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Beyond Byzantine: Why Italian Politics Matter More Than You Care To Know
When in Rome ...
Luigi Morante
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⬇ STARTER
Foreign correspondents who land in Italy are advised to stick to stories about culture and business, food and travel. The readers back home want tales of ancient Rome, hip new brands in Milan or maybe a nasty mob boss in Naples. And politics? Poco o niente…
To international eyes, Italian political news looks like one long indecipherable and neverending government crisis, a revolving door of prime ministers, insider plots and power plays that ultimately, to paraphrase Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's famous book The Leopard, leave you where you started.
In the end, some may even whisper, it doesn't really matter.
The abrupt downfall of Prime Minister Mario Draghi this week is a perfect example of both the navel-gazing folly of Italian politics, and a sharp reminder that in the end, it does indeed matter. Also, for readers back home.
Still we must first confront that folly the Italians themselves are forced to laugh and cry through. That doesn't mean wasting extra effort figuring out how and by whom Draghi — perhaps the most internationally respected Italian public official of his generation — was suddenly ousted.
Suffice it to say that most of these would-be government "crises" begin with some politico's self-serving maneuver (often meant to merely be a bluff) that winds up taking on a life of its own in what Italians call the teatrino — little theater — of whispers and insults and shifting alliances that accumulate into a manufactured crisis that makes all the actors look bad. And the spectators are left feeling more powerless than ever.
Marco Iasevoli of Avvenire magazine described Wednesday's final act of the Draghi drama as "a day where farce and tragedy took turns in the Senate, destined to dig a new trench between politics and citizens exasperated by all these Byzantinisms, as (politicians) ignore the appeals to "responsibility" from every corner of the country."
So if you care at all about Italy and Italians, the broken politics matters precisely because it is so broken. The bel paese is a beautiful country in so many ways in spite of its political class. How much more beautiful might it be?
And yet somehow this gaping divide between the people and their representatives is also the first clue that something tucked into the Byzantine spectacle in the halls of Rome may be something that matters to the rest of us too.
Italy is the faraway place the rest of the world feels it knows, and maybe even loves. Forever in search of unity from within, from the outside it appears as a well-defined nation that is both emblematic and unthreatening, with none of the remnants of lost empire that appear in some of its European neighbors. Its geography, jutting southward from the continent and surrounded by the sea has facilitated the coming and going of peoples for centuries.
For these and other reasons, Italy is a kind of laboratory for the rest of the world to study, and eventually expand upon. In the good and the bad. And in politics, Italy has given us Mussolini, inventor of fascism that was taken to its logical extreme by Hitler. More recently, Silvio Berlusconi's shameless antics and post-democracy power grabs offered a playbook for Donald Trump.
Right now, history appears to be unfolding quickly. And Mario Draghi's political demise may have much more immediate ramifications beyond Italy's borders. The former central banker came to power as the ultimate guarantee to solidify the country's post-COVID recovery at a moment suddenly ripe for greater European integration and harmony.
The ante on that would soon be doubled with Ukraine. In an interview earlier this month, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba made a point of singling Draghi out for his support for Kyiv's cause and candidacy to join the European Union. It was a stance questioned by both coalition partners and opponents in Italy, which has been described by some as "the most pro-Russian country in the West."
Early elections have been called for September 25. It will likely be a moment in which the war in Ukraine begins to weigh even more heavily on national economies as energy worries multiply ahead of the coming winter — and the much talked about unity of the West will be put to the test.
So for the next couple of months, it may be worth following Italian politics: a little theater for Rome, a live laboratory for the rest of the world.
— Jeff Israely
🎲 OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ
What do you remember from the news this week?
1. This week saw two world leaders visit Tehran to discuss policy in Syria: Russian President Vladimir Putin and … who else?
2. Protests have erupted in Sri Lanka after Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as president. Security forces clashed with demonstrators in the capital of the island country: Madurai / Colombo / Medan?
3. What cult movie did outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reference during his final session of "Prime Minister's Questions"?
4. What surprise discovery was made in the courtyard of a Chinese restaurant: Fragments of a meteor / Flowers thought to be extinct / Dinosaur footprints?
[Answers at the bottom of this newsletter]
#⃣ TRENDING
An NFT collection from artist and poet Amber Vittoria, "Memories Of A Masterpiece," began trending on Twitter shortly after its release last week, and sold out almost immediately. The work includes ribbons of color in abstract forms, and each of the 999 NFT's in the collection is hand-made with paper and scanned. This isn't Vittoria's first NFT drop, and she has received widespread support from the NFT community on Twitter after collaborations with The Hundreds, a streetwear brand and media platform, and the Adam Bomb Squad, a project by The Hundreds. Vittoria says her work "aims to represent nuances of womanhood."
🎭 5 CULTURE THINGS TO KNOW
• "Ukrainian Revival" exhibition in Monaco: The Principality of Monaco is hosting the exhibition "Ukrainian Revival" to show support to the war-torn country through August 5. The event will showcase painting, sculpture, photography and modern techniques work by Ukrainian artists, including painter Anatoly Kryvolap, neo-baroque artist Oleg Tistol and Victor Sydorenko, the president of the National Academy of Ukrainian Arts.
• South African poet Don Mattera dies: Renowned South African author and poet Don Mattera died on July 18 at the age of 87. Mattera received tributes from South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and other political leaders as an acclaimed cultural leader in the fight against apartheid.
• Ice skating royalty Yuzuru Hanyu retires: Japan's "Ice Prince" Yuzuru Hanyu has announced his retirement from competitive ice skating at the age of 27. Hanyu won his first Olympic gold medal in Sochi in 2014, and retained his title at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games — the first man to do so in 66 years.
• Don McLean reveals meaning behind "American Pie" song: American singer Don McLean has revealed the meaning behind his 1971 hit song "American Pie" in a new documentary, The Day the Music Died. The title borrows one of the 8-minute-long song's lyrics, which refers to the death of singers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and JP Richardson in a plane crash in 1959.
• Quidditch becomes Quadball: The real-life governing body of Harry Potter-inspired game Quidditch has announced it is changing its name to Quadball in a bid to distance itself from author J. K. Rowling and her transphobic comments. The International Quidditch Association also cited commercial reasons, as Quidditch is a trademark owned by Warner Bros.
🇮🇷🇷🇺 Is Iran Building A Drone Army For Russia?
According to intelligence information from the United States, Iran wants to deliver "several hundred" drones to Russia and train Russian soldiers on the devices. Copying parts from U.S. drones that the country shot down in the past, Iran now has a variety of different series and types — from unarmed reconnaissance devices to combat drones and those called kamikaze drones. While the Russia-Iran potential deal is unlikely to be a turning point in the Ukraine war, Russia could use the drones "to damage Ukraine's strategic infrastructure comparatively cheaply, without having to put expensive war equipment at risk," Christine Kensche writes in German daily Die Welt.
Read the full story: Inside Putin's Deal For Iranian Drones
💥🌳 Africa's Maasai, Victims Of Violence In The Name Of Conservation
Tanzania's government has tried to confiscate 1,500 km2 of the Maasai's ancestral land for years in order to use the land for trophy hunting, elite tourism and conservation. For the African ethic group, the conservation areas have turned into war zones: last June, agents opened fire on a group of Maasai who were protesting against an attempt to expel them from the Loliondo Game Controlled Area in northern Tanzania. Fiore Longo, a researcher for Survival International, the global movement for indigenous peoples, writes in Spanish independent magazine La Marea: "The brutality in Loliondo shows the true face of conservation."
Read the full story: Plight Of Maasai Reveals Racism Of Africa's Conservation Policy
🦉🔍 The French Quest For A Mysterious "Golden Owl"
In April 1993, a man calling himself Max Valentin buried a bronze owl statue, an artifact, in an undisclosed location in France. The original, a gold and silver owl covered with diamonds worth 1 million francs (150,000 euros), was somewhere in a safe. A few weeks later, Valentin published a 60-page book he wrote with artist Michael Becker called On the trail of the golden owl, filled with eleven enigmas treasure hunters would have to solve to retrieve the owl. Since then, thousands have searched for the artifact — in vain. "The mysteries do not seem to discourage the chouetteurs, who remain numerous, as if the quest itself has become more important than the discovery of the solutions," writes Valérie de Senneville in French daily Les Echos.
Read the full story: The "Golden Owl," France's Enigmatic Treasure Hunt Still Unsolved 30 Years Later
🐙🧤 BRIGHT IDEA
Contrary to humans, octopuses don't have trouble manipulating wet and slippery objects underwater thanks to their dexterous tentacles. Inspired by the cephalopod, researchers from Virginia Tech in the U.S. have developed the "Octa-glove," a glove covered by fingerprint-sized rubber synthetic suckers and sensors which can activate or release adhesion to an object on command. The team hopes the glove can be used in future underwater search and rescue missions.
🧹🤝 SMILE OF THE WEEK
South Korea went "aww" for this video showing strangers stopping to help out a truck driver after hundreds of bottles accidentally tipped over from his vehicle.
⏩ LOOKING AHEAD
• Indonesian President Joko Widodo will visit China after receiving an invitation from Chinese President Xi Jinping. Aside from the Winter Olympics last February, Widodo will be the first foreign leader to be received individually by Beijing in two years.
• The Tour de France 2022, the world's most famous cycling race, will end on Sunday on the Champs-Elysées after the 21st and final 115km-long stage. The women's Tour de France will start on the same day.
• World Hepatitis Day is Thursday, with the campaign theme "I can't wait." The day aims to bring awareness to the burden of viral hepatitis (an inflammation of the liver) and influence change, because "Hepatitis can't wait."
• After cryptic hints and a surprise reveal, Beyoncé will release her new albumRenaissance, coming six years after the release of her last solo album.
News quiz answers:
1. In a trilateral statement in Tehran, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iran's leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to continue their ongoing cooperation to "eliminate terrorist individuals, groups, undertakings and entities" in Syria.
2. Sri Lanka's security forces raided the main anti-government protest camp in the capital of Colombo, where hundreds of people have been living for over three months. The crackdown came one day after Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the country's new president.
3. Outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson quoted Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator 2: Judgment Day's cult phrase "Hasta la vista, baby" during his final session of Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons.
4. Dinosaur footprints dating back 100 million years were discovered in a restaurant's outdoor courtyard in southern China, thanks to a sharp-eyed diner.
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The Trumpian Virus Undermining Democracy Is Now Spreading Through South America
Taking inspiration from events in the United States over the past four years, rejection of election results and established state institutions is on the rise in Latin America.
Bolsonaro supporters dressed in national colours with flags in a demonstration in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on November 4, 2022.
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BUENOS AIRES — South Africa's Nelson Mandela used to say it was "so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build."
Intolerance toward those who think differently, even inside the same political space, is corroding the bases of representative democracy, which is the only system we know that allows us to live and grow in freedom, in spite of its flaws.
Recent events in South America and elsewhere are precisely alerting us to that danger. The most explosive example was in Brazil, where a crowd of thousands managed to storm key institutional premises like the presidential palace, parliament and the Supreme Court.
In Peru, the country's Marxist (now former) president, Pedro Castillo, sought to use the armed and security forces to shut down parliament and halt the Supreme Court and state prosecutors from investigating corruption allegations against him.
Parliament sacked him, legitimately, and his equally Marxist vice-president, Dina Boluarte, is now using force to suppress her own, former supporters. The crisis is still on-going in both countries.
Challenging the Supreme Court in Argentina
In the United States, the Republican Party is divided between moderates and radicals. They needed several rounds of voting to choose a speaker for the House of Representatives, because they have yet to resolve in their minds the presidential elections of two years ago, the assault on the Capitol, and ongoing investigations into the incident.
What does the government want with a parliamentary spectacle that cannot prosper?
We should see these as alarm calls. When the adversary becomes an enemy, democracy begins to shake and irrational violence replaces ideological debates.
Here in Argentina, the refusal to obey a Supreme Court recommendation and the government's bid to sack some of its magistrates are also alarming signs of intolerance and a refusal to abide by the rules. What does the government want with a parliamentary spectacle that cannot prosper?
One of the main attackers on the government side is Leopoldo Moreau, a radical supporter of the vice-president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. He has accused Supreme Court judges of acting as instruments of the conservative opposition.
The government's parliamentary group will clearly fail to garner enough support to bring charges against the magistrates, as it did before in other spats with the Court. But is this the start of a bid to reject the results of the general elections, due in October, and pave the way for preventing the winner from taking office in December?
Peruvian citizens demonstrated in the streets of Lima against President Dina Boluarte in Lima, Peru, on January 25, 2023.
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A political abyss
The signs are that an opponent of Kirchner and her supporters will become president later this year. No governing party can expect to win elections when the vast majority of voters are seeing runaway inflation destroy their stable revenues. The Economy Minister Sergio Massa is using all the means at his disposal to halt runaway inflation and even build the base for later investments and renewed revenues. The efforts are enormous, but with limited results.
There is no drama or tragedy in ceding power in a democracy.
Neither President Alberto Fernández nor Vice-President Kirchner believe in Massa's path. He is being tolerated for now, which can only undermine his success and thus of his possible presidential candidacy.
Millions of Argentines will likely vote "against" rather than "for" something or someone in October, though the rise of outside candidates like the libertarian Javier Milei may further disperse the parliamentary vote. Whoever becomes president will in any case likely face a legislature controlled by opponents. This makes a democratic pact necessary to ensure that political forces can work together, over and above ideological divisions.
There is no drama or tragedy in ceding power in a democracy. Temporarily, some people lose and others win, but accepting that transition ensures stability and avoids violence on the street. Turning political cracks into an abyss is certainly no answer.
*Ruckauf is a former vice president and foreign minister of Argentina.
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Stop panicking about swaddling newborns, no matter what the headlines say.
My physician-gaming-group-friends are being swamped by concerned parents because of a new study in Pediatrics that has led to many news articles declaring that swaddling – wrapping an infant tightly in a cloth or blanket – may increase the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS.
But a careful read of the study should help everyone to take a deep breath and calm down.
SIDS is still the leading cause of death in babies age 1 month to one year old. We still aren't sure what causes it. Risk factors include smoking in parents, prematurity, and being put to sleep on the stomach. This is the reason that back-to-sleep campaigns advocate for babies to be laid down to sleep in a supine, not prone, position.
Babies like to sleep on their stomachs, though, and they can be fussy on their backs. So some parents like to swaddle them, believing that a tightly wrapped infant is a more comforted infant. Others, though, argue that this is bad for babies, reduces spontaneous arousals, and can increase the risk of SIDS.
This new study was a meta-analysis of four case-control studies that looked at how swaddling was related to SIDS deaths. A case control study pairs infants who died of SIDS (cases) with similar infants who did not (controls) and sees how they differ. In this specific case, they were interested in whether infants who died of SIDS were more likely to have been swaddled than infants who did not.
They found that the overall risk of swaddling was not statistically significant. However, the most recent study was found to be heterogeneous, and when they removed it, the relationship became significant, with an odds ratio of 1.38.
That's the top-line result leading to concerning headlines. But there are a number of factors to consider before anyone panics.
First of all, case-control studies are notoriously susceptible to "recall bias". This occurs when someone is more likely to remember a fact (like swaddling) after a bad outcome (like SIDS) than after a good outcome (healthy baby).
These studies were also very, very different. Two were from the UK, one was from Tasmania, and one was from Chicago, all over a two decade period. The prevalence of swaddling was also very different, ranging from 35.7% of infants in Tasmania in the 1980's to 5.7% in England two decades later. It's likely that other things were very different in those studies as well.
None of the studies really described what constituted "swaddling", and the ways in which the researchers asked parents about "swaddling" differed greatly from study to study. Analyses controlled for very few other factors, apparently just age in some analyses.
The biggest caveat, however, has to do with positioning. The greatest risk of SIDS seemed to come from being swaddled and then placed prone to sleep. That goes against back-to-sleep practices, and was also rare. Being swaddled and placed on the side to sleep also carried a higher risk. But babies who were swaddled and placed on their backs to sleep had a statistically significant, but very small risk. For instance, 5.9% of SIDS cases were supine and swaddled, compared to 5.2% of controls. SIDS risk with swaddling also increased with age.
But a key message is that of all the babies who died of SIDS, more than 85% weren't swaddled at all. Less than 6% were put sleep on their backs while swaddled. We're talking about 38 babies. That's a very small number to change practice over.
This is also is just an association, not proof of causation. Without controlling for other factors, we can't know if there's something else (ie race, socio-economic status, smoking, education, etc.) that's confounding the results.
For those of you who have never swaddled a baby before, it's not easy. Keeping them still while you wrap them up tight requires practice. The wrapping needs to be secure as well, because you don't want loose cloths or blankets in a crib – that's a hazard in and of itself.
As the authors note, guidance about swaddling advises that it stop either after babies are four months old, or after babies start to rollover on their own. That makes sense. The authors further argue that swaddled babies should be put on their backs to sleep, which we already do.
But there's nothing in this article that really screams that swaddling – in and of itself – is dangerous. The evidence really isn't that compelling. If you're swaddling your newborn well, and placing them on their back to sleep, there's not much here to worry about.
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By Feifei Sun April 07, 2011
Sixteen seasons in, America's Next Top Model, a modeling competition created by Tyra Banks, has yet to produce, well, an American top model. But fans of the series don't necessarily tune in to discover the next Cindy Crawford — they love the inevitable drama that comes from squeezing a dozen or so women into one cramped space, dressing them up in bizarre fashions and asking them to pose for bitchy, B-list photographers. The show has long been more of a forum for Tyra to spread her independent-woman gospel than a springboard for aspiring models. So you couldn't really fault Tiffany for brushing off her elimination with a little humor during the show's fourth cycle. But Tyra could. The supermodel launched a tirade against the unsuspecting contestant, blasting her for not taking her dismissal seriously. "How dare you? Learn something from this!" Tyra screamed. "I have never in my life yelled at a girl like this!" Well, we find that hard to believe.


