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Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development
Volume 47, Number 8, 2010
Pages 709–718
Mental illness-related disparities in length of stay: Algorithm choice
influences results
Susan M. Frayne, MD, MPH;1–3* Eric Berg, MS;1–2 Tyson H. Holmes, PhD;4 Kaajal Laungani, BA;1 Dan R.
Berlowitz, MD, MPH;5 Donald R. Miller, ScD;5 Leonard Pogach, MD, MBA;6 Valerie W. Jackson, MPH;1–2
Rudolf Moos, PhD1,3–4
1Center for Health Care Evaluation, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA;
2Division of General Internal Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA; 3Center for Primary Care and Outcomes
Research, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA; 4Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University,
Palo Alto, CA; 5Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans
Hospital, Bedford, MA; and Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA; 6Center for Healthcare Knowledge
Management, VA New Jersey Health Care System, East Orange, NJ; and University of Medicine and Dentistry of New
Jersey-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
Abstract—Methodological challenges arise when one uses vari-
ous Veterans Health Administration (VHA) data sources, each
created for distinct purposes, to characterize length of stay (LOS).
To illustrate this issue, we examined how algorithm choice affects
conclusions about mental health condition (MHC)-related differ-
ences in LOS for VHA patients with diabetes nationally (n =
784,321). We assembled a record-level database of all fiscal year
(FY) 2003 inpatient care. In 10 steps, we sequentially added
instances of inpatient care from various VHA sources. We pro-
cessed databases in three stages, truncating stays at the beginning
and end of FY03 and consolidating overlapping stays. For
patients with MHCs versus those without MHCs, mean LOS was
17.7 versus 13.6 days, respectively (p < 0.001), for the crudest
algorithm and 37.2 versus 21.7 days, respectively (p < 0.001), for
the most refined algorithm. Researchers can improve the quality
of data applied to VHA systems redesign by applying method-
ological considerations raised by this study to inform LOS algo-
rithm choice.
Key words: algorithms, databases, Department of Veterans
Affairs, episode of care, healthcare disparities, health services
research, human, length of stay, mental disorders, outcome and
process assessment, patient discharge, physician's practice pat-
terns, rehabilitation, reproducibility of results, veterans, veter-
ans hospitals.
Health services researchers often use administrative
data for characterizing length of stay (LOS) to address a
range of objectives. For example, they may examine how
LOS (as a dependent variable) varies as a function of
patient characteristics (e.g., age, race, insurance status,
presence of comorbidity), processes of care (e.g., speed of
emergency department response, types of medications
administered or interventions applied, discharge proto-
cols, etc.), or institutional characteristics (e.g., teaching
hospital, mental health facility, etc.) [1–7]. Alternatively,
Abbreviations: DEpiC = Diabetes Epidemiology Cohort, DSS =
Decision Support System, EXT = extended care, FY = fiscal year,
ICD-9 = International Classification of Diseases-9th Revision,
LOS = length of stay, MHC = mental health condition, OBS =
observation, OPAT = outpatient file, VHA = Veterans Health
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they may examine LOS as a potential explanatory vari-
able for predicting other outcomes [8] or they may restrict
their cohort to patients meeting specific LOS criteria [9].
Furthermore, accurate identification of intervals of inpa-
tient care is required for studies using an episodes-of-care
approach [10].
The concept of LOS is simple: time from admission to
discharge. However, a number of methodological consider-
ations arise when Veterans Health Administration (VHA)
data are used for calculating LOS. First, goals of the project
must be carefully considered, because this will influence the
algorithm selected. Is the focus on acute or long-term care,
on medical-surgical or mental health stays? Is the objective
to examine total LOS across multiple years or LOS during a
particular interval of study? Second, the algorithm must
account for technical, data-quality issues. These include
duplicate records, overlapping or sequential inpatient stays,
transfers between different inpatient units, and inpatient
stays that are recorded in a subsequent year.
Despite that numerous studies focus on LOS, these
subtleties of LOS calculation have received little attention.
This oversight could have serious implications: algorithm
choice can influence conclusions in health services studies
[11–13], although to our knowledge this possibility has not
been studied in the specific case of LOS. As VHA leader-
ship increasingly seeks to obtain accurate estimates of
healthcare costs and use evidence to guide strategic plan-
ning decisions, it is critical that the evidence base support-
ing those decisions be as accurate as possible.
