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lázsló almásy describes darb el arbeʿin, the slave caravan route
21st of july, 2010 post·meridiem 11:59

a few paragraphs from lászlóalmásyâs
book âschwimmerin der wüsteâ, from the description of the darbel
arbeÊ¿in درب اÙاربعÙÙ , thehistorical caravan route from the
sudan to the nile valley:

âdie im mittel- und südsudanniedergelassenen arabischen
sklavenhändler trieben hier jedes jahr ihrelebende ware zu dem
berühmten sklavenmarkt in assiut. die unglücklichenneger legten
diese schreckliche wüstenstrecke zu fuà zurück, nur die kinderund
jungen mädchen durften auf kamelrücken reisen, da sie am markt
diehöchsten preise erzieltenâ¦

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fast unvorstellbar sind leid und qual einersolchen sklavenkarawane,
wenn sie sich auf den mehrere hundert kilometerlangen
wüstenstrecken von brunnen zu brunnen, von oase zu oase
vorwärtswälzte. die stärksten männer trieb man in dem âschebaâ,
einem an ihrem halsbefestigen doppelten gabelholz, das je zwei
menschen zusammenband, um sie soin ihrer bewegungsfreiheit
einzuschränken, damit sie ihre grausamen wärternicht angreifen
konnten. wer sich die füÃe wundgetreten hatte, schlepptesich
weiter, solange er konnte. wenn er zusammensackte und ihn nicht
einmalmehr die âkurbaschâ, die aus nilpferdleder gefertigte
peitsche, zumaufstehen bewegen konnte, wurde er einfach
zurückgelassen. die die karawanenbegleitenden geier bereiteten dem
unglücklichen bald ein ende.
gordonpascha, den Ãgyptens vizekönig ismail khedive von 1874 bis
1879 in den sudansandte, um mit dem sklavenhandel schluà zu machen,
teilt in seinem berichtmit, daà von den 80 000 bis 100 000
sklaven, die von dar fur jährlich nachnorden verschleppt wurden,
nur rund 7Â 000 bis 8Â 000 lebend in assiutankamen.â

âhere, every year, the arabic slave traders who had settledin
southern and central sudan drove their living wares to the famous
slavemarket of assiut. of theseslaves, only children and young women
travelled by camel, since they fetchedthe best price at market; the
rest of the unhappy blacks made their way [c. 900 km] by foot.
the suffering and torture of these slave caravans,tramping forward
from watering hole to watering hole, from oasis to oasis,for
hundreds of kilometres, are almost unimaginable. to make sure there
wasno chance of them attacking their guards, the strongest men were
drivenalong while wearing the âshebaâ, a wooden double-y collar that
bound two mentogether, limiting their movement. if a slaved damaged
his foot, he keptmoving forward, as long as he could. if he
collapsed, not feeling thescourge of the âkurbash,â the
hippopotamus-leather whip, he was simply leftthere [to become one of
the many camel and human skeletons that showed theroute of the
caravans, even when almásy was travelling it]. the
vulturesaccompanying the caravan ended things for the unlucky soul
quick enough.
gordon pasha, sent to sudan by the egyptian viceroy ismail khedive
from 1874to 1879 to end the slave trade, reported that of the 80,000
to 100,000slaves sent yearly from darfur, only 7,000 to 8,000 made
it alive toassiut.â

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enkephalitis ⦠ÐеÑелÑман is my homeboy ⦠obstipation 14th of
june, 2010 post·meridiem 04:56

minor language detail that i havenât seen documented elsewhere, so i
may aswell write it up here. in english, in rcsiand as far as i can
tell in the other medical schools in ireland, the greekroot âcephâ
(from κεÏαλή, âheadâ), is usuallypronounced as /kÉf/. so
âanencephalyâ is /ænÉnËkÉfÉlɪ/
, âcephalosporinâ is /ËkÉfælÉspoÊɹɪn/. one example of encephalitis
written toreflect this spelling, by someone whoâs apparently not a
medic, is here;the original poster writes the word âenkephalitisâ. the
oed doesnâtlist this pronunciation at all, so iâve no idea of its age.