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Human Health and Soil Health Risks from Heavy Metals, Micro(nano)plastics, and Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in Agricultural Soils (2022)
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Humans are exposed to agricultural soils through inhalation, dermal contact, or the consumption of food. Human health may be at risk when soils are contaminated; while some soil contaminants such as heavy metals (HMs) have been extensively studied, others such as micro(nano)plastics (MNPs) or antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) pose novel threats. This paper investigates the linkages between soil contamination and human health risk by reviewing the state of knowledge on HMs, MNPs, and ARB in agricultural soils. A keyword-based search in Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar was conducted, complemented with a backward snowball search. We analysed main sources of contamination for agricultural soils, risks to human health differentiated by uptake pathway (ingestion, inhalation, dermal), and interactions of contaminants with microorganism, soil fauna, and plants. Results show that the emergence and spread of ARB and antibiotic resistant genes from agricultural soils and their contribution to antibiotic resistances of human pathogens is recognized as a significant threat. Likewise, a growing body of evidence indicates that MNPs are able to enter the food chain and to have potentially harmful effects on human health. For HM, knowledge of the effects on human health is well established. Multiple agricultural practices increase HM concentrations in soils, which may lead to adverse health effects from the ingestion of contaminated products or inhalation of contaminated soil particles. Severe knowledge gaps exist about the pathways of the contaminants, their behaviour in soil, and human uptake. Little is known about long-term exposure and impacts of MNPs, antibiotics and ARB on human health or about the possible combined effects of MNPs, ARB, and HMs. Missing monitoring systems inhibit a comprehensive assessment of human health risks. Our research demonstrates the need for human health risk assessment in the context of agricultural soils, in particular to be able to assess risks related to measures reinforcing the concept of the circular economy.


