, all as one.They were climbing, clutching at this sorrow-filled Calvary [hillside] in the sacred hope of the future, a very near future when they would taste emancipation for their people, their language, their religion, and for their heritage.
This sacred prospect had blinded them. Therefore, they did not see; they did not feel; they did not take stock of their suffering. As if sleep-walking, they were breathlessly marching towards the allurement that pulled them forward. At every step their gaze was fixed on the banner of freedom carried by their clergy, preachers, and bishops.
With no fear, no trembling, in their own language, relying on no one else, they declared their pride in the Assyrian power, their churches, and the Assyrian towns. They paid homage to the Assyrian martyrs who had given their lives on that Calvary. So every year, in the month of Tamuz [July] they commemorate the Tamuz Day instead of the Rogationof Ninevites. They burn incense, light candles, prepare food, and pour out drinks. They spread petals on the graves of the past martyrs, the martyrs of ages, the martyrs of all time.
Poor Souls!
Instead of this pleasant vision, if they could only see, in the midst of this mirage, the great numbers who not only forgot this drama, not only ignored the wounds, the graves of their forefathers, their heritage, their people, their legacy, but also their language. If they could only see how some would attempt to destroy the church, and to slander the clergy. If they could see that a great number would speak and pray in foreign languages, debasing and disowning their own mother tongue, if they knew that some, after being saved from this tribulation, would throw themselves into the nothingness of foreign nations singing;
"Lift your head from the grave Witness the outcome of your aspirations You, who sacrificed your life for Umta, [nation] Alas! How futile was the loss of your life!"
If they had seen the outcome while they were in the midst of that mirage, if they could recognize these betrayers, these individuals, for certain they would have trampled them under their feet that bled from piercing thorns, sliced by swords and rocks, caked as they walked on burning earth. If they only knew, they would have strangled the life out of them while they were still in their cradles.
But since during those turbulent times they were not thinking, they could not foresee that after this ordeal, after this hell, after the ultimate sacrifice, they would find some who would betray the cause; they would stray from the path that was to rebuild the ruined Assyrian churches, restore the Assyrian schools, and everything Assyrian.
To return free, prosper as free men, grow and live as free people was their resolve. If not, better to die free, rather than live as slaves of another nation, lose the mother tongue, dishonor one's heritage, deny one's identity, abandon the graves of their forefathers and martyrs, and all those who died for their nation and religion.
For this reason, eyes fixed on the horizon, they moved forward resolutely without taking stalk of the surroundings, without feelings for the ones they left behind, without sorrow for scattered household belongings, without knowing if they would reach the end, or when they would collapse upon the slopes of this Calvary.
Forward went these warriors of freedom, these rebels against slavery, these lion cubs of Assyria, these virgins of Ishtar. They walked light-footed, yet with a heavy heart on an empty stomach and dry mouth. How long did they walk this way?
When the last of them passed by, it seemed that the ground rested for a while. Then as if a wave had risen, all those who had collapsed came to themselves. With a last effort they stirred up; the bent-over old men and women, the wounded and the sick started crawling, pushing themselves on the ground while they implored God to save them from the hand of the enemy. In jolting steps they walked as if there was hope in every step; they trotted in agony. Then, one by one, they fell. They lay quiet. As they took their last breath, they hoped that they would remain alive forever in the memory of those who survived; in the memory of generations to come, in the annals of the history of their people.
Badri was still standing in the cleft of the rock. The only sign of life in her was the bulging eyes staring at the crowd that was slowly disappearing from her sight. She had not seen her parents in the multitude. Had they already passed by without seeing her? Or, had they not yet arrived? What else was Badri expecting? Why was she not running to join the others? Was it because of exhaustion, hunger, thirst, or the fear of not finding her parents? All these causes kept her paralyzed. Only a tiny spark radiated through her thoughts and lightened her eyes: the hope of finding her loved ones!
[1] This is part I of the Tragedy of Badri. It was published in Gilgamish#14, 1953. At the end of this article the author, John Alkhas, notes that part II would be published in the following issue. But the sequel was never published. Nimrud Simono, the chief editor of Gilgamishwrote the following postscript:"The sequel to Badri was not published because it was too political. It is lost together with the rest of his manuscripts as well as those of his brother". [Well-known author and poet, AddiAlkhas.]
Dr. Arianne Ishaya
Dr. Arianne Ishaya is a cultural anthropologist and a faculty member at the De Anza College in Cupertino, California. She has published several books and many article on the history of Assyrian immigrants in northern America and other topics.
