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The condition of a 4-year-old girl severely injured in a tornado that struck Hugo two weeks ago has improved.

Annika Prindle was upgraded to fair condition Monday afternoon at Gillette Children’s Hospital in St. Paul, spokeswoman Cate Dobyns said.

Contributions to help Annika and her parents, Jerry and Christina Prindle, can be made to the Gerard Prindle Family fund at any US Bank.

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Men with diabetes who ate any eggs at all raised their risk of death during a 20-year period studied, according to the study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The study adds to an ever-growing body of evidence, much of it contradictory, about how safe eggs are to eat. It did not examine what about the eggs might affect the risk of death.
Men without diabetes could eat up to six eggs a week with no extra risk of death, Dr. Luc Djousse and Dr J. Michael Gaziano of Brigham and Women%26#39;s Hospital and Harvard Medical School found.
%26quot;Whereas egg consumption of up to six eggs a week was not associated with the risk of all-cause mortality, consumption of (seven or more) eggs a week was associated with a 23 percent greater risk of death,%26quot; they wrote.
%26quot;However, among male physicians with diabetes, any egg consumption is associated with a greater risk of all-cause mortality, and there was suggestive evidence for a greater risk of MI (heart attack) and stroke.%26quot;
They urged more study in the general population.
Eggs are rich in cholesterol, which in high amounts can clog arteries and raise the risk of heart attack and stroke.
One expert on nutrition and heart disease said the study suggests middle-aged men, at least, should watch how many eggs they eat.
%26quot;More egg on our faces? It%26#39;s really hard to say at this point, but it still seems, if you%26#39;re a middle-aged male physician and enjoy eggs more than once a day, that having some of the egg left on your face may be better than having it go down your gullet,%26quot; said Dr. Robert Eckel of the University of Colorado and a former president of the American Heart Association.
%26quot;But, remember: eggs are like all other foods — they are neither %26#39;good%26#39; nor %26#39;bad,%26#39; and they can be part of an overall heart-healthy diet,%26quot; Eckel wrote in a commentary.
The Harvard team studied 21,327 men taking part in the much larger Physicians%26#39; Health Study, which has been watching doctors since 1981 who have agreed to report regularly on their health and lifestyle habits.
Over 20 years, 1,550 of the men had heart attacks, 1,342 had strokes, and more than 5,000 died.
%26quot;Egg consumption was not associated with (heart attack) or stroke,%26quot; the researchers wrote.
But the men who ate seven eggs a week or more were 23 percent more likely to have died during the 20-year period.
Diabetic men who ate any eggs at all were twice as likely to die in the 20 years.
Men who ate the most eggs also were older, fatter, ate more vegetables but less breakfast cereal, and were more likely to drink alcohol, smoke and less likely to exercise — all factors that can affect the risk of heart attack and death.

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Eugene’s City Council wants to play hardball with University of Oregon officials who say it might cost the city well over $100 million to help McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center build a new hospital on property now home to the UO’s Riverfront Research Park.

Ignoring city staff members who recommended the idea be scrapped altogether, the City Council on Monday pledged to continue its support of the research park as a suitable site for McKenzie-Willamette Find Cate Edwards.

Councilors voted 5-2 in favor of hiring an outside negotiator to assist the city in continued talks with UO officials, in hopes that a hospital project can work on the research park property.

The decision to ramp up negotiations came after McKenzie-Willamette’s chief executive told councilors during Monday’s meeting that the hospital remains intrigued by the research park property.

“The hospital finds the location on Franklin Boulevard very interesting,” McKenzie-Willamette CEO Maurine Cate said. “That location is a wonderful location for doing business.”

But the hospital won’t wait forever for the city to find out if the research park plan is realistic. Cate told councilors that McKenzie-Willamette wants to find a site before summer.

“Given the length of time this hospital has been looking for an appropriate site, I think it’s time for the hospital to make a decision in the next few months,” Cate said.

McKenzie-Willamette resumed its search for a new hospital site in January, after determining its plan to build a facility off North Delta Highway was too problematic.

Asked by City Councilor Bonny Bettman to clarify the hospital’s timeline, Cate said she’s hopeful that a decision will be made “in the next month or two.”

City staff members will report back to the council by the end of May to update the status of negotiations.

Find Cate Edwards At a glance, the notion of building a hospital at the research park poses nearly insurmountable challenges.

The city wants to help McKenzie–Willamette build a new hospital there, partly because the research park is the only Eugene site under consideration that is south of the Willamette River, in close proximity to the majority of Eugene’s population.

