Modern auto Celebrates 92 Years of service - The Focus News

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Number 40 • Volume 7 • Serving St. Charles, Warren, Lincoln, Montgomery, and Franklin Counties • June 3, 2011 • Weekly • 35¢
Herb Adams, New Car Manager and Dan Walsh, Service Manager.
Modern auto
Celebrates 92
Years of service Quality Commercial Clean-
Take a look at the expansive
service bays of Modern Auto today
and it will be apparent that
the vision of founder John Feltmann
is not only alive today but
remains the core business of
the premier GM dealer in Franklin
County.
John started Modern Auto
Co. in Jasper’s Barn on Elm
Street in 1919 and soon after
they opened, the word got
around that “those boys can fix
anything”. It’s this strong emphasis
on service that has sustained
the business through the
Great Depression, World War II
and the many recessions and
depressions over nine decades
and is still held today as the
foundation of the business.
As the business grew, Modern
Auto was awarded a GM
franchise in 1925, followed by
Oldsmobile franchise in 1935
and Cadillac in 1948. In 1949,
Jim Feltmann, Sr. joined the
company as the second generation.
In 1997 when Jim Sr.
semi-retired, his three sons, Jim
Jr., Joe and John took over the
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Quality Commercial Cleaning Co.
Provides exceptional service
Jay and Melody Boxerman
ing Company was created when
a friend of Melody and Jay Boxerman
came to them expressing
dissatisfaction with his cleaning
company. “He knew I was in the
restaurant business and incorporated
cleaning programs in all
my restaurants. He asked me
if I would do the same for him,”
says Melody. Melody implemented
the same cleaning program
for her friend's company
and his restaurant became the
first account for Quality Commercial
Cleaning Company.
That was 28 years ago!
Today Quality
Commercial
Cleaning is a
full service commercial
cleaning
service that offers
office cleaning,
janitorial and
handyman services;
supply purchasing,
pick-up,
and delivery; carpet
cleaning and
m a i n t e n a n c e ;
floor striping and
finishing, floor
maintenance and
window cleaning
services.
Quality CommercialCleaning
Company
is insured,
licensed, bonded
and serves St.
Charles County,
St. Louis County, Lincoln County,
Warren County, Montgomery
County and Franklin County.
“We customize each account to
be unique to your requests, budgets,
and concerns. Whether
you require daily, weekly, semimonthly,
or monthly janitorial
services, Quality Commercial
Cleaning Company gives your
business V.I.P. treatment at affordable
rates,” says Melody.
Melody combined her ten
years of restaurant business
experience with Jay’s 20 plus
years of engineering experience
when they decided to build
the business. With Quality service,
integrity, dedication and
pride with each client Quality
Commercial takes on, highest
standards become and remains
today as number one and according
to the couple that will
never change.
Still today, they enjoy a spotless
reputation, and are accredited
with the Better Business
Bureau.
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Obituaries
The following obituary notices are
included on pages 13-14
Cordelia Campbell,
82, Troy, secretary
Christina Cipoth, 35,
Foley
John Dolson, 81, St.
Louis, telephone utility
repeater, veteran
ivan Meyer, 80,
Warrenton, mechanical
engineer, veteran
roy reinhold, 55,
Troy, mechanic
Fredrick schaber,
50, Dardenne Prairie,
veteran
Miriam strunk, 93,
Wentzville
ellen sullivan, 51,
Wentzville
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Man arrested on Drug Charges
Gary K. Stanfill, age 43, of
the 13000 block of 6th Street in
Grandview, MO, was arrested
on May 27, 2011 for charges
of Possession of a Controlled
Substance with the Intent to
Distribute. The charges originated
from a traffic stop.
WCSD Deputy Mark Storzer
stopped Stanfill for speeding at
6:28pm on South Highway 47
near Legion Hall Road north
of Marthasville. Storzer stated
Stanfill appeared very nervous,
was sweating, and wouldn’t
make eye contact. At one point
during the stop Stanfill appeared
as if he was contemplating
fleeing on foot, so Storzer
instructed him to wait inside his
vehicle. Upon requesting consent
to search the vehicle Stan-
Bradley M. Harris, age 14,
of Washington, MO, died after
sustaining injuries in a motorcycle
accident that occurred
on May 29 at 4:45 p.m. on I-70
west of Hwy. 94 in St. Charles
County. He was a passenger on
a 2009 Harley Davidson driven
by Craig C. Harris, age 46, of
Washington.
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fill denied, so Storzer requested
the assistance of Sergeant Ed
McCormick and K9 Bronto.
Upon McCormick and Bronto
checking the exterior of the
vehicle Bronto gave a positive
alert for controlled substances.
Upon searching the vehicle,
Storzer allegedly located and
seized a duffle bag from behind
the passenger seat that contained
approximately 15 grams
of crystal methamphetamine,
a small quantity of heroin, approximately
150 clear Ziploc
baggies, three weight scales,
and approximately $3,100.00 in
cash.
Stanfill was charged with
possession of controlled substance
with intent to distribute
and was held on a $20,000 cash
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14-Year-Old Washington boy
Killed in Motorcycle accident
The motorcycle was in lane
three when the driver lost control,
causing it to slide into lane
two before ejecting the driver
and being struck by a 1995 Ford
Bronco, driven by Jason O. Ratcliff,
age 22, of St. Peters, MO.
The motorcycle and passenger
Bradley continued to slide into
lane number one and was struck
by a 2010 Ford Fusion driven by
Christian A. Lapak, age 44, of
Lake Saint Louis, MO.
Bradley was taken to St.
Johns Medical Center by St.
Charles County Ambulance
where he died at 9:05 p.m.
Craig C. Harris was taken by
St. Charles County Ambulance
to St. Johns Medical Center with
moderate injuries.
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st. Louis
Man Drowns
in Lake of the
Ozarks
Timothy L. Miller, age 39, of
St. louis, Mo, died on May 30
at 12:50 a.m. in the Lake of the
Ozarks in Camden County. Several
witnesses reported hearing
a male subject callling for help
approximately 75-100 feet from
their dock. Neighbors were en
route to assist the victim, but
he had gone underneath the
surface and did not resurface
before they arrived.
Clarksville
Man Drowns
Richard L. Ochs, age 70, of
Clarksville, MO, died on May
30 at 1 p.m. in Pike County. He
was fishing on a steep bank and
went into the water. He was unable
to regain his footing in the
water and disappeared under
the surface. He was recovered
by Pike County Sheriff's Department
and pike County EMS.
Man Charged
With
robbing
american
bank in
Warrenton
Special Agent in Charge
(SAC) Dennis L. Baker of the
FBI St. Louis Division has announced
the arrest of 32-yearold
Jerry B. Chambers, of St.
Louis. The FBI, St. Louis Metropolitan
Police, and Warrenton
Police arrested Chambers
early in the morning on May 27
without incident at a residence
in the St. Louis area. A tip from
someone who knew Chambers
helped identify him.
“So far this year, we have
arrested four suspected serial
bank robbers who may have
been responsible for 20 bank
robberies,” said SAC Baker.
“If they are charged with all 20
bank robberies, our solution
rate for the FBI St. Louis Division
would be 71 percent.”
Chambers and 23-year-old
Walter W. Wallace of St. Louis
have both been charged with
robbing:
1) Pulaski Bank at 10
Maryland Plaza in St. Louis on
03-29-11
Investigators believe the two
men may also be responsible
for robbing:
2) Advance America Cash
Advance at 1300 Schaeffer
Road in Granite City, IL on 4-30-
11
3) FCB at 909 South Main
Street in Caseyville, IL on 03-
01-11
After Wallace was arrested
and charged on 05-02-11, investigators
believe Chambers
may have continued to work
alone and robbed:
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Once a year, the St. Peters
Chamber of Commerce transforms
the atrium and patio area
of St. Peters City Hall into a
food-tasting, wine tasting, beer
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sip & savor: taste of st. Peters
Will be Held on June 16
tasting good time. This year’s
taste offers a host of local restaurants
waiting to dish out their
finest cuisine!
The evening will be spent
sipping wine, microbrew, and
soft beverages while sampling
scrumptious shrimp, zesty barbecue,
gourmet pizza, delicious
pasta, decadent desserts, and
much more! Try what you like or
try it all!
Join them for a night of food,
beer and wine from area restaurants,
wineries and breweries
on June 16 from 5:30 p.m.-8:30
p.m. at St. Peters City Hall.
Live music from '2nd Sojourn/Midlife
Crisis’ will entertain
you as you stroll from booth to
booth sampling and sipping.
Where else can you eat, drink,
and dance the evening away for
just $20?
Tickets are on sale now. For
more information or tickets, contact
the St. Peters Chamber of
Commerce at (636) 447-3336.
St. Peters Chamber of Commerce
mission is to provide
leadership to stimulate and support
commerce in our community.
St. Peters Chamber of Commerce
vision is to be a Chamber
of excellence, providing value to
its members.

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CElEbrATES 102nd bIrTHDAY - David Thompson presenting
Pat Achor with 102 rainbow roses for her birthday.
Peoples bank & trust Honors
Customer on 102nd birthday
Peoples Bank & Trust had
the great honor of celebrating
the 102nd birthday of Pat Achor.
She was presented with 102
rainbow roses personally delivered
from the bank for the spe-
cial occasion. “Mrs. Achor has
been a long-time customer of
the bank and flowers were the
least we could do to honor her
on her special day,” said David
Thompson, President and CEO
504 W. Booneslick
Warrenton, MO 63383
636-456-3435 or 573-564-3978
or Fax 636-456-3426
A Scott Woolf Company
of Peoples Bank & Trust. “As a
home-town bank, we know our
customers and it’s fun to be able
to do nice things for them – in
fact, it’s the best part of my job!”
Peoples Bank & Trust Co.
is an independently owned, full
service community bank serving
the residents of Lincoln, St.
Charles and Pike County. The
bank is committed to providing
the highest level of services and
products while still knowing their
customers’ names when they
walk through the door. To find a
branch near you, visit the bank
online at www.pbtc.net.
bank robbery
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4) American Bank at 917
N. Outer Road in Warrenton on
05-21-2011
5) UMB at 13969 Manchester
Road in Town and
Country on 05-07-11
The FBI is looking for additional
information on the five
robberies. Please visit www.
bandittrackerstlouis.com for
pictures and information. If you
have any information, please
call Crime Stoppers at 866-371-
TIPS.
The United States Attorney’s
Office announced that a federal
judge has entered a judgment
of $82,642,592 in favor of the
United States in a "whisteblower"
lawsuit originally filed in the
federal district court in St. Louis
in 2005, and then transferred to
the federal district court in Nashville,
Tennessee. The lawsuit
claimed that Renal Care Group,
Renal Care Group Supply Company
and Fresenius Medical
Care Holdings, Inc. recklessly
disregarded federal law when
billing the Medicare program
for home dialysis supplies and
equipment during 1999-2005.
The Court's orders in this
case discuss the concerns of
multiple Renal Care Group employees
who complained about
the operation and Medicare billing
activity of the Renal Care
Group Supply Company, including
one regional manager who
wrote, "I do not wish to go to jail,"
and felt the company "was not
in the best interests of patients"
after receiving a corporate directive
about converting patients
into the Renal Care Group Supply
Company. The Court further
noted that Renal Care Group
failed to heed the advice of the
company's lawyers when operating
the supply company and
also discussed an internal audit
of the supply company that
found that one hundred percent
of the company's files were
missing information that Medicare
required for billing.
