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Celebrities / Re: Bbnaija's Erica Gets A New Range Rover by octus2008(m): 2:36pm On Nov 08, 2021
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Business / Re: Panic As Bitcoin Crashes, Swallows Millions Of Pounds In Cryptocurrency Markets by octus2008(m): 11:10am On Oct 28, 2021
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Politics / Re: Lagos RRS Arrests Notorious Serial Phone Thief by octus2008(m): 10:44am On Sep 01, 2021
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Phones / Re: Nigerians Outside Nigeria, What's The Cost Of Data In Your Resident Country? by octus2008(m): 11:28am On May 05, 2021
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Politics / Re: Nigeria To Disconnect Niger, Benin Over ₦2.60 Billion Electricity Debt by octus2008(m): 5:33pm On Mar 01, 2021
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Business / Re: Elon Musk Is Now The Richest Person In The World by octus2008(m): 7:38pm On Jan 07, 2021
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Nairaland / General / How A Janitor At Frito-lay Invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos by octus2008(m): 6:13pm On Dec 23, 2020
On an early morning in the late 1980s, a group of the highest-powered executives at Frito-Lay — the CEO, CMO, and a platoon of VPs — gathered in a California conference room to hear what Richard Montañez had to say.

Montañez didn’t share their pedigree. He wasn’t an executive. He had no fancy degree. He had a 4th-grade-level education, and couldn’t read or write.

Montañez was a janitor. But he was a janitor with an idea — an idea that would make the company billions of dollars and become one of history’s most celebrated and iconic snack foods: Flamin’ Hot Cheetos.

But first, he had to convince the world to hear him out.

Picking grapes
Montañez grew up in the 1960s in Guasti, California, a tiny unincorporated farming town 40 miles east of Los Angeles.

Under the sweltering Cucamonga Valley sun, his family — mother, father, grandfather, and 11 children — scraped together a meager living picking grapes, and slept together in a one-room cinderblock abode at the labor camp.

As a first-generation Mexican immigrant at an all-white school, Montañez had access to few resources and struggled to understand his teachers. “I remember my mom getting me ready for school and I was crying,” he later told Lowrider magazine. “I couldn’t speak English.”

One day in class, the teacher went around the room asking each kid to name his or her dream job: Doctor… astronaut… veterinarian. When she called on Montañez, he froze.

“I realized I didn’t have a dream,” he says. “There was no dream where I came from.”


The Cucamonga Valley region, in San Bernardino County, California, where Richard Montañez grew up (Image: Paul Hofer III)
Montañez soon stopped getting on the school bus and began boarding the work truck with his father and grandfather.

After dropping out of school, he worked the fields in 110°F heat and took on odd jobs slaughtering chickens at a poultry factory, washing cars, and picking weeds. With a 4th-grade-level education and few economic opportunities, Montañez saw no path out of poverty.

Then, in 1976, a neighbor told him about a job opening that would change his life.

“There’s no such thing as ‘just a janitor’”
Down the road, in Rancho Cucamonga, the Frito-Lay plant was looking for a janitor.

At $4 per hour ($18 in 2019 dollars), the job paid many multiples of what Montañez made in the fields. It represented a better life — insurance, benefits, social mobility.

Unable to read or write, the 18-year-old recruited his wife to help fill out an application. He journeyed down a dusty road, met with the hiring manager, and got the job.

When he broke the news to his family, his grandfather imparted a piece of advice that would always stick with him: “Make sure that floor shines,” the man told his grandson. “And let them know that a Montañez mopped it.”

Montañez decided he was going to be the “best janitor Frito-Lay had ever seen” — and he quickly made his presence known.

“Every time someone walked into a room, it would smell fresh,” he says. “I realized there’s no such thing as ‘just a janitor’ when you believe you’re going to be the best.”


The Frito-Lay plant in Bakersfield, California (via CLUI)
Montañez also developed the philosophy that “it’s not about who you know — it’s about who knows you.”

In between shifts, he set out to make himself seen, learning as much as he could about the company’s products, spending time in the warehouse, and watching the machines churn out crunchy snacks in the lonely midnight hours.

And eventually, his insatiable curiosity would pay off.