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I am sure that we all have heard this question many times, but even now there are so many business people out there who still keep thinking on this long-standing question.
Although many modern managers see the benefits of outsourcing product development, there are also those who stay away from this practice due to the unpleasant experience in the past. But the question remains – should you trust the product development to the outsourcing company or it would be better to attract the resources and start a product development in-house?
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To hire a team of specialists and to create a product on its own.
A typical reason why most of the companies refuse the point number 2 of this list, is that fact that it is usually very difficult to find a product that meets the majority of business requirements. Even options that are very close to the desired solutions usually require a lot of improvements, investments, and additional efforts so that their acquisition is often inappropriate for business. So, still remains a choice between the internal product development and outsourcing company.
Let's go through the main reasons why most of the organizations choose to outsource development to implement their business goals.
Outsource product development saves time, money and resources!
This is one of the main factors in favor to outsourcing, even despite a skeptical attitude. For customers from the US, the UK or even Australia, the internal expenses of their own development team can reach huge.
In terms of operating costs, labor arbitrage is often seen as the most obvious advantage of outsourcing. Many executives believe that if you are able to get more productivity for your money when work to be done elsewhere, it makes no sense to pay more to your employees.
This is probably one of the most underrated advantages of outsourcing. Most companies choosing to outsource product development through the ability to hire a professional team based on the "consuming" model. This release the company from long-term obligations and the need to pay any related and additional expenses.
Although at first glance this may seem paradoxical, many executives actually believe that outsourcing allows them to better manage the efficiency.
When your product is implemented, the maintenance of the product, its internal infrastructure, and resources often become a very heavy load. But this can be easily avoided when the company attracts an external outsourcing team to support the project.
Although the management of the company always has the best intentions, in some cases, self-implemented projects can lead to delays, wasted efforts, and additional money spends. In this case, companies often start a panic and try everything just to fix the project. But, usually, this only disimproving the situation.
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Interpreting "married by Licence as I am credibly informed" on 1732 Gloucestershire marriage record?
My 5th great grandfather Edward Chichester was buried at Leighland, Old Cleeve, Somerset, England on 4 May 1823, aged 89, which puts his birth year at about 1734, and I am trying to identify his birth family.
He married Constant/Constance Lyddon on 6 Jun 1765 at Leighland and they baptised all their children at Leighland/Old Cleeve: John (29 Sep 1765; which may be why he agreed to a 200 pound marriage bond), Robert (1767), Giles (1769), William (1773), Jane (1776), Charles (1777) and Thomas (1779).
With Edward naming his first son John, I would not be surprised to find that as the name of Edward's father, and there was a John Chichester baptised to Giles on 11 Sep 1703 at Old Cleeve.
John Chichester (presumably that one), and his wife Elizabeth baptised a son John on 11 Apr 1733 at Leighland, which I think makes a reasonable case for Edward having a brother named John (1733) and a father named John (1703).
Where Edward was born/baptised, and where and when John and Elizabeth (who may be his parents) were married is unknown, but I have found a candidate marriage that is a little unusual.
At Horton in Gloucestershire, which is about 75 miles from Old Cleeve, there is a marriage record on 17 Apr 1732 for John Chichester, Esq and Mrs Elizabeth Courtney/Courtnay. It appears in the parish register and again in a transcript which appears to be contemporary (both images below):
There are several things that I find unusual about this record:
the naming of Elizabeth as Mrs Elizabeth Courtnay - I am used to seeing widow used as a way to signify that a woman has been married before but not Mrs.
the lack of any parish being named for either John or Elizabeth whereas other marriages on the same page seem to always name them - this makes me think that neither are local
the wording "married ... By Licence, as I was informed" which was transcribed as "married by Licence as I am credibly informed" - this says that the person who wrote the register was not present at the marriage.
Does the wording of this marriage record at a parish 75 miles from where he seems to have spent much of his life give credence to my theory that the John Chichester who married in 1732 at Horton could be the same John Chichester who baptised a son John a year later at Old Cleeve?
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"which may be why he paid a 200 pound marriage bond": He did not pay £200, it was just a promise to pay that as a penalty if he broke the terms of the bond (i.e. there was an undisclosed legal impediment to the marriage). – Harry Vervet♦ Jul 18 '16 at 11:46
@HarryVervet I've changed paid to agreed - I thought it was a lot for a soon to be wed to come up with. Would marrying with a 5-6 month pregnant bride contribute to a bond being required? – PolyGeo♦ Jul 18 '16 at 11:57
Going through your list of unusual things about this record:
Mrs Elizabeth Courtnay
'Mrs' did not refer to a married woman in the 1730s. It was a title of status. In her journal article titled Mistresses and marriage: or, a short history of the Mrs, Amy Erickson puts it nicely:
Today the most common use of the word 'mistress' is in its abbreviated form as the title 'Mrs', used almost universally in the English-speaking world today to designate a married woman. 'Mrs' was pronounced 'mistress' until the eighteenth century. For Dr [Samuel] Johnson, one of the few female conditions not signified by 'mistress' was marriage. In the middle of the eighteenth century, 'Mrs' did not describe a married woman: it described a woman who governed subjects (that is, employees or servants or apprentices) or a woman who was skilled or who taught. It described a social, rather than a marital status – when it wasn't being used metaphorically...or contemptuously.
Therefore, it is not possible to conclude that Mrs Elizabeth Courtnay was a widow. It is certainly possible that she was a widow, but the 'Mrs' alone does not tell us that.
No parishes named
The fact that no parishes are named is not unusual. There was no formula to marriage register entries until Hardwicke's Marriage Act (1753), and the clerk wrote down whatever he knew or thought was needed.
It is likely that John Chichester Esq. and Mrs Elizabeth Courtnay were well-known in the community, and there was simply no need to include further information. I do not think you can make any inference about where they were from based on the absence of any parish named.
Furthermore, the marriage occurred by license rather than banns, so it made no difference what parish they were from. They had a license that said they could marry in the church. When people married by banns, banns had to be read on three Sundays in both home parishes. This would be one reason for including the parishes of both parties in the register, and obviously not applicable in this case.
"As I am credibly informed"
I suspect that whoever wrote in the register was simply not present or personally aware of the details about the wedding. The fact that it was marriage by license meant that it could have been a very quiet affair. No publication of banns for three consecutive weeks. A vicar from another parish could have come and performed the ceremony. It's difficult to say more, but I do not think this phrase is particularly significant.
The second image came from the Bishop's Transcripts for Horton (reference GDR/V1/135), while the first was from the Parish Register (reference P182/IN/1/1). Keep in mind that the Parish Register may have been a copy of the Bishop's Transcript, or from another register, or off entries written on scraps of parchment. Bottom line, it is difficult to say whether the BT or PR was made first, so both should always be consulted.
I agree with your answer – I had my doubts when first reading the question. I think this marriage is unlikely to be the one you are looking for. For one thing, the titles Esquire and Mrs suggest these Chichesters were of a higher social standing than the couple who are later in Old Cleeve. I would expect John to still appear as Esq. in some later records, and as far as I can tell he does not.
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This answer does not address the main part of the question about whether the marriage is in some way unusual in the wording of its record. However, I am posting it to try and shed light on whether the marriage record could "give credence to my theory that the John Chichester who married in 1732 at Horton could be the same John Chichester who baptised a son John a year later at Old Cleeve?"
As suggested to me in a personal communication from a Chichester cousin, it seems unlikely that the John and Elizabeth who married at Horton in 1732 were the same couple who baptised their son John at Old Cleeve in 1733. Although, I have found no children baptised to John and Elizabeth at Horton, there is a burial record there for Mrs Elizabeth Chichester on 18 May 1763.
There are also burial records at Old Cleeve for Elizabeth Chichester on 4 Mar 1769 and John on 11 Oct 1774.
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Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal has revealed a major injury crisis in attack for the trip to Watford on Saturday (21 November) with Wayne Rooney, Anthony Martial and Marouane Fellaini all unavailable for selection – while James Wilson is not ready to play 90 minutes. The Dutch manager, meanwhile, has confirmed that Michael Carrick is also set to miss the game after the England international midfielder suffered a problem during the friendly against Spain last week, joining the treatment table alongside long-term injured stars Antonio Valencia and Luke Shaw.
The Premier League giants visit Vicarage Road before a Champions League home game with PSV Eindhoven. United have struggled up front since the start of the new campaign and the situation is unlikely to change at Watford. Van Gaal, nevertheless, has alternated both Rooney and Martial in the number nine role this season with Fellaini as his third choice, starting as the sole striker in the victory over Liverpool earlier in the season as the captain was out while the French starlet had just arrived to the club.
But the Dutch boss said none of them will be available for selection at Watford and academy star James Wilson is not ready either to play a full 90 minutes.
Rooney played with England during the emotional friendly against France on Tuesday but is ill while Martial suffered a knock" to his left foot during that game, forcing him to depart Wembley on crutches. Fellaini, meanwhile, was unable to join his Belgium national team-mates and van Gaal has now confirmed he is still on the sidelines.
"I think that everybody knows Michael Carrick and Anthony Martial are injured, but also injured is Fellaini. That's a surprise because I thought he was recovered after the international break, but still he is injured. And that's a big blow because Rooney is ill, so we have a big problem, I think," the boss said to MUTV.
Speaking about Martial's injury, he added: "It's not so heavy as everybody has written in the media, but he cannot play against Watford. Maybe PSV for Martial but it's not certain, and I think Rooney shall also play then because illness is not something of many days. And Valencia, of course, has been operated on before the international break already, then Shaw, so we have five injured players, and that's a lot."
Meanwhile, asked whether young Wilson could solve the problem up front, he replied: "Wilson is okay after the international break. He can play but he cannot play a whole match because he doesn't have the rhythm of the game."