Renal Care Group ("RCG")
was a publicly traded for-profit
corporation and dialysis provider
until it merged with dialysis
industry competitor Fresenius
Medical Care ("FMC"). RCG had
its principal place of business in
Nashville, Tennessee, and had
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NECAC CElEbrATES - The not-for-profit North East Community
Action Corporation (NECAC) held a reception May 26 at its St.
Charles County Service Center in O’Fallon in recognition of National
Community Action Month. Pictured, from left, are In-Home
Services Supervisor Patricia Cunningham; Housing Assistance
Counselor Ann Fordyce; NECAC St. Charles County Service Coordinator
Debra Martin; WIC Nutritionist Amanda Salesman; Lindenwood
University intern Melissa Swallow; Housing Supervisor Lisa
Pittman; Family Self-Sufficiency Coordinator Michael Hammond;
Housing Assistance Counselor Donna Walls; NECAC St. Charles
County Board Member Mike Bridgins of St. Peters; Intake Assistant
Judah Mudd; Housing Inspector Tim Ens; NECAC President and
Chief Executive Officer Don Patrick. NECAC is a 12-county area
not-for-profit Community Action Agency that is awarded contracts
and grants from government agencies, private businesses and other
non-profit groups to provide services to the low-income, elderly,
youth, disabled and disadvantaged. NECAC is one of 19 not-forprofit
Community Action Agencies in Missouri and part of a national
network of more than 1,000 agencies.
united states awarded $82 Million in
a Medicare Fraud Case against renal
Care Group & Fresenius Medical Care
locations throughout Missouri,
including multiple facilities
around the St. Louis metropolitan
area. RCG Supply Company
("RCGSC") was a Tennessee
corporation that was owned and
operated by RCG. In August
2009, a District Court Judge in
St. Louis transferred the case
to the Middle District of Tennessee
for trial, finding that a trial
in Nashville, Tennessee, would
be more convenient for many
witnesses. FMC now owns and
operates RCG's dialysis facilities
after the merger with RCG.
RCG and FMC provided renal
dialysis and related services to
patients with End-Stage Renal
Disease (“ESRD”). ESRD is
a life threatening condition in
which a patient's kidneys are
unable to remove toxins from
the blood, thus necessitating
some form of dialysis treatment.
This condition is often suffered
by patients who have experienced
chronic kidney disease
over a period of time. The Government's
Medicare program
generally provides coverage for
ESRD patients.
The Government's complaint
alleged that between
January 1999 and December
2005, RCGSC submitted claims
to the Medicare program for
home dialysis supplies provided
to ESRD patients for reimbursement
of the supplies and
equipment. All of these claims,
as well as related claims for
support services rendered by
RCG dialysis clinics were false
because the defendants were
prohibited from and not qualified
to bill Medicare for these home
dialysis patients. Under federal
law, the Medicare program pays
companies that provide dialysis
supplies to ESRD patients only
if the companies that provide
the supplies are truly independent
from dialysis facilities and
the ESRD patient chooses to
receive supplies from the independent
supply company. Defendants
set up a sham billing
company, RCGSC, that was not
independent from RCG. Further,
RCG interfered with ESRD patients'
choice of supply options,
requiring patients to "move" to
RCGSC. Even after RCG employees
raised concerns and industry
competitors closed their
supply companies, RCG kept
RCGSC open because of the illicit
revenue it created.
This is the second Medicare
fraud case focused on the dialysis
industry brought by the United
States Attorney’s Office for
the Eastern District of Missouri.
In December 2005, Gambro
Healthcare, a leading owner and
operator of renal dialysis clinics
in the United States, paid the
United States $310.5 million to
resolve civil liabilities stemming
from alleged kickbacks paid to
physicians, false statements
made to procure payment for
unnecessary tests and services,
and payments made to Gambro
Supply, a sham durable medical
equipment company.
The case was investigated
by Federal Bureau of Investigation
and the Office of Inspector
General for the Department of
Health and Human Services.
The case was handled by the
United States Attorney's Offices
for the Eastern District of
Missouri and the Middle District
of Tennessee, with assistance
from the Civil Division of the
United States Department of
Justice.

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study shows 19 Percent of Young
adults Have High blood Pressure
Roughly 19 percent of young
adults may have high blood
pressure, according to an analysis
of the National Longitudinal
Study of Adolescent Health
(Add Health), which is supported
by the National Institutes of
Health.
The researchers took blood
pressure readings of more than
14,000 men and women between
24 and 32 years of age
who were enrolled in the longrunning
study.
The analysis was conducted
by Kathleen Mullan Harris,
Ph.D., principal investigator of
the study, and colleagues at the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. The study’s first author
was Quynh C. Nguyen, of
the University of North Carolina
Gillings School of Public Health.
The findings were published
online in Epidemiology.
The findings differ from
those of the National Health
and Nutrition Examination Survey
(NHANES), which reported
high blood pressure in 4 percent
of adults 20 to 39 years of age.
The study authors were unable
to pinpoint any reasons for
the difference between the two
By Julia Evangelou Strait
Tiny tropical fish are helping
scientists understand human
development and disease, from
birth defects and cancer to muscle
and nerve disorders.
Contributing to this effort,
Washington University is now
home to one of the largest zebrafish
facilities in the world. And
with robotic feeding and cleaning
systems, it is the world’s
most modern, says Lilianna
Solnica-Krezel, PhD, professor
and head of developmental biology
at Washington University
School of Medicine in St. Louis.
“This facility will allow us to
do large-scale, collaborative
studies.
"The Add Health analysis
raises interesting questions,"
said Steven Hirschfeld, Associate
Director for Clinical Research
for the NIH’s Eunice
Kennedy Shriver National Institute
of Child Health and Human
Development, which provides
major funding for the study. "Investigations
into the reasons
underlying the reported differences
between the Add Health
and NHANES findings will no
doubt yield additional insight
into the measurement of high
blood pressure in the young
adult population."
The Add Health study defined
high blood pressure (hypertension)
as 140/90 millimeters
of mercury or greater. High
blood pressure is a serious condition
that can lead to coronary
heart disease (also called coronary
artery disease), heart failure,
stroke, kidney failure, and
other health problems.
Along with funding from the
NICHD, the Add Health study
also receives funding from 23
other federal agencies and private
organizations.
"We explored several pos-
sible explanations for the difference
between this study and
NHANES, including participant
characteristics, where they
were examined, and the types
of devices for measuring their
blood pressure," Dr. Harris said.
"None of these factors could
account for the differences in
estimates between the two surveys."
For the analysis, all 15,701
respondents to the most recent
Add Health interview were
asked whether they had been
told by a health care professional
that they had high blood
pressure. After the interview,
respondents remained seated
for five minutes and study technicians
took three readings of
their blood pressure. The study
technicians checked the accuracy
of each reading and the
average of the last two readings
was entered into the study database.
The Add Health researchers
attempted to collect blood
pressure readings on all of the
study’s participants, including
those in prisons and in the military.
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Washington university Opens
World's Most Modern Zebrafish
projects that would not be possible
for individual investigators,”
she says.
The Department of Developmental
Biology will dedicate
its new Zebrafish Facility with
a daylong symposium Friday,
May 27 in the Farrell Learning
and Teaching Center. The event
is free and open to the public.
Larry J. Shapiro, MD, Executive
Vice Chancellor for Medical
Affairs and Dean of the School
of Medicine, will deliver opening
remarks. Speakers from
top universities, including Stanford,
Harvard and Vanderbilt will
highlight research into zebrafish
cell signaling, nervous system
and craniofacial development,
among others.
A common type of minnow,
the zebrafish is popular in both
scientific research and home
aquariums. Zebrafish embryos
are transparent and develop
outside the body, making them
useful for observing growth and
development.
With almost 7,000 tanks,
including a 2,000-tank nursery,
the facility will allow scientists to
perform experiments requiring
tens of thousands of fish. The
robotic nature of the feeding
process will allow large num-
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THE FOCUS NEWS Friday, June 3, 2011
Functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI) may
provide an early and objective
indicator of autism, according
to researchers at Columbia University
in New York City, who
used the technique to document
language impairment in autistic
children. Results of their study
appear online and in the August
issue of Radiology.
Autism is a spectrum disorder
characterized by repetitive
behaviors and impaired
language, communication and
social interactions. According to
the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, it is estimated
that as many as one in every
110 children is affected by autism.
"With the extraordinarily high
prevalence of autism, you would
think there would be an objective
diagnosis for the disorder,"
said Joy Hirsch, Ph.D., a professor
at Columbia University
Medical Center and director of
the Functional MRI Laboratory.
"However, the diagnosis of au-
Laboratory hamsters that
were fed rations spiked with
blueberry peels and other blueberry-juice-processing
leftovers
had better cholesterol health
than hamsters whose rations
weren't enhanced with blueberries.
That's according to a study
led by U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA) chemist Wallace
H. Yokoyama.
Yokoyama pointed out that
further research is needed to
confirm whether the effects observed
in hamsters hold true for
humans. He works at the West-
Cutting back on sleep drastically
reduces a healthy young
man's testosterone levels, according
to a study published in
the June 1 issue of the Journal
of the American Medical Association
(JAMA).
Eve Van Cauter, PhD, professor
in medicine and director
of the study, found that men who
slept less than five hours a night
for one week in a laboratory had
significantly lower levels of testosterone
than when they had
a full night's sleep. Low testosterone
has a host of negative
consequences for young men,
and not just in sexual behavior
and reproduction. It is critical in
building strength and muscle
mass, and bone density.
"Low testosterone levels are
associated with reduced well
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New research May
Lead to improved
Diagnosis of autism
tism currently remains limited to
parent and clinician observation
of missed developmental milestones."
In the study, researchers
performed fMRI exams on 15
control children (mean age:
12.1) and 12 language-impaired
and age-matched autistic children
(mean age: 12.4). Using
fMRI, the researchers were able
to measure neural activity in
working brain tissues, while the
children listened to recordings
of their parents talking to them.
Activation levels during passive
stimulation were measured
within two regions of the brain:
the primary auditory cortex (A1)
and superior temporal gyrus
(STG), a region associated with
sentence comprehension. Brain
activation maps for each patient
were then computed using statistical
linear modeling.
Activity in the A1 region of
the brain did not differ between
autistic and control patients.
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blueberry's effects on
Cholesterol examined
in Lab animal study
ern Regional Research Center
operated in Albany Calif., by the
Agricultural Research Service
(ARS), the principal scientific
research agency of USDA.
In the investigation, hamsters
were fed high-fat rations.
For some animals, those rations
were supplemented with one
of three different kinds of juice
byproducts: blueberry skins-that
is, peels leftover when berries
are pressed to make juice; fiber
extracted from the peels;
or natural compounds known
CONTINUED ON PAGE 18
sleep Loss Lowers
testosterone in
Healthy Young Men
being and vigor, which may
also occur as a consequence of
sleep loss" said Van Cauter.
At least 15% of the adult
working population in the US
gets less than 5 hours of sleep
a night, and suffers many adverse
health effects because of
it. This study found that skipping
sleep reduces a young man's
testosterone levels by the same
amount as aging 10 to 15 years.
"As research progresses,
low sleep duration and poor
sleep quality are increasingly
recognized as endocrine disruptors,"
Van Cauter said.
