The author of Brazil's Dance With the Devil, Dave Zirin, must love sports, as I do, as billions of us do, or he wouldn't keep writing about where sports have gone wrong. But, wow, have they gone wrong!
Brazil is just the latest in a string of nations that have chosen the glory of hosting mega sports events like the Olympics and World Cup despite the drawbacks. And Zirin makes a case that nations' governments don't see the drawbacks as drawbacks at all, that in fact they are the actual motivation. "Countries don't want these mega-events in spite of the threats to public welfare, addled construction projects, and repression they bring, but because of them." Just as a storm or a war can be used as an excuse to strip away rights and concentrate wealth, so can the storm of sporting events that, coincidentally or not, have their origins in the preparation of nations for warmaking.
Zirin notes that the modern Olympics were launched by a group of European aristocrats and generals who favored nationalism and war -- led by Pierre de Coubertin who believed sport was "an indirect preparation for war." "In sports," he said, "all the same qualities flourish which serve for warfare: indifference toward one's well being, courage, readiness for the unforeseen." The trappings of the Olympic celebration as we know it, however -- the opening ceremonies, marching athletes, Olympic torch run, etc., -- were created by the Nazis' propaganda office for the 1936 games. The World Cup, on the other hand, began in 1934 in Mussolini's Italy with a tournament rigged to guarantee an Italian win.
More worrisome than what sports prepare athletes for is what they may prepare fans for. There are great similarities between rooting for a sports team, especially a national sports team, and rooting for a national military. "As soon as the question of prestige arises," wrote George Orwell, whom Zirin quotes, "as soon as you feel that you and some larger unit will be disgraced if you lose, the most savage combative instincts are aroused." And there is prestige not just in "your" team winning, but in "your" nation hosting the grand event. Zirin spoke with people in Brazil who were of mixed minds, opposing the injustices the Olympics bring but still glad the Olympics was coming to Brazil. Zirin also quotes Brazilian politicians who seem to share the goal of national prestige.
At some point the prestige and the profits and the corruption and the commercialism seem to take over the athletics. "[T]he Olympics aren't about sport any more than the Iraq war was about democracy," Zirin writes. "The Olympics are not about athletes. And they're definitely not about bringing together the 'community of nations.' They are a neoliberal Trojan horse aimed at bringing in business and rolling back the most basic civil liberties."
And yet ... And yet ... the damn thing still is about sports, no matter what else it's about, no matter what alternative venues for sports are possible or imaginable. The fact remains that there are great athletes engaged in great sporting activities in the Olympics and the World Cup. The attraction of the circus is still real, even when we know it's at the expense of bread, rather than accompanying bread. And dangerous as the circus may be for the patriotic and militarist minded -- just as a sip of beer might be dangerous to an alcoholic -- one has the darndest time trying to find anything wrong with one's own appreciation for sports; at least I do.
The Olympics are also decidedly less militaristic -- or at least overtly militaristic -- than U.S. sports like football, baseball, and basketball, with their endless glorification of the U.S. military. "Thank you to our service men and women watching in 175 countries and keeping us safe." The Olympics is also one of the few times that people in the U.S. see people from other countries on their televisions without wars being involved.
Zirin's portrait of Brazil leaves me with similarly mixed sentiments. His research is impressive. He describes a rich and complex history. Despite all the corruption and cruelty, I can't help being attracted to a nation that won its independence without a war, abolished slavery without a war, reduces poverty by giving poor people money, denounces U.S. drone murders at the U.N., joins with Turkey to propose an agreement between the United States and Iran, joins with Russia, India, and China to resist U.S. imperialism; and on the same day this year that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission proposed ending the open internet, Brazil created the world's first internet bill of rights. For a deeply flawed place, there's a lot to like.
It's also hard to resist a group of people that pushes back against the outrages being imposed on it. When a bunch of houses in a poor Brazilian neighborhood were slated for demolition, an artist took photos of the residents, blew them up, and pasted them on the walls of the houses, finally shaming the government into letting the houses stand. That approach to injustice, much like the Pakistani artists' recent placement of an enormous photo of a drone victim in a field for U.S. drone pilots to see, has huge potential.
Now, the question is how to display the Olympics' victims to enough Olympics fans around the world so that no new nation will be able to accept this monster on the terms it has been imposing.
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: "Not to be confused with early 19th century New Hampshire politician Ralph Metcalf"Ralph Harold Metcalfe (May 30, 1910 – October 10, 1978) was an American athlete and politician. Metcalfe jointly held the world record for the 100 metre sprint. Metcalfe was known as the world's fastest human from 1932 through 1934. He later went into politics and served in the United States Congress.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Metcalfe studied at Marquette University and equalled the record of 10.3 seconds on a number of occasions, as well as equaling the 200 metre record of 20.6 seconds. At the 1932 Summer Olympics he virtually dead-heated with his rival Eddie Tolan, with the medal awarded to Tolan only after extended study of the photograph. Both recorded a time of 10.38 seconds. He received a bronze medal in the 200 metre event at these games. Metcalfe competed again in the 100 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics, placing second to the great Jesse Owens. He received a gold medal as part of the winning 4x100 relay team.
Metcalfe completed a master's degree at the University of Southern California. After his college career, he joined the armed forces and served in World War II. Metcalfe later coached track at Xavier University of Louisiana before becoming a successful businessman in Chicago, Illinois.
In 1949, Metcalfe won election as an alderman representing the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. He was a Democrat representing Illinois' 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1971 until his death in 1978 at age sixty-eight. He was a co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC).
In 1975, Metcalfe was inducted into the United States Track and Field Hall of Fame (USATF) and named a member of the President's Commission on Olympic Sports.
He is interred at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois.
The federal building at 77 W. Jackson in Chicago was named for Metcalfe when it was dedicated in 1991.
Metcalfe was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans.
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In its push for profits, the U.S. health care system has made it difficult for patients to get personal attention from doctors. But what if hands-on medicine actually saves money — and lives?
In October 2014, my father was startled to receive a letter announcing the retirement, in a month's time, of our family physician. Both he and his doctor were in their late 60s by then, and their relationship went back about 30 years, to the early 1980s, after my father followed his father and paternal grandparents, all from the Midwest, to Southwest Florida. How they began seeing the doctor is beyond memory, but as my father's grandparents grew increasingly frail, his father frequently drove them to their doctor for checkups. At one of them, in the mid-'80s, the doctor suggested that it might be less strenuous for my great-grandparents if he met them in the parking lot. From then until they died, he came downstairs from his seventh-floor office with his black bag and climbed into the back seat of their yellow Oldsmobile 88 to give them their physicals.
More than a decade later, my grandfather, who was 78 by then and had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, developed pneumonia. When he was admitted to the county hospital, it was the same doctor — now my doctor, too — who came to his room to describe his options: go on a ventilator and go home, where he would most likely remain bedridden for the remainder of his life (probably months), or let the illness run its course and die within a few days. My grandfather asked if the latter would hurt much. The doctor said no, he could make him comfortable. All right, then, my grandfather replied.
By the time the doctor abruptly tendered his retirement notice, I had long since moved away. I had lived with high-deductible health insurance for years and, after a few surprise bills I could not afford, I avoided medical professionals whenever possible. Often, when I didn't have a primary-care physician or couldn't remember his or her name (which changed with my ever-changing insurance policy), I filled out forms with my hometown doctor's name instead: George P. Fitzgerald III, M.D. But until my father told me about his letter, I had not reflected on his role in my life. I'd rarely seen him more than once a year, and any problems I did have were unremarkable, easily treatable by someone else. And yet his departure felt like a loss.
My father, after his final checkup, reported why the doctor was leaving: He objected to the increasing industrialization of medical care, in particular a new Medicare mandate that he update patients' medical histories electronically — not because he was old-fashioned or contrary (though he was both), but because the idea of dividing his attention between a computer screen and a patient offended him. This shift to electronic health records, intended to improve communication between a patient's various physicians as well as "automate and streamline provider workflow," was the latest in a series of incentives that the health-insurance market created over the past 20 years to maximize efficiency. In this payment system, the time-consuming process of cultivating a relationship with a patient is essentially worthless, because doing so is not a finite, billable procedure. For the doctor, however, the fourth generation of his family to practice medicine, it was vital to his craft.
The question of what the role of a primary-care physician should be, and how it should be valued, has perhaps never been more urgent. That figure, typically a general practitioner, family doctor or internist, is a patient's first and often most personal connection to the rest of the health care system. But well-known corporations are betting that Americans would prefer to have health care "delivered" by a trusted brand rather than a trusted physician. At least 10 of the nation's largest tech companies, including Apple, Microsoft and Alphabet, Google's parent company, have designed tools and software for medical use and increased their involvement in health care start-up deals in recent years; the size of those deals went to nearly $3 billion in 2017 from under $300 million in 2012. Amazon, in partnership with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase, has announced its intent to disrupt the industry — among other ways, by reinventing primary-care delivery. Walmart now offers primary-care services in some of its stores.
Surprisingly little is known, though, about what the relationship between a patient and his or her primary-care doctor is actually worth, in terms of that patient's overall well-being or medical costs, regardless of who bears them. In fact, David Meltzer, an economist and a primary-care physician at the University of Chicago, may be the first and only researcher in the country trying to quantify that relationship's value in a randomized clinical trial, the most rigorous scientific method.
"I'm a complete believer that it's going to change health care in America," he told me nearly two years ago. Meltzer continues to believe as much, now that his trial has produced preliminary results, which he plans to present at the end of June at the annual research meeting of AcademyHealth, a health-policy organization. His experiment suggests that strengthening the patient-doctor relationship can significantly reduce patients' hospitalizations and expenses (to hospitals and Medicare) and improve their mental health; it remains to be seen whether that will be enough to influence the plans that corporations, drawing on their expertise in efficiency and customer service, have to redesign the health care system.
In 2016, I spent three weeks over four months at the University of Chicago Medical Center observing Meltzer's experiment. Its centerpiece was a primary-care practice that consisted of five physicians, a small staff and, at its peak, 1,000 high-risk Medicare patients. I saw more than 90 patient-doctor interactions there; in every instance, the university's media-relations manager made sure that the patients understood they could quite reasonably refuse me access. Yet almost everyone allowed me to sit in and write about whatever took place. The receptiveness to the presence of a stranger — potentially representing millions of other strangers — in these private moments puzzled me but did not seem to surprise Meltzer. Only much later did the question of why they said yes come to seem central to both his project and mine.
Ultimately, these unique relationships empowered physicians to reject intervention by any regulatory third party, including national government. But doctors' control over pricing gave rise to inflated costs and gradually sowed anger and mistrust among the public. Demand for reform led to the passage of Medicare in 1965, but the program, eager to avoid angering doctors and hospitals, embraced the same reimbursement practices of most private insurance plans, arbitrarily assigning flat fees to services, like outpatient checkups, regardless of the benefit to patients. For primary-care doctors — paid the same for a simple exam of a relatively healthy patient as for a more involved consultation with a chronically ill one — this created a perverse incentive: see as many healthy people and as few sick people as possible.
As health-insurance providers prompted physicians to reorganize their patient pools, they simultaneously pushed patients to switch doctors by creating "networks" of physicians whose services were covered. (Those physicians, in turn, agreed to care for patients in accordance with the insurance companies' policies.) Consequently, and as a result of shifting benefits, as more working Americans signed up for employer-sponsored health insurance, many of them — 41 percent, in one survey — "severed established relationships with their physicians in order to seek new providers," according to a 1996 study in The American Journal of Public Health. The same study estimated that more than a third of Americans on Medicare who were 65 and older and who had a regular physician had been seeing him or her for a decade or more — and those with the longest ties had lower medical costs and were less likely to be hospitalized than those with the shortest.
Yet concrete proof that the patient-doctor relationship was responsible for these better circumstances remained elusive. "Despite a consensus that longitudinal care is important," the study's authors, Linda J. Weiss and Jan Blustein, then of the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, wrote, "remarkably little is known about the actual value — in terms of health care processes, outcomes or costs — of long-term provider-patient relationships." Reliable data on such relationships simply didn't exist.
"One of the tragedies of American medicine is that the money doesn't really align with value," Meltzer told me one afternoon in August 2016. I'd been trailing his doctors for two days by then. Much of what I'd seen, and would continue to see, was as remarkable as it was tedious: The tedium itself seemed noteworthy. During clinic appointments, which typically lasted 30 minutes, and hospital rounds, the doctors appeared to be fascinated by trivial-sounding details and tangents: a patient's description of the shortcomings of the spaghetti at her physical-therapy center; the stops on another's bus route; the reasons a third believed an eviction notice violated his civil rights. Only gradually (if ever) did the medical relevance of these conversations reveal themselves. The first patient needed a high-calorie, easy-to-swallow meal supplement; the second, a recovering alcoholic, could avoid passing a liquor store by switching routes; the third was not discharged until his doctor called his building manager to make sure he could get into his apartment and plug in his oxygen.