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Busting 11 Myths About Sexually Transmitted Diseases a.k.a STDs In Women
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Talking about sexually transmitted diseases is a taboo, and this just propagates myths about STDs in women. Let's examine and bust these myths.
STDs in women (Sexually Transmitted Disease) are spoken about only in hushed whispers even among educated, aware women. A word that, I feel, needs to be spoken aloud in today's environment, especially among the younger women.
Let's take a quick look at the facts
There are more than 30 different sexually transmissible bacteria, viruses and parasites.
The most common conditions they cause are gonorrhoea, chlamydial infection, syphilis, trichomoniasis, chancroid, genital herpes, genital warts, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and hepatitis B infection.
STDs in women put them at risk. They can affect the women's health, as well as their sexual life and pleasure. They can become fatal in some cases. For women who intend having children (or become pregnant by accident), there is a high risk of transmitting it to their unborn children.
STDs in women remain a topic that is rarely discussed on any forum, and for all the reasons enumerated above, it is important that women should be aware of them.
Statistics about the magnitude of the problem of STDs in women in India are not very easily available, however the ICMR estimates in 2014 state that almost 6-8% of the Indian adult population has an STD or reproductive tract infection. Given the size of the population, those are incredible numbers that our country must deal with. Besides, the adolescent and young adults are also increasingly at risk – that too, at a time in their lives when they are not fully aware of the impact it would have on their future sexual as well as reproductive health.
We will now move on to the myths that surround STDs in women.
Myth No 1: It is easy to spot STDs in women
Though many STDs present with genital or oral ulcers or lesions, there are many that thrive in the body without any outer symptom or sign. The most dangerous one being HIV infection which may take years to progress to AIDS, but the person may harbour the virus and become a potential hazard to his or her partner.
Myth No 2: It's contracted only when one has multiple partners
While it is true that the having multiple partners or multiple exposures to infected partners does increase the risk of women contracting STD, even one contact is enough to infect a person, a fact famously brought out in the movie, Phir Milenge, where Shilpa Shetty's character gets the infection from a single encounter with the character essayed by Salman Khan.
Myth No 3: The process of diagnosis is complex and difficult
Nothing can be further from the truth. Most of the infections can be diagnosed via a simple blood test or at best, may require a swab taken from the site of the lesion if there are lesions like ulcers. The results of the tests are conveniently sent to the patient by mail or SMS, thereby maintaining confidentiality and privacy of the patient. There are several online labs which provide home testing or sampling and one can always use this facility with confidence, saving time and perceived embarrassment.
Myth No 4: There is no cure for STDs
Most of the diseases are amenable to antibiotic treatment, and the treatment is easily available in safe, hygienic, public as well as private hospital set-ups. Even HIV, once diagnosed, can be treated to prevent it from progressing to full blown AIDS. All one needs to do is contact a good health care provider and follow the medical advice given.
Myth No 5: Monogamous relationships cannot give you STD
To a certain extent, having a single partner does decrease the risk, but does not afford full immunity against contracting an STD ,and so one needs to practice safe sex even when in a monogamous relationship.
Myth No 6: Oral sex protects against STDs
Oral, anal, and vaginal sex can all transmit the disease, though chances of transmission is higher in vaginal sex. It is imperative to practice safe sex even when one is in the same sexual relationship. All sexual contact, whether homosexual or heterosexual, is liable to be responsible for contracting the disease from an infected partner.
Myth No 7: The infection will go away on its own
Many of the infections may subside after running its course in the short term, but the long-term effects can be devastating for the index person who now becomes a carrier and can infect his/ her partner at any time, even if the acute symptoms subside, besides developing the complications of such infections like of infertility or chronic pelvic inflammation.
Myth No 8: Oral contraceptives or Cu-T insertion will protect against STDs
These are contraceptives which protect against unwanted pregnancy alone, and have no role to play in prevention of STDs. Barrier contraceptives like condoms diaphragms and caps are the only contraceptives that protect against STDs.
Myth No 9: It's too early to educate them about STDs
In fact, it's the adolescents and young adults who need more protection, and more importantly, be educated and aware of the possibility of STDs, and know how important it is to protect against them as much as protect oneself from unwanted pregnancy. So, all sex education should include safe sex practices as well.
Myth No 10: STDs can be contracted only through sex
There are several STDs notably HIV, Syphilis, Hepatitis B which can be transmitted through transfusion of blood and blood products, injections and other unsafe practices like sharing of needles among IV drug abusers.
Myth No 11: STD is limited to heterosexual sex only/ homosexual sex only
STD is transmissible between all kinds of partners, same sex partners, transgenders, monogamous, promiscuous, from spouses, significant others or sex workers. No one is exempt from contracting, harbouring or transmitting these diseases.
How do we tackle this problem?
Now that we have talked about the common myths about STSDs lets look at how we can tackle the problem. The mainstay is prevention of contracting the disease and early diagnosis and treatment. Prevention can be either primary or secondary.
Primary prevention requires one to protect oneself against all STDs. This would be best tackled only by abstinence which is neither practical nor possible. So, it would therefore involve practice of safe sex in the form of barrier contraceptives. Both male and female condoms are available but female condoms are not very popular. Diaphragms and cervical caps are no longer very easily available. It is also prudent to get the relevant blood tests done at regular intervals. There are window periods especially for HIV, therefore if one has practiced unsafe sex, the tests should be repeated after an interval of 4 to 6 weeks.
Vaccination against HPV virus, implicated in the cause of cervical cancer, is also available, and it would be prudent to take this vaccination for all sexually active adults especially young girls between the ages of 11 to 18. The other vaccine available is against Hepatitis B, which is spread through sexual contact as well as the use of infected needles and blood products. So, it is imperative to use sterile needles and avoid sharing razors or needles even in a monogamous relationship.
Tattoos are also an important, if rare, source of unknowingly contracting such infections hence one has to be very sure that the centres one gets tattoos from use sterile precautions.
Other biomedical methods include male circumcision and use of vaginal creams which afford a certain degree of protection without being fool proof.
Secondary prevention is consulting a doctor in the event of any suspicious lesion, ulcers, discharge and having it treated. The doctor would advise necessary tests as well if indicated and it is best to follow that advice, besides taking necessary treatment.
Women are usually more at risk of contracting infections at an earlier age and at risk of transmitting it to the unborn children, and hence need to be even more careful. Some of the diseases a mother can transmit include HIV, Hepatitis B, Herpes, Syphilis and chlamydia.
There should be no stigma attached to STDs – it is just a disease which needs treatment just as any other disease. Ignoring the symptoms or refusing to see the doctor would only result in aggravation of the problem and possibly long term unpleasant and unlucky sequelae.
The specific treatment and further measures to prevent STDs in women is beyond the purview of this article – it is meant to be a sensitizer to the reader about the myths that one may falsely believe and an attempt to set those myths in the right perspective.
While it is unacceptable that so many women and girls continue to suffer from often preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth, what is also unacceptable and much less recognised, is the burden of complications which women and girls face if they contract STDs which can have severe implications for well-being throughout life, jeopardising the sexual and reproductive health of women and girls.
Have a happy but safe and healthy sex life, folks!
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Yesterday I had a talk with a 12 year old.
He told me he'd been learning Arabic for 5 years, 5 days a week but couldn't put together even one sentence.
I was curious why. Was it so difficult?
Was the teacher so bad?
It was rather that the group consisted of 20 pupils and every year they did exactly the same, again.
Then he came up with a bright calculation. He said that due to the group-setting the intensity of these lesson was divided by 20. Therefore, he was not really taking 150 lessons per month but just 7.5!
He then added quickly that it's not just him but all of his classmates feel the same and that in order to really make a progress, one would need to take a private teacher.
Every school teaches students in groups, so-called classes.
These classes are mostly consisting of students from the same birth year, regardless of their individual characteristics.
There can be enormous gaps between individual students' learning and general growth process: Gaps, which the teacher is supposed to bridge while neither boring the bright ones nor leaving anyone behind.
Reducing class-size down to smaller numbers to many people sounds like a solution.
An expensive solution, obviously, for it would mean having to employ more teachers.
Nevertheless, changing the quantity alone won't have a direct effect on the class-quality.
The important part is putting students together in such a way that the talents and shortcomings on an individual level balance each other out in total.
Putting together a good class this way will take lots of time and analysis, it's like selecting members for a football-team, adding, exchanging and improving the set-up over time.
But if done right, it can minimize the gaps between learning styles and knowledge levels and make for an overall more productive learning experience. I've worked in a private tutoring institution which allowed me (in a limited range) to do this and I was always surprised how the whole group could change by adding/subtracting one person. It's not just the "bad apple" ruining the bunch. Also, the good one can help the whole excel!
Have you ever had a teacher that goes by the book?
Where each lesson is another page, another unit, another section, number after number after number…?
Educators are supposed to have a system. They are supposed to create lesson plans where each activity builds upon all the other ones, so that over time students will learn more and more instead of simply running in circles.
Fair enough…parents and politicians want to see guarantees and results.
1. There are general stages in learning. Let's take learning a language for example. You start with letters, go on to words, then sentences and then whole texts. Each one is built on and consists of the former.
The general idea is to take these stages and connect them. In geometry, the shortest distance between two points is a line. In theory it looks so nice, doesn't it?
All these squiggly lines are detours, questions, repetitions, jumping ahead, etc. And to be quite honest, not even this graph is really accurate, because many time a learner grasps parts of B before having grasped A completely and then while at the C stage needs to go back to A to make up for the gaps. I'm sparing you a visual representation of it: Lots of loops.
Add to this the fact from above that not all students in a class are a) at the same level and b) may have different learning styles it will be very difficult to move the whole class through stage after stage without losing them in one of these horrendous loops and twists.
If, on the other hand, we have one-on-one sessions or carefully selected small groups and look at teaching in a non-linear way, how can we make sure to get people from A to B to C?
The honest answer: There is no guarantee in learning.
Some people learn quickly. Others slowly.
No rationalization or efficiency model will iron out human irregularities.