“I saw no products catering to Latinos”
By the mid-1980s, Frito-Lay had fallen on tough times. As a way to boost morale, then-CEO Roger Enrico recorded a video message and disseminated it to the company’s 300k employees.

In the video, Enrico encouraged every worker at the company to “act like an owner.” Most employees brushed it off as a management cliché; Montañez took it to heart.

“Here’s my invitation… here’s the CEO telling me, the janitor, that I can act like an owner,” he later recalled. “I didn’t know what I was going to do. Didn’t need to. But I knew I was going to act like an owner.”

After nearly a decade mopping floors, Montañez gathered the courage to ask one of the Frito-Lay salesmen if he could tag along and learn more about the process.

They went to a convenience store in a Latino neighborhood — and while the salesman restocked inventory, Montañez made a fortuitous observation: “I saw our products on the shelves and they were all plain: Lay’s, Fritos, Ruffles,” he recalls. “And right next to these chips happened to be a shelf of Mexican spices.”

In that moment, he realized that Frito-Lay had “nothing spicy or hot.”

A few weeks later, Montañez stopped at a local vendor to get some elote, a Mexican “street corn” doused in chili powder, salt, cotija, lime juice, and crema fresca. Cob in hand, a “revelation” struck: What if I put chili on a Cheeto?
Introduced to the world in 1948, Cheetos — crunchy corn-based nuggets coated in cheese-flavored powder — were a flagship product of Frito-Lay. And while they were popular among California’s growing base of Latino consumers, the company had yet to consider re-tailoring the product’s taste profile.

“Nobody had given any thought to the Latino market,” recalls Montañez. “But everywhere I looked, I saw it ready to explode.”

So, Montañez heeded the CEO’s words and “acted like an owner.”

Working late one night at the production facility, he scooped up some Cheetos that hadn’t yet been dusted in cheese. He took them home and, with the help of his wife, covered them in his own concoction of chili powder and other “secret” spices.

When he handed them out to family members and friends, the snacks were met with universal enthusiasm. He just needed a bigger audience…

So he called the CEO
“I was naive,” Montañez later said. “I didn’t know you weren’t supposed to call the CEO… I didn’t know the rules.”

Finding Roger Enrico’s phone number was easy enough: It was listed in a company directory. He rang the line, and was put through to the chief’s executive assistant.

“Mr. Enrico’s office. Who is this?”

“Richard Montañez.”

“What division are you with?”

“California.”

“You’re the VP overseeing California?”

“No, I work at the Rancho Cucamonga plant.”

“Oh, so you’re the VP of operations?”

“No, I work inside the plant.”

“You’re the plant manager?”

“No. I’m the janitor.”

The assistant paused for what seemed like an eternity. “One moment.”
Then, a voice on the other line: “Hello, this is Roger.”

Montañez told the CEO he’d heeded the call to action. He’d studied the company’s products, identified a demand in the market, and even crafted his own rudimentary snacks in his kitchen.

Enrico loved the ingenuity: He told the janitor he’d be at the plant in 2 weeks and asked him to prepare a presentation.

Moments after Montañez hung up the phone, the plant manager stormed up to him. “He said, ‘Who do you think you are? Who let the janitor call the CEO?’” recalls Montañez. “Then he said, ‘YOU’RE doing this presentation!’”

The birth of the Hot Cheeto
Montañez was 26 years old. In his words, he couldn’t read or write very well and had no knowledge about how to formulate a business proposal.

But he wasn’t about to give up.

Accompanied by his wife, he went to the library, found a book on marketing strategies, and copied the first 5 paragraphs word for word onto transparencies. At home, he filled 100 plastic baggies with his homemade treats, sealed them with a clothing iron, and manually drew a logo and design on each package.

On the day of the presentation, he bought a $3 tie — black with blue and red stripes — and had his neighbor knot it for him. As he gathered the bags, his wife stopped him near the door: “Don’t forget who you are.”
Montañez stepped into the boardroom. “Here I was,” he says, “a janitor presenting to some of the most highly qualified executives in America.”

At one point during the presentation, an executive in the room interjected: “How much market share do you think you can get?”

