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Three-Year Outcomes After Brief Treatment of Substance Use and Mood Symptoms
Sujaya Parthasarathy, Andrea H. Kline-Simon, Ashley Jones, Lauren Hartman, Katrina Saba, Constance Weisner and Stacy Sterling
Pediatrics January 2021, 147 (1) e2020009191; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2020-009191
Sujaya Parthasarathy
aDivision of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California; and
Andrea H. Kline-Simon
Ashley Jones
Lauren Hartman
bThe Permanente Medical Group, Oakland, California
Katrina Saba
Constance Weisner
Stacy Sterling
BACKGROUND: Screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) for adolescents exhibiting co-occurring substance use and mental health problems may improve outcomes and have long-lasting effects. This study examined the relationship between access to SBIRT and substance use, depression and medical diagnoses, and health services use at 1 and 3 years postscreening for such adolescents.
METHODS: The study draws from a cluster-randomized trial comparing SBIRT to usual care (UC) for adolescents endorsing past-year substance use and recent mood symptoms during visits to a general pediatrics clinic between November 1, 2011, and October 31, 2013, in a large, integrated health system (N = 1851); this sample examined the subset of adolescents endorsing both problems (n = 289). Outcomes included depression, substance use and medical diagnoses, and emergency department and outpatient visits 1 and 3 years later.
RESULTS: The SBIRT group had lower odds of depression diagnoses at 1 (odds ratio [OR] = 0.31; confidence interval [CI] = 0.11–0.87) and 3 years (OR = 0.51; CI = 0.28–0.94) compared with the UC group. At 3 years, the SBIRT group had lower odds of a substance use diagnosis (OR = 0.46; CI = 0.23–0.92), and fewer emergency department visits (rate ratio = 0.65; CI = 0.44–0.97) than UC group.
CONCLUSIONS: The findings suggest that SBIRT may prevent health complications and avert costly services use among adolescents with both mental health and substance use problems. As SBIRT is implemented widely in pediatric primary care, training pediatricians to discuss substance use and mental health problems can translate to positive outcomes for these vulnerable adolescents.
CI —
EHR —
ICD-9 —
International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision
ICD-10 —
International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision
KPNC —
Kaiser Permanente Northern California
OR —
PCP —
SBIRT —
screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment
TWCQ —
Teen Well-Check Questionnaire
UC —
usual care
Research suggests that screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) for adolescent substance use problems may improve patient outcomes. We examine SBIRT's benefits among adolescents in primary care with co-occurring substance use and mood symptoms.
Adolescents with access to SBIRT had improved substance use and depression outcomes and fewer emergency department visits at 3 years. Providing SBIRT in pediatric primary care may benefit adolescents with co-occurring substance use and mood symptoms.
Substance use and mental health problems co-occur frequently among adolescents and young adults1,2 and are associated with an increased prevalence of health problems,3,4 mortality, and morbidity.5 Already associated individually with increased use of health care services,6–9 when co-occurring, these problems exacerbate one another,10 complicate treatments,1 and generally yield poorer patient outcomes.11 When onset of problems is in adolescence, individuals are more likely to develop severe substance use disorders with associated distress and impaired functioning in adulthood.12–19 Unfortunately, relatively few adolescents seek or receive specialty behavioral health care for either problem.20 Thus, effective early intervention strategies in a trusted, nonstigmatized, and accessible setting can have a long-lasting impact on their lives and is an important public health goal.
Screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) is a public health approach to prevention and early intervention for substance use problems. It includes systematic screening using evidence-based instruments, patient-centered brief interventions typically informed by motivational interviewing,21 and a protocol for referring more severe patients to behavioral health treatment. Increasingly, research suggests that SBIRT for adolescent substance problems may decrease substance use and associated consequences,22–24 depression symptoms,25 and avoidable health services use.26 A recent study compared adolescents screening positive for substance use who had access to SBIRT in pediatric primary care to adolescents without access using data from a cluster-randomized, pragmatic trial that examined the effectiveness of 2 modalities of delivering SBIRT (pediatrician delivered and behavioral clinician delivered) to usual care (UC). As SBIRT for adolescents is implemented more widely, pediatric primary care practices are adopting a variety of clinical workflows, frequently employing SBIRT-trained physicians and nonphysicians, including behavioral health clinicians, on the care team.27 We combined patients in the 2 SBIRT arms from the original trial and examined the relationship between access to SBIRT and depression, substance use, common medical diagnoses, and health services use at 1 and 3 years postscreening. We found the SBIRT group had a lower likelihood of psychiatric and medical conditions at 1 year postscreening and substance use problems at 3 years postscreening.26 They used fewer psychiatry visits at 1 and 3 years and more specialty substance use treatment initiation at 3 years when needed.
Traditional randomized controlled trials often exclude patients with co-occurring problems despite their prevalence in pediatric primary care. In the current secondary analysis, we examine whether this more severe subpopulation, namely, adolescents in primary care reporting past-year substance use and recent mood symptoms at screening, see similar benefits in long-term substance use, psychiatric, and medical outcomes, and health services use. We address a critical gap in our understanding of the reach of SBIRT's benefits to these patients. We hypothesized that adolescents in the SBIRT arm would have lower rates of substance use and mental health diagnoses and lower rates of health services use at 1 and 3 years compared with those in the UC arm.
Study Sample
The sample included adolescents aged 12 to 18 years with a visit to a general pediatrics clinic in a large, integrated health system in northern California from November 1, 2011, to October 31, 2013 (Fig 1). The Teen Well-Check Questionnaire (TWCQ), a comprehensive screening instrument, was administered during regular adolescent well-check visits and included past-year alcohol, marijuana, and other drug use ("During the past year, did you [drink alcohol/use marijuana/use any other substance] to get high, calm down, or stay awake?" [yes or no]) and recent depression symptoms ("During the past few weeks, have you often felt sad, down or hopeless?" and "Have you seriously thought about killing yourself, made a plan, or tried to kill yourself?" [both yes or no]), which served as the initial substance use and mental health risk screening questions. Physicians were randomly assigned to 3 arms (assignment not blinded) which included (1) pediatricians trained in SBIRT; (2) a behavioral clinician arm in which pediatricians referred patients to a behavioral clinician for further assessment, brief intervention, and referral to treatment as needed; and (3) pediatricians who had access to the electronic health record (EHR) screening tools but no formal SBIRT training (UC). The 2 intervention arms are combined into an SBIRT arm. Additional study details are available elsewhere.25,28 Patients who endorsed any of the alcohol, drug, or mood questions on the TWCQ or whose pediatrician determined them to be at risk on the basis of clinical assessment were considered positive and eligible for further assessment, brief interventions, and/or referral to treatment as needed (N = 1871). In this article, we focus on the subset of adolescents who screened positive for both mood and substance use symptoms on the TWCQ (n = 289).