The ten young men in the
study were recruited from
around the University of Chicago
campus. They passed
a rigorous battery of tests to
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Health Page
Digestive Problems early in Life
May increase risk for Depression
Depression and anxiety may
result from short-term digestive
irritation early in life, according
to a study of laboratory rats by
researchers at the Stanford University
School of Medicine. The
findings suggest that some human
psychological conditions
may be the result, rather than
the cause, of gastrointestinal
disorders such as irritable bowel
syndrome.
“A lot of research has focused
on understanding how
the mind can influence the
body,” said Pankaj Pasricha,
MD, professor and chief of gastroenterology
and hepatology.
“But this study suggests that it
can be the other way around.
Gastric irritation during the first
few days of life may reset the
brain into a permanently depressed
state.”
Clearly not all stomach upsets
lead to lifelong psychological
problems, however. The impact
of the irritation may depend
on when it occurs during development
or the genetic makeup
of the affected person, the re-
Scientists have known for
years that playing violent video
games causes players to become
more aggressive. The
findings of a new University of
Missouri (MU) study provide
one explanation for why this occurs:
the brains of violent video
game players become less responsive
to violence, and this
diminished brain response predicts
an increase in aggression.
Bruce Bartholow, associate
professor of psychology at MU,
found that violent video games
increase aggression by monitor-
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searchers believe. In particular,
the viscera, or internal organs,
are particularly vulnerable early
in development.
Pasricha is the senior author
of the study, which will be published
on May 12 in PLoS One.
Research associate Liansheng
Liu is the lead author of the research.
The Stanford scientists
collaborated with researchers
from the University of California-
San Francisco and the University
of Kansas on the study.
About 15 to 20 percent of
people experience what physicians
call functional dyspepsia,
or persistent or recurring pain in
the upper abdomen. Researchers
like Pasricha have long
noted that these people are also
more likely than their peers to
be anxious or depressed. Conventional
wisdom has held that
stress hormones associated
with a patient’s altered mood
were responsible for his or her
digestive disturbances.
However, there is another
option. “The gut and the brain
are hardwired together by the
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vagus nerve, which runs from
the brain to the body’s internal
organs” said Pasricha. “In addition,
the gut has its own nervous
system that is relatively
independent. So the communication
between the gut and the
adult brain is elaborate and bidirectional,
and changes in the
gut are signaled directly to the
brain.”
Because many of these patients
date their gastrointestinal
problems back to early childhood,
before their psychological
symptoms began, Pasricha
and his colleagues wondered if
the digestive disturbances could
instead be causing the mood
disorders. The possibility was
bolstered by the fact that recent
research by other groups has
linked depression and anxiety in
humans to changes in the composition
of gut bacterial populations.
To test their hypothesis, the
researchers used a laboratory
model of functional dyspepsia
Violent Video Games reduce brain
response to Violence and increase
aggressive behavior, Mu study Finds
ing participant brain activity.
“Many researchers have
believed that becoming desensitized
to violence leads to
increased human aggression.
Until our study, however, this
causal association had never
been demonstrated experimentally,”
said Bruce Bartholow, associate
professor of psychology
in the MU College of Arts and
Science.
During the study, 70 young
adult participants were randomly
assigned to play either a nonviolent
or a violent video game
CONTINUED ON PAGE 18
for 25 minutes. Immediately
afterwards, the researchers
measured brain responses as
participants viewed a series of
neutral photos, such as a man
on a bike, and violent photos,
such as a man holding a gun in
another man’s mouth. Finally,
participants competed against
an opponent in a task that allowed
them to give their opponent
a controllable blast of loud
noise. The level of noise blast
the participants set for their opponent
was the measure of aggression.
The researchers found that
participants who played one of
several popular violent games,
such as “Call of Duty,” “Hitman,”
“Killzone” and “Grand Theft
Auto,” set louder noise blasts for
their opponents during the competitive
task – that is, they were
more aggressive – than participants
who played a nonviolent
game. In addition, for participants
that had not played many
violent video games before
completing the study, playing a
violent game in the lab caused
a reduced brain response to the
photos of violence – an indicator
of desensitization. Moreover,
this reduced brain response
predicted participants’ aggression
levels: the smaller the brain
response to violent photos, the
more aggressive participants
were. Participants who had already
spent a lot of time playing
violent video games before the
study showed small brain response
to the violent photos, regardless
of which type of game
they played in the lab.
“The fact that video game
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THE FOCUS NEWS Friday, June 3, 2011
Infants born in the 37th or
38th week of pregnancy have a
higher risk of dying before age
1 than do infants born between
39 and 40 weeks, according to
researchers at the National Institutes
of Health, the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration, and
the March of Dimes.
"Infants born at 37 weeks
or greater are considered term
and have traditionally been considered
as a uniform group,"
Children who are bullies
or have conduct problems at
school, are more likely to be
sleepy during the day according
to University of Michigan Medical
School researchers.
Researchers looked at elementary
school students in
the Ypsilanti, Michigan public
schools who had exhibited conduct
problems like bullying or
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said first author Uma M. Reddy,
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Shriver National Institute
of Child Health and Human
Development (NICHD). "Our
study shows that there are often
marked differences in the health
of infants born in the early part
of this period and those born in
the latter part."
To mark the distinction be-
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Kids Who bully, Have
aggressive behaviors
are twice as Likely to
Have sleep Problems
that there was a two-fold higher
risk for symptoms of sleepdisordered
breathing, particularly
daytime sleepiness among
these students. The study was
published last week in the journal
Sleep Medicine.
“What this study does is raise
the possibility that poor sleep,
from whatever cause, can indeed
play into bullying or other
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er Visits Persist for
Children With Mental
Health Problems Despite
regular Outpatient Care
Johns Hopkins Children's Analyzing more than 2,900
Center scientists have found records of pediatric patients,
that having a regular outpatient ages 3 to 17, treated at the Hop-
mental health provider may not kins Children's ER for mental
be enough to prevent children health crises over eight years,
and teens with behavioral prob- the investigators found that 338
lems from repeatedly ending of them (12 percent) returned
up in the emergency room. The to the ER within six months of
study is published in the June 1 their initial visit. The majority of
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issue of the journal Psychiatric
Services.
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However, activation within the
STG was greater for control
children relative to autistic patients.
"These findings first tell us
that the autistic children in our
study appeared normal with
respect to the primary auditory
system," Dr. Hirsch said. "But it
appears that the STG in the autistic
brains was not as sensitive
to the language narratives as
was the STG in the brains of the
typical children."
An additional 27 autistic children
undergoing routine MRI
exams with sedation were also
included in the study. Using a
similar analysis of sedationadjusted
values from the control
group, the researchers identified
26 of 27 (96 percent) sedated
autistic patients with autism.
"This study suggests that
fMRI acquired during listening
to a language narrative can be
used to distinguish children with
autism from those without," Dr.
Hirsch said. "Based on these
initial findings, future studies using
these or similar fMRI methods
may result in an early and
objective imaging indicator for
autism."
Some children with autism
spectrum disorders can benefit
from intensive behavior therapy,
but early intervention is key.
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diagnosis is enormous,"
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4th of July, Lincoln County Fairgrounds
Dollar Tree Treasure Specialty/Retail
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130 Magee St, 636-528-7903
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631 Main St, 636-528-6019
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309 S Lincoln Dr, 636-462-2253
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15 The Plaza, 636-528-6796
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185 E Cherry St, 636-528-6622
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520 E Cherry St, 314-280-1861
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441 Main St, 636-462-5224
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401 Main St, 636-528-5550
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499 Main St, 636-528-4307
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651 S Main, 636-462-5665
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Hibbett Sports
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Jensen’s
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Lincoln County Jewelry
400 Main St, 636-462-4444
Lincoln County Music
681 S Lincoln, 636-528-5744
Mercantile Outlet
113 S Lincoln, 636-528-9033
Orschlen Farm & Home
1 Lincoln Center
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Obituaries Page
John Lawrence
Dolson
John Lawrence Dolson, age
81, of St. Louis, MO, died on
May 29, 2011 at 11:50 p.m. at
Missouri Veterans Home in St.
Louis. He was born on November
11, 1929 in St. Louis. He was
a telephone utility repeaterman.
He is survived by three
sons, James P. and wife Jane
Dolson of Lake St. Louis, MO;
Joseph L. and wife Tiffany Dolson
of O'Fallon, MO; John F.
and Heather of Wentzville, MO;
five daughters, Jean M. Steed
of Lake St. Louis, MO; Theresa
and husband Miguel Dolson of
O'Fallon, MO; Mary J. and husband
Mark Grondin of Dittmer,
MO; Kathleen and husband
Dave Meriwether of Dardenne
Prairie, MO; Susan and husband
Dana Bussen of St. Louis, MO;
three sisters, May Nieman of St.
Louis, MO; Ellen Giger of Hillsboro,
MO; Mildred and husband
Bob Sexton; 23 grandchildren;
and six great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by
his parents, George J. and May
Dolson; his wife, Mary Ann Dolson;
and one brother, George S.
Dolson.
Funeral services will be held
on Friday, June 3 at 10 a.m. at
Pitman Funeral Home in Wentzville.
Visitation was held on
Thursday from 4 to 8 p.m. at the
funeral home. Burial will be in
National Cemetery at Jefferson
Barracks, MO.
In lieu of flowers, memorial
donations are suggested to St.
Dominic High School Performing
Arts Center or the American
Cancer Society in care of Pitman
Funeral Home, 1545 Wentzville
Pkwy., Wentzville, MO 63385.
ivan eugene
Meyer
Ivan Eugene Meyer, of
Warrenton, Mo., passed away
on Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at
St. John's Mercy Medical Center
in Creve Coeur, Mo., at the age
of 80 years, 11 months and 20
days.
Ivan was born to Claude and
Lucille (nee- Asher) Meyer on
June 5, 1930 in Bingham, Il.
He was united in marriage to
Angela Josephine Anderson on
November 18, 1950 in St. Louis,
Mo. They celebrated 60 years of
marriage.
Mr. Meyer served his country
country in the U.S. Navy from
1948 to 1953. He worked as a
mechanical engineer at McDonnell
Douglas. He retired in 1986
after working for 34 years. He
was a member of Grace Bible
Church in Warrenton, Mo.
Survivors include his wife,
Angela Meyer, of Warrenton,
Mo., one son, John Eric Meyer
and wife, Jeanine, of Troy, Mo.,
one daughter, Rebecca Rob-
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Anderson, Ind., one brother, Ed
Meyer and wife, Pat, of Springfield,
Mo., one sister, Amber Otke
and husband, Syl, of Warrenton,
Mo., one sister-in-law, Nancy
Meyer, of N. Carolina, four
grandchildren, Angela Yoder and
husband, Mahlon, John Meyer,
Kyle and Kameron Robinson,
other relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by
his parents and one brother, Don
Meyer.
Visitation was held on Saturday,
May 28, 2011 from 10:00
- 12:00 p.m. at Grace Bible
Church, 25445 S. State Hwy.
47, Warrenton, Mo., 63383., with
service following. Burial was at
Lippstadt Cemetery in Warrenton,
Mo.
Memorials may be made to
the Grace Bible Church Window
Fund in C/O Martin Funeral
Home, 510 E. Main, Warrenton,
Mo. 63383. Online condolences
may be made at www.martinfuneral.net.