One afternoon I watched one doctor, Ram Krishnamoorthi, examine L.A. Kizer, who had just turned 70. He was wearing a new-looking ball cap with a trout on it and pulling an oxygen tank. "Did you go fishing?" Krishnamoorthi asked. He had been Kizer's doctor for more than two years, but he could never tell when such an innocuous question might turn out to be significant: If Kizer said yes, Krishnamoorthi could try using the activity to motivate healthful behavior, or he might find out that someone who could be tapped as a source of support had accompanied Kizer on the outing.
"Used to," Kizer said. He suffered from congestive heart failure and was still breathing heavily from the trip down the hall.
"I saw you two weeks ago," Kizer said, "and it feels like I woke up and I can't move." He added that he had gained four pounds. Krishnamoorthi rolled up his pants legs and probed his ankles. He pressed a stethoscope to his back. A doctor who had not seen Kizer so recently would have no reason to investigate his sudden decline (and Kizer, who said he didn't like doctors, might not have told an unfamiliar doctor that anything had changed). "How'd you get here?" Krishnamoorthi asked.
"It's fluid," Krishnamoorthi said, referring to Kizer's added weight and difficulty walking and breathing. He asked if Kizer wanted to be admitted to the hospital, where he could get additional medications; Kizer declined. Krishnamoorthi eventually agreed to let him go home if he turned off his tank, waited for 10 minutes and had his blood-oxygen level checked. This would take up more of Krishnamoorthi's time — without generating additional reimbursement — but it would mean vast savings for the health care system if it helped him prevent Kizer from having an emergency on the bus later. Heeding Kizer's preference probably made him more likely to keep future appointments.
"I'll find out. They call the doctor first. What'd you do for your birthday?" A physician in a hurry might not have noticed the date — or accepted his first answer.
"Do you think that might be part of the reason for the weight?" Extra sodium can cause fluid buildup.
What I couldn't quite believe was that these lengthy conversations were economically sustainable. Nationwide, primary-care physicians often can't afford to spend more than 15 minutes with each patient, because of the way the health care system values their time. I had seen Krishnamoorthi and colleagues take that long to sort through patients' medications, often more than a dozen, which they asked patients to gather up and bring to appointments. During one visit, Grace Berry, another doctor, Google-mapped a patient's new address to locate a nearby pharmacy, transferring her prescriptions there and helping her secure reliable transportation to and from the clinic.
Meltzer insists that doctors spending more time with their patients actually saves money. After a year in his clinic, for instance, patients have 20 percent fewer hospitalizations than their control-group counterparts. Because hospitalizations make up the greatest portion of these patients' annual cost to Medicare, which averages $50,000 to $75,000 each, that reduction is worth several thousand dollars per person in the first year, or a combined several million dollars; by comparison, the doctors' annual salaries add up to less than $1 million.
In a traditional primary-care clinic, patients' medication — prescribed to them by multiple specialists who are not in communication with one another — might not have been systematically sorted by a single person. Or if it had been, it might have been checked by a professional-care coordinator in consultation with doctors. In Meltzer's view, that increases labor costs, introduces inevitable miscommunications, as in a game of "telephone," and runs the risk of not seeming as important to the patient as instructions personally delivered by the physician.
By contrast, Meltzer's doctors run their clinic in partnership with two nurses, a social worker and a project manager; the leanness of the staff means that most of its internal communication can take place during a 30-minute group meeting each morning. That permits more face time between doctors and patients, according to Meltzer. "And face time is possible if you decrease back-room time," he says. "People fail to recognize that when you have a $200 person here and a $200 person here and a $100 person communicating between them, the real cost of that is all of their time." In this setup, which describes a coordinator relaying a message from a doctor in one setting to a doctor in another, the cost is $300 per hour of conversation, or $600 total. What Meltzer has done, in effect, is consolidate the first two physicians into one, simultaneously doubling their time with patients and eliminating the need for a go-between, cutting out that $600 cost altogether. To accomplish this feat, he employs the oldest, slowest, least-innovative health care delivery model imaginable: general practitioners who oversee almost all aspects of their patients' care and, in doing so, come to know them personally.
As an economist, Meltzer read their forecast with interest. The appearance of hospitalists was, he recognized, a textbook example of specialization or "division of labor," whereby a task is split into simpler ones that workers can perform more quickly, as on an assembly line. In this case, the split eliminated the need for a primary-care doctor to travel to and from the hospital, enabling him to move patients through his clinic faster; meanwhile, the hospitalist, with his experience treating acute illness and getting the most out of his hospital's unique facilities, would presumably be able to care for patients admitted there more efficiently and effectively. When, soon after the publication of the article, the University of Chicago Medical Center hired its first two hospitalists, Meltzer volunteered to study their impact. His plan was to compare how patients fared when they were cared for by a specialist (a hospitalist) versus a generalist. He began keeping records — which physicians treated which patients, for example — and hired two students to interview patients in the hospital and then again over the phone a month after they were discharged to learn about their health.
On its face, Meltzer's research and that of others seemed to show that hospitalists were a great boon. They reduced patients' medical expenses (by nearly $800, he as well as Wachter, Goldman and their colleagues found), shortened their hospital stays (by about half a day) and modestly decreased mortality rates. But the effects of the nascent hospitalist specialty were only being analyzed rigorously at teaching hospitals like Chicago's, where the attendings (supervising doctors who spend most of their time caring for ambulatory patients) did not know the patients any better than the hospitalists did. No one was investigating how the hospitalist model performed beyond academic settings, where it was replacing patients' primary-care doctors. Meltzer noticed, though, that when the Chicago hospitalists got the weekend off and an attending took over their patients for just 48 hours, the handoff completely erased the cost benefits the model otherwise seemed to generate. It stood to reason, then, that separating patients in community hospitals from their longtime doctors might be having a significant negative impact.
But running a clinical trial in a community hospital to directly compare the hospitalist model to the primary-care model it was rapidly replacing was widely considered impossible. How many longtime patients of a general practitioner who was still making hospital rounds would agree to swap her for a hospitalist so that researchers could see whether doing so was good for them?
By 2010, the hospitalist model had become the norm. That year, Meltzer published a theorem describing why the model had taken hold so quickly; in the past 15 years, the number of practicing hospitalists had jumped from several hundred to 30,000. (Meltzer practices as a hospitalist himself.) The math itself was basic. But, staring at his final equation, Meltzer had a revelation: increasing one variable — the likelihood that a primary-care physician's patients would be hospitalized — would decrease the odds that the physician would cede his hospital duties to a hospitalist out of financial necessity, halting, at least mathematically, the specialty's rapid spread.
This gave Meltzer an idea. In 2012 he won a grant from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, an organization created by the Affordable Care Act to test novel "payment and service-delivery models," to set up an experimental outpatient clinic at the university medical center. For patients, he recruited Medicare recipients who had been hospitalized in the past year and were therefore statistically likely to require future hospitalization. In practice this meant that most of them, like half of Americans, were managing at least one chronic illness; most were also from the impoverished and violent neighborhoods of Chicago's South Side. Their average annual income at the time of enrollment was $10,000 to $15,000.
If they volunteered, they were told, they would be randomly assigned to either a primary-care doctor for outpatient needs and a hospitalist in the hospital, or they would join Meltzer's new clinic, which he called the Comprehensive Care Program, and receive inpatient and outpatient care from the same doctor. Meltzer's team would directly compare the two groups using a medley of metrics: how often patients were hospitalized and for how long; whether they did not refill their prescription medications because of expense; and their total costs to Medicare. A standard survey would assess their overall health. Finally, to try to understand how patients' relationships with their doctors might differ between the two groups and affect the outcomes, the team devised a survey in which patients rated their doctors in categories like trust and interpersonal relationships. Did he or she know their values and responsibilities? Give clear instructions? Seem caring and kind?
On a Monday morning in August 2016, I went on hospital rounds with Krishnamoorthi, as he performed the same duties a hospitalist would with one key difference: He already knew the patients. "Because you intensely see them, and by intensely I mean frequently, the relationship building happens faster," he said. "The awesome part of it is, I don't have to look stuff up about my patients. I don't have a perfect memory; it's just that I've seen them a bunch of times. So it's quicker, it's faster to just come in their room and say, 'So, what's happening this time?' " Krishnamoorthi, now 40, wore a thin maroon tie and scuffed brown loafers. His first job was at the Veterans Affairs medical center associated with Loyola University, where he did his residency, as a primary-care physician for patients with mental health problems. He was responsible for at least 700 of them — not many, compared with traditional primary-care physicians, who nationwide manage 2,000 to 3,000 patients apiece. Still, he was in the office until 9 every night, making phone calls and filling out paperwork. He began to worry that he would make a mistake, forget to order a test. After a year, he switched to a job as a teaching hospitalist, supervising residents; the schedule was less extreme, and when he clocked out, his responsibilities and his interactions with the patients he was treating ended. The work was less emotionally draining and more lucrative (hospitalists tend to make about $20,000 more than family physicians) but also felt less meaningful. In 2013, at a party, he was introduced to Meltzer, who was just beginning to staff his clinic. When Krishnamoorthi heard that its five doctors would manage 200 patients each and work regular hours, he decided to apply.
"It hurts like hell, though. That's something I can say." Five years earlier, Johnson broke a rib playing basketball, making therapy treatments for his cystic fibrosis excruciating and initiating a cascade of hospitalizations. When he met Krishnamoorthi a year ago, he hated him instantly. Krishnamoorthi wanted him to consider a lung transplant; Johnson refused. He didn't want to hear about further treatment options. When Krishnamoorthi broached the subject of staying in a nursing facility, Johnson told him that the doctors and nurses there were "just paid to like you." The remark stuck. Krishnamoorthi asked around until he found a nurse he thought Johnson might connect with; eventually, Johnson agreed to enter her facility and came less frequently to the hospital. On occasions when he was admitted, Krishnamoorthi would, with his permission, call his mother with updates — an overture, she later told me, that none of the countless doctors who had treated her son over the years had ever made and for which she was especially grateful. Johnson never wanted to worry her.
The results of the first five years of Meltzer's study support his theory that strengthening the relationship between patients and their doctors can decrease medical costs and improve patient health. In addition to being hospitalized less than their control-group counterparts, the clinic patients rated their satisfaction with their physicians within the 95th percentile of such scores nationally versus the 80th for the control group; and though their general health status (self-ranked on a scale from 1 to 5) was similar to those in the control group, their mental-health scores were significantly higher.
The next major test of the model will be whether it can be implemented in different sets of financial, geographic and demographic circumstances. Already, more than half a dozen organizations, from a senior-living community in Florida to the National University Health System of Singapore, have consulted Meltzer about creating versions of his program. One of them is the health-insurance company Kaiser Permanente. The Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group, an organization of more than 1,400 primary-care physicians who serve members of Kaiser's health plan, ran a pilot of the program in 2015. Two physicians were assigned to its 400 sickest patients. Unlike Meltzer's team, which relies on hospitalists for after-hours care, Kaiser made the doctors available 24/7 and were surprised to find that patients very rarely called late or on holidays and weekends. Still, the number of times they were admitted to the hospital or E.R. fell drastically, by 80 percent, prompting Kaiser to expand the program to seven doctors and 800 patients. In the summer of 2016, Vanderbilt University Hospital started a similar pilot and observed a 20 percent decrease in hospital admissions. The school is also expanding its program.
Why, then, did they do it? "I became disenchanted with primary care because I was constantly having to cut people short," Joyce Tang, who spent seven years at her previous practice, told me. "I was always an hour late. Always. My patients just knew to expect that." One morning, I watched her examine a man who seemed to prefer the accommodations of the hospital to those of his assisted-living facility and habitually took a cab to the emergency room. Tang had brainstormed with him, his sister, his insurance company and a nurse at the facility, about possible solutions. She was carrying a housing application for a faith-based facility she thought he might like better, but so far, nothing had worked to change his patterns. In cases like his, how did she measure success?
"It's really amazing that the struggle was more with your own feelings," Meltzer said, and Verma agreed.
"I know," Tang said softly, "I know." There was little else she could do medically. And yet, it was difficult to imagine the farmer saying the same to a friend or a relative or a social worker or a priest and receiving the same affirmation.
Meltzer characterized this singular connection for me one afternoon. "Being able to even just touch in for a little bit, have the conversation and talk about it, there's an intimacy to it," he said, shortly after telling one of his own primary-care patients in the hospital that she had cancer. The subconscious swap of "touch in" for "check in" evoked the laying on of hands — an antiquated, unbillable and, in the face of cancer, useless gesture, but quite possibly not a worthless one.


