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Although inflammation serves a vital role in the body's defense and repair systems, chronic inflammation can cause more harm than good. And that may make you wonder: what can I do about it?
In fact, there's a lot you can do. And you may already be doing it. That's because some of the most important ways to fight inflammation are measures you should be taking routinely.
Let's take a look at key elements of fighting chronic inflammation: prevention, detection, and treatment.
Six ways to prevent unhealthy inflammation
Six of the most effective ways to ward off inflammation are:
- Choose a healthy diet. Individual foods have a rather small impact on bodywide inflammation, so no, eating more kale isn't likely to help much. But making sure you eat lots of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, healthy fats, and legumes — sometimes called an anti-inflammatory diet — may reduce inflammation and lower risk for chronic illnesses like diabetes and heart disease. Not only can these diets help reduce inflammation on their own, but replacing foods that increase inflammation (such as sugary drinks and highly processed foods) benefits your body, too.
- Exercise regularly.Physical activity may help counter some types of inflammation through regulation of the immune system. For example, exercise has anti-inflammatory effects on white blood cells and chemical messengers called cytokines.
- Maintain a healthy weight. Because excess fat in cells stimulates bodywide inflammation, avoiding excess weight is an important way to prevent fat-related inflammation. Keeping your weight in check also reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes, a condition that itself causes chronic inflammation.
- Manage stress. Repeatedly triggered stress hormones contribute to chronic inflammation. Yoga, deep breathing, mindfulness practices, and other forms of relaxation can help calm your nervous system.
- Do not smoke. Toxins inhaled in cigarette smoke trigger inflammation in the airways, damage lung tissue, and increase the risk of lung cancer and other health problems.
- Try to prevent inflammatory conditions, such as
- Infection: Take measures to avoid infections that may cause chronic inflammation. HIV, hepatitis C, and COVID-19 are examples. Practicing safer sex, not sharing needles, and getting routine vaccinations are examples of effective preventive measures.
- Cancer: Get cancer screening on the schedule recommended by your doctors. For example, colonoscopy can detect and remove polyps that could later become cancerous.
- Allergies: By avoiding triggers of asthma, eczema, or allergic reactions you can reduce the burden of inflammation in your body.
Do you need tests to detect inflammation?
While testing for inflammation is not routinely recommended, it can be helpful in some situations. For example, tests for inflammation can help to diagnose certain conditions (such as temporal arteritis) or monitor how well treatment is controlling an inflammatory condition (such as Crohn's disease or rheumatoid arthritis).
However, there are no perfect tests for inflammation. And the best way to know if inflammation is present is to have routine medical care. Seeing a primary care physician, reviewing your medical history and any symptoms you have, having a physical examination, and having some basic medical tests are reasonable starting points. Such routine care does not typically include tests for inflammation.
How is inflammation treated?
At first glance, treating unhealthy, chronic inflammation may seem simple: you take anti-inflammatory medications, right? Actually, there's much more to it than that.
Anti-inflammatory medicines can be helpful to treat an inflammatory condition. And we have numerous FDA-approved options that are widely available — many in inexpensive generic versions. What's more, these medicines have been around for decades.
- Corticosteroids, such as prednisone, are the gold standard. These powerful anti-inflammatory medicines can be lifesaving in a variety of conditions, ranging from asthma to allergic reactions.
- Other anti-inflammatory medicines can also be quite effective for inflammatory conditions. Ibuprofen, naproxen, and aspirin — which may already be in your medicine cabinet — are among the 20 or so nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) that come as pills, tablets, liquids taken by mouth, products applied to skin, injections, and even suppositories.
Yet relying on anti-inflammatory medicines alone for chronic inflammation is often not the best choice. That's because these medicines may need to be taken for long periods of time and often cause unacceptable side effects. It's far better to seek and treat the cause of inflammation. Taking this approach may cure or contain many types of chronic inflammation. It may also eliminate the need for other anti-inflammatory treatments.
For example, chronic liver inflammation due to hepatitis C infection can lead to liver scarring, cirrhosis, and eventually liver failure. Medicines to reduce inflammation do not solve the problem, aren't particularly effective, and may cause intolerable side effects. However, treatments available now can cure most cases of chronic hepatitis C. Once completed, there is no need for anti-inflammatory treatment.
Similarly, among people with rheumatoid arthritis, anti-inflammatory medicines such as ibuprofen or steroids may be a short-term approach that helps ease symptoms, yet joint damage may progress unabated. Controlling the underlying condition with medicines like methotrexate or etanercept can protect the joints and eliminate the need for other anti-inflammatory drugs.
The bottom line
Even though we know that chronic inflammation is closely linked to a number of chronic diseases, quashing inflammation isn't the only approach, or the best one, in all cases.
Fortunately, you can take measures to fight or even prevent unhealthy inflammation. Living an "anti-inflammatory life" isn't always easy. But if you can do it, there's an added bonus: measures considered to be anti-inflammatory are generally good for your health, with benefits that reach well beyond reducing inflammation.


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Dear Mexican: I live in up-state New York (that's any part of the state north of the city, for you West Coasters), and while we have a relatively small Mexican population, we have a large number of Puerto Ricans, especially in the community I live. Here's my question: a number of times I've overheard my PR friends accuse each other of being "lazy Mexicans" as a good-humored insult. I'm wondering if on the West Coast, where I expect that there are more Mexicans than Puerto Ricans, if you ever accuse each other of being "lazy Puerto Ricans?" I've asked my PR friends this question, but they think it's crazy. I'm of Irish heritage, and I was surprised one day to find out that all of the Polish jokes I grew up with were Irish jokes in England. I'm curious if maybe it's the same thing here. Basically, I see my friends as being Latino, and they don't have a problem with that until someone calls them a Mexican. Kind of like someone saying I'm Irish, but accusing me of being Protestant when I'm Catholic.
Son of Erin
Dear Mick: Ah, another opportunity to trot out my all-time favorite joke: Why aren't there any Puerto Ricans on Star Trek? Because they don't work in the future, either. Silly chiste, but that's the point. As brilliantly put forth by Christie Davies in his examination of ethnic humor, The Mirth of Nations, mere jokes by one ethnic group against another signifies latent hostility toward the joked-upon, but nothing serious. Ethnic insults, on the other hand, suggest a deeper-rooted hatred between the groups. In other words, Mexicans don't really care about Puerto Ricans, because we always kick their ass in boxing and aren't as colonized as boricuas, so any tweaking of them is relegated to jokesand even then, I can't think of a single Puerto Rican joke with roots in Mexico. But Puerto Ricans throwing around slurs like "lazy Mexicans" show they're as American as they come, because while Mexican jokes do exist in the American humor realm, bona fide slurswetback, chili belly, taco bender, wab, and many, many moreare as numerous as beans in a burrito. "The number and nature of nicknames, and particularly derogatory nicknames for particular ethnic groups in America," wrote Davies, "is a reflection of the strengths of the ethnic conflicts in which they have been involved and the kinds of ill-feeling that such conflicts generate." Diós bless America!
Dear Mexican: My fiancé and I were debating this the other night: where did the idea of Matanzas come from? How did they start? I'm of the belief that they were to provide food for an entire village during long, hard winters and have become a reason to party outside in the middle of winter. He says he doesn't think so. He said they are probably a local thing (we're from New Mexico) and other self-respecting Mexicans would never have fiestas like this. Can you clarify?
Muy Confundida
Dear Very Confused Chica: "Self-respect" and "Mexicans" in regards to fiestas go together like "logic" and "Republicans" on America's immigration issues. Your husband is largely right: matanzas, for the rest of us non-New Mexis, usually involve the slaughtering of a pig just before winter to provide the pueblo with hundreds of pounds of lard, meat, blood, and all the other bounty our tasty porcine friends provide us. Some scholars also posit that Matanzas were Hispanic rituals dating back centuries, with the pig the center of the feast: since the Moorish rulers of the Hispanos' ancestors and the Jews they always despised couldn't eat pig, the feast was a great way for Spaniards and their descendents smoke out any marranos or moriscos out of the pueblo's ranks and into the bonfire. Maybe, but the Mexican always felt matanzas ("killings" en inglés) were always more like the Pacific Northwest tradition of potlaches, where men would compete with each other to see who could throw the biggest feast and treat others the best. And that, my dear amiga, ain't tied to any other tradition but the eternal quien-es-más-macho ritual of hombres.
