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Diving & Marine Conservation Volunteering in Thailand - Monthly Updates
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Conservation in Thailand - Monthly Update September 2011
Wow….what a month! September 2011 was nominated as International Clean-up month by environmental agencies worldwide. The conservation volunteers, together with our dedicated team, have been out there cleaning the beaches, the reefs and the ocean. In addition, we have been working on outreach projects, educating the local community and school children.
We have had a lot of rain this month, several monsoons passed through and we suffered some of the heaviest downpours this area has seen for a while. Although this weather soaked our volunteers out in the field, it never dampened their attitude. They surveyed the reefs, collected trash and worked in the mangrove swamps whatever the weather and came back laughing and smiling (and once or twice completely covered in mud!)
Despite the difficult weather conditions, the volunteers have demonstrated an incredible commitment to the projects we run here, through sheer hard work and a never ending supply of enthusiasm.
So let me update you on the specific projects…
Diving Based Projects
Reef Check Survey
Our Reef Check Survey is running smoothly as the volunteers are learning more and more about methods for monitoring the reefs. The volunteers surveyed 11 sites and we carried out our first survey at Koh Mae Urai where we found many healthy hard corals.
On 8th September we counted over 500 feather stars at Koh Bida Nok, these are a great indicator for the diversity of invertebrates on the reef. In addition, on 13th September, at Koh Yawasam, we saw many blue lined snapper, a species we have not seen before.
Our favourite find this month was a small hawksbill turtle hanging out along the coral reef, eating sponges at Anemone Reef.
Project AWARE – Dive Against Debris Survey
We carried out a total of 11 Dive Against Debris dives this month at 10 different dive sites, dedicating the last week of diving solely to this project.
Linnea was pleased to report that at Maya Corner, there was not one piece of trash found and only 0.5kg was collected at 3 other nearby sites. This is a very good sign.
From the other sites, we removed a lot of fishing tackle, line and found several traps. One very large abandoned fish trap had to be marked, then we returned with a lift bag to bring it up for disposal.
Our most interesting find this month was a Malaysian coin from 1969.
We removed a hefty 60kg of debris from the ocean this month – awesome result!
Land Based Projects
Mangrove Regeneration
We concentrated our efforts this month at our Talan site. During September we planted an impressive 358 mangrove tree saplings which we had grown ourselves in our mangrove nursery.
Unfortunately when we returned on 26th September, 10% of our saplings had not survived the re-plantation process. This was an upset to our planting program, however, we have analysed the soil and other factors that may have affected the saplings and we will try a different species of tree in this area next month.
Beach Clean Ups
September saw us complete our first official data collection for the UNESCO funded Ocean Conservancy Beach Debris Survey.
We completed 3 beach cleans during the month, including two which involved the local community so that we could combine the clean up with education.
On 16th September we invited the children of Klong Muang School to join us to clean their local beach. This beach is used by the locals on the weekend for family picnics. Also the long tail boat drivers fix their boats along this beach. These two factors mean that there is a large amount of trash in this area. The Thailand National Guard who are based in the area saw our efforts and came out to help us! It was a remarkable gesture which reinforced our environmental message in the minds of the school children.
On 20th September we cleaned the beach at the Nopparat Thara National Park which is visited by hundreds of tourists each week.
Whilst on 30th September we got together with the local government and local dive centres, hotels and businesses to clean up Ao Nang Beach together. This was quite a display of community spirit and our display boards became the centre point of information for locals and tourists alike.
For those of you that like stats….
Total trash collected in September : 713 kg (159kg recyclable)
On 9th September the Fisheries Department asked us to help them repair their filter system in the outdoor aquarium. Working in line with the 3 R's (Reuse, Reduce, Recycle) we used an old, discarded fishing net to make a filter to collect the debris that enter the tanks. We were informed that this system has been successful.Other Stuff…
As always we strive to do our bit to reduce our carbon footprint. This month we shifted towards a paperless office. We carry out between 5 to 8 surveys each week, which was producing an incredible amount of paper, so we have created our very own reusable Data Sheets from which we enter the data collected onto online spreadsheets, which can be accessed from anywhere in the world.
Also, we have designed an organic composting system which we will be building next month. We predict that this will produce enough compost to use in our mangrove nursery and we have plans for building an organic vegetable patch too.
The volunteers have been making the most of their free time and have travelled by longtail boat over to Railay for the weekend, taken rock climbing lessons, trekked to the crystal cave and have been swimming along the river.
On Friday 24th, we all headed into Krabi Town to celebrate Punch's 21st (again!) birthday. We had a great time, hanging out together and meeting local people, sampling great food including steamed spring rolls and bbq'd river fish, listening to live music, dancing the night away and, of course, eating lots of birthday cake!
The last week of September was super busy as we began the big move to our new premises at The Dawn of Happiness Eco-resort on Ao Nammao beach. We are all extremely excited to be officially moving in on 1st October, when we will celebrate with a beach party and BBQ, whilst watching the sunset over the sea.
As always, I would like to thank all the volunteers for their hard work and support for this project - we wouldn't be here without you. You all make the world a better place, on every level.
Ingrid Sprake
Conservation Director, Thailand


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Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is an inherited heart muscle disease that may result in arrhythmia, heart failure, and sudden death. The hallmark pathological findings are progressive myocyte loss and fibrofatty replacement, with a predilection for the right ventricle. A number of genetic studies have identified mutations in various components of the cardiac desmosome that have important roles in the pathogenesis of ARVC. Disruption of desmosomal function by defective proteins might lead to death of myocytes under mechanical stress. The myocardial injury may be accompanied by inflammation. Since regeneration of cardiac myocytes is limited, repair by fibrofatty replacement occurs. Several studies have implicated that desmosome dysfunction results in the delocalization and nuclear translocation of plakoglobin. As a result, competition between plakoglobin and beta-catenin will lead to the inhibition of Wnt/beta-catenin signaling, resulting in a shift from a myocyte fate towards an adipocyte fate of cells. The ryanodine receptor plays a crucial part in electromechanical coupling by control of release of calcium from the sarcoplasmic reticulum into the cytosol. Therefore, defects in this receptor could result in an imbalance of calcium homeostasis that might trigger cell death.
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Dark and Delicious Chocolate Cake with Rich Chocolate Frosting
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This recipe makes enough frosting to frost a 9 inch (23 cm) round layer cake.
Combine hot water and coffee granules, stirring until dissolved; cool to room temperature.
Combine icing sugar and cocoa.
Using medium speed of an electric mixer, beat butter until creamy. Beat in half of icing sugar mixture and half of coffee until blended. Beat in remaining icing sugar mixture, remaining coffee and vanilla until fluffy. Makes about 4 cups (1 L).
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Combine flour and salt in a bowl; set aside. Combine coffee granules and hot water; stir until dissolved. Using medium speed of an electric mixer, beat butter until creamy. Add icing sugar and beat until fluffy. Beat in coffee mixture, ground espresso coffee and vanilla until blended. Using low speed, beat in flour mixture just until blended. Dough will be soft. Divide dough in half. Using floured hands, shape each half into a log 8 inches (20 cm) long. Wrap logs individually in plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm, about 2 hours. Cut each log into 1/4 inch (6 mm) thick slices. Place slices 1 1/2 inches (3.75 cm) apart on parchment paper-lined cookie sheets. Bake at 325°F (160°C) for 16 to 17 minutes or until cookies are firm. Let cookies stand for 2 minutes on cookie sheets. Remove from cookie sheets and cool cookies on racks. Store in an airtight container for up to 1 week. May be frozen. Makes about 5 dozen.
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Brewers, the professionals as well as the amateurs that hoist 5-gallon pots atop apartment-oven burners, come in two varieties, according to Ryan Boddy, one of the co-founders of city-based beer club Baltibrew.
There are those that brew beer like cooks, finagling with a standard recipe, improvising with each new batch, adding or subtracting ingredients with the seasoned hand of an experienced sous-chef.
And there are those that brew beer like scientists, working strictly from a set of instructions and precisely annotating even the minutest deviations in a notebook.
Boddy insists he cooks his beers, but one look at his setup and I'm certain he's a mad scientist. His graying hair is slick with sweat from standing over containers of boiling water. With a waist-high wooden paddle — it might be used to paddle a canoe if the blade didn't have holes in — he mixes a mash of grains and water he has poured into a large cooler on the ground. The countertop behind him is littered with clear plastic packets of nutmeg, brown sugar, and cinnamon, which he'll grind using a mortar and pestle. A 20-gallon stainless steel vat sits ready on a gas burner next to the cooler. Boddy, 37, has been homebrewing for a decade, and the beer he's crafting from scratch today is a rather advanced homebrew. It's his Hail Vespers gruit, an ale that's bittered and flavored by herbs, not hops as beers typically are.