Adolescents in primary care reporting both substance use and mood problems.
Institutional review boards did not require pediatricians' consents, and the study was approved by the Institutional Review Boards of Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) and the University of California, San Francisco.
A dichotomous indicator for the study group was created (1 = SBIRT group; 0 = UC). The EHR provided demographic data, including sex, age, race and ethnicity, and length of enrollment. The screening date was defined as the first date the adolescent screened positive for both past-year substance use and recent mood symptoms during the study period (November 1, 2011–October 31, 2013). To measure outcomes, International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) and International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) diagnosis codes were used to create indicators for the presence of substance use (ICD-9: 291, 292, and 303–305; ICD-10: F10–F19), depression (ICD-9: 296.2, 296.3, 296.82, 298.0, 300.4, 301.12, 309.0, 309.1, 309.28, and 311; ICD-10: F32, F33, F34.1, F43.21, and F43.23), and common medical diagnoses during 1 and 3 years postscreening. Medical diagnoses included the 7 most common conditions in this age group3,29,30: asthma (ICD-9: 493; ICD-10: J45), arthritis (ICD-9: 710–719; ICD-10: M01, M02, M05–M08, and M11–M25), diabetes (ICD-9: 250; ICD-10: E08–E13), irritable bowel syndrome (ICD-9: 555, 560.89, and 564.1; ICD-10: K50, K58, and K566), migraine (ICD-9: 346; ICD-10: G43), rhinitis (ICD-9: 477; ICD-10: J30 and J31), and sinusitis (ICD-9: 461 and 473; ICD-10: J01 and J32).
Health services use data were categorized into inpatient and outpatient including emergency department (ED), primary care, substance use treatment, psychiatric treatment, and any outpatient use. Services use (eg, ED) outside of the health system was captured through automated claims data. Use was aggregated over the 1 and 3 years post the screening date. We examined dichotomous measures (1 if any use in that category; 0 otherwise) as well as visit counts during the 2 time periods for each type of use.
We examined demographic differences between the study sample of patients who screened positive for both past-year substance use and recent mood symptoms (n = 289) and the larger cohort of eligible patients who did not (n = 1582). Subsequent analyses focused on the sample of patients who screened positive for both past-year substance use and recent mood symptoms and were conducted over 2 time periods: 1 and 3 years postscreening. We used χ2 and t tests to examine differences in dichotomous and continuous covariates, respectively, between the SBIRT and UC groups. Separate multivariate logistic regression models were used to examine the presence of depression, medical, and substance use diagnoses over each time period, adjusting for corresponding previous diagnoses made in the year before the screening date. On the basis of preliminary analyses, we used negative binomial regression models to examine health care visit counts adjusting for previous use of corresponding services; the exponent of the coefficient gives the incidence rate ratio for the SBIRT group relative to the UC group. Because of small numbers, we could not conduct multivariate analyses on inpatient events. All models adjusted for age, sex, race and ethnicity, and length of membership. Statistical significance was set at α = .05.
Among the full sample, 14.7% of the SBIRT group (n = 185) and 16.9% of the UC group (n = 104; P = .23) screened positive for both past-year substance use and recent mood symptoms. These patients (Table 1) were more likely to be female (68.9% vs 53.2%; P ≤ .01) and older (16.1 [SE = 0.09] vs 15.8 [SD = 0.04]; P < .01) compared with patients not screening positive for both conditions. The race and ethnicity distribution was similar (P = .15). Patients who screened positive for both past-year substance use and recent mood symptoms reported significantly higher prevalence of depression diagnoses (18.3% vs 6.1%; P < .01) and were more likely to use ED (23.9% vs 16.2%; P < .01), psychiatry (23.9% vs 13.3%; P < .01), and primary care (71.3% vs 65.4%; P = .05) services in the year before the screening date. The brief intervention rate in the full sample was 14.9%, higher in the SBIRT arm than in the UC arm (21.3% vs 1.8%; P < .01).
Comparison Between Adolescents With Both Past-Year Substance Use and Recent Mood Symptoms and Those Without (n = 1871)
Among adolescents screening positive for substance use and mood symptoms (n = 289), there was no difference in sex between the SBIRT and UC groups (72.4% vs 62.5%; P = .08; Table 2). The sample was mostly nonwhite (40.6% Black, 22.7% Hispanic, 11% Asian American patients); the race and ethnicity distribution was similar across the SBIRT and UC groups (P = .47). The mean age did not differ (P = .87) between the SBIRT (16.07 years; SE = 0.10 years) and UC groups (16.10 years; SE = 0.13 years). The brief intervention rate was 19.4% and was higher in the SBIRT arm than in the UC arm (29.2% vs 1.9%; P < .01).
Demographic Characteristics of Analytic Sample by SBIRT Group (n = 289)
The prevalence of depression diagnoses in the year before the screening date did not differ between the SBIRT and UC groups (16.2% vs 21.9%; P = .54; Table 3). Over 1 year postscreening, the SBIRT group had a significantly lower unadjusted prevalence of depression diagnoses than the UC group (3.8% vs 11.4%; P = .01). Over 3 years, the SBIRT group continued to have a lower prevalence of depression diagnoses (16.8% vs 27.6%; P = .03). Using multivariate logistic regression analyses, we found that the SBIRT group had lower odds of depression diagnoses (odds ratio [OR] = 0.31; confidence interval [CI] = 0.11–0.87) than the UC group (Table 4) at 1 year postscreening after adjusting for patient characteristics. Similar results were observed at 3 years postscreening, with the odds of a depression diagnosis (OR = 0.51; CI = 0.28–0.94) being almost 50% lower in the SBIRT group than in the UC group.
Unadjusted Prevalence of Depression, Substance Use and Medical Diagnoses, and Health Care Use Over Time
Multivariate Analyses of Depression, Substance Use, and Chronic Medical Diagnoses 1 and 3 Years Postscreening
Prevalence of unadjusted substance use diagnoses were similar at the 1-year pre- and postscreening and did not differ between the 2 groups (1 year prescreening: 2.7% vs 2.9% for SBIRT and UC, respectively; P = .93; 1 year postscreening: 2.2% vs 2.9% for SBIRT and UC, respectively; P = .70). Prevalence of substance use diagnoses increased to 11.9% for SBIRT and 20% for UC by 3 years, but the difference was not statistically significant (P = .06). Multivariate analyses could not be performed for substance use diagnoses at 1 year postscreening because of quasi-separation of the data. At 3 years postscreening, the odds of a substance use diagnosis were significantly lower in the SBIRT group relative to the UC group (OR = 0.46; CI = 0.23–0.92).
