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The last few years, we've heard stories in the media about an influx of norovirus on cruise vacations – mostly due to large numbers of people residing in close proximity, traveling to foreign waters, eating and drinking new foods, and exposing themselves to unfamiliar bacteria. Norovirus isn't exclusive to cruise ships, but it is a concern to keep in mind when you're preparing for your next floating vacation destination. Norovirus is an infection that induces a sudden onset of vomiting and diarrhea and is highly contagious, as it spreads rapidly through close contact with an infected person. As Cruise Minus advises, it's important to pack oral hydration supplies, and treatments for diarrhea. re:iimmune® just so happens to be both of those things in one package!
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Britain's Oldest Goldfish Passes Away At The Age of 44
By Abishek Last updated Jun 28, 2019
The oldest goldfish which was as a prize at a funfair in 1974, has unfortunately passed away aged 44. 'George' was received as a prize alongside another fish called 'Fred' by Keith Allies, 75, as a romantic gesture for his then 18-year-old girlfriend, Mary.
The couple who got married five years later, kept the goldfish as pets. The two went on to outlive the family dogs. George surprised everybody by living for such a long time despite having a ten-year life span.
Unfortunately, the loving pet passed away before celebrating his 45th birthday. Fred had passed away two years ago aged 42 and now George will be buried alongside him in the couple's garden.
Former bank worker Mary, 62, said the family had been left heartbroken at the passing of their beloved pet fish.
She said: "I called my daughter Emma in tears. After all these years he became a part of the family. He'd been struggling to swim for a around a month and hadn't been the same since Fred died."
Meanwhile, Mary thought that George would outlive them both after being so strong for so many years.
She added: "We didn't think they would last a few years – let alone 40. We started to believe we'll be the ones to go first. I think the secret to their long life was regular exercise, a diet of goldfish flakes and regular water changes.
"They were little celebrities in our community, people would tell us, 'You've got the oldest goldfish in Britain and possibly the world.'"
Retired engineer Keith, 75, said previously: "I was so excited when I heard Fred and George are the oldest living goldfish in the country and possibly the world. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they are my best buddies, so I'm so happy for them.
"We go on holiday to Devon a lot, but I can never be away from my babies for too long so I have to drive back after a week or so. They're still as healthy and active as they were when we first got them – no-one can believe how old they are.
"We first had a little bowl for them, but after a year we upsized to a square tank that was three feet wide. They've now been through seven bowls in total, but we only ever fill them with tap water. The secret is feeding them regularly and showing them a lot of fuss."
Well, it can be said that George and Fred have definitely left behind a legacy that will be hard to match.
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Reasons to use our Chaddesden conveyancing solicitors
1 Regardless other companies may claim it may be important to pop into your lawyer to sign legal papers. There are various parties with with an interest in a conveyancing transaction without having to add Royal Mail into the pot.
2 The Chaddesden conveyancing firms that are listed are dedicated to providing value for money, efficient and accessible conveyancing service to home buyers, sellers and remortgagors in Chaddesden
3 Personal touch and a wealth of expertise are key benefits that you should seek when choosing conveyancing solicitors. Chaddesden property deals can become a lot more complicated due to poor communication between all the parties. The lawyers listed endeavour to make sure that communication channels are open and act on arising issues and developments instantly.
4 Chaddesden property lawyers are likely to have connections at the local Land Registry Office, Local Authority and property agents
5 Lawyer conveyancing solicitors have extremely good personal links with Chaddesden estate agents and work very closely with them and local surveyors so as to ensure transactions proceed expeditiously.
Examples of recent conveyancing in Chaddesden since October 2022*
Recently asked questions about conveyancing in Chaddesden
When will exchange of contracts happen for residential conveyancing in Chaddesden and do I need to be at the solicitors office?
If you are in close proximity to our conveyancing solicitors in Chaddesden you are welcome to attend to sign contracts. However, the firms we recommend supply a national conveyancing service and provide as equally diligent and professional a job for you when dealing with you by post or email. The signing of the purchase agreement is not the point of no return. Signing on the dotted line is necessary for the firm to address the formalities when the time is right, which will usually be very shortly after signing. The procedure is is usually a five minute process, although where a long "chain" is in the mix, since the process requires the relevant party's solicitor (not necessarily a conveyancing solicitor in Chaddesden)to be in the office available at the end of the phone to exchange contracts.
A friend advised me that in buying a property in Chaddesden there could be various restrictions limiting what one can do in terms of external alterations to the property. Is this right?
There are a number of properties in Chaddesden which have some sort of restriction or requirement of consent to external variations. Part of the conveyancing in Chaddesden should determine what restrictions are applicable and advising you as part of a ROT that should be sent to you.