While Boddy usually produces his beers from home, he needs a slightly larger workspace this first Friday of October. He's rushing to complete the second half of six homebrews, beers he requires for different events during the fifth Baltimore Beer Week, the annual Elysium for Charm City's beer lovers that kicks off Friday and features more than 350 events, including beer tastings at area breweries and bars around town; a cornhole tournament; Chilibrew, a chili cook off-cum-homebrew competition presented by Baltibrew; and a homebrew gruit ale contest at Liam Flynn's in Station North, for which Boddy is making his Hail Vespers.
For his laboratory Boddy picks the same place Baltibrew holds its monthly meetings: Nepenthe Homebrew, the only beer-making and brew-on-premises shop in Baltimore. Located within the Meadow Mill complex adjacent to the Woodberry Light Rail line, it opened in February , and it's the brainchild of homebrewing couple Jill Antos and Brian Arnold, each of whom started homebrewing on their own several years ago. Nepenthe is defined as something that eases pain or sorrow (it was a drug mentioned in "The Odyssey" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven").
"For me, homebrewing is kind of like cooking," says Antos, 31. "Some people homebrew because it's cheaper than drinking commercial beer. I want to create a certain thing that's in my head."
Arnold, 30, feels the same way. "One of the things that attracted me about the hobby is that it can be as complicated or as simple as you want," he says. "You find people doing all sorts of things."
It's for those people that the pair created Nepenthe, 2,300 square feet of homebrewing heaven. Nearly 50 different malted grains — used to give a beer its color — occupy a long shelf in the back of the store. The selection of hops, the stuff that gives beer its bitterness, flavor and aroma, is ample and varied: piney hops, citrusy hops, floral hops; hops from England; the quintessential American hops, Cascade and Centennial; hops from New Zealand with a bit of lime and vanilla. Many kinds of liquid and dry yeasts, necessary for fermentation, are available.
For utter novices, supplies and pre-assembled homebrew kits sit waiting on shelves. Buy a box, pop it open, and follow the instructions.
An utter novice, in this case, is me, as I'm not the usual Nepenthe customer. My beer knowledge is limited, and my palate is puny. I go for the canned Natty Boh when I sidle up to Mount Royal Tavern's bar.
But I'm at Nepenthe to try out its brew-on-premises offering, which commenced Sept. 6 after prolonged wrangling for the necessary permits. From Friday through Sunday, and for a price, homebrewers can use the space on the far left side of Nepenthe for brewing, fermenting, bottling, and kegging their own beers. Beginners, like me, pay $160 to be guided by Arnold through a 5-gallon homebrew, which nets about 48 bottles of beer.
I occupy space at the far left of Nepenthe's homebrewing setup, choosing to stay well clear of Boddy, who's taken up two of the four available gas burners and vats. Partly, I'm worried I might knock something over.
The other part? A nagging sense of masculine inadequacy, because for my first homebrew I've impetuously chosen from a book of recipes to concoct a "Nutcastle" brown ale, a clear knockoff of the Newcastle variety. Boddy's Hail Vespers is 13 percent alcohol by volume; at 5.1 percent, my finished brew will be fit for a Keystone Light-swilling college freshman. My homebrew takes up the better part of three and a half hours, and before we begin, Arnold walks me around the store, helping me pick the grains, hops, and yeast I need. After inserting milled grains into a mesh bag, we begin by steeping them for 30 minutes inside slightly more than 5 gallons of 150-degree water, which serves to leech out a brownish color from the grains.
When the half hour is done, we boil the water, then cut the heat and add malt extract. Whereas Boddy mashed his grains, triggering an enzymatic process that converts starch into sugar-and it's the sugar that yeast consumes during the fermentation process-I'm using liquid extract, a golden, syrupy goop that's already been mashed, and is therefore full of the sugar my beer needs. After churning it around in the vat with a long-handled stainless steel spoon, we boil the grains and the extract (what we're now calling "wort"), and then transition into the hour-long hopping process.
And then we wait. This is homebrewing-giving your wort the proper time to undergo a series of chemical reactions so that, once you've cooled it, added it to a bucket, poured in your yeast, and sealed that bucket, you'll have beer after two weeks.
"People have asked me all the time: What is the essence of brewing? It's cleaning things and moving heavy stuff," Boddy says.
Over the next two hours from the start of the hopping process through the end of the cooling process, Arnold and I will have lifted a large, coiled contraption through which cold water is sent to drop the temperature of my Nutcastle wort and sanitized a half-dozen different instruments, including a sizable strainer to collect the trub, a protein precipitate formed after the extract and the grains are mixed and boiled, from my wort that's collected into a white bucket where it'll sit for two weeks as it ferments. At this point, I pour a packet of yeast on top of the wort, and Arnold seals off the bucket, adding an air-lock to the cover to allow carbon dioxide gas to escape as the yeast munches on the sugars inside, lest the bucket's top blow off from all the internal pressure.
As Arnold and I finish cleaning off my work area, Antos walks over, a mischievous grin on her face now that I've completed my inaugural foray into the world of homebrewing.
"Very few people do it once," she says. So it seems. In the roughly four hours I spend at Nepenthe, about 20 different people walk through the store, each one of them grabbing grains, hops, and yeast without any assistance. It's clear they've all been to Nepenthe before, and are merely restocking for their next batch of brew.
Arnold, a former high school English teacher with Baltimore City Public Schools, mentions that while Nepenthe's relatively new brew-on-premises option has attracted only a handful of greenhorn brewers and one experienced brewer, the store's customer database holds some 800 names. For Baltimore Beer Week, four in-store events are taking place, including an introduction to brewing with Arnold and a question-and-answer session with brewers from Union Craft Brewing on what it takes to become a professional brewer.
"Our customer base was already here-it was waiting," he says.
It's a point backed up by Ryan Detter, the 34-year-old co-founder of homebrew group Baltibrew, started in 2009. "Homebrewing has kind of exploded in the past three or four years," he says. "All this DIY aesthetic is back now. People are more interested in where their stuff comes from now."
That's certainly part of it, as is the feeling of unlimited creativity that helps make homebrewing an alluring activity. Compared to such cities as Philadelphia, Baltimore is very much up-and-coming in its craft beer scene. But if you like craft beer, and are unable to find a specific flavor or style, just make your own. The Nutcastle ale I'll bottle just before Baltimore Beer Week begins has a hint of chocolate, the effect of the pale chocolate grains that comprised a piece of the overall grain mixture I steeped at the beginning of the beer-making process.
"The market just popped here, and everyone grabbed onto it," says Kurt Krol, a professional brewer at the DuClaw Brewing Company who started off making homebrews.
Homebrewing, however, has been legal, and tax-exempt, since the late 1970s, and the Baltimore region has several homebrewing stores. Maryland Homebrew in Columbia is a nearly 7,000-square-foot warehouse stockpiled with supplies. There's the Thirsty Brewer in Baldwin. Homebrew clubs abound, including the Cheseapeake Real Ale Brewers Society (CRABS), Lady Brew Baltimore (for the ladies, natch), the Cross Street Irregulars (founded in 1989), and Boddy and Detter's Baltibrew with about 70 members.
If anything, the recent proliferation of homebrewers and the clubs that bring them together shows that brewing beer today, at least with respect to the equipment and space needed, is easier than it ever has been.
"It's an easy thing to pick up and do at the house. You don't have to be investing a lot of money in the specialties," Krol says. And, at least for Krol, that initial investment in homebrewing equipment and supplies happened with some friends a couple years after he made his first homebrew in 2003.
Indeed, if the essence of homebrewing is lifting and sanitizing, its draw-the thing that makes Antos so sure I'll return to Nepenthe to not only bottle my Nutcastle beer, but also pay the money to make another batch-is the feeling of community that comes with it.
"It's a great way to meet people in the city," says 29-year-old Amy Huntington. Granted, Huntington is a recent transplant. A homebrewer for almost two years, she moved to Baltimore in January, and was at Nepenthe's doors as soon as it opened in February.
Although, by the time I'm pouring my homebrew into its bucket, she's at Nepenthe, along with Antos, Arnold, Boddy, his wife, and a handful of other folks. We're taking sips of Boddy's gruit wort, and I'm passing around a small sample of my Nutcastle wort.