Approximately 18% of the sample had at least 1 of the 7 most common pediatric medical conditions in the year before screening with no differences between the SBIRT and UC groups (15.1% vs 22.9%; P = .09). The proportion of patients with a medical condition decreased in both groups between 1 year pre- and 1 year postintake. The SBIRT group had a significantly lower rate of medical conditions at 1 year postscreening (5.9% vs 13.3%; P = .03). Over 3 years, 37% of the sample had a diagnosis for at least 1 of the abovementioned common pediatric conditions, with no differences between groups. Controlling for demographics and previous prevalence of medical conditions, the odds of medical conditions were similar between the 2 groups (Table 4) at 1 year (OR = 0.48; CI = 0.21–1.14) and 3 years, (OR = 0.85; CI = 0.49–1.46).
Service Use
The SBIRT and UC groups had similar rates of service use in the year before screening. More than one-fifth of the sample had an ED visit, but rates were similar across groups. ED use was lower in the 1-year postscreening but did not differ between the SBIRT and UC groups (5.9% vs 10.5% for SBIRT and UC, respectively; P = .15); multivariate analyses of ED use could not be performed because of low use rates and quasi separation of data. Analyses of the 3-year postscreening data revealed the SBIRT group had significantly fewer ED visits (rate ratio = 0.65; CI = 0.44–0.97) compared with the UC group (Table 5). The number of hospitalizations was too few to conduct multivariate analyses.
Multivariate Analyses of Health Services Use Over 3 Years Postscreening
Rates of primary care visits were similar between the groups in the year before screening (70.3% vs 72.4% for SBIRT and UC, respectively; P = .61; Table 3) and in the postscreening periods: 24.9% vs 31.4% for SBIRT and UC, respectively, at 1 year (P = .21) and 84.9% vs 83.8% for SBIRT and UC, respectively, at 3 years (P = .95). Psychiatry department and substance use treatment visit rates revealed similar patterns across groups. Although there was an increase in overall services use by 3 years, the unadjusted rates and multivariate analyses of primary care, psychiatry department, and substance use treatment visits were similar between the SBIRT and UC groups.
In this secondary analysis study, we examined the relationship between access to SBIRT in pediatric primary care and subsequent substance use, depression, and medical diagnoses and services use over 1 and 3 years in a sample of adolescents self-reporting both past-year substance use and recent mood symptoms during a pediatric well-check visit. We found that the SBIRT group had lower rates of subsequent substance use and depression diagnoses and ED use compared with those in the UC group.
Findings suggest that access to SBIRT services may be beneficial in reducing depression diagnoses over 3 years postscreening in adolescents with co-occurring symptoms. These adolescents also had half the likelihood of having a substance use diagnosis 3 years postscreening. The findings are encouraging because, if untreated, the complex population of adolescents with co-occurring substance use and mood symptoms with poor prognoses have a higher likelihood of developing other comorbidities.31–33 Integrated behavioral health services like SBIRT may help prevent the escalation of substance disorders in later adolescence and young adulthood. That medical comorbidities did not differ across study arms over the course of the study supports the likelihood that reductions in substance and mental health diagnoses were related to access to SBIRT. Relatively few eligible patients received formal brief interventions (29.2% in the combined SBIRT arm), yet we found significant intervention effects, suggesting that higher intervention rates might have found greater population-level effects.
Early intervention in a trusted, nonstigmatized, and accessible setting may eliminate treatment barriers arising from patients and families having to navigate parallel, often nonintegrated mental health and substance use treatment systems.34 The lower rates of substance use and depression diagnoses 3 years postscreening despite only a small proportion of eligible adolescents receiving a formal intervention suggest that implementing integrated behavioral health services in pediatric clinics may benefit patients beyond the intervention. Training pediatricians how to discuss substance use and mental health problems and/or embedding a behavioral health clinician in the clinic may increase provider awareness of problems and their confidence in engaging with patients about them.
Another important finding pertained to the use of ED visits. Research reveals that adults with co-occurring substance use and mental health problems are high users of costly and potentially avoidable health care services.8 As with adults, adolescents screening positive for past-year substance use and recent mood symptoms were also higher users of ED and primary care services than their counterparts without symptoms before index screening. Previous research35–37 reveals that <50% of adolescents visit a primary care provider (PCP) in a given 12-month period and even fewer visit for preventive care. However, because >70% of this group had visits to primary care in the prescreening period, an opportunity to identify substance use problems and intervene early was available. The PCP visit rates dropped significantly in the postscreening period, which is more in alignment with preventive care visit rates in this age group. Therefore, taken in context, the finding of a lower rate of ED use over 3 years postscreening associated with access to SBIRT services is valuable for developing policy. An investment in prevention and early intervention for adolescent substance use and mental health upstream in primary care may reduce the use of subsequent costly downstream services, even among patients more likely to use health services. In future studies, researchers should explore the specific cost offsets of providing SBIRT in pediatric primary care.
Post hoc analyses revealed that receiving a brief intervention was associated with significantly lower rates of ED services at 1 year, suggesting SBIRT may help avert problems leading to emergency medical care. A recent study of >100 Massachusetts pediatricians and >100 000 of their patients supports this notion.38 In the study, authors found that implementation of a comprehensive model of integrated behavioral health, including provider training and on-site behavioral health resources, resulted in increased pediatrician behavioral health intervention self-efficacy and satisfaction and reductions in ED use. In future studies, researchers should further explore whether trainings on substance use screening and intervention methods such as SBIRT have ripple effects on the delivery of behavioral health services more broadly for pediatric PCPs and their practices.
This study has several limitations. It was conducted in an integrated health care system with an insured population (albeit with a significant market share representative of the region's sociodemographic composition) and may not be generalizable to uninsured populations. In this pragmatic trial, we did not recruit patients and administer standardized, research-caliber assessments but relied on EHR-based clinical information collected during regular clinical care. This strengthened the study by allowing us to examine the population base of adolescents with pediatric visits in the clinic, increasing its generalizability to pediatric primary care populations. However, it limited our examination of problems and clinical outcomes to assessments and diagnoses documented during the study period. Using International Classification of Diseases codes for substance use disorder diagnoses in primary care has significant limitations because PCPs often do not recognize or diagnose substance use disorder, and if they do, they often do not document them. Possibly, provider SBIRT training enhanced PCP awareness of and attention to substance use disorder diagnoses. If so, findings may actually underestimate the impact of the intervention. Also, it is possible that a patient had no visit during this time period; thus, no opportunity for a documented diagnosis was available.