Andrew D. (Andy) Martin is co-founder and president of 7Twelve™ Advisors, LLC., portfolio manager of the 7Twelve™ Balanced Portfolio and creator of the 3Twelve™ Total Bond Portfolio which are SEC registered investment companies. He is also a registered representative and general securities principal associated with a FINRA member firm, Girard Securities, Inc. He is author of Dollarlogic: A Six-Day Plan to Achieving Higher Returns by Conquering Risk, foreword by Arthur B Laffer, Ph.D. His articles and research have been published in numerous major trade publications such as Advisor Perspectives, Registered Rep (Rep.), Advisors4Advisors, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and Learnbonds.com. He earned a BBA (Economics) from Belmont University and an MLAS from Vanderbilt University. Learn more here.
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Phantom Planet is the Hollywood pedigree of pop-rock
Mike Schoeck
Just four years ago they received driver's licenses and had their major record label debut land on Geffen Records. Singer Alex Greenwald claims to have gotten his license revoked since then, but now his band, Phantom Planet, is ready to make some rock n' roll.
"The Guest" is the Southern California poster-boys' sophomore release on Epic Records and can very well be the most anticipated new band of the year, as it hits stores Feb. 26.
The Earth shook and heads turned from indie fans and the mainstream masses alike when 'The Strokes' became the biggest New York City band of the city's new era. New Jersey emo boys 'Saves the Day' also stand as the freshest faces of the latter day punk resurgence aside from MTV's Green Day and Blink-182.
'The Strokes' and 'Saves the Day' along with Phantom Planet are the new breaking faces that are the rock mold for 2002.
In a traditional sense the best times for new quintessential bands are times of struggle, war and tragedy. Like many epidemics it can bring a certain cure to a distraught younger age bracket. This is no exception to new fans of the Los Angeles band.
Max Fisher is the Phantom drummer and songwriter with Greenwald. Remember Jason Schwartzman's over-achieving character as the nemesis of a sad Bill Murray in the 1998 comedy "Rushmore."
Timed somewhat appropriately with the release of "The Guest" is Schwartzman's new teen flick "Slackers," which recently hit theaters.
The band has an indispensable production team behind its melodic pop and mellow acoustic flare. At hand are the acclaimed producing pair Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake.
Each have close to thirty-year careers working with a modest lineup including Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow, Crowded House, Pearl Jam and R.E.M.
With the single "California" being the first off "The Guest," Phantom Planet placed themselves as a Brit-pop via Sunset Strip equivalent of Coldplay, but also pluck themselves into the era of vintage pop-rock.
"Always on My Mind" and "One Ray of Sunlight" capture this shift with pop-rock bounce, handclaps and an abundance of the common catchy sing-along chorus.
In a decade only bands falling under the treads of Weezer, Ben Folds Five and the Eels have been able to resurface a classic pop-rock gem standards.
With Phantom's blend of modern rock Greenwald can radiate along with the famed California Sun, as well as Jackson Browne and even Elvis Costello.
The band calls Jackson Browne one of their inspirations and they have covered "Somebody's Baby" with the same proto-1980's pop efficiency.
Covering a dozen similar tracks on "The Guest" the band at times nears redundancy and pretension.
Greenwald, Schwartzman, bassist Sam Farrar and guitarist Darren Robinson narrowly veer away from this pervasive chasm.
A ballad-paced "Something is Wrong" with mixed loops in "In Our Darkest Hour" and "Wishing Well's" lo-fi piano somberness yielded an overall immaculate pop caliber.
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SECAUCUS, N.J., Feb. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the world's leading provider of diagnostic information services, today announced that it has been selected as one of FORTUNE's World's Most Admired Companies in 2021 for the seventh consecutive year.
"We are honored for the seventh consecutive year to receive this award, which belongs to our nearly 50,000 employees," said Steve Rusckowski, Chairman, CEO and President. "Over the past year they stepped up when our country needed them most by developing COVID-19 tests, building test capacity, innovating new testing models with our retail partners, transporting specimens, delivering results, and, of course, supporting our customers. They are heroes."
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Colorado's COVID wave shows signs of receding amid omicron concerns
Colorado's fifth COVID-19 wave may be starting to recede, but it's too early to know whether spread over the Thanksgiving holiday or the concerning new omicron variant will stall or reverse the progress.
The number of hospitalizations for confirmed COVID-19 across the state dropped to 1,473 as of Monday afternoon, from a high of 1,576 on Nov. 23. Hospitals are still running near capacity, but the state reported more than 100 beds were available in intensive-care units for the first time in about three weeks.
Still, Colorado's public health leaders are prepping in case those downward trends don't continue. A group of experts advising the governor on Monday evening unanimously approved an amended document outlining what the state's crisis standards of care would look like in the event hospitals are completely full and need to ration health care.
"We do want to have these revised recommendations approved… not because there's any immediate need to activate them, but to have them prepared if the need arises in the coming weeks," said Dr. Eric France, Colorado's chief medical officer.
While some people delay seeking medical care over a holiday, Colorado's new COVID-19 hospital admissions started to decline before Thanksgiving, suggesting the state may have passed a peak, said Beth Carlton, associate professor of environmental and occupational health at the Colorado School of Public Health.
New COVID-19 infections have been trending down and a lower percentage of tests are coming back positive, though the picture may be partly skewed by lower-than-usual testing over the last few days, she said.
"There's some hopeful news there," she said.
Still, the virus remains widespread in Colorado, and saying the situation is improving isn't the same as saying it's safe to throw away your masks and forget about scheduling that booster appointment, Carlton said.
"The risk of encountering someone with SARS-CoV-2 is still high," she said.
Two big unknowns remain: what effect, if any, recent holiday gatherings will have on the virus's trajectory, and whether the recently discovered omicron variant of the virus — not yet confirmed in Colorado — will spark a new wave of cases.
Last year, the third wave peaked in late November, and any effects from Thanksgiving were minimal, Carlton said. Of course, the situation is different this year: more people traveled, but fewer are susceptible to severe disease, with so many having been vaccinated.
"We needed a more general approach"
During Monday's meeting of the Governor's Expert Emergency Epidemic Response Committee, public health experts explained how the state would expand guidance to hospitals in need of relieving strain in the event they become overwhelmed with patients.
The guidelines adopted last year for crisis situations dealt mainly with how to parcel out life-saving ventilators and ICU beds. The new guidance, which awaits review from the governor, takes into account other factors critical to hospitals' capacity for care, including emergency room capacity and non-ICU hospital beds along with staffing shortages, dialysis and medication.
"It became clear that we needed a more general approach," said Dr. Stephen Cantrill, an emergency medicine physician at Denver Health, of the shift from focusing on ventilator availability.
The new guidelines focus on the lowest-risk patients and how hospitals might be able to ease strain by identifying people — particularly non-COVID-patients — who might be able to be discharged earlier than normal to receive out-patient care. These patients can always return to the hospital if needed.
"The perfect system is not that none of them come back to the hospital," said Dr. Anuj Mehta, a pulmonary critical care physician at Denver Health, who outlined the updated document Monday. "If two or three come back, that's a win."
The omicron variant hasn't been found in the United States yet, but Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease doctor, said it almost certainly will be. He urged preparations, like increasing testing capacity and wearing masks again.
On Sunday, the World Health Organization issued a warning that omicron has a large number of mutations that could allow it to spread more easily, or make it harder for the immune system to recognize that this is a virus it has seen before and should attack. It will take two or three weeks to get enough data to understand how much we should worry about the new variant, though, Carlton said.
The United States, along with other countries, restricted travel from southern Africa, but it's not clear if those measures will be effective, since the variant already has spread. Omicron was first identified in South Africa, but has been found in 11 European countries, Israel, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong and Botswana.
Keeping an eye out for omicron
In Colorado, essentially all virus samples chosen for genome sequencing have contained the delta variant. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's lab and some private labs sequence a random sample of positive COVID-19 tests in the state each week.
The state health department reported it will update its wastewater surveillance program to look for omicron. Testing wastewater can't tell the state who has the virus — the sample is tested after many households' and businesses' toilet waste has come together, and about half of infected people don't shed virus particles in their stool — but it can give a rough idea of how widespread the virus may be, and which variants are circulating. If a community's wastewater has a high viral load, the state can send testing and other resources there, to try to get the spread under control.
"New variants of the virus are expected to occur. Vaccines are the safest, most effective way to slow the spread of COVID-19 and its variants, as well as help avoid the worst outcomes — severe illness, hospitalization and death — among those who do become infected," a health department spokesperson said.
Most variants of SARS-CoV-2 come and go without making any real impact. The exceptions are alpha, which was first detected in the United Kingdom and became the dominant variant in the world for months because it was more contagious than other types; and delta, which was first found in India and dethroned alpha because it spread even more easily.
Since delta already pushed health systems in Colorado and around the country to the breaking point, a more-contagious version of the virus would be an additional challenge.
It's possible that public health recommendations could change as we learn more about omicron and any future variants, Carlton said, but, for now, people need to keep doing the same things they would to avoid delta: getting vaccinated, or getting a booster if enough time has passed; wearing masks in indoor public spaces; and avoiding crowds when possible.
"The same tools we've been using for months are the most important ones to use right now," she said.
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Currently my 'wearable' shoe series is on exhibit at the Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts in Melbourne, Florida as part of a beautiful show called 'Embellished'. In September, I made the trip to Florida to be there to help install the pieces and give an artist talk at the opening reception, and provide a hands on workshop at the Foosaner Art Museum. But, engaging the bright sparks at the local elementary school, University Park, was the bees knees.
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St. Paul's Evangelical-Lutheran Church
109 S. Elm, Kewanee, Illinois 61443
Volume 30 September 2018 No. 9
O Little Flock, Fear Not the Foe
I've been thinking about this beloved hymn by Johann Altenburg (TLH #263) in connection with our little parish. Every time we sing it, I can't help but thinking of how appropriate it is for us. For without question over the years we have become a little flock by almost anyone's calculation (I say almost, because if you measure our size against, say, the congregations of the Evangelical Lutheran, we would actually be counted as a large congregation).
Over the past 18 years we have seen a gradual diminishing of the size of St. Paul's, due in large part to demographics. People have had to leave Kewanee to find work, and meanwhile a key factor that was once prevalent everywhere is gone, namely the abundant bearing and begetting of Lutheran children. With the cultural assault on marriage and the family came also the minority status of what used to be common: children of solid families filling our schools, pews, and Sunday School classes. Although we have welcomed a good number of new members, that number has not quite kept pace with our losses and deaths. Such are the circumstances.
And yet the comforting words of the hymn ring true: O little flock, fear not the Foe who madly seeks your overthrow; dread not his rage and pow'r. What tho' your courage sometimes faints, his seeming triumph o'er God's saints lasts but a little hour. We know this is true because of Christ's death and resurrection. He has promised that the gates of hell will not prevail against His church, and that all things work out to the good for those who love him. Thus we agree with the hymnist who continues: Be of good cheer; your cause belongs to Him who can avenge your wrongs; leave it to Him, our Lord. Tho' hidden yet from mortal eyes, His Gideon shall for you arise, uphold you and His Word. In this verse, "His Gideon" is Christ, of course, the greater Gideon, winning through to victory against the enemies of God's people. As true as God's own Word is true, not earth nor hell with all their crew against us shall prevail. A jest and byword are they grown, God is with us, we are His own; our vict'ry cannot fail. As Gideon's three hundred men conquered thousands of Midianites without even fighting, but by breaking the pitchers in their hands and confusing the enemy to cause them to start attacking one another, to the point of defeat (see Judges 7), so Christ our Lord became Himself a broken pitcher—crucified, dead, and buried, that is—and so earth and hell with all their crew were defeated by their own wickedness. For Jesus' enemies and the devil saw to His crucifixion, the very thing that redeemed the world. Amen, Lord Jesus, grant our prayer; Great Captain, now Thine arm make bare, fight for us once again! So shall Thy saints and martyrs raise a mighty chorus to Thy praise, world without end. Amen. Clearly, with Christ we have nothing to fear, and we step forth in faith, knowing that we have already gained eternal victory in Him.
