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In a case that has gripped the nation, Old Etonian Thomas Cholmondeley, 40, the great-grandson and heir of Lord Delamere, the colonial-era progenitor of Kenya's most famous white family, arrived in court this morning to learn his fate after being locked up for three years in Nairobi's notorious Kamiti Maximum Security Prison.
After reading out his marathon 320-page verdict, Judge Muga Apondi found Cholmondeley guilty of manslaughter, a crime that in Kenya typically carries a life sentence.
The judge announced that Cholmondeley had fired the shot that had killed Robert Njoya, 37, a poacher who he had come across on the family ranch in May 2006. To gasps from the gallery, the judge said that Cholmondeley would be sentenced on Tuesday.
In court to hear the shocking verdict was Sally Dudmesh, 47, the elegant and long-suffering girlfriend of Cholmondeley. She was devastated.
In the days before the trial, she had told the Evening Standard that there was only one outcome - "Tom's acquittal" - that she had been prepared to contemplate.
Speaking from the Ngong Dairy, her stunningly gorgeous house in Karen, Nairobi, at the foot of the Ngong Hills - the same house that was used as Karen Blixen's home in the film Out of Africa - Dudmesh had said: "It's incredibly stressful. I am just trying to cope with this hour by hour, day by day. I'm the person who has visited Tom in prison once a week for three years, who has stood by him, supported him and fought for him. I have always believed in his innocence."
She recounted how three years ago, almost to the day, she got an urgent text from Cholmondeley to say he had been taken into police custody. A black poacher, Robert Njoya, had been killed on his family's 56,000-acre estate in the Great Rift Valley and Cholmondeley was the prime suspect.
The killing came a year after Cholmondeley, a controversial character in Kenya, had been cleared of shooting and killing an undercover black game warden, Samson ole Sisina, arguing that he had shot him in self-defence.
In the poacher case, Cholmondeley admitted firing his Winchester bolt-action rifle but maintained that he aimed only at the poacher's dogs.
His lawyers had claimed that his rally-driver friend, Carl Tundo, had also fired his pistol in the mêlée. Two lay assessors had concluded, in March this year, that there was insufficient evidence to decide which gun had delivered the fatal shot and had handed down a verdict - which is influential but non-binding on the judge - of "not guilty". As it turned out, the judge decided otherwise.
Close to tears as she had recounted these events, Dudmesh, the daughter of wealthy English tobacco farmers, who spent her childhood in Pakistan, Mauritius, Ghana and Yemen, made an honest admission.
"If I'd known Tom would be locked away for three years, that it would mean three years of my life, I don't think I'd have agreed to stand by him," she says. "For me, it feels like I've been in prison, too. I'm really suffering. This is beyond what a human being can tolerate."
A jewellery designer whose creations sell for up to £2,000 apiece, Dudmesh has lived an intensely privileged and tortured life.
Although her lifestyle is enviable, involving safaris, trips to souks and living with the Masai for months on end, she was also famously part of a hard-partying expat set, four of whom are now dead. They prided themselves on living fearlessly and indulged in wild socialising that carried on long after it had been exposed in books such as White Mischief.
"Outsiders see my lifestyle as charmed and, yes, it can be magical waking up to the animals and the big skies or under the stars at night, but you pay such a big price for the beauty," Dudmesh had reflected. There is that sense of wildness here, it's a kind of cowboy country. This attracts people who don't quite fit in with the rules and structures of England and that's why in the past you often used to find the black sheep of families settling here."
Two of her previous lovers were murdered: Tonio Trzebinski, 41, a rugged London-educated artist and aristocratic adventurer, was mysteriously shot through the heart in Nairobi in 2001, and Giles Thornton, 32, another wild and charismatic British artist, was shot dead in Kenya three years earlier. She was not involved with either man at the time of their deaths.
She also had a relationship with Carlos Mavroleon, 40, another Old Etonian adventurer who went off to fight with the Afghan mujaheddin and was found dead from a heroin overdose in 1998 in his hotel room in Peshawar on the Pakistan border. And her best friend was Emma McCune, the legendary aid worker who married a Sudanese guerrilla commander and, pregnant, was killed in a suspicious car accident on her way to a party at Dudmesh's house in 1993.
Dudmesh had worried that Cholmondeley - the only white man and the longest-serving remand prisoner at Kamiti - would also die. Built for 1,400 prisoners, Kamiti today houses 3,600 inmates in conditions of unimaginable squalor.
Sixty years ago in Kamiti the British tortured Kenyans suspected of involvement in the Mau Mau rebellion, including Barack Obama's paternal grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, who later told his family that he had been "whipped every morning" and that his testicles had been "squeezed with metallic rods".
Although Cholmondeley has not been physically tortured these past three years, Dudmesh said he has been kept in appalling conditions in the punishment block used for political prisoners.
Indeed, he has been held in the same cell that once held Raila Odinga, the Kenyan opposition leader and Prime Minister currently in a coalition government with President Mwai Kibaki. "It's a damp, greasy, tiny cell, 6ft by 9ft, and it's especially hard for Tom who, at 6ft 4 ins, is taller than the cell is wide," she said.
Over New Year, continued Dudmesh, she became particularly concerned when Tom's weight dropped alarmingly and he lost four inches around his waist following severe food rationing by the authorities.
There had been a high-profile incident, reported in the Kenyan press, in which some inmates concocted an illicit brew - made of turpentine and thinner from the prison workshop - for a Christmas celebration which turned tragic when two prisoners died and three went partially blind.
Embarrassed by the deaths, the prison authorities responded in typically draconian fashion. Food parcels that visitors such as Dudmesh regularly brought in on their weekly visits were banned and all inmates were placed on minimum rations.
"For a few weeks Tom was on a diet of nothing but rotting spinach, which he said was like eating compost," she said.
