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2019年2月26日星期二

盧老師憶唐先生

「當你同人接近時,莫有十分確切的證據,你不要想他也許有不好的動機,這不僅因為你誤會而誣枉人,你將犯莫大的罪過;你必是常常希望看見他人之善,你將先從好的角度去看人。」

東江縱隊

the Communist guerrillas (游擊隊) of the East River Column

Kempeitai

憲兵隊
Japanese military police

Gregorian calendar

https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/Gregorian-calendar

2000 was a leap year (閏年)...1800 and 1900 were not leap years, neither will 2100 or 2200 be leap years.

http://www.npl.co.uk

2019年2月25日星期一

beyond burger without soybean

The Beyond Burger™ (素漢堡品牌) packs 20 g of plant-based protein (植物蛋白) and has no genetic modified organisms (非基因改造生物GMOs), soy (大豆) or gluten 麩質 (a tenacious 緊粘不放的elastic protein substance especially of wheat flour that gives cohesiveness to dough生麵團).

Information modified from: beyondmeat.com and merriam-webster.com

Although phytoestrogens (一種植物雌激素) are chemically similar to estrogen and behave like the hormone (荷爾蒙) in some respects, they are far weaker. Men don't need to worry about feminizing (女性化) effects from eating soy-based foods.


…To identify possible effects of isoflavones (異黃酮) on male fertility (生育能力), we evaluated reproductive parameters (independent variables) in rats receiving dietary exposure to a characterized mixture of soy-derived isoflavones. Beginning at 10 weeks of age, rats received chronic dietary exposure to the soy isoflavone mixture (200 or 2000 mg/kg diet) for a minimum of 12 months. Controls received unsupplemented chow diet only for the same period...Absolute and relative weights of the testis (睪丸) and epididymis (副睪) in groups receiving high or low doses of isoflavones were comparable to those of controls, and histopathologic (組織病理的) evaluations demonstrated that testicular morphology (形態) was similar in all study groups. Isoflavone exposure had no significant effects on spermatid (精子細胞) count, sperm production, or sperm morphology in any group...

Faqi, A.S., & Johnson, W.D. (2004). Reproductive toxicity assessment of chronic dietary exposure to soy isoflavones in male rats [Abstract]. Reproductive Toxicology, 18(4), 605-611. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reprotox.2004.02.013

Gluten is a protein found in wheat, rye (黑麥), and barley (大麥). It is found mainly in foods but may also be in other products like medicines, vitamins, and supplements. People with gluten sensitivity have problems with gluten. It is different from celiac (小腸) disease, an immune disease in which people can't eat gluten because it will damage their small intestine.

2019年2月19日星期二

fever and body height

https://www.quora.com/Does-our-height-grow-after-we-get-a-fever

fortune

chance or luck as an arbitrary force affecting human affairs;luck, especially good luck

OUP

arbitrary: existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will

capricious: governed or characterized by caprice

caprice: a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion (念頭) or action

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y-dict

trustworthy

a trustworthy bodyguard who would never blab to the tabloids
blab: to talk idly or thoughtlessly
idly: without much thought
tabloid: a newspaper that is about half the page size of an ordinary newspaper and that contains news in condensed form and much photographic matter

m-w.com

2019年2月18日星期一

Provoking resentment of children

Prevent ordering your child.
Avoid using "Don't" in your conversation.
Change their behavior with explanation.

上山容易落山難

研究顯示,落山或落斜路的時候(斜度大約是19%),膝關節的壓力會高達體重的7-8.5倍;相比之下,另一研究指出上梯級時膝關節的壓力只是體重的3-6倍。更多的膝關節壓力代表需要更強的肌力去保護關節。研究的另一重點是,落山落斜後的肌肉痠痛與肌肉離心收縮有關,而痠痛的肌肉多位於大腿與小腿。由此證明了「上山容易落山難」這一句說話。

runrun.com.hk

When you think about muscle contractions, most people will assume this to mean a concentric (同中心的) contraction, such a biceps curl, in which the muscle simultaneously contracts and shortens. There is another type of contraction in which the muscle lengthens as it contracts. This is called an eccentric muscle contraction (肌肉離心收縮).