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Garden Visits are part of our comprehensive lawn care services that take landscape management to its highest level. Our expert landscape staff that provide this service focus solely on weeding and general bed maintenance. This service occurs bi-weekly throughout the growing season ensuring a very well-manicured and consistent aesthetic to your property.
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- During these visits, we perform an overall inspection of the property, note any landscape issues and address them before they become major problems.
- This service includes weed control i.e. spraying noxious weeds with Round-Up and the application of pre-emergent weed preventer. These measures help eliminate existing weeds as well as prevent many future weeds from appearing in the landscape.
- During these every 10 to 14 day visits, we will also remove the trash and sticks from your landscape, deadhead the annuals, and lightly prune the landscape plants as needed and based on your requirements.
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Without waiting for local cinemas to catch up with the rest of the world, I got my hands on a copy of "True Grit" – a new movie by Coen brothers, of who I am a big fan.
Every film they do is different from every other, and is a masterpiece of its own. "True Grit" follows the pattern. It is a western, with beautiful and authentic cinematics, colorful characters, excellent acting, and simple, yet unique story telling. The story itself is simple and straightforward – there are no twists as such. But it tells the story of people with character, courage, and will. It tells the story of the days that have long past, yet which is applicable to modern days. It shows people who lived in a very different world, yet were so similar to us.
A 5 out of 5 from me and a recommendation for home collection – you'll want to see it this movie more than once.


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PRESIDENCYThe President of the Fifteenth Meeting of the States Parties to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, H.E. Heraldo Muñoz Valenzuela. Chile assumed its Presidency from the conclusion of the Fourteenth Meeting of the States Parties on 4 December 2015 until the conclusion of the Fifteenth Meeting of the States Parties (15MSP) on 1 December 2016. Chile hosted and presided over the 15MSP, which took place from 28 November to 1 December 2016 in Santiago, Chile. H.E. Marta Mauras, Ambassador of Chile to the UN in Geneva presided over the 15MSP
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Recording and mixing his own music with the exception of 3 songs , Z has engineered his mixtape titled "Just Jamin". Which can be found on hotnewhiphop.com/zmusic12. He has performed at various venues in and around Pittsburgh at not only churches and outreaches but clubs and bars. He had the opportunity to be nominated as Christian Hip Hop Artist of the year for the Pittsburgh Underground Music Awards where he was priveldged to perform there as well.
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How and where your electronic fence is installed
The installation of an electronic fence is not a complicated affair in most cases. Normally, a narrow trench is dug along the property line or whereever the fence is supposed to go for burying the hidden wire. In our case, though, there was going to be minimal digging since the hidden fence wire was going to be strung along the existing wooden fence. The only trench that needed to be dug was from the garage to the side of the fence, since the door to our backyard was right next to the garage.
Where the Invisible Fence wire exits the garage
Whenever there's digging to be done, however, it's essential to locate power lines and other underground pipes and wires before the digging happens. Even though we wanted the hidden fence installed right away, we had to wait for the local utilities to come out and mark our property.
Completing the wire loop
Once the power lines were located and marked, the installation itself was very straightforward. The wire a single long loop of heavy gauge electrical cable was strung along the bottom and top of the existing fence. The control unit was mounted in our garage near an existing power receptacle. A small hole was drilled through the exterior wall of the garage so that the two ends of the wire could be pulled through and connected to the control unit. The installer then powered and configured the control unit. The electronic fence was now in operation. But we weren't done yet the dogs still needed their collars and training.
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text: As busy schedules and stressful lifestyles affect everyone, individuals are desperately looking for ways to get out of tension, and there are some small adventures that can help them reactivate their spirits and bring a few good things. Moment. Well-being. You will find that when you return from your own office, you are eager to play live22 casino games, which may have become a very popular game for decades.


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Authorities in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing are closing in on a source who leaked a sex tape featuring a local Communist Party official, according to the investigative journalist who published it online.
Beijing-based Zhu Ruifeng, who runs the whistle-blowing website Supervision by the People, published a five-year-old video showing Lei Zhengfu having sex with an 18-year-old female while he was Party secretary of Chongqing's Beibei district.
The tape was one of several held in the Chongqing police department vaults and was leaked by an insider.
Chongqing police visited that person's home to detain him last Tuesday, Zhu said, adding that the source is currently in hiding.
"Two Chongqing police officers went [to his home]," Zhu said on Wednesday. "They were from the municipality and the county level, working together."
"They had nine officers and four vehicles with them, and they wanted to carry out an arrest across provincial lines," said Zhu, who says he has similar videos of five more high-ranking Chongqing officials.
"My source has already absconded, and I can't get in touch with him," he said, adding that a second insider had also gone incommunicado, prompting him to speak out of fears for their safety.
"I can't get in touch with the other source either, who is in Chongqing," Zhu said. "Perhaps he's gone into hiding, or perhaps he is already being detained by the authorities."
"I am very worried."
'A gift'
Lei was removed from his post after the 36-second video clip went viral online, sparking widespread outrage on China's popular microblogs.
Zhu has said the woman was described to him as a "gift" sent to Lei by a businessman in the construction industry who wanted to seal a lucrative property deal.
Zhu said last week that he had received death threats after the video was posted online, and that the Beijing police were currently investigating.
"The Chongqing authorities have organized a lot of people to write commentary online, to attack me and slander me," he said. "They say I have never been a proper journalist."
"They are also saying that I have taken money from this person or that person ... but this is a lie."
He said he now plans to write an open letter to Chongqing municipal Party secretary Sun Zhengcai, who replaced fallen political star Bo Xilai, calling on the authorities to guarantee the rights of the whistle-blowers.
The Chongqing sex tapes were made by a property developer as a way of blackmailing top municipal officials.
The company paid young women aged 18-20 U.S. $48 to have sex with the officials and to record the liaisons secretly.
An employee who answered the phone at the Chongqing municipal police department declined to comment when contacted by RFA on Wednesday.
"I don't know about this," the employee said.
Zhu began working as a print journalist for the magazine Fang Yuan, which is sponsored by China's Supreme People's Court, in 2000, before leaving to set up as a freelance in 2006.
Reported by Grace Kei Lai-see for RFA's Cantonese service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.


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October 9 is Hangul Day (한글날 Han'gŭllal), an annual commemoration of the 1446 proclamation of the invention of the Korean alphabet by King Sejong (세종) and / or his scholars. Hangul is the most sophisticated writing system actually in use for a real language. Geoffrey Sampson, in his Writing Systems : A Linguistic Introduction, at the end of a chapter on Hangul (p. 144), writes, "Whether or not it is ultimately the best of all conceivable scripts for Korean, Han'gul must unquestionably rank as one of the great intellectual achievements of humankind."
This year, we decided to go to the Korean market near MIT (after dinner at the Bengali restaurant, where the eggplant and potato dishes are made with generous amounts of mustard oil, a topic for another day), not just for the groceries, but also their typography.
Wikipedia's article on Hangul is pretty thorough, but it is worth summarizing a few points.
- The letters of the Hangul script mostly represent the phonemes of Korean.
- Vowel length is not represented, though it is distinguished: for example, 말 mal 'horse' vs. māl 'language'. But the functional load of vowel length is not very great, like in Latin, and unlike in Finnish. Also, this distinction is disappearing from the modern language.
- The basic letter forms combine into clusters (single, double and triple) called chamo 자모, which are the building blocks of the script.
- Hangul can defensibly be called a featural script, in that like aspects of each phoneme are presented by like graphics in the chamo. This is the position taken by Sampson and in The World's Writing Systems. However, Young-Key Kim-Renaud in a paper in the collection The Korean Alphabet, which she also edited, does not accept this classification and considers that it actually diminishes the achievement.
- The proclamation was titled 訓民正音 Hunmin Chŏng'ŭm 'The Correct Sounds for the Instruction of the People'. This was also the official name of the script. It was written in Classical Chinese, the language of scholars; it was also published in a form where each Chinese character had a smaller Hangul phonetic beside it. The Chinese text is in Wikisource. A scan of the annotated version is online on the Hangul Foundation site. It is also available as a Unicode text file, with the syllables that cannot be represented (since Unicode encodes Modern Korean) in a Private Use Area for which there is a New Batang font (Google for nbatang.ttf).