"It was tasteless and had no nutritional value and he couldn't keep it down. He lost masses of weight. I was worried about his physical condition and strength but even more disturbing was the impact mentally. He went to a very low and dark place. He lost all motivation to carry on. There were times when I wondered whether he could survive the next day."
Asked how Cholmondeley's parents, the 5th Baron Lord Delamere and Lady Delamere, have managed, she said: "It's been awful for Ann, Tom's mother. It's been very difficult for her to cope with her son being in prison for so long. She's been ill. She's had shingles from the stress."
To add to the pressure, the British press have been camping on her doorstep, Dudmesh said. "I've held them off until now but we've never seen anything like it."
Indeed, in an uncanny echo from the past, the last white Kenyan case to attract such international attention involved Cholmondeley's step-grandmother, Diana.
Before becoming the third wife of the fourth Baron Delamere in 1955, Diana was the mistress of the infamous playboy Earl of Erroll, and the wife of Sir Jock Delves Broughton, the man acquitted of murdering Erroll in the 1941 trial.
The events were dramatised in the 2001 film White Mischief, starring Greta Scacchi.
Dudmesh moved to Kenya after falling in love with the country when her parents gave her a trip there for her 18th birthday. She first met Cholmondeley on a trek in Mongolia in 1998.
At the time she lived a "highly sociable lifestyle" travelling the world in search of exotic materials for her jewellery, and he was newly married to Sally Brewerton, a British physician working for Doctors Without Borders.
Tom had met his wife in hospital after being attacked in the Masai Mara by a buffalo that had gored him, its horn piercing his thigh, ripping through his knee and coming out at his ankle.
"It was another seven years before Tom and I got together," she said. By then, Cholmondeley and his wife had separated but had two sons, Henry and Hugh, now aged nine and 11, who live with their mother in Sussex. She said that Cholmondeley's wife had asked her to arrange a camel safari for him and that was when their relationship took off.
"It was a scandal," she admitted. "But that year, we had a year of total bliss. It was like we'd found our other halves. Then this killing happened."
The shooting of the poacher provoked public outrage and brought long-simmering racial tensions to the boil.
To Dudmesh's dismay, the white community turned against Thomas, whom they saw as a trigger-happy throwback to the discredited days of the Happy Valley set.
His great-grandfather was infamous for riding his horse through the Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi and shooting the lights out as he jumped over the tables. The imprisonment of Cholmondeley symbolised the declining power of wealthy white-settler families.
"People have this view of Tom that he is an arrogant, aggressive person but he's misunderstood. He's actually very quiet and passive," said Dudmesh.
On Monday she had made what she fervently hoped would be her last visit to Kamiti prison. "I know Tom is innocent and I believe in justice," she said. "Like Tom, I am living hour by hour. I just need it to end, and to end well."
But sadly, as we discovered today, there was to be no happy ending.
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The server may not immediately appear because your system and network protocols may require significant time to locate the server. You should wait at least 5 minutes and then try again.
In Windows networks, a "master browser" function performed by one of the systems on your network may be required. "Browse master" services are commonly performed by file servers--but, on peer-to-peer networks, the service may be missing. Refer to your Windows system documentation for information on adding file-server services.
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Today, Optibase (NASDAQ:OBAS), a company that deals with advanced digital video solutions, announced a "change" in it's investment policy. It will decrease its holdings in structured notes, after taking a loss. It had invested about $10million, about 40% of all its cash, in a structured note that they have since sold at a loss of over $300,000.
In today's announcement, it didn't specify the principal amount but said that as of July 30, the loss would have been over $900,000. It appears to me that it invested in some kind of range accrual structured note, where, as long as the Libor rate was within a specific range, it earned high rates of interest, but once the range was breached, there was nothing. It obviously did this when rates were still low, and then as rates rose, it got nailed.
My question is where is the corporate oversight? How was the company able to manage its cash position in such a speculative manner? Where was the Board of Directors?
If you investigate the company, you will find that the Chairman of the Board also happens to be CEO. I am not naive enough to think that Optibase is the only company with this arrangement, but clearly there is a conflict of interest with this structure. If Optibase wants to turn into an investment company, and take more risk with its cash, that's its choice, but how about a little transparency for investors?
It's a shame that this has happened because the company has been executing their core business model well. For the first half of '07, revenues totaled $12.2 million, compared with $8.3 million for the first half '06. The net loss for the period was $1.6 million, compared to a net loss of $2.4 million.
Maybe the fact that it is stepping up to the plate and taking responsibility for the loss will mean the end to this practice. Let's hope Optibase stays on the cutting edge of broadband streaming solutions, and leaves the investing to professionals.
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I LOVE happy endings!
For once the M62 was clear for our short drive over the Pennines.
Both sets of fans mixed happily in the Yorkshire Rose.
Hopes were high for a result as we devoured our Barnsley chops and quaffed a couple of pints of real ale.
Our optimism was matched by the locals' pessimism.
It was a short walk to Huddersfield's yet again renamed ground, the John Smith's stadium.
The home fans knew all about Lukas Jutkiewicz and Neil Danns as they have both been on loan with Huddersfield previously. Of course, we knew all about Danny Ward.
Danns was the only change for us, coming in for the unfortunate Robert Hall, who suffered from the drop-the-man-of-the-match policy Freedman seems to follow.
The match had an end-of-season feel to it as the Bolton fans sang: "We're not going down, we're not going up."
Neither team played particularly well as defences were on top and what few chances were created were well dealt with by both goalkeepers.
But as the match wore on, Huddersfield seemed content to settle for a point and we sensed our chance to win as we piled on the pressure in the last quarter of the game.
Joe Mason replaced Liam Trotter, who had his best game so far.
Jermaine Beckford replaced the exhausted Jutkiewicz. Then just as we thought it was all over, Mason brilliantly turned Lee's low corner into the net to send most of the massed Bolton fans into ecstasy and the rest to their mobile phone media accounts.