This study is among the first to examine the relationship between access to SBIRT and health outcomes and use in a sample of adolescents reporting both past-year substance use and recent mood symptoms. Adolescents in the SBIRT group had lower odds of depression and substance use diagnoses over 3 years and a decrease in ED use over 3 years. These findings point to SBIRT's potential as an early intervention strategy for preventing more serious substance use disorders with mental health complications and for averting costly use of services as adolescents enter adulthood.
We thank the KPNC Adolescent Addiction Medicine and Recovery Services Coordinating Committee; the KPNC Adolescent Medicine Specialists Committee; Thekla Brumder Ross, PsyD; Derek Satre, PhD; and Jennifer Mertens, PhD, for their guidance. We also thank all the physicians, medical assistants, nurses, receptionists, managers, and especially the patients and parents of KPNC's Oakland pediatrics clinic for their participation in the activities related to this study. All contributing authors have been included above.
Address correspondence to Sujaya Parthasarathy, PhD, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, 2000 Broadway, 3rd Floor, Oakland, CA 94612-2403. E-mail: sujaya.parthasarathy{at}kp.org
This trial has been registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov (identifier NCT02408952).
FUNDING: The Screening for Youth Alcohol and Drug Use: A Study of Primary Care Providers study was supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism grant R01 AA016204. The funding source had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the article; and the decision to submit the article for publication. Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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They released the "G7 Kurashiki Children's Summit Declaration," which contained four pledges: We will respect others as ourselves; we will do our best as students; we will act locally; and we will think globally.
The declaration will be sent to Hase so that he can present it at the G7 Education Ministers' Meeting.
As a center of education and culture, Kurashiki is the ideal venue for the education ministers' meeting. The city is home to many researchers, educators and people who have contributed to cultural development.
Kurashiki Ivy Square is one of Kurashiki's main cultural centers and tourism sites. The square was created after refurbishing a spinning mill dating back to the Meiji Era. It has a hotel, restaurants, multipurpose halls and various museums.
In May, green ivy will cover the red brick of Kurashiki Ivy Square, providing a vivid and multicolored backdrop to the retro atmosphere.
Kurashiki Ivy Square is part of the Kurashiki Bikan Historical Area, one of the most popular tourist sites in Japan. Thanks to the many white-walled buildings, the area is nicknamed "the town of white walls."
Traditionally built houses line the bank of Kurashiki River and the image of the buildings and the willow trees reflected on the water is fantastic. The city also maintains its traditional theme with the white-walled Kurashiki-kan (Tourist Information Office). Kurashiki is also home to the Ohara Museum of Art, which housed the first collection of Western art in Japan. The Kurashiki Bikan Historical Area features an exotic mixture of Japanese and Western influences with soft lights beautifully illuminating the space in the evening.
Thanks to collaboration between the municipality and area residents, the area preserves many buildings the way they were in the Edo Period and Meiji Era. The community-wide project is well known throughout Japan and the area has won various prizes, including the Asian Townscape Award.
The breathtaking scenery is just one of many things visitors can enjoy. Other sites such as the Kurashiki Museum of Folk-Craft are also interesting and the many shops selling traditional crafts and local delicacies offer something for everyone.
The city of Kurashiki faces the Seto Inland Sea and enjoys a mild climate with little precipitation. The city of about 480,000 population lies in the southern part of Okayama Prefecture, which is known as "sunny country."
In the western part of the city, which was a prosperous trading hub in the Edo Period, the Takahashi River runs into the Seto Inland Sea.
The city is divided into eight areas: Kurashiki, Mizushima, Kojima, Tamashima, Chayamachi, Sho, Funao and Mabi. The venue for the G7 Education Ministers' Meeting is in the Kurashiki area.
Mizushima is a heavy industrial area and Kojima is known for the production of school uniforms and jeans. Tamashima is known for peaches while Funao has abundant sweet peas and muscat grapes. Mabi is known for bamboo shoots.
Manufacturing is a major industry in the city, as it is the fourth-largest municipality in terms of shipping manufactured goods, including petrochemical goods and cars.
Additionally, the city of Kurashiki leads other municipalities near the Takahashi River in a consortium to tackle the issues of the aging society and work together in making the area prosper.
In March 2015, the city and other municipalities near the river set up a committee to promote collaboration in development and came up with the vision for a growth strategy in the Takahashi River area. The city is planning to promote the Takahashi River area via the G7 Education Ministers' Meeting.
For visitors, the Kurashiki Bikan Historical Area offers many attractions such as the Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki Museum of Folk-Craft and Kurashiki Ivy Square, but other areas of the city also have attractions to lure visitors.
For example, there are large commercial developments near JR Kurashiki Station, while the Kojima area, in the southern part of the city, is home to Washuzan Hill and Ojigatake Hill, famous for their beautiful landscapes in Setonaikai National Park. As the home of jeans in Japan, Kojima Jeans Street and the Jeans Museum are fondly visited by denim lovers. The Nozaki's Historical Residence, which belonged to an Edo Period salt merchant, and the Kojima School Uniform Museum are also in the area.
In Tamashima area, visitors can enjoy nostalgic streets dating to the Showa Era and tea culture in a location dedicated to maintaining an old town feel.
I am very honored the city of Kurashiki will host the G7 Education Ministers' Meeting in 2016.
As the world is full of challenges such as environmental protection, the eradication of poverty and peacekeeping, the role of education is particularly significant. I expect meaningful discussions will be held in Kurashiki and the city is fully prepared to welcome guests from all over the world.
Kurashiki is a city with a history of urban development that has had a focus on education and culture since the Edo Period. Attracting 5 million tourists a year, Kurashiki is a globally popular tourist destination that is seeing an increasing number of foreign visitors. It also has many cultural and tourism events throughout the year.
I sincerely hope the Kurashiki G7 Education Ministers' Meeting in Okayama will be an opportunity for many people to get to know the beauty of Kurashiki and visit us.