“It hit me that I had no idea what he was talking about, or what I was doing,” Montañez recalled. “I was shaking, and I damn near wanted to pass out…[but] I opened my arms and I said, ‘This much market share!’ I didn’t even know how ridiculous that looked.”

The room went silent as the CEO stood up and smiled. “Ladies and gentlemen, do you realize we have an opportunity to go after this much market share?” he said, stretching out his arms.

He turned to Montañez. “Put that mop away, you’re coming with us.”

Feeling hot, hot, hot
Six months later, with Montañez’s help, Frito-Lay began testing Flamin’ Hot Cheetos in small Latino markets in East Los Angeles.

If it performed well, the company would move forward with the product; if it didn’t, they’d scratch it — and Montañez would likely return to janitorial duties. This was his one shot, and some folks didn’t want things to work out for him.

“It seemed there was a group of [executives] who wanted it to fail,” he later told the podcast, The Passionate Few. “They thought I got lucky. They were paid big bucks to come up with these ideas… they didn’t want some janitor to do it.”
So Montañez assembled a small team of family members and friends, went to the test markets, and bought every bag of Hot Cheetos he could find.

“I’d tell the owner, ‘Man, these are great,’” he recalled. “Next week, I’d come back and there’d be a whole rack.”

In 1992, Flamin’ Hot Cheetos were greenlit for a national release. And in short order, the snack became one of the most successful product launches in Frito-Lay history.

From janitor to VP
Today, Flamin’ Hot Cheetos are one of Frito-Lay’s hottest-selling commodities — a multi-billion-dollar snack celebrated by everyone from Katy Perry to middle-schoolers on meal vouchers. There’s even a rap song about them.

And Montañez is no longer sweeping floors: Over a 35-year career, the former janitor rose through the corporate ranks and is now the vice president of multicultural sales for PepsiCo America (the holding company of Frito-Lay).

Before Montañez joined the executive team, Frito-Lay had only 3 Cheeto products; since then, the company has launched more than 20, each worth $300m+.

Recognized by Newsweek and Fortune as one of the most influential Hispanic leaders in America, Montañez is a gifted speaker who often tours the country giving keynotes. And soon, his story will hit the silver screen: Fox Searchlight Pictures is currently working on a biopic about his life, appropriately titled “Flamin’ Hot.”

He still lives in Rancho Cucamonga, where he gives back to his community through a nonprofit he launched and teaches MBA classes at a nearby college.

Recently, a student asked him how he was teaching without a Ph.D.

“I do have a Ph.D.,” he responded. “I’ve been poor, hungry and determined.”
https://thehustle.co/hot-cheetos-inventor/
Crime / Re: Court Orders Final Forfeiture Of Invictus Obi Okeke’s N235 Million by octus2008(m): 1:21pm On Dec 03, 2020
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Politics / Re: Biden Appoints Adewale Wally Adeyemo As US Deputy Treasury Secretary by octus2008(m): 11:30am On Nov 30, 2020
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Politics / Breaking News: Jerry John Rawlings Is Dead by octus2008(m): 2:03pm On Nov 12, 2020
Former President Jerry John Rawlings is dead, GhanaWeb can confirm.

The former president GhanaWeb understands passed on, today, November 12, 2020, after a brief illness.

According to state-owned Daily Graphic, the former President had been on admission at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital for about a week for an undisclosed ailment. He was 73.

It will be recalled that Mr Rawlings recently lost and buried his mother last month.

Jerry John Rawlings was born in Accra on 22nd June 1947, to a Ghanaian mother from Dzelukope, near Keta, in the Volta Region, and a Scottish father.

Background of Rawlings

Jerry John Rawlings was born in Accra on 22nd June 1947, to a Ghanaian mother from Dzelukope, near Keta, in the Volta Region, and a Scottish father.

He was educated at Achimota School where he obtained his General Certificate of Education 'O' Level in 1966.

He enlisted as a Flight Cadet in the Ghana Air Force in August 1967, and was subsequently selected for officer cadet training at the Ghana Military Academy and Training School, Teshie, in Accra.

In March 1968, he was posted to Takoradi in the Western Region to continue his course.