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Project Moves On: Phase III Begins
Our final stage of renovation is about to begin, starting with the exciting step of installing air conditioning. Since he duct-work is already in place—a foresight that was thankfully envisioned many years ago—the process of installing four central air units is not too complicated. We have entered a contract with Woltil's Heating and Air Conditioning.
The chief workman, Larry Rowe, who is Linda's husband, has indicated a likelihood of the installation's completion by the middle of September. For the first time in the building's 115-year history, St. Paul's will then have air conditioning. This is all thanks to a special anonymous $10,000 donation given during the summer that was given with a wish that it be used for this purpose. The voters determined, after some reasonable discussion, to go forward with the installation in accordance with the donor's wish.
What remains is for the chancel and the flooring to be completed. Since much of what we are hoping to do is through volunteer labor, and since some of our volunteers are in the fields as farmers, we are hoping they can get back to the project soon after Oktoberfest which is October 7-9.
Meanwhile twelve shields have been purchased, on which will be painted the symbols of the twelve apostles. These shields are to be mounted in the Great Arch, which is the archway that is suspended over the chancel steps. This will be an attempt to restore what once graced the walls of this church many years ago.
When the time comes to repair and repaint the walls of the chancel, it is likely that we will be needing to meet in the gym for worship for several weeks, as we did in the summer of 2016.
It is difficult to put more of a precise time frame to the planning, and indeed we may find unforeseen twists in the road as we continue, but it is exciting to know that the project continues to move forward. Thanks be to God!
Regular choir rehearsals have resumed Wednesdays after mass. Calling all singers, to prepare for Oktoberfest. We'll have some new music, and, as always, have lots of fun.
Church Extension Fund
Ms. Chris Anderson is the new executive director of the Church Extension Fund for The Central Illinois District, and recently she reminded me that investments with the C.E.F. are a blessing to both the investor and the loan recipient, with the investor not only receiving a financial blessing but also a spiritual one in knowing that he is playing an important role in expanding God's kingdom. Brochures are available in the narthex for more information.
October 7-9, 2018 (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday)
The Twenty-third Annual Oktoberfest! and Gottesdienst Central will be hosting the Rev. Dr. Thomas M. Winger, president of Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary (CLTS), St. Catharines, Ontario. Dr. Winger is the author of dozens of articles, many published in Lutheran Theological Review. He is the (co)editor of three books and a contributor to The Lutheran Study Bible. He has written studies for the theological commissions of Lutheran Church–Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of England (ELCE). He also served as a member of the liturgy committee of Lutheran Service Book. He is a recognized authority especially in liturgy and in Ephesians.
His topic will be "Hints of the Liturgy in the Epistle to the Ephesians and other New Testament Texts"
The event begins Sunday the 7th with Vespers at 5 p.m. Following the service is our annual bratwurst banquet. When everyone has had their fill of brats and beer, Dr. Winger will give a synopsis of his Monday seminar. Following the banquet is the after-the-party party, at Father Eckardt's home, where a gaggle of the editors of Gottesdienst is milling about.
On Monday, October 8th, the day begins with Mass at 9 a.m. Following Mass and a continental breakfast, Dr. Winger will hold forth for the rest of the day, in two sessions running until about 2:45, followed by Vespers.
On Tuesday, October 9th, the conference will continue in the same format, with a special focus on the themes of our current and previous issue of Gottesdienst, namely: Weddings and Funerals, with Father Eckardt, pastor at St. Paul's, holding forth. The Tuesday session will be shorter, framed by morning low Mass (spoken Divine Service) and Mid-day prayers.
REGISTRATION: MEMBERS OF ST. PAUL'S GO FREE. For others, $50 per person, $70 per couple, students $25 — includes Sunday banquet and Monday brunch; no charge for children with parents. To register, click here.
Pastor to Speak in Detroit
Every year Zion Church in Detroit holds its St. Michael conference on the last Monday of September, and Pastor Eckardt is always one of the speakers at the conference. This year, Dr. Naomichi Masaki is the Keynote Speaker. Dr. Masaki is a systematician with an outstanding knowledge of the Lutheran Confessions, and a noted Luther scholar, with a special interest in the Words of Institution and the Lord's Supper. His Keynote paper will be titled "Luther and the Lord's Supper: The Verba Domini as the Mandating Words". His paper will set the theme for the 2018 Conference. Dr. Masaki serves as Professor of Systematic Theology and Director of the STM and PhD in Theology programs for Concordia Theological Seminary Fort Wayne. For information consult Pastor.
9/1 John Ricknell
9/10 Jan Schoen
9/15 Chuck Russell
9/17 Mary Beth Jones
9/18 DeAnne Anderson
9/19 Jaclyn Kraklow
9/19 Jamie Kraklow
9/20 Derrick Baker
9/28 Allan Kraklow
September Anniversaries
9/18/1976 Tom and Sue Ann Wells
September Ushers: Allan Kraklow, Steve Kraklow, Tom Wells.
Shut ins
Mary Hamilton at home; Emmy Wear at Williamsfield Home in Williamsfield; Emilie Ricknell at home, Joyce Long at home, Dick Melchin at Hammond-Henry Extended Care in Geneseo.
Altar Guild News
Sundays during September, the color is green.
Wednesdays are also all green. Although Holy Cross Day (14th), St. Matthew's Day (21st) and Michaelmas (29th) are in September, they fall on Fridays and a Saturday, and therefore we will not observe them.
Our current list of prayer intentions at mass includes the names on the lists here following. To update the list please inform the pastor.
in our parish:
Emilie Ricknell, John Ricknell, Linda Rowe, Mary Hamilton, Emmy Wear, Sue Murphy, Don Murphy, Joyce Long, Dick Melchin, DeAnne Anderson, Bea Harris, Allan Kraklow
Anna Rutowicz [granddaughter of Harrises]
Jodi Rutowicz [daughter of Harrises]
Julie Ross [Svetlana Meaker's daughter]
Annie Eastman [at request of Svetlana Meaker]
Steve Draminski [friend of Jim Watson]
Kathy Nussear [Joyce Long's daughter, cancer]
Bud Harfst [Sue Murphy's brother]
Harold Woods [Sue Murphy's brother-in-law]
Pam Helmkamp
Dick Heiden [Carol Eckardt's father]
Pastor Kenneth Wegener
Elizabeth Godke, Sharon Field's mother
Jesse Armstrong
Michael Nelson
Brandt and Oneda Hendrickson [Ricknells' relatives]
Linda Anderson
Teresa Robertson [Carol Eckardt's niece]
Everly Stoner [relative of Murphys]
Sarah Corzine
Helen Woods [Sue Murphy's sister]
Jamie Knapp, Emmy Wear's cousin, who has cancer
Janice Hart [Judy Thompson's sister]
Caleb Cleaver [Ricknells' grandson]
in the military:
John Eckardt
Donny Appleman [at request of the Ricknells]
Richard Heiden [at request of the Eckardts]
Luke Van Landigan [grandson of Dick Melchin]
Jaclyn Alvarez [daughter of Kris Harden]
Traven Wetzel [at request of Kris Harden]
Shawn Wetzel
Eric Verplaetse [Sandra's grandson]
Jake Mahaffey
in trouble:
any unborn children in danger of abortion
those suffering from unrest, persecution, and imprisonment in Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Nigeria, China, North Korea, and elsewhere
Details on Persecution:
China demolishes hundreds of churches and confiscates Bibles during a crackdown on Christianity
Locals in Henan stated concerns of a move by the atheist ruling community party to control Christianity. Residents were asked to replace posters of the cross and Jesus Christ with portraits of President Xi Jinping. Experts say the government is waging the most severe systematic suppression of the religion since 1982. Chinese leaders have 'always been suspicious of the political threat' that Christianity poses to the regime - by Associated Press and Kelsey Cheng for Mailonline August 2018
Concerns have been raised over China's apparent crackdown on Christianity as the ruling community party continues to intensify its control over religious freedom in the country.
Churches were raided and demolished, Bibles and holy books were confiscated and new laws were established to monitor religious activities in the country's province of Henan, which has one of the largest Christian populations in China.
Under President Xi Jinping, China's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, believers are seeing their freedoms shrink dramatically even as the country undergoes a religious revival.
Experts and activists say that as Xi consolidates his power, he is waging the most severe systematic suppression of Christianity in the country since religious freedom was written into the Chinese constitution in 1982.
A DOZEN CHRISTIAN VILLAGES IN NIGERIA WIPED OUT IN FOUR-DAY KILLING SPREE
June 29, 2018 by Lindy Lowry in Africa, Stories of Persecution
Most of the victims were in their homes sleeping when the attacks began … when Muslim Fulani militant herdsmen began their killing spree in Nigeria that lasted four days, Thursday through Sunday evening and into Monday.
The Fulani are a large ethnic group in West Africa. A third of all Fulani people are pastoralists, making them the largest nomadic community in the world.
In only days, a dozen villages in Nigeria's plateau state were wiped out. The affected communities surround the city of Ios—known as the epicenter of Christianity in northern Nigeria's middle belt.
As many as 200 Christians had been killed, however, some residents fear the death toll may be even higher, as more bodies are yet to be recovered, while others were burned beyond recognition. On Sunday, 75 of the victims were buried in a mass grave.
We are still gathering information about the violence, but the details we have so far reveal the scale and brutality of the attacks: 120 people who were attending the funerals of an elderly member were hacked to death as they returned home.
In another attack, in Gana Ropp Village, a pastor, Rev. Musa Choji, was killed, as were his wife and son.
In Gidin Akwati, the whole community was burned down. Local sources say that some of those displaced are still hiding in the bush, as they haven't yet been able to find their way to a safe haven.
A pastor with the evangelical church Winning All (ECWA) denomination, who wanted to remain anonymous for security reasons, said that following an attack on Saturday, his entire village was reduced to ashes, and more than 100 people lost their lives.The ECWA pastor said more than 50 heavily armed Fulani herdsmen surrounded the village of Nghar, at around 3:30 a.m. They burned down all the houses, as well as two churches. Only a few people were able to escape. His wife's family was decimated. The assailants killed 14 members of her family, including her mother and sister. Others who had come to visit them were also killed. In total, 27 people lost their lives in the same house. They were all burned to death. Only one person—his wife's younger brother—survived, as he managed to escape through the roof.
World watch monitor reports that on the day of the attack in Nghar, only two soldiers and one policeman were in the village, but they reportedly ran for their lives when the herdsmen launched their attack.
Reportedly, the violence in the attacked areas has been happening for the last two weeks. Over the weekend, the violence reached a peak. Pastor Steve Kwol, chairman of the Pentecostal federation of Nigeria for plateau north, which includes the attacked areas, said that herdsmen were ambushing people going to their farms or traveling on their motorbikes.
Since Thursday, the herdsmen had launched "very serious attacks" on the whole communities, he said. Despite the current dusk-to-dawn curfew and the presence of military, the attacks are still ongoing, he says. Two villages—Kwi and Dorowa—were badly damaged on Monday.
In Dorowa, most of the properties were burned down, including four church buildings. The adjoining buildings, such as pastors' houses, were also destroyed by fire. In Kwi, a number of buildings, including churches, were also set on fire. The exact number of people killed there is not yet known, but many were displaced and are now living in camps in neighboring villages.
"We've been living peacefully with [Fulani herdsmen]" pastor Kwol said. "since this crisis started in Plateau in recent months, our people have not killed one Fulani man. Instead, they have been killing our people one by one. We just buried them and carried on." He said. As a result of the ongoing insecurity, there are places where people can no longer go to farm," he said, "because when they go, the Fulani will come and take their cows, or attack them."
The attacks have some local sources saying that the ongoing violence is part of a "grand plan to Islamize Nigeria. . . . The killings are becoming no longer herder and farmer clashes" but a "deliberate attempt to conquer and occupy the land of the people's ancestral heritage," said Dr. Soja Bewarang, who also denounced the attack on a Bible school that trained African missionaries in Gana-Ropp village.
Reverend Gideon Para-Mallam, of the international fellowship of evangelical students in Jos and founder of the citizens monitoring group working with Christians and Muslims in Nigeria, notes that the violence is part of a pattern, an emerging agenda, saying that it is "another Boko Haram, in disguise." The same Fulani people who have been living in peace with farmers suddenly have changed from using sticks to tend their cows, all of a sudden going to the farmlands, killing Christian farmers. Their wives and children, surrounding whole villages. It's a pointer … because Plateau state is the epicenter of Christianity."