Drinking beer is generally a guarantee of a good time. But drinking a homebrew? That's satisfying. As Arnold says, "When you make a really good beer, you don't want to drink it all-you want to share it with people."
Nepenthe Homebrew is at 3600 Clipper Mill Road. 443-438-4846 or nepenthehomebrew.com.


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Managing the Message
By Jen A. Miller
On any given NFL Sunday, Jen Sabatelle '94 is in the CBS Broadcast Center in New York with the top programming and production executives from the network. As the vice president of communications for CBS Sports, she oversees the overall media relations efforts and strategy for CBS Sports, including corporate communications and the promotion of all CBS Sports' personalities and programming, setting up interviews for print, television, radio, and web.
In addition to the NFL, CBS Sports broadcasts large-scale events such as the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, the U.S. Open Tennis Championships, the Masters, and the PGA Championship. Sabatelle also manages the publicity efforts for CBS Sports Network and works in tandem with CBS's other sports properties, including CBS Interactive and Showtime Sports.
During the live broadcast of the pregame show, THE NFL TODAY, she and other executives are in a command center, monitoring the show and the live games. Sabatelle and her team promote the broadcasts, using traditional and social media to handle any PR issues that may arise. She works closely with host James Brown and analysts Dan Marino, Bill Cowher, Boomer Esiason, Shannon Sharpe, and other big-name sports celebrities.
On Wednesdays during football season, Sabatelle often heads down to NFL Films in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, for the taping of Inside the NFL, an Emmy-award winning show where Brown, Phil Simms, Cris Collinsworth, and Warren Sapp talk football — a show that will air later that night on Showtime.
"There's no typical day here," she says of her job. "Our broadcast schedule is similar year after year, but every day, every game, every event is unique, with its own storylines, personalities, and challenges."
For instance, this was the first year CBS Sports partnered with Turner Sports to televise the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship across four channels. Almost everything was new, from the format and schedule to some of the announcers.
"It was a hectic few months from January to April, leading up to the tournament as two different media companies worked together on all aspects of the tournament, including programming, production, sales, and marketing," she says. "When the tournament's anthem, 'One Shining Moment,' began to play after the championship game, there was a great feeling of accomplishment that our hard work had paid off and the first year of the venture had been a success."
Sabatelle grew up around athletics. Her father, Thomas Sabatelle '64, was a high school athletic director, and the family schedule revolved around playing sports, attending games, and watching sports on TV.
"I don't remember a time when sports were not the main focus of my life," she says. "When I went to college, the focus shifted from the playing field to working toward a career in sports television."
A couple of years after she graduated from Ithaca College, Sabatelle landed a job at the National Football League, working as a liaison between teams and broadcast networks. That led her to a position at CBS Sports as coordinator for programming and marketing. In 2002, she moved to the CBS Sports communications department and eight years later became head of her department as the vice president of communications.
"When I got my first chance in sports, I hoped that if I worked really hard and did a good job, someone would notice, regardless of my gender," she says. "I am thankful that I get to work every day in a business that has captured my attention since I was a little girl, and that I get to do it alongside the best men and women in sports."
Lesley Visser, a reporter for THE NFL TODAY, says a lot has changed since she started covering the NFL in 1976. Back then, her press credentials often read "No Women or Children in the Press Box." Now, she says, there's no limit to where women can go.
"A young woman now can aspire to any job in the field," she says. "They can aspire to be a reporter, anchor, or head of communications. Here's Jen Sabatelle, the VP of sports communications for one of the biggest media corporations in the world."
"Jen is a major asset for CBS," Visser adds. "She's smart, funny, and she's kind. I've seen her address corporations and sit with a coach and have a beer, and I've seen her do both with ease. She's a modern woman for a modern age."
Simms, lead analyst for the NFL on CBS and analyst on Inside the NFL, says he's seen Sabatelle work in high-pressure situations, and he's been impressed by her work ethic. When a story explodes, he says, she handles it well, guiding the announcers on how to address certain issues. And stories are exploding all the time these days, Simms says, even on Twitter.
"You sit there calm as can be, and literally 20 seconds later it's a hurricane, and you have to be ready to deal with it," he says. "I know she's tough enough to withstand it and deal with it."
Brown echoes Simms' sentiments.
"She is an alert executive and extremely comprehensive in her preparation," says Brown, host of THE NFL TODAY and Inside the NFL. "She's a very good listener, and she's passionate about what she does."
She's also passionate about fitness, and Brown says she relishes pushing herself to the limits in the gym.
"She reminds me of athletes with whom I've played over the years," Brown says. "They take anything you throw at them, and they work hard because they know it will make them better. It doesn't intimidate them. All those skills translate nicely to what she's doing as a VP."


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News From Nowhere starts off as we expect it to: with some quaint electronic sounds and hushed voices. It isn't until first single "Timeaway" that we get a glimpse of what the English trio have been up to for three years, and it's almost blinding. The falsetto chorus soars, and though the lyrics are essentially unintelligible, the swaying melody says more than any words could. Darkstar are no longer knob-twiddlers trying their hand at verse-chorus-verse. Their songs move with fluidity that was absent from North's malfunctioning machinery, and Buttery's vocals now hang in the air, rather than flickering in a perpetual threat to snuff themselves out.
In other words, this one is even more of a "pop" album than the first—but it's a very British pop album, thick with melancholy and darkly pretty. It lives in the shadow of grey-skies post-punk and in the memory of McCartney II, the ex-Beatle's misunderstood 1980 synthesizer album. The nursery-rhyme melodies of "A Day's Pay For A Day's Work," for example, are set in a world of slightly shifting gears and melting wires. They explore ecstatic vocal layering on "Amplified Ease" and "You Don't Need A Weatherman," mining a vein that's irreverent like McCartney, but impish and modern like Animal Collective.
It would be easy for all these conflicting impulses to congeal into tepid soup, yet News From Nowhere avoids such a fate with its careful push-and-pull. The running order feels almost as painstakingly considered as the songwriting itself. The bigger pop moments are offset by ideas set adrift on lapping waves, from the Arctic panorama of closer "Hold Me Down" through to the foggy visions of "-" and the wobbly "Armonica," which feels like its tired limbs can't hold its lead melodies without faltering. And like all good pop, News From Nowhere is brief, never falling victim to the temptation to get lost in soundscaping. Instead, it builds those immersive realms in just a few minutes with each track.
If Darkstar have kept anything from their earliest music, it's the wrenching feeling of dull pain, and a distant sort of poignancy—the same formula that made "Aidy's Girl Is A Computer" such a profoundly affecting moment in dance music. Instead, with News From Nowhere they've found a way to concentrate that emotion into a something that resembles regular poignancy instead.
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01. Light Body Clock Starter
02. Timeaway
03. Armonica
04. -
05. A Day's Pay For A Day's Work
06. Young Heart's
07. Amplified Ease
08. You Don't Need A Weatherman
09. Bed Music - North View
10. Hold Me Down


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By Marilyn M. Singleton, M.D., J.D.
When advance health care directives ("living wills") were popularized, the guiding principle was to allow patients to choose to "die with dignity." But one man's dignity is another man's poison. Surveys suggest that half of those with a serious chronic illness prefer to die at home. The other half prefer treatment in hospitals.
Advance directive legislation has evolved from a means to ensure patient autonomy to a license for health providers to withdraw medical treatment—even against a patient's wishes. Statutory advance directives provide that individuals "have the right to give instructions about their own health care," but they fail to mention that such instructions may not be carried out if individuals have chosen life. (See, for example, California Probate Code section 4701).
The Uniform Health Care Decisions Act (UHCDA), model legislation developed in 1994, has been adopted in whole or in part by several states. It provides that health-care providers—without legal consequences—may decline to comply with an individual's health-care decision that "requires medically ineffective health care or health care contrary to generally accepted health-care standards applicable to the health-care provider or institution." Not surprisingly, the key term, "medically ineffective" is not defined. Any attempts at specificity would force an open debate on the morality of rationing and "playing God."
Patients must be informed of the rules before the final seconds of the game. Under state laws, circumstances under which wishes can be denied range from a terminal condition or permanent unconsciousness (Alabama) to being permanently unconscious or "an incurable or irreversible condition" that will cause death "within a relatively short time" (Maine).
Unbeknownst to patients, many hospitals have policies that flesh out treatment withdrawal standards. For example, Stanford Hospital's "Policy for Medically Ineffective (Futile) Treatment" states:
Medically ineffective refers to treatment that would not offer the patient any significant benefit. If an attending physician believes treatment is not medically ineffective and assumes care of the patient, treatment is not medically ineffective.