He passed out in January 1969, as a commissioned Pilot Officer. He won the coveted "Speed Bird Trophy" as the best cadet in flying and airmanship.

He earned the rank of Flight-Lieutenant in April 1978. He was an efficient officer with a close rapport with his men.

During his service with the Ghana Air Force, he witnessed the deterioration of discipline and morale, reflecting the corruption of the regime of the Supreme Military Council (SMC) at that time.

As promotion brought him into contact with the privileged classes and their social values, his awareness of the injustices in society was sharpened.

He was thus regarded with some unease by the SMC. He read widely and discussed social and political ideas with a growing circle of like-minded friends and colleagues.

On May 28, 1979, Flt.-Lt. Rawlings, together with six others, appeared before a General Court Martial in Accra, charged with leading a mutiny of junior officers and men of the Ghana Armed Forces on 15th May, 1979. There was strong public reaction, especially after his statement had been read in court, explaining the social injustices that had prompted him to act.

The ranks of the Armed Forces, in particular, expressed deep sympathy with his stated aims. When he was scheduled for another court appearance on 4th June, 1979, Flt.-Lt. Rawlings was sprung from custody. With the support of both military and civilians, he led a revolt, which decisively ousted the Supreme Military Council from office and brought the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) into being.

The AFRC, under the chairmanship of Flt.Lt. Rawlings carried out a "house-cleaning exercise" aimed at purging the Armed Forces and society at large of corruption and graft as well as restoring a sense of moral responsibility and the principles of accountability and probity in public life.

Meanwhile, following the programme already set in motion before the 4th June Uprising for civilian administration, general elections were held.

On 24th September 1979, the AFRC handed over to the civilian Government of the People's National Party (PNP) under President Hilla Limann.

On 31st December 1981, Flt. Lt. Rawlings led a section of the Armed Forces to overthrow the PNP administration. A Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC), composed of both civilian and military members, was established, with Flt-Lt. J.J. Rawlings as the Chairman.

His interests include reading, building model aircraft, horse-riding and swimming. He is married to Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings with whom he has four children - three girls and a boy.

Flt-Lt. Rawlings ceased to be a member of the Ghana Armed Forces with effect from September 14, 1992. He formed the National Democratic Congress, which contested and won the 1992 Presidential and Parliamentary elections. He and the party again won the 1996 elections.

His term of office ended in the year 2000.

He is the joint recipient of the 1993 World Hunger Prize. He holds an Honorary Doctor of Law Degree from Medgar Evers College, City University of New York and Lincoln University Doctorate Degree for Diplomacy and Development.

https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Breaking-News-Jerry-John-Rawlings-is-dead-1107193
Politics / Re: Protesters In Borno Demand Reinstatement Of SARS (Pictures) by octus2008(m): 11:43am On Oct 14, 2020
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Politics / Re: Governor Yahaya Bello Watching BBNaija Grand Finale, Sparks Outrage by octus2008(m): 1:12pm On Sep 28, 2020
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Health / Thousands Test Positive In China For A Bacteria That Can Leave Men Infertile by octus2008(m): 8:03am On Sep 19, 2020
Even as the world reels from the COVID-19 pandemic, instances of other potentially scary outbreaks are lurching at the corner.

Case in point: Brucellosis, a debilitating bacterial fatal disease that is said to have infected thousands of people in Northwest China and is capable of making men infertile.

Here is all you need to know about the disease and the outbreak.
As per World Health Organization, Brucellosis is a disease caused by a group of bacteria from the genus Brucella that mainly infects cattle, swine, goats, sheep, and dogs.

When humans come in contact with these infected animals, like by eating or drinking their products or inhaling airborne agents, they can contract the disease. However, the bacteria takes some time to manifest.

Information
Caused typically by unpasteurized milk or cheese
Brucellosis, also known as Malta fever or Mediterranean fever, is typically caused by ingesting unpasteurized milk or cheese from infected goats. It occurs in the Mediterranean region, the Middle East, Central Asia, and parts of Latin America.

Symptoms
Can lead to infertility in men or other serious problems
Once infected, a person could be floored for months by this disease.