- In 1940, a second expository document from the time of King Sejong was discovered, titled 訓民正音解例 Hunmin Chŏng-ŭm Haerye '… Explanations and Examples'. It is written in Classical Chinese, with Hangul only used when it is explained. It is on the same Wikisource page and here (with a Japanese translation). A scan is here (with a partial German translation).
- The Haerye proves that the shapes of the consonants were chosen to represent the physical points of articulation and not as abstract designs. For instance,
舌音ㄴ,象舌附上腭之形。 (p. 9)The tooth sound k has the shape of the back of the tongue closing the throat.
The tongue sound n has the shape of the tongue attached to the roof of the mouth. - Although it is generally assumed that the design was a group effort, there is no reason to doubt that King Sejong participated and it is even possible, as proposed in a paper by Ki-Moon Lee in The Korean Alphabet, that he was primarily or solely responsible. Lee provides quotes claiming responsibility fairly directly and addressing the obvious questions, such as how he could have time in addition to affairs of state.
- It is also not known to what extent the design of Hangul was directly influenced by other scripts. Possible antecedents, and in particular 'Phags-pa, are discussed by Gari Ledyard in his thesis and a paper in The Korean Alphabet.
- The literati naturally objected to the new script as a threat to their prestige. This lent support to alternative names for the script such as 언문 ŏnmun 'vernacular script'.
- Only a few decades after Sejong the Great, the script also lost royal support: it was banned by Yŏnsan'gun (연산군) the not-so-Great, supposedly because it provided more people with the means to post criticism of his rule.
- Through the end of the 19th century, therefore, Hangul was primarily used for novels and light poetry.
- The name Han'gŭl 'great script' (or 'Korean script') was only coined at the beginning of the 20th century by Chu Sigyŏng. I have not seen a specific citation of earliest occurrence. The Wikipedia says 1912 on the Hangul page and between 1910 and 1913 on his page. Martin just says 1910. This footnote points to Ross King's article on language issues in Korea Briefing : Toward Reunification, which gives the same 1910-1913 range, with a footnote pointing to this book (Problems of Korean Language and Writing the Unification Age) by Ko Yŏng-Gŭn (고영근), with no particular page reference, but perhaps intending 한글의 유래 'Hangul'-ŭi yurae 'The Origin of the word "Han'gŭl"', as also referenced here, and reprinted in several other places. Citing Ko, this page says it was first used in publication on 23 Mar. 1913 and then in a footnote that it was apparently already in common use on 3 Sept. 1911.
- Korean has a rich set of regular phonetic assimilation rules. For most of its history, Hangul was used to write Korean as pronounced. It was only with 20th century spelling reforms that it became morphophonemic, so that the same stem is spelled the same regardless of (that is, "before applying") these rules. Already, the Haerye had said:
That is, ㅈ c and ㅊ ch are to be spelled ㅅ s when final (not preceding a suffix's vowel), as they were pronounced. However, in King Sejong's own works, such as 月印千江之曲 월인천강지곡 Wŏrin ch'ŏn'gang chi kok 'Songs of the Moon Shining on a Thousand Rivers', the several different terminal consonants are used, suggesting that he himself favored the approach now used.如ᄇᆡᆺ곶爲梨花, 여ᇫ의갗爲狐皮, 而ㅅ字可以通用, 故只用ㅅ字. (p. 42)
[For terminals] like those in pʌys koc 'pear blossoms' and yaz˙ɨy kach 'fox's skin', s may be applied throughout. Therefore only the letter s is needed. (tr. Ki-Moon Lee p. 20)
- In short, highly successful Hangul is a product of the post-War Korea of industrialists and Kpop idols, where there is as much competition from English as Chinese. JSTOR provides a contemporary summary of the language reforms from a paper published in 1948. There are some differences in orthography between the South and the North, described in an article by Ho-Min Sohn in The Korean Alphabet. The broader picture of language policies in the two countries is discussed in the Reunification article.
- Hangul is normally written in syllable blocks, consisting of an initial consonant (초성 ch'osŏng), a medial vowel (중성 chungsŏng), and a consonant coda (종성 chongsŏng, always drawn at the bottom and so known as 받침 patch'im 'platform'), taking the same square form as Chinese characters, with the size of the components being adjusted depending on the density, again as in Chinese. One of the proposals made by Chu Sigyŏng that did not take hold was writing the components uniformly in a line, a style known as 가로쓰기 karo-ssŭgi 'horizontal writing'. An article by Ross King in The Korean Alphabet describes experiments with this kind of writing (also known as 횡서 hoengsŏ 'on-line') in Russia and the USSR.
- Early Hangul was drawn with symmetrical right angles and circles. Then, as it came to be written with a brush in Chinese style, it was drawn following those conventions. As a result, in brush style, ㅅ is not symmetrical, ㅁ is clearly composed of three strokes, and ㅗ and ㅜ are not mirror images because 點 dian3 can be used above a line, but 豎 shu4 is needed below.
- The most common Korean keyboard layout, Dubeolsik (두벌식 tubŏlsik) is also rational and efficient, with consonants on the left and vowels on the right, arranged in a featural grid.
In addition to the sources linked to by the Wikipedia, there is an online Hangul Museum. The English part of the site has roughly the same organization of, but not the depth of, the Korean version. The Korean version has a quirky navigation system, but contains lots of interesting pages like this one with a chart showing how the letter shapes relate to the organs of speech, and another with a chart showing how changes in the means of articulation at the same point are reflected in the letters. Plus, scans of early books, like this one that contains part of Wŏrin ch'ŏn'gang chi kok showing the earlier forms of Hangul.
Hangul Day was a legal holiday from the founding of South Korean until 1991 when it was removed due to too many days off in October. There is a petition to reinstate it; see here on the "InterNet HanMal and HanGeul Society" site.
The postscript to the Haerye has some amusing and extravagant claims.
莫不該括以二十八字而轉換無窮, 簡而要, 精而通. 故智者不終朝而會, 愚者可浹旬而學. 以是解書, 可以知其義. 以是聽訟, 可以得其情. 字韻則淸濁之能辨樂歌則律呂之克諧. 無所用而不備, 無所往而不達. 雖風聲鶴戾, 鷄鳴狗吠, 皆可得而書矣. (p. 62)
These twenty-eight letters are so simple and precise that the wise can master them in one morning and even the fool can learn them in ten days. With these letters, writings can be understood, legal appeals can be made, and melodies can be given verses. Indeed, there is nothing that cannot be accomplished. Even the sound of the wind, the cry of a crane, the flutter of a rooster, and the barking of a dog can all be written down. (tr. Chin W. Kim p. 159)
I try to always include transliterations for passages quoted. But I am not sure what to do about 15th century Korean Chinese. Modern Mandarin does not seem right (even if that is what is most likely to be in one's head when reading). Nor does reconstructed Classical Chinese from China, really. For example, for the conjunction 而 in the above, the Unihan database for U+800C gives Mandarin er2 and reconstructed Tang *njiə. The Sino-Korean reading given is i. When this character occurs in the annotated Hunmin Chŏng'ŭm, it is given as (ᅀᅵᆼ) zi, with one of the obsolete letters (whose pronunciation is supposed to be the strange nasalized palatal fricative [ʝ̃].) I'm open to suggestions for a practical approach; for instance, there might be searchable online versions of rime books like the 東國正韻 Tongguk chŏng'un.
Here is what we found wondering through the aisles. (Each of the thumbnails links to a bigger scan of the package. The captions below link to product pages.)
I mentioned the Korean national dish 비빔밥 pibimbap briefly in another post, and how it quickly summarizes Hangul by showing the same consonant ㅂ p as ch'osŏng and chongsŏng and with different chongsŏng (ㅁ m) and chungsŏng (ㅏ a). 비빔면 pibim myŏn is kind of a simplified ramen noodle form of it: 면 myŏn 'noodles' instead of 밥 pap 'rice'. Note the difference between the domestic and export packages. In addition to including Chinese 韓國干撈麵 han2guo2 gan4 lao1mian4 'Korean dry lo-mein' and Vietnamese mì khô đại hàn 'Daehan (i.e., Korean) dry noodles', they use two different Romanization schemes for Korean. I have tried to use McCune-Reischauer consistently in this post, except for personal and brand names, since consistency is more important than the different advantages that each scheme has.
The Korean language support in Windows comes with four font families:
- Batang, a "serif" font like what is used in most printing: 한글날.
- Gungsuh, which looks even more like brush writing: 한글날.