This tortured clarification anoints the physician as the final arbiter.
The UHCDA provides that a physician or institution that has decided to withdraw care against the patient's wishes must make "reasonable efforts" to transfer the patient to a provider willing to comply with the patient's wishes and provide continuing care until a transfer is made or a transfer is found to be impossible. This leaves much room for defining "reasonable" efforts, and there may be no options available in areas where medical facilities are scarce. Of course, hospital policies caution physicians that decisions should not be governed by age, race, creed, or economic status. However, if a patient cannot afford skilled nursing care or home health aides, ability to pay determines the outcome.
In treatment withdrawal cases, physicians must continue pain relief and "palliative care." Stanford's policy defines palliative care as any treatment that concentrates on reducing the severity of symptoms of a disease or condition, rather than providing a cure. Taken literally, this definition would include anti-hypertensives for high blood pressure and insulin for diabetes.
Is treatment withdrawal about compassion and preventing suffering, or pragmatism and saving money? Medicare spends an average of $24,000 for beneficiaries in their last year of life versus an average of $4,000 for all other beneficiaries. However, a recent federally funded study concluded that decedents' average "cost of dying" is only modestly higher than yearly costs for individuals with similarly complex medical needs, e.g., dementia, cancer, stroke, or chronic obstructive lung disease.
Over the last 20 years, one-fourth of Medicare dollars has been spent on services for the five percent of beneficiaries in their last year of life, even with the growth of hospice. Predictions, such as those from the American Heart Association that heart failure treatment costs will soar over the next 20 years, may compel the government to formulate rigid, bright-line rules and policies that promote a culture of rationing and "letting Grandma go to a better place."
Making peace with death is a complex personal process. Many would choose to forgo treatment rather than spending every dollar on care they perceive to be of low value.
But most Americans are forced to depend on a system that will increasingly push Grandma onto a pathway to death well before her natural lifespan has run its course—at the whim of elite decision-makers in the name of the benefit of the collective.
Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD is a board-certified anesthesiologist and Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) member. Despite being told, "they don't take Negroes at Stanford", she graduated from Stanford and earned her MD at UCSF Medical School. Dr. Singleton completed 2 years of Surgery residency at UCSF, then her Anesthesia residency at Harvard's Beth Israel Hospital. She was an instructor, then Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland before returning to California for private practice. While still working in the operating room, she attended UC Berkeley Law School, focusing on constitutional law and administrative law. She interned at the National Health Law Project and practiced insurance and health law. She teaches classes in the recognition of elder abuse and constitutional law for non-lawyers. Dr. Singleton recently returned from El Salvador where she conducted make-shift medical clinics in two rural villages. Her latest presentation to physicians was at the AAPS annual meeting about challenging the political elite.


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Looking For Joy and Peace at Christmas
Christmas is a time of light – my wife appreciates driving through the various neighborhoods of our community and seeing the Christmas lights and decorations that people have put in their yards and on their houses. These lights bring her a special Christmas joy.
Christmas is a time of joy – "Joy to the world" we sing in Isaac Watts' great hymn. "Joy to the world the Lord is come, let earth receive her king." (1)
Christmas is a time of laughter and a time for families.
Christmas is a time of joy and peace.
And yet, like Bono and the other members of the band U2, I still haven't found what I'm looking for…
"I believe in the kingdom come, when all the colors will bleed into one… but yes I'm still running… but I still haven't found what I'm looking for." (2)
What it is that I'm looking for this Christmas?
I'm looking for joy and peace. Isn't that what Christmas is about?
The announcement made to the shepherds on that Judean hillside declared, "Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests." (3)
Peace. We celebrate this season as the birthday of the Prince of Peace. And yet. We really haven't seen a whole lot of peace in our time.
Just a few days ago on December 10, 2009, President Barak Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo Norway. And yet this award seems very ironic to me as it is given to the commander-in-chief of the largest standing army in the world – an army that is currently engaged in not one, but two wars.
In his 36-minute acceptance speech, President Obama recognized this irony and discussed the tensions between war and peace and the idea of a "just war."
… perhaps the most profound issue surrounding my receipt of this prize is the fact that I am the Commander-in-Chief of the military of a nation in the midst of two wars.
… we are at war, and I'm responsible for the deployment of thousands of young Americans to battle in a distant land. Some will kill, and some will be killed. And so I come here with an acute sense of the costs of armed conflict — filled with difficult questions about the relationship between war and peace, and our effort to replace one with the other.
…I do not bring with me today a definitive solution to the problems of war. What I do know is that meeting these challenges will require the same vision, hard work, and persistence of those men and women who acted so boldly decades ago. And it will require us to think in new ways about the notions of just war and the imperatives of a just peace.
We must begin by acknowledging the hard truth: We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations — acting individually or in concert — will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified.
I make this statement mindful of what Martin Luther King Jr. said in this same ceremony years ago: "Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones." As someone who stands here as a direct consequence of Dr. King's life work, I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there's nothing weak — nothing passive — nothing naïve — in the creed and lives of Gandhi and King.
But as a head of state sworn to protect and defend my nation, I cannot be guided by their examples alone. I face the world as it is, and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people. For make no mistake: Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force may sometimes be necessary is not a call to cynicism — it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason.
…So yes, the instruments of war do have a role to play in preserving the peace. And yet this truth must coexist with another — that no matter how justified, war promises human tragedy. The soldier's courage and sacrifice is full of glory, expressing devotion to country, to cause, to comrades in arms. But war itself is never glorious, and we must never trumpet it as such. (4)
I am not ashamed to say that I cast my vote in the last election for Obama. I was (and continue to be) excited by the 'hope' and 'change' that his campaign promised. And I believe that he has been and will continue to be a good president for our country.
And yet, I don't' think that I've found what I'm looking for…Because – despite the hope and change that marked his campaign - his leadership in this respect has been more of the same hopelessness.
Obama quoted one of his heroes (and mine) in his speech – the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones."
The history of the world has been marked by violent conflict from Cain and Able continuously through this morning's newspaper. We fight. We fight. We hurt, and maim, and bomb, and kill, and destroy. Our human ingenuity and creativity and imagination have been harnessed to these ends and we have developed innumerable ways to hurt each other and kill each other – faster, and from further away, and in greater numbers.
But none of these weapons has ever made peace. There is no such thing as "peace through superior firepower." Peace at the edge of the sword is not peace. Peace down the barrel of an M-16 is not peace.
President Obama says that he "face[s] the world as it is" with an acknowledgement that "Evil does exist in the world." He is no hippy-dippy-utopian who believes that humans are basically good and that we can all learn to get along, holding hands as we sit around the campfire… He says that his use of force and violence and warfare can be justified as a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason.
And In one sense, I can and do agree with him there. Humanity is fallen. Humanity is broken. Our every imagination is bent towards evil. And if that were the final word on the subject, then President Obama's justification would be valid.
But there is another word. There is something more than the imperfection of man; there is something that transcends the limit of human reason.
And that's what we're celebrating at Christmas.
Long lay the world in sin and error pining (5) . People lived in darkness and under the constant menace of the shadow of death. Warriors in heavy boots and blood smeared armor enforced a peace at the edge of a sword. The world was weary and burdened and oppressed.
But that choir of angels came bursting through the fabric of space and time to announce to the humble shepherds that Peace had come; they heralded the birth of the Messiah, the one Isaiah said would break that yoke of oppression, would consign the soldiers uniforms to the fire, who would snap the spear and shatter the bow. The one who would make wars cease to the ends of the earth. (6)
For unto us a child is born
to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders
and he will be called
Mighty God
Everlasting Father
Prince of Peace. (7)
The weary world rejoices at this angelic announcement. Governments, Kings and Princes, and Commanders-in-Chief quake because it means that the old ways can no longer be tolerated. The birth of this child, this son is the thrill of Hope and Change that no elected official can create. This is the breaking of a new and glorious morning –the dawning of a great light over the land of darkness.
Truly his taught us to love one another
His law is love and his gospel is peace.
Chains shall he break, for the slave he is our brother
And in His name all oppression shall cease.
This is something more than the imperfection of man and the limit of reason. This is the eternal God stepping into human history. As the prophet Isaiah said, "The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this."
We cannot make peace with our armies. We never have. We never will.
We make peace by realizing that Christ was born, not just to save us from our personal and individual sins, but also to restore a fallen humanity to its intended glory. There is no glory in war. There is no honor or valor in tragedy that war promises and that war inevitably delivers. There is no glory in human slaughter.