We're now on a similar run to the end of last season, which generated such high hopes.
The close season is going to be critical as Freedman has to make the decisions to further his plan and to avoid a repeat of this disappointing season.


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If there is a less restrictive way of accomplishing the same end, a statute such as the metadata statute becomes unconstitutional.
These metadata, these intelligence officers say, reside in vast hard drives that belong to the NSA.
The translation of the essay was created on October 11, 2011 at 6:03 p.m., according to metadata embedded in the file.
Judge Eagan noted there had been problems with the metadata programs, but they had been "resolve[d]."
Those actions raise the issue as to whether the metadata programs are constitutional.
As the ACLU points out in its lawsuit against the government, the metadata program is quite intrusive.
It is not a legal decision that forecloses the serious questions about the metadata program.
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Gareth Bale reflected on his winner against Fulham and said with a smile: "Of course I meant it!"
The flying winger took his tally to 11 goals in all competitions when he glanced home Rafa van der Vaart's well-struck free-kick just before half-time on New Year's Day.
That was enough for maximum points after the Cottagers pushed us all the way at the Lane.
Pundits questioned at the time whether or not Gareth meant it – so we asked the man himself!
"Yes, I did mean it!" he said. "Just before Rafa was going to take the free-kick, he said to run towards the near post, I did that and reacted to the free-kick.
"The ball was right in front of me and I had to direct it as best I could towards goal and thankfully it went in.
"It's great to get on the scoresheet as often as possible and I just hope to keep doing that to help out the team."
Gareth's goal made it three wins out of three over the festive period and we now aim to make it four out of four at Everton tomorrow night, Wednesday, January 5.
The Toffees currently sit in 13th place and have yet to hit the consistent form they are capable of, but nevertheless showed what they are all about in a 1-1 draw at the Lane back in October.
"It's always tough at Everton and even though they might not be in the position they'd like to be, we all know it will be a difficult game," added Gareth.
"Everton showed that form at White Hart Lane and this will be just as tough, but we'll be prepared and hopefully we'll get another three points."
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It used to be the only way to stay in Shelter Island during the summer when its once-upon-a-time-on-an-island vibe was at its most palpable, was to either rent a house here or buy one as hotel options were thin at best. That all changed since the Salt Hotel group renovated The Chequit, a 37-room inn dating back to 1872 that retains its Victorian charm without hitting you over the head with it (no weak showers or uneven coffee tables here). Breakfast—yogurt, granola, in-house baked biscuits that crumble when you slather on the homemade jam—is served in the lobby each morning though you might want to have it delivered to your whitewashed room, sweetly wrapped picnic style. But if you do get yourself out of your bed (which is sure to show up on more than few Instagram accounts with its white, overstuffed duvet and double crescent headboard), sit out on the sweeping porch overlooking the nearby harbor. Or come back after sunset when wine on tap is meant to be sipped in a plush winged back chair out on the patio while you decide which beach you might bike to tomorrow. Editor's Pick: Hot List 2016


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Monday, April 12, 2010
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"April hath put a spirit of youth in everything." William Shakespeare
Today is a bright day, full of new beginings, ideas, and inspiration...In my office, I can hear the birds outside, chirping and flying about. There's some sweet comfort in hearing their songs. I adore Spring, and with it comes new blossoms and life...I think I would gladly wear the third ensemble, featured from Leifsdottir's Summer preview—wouldn't it would be the perfect tea party or luncheon outfit? And of course, who can resist the famous Anthropologie skirt!
Also, thank you to Sarah, of Design Me Daily, for the lovely Sunshine Award!
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Thank you for visiting Haute Design, by Sarah Klassen
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aahh..just perfecto.. Would love to have a tea party around a garden like the first pic!ReplyDelete
Have a great day Sarah :)
Those outfits epitomize the best of spring. It's a gorgeous day here in TX as well...only wish I didn't have to be indoors!ReplyDelete
I'm so in love with polka dots lately... love that skirt! we're having a lovely autumn day here too! enjoy it, darling! xoReplyDelete
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Beautiful pictures!
I love the pictures in your last post!
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Beautiful! Enjoy the beginning of spring lovely! Congrats on your award, it is well-deserved as your blog is fab xxReplyDelete
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The United States and Australia pledged Saturday to tighten security ties and work together to influence the behavior of an increasingly assertive China.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd said their countries would enhance their military and defense cooperation by expanding joint exercises and the use of each other's training facilities.
They also agreed to cooperate in trying to push China to take a more positive approach in its backyard.
The comments came at a joint news conference ahead of annual talks between the U.S. and Australia set for Monday. Joining Clinton and Rudd will be U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Australian Defense Minister Stephen Smith.
Neither Clinton nor Rudd offered details of the expanded defense relationship. Rudd said Australia would "welcome the United States making greater use of our ports and our training facilities, our test-firing ranges. That has been the case in decades past and will be the case for decades in the future."
A senior U.S. defense officials said the partnership could include shared use of some existing Australian military bases. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the two nations' defense and foreign ministers have not yet addressed the issue.
The ministers will launch a study group on the subject during Monday's meeting, the official said. The United States is not contemplating building any unilateral U.S. bases in Australia, such as it maintains in Japan and South Korea, the official said.
The shared base idea is part of U.S. efforts to diversify its Asian military stance, which has long been focused on northern Asia. Australian bases would place U.S. forces or assets such as ships and planes much closer to potential natural disasters or conflicts in the Southern Hemisphere.
The arrangement, somewhat controversial in Australia, would probably mean more U.S. service members on Australian soil. It could also increase tension with China, although U.S. officials said China is not the main reason for sharing bases.
Clinton and Rudd emphasized the importance of a responsible China to regional and global stability.
"We want to see China's rise be successful, bring benefits to the Chinese people but to take on greater responsibility and a rules-based approach towards all of its neighbors," Clinton told reporters.