My wife and I purchasing a detached bungalow in Chaddesden. We would like to an extension at the rear at the property.Will legal conveyancing on the property include checks to determine if these works are prohibited?
Your solicitor will review the deeds as conveyancing in Chaddesden can on occasion reveal restrictions in the title deeds which prohibit categories of changes or need the permission of a 3rd party. Many works need local authority planning permissions and approval under the building regulations. Certain areas are designated conservation areas and special planning restrictions apply which often prevent or impact extensions. You should check these issues with a surveyor ahead of any purchase.
I recently had an offer accepted on an apartment in Chaddesden. My mortgage broker suggested a solicitor. I paid an advanced payment of £150. A few days later, the solicitor contacted me sheepishly admitting that they were not on the Lloyds conveyancing panel. Am I right in thinking that I should be due a refund?
You should be able to recover this from the law firm if they were not on the Lloyds panel. They should have asked at the outset which lender you were obtaining a mortgage with. An important lesson to readers of this site is to check that the lawyers are on the appropriate lender panel.
The deeds to our home can not be found. The solicitors who conducted the conveyancing in Chaddesden 4 years ago are no longer around. Will I be able to sell the house?
Assuming you have a registered title the information relating to your ownership will be held by the Land Registry with a Title Number. It is possible to carry out a search at the Land Registry, identify your house and obtain up to date copies of the Registered Entries for less than a fiver. Where the property is Leasehold then the Land Registry will also normally retain a certified duplicate of the Registered Lease and again, a copy can be ordered for a small fee.
I am purchasing a new build house in Chaddesden with a mortgage from Birmingham Midshires. The developers would not budge the price so I negotiated 6k of additionals instead. The estate agent advised me not inform my lawyer about the side-deal as it may jeopardize my mortgage with Birmingham Midshires. Should I keep quiet?.
All lenders require a Disclosure of Incentives Form from the builder of any new build, converted or renovated property, It is available online from the Lenders' Handbook page on the CML website. CML form is completed and handed to the lender's surveyor when the inspection is done.
Lenders have different policies on incentives. Some accept none at all, cash or physical, while others will accept cash incentives up to 5%.
Hard to understand why the representative of a builder would be suggesting you withold information from a solicitor when all this will be clearly visible on forms the builder has to supply to its solicitor, the buyer's solicitor and the surveyor.
Over the last few months I have been searching for a ground for flat up to £235,500 and identified one round the corner in Chaddesden I like with amenity areas and railway links nearby, the downside is that it's only got 52 years unexpired on the lease. There is not much else in Chaddesden suitable, so just wondered if I would be making a grave error purchasing a lease with such few years left?
If you need a home loan that many years will likely be a potential deal breaker. Discount the price by the expected lease extension will cost if not already taken into account. If the current owner has owned the premises for a minimum of 2 years you could ask them to start the process of the extension and then assign it to you. You can add 90 years to the current lease term and have £0 ground rent by law. You should consult your conveyancing solicitor about this matter.
I'm converting the mortgage on my current property to a BTL mortgage with Platform Home Loans Ltd and intend to use the remaining equity towards further house. The location we are talking about is Chaddesden. Will your lawyers be able to act for the two mortgage companies and tie in the two deals?
Do use our comparison tool on this site to be sure that the conveyancers are on the appropriate lender panels. On the basis that they are your solicitor should be able to tie up the two deals but you should have a chat with you solicitor and specify your desired outcome and needs.
Sample of conveyancing solicitors in Chaddesden regulated by the SRA
It is important to note that the listed firms do not limit their work for conveyancing in Chaddesden but also conveyancing throughout England and Wales.
Alexander & Co. Solicitors Llp, 2 Chapel Street, Spondon, Derby, Derbyshire, DE21 7JP
Joanne Jones Limited, 2 Stuart Street, Derby, Derbyshire, DE1 2EQ
Simpson Jones Llp, 2 Stuart Street, Derby, Derbyshire, DE1 2EQ
J H Powell & Co, Cathedral Chambers, Amen Alley, Derby, Derbyshire, DE1 3GT
Flint Bishop Llp, St. Michaels Court, St. Michaels Lane, Derby, Derbyshire, DE1 3HQ
Residential Landlord and Tenant Conveyancing solicitors in Chaddesden
The firms listed below are a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Chaddesden practicing in landlord and tenant law and on the regulations governing different types of tenancies. This may include advice on service charge disputes and the right to manage
Planning law solicitors in Chaddesden regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority
The solicitors listed below are a non-comprehensive list of solicitors in Chaddesden with expertise in planning law. The solicitors can give expert legal advice on all aspects of planning, including special planning controls
Beightons Solicitors, 4 Victoria Street, Derby, Derbyshire, DE1 1EQ
Underwood Vinecombe Llp, Telford House, Outrams Wharf, Little Eaton, Derby, Derbyshire, DE21 5EL
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Petra has long pursued a career in the tourism industry. Before joining the management of the DRFG investment group, she was a manager of a luxury hotel in the centre of Brno. Between 2014 and 2018, she also acted as a member of Brno City Council. She was responsible for the tourism and marketing of the Moravian metropolis. She continues to be involved in the public sector – she chairs the Tourism Committee of the South Moravian Regional Council and is a member of the Supervisory Board of Tourist Authority South Moravia and a member of the Council for Marketing and Tourism, a working group of the Brno City Council.