We make peace by realizing that law of love and that gospel of peace. Peace between God and man and Peace between men.
We make peace by refusing to accept any longer the claim that war is regrettably necessary. We make peace by refusing to participate in a perpetual cycle of violence that never solves the problems facing our world, by refusing to participate in a cycle of violence that fosters more violence and creates more problems and more hatred.
We make peace when we truly honor the birth of that child, the son that was given to us. We make peace when we celebrate Christmas – not as an orgy of consumerism, or as a warm fuzzy feel good season – but as the birth of the Son of God and we Hail him as the heaven born Prince of Peace (8), and when we honor him by living lives of peace.
1 Joy to the World – Words by Isaac Watts, Music by George F. Handel
2 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For Words by Bono, Music by U2
3 Luke 2: 14
4 President Barak Obama's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech - http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/12/10/obama.transcript/index.html
5 O Holy Night (Cantique de Noel) Words by Placide Cappeau, Music by Adolph Adam,
Translated by John S. Dwight
6 Psalm 46:9
7 Isaiah 9: 2 -7
8 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Words by Charles Wesley, Music by Felix Mendelssohn


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BOTHELL, Wash., March 31, 2011 – Leslie Bussert, head of instruction for the University of Washington Bothell and Cascadia Community College library, has received the 2011 Community College Learning Resources Program Achievement Award. The award will be presented to Bussert during the American Library Association annual conference in June.
Bussert earned the accolade due to her innovative assessment work. In collaboration with Norm Pouliot, Bussert converted a grading rubric into an online self-assessment survey that can be used to communicate information literacy learning goals to students. Her work has been widely praised as an advocacy tool for sustaining information literacy instruction programs.
Bussert earned a Bachelor of Arts in English literature from Western Washington University and a Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Washington.
In addition to receiving the Community College Learning Resources Program Achievement Award, Bussert was nominated along with three other UW Bothell librarians for the UW Libraries Distinguished Librarian award. The other three UW Bothell librarian nominees are: Jackie Belanger, arts and humanities librarian; Julie Planchon Wolf, nursing librarian; and Katie Whitson, head of collections and building operations.
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Burn, baby burn.
FreedomWorks, a national group funded by the Koch brothers which has supported Tea Party groups, has a stunt it's hoping to roll out on college campuses.
They want young people to burn their "Obamacards" and to refuse to get health insurance for themselves.
Besides the fact that are no actual Obamacards that will be issued — so instead they want people to print one out from a website and then burn it — there are real problems with this.
The biggest problem: Young people who could have had insurance won't have it.
Under Obamacare, these folks could get insurance. They'd very likely get help to buy it, through a subsidy.
According to the Kaiser Foundation subsidy calculator, a single person making $20,000 a year would pay $1,021 for a plan (at the Silver level) or $505 for a less generous plan (at the Bronze level).
Depending on where one lives and one's income (and whether one smokes), the cost will vary.
Those subsidies significantly lower a young adult's premiums: California officials, for example, estimate that a 21-year-old who earns $17,235 will be able to purchase coverage for as little as $5 per month. [source]
Some of these folks will get sick or get into an accident.
Imagine a young woman or man who ends up in the hospital with lots of broken bones and internal injuries. He or she will incur a great deal of costs and will have lots down the road, for surgeries and physical therapy.
The result is that she or he will be on the hook for those costs and will spend many years paying them. Or, if she or he can't pay for them, the rest of us will.
But the group that tells them not to buy insurance isn't concerned about those medical bills.
Moreover, this stunt is aimed at college students.
Many of them are required to have insurance.
And others will have it through their parents, since, under Obamacare, insurance companies have to keep young adults on parental policies until they're 26.
Getting burnt?
To the burners, the FreedomWorks director of messaging says, "I don't want anyone to burn their fingers."
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Patient and Family Services
The Siteman Cancer Center is the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in Missouri and is ranked among the top cancer facilities in the nation by U.S. News & World Reports. Multidisciplinary care teams of different subspecialties consult and plan your treatment, in conjunction with your desires and needs. You are not just a diagnosis, but a person who has cancer. Care is personalized because your doctors talk to each other and work with you to develop treatment options for your specific situation, often down to the genetic level.
No one wants a cancer diagnosis. But cancer patients who choose the Siteman Cancer Center receive all the services surrounding cancer diagnosis and treatment that patients and their families might need.
Siteman covers all the bases from helping you find your way around our facilities to providing support for the anxiety and financial worries a major illness can entail. Knowing how cancer emotionally impacts cancer patients and their families, Siteman offers a free comprehensive counseling service to help you through it.
Everything from fertility preservation to pain and symptom management, cancer information and support groups has been anticipated and planned for. Please review the sections below for services you might need. If you don't find what you are looking for, you may contact us either by email or call us toll-free at 800-600-3606.
Siteman Psychology Service
The Siteman Cancer Center provides state-of-the-art medical care. And because we believe in treating the whole patient, we also provide counseling support to help patients and families through the cancer journey at Siteman Psychology Service.
Our psychologists:
- Provide education, counseling and referrals to specific resources.
- Teach coping skills, help with problem solving and provide an outlet for talking about difficulties.
- Offer counseling services to address grief or concerns for couples or families.
- Help connect patients with support groups, peer support and community resources.
To fully meet patient and family needs, we collaborate with specialists in case management, financial counseling, genetic counseling and spiritual care. We also work with the Oncologic Psychiatry Service, which provides treatment for Siteman patients who need psychiatric care.
Counseling services are also available on a limited basis at our satellite facilities in west and south St. Louis County and in St. Charles County.
Cancer patients and their family members can schedule an appointment to talk about their situation and discuss which services might suit their needs best. One appointment may be all that is needed to receive the necessary support.
For more information or to schedule an appointment, call 314-747-5587 or visit the Barnard Health and Cancer Information Center on Siteman's main campus in the Central West End area of St. Louis.
Click on the links below for more information about emotional concerns associated with cancer treatment.
Spiritual Care
Chaplains are available around the clock to provide spiritual care and counseling for patients and their loved ones. They offer support, prayer and access to local religious groups and sacraments. Two chapels are located on the Barnes-Jewish Hospital campus. Religious services – including Catholic masses, interdenominational prayer services, Muslim Juma prayer services and Jewish Sabbath services – are offered on a weekly basis and on special religious occasions. For more information or to request a visit with a chaplain, call 314-362-5200.
Interpreter Services
Interpreters are available 24 hours a day for patients who need help with language assistance or have special cultural needs. Deaf interpretation, on-site foreign language interpretation and telephone foreign language interpretation are available. For assistance, call 314-747-5682.
Social Workers
Social workers are available to help patients and families cope with the challenges and problems caused by cancer. They provide assistance with such issues as lodging and transportation, rehabilitation and hospice care, and advance directives. They also identify community resources related to housing, employment, legal issues and financial concerns. For more information or to reach a social worker, call 314-362-5574.
To contact social workers at our satellite facilities please call the following:
South County- 314-286-1106
West County- 314- 996-3368
St. Charles County- 636-916-9974
Barnard Health and Cancer Information Center
The Barnard Health and Cancer Information Center at Siteman Cancer Center's main campus in St. Louis is open on a walk-in basis to assist anyone whose life has been touched by cancer. The center serves patients, their families, medical professionals and others who need current information on cancer prevention; early detection, diagnosis and treatment; coping; and community resources. For more information about location and our resources and services, click here.
Services are also available on a limited basis at Siteman's satellite cancer centers.
Financial and Logistical Support
Health insurance may help cover some of the costs related to the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Whatever type of insurance you have, you want to get the most from your plan. You will receive the best services if you know the benefits, coverage and limits of your plan.
In addition, social workers are available to help patients and families cope with challenges caused by cancer. They provide assistance with such issues as:
- Lodging and transportation
- Rehabilitation
- Hospice care
- Advance directives
- Medicare and other insurance questions
They also identify community resources related to housing, employment, legal issues and financial concerns. For more information or to reach a social worker, call 314-362-5574.
Palliative Care and Symptom Management
Palliative care services are available to patients and their families who are facing advanced illness. Palliative care is provided by a specially-trained team of doctors, nurse practitioners, social workers and chaplains who work together with a patient's surgical, radiation or medical oncologist to provide additional support. It is appropriate at any age and at any stage in a serious illness and is provided along with curative treatment. The team offers coping strategies and support and help managing symptoms such as pain, nausea, fatigue and anxiety. Palliative care provides a specialized approach to medical care for people with serious illnesses, focusing on relief from symptoms of the illness and the treatment, and involving both the patient and family members to improve quality of life.
