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The Left Front is geared up to make its 12-hour West Bengal bandh, called to protest against the demonetisation of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes, tomorrow a success while the Trinamool Congress-led state government has vowed to foil it.
The state government has ordered all its employees to attend offices on November 28 and the following day.
Over 3,000 police personnel would be deployed in the metropolis tomorrow to tackle any untoward incident, Kolkata Police Additional Commissioner of Police (III) Supratim Sarkar said here today.
Besides, around 179 police pickets have been set up in different sections and important market places, Sarkar said adding that 11 deputy commissioners and 21 assistant commissioners would monitor the situation in the city tomorrow.
Police personnel would also be present at different metro stations, bus depots, tram terminus, ferry ghats as well as KMC-operated garages, fire sub-stations, Sarkar stated.
Additional security arrangements have been made in all 19 districts of the state to ensure normal life, a West Bengal Police officer said.
The state Finance department has issued a circular stating that all employees would be required to attend office on Monday and Tuesday and exceptions would be made only in case of bereavement, maternity leave, hospitalisation and other 'genuine reasons'.
"We oppose bandhs. We will take out a protest march (against demonetisation) on Monday," state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said.
The state government would take all measures to maintain law and order and normal functioning of public services, state Chief Secretary Basudeb Banerjee said.
Additional state transport buses and ferry services would be made available for the public to ensure normal life, Transport minister Suvendu Adhikari said.
The ruling Trinamool Congress has opposed the bandh, saying it was against putting people to more hardship when they are "already facing a lot of problems owing to the scarcity of cash".
On November 28, the TMC will take out a rally from College Square to Esplanade to protest against demonetisation, TMC general secretary Subrata Bakshi said.
Justifying the shutdown, Left Front chairman Biman Bose has said that the strike call was necessary to register protest against demonetisation which caused sufferings to the people.
State Congress chief Adhir Chowdhury said that his party would extend moral support to the strike called by the Left parties, with which it had allied during the last Assembly elections.
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Despite salted fish being a classical risk factor of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma (NPC), whether secular trends in salted fish consumption worldwide accounted for changes in NPC rates were unknown. The relationship between vegetable and cigarette consumption to NPC risk worldwide were also largely uncertain. We investigated the longitudinal trends in standardised NPC incidence/mortality rates across 8 regions and their associations with secular trends in salted fish, vegetable and tobacco consumptions.
Age standardised mortality rate (ASMR) and age standardised incidence rate (ASIR) of NPC were obtained from the WHO cancer mortality database and Hong Kong Cancer Registry. Per capita consumption of salted fish, tobacco and vegetables in Hong Kong and 7 countries (China, Finland, Japan, Portugal, Singapore, United Kingdom and United States) were obtained from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation (FAO) and Hong Kong Trade and Census Statistics. Pearson correlation and multivariate analysis were performed to examine both crude and adjusted associations.
There were markedly decreasing trends of NPC ASIR and ASMR in Hong Kong over the past three decades, which were correlated with corresponding secular changes in salted fish consumption per capita (Pearson r for 10 cumulative years : ASIR = 0.729 (male), 0.674 (female); ASMR = 0.943 (male), 0.622 (female), all p < 0.05 except for female ASMR). However such associations no longer correlated with adjustments for decreasing tobacco and increasing vegetable consumption per capita (Pearson r for 10 cumulative years: ASIR = 2.007 (male), 0.339 (female), ASMR = 0.289 (male), 1.992 (female), all p > 0.05). However, there were no clear or consistent patterns in relations between NPC ASIR and ASMR with salted fish consumption across 7 regions in 3 continents.
Our results do not support the notion that changes in salted fish consumption had played an important role in explaining secular trends of NPC rates in Hong Kong and worldwide. Further studies should explore other lifestyle and genetic factors. However, our findings do support the potentially protective effects of vegetable consumption against NPC.
The distribution of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) has a distinctive geographic variation. Being a rare malignancy worldwide, it has particularly high rates in Southern China . Residual risk remained high among migrants of Chinese descent  to non-endemic areas, with intergenerational decline , suggesting that the aetiology of NPC is a complex interplay between genetic influences and environmental exposures distinct in these populations.
Among known environmental exposures relevant to the aetiology of NPC; dietary consumption of salted fish is the most well recognised risk factor. First suggested by Ho and colleagues  to have a link with the high incidence of NPC in Southern China Guangdong Province in the early 1970s, subsequent studies quite consistently reported positive associations between salted fish consumption and risk of NPC in Chinese  and other ethnicities  such as Thai and Tunisian , and that early exposures during the weaning period in childhood may play a critical role [1, 8]. What makes salted fish an intriguing item to look at is that nitrosamine in Cantonese style salted fish is carcinogenic to humans and this food item is rated as a group 1 carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), whereas other salted fish are only classified as group 3 carcinogen . This can be explained by the different levels of nitrosamines in various types of salted fish, depending on the method of preservation . However, the low disease rates of NPC even in endemic regions render case-control studies to be the only feasible epidemiological method, of which limitations and deficiencies are well-recognised. The extent to which notorious effects of recall bias , lack of adjustment of caloric intake  and other confounders may affect the validity of the study findings remains unknown. Whether any publication bias may exist due to active reporting of salted fish consumptions as a classical risk factor of NPC is also uncertain. Although Cantonese-style salted fish has been classified by IARC as a group 1 carcinogen , the putative main biological active component N-nitrosodimethylamine, is only classified as a group 2A carcinogen . Such incoherence makes the aetiological role of salted fish especially worthwhile for more thorough re-exploration.
In the past 30 to 40 years, the incidence and mortality rates of NPC have dropped noticeably in several Asia regions particularly among some Chinese subpopulations [14, 15]. Given the wide range of the relative risk of high salted fish consumption ranging from 2.5–17.2 ,which translates into population attributable risk (PAR) of 39%–78%, adopting exposure prevalence of salted fish consumption in the population, it would be of interest to investigate whether the secular trend of NPC disease rates is explained by a corresponding change in salted fish consumption in relevant jurisdictions. To our best knowledge, reports of such studies were not available.
We, therefore, carried out this Hong Kong and multi-site ecological study to investigate the relationship between secular trends of salted fish consumption and standardised NPC incidence and mortality rates over 30 years. We also included an analysis in Hong Kong taking into account other key lifestyle related factors, including tobacco smoking  and vegetable  consumption, which were reported to be a risk and protective factor of NPC respectively.
In this ecological study, we focused on Hong Kong, an endemic area of NPC, and 7 countries in 3 continents including: China, Finland, Japan, Portugal, Singapore, United Kingdom and United States. Hong Kong was chosen due to its high prevalence of NPC, with the advantage of a comprehensive cancer statistics database and the availability of relevant risk/protective factor profiles. China was also selected for investigation, since there is a substantial variation in NPC risk of Chinese who lived in different parts of China. For example those who live in the Northern parts of China have a lower incidence rate than people who live in Southern China . Another area with a relatively high NPC mortality rate is Singapore, which attracted much attention in previous NPC case control studies [19, 20]. For low risk areas, Japan, Finland, Portugal, United Kingdom and United States were selected because of their rather complete cancer statistics.
NPC age-standardised mortality rates (ASMR) and age-standardised incidence rates (ASIR) were obtained from various sources. NPC age-standardised incidence and mortality rates in Hong Kong during 1978 to 2008 were derived from Hong Kong Cancer Registry with the world 1966 standard population as reference. NPC mortality statistics of other jurisdictions were collected from the WHO cancer mortality database [22–24], and age-standardised rates were also adjusted to the world standard population 1966. The code of cancer site followed the International Classification of Disease (ICD) coding system, with NPC coded as 147 (ICD-8, WHO 1967; ICD-9, WHO 1977) and C11 (ICD-10, WHO 1992).
Salted fish consumption in Hong Kong was estimated from import, export and re-export volumes of dried fish, and whether or not salted but not smoked provided by the Service Centre on Trade Statistics, Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong SAR Government. The database contains monthly and annual tallies of quantity, value and import by country of origin (of the product), import by country of consignment (origin of shipment), country of export, and country of re-export according to Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System of the World Customs Organization. Domestic consumption was calculated from the difference between exports, re-exports and imports. All these data were acquired from the archive database of Census and Statistics Department. Salted fish consumption per capita for each year was then estimated according to the formula: (imports − exports − re-exports) ÷ mid-year population in Hong Kong retrieved from Population Census and By-census, Demographic Statistics Section, Census and Statistics Department, 1978–2008 .