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For too many expatriate Africans living in the West, the phrase Occupied Nigeria raises scary images of U.S. or NATO warships bearing down in AFRICOM-commando fashion, reestablishing Eurocentric hegemony over the worlds' fifth largest supplier of crude oil. Before these early days of 2012, we had barely heard news of the spreading Occupy hashtag on the continent that helped re-popularize mass nonviolent civilian resistance around the world last year. Now #Occupy Nigeria in just two short weeks has mobilized thousands in cities across the diverse West African country, along with support demonstrations (including some of those ex-pats) in London, Los Angeles, New Jersey, and elsewhere. The widespread strike by Nigerian oil workers continues to grow, as calls for an end to economic and political corruption gain momentum.
"Between the sphinx and the bank vault, there is a taut thread that pierces the heart of all poor children," cried Federico Garcia Lorca after visiting Wall Street in 1929. His vision sharpened by gathering storms of fascism, in his native Spain and across the European continent, compounded by new forms of corporate control in the US, and a broken heart over unrequited love, he poured his soul into the powerful "Poet in New York" poems. Visiting Wall Street, the sidewalks barely swept of fall leaves and the remains of leaping bodies — small‐time investors convinced that untold wealth shall be theirs only to see life‐savings vanish, and of the occasional banker who followed their lead ‐‐ his eyes pierced Capitalism's many veils.