Rudd, a former prime minister and diplomat who is fluent in Mandarin and served in China, agreed. He said the diplomatic work the U.S. and Australia are doing in the Asia-Pacific, along with their projection of power, is critical to maintaining a strategic balance in the region.
"This is very important in shaping rules-based order and habits of cooperation and predictability of behavior within the Asia-Pacific region that is in our common interest to underpin our stability and our security for this new century," he said.
China's smaller neighbors have grown steadily concerned about what they perceive as bullying from Beijing as it expands its influence and seeks to assert authority over large swaths of disputed maritime territory. Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines and others have competing claims with China over islands in the East and South China Seas.
Clinton noted that the United States would continue to press for peaceful resolutions to those claims as it has a national interest in securing maritime safety and freedom of navigation in crucial international shipping lanes. China rebuffed a proposal Clinton made last week to host talks between China and Japan over one such dispute.
Clinton also said she wanted to work with Australia to diversify sources of rare earth minerals that are key to the global high-tech industry. China is the source of about 97 percent of those metals and caused alarm last month when it appeared to begin restricting their export to Japan in the midst of the maritime dispute.
Chinese officials last week assured Clinton that China would remain a reliable supplier of rare earths. But Clinton made clear that countries like Australia and the United States, which largely abandoned rare earth production in favor of cheaper exports from China, need to act to protect the supply.
"The slowdown or the potential (of a slowdown) of the supply coming from China ... raised questions in many of our minds," she said. "It does have direct military and defense pertinence how best we can work together to ensure that there is a broad-based global supply of these critical minerals."
Australia is the final foreign stop on Clinton's seven-nation trip to the Asia-Pacific.
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UPDATE: Residents enrolled in the natural gas aggregation program should have
received a letter from Duke Energy notifying you IGS Energy will no longer be
the aggregation's supplier. This comes
as a result of the City's decision to not renew the natural gas agreement with
IGS Energy upon its expiration in October 2016.
Your natural gas supplier will now revert back to Duke Energy.
The City has determined it in the
best interest of residents to discontinue the natural gas aggregation program
at this time. The goal of the
aggregation program has always been to locate the best possible rate and
supplier for the residents of Springdale. Working with a consortium of other local
governments as we have done previously for the aggregation program, the City
sought competitive proposals from natural gas suppliers in advance of the
expiration of the agreement with IGS Energy.
Unfortunately, the rate proposals received were not favorable in
comparison to the rates being offered by Duke Energy.
The City's certificate with the
Ohio Public Utilities Commission remains active until February 2018. If we are able to locate a lucrative rate and
reach an agreement with the supplier, we have the ability to re-establish the
natural gas aggregation program.
Although the City is not entering
into an agreement with an alternative energy supplier for the natural gas
aggregation program, residents are still able to enter into an agreement with a
supplier of their choosing. As always,
we encourage residents to be fully aware of the terms and conditions of any
agreement they choose to enter.
If you were part of the City's natural gas aggregation program, you will not be charged a $4.00 switching fee since you
are returning from a community-sponsored governmental aggregation program.
The City's agreement with IGS
Energy under the electric aggregation program will remain in place through
October 2017. As the expiration of that
agreement approaches, the City will re-evaluate the program and its potential
to realize a cost savings for our residents.
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Top 10 health care ethics challenges facing the public: views of Toronto bioethicists
There are numerous ethical challenges that can impact patients and families in the health care setting. This paper reports on the results of a study conducted with a panel of clinical bioethicists in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the purpose of which was to identify the top ethical challenges facing patients and their families in health care. A modified Delphi study was conducted with twelve clinical bioethicist members of the Clinical Ethics Group of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics. The panel was asked the question, what do you think are the top ten ethical challenges that Canadians may face in health care? The panel was asked to rank the top ten ethical challenges throughout the Delphi process and consensus was reached after three rounds.
The top challenge ranked by the group was disagreement between patients/families and health care professionals about treatment decisions. The second highest ranked challenge was waiting lists. The third ranked challenge was access to needed resources for the aged, chronically ill, and mentally ill.
Although many of the challenges listed by the panel have received significant public attention, there has been very little attention paid to the top ranked challenge. We propose several steps that can be taken to help address this key challenge.
It is not uncommon for health care professionals to clash with the family of the patients for whom they care over treatment decisions. Some patients will inevitably suffer the consequences of an error made during their care or hospitalization. Many people in need of diagnostic tests or surgical procedures are forced to wait months, and perhaps even years, to receive these services. These are just some examples of the kinds of ethical challenges that patients and their families may confront in the health care setting.
Although these challenges have been discussed widely in the literature as isolated ethical issues in health care, no attempt has ever been made to collate and prioritize them. Ranking the top ethical challenges facing the public can be an effective and valuable way of bringing them to the public's attention. Moreover, efforts to address ethical challenges in health care vary significantly from one to another, with some receiving a great deal of attention from the media and from government, while others go largely unnoticed; it would be valuable to discover whether the attention given to these challenges is allocated appropriately. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify the top ethical challenges facing patients and families in health care, from the perspective of a panel of clinical bioethicsts.
How the study was conducted
A modified Delphi study was conducted with twelve clinical bioethicist members of the Clinical Ethics Group of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics. The justification for using a panel of bioethicists rather than a panel of community members is that clinical bioethicists will have a greater familiarity with the overall range of challenges than community members due to the fact that the ethical challenges are highly concentrated in their day-to-day work.