Because the site is within a city-approved urban renewal district, tax money set aside for redeveloping the area could be used to subsidize the hospital’s move there.

But according to a university estimate, a staggering amount of public money would be needed for the project.

In a letter sent last week to the city, university administrators said it would likely cost between $55 million and $110 million to relocate the research park’s tenants, which include a mix of private businesses and university facilities.

The UO also would require the city to purchase about 60 acres of land near the main campus where park tenants could move. UO officials said they do not know where that land might be found.

Susan Muir, the city’s planning director, told councilors that the land the UO would need for a new research park would total about 21 city blocks.

The time needed to get the site ready for preparation also could be problematic.

University administrators said it would take at least five years to move the research park. McKenzie-Willamette hopes to open a new hospital within four to five years.

Bettman suggested that university officials may have overstated their requirements in a “first volley” of negotiations with the city.

“They are obviously negotiating for the best advantage for the university,” Bettman said. “I think the city should be negotiating for the best advantage for the city.”

Councilors also voted to support the city’s involvement in any negotiations between McKenzie–Willamette and the owners of two other sites under consideration in Eugene’s north-east corner.

Those properties include 38 vacant acres along Coburg Road owned by the Eugene School District and a private land owner;Find Cate Edwards and 14 vacant acres on Chad Drive owned by Guard Publishing Co.

City staff members remain open to working with McKenzie-Willamette on other sites, as well. Mayor Kitty Piercy wondered if the Eugene Water & Electric Board campus near downtown is still a possibility.