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Customs seizes 13 exotic bullet-proof cars in Abuja
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has seized 13 exotic bullet-proof cars ostensibly smuggled into the country in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
Comptroller–General of Customs (CGC), Col. Hammed Ali (rtd.), said the cars have value of between N70 million to N240 million per unit.
Addressing newsmen at the NCS Headquarters where the exotic cars have been kept, Ali said the Customs had to seize the cars because beside the issue of non- payment of duty, their importation required clearance from the Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA), which the dealer was unable to produce at the time of filling this report.
He disclosed that the Customs' Compliance Team identified the cars on Saturday, September 16, 2017 based on intelligent information at a Car Dealer's Mart, Kefiano Motors Limited in the Central Business District, Abuja.
Besides the 13 exotic bullet–proof cars, five other models of executive high range vehicles were also identified at the Mart, which have no verifiable documents or evidence of duty payment, which strongly suggests there were smuggled into the country and displayed for sale at the mart.
His words: "Beyond the issue of non-payment of customs duty, 13 of these vehicles are bullet-proof. These vehicles require clearance from the Office of the NSA before importation.
"In a period of fragile security, we cannot afford to have unauthorised persons use armoured vehicles. Without the possession of End User Certificates (EUC), bringing in these vehicles is illegal''
Ali said the vehicles are: two Range Rovers; one Rolls Royce; four Lexus; three G Wagons; two Prados; one Lincoln Navigator and one Infinity.
The others are: One Mercedes 4matic; two Toyota Sequoia and one Toyota Camry.
He added that seizing the vehicles was in line with the Customs powers as specified in Section 147 of the Customs and Excise Management Act (CEMA) Cap 45, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004 (Laws to search Premises), as well as Section 158 of the CEMA cap 45, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria (Powers to patrol freely.)
Meanwhile, Ali pointed out that the Customs Service also stepped up its anti – smuggling implementation of the Federal Government's ban on importation of vehicles through land borders, leading to the seizures of some 265 smuggled vehicles across the country.
He gave the breakdown of the seizure as follows: Zone A, Lagos- 135 vehicles; Zone B, Kaduna- 93 vehicles and Zone C – Port Harcourt, 37 vehicles. Zone D, which is Bauchi, recorded no seizure of vehicles in the period under review.
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Q: SVG not appearing in screenshot I have followed the tutorial here: https://forge.autodesk.com/blog/create-pushpin-markup-svg
I have succesfully implemented svg images as part of my viewer, have them tied into redraw on viewer events, etc. But I then went to use the screenshot ability of the viewer. This resulted in getting a screenshot without the svg markup.
However markups such as lines that where drawn are working, as they are added to the overlay (overlayscenes).
Is there a way to add the svg images to the viewers overlay so that they can be exported into the screenshot or is there another way to achieve this?