One example of a clinical scenario wherein LOS algo-
rithm choice could influence conclusions is mental health
condition (MHC)-related differences in inpatient care use.
Prior studies both within and outside the VHA have docu-
mented that, compared with patients without MHCs,
patients with MHCs tend to use more inpatient care [6,14–
19]. Thus, patients with MHCs represent a particularly
high-intensity, high-cost group likely to merit special
attention by VHA policy makers. However, some charac-
teristics of the way patients with MHC receive inpatient
care may make their VHA records disproportionately sus-
ceptible to variation in algorithm choice. For example,
patients with MHC might be more likely to experience
more complex patterns of inpatient care (e.g., transferring
between a medical unit and a psychiatric unit during the
course of a single hospitalization episode), or to receive
care in extended-care settings, where stays can be long and
can span multiple fiscal years (FYs). Such factors could
potentially influence LOS calculations differently for
patients with MHC versus those without MHC.
We used VHA administrative data to examine how
application of incrementally more refined algorithms for
calculating LOS during 1 year of care affected conclu-
sions about mean LOS in a national cohort of VHA
patients with diabetes. Then, as an illustrative example of
the practical implications of such methodological deci-
sions, we examined whether the magnitude of observed
mental illness-related disparities in mean LOS varied as a
function of LOS algorithm applied.
Study Context
This work is part of a larger study examining the effect
of MHC on processes of outpatient diabetes care in FY03.
Because the focus of that study is on outpatient care, we
wished to identify (and ultimately exclude from the larger
study) patients who were institutionalized (i.e., on inpa-
tient status) for the majority of FY03. Therefore, our goal
was to identify, for each patient in our cohort, all days in
FY03 during which the patient was on inpatient status
(acute care or extended care). We were not seeking to char-
acterize total LOS for the patients in our cohort (which
could have spanned multiple years), but only those inpa-
tient days that occurred during FY03. The process of creat-
ing our LOS variable and the effect of algorithm choice on
conclusions about MHC-related differences in LOS is the
focus of the present study.
The cohort was drawn from the FY02 Diabetes Epi-
demiology Cohort (DEpiC), a census of patients with
diabetes in VHA nationally. DEpiC is used extensively
for VHA epidemiological and health services research
[20]. DEpiC identifies patients with diabetes based on the
presence of at least one instance of an antiglycemic pre-
scription or at least two instances of a diabetes Interna-
tional Classification of Diseases-9th Revision (ICD-9)
code in inpatient or outpatient records. Among the
911,451 FY02 DEpiC members who were veterans, used
VHA outpatient care at least once in FY02, and were alive
as of the first day of FY03, we selected the 784,321 whose
MHC status could be verified, as described next (in sub-
sidiary analyses, we included the full 911,451 subjects,
including those with "MHC Possible" status).
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Steps to Assemble Raw Record-Level Database of
Inpatient Stays
We started by creating a record-level file containing
every instance of inpatient care recorded in any inpatient
database available in centralized VHA files. We selected
only records that contained at least 1 day of inpatient care
in FY03. We also deleted duplicate records. In 10 sequen-
tial "steps," we pulled all nonduplicate inpatient records
containing any FY03 inpatient care for patients in our
cohort from the following FY03 files:
Step 1. Bedsection file, which represents acute care
hospital stays.
Step 2. OBS (Observation) file, which represents
short (e.g., overnight) acute care stays during which the
patient is observed regarding the potential need for
admission to an acute care bed.
Step 3. EXT (Extended Care) file, which represents
long-term care stays (such as rehabilitation stays or nurs-
ing home stays).
Step 4. Census file (for Bedsection, OBS, and EXT),
which include records for all patients who still held inpa-
tient status on the last day of the FY, and thus for whom a
discharge date was not available when the files for that
FY were created.
Step 5. Non-VHA file.
Step 6. Fee basis file.
(These latter two files reflect care received outside of
VHA but with funding for the care provided by VHA.)
We then searched FY04 and FY05 files for any
records that included some FY03 care:
Step 7. Sources 1 through 5, FY04.
Step 8. Fee basis FY04 file (presented separately
from other FY04 files to emphasize that fee basis files are
more likely to contain "late entry" records from prior
Step 9. Sources 1 through 5, FY05.
Step 10. Fee basis FY05 file.
Stages of Processing Record-Level Database of Inpatient
Next, we processed this raw database in sequential
"stages." Stage A represented the raw file at any given step.