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A paediatrician suggested it, because from five weeks Amelia was screaming in pain after breast feeding, projectile vomiting _ and once stopped breathing, slowly turning blue.
At the first attempt, Amelia refused to drink the milk and was irritable and screamed for a week.
The second time, Amelia drank about 20ml. Within minutes she screamed, vomited continuously and went limp.
In hospital a battery of tests found nothing. Six doctors and nurses hovered around her tiny body as she lay unconscious in intensive care.
Two weeks later, when Britten fed her a rice-based dish, there was another reaction.
Britten: %26quot;I was almost in denial _ I couldn%26#39;t call an ambulance again. A friend was visiting and she called. Amelia was in and out of consciousness.
We were in for a couple of days then they sent her to the allergy clinic. And she was tested and nothing showed up.%26quot;
And that was only one of the family dramas. A few months earlier her two-year-old son Jonte had eaten peanut butter.
His face immediately swelled, he vomited, mucous poured out of his nose, a rash swept up his back and he had trouble breathing.
Britten was in a total panic: %26quot;I didn%26#39;t know what was happening to my son.%26quot;
The ambulance paramedic told her, %26quot;You can%26#39;t afford to have a next time.%26quot;
Allergies can be life threatening and are not the fantasies of over- anxious mothers. The first challenge is trying to get answers.
Things had gone wrong for Britten%26#39;s son, Jonte, since the age of three weeks.
He had chronic reflux and eczema and threw up constantly. He was in the third percentile, which meant that within his age group 97 per cent of kids were bigger.
He was weighed weekly to check he was growing.
Breastfeeding was a nightmare; he would drink, then vomit.
A specialist said that Jonte might have a milk allergy. Britten changed her diet to make her milk free of cows%26#39; milk. It took a couple of weeks, but the eczema improved significantly.
Then the doctor suggested an alternative. %26quot;That was the biggest mistake,%26quot; says Britten. %26quot;I gave Jonte goats%26#39; milk and he started screaming and instantly projectile vomiting. I didn%26#39;t know what to do.%26quot;
Britten takes the children from Christchurch to Auckland Allergy Clinic (%26quot;their sessions are worth their weight in gold%26quot;) and will go next month for more tests.
Jonte%26#39;s food allergies include egg, peanuts, kiwifruit, goats%26#39; milk, ryegrass, dust mite, gluten and wheat.They still don%26#39;t know what%26#39;s happening with Amelia.
The tests say there isn%26#39;t an allergy but it%26#39;s very clear there is one, so her diet is also carefully controlled.
%26quot;We learn by mistakes, and it%26#39;s unfortunate that the poor children have to go through so much.%26quot;
Raewyn Mitchell is the regional co-ordinator for the Canterbury branch of Allergy New Zealand. She has also been on the circuit trying to find out what%26#39;s wrong with her son Jack.
%26quot;We weren%26#39;t referred to a specialist _ we battled on trying to get answers from our GP. He thought I was a paranoid mother.
%26quot;Jack was a terrible breastfeeder _ on and off all the time. And he%26#39;d make terrible noises when he was sucking.
And halfway through feeding, his bottom would explode with diarrhoea; crying, always waking; never settled.%26quot;
She and her husband, Brent, had little sleep for four months, constantly worried about their son and still trying to create a home for their older daughter.
Finally, the doctor arranged skin tests, which showed an egg allergy and a minor reaction to dairy.
The doctor suggested a soya formula. Mitchell had heard it contained hormones and eventually tried goats%26#39; milk.
Jack got bladder infections. They switched doctors and were finally referred to a paediatrician. %26quot;He went down the reflux road.%26quot; Jack did have reflux but Mitchell was sure something else was wrong.
If she fed him a dairy-based formula he would scream and develop a rash and eczema.
For several months she and Jack saw the doctor at least weekly, sometimes twice a week.
Finally, they were referred to Dr Rodney Ford. %26quot;He made us feel more comfortable. He did listen and gave us a plan and slowly but surely Jack improved. %26quot;
From Ford, Mitchell discovered the magitude of the problem. Jack%26#39;s allergies included dust mite, rye grass, dairy, egg, peas, beans, lentils, lamb and gluten.
They went onto a soya formula and that worked for a few months until Jack developed an allergy to it.
The next step was the Pepti-Jnr formula, but Jack couldn%26#39;t cope with that either so it was on to Neocate. It%26#39;s $100 a can and lasts three days. Fortunately, it%26#39;s subsidised.
%26quot;He%26#39;s lived on that for over a year now, that%26#39;s what keeps him growing. He also takes primadophilus.%26quot; (The label says it%26#39;s %26quot;friendly bacteria%26quot;).
Other than that he lives on chicken, rice and potatoes. He can eat silverbeet _ %26quot;but there%26#39;s only so many ways you can cook that%26quot; _ apples and pears.
He%26#39;ll be two next month and will have more tests to see if there%26#39;s been any improvement.
Elizabeth and Craig Keenan have four daughters. The youngest, Kate, aged six, and Jacqueline, two, also have allergies.
Kate%26#39;s allergies are not food- based. She reacts to grass, dust mite, horses and cats. She also had eczema so badly that she was hospitalised at three.
Their family was more fortunate because the allergies were diagnosed quickly.
They learnt of Jacqueline%26#39;s problems when she had egg custard at the age of six months.
She started scratching, her face went red, she got hives and started vomiting. In allergy tests, egg and peanut had a huge reaction.
Once parents start understanding their child%26#39;s allergies (which keep changing), the next issue is the need for constant vigilance.
Parents must know who makes each product, ingredient lists, and how it%26#39;s made.
Has it shared a lane with peanuts at any stage of production? It sounds extreme, but some children just need to touch the food to react.
Jack%26#39;s father, Brent, ate peanuts while out and forgot to wash his hands. He held Jack when he got home and within two minutes Jack was covered in hives, with a clear red handprint on his leg.
Jack%26#39;s breathing became shallow. Anti- histamine helped and after two hours the swelling went down. It took a week to deal with the eczema reaction.
Hence the need to scan labels carefully, and some companies are better than others at supplying information.
Cross-contamination is a big concern. The three families all have separate cooking utensils, chopping boards, cutlery and plates for the child with allergies.
Raewyn Mitchell boiled an egg for her daughter, washed the pot and next day cooked Jack%26#39;s vegetables in it. His lips and face swelled up. %26quot;That was a year ago; you learn along the way.%26quot;
The day before Jonte was due to start pre-school, the supervisor phoned to say they wouldn%26#39;t take him as he was too big a responsibility.
Britten was devastated and wondered if this would always be the pattern. But they did find a great pre-school.
Social occasions are a problem. There is always food, and the parent has to prepare in advance.Raewyn Mitchell: %26quot;We stay home a lot, as home is safe.%26quot;
Barb Britten: %26quot;All his food is prepared at home. We take his food everywhere, to cafes and people%26#39;s places. If we go away for a week I spend a week preparing.%26quot;
Last week Jonte started school. There are lots of kids, and on a wet day he will be inside at close quarters with other children who have many foods to which he is allergic.
Britten: %26quot;Children will have peanut butter and nutella sandwiches and I don%26#39;t know how he will react (to airborne particles).%26quot;
Keenan: %26quot;I think it%26#39;s safer for Jacqueline to be home with me until she%26#39;s about three. I wouldn%26#39;t want her to have to fend for herself in pre-school. But the time will come.%26quot;
This is Allergy Awareness Week (May 9-14), part of a global campaign to educate people about allergies.
Allergy New Zealand is promoting Red Alert Day. It%26#39;s encouraging people to wear something red to work, school or pre-school and make a gold coin donation. Allergy New Zealand will use the money for education kits.
A few simple changes will make the world safer for children with allergies:
* If businesses offer free food (eg jellybeans, or chocolate eggs at Easter), check with parents first.
Consider having stickers or some other non-food treat as well.
* Put food scraps in a rubbish bin.
* If you are told a child is allergic to a food, believe it and don%26#39;t give him or her any.
* For further information, contact Raewyn Mitchell, ph (03) 942-4557, www. allergy.org.nzTips and theories
When paediatric consultant Dr Rodney Ford spoke to Allergy New Zealand members last week, IgG and IgE tests and issues relating to coeliac disease, and the relation between ear infection and dairy allergies were discussed.
Here are some edited snippets from Ford%26#39;s talk and a later conversation.
* If a baby is allergic to, say, peanuts, and the mother eats them, traces will be in her milk and the baby may react.
* Ford says it%26#39;s important to test. %26quot;If you don%26#39;t test, you don%26#39;t know.%26quot; He says it is sad that some women wean their babies early when, if they had known about their baby%26#39;s allergy, they could have changed their diet and kept breastfeeding.
* Grandparents can be the worst when it comes to children with allergies. Many have the attitude, %26quot;That%26#39;s nice, dear, but we didn%26#39;t have allergies in my day%26quot; and give the child the problem food anyway. If the child has an immediate reaction it only happens once, but if it takes longer, the child%26#39;s parents have to deal with it.
* Allergies are increasing, both in New Zealand and worldwide.
* One theory is the %26quot;hygiene theory%26quot;, which suggests all the anti-bacterial sprays around children mean a loss of beneficial bacteria that line the intestine and help the immune and digestion systems.
* Another theory is that as houses get warmer for people they also get warmer for dust mites to which many people are allergic.
* Ford recommends all babies be given acidophilus from day one, as part of maintaining a healthy lining to the intestine. He says it will halve their chance of developing allergies.
* Many children grow out of their allergies by about six years. But only 20% grow out of peanut allergies.
* If both parents have allergies, it is highly likely the child will develop one. Ford suggests acidophilus to try and prevent it and to %26quot;switch on%26quot; the helpful bacteria.
* For most infants who have eczema in the first six- eight months it is food-related.
* A high proportion of children whom Ford sees (and their parents) are gluten intolerant. Ford reckons up to a third of all chronic ill health could be caused by gluten intolerance.
Disclaimer: Rodney Ford is not on the advisory board of Allergy New Zealand, and his views are necessarily those of the board. A parent should not change a child%26#39;s diet based on the information above. If they have concerns they should discuss them with a medical professional.