Cordelia "Corky"
Campbell
Mrs. Cordelia “Corky” Campbell,
82, of Troy, Missouri, passed
away on Sunday, May 29, 2011
at St. Luke’s Hospital in Chesterfield.
She was born on June
15, 1928 in Troy to Luther S.
and Maudell (Jamison) Turnbull.
Corky attended the local schools
along with her sister Mayme. At
the age of 22, she married her
sweetheart, Melvin L. Campbell,
on July 1, 1950. They were
blessed with three children:
Pam, Brent and Bryce. On Oct.
8, 1976, Melvin passed away unexpectedly.
Corky was a hard-working
woman who was determined to
take care of her family. She began
working as a secretary to
the superintendent in the Troy
R-III School District, retiring after
28 years of service. Corky’s life
was centered around her family
and what was best for them. She
was a loyal, conscientious friend
who would help anyone in need.
Corky had the honor of being the
longest member of the First Baptist
Church of Troy. She served in
many capacities such as Sunday
School secretary for many years,
helping on many committees,
and always being there when
needed. Corky had also been a
member of Town & Country Extension
Club and enjoyed playing
late-night cards. Shopping and
traveling were some of her many
joys. Being a grandmother was
so very important to her. She was
a doting grandmother and would
spend as much time as possible
with her grandchildren. Her love
and concern for her children and
grandchildren was paramount
with her.
Surviving are her loving family:
her daughter, Pam and husband
David Schlote of Troy;
her sons: Brent and wife Diane
621 Main St., Troy, MO 63379
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Campbell of Troy; and Bryce and
wife Missy Campbell of Allen,
Texas; her five wonderful grandchildren:
Heather, Meghan, and
Devin Schlote and Kelly and husband
Andrew Lightfoot and Kevin
and his wife Mara Campbell; her
close friend, Al McMichael; her
nieces: Peggy Mason and Paula
Gamble; other relatives, and
many friends.
Corky was preceded in death
by her beloved husband, Melvin
Campbell; and her brother,
Karl Turnbull and sister, Mayme
Braungardt. Corky will be sadly
missed by all those who knew
and loved her.
Funeral services were held
at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, June
2, 2011 from the First Baptist
Church of Troy. Rev. Mike Larson
officiated. Interment followed
in the Troy City Cemetery, Troy.
Visitation was held on Wednesday
from 4:00-8:00 p.m. at the
First Baptist Church of Troy.
Memorials may be made to
the First Baptist Church Building
Fund, c/o the McCoy-Blossom
Funeral & Cremation Center
Troy, Missouri. Family and
friends are invited to sign the
on-line guest registry at: www.
mccoyblossomfh.com.
roy Douglas
reinhold
Roy Douglas Reinhold, age
55, of Troy passed away on
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at his
residence. He was born on February
25, 1956, a child of Arthur
P. Reinhold Sr. and Billie Frances
(Barnes) Reinhold. After attending
the local schools, Roy
went on to pursue a career as
a mechanic. He enjoyed working
on old cars, and never met a
stranger. Roy's family was of the
upmost importance to him, and
he enjoyed time spent with them.
He will be remembered lovingly
by all those who knew him.
Roy is survived by his devoted
wife, Karen Reinhold of Troy;
his beloved mother, Billie Frances
and step-dad James Garrett
of Moscow Mills; three sons,
Harley Reinhold of Troy; Roy
Reinhold Jr. of Troy; Eric Reinhold
of Troy; and one daughter,
Mariah and her husband Josh
Townsend of Troy; three sisters,
Margie and husband John Murray
of North Carolina; Susan and
husband John Perren of Stafford,
Virginia; and Judy and husband,
Joe Tobin of Foristell; four brothers,
Pete Reinhold of Troy; Eugene
Reinhold of Moscow Mills;
Mike and wife Bonnie Reinhold
of Moscow Mills; Lewis Reinhold
of Arkansas; and Brian Reinhold
of Troy; many other relatives and
friends.
Roy was preceded in death
by his father; and two brothers:
Bill Reinhold,and Tommy Reinhold.
Visitation was held on Thursday,
June 2, 2011 from 10:00
a.m. until 2:00 p.m. A prayer service
was held on Thursday, at
2:00 p.m. at the McCoy-Blossom
Funeral & Cremation Center in
Troy.
Memorials may be made to
the Reinhold family c/o McCoy-
Blossom Funeral Home, 1304
Boone Street, Troy, MO. Friends
and family are invited to visit the
website at www.mccoyblossomfh.com
to sign the on-line guest
register.
THE FOCUS NEWS Friday, June 3, 2011
Christina L. Cipoth
Ms. Christina L. Cipoth, 35,
of Foley, MO, passed away on
Thursday, May 26, 2011 at her
residence. She was born on June
1, 1974 in St. Louis County to
Kenny and Peggy (Taylor) Wadlow.
She was blessed to have
a brother, Brandon, and three
sisters: Stacey, Kendra, and
Deanna. Her children, Jacob and
Shania, were everything to her;
and she loved attending family
functions. She also enjoyed
movies and being outdoors. Taking
walks and camping with her
family was what she liked to do.
Surviving are her loving children,
Jacob and Shania Cipoth
of Ballwin; her father, Kenny
Wadlow of Wright City; and her
mother, Peggy and husband
Mike Davis of St. Louis; her
brother, Brandon Wadlow of
Foley; her three sisters, Stacey
Wadlow of St. Charles, Kendra
Wadlow, and Deanna Club; her
step-sister, Cassie Moore; her
maternal grandmother, Margaret
Taylor of Providence, KY; her
paternal grandparents, John and
Debbie Street; other relatives
and friends.
Funeral services were held
at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June
1, 2011 from the McCoy-Blossom
Funeral & Cremation Ctr,
Troy. Pastor Brett White officiated.
Visitation was also held on
Wed. from 4-7 p.m. at the funeral
home.
Memorials may be made to
the family, c/o the funeral home.
Family and friends are invited to
sign the on-line guest registry at:
www.mccoyblossomfh.com.
Mariam L. strunk
Mariam L. Strunk, age 93,
of Wentzville, MO, died on May
25, 2011 at St. Joseph Hospital
West in Lake St. Louis, MO. She
was born on March 27, 1918 in
Foristell, MO. She was a teacher
in Ft. Zumwalt School District and
a member of St. Patrick Catholic
Church in Wentzville, MO.
She is survived by four sons,
Michael and wife Marion Strunk
of Troy, MO; Mark and wife Barb
Strunk of Laguna Vista, TX;
Warren and wife Kathy Strunk
of Loveland, OH; Terry and wife
Claire Strunk of Troy, MO; eight
daughters, Barbara Dunnermann
of Wentzville, MO; Alice and husband
Clarence Rosemann of
Bunker, MO; Judy Finley of Silex,
MO; Jon E. Boettler of Destin, FL;
Diana Brush of Salem, MO; Mary
Jean and husband Dave Karll of
Marthasville, MO; Marcia Dreisewerd
of Bunker, MO; Susan
and husband Melvin Burkemper
of Troy, MO; 55 grandchildren;
111 great-grandchildren; 11
great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death
by her husband, John A. Strunk;
her father, Charles Goltermann;
her mother, Ella Sudbrock; one
sister, Carol Yahns; and one
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grandchild, Todd Strunk.
Funeral services were held
on Thursday, June 2, 2011 at
10 a.m. at St. Patrick Catholic
Church in Wentzville. Visitation
was held on Tuesday from 4 to
8 p.m. and on Wednesday from
4 to 8 p.m. at Pitman Funeral
Home in Wentzville. Burial was
in Our Lady Cemetery in Lake St.
Louis.
Memorials are suggested to
Masses or donor's choice in care
of Pitman Funeral Home, 1545
Wentzville Pkwy., Wentzville, MO
63385.
Fredrick
Vincent
schaber
Fredrick "Vince" Schaber of
Dardenne Prairie, Missouri, died
on Saturday, May 28, 2011 at the
age of 50. He was born on June
10, 1960.
He was the dearest husband
of Robyn Schaber (nee:
Haintl); dear son of Fredrick
Schaber and Phyllis June Schaber
(nee: Schulte); devoted father
of Michele (Paul) Hepner,
Troy (Samantha) Schaber and
Carly Schaber; dear step-father
of Chris (Amy) Eickelmann and
Brittany (Charles) Dow; beloved
grandfather "V-Pa" of Trenten,
Jakob, Evan, Easton and Ava;
dear brother of Michelle (Herb)
Tinger, Cheryl Gerdes and Sheila
Chittenden. He is also survived
by many other relatives and
friends.
Vince was a man with a kind
heart. Putting others first, he
cherished his family and friends
including his dog, Shilo. He was
a wonderful husband, an amazing
father, and an exceptional "V-
Pa." An honored veteran, a world
traveler, an entrepreneur, and
a lover of food and wine, Vince
was passionate about living life
to the fullest while possessing
the qualities of an admirable
man. He could brighten a room
with the light of his smile and the
warmth of his heart. His zest for
life will always be remembered.
Funeral services were held
on Wednesday, June 1 at 11 a.m.
at First Free Will Baptist Church
in O'Fallon, MO. Visitation was
held on Tuesday, May 31 from
4 to 8 p.m. at Baue Funeral and
Memorial Center in St. Charles
and on Wednesday from 10 to 11
a.m. at the church. Burial was in
St. Charles Memorial Gardens.
Memorials may be made to
the American Heart Association
or to a College Fund for Carly
Schaber c/o Julie Fischer.
ellen Lynn sullivan
Ellen Lynn Sullivan, age 51,
of Wentzville, MO, died on Tuesday,
May 31, 2011 at the age of
51. She was born on October
13, 1959.
She was the dearest daughter
of Carlene L.(the late Hubert)
Lines and Thomas Sullivan;
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cherished mother of Jared (Jocelyn)
Hays and Abigail (Brad
Fleschert) Hays; dear sister of
Kathleen Majerchin, Loraine
Augusta Community Volunteer
Fire Department (ACVFD)
of St. Charles County received
an Operation Round Up grant
of $1,337.90 from the Cuivre
River Electric Community Trust
for the purchase of two Mustang
Ice Commander Rescue Suits.
“The cold water rescue suit is a
vital part of a fire and rescue department’s
personal protection
equipment,” said ACVFD Chief
Bob Struckhoff.
The ACVFD made use of a
spring promotional sale to purchase
the rescue equipment.
“We were able to purchase two
cold water rescue suits for the
price of one due to the time period
of the spring sale,” added
Struckhoff. Operation Round Up
has provided several grants to
the ACVFD since 2003 for safety
equipment.
“The Mustang Ice Commander
Rescue Suits will be
used by our volunteer firemen
responding to cold water related
incidents in St. Charles County.
Research from North Carolina
State University shows that
so-called biodegradable products
are likely doing more harm
than good in landfills, because
they are releasing a powerful
greenhouse gas as they break
down.
“Biodegradable materials,
such as disposable cups and
utensils, are broken down in
landfills by microorganisms that
then produce methane,” says
Dr. Morton Barlaz, co-author of
a paper describing the research
and professor and head of NC
State’s Department of Civil,
Construction, and Environmental
Engineering. “Methane can
be a valuable energy source
when captured, but is a potent
greenhouse gas when released
into the atmosphere.”
And the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) estimates
that only about 35 per-
Hamilton, Tom Sullivan and the
late Mark Sullivan.