- Dotum, a "sans-serif" font with a more symmetrical, geometrical appearance: 한글날.
- Gulim, another geometrical font that is a bit lighter by being more vertical: 한글날.
Each of these also has a -Che monospace version. Notable among all the other fonts available on the net (here is a good inventory) is UnYetgul in the Un-fonts project, which looks like early printing: 한글날. (Without Korean support, all those samples may look alike; there should not be any other negative effects.)
As one might expect, our everyday grocery needs have more prosaic graphic design with everyday fonts.
진한 참기름 chinhan ch'amgirŭm 'dark sesame oil'. Oddly enough, it also says that it is 백설 paeksŏl 'snow-white' (or 'white snow'; Korean isn't alleged to have lots of words for snow that I know of).
실고추 silgoch'u is literally 'string hot pepper'. These are dried chili peppers sliced unbelievably thin and great on noodles. 태양초 t'aeyangch'o 'sun candle(?)' is a traditional way of sun-drying red peppers, though I am sure a factory was involved here. This is actually a Korean-American product, under the Assi brand of the Rhee Brothers. On the back, a sticker has carefully been placed over the original package's "product of korea produit de coree"; it says, "product of china produit de coree."
고추장 koch'ujang is Korean hot bean paste, made with 태양초 t'aeyangch'o in fermented soy beans. I'm not 100% sure what makes this 골드 goldŭ (gold); perhaps how long it was fermented. We didn't need a fresh tub this time, and it looks from the 해찬들 haech'andŭl product page like the packaging has changed since then, getting rid of the simple "italic" typestyle.
With candy, the graphic design gets a bit more sophisticated.
검은깨 캬라멜 kŏmŭnkkae k'yaramel, with the first part in a hand-painted brush style and the second in a geometric style.
For more aggressive design, of course one has to go with kid's snacks.
감자 kamja is 'potato'. This is 오리지날 orijinal (original) flavor; if they had other flavors at the store, we didn't notice them.
고래밥 koraebap 'whale rice (i.e., food)' is like Animal Crackers, but not as sweet and shaped like sea creatures rather than circus animals. This is the 매콤한맛 maegomhanmat 'spicy flavor'. If the web site is to be believed, these are a favorite bar snack as well as being for kids. In the translation of the jingle "♬재미로 먹고, 맛으로 먹는 오리온 고래밥~♪" chaemiro mŏkko, masŭro mŏknŭn orion koraebap, that they give there, "♬Orion Goraebab for Fun and for Taste~♪", it's interesting that they don't translate either of the verb forms of 먹 mŏk 'eat', 고 -ko is the gerund 'eating' and 는 -nŭn is (if I understand rightly) a reference to an earlier mention of the verb, so '[that] eating' or '[the one who is] eating', which actually is kind of hard to put into simple English. There is a goraebab.com; it will start playing a song, which is probably very annoying to your coworkers, and even without sound it is pretty hard on the eyes, if you're over fifty like me.
The only Hanja on this package (or any of the others, as far as I can tell) is 無 mu 'no; none', next to 첨가 ch'ŏmga 'additives' and above MSG. I bet this is part of some coordinated campaign for healthier junk food. By coincidence, one of the free Korean newspapers we picked up on the same trip has a profile of the recently deceased 마르셀 마르소 marŭsel marŭso, so I couldn't help but relate this lone character to the only spoken line in Silent Movie, "Non."
The dictionary says 이구동성으로 igudŭngsŏngŭro means 'with one voice'. Together with the tag line, "아니, 이게! 과자야? 피자야?" ani, ige! kwajaya? p'ijaya? "Is this a snack or a pizza?", I think the idea is that those apparently contradictory statements actually agree. It also works a little better because 과자야 kwajaya 'confectionary' and 피자야 p'ijaya 'pizza' rhyme. Using the circles as pizzas is maybe going a little too far in the kiddie direction.
Another snack that we saw, but decided against ultimately because it has MSG in it, was 꼬깔콘 kkokkal-k'on, the Korean version of Bugles, with its wobbly looking patch'im. But now that I'm looking around, I see that it has a cult following on English language snack sites. That one says it is made by Rhee Brothers. But the package says 롯데 Lotte and it features prominently on the confectionary division's site. The name comes from kkokkal, the name of the traditional Korean peaked hat, and based on Google Image search, a paper hat kids wear at parties; plus 콘 k'on as in 팝콘 p'ap-k'on (popcorn).
To get more interesting type design than at the supermarket, one needs to move to the area of conceptual corporate design and fine arts. I think the Korean avant-garde designer and typographer that is the most well known in the West (the only one I know by name) is Ahn Sang-Soo 안송수. There is a book about his work published in France in French and English. He features prominently in the issue of Idea Magazine (a design magazine from Japan) on Korean graphic design (which also has an article on typography in Korea in general; I need to track down my copy or find it at the library) and in European typography magazines. Here is an interview from Theme magazine. (Don't miss the picture of the gate to his house.) Of course, he also gets mentioned in English language Korean media, like this here. His design magazine 보고서/보고서 pogosŏ/pogosŏ 'report/report' is the only one listed for Korean typography in OCLC. Some images of a recent exhibition at the Rodin Gallery are online, but with absolutely horrible DRM that makes navigation almost impossible. His blog is mainly filled with snapshots of people he meets covering one eye. He also has a Hangul Dada site. I believe the font in which 한글다다 han'gŭl dada is written on this poster is called I-Sang, in honor of the writer. This is kind of like karo-ssŭgi, except that some sense of the original placement is maintained by putting the three chamo at different vertical positions. But Ahn goes even further, snaking them around on non-orthogonal baselines. He has designed posters for Hangul Day. (I assume what one usually sees is like these booklet covers.) One is illustrated in the Theme article. Another, the 한글 만다라 han'gŭl mandara (mandala), is here (or just the image if the DRM gets in the way).


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Flood waters were slowly receding in Pakistan in mid-December 2010, almost five months after the monsoon rains that devastated the country first began falling. Visiting the country in early December, Valerie Amos, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, described the flood disaster as "far from over," and discussed Pakistanis who had lost their homes and livelihoods.
Acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite, these images show southern Pakistan before and after the 2010 monsoon rains. The top image is from December 15, 2010. The middle image shows the area when flood waters in southern Pakistan were around their peak, on September 17, 2010. The bottom image shows the area on December 16, 2010, following a more typical monsoon season.
All three images use a combination of infrared and visible light to increase the contrast between water and land. Water ranges in color from light blue to navy. The moist, marshy areas along the coast reveal some of the lightest shades of blue. Vegetation, even sparse vegetation, appears bright green. Bare land ranges from pink-tinged beige to brick. Pale blue-green clouds cast dark shadows onto the land surface below.
Around the city of Sukkur lies an irrigation network supporting agriculture in Pakistan's Sindh Province. During the 2010 monsoon season, floodwaters overwhelmed a dam north of Sukkur, creating a vast flood lake that terminated in the preexisting Manchhar (or Manchar) Lake. With no easy outlet, the flood waters sat on some of Sindh's best agricultural land for months. Compared to the image acquired two months earlier, the image from mid-December 2010 shows a substantial reduction in this floodwater lake. Compared to the image acquired a year earlier, however, the December 2010 image shows the extent of the lingering floods.
Lasting flood damage is also apparent along the coast, around the city of Thatta. Although the image from December 2010 shows remarkable improvement over conditions two months earlier, it also reveals persistent pockets of floodwater that did not exist the previous year.
NASA images courtesy MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Michon Scott.


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High-level radioactive waste gives off heat. When this kind of waste is eventually placed in a disposal gallery after an on-surface cooling period of 60 years, this heat will have an impact on the properties of the clay host rock surrounding the disposal galleries. The thermal impact on the clay has already been studied in a number of small-scale heating experiments, such as the ATLAS experiment. In 2007, the 45-metre long PRACLAY gallery was constructed to host the large-scale PRACLAY Heater test. Within the context of the RD&D programme on geological disposal, the construction project is referred to as the PRACLAY Gallery & Crossing test. The goal of the PRACLAY Heater test is to study the impact of heat on the thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) behaviour of the Boom Clay in conditions that are representative of an actual waste repository and to confirm and refine existing knowledge gained from the small-scale heating experiments.