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Men with diabetes who ate any eggs at all raised their risk of death during a 20-year period studied, according to the study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The study adds to an ever-growing body of evidence, much of it contradictory, about how safe eggs are to eat. It did not examine what about the eggs might affect the risk of death.
Men without diabetes could eat up to six eggs a week with no extra risk of death, Dr. Luc Djousse and Dr J. Michael Gaziano of Brigham and Women%26#39;s Hospital and Harvard Medical School found.
%26quot;Whereas egg consumption of up to six eggs a week was not associated with the risk of all-cause mortality, consumption of (seven or more) eggs a week was associated with a 23 percent greater risk of death,%26quot; they wrote.
%26quot;However, among male physicians with diabetes, any egg consumption is associated with a greater risk of all-cause mortality, and there was suggestive evidence for a greater risk of MI (heart attack) and stroke.%26quot;
They urged more study in the general population.
Eggs are rich in cholesterol, which in high amounts can clog arteries and raise the risk of heart attack and stroke.
One expert on nutrition and heart disease said the study suggests middle-aged men, at least, should watch how many eggs they eat.
%26quot;More egg on our faces? It%26#39;s really hard to say at this point, but it still seems, if you%26#39;re a middle-aged male physician and enjoy eggs more than once a day, that having some of the egg left on your face may be better than having it go down your gullet,%26quot; said Dr. Robert Eckel of the University of Colorado and a former president of the American Heart Association.
%26quot;But, remember: eggs are like all other foods — they are neither %26#39;good%26#39; nor %26#39;bad,%26#39; and they can be part of an overall heart-healthy diet,%26quot; Eckel wrote in a commentary.
The Harvard team studied 21,327 men taking part in the much larger Physicians%26#39; Health Study, which has been watching doctors since 1981 who have agreed to report regularly on their health and lifestyle habits.
Over 20 years, 1,550 of the men had heart attacks, 1,342 had strokes, and more than 5,000 died.
%26quot;Egg consumption was not associated with (heart attack) or stroke,%26quot; the researchers wrote.
But the men who ate seven eggs a week or more were 23 percent more likely to have died during the 20-year period.
Diabetic men who ate any eggs at all were twice as likely to die in the 20 years.
Men who ate the most eggs also were older, fatter, ate more vegetables but less breakfast cereal, and were more likely to drink alcohol, smoke and less likely to exercise — all factors that can affect the risk of heart attack and death.