One of the biggest misconceptions is that palliative care is about foregoing treatment for the disease and preparing to die. Its real goal is to help you manage your symptoms and treatment effects so you can tolerate treatment better. The palliative physician, as a consultant to the doctors managing medical care, makes recommendations on extended pain management and any other support the patient or family needs. He or she takes the proposed treatment plan and looks at how it integrates into the family's life, taking into account family status, socioeconomic issues, and spiritual needs in the plan of care. You can request a palliative care referral from your doctor or contact the service directly. They also provide assistance with end-of-life issues, if needed.
Advanced Pain Management
Patients with cancer may experience pain for a variety of reasons – as a result of tumor growth, advanced cancer or treatment side effects. At the Siteman Cancer Center, we are dedicated to helping patients deal with pain. For patients who experience persistent, chronic pain, help is available through the Pain Management Center. The center is staffed by Washington University School of Medicine anesthesiologists who specialize in pain management.
Services available at the Pain Management Center include evaluation and treatment in a coordinated care setting. When needed, patients are seen by teams that may include an anesthesiologist, psychologist, physical therapist and registered nurse. Staff members meet weekly to discuss complicated cases.
Because chronic pain is a complex problem, individualized treatment plans may include the following:
- Medications and other medical treatments
- Nerve blocks, vertebroplasty, spinal analgesics or other procedures
- Relaxation/biofeedback therapies
- Physical therapy
The Pain Management Center is located in the Center for Advanced Medicine on Siteman's main campus. Referrals are accepted from physicians only. For more information, call 314-362-8820.
Another branch of the center is located on the campus of Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital near Siteman's Creve Coeur location.
Sometimes patients undergoing cancer treatment have side effects that affect how they are able to eat. Licensed registered dietitians at Siteman are available to provide general nutritional counseling during treatment and recovery, assessment of nutritional needs, techniques for coping with the side effects of cancer treatment, and information about nutritional supplements, complementary nutritional therapy, prevention of weight loss and the role of diet and nutrition in reducing cancer risk. To contact a dietitian, call 314-454-7619.
Sexual Health and Fertility
Fertility, or being able to be pregnant with your own biologic children, may not seem important if you are facing chemotherapy or radiation for a cancer diagnosis or other disease process, but it may become an important quality of life issue once your treatment is complete.
Chemotherapy or radiation can damage a woman's oocytes (eggs) as well as a man's ability to make sperm. For many patients facing these treatments, though, fertility can be preserved prior to, or sometimes during, treatment. The specialists at the Washington University Infertility and Reproductive Medicine Center will work with your oncologist to help you understand the options that are available to you.
Male Fertility Preservation: the Center offers cryopreservation (freezing) of sperm for male patients. Once frozen, sperm may be preserved for many years. The samples are typically stored onsite in our andrology laboratory and can be used for artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization when desired.
Female Fertility Preservation: Several options for female fertility conservation exist, including:
- Embryo Cryopreservation: This method requires both eggs and sperm to create embryos. Eggs are removed from the woman during a minor procedure, after hormone stimulation. The eggs are fertilized with sperm and the resulting embryos are frozen. Once cancer treatment is over and the woman is ready to conceive, an embryo is placed in the uterus.
- Egg Cryopreservation: This process does not require the presence of sperm. A woman can choose to have unfertilized eggs removed and frozen in the same way as above.
- Ovarian Tissue Cryopreservation: While this procedure is still considered experimental and remains under study, the process involves laparoscopic surgery to remove an ovary to be frozen for future use.
To talk to a fertility specialist about your options, call if you feel that fertility preservation is right for you, call 314-286-2400.
Genetic Testing and Counseling
About 5 percent to 10 percent of all cancers are hereditary. Geneticists and genetic counselors at Siteman help people who have a family history of a particular type of cancer assess their cancer risk. To learn more about this service and whether you should consider risk assessment, click here.
Support Programs
The Siteman Cancer Center offers a variety of support programs for patients and families at all three of our locations. These programs range from support groups and exercise programs to educational sessions and pet therapy. Check our calendar for upcoming dates and more information.
We also partner with local organizations to offer cancer support groups for patients and families. Learn more about those groups by clicking below:
Survivorship Program
At Siteman Cancer Center, our Survivorship Program focuses on maintaining a lifelong connection with all of our cancer patients so that you can embrace life to the fullest. This includes offering services that meet the physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs of you as our patient and your family or caregivers.
Our team in the Survivorship Program can link you to onsite or community resources, such as free counseling services and cancer support groups, or direct you to case managers who can assist with financial concerns. We also know about the possibility of lingering side effects after treatment, such as fatigue and memory loss, and can answer your questions about available options.
Just call the Survivorship Program office at (314) 747-1792 or learn more here.
Clinic for Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer
The Lifelong Outcomes Clinic provides long-term care aimed at preventing, detecting and treating delayed complications of pediatric cancer and addressing the mental health concerns of adult survivors of childhood cancer. The clinic evaluates patients and refers them to cardiologists, pulmonologists, psychologists, social workers or other experts, depending on each patient's needs. Individuals also receive a follow-up care plan based on the earlier cancer diagnosis and the potential late effects of cancer treatment. The clinic can help patients share the plans with their current physicians.
The Lifelong Outcomes Clinic is at Siteman Cancer Center-South County, 5225 Midamerica Plaza, St. Louis, Mo., 63129, near Interstate 55 and Butler Hill Road (map). To make an appointment, call 314-747-1171. Referrals from health-care providers are welcome, too.
Office of Patient & Family Affairs
Should you or your family have a question or concern about your experience at our hospital, we would like to hear from you. Help us see things through your eyes as we strive to deliver exceptional care to our patients.
We suggest you first discuss your concern with your nurse, the department manager, or your doctor. If the concern remains unresolved the office of Patient & Family Affairs staff is available Monday-Friday, 8 am-5 pm to help you.
Click here for more information. You may also contact us at 314-362-6100 Monday through Friday 8 am-5 pm, email a liaison at email@example.com, or stop by the Office of Patient & Family Affairs on the main floor of South campus and the third floor of the Center for Advanced Medicine. In the evenings or on weekends, please call the hospital operator at (314) 362-5000 and ask for a nursing supervisor.


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The Harvard Business Review has dedicated the whole January/February 2013 edition to the necessity of redifining the company organization in order to encourage each collaborator to contribute best to putting into praxis the corporate strategy with his or her unique competences.
Below we cite part of the introduction to Martin Dewhurst's, Bryan Hancock's, and Diana Ellsworth's study, qui for the full article.
Redesigning Knowledge Work
Experts with prized skills are too rare to squander on jobs others can do. That's why some organizations are relieving their valuable talent of those responsibilities so that they can spend more time on the tasks only they can perform—by redesigning job roles within the company or by turning to external providers of specialized expertise. Consider these examples:
- Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, a San Francisco–based law firm with nine U.S. offices, shifted routine discovery work previously performed by partners and partner-tracked associates to a new service center in West Virginia staffed by lower-paid attorneys.
- The Narayana Hrudayalaya Cardiac Hospital in Bangalore has junior surgeons, nurses, and technicians handle routine tasks such as preparing the patient for surgery and closing the chest after surgery. Senior cardiac surgeons come to the operating room only when the patient's chest is open and the heart is ready to be operated on. This approach helps the hospital provide care at a fraction of the cost of U.S. providers while maintaining U.S.-level mortality and infection rates.
- In the United Kingdom, a growing number of public schools are relieving head teachers, or principals, of administrative tasks such as budgeting, human resources, facilities maintenance, and community relations so that they can devote more time to developing teachers.
In today's knowledge economy, competitive advantage is increasingly coming from the particular, hard-to-duplicate know-how of a company's most skilled people: talented (and highly paid) engineers, salespeople, scientists, and other professionals. The problem is that across the private, public, and social sectors there aren't enough knowledge workers to go around. And the situation promises to get worse: Recent research by the McKinsey Global Institute suggests that by 2020 the worldwide shortage of highly skilled, college-educated workers could reach 38 million to 40 million, or 13% of demand.
In response, some firms are taking steps to expand the talent pool—for example, by investing in apprenticeships and other training programs. But a number of companies are going further: They are redefining the jobs of their experts, transferring some of their tasks to lower-skill people inside or outside their organizations, and outsourcing work that requires scarce skills but is not strategically important.