In stage B, we deleted pre-FY03 and post-FY03 care. Spe-
cifically, for records with an admission date earlier than the
first day of FY03, we deleted any days preceding FY03
(i.e., we modified the record to begin on the first day of
FY03), because we were interested in days of care during
FY03, not total LOS for the patient across multiple years.
Similarly, for records with a discharge date later than the
last day of FY03, we modified the record to end on the last
day of FY03.
In stage C, we addressed overlapping stays. Several
types of overlap were observed, as illustrated in Figure 1.
In some cases, the entire stay (admission date through dis-
charge date) was contained within the time interval of
another record. This might happen, for example, if a
patient in a rehabilitation unit was temporarily transferred
to an acute care observation bed for an intercurrent illness
like pneumonia. If the patient was not formally discharged
from the rehabilitation facility prior to the transfer, then
the time interval of the short-term stay (appearing in the
OBS file) could be bracketed by the interval of the long-
term stay (appearing in the EXT file). In other cases an
overlap occurred (e.g., the admission date of one record
fell between the admission and discharge dates of a subse-
quent record, or the discharge date of a record fell
between the admission and discharge date of a subsequent
record). In other cases, contiguous admissions occurred
(i.e., the discharge date of one record was the same as the
admission date of a subsequent record). For all these over-
lap cases (which could involve a pair of records or even
three or more records), we created a single contiguous
episode of FY03 inpatient care by assigning the admission
date to be the first admission date in FY03 among the
overlapping records and the discharge date to be the last
discharge date in FY03 among the overlapping records.
The resulting file at step 10, stage C, was our final record-
level file of inpatient stays.
We calculated LOS for each record as the number of
days from its start through end dates. At each step/stage,
we calculated a cumulative LOS for each patient by add-
ing the record-level LOS for all records included in that
To identify patients with MHC, we used the Agency
for Health Research and Quality's Clinical Classifica-
tions Software (with minor modifications) to generate a
list of ICD-9 codes indicating the presence of MHC [21].
A patient was assigned a "Yes" for MHC status if he/she
had at least one instance of an MHC ICD-9 code in any
inpatient record or outpatient face-to-face clinic visit at
baseline (FY01–02) and at least one confirmatory ICD-9
in the study period (FY03). If he/she had no instance of
an MHC ICD-9 in FY01 through 03, then he/she was
assigned MHC status "No." Otherwise, MHC status was
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considered "Possible." That is, the MHC Possible group
represents those patients who had an MHC diagnosis in
the baseline period or in the study period, but not both.
Cases with MHC Possible status were excluded from
main analyses; this allowed us to compare LOS in two
more sharply defined groups (MHC Yes vs MHC No).
We tabulated the number of records and calculated
mean LOS within each cell of a 10 × 3 matrix represent-
ing the steps and stages of database development. Next,
in each cell, we calculated mean LOS as a function of
MHC status. We then calculated the difference () in
mean LOS among patients with MHC versus those with-
out MHC and compared mean LOS for the MHC Yes
versus MHC No groups using a two-sample t-test. We
applied Bonferroni correction for compounding of Type I
error across multiple comparisons. Results of hypothesis
tests are declared statistically significant for p < 0.05
after Bonferroni correction.
Among the 784,321 patients with diabetes in the full
cohort, 152,591 were identified as having evidence of an
MHC diagnosis (MHC Yes). Among the subset of 92,255
patients who received any inpatient care in FY03 (based on
step 10, stage C), 39,452 had MHC Yes. Table 1 presents
the age, sex, Physical Comorbidity Index score (a count
from 0–35, developed for case mix adjustment in VHA
patients [22–23]), and primary care use in the full cohort
and in the subset who used inpatient care, by MHC status.
Table 2 catalogs the number of records and LOS at
each step/stage in the database assembly process. The
cumulative number of patients who are identified as hav-
ing received inpatient care in FY03 (based on stage C)
increases progressively from step 1 to step 10 (as do the
number of records). For example, when the OBS file was
added to the Bedsection file, an additional 10,660 records
were added for stays that did not perfectly duplicate a
Bedsection file stay for that patient. This is expected,
because additional evidence of inpatient care is added at
each step. More noteworthy is that some steps contribute
more records than others.
The number of records does not change at stage B
(compared with stage A), because this processing step
truncates records (to include only inpatient days during
FY03) but does not delete records. However, at stage C
(record consolidation), the number of records drops sub-
stantially, because overlapping stays are merged into a
single, longer stay.