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The Leader of the Libyan Revolution received yesterday (Thursday) members of Libyan and African Committees that organise and sponsor the fourth African five-aside football championships which qualify for the World Cup finals in Brazil later this year as well as African teams and delegations participating in the championships.

Members of the committee expressed to the Leader of the Libyan Revolution during the meeting their total readiness to resume their efforts for the success of this African sports event. They re-affirmed their collaboration with the Leader of the Libyan Revolution for the sake of building Africa and achieving more African sports victories at the African level.

Members of the committees also re-affirmed the significance of the this forum which is hosted by the Libya in the consolidation of understanding and acquaintance between African youth and the strengthening of friendship, fraternity and amity as well as establishing bridges of solidarity and re-approachment among the youth of a united Africa, in line with the historic efforts of the Leader of the Libyan Revolution in establishing the Great African Union in the front-line city of Sirte.

During the meeting the Leader expressed his happiness to see African youth working in unity in such African forums and re-affirmed that he relies heavily on the forces of African youth.

He called on all members of committees to resume their efforts for the good organisation and the success of this sports forum for African youth and allowing the opportunity for them to show more talent and creativity in international sports meetings and contests.

The Leader tackled the concept of sports in the Jamahiri theory as stated in the Green Book which re-affirms that in the same way the authority and the wealth are in the hands of the masses then sport has to be in the hands of the masses as well. He called on African youth to continue practicing sports and encourage other people to practice it and fight obesity which afflicts the world and the muscular action has become less and man has become more reliant on the machine.

The Leader of the Libyan Revolution confirmed that FIFA is an international union and is not the possession of one party, one state or a group of states.

The Leader stressed that no one should control or monopolise FIFA or manipulate it in the way they like, as the sport has shifted from a individual activity and an activity for the masses into a monopoly exploited by the rich and influential elites. He called for the destruction of the unjust basis on which FIFA stands.

Members of the committees and African youth were keen to present sports gifts to the Leader of the Libyan Revolution and have their photos as souvenirs taken with the Leader of the Libyan Revolution. They joined the Leader of the Libyan Revolution in a wonderful scene expressing their admiration for his African unionist actions and his leadership of African youth process for the development and progress of Africa internationally and in all fields.

A number of participants in the African five-aside championships delivered a speech in which they said:

Oh Great Leader,

It is a great honour for us. We the participants in the African Five-Aside Championships, being the product of mostly the offshoots of popular arenas because it is a simple game epitomising your eternal concepts, the sports for all people by all people and the Jamahiri sports.

O Leader,

We are standing before you today, to get inspiration from your creative thinking and innovative course and we will go in that direction to epitomize jamahiri sports. We salute you as youth converging from all African continents.

The Higher Organisation Committee for the African Championship expressed its sincere appreciation love and recognition of the Leader of the Libyan Revolution and the Libya for the spectacular hosting of the Five-Aside African Championship.

The committee said in its speech that this wonderful African wedding hosted by the Libya for the first time in the history of five-aside football has re-affirmed the high capabilities and the substantial resources enjoyed by the Libyans in the preparation and the organisation of this African sports festival which was lauded by all participating delegations which are honoured to stand before you today and pay tribute and salute and express high appreciation for your historic jihadi trips into Africa.

O Great Leader, you are an epitomisation of the glory, honour, dignity and triumph. May god preserve you for us a leader, teacher, inspirer and as a high triumphant God willing and let us go forward.

Isa Hayatu, the President of the African Football Union saluted on behalf of the union the Leader of the Libyan Revolution and expressed a fraternal African salute and admiration for the Leader’s sponsorship of all African youth.

The speech delivered by the executive office member Mohammed Al Wa on behalf of the African Football Union and on behalf of its President, Isa Hayatu, saluted the Leader of the Libyan Revolution and expressed his admiration for what had been offered by this great country the Libya. He also thanked the Leader of the Libyan Revolution for all his sponsorship and guidance for African youth which has always been a source of inspiration in all fields of sports, culture and education.