These clinical bioethicists work in a wide range of health care institutions, including quaternary-level institutions (for both adult and pediatric care), geriatrics/long-term care, rehabilitation, addiction and mental health, and community hospitals. In addition, the experience of the panel members covers both inpatient and outpatient health care. The Clinical Ethics Group at the Joint Centre for Bioethics is the largest institutionally-affiliated collection of clinical bioethicists in Canada, and perhaps in the world. Most of the panel members have several years of experience in clinical ethics, and the Clinical Ethics Group as a whole conduct more than 1200 consults per year. We believe that due to their extensive experience in ethics consultation and bioethics research, this group would be able to offer a uniquely informed perspective on the ethical challenges facing patients and their families. The twelve panel members chosen for the study represent a subset of the larger Clinical Ethics Group; although other members of the Clinical Ethics Group participated in various steps of the process, only the results of the twelve panel members who participated in all rounds were included in the results.
In the first round of the process the bioethicists were provided with a list of 38 themes that summarized the themes discussed during the previous two years of case conference discussions at the Joint Centre for Bioethics. The bioethicists were asked to provide a list of what they believed to be the top ten ethical challenges facing the public, which they could pull from the list of 38 themes or provide additional themes in their own words. In this context the phrase "ethical challenges facing the public" was meant to imply issues, situations, or problems, which have ethical implications, and would impact or affect the public either directly or indirectly. Although there were no formal criteria for determining the relative impact of the various challenges, the panel members considered such factors as the prevalence of the challenge (how often it occurs and is likely to occur in the future), how many patients and families are and will be affected by the challenge, and the seriousness of the impact on the public.
The panel members each responded by email with their list of ranked challenges, along with brief explanations as to why their chosen items were important and challenging. Two of the authors (SKM and JB) then clustered and reworded the themes as necessary to meet a desired level of specificity, and any themes from the original list not ranked by any panel member were dropped from the list. Following this, a list of 32 items was fed back to the panel in advance of a face-to-face meeting. The main purpose of this meeting was for the group to narrow the list further by grouping similar challenges together to make sure that all items were in fact distinct challenges. From this meeting a new list of 23 items was circulated for the second round of ranking, in which participants were again asked to rank their top ten items and give rationales for their rankings. This third round of ranking produced the final list of top ten challenges. The process was stopped after the third round because the list of challenges could not be specified or differentiated any further. The overall ranking was done as per the Delphi method, whereby the highest ranked scenario cited by a panel member was then assigned ten points, followed by the second highest ranked scenario receiving nine points, and so on until the tenth highest ranked scenario. Individual scores were summed up to create a total score for each scenario and a corresponding ranked list for the group. The maximum score that could be achieved by a single item was 120, which would result only if the same item was ranked as the top challenge by all twelve panel members.
Results of the study are listed in Table
Table 1
Top 10 ethical challenges facing Canadians in health care
Disagreement between patients/families and health care professionals about treatment decisions
Waiting lists
Access to needed health care resources for the aged, chronically ill and mentally ill
Shortage of family physicians or primary care teams in both rural and urban settings
Medical error
Withholding/withdrawing life sustaining treatment in the context of terminal or serious illness
Achieving informed consent
Ethical issues related to subject participation in research
Substitute decision-making
The ethics of surgical innovation and incorporating new technologies for patient care
The second highest ranked ethical challenge facing the public in health care, with 102 total points, was waiting lists. This has been a growing problem in Canadian health care as progressively increasing demand for health care services has put mounting pressure on the already strained Provincial health care systems in the country. According to the panel, waiting for needed care may in some cases compromise the health status and outcomes of patients, impede their ability to return to normal functioning at work and at home, and may also contribute to psychological distress. Waiting lists may also contribute to inappropriate use of scarce resources as is the case when acute care beds are used for long-term care patients, or ICU beds for chronic care patients. Waiting lists also raise the issue of geographical inequities among regions or various health centres.
The third highest ranked challenge was issues related to access to needed health care services for the aged, chronically ill and mentally ill. There are two components to this set of issues: one, according to the panel, is the marginalization of populations such as the elderly and mentally ill due to negative attitudes of many citizens toward those populations. The other component is the historical lack of priority of the needs of these populations in the funding allocation schemes of Canadian health care: the bulk of the funding has traditionally gone toward acute, life-saving care, while long-term care, rehabilitation care, and mental health have been grossly under-funded. According to the panel, socially or economically disadvantaged or mentally ill patients require appropriate advocacy to ensure their needs are met. Lack of patient compliance or self-care is sometimes used as reasons to withdraw resources. According to the panel members, we have an ethical obligation to acknowledge and challenge discriminatory beliefs around age, culture, and mental illness that are culturally and socially constructed in order to reduce the risk of emotional and physical harms of the vulnerable in our hospitals and nursing homes. Often these issues emerge when resources are limited.
The fourth ranked challenge was the shortage of family physicians or primary care teams in both rural and urban settings. According to a 2002 study published by the Canadian Institute for Health Information, the proportion of Canadian medical graduates starting practice as a general or family practitioner dropped sharply, from a high of 80% in 1992 to only 45% in 2000
The fifth ranked ethical challenge facing the public by the panel was the issue of medical error. Although errors have always been part of medicine, it wasn't until the 1999 report from the Institute of Medicine in the U.S.,
Sixth on the list, but well behind the issue of medical error in overall scoring, was the challenge associated the appropriate use of pain medication in the terminally or chronically ill, and the use of palliative care at the end of life. For example, health care providers sometimes struggle with how to use pain medication appropriately for terminally ill patients because treating the patient's pain sufficiently can potentially hasten the death of the patient. The panel has suggested that this is one of the contributing factors behind the widespread under-treatment of pain in the terminally and chronically ill. Another challenge that falls into this category surrounds the timing of palliative care, i.e., decision making around when is the appropriate time to shift from a curative to a palliative approach to care.
Seventh on the list according to the panel was the challenge of obtaining informed consent in the health care setting. Research
The eighth top challenge was a family of issues associated with participant involvement in research. There are a wide range of ethical issues related to research in the health care setting, including obtaining informed consent, the balance between providing participants with fair compensation and the risk that the compensation will be a coercive influence, the challenge of balancing benefits and risks of the research, issues around patient privacy and confidentiality, and the ethical appropriateness of involving in research participants who are not capable of giving an informed consent.