verywellfit.com

Merry-go-round Lantern



女神

每一位男生年輕時總有過一兩個女神。
根據 samson-lau.xanga.com 2005 年僅餘的記錄,
年少時的我求愛不遂,因愛成恨,跟 SY 同學在網上鬧翻。
當年的中文記錄已成亂碼,
但 SY 同學曾在電話中對我說此網誌極多人瀏覽。
而且,受事件影響的人不止她一個。

這網誌是 premium version,存活至今。
此 Xanga Website 以前的 subtitle 好像是扁頭仔的學護日記,
英文是 Samson Lau's Nursing Journey.
網誌現在存在的意義是它記錄了不少醫護理論,
但理論沒多用,行動最實際。

鬧翻之際,我同時受到學業上的挫敗,
躁鬱症復發,入院前又愛上 AW 同學。
入院前一刻在網誌上留下三個字——心晴明。
「晴」是她的名字,三字解作心繫於她,希望她明白。

在 2010 年,我向 AW 同學表白。
等了四五天還沒有回覆,我就開始著急,雖知沒可能。
於是我在自己的臉書帳號 Post 她的照片,然而不是我拍的。
此舉動嚇怕了她,她亦即時 Block 了我的 Facebook.
她要求我刪除相片,然後我們僅在 Gmail 聯絡。
今天翻閱,我前後發出超過 200 封電郵,
出於禮貌,她初時亦不時回覆。
今日反思,雖然是不公開的追求過程,
卻是一種滋擾,一種病態。

有一段時間沒跟她聯絡,
某天發現她有個 NGO Facebook 專頁。
Follow 了一陣子,知悉她已結婚生子。
我可以做的只是祝福。
每一年花卉展覽,我都會去拍照。
近年她生日,都會以 Whatsapp sent 她花照,然後說聲生日快樂。
這兩三個月 Facebook Page 停頓了,也許是因為臉書落後了。
有時都會想知她的近況,也許我是不應該知道。

愛一個人有時是盲目的。
她的其中一個缺點是會說很多 insincere appreciation.
And it is not genuine enough.
但我當時會覺得很窩心。

2019年2月12日星期二

USA cities

Iowa [ˋaiəwə]

Philadelphia [͵filəˋdelfjə]

保釣運動

started from 1970

粵音誤

嘆詞(口語)

「嗯,就照你說的辦吧!」
「嗯?你怎麼不說話了?」
「嗯,沒有那麼嚴重吧!」

google feedback

根鬚

root hair cell
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constipation and depression

Patients with idiopathic constipation who seek medical attention in tertiary centers generally have a higher prevalence of anxiety, depression and social dysfunction than do normal controls.

Cheng, C. & Chan, A. O. O. (2003) Coping strategies, illness perception, anxiety and depression of patients with idiopathic constipation: a population‐based study. Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 18(3). doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2036.2003.01663.x

idiopathic

arising spontaneously or from an obscure or unknown cause

m-w.com

vested interest

既得利益

y-dict

The Great Depression

It was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out (徹底摧毀) millions of investors.

history.com

laissez-faire economics

the less the government is involved in the economy, the better off business will be

a key part of free market capitalism

investopedia.com

做唔倒領袖,都要知道老闆諗緊乜

It is always easier to listen to unpleasant things after we have heard some praise of our good points.

Beginning with praise is like the dentist who begins his work with Novocain. The patient still gets a drilling, but the Novocain is pain-killing.

Many people begin their criticism with sincere praise followed by the word "but" and ending with a critical statement...This could be easily overcome by changing the word "but" to "and".

It isn't nearly so difficult to listen to a recital (敘述) of your faults if the person criticizing begins by humbly (謙遜地) admitting that he, too, is far from impeccable (無可挑剔的).

Asking questions not only makes an order more palatable (可接受的); it often stimulates the creativity of the persons whom you ask. People are more likely to accept an order if they had a part in the decision that caused the order to be issued.

Letting one save face. How important, how vitally important that is. And how few of us ever stop to think of it. We ride roughshod (冷酷無情的) over the feelings of others, getting our own way, finding fault, issuing threats, criticizing a child or an employee in front of others, without even considering the hurt to the other person's pride. Whereas a few minutes' thoughts, a considerate word or two, a genuine understanding of the other person's attitude, would go so far toward alleviating (緩解) the sting.