A memorial service will be
held on Friday, June 3 at 2 p.m.
augusta Community Volunteer Fire
Department receives Cuivre river Grant
GrANT AWArDED - Cuivre River Electric Community Trust Board
Member Elise Homeyer awarded a $1,337.90 Operation Round Up
grant to Augusta Community Volunteer Fire Department Chief Bob
Struckhoff. Grant funds were used to purchase two Mustang Ice
Commander Rescue Suits.
The suits will be assigned to our
rescue pumper trucks located at
our Augusta and Defiance fire
stations” said Captain/Training
Officer John Freeman. “Our fire
district covers 68 square miles
that is bordered by the Missouri
River and has numerous
streams, lakes and other bodies
of water that can pose a danger
to the public. It’s imperative that
we have this specialized equipment,”
added Struckhoff.
The suits are modular and
completely waterproof. The rescuers
are protected from the
harsh elements by the suit’s
water tight hood, integrated
gloves, and attached boots. The
suits are insulated and contain a
flotation and buoyancy liner that
will allow the rescuers to immerse
themselves for extended
periods of time in icy cold water
and maintain mental and physical
capabilities during a rescue.
“Cold water rescues are
extremely difficult and pose a
high-hazard response for rescu-
at Baue Funeral and Memorial
Center in St. Charles
ers,” said Assistant Chief Paul
Hopen. “A majority of the cold
water rescues take place in the
winter as individuals fall through
or slip off the ice,” added Hopen.
The ACVFD conducts ice rescue
training each winter to ensure
their volunteer firemen are
qualified to use the specific rescue
equipment, make a comprehensive
analysis of the incident
site and initiate and execute the
rescue or recovery plan.
The ACVFD was founded in
1904, and today is comprised
of 27 volunteer firemen who respond
to emergency calls that
cover southwest St. Charles
County. Last year the ACVFD
responded to 231 local incidents,
and this year they have
responded to 59 incidents to
date. Under a Missouri state
mutual aid agreement the
ACVFD will provide statewide
emergency relief in the case of
a large-scale disaster.
Cuivre River funds are made
available through Operation
Round Up and administered by
the seven member volunteer
Cuivre River Electric Community
Trust Board. These funds
help support individuals, families
and organizations within
the Cuivre River Electric Cooperative
service area. The goal of
Operation Round Up is to help
address needs in the areas of
health, youth, education, home
weatherization, community and
emergency services that cannot
be met with other resources.
Cuivre River Electric Cooperative
provides electricity to
more than 59,000 homes and
businesses in Lincoln, Pike, St.
Charles and Warren counties.
For more information on Operation
Round Up and Cuivre River
Electric Cooperative visit www.
cuivre.com or call 800-392-
3709.
study: biodegradable Products
May be bad For the environment
cent of municipal solid waste
goes to landfills that capture
methane for energy use. EPA
estimates that another 34 percent
of landfills capture methane
and burn it off on-site, while
31 percent allow the methane to
escape.
“In other words,” Barlaz
says, “biodegradable products
are not necessarily more environmentally
friendly when disposed
in landfills.”
This problem may be exacerbated
by the rate at which
these man-made biodegradable
materials break down. Federal
Trade Commission (FTC) guidelines
call for products marked as
“biodegradable” to decompose
within “a reasonably short period
of time” after disposal. But
such rapid degradation may actually
be environmentally harmful,
because federal regulations
do not require landfills that col-
THE FOCUS NEWS Friday, June 3, 2011
lect methane to install gas collection
systems for at least two
years after the waste is buried.
If materials break down and release
methane quickly, much of
that methane will likely be emitted
before the collection technology
is installed. This means
less potential fuel for energy
use, and more greenhouse gas
emissions.
As a result, the researchers
find that a slower rate of biodegradation
is actually more
environmentally friendly, because
the bulk of the methane
production will occur after the
methane collection system is in
place. Some specific biodegradable
products such as bags that
hold yard waste and are always
sent to composting or anaerobic
digestion facilities were not included
in the study.
Fleur de Lis
Garden Society
members Janet
Rosner, Elaine Fix,
Charlene Barton
and Don Miller assisted
the participants
at St Roberts
Adult Day Program
with a project of
making terrariums
on April 29, 2011.
They created them
and took them
home. Donations
of sand, rock, charcoal,
potting mix,
plants, containers and sheet
moss were donated by Lowes
in St Charles and garden club
members. St Roberts is located
at 1424 South 1st Capitol Drive
in St. Charles.
Sharing our love of gardening
with others is possible in
many ways. “All garden clubs
are asked to include at least
one garden therapy project in
their year's programs” said Louise
Chambers, 2011 Co-President.
Opportunities for garden
therapy exist in every community
- at senior citizen centers
and apartments, institutions for
the handicapped and learning
disabled, nursing homes, hospitals,
churches, and even with a
housebound neighbor.
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“If we want to maximize the
environmental benefit of biodegradable
products in landfills,”
Barlaz says, “we need to both
expand methane collection at
landfills and design these products
to degrade more slowly – in
contrast to FTC guidance.”
The paper, “Is Biodegradability
a Desirable Attribute
for Discarded Solid Waste?
Perspectives from a National
Landfill Greenhouse Gas Inventory
Model,” was co-authored
by Barlaz and NC State Ph.D.
student James Levis, and was
published online May 27 by the
journal Environmental Science
& Technology. The research
was supported by Procter &
Gamble and the Environmental
Research and Education Foundation.
terrariums Catch the attention
of alzheimer’s Participants
st. roberts adult Day Program
Lorraine and Amelia. Photo Courtesy of St.
Roberts Adult Day Program
Hope Holder, Program Director,
stated, “I am so pleased with
our terrarium project. I noticed
that Lorraine was participating
and doing the project herself.
She always wants someone to
do it for her, but today she is
participating and enjoying herself.
This has been a very positive
and uplifting experience.”
Some of the proven benefits
of horticultural therapy include
reducing physical pain, providing
sensory stimulation, improving
memory and concentration,
easing emotional pain from bereavement
or abuse and cultivating
nurturing feelings.
Visit Fleur de Lis Garden Society's
website at www.fleurdelisgardensociety.org
for future
events and meetings.

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researchers track the secret Lives of
Feral and Free-roaming House Cats
Researchers (and some
cat-owners) wanted to know:
What do feral and free-roaming
house cats do when they’re out
of sight? A two-year study offers
a first look at the daily lives of
these feline paupers and princes,
whose territories overlap
on the urban, suburban, rural
and agricultural edges of many
towns.
The study used radio telemetry
and a sophisticated activitytracking
device to capture the
haunts and habits of dozens
of owned and un-owned cats
living at the southern edge of
Champaign and Urbana, neighboring
cities in Central Illinois.
Together, the 42 adult cats originally
radio-tracked for the study
ranged over a territory of 2,544
hectares (6,286 acres).
Of the radio transmitters
used in the study, 23 had tilt and
vibration sensors that tracked
the animals’ every move.
“There’s no (other) data set
like this for cats,” said Jeff Horn,
a former graduate student in
the University of Illinois department
of natural resources and
environmental sciences who
conducted the study for his
master’s thesis with researchers
from his department and the
Prairie Research Institute at Illinois.
“Without these sensors,
it would require a field team of
10 to 12 people to collect that
data.”
As expected, in most cases
the un-owned cats had larger
territories than the pet cats and
were more active throughout
the year. But the size of some
of the feral cats’ home ranges
surprised even the researchers.
One of the feral cats, a
mixed breed male, had a home
range of 547 hectares (1,351
acres), the largest range of
those tracked.
Like most of the feral cats,
this lone ranger was seen in
both urban and rural sites, from
residential and campus lawns to
agricultural fields, forests and a
restored prairie.
“That particular male cat was
not getting food from humans,
to my knowledge, but somehow
it survived out there amidst
coyotes and foxes,” Horn said.
“It crossed every street in the
area where it was trapped. (It
navigated) stoplights, parking
lots. We found it denning under
a softball field during a game.”
The owned cats had significantly
smaller territories and
tended to stay close to home.
The mean home range for pet
cats in the study was less than
two hectares (4.9 acres).
“Still, some of the cat owners
were very surprised to learn
that their cats were going that
far,” Horn said. “That’s a lot of
backyards.”
The pet cats managed this
despite being asleep or in low
activity 97 percent of the time.
On average, they spent only 3
percent of their time engaged
in highly active pursuits, such
as running or stalking prey, the
researchers reported. The unowned
cats were highly active
14 percent of the time.
“The un-owned cats have to
find food to survive, and their
activity is significantly greater
than the owned cats throughout
the day and throughout the year,
especially in winter,” Horn said.
“These un-owned cats have to
search harder to find food to
create the (body) heat that they
need to survive.”
The cats also differed in the
types of territories they used
throughout the year. Pet cats
randomly wandered in different
habitats, but un-owned cats
had seasonal habits. In winter,
feral cats stayed closer to urban
areas than expected. And
throughout the year they spent
a good amount of time in grasslands,
including a restored prairie.
Most of the cats in the study
stayed within about 300 meters
of human structures, said coauthor
Nohra Mateus-Pinilla, a
wildlife veterinary epidemiologist
at the Illinois Natural History
Survey at Illinois.
“Even feral cats were always
within range of a building,” she
said. “That shows that even
though they’re feral, they still
have a level of dependency on
us.”
One feral cat chased another
out of a dairy barn. Another
feral cat waited for a pet cat to
emerge each morning and tried
to chase it out of its own backyard,
Horn said.
The overlap of feral and pet
cat territories outdoors spells
trouble for the environment, the
cats and potentially also for the
cat owners, the researchers
said.
In an earlier study, co-author
Richard Warner, an emeritus
professor of natural resources
and environmental sciences
at Illinois, followed the cats of
about two-dozen rural residences
over several years.
“Two of the leading causes
of cat deaths in that study were
other cats and disease,” Warner
said. “And both of these leading
causes of death are sitting here
waiting for these owned cats
outdoors.”
Cats also get diseases from
wildlife or other cats, Mateus-
Pinilla said, and can bring them
home and infect their owners
and other pets.
“For example, Toxoplasma
gondii, a parasite spread primarily
by cats, may cause neurological,
reproductive and even
respiratory problems in humans,
cats and wildlife, depending on
the species affected,” she said.
Rabies, cat scratch fever, feline
leukemia and feline immunodeficiency
virus are also of concern
to pet owners whose cats
encounter other cats outdoors,
she said. Vaccination of pet cats
will reduce but not eliminate the
threat of disease transmission,
she said.
Even though pet cats have
relatively small ranges and are
active only in short bursts, Warner
said, their impact on wildlife
in the immediate vicinity of their
homes is likely much more intense
than that of a feral cat that
wanders over a larger territory.
Unlike other feline predators,
such as bobcats, that are native
to the Midwest, domestic cats
are invasive species that have a
disproportionately damaging effect
on wildlife – either through
predation or disease, Horn said.
Wild animals that have
adapted to ecosystems that are
already fragmented, such as
the prairies of Central Illinois,
are even more endangered because
domestic cats are disrupting
the ecosystem by hunting,
competing with native predators
or spreading disease, he said.
Illinois Natural History Survey
mammalian ecologist Edward
Heske also contributed to
this study.
The survey is a unit within
the Prairie Research Institute.
This study was funded by the
survey, the department of natural
resources and environmental
sciences and U. of I. Extension.
