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British Open 2012: Tiger Woods told stop whingeing about the rough and get on with it

July 17, 2012

FORMER British Open winner Tony Jacklin has a simple message for all those players losing their balls – and their heads – in the thick Lytham rough: stop whingeing.

No matter how unplayable it is, someone is going to win,” said Jacklin, who won the 1969 Open here. “It’s just getting your head around it and getting on with it. Whingeing won’t get it done.”

On Sunday, Tiger Woods claimed that sections of the rough were “almost unplayable” and although the former world No 1 was merely expressing his viewpoint, it was inevitably considered in some quarters to be a lament.

Jacklin was clearly one of these.

“You really don’t get the guys in with a shot complaining about the golf course,” said Jacklin, the last Englishman to win an Open Championship on home soil. “It’s controlling the golf ball that wins you majors. If you don’t drive well here you’ve got no chance.”

More: http://www.independent.ie/sport/golf/british-open-2012-tiger-woods-told-stop-whingeing-about-the-rough-and-get-on-with-it-3171565.html

Too much heat!

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Eyewitness accounts of the 1510 influenza pandemic in Europe

“On this day [July 13, 1510]…in Modena there appeared an illness that lasts three days with a great fever, and headache and then they rise…but there remains a terrible cough that lasts maybe eight days, and then little by little they recover and do not perish.”

So wrote Tommasino de' Bianchi in a rare first-hand account of perhaps the first recognised pandemic of the disease we now call influenza. As we wonder about new epidemics today, the accounts by de' Bianchi and six other men who documented the 1510 pandemic (panel) offer insights into how this disease was understood at the time. These chroniclers of events in 1510 wrote about what they thought this disease was, where it came from, who was susceptible to it, what its complications were, how fatal it was, and how it could be treated. Their accounts illuminate our understanding of the history of influenza in 16th-century Europe.

In 1510, there was little appreciation that a specific respiratory disease might have been recurring over centuries, but historians now believe that influenza had probably been circulating as an epidemic disease since as early as the 9th century AD, if not earlier. The respiratory disease known as febris Italica (Italian fever) followed Charlemagne's army around Europe in 876—77 AD. Later, similar European-wide epidemics appeared between 1173 and 1387, two of them even called “influenza”, a popular Italian term that did not, however, become permanently attached to a respiratory disease until centuries later. A disease referred to as “sweate” (English sweat, Sudor Anglicus) was repeatedly epidemic between 1485 and 1551, but was considered by the physician Jean Fernel and others to be distinct from influenza. Only in the 19th century was sweate plausibly attributed to influenza by the sifting of centuries-old evidence. Had observers recognised these major European epidemics as one distinctive disease they might have also recognised, in 1510, the return of an explosive respiratory epidemic, known as horion or le taq, that had struck 100 years earlier in 1410 with accounts of violent coughing and miscarriages among pregnant women.

While contagion had been understood and linked to a short list of diseases over the preceding 300 years, the notion of infection was almost non-existent in 1510. Humoralist ideas from the Greco-Roman era often influenced treatment decisions, leading to attempts to remove the humors believed to be causing disease. In 1546, Girolamo Fracastoro would propose that some epidemic diseases were caused by, and transmitted to others by, what he called living seminaria, but this idea was at best only percolating in 1510. Unable to identify microbial agents or understand aetiopathological entities, observers like de' Bianchi probably did not suspect that periodic epidemic fevers with cough might represent a single continually re-emerging disease.

More: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(10)62204-0/fulltext

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And now your ridiculous jury result for the day:

New anti-drug strategy behind Honduran deaths

By Mariano Castillo
CNN
July 11, 2012

A spate of deadly shootings during anti-drug operations in Honduras -- including two in which U.S. agents killed suspects -- is linked to an aggressive new strategy to disrupt a preferred corridor for traffickers.

Operation Anvil, as the multinational mission is known, differs from past efforts because of its reliance on military outposts close to the front lines to provide quick responses. It is a strategy reminiscent of counterinsurgency tactics used by the U.S. military on battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In a two-month span, six people have been killed in the operation, including possibly four innocent civilians.

Despite the controversial shootings, American and Honduran officials say they both are happy with their collaboration and consider Operation Anvil -- launched in April -- a success.

More: http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/11/world/americas/honduras-operation-anvil/index.html?c=world