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Q: .ajax call "fails" on a 201 created but succeeds "done" if async==false Using Jquery 1.9.1 I am running an $.ajax call that succeeds only if I set "async" to false.  I've looked at request/response and they are good.  No reason to be calling "fail" that I can see.
I am expecting .done() to be called even when 'async' is set to true...  I have an integration test that is passing because it sets async to false.  That's literally the only difference.  I confirmed it is the problem because I forced async to false in the real code and it suddenly started succeeding and calling .done().
I'm guessing it's a json parse error or a jQuery bug, but how can I confirm?  I'm having difficulty finding it in the jquery source...  Here's the jQuery code to reproduce.  The server is creating the object correctly and everything looks good.  (as can be seen by the response)
        var newObj = { Name: 'jesus', Birthday: '02/12/2013' };
        return $.ajax(
        {
            url: '/api/method',
            type: 'POST',
            processData: false,
            contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
            data: JSON.stringify(newObj),
            dataType: 'json',
            async: true,
        })
        .done(function (data, statusText) {
            console.log(statusText);
        })
        .fail(function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
            console.error(jqXHR);
            console.error(textStatus);
            console.error(errorThrown);
        });

POST http://localhost:64838/api/method HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:64838
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 48
Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
Origin: http://localhost:64838
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko)        Chrome/24.0.1312.57 Safari/537.17
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Referer: http://localhost:64838/
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3