on another subject entirely, for any nerds who remain reading this,
itoccurred to me back in aught-six, after reading this,
that the world needs a tshirt that says âÐеÑелÑман is myhomeboyâ,
in the same spirit as the comicâs âknuth is my homeboyâ shirt. all
theseyears later, to that end, zazzle.iehave such a tshirt;
surprisingly difficult to achieve, given most of theonline tshirt
templating places donât accept cyrillic text!

word of the day: obstipation has nothing to do with fruit;
instead, it meansconstipation that is so serious the patient canât pass
wind.

last comment from dave on the 15th of june at 12:51
last week on have i got news for you, in the middle of some banter
about a squid, penny smith said the word /kephalopod/, so the
pronunciation is out there in the wild to some degree.

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afghan keyboard layouts for windows xp, vista, etc. 7th of june, 2010
post·meridiem 03:34

michael everson and roozbeh pournader wrote up a document
backin 2003, describing the keyboard layouts that they proposed for
afghanistanunder the aegis of the un.in may this year, michael kaplan
of microsoft said that the dataprovided in that document didnât help in
providing those layouts on windows;so to that end, iâve put up those
keyboard layouts in the microsoft keyboardlayout creator format.
theyâre available here:
* pashto: source, binary (suitable for install on awindows machine).
* dari (the persian of afghanistan): source, binary.
* uzbek (in arabic script): source, binary.

the files are all public domain.

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ptomaine ⦠ponseti club-foot technique and the internet 1st of march,
2010 post·meridiem 10:18

an amusing bit of indignant commentary (after my own heart, i admit!)
fromjamesmurray
in the oed here :

ptomaine (ptâ, ËtÉÊmeɪaɪn, ËtÉÊmeɪn). chem.
[ad. it. ptomaina, erroneously formed by professor selmi of bologna,
f. gr. ÏÏÏμα fallen body, corpse; see âineâµ.
asthe gr. combining stem is ÏÏÏμαÏâ, the correct formof the word
would be ptomatine.
prof. selmiâs first paper in annali di chimica (1876) lxii. 165,
announcedthe body as âla potomaina o prima alcaloide dei cadaveriâ;
but this waspartly corrected in his work of 1878 to ptomaina; it is to
be regretted thatthe full correction to ptomatine was not made at its
reception intoenglish, which would also have prevented the rise of the
illiteratepronunciation (tÉÊËmeɪn) like domain. âj.a.h.m.]
the generic name of certain alkaloid bodies found in putrefying animal
andvegetable matter, some of which are very poisonous.
1880 year-bk. pharmacy 40 the identification of these
alkaloidalsubstances, or ptomaines, is of great interest to
toxicologists.
1881 pharmaceutical jrnl. 28 may 984/2 the discovery of professorselmi
as to the formation of the poisonous alkaloids, which he
callsptomaïnes, in the human body after death.
1884 athenæum 28 apr. 534/3 these âcadavericâ alkaloids, or
âptomainesâas they have also been called.1891 lancet 3 oct. 752 the
chemical ferments produced in the system,the albumoses or ptomaines
which may exercise so disastrous an influence.

and thisis encouraging, an unequivocal instance where the internet has
changedmedical practice for the better:

acceptance [of the ponseti technique] byorthopaedic surgeons has
been encouraged by parents who use the internet toseek out surgeons
who use this technique. parents prefer the morenon-surgical approach
and can become strong advocates for thetechnique.

there is an awful lot of decrying of haphazardly-informed patients with
netconnections in the literature from the first few years of the
century, andthis sort of thing is great to see.

the headline here
is lessencouraging, it seems to have been written by someone who didnât
quite readthe article; âmeritocracy is still elitistâ would have been a
betterphrasing. the article itself is interesting for its insights into
britain,if youâre lucky enough to be able to read the whole thing.