Figure 1.
Patterns I–V of overlap between pairwise records of an individual
patient and record-level frequency of each pattern at step 10, stage C.
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Consistent with these observations, mean LOS at
stage C increased progressively with sequential steps
(i.e., as more sources of data were added), except at step
2 (where patients with short OBS stays were added) and
at step 5 (where patients with non-VHA stays were
added). Similarly, mean LOS decreased progressively
with sequential stages. That is, mean LOS decreased
from stage A to stage B as non-FY03 days were deleted
(which would be relevant to a study like ours that focuses
on care received in a single FY). Mean LOS also
decreased from stage B to stage C as overlapping days
were deleted (which would be relevant to the accuracy of
the LOS estimate in any study design). Across the 10 × 3
matrix, mean LOS ranged from 13.8 to 74.9 days.
Table 3 presents LOS by MHC status at every step/
stage in the database assembly process. The calculated dif-
ference () in mean LOS between the MHC Yes and the
MHC No groups varied markedly by algorithm and was
statistically significant (p < 0.001) at every step/stage. Cor-
rection for multiple comparisons did not statistically affect
any findings significantly. As illustrated in Figure 2, step
1, = 4.1 at stage A and 3.8 at stage C. In contrast, at step
10, = 57.8 at stage A and 15.5 at stage C (p < 0.01 for
both between-algorithm comparisons of the values of ).
To obtain the LOS in stage C, for each pair of overlap-
ping records, we generated a single record by setting the
FY03 admission date as the earliest of the two admission
dates and the FY03 discharge date as the latest of the two
Table 1.
Characteristics of cohort by mental health condition (MHC) status (full cohort and subset who used Veterans Health Administration inpatient
Full Cohort, n = 784,321
MHC Yes
Age (years, mean ± SD)62.1 ± 11.6
Male (%)96.4
Physical Comorbidity Index (mean ± SD)3.6 ± 2.4
Used Primary Care in FY03 (%)93.6
*Inpatient user cohort selected from step 10, stage C.
FY = fiscal year, SD = standard deviation.
Inpatient Users,* n = 92,255
MHC Yes
61.4 ± 11.9
4.6 ± 2.8
MHC No
69.6 ± 10.3
2.8 ± 2.0
MHC No
69.1 ± 10.5
4.5 ± 2.7
Table 2.
Effect of sequential data assembly steps and data cleaning stages on number of patients identified as having received inpatient care and on count
of inpatient records and mean length of stay (LOS).
Added in
Step (n)
Stage AStage B
1. Bedsection FY0377,817 173,707173,690173,690
4. Census FY0386,9906,990206,184 206,184
5. Non-VHA FY0389,1355,438 211,622211,622
6. Fee FY0390,558 15,107226,729 226,729
7. FY04 Records90,6895,898 232,627232,627
8. Fee FY0492,0686,829239,456239,456
9. FY05 Records 92,1811,569 241,025241,025
10. Fee FY0592,255293 241,318 241,318
Note: To create table, we started with step 1 and completed cells across each stage sequentially. Then, for the step 2 analyses, we started with records from steps 1
and 2 and completed cells across each stage sequentially. Analyses for each subsequent step similarly included records from all prior steps. Stages were stage A
(original record), stage B (delete days prior to first day of FY03 and after last day of FY03), and stage C (consolidate overlapping stays).
*Reflects cumulative number of patients who received inpatient care in FY03 at each step at stage C. Inpatient records were drawn from patients in analytical cohort
(n = 784,321).
EXT = extended care, FY = fiscal year, OBS = observation, SD = standard deviation, VHA = Veterans Health Administration.
Number of Records
LOS (days), Mean ± SD
Stage C
Stage A
15.3 ± 21.1
14.9 ± 22.8
27.3 ± 103.8
37.6 ± 198.4
37.2 ± 196.2
40.4 ± 198.8
58.3 ± 370.4
58.4 ± 368.5
74.9 ± 518.8
74.8 ± 518.6
Stage B
14.8 ± 20.1
14.4 ± 19.8
21.7 ± 37.8
26.7 ± 53.1
26.5 ± 52.8
29.8 ± 61.9
35.7 ± 91.2
36.1 ± 93.0
39.4 ± 113.4
39.4 ± 113.4
Stage C
14.2 ± 19.4
13.8 ± 19.2
20.7 ± 36.1
25.6 ± 51.2
25.4 ± 50.9
27.7 ± 56.2
28.0 ± 57.4
28.3 ± 58.9
28.4 ± 59.3
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Directed by Brett Ratner ("X-Men: Last Stand," "Rush Hour"), "Hercules" explores our hero's struggles to live up to his own lore in a world filled with villains of all sizes and shapes. The cast includes Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell, Aksel Hennie, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Rebecca Ferguson ("The White Queen"), Joseph Fiennes , Peter Mullan and John Hurt.