Worldwide salted fish consumptions were compiled by productions, imports, exports and re-exports on fish, dried, salted or smoked from Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics Database, FAO , United Nations. This database contains statistics on the annual production, imports, exports and re-exports of fishery commodities by country and commodities in terms of volume and value from 1976. For every country, per capita consumption was calculated from the difference between exports, re-exports, imports and production, i.e. [(import + production) – export– re-export] ÷ total population of the defined jurisdiction in each year. Total population is estimated from FAOSTAT Population module .
Per capita cigarette consumption in Hong Kong was estimated by Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health (COSH) via General Household Survey and Thematic Household Survey 2008 in reporting average daily cigarette consumption among smokers(sticks), number of smokers and percentage of smokers in Hong Kong from 1982–2008. Per capita consumption was calculated by: Daily average consumption × No. of daily smokers (aged 15 and over) ÷ Population (all age) × 365 days = Per capita consumption (stick/capita/year). Statistic on tobacco tax was also collected from COSH. Data on percentage increase in tobacco tax was plotted with per capita consumption of tobacco.
Per capita fresh vegetable consumption data in Hong Kong from 1991 to 2009 were obtained from the Department Annual Report by Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department HKSAR . All per capita calculations in Hong Kong were divided by mid-year population obtained from Population Census and By-census 1991–2009, Demographic Statistics Section, Census and Statistics Department .
NPC incidence and mortality rates were estimated from 1978–2008, as cases or deaths per 100,000 persons. The rates were age-standardised to the world 1966 standard population for all localities using 18 age groups (<1, 1–4, 5–9,…, 80–84, 85+). Age-standardised mortality/incidence and male/female ratio in age-standardised incidence and mortality rates were also calculated.
Non-linear regression of least square method was used for fitting any incomplete data point from 1978–2008. Pearson correlation analysis was used to examine the relations between cumulative consumption of salted fish, vegetable and tobacco in relation to ASIR and ASMR from 1991–2008 in Hong Kong. Multivariable linear regression analysis was performed to adjust for potential confounding effects of tobacco and vegetable consumption during the period of 1991–2008. Repeated analysis using various duration of cumulative salted fish intake prior to the NPC disease rate outcomes was performed to test the robustness of estimates based on differential assumptions in the latency period of cancer development subsequent to relevant exposures (range: 0, 5, 10 years). A p value smaller than 0.05 (two-sided) was considered statistically significant. All the data was analysed by SPSS Statistics 17.0.
As shown in Figure 1a and b, both ASIR and ASMR for males and females showed decreasing trends over the last 30 years, with males having consistently higher rates than females. By 2008, ASIR and ASMR for males had decreased by 66.1% and 61.7%, respectively, compared to the late 1970s. Similarly, ASIR and ASMR for females had also decreased by 73.7% and 70.9%, respectively.
Cancer statistics for NPC in Hong Kong from 1978 to 2008. (a) Age-standardized incidence rate; (b) Age-standardized mortality rate; (c) Age-standardized mortality/incidence ratio; (d) Male/Female ratio in age-standardized incidence and mortality rates.
The age standardised mortality/incidence ratio (Figure 1c) for both genders, albeit with notable fluctuations, followed an overall slowly declining trend over the past 30 years with estimates for males being consistently higher than females. The male/female ratios for ASIR and ASMR, as presented in Figure 1d, maintained a value of around 3 over the past 30 years with a slowly rising trend. The ASMR male/female ratio was higher than that for ASIR throughout the whole period.
The salted fish consumption based on the FAO and Hong Kong Trade Statistics is presented in Figure 2a-e. The import data (Figure 2a) from separate databases gave distinct trends. FAO statistics showed more markedly increased imports over 30 years, while Hong Kong Trade Statistics increased steadily from 1978 to 2008. Only FAO data was available for production of salted fish (Figure 2b) which decreased sharply from the 1980s to the mid-1990s such that by 1999 onwards it had declined to around zero. Apart from the disparities at the beginning of the curves, both sources produced similar trends in terms of export quantity (Figure 2c). Annual export was reduced from the peak of 374 and 559 ton in the 1980s for FAO and Hong Kong Trade Statistics, respectively, to 46 and 21 tons in late 2000s. Consistent with the higher estimates of salted fish imports from the FAO statistics than the Hong Kong Trade Statistics, the former also showed a corresponding significant increase in re-exports of salted fish from Hong Kong (Figure 2d). Based on these raw data and the formula defined a priori, per capita consumption was derived (Figure 2e). Despite notable differences in some of the raw parameter estimates, the overall salted fish consumption per capita derived from the FAO and the Hong Kong Trade Statistics was strongly correlated (Pearson correlation r = 0.780, p < 0.05) and showed a consistently progressive decline.
FAO commodity statistics of fish, dried, salted or smoked (solid line), and Hong Kong trade statistics on dried fish, whether or not salted but not smoked (dotted line), 1978–2008. (a) Import; (b) Production; (c) Export; (d) Re-export; (e) Per capita consumption. Production data are not available at Hong Kong trade statistics. Pearson correlation on per capita consumption estimated by FAO commodity statistics and Hong Kong trade statistics is 0.780 (p < 0.01).
Table 1 shows that Pearson correlation coefficient (r) was consistently strong between salted fish consumption per capita and both ASIR (Male: Range 0.700 to 0.729, all p < 0.05; Female: Range 0.668 to 0.704, all P < 0.05) and ASMR of NPC (Male: Range 0.627 to 0.943, all p < 0.05; Female: cumulative consumption of 5 years = 0.611, p < 0.05). Repeated analyses using the Hong Kong Trade Statistics data (Table 1b) yielded similar results compared to the FAO statistics (Table 1a). No clear relationship for the number of cumulative years and Pearson's r was observed.
* Significant at 0.05 level.
The cumulative salted fish consumption up to the specified time point was estimated by aggregating annual salted fish consumption per capita estimates in all years prior to that year up to 1991. (a) Cumulative salted fish consumption per capita was estimated from FAO commodity statistics on fish, dried, salted or smoked. (b) Cumulative salted fish consumption per capita was estimated from Hong Kong trade statistics on dried fish, whether or not salted but not smoked.
Figure 3 showed annual tobacco consumption had an overall decreasing trend over the past 3 decades, from 986 sticks per capita in 1982 to 497 sticks per capita in 2009 (about 50% decrease), attributable to successful and comprehensive tobacco control measures, including taxation which might account for the observed marked drop of tobacco consumption in 1983 and the early 1990s (respectively 300% in 1982 and 100% increase in 1991 in tobacco tax). Table 2 shows correlation between cumulative cigarette consumption per capita and both ASIR (Male: Range 0.646 to 0.694, all p < 0.05; Female: Range 0.685 to 0.735, all p < 0.05) and ASMR of NPC (Male: Range 0.598 to 0.941, all p < 0.05; Female: cumulative 5 years = 0.592, p < 0.05).
Per capita cigarette consumption (line + symbol) versus tobacco tax increase (column) in Hong Kong, 1982–2009.
With an overall increasing trend over the past 2 decades, the annual per capita consumption of vegetables increased from 85 kg per capita in 1991 to 94 kg per capita in 2009 (Figure 4). Pearson r increased with increasing number of cumulative years (Table 3). A negative correlation suggested vegetable consumption is a strong protective factor for NPC. Pearson correlation for ASIR ranged from −0.721 to −0.771 in males and −0.528 to −0.766 in females, whereas ASMR in males ranged from −0.657 to −0.940 and in females cumulative consumption of 5 years was −0.661. Pearson's r stayed similar as the cumulative years increased.
Fresh vegetable consumption trend in Hong Kong, 1991–2009.
Table 4 shows that in the multivariable model, associations between per capita consumption of salted fish and ASIR/ASMR of NPC were no longer statistically significant except ASIR in males at 5 cumulative year level (ASIR: β = 2.744, p < 0.05). Tobacco consumption showed significant associations with male ASIR at 5 (β = −2.694, p < 0.05) and 10 cumulative years (β = −3.142, p < 0.05). ASIR in males and females both showed significant association for vegetable consumption (ASIR in 5 cumulative years: β: −0.917 in males; −0.794 in females; cumulative 10 years: β: −1.793 in males; −2.408 in females; all p < 0.05). Repeated analysis using data from Hong Kong Trade Statistic for salted fish consumption gave similar results (data not shown).
Cumulative salted fish consumption per capita was estimated from FAO commodity statistics on fish, dried, salted or smoked.
Marked reduction in NPC ASMR for both genders was observed in Hong Kong (Figure 5a) over the past three decades, with a corresponding drop in salted fish consumption. However the link between salted fish consumption and NPC ASMR was not observed in other jurisdictions. In China (Figure 5b), salted fish consumption increased from the early 1990s up to 2000. Both ASMR for males and females stayed rather stable over the years, with a higher ASMR in males which fluctuated at around 2.5 per 100,000 person years while ASMR in females was around 1.1 per 100,000 person years. Figure 5c shows the ASMR trend in Finland from 1976 to 2008. Males had a slightly higher mortality rate than females and the ASMR range was narrow. Japan (Figure 5d) had stable ASMRs for both males and females over the past three decades. In Portugal, (Figure 5e) no clear trend was seen, although a slight drop in male NPC death rates was observed. ASMR in males in Singapore (Figure 5f) showed a large reduction through the whole period while the ASMR in females only dropped slightly. Consumption of salted fish had not changed much during this period. In the United Kingdom (Figure 5g), there was an overall 20% decrease in ASMR among males from early 1980s to late 2000s. In females the drop was smaller and salted fish intake did not change. The United States (Figure 5h) had a very similar trend to UK, but a significant trend was seen only for ASMR in males.