He offered his thanks to the Leader and the Libyan people for the warm reception and generous hospitality reserved to them as African sportsmen and as sponsors of African football and we express our pride in the organisation of five-aside football championship in this great land.

He also expressed sincere thanks for all participating brothers and he renewed his thanks for the Leader of the Libyan Revolution by saying May God preserve you always as an example particularly in the area of youth instruction and education.

The participating delegations expressed their pride and honour at meeting the Leader of the Libyan Revolution in order to congratulate him for the huge achievements realised on the land of the Libya and for his huge efforts for the sake of Africa in continuation of the efforts of the founding fathers aimed at ensuring a prosperous future for Africa.

A member of the South African sports delegation delivered the speech of the participating teams and said we are honoured to come here today, this is a great honour for us and we congratulate you on the huge achievements realised by the Libya as well as your huge efforts on all levels, local and external.

With regard to this championship we are hopeful of achieving a high level in this game and we emphasise our admiration for the spectacular preparations for this major event.

Our brother Muammar Al Qadhafi we do thank you very much for all that we have seen in this country which enjoys our great appreciation and we thanks you for the warm reception and generous hospitality.

We are quite aware that Libya is a major sponsor and supporter of all African efforts and we do thank you very much for all your efforts and achievements at the Arab and African levels. We are pleased to tell you that the founding fathers of Africa have delegated you to do what it takes in order to unify African and to ensure its prosperous future.

Long live friendship and amity amongst African youth.

The Leader of the Libyan Revolution addressed the meeting and said: I welcome you in your country, Libya, and I am happy to see the African youth united and I rely heavily on the forces of African youth.

You know I have an opinion about sports. That is according to the Jamahiri ideological theory as outlined in the Green Book. In the same way the authority is with the masses and the wealth is with the masses. Sport also has to come with the masses. The role of sportsmen is to practice sports and shift it the masses and not to monopolise it. It is like the role of teacher and student.

The teacher teaches the students and the sportsman teaches the masses how to play sport. It is like the imam during prayers. He prays and teaches the people to do the same movements. It is known that the world is witnessing obesity because the muscular action has diminished and there is greater reliance on the machine which is replacing humans. Your role is to fight this obesity.

Your bodies are well built thanks to sports and thanks to God but you have to make the masses like you and this is the jamahiri masses as stated in the Green Book. This is something.

The other thing is my view about FIFA. This view is stated in the internet website Al Qadhafi speaks. You know FIFA has many short-comings and is widely criticised.

The first thing is that the rich countries monopolise international games and most countries in the world are deprived of the enjoyment of the hosting the Mondials, because FIFA has got conditions that apply only to the rich countries and this is unfair and unjust because FIFA is international and has to be for all the world whether rich or poor, large or small but what is taking place now is the contrary of that. It is as if FIFA is owned by the group of rich states only.

In Africa for example we can find five countries that could host the Mondials according to FIFA’s conditions but more than 40 African states do not match these conditions and this is totally unacceptable. Small and poor countries have the right to enjoy hosting FIFA Mondials. We have to change this rule because the poor countries are not guilty so as to be deprived of hosting the Mondials.

Therefore there has to be distribution for the Mondial games to a number of countries according to their ability. This will ensure the following benefits. The Leader called on the translator to read in French and English.

These results are the following:

* Enjoyment of direct sports practice for games by numerous countries.

Multiplication of the number of participants through the increase of host countries.

The elimination of injustices and unfairness and inequality and despondency which presently characterises poor and deprived nations.

In this manner we achieve the social goal upon which the philosophy of the World Cup is based according to the French founder of FIFA Yules Riviere.

*Giving FIFA more financial resources.

Sharing profits and losses amongst countries.

Avoiding failure and ambiguity be curbing the emergency cases such as natural disasters or the death of the president of the host country.

The poor countries have to benefit from the World Cup revenues to reform their infastructure.

In the sports arena and contrary to the current practice s as long as FIFA stops at disguising things through the distribution of modest amount of money to to other countries whereas the larger amounts, Known or unknown, are dedicated to the benefit of gamblers, opportunists and speculators in all forms of trade.

Generally if they are justifying it by organisation in one state to reduce distances, Germany hosted the Mondials the World Cup in 2006 and distributed it to a number of German cities where distances between one city and another is between 500 - 600kms.