They could witness flu-like symptoms such as fever, weakness, pains, malaise, or weight loss, and appetite loss.

However, in some cases, it even causes serious effects such as inflamed testicles that could leave men infertile or arthritis, endocarditis, encephalitis (inflammation of the brain), meningitis (inflammation of membranes around the brain), etc.
The first cases of Brucellosis were reported over a year ago at a veterinary college in Lanzhou, the capital of northwest China's Gansu province.

Back then, it was believed that only a few people at the college had contracted the disease. But now, the Health Commission of Lanzhou has revealed that at least 3,245 people have tested positive for the bacterial infection.

As reported by CNN, the source of the infection was not the vet college but a leak at the Zhongmu Lanzhou biological pharmaceutical factory.

Last year, between July and August, the factory used out-of-date sanitizers during the production of Brucella vaccines for animal use, which allowed bacteria containing aerosols to waft over the local area, infecting people living nearby.

No deaths reported so far
So far, approximately 21,000 tests have been conducted for the disease in the region, and no deaths have been reported. However, statistically, reports suggest about 2% of people infected by this disease can die.

"The number (of positive cases) is way larger than expected and raised widespread concern over the disease's spread and its consequences," reported state-run Chinese outlet Global Times.

Transmission
No human-to-human transmission
No human-to-human transmission
That being said, it must be noted that the situation is not likely to escalate from the region, given that the human-to-human transmission of the disease is extremely rare.

According to both CDC and the WHO, the bacterial infection could only be transmitted by infected breastfeeding mothers or through tissue transplantation or blood transfusions by an infected person.
https://www.newsbytesapp.com/timeline/world/66230/312405/brucellosis-disease-infects-thousands-can-leave-men-infertile
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Nairaland / General / In 897, The Corpse Of A Pope Was Exhumed—to Be Put On Trial. by octus2008(m): 8:22pm On Mar 10, 2020
IT MUST HAVE been a shock for the poor Roman fisherman who, according to legend, pulled up the body of a dead pope from the Tiber River. Few people would ever have expected to dredge up the remains of a pontiff who, nine months after his death, was at the center of on of the most bizarre episodes in the history of the papacy: a posthumous trial of a corpse. The story of Pope Formosus and the indignities suffered by his mortal remains embodied the tangled politics of late ninth-century Europe.

A quick glance at the list of popes in that era shows that Christian concord was notably absent from Rome and the Vatican: Instead, there was chaos. Between 872 and 965, no fewer than 24 popes were coronated in Rome (between 896 and 904, there was roughly one pope appointed per year!) Occupational hazards of the papacy included being deposed, thrown in prison, or murdered. The high rate of papal turnover could be attributed to both political intrigue and government instability

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In the late ninth century, the papacy played a central role in violent power struggles across the Italian peninsula. Openly intervening in the family feuds of Rome’s rulers, the pontiffs also played a central role in the regional struggle for supremacy. This conflict was fought, on the one hand, by the Carolingian emperors who, throughout the ninth century, emerged as protectors of the Catholic Church and lords of Italy. Their supremacy was increasingly challenged by burgeoning local dynasties such as the Dukes of Spoleto. (See also: How Martin Luther started a religious revolution.)

From early in his career, Formosus found himself tangled up in these complex conflicts. From his consecration as bishop of Porto—a diocese located at the mouth of the Tiber, slightly north of Ostia—he carried out numerous diplomatic missions in the name of the papacy, which took him to Bulgaria, Constantinople, and the Carolingian court. Formosus showed favor to Arnulf of Carinthia, a Frankish king of the Carolingian imperial dynasty, who aspired to take the throne as King of Italy.

Picture of a gold statue of Carolingian emperor Charles III
Formosus sought the support of the Carolingian dynasty to check the rising power of the Dukes of Spoleto.
PHOTOGRAPH BY BRIDGEMAN/ACI
Formosus’s diplomacy went over badly with his superiors. Pope John VIII feared that if a king from such a powerful imperial dynasty became King of Italy, Rome would lose its independence. Pope John had Formosus excommunicated in 876 and expelled from his diocese. He and his followers were forced to flee Rome under threat of a trial for corruption and immorality. They found refuge in the court of Guy III of Spoleto.