NPC Age-standardized mortality rates in males (solid line) and females (dotted line) versus salted fish consumption per capita (dash-dotted line) in multiple jurisdictions. (a) Hong Kong; (b) China (c) Finland; (d) Japan; (e) Portugal; (f) Singapore; (g) United Kingdom and (h) United States.
This is the first multi-jurisdiction ecological study that examined the associations between secular trends of NPC risk and salted fish consumption per capita. We also adjusted for the potentially confounding effects of two most important lifestyle factors, namely tobacco and vegetable consumption, using per capita estimates. We included 7 regions in 3 continents to include both endemic and low-risk areas, to analyse the pattern with a more global perspective.
We observed a decline in both ASIR and ASMR of NPC in Hong Kong over the past three decades. Higher NPC ASMR was observed in males than females in most of the jurisdictions included, consistent with previous studies [11, 30, 31], which may be due to a combination of differential risk factor exposures such as greater tobacco consumption in males and genetic factors. The rather consistent; more than 3-fold risk in males compared with females needs further investigation. Our results showed markedly decreasing trends in salted fish intake and tobacco consumption, but an increasing trend in vegetable consumption in Hong Kong over the past several decades. All of these environmental risk factors were individually highly correlated with ASMR and ASIR. The decrease in salted fish consumption may represent a change in dietary culture with westernisation of dietary patterns among Hong Kong citizens from a traditional Cantonese diet and from increased awareness of the carcinogenicity of salted fish. Decrease in intake of salted fish should lower the risk of an individual getting NPC if the relationship is causal .
There were no substantial changes in the proportion of Cantonese residing in Hong Kong, thus any changes noted should not be confounded by migration effect. Additional file 1: Tables S1-S3 show the population structure in Hong Kong from 1961–2006. Nevertheless, in the multivariable model, the relations between salted fish consumption and NPC ASIR and ASMR were attenuated and became mostly insignificant. In contrast, the negative association between vegetable consumption and NPC ASIR remained statistically significant after adjustment and was robust across varying estimates of cumulative exposure windows prior to NPC outcomes. Consistent with findings from previous case-control studies [18, 32], dietary intake of fruits and vegetables may have a protective effect against NPC due to its antioxidant contents, potentially interfering with the actions of nitrosamines . World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) panel suggested fruit and vegetable consumption have limited to suggestive levels of evidence for protection against NPC , which is consistent with the result found in this study. Although positive association was observed for cigarette consumption and NPC ASIR in males, previous literature suggested that for lung cancer, of which smoking is known as one of the major risk factor, the lag year for the disease from exposure to cancer onset was 25–30 years , it is expected that the lag for NPC should not be shorter if not similar to lung cancer. As our study is ecological, further analytical studies, such as case control studies with genetic, viral and other biomarkers are warranted to examine the link between salted fish and NPC in Hong Kong, taking into account smoking, vegetable consumption and other potential confounders.
Despite the parallel secular trends of salted fish consumption and NPC rates in Hong Kong, the same pattern was not observed in all other jurisdictions. For instance, in China, salted fish consumption increased over the years and there was no sign in apparent increase of ASMR in both males and females. Similarly, there are jurisdictions where NPC ASIR/ASMR had markedly decreased, but with no accompanying drop in salted fish consumption. Caution needs to be taken in interpretation, since the salted fish consumed in other countries might not be the Cantonese-styled salted fish, which is categorised as a group I carcinogen by IARC. The effect of salted fish on NPC development might only have a notable impact among Hong Kong Chinese but not in other populations, due to the higher underlying disease rates of NPC in Hong Kong, or could be due to genetic differences e.g. nitrosamine metabolism . Indeed, the vast majority of previous case-control studies on salted fish consumption and NPC were only conducted in Chinese [1, 4, 5, 37]. It remains uncertain whether the same carcinogenesis mechanism could apply to different Chinese sub-group or non-Chinese populations.
Our findings highlight the importance of examining the relations between key risk factor exposures and NPC on multiple jurisdictions rather than focusing on a single locality and a single exposure in an ecological study. Furthermore, since NPC includes a spectrum of squamous, and keratinising versus non-keratinising subtypes which are linked to differential risk factors, this may also be an important reason underlying the varying patterns of ecological associations found across different jurisdictions. Thus an ecological study investigates the links between risk and protective factors and different subtypes would be of interest, especially when the pathogenesis processes for various NPC subtypes appear to be distinct. Therefore it is important to first elucidate the secular trend of salted fish consumption and NPC incidence/mortality rates between multiple areas. The findings from this study have encouraged us to further examine the time trend of different NPC subtypes across regions, and so far our literature review has shown that a more thorough review and deeper understanding is needed of different NPC histological classification between China and the West, but such data are often scarce. Also, the differences between Chinese and WHO classifications need to be further examined and resolved. We believe this would warrant a separate paper for a detailed discussion.
There are several limitations in our study. First of all we could not be certain that the capture of NPC incidence and mortality was 100% complete and accurate in each jurisdiction, but most data were derived from cancer registries where completeness of data; especially that of mortality, is good with high accuracy. Variations of diagnostic criteria could exist but this effect is minimised by using International Classification of Disease (ICD 8–10) since NPC is a rare and uncommon cancer. Secondly, per capita consumption was calculated by taking the difference between export, import, production and re-export of salted fish. Consequently, there was a possibility of over or underestimating the actual amount of salted fish being consumed. Nevertheless, data obtained from Hong Kong Trade and Statistics and from the FAO were largely consistent. Even though we tried to obtain all the salted fish related data as precisely as possible, the data we used might include other dried fish products rather than just Cantonese style salted fish, details of which could not be obtained from other jurisdictions. Moreover, the uncertainty of latency period between the consumption patterns and ASIR/ASMR is well acknowledged, for that we included the sensitivity analysis by using year of cumulative consumption for regression and result were shown to be robust. Furthermore, vegetable consumption in Hong Kong was not available from Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department HKSAR prior to 1991, thus multivariable analysis was done only between 1991–2008 but not from 1978–2008.
Finally, the limitations of ecological studies due to the ecological fallacy are well recognised, and unknown, unmeasured or immeasurable confounding factors may be present. We tried to take account of important and known factors by accounting for tobacco consumption, vegetable consumption and migration effects, which is the first example of its kind in NPC epidemiological studies. In future studies, age-specific rather than age-standardised mortality and incidence rates could be more informative to investigate disease risk across different ages and in different populations. Because NPC is endemic mainly in Southern China, ecological analysis focusing on the endemic regions of China would yield more important information than a national study. Data specifically in Southern China on salted fish, vegetable and cigarette consumptions, together with NPC incidence and mortality rates (with subtypes) would be highly valuable if such data are available in the near future and more in depth analysis is warranted.
In this study, we found markedly decreasing trends of NPC ASIR and ASMR in Hong Kong over the past 3 decades, which was correlated with corresponding secular changes in salted fish consumption per capita. However, this association no longer held after adjustment for tobacco and vegetable consumption per capita. Our result showed vegetable had a protective role in NPC ASIR. There was no clear or consistent pattern in the relations between NPC ASIR and ASMR with salted fish consumption across 7 regions in 3 continents. Whether the pathogenic role of salted fish consumption is specific to NPC among Hong Kong Chinese requires further studies.
This study was supported by Hong Kong RGC Area of Excellence Scheme (Grant Number AoE/M-06/08), and by World Cancer Research Fund UK (WCRF UK) and Wereld Kanker Onderzoek Fonds (WCRF NL), as part of the WCRF International grant programme (grant 2011/460).
HYL and CML conducted data analysis. YHC and CML participated in data collection. YHC helped in sequence alignment. HYL drafted the manuscript. AWML, DLWK, MLL and THL helped to draft the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.