The ninth ranked challenge, finishing closely behind the challenges associated with research, was the challenge of substitute decision making. When a patient is incapable of making a particular health care decision, the health care team will turn to the substitute decision maker to make the decision. Depending on the particular jurisdiction there may be a legal hierarchy of decision makers, which typically places the patient's most intimate relationship at the top (spouse or partner) and other relatives toward the bottom of the hierarchy (many Canadian provinces and US states have such a hierarchy written into health care consent legislation). In the experience of the panel members, substitute decision makers often find this task to be a heavy burden, and struggle with the responsibility attached to making a potentially life-altering (and often life-ending) decision on behalf of their loved ones. This burden is experienced to the greatest degree when no guidance has been provided by the patient as to what his or her wishes would be in the current circumstances. When there is no guidance from the patient, conflict often ensues between the health care providers and the family/substitute decision makers as to what would be in the patient's best interests.
Finally, the tenth ranked challenge was that of surgical innovation. This is a challenge that patients and families will only face indirectly, as the general public is likely unaware of what the issues are related to surgical innovation. Surgical innovation raises such questions as, should innovative surgical techniques be considered research and be required to go through research ethics approval? Since variation is often part of the routine process of perfecting surgical techniques, it becomes difficult to ascertain when a surgical innovation becomes an experiment that requires research ethics approval. Also, what protections should be in place to ensure that innovative techniques or procedures can be developed while the risks to patients are minimized?
There are a number of benefits that can be realized with an exercise focused on ranking the top ten ethical issues the public may face. These include providing new contributions to knowledge, raising public awareness, and re-focusing attention on the top challenge. These benefits will be discussed in the discussion section below.
Providing new contributions to knowledge
The issues described as top ethical challenges by the panel have all been discussed individually in the literature, some extensively. And there have been a few attempts in the past to elicit the views of particular groups on major ethical issues in specific areas. For example, Ersek at al. surveyed a group of oncology nurses to elicit the ethical issues determined to be most important to that group
Raising public awareness
A second benefit of such an exercise is that it can be part of an effective strategy to bring these challenges to the public's attention. Another component of the public awareness strategy might include a press release or other form of media attention coordinated with the publication of the research paper. Even the paper itself can spark discussion and bring the issues to the public's attention. Not only would this help to inform the public about ethical challenges they may confront in the health care system to they can be better prepared for those challenges, but it can help garner the public's support in advocating for steps to be taken to address the top challenges.
The challenges described by the panel will impact patients and their families in different ways and to varying degrees. For example, waiting lists (ranked 2nd) and the shortage of family physicians (ranked 4th) are challenges that will likely have an impact that is felt directly by a large percentage of the public. The same can be said of the third ranked challenge, access to needed health care resources for the aged, chronically ill, and mentally ill, and that challenge will impact an increasing number of patients and families in the future as our populations age and the number of elderly and chronically ill patients rise. This direct impact on the public, combined with the attention that issues like waiting lists do receive in the media, means that some of the challenges described by the panel are already at the forefront of the public's attention. On the other hand, the public is likely to be largely unaware of some of the other challenges mentioned by the panel. These are the challenges that tend to impact a smaller number of patients and families, such as issues related to participation in research (ranked 8th), or may impact patients and families more indirectly, such as the issues related to surgical innovation (ranked 10th).
Re-focusing attention on the top challenge
The most interesting result of this study is that the ethical challenge ranked highest by the panel is a challenge that actually receives very little attention in the popular media and at the level of government, and a challenge of which most members of the public are likely completely unaware. It is not surprising, however, that a panel of clinical bioethicists ranked disagreements between patients/families and health care professionals over treatment decisions as the top ethical challenge facing the public in health care. It is not surprising because it is probably the most common reason for requests for ethics consultations, and an area in which many bioethicists focus their research activities. A 2001 study by DuVal et al. found that the most common trigger for ethics consultations among U.S. internists was a desire for help to resolve a conflict
According to the panel, it's the end-of-life critical care cases that tend to be the most emotionally charged, and the most intractable, because these are the cases in which the most is at stake – they typically amount, literally, to conflicts over life and death. A paradigm example of what has become the most common scenario would involve a patient in the late stages of a terminal illness, such as cancer with multiple metastases, or an elderly patient with multiple co-morbidities, who is ventilated in the intensive care unit. The family would be demanding that "everything" be done to maintain the patient's life, while the team feel strongly that subjecting the patient to aggressive interventions would amount to torture. Emotions run high, conflict ensues, and communication inevitably breaks down.
The above is a paradigm example of what is often referred to in the literature and by health care professionals in the clinical setting as a "futility" case. Although there are volumes of literature on the problems associated with the definition and use of the concept of futility, health care professionals know exactly what is meant when a colleague uses the concept: the likely harms of the aggressive intervention(s) outweigh the potential benefits to such a degree that subjecting the patient to the intervention(s) violates their professional (and sometimes personal) values. From the perspective of the health care professionals, the "right" decision is obvious and they cannot understand why the family doesn't see it the way they do. This often leads to these families being labelled as "irrational" or "unreasonable" by members of the health care team.
The family, on the other hand, views the situation very differently. They will tend to focus on the positive, holding out hope that their loved one will beat the odds. If the physician tells them their loved one has a 90% chance of mortality, what they hear is that their loved one has a 10% chance of survival. They aren't guided by success rates or statistics or prognostics; they are guided by devotion and/or a sense of duty to their loved one, a protective instinct, and hope. They may also be guided by deeply held religious beliefs, which they claim are also held by the patient. From the family's perspective, the health care professionals are being insensitive and disrespectful, unwilling to listen to or accept what is important to them. Sometimes families will go so far as to accuse the health care team of wanting to withdraw treatment to save money or to give the resources to another patient. Many of the panel members reported having been involved in ethics consultations where family members have expressed these sentiments.