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Seasonality and trends in the incidence and prevalence of gout in England and Wales 1994–2007
Clinical and epidemiological research
Extended report
A J Elliot,
K W Cross,
D M Fleming
The Royal College of General Practitioners Research and Surveillance Centre, Birmingham, UK
Correspondence to D M Fleming, RCGP Research and Surveillance Centre, Lordswood House, 54 Lordswood Road, Harborne, Birmingham B17 9DB, UK; dfleming{at}rcgpbhamresunit.nhs.uk
Objectives: To examine seasonality and long-term trends in the incidence and prevalence of gout.
Methods: A retrospective study (1994–2007) using routinely collected surveillance data from the Royal College of General Practitioners Weekly Returns Service sentinel general practice network in England and Wales. New cases and acute attacks of gout per 10 000 population were calculated for age groups 0–44, 45–64, 65–74 and ⩾75 years. Long-term trends of annual incidence were assessed by regression analysis. Seasonality indices were calculated using 4-weekly data, and the relative risk of gout incidence during the summer was estimated. Annual prevalence was estimated from the consulting patient population (2001–7) and from prescribing data on defined daily doses (DDD) of allopurinol (2003–7).
Results: The annual incidence rate of new gout cases was stable over the period 1998–2007; acute attacks decreased on average 4% per annum. New gout cases and acute attacks combined into 4-weekly incidence rates peaked during the "summer" period of each year. There was an increased risk of gout diagnosis during summer months (late April to mid-September; odds ratio 1.22, 95% CI 1.18 to 1.26). The annual prevalence of gout in 2001–7 was 0.46%, with highest rates in men ⩾75 years (2.57%). Estimated prevalence based on a DDD of 400 mg allopurinol was 0.37%.
Conclusion: The incidence of gout is seasonal. This has implications for the management of patients who currently have gout, and for those who are at risk of future attacks. The decreasing trend in the incidence of acute attacks suggests that patient management is improving.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ard.2008.096693
Funding The RCGP Research and Surveillance Centre (registered UK charity no 223106) is funded by the Department of Health. AJE is jointly funded by the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Health Protection Agency.
BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and European League Against Rheumatism. All rights reserved.