 {"Name":"jesus","Birthday":"02/17/2013"}

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Expires: -1
Location: http://localhost:64838/api/method/23
Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.0
X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Content-Type
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 05:07:27 GMT
Content-Length: 115

{"Id":23,"UserId":1,"Name":"jesus","someDate":"2013-02-17T00:00:00","someId":null,"someOtherProperty":null}

P.S. it was extremely annoying making 4 spaces before each line in the above output.  Is there an easier way to format code blocks in SO?
Thanks for any help.
EDIT: please don't read too deeply into the request/response I've posted.  I tampered with the names of things before posting it to the public on SO.  Therefore content-length is wrong, and maybe some other stuff...

A: Just so other people don't waste as much time as I just did...
The reason was because I was doing the $.ajax in a click handler of a submit button on a form, and therefore I had to first do e.preventDefault().

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Water for future Mars astronauts?
September 26, 2013 ScienceBlog.com
Within its first three months on Mars, NASA's Curiosity Rover saw a surprising diversity of soils and sediments along a half-kilometer route that tell a complex story about the gradual desiccation of the Red Planet.
Perhaps most notable among findings from the ChemCam team is that all of the dust and fine soil contains small amounts of water.
"We made this discovery literally with the very first laser shot on the Red Planet," said Roger Wiens, leader of the ChemCam instrument team. "Every single time we shot at dust we saw a significant hydrogen peak."
In a series of five papers covering the rover's top discoveries during its first three months on Mars that appear today in the journal Science, Los Alamos researchers using the rover's ChemCam instrument team up with an international cadre of scientists affiliated with the CheMin, APXS, and SAM instruments to describe the planet's seemingly once-volcanic and aquatic history.
Researchers believed the hydrogen seen in the dust was coming from water, a hypothesis that was later corroborated by Curiosity's SAM instrument, which indicated that all of the soil encountered on Mars contains between 1.5 and 3 percent water. This quantity is enough to explain much of the near-equatorial hydrogen observed beginning in 2001 by Los Alamos's neutron spectrometer on board the Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
ChemCam also showed that the soils consist of two distinct components. In addition to extremely fine-grained particles that seem to be representative of the ubiquitous Martian dust covering the entire planet's surface like the fine film that collects on the undisturbed surfaces of a long-abandoned home, the ChemCam team discovered coarser-grained particles up to one millimeter in size that reflected the composition of local rocks. In essence, ChemCam observed the process of rocks being ground down to soil over time.
The ChemCam instrument—which vaporizes material with a high-powered laser and reads the resultant plasma with a spectrometer—has shown a similar composition to fine-grained dust characterized on other parts of the planet during previous Martian missions. ChemCam tested more than 100 targets in a location named Rocknest and found that the dust contained consistent amounts of water regardless of the sampling area.
What's more, the Rover dug into the soils at Rocknest to provide scientists with the opportunity to sample the newly unearthed portion over the course of several Martian days. The instrument measured roughly the same tiny concentration of water (about 2 percent) in the surface soils as it did in the freshly uncovered soil, and the newly excavated area did not dry out over time—as would be expected if moist subsurface material were uncovered.
The water signature seen by Curiosity in the ubiquitous Martian dust may coincide with the tiny amount of ambient humidity in the planet's arid atmosphere. Multiple observations indicate that the flowing water responsible for shaping and moving the rounded pebbles encountered in the vicinity of the rover landing area has long since been lost to space, though some of it may still exist deep below the surface of the planet at equatorial locations (water ice is known to exist near the surface at the poles).
Despite the seemingly small measurements of water in the Martian environment, the findings nevertheless are exciting.
"In principle it would be possible for future astronauts to heat the soil to derive water to sustain them," said Wiens.
While at Rocknest, scientists were also able to test samples that had been characterized by ChemCam with two other instruments aboard the rover: CheMin, a miniaturized apparatus partially developed at Los Alamos that uses X-rays to determine the composition of materials; and SAM, a tiny oven that melts samples and identifies the composition of gases given off by them. The analyses by all three instruments indicate that Mars likely has a volcanic history that shaped the surface of the planet.
A fourth instrument, the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS), provides additional insights into the volcanic diversity on Mars. APXS analyzed a rock called Jake Matijevic—named in honor of a deceased Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mars engineer—and found that it is one of the most Earth-like rocks yet seen on the Red Planet. The rock's enrichment in sodium, giving it a feldspar-rich mineral content, makes it very similar to some rocks erupted on ocean islands on Earth. ChemCam contributed to the characterization of Jake_M.