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New evidence supports the presence of microbes in the placenta
by Baylor College of Medicine
Dr. Kjersti Aagaard. Credit: Baylor College of Medicine
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine previously found evidence that the placenta harbors a sparse but still present community of microorganisms, which they and other researchers speculate may contribute to key functions in pregnancy, including immunity.
"There has been some debate about our and others' findings in the placenta. Because it is a sparse, or low biomass, community, it is a fair question to ask how much of what we identify as the microbiome is actually bacteria and how much is potentially environmental contamination, or maternal blood in the placenta," said senior author Dr. Kjersti Aagaard, professor and the Henry and Emma Meyer Chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Baylor.
Visual confirmation
"Previously, bacteria were found using metagenomics or microbiome sequencing, and now we have confirmed that signal based on our ability to label the bacterial RNA with a florescent 'tag' and actually see them," said Dr. Maxim Seferovic, instructor in obstetrics and gynecology at Baylor and lead author in the study. "We leveraged a powerful new imaging technology to add greater specificity in the signal of bacterial RNA, which helped us to see bacteria within the microarchitecture of the placental tissue."
Researchers examined microbes in term and preterm gestations using a signal amplified 16S universal in situ hybridization probe designed for bacterial rRNA, along with several other histologic methods. Seferovic said the study was carefully designed to control for contamination as best as possible, so that these sparse bacteria could be accurately attributed to their location in the placenta.
"We did not see quantitative or numerical differences between preterm or full-term births, nor did we see them localizing to different substrata. But we do see differences in what genera of bacteria are there in preterm or full term, and this supported our and other's past findings as well," said Aagaard.
A sparse community
Seferovic said the study was designed to determine if past studies were in fact accurate and truly did look at a low biomass community of microbes that could be reliably distinguished from environmental contamination. This work, when combined with that of several other labs, should give researchers confidence that not only can they sequence these microbes but also that they can see the bacteria in very predictable locations in different placentas.
Seferovic and Aagaard suggest that this boosts their team's and others' confidence that they can begin to look more toward the role of microbes in the intrauterine environment in shaping the developing immune system in the fetus, and what role things like the mom's diet or preterm birth may play in that development.
"At some point we all acquire trillions of bacteria in our bodies that we do not reject with an immune inflammatory response. We are speculating that these low biomass communities may play a key role in shaping the developing fetal immune system to help educate it on which microbes may be beneficial and which might not," Aagaard said.
Both Aagaard and Seferovic agree that there is still a lot of work ahead to be done in this exciting area of the developing microbiome and microbiome science. It is their hope that the techniques and tools developed for this study will lend a hand to other researchers similarly working in challenging low biomass communities.
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More information: Maxim D. Seferovic et al, Visualization of Microbes by 16S in situ Hybridization in Term and Preterm Placentae without Intraamniotic Infection, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (2019). DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2019.04.036
Journal information: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
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Clifford the BIG RED DOG LIVE - A BIG FAMILY MUSICAL BIGGER THAN A HOUSE
Year 2013 New Year's Resolutions
By Rosalind Marmel, Los Angeles Correspondent, Jan. 3, 2013
Perhaps the best family musical I know of…
Unfortunately, I was born before Clifford the Big Red Dog in 1963 began teaching family values to infants, toddlers and anyone younger than I am.
I am trying to catch up. I am watching the Emmy-nominated animated PBS Kids TV series available throughout the world. The late John Ritter voiced Clifford in the series from 2000 until 2003. I'm trying to collect 84 year old author Norman Bridwell's 126 million books, drinking tiny 4.3 ounce containers of Hansen's fruit juices and waters, found at www.drinkjuniorjuice.com with Clifford, Emily Elizabeth and their pals getting into mischief right in front of my little, baby blue eyes.
The Los Angeles Times said that the Warner Brothers movie, "Clifford's Really Big Movie", "brings the Big Red Dog, beloved by children from Norman Bridwell's books and the TV series, to the screen with style and charm."
Although voice over stars (including John Ritter), Jenna Elfman, John Goodman and Judge Reinhold played the roles of Clifford, Cleo, T-Bone and their pals in their first movie, I find it too scary. I scare easily.
A. O. Scott in a New York Times review said, "Young children will snuggle up in the movie's cozy good cheer." Snuggled up with my Clifford snugglys does not help me like the movie.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Universal is pairing up with Illumination Entertainment, the company responsible for the box office giant, "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax." They are bringing Clifford to the big screen as a feature film with Matt Lopez who wrote the screenplay, for the 2010 film distributed by Walt Disney starring Nicholas Cage, (The Sorcerer's Apprentice) to write the Clifford script. The last I heard Lopez would be making his directorial debut in what I heard is supposed to be a live action, animated hybrid. Imax theaters are bigger than houses so Clifford should be able to get into an Imax, I suppose.