Besides managing internal processes in DFRG and chairing the Supervisory Board, she is involved in charity work. She is the vice-chairperson of the Board of Trustees of DRFG Foundation, which supports a number of social, cultural and sports projects. In the past, she was an external lecturer at Mendel University in Brno and a member of examination committees for final bachelor's exams at the Faculty of Business and Management of Brno University of Technology. For several years, she also gave lectures at the Faculty of Law of Masaryk University during her doctoral study programme. She was awarded the academic titles of JUDr. and Ph.D. at the same faculty.
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more majestic. The clouds a mattress
too far away to touch. I lean over,
the bird blotted out by my big fat head.
The doctor who caught me when first I fell
to earth remarked—Baby got a big brain.
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Colombia. Drugs. Violence. Guerrillas. Death. Corruption.
There is a common misconception within the US- and other first world countries- that these words are synonymous. I decided to write my Master's thesis on La Violencia, or "The Violence", in Colombia to prove that this notion was terribly false. From 1948 to 1958, the country experienced a massive genocide that could only be compared to Uganda in terms of devastating, continuous political violence. While the Conservatives and Liberals shed each other's blood, did this mean that the Colombian people as a whole were innately predispositioned to kill?
Not hardly. I spent over two years of my life reading Colombian literature, non-fiction, and Political Science. I gazed upon photograph after photograph, painting after painting, trying to grasp what went on, and what Colombian identity signified. I talked to friends and strangers about their country. This was not enough.
After volunteering for a month in Managua, Nicaragua, working in the city dump, I headed south to Costa Rica with a couple of friends. Another friend met me in San Jose, Costa Rica, and we backpacked throughout the country, crossed the border into Panama, and did the same there. I wanted him to come to Colombia with me. He refused. So I went by myself.
When I arrived in Bogota, I admit I was nervous. I couldn't shake the statistics or details of La Violencia from my mind. The images I'd seen of torture, disembowelment, decapitation, and other types of violence were etched into my brain like a horrible prison tattoo. I breathed deeply, pushed those thoughts into a corner of my mind, and went about exploring the city as I would any other. All of that heinous cruelty was a thing of the past.
As I walked throughout the city, I realized that what I had told myself was true. Men sold ice cream on the street, children fed pigeons in the Plaza de Bolivar, families danced in sprinklers, city life bustled, churches towered into the sky, and people gathered in the park to buy artesanias, or hand-crafted items. It was like many other Latin American cities, and I felt safe.
There was a difference, however. Bogatanos were some of the warmest, most open people I'd met on that trip. They spoke candidly about their past, about the media, the stigma placed upon them, and their daily lives. I fell in love with the city and its people, architecture, food, art, fashion, and surrounding mountain scenery.
After Bogota, I continued on to Medellin, where Pablo Escobar used to reign, and Cartagena. Each place was distinct, but a common thread ran within the people. They would always remember their history, but this did not define them. Like anyone else in the world, they were living in the present, hoping for a better future.
I was never more sure of the widespread misunderstanding of Colombian people than when I was walking the streets of Bogota, each scene being absorbed, happy that my suspicions were right. While every single country in this world has problems, the media is quick to inspire fear in others in an attempt to maintain control. The vision of Colombia has been greatly misconstrued in many foreigners' eyes, and this perspective couldn't be further from the truth.
What a great article! I have heard great things about modern-day Colombia. It's a shame the media has to go and muck up places. It seems that countries that suffer the worst from a bruised past are those in lesser developed areas. It's too bad. Those are the ones that need to shed light on their positives the most.


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Okay, so as I said before, I have no idea what to do with this roleplay. Nor do I have the time to really be involved with this rp. So I am putting this on a hiatus, until Hannah comes back in 18 months. I am sory Mulan, you have put some work into this rp already, but I just think all the mythology involved in this rp is too much work to even try to explain. Also, there are quite a few who have expressed lack of intrest into roleplaying in here anymore. So I am sorry, but I am doing this. Thank you all for taking part in this rp and if you still want to take part in this after 18 months, then please do so.