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rübezahl ⦠dublinâs wild west ⦠Švejk ⦠skorzeny ⦠this lovely
life 3rd of february, 2010 post·meridiem 11:11

maybe if i write something about rübezahl,
the bearded,male spirit of the sudeten mountains, i wonât forget who he
is a second time(he comes up in Å vejkwhen describing one of the
characters). anyway, i think writing stuff herehelps my memory, or at
least my memory for non-medical things, so i willattempt not to leave
it get remotely as long before i post something again. also, this isnât
ФейÑбÑк, and itâs good to do onlinethings that are not
ФейÑбÑк.

so, iâm still in medicalschool, itâs still interesting, theyâre going a
little easier on us (oron me; many of the others in the class had more
of a natural sciencesbackground when starting), and we actually had a
christmas holiday worth thename this year, the exams were scheduled
before it, not after it. iâmin blanchardstown, a young suburb of dublin
with a well-furnished hospital,where we attend lectures and go on
attachment to various teams, standingaround while actual doctors solve
peopleâs problems. have started anapplication for the usmle
step 1, intending to take it in early september, and if i can
actuallymanage to register for it (there are, letâs say, local,
under-communicatedhurdles) iâll have a very, umm, academic summer.

i read the good soldier Å vejk, asmentioned above, in german
translation by grete reiner, and the language washard going; my german
is from berlin, and the book, very correctly, wastranslated into an
austrian german. i snorted, and laughed, and iâm glad iread it; i am
certain, though, that i missed lots of what would have sentsomeone with
a background closer to haÅ¡ekâs into paroxysms of laughter. iâmlucky
enough to be able to read flann oâbrien with that advantage, so
iâmregretful that i canât do it for this.

from haÅ¡ek to someone else born in austria-hungary, but who couldnât
be moredifferent in allegiances and personalityâi followed up Å vejk
with ottoskorzenyâs autobiography.
skorzeny, before running a sheep farm in the curragh, was an
enthusiasticnazi and an excellent soldier, most known for spiriting
away mussolini fromthe care of the government that succeeded his in
rome. his (skorzenyâs)intelligence comes through in the text, but itâs
clear that heâs doer, not awriter (or perhaps itâs clear that good
editors wanted nothing to do withthe book!), and he describes fighting
a war in an engaged, committed waythat no-one in haÅ¡ekâs book comes
close to. it is a losing war, though, andthe tone of the book reflects
that in a way that none of the warmemoirs in english i read as a
teenager do (e.g. the various colditz books,or pierreclostermannâs the
big show ).

of the various medical journal papers and columns that came up in
mysyndication reader over the last few months, this bookreview
struck me, especially; thereâs an awful lot of work done thesedays to
keep alive premature babies, which is great when the child ishealthy,
but when all that work means a child survives who is not going tohave
any sort of quality of life, who is going to demand years of
herculeancommittment from its parents eventually followed by dying
young, andâmostrelevantly hereâwhen their parents pleaded against the
artificialresuscitation of their premature, very low birth-weight twins
at theirbirth, the laws that forced that need some revision. or maybe
hard casesmake bad law, but it does seem that the law was actually
aimed at this case. shhh, for a limited time only, the text of the bmj
article is here.

word of the day: a carminative is an agent that promotes flatulence;
thegerman is karminativum, the spanish carminativo
.

last comment from aidan kehoe on the 3rd of february at 23:30
and now i realise that part of why i wasnât posting was that this site
is still on mysql, and its version-incompatibilities in how it deals
with character encodings had been driving me mildly crazy. why i didnât
write it on postgres in the first place, i do not know.

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rcsi gep 2013 facebook group. 18th of april, 2009 post·meridiem 07:42

i have a reasonable amount of gооgleâ¢juice here, so for those who
arelooking into it, this is the facebook group for those who got a
place at thercsi graduate entry programme, starting2009, graduating
2013:

http://​www.​facebook.​com/​group.​php?gi
d=71193943121

how it works with the places is that the north americans will start
gettingoffers presently, and those of us from the eu will begin getting
them at thestart of august. so i donât think there are are any
objections to thelatter joining the group for the moment; it is
super-useful for orientingyourself, sign up if this is relevant to you.

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