At the beginning of the movie, Hercules is something of a scoundrel who, accompanied by five faithful companions, travels the empire selling his services for money and using his fearsome reputation to intimidate his enemies. But when the kindly ruler of neighboring Thrace and his daughter seek Hercules' help to defeat a terrorizing warlord, Hercules can no longer skate by on the myths surrounding him. He needs to man up and become the hero people believe him to be.
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Ratner believes that the film's high-energy approach as well as Johnson's determination to spotlight the man beneath the myth makes "Hercules" unique.
"What's different about our Hercules is that he is a regular man who has disavowed the fact that he's the son of a Greek god," says Ratner. "Every legend starts with a true story and when I read the script based on the graphic novel 'Hercules: The Thracian Wars,' what blew me away is that it was so grounded in a reality you could feel. That's what I wanted to bring to the screen."
Even though Johnson compares "Hercules" to both "Gladiator" and "300," he says that the film is far from wall-to-wall bone-crunching.
"For me, the tone of 'Hercules' had to be right on the money; it had to find that balance between humor, heart, and big, epic action — and I think we were able to do that and ground the story in characters who are a lot of fun," says Johnson. "I wanted Hercules to have a cool charm, and to be everything physically that people always imagined he would be."
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The Commitments (1987) (Originally called The Partitions) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle, and is the first episode in The Barrytown Trilogy. It is a tale about a group of unemployed young people in the north side of Dublin, Ireland, who start a soul band.
Plot summary[edit]
Two friends - Derek Scully and "Outspan" Foster - get together to form a band, but soon realise that they don't know enough about the music business to get much further than their small neighbourhood in the Northside of Dublin. To solve this problem, they recruit a friend they'd had from school, Jimmy Rabbitte, to be their manager. He accepts graciously, but only if he can make fundamental changes to the group, the first being the sacking of the third, and mutually disliked, member - their synth player. After this, Rabbitte gets rid of their name, making them "The Commitments", ("All the good 60s bands started with a 'the'.")(citation needed) and, most importantly, forming them from another Synthpop group to the face of what he thinks will be the Dublin-Soul revolution. ("Yes, Lads. You'll be playing Dublin Soul!")
He witnesses a young man singing drunkenly into a microphone at a friend's wedding and is struck by the fact he is singing "something approximating music". He decides the band should play soul music. Jimmy places an ad in the local paper reading "Have you got soul? Then Dublin's hardest working band is looking for you". Eventually, he gets together a mismatched group with seemingly no musical talent, led by mysterious stranger Joey "The Lips" Fagan, who claims to have played trumpet with Joe Tex and the Four Tops. They quickly start learning how to play their instruments and perform a number of local gigs.
With music fanatic Jimmy Rabbite as their manager, the Commitments seek to fulfil their goal of bringing soul to Dublin. In the beginning, Jimmy includes all of the country Ireland, but later realised that the culchies have everything whereas the Dubliners were the working-class and had nothing. Bringing soul music to Ireland was then reduced merely to the city.
- Steven "James" Clifford - Pianist,
- Imelda Quirke - Backup Vocalist,
- Natalie Murphy - Backup Vocalist,
- Mickah Wallace - Bouncer/ 2nd Drummer,
- Bernie McGloughin - Backup Vocalist,
- Dean Fay - Saxophonist,
- Liam "Outspan" Foster - Guitarist,
- Billy Mooney - 1st Drummer (quit because he couldn't stand Deco),
- Joey "The Lips" Fagan - Trumpet,
- Derek Scully - Bassist,
- Declan "Deco" Cuffe - Lead Vocalist.
Tensions run high between the band members, not helped by the jealousy and animosity Joey receives from other male members due to the attention he receives from the female backing singers. The band slowly becomes more and more musically competent and draws bigger and more enthusiastic audiences. But the band falls apart after a gig when Joey is seen kissing Imelda and a fight ensues—all while Jimmy is negotiating to record the band's first single with an independent label.