We are blown away by the response that our Double Vision installation received during Clerkenwell Design Week. In 3 days more than 30,000 visitors walked the show route taking and posting photos and selfies with our installation. In the numerous social media posts, the blue-and-white facade was definitely the favourite of the two visions. Not only the visitors, but also the media took note of our installation. In fact, Dezeen Magazine put our Double Vision in the top 5 of best installations. Thank you, Sally Hogarth, for your uplifting design.


Splash around with Travel Expert Stephanie Abrams live on location at the brand new Six Flags Great Escape Lodge and Indoor Water Park, 38,000 square feet of warm water adventure, in Queensbury, New York at the foot of Lake George!
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And the inside scoop on the brand new 38,000 square foot indoor year-round water park at the Six Flags Great Escape Lodge and Indoor Water Park in Queensbury, New York!
The Embassy Suites NYC, a great place to stay to enjoy the festival!
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It does not have to be a spa package if you are looking for health, even a long hot bath, relaxing music and a good book. It is time for you to focus on your health and learn to balance healthy choices against the potential harm caused by overeating, alcohol consumption and smoking.
Today, you are dealing with a very sensitive person who has a lot of influence on your future. To keep that person calm and open-minded about your ideas, you have to be a little submissive. You may not be so attentive to someone else, but the special efforts you are making today will definitely pay off. If you do not behave as selflessly as possible, you could cause havoc without realizing it.


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Swimmergate redux
I'm not the only person - as this Swimming World Magazine article reveals - to hear the news of the kerfuffle in Rio involving drunk American Olympic swimmers and think of what happened in Seoul in 1988.
Comfort Women, nationalism, and the inculcation of anti-Japanese feeling
[Note: There are some disturbing images below.]
The image above was posted on Facebook along with a message in Korean asking for support for this to be the new 100,000 won bill; it received 31,000 likes last I looked at it (awhile ago now, admittedly). For me, the movie title 'How to lose friends and alienate people' comes to mind. Well, it's not the first time a "ruthless political terrorist" has been suggested for the 100,000 won bill (the difference being that the above An Jung-geun bill hasn't been officially suggested). Should something like this come to pass, however, it would be amusing if Japan issued a bill with Hideyoshi Toyotomi and the 'ear mound' that stands in Kyoto on it.
On a similar topic was this column by 'foolsdie' in the Korea Times, titled 'Are we still allies?' which complained about Donald Trump's comments on the US-ROK alliance before turning in another direction:
Then, Obama's recent visit to Hiroshima acted as a wedge. It's laudable for him to try to free the world of the fetters of nuclear weapons. But here, memories of Japan's brutal occupation remain fresh even after the passage of 70 years. Obama was perhaps too engrossed in the heat of the moment to say out loud that the nuclear attacks were the result of Japan's aggression and those killed and maimed were the victims of its failed leadership. Ironically, his visit has freed ultranationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his ilk from the atrocities it had committed. Human rights are one of two pillars of U.S. foreign policy, with nonproliferation being the other. For sure, Obama's visit didn't help much on human rights.
Regarding "memories of Japan's brutal occupation remain fresh even after the passage of 70 years" (and I wonder why that is?), perhaps it's worth noting that most countries don't dedicate their education system and media to instilling historical bitterness quite like the Koreas, and thus not everyone believes that any given Japan-related news item is an occasion to dredge up memories of suffering. But I'll concede that it's a great way to keep people's minds off more important things. The Korean government itself apparently had no such complaints; a foreign ministry official said, "In such a historic speech, it is meaningful that he clearly mentioned Koreans, putting them on par with American and Japanese victims." Which might suggest that confirming victim status is a diplomatic victory. The problem is that it seems like aspiring to victim status is part of the Korean national identity, and thus there are some who would insist that Koreans' suffering should be elevated above everyone else's.
Michael Breen touched on the topic of Korea-Japan relations when he wondered if the comfort woman statue in front of the Japanese Embassy should be moved to the exit of Gangnam Station near where a woman was murdered because of her gender in May by a man who had been rejected by women. (Of course, he was mentally ill. It's interesting how when someone commits a crime that could be construed as sexist or racist (like murdering a foreign English teacher or a military doctor) they're often described as 'mentally unstable' or 'deranged'.) Breen describes
an interview with a prominent expert on prostitution. When I asked what she thought of the comfort women issue, she asked me to put my pen down so that she could rant politically incorrectly off-the-record.
"It's a joke," she said. "Pure hypocrisy."
We all know Japan was guilty of terrible things up to 1945, but, she said, this chauvinistic focus on justice for a historical matter is popular with Koreans because it conveniently distracts