Lying low for several years in northern Lombardy, Formosus waited for the situation in Rome to improve. In 883, under the new, brief papacy of Marinus I, Formosus’s excommunication was lifted, and he was reinstated as the head of his former diocese in Porto. After the death of Pope Stephen V in 891, Formosus became pope.

Ally of the emperor
The new pope had to confront a dangerous political situation. Shortly before Formosus was appointed, Guy III of Spoleto—his former protector—had been crowned King of Italy in Pavia. He had then headed to Rome to force Pope Stephen V to crown him Holy Roman Emperor. After Stephen V’s death, Formosus had to confirm Guy’s coronation and recognize his son Lambert as successor to the empire. Formosus, however, distrusting the new emperor and King of Italy, began to resume diplomatic ties with Arnulf of Carinthia, inviting him to confront Guy in Italy.

To seize what he thought was his by right, Arnulf made a first incursion into Milan and Pavia in 893. Three years later, Guy had died, and his son Lambert had been crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome. In response, Arnulf laid siege to the Eternal City. Inside Rome, the Spoleto faction loyal to Lambert rebelled and imprisoned Pope Formosus in the Castel Sant’Angelo. But they were unable to stave off the invaders. Formosus was freed and a few days later, he crowned Arnulf emperor in St. Peter’s Basilica. Some months later, Pope Formosus died, whether of poison or old age (he was 80) was uncertain. Some praised him as a just and pious pope; others were unable to forgive him for favoring the German Arnulf over the Italian Spoleto clan
Lambert’s revenge
The story, however, did not end there. Not even death, it turned out, would exempt Formosus from the seemingly eternal cycle of intrigue and infighting. Formosus was succeeded by Boniface VI, who only lived 15 days into his term, and Boniface was succeeded by Stephen VI, a former follower of Formosus who also initially recognized Emperor Arnulf.

No sooner had Arnulf left Italy, however, then Stephen VI aligned himself with the local Spoleto family. Lambert went to Rome, which had already been taken over by his supporters, to convince the new pope to condemn Formosus’s actions and tarnish his reputation, despite the fact that the man was dead and buried.

This condemnation, insisted Lambert, had to be in public to shame Formosus’s followers. It would be conducted under the solemnity of canon law and held before the papal curia and Roman nobility. Most bizarrely of all, it was decided that Formosus himself would attend his own posthumous trial.
Dead man talking?
The event was carefully prepared down to the last detail. In early 897, Pope Stephen VI and Lambert ordered that Formosus’s corpse be disinterred and brought to San Giovanni in Laterano for the proceedings. The trial was convened as a synod with all the cardinals, bishops, and other ecclesiastical dignitaries in full attendance.

Dressed in his official papal vestments, the dead pope sat propped up in a chair. The accused cadaver was assigned a defense lawyer, and the charges were read to him. His nomination as pope was illegal, one of the charges ran, because he had been Bishop of Porto at the time. This flouted canon law, the accused was told. Addressing the corpse directly, Pope Stephen’s counsel asked it: “Being Bishop of Porto, why did you, with great ambition, usurp this See of the Apostle?” A deacon was appointed to speak for the deceased. Sources say he mostly read from prepared statements.

It is unknown if the dead pope’s counsel dared to mount much else in the way of a defense. In any case, the sentence was not open to appeal. The synod signed the order to depose Formosus, and then condemned him and revoked all his appointments, so that all clerics ordained by him were forced to repeat the appointment process all over again.

Formosus’s corpse was then stripped of his papal vestments. The three fingers he had used in consecrations and blessings were chopped off. The body was then dressed in common clothes and buried in a pauper’s grave. Not content with that outcome, Stephen VI had the body dug up again and thrown into the Tiber.

POPES, POISON, AND PLOTS
The Trial of Formosus was just one of the episodes that marked the turbulent history of the papacy in the ninth and tenth centuries. The political struggles for control over Rome and the Catholic Church led to several popes dying in circumstances that would not be out of place in a modern-day mystery.