Such moves aren't new, of course. Firms have long been carving off repeatable, transactional work—such as call center services, payroll, or IT support—and either shifting it to lower-cost locations or outsourcing it. What is new is that companies are now doing this with knowledge-based jobs that are core to the business.
In the past five years, we have worked with or studied more than 50 companies in a wide range of industries on talent management issues. We found that redefining high-value knowledge jobs not only can help companies address skills shortages. It also can lower costs and increase job satisfaction.
Some organizations are already familiar with ways to break work into highly specialized pieces. In this article, we'll show how to do that for high-end knowledge work. The process involves several basic steps: identifying the gap between the talent your firm has and what it will need; creating narrower, more-focused job descriptions in areas where talent is scarce; choosing from various options for filling the skills gap; and rewiring processes for talent and knowledge management.


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Beneath the towering office buildings and twinkling lights of modern downtown Albuquerque lurk the memories of public hangings, duels, horrific murders and locations haunted by those who have passed over to the other side. Tales of vengeful lovers, gang fights and mysterious specters await around every turn. What better way to experience Albuquerque's history than to possibly come face to face with a spirit from the past?
The 100-minute Albucreepy Downtown Ghost Walk will guide you past 1.3 miles of Albuquerque's dark side, including historic (and reportedly haunted) sites such as the KiMo Theater, old Bernalillo County Courthouse, the Wool Warehouse, Freed Building and more.
As you walk, your guide will reveal vivid accounts of Albuquerque's most popular ghosts, explain methods used to detect paranormal activity, and discuss previous investigations at downtown locations. This is an interactive exploration of Albuquerque's haunted past and not a theatrical performance. While many tour participants have experienced unusual activity, we can't guarantee ghostly phenomena.
Looking for a 4-pack of tickets? Albucreepy is even better with friends! Enter '4pack' as the coupon code at check-out to receive tickets at $20 each (before tax).
On most tour nights, guests arriving prior to 7:40pm will be treated to a short magic performance prior to the tour. Albucreepy Guides will begin the tour promptly at 8:00pm. If guests haven't arrived, we will wait no longer than 5 minutes. Meet at our downtown location (330 Tijeras Ave NW, Suite Q) located inside the Hyatt Regency.
YES, we still have tours in the winter! Even though we live in the desert, it gets very cold at night in winter. If anything is going to send a shiver up your spine, it should be a ghost and not the weather. Please bundle up in coats, hats, jackets, scarves, etc. Don't get chilled to the bone!
Albucreepy Downtown Ghost Walks occur in all types of weather. Tours will only be cancelled if the sidewalks are dangerous and not walk-able (snow-packed, icy, etc) or in the case of severe lightning or flooding. Please dress appropriately.
NOTE: The Albucreepy Downtown Ghost Walk is rated PG-13 due to its creepy subject matter. The tour is recommended for ages 13 and up. The Albucreepy Downtown Ghost Walk features the exterior of the locations; there will not be access to the inside of any private businesses (excluding the Hyatt Regency Albuquerque). Tour is taken at your own risk.


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http://www.mobileapptelligence.com – As the horizon of mobile technology is expanding rapidly, the mobile app development landscape is turning to be astonishingly intriguing. Now many are enthusiastic about hybrid or cross mobile applications. They combine many good features of both native and HTML 5 apps. The issue which is the preferable one has led to a heated debate in the related circles. Before coming to a conclusion, let's have a bird's eye view of each of these applications.
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A native mobile application is a smartphone application that is coded using the native programming language for platforms like iPhone or iPad apps built using Objective-C, and Android application built with Java. Native apps are loved for their fast performance and high reliability, sophisticated user experience and interface. They have full access to a phone's various features, such as its camera, geo location, and address book. Since native apps run smoothly, it is a better way to go for games. Businesses value their ability to submit to app stores and generate visibility. Users can use some apps without an Internet connection too. Moreover, Native apps are widely regarded as being the more secure solution. On the downside, this type of app is expensive to create and maintain, because a separate app is to be created and maintained for each platform (OS, Android, Windows phone) if you want to cover a larger audience across all platforms. So companies, to cut costs, have looked beyond the Native apps.
Hybrid (cross-platform) mobile application is developed with both HTML5 and Native technology, built using web technology and then wrapped in a platform-specific shell. It has not only cross-platform compatibility but also has moderate access to some of the native APIs and phone's hardware. However, speed of Hybrid is slower that the Native apps. A high level of technical skill is required to develop and maintain Hybrid apps. Still, many Hybrid apps get rejected at the Apple app store since the app is just a wrapper for a website.
Keeping the above facts in mind, you may choose between Native and Hybrid according to your requirements and the way you want your user to interact with your app.
Author is a senior business analyst and an expert in native mobile app development.
Mobile App Usage Stats 2015
According to a leading mobile analytics firm, mobile app usage continued to see significant growth year on year, with overall mobile app usage up by 72.5%. Top mobile app categories including shopping, utilities & productivity and messaging also saw more than 300% growth. With 51% of time spent on mobile devices in comparison to 42% on desktops / laptops by end users in United States, global companies are partnering top mobile development companies to develop mobile app, which keeps them ahead of curve.


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Shane Watson must be fully fit for Test: Ricky Ponting
Ricky Ponting said the injury-prone all-rounder would put too much pressure on his teammates if he played against the Proteas in Adelaide carrying a calf muscle strain.
Former skipper Ricky Ponting weighed into the Shane Watson fitness debate on Tuesday saying the Australian vice-captain cannot play in the second Test against South Africa if he's not fully fit.
Ponting said the injury-prone all-rounder would put too much pressure on his teammates if he played against the Proteas carrying a calf muscle strain.
A decision was expected to be made on Wednesday or the morning of Thursday's match with Test rookie Rob Quiney on standby to retain his number three spot.
Watson, 31, took a fitness test Tuesday as he pushed for a recall as a batsman only for Thursday's Adelaide Test.
Watson completed a number of running exercises but was not at full stretch in his workout at the Adelaide Oval.
Ponting said Watson was looking good in the nets but was restricted from doing anything else in the field except slips catching.
"It doesn't matter what we think as teammates -- he will have a certain lot of criteria he will have to pass," Ponting told reporters.
"There will be a certain amount of running he will have to do to prove that he's right to play a Test match.
"No one can go into a Test match 70 percent fit. I don't care if you're a batsman and a slip fielder. If you can't bat at 100 percent, then you are putting pressure on other blokes as well."
Ponting, turning 38 next month and facing his 167th Test match this week, said Watson would have to run freely between the wickets when batting.
"Someone has got to run with him between wickets and I'm sure that will be in the back of his mind and it will certainly be in the back of the mind of our physio and doctors that are looking after him," he said.
"They will make sure they tick all the boxes."


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EventsElf the Musical
Date: Dec. 4, 2020
Coming off the popular run of Abrams Spotlight Productions production of Elf the Musical Junior…. Our winter show will be Elf the Musical- the FULL production! Based on the cherished 2003 New Line Cinema hit, Elf features songs by Tony Award nominees Matthew Sklar (The Wedding Singer) and Chad Beguelin (Disney's Aladdin on Broadway), with a book by Tony Award winners,Thomas Meehan (Annie, The Producers, Hairspray) and Bob Martin (The Drowsy Chaperone).
This production of Elf the Musical is the full length production and includes 2 more songs! Elf the Musical will feature both adults and kids in various roles. The modern-day holiday classic is sure to make everyone embrace their inner elf. After all, the best way to spread Christmas Cheer is singing loud for all to hear.


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Bear Grylls Paracord Fixed Blade
If you're going to pack an item into the backcountry, it becomes even more valuable when it serves multiple purposes. By combining Gerber's decades of experience crafting tools and Bear Grylls's survival knowledge, the Bear Grylls Paracord Fixed Blade is that item. You get the functionality of a field-proven, full tang fixed blade knife plus the added versatility of nearly 4 feet of paracord. And it weighs in under 6 ounces, that's less than most smartphones—not bad for a 7.75-inch long knife.
Balanced Minimalism
The minimalist, balanced feel of the Paracord Fixed Blade is well-suited to extended backcountry travel where every ounce counts. The 4-inch handle performs equally well with or without the paracord, and it offers a full grip for all hand sizes and plenty of power for driving the blade to shape wood or work on small game. A deep choil that sits between your hand and the blade allows you to safely apply added pressure when driving the blade, and a textured thumb rest on the spine adds control. The 45 inches of paracord on the handle could fashion an emergency splint or repair a blown snowshoe binding. Until then, the cord serves as a lightweight grip on an incredibly capable knife. You can even customize the wrap to suit your grip preference.