The Heater test involves heating a 30-metre section of the PRACLAY gallery for 10 years, maintaining a constant temperature of 80°C at the interface between the concrete lining and the Boom Clay. This target temperature is slightly higher than the temperature that is expected in a real repository. The heated part of the gallery is separated from the non-heated part by a seal made of a bentonite ring supported by a cylindrical steel structure. Due to the swelling capacity of the bentonite, the seal hydraulically cuts off the heated part from the non-heated part of the gallery. Together with a water-saturated backfill in the heated part of the gallery, the seal ensures quasi-undrained boundary conditions for the experiment. Studying the behaviour and evolution of the seal is the goal of the PRACLAY Seal test.
Together, the Gallery & Crossing test, the Seal test and the Heater test make up the PRACLAY In-Situ Experiment.
The outcome of the PRACLAY Heater test will be important for the safety assessment and final design of a geological repository.
The main goal of the PRACLAY Heater test is to examine the combined impact of hydro-mechanical disturbances caused by gallery construction and a large-scale thermal load due to heat-emitting high-level waste on the Boom Clay. Such a combined mechanical and thermal load leads to perturbations in the clay and can affect its performance as a host rock in the geological disposal concept for heat-emitting radioactive waste.
More specifically, the goals of the Heater test are to:
To cope with possible future changes in the repository design, the test was designed to be as design-independent as possible.
On 3 November 2014, the heating system was switched on and the target temperature of 80°C was reached on 19 August 2015. Since then, the heating system has been regulated in order to maintain a constant temperature of 80°C at the interface between the lining and the Boom Clay.
Sensors to monitor variations in temperature, pore water pressure, displacement and stresses in the seal, the backfilled part of the gallery, the concrete lining and in a number of boreholes surrounding the gallery continuously generate large amounts of data that are compared with the blind predictions made by modelling. The evolution of the experiment is being reported as the experiment continues. A first report, "The start-up phase of the PRACLAY Heater test", brings together all the observations made from the switch-on of the heating system on 3 November 2014 until the target temperature of 80°C was reached on 19 August 2015.
Dizier A., Chen G., Li X.L., Leysen J., Verstricht J., Troullinos I., Rypens J., The start-up phase of the PRACLAY Heater test. EURIDICE REPORT EUR_PH_16_025, Mol, Belgium, 2016, 54pp.
Van Marcke P., Li X., Bastiaens W., Verstricht J., Chen G., Leysen J., Rypens J., The design and installation of the PRACLAY In-Situ Experiment. EURIDICE Report 13-129, Mol, Belgium, 2013, 190pp.


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It's not often that you get to create a new university from scratch: space, staff – and curriculum. But that's exactly what we're doing in Mauritius, at one of Africa's newest higher education institutions. And decoloniality is central to our work.
I am a member of the Social Science Faculty at the African Leadership University. Part of our task is to build a canon, knowledge, and a way of knowing. This is happening against the backdrop of a movement by South African students to decolonise their universities; Black Lives Matter protests in the United States; and in the context of a much deeper history of national reimagination across Africa and the world.
With this history in mind our faculty is working towards what we consider a decolonial social science curriculum. We've adopted seven commitments to help us meet this goal, and which we hope will shift educational discourse in a more equitable and representative direction.
Seven commitments
#1: By 2019, everything we assign our students will be open source
Like most institutions of higher education in Africa (and across much of the world) ALU's library is limited. Students often deal with this by flouting copyright and piracy laws and illegally downloading material. We don't want to train our students to become habitual law breakers. Nor do we want them to accept second-tier access to commodified knowledge.
Our aspiration is that by 2019 everything we assign in our programme will be open source. This will be achieved by building relationships with publishers, writers and industry leaders, and negotiating partnerships for equitable access to knowledge. This will ensure that a new generation of thinkers is equipped with the analytic tools they need.
It will also move towards undoing centuries of knowledge extraction from Africa to the world that has too often taken place with little benefit to the continent itself.
#2: Language beyond English
Students who read, write and think in English often forget that knowledge is produced, consumed, and tested in other tongues.
We commit to assigning students at least one non-English text per week. This will be summarised and discussed in class, even when students are unable to read it themselves. Our current class comprises of students from 16 countries who between them speak 29 languages. English is the only language they all share. Exposing students to scholarly, policy, and real-world work that's not in English means they are constantly reminded how much they don't know.
As we grow, students will also be expected to learn languages from the continent: both those that originated in colonialism (Arabic, English, French, Portuguese), and those that are indigenous such as isiZulu, Wolof, or Amharic.
#3: 1:1 Student exchange ratio
Having cross-cultural experiences, particularly as an undergraduate, has become an important part of demonstrating work readiness and social competency in a "globalised" world. But scholars have shown that globalisation is often uneven. Strong currencies enable such experiences, so those who benefit usually come from Europe and North America.
This has had huge implications for higher education, where "student exchange" usually takes place at a ratio of 10:1 – ten Americans or Norwegians, for instance, exploring South African townships, for one Ghanaian who might make it to the Eiffel Tower.
In Social Sciences the body is the research tool and the mind the laboratory in which experiments are undertaken. We support as much exchange as possible across the broader institution. But our commitment when it comes to student exchange is strictly 1:1 – one ALU student goes abroad for every one exchange student we welcome into our classroom.
#4: Text is not enough
Africa's long intellectual history has only recently begun to be recorded and stored through text. If students are exposed only to written sources, their knowledge is largely constrained to the eras of colonisation and post-coloniality.
To instil a much deeper knowledge and more sensitive awareness to context and content, we are committed to assigning non-textual sources of history, culture, and belief: studying artefacts, music, advertising, architecture, food, and more. Each week students engage with at least one such source to attend to the world around them in a more careful way.
#5: We cannot work alone
Social scientists often assign themselves the role of deconstructor: unpacking power, race, capitalism and consumption with glorious self-righteous abandon. My colleagues and I recognise that we cannot work alone, and require our students to play a central role in contributing to the university's outputs.
We design our curricula in such a way that students are compelled to create, iterate, work with feedback, apply that feedback, and critically appraise it. We want them to collaborate with as wide a range of other people as possible, stretching them to use language and the tools of analysis that they acquire in their training with real world implication. For example, students recently worked with our legal, policy, and learning teams to write the university's statement on diversity.
#6: Producers, not only consumers
The students who choose to come to the university bring with them tremendous insight and experience. These are often developed and augmented by spending time in the quintessential multi-cultural environment of the campus and dormitories. That allows certain fusions, tensions and commonalities to emerge much more clearly than they might in other places.
Working and living within this environment, it's essential that students start contributing to discourses surrounding Africa as early as possible. It might take years to know how to write a publishable scholarly article – but an op-ed, podcast or YouTube video is not quite so demanding. This allows students to get accustomed to their voices contributing to and shaping public dialogue in and about Africa.
#7: Ethics above all
Social Sciences both reflect and shape the world. Our programme, then, is committed to the principle of "do no harm", and also to be an impetus for good.
Students will learn to think and act to the highest ethical standards, and to feel confident in asking the same of others working with them. This is essential in bringing into being a world in which Africa's place is both central – as it has arguably always been to global capitalism – and also respected.
It's early days at ALU. There's a lot we still need to do, and it will take time for us to build the institution into what we collectively envision. These seven commitments are an important foundation for the Social Sciences.
We're inviting responses and collaborations through our blog, through email or through collaborations with our students.


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LogEC models complex, multimodal international transport chains
The web-based tool calculates not only the total emissions for a transport but also the emissions of each leg and each mode of transport.
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The Riding House Café is achingly cool. From the shabby-chic New York-inspired dining room with its sweeping bar, shared tables and bare brickwork down to the distressed metal covers on Dyson airblades in the toilets (seriously…), it's a lesson in laid-back luxe for a twenty-first century crowd. In amongst the glamorous set of Soho after-work media types typical of a Tuesday evening, you might encounter some more unusual dining companions; a stuffed squirrel, a blue plastic Smurf or a pigeon frozen mid-flight, a light bulb clutched in its beak like an olive branch. A little pretentious perhaps, but somehow the overall effect is on-trend and very enticing; you definitely want to eat in this restaurant.
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ROME (AP) — The three U.N. food agencies urged governments Tuesday to take quick action to curb rising prices of corn, wheat and soybeans and avoid a repeat of the 2007-2008 food crises.
The sharp rise in food prices in recent months threatens to make life even more difficult for tens of millions of people, particularly in poor countries, the heads of the U.N. World Food Program, Food and Agriculture Organization and International Fund for Agriculture Development warned.