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New surgical unit assistant
Manager announced at barnes-
Jewish st. Peters Hospital
Christie Rawie, RN, recently
accepted the position of assistant
manager of the surgical
unit at Barnes-Jewish St. Peters
Hospital.
Rawie worked as a staff
nurse in the intensive care unit
before moving to managed care
in a supervisory role. Most recently,
she worked at Progress
West HealthCare Center as a
case manager.
“While I enjoyed my responsibilities
in management in managed
care, I really missed connecting
with the patients. This
position offers the best of both
worlds for me by combining
management and direct patient
care,” said Rawie.
Rawie earned her two-year
nursing degree from St. Charles
Community College in 1999.
She is currently pursuing her
bachelor of science in nursing at
Webster University. Rawie lives
in St. Peters with her husband,
Christie Rawie, RN
John, and their daughters Kristine,
17, and Kaelyn, 9, and their
son, John, 6.
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saint Louis science Center to Hose all-
New body Worlds & the brain exhibition
The Saint Louis Science
Center will host the new blockbuster
exhibition, Gunther von
Hagens' BODY WORLDS &
The Brain, which will open to the
public Friday, June 10 in the EX-
PLORADOME. For the first time
in St. Louis, this new presentation
of BODY WORLDS focuses
specifically on the brain and unravels
the mystery of the mind
and secret world of the brain.
"BODY WORLDS & The
Brain provides the Saint Louis
Science Center with a unique
opportunity to enrich people's
understanding of their bodies,
especially their brains," said
Philip Needleman, Ph.D., Interim
President and CEO for the
Science Center. "This exhibition
is the perfect backdrop for conversations
about the neurological
problems that impact more
and more families everyday.
We're excited to supplement an
already amazing exhibition with
programming to educate our
visitors about the complexities
of the brain."
This special presentation
offers a broad perspective on
the brain that merges anatomy,
Opera Theatre of Saint
Louis (OTSL) and The Sheldon
are pleased to welcome vocalist
Sylvia McNair, performing
popular classics from the American
songbook and beyond, in a
special, cabaret-style evening
in The Sheldon Ballroom, Tuesday,
June 14 at 7:30 p.m.
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and resonates with everyone.
"The brain is an incredible
marvel of engineering," said Dr.
Gunther von Hagens, inventor
of the Plastination process and
creator the exhibitions. "I wanted
people to recognize what is
known about this amazing gem
inside our heads and be awed
by its possibilities and capacities."
Through its aesthetic and
accessible displays, BODY
WORLDS invites contemplation,
study and reflection of the
power and vulnerability of the
human body and the brain.
"We wanted to present this
most complex organ in a way
that was accessible to the general
public and in the most elegant
way," said Dr. Angelina
Whalley, conceptual planner
and creative designer of the exhibitions,
which have been seen
by more than 32 million people
worldwide.
The Science Center plans to
supplement the exhibition with
expert speakers and special
programming, including favorites,
like a BODY WORLDS-
focused Family Med School and
Artist's Nights, and new presentations
involving brain scans
and insights into common neurological
afflictions, including
Alzheimer's, autism, ADHD and
depression.
BODY WORLDS & The Brain
will be open Monday through
Wednesday from 9:30am to
5:30pm (5pm after Labor Day)
and Thursday through Saturday
from 9:30am to 9pm. Final entry
into the exhibition is one hour
prior to closing.
Admission to BODY
WORLDS is $20 for adults, $13
for children 5-18, $17 for students
with I.D., and seniors 62+.
Children under 5 are free. Member
pricing is $15 for adults,
$11 for children 5-18, and $13
for seniors 62+ and students
with I.D. Tickets will go on sale
to Science Center Members on
May 2 and to the general public
on May 9.
BODY WORLDS & The
Brain will run for a limited engagement.
For more information,
call 314.289.4424 or visit
slsc.org
Opera theatre of saint Louis and the sheldon
Present sylvia McNair in a Cabaret Performance
winning singer, Sylvia McNair’s
performing repertoire has embraced
everything from classical
and cabaret to opera and
Broadway musicals. McNair
made her name in the opera
world, beginning at Opera Theatre
of Saint Louis, and continuing
to the top opera houses in
the world. She has worked with
Seiji Ozawa, Kurt Masur, Leonard
Slatkin, André Previn, Neville
Marriner and the late Robert
Shaw, whom she credits with
giving her the early and important
opportunities that launched
her career.
McNair has expanded her
repertoire to include music from
the Great American Songbook,
Featuring Dave
King as King of
Rock n Roll
July 9th
8 p.m.-12 a.m.
MIND SPIN
Y-Not Karaoke Every Thursday
Saturday,
June 4
9 p.m.-1 a.m.
Wrist Band Wednesdays
Rail Mixed Drinks & Draft Beer Only
beer happy hour
Monday-Friday
11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Weekly specials
Monday - Thursday
Weekly Food Specials
Fridays
Catfish Special with 2 Sides
saTurday 5-9 p.M.
12 oz. Hand-Carved Boneless Ribeye,
Baked potato, Dinner Salad, Toast.
Stay later and enjoy Karaoke, Drink
Specials & Good Time.
sundays
Weekly Sports Special
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Events Calendar
FriDaY, JuNe 3
st. Vincent de Paul Open air Dance at Dutzow KC Grounds
and Ball Park from 8:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m. Music by Complete Music.
Fam Jam at Morning Star Church, 1600 Feise Road, Dardenne
Prairie from 7:30-9:00 p.m. is designed to bring parents and kids
together for an evening of live entertainment packed with highenergy
music, drama, media, comedy and a look at the Good
Book.
blood Drive at St. Stephen United Methodist Church in Troy from
3:00-7:00 p.m.. Join the American Red Cross and the country
music industry in their effort to boost blood donations. To make
an appointment call the church office at 636-528-4148 or online
at redcrossblood.org and enter sponsor code westerntc. All presenting
blood donors entered in drawing for Music City Getaway,
an expense paid trip for two to Nashville for a two night stay at
Gaylord's Opryland Hotel, VIP passes to Grand Ole Opry, backstage
tour at Opry House (based on availability at time of travel)
and $300 Visa gift card.
Washington art Center special exhibit in honor of sister city
of Marbach, a special showing of works by German Artist Paul
Geissler thru June 12th. Stop by and view his paintings and etchings
of landscapes and city views.
the edge of excess ii at Foundry Art Centre, 520 N. Main Center,
St. Charles features art characterized by the excessive use of
repetition. Award winners Jonah Criswell, Susan Foley, and Chris
Hagerty, Ameristar Gallery Emerging Artist Hans Gindlesberger
thru June 10.
saturDaY, JuNe 4
Julie Doorack Memorial softball tournament at St. John's Gildehaus,
Villa Ridge.
spring Demolition Derby at Washington Fair Grounds with
gates opening at 5:00 p.m. and racing at 7:00 p.m. Stock, modified,
and mini-car races, food, beer and soda, 50/50 raffle, and
"Bash for Cash." Sponsored by Washington Jaycees.
Craft and Home business show at Gifts and More in Winfield
from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
First assembly of God Yard sale, 432 S Lincoln Drive in Troy
spaghetti Dinner at St. Paul United Church of Christ, 903 Meier
Road in Old Monroe from 4:00-7:00 p.m.
Lincoln County Historical society tours of the Old Jail from
2:00-4:00 p.m.
renaissance Faire at Rotary Park, Wentzville June 4-5. Travel
back to a 16th century French village and thrill to the exploits of
jousting knights; roam the village shops; enjoy stage acts performing
comedy, music and daring feats; and interact with colorful
villagers, nobles, and peasants. There will be food and fun for
the entire family.
O’Fallon Farmers & artists Market at the lot by River City Rascals
Ballpark, 900 T.R. Hughes Blvd. 7:00 a.m.-12 p.m. every
Saturday. Locally-grown produce, plants and flowers, herbs,
honey, hand-made baked goods, gourmet items, jams and jellies,
original art, hand-made crafts and more. The market also
features a variety of events and special guests throughout the
season, plus live music, free yoga classes at 9:00 a.m., cooking
demonstrations and more.
Washington Farmers Market on Main Street. Local produce,
plants, fruits, baked items and crafts. Wednesdays 3:00-6:00
p.m. & Saturdays 8:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
river Hills Farmers Market at Tractor Supply Store in Troy from
9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Lincoln County all-breed Fun show at Lincoln County Fairgrounds
at 5:30 p.m.
taste of Home Cooking school at Troy Buchanan High School
beginning at 3:00 p.m. is a 2-hour interactive event featuring top
Taste of Home culinary expert Jamie Dunn demonstrating 10
new recipes you can easily recreate in your home. A business
expo will be held from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Tickets on sale at
Bank of Old Monroe, Peoples Bank (main Troy location) and Troy
Chamber of Commerce Office. Hosted by the American Cancer
Society Relay For Life and the Troy Area Chamber of Commerce.
Youth rally at Silex Community Center from 1:00-4:00 p.m. with
puppet shows, music, free refreshments, drawings, balloons and
more! Presented by Silex Assembly of God.
Cruisin’ for st. Jude at Chariots of Fire Customs parking lot in
Moscow Mills to raise funds for kids battling cancer at St. Jude

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Events Calendar
Children’s Research Hospital will feature a motorcycle show,
raffles, 50/50 drawings and live music from The Follow. Motorcycle
(and tri-cycle) owners are encouraged to pre-register for
the show online at www.chariotsoffirecustoms.com.
suNDaY, JuNe 5
Picnic at st. Gertrude Parish Center & Grounds from 11:00
a.m. to 6:00 p.m.. Enjoy chicken & beef dinner, games, entertainment.
thee-rekate reunion at Smith Creek United Methodist
Church, 3903 State Hwy U just north of Highway 94 from 12:30-
4:00 p.m. Potluck meal. Cathie Schoppenhorst, Curator of
Warren County Historical Society Museum, will provide a short
history of local involvement in the Civil War. Inside seating available
or bring lawn chairs if weather permits.
Jeff Jam in memory of Jeff Allwood at the Apple Shed in Clarksville
at 2:00 p.m.. Proceeds benefit Pike County Home Health
and Hospice. Live music, concessions and open jam (all musicians
welcome).
MONDaY, JuNe 6
summer Camp & Counselors in training at Diekroeger Park,
13410 Veterans Memorial Parkway, Wright City from 9:00 a.m.-
4:00 p.m. June 6-10. Summer camp for boys & girls ages 6-12,
counselors in training program for boys & girls ages 13-15. Before
care from 7:00-9:00 a.m. & after care from 4:00-6:00 p.m.
available. Cost varies for each program.
O.a.s.i.s. Food Pantry Golf tournament and Dinner/auction
at Old Hickory Golf Club in St. Peters. Register a foursome
or they will put foursome together. Price includes gift bag with
embroidered golf shirt and other goodies, food and beverages
on the course, hors d'oeuvres and dinner/auction and cash prizes.
Dinner/auction tickets include hors d'oeuvres and dinner.
Cash bar, extensive silent and brief oral auction. Donated gift
bag items may display your company name/logo. You can also
donate items for the auction. Each month they provide food and
hygiene items to over 500 needy families in St. Charles City/
County.
tuesDaY, JuNe 7
troy tennis Group at buchanan High school 8:00-10:00
a.m. Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Singles, doubles or
mixed groups, so you do not need a partner and all are welcome
to come. If interested, contact Nancy and Allen Able, 636-528-
0146.