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Evan Rachel Woodová (nepřechýleně Wood; * 7. září 1987 Raleighu, Severní Karolína USA) je americká herečka a zpěvačka. Svoji hereckou kariéru zahájila ke konci roku 1995, když vystupovala v několika televizních pořadech, včetně Tajemný příběh z Ameriky a Druhá šance. Svůj filmový debut zaznamenala ve filmu Strážce tajemství (2002) a proslula zejména díky své nominaci na Zlatý glóbus za své účinkování v dramatickém filmu Třináctka (2003).

Získávala role zejména do nezávislých filmů jako Svádění (2005), Cizinec (2006), Hlava nehlava (2006) a velkém studiovém filmu Across the Universe (2007). Od roku 2008 Woodová začala hrát ve více vážných filmech, vč. Wrestler' (2008), Užívej si, co to jde (2009) a Den zrady (2011). Vrátila se také na televizní obrazovky do vedlejší role královny Sophie-Anne v seriálu Pravá krev a to od roku 2009 do roku 2011 a zahrála si dceru Kate Winsletové v mini seriálu od HBO, Mildred Pierceová, za tuto roli byla nominována na Zlatý glóbus a cenu Emmy za nejlepší herečku ve vedlejší roli.

Magazínem The Guardian byla označena "jednou z nejlepších hereček své generace".