"I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him, but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime."

"Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise."

Use of praise instead of criticism is the basic concept of B. F. Skinner's teachings. This great contemporary psychologist has shown by experiments with animals and with humans that when criticism is minimized and praise emphasized, the good things people do will be reinforced and the poorer things will atrophy (萎縮) for lack of attention.

Everybody likes to be praised, but when praise is specific, it comes across as sincere --- not something the other person may be saying just to make one feel good.

"Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use."

Tell your child, your spouse, or your employee that he or she is stupid at a certain thing, has no gift for it, and is doing it all wrong, and you have destroyed almost every incentive to try to improve. But use the opposite technique --- be liberal with your encouragement, make the thing seem easy to do, let the other person know that you have faith in his ability to do it, that he has an undeveloped flair (天賦) for it --- and he will practice until the dawn comes in the window in order to excel.

Carnegie, D. (1981). How to Win Friends & Influence People (Revised Ed.) New York, NY: Pocket Books.

2019年2月11日星期一

AED pad placement on the victim

Place one AED pad on the victim's upper-right chest (directly below the collarbone).
Place the other pad to the side of the left nipple, with the top edge of the pad a few inches below the armpit.

Hazinski, M. F., (2011). BLS for Healthcare Providers Student Manual. United States of America: American Heart Association.

Photo: https://savealifecpr.ca/blog/using-an-aed

截的士

hail a taxi
wave down a taxi

2019年2月10日星期日

Watch Later


我也曾擁有 也曾失去過
穿過冷暖四季 體驗著起落
有誰能告訴我那未來
該往哪去才算擁有精彩
我只是一個在找尋的女孩
努力想找到屬於我的路

讓我擁有 狂放的自由
讓我逃離 平庸的生活 絕不退縮
我想要的愛 儘管離得遙遠
總會有一天 能喜歡這一切

讓我去擁抱 曾經痛恨的傷口
至少我還有感覺支撐我往前走
當我想要飛 天空你別遺憾的說抱歉
未來 我想要你屬於我

想要的太多 不能只是將就
我笑著 哭著 冷眼望著寂寞
也要用盡生命去探索
跟隨海浪直奔向盡頭

讓我擁有 狂放的自由
讓我逃離 平庸的生活 絕不退縮
我想要的愛 儘管離得遙遠
總會有一天 能喜歡這一切

讓我去擁抱 曾經痛恨的傷口
至少我還有感覺支撐我往前走
當我想要飛 天空你別遺憾的說抱歉
未來 我想要你屬於我

讓我擁有 狂放的自由
讓我逃離 平庸的生活 絕不退縮
當我想要飛 抬頭即是蔚藍的天
未來 我要你屬於我

Lyrics from kkbox.com

省港大罷工

1925-1926 Canton-Hong Kong strike-boycott

2019年2月6日星期三

錯別字

義憤填膺(音應)
膺品(錯字)
贗品(正字)

渭水

zh.wikipedia.org

Tomodachi and LGBT


Being able to see you smile, being in your vicinity (附近)
Just that is enough for me 
If we're friends, it's not weird for me to be by your side 
I'm watching him touching you
Late at night when my unrequited (單思) feelings become unbearable 
What should I do? 
Maybe you're pretending not to notice 
Your half-hearted kindness makes me want to cry

Oh, I can't be your friend, can't be your friend, oh 
Oh, because I want to touch you and I can't help it, oh 
Oh, I can't be your friend, can't be your friend, oh 
Because there's no point if I'm not your number one anymore

If I showed you what was in my heart--no, it's no use 
I'm very good at lying, but my heart is honest to a fault

I want to kiss you; I don't need hugs or anything like that 
Let me have one kiss, but of course...