A prolonged drought in the U.S. — the No. 1 exporter of corn, wheat and soybeans — has helped drive up commodity prices. The FAO's next global food price index is due Thursday; its last report found global prices had risen six percent in July after three months of decline, in part because of the U.S. drought and worsened crop prospects for Russia's wheat harvest because of dry weather.
The three agencies urged countries to avoid panic buying and refrain from imposing export restrictions when production falls, saying that while it may temporarily help consumers at home it makes life difficult for others. In the past, Russia has imposed export bans to offset low domestic wheat production.
They also said countries should adjust biofuel production requirements when food supplies become scarce. Livestock farmers in the U.S. have demanded the government relax biofuel production quotas because corn feed is becoming so expensive. Forty percent of the U.S. corn crop goes to ethanol production.
Finally, the three agencies called in a joint statement for poorer countries to expand assistance to small-scale farmers and provide nutrition programs for mothers and small children and meals for school-aged children — and to promote sustainable food production through better investment in farming.


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ibdm - Solaris InfiniBand Device Manager
The Infiniband Device Manager (IBDM) is an IBTF-compliant kernel misc module. IBDM adheres to the InfiniBand Device Management class as described in InfiniBand Architecture Specification, Volume 1: Release 1.1 and enumerates all the devices which are visible from a given host and maintains a data base of all IB devices visible to the host. IBDM provides interfaces to the IB nexus driver that enables the driver to retrieve information about IB devices on the fabric.
64-bit x86 ELF kernel module
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See attributes(5) for a description of the following attribute:
attributes(5), ib(7D), ibtl(7D), ibcm(7D)
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Around the world, students learn English earlier on in their schooling which is driving a demand for English assessment. Schools and parents alike recognise that English skills are of paramount importance if their pupils and children are going to learn, progress and work in an international landscape.
What is it?
- Aptis for Teens is a new English assessment tool developed by the British Council, designed specifically for teenagers, testing their skills through familiar topics and scenarios.
- Targeted at 13-17 year-olds, Aptis for Teens enables you to target specific English language skills and receive fast results.
- Questions have been designed to reflect activities that occur in a teenager's everyday life for example: social media, homework, school events and sports to make the test more familiar. This modern approach to testing allows candidates to fully demonstrate their English knowledge and skill.
- Aptis for Teens can be integrated into current education systems, which allows students' English levels to be measured effectively and efficiently over time.
Who can use it?
- Lower and upper secondary schools
- Ministries of Education around the world
- Language schools
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- Bi-lingual schools
What can it do?
- streamline learners according to proficiency level
- assess readiness for taking certificated exams
- assess readiness to participate in study abroad and homestay programmes
- identify strengths and weaknesses to inform teaching and support for learners
- evaluate learning programmes
- test students' progress over extended periods of study.
Flexibility extends to our reporting service and scores are presented in both individual and group form.
A scaled score (0-50) is given for each skill tested and this can be used to compare individual candidates within their group and also to help measure progress if they are re-taking the test. Along with the scaled score we also give a Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) level for each skill taken (A1-C). If you take all 4 skills you will receive an overall (CEFR) level.


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AlphaLISA® Acceptor beads conjugated to a anti-mouse IgE. This bead can be used to create no-wash AlphaLISA assays for isotyping and other applications.
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These AlphaLISA Toolbox Acceptor beads enable antibody binding studies or the detection of mouse IgE antibodies from various sources in various matrices. The IgE subtype plays a role in allergic reactions, parasitic infections and hypersensitivity reactions.
These beads can be used in conjunction with Alpha Donor beads for use in AlphaLISA no-wash assays for isotyping or antibody binding studies. In a typical AlphaLISA assay, 1 mg of Acceptor beads is sufficient to run 1,000-2,000 wells using a 50 µL reaction volume.
AlphaScreen® and AlphaLISA® are bead-based assay technologies used to study biomolecular interactions in a microplate format. The acronym "Alpha" stands for amplified luminescent proximity homogeneous assay. As the name implies, some of the key features of these technologies are that they are non-radioactive, homogeneous proximity assays. Binding of molecules captured on the beads leads to an energy transfer from one bead to the other, ultimately producing a luminescent/fluorescent signal. To understand how a signal is produced, one must begin with an understanding of the beads. AlphaScreen and AlphaLISA assays require two bead types: Donor beads and Acceptor beads. Each bead type contains a different proprietary mixture of chemicals, which are key elements of the AlphaScreen technology. Donor beads contain a photosensitizer, phthalocyanine, which converts ambient oxygen to an excited and reactive form of O2, singlet oxygen, upon illumination at 680 nm. Please note that singlet oxygen is not a radical; it is molecular oxygen with a single excited electron. Like other excited molecules, singlet oxygen has a limited lifetime prior to falling back to ground state. Within its 4 µsec half-life, singlet oxygen can diffuse approximately 200 nm in solution. If an Acceptor bead is within that proximity, energy is transferred from the singlet oxygen to thioxene derivatives within the Acceptor bead, subsequently culminating in light production at 520-620 nm (AlphaScreen) or at 615 nm (AlphaLISA). In the absence of an Acceptor bead, singlet oxygen falls to ground state and no signal is produced. This proximity-dependent chemical energy transfer is the basis for AlphaScreen's homogeneous nature.
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Fan-filmed video footage of Tim "Ripper" Owens' (DIO DISCIPLES, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, BEYOND FEAR, JUDAS PRIEST, ICED EARTH) May 19 performance at The Hi Fi in Melbourne, Australia can be seen below.
Released in May 2009, "Play My Game", the first solo album from Owens, landed at position No. 66 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200. The CD was released via SPV/Steamhammer. The offering consists of around a dozen brand-new tracks that Owens composed himself or together with renowned friends, such as Bob Kulick, Chris Caffery (SAVATAGE, TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA), Mike Callahan (ex-EARSHOT) and John Comprix (BEYOND FEAR, RINGWORM).
Owens is without doubt among the most important metal vocalists of the past ten years. When he succeeded Rob Halford, joining JUDAS PRIEST in May 1996, the press rubbed their eyes, surprised as well as impressed: Owens had previously been a fairly unknown quantity to international music journalists and only a few new of him from the band WINTERS BANE, but he recorded his first PRIEST album, the Grammy-nominated "Jugulator" (1997) with more aplomb than even insiders had expected. Following successful tours with the British metal legends, the strong studio recording "Demolition" (2001), and the live recordings, "Meltdown – 98 Live" (1998) and "Live In London" (2003), and the movie "Rockstar" that was loosely based on Tim's experience with JUDAS PRIEST, Halford's return put an end to Owens' stint with JUDAS PRIEST. More or less immediately, he was enlisted by Jon Schaffer to team up with ICED EARTH and sang on "The Glorious Burden" in spring 2004. Three years later, Owens followed suit with the ICED EARTH album "Framing Armageddon (Something Wicked Pt. I)", which succeeded the self-titled highly praised debut by his own band BEYOND FEAR. Spring 2008 saw Owens move on to join one of the world's best guitar players Yngwie Malmsteen, debuting with a sensational vocal performance on "Perpetual Flame".
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On this day in history, March 29, 1780, the Siege of Charleston begins, when the British advance to take the most important city in the south. After failing to defeat George Washington in the north and the entrance of France into the American Revolution, Great Britain decided to focus on the south where it was believed heavy Loyalist sentiment would help conquer the rebels in those colonies.
The southern strategy began with the taking of Savannah, Georgia, in December of 1779. The British Commander-in-Chief, General Sir Henry Clinton, sailed south from New York with 8,500 men and arrived south of Charleston on February 11, 1780. More troops arrived to raise the total British force to 14,000 men.
Continental Army Major General Benjamin Lincoln had around 3,000 men in Charleston. Rather than following George Washington's strategy of evacuating the army from large cities when the enemy approached, Lincoln decided to leave his army in Charleston at the request of the city's leaders to prevent it from falling into British hands. Lincoln established extensive defenses, including a "boom chain" and sunken Continental Army ships to block access from the sea. He built a defensive canal that ran the length of the peninsula on which Charleston was located. Another 1,500 Virginia soldiers arrived to bring Lincoln's force to 5,500 men, but they were still vastly outnumbered by the British.