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Via The Telegraph, the European Commission (EU) on Monday unveiled a "single European transport area" aimed at enforcing "a profound shift in transport patterns for passengers" by 2050. The plan also envisions an end to cheap holiday flights from Britain to southern Europe with a target that over 50% of all journeys above 186 miles should be by rail.
The elitists working hard to strip you of your personal choice to determine your mode of transportation.
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It appears "creeping tyranny" for our cousins in the UK has accelerated.
Sad what has happened to that once great empire that I believe was the driving force behind our current civilization.
Nothing lasts forever, I guess.
bring on the diesel engines that run on vegetable oil… then we can tell the arabs and muslims to start eating oil and sand. eat sand and like it.


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Why are many post-civil war societies beset by widespread violence and political instability? Why do peace processes so often fail to consolidate peace? These questions are explored in a new book, Why Peace Processes Fail.
Jasmine-Kim Westendorf, Lecturer in International Relations at La Trobe University, asks why, despite the best of intentions and the investment of significant resources, the post-conflict reconstruction efforts of external actors so often fail. In some cases they may even help perpetuate the very conditions of insecurity and conflict they are trying to alleviate.
In the post-Cold War era, the concept of sovereignty no longer stands firmly in the way of international intervention in a state's internal conflicts. The increasing acceptance of normative regimes around human rights and Responsibility to Protect have led, in fact, to intervention being seen as almost the norm, if not in some cases an obligation.
However, even where all-out conflict is halted by a peace process engineered and supported by the international community, the outcome is rarely a durable peace or even stability and security. Many post-conflict states exist instead in a state of 'neither war nor peace'. Low-level violence and insecurity become entrenched in the nominally 'peaceful' post-war state.
Dr Westendorf argues that part of the problem lies in the systems and structures of the international system which bring highly technocratic approaches to peace building. They often replicate unsuitable template-based solutions that cannot properly respond to the complex, diverse and unique contexts of each conflict. She explores in detail the cases of Mozambique, Liberia, South Sudan, Cambodia, Aceh and Bougainville, and touches on the experience of post-conflict situations in the DRC, Cote d'Ivoire and Timor-Leste.
Her research continues into the varying outcomes of different styles of peace building and state building and the sources of ongoing insecurity and violence in Timor-Leste and Nepal.