72-882
John VIII
A year after crowning Charles III (the Fat) as emperor, John VIII was poisoned, perhaps by someone close to him. According to Fulda’s Annals, when the poison was slow to take effect, he was hit over the head with a hammer.

891-896
Formosus
According to rumors, Pope Formosus was already 80 years old when he was poisoned by supporters of the Dukes of Spoleto. Contemporary accounts say he died in great pain.

896-897
Stephen VI
The successor to Formosus had his predecessor’s cadaver put on trial. After the deceased pope was condemned, his furious followers had Stephen arrested in the Lateran Palace. He was strangled soon after in prison.

903
Leo V
A month into his papacy, Leo V was deposed by Christopher, now considered by the church to be an antipope. Leo died in prison, perhaps on Christopher’s orders.

914-928
John X
He was imprisoned and killed in the Castel Sant’Angelo at the behest of Marozia, a noblewoman who reproached the pope for not offering the imperial crown to her husband.

Even for the Romans of the time, who were accustomed to interminable political upheaval, this episode marked an unacceptable low. Stephen VI was imprisoned and strangled to death in jail a few months after the Cadaver Synod. Two years later, Pope John IX reinstated Pope Formosus and banned further trials for dead popes.

Formosus’s trial remains one of the strangest chapters in the long history of the Catholic Church. The story about the humble fisherman pulling Pope Formosus’s remains from the Tiber may well be a myth, but we do know that the story of Formosus’s dishonored body has an ending: in 897, it was reburied with full Christian honors.
Nairaland / General / Women Can Fall Pregnant In Swimming Pool by octus2008(m): 4:10pm On Feb 26, 2020
Indonesian child protection boss is ridiculed after claiming women can fall pregnant in swimming pools 'even without penetration' if men with 'strong sperm' ejaculate in the water
Sitti Hikmawatty, commissioner for health, made the claims during an interview
Hikmawatty - whose surname translates as wisdom - has been ridiculed online
Doctors have said it is impossible to get pregnant in the way she described
Women can fall pregnant in swimming pools 'even without penetration' if men with 'strong sperm' ejaculate into the water, an Indonesian child protection boss has claimed.

Sitti Hikmawatty, the comissioner for health, narcotics and addictive substances at the Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI), made the extraordinary claims in an interview with the Tribun Jakarta last week.

Ms Hikmawatty - whose surname translates as 'wisdom' - has apologised for her comments, saying they were made in a 'personal capacity', after she faced backlash on social media.

Doctors in Indonesia have said it would be impossible for women to get impregnated in this way.

'There is an especially strong type of male sperm that may cause pregnancy in a swimming pool,' said Ms Hikmawatty.

'Even without penetration, men may become sexually excited (by women in the pool) and ejaculate, therefore causing a pregnancy.

'If women are in a phase where they are sexually active, (such a pregnancy) may occur. No one knows for sure how men react to the sight of women in a swimming pool.'
The Indonesian Doctors Association told the Jakarta Post that women cannot be impregnated in swimming pools.

Indonesian blogger doctor, called Blog Dokter, said in response to her claims: 'Once again, I remind you, if you do not understand health problems, it's better to be quiet. Instead of your comments causing anxiety and panic.

'I will emphasise here, swimming with the opposite sex will not cause pregnancy. Not all men who swim ejaculate and sperm cannot live in chlorinated pool water, let alone swim into the vagina.'

She has faced ridicule on social media. Photos have been uploaded of her shaking hands with a senior commissioner with the reflection of pool water pasted over the top.

One Twitter user wrote: 'When there is a flood. Ordinary people: Save ourselves and other valuables. Sitti Wisdom: Please separate men and women so that no one gets pregnant.'

A cartoon strip has also been posted online showing a women getting pregnant after she enters flood waters with a man.

The chairman of the KPAI, Susanto, has issued a statement saying her claims do not represent the views of the organisation.

'We hereby state that KPAI's understanding and attitude are not reflected in the online news narrative.'

Ms Hikmawatty issued an apology on Sunday. 'I apologise to the publi for giving an incorrect statement,' she said. 'It was a personal statement and not from KPAI. I hereby revoke the statement. I plead with all parties not to disseminate it further or even make it available.'
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