Charleston sat at the end of the peninsula between the Ashley and Cooper Rivers. General Clinton marched overland and, on March 29, crossed the Ashley River onto the peninsula. The Siege of Charleston was to last for the next six weeks. Within days, American outposts around the city were taken and British ships entered Charleston Harbor, trapping the small American fleet under Commodore Abraham Whipple.
When Lincoln refused to surrender, the British began a bombardment of the town that went on for weeks, killing soldiers and destroying homes and businesses every day. Letters were exchanged several times by Lincoln and Clinton demanding various terms for a surrender. On April 29, the British began to destroy the dam holding the water in the defensive canal, which was the last protection for the city. The Americans tried to defend the canal, but it was mostly drained by May 6, giving the British free access to the city. General Clinton demanded a full surrender, which was refused. He then began a massive bombardment of the city and threatened to destroy it. The civilian leaders convinced Lincoln to surrender to save the city, which he did on May 12.
5,300 soldiers were taken captive, destroying the Continental Army in the south, a high percentage of whom died in squalid British prison facilities during the next 2 1/2 years. The captives included Major General Lincoln, Commodore Abraham Whipple and Declaration of Independence signers Arthur Middleton, Edward Rutledge and Thomas Heyward, Jr.
The defeat at Charleston was a huge blow to the Continental Army. Congress would respond by sending Major General Horatio Gates with another large army that would be defeated at Camden, South Carolina. It was not until General Nathanael Greene arrived to take over the army's operations in the south late in the year that things began to turn around for the Americans. Less than one year later, British General Charles Cornwallis would surrender at Yorktown, ending the major operations of the war.
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Docker and Kubernetes: The Complete Guide
Build, test, and deploy Docker applications with Kubernetes while learning production-style development workflows.
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- Learn Docker from scratch, no previous experience required
Master the Docker CLI to inspect and debug running containers
Build a CI + CD pipeline from scratch with Github, Travis CI, and AWS
- Understand the purpose and theory of Kubernetes by building a complex app
- Automatically deploy your code when it is pushed to Github!
- Basic understanding of terminal and command line usage
- No previous Docker or Kubernetes experience is required!
- A credit card is required to deploy projects to AWS or Google Cloud
If you're tired of spinning your wheels learning how to deploy web applications, this is the course for you.
CI+CD Workflows? You will learn it. AWS Deployment? Included. Kubernetes in Production? Of course!
This is the ultimate course to learn how to deploy any web application you can possibly dream up. Docker and Kubernetes are the newest tech in the Dev Ops world, and have dramatically changed the flow of creating and deploying web apps. Docker is a technology that allows applications to run in constructs called 'containers', while Kubernetes allows for many different 'containers' to run in coordination.
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In this course you'll learn Docker from absolute fundamentals, beginning by learning the answer to basic questions such as "What is a container?" and "How does a container work?". From the very first few lectures, we will do a deep dive on the inner workings of containers, so you get a core understanding of exactly how they are implemented. Once you understand what a container is, you'll learn how to work with them using basic Docker CLI commands. After that, you'll apply your new-found mastery of the Docker CLI to build your own custom images, effectively 'Dockerizing' your own personal applications.
CI + CD Pipelines
Of course, no course on Docker would be complete without a full understanding of common Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment patterns. You will learn how to implement a full CI + CD workflow using Github, Travis CI, and Amazon Web Services, creating a pipeline that automatically deploys your code every time you push your latest changes to Github!
Multi-Container Deployments on AWS!
After building a deployment pipeline, you'll apply it to master both single-container and multi-container deployments on Amazon Web Services. You will construct a multi-container application utilizing Node, React, Redis, and Postgres, and see the amazing power of containers in action (Note: all Javascript coding in this course is optional, the full source code is provided if you don't want to write JS).
Finally, you will tackle Kubernetes, a production-grade system for managing complex applications with many different running containers. You will learn the right way to build a Kubernetes Cluster – this course doesn't have any of those annoying "don't do this in production" comments! You will first build a Kubernetes Cluster on your local machine, then eventually move it over to a cloud provider. You'll even learn how to set up HTTPS on Kubernetes, which is harder than it sounds!
Here's what you'll do:
- Learn Docker from scratch, no previous experience required
- Build your own custom images tailored to your applications
- Master the Docker CLI to inspect and debug running containers
- Understand how Docker works behind the scenes, and what a container is
- Build a CI + CD pipeline from scratch with Github, Travis CI, and AWS
- Automatically deploy your code when it is pushed to Github!
- Build a complex multi-container application from scratch and deploy it to AWS
- Understand the purpose and theory of Kubernetes
- Deploy a production-ready Kubernetes Cluster to Google Cloud
- Software engineers looking to deploy their apps easily and quickly
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Around the halls of Windermere, we've decided that 2018 is the year to hit #refresh; it started with the launch of the refreshed Windermere brand earlier this year and today it continues with the unveiling of our refreshed website! The new Windermere.com is a result of a lot of research and input from our agents, franchise owners – and most importantly – consumers. As you can probably tell, we couldn't be more excited! Let's dig in.
Where we innovated:
Through the research process we discovered that over 85 percent of all traffic on our website occurs on our home page, search results, and property detail pages. This made it fairly easy for us to figure out what we wanted to focus on with the refresh. Plus, we heard from our regular site visitors that they felt those were the areas that needed the most improvement. Done, done, and done.
A much happier homepage:
We started with a total redesign of the Windermere.com homepage, which now better reflects the updated Windermere brand that we invested so much energy into earlier this year. The homepage is also now "location-aware" which means it will display listings that are geographically located closest to you. Because if you're in Fort Collins, Colorado, you probably don't want to be looking at listings in the suburbs of Boise. Catch our drift?
Mobile site, fast as lightning:
Next on the list to fix was our mobile site. We threw the proverbial baby out with the bathwater and started from scratch. The result is an ultra-fast, highly-optimized mobile site that we think might even offer a better user experience than our desktop site (although it's next to impossible to pick which is better; please don't make us do it).
Sexy search results:
OK, you probably wouldn't normally describe search results as sexy, but it's arguably one of the most important pages on our website, so we spent a lot of time here. What you see in your search results, and how those results are presented, has a major impact on your home search experience. We completely revamped how search results show up, as well as what you see when you click through to see a specific home. Is it the greatest search makeover of all time? Possibly.
Major eye candy:
As we all know, photos and videos are the beginning and end of everything these days, so we've placed even greater emphasis on those stunning images on our new property detail pages. We've also made it super easy for you to share listings that you love with your friends via social media, email, etc. because #sharingiscaring.
That's it, go check it out:
Without further ado, we cordially invite you to check out our brand new website for yourselves by going to Windermere.com. If you're someone who regularly uses our site, we hope you love it. If you're someone who doesn't typically use our site to search for homes, we hope you'll give us a shot. If you feel like it's completely on point, please let us know by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com. If you don't, we'd still love to hear from you! After all, any feedback is good feedback – but please, play nice.
Happy home searching!


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Food Allergies
What Is a Food Allergy?
Lots of kids have food allergies. Food allergies happen when the immune system makes a mistake. Normally, your immune (say: ih-MYOON) system protects you from germs and disease. It does this by making antibodies that help you fight off bacteria, viruses, and other tiny organisms that can make you sick. But if you have a food allergy, your immune system mistakenly treats something in a food as if it's really dangerous to you.
The same sort of thing happens with any allergy, whether it's a medicine (like penicillin), pollen in the air (from grasses, weeds, and trees), or a food, like peanuts. So the thing itself isn't harmful, but the way your body reacts to it is.
What Are the Most Common Food Allergies?
Kids can be allergic to any food, but these cause most food allergy reactions:
- peanuts and other nuts
- seafood, such as shrimp
- fish
- milk, particularly cow's milk
- eggs
- soy
- wheat
- sesame
What's a Food Allergy Reaction Like?
If a kid with peanut allergy would have eaten that peanut-topped brownie, here's what would happen. Antibodies to something in the food would the body to release chemicals into the bloodstream. One of these chemicals is histamine (say: HISS-tuh-meen).
This then causes symptoms that affect a person's eyes, nose, throat, respiratory system, skin, and digestive system. A person with a food allergy could have a mild reaction — or it could be more severe. An allergic reaction could happen right away or a few hours after the person eats it.