A: One possible workaround would be to use the canvg library to draw the svgs to the shot after it's captured (by a screen-to-canvas rendering library such as html2canvas etc.):
html2canvas(viewer.canvas).then(canvas => {
    canvas.getContext('2d').drawSvg(SVG_XML_OR_PATH) //draw the markups here with the extension enabled by "canvg"
    canvas.toDataURL/toBlob ... //persist your capture

});

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The National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation (Survey) has been sponsored since 1955 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and is one of the oldest and most comprehensive continuing recreation surveys. The most recent Survey (2006) found that 87.5 million U.S. residents 16 years old and older participated in wildlife-related recreation and spent $122.3 billion on their activities.  During that year, 30.0 million people fished, 12.5 million hunted, and 71.1 million participated in at least one type of wildlife-watching activity such as observing, feeding, or photographing birds and other wildlife in the United States.

Data Collected

The Survey collects information on the number of anglers, hunters, and wildlife watchers; how often they participate; and how much they spend on their activities in the United States.  The most recent Survey focuses on 2006 participation and expenditures by persons 16 years of age and older.  The information is presented at both the national and state level.
In addition to 2006 estimates, the Survey also provides trend information that can be directly compared with results from the 1991, 1996, and 2001 Survey reports.  Due to methodological changes to improve accuracy, results from Surveys conducted earlier than 1991 should not be directly compared.

Fishing

Three types of fishing are reported: (1) freshwater, excluding Great Lakes, (2) Great Lakes, and (3) saltwater.  Anglers include not only licensed hook and line anglers, but also those who have no license and those who use special methods such as fishing with spears.  Results are given for total participants, days of participation, number of trips, and expenditures.

Hunting

Four types of hunting are reported: (1) big game, (2) small game, (3) migratory bird, and (4) other animals.  Hunters include not only licensed hunters using rifles and shotguns but also those who had no license and those who hunted with a bow and arrow, primitive firearm, or pistol or handgun. Results are given for total participants, days of participation, number of trips, and expenditures.

Wildlife Watching

Two types of wildlife watching are reported: (1) away-from-home (formally nonresidential) activities and (2) around-the-home (formally residential) activities.  The 2006 Survey uses a strict definition of wildlife watching.  Participants must either take a "special interest" in wildlife around their homes or take a trip for the "primary purpose" of wildlife watching.  Secondary wildlife watching, such as incidentally observing wildlife while pleasure driving, is not included.  Results are given for total participants, days of participation, number of trips, and expenditures.

Demographic Data

The Survey also collects demographic data for anglers, hunters and wildlife watchers.  This information is broken down into a select group of characteristics including density of residence, size of residence, geographic region, age, sex, ethnicity, race, income, and education.

Uses of the Survey

The Service provides reports, brochures, news releases, speeches, and interviews about current use and trend information with the Survey results.  Other Federal agencies, like land managing and water development agencies, use the data on participation rates, species sought, and types of resources used to formulate policies, programs, and plans related to recreational fish and wildlife uses. Federal regulatory, permitting, and environmental agencies rely on the economic data for estimating damages to fish and wildlife resources, and for determining the benefits and costs of projects affecting natural resources.  Data are used in evaluating alternative plans and their environmental impacts.
State fish and wildlife agencies, in conjunction with their fishery and wildlife sections, use the Survey data for program planning, development, management, and evaluation.
Other non-federal conservation organizations, researchers, and trade and manufacturing associations rely on the Survey data too. They also participate in identifying priorities for data collection and streamlining.

See also
 List of household surveys in the United States

External links
 US Fish And Wildlife Service - More detailed information about the Service
 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation -More detailed information about the survey

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Andy Carroll scored on his first start since November as West Ham defeated Swansea at Upton Park.
The striker, on loan from Liverpool, grabbed the winner late in the second half, leaping highest to head in from close range.
Swansea keeper Gerhard Tremmel made superb saves from Kevin Nolan, Ricardo Vaz Te and Carroll.
The visitors created very few chances, with Michu heading over from six yards in the second half.
The encounter was, at times, a slightly drab affair, interspersed with moments of brilliance, in particular from Tremmel, who kept his side in the game until Carroll got the better of him with 12 minutes to go.
In the first half, the German, who arrived from Red Bull Salzburg in 2011, twice denied Nolan from close range and the 34-year-old also showed strong hands to block long-range efforts from Mohamed Diame and Vaz Te, who cut in from the right a let fly from 20 yards.
After the interval, Tremmel had barely had time to settle into his area before he was tested again by Vaz Te - clinging on to the Portuguese winger's low effort.
Carroll was at the heart of most of West Ham's attacks during the match.
The 24-year-old, a substitute at Fulham in midweek, had set up both of Nolan's efforts and finally managed an effort of his own when he flashed a shot over from 15 yards.
He came even closer to scoring moments later, when the Swans' keeper produced an outstanding block with his feet to keep out an angled low shot.
But he was not to be denied a third time, leaping to head in Mark Noble's left-wing corner from six yards out.
It was relief for the Hammers, who would have felt hard done by had they not taken all three points from this match.
Swansea's best player was former Valencia winger Pablo Hernandez, who weaved his way into the area in the first half before seeing his shot blocked, and then delivered an inch-perfect ball for leading scorer Michu in the second, only for the Spaniard to head over.
The visitors came close to snatching a point at the last, but Jussi Jaaskelainen, largely redundant in the home goal, made a brilliant one-handed stop to deny Jonathan de Guzman.
"I was wondering what the lads had to do to score a goal. We had a lot of balls flashing across the goal and over the bar.
"Our defending has been our weaker point but we were very good. Swansea hardly created anything except in the last couple of minutes. It's a massive relief."
"It could have gone either way. They had two good chances in first half through Kevin Nolan. In the second half, they had couple of chances, but they weren't difficult to defend.
"Carroll scored a great goal and was difficult to mark. We had two or three chances at end of game and should have created more from the positions we were in.
"We could have, and should have, created a little more but didn't have that last pass. I'm not happy with losing, but we didn't do anything specifically wrong."