What lies at the root of these conflicts is a clash of value systems. It is our value systems that influence the decisions we make, especially when we are faced with significant life-altering decisions in the health care setting. But it is not just patients and their families that are guided in their decisions by their values; health care professionals also come to their encounters with patients and families with their own value systems, both personal and professional. The fact that Canada is one of the most culturally diverse nations in the world means that clashes between the value systems of patients/families and health care professionals may be more common in Canadian health care institutions than in other countries.
Addressing the top challenge
Compared to the attention given to many of the challenges listed in the top ten, it is remarkable how little attention has been given to the top challenge. It is especially remarkable given that these conflicts occur in health care institutions across the country on a daily basis. Below, we propose several steps to help address this top challenge.
Limitations of the study
The main limitations of this study relate to the generalizability of the results. First, the ranking of challenges may not be generalizable to contexts outside of Canada. Some of the challenges listed may be challenges that are particular to the Canadian context because of our Medicare system, such as the challenge of waiting lists or the shortage of family physicians. If this same study were conducted in other countries, it is possible that these challenges would be ranked much lower than in our study, or may not be ranked as a major challenge at all. However, we believe that on the whole our results are likely generalizable at least to other industrialized nations. The challenge of medical error, for example, is a universal challenge because medicine is, by its nature, a human endeavour. As long as humans remain imperfect, medical errors will occur. Moreover, we would predict that the top ranked challenge, disagreements between patients/families and health care providers over treatment decisions, would probably appear at or near the top of similar lists in other industrialized nations. Thus, although the panel was asked to report on the top ethical challenges facing Canadians in health care, we believe the results of this study would be of interest to other countries.
Second, because the panel was made up of clinical bioethicists in Toronto, the ranking of challenges may not be representative of the challenges facing the entire Canadian public. Some of the challenges might be considered more or less significant or prevalent in other parts of Canada, especially since there are some very apparent differences between the health care systems of the different provinces. Nevertheless, for the same reasons as mentioned above in the context of generalizability to other nations, we believe the results are in general representative of the challenges facing the Canadian public.
Third, since our panel was made up entirely of clinical bioethicists, we recognize that the results may not be generalizable to other groups. For example, if the panel was comprised of, or included, members of the public, hospital administrators, or clinicians, the results might have looked very different. Moreover, although the panel members do represent a wide range of health care instutitions, there were health care settings not represented amongst the group (e.g., home care or community family medicine). However, we believe that this is not a significant limitation of the study because the purpose was not to make a factual claim about what, objectively speaking, are the top ten ethical challenges facing the public. Rather, the purpose was to identify what those top ten challenges are from the perspective of a group of highly qualified and experienced clinical bioethicists who work in a variety of health care institutions.
Finally, we recognize that the modified Delphi process that we have presented in this paper is not typical because of the face-to-face meeting of panel members that took place prior to the final round of ranking. One of the potential limitations of including a face-to-face meeting during a consensus process is that a member or members of the group could exert influence over others, thus skewing the process away from genuine consensus. Nevertheless, we believe this potential problem was mitigated by the fact that the face-to-face meeting was not actually part of the ranking process but was an intermediate step between ranking rounds for the purpose of clarifying and differentiating the items. Thus, the consensus process itself was not directly affected by the face-to-face meeting.
Patients and their families face a number of ethical challenges in health care. Many of these challenges are no different from the kinds of challenges faced by patients and families in other industrialized nations. Other challenges on the list are more particular to our social context, with their roots in the very nature of the Canadian Medicare system. Waiting lists, access to needed care for the aged, chronically ill, and mentally ill, and the shortage of family physicians, are challenges that may impact Canadians to a greater or lesser degree than citizens of other nations. Interestingly, these three context-specific challenges were all ranked in the top four of the top ten ethical challenges facing Canadians. Moreover, some of the challenges have received far more public attention than others. Since so little attention has been given to the top ranked challenge, disagreements between patients/families and health care professionals over treatment decisions, we have suggested several steps to help address this top challenge.
Competing interests
The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
JMB contributed substantially to the drafting of the article and gave final approval for the version to be published.
SKM contributed substantially to the conception and design, analysis and interpretation of data, drafting of the article and revising it critically and gave final approval for the version to be published.
JB contributed substantially to the conception and design, analysis and interpretation of data, and gave final approval for the version to be published.
PAS contributed substantially to the conception and design, analysis and interpretation of data, drafting of the article and revising it critically and gave final approval for the version to be published.
Grant support: Dr. Singer is supported in part by a Distinguished Investigator award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
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A Casey man who posed as a teenage schoolboy online to sext underage girls has avoided time behind bars.
The ACT Supreme Court heard that Craig Currie, 36, had been prescribed a testosterone blocker and had embarked on behaviour therapy in a bid to treat and eradicate his inappropriate sexual interests.
The court heard that Currie – who reported a decade-long interest in child porn – would present a low risk of reoffending if he persevered with treatment.
Currie was arrested in April and pleaded guilty soon after to using a carriage service to solicit child pornography material and intentionally possessing child pornography.
He was sentenced to 13 months' jail, to be fully suspended upon entering a two-year good behaviour order with conditions that he pay a $500 security and undertake the Adult Sex Offenders Program if assessed as suitable.
In 2014, Currie set up an Instagram account under the false name Sam Davis, and described himself as a 14-year-old Cronulla schoolboy.
Currie began to communicate regularly with two Sydney girls, aged 12 and 13, in late 2014 via Snapchat, Facebook and Skype.
The Skype contact generally showed Currie, posing as Sam Davis, sitting in a darkened room with a hood over his head.