Some of the first signs that a person may be having an allergic reaction could be a runny nose, an itchy skin rash such as hives, or a tingling in the tongue or lips. Other signs include:
- tightness in the throat
- hoarse voice
- wheezing
- cough
- nausea
- vomiting
- belly pain
- diarrhea
In the most serious cases, a food allergy can cause anaphylaxis (say: ah-nuh-fuh-LAK-sis). This is a sudden, severe allergic reaction in which several problems happen all at once. It can involve the skin, breathing, digestion, the heart, and blood vessels. A person's blood pressure can drop, breathing tubes can narrow, and the tongue can swell.
People at risk for this kind of a reaction have to be very careful and need a plan for handling emergencies, when they might need to get special medicine to stop these symptoms from getting worse.
Many kids outgrow allergies to milk and eggs as they grow older. But severe allergies to foods like peanuts, some kinds of fish, and shrimp often last a lifetime.
How Do You Know if You Have One?
Sometimes it's easy to figure out that a kid has a food allergy. They might get hives or have other problems after eating it. But other times, what's causing the problem is more of a mystery. Most foods have more than one ingredient, so if a kid has shrimp with peanut sauce, what's causing the allergy — the peanut sauce or the shrimp?
Many people react to a food but are not actually allergic. For example, people with lactose intolerance (say: LAK-tose in-TAHL-uh-runtz) get belly pain and diarrhea from milk and other dairy products. That doesn't mean they're allergic to milk. They don't feel good after drinking milk because their bodies can't properly break down the sugars found in milk.
What Will the Doctor Do?
If you think you may be allergic to a food, let your parents know. They will take you to the doctor to get it checked out.
If your doctor thinks you might have a food allergy, you'll probably go see a doctor who specializes in allergies, called an allergist.This doctor will ask you about past reactions and how long it takes between eating the food and getting the symptom (such as hives).
The allergist might want to do a skin test. This is a way of seeing how your body reacts to a very small amount of the food that is giving you trouble. The allergist will use a liquid extract of the food and, possibly, other common allergy-causing foods to see if you react to any of them. The doctor will make a little scratch on your skin (it will be a quick pinch) and drop a little of the liquid on the scratched area. Different extracts will go on the different scratches so the doctor can see how your skin reacts to each one. If you get a reddish, raised spot, you might be allergic to that food or substance.
Some doctors may also take a blood sample and send it to a lab for testing.
Even though the doctor tests for food allergies by exposing you to a very small amount of the food, you should not try this at home! The best place for an allergy test is at the doctor's office, where the staff is specially trained and could give you medicine right away if you had a serious reaction.
How Are Food Allergies Treated?
There is no special medicine for food allergies. Some can be outgrown; others will last a kid's whole life. The best treatment is to avoid the food itself and any foods or drinks that contain the food.
One way to figure that out is to read food labels. Any foods that might cause an allergic reaction will be listed near or in the ingredient list. Some people who are very sensitive may need to avoid foods just because they are made in the same factory that also makes their problem food. You may have seen some candy wrappers that say the candy was made in a factory that processes nuts too.
Have a Plan
No matter how hard you try, you may eat the wrong thing by accident. Stay calm and follow your emergency plan. What's an emergency plan? Before a slip-up happens, it's a good idea to create a plan with your doctor and parents. The plan should spell out what to do, who to tell, and which medicines to take if you have a reaction.
This is especially important if you have a food allergy that can cause a serious reaction (anaphylaxis). For serious reactions, people may need a shot of epinephrine (say: eh-pih-NEF-rin) with them. This kind of epinephrine injection comes in an easy-to-carry container that looks like a pen. You and your parent can work out whether you carry this or someone at school keeps it on hand for you. You'll also need to identify a person who will give you the shot.
If you get an epinephrine shot, you will need to go to the hospital or a medical facility, where they can keep an eye on you and make sure the reaction is under control.
Living With Food Allergies
Having a food allergy is a drag, but it doesn't need to slow a kid down. Your mom, dad, and other adults also can help you steer clear of reactions.
But what if something you really like turns out to be on your "do not eat" list? Today, so many people have food allergies that companies have created lots of good substitutes for favorite foods — everything from dairy-free mashed potatoes to wheat-free chocolate chunk cookies!
Note: All information is for educational purposes only. For specific medical advice, diagnoses, and treatment, consult your doctor.
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Here at Ridgefood we're big fans of foraging for edible plants and flowers in nearby Forest Park. Last week we filled a giant bag with wild garlic mustard—an invasive yet delicious species that permeates the park in April. So what to do with all these greens? We tried making garlic-mustard chips (like kale chips), but the delicate leaves don't hold
up well to baking and sort of dissolve into your mouth immediately upon eating. Instead, we prefer to simply sauté the leaves in a bit of coconut oil and a dash of salt. They cook down very quickly, like spinach. The greens' bitterness teams up well with a bowl of fried rice, and of course a runny egg on top to mellow out the garlic mustard and tie everything together. Continue reading


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Back to seminarsForesight on new and emerging OSH risks associated with digitalisation by 2025 - Romania
This workshop aimed to present the findings of EU-OSHA's Foresight on new and emerging occupational safety and health (OSH) risks associated with digitalisation by 2025 as well as to demonstrate how the scenarios produced as part of the foresight can be used as a tool to develop policies and strategies addressing these challenges. It was organised with EU-OSHA's Romanian Focal Point in Bucharest 7th February 2019 and delivered by the UK Health and Safety Laboratory and SAMI Consulting Limited.
Digital technologies, such as advanced robotics, artificial intelligence, wearables or online platforms are likely to have major impacts on the nature and organisation of work over the next years. Technologies are diffusing more widely and much faster than in the past and many people are talking about a 'Fourth Industrial Revolution'.


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Exploring the City of Boston
My family joined in on this trip, which for the kids was a needed first trip to Boston. I had not realized how devastating it was for my girls last year to sweat out an hour or so watching the news on TV, unable to contact me. For months afterwards, just uttering the word "Boston" would make 7-year-old Sophie wide-eyed and panicked, recalling "what if" thoughts her developing mind struggled to resolve. She needed a new Boston, and It was important to me to show them how awesome this city is, and give her plenty of good memories to wash out that stress. Quinn, now a loud and precocious 3-year-old, recalls nothing of last year, and was far more interested in seeing the pond where one of her favorite books, Make Way For Ducklings, was based. With Christi and her parents also in tow, we packed the weekend with as much Boston as we could fit in.
(Nack, co-star of Make Way for Ducklings, dresses up for marathon weekend) |
(Boston Expo from the eyes of a 3-year-old...stickers, snacks, and toys!) |
(Great day for a baseball game!) |
(Sophie with Lynn, Boston's #1 Red Sox fan! Yes, that's a homemade hat with baseball helmets and runners heading to the Citgo sign) |
(Quinn's not so into the game) |
(Dressing up for Easter Sunday is always fun) |
(Mike's Pastry is a popular destination pre-Race Day) |
(and here's why! Sooo good) |
The Race
The morning was unusually warm (60's) as we made our way to the buses that would take us to Hopkinton. There were no drop bags at the start this year, meaning any clothes dropped there would be donated to charity. This encouraged a wide array of pre-race outfits that looked like we were all headed to a pajama party. On the buses, there were tons of smiles from the mostly first-time runners (about 70% were running for the first time) and lots of excitement for elite runners Ryan Hall, Meb Keflebskhi, and Shalane Flanagan who had pledged to bring an American victory this year.
(Bryan, Steve, and Ian help me show off the various outlet-inspired wardrobes) |
(The speed demons of Corral #1) |
(The support helicopters lead the way) |
(And we're off!) |
(The leaders take it out fast) |
(Nothing but blue skies today) |
(By Ashland, we get a little breathing room) |
(Santa! He's always there...) |
(Natick welcomes us) |
The Scream Tunnel (mile 12) was it's usual Wellesley-powered insanity, and I got a kiss from a group of young ladies with the clever sign "why do all the cute ones run away?". For some reason only the international runners around me (Spain, Iceland, Norway, Italy, Mexico, Taiwan) made the most of the gregarious froshies, with the rest all business as we hit the halfway mark in 1:24:12.
(Heartbreak Hill, no problem) |
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(Meb wins at age 39! Here I was worried about Wardian coming into my age group) |
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(Boston finish line, the happiest place on earth) |
(That makes 10!) |
(The awesome volunteers are like blue angels) |
(Rita Jeptoo blazes to a new CR, claiming her 3rd Boston title) |
(Quinn gets a medal!) |
(Ron McCracken pays tribute to the fallen prior to his 14th finish) |