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Vasjuganské bažiny (rusky Васюганские болота) jsou jedněmi z největších močálů na světě. Nacházejí se na území Západní Sibiře mezi řekami Ob a Irtyš, v oblasti Vasjuganské roviny. Leží převážně v Tomské oblasti, malá část se rozkládá také na území Novosibirské a Omské oblasti a Chantymansijského autonomního okruhu - Jugra. Od roku 2007 jsou Vasjuganské bažiny kandidátem pro zařazení na Seznam světového dědictví UNESCO.

Charakteristika

Vodstvo
Bažiny zaujímají plochu o rozloze 53 000 km². Délka od západu na východ je 573 km, od severu k jihu 320 km. Vasjuganské bažiny vznikly asi před 10 000 lety a od té doby se neustále rozšiřují, 75% aktuální plochy bylo zaplaveno nejméně před 500 lety. Bažiny jsou hlavním zdrojem pitné vody v regionu (zásoby vody se odhadují na 400 km³). Nachází se zde asi 800 tisíc malých jezer a mnoho řek pramení právě v Vasjuganských bažinách, jde zejména o řeky Ava, Bakčar, Velký Jugan, Vasjugan, Děmjanka, Iksa, Kargat, Kjonga, Ňurolka, Malý Tartas, Tartas, Malý Jugan, Om, Parabel, Parbig, Tara, Tuj, Uj, Čaja, Čertala, Čižapka, Čuzik, Šegarka nebo Šiš.

Nerostné zásoby
Bažiny obsahují obrovské zásoby rašeliny a působí proti skleníkovému efektu, tím že vážou uhlík. Prozkoumané zásoby rašeliny zahrnují více než 1 miliardu tun, průměrná hloubka úložiště je 2,4 m a maximální činí 10 m.

Flóra a fauna
Vasjuganské bažiny jsou domovem pro četné druhy místní fauny, z nichž některé patří k ohroženým druhům. V bažinách se vyskytuje sob polární, orel skalní, orel mořský, orlovec říční, ťuhýk šedý nebo sokol stěhovavý. Ve velkém množství zde žije veverka, los evropský, sobol asijský, tetřev, bělokur, jeřábek, tetřívek, menším množství také norek evropský, vydra říční nebo rosomák sibiřský.

Flóra zahrnuje také vzácné a ohrožené druhy rostlin a rostlinných společenstev. Z volně rostoucích rostlin jsou velmi rozšířená klikva, vlochyně bahenní a ostružiník moruška.

Lidská činnost
V současnosti je fauna a flóra ohrožena v souvislosti s průzkumy, které se týkají těžby ropy a zemního plynu. Kromě toho rakety vystřelované ze kosmodromu Bajkonur přinášejí na území zbytky nespáleného heptylu. Během léta jsou bažiny prakticky neprůjezdné i pro speciální techniku. Průzkumy na ropných polích jsou prováděny výhradně v zimním období.