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A few weeks back I made a note in my log. I'd spotted a Zantac TV ad out of the corner of my eye: some cartoon fire fighter rushing to quell the "fire" of indigestion. The implication was simple: you can eat as much toxic garbage food as you like and just take Zantac, it will "protect" you. Ha!
Do NOT eat manufactured foods. You'll be fine. Sooner or later you are going to have to make this change, otherwise you will just grow old, get sick, and die young, and feel bad. Why not make the change right away? Then you can enjoy your remaining years in good health. You choose.
If you want to take indigestion seriously, get a copy of my book Diet Wise and figure out which are the right foods for YOU (forget the lame advice about spices, curries, fried food, red wine and all the usual garbage—any food can cause indigestion, if it's not right for your body).
LINK: https://www.dietwisebook.com/
That's not really what I'm writing about today.
Unless you live on the Planet Zod, you will have noticed a huge recall for generic Zantac (ranitidine, its real name). It's found to be contaminated with a probable carcinogen. Sandoz, the manufacturers have also issued a recall for their own branded drug. That's very big hearted of them—except when you remember that the patent has run out and they now have to compete with cheaper, generic alternatives! (call me cynical, Ha!)
As usual, the FDA is being very bossy and unhelpful, getting in everybody's way, when there's a job to be done.
Enter a web-based pharmacy, called Valisure. They perform their own tests on drugs they carry (that's good!) and initially alerted the FDA to the ranitidine contamination issues in June 2019. It then filed a Citizen Petition in September urging the FDA to pull all ranitidine from the market.
That set off the furore. But says Valisure, the Zantac that's being shelved across the country isn't necessarily "contaminated" with a foreign chemical. More likely, ranitidine itself converts into this carcinogen, which is called N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) or sometimes, dimethylnitrosamine (DMN)ma.
Nitrosamine, you may know, is a breakdown product of nitrates and nitrites used as a food preservative. Nitrites are used for processed meats and is the REAL reason "red meats" get a bad name. Red meats are GREAT for us, but studies ALWAYS lump processed filth (like "pink slime") into the testing and then declare against red meat. Duh! We do know that consuming processed meats is strongly linked to an increased risk of cancer in the digestive tract, and many people, me included, believe that the nitrates/nitrites are the reason for that.
Let's do what the cosmetics companies call the science bit!…
NDMA is a semi-volatile organic chemical, produced as by-product of several industrial processes and present at very low levels in certain foodstuffs, especially those cooked, smoked, or cured. It is toxic to the liver and other organs and is a probable human carcinogen. It is also used to create cancer in rats for cancer research.
NMDA is also used in the manufacture of a component of rocket fuel. It's a problem in treatment by chlorination or chloramination of organic nitrogen-containing wastewater, because NDMA is produced as a side effect.
Further, NDMA is found at low levels in numerous items of human consumption, including cured meat, fish, beer, tobacco smoke and as an impurity in pharmaceuticals.
So What's The Problem (Apart from Poisoning Us?)
"The fundamental problem is that [ranitidine is] an unstable molecule," David Light, CEO of Valisure, told MedPage. "The drug itself can directly degrade and form, with very high efficiency, NDMA."
The FDA had to step in to save businesses and jobs, by claiming (falsely) that Valisure's testing method is "not suitable for testing ranitidine because heating the sample generates NDMA."
How much of a lie is that? It's exactly the same method as the one the FDA uses to reveal NDMA in angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs)—it involves heating the compound to 130 °C, or about 266 °F!
FDA said a protocol that doesn't use elevated temperatures should be deployed instead, and this has revealed lower levels of NDMA in ranitidine—although the agency at least admitted that those levels are "unacceptable."
David Light argued that other studies using other conditions also showed NDMA as a ranitidine breakdown product, including exposure to chlorine (particularly in wastewater treatment plants) and ozone.
Even a hot car in transit could do it, Light said.
Some tests mimicking the stomach environment have shown that ranitidine yielded 300,000 ng of NDMA from a 150-mg tablet.
That's more than 3,000 times the level the FDA set when it had to decide how much NDMA could be tolerated in angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs).
William Mitch, PhD, of Stanford University, co-authored a 2016 paper that found an average of 48,000 nanograms of NDMA in 24-hour urinary excretion after participants took a 150-mg ranitidine dose, a 400-fold spike from baseline.
"We don't know if the ranitidine was converted to NDMA in the stomach or in the body (e.g., liver), because we only measured the urine," Mitch said in an email to MedPage. "But we suspect some conversion in the body since the levels we were seeing were higher than previous measurements of NDMA in human gastric juice after ranitidine consumption."
While FDA hasn't ordered a recall of ranitidine products, other countries — including Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, and Austria — have done so, and major U.S. retailers including CVS, Walmart, Walgreens, and Rite-Aid have pulled all ranitidine including branded Zantac from store shelves.
Sandoz and Apotex have voluntarily recalled their versions.
The FDA is wrong, damnably wrong. They are trying to force this as a contamination issue and it isn't. It's a biodegradation issue (metabolic conversion).
"Contamination is almost irrelevant compared with the fundamental instability of this drug," said David Light. I trust him but not FDA officers.
Valisure launched about a year ago, positioning itself as a pharmacy, a lab, and a wholesaler. Now licensed in 38 states and with a staff of 12 in Yale University's Science Park in New Haven, Connecticut, it analyzes some 2,000 compounds — mainly generics, and now some brands—to introduce a level of online drug quality control into the system that Light says didn't exist before.
With fears of contamination (fuelled by pharmaceutical companies to scare people off the cheaper competition), it's smart to analyze drugs at the point of consumption. I do NOT trust Chinese manufacturing. However, I have no issue with products from India.
Valisure, incidentally, was the first to detect the industrial solvent dimethylformamide (DMF) in the drug valsartan. DMF is also classified by the WHO as a probable carcinogen.
Given ranitidine's popularity, physicians are facing questions from patients about whether they should be tossing it from their medicine cabinets.
My advice to you is to toss it and clean up your diet. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO REASON FOR GERD, SO-CALLED, OR INDIGESTION, EXCEPT EATING THE WRONG FOODS FOR YOUR UNIQUE BODY.
Prof. Keith Scott-Mumby
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That link again, only if you ARE really serious: www.DietWiseBook.com
And if Valisure appeals to you (I have no financial connection with them) you might like to visit their website: www.valisure.com
NOTES: Medpage Today: by Kristina Fiore, Director of Enterprise & Investigative Reporting, MedPage Today, October 03, 2019
https://www.medpagetoday.com/gastroenterology/gerd/82550
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