Fagan soon goes to America after Imelda tells him she is pregnant (she was actually lying, only saying this for the attention). In the end, Jimmy, along with the band's other founding members and Mickah, form The Brassers, an Irish hybrid of punk and country. They plan on inviting James into the band after he's finished his medical degree, and they discuss getting the ladies involved as well.
The film, book, and soundtrack were all hugely popular in the 90s, and a group containing some of the film's actors still tours. There are some differences between the book and film, the most obvious being that the novel was composed mostly of dialogue, with hardly any physical description; the movie concentrated much more on the collapse of Dublin's inner city. Unlike the film, which could be categorized as comedy-drama, the book was almost entirely comedic.
Stage production[edit]
In 2013, a musical stage production The Commitments opened in London's West End at the Palace Theatre.[1] The musical is based on the novel, by Roddy Doyle.[2] Following the books adaption into the movie in 1991,[3] Doyle turned down offers to turn the novel into a musical.[4][5]
The stage show was officially confirmed on 19 April 2013, in Ireland,[6] producers announced that the show would play the Palace Theatre, with tickets going on sale everywhere on 23 April.[7] Despite initially looking to hire another writer to write the book for the musical,[8] Doyle ended up writing the show himself.[9] The show will be directed by Jamie Lloyd,[10] with choreography by Ann Yee, set design by Soutra Gilmour, sound design by Rory Madden and lightning by Jon Clark.[11] Ticket prices for the show began at £10,[7] with all preview tickets half price.[12] Cast of the show include Denis Grindel playing Jimmy Rabbitte, Killian Donnelly playing Deco,[13] Ben Fox playing Joey Fagan,[14] Sean Kearns as Jimmy Rabbitte's father[14] and Sarah O'Connor, Stephanie McKeon and Jessica Cervi playing The Commitmentettes.[14]
External links[edit]
- ^ Brown, Mark (23 April 2013). "Commitments West End". London: The Guardian.
- ^ "The Commitments to be turned into musical by Roddy Doyle after novel and film success". mirror.co.uk. Daily Mirror. 23 April 2013. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ^ "Roddy Doyle's The Commitments becomes West End musical". bbc.co.uk (BBC News). 24 April 2013. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ^ Brown, Mark (23 April 2013). "The Commitments to be turned into West End musical". guardian.co.uk (London: The Guardian). Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ^ "Roddy Doyle on The Commitments musical". irishpost.co.uk. The Irish Post. 24 April 2013. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ^ "The Commitments On Sale in Ireland". thecommitmentslondon.com. The Commitments (musical). 19 April 2013. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ^ a b "Roddy Doyle's The Commitments to open in London with £5 tickets". irishpost.co.uk. The Irish Post. 23 April 2013. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ^ "The Commitments made into West End musical". irishnews.com. The Irish News. 24 April 2013. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ^ Bowie-Sell, Daisy (23 April 2013). "Roddy Doyle's The Commitments to be adapted for the stage". telegraph.co.uk (London: The Telegraph). Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ^ "Roddy Doyle's "The Commitments" finally made into musical". reuters.com (Reuters). 23 April 2013. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ^ "Roddy Doyle's The Commitments to open in West End this September". thestage.co.uk. The Stage. 23 April 2013. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ^ "The Commitments: all preview shows half price". standard.co.uk. Evening Standard. 23 April 2013. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ^ "West End Cast have been announced". thecommitmentslondon.com. The Commitments (musical). 20 August 2013. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
- ^ a b c "Casting Announced for West End Premiere of Stage Version of The Commitments". Playbill.com. Playbill. 20 August 2013. Retrieved 21 August 2013.