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The spread of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza into Asia, Europe and Africa has resulted in enormous impacts on the poultry industry and presents an important threat to human health. Avian influenza has reached more than 50 countries, and millions of chickens have been either infected and/or culled to prevent the spread of the virus to other poultry farms. Estimated financial losses are in the tens of billions of dollars from its spread. In addition, 258 people have been infected and 153 human deaths have occurred, with most cases in Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, and China. The pathways by which the virus has and will spread between countries have been debated extensively, but have yet to be analyzed comprehensively and quantitatively.
Scientists at the Consortium for Conservation Medicine (CCM), the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and the Smithsonian Institution�s National Zoo integrated data on phylogenetic (evolutionary similarity) relationships of virus isolates, migratory bird movements, and trade in poultry and wild birds to determine the pathway for 52 individual introductions of H5N1 bird flu into countries and to predict future spread. Dr. Marm Kilpatrick, senior research scientist with the Consortium for Conservation Medicine, led the study which showed that poultry trade was responsible for nine introductions in Asia and two introductions to countries in Africa where the disease is still infecting humans and poultry. In comparison, migratory bird movements were likely responsible for 3 introductions in Asia, 20 in Europe, and 3 in Africa.
Their predictive model suggested that H5N1 avian influenza was more likely to be introduced to countries in the Western Hemisphere through infected poultry trade rather than from migrating birds from eastern Siberia, as previously thought. This was due to large quantities (greater than 2 million birds per year) of live poultry imported from countries in Europe that had had outbreaks of bird flu. These imports were primarily into Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the USA, Venezuela and Columbia. Quarantine procedures in the USA and Canada (30 days plus testing for bird flu) make introduction of bird flu into these countries through infected poultry less likely than into other countries that can�t afford the high costs of these practices.
If infected poultry were imported into Central or South America, this would devastate the poultry industry in these countries and may also result in the spill over of the virus into migratory birds which interact with the free range poultry in many countries. The subsequent movement of infected migrating birds from countries south of the U.S. would then be a likely pathway for H5N1 avian influenza to reach the USA. These results highlight the potential synergism between trade and wild animal movement in the emergence and pandemic spread of pathogens, demonstrating the value of predictive models for disease control.
This research offered a number of policy recommendations. First, all countries in the Americas should focus their attention on careful importation of poultry into their own countries, as well as towards developing regional quarantine procedures to protect poultry in the entire region from becoming infected with the virus. Second, the USA and Canada should conduct surveillance and plan for the possibility that the virus might be carried by birds migrating from the south rather than primarily through Alaska. Third, and more broadly, countries in the region should consider the benefits of more local trade agreements that would reduce the risk of importing bird flu and other pathogens from other regions of the world.


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U.S. Navy Approves Full-Rate Production For Sikorsky CH-53K Helicopter
Milestone assures more business to 200 suppliers nationwide
Stratford, Conn., Dec. 27, 2022 – The U.S. Navy declared full rate production of the Sikorsky CH-53K® helicopter, a decision that is expected to increase production to more than 20 helicopters annually in the coming years. Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company (NYSE: LMT), is procuring long-lead items and critical materials to support building full rate production CH-53K helicopters in its digital factory.
"Ramping up production of the most technologically advanced helicopter in the world allows the U.S. Marine Corps to build out its CH-53K King Stallion fleet and support mission success," said Bill Falk, director of the Sikorsky CH-53K program. "This production authorization stabilizes Sikorsky's domestic supply chain and is a testament to our enduring partnership with the Marine Corps."
Milestone Benefits More Than 200 CH-53K Suppliers Nationwide
This full-rate production decision instills confidence in the diverse network of more than 200 CH‑53K suppliers across 34 states. The Marine Corps' commitment to the CH-53K will allow suppliers to purchase in bulk, creating efficiencies and driving down overall costs for the U.S. military and international allies.
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The Marine Corps' approved acquisition objective is 200 aircraft.
The U.S. Marine Corps declared Initial Operational Capability (IOC) for the CH-53K helicopter in April 2022, validating the platform's operational readiness to forward deploy Marines and equipment across the globe.
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The CH‑53K is a multi-mission helicopter with heavy-lift capabilities that exceed all other U.S. Department of Defense rotary wing aircraft and is the only heavy-lift helicopter that will remain in production through 2032 and beyond. The CH-53K can carry a 27,000-pound external load over 110 nautical miles in high/hot conditions, which is more than triple the external load carrying capacity of the legacy CH-53E aircraft.
The CH-53K King Stallion is designed to conduct expeditionary assault transport of armored vehicles, equipment, and personnel to support distributed operations deep inland from a sea-based center of operations, critical in the Indo-Pacific region. The CH-53K is a digitally designed, market available aircraft, enabling a range of operations such as humanitarian relief, firefighting and search and rescue.
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Interview with our partner Baby Bunting CEO Matt Spencer
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We are grateful for the wonderful support we receive from our Corporate Partners. We have a lot of services we provide to families across Australia and projects we wish to complete. The assistance we receive from these generous organisations enables us to achieve these. Baby Bunting is passionate about supporting the foundation and its work.
We sat down with its CEO Matt Spencer and chatted to him about our partnership.
What inspires Baby Bunting to support Life's Little Treasures Foundation?
Baby Bunting's core purpose is to support new and expectant parents through the journey of parenthood. Life's Little Treasures is dedicated to providing support, friendship and information to families of premature or sick babies. Therefore there is a very natural fit for a partnership like ours. LLT provides an amazing service to parents going through a worrying time and Baby Bunting team members feel very passionate about being involved to help make a difference to all new parents, in particular assisting those who have a more difficult start.
Baby Bunting has partnered with Life's Little Treasures Foundation for almost 3 years now, over the course of the partnership is there anything you've seen or learnt that has surprised you?
Each year, I am still very surprised by the number of babies born premature or sick and needing specialist care. From a partnership perspective, I continue to be inspired by the amount of work and effort put in by the small dedicated team at LLTF and so naturally we are so pleased to partner with LLTF to assist with supporting the team and the foundation and in particular the fundraising through the walk for prems. I get really encouraged every year by the number of people participating in the walk and am touched by families and friends who have had premature or sick babies and who walk together as their own support group. It is an incredible feeling to part of this special event.
How has the partnership impacted employee morale?
The partnership really brings a sense of purpose to the Team. Our Team enthusiastically gets behind and supports the fundraising efforts for the Life's Little Treasures Foundation. We also have a number of Team Members who have had their own experiences with premature and sick babies and they willingly share their stories with others in the business. Each year that we have participated, there have been more Team Members participate in the walk. Our Team really get behind the fundraising and this year we raised over $40,000 through the sale of Walk for Prems Stickers to our customers, something we are all very proud of.
Baby Bunting is Australia's largest baby and nursery retailer. As CEO, what would be your top tip for parents expecting their first baby?
Embarking on parenthood is an exciting, wonderful and momentous thing. Having two children myself, my top tip would be; treasure every moment and make the most of being a new parent as your children grow up very quickly.
Baby Bunting has been the Presenting Partner of Walk for Prems for the previous two years but this isn't the only way it supports Life's Little Treasures Foundation. Can you tell us about how else Baby Bunting assists the charity?
Baby Bunting is also a major Corporate Partner of Life's Little Treasures Foundation. This partnership assists the foundation in funding its products and services including publication of its Special Care Nursery Booklet – a comprehensive, written guide for parents with a baby in a Special Care Nursery. This year, I am so proud of the efforts of our stores and customers who raised $43,200 by way of in store donations. These funds will go a long way to enabling LLTF to provide families with a premature or sick baby with the information and support they need. It will also help LLTF to expand its Peer to Peer Support Network and Precious Prem Pack program.
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JAMIE DEMENT: THE FARMHOUSE CHEF
Beyond the Book
©2017 by Jamie DeMent
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Jamie DeMent
was raised in Eastern North Carolina. As she saw family farms disappearing and industrialized farming taking over, she searched for ways to revive the simplicity of eating healthy, locally grown food. In 2001, after completing her degree in Southern History and African American Studies at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, she became a Legislative Aid for Representative Brad Miller on Capitol Hill, then was a Director of Special Projects for the NC Museum of Natural Sciences where she supported fundraising efforts for the Nature Research Center. DeMent left the Museum in 2007 to join her husband, Richard Holcomb, at Coon Rock Farm. The couple also own Piedmont Restaurant in Durham, North Carolina.
Jamie's days are spent writing about food and farming and planting, harvesting, cooking and selling products from her farm. Jamie's first cookbook, The Farmhouse Chef: Recipes and Stories from my Carolina Farm, came out in Fall 2017 from UNC Press. Jamie's second book, Canning in the Modern Kitchen came out in August 2018 from Rodale Books, a division of Penguin Random House. She is also a guest lecturer at UNC Chapel Hill, NC State University, Duke University, and teaches cooking classes around the country. Jamie was recently named one of North Carolina's "Outstanding Women in Business" for 2016 and was in the 2017 "40 Under 40" class by the Triangle Business Journal and has had featured articles and recipes in many local, regional and national publications. Jamie is also a regular contributor to cooking segments on the Hallmark Channel Home & Family show.