I am doing anything I can in my attempt to get a crash course in Clifford, the Big Red Dog, bigger than a house's 10 BE BIG ideas.
I'm exchanging emails with Christina Rose Rahm, a very talented young woman, who manages to get herself into lots of trouble as she sings, dances, talks and even emails her way from city to city playing the role of Emily Elizabeth. Christina is Clifford's human, in David Miller's touring production of, CLIFFORD, THE BIG RED DOG, a gigantic splash of a family musical that I went to huge lengths to see live, in California at one my favorite theatres, The Fred Kavli Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza in Thousand Oaks, California. The Fred Kavli Theatre is bigger than a house. Emily Elizabeth showed me how Clifford got in and out of the door. I keep secrets luckily for Emily Elizabeth. Clifford might be my best friend. I'm loyal to my friends.
Bridwell was planning for Clifford to be a labrador but it turns out that the puppy was born a bloodhound. Clifford shows that giant breeds do not always have shorter life spans. Clifford's longevity in dog years is 350 years old. I am not even that old.
Norman Bridwell did not have an easy childhood. He was not good at sports or shop classes. His teacher told him that he was not good at drawing either. He kept drawing anyway. He loved drawing. He didn't fit in with the other kids. He was shy. Like the 25 foot tall Clifford, he was kind of clumsy.
He got married to Norma. Norma had an imaginary friend as a child named Emily Elizabeth. They had a baby girl in 1982. You guessed it. They named her Emily Elizabeth. Parents with babies need money. Diapers are expensive. Norma and Norman wanted to move from New York to San Francisco. California was expensive too. Norman needed a real job. He couldn't make money as a commercial artist.
Norma encouraged him to interview with Harper and Row. He got nowhere until an editor there found a sketch he made of a big red dog with a blonde, blue-eyed 8-year-old riding on his back in a pile of papers. That piece of paper contributed to the success of Scholastic Books as a big publishing house and Scholastic Studios and the onset of the PBS Kids series. There was a jar of red paint on the table when he was sketching. The black Labrador then became a red Bloodhound.
Editors at Scholastic realized that every kid would want a shy, clumsy dog like Clifford. Clifford is friendly and helpful. Usually, when he gets into trouble it is trying to get Emily Elizabeth, Jenna and their pals out of messes.
Norman planned to stop writing after the first book. Writers don't normally make money either. Norma talked him into writing a second book based on her childhood fantasies.
PBS and pre-school teachers, parents and caregivers in the 90's were finding that kids' TV was not having a good influence on kids. "The Power Rangers", as an example derived from amine and its popularity has far too much violence.
"Clifford's Puppy Days", is a 25-episode prequel to "Clifford The Big Red Dog." It is recommended for ages 4 and up. Finally, there is an


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The 2016 campaign has been a mud-throwing contest. Insults and anger-filled language have been the order of the day. It is a development that gives the American electoral process a bad name.
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A RAND Corporation study has revealed that a California pilot program aimed at implementing and testing bundled provider payments has failed meet its goal of spreading the cost-saving payment system. The pilot program, organized by the Integrated Healthcare Association, sought to establish bundled payment policies for orthopedic procedures through cooperation with health plans, hospitals, and physician associations. The RAND study found, in large part due to recruitment and regulatory barriers, the pilot initiative failed to meet its goal of establishing bundled payments as a payment strategy across multiple payers and providers.
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The California based program was a three year effort that began in 2010. The program focused narrowly on using bundled payments for orthopedic procedures, such as total knee replacements, in commercially insured patients under age 65. Initially, the program looked promising and it had recruited several participants including the state's largest health plans, eight hospitals, and an independent practice physician's association. However, participation quickly started to dwindle when insurers lost faith in the payment strategy or decided that the system was incompatible with their existing business model. Ultimately only two hospitals signed on to the program and the hospitals experienced low levels of orthopedic procedure cases over the three year period.
Further problems stemmed from regulatory delays. In part due to the difficulties in definitions about what types of cases belonged in a bundle, regulatory contract approval interruptions limited the success of the project. Participants and stakeholders also indicated that hardship stemmed from bundle definitions that were too narrow to include enough procedures to make the bundled payment a viable financial alternative for providers.
The Rand study determined that the program failed to meet its goals. With low participation and a low volume of cases, the pilot program was unsuccessful in shedding light on the success of the bundled payment model. However, according to RAND, Integrated Healthcare Association gained valuable experience regarding the implementation of bundled payment systems and has learned lessons which will make future attempts more successful.