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The Commandment
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|two days old baby G
during my last check up, ..
om dokter: here's the situation, you're 1 cm dilated already and the baby is mature enough so there is no point to wait again since your 2 days away to your EDD too. we're concern about your bp. it's still at border line. so I'm going to arrange appointment for you tomorrow to come back and we're going to insert the tab for induction. some women need 1 tab but some need 2 tabs. don't worry, I'll inform Dr Su regarding to this matter and she'll still be the one who in charge in the delivery process ... You just have your breakfast as per normal then come to delivery suite directly.
me: alriteeeeee *mau pasang muka sok cool tapi ga bisa! ya keleus udah pembukaan satu ternyata* .. but doc, is it possible for me to come a bit late in the afternoon coz I'm waiting for my mom to come. She's taking the first flight though .. *lah ini pasiennya ngeyel! HAHAHA*
om dokter: sure! no problem with that! whenever you're ready just come down here and we'll start the procedure and hopefully by tomorrow night the baby is out
me: alriteeeee *ga tau musti bilang apa lagi* ...
excited, happy, surprised, yet nervous at the same time!! I was trying to digest everything and made sure it was real since I thought it's going to be another normal check up! but apparently it's a big no no!! immediately called abang to break the news and the father-to-be was speechless too! HOHOHO
The Induction
indomie for breakfast? checked!
shower? checked!
eye liner? checked!
hospital bag? checked!
arrival of the future grandma? checked!
off we go to the hospital!
the first tab was inserted around 2pm and after 2 hours later it's only 2 cm dilated! oalah!! the second tablet was inserted around 7pm and again after 2 hours it still 2 cm dilated! another oalah moment!! fyi, during those long hours of waiting what I did was sleep - walk - eat - repeat! suer dua jari! HAHAHA .. and of course with abang beside me!
went back to our room *macam lagi staycation aja ya bok*, hoping to get some rest to get ready for the big tomorrow ... but it only last 'till midnight! I started to feel the cramp! on and off .. and "the show" showed up! called the nurse, being asked about the pain level, and my answer was 4! still bearable for me so the nurse asked me to go back to bed again ..
around 1.30ish in the morning, I couldn't take it anymore! and this time around when being asked about the pain level my answer was 8 to 9!!! OHEMJI!! they did arrangement to send me down to the delivery suite and I even couldn't walk on my own .. tried not to be the drama queen but it was so painful down there! so here come the wheelchair! first time ever using the wheelchair .. it could be fun without the pain though!!
The Execution
bah! macam mau dijagal aje!! HOHOHO ... sekarang ngetik bisa ketawa - ketiwi, pas hari itu mah boro - boro cengengesan yang ada meringis jelek banget!!!
midwife: what type of pain killer do you want to use?
abang: we will try the gas first ...
midwife: okay! when you feel the pain, bring the mask to your nose and mouth, breathe in! when the pain is gone let it go ..
after few moments ...
midwife: do you feel better? the gas will make you more relax and a bit sleepy ..
me: *angguk - angguk mulai teler*
they did another internal check and I really really really hate it!!! they said it's 4 cm dilated!! 6 more to go, Gillian!!! hang in there!! you can do it!! ... they induced me through the drip too but sadly the BP was not cooperating well again, it's getting higher again and it was not good sign! they suggested to give me epidural so I can rest and the BP would go down .. looking at my condition, in pain and half conscious, abang needed to make decision! and he said yes to the epidural!!
due to my high BP, they couldn't immediately inject the epidural. they needed to do some blood test and in a meanwhile I was still depending on the gas! to be honest, I kinda like the high-feeling from the gas! you still can feel the pain but not that bad .. they call it the laughing gas! for me, it's the happy gas!! HOHOHO
it's time for abang to sign the epi consent form and suddenly the midwife saw I was in the position of pushing! another internal check and it's 10 cm dilated!!! WOHOOO!!! it's a blessing in disguise! the rising of the BP and the blood test were just God's miraculous way to buy the time! another confession to make, I was totally half sober so abang recap the story to me. he said it was about half an hour from 4cm to 10cm!! the midwife said no need epidural anymore and they're calling Dr Su in!
long story short, all I remember was abang holding my hand, "gee, God answer your prayer! you don't need the epidural .. udah pembukaan 10, sayang! you just need to push!! you can do it, gee!" I'm more than grateful to have abang beside me! he was my biggest supporter! non-stop praying and giving words of encouragement through out the whole process! i love you, rai!
.. and the rest was history! after pushing and pushing, ... by the grace of the Lord, our lil man was born on 11 June 2015 at 4.11am, weighing 3,765kg and 53cm in length! Gideon Eleos Praptana, the mighty man of God who will always seek for God's will and direction his life .. and because he has received mercy from the Lord, he will show mercy and compassion to others ..
it's no longer me and him! it's me, him, and another him!! HOHOHO .. words can't describe the feeling when they handed in your baby to your arm!! praise to be the God for all his favor to our family!! it's been two weeks now and recalling to those days, looking at my baby's face .. I can't stop my tears to roll down to my cheeks .. happy tears! joyful tears! grateful tears!! I'm in awe!! :)


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Can anyone spot any kind of tactical breakthrough at move 6. I moved Bxd4, and the other guy made a mistake resulting in a loss of queen for him. I want to know if there was any forced capture (or checkmate)?