Oh, I can't be your friend, can't be your friend, oh 
Oh, because I want to touch you right now and I can't help it, oh 
Oh, I can't be your friend, can't be your friend, oh 
Because if you were to hate me now I wouldn't be able to go on living, oh

I'll take these embarrassing fantasies 
And these unfulfilled dreams to my grave (墳墓)

Oh, I can't be your friend, can't be your friend, oh 
Oh, because I want to touch you and I can't help it, oh 
Oh, I can't be your friend, can't be your friend, oh 
Because there's no point if I'm not your number one anymore

Source: animelyrics.com

淮河

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單于

匈奴人對他們部落聯盟首領的專稱
baike.baidu.com

Looking up in a dictionary

Tariff: a schedule of duties imposed by a government on imported or in some countries exported goods (m-w.com)

Parliament: the supreme (至上的) legislative body of a usually major political unit that is a continuing institution comprising a series of individual assemblages 聚集 (m-w.com)

Interwar: occurring or existing in the time between wars and especially between the First and Second World Wars (m-w.com)

Constitution: the basic principles and laws of a nation, state, or social group that determine the powers and duties of the government and guarantee certain rights to the people in it (m-w.com)

The Treaty of Versailles (凡爾賽條約) was the primary treaty produced by the Paris Peace Conference at the end of World War I. It was signed on June 28, 1919, by the Allied and associated powers and by Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles and went into effect on January 10, 1920. The treaty gave some German territories to neighboring countries and placed other German territories under international supervision. In addition, Germany was stripped (to deprive of possessions) of its overseas colonies, its military capabilities were severely restricted, and it was required to pay war reparations (戰爭賠款) to the Allied countries. The treaty also created the League of Nations 國際聯盟. (www.britannica.com)

Comprador: a Chinese agent engaged by a foreign establishment in China to have charge of its Chinese employees and to act as an intermediary in business affairs (m-w.com)

Bolshevism: the doctrine (主義) or program of the Bolsheviks advocating violent overthrow (推翻) of capitalism (m-w.com)

2019年2月4日星期一

抗生素與腸道

Dysbiosis
Does taking antibiotics change the composition of the microbiota? And if it does, how long does the effect last? Most people will have experienced the bloating and diarrhea that often seem to accompany a course of antibiotics. It is the most common side effect of antibiotic treatment, and of course it is the result of disruption to the microbiota --- dysbiosis. Usually, it clears up within a few days of finishing treatment. But what of the microbes left behind? Do they regain a normal healthy balance?

Evidence
A team of researchers in Sweden asked this very question in 2007. They were particularly interested in what happens to Bacteroides species, as these bacteria specialize in digesting carbohydrates from plants and they have a big impact on human metabolism. The researchers split a group of healthy volunteers into two, and gave half of them the antibiotic clindamycin for seven days, and the other half no treatment at all. The gut microbes of those given clindamycin were dramatically affected immediately after receiving the drugs. The Bacteroides, in particularly, sharply declined in their diversity. The microbiota of both groups were assessed every few months, but by the end of the stdu the Bacteroides of the clindamycin group had sill not returned to their original composition. Their treatment had finished two years previously.

Overweight
Epidemiological studies had shown that human babies given antibiotics in the first six months were more likely to become overweight than those who made it past their first birthday without being exposed to the drugs. The same went for farm animals --- to get the best weight-boosting effect, it's important to start providing antibiotics as early as possible.

AOBs
David Whitlock was a chemical engineer who studied the microbes found in the soil. While collecting the soil samples from a stable yard in 2001, he was asked why horses loved to roll in the dirt. He didn't know, but the question got him thinking. Whitlock knew that soil and natural water sources contained a lot of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOBs). He also knew that sweat contained ammonia, and he wondered if horses and other animals used the AOBs in the soil to manage the ammonia build-up on their skin.

Collen, A. (2015) 10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness. London: William Collins.

Challenge

The one major factor that motivated people was the work itself. If the work was exciting and interesting, the worker looked forward to doing it and was motivated to do a good job.

That is what every successful person loves: the game. The chance for self-expression. The chance to prove his or her worth, to excel (勝過), to win.

Carnegie, D. (1981). How to Win Friends & Influence People (Revised Ed.) New York, NY: Pocket Books.

Sushi

為何香港人比日本人長壽?
只想到飲食習慣這原因。

抹手紙

環保團體時常針對港人用紙數量,
但又有沒有考慮到乾手機有幾虧。

明白與實踐

明白與實踐是兩碼子的事。
至理名言也許不難明白,
但是在生活裡實踐一點也不容易。

怦然心動

怦音乒

iPhone 配件

iPhone 6s 手機是不錯的,
但跟機原廠耳機和數據線就略為遜色。