The Curiosity Rover is scheduled to explore Mars for another year at least. In the coming months, Curiosity will travel to Mount Sharp, a towering peak nearly three miles in elevation. Mount Sharp appears to contain layers of sedimentary history dating back several billion years. These layers are like pages of a book that could teach researchers much about the geologic and climate history of the Red Planet.
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Thursday Movie Picks: Train Scenes
There's been a couple times in the past where I joined in this weekly discussion topic started by Wandering Through the Shelves where there's a new topic for each participating site to choose three movies and the occasional honorable mentions that fit within the theme of the week. This week's theme is Train Movies, but as I can only think of a single train movie that fits in this site's focus, I decided to narrow it just a bit and go for train scenes. It seems like every other superhero has at least one moment where they need to stop a train for one reason or another, but here's my top three, unranked.
The scene: When Hellboy chases Samael the Destroyer, they end up in the subway tunnels and of course, there's an oncoming subway car coming straight for them. Instead of running away, Samael runs towards the train leaving Hellboy to follow. But instead of a warm welcome, the train engineer knocks Hellboy off the back with the fire extinguisher and the train runs over Hellboy leaving his horn stubs red hot.
What makes it great: It's a lot of fun and the fight continues on into the subway station, ending with Hellboy saving a box full of kitten. Because of course he does. I love this because it does everything so well, there's the mix of humor, some amazing stuntwork both from Ron Perlman as well as the stuntman in the Samael suit. Not to mention that it's great to see the combination of practical and digital effects to pull of the Samael creature. Really great stuff.
The scene: In the heyday of the superheroes, Mr. Incredible has to stop a train after Incrediboy knocked a bomb onto the tracks that blew a gap in the bridge. At first glance, it's a very stereotypical superhero stopping a train, but there's this one extra moment that stands out to me, especially once it was pointed out in the DVD audio commentary.
What makes it great: Just before the train gets to him, Mr. Incredible takes just a quick moment to brace himself for the impact. He knows that he's going to survive it, but he also knows that it's gonna hurt. It's that little extra moment of realism that gives it that edge of greatness.
The scene: Doc Ock and Spidey are fighting on top of an elevated train, Doc rips the controls out of the train and Spider-Man has to figure out some way to stop it. He has a mask malfunction and has to remove it. Then, after going through a couple of the typical methods and getting some flack for it from one of the passengers, he finally uses his own body to stop the train and passes out from the exertion. The passengers grab him before he falls off the platform and bring him into the train so he can recover. Obviously none of them recognize who he is, but some of them are surprised at how young he is.
What makes it great: Spider-Man is one of the heroes who really feels like he's a part of his city. Many of the movies have a similar scene where he's helped by the citizens of New York, but this was always my favorite as it ends on such a quiet note, even though it does have a slightly overstrong Christ overtone to it with his arms outstretched and his resurrection as it were. Even just the moment where he comes to and feels his face to realize that he's still not wearing his mask in front of all these people. I just love it.
Snowpiercer: I mean, it's pretty much the only comic book adaptation that takes place entirely on a train. There's no way I couldn't at least mention this film. Plus, it's awesome.
The Lone Ranger: I honestly almost forgot about this and had to add it in later, it's unfortunately a very forgettable film, but the action scene in the third act with the trains is nothing short of spectacular.
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Wendell | September 11, 2015 at 12:02 am
Glad you put something together this week. When I saw that you had narrowed it down to scenes, Spiderman 2 was the first thing that popped into my head. And you did not disappoint.
Wendell | September 11, 2015 at 8:22 am
Ooh ooh…and Batman Begins!!!
Bubbawheat | September 11, 2015 at 10:39 am
Ooh, I hadn't thought of that one. But the saving people part is more of an indirect result, plus there's a lot more destruction and death involved. Cool scene though.
Brittani | September 11, 2015 at 9:09 am
I like what you did here. Spiderman 2 instantly popped into my head when I saw "scenes."
Watching it by itself really emphasizes the weird faces he makes, still a powerful scene though. Wanted to do a gif for that one, but didn't have the patience to find or make one.
Wandering Through the Shelves | September 16, 2015 at 4:04 pm
I've been wanting to watch Hellboy, have to do so one of these days.
Can't remember much of The Incredibles train scene but that Spider Man 2 train scene is definitely memorable. That was the first time in the trilogy the public saw his face right?
Bubbawheat | September 16, 2015 at 5:54 pm
The train scene in the Incredibles was admittedly a very brief scene, but it stuck with me. Hellboy is really great, worth a watch, especially the sequel. And I do believe that was the first and pretty much only time Spider-Man has been in public, in costume, and unmasked. Which I loved because even though they tossed in the moment with the kid saying "we won't tell anyone", there's no hint of recognition in the crowd for some nobody college student/photographer.