Multitasking Sheath
The lightweight, slim design of the sheath is in keeping with the thin profile and minimalist style of the knife, a real plus when you're traveling light and don't want bulky items hanging from your belt or pack. You can customize the sheath to meet your access preference, too: tip up, tip down or to the side. It attaches easily to a pack, or remove the belt clip for the ultimate in minimalist packing.
Overall Length: 7.75", 19.7cm
Blade Length: 3.25", 8.3cm
Weight: 5.75 oz, 163g
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45 inches (114.3 cm) of paracord make up the handle padding and can be removed to tackle other needs
Lightweight sheath is reversible and the belt loop can be removed or used to strap it to your pack
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Sea lions killed for eating too many salmon
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- Category: Environment
- Published: 12 March 2010
By Abby Haight
Portland, Oregon (AP) March 2010
Wildlife officials have tried everything to keep sea lions from eating endangered salmon, dropping bombs that explode under water and firing rubber bullets and bean bags from shotguns and boats. Now they are resorting to issuing death sentences to the most chronic offenders.
A California sea lion last week became the first salmon predator to be euthanized this year under a program that has been denounced by those who say there are far greater dangers to salmon including the series of hydroelectric dams on the Columbia.
This is the second year of the program, which is administered by wildlife officials in Oregon and Washington and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Last year, 11 sea lions were euthanized. Another four were transferred to zoos or aquariums.
The sea lions represent a massive headache each year as chinook salmon begin arriving at the Bonneville Dam east of Portland, congregating in large numbers as they return from the ocean. Sea lions have become keenly aware that the dam is a great spot to feast on salmon, easy pickings as they wait to go up the dams fish ladders.
They learn. They come up here and know its a good place to eat, and sooner or later the salmon are going to arrive, said Robert Stansell, a fisheries biologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Officials are tracking 63 additional sea lions listed as repeat offenders. They are identified by scars or by numbers that were branded on them by researchers.
To get on that list, we have to have observed them as distinct individuals, said Jessica Sall, spokeswoman for the Oregon office of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. They are not responding to hazing, and theyre eating chinook salmon.
Sea lions have gobbled salmon forever. But their numbers have soared in recent years, as has the number of those cruising upriver to dine on salmon at Bonneville Dam. Frustrations peaked, especially among fishermen who have watched sea lions snatch salmon right out of their gill nets.
The Bonneville crowd of hefty mammals they can reach more than 600 pounds and eight feet in length have become the enemy of commercial and sport fisherman, who are allowed to catch and keep hatchery-raised fish, and a concern for conservationists trying to restore migratory runs, since sea lions dont distinguish between hatchery and wild fish.
At least three of the upper Columbia River spring salmon runs that pass through the dam are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, most significantly the spring chinook salmon run.
The sea lions growing numbers forced state, federal and tribal agencies to intensify efforts to protect the regions multibillion-dollar salmon recovery program.
The sea lions are protected by a 1972 federal law, but an amendment leaves open the possibility that some can be captured or killed if the states request it. Oregon and Washington did in 2006 with the support of Indian tribes and sport and commercial fishing groups.
Two years ago, the National Marine Fisheries Service authorized Oregon and Washington officials to first attempt to catch the sea lions that arrive at the base of Bonneville Dam and hold them 48 hours to see whether an aquarium, zoo or similar facility will take them.
Otherwise, they could be euthanized, along with those that avoid trapping. Only California sea lions can be destroyed. Stellar sea lions cannot be killed because they are protected under the Endangered Species Act.
Supporters say the program works. The numbers of sea lions at the dam have dropped, although the 4,489 salmon they ate last year was the highest since tracking began in 2002.
Critics, led by the Humane Society of the United States, say that a far greater danger to salmon are hydroelectric dams on the Columbia, which are an obstacle to salmon both as they head out to sea and when they return from the ocean to spawn.
The Humane Society also says fishermen catch three times as many salmon as sea lions eat.
The Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission this year has begun tracking the sea lions movements with acoustic transmitters and cameras placed along the river. Instead of just reacting to the sea lions, the data might help authorities plan a more successful campaign, a fisheries scientist says.
All of the counts that you hear, all of the impact on salmon, is based on what they can see from the dam, said Doug Hatch, of the inter-tribal commission. That doesnt account for the whole 150 river miles below the dam.
The frustration comes as experts predict the largest spring chinook run since 1938. Thanks to good ocean conditions for young salmon, an expected 470,000 fish will head up the Columbia River, compared to 169,300 in 2009.
The primary weapon against the sea lions still remains hazing, but even that has limitations.
The problem is, as soon as the boats go around the corner, theyre right back, Stansell said. Some of the animals that have been there a long time dont even move when they get hit in the back with a rubber bullet. They just keep eating their fish.


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Florida is scheduled to execute a man who fatally stabbed his wife and her young son in 1985.
STARKE — Florida was set Wednesday to execute a Tampa area man who killed his estranged wife and her young son in 1985, two years after he had been paroled for murdering his previous spouse.
John Ruthell Henry, 63, was scheduled to receive a lethal injection at 6 p.m. EDT for the stabbing death of Suzanne Henry in Pasco County. He also was convicted in Hillsborough County of stabbing Suzanne Henry's 5-year-old son, Eugene Christian, near Plant City, hours after the woman's murder.
It would be the 13th execution in Florida since April 2013, and the 18th since Republican Gov. Rick Scott took office in 2011. On Wednesday, the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Henry's effort to postpone the execution. His lawyers filed another appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court, but it has rarely halted Florida executions.
Hours earlier, Georgia and Missouri carried out separate executions, the first since a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma in April revived concerns about capital punishment. Neither execution had any noticeable complications.
Georgia and Missouri both use the single drug pentobarbital, a sedative. Florida uses a three-drug combination of midazolam hydrochloride, vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride.
Midazolam, a sedative used before surgery, has only been used in Florida since October; previously, sodium thiopental was used, but its U.S. manufacturer stopped making it and Europe banned its manufacturers from exporting it for executions.
During the first Florida execution using midazolam, it appeared to an Associated Press reporter that it took longer for inmate William Happ to lose consciousness than others who have been executed under the previous drug mix. In the six executions since, the process has appeared to go normally.
Scott on Tuesday brushed aside questions about the state's execution procedures, saying he has to "uphold the laws of the land."
When asked directly if he had discussed with the Department of Corrections what happened in Oklahoma and whether any changes were needed in Florida, Scott would only say: "I focus on making sure that we do things the right way here."
Henry, the condemned man, had previously pleaded no contest to second-degree murder for stabbing his common-law wife, Patricia Roddy, in 1976. He served less than eight years in prison before being released in 1983. He had been on parole for two years when he killed his wife and the boy. Suzanne Henry's relatives told reporters she hadn't known about John Henry's previous killing when she married him after his release.
During Henry's trial, prosecutors said the unemployed bricklayer went to Suzanne Henry's home three days before Christmas of 1985 to talk about buying a gift for the boy, who was Suzanne's son from a prior relationship. They fought over Henry living with another woman and he stabbed her 13 times in the neck and face.
Prosecutors said Henry then took the boy and drove around for nine hours, sometimes smoking crack cocaine, before stabbing him five times in the neck.
Hours later, Henry told a detective, he found himself wandering a field. He later told therapists he had killed the child to reunite him with his mother.
Henry tried to use an insanity defense for killing his wife.
Psychiatrists at the trial testified that Henry had a low IQ, suffered from chronic paranoia and smoked crack. He told them he had intended to commit suicide after killing the boy but said he was unable to go through with it.
In recent months, Henry's attorneys have questioned whether his client was mentally stable enough to comprehend his death sentence.
In an appeal the Florida Supreme Court rejected last week, attorney Baya Harrison III wrote that Henry's "abhorrent childhood, extensive personal and family mental health history, poor social adjustment, and lack of rational thinking and reasoning skills so impaired his adaptive functioning that he was actually performing at the level of a person with an IQ of 70."
In May, a panel of mental health experts said Henry doesn't suffer from mental illness or an intellectual disability and that he understands "the nature and effect of the death penalty and why it is to be imposed on him," according to court records.
Nine executions nationwide have been stayed or postponed since late April, when Oklahoma prison officials halted the execution of Clayton Lockett after noting that the lethal injection drugs weren't being administered into his vein properly. Lockett died of a heart attack several minutes later.