Well, it has been a while since I have posted. I have good intentions, but life has been busy. I had three shoots this past weekend, so keep coming back to see the updates. I also had a birthday this week. I have a couple of other pictures to post for that too ... just as soon as I get around to it!


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300 win units for the Unit
Randy Johnson goes tonight for win No. 300. He's been wobbling to the finish line — which isn't uncommon at that rarified air.
Early Wynn staggered to 300 — his last three seasons went 8-2, 7-15, 1-2, with a peak of 167-plus innings pitched.
Lefty Grove just got there — 7-6 in 1940, 7-7 in 1941.
Tom Glavine has 305 wins and, officially, counting. But he has yet to appear in a game this season, and who know how much he has left in the tank. He won No. 300 on Aug. 4, 2007, at which point his ERA for the season was 4.31. It wasn't a horrid year, but he started falling apart late in the season, and he hasn't gotten it back together yet.
Then there are the guys who tried to hang in there long enough to hit the milestone and couldn't quite do it: Bert Blyleven, Robin Roberts, Tommy John, Jim Kaat, Ferguson Jenkins ... 300 wins is a big number.
Every time somebody gets to 300, there's a rush of columnists opining that this guy will be the last to get there. It was said about Roger Clemens, then about Greg Maddux, then about Glavine. It's being written about Johnson too, only not quite so emphatically — I suppose some of them remember writing it about the others.
It is true, however, that there's nobody particularly close right now. Mike Mussina decided to quit at 270 — had his first 20-win season in 2008 and walked away last winter. Curt Schilling, as great as he was, surrendered this spring to the ravages of age at "just" 216 wins. Jamie Moyer just collected no. 250; his chances of getting even 50 more starts, much less 50 more wins, are slim indeed.
For what it's worth, the Bill James Handbook this spring gave Johan Santana a 24 percent chance of getting to 300. He has, at this writing, 116 wins. Just 184 wins to go, Yo-Yo.
It might be Santana, it might be CC Sabathia (18 percent chance), it might even be Moyer (25 percent chance, according to James; I was skeptical of that number when I first saw it, even more skeptical now that Moyer's 4-5 with a 6.75 ERA this year.). Or even 20-year-old Rick Porcello, with all of six wins so far. But somebody pitching right now is going to win 300.
Besides Johnson.
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Data from a Nasa orbiter, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), suggests that cold, dark spots near the Moon's south pole could be home to frost.
The clues were spotted in cold traps: permanently dark and cold areas, such as those hidden on the floor of a deep crater. Under these conditions, water could remain as ice for potentially billions of years.
For more than half a century, scientists have suggested that ice could exist in cold traps on the moon, but it has proved challenging to observe these hidden spots. In the 1990s, Nasa's Lunar Prospector orbiter identified hydrogen-rich areas near the Moon's poles, but could not confirm the presence of water.
"What has always been intriguing about the Moon is that we expect to find ice wherever the temperatures are cold enough for ice, but that's not quite what we see," said Dr Matt Siegler, an author of the study and researcher at the Planetary Science Institute in Dallas, Texas.
The scientists found evidence of lunar frost by comparing temperature measurements from LRO with brightness measurements from its laser altimeter. Analysing data collected by LRO, they identified bright areas in craters near the Moon's south pole that were cold enough to feasibly contain ice.
"We found that the coldest places near the Moon's south pole are also the brightest places – brighter than we would expect from soil alone – and that might indicate the presence of surface frost," said Elizabeth Fisher of Brown University, lead author of the study.
The icy deposits appear patchy, thin, and possibly mixed with soil, dust and small rocks from the surface: regolith. This is consistent with surface frost, rather than expanses of ice such as a frozen lake.
The researchers' conclusions are consistent with the 2015 findings of another team, which used LRO data and a different methodology to search for signs of frost.
While the new study adds to the mounting body of evidence that there could be frost in cold traps near the Moon's south pole, there are no clues so far that there could be frost near the Moon's north pole as well. As scientists continue to search lunar orbiter data for further clues, they may also begin to ask questions about how old the ice may be and how it first came to be.