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	public MedicalDB (String username, String password) {
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	public boolean executeNonQuery(String query) {
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Sometimes, the years pass by and what you needed from a Home years ago is not what you need from your home now. Needs and wants change all the time, and there is nothing wrong with concdeding that your living needs have changed since you first moved into this house many years ago. It's just one added reason why you might be ready to downsize and find something more suitable for you.
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Bochy on Uggla, his new everyday second baseman: "He's a ballplayer."
Posted on July 25, 2014 at 5:58 pm
Dan Uggla was called up today, and he's starting and batting seventh. Facing Zack Greinke, Clayton Kershaw and Hyun-Jin Ryu is a tough first assignment for a guy the Giants hoped would get more at-bats at Triple-A Fresno. However, even if he fails in this all-important series against the Dodgers, it sounds like the second base job is his until further notice.
"Right now, we'll see Dan out there. With Dan playing tonight, and of course two left-handers, he'll be out there," said Bruce Bochy.
"He'll get an occasional break here. But as I always say, these players, how they play sometimes controls that. I think right now you'll see him getting most of the playing time."
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Uggla and Tony Abreu took the roster spots of two injured infielders, Marco Scutaro (back) and Ehire Adrianza (hamstring). Bochy said Abreu was brought up mostly as a left-handed bat off the bench.
To say the Giants don't have a lot of options at second base is a massive understatement, but Bochy sounded optimistic that Uggla — who was released by Atlanta shortly after the team suspended him one day for an unspecified violation (he showed up late to a game) — can turn things around in a new setting.
"Sometimes change is good for players and we have been through this. You go back to Pat Burrell, last year with Francoeur," Bochy said.
"I like taking a look at players who have a track record and he has an outstanding track record. For him to be available at that time was perfect for us because we need help at second base."
Tim Hudson, a former teammate of Uggla's in Atlanta, publicly vouched for Uggla the day he signed a minor league deal with the Giants. I asked Bochy if Hudson voiced those opinions to him, and what Bochy himself thought of Uggla's game after facing him several times over the past nine seasons.
"Of course we talked to Timmy. He spoke very highly of Dan. He certainly got his endorsement," said Bochy.
"Now, as far as what I think of Dan, he's a guy you feared when he came to the plate. Dangerous hitter, good player. You loved the way he played the game. He was all-out with his style, with his intensity and hustle. He's a ballplayer. He loves to play the game and he loves to play it right."
Extra BASGs (injuries edition)
— Brandon Belt is "doing much better," according to Bochy, who said he'd probably stay on the DL a little longer than seven days, but that depends on how quickly Belt progresses over the next few days. There's a chance Belt could take BP tomorrow, but you get the feeling the Giants are going to be very cautious here.
— "Angel Pagan has taken live BP the last couple of days. He's doing well with his rehab and making progress. We're at live hitting now. That's a good thing," said Bochy, who had no update on when Pagan might possibly return to the Giants.
— Joe Panik tested his ankle today with some running, and he'll be available for double-switch or pinch-hitting duty if needed.
— Dave Righetti has recovered enough from his battle with the "crud" to resume his normal duties, including any necessary mound visits. Bochy said they'd keep an eye on him tonight, with Mark Gardner taking over if Righetti starts feeling dizzy or lightheaded.
— I saw Brian Wilson river-dancing briefly while the Dodgers were struggling. Guess that 5.40 ERA hasn't dampened his spirits any.
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Lewis Carroll | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ( twas__brillig) wrote in nevermore_logs,
Entry tags: cassandra of troy, lewis carroll
WHO: Cassandra and Lewis Carroll, one of my OTplatonicPs
WHAT: Comforting the crazy girl
WHEN: Saturday night after this
WHERE: Their apartment
WARNINGS: TBA because you never know what'll come out of Cassandra's mouth!
Charles may have only understood half of what Cassandra said and even then sometimes he had to work at it, he still adored her. It was the way she looked when she offered up a rare smile, and the way she said absolutely everything so earnestly. She was sweet and brilliant and he loved having her around.
The moment she seemed upset, Charles wanted to run and comfort her. He thought it best in light of recent events, however, if he made sure she wanted him around. As much as he would forgive her if she happened to cut him with a knife like she had her sister-in-law, he didn't really feel like being stabbed today.
Once Cassandra had indicated she wanted him there, he had risen from the computer and strode quickly to her room. He knocked lightly on the door and then stepped inside. She didn't seem to be anywhere in sight and he nearly gave up and looked for her somewhere else until he realised he hadn't looked everywhere. Kneeling down on the floor, Charles glanced under the bed. "Hello, Cassandra. Do you want to come out of there?"
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Cassandra's face twisted for a moment, an expression pouty and frustrated. Then she shook her head violently and pressed her hands against her temples. "She can't know all things," Cassandra said with sudden force. "Head is only so large, so much space yet all the history of the world tries to creep creep inside, little insects and their sticks to build a house of things that don't belong to her! No," she said with great vehemence. To Cassandra, Charles was barely even in the room with her anymore. "She cannot remember herself with all these others inside! Little Charles says make it end, says nightfall must go, says cruel children must stop, says words must be ripped and torn from pages but nothing tears such things from her head! Such kisses from Thearius that poison each breath, most beautiful of Troy, most cursed of cursed cities!"
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While the memories her words caused her a terrible burden to bear, worse was poor Cassandra being distraught by this.
"It's okay," he soothed, reaching out to touch her shoulders. "Cassandra, it's alright." He had been still a young man when he had written the horrors he had experienced at the hands of some of his teachers at Rugby. He had detailed the bullying he experienced as well. And then he had torn the pages from his diary himself and burned them in a fire on a night in midwinter when he didn't feel he would ever be warm again. Watching the pages that held his nightmares twist and curl in the flames had brought him a kind of comfort which he had sorely needed.
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry you have to see that. I never meant for you to. I'm so sorry, Cassandra."
"A million children cry inside my head," Cassandra told him, her face ugly with held back tears. "I know them not, souls lost in the void, so much pain inside every one. It is not prophesy to have already fallen! This was not the curse he kissed me with, not the curse of futures and horses made of writing desk bones! Man has made such a thing of me that I cannot make the aching stop." Her sob with thick as it tore itself from her and she looked at him helplessly. "Make them all keep their silence, she begs this, this one blessing for one so cursed. Quiet all the souls that are not hers, or instead make the clocks turn on their hands so that she may deny her vows to the Virgin and lay with the Wolf-Slayer as it could have been. A maidenhood gifted to a god is so little price for peace, would that I had once known such a thing."
Her words were coming out in a deluge now and Charles only seemed to catch every third one. Instead, he pulled her into another hug, desperate to calm he down. He hated that his memories had caused this. It was enough that he had to suffer them, but for them to cause poor Cassandra pain- It was too much.
"I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry," he repeated. "I'll keep my silence, I promise." He leaned back and he took her face gently in his hands so she could pull away if she wanted. "Look at me, Cassandra. It's just me here. Just you and me and everything is okay."
Cassandra didn't draw away from him. She craved whatever human connection could be given to her. Physical things would make everything less mental.
"You and me," Cassandra repeated as he held her face, giving a little nod. "No world, no souls, Cassandra and Charles only. Please," she begged quietly, "leave me not? When my room looks like the sunsets of Troy all will be simple but tonight we may share one bed?"
Despite the fact that sharing a bed with Cassandra would ensure that he didn't sleep a wink, he was hardly going to refuse her. "Of course," he said, smoothing his thumbs across her cheeks. "I won't leave you. I will be anywhere you want me to be."


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Challenge Ameryk do Mistrzostw Świata Mężczyzn w Curlingu 2015 – trzeci turniej pomiędzy męskimi reprezentacjami Stanów Zjednoczonych i Brazylii.

Zawody rozegrano między 30 stycznia a 1 lutego w Blaine, na lodowisku Four Seasons Curling Club. Do mistrzostw globu zakwalifikowali się Amerykanie.

Reprezentacje

Mecz 1.
30 stycznia 2015; 19:00

Mecz 2.
31 stycznia 2015; 14:00

Mecz 3.
31 stycznia 2015; 19:00

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Some market internals are seeing lower levels that have not been seen in months. The high-low index (http://scharts.co/IuSfO4) has been falling steadily since June and is at multi-month lows. Also, the Nasdaq advance/decline volume (http://scharts.co/19gNyzU) along with the NYSE advance/decline volume (http://scharts.co/19gPAQt) remain in negative territory and they have yet to show that capitulation spike that is so common with a market bottom.
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