Or any serious blunders i could have made in the game?
hmmm bishop g5 i dont like..at this points i woulda fianchetto my bishop, because thats why he played g2 right??? that also prevents any nasty tactics, why go on the attack?? developt first whoever just lost their queen
You would get a better game in theory with 5... bxf2+ .
He should have had the advantage by simply playing 7Bg2
You did not have a tactical break through. You opponet lost the game when he did not play 8. Bg2 and you made a good move after he played 8. Bg5?
Earlier you should have considered 5. ...Bxf2+
For you to have a break through so early your opponent would have had to play badly. He played reasonably well until his 8th move.
5. .... Bxf2+!
That isn't necessarily good for Black though.
Please explain.
It looks akin to 1 c4 e5 2 Nc3 Nf6 3 Nf3 Nc6 4 e4 Bc5 5 Nxe5 Bxf2+...which is rather dubious.
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1866 Two Cent Piece, PR65 Red Cameo1866 2C PR65 Red Cameo PCGS. From a proof mintage of 725 pieces, few Gems have survived. The noticeably frosted motifs and deeply mirrored fields present a pleasing cameo contrast. Examination under low magnification reveals only faint flyspecking. One of the very finest graded of this date, with none seen by NGC in the Red Cameo category, this is the specimen graded as such by PCGS, and just two finer (11/10).(Registry values: P2) (PCGS# 83632)
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The grand prize winner will receive two VIP access passes to attend the invitation-only unveiling event hosted by Caterpillar on Sunday, March 20; roundtrip airfare for two to Las Vegas to attend the VIP event; accommodations for five nights at a select Las Vegas hotel; five days of rental car use; $750 and two tickets to attend CONEXPO.
Entries can be submitted online through Feb. 22 at www.DriveCat.com. The site also contains detailed information about the sweepstakes, including the official rules. The winning entry will be selected in a random drawing on Feb. 24. The Web site also offers opportunities to sign up for updates on the Cat truck line and to participate in an interactive blog.
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Act Locally » January 25, 2014
Grad Students Reunionize
NYU students win recognition through grassroots organizing.
'The NLRB is unpredictable and maybe not always the best solution when we have needs for justice in our workplace right now.'
Graduate student employees at New York University (NYU) have pulled off a first in the world of labor rights—for the second time. On Dec. 11, 2013, graduate students voted to unionize, making NYU the only private university to recognize a graduate-employee union. The school previously held this distinction in 2000, when graduate students voted for representation by the United Auto Workers. But in 2004, the National Labor Relations Board's Brown University ruling stripped graduate students of collective-bargaining rights under the rationale that they are primarily students, not employees. NYU subsequently refused to continue negotiating with its graduate union when the contract expired in 2005.
After it lost union recognition, NYU's Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC) waged a semester-long strike that ended in bitter defeat in 2006. But graduate students didn't give up. GSOC re-petitioned the NLRB for recognition in 2010, and has continued to bring pressure to bear on the NYU administration. In May 2013, then-City Council Speaker Christine Quinn headlined a GSOC rally, and 250 state officials signed open letters in support of the union.
Ultimately, GSOC regained its union by bypassing the NLRB and negotiating an agreement directly with NYU, under which graduate assistants withdrew their NLRB petition, and in exchange administrators agreed to remain neutral during the unionization vote and bargain in good faith. GSOC member Matthew Canfield tells In These Times, "The board is unpredictable and maybe not always the best solution when we have needs for justice in our workplace right now."
The victory isn't a total one. Without a new NLRB ruling, the Brown decision remains on the books, which has concerned GSOC members. But contract negotiations are set to commence in January, and both sides report optimism. Moreover, the agreement provides graduate student organizers everywhere with a model for reclaiming their labor rights amidst a steady tide of higher education corporatization. One graduate organizer at the University of Chicago told Al Jazeera America that the GSOC victory "put some options on the table that we haven't even been able to imagine."
Andrew Mortazavi
Andrew Mortazavi is a Spring 2014 editorial intern. Follow him on Twitter at @andrewmortazavi.
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