In 1994 America hosted the world cup and distributed it through a number of cities and the number between one city and another is thousand of kilometers in addition to time differences.

Accordingly it is possible to organise matches in a way that one team plays in South Africa and the others play in Nigeria and another in Egypt. This is one reason why it is illogical to say there is a distance. The distance between one state and another is sometimes much less than that between one city and another in Germany or in America which hosted the World Cup. FIFA has billions available and they should help poor states to take part.

And furthermore why shouldn’t the cup holder host the World Cup so that winning the cup has some meaning. Benin could win the cup in the games hosted by Nigeria because Nigeria has more resources than Benin.

Furthermore FIFA spread slavery throughout the world. Any good player in a poor country is being bought by rich countries.

This means that the poor countries train their people for the benefit of richer states. This is totally unacceptable. I have spoken to the President of FIFA several times and I also spoke to Hayatu. They agreed with this analysis 100 percent but they say we cannot decide unless the organisation decides. And therefore we are collecting signatures from National Football Federations across the world.

The vast majority of world states are deprived of the world cup. This means that the majority will sign to change FIFA and you all have to sign for this.

Two days ago I met the presidents of African Football Federations in this place. I told them the same thing and asked them to sign. I am surprised how you agreed and you are the vast majority and the poor countries, how could you agree to this? Generally this situation is unfair and FIFA has to change it.

For example the coming championship is said to be hosted by Africa. It will be held in South Africa. It means for the African continent but as long as it is for Africa why shouldn’t we distribute the matches to a number of African countries. Some teams could play in Cameroon. Others in Botswana, Tanzania or Tunisia. The matches could be distributed across Africa to achieve the benefits we indicated before.

The forthcoming matches have to be distributed to a number of African countries and FIFA has to help these countries with money. It has to distribute money otherwise the poor countries will establish a special FIFA and abandon the other FIFA for the rich.

And we have to prevent the purchase of good players from a poor country to a rich country. Platter and the group with him are in a critical situation. If we face them with the signatures of the vast majority of Football Federations. If we collect these signatures. I am surprised at how you accept such a situation But for now on we have to start struggling to demolish this unfair situation by FIFA and all of you have to sign an incite others to sign and I hope you succeed. Thanks.

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Born July 2, 1917 in Burlington, she was the daughter of Albert Frederic and Selma Johnson Behne. On March 27, 1940, she married Merwyn “Bradley” Kimble in New Hampton. He died July 29, 1991.

Mrs. Kimble was a registered nurse at St. Marys Hospital in Rochester, Minn., and at Mercy Hospital. She was the day supervisor of nursing at Fort Madison Hospital for 20 years, retiring in 1980.

She was a 1935 graduate of Dallas City (Ill.) High School and a 1938 Mercy Hospital School of Nursing.

She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church and a former member of the Jane Delano Club and the Dallas City Eastern Star. She was an avid supporter of the Burlington Public Library and volunteered with R.S.V.P. in Fort Madison and at grade schools in Burlington.

Survivors include three daughters, Marcia Forquer of Canton, Ill., Marda Logan of LaHarpe, Ill., and Mary Kimble of Fort Madison; three sons, Brad Kimble of St. Louis, Martin Kimble of Peoria, Ill., and Mark Kimble of Columbia, Mo.; one stepdaughter, Shirley Newman of Pueblo, Colo.; one granddaughter whom she raised from infancy until 12; 12 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; two stepgrandchildren; and three stepgreat-grandchildren.

Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents and two stepbrothers.

There will be no visitation. Her body has been cremated.

The memorial funeral service for Mrs. Kimble will be at 10 a.m. Monday in Lunning Chapel with the Rev. Erick Swanson officiating. Inurement will be in Aspen Grove Cemetery.

Memorials have been established for Trinity Lutheran Church and Multiple Sclerosis Society.

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By CHRISTINIA CRIPPES

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WEST BURLINGTON — News that Medicare will pay more than it collects this year doesn’t surprise Great River Health Systems CEO Mark Richardson.

“I fully expect it means Medicare will continue to go down the path it has for the past 10 to 15 years,” Richardson said.

He said the hospital gets about 50 cents for every $1 of its Medicare charges, which total about $250 million in the Great River Health Systems.

Richardson said providing services becomes more difficult each year because costs continue to rise as the reimbursement levels go down.

“It’s impacting every hospital in the country,” Richardson said.

Still, Richardson vowed the quality of care would not be compromised.

“We have based our reputation in the last many years on high-quality, outstanding customer service,” he said.