Ciara: 'Thinkin Bout You' Stream, Lyrics, & Download – Listen Now!
Ciara's new single is out now!
The 33-year-old singer just dropped her new song "Thinkin Bout You" – the latest single off of her upcoming album.
Ciara's upcoming seventh studio album Beauty Mark will be dropping on May 10th.
Earlier this month, Ciara performed songs off of the album while hosting the first-ever Sound by SoulCycle event.
You can pre-order Ciara's upcoming album off of iTunes here – and stream it below!
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Pardaillan est une commune du Sud-Ouest de la France, située dans le département de Lot-et-Garonne, en région Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

Géographie

Localisation
Commune située en Guyenne dans le vignoble des Côtes de Duras.

Communes limitrophes

Climat
Le climat qui caractérise la commune est qualifié, en 2010, de « climat océanique altéré », selon la typologie des climats de la France qui compte alors huit grands types de climats en métropole. En 2020, la commune ressort du même type de climat dans la classification établie par Météo-France, qui ne compte désormais, en première approche, que cinq grands types de climats en métropole. Il s'agit d'une zone de transition entre le climat océanique et les climats de montagne et le climat semi-continental. Les écarts de température entre hiver et été augmentent avec l'éloignement de la mer. La pluviométrie est plus faible qu'en bord de mer, sauf aux abords des reliefs.

Les paramètres climatiques qui ont permis d'établir la typologie de 2010 comportent six variables pour les températures et huit pour les précipitations, dont les valeurs correspondent à la normale 1971-2000. Les sept principales variables caractérisant la commune sont présentées dans l'encadré ci-après.

Avec le changement climatique, ces variables ont évolué. Une étude réalisée en 2014 par la Direction générale de l'Énergie et du Climat complétée par des études régionales prévoit en effet que la  température moyenne devrait croître et la pluviométrie moyenne baisser, avec toutefois de fortes variations régionales. Ces changements peuvent être constatés sur la station météorologique de Météo-France la plus proche, « Duras », sur la commune de Duras, mise en service en 1962 et qui se trouve à  à vol d'oiseau, où la température moyenne annuelle est de  et la hauteur de précipitations de  pour la période 1981-2010.
Sur la station météorologique historique la plus proche, « Agen-La Garenne », sur la commune d'Estillac, mise en service en 1941 et à , la température moyenne annuelle évolue de  pour la période 1971-2000, à  pour 1981-2010, puis à  pour 1991-2020.

Urbanisme

Typologie
Pardaillan est une commune rurale, car elle fait partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.
La commune est en outre hors attraction des villes.

Occupation des sols

L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des territoires agricoles (82,1 % en 2018), une proportion identique à celle de 1990 (82,2 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
terres arables (64 %), forêts (17,8 %), zones agricoles hétérogènes (15 %), cultures permanentes (3,1 %).

L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Risques majeurs
Le territoire de la commune de Pardaillan est vulnérable à différents aléas naturels : météorologiques (tempête, orage, neige, grand froid, canicule ou sécheresse), inondations, mouvements de terrains et séisme (sismicité très faible). Un site publié par le BRGM permet d'évaluer simplement et rapidement les risques d'un bien localisé soit par son adresse soit par le numéro de sa parcelle.

Certaines parties du territoire communal sont susceptibles d'être affectées par le risque d'inondation par une crue à  débordement lent de cours d'eau, notamment le Dropt et le Ruisseau de Malromé. La commune a été reconnue en état de catastrophe naturelle au titre des dommages causés par les inondations et coulées de boue survenues en 1982, 1983, 1999, 2009 et 2018.

Les mouvements de terrains susceptibles de se produire sur la commune sont des affaissements et effondrements liés aux cavités souterraines (hors mines) et des tassements différentiels. Afin de mieux appréhender le risque d'affaissement de terrain, un inventaire national permet de localiser les éventuelles cavités souterraines sur la commune.

Le retrait-gonflement des sols argileux est susceptible d'engendrer des dommages importants aux bâtiments en cas d'alternance de périodes de sécheresse et de pluie. La totalité de la commune est en aléa moyen ou fort (91,8 % au niveau départemental et 48,5 % au niveau national). Depuis le , en application de la loi ELAN, différentes contraintes s'imposent aux vendeurs, maîtres d'ouvrages ou constructeurs de biens situés dans une zone classée en aléa moyen ou fort.

Concernant les mouvements de terrains, la commune a été reconnue en état de catastrophe naturelle au titre des dommages causés par la sécheresse en 1989, 2011 et 2017 et par des mouvements de terrain en 1999.

Toponymie

Le nom de la commune provient du nom du château qui a donc donné le nom à la commune
Le nom de Pardaillan proviendrait d'un anthroponyme latin, Pardalius ou Pardelius, formé probablement sur les substantifs latins pardus qui désigne un léopard ou pardalis qui désigne une panthère.

En occitan, le nom de la commune s'écrit Pardalhan et se prononce à l'identique.

Histoire

Politique et administration

Démographie
Les habitants sont appelés les Pardaillannais.

Lieux et monuments
 L'église Notre-Dame, chapelle d'un ancien couvent bénédictin aujourd'hui disparu, a été construite au  en style gothique ; d'aspect extérieur assez massif et sans motifs architecturaux, elle présente un intérieur de style gothique flamboyant.
Contre le mur de l'emban de l'église, est accolé le monument aux morts communal commémoratif de la Première Guerre mondiale dont la forme est une carte de France.
 L'église Saint-Front, située dans le lieu-dit qui en tire son nom, dans le nord-ouest du territoire communal, est une petite église romane, anciennement église paroissiale et devenue annexe de Notre-Dame, constituée d'une simple nef sans transept ni bas-côtés et surmontée d'un clocher-mur à trois baies.
 Le château de Pardaillan était une forteresse médiévale du  dont il ne reste aujourd'hui qu'une tour ruinée.
 Moulin de Fourquet reconverti en pigeonnier.

Personnalités liées à la commune
 Marguerite Duras (1914-1996)' écrivain' y séjourna pendant deux ans, entre ses 8 et 10 ans' dans la maison de son père (au Plantier)' après l'enterrement de ce dernier, en 1921, et avant son retour en Indochine, en 1924.

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Liste des communes de Lot-et-Garonne

Liens externes

 Pardaillan sur le site de l'Institut géographique national

Notes et références

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