Dětství a rodina
Narodila se v Raleighu v Severní Karolíně. Její otec, Ira David Wood III, je místní prominentní herec, zpěvák, divadelní režisér, dramatik a výkonný ředitel tamějšího regionálního divadla jménem Theatre in the Park. Její matka, Sara Lynn Mooreová (* 6. března 1958) je herečka, režisérka a učitelka herectví. Její bratr, Ira David Wood IV, je také herec; má také dalšího bratra, Dana. Její teta z otcovy strany, Carol Winstead Woodová, je Hollywoodská produkční návrhářka.

Osobní život
V roce 2005 začala chodit s britským hercem Jamie Bellem poté, co si spolu zahráli v hudebním videu skupiny Green Day k písničce "Wake Me Up When September Ends". V lednu 2007 začala oficiálně chodit se zpěvákem Marilynem Mansonem. V lednu 2010 se dvojice zasnoubila, své zasnoubení ukončili o sedm měsíců později.

V roce 2011 se přiznala prostřednictvím svého Twitteru k bisexualitě. Ten samý rok se po pěti letech dala znovu dohromady s Bellem. Dvojice se vzala dne 30. října 2012 a jejich první syn se narodil v červenci roku 2013. V květnu roku 2014 dvojice oznámila svůj rozchod. Po rozchodu s Bellem chodila s herečkou Katherine Moennig. V lednu roku 2017 se zasnoubila se členem kapely Zachem Villem. V září roku 2017 zasnoubení ukončili.