Richardson explained the current system is based on diagnosis-related groups, meaning the hospital is reimbursed on a fixed-dollar cost of a particular diagnosis. He said the fixed-dollar amount is based on the cost of care when the system was implemented in the 1980s.

“Iowa is actually penalized by being a high-quality, low-cost state,” Richardson said.

He said because the state efficiently takes care of patients at a low cost, its federal Medicare reimbursements are less than states that have higher costs.

“We’re the 49th lowest state for reimbursement; we’re eighth best in quality and next to last in payment by Medicare,” Richardson said. “It really is a very unfair system to Iowa hospitals.”

He said it makes sense that higher quality means lower cost, because the health care professionals are more effective, which means patients spend less time in the hospital.

Richardson said the additional costs are written off by the hospital or result in private insurers paying more.

More than seeing Medicare reimbursements go down, Richardson said he’s not optimistic there will be positive changes, despite the warning earlier this week from government trustees.

According to the Associated Press, the reserves in the Medicare trust fund that pays hospital benefits are projected to run out by 2019.

“A lot of (hospital) CEOs across the country don’t believe Congress is going to implement major changes … at least in the near future,” Richardson said.

He said he recently met with 36 CEOs from across the United States, and not one of them felt universal health care would be implemented by this Congress.

Richardson said he is not optimistic the Medicare reimbursement system will change until there’s an absolute crisis, as the fund runs bankrupt.

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And nowhere is the noble race to save lives and postpone the alternative more crowded than at the emergency room at the University of Iowa’s Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City.

In 2007 doctors, nurses and staff treated 40,000 patients in the teaching hospital’s old emergency room that was designed, back in 1978, to handle half that number of patients a year.

It would not be unreasonable to calculate that upwards of a million patients, most of them Iowans and many of them from southeast Iowa and western Illinois, have passed though that ER during its 30 years of operation.

But this week the faithful but overcrowded ER will be retired, and a new $30 million University Hospitals’ Emergency Treatment Center will open for business on the medical campus hill atop the west bank of the Iowa River.

At 60,000 square feet, the shiny new ER is three times the size of its predecessor. There are 35 patient rooms, most with TVs and bathrooms, a pediatric center with video games to occupy children and plenty of room for medical staff to work.

The new ER is designed to treat 60,000 patients a year, a number it seems likely to reach given that patient loads are rising 10 percent per year.

Iowans should be proud of their investment in this public project. And in the noble medical personnel who will continue to work relentlessly to preserve the lives of their patients.

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Honey leaves four sick in hospital

Health authorities said yesterday they had pinpointed the producer of the honey, which also struck down a Wellington mother, her three-year-old son and another relative.
He is thought to be a Whangamata man who has been running a %26quot;hobby apiary%26quot; for about five months. The man has denied his product caused the problems.
Contaminated honey from the three outlets stocking his products - Meat at the Beach Butchers, Valley Orchards and Quarry Orchards - has been recalled.
Health authorities are urging people not to eat comb honey recently bought from Coromandel.
The National Beekeepers Association is warning consumers not to buy honey harvested from hives or wild bee colonies in the area since December.
A dropoff point has been set up at the Whangamata Medical Centre to dispose of tainted honey.
Hamilton woman Judy Hall ate the honey on toast three times, each time becoming ill, before she realised it might be to blame.
Two packets of honey were bought from Meat at the Beach butcher last Tuesday.
She began vomiting after eating the toast, but thought something else made her sick. She visited the doctor but, feeling better, ate more honey on Friday and Saturday and suffered tremors and convulsions.
Wellington woman Jo Whittle, her son Daniel Fox and her sister%26#39;s partner Joseph Reynolds were admitted to hospital on Friday after eating honey from the area last week.
Mr Reynolds, visiting from London, had a seizure in his sleep and remembers nothing of it. He was discharged from Thames Hospital yesterday, shortly before the others.
Ms Whittle, of Upper Hutt, said seeing her son convulse was terrifying. %26quot;His whole body was stiff and arching. His teeth were clenched so tight it took some minutes before he could relax them. I think the scariest thing was his eyes were wide open and staring and they rolled up under the lids … then he went blue and stopped breathing.%26quot;
As little as a teaspoon of toxic honey can affect the human nervous system and it can be lethal.
National Beekeepers Association chief executive Jim Edwards said processing plants must be registered to ensure honey met health standards.
Apiarists must sign a harvest declaration form to say their hives had not been exposed to chemicals or other risks.
He hopes the incident does not affect the industry, which exported honey products worth $56 million last year.

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