"attracting birds to your Garden" at Kisker Road Library,
1000 Kisker Rd., St. Charles at 6:30 p.m. Refreshments will be
served so RSVP to Elaine at 314-277-6186 or elaine.fix@ingfp.
com. Presented by Fleur de Lis Garden Society.
O’Fallon Jammin’ at Civic Park bandstand, Civic Park Drive
5:30-8:30 p.m. Tuesdays thru August 23. This weekly summer
concert series features regional bands playing pop, rock, and
country. Bring a blanket or lawn chair for lawn seating in the
natural amphitheatre. Vendors will have food and beverages at
reasonable prices. Free. For more information, 636- 379-5614
WeDNesDaY, JuNe 8
Career & technical Programs showcase at Health & Science
Building, East Central College Campus in Union from 5:00-7:00
p.m. Learn more about credit and non-credit programs offered
at ECC. Staff will be available to provide information about paying
for college and financial aid resources as well as workshops
to help returning adult students prepare for the transition to the
classroom. No admission fee. Free food and attendance prizes!
For further details, 636-584-6526.
Washington Rotary Club Riverfront Trail Days from 9:00 a.m. to
3:00 p.m. Enjoy a day of trail rides, lunch, bingo, games and socialization.
FREE tram rides, FREE wheelchair escorts, FREE
refreshments & bingo! PLUS a great display by the Washington
Historical Society. To reserve your spot, call the Washington
Parks Dept. and ask for Robin at 636-390-1080.
turning Point Domestic and sexual Violence shelter Fundraiser
at Cedar Lake Winery from 6:00-9:00 p.m.
safe sitters Classes at Lincoln County Medical Center, 1000
East Cherry Street, Troy June 8 and July 13 from 8:30 a.m. to
3:30 p.m. prepares 11-13 year olds for the responsibilities of
nurturing and protecting children as well as teaching introductory
employment skills and important life skills. Safe Sitter is
a competency-based highly interactive curriculum researched
and developed by Dr. Patricia A Keener, MD. Call 636-528-3300
for registration.
tHursDaY, JuNe 9
Music at the Farmers' Market on Main Street in downtown
Washington from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Live music, great beverage
selections and wonderful food. Music this month is Mick Byrd
(American-style music), wine from Blumenhof Vineyards & Winery,
Washington Park Board will be bartenders.
Free Concert at Frontier Park, Riverside Drive, St. Charles at
to list your event, email: focusnewsmo@gmail.com
performing at cabaret rooms
and at concerts across the U.S.,
including the Algonquin Hotel’s
famed Oak Room, where she
earned rave reviews. McNair
will return to Opera Theatre this
summer in the cameo role of
the Duchess of Crackentorp in
Backstage tours, 20-minute
Talkback sessions and Shakespeare
After Parties are the
newest activities added to this
yearʼs Shakespeare Festival St.
Louisʼ production of “The Taming
of the Shrew,” which opened
last week at Shakespeare Glen
in Forest Park. Performances
are scheduled nightly at 8 p.m.
through June 19 (excluding
Tuesdays).
The official opening nightwas
held on Friday, May 27.
In addition, an expanded
version of Shake-38, last yearʼs
wildly successful urban reading
of Shakespeareʼs 38-play canon,
was scheduled throughout
the city. The citywide 38-hour
marathon reading/performance
began at 6 a.m. on May 24 and
culminated with the first preview
performance of the Bardʼs 38th
play, “The Taming of the Shrew,”
at 8 p.m., May 25 in Forest
Park. This yearʼs Shake-38 featured
a reading of a new play,
“Every Other Hamlet in the
Universe,” by Yale graduate
Kimberly Rosenstock. Based
on Shakespeareʼs “Hamlet,”
the play reading was directed
by another Yale graduate, Trip
Cullman, one of the countryʼs
most sought after young directors.
This reading marked
the first collaboration between
Shakespeare Festival St. Louis
and Pulitzer prize winner Paula
Vogel and the MFA Yale Playwriting
program.
The play featured St. Louis
actors and will be presented at 4
p.m. on May 25. The New York
Times named Rosenstockʼs Off-
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bers of fish to grow quickly, says
Stephen L. Johnson, PhD, associate
professor of genetics.
But beyond shear numbers
of fish, the facility has other resources
available to investigators.
“We have a lot of capabilities
for obtaining, viewing and manipulating
fish embryos,” Solnica-Krezel
says. “And we have
a lot of expertise here, people
who can help in evaluating experiments.”
Solnica-Krezel says she
hopes the facility also will help
recruit new researchers. According
to Kelly R. Monk, PhD,
assistant professor of developmental
biology, the zebrafish
facility was one of the things
that attracted her to Washington
University.
“I arrived in January and was
able to start doing experiments
right away,” Monk says.
For more information about
the facility and the inaugural
symposium, visit devbio.wustl.
edu
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Donizetti’s The Daughter of the
Regiment, and currently serves
on the vocal music faculty of the
Jacobs School of Music at Indiana
University.
OTSL’s 2011 season runs
through June 26, featuring
new productions of Mozart’s
17
11th annual Production of shakespeare
Festival st. Louis "the taming of the shrew"
is Now being Performed in Forest Park
Broadway play, “Tigers Be Still,”
one of the Top 10 Plays of the
2010 theatre season.
“We are truly enhancing the
Shakespearean experience this
year. We are taking the Bardʼs
works and performing them in
the schools, in the streets and,
ultimately, in the park.” said
Rick Dildine, executive director
of Shakespeare Festival St.
Louis. “Our goal is to make
Shakespeare accessible to people
of all ages and the best part
is that everything is free.”
This yearʼs production in
the park will be set in a 1950s
inspired backyard scene, complete
with an airstream trailer,
a Cadillac Sedan DeVille and
characters decked out in hoop
skirts and poka dot shoes. A
galvanized swimming pool will
be off to the side, next to the
barbeque pit. Set designer
Scott Neale, who has created
designs for Busch Gardens
and SeaWorld, developed the
showʼs backdrop under the direction
of award-winning Chicago
director and playwright
Sean Graney. Alison Siple,
recently named one of the five
most prolific Chicago theatre
artists of the decade by “Time
Out Chicago,” will be creating
the 50s-style costumes.
Audience members arriving
early will have the opportunity
to take a backstage tour. Tours
will begin at 6 p.m. and last approximately
30 minutes. Tickets
are $2 (ages five and up) and
are available on a first come,
first serve basis at the Info Tent
at Shakespeare Glen.
Don Giovanni, Donizetti’s The
Daughter of the Regiment, Debussy’s
Pelléas and Mélisande,
and John Adams’s The Death of
Klinghoffer. For tickets or more
information, visit www.ExperienceOpera.org.
A 20-minute Talkback discussion
will be held nightly following
each performance. The
Talkback series, sponsored by
Maryville University, invites audiences
to participate in lively
and enlightening conversations
about the shows.
Shakespeare “After Parties”
will be held from 10-11 p.m. on
Friday and Saturday nights at
Marvinʼs, the new lounge located
at the eventʼs lobby area at
the top of Art Hill. A different local
band will play each night on
the Green Show stage. Audience
members are encouraged
to stay for the music. Food and
drinks will be available for purchase.
As in previous years, the
Pre-Show Festival activities will
include a nightly Green Show
at 6:30 p.m. The Pre-Show will
include: a 20-minute adaptation
of “The Taming of the Shrew,”
which will introduce the characters
and plot to children of all
ages; musicians, dancers, singers,
jugglers; and conversations
on the lawn by local scholars.
In the past 10 years, the
Shakespeare Festival has attracted
more than 442,000 people
to the performances in Forest
Park. The organization has
reached an additional 185,000
students through its educational
touring productions, school
programs, summer camps and
community partnerships. For
more information, please visit
www.shakespearefestivalstlouis.org,
or call 314/531-9800.

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High blood Pressure
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High blood pressure was
more prevalent among the
Add Health respondents (19
percent) than in the NHANES
respondents (4 percent). The
study authors noted, however,
that the proportion of respondents
who reported they had
been told by a health care provider
that they had high blood
pressure was similar: 11 percent
for Add Health and 9 percent for
NHANES.
The study authors wrote
that many young people are unaware
that they have high blood
pressure. In such screenings of
a large number of participants,
it is expected that more participants
would be found to have
high blood pressure upon examination
than would report that
they had high blood pressure in
the past.
The Add Health survey results
fit this expected pattern,
with 11 percent saying they had
earlier been told they had high
blood pressure, and 19 percent
later having been found to
have high blood pressure upon
examination. This pattern was
reversed for NHANES, with 9
percent reporting they had high
blood pressure, and 4 percent
measured with high blood pressure
upon examination.
The Eunice Kennedy Shriver
National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development
(NICHD) sponsors research on
development, before and after
birth; maternal, child, and family
health; reproductive biology and
population issues; and medical
rehabilitation. For more information,
visit the Institute’s Web site
at http://www.nichd.nih.gov/.
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as polyphenols, also extracted
from the peels. Blueberry polyphenols
give the fruit its purple,
blue, and red coloration.
In an article published in the
Journal of Agricultural and Food
Chemistry in 2010, Yokoyama
and his coinvestigators reported
that all the hamsters that were
fed blueberry-enhanced rations
had from 22 to 27 percent lower
total plasma cholesterol than
hamsters fed rations that didn't
contain blueberry juice byproducts.
Levels of VLDL (very low
density lipoprotein-a form of
"bad" cholesterol) were about
44 percent lower in the blueberry-fed
hamsters.
Yokoyama and his coinvestigators
used a procedure known
as real-time reverse transcription
polymerase chain reaction,
or RT-PCR, to learn about the
genes responsible for these effects.
This approach allowed
the scientists to pinpoint differences
in the level of activity of
certain liver genes.
In hamsters-and in humansthe
liver both makes cholesterol
and helps get rid of excessive
levels of it. Results suggest that
activity of some liver genes that
either produce or use cholesterol
resulted in the lower blood
cholesterol levels.
The study is apparently the
first published account of cholesterol-lowering
effects in laboratory
hamsters fed blueberry
peels or fiber or polyphenols extracted
from those peels.
Of course, some pieces of
the cholesterol puzzle are not
yet in place. For example, the
researchers don't know which
berry compound or compounds
activated the liver genes, or
which parts of the berry have
the highest levels of these compounds.
testosterone
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screen for endocrine or psychiatric
disorders and sleep problems.
They were an average of
24 years old, lean and in good
health.
For the study, they spent
three nights in the laboratory
sleeping for up to ten hours, and
then eight nights sleeping less
than five hours. Their blood was
sampled every 15 to 30 minutes
for 24 hours during the last day
of the ten-hour sleep phase
and the last day of the five-hour
sleep phase.
The effects of sleep loss on
testosterone levels were apparent
after just one week of short
sleep. Five hours of sleep decreased
their testosterone lev-
els by 10% to 15%. The young
men had the lowest testosterone
levels in the afternoons on
their sleep restricted days, between
2 pm and 10 pm.
The young men also self-reported
their mood and vigor levels
throughout the study. They
reported a decline in their sense
of well-being as their blood testosterone
levels declined. Their
mood and vigor fell more every
day as the sleep restriction part
of the study progressed.
Testosterone levels in men
decline by 1% to 2% a year as
they age. Testosterone deficiency
is associated with low energy,
reduced libido, poor concentration,
and fatigue.