In January last year, he began to send the 12-year-old photographs of a penis that he said was his, and continued to do so at least twice a day until mid-March. He also sent pictures of male genitalia to the 13-year-old.
The Sam Davis account asked and received pictures from the girls of their breasts, vaginas and pyjamas.
But the girls discovered Currie's true identity when one tried to call his mobile number and was put through to his work message bank, which identified his business and real name.
The victims then searched the internet and found him on both Facebook and LinkedIn.
In March, they reported him to NSW police, and ACT officers raided his home in April.
A seized computer and mobile phone contained evidence of Skype chats with the victims, which included three videos and 129 images classified as child pornography.
The court heard that the material fell into the lowest level of seriousness and Currie had sought to retain only 25 images on his phone.
A victim impact statement from one girl described her sense of betrayal and how she felt "scared, dirty, used and upset" at the discovery that she had been duped into forming a loving relationship with an impostor.
Her mother reported that the girl had become withdrawn and secretive during her contact with Currie, and struggled emotionally after discovering the truth.
The court was told Currie has no criminal history
A psychiatrist said Currie – who suffered from depression – reported an interest in child and adolescent pornography dating back at least 10 years before the offences.
Justice Hilary Penfold, in a sentence published last week, noted that contact had been initiated by the two girls, not Currie.
"But that came about because Mr Currie had created for his own purposes an image of a 14-year-old boy, and those purposes turned out to be quite improper, given that Mr Currie used his alter ego to engage in sexualised relationships with the two young girls," Justice Penfold said.
"That is, there appears to have been a degree of premeditation in Mr Currie's use of the internet to make contact with adolescent girls.
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Gillman's four-day total of 16-under-par 268 at Miramont Country Club broke the previously held girls' division mark of 271 set by Aree Song of Thailand in 1999. Gillman finished 11 strokes ahead of runner-up Bethany Wu (279) of Diamond Bar, Calif., while Hannah O'Sullivan of Paradise Valley, Ariz., finished third at 280.
Burns, who earlier in the day took the 54-hole lead after rain and thunderstorms halted play Thursday afternoon, held off a hard-charging Gordon Neale of Trabuco Canyon, Calif., by two strokes to win the Jack Nicklaus Trophy. Burns shot a final-round 71 for a 10-under-par 274 total. Austin Connelly of Irving, Texas, and Brad Dalke of Hobart, Okla., tied for third at 277.
Gillman shared the lead after 54 holes in the 2013 Junior PGA Championship, ultimately finishing in a tie for third. In the final round today, she shot 5-under-par 66 to win the Patty Berg Trophy in her third Championship appearance.
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In the boys' division, Burns built his lead to six strokes on the front nine, with birdies on the par-5 first and the par-4 eighth. However, he made consecutive bogeys at Nos. 12 and 13, shrinking his lead to just one stroke.
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~~the Love Notes End? - Poem by Alice Perfect
When did the romantic notes stop?
Did he buy your love
and then throw you on the top-
Who is he, who are you?
Do you know both?
Pick up your crown Precious Queen,
leave all behind that is rude and mean.
Pick up your Crown, dust yourself off,
straighten your dress, chin up...walk
Put your crown on, firm and straight,
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I know who you are, I bow!
Walk your life on red carpet only,
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You know who you are, BE YOURSELF!
Rule the world!
You are Perfect!
All others are broken, leave them in your wake!
Chin up, crown on, big smile, life is yours to take!
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Enpowering words of strength! I like this! Chin up, Crown on! Will do! I will do! (Report) Reply
Pamela Sinicrope (5/7/2016 9:57:00 AM)
Love this! It reads like an anthem for all women. Thanks for writing it and reminding us to shake the dust off our crowns! Thanks again. (Report) Reply
Edward Kofi Louis (12/13/2015 4:51:00 AM)
Love and pain play a major part in life. Nice work. (Report) Reply
Sofia Kioroglou (10/15/2015 7:33:00 AM)
Great poem and a real booster for us women! Thank you for this fabulous piece! (Report) Reply
* Sunprincess * (8/22/2015 11:17:00 PM)
..........most fabulous...with a great message, women should be respected ★ (Report) Reply
Bharati Nayak (7/3/2015 8:39:00 PM)
Wonderful write uplifting the broken spirit of the woman who has been ditched asking her to move ahead with pride as a queen as she is perfect.Thanks for sharing such a beautiful poem. (Report) Reply
Amitava Sur (10/3/2014 5:18:00 AM)
A very good penning admiring the woman keeping her in a high esteem, putting her in a greater height... very nice. (Report) Reply
Patricia Grantham (9/3/2014 4:08:00 PM)
A very inspiring and uplifting write on womanhood.
Be it known that women still hold a high place in
society. Thank you. (Report) Reply
Susan Lacovara (5/5/2014 6:56:00 PM)
This should be required reading for the young and upcoming women of today. Without true confidence in oneself, the road ahead holds much to be managed. I have a scripted reminder in the wall beneath my mirror that reads, Be your own kind of beautiful...it serves we well to see it each day. A powerful pitch you have thrown. PEACE (Report) Reply
Paige Brimer (4/12/2014 8:19:00 AM)
I, personally, think it fosters an opinion of entitlement and a belief of oneself as better than others, I mean, there's thinking as much of yourself as is necessary, but this goes way over the top. Sounds like he's trying to draw someone out. (Report) Reply
Valerie Dohren (3/16/2014 10:41:00 AM)
Even in the 21st century, women don't always receive the respect they are entitled to. Very good write. (Report) Reply
Sandra Feldman (3/15/2014 3:39:00 AM)
This is a beautiful sign of respect for women! Just today I heard how miserably and criminally women Are treated in India. I was horrified. Are we really in the 21st Penitentiary(Century) . Unbelievable and intolerable!
You sir, are a very good chap, by far as the brits now seldom say, for there aren't many left there either.
Thanks for this wonderful work (Report) Reply
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