Filmografie

Film

Televize

Odkazy

Reference

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Narození v roce 1987
Američtí dětští herci
Americké zpěvačky
Americké filmové herečky
Americké televizní herečky
Bisexuálové
Žijící lidé
Ženy
Narození 7. září
Narození v Raleighu (Severní Karolína)
Držitelky ceny Critics' Choice Television Awards za nejlepší ženský herecký výkon (drama)

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Sportverein Bonlanden e.V. é uma agremiação esportiva alemã, fundada a 4 de agosto de 1895, sediada em Filderstadt, no estado de Baden-Württemberg.

História
A associação foi criada através do clube de ginástica Turnverein Bonländer e desenvolveu seu departamento de atletismo. Eles se uniram a um outro clube de ginástica local, o Freie Turnerschaft 1908 Bonlanden, em 1911.

Alguns futebolistas locais estabeleceram o Fussball Club Pfeil, em 1921, seguido da formação do Rot Sport que tinha a ideologia política comunista. Em 1930, o TV formou o departamento de futebol de maneira breve como Arbeiter Sportverein Bonlanden antes de se tornar parte do Rot Sport. De acordo com a política do Terceiro Reich, as associações desportistas de esquerda ou de tendência religiosa não eram bem-vistas e essas acabaram se unindo, em 1933, como Turngemeinde Bonlanden. Após a Segunda Guerra Mundial, as autoridades de ocupação aliadas ordenaram a dissolução das maioria das organizações do país, inclusive as esportivas. O antigo clube foi restabelecido a 7 de setembro de 1945 como Sportverein Bonlanden.

O futebol não se tornaria predominante no clube até final da década de 70 e durante os anos 80 quando a equipe atuou no menor nível amador. Em 1988, o Bonlanden ganhou o acesso à Verbandsliga Württemberg (V) na qual permaneceria por dois anos. O time foi novamente promovido, em 1994, e comemorou seu centenário conquistando a vaga para a Oberliga Baden-Württemberg (IV). Em 1996, venceu a Copa Württemberg que lhe classificou para a primeira fase da Copa da Alemanha. O time seria eliminado na primeira fase ao perder por 4 a 2 para o VfL Bochum.

O Bonlanden passou seis temporadas na Oberliga até ser rebaixado em 2001 e desde então tem alternado suas participações entre a quarta e a quinta divisão. Em 2012-2013, atua novamente na Verbandsliga após sofrer novo descenso na Oberliga.

Títulos

Liga
 Verbandsliga Württemberg
 Campeão: (5) 1995, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2011;

Copas
 Württemberg Cup
 Campeão: 1996;

Cronologia recente

Ligações externas
 Site oficial
 Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables
 SV Bonlanden no Weltfussball.de

Fontes
 Hardy Grüne (2001): Vereinslexikon. Enzyklopädie des deutschen Ligafußballs. Band 7. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag, S. 456. ISBN 3-89784-147-9

Clubes de futebol da Alemanha
Clubes de futebol fundados em 1895
Filderstadt


Changes were promised in Pittsburgh after last year's 7-9 finish, head coach Bill Cowher's first losing and non-playoff season in his seven years with the Steelers.
Watch out: Can Kevin Gilbride help Stewart return to '97 form?
Better than '98: Only if Edwards becomes a big-play wideout.
Worse than '98: Team lost valuable leadership in Lake and Perry.
Kevin Gilbride was brought in to coordinate an offense that sunk from the heights of the AFC Championship Game two seasons ago to last year's season-ending, five-game losing streak, during which the offense managed just two touchdowns.
Instead of saddling Kordell Stewart with the blame, the Steelers upped the ante by signing their quarterback to a $27 million contract extension. They upgraded their offensive personnel by acquiring OTs Wayne Gandy from St. Louis, Anthony Brown from Cincinnati and Shar Pourdanesh from Washington, as well as WR Alex Van Dyke from the Jets. The Steelers also drafted for offense, taking WR Troy Edwards in the first round and RB Amos Zereoue in the third.
Defensively, the Steelers made a few moves and let nature take its course. After losing Carnell Lake and Darren Perry to free agency, the Steelers signed FS Travis Davis from Jacksonville. They allowed CB Chad Scott to rebuild the strength in his surgically reconstructed knee and allowed DE Orpheus Roye to carry his late-season surge into a productive offseason in the weight room.
The result, the Steelers believe, is a stronger defense. The secondary appears more solid, despite the losses of Lake and Perry. It has better depth with the addition of FS Scott Shields through the draft. Already possessing some of the league's best linebackers, the Steelers drafted Joey Porter and are counting on Mike Vrabel to make an impact from a variety of alignments. And Roye has become the team's most dominant lineman.
The Steelers let kicker Norm Johnson walk and replaced him with seventh-round pick Kris Brown, who has been solid after a shaky start.
In short, the Steelers promise to be a different team in '99. Whether that translates into being a better team is yet to be determined.
Stewart has regained the confidence he seemed to lose in the second half of last season. He has matured both on and off the field and has developed a rapport with Gilbride that didn't exist with Ray Sherman. However, Stewart must prove he can produce on a consistent basis.
Injuries have already affected the position, which the team believed was its strongest and deepest entering training camp. Jerome Bettis had arthroscopic knee surgery, Richard Huntley had a hamstring problem and Chris Fuamatu-Ma'afala had a high-ankle sprain.
The issues for the Steelers are the secondary, the offensive line and Kordell Stewart. Everyone wants to look at Stewart, but that's putting the cart in front of the horse. If you don't have great offensive linemen, the quarterback will be less effective.
The line needs to improve for the Steelers, especially at the tackle positions, which are in question. Everything from Stewart to Jerome Bettis will depend on how that erratic offensive line plays. That's the biggest factor in Pittsburgh.
I don't want to overlook Stewart; he needs to be accurate and consistent in Kevin Gilbride's offense for the team to be successful. But 8-8 is the most realistic record for Pittsburgh this season.
If Pittsburgh's receivers were as bad as people thought, Edwards would have been an immediate starter. Gilbride believes the Steelers' receivers were underutilized in the past. Hines Ward is an emerging star, and Courtney Hawkins is savvy and dependable. Edwards gives the team a true home-run threat on every snap, and Van Dyke was a nice addition.
Not surprisingly, the success of this unit hinges on C Dermontti Dawson. He missed most of the preseason with a knee injury, but the team believes he will be as solid as ever once the bullets start to fly. If that's true, ORG Brenden Stai and OLG Alan Faneca will provide solid interior line play.
Roye emerged as a starter last season and might emerge as a star this season. He upgrades a position in need of improvement. Joel Steed is solid at nose tackle, and the team hopes either Jeremy Staat or Nolan Harrison can become an adequate backup at nose tackle.
Levon Kirkland and Earl Holmes form the best ILB tandem in the league. LOLB Jason Gildon has a knack for getting to the quarterback. He has recorded 28½ sacks in five NFL seasons, including a team-high 11 in 1998.
Starting CBs Scott and Dewayne Washington and reserve Deshea Townsend give the Steelers three good cover men.
Johnson took a lot of experience with him to Philadelphia, but Brown brings something Johnson could no longer provide: kickoff depth. The key will be whether Brown can provide the consistency that marked Johnson's career. Punter Josh Miller is poised for a big season. He is coming off a solid campaign and came to camp stronger.


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Cinna L. é um género botânico pertencente à família Poaceae, subfamília Pooideae, tribo Aveneae.

O gênero apresenta aproximadamente 35 espécies. Ocorrem na Europa, Ásia,América do Norte e América do Sul.

Na classificação taxonômica de Jussieu (1789), Cinna é um gênero botânico,  ordem  Gramineae,  classe Monocotyledones com estames hipogínicos.

Sinônimos
 Abolla Adans. (SUS)
 Blyttia Fr. (SUH)
 Cinnastrum E.Fourn.

Espécies
 Cinna arundinacea L.
 Cinna bolanderi Scribn.
 Cinna glomerata Walter

Classificação do gênero

Referências

Ligações externas

Monocotiledóneas
Poaceae
Géneros de plantas