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they had developed years earlier.
They subjected 10-day-old
laboratory rats to mild stomach
irritation daily for six days. They
had previously shown that during
the vulnerable newborn
period such treatment, which
causes a temporary inflammation
or injury, results in hyper-
sensitivity and functional abnormalities
that persist long after
the initial damage has been repaired.
“We hypothesized that this
treatment might also be affecting
the development of central
nervous system, and driving the
animals to anxiety and depres-
sion,” said Pasricha.
Indeed, as the researchers
assessed the behavior of
the treated rats when the animals
were 8 to 10 weeks old,
they found that those rats with
early gastric irritation were significantly
more likely than their
peers to display depressed and
anxious behaviors including a
decreased consumption of sugar
water, less-active swimming
in a pool of warm water and a
preference for dark rather than
light areas in a maze.
The treated rats also exhibited
increased levels of the stress
hormones corticosterone and
corticotrophin after an injection
of saline, and had higher-thannormal
resting levels of corticosterone
and corticotrophin-releasing
factor, or CRF. Blocking
the animals’ ability to perceive
sensation from their gut with a
drug did not affect their behavior,
indicating that the rats were
not responding to ongoing pain.
In contrast, inhibiting the activity
of CRF, which is known to be
associated with depression in
humans and animals, caused
the treated rats to behave more
normally in the tests.
“It seems that when the rats
are exposed to gastric irritation
at the appropriate point in time,”
said Pasricha, “there is signaling
across the gut to the brain
that permanently alters its function.”
The researchers are now
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planning to investigate exactly
how that signaling is initiated
and acts in the brain, and
whether it might be possible to
develop new ways to treat depression
and anxiety in humans.
“We’d like to know whether
the vagus nerve is involved, and
confirm what changes may occur
in the brain in response to
this signal,” said Pasricha. “The
vast majority of humans don’t
experience any long-lasting
consequences from transient
infections. But there may be
subset of patients who are genetically
predisposed to this effect
by mechanisms we don’t
yet understand yet. Our hope is
that this work will open another
avenue for exploring, understanding
and treating these very
complex syndromes.”
In particular, electrical stimulation
of the vagus nerve has
recently been approved by the
Food and Drug Administration
for treatment-resistant depression;
this research may help
researchers better understand
and optimize this new approach.
In addition to Pasricha and
Liu, other Stanford researchers
involved in the work include
Robert Sapolsky, PhD, the John
A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor,
and Kshama Mehta,
PhD, an instructor in gastroenterology
and hepatology. The
research was funded by Stanford’s
Department of Medicine.
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exposure did not affect the brain
activity of participants who already
had been highly exposed
to violent games is interesting
and suggests a number of possibilities,”
Bartholow said. “It
could be that those individuals
are already so desensitized to
violence from habitually playing
violent video games that an additional
exposure in the lab has
very little effect on their brain
responses. There also could
be an unmeasured factor that
causes both a preference for violent
video games and a smaller
brain response to violence. In
either case, there are additional
measures to consider.”
Bartholow said that future
research should focus on ways
to moderate media violence effects,
especially among individuals
who are habitually exposed.
He cites surveys that indicate
that the average elementary
school child spends more than
40 hours a week playing video
games – more than any other
activity besides sleeping. As
young children spend more time
with video games than any oth-
er forms of media, the researchers
say children could become
accustomed to violent behavior
as their brains are forming.
“More than any other media,
these video games encourage
active participation in violence,”
said Bartholow. “From a psychological
perspective, video
games are excellent teaching
tools because they reward players
for engaging in certain types
of behavior. Unfortunately, in
many popular video games, the
behavior is violence.”
Other authors in the study
include Christopher Engelhardt,
graduate student in the MU Department
of Psychological Sciences,
and researchers from
The Ohio State University and
VU University of Amsterdam
in the Netherlands. The journal
article, “This Is Your Brain
on Violent Video Games: Neural
Desensitization to Violence
Predicts Increased Aggression
Following Violent Video Game
Exposure,” will be published
in a forthcoming edition of the
Journal of Experimental Social
Psychology.
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tween these two groups, the
researchers referred to infants
born at 37 and 38 weeks as early
term births, and those born
from 39 to 41 weeks as full term.
Other authors of the study
were Marian Willinger, Ph.D.,
of the NICHD, the paper’s senior
author; March of Dimes
researchers Vani R. Bettegowda,
M.H.S., Todd Dias, M.S.,
and Tomoko Yamada-Kushnir,
M.P.H., M.S.; and Chia-Wen Ko,
Ph.D., of the FDA.
Their findings were published
online in Obstetrics and
Gynecology.
To conduct the study, the
researchers reviewed data
from more than 46 million infants
born in the United States
between 1995 and 2006. The
records were compiled by the
Centers for Disease Control and
18
Prevention’s National Center for
Health Statistics (NCHS). The
database linked all infant death
certificates in a given year to
their corresponding birth certificates
in the same or preceding
year.
The researchers found that
between 1995 and 2006, the
proportion of infants born at 37
or 38 weeks of gestation increased
from 22 percent to 29
percent. During this time, the
percentage of full term births fell
from 60 percent to 54 percent.
Death rates for early term births
were higher than were those for
full term births among all racial
and ethnic groups in the study.
Infants born before 36 full
weeks in the womb are considered
preterm. Those born after
36 weeks traditionally have
been considered to be full term.
The findings of this study indicate
that, even among infants
born at term, those born at 37
or 38 weeks of pregnancy (early
term) face a higher risk of dying
before age 1 than those born
from 39 to 41 weeks (full term).
Overall, the researchers
found that the rate of deaths
for infants born during the entire
term period has fallen in
the past decade. However, their
analysis revealed large differences
in the decline in the infant
death rate between racial and
ethnic groups during the early
term period. For example, over
the 11-year period of the analysis,
the infant death rate for babies
born at 37 weeks fell by 35
percent and 22 percent for Hispanics
and non-Hispanic whites
respectively, and by 6.8 percent
for non-Hispanic African-American
infants. The rate of deaths
within the first month of life for
non-Hispanic black infants born
at 37 weeks did not decline at
all, and in 2006 was the same
as the neonatal mortality rate in
1995 for Hispanic and non-Hispanic
infants born at 37 weeks.
The researchers also found
that infants born at 37 weeks
were twice as likely to die before
their first birthday (3.9 deaths for
every 1,000 births in 2006) than
those born at 40 weeks (1.9
deaths per 1,000 births). Common
causes of death included
birth defects, sudden infant
death syndrome (SIDS); lack of
oxygen, either in the womb or
during birth; and accidents.
Dr. Reddy said that future
studies on the circumstances
surrounding early term births—
such as the reasons for the
early delivery, medical information
on the pregnancy, and the
health status of mother and
baby—may provide information
on the reasons for the higher
death rates seen in early term
infants when compared to fullterm
infants.
"Our findings show that
the term period should not be
treated uniformly; infants born
at early term are a higher risk
group than those born at fullterm,"
she said.
The study authors also wrote
that interventions were needed
to decrease the disparity between
non-Hispanic black infants
and other groups.
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aggressive behaviors – a major
problem that many schools are
trying to address,” says Louise
O’Brien, Ph.D., assistant professor
in U-M’s Sleep Disorders
Center and the departments of
Neurology and Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgery.
“Our schools do push the importance
of healthy eating and
exercise, but this study highlights
that good sleep is just as
essential to a healthy lifestyle.”
O’Brien said the study
showed that sleepiness seemed
to be the biggest driver of the
behavior problems, not the
snoring, which is often a more
obvious symptom associated
with sleep-disordered breathing.
Sleep-disordered breathing
is an umbrella term for a
spectrum of breathing problems
during sleep, which range from
habitual snoring to obstructive
sleep apnea, where the airway
collapses at night.
The sleepiness experienced
by the children in the study could
be caused by sleep-disordered
breathing, but also by many other
factors like chaotic home environments,
fragmented sleep
or not enough sleep because
of too much electronic stimulus
from televisions, cell phones or
computers in the bedroom, says
O’Brien, who is on the faculty of
U-M’s Sleep Disorders Center.
O’Brien says that a longitudinal
study is needed. Although
there are other reasons for
these behaviors, if sleepiness
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the ER visits stemmed from behavioral
problems or minor psychiatric
crises, such as disruptive
classroom behavior, verbal
altercations and running away,
the researchers said. Only a few
involved severe psychotic episodes
(3 percent of the visits) or
suicide attempts (10 percent).
Most importantly, the researchers
found, two-thirds of patients
(220) reported having an outpatient
mental health provider at
both visits, and 288 (85 percent)
reported at the second visit
that they have a regular mental
health provider.
The findings are concerning,
the researchers said, because
they may signal that patients
are not actually getting the care
they need on an outpatient basis.
Mental health experts have
traditionally emphasized the importance
of outpatient care in
managing non-emergency cases
and have urged connecting
such patients to outpatient mental
health programs. Most ERs
are neither designed nor staffed
to deliver effective, coordinated
mental health care, the investigators
said.
"We think of the ER as a
'front door to care,' but our findings
suggest otherwise as a
significant number of patients
repeatedly seek care in the ER
despite being connected to an
outpatient provider," said lead
author Emily Frosch, M.D., a
pediatric psychiatrist at Hopkins
Children's.
does contribute to aggressive
behavior as this study suggests,
a significant proportion of bullying
in children might be eliminated
by efforts to reduce children's
daytime sleepiness.
“We know that the pre-frontal
cortex area of the brain is
sensitive to sleep deprivation,
and this area is also related
to emotional control, decision
making and social behavior,”
says O’Brien.
“So impairment in the prefrontal
cortex may lead to aggression
or disruptive behavior,
delinquency or even substance
abuse. But the good news is
that some of these behaviors
can be improved. Sleep-disordered
breathing can be treated,
and schools or parents can encourage
kids to get more sleep.”
O’Brien recommends parents
remove electronic devices
from bedrooms, make getting
enough sleep a priority and encourage
children to sleep for
the recommended amount of
time without interruption. It is
recommended that children in
pre-school sleep between 11-13
hours a night, and school-aged
children between 10-11 hours of
sleep a night.
“Given the high prevalence
of aggressive, bullying and disruptive
behaviors in schools and
the long-lasting consequences
for both perpetrators and victims,
more study on this issue is
needed,” she says.
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The findings, Frosch said,
raise more questions than they
answer, and researchers have
only begun to untangle the complex
reasons behind recurrent
ER visits for non-emergency
psychiatric problems.
"We need to understand why
families who are already connected
to outpatient providers
continue to seek ER care, why
providers send patients to the
ER and what role, if any, ERs
may play in the continuum of
care for non-psychotic, nonsuicidal
patients," Frosch said.
"It is possible that ERs fulfill an
important function in that continuum
for some patients."
The researchers said one
possible explanation is that
patient families face barriers
to routine outpatient psychiatric
care, including limited office
hours. Families who have had a
positive experience in the ER in
the past may be simply choosing
to return there for subsequent
problems, the researchers say.
Also, some families may also
find ER care less stigmatizing
than outpatient mental health
services. Frosch added that ER
visits may be driven by some
outpatient providers who may
not have sufficient resources for
optimal care and instead send
patients to the ER.
The Hopkins team said future
studies should explore
more specifically the link between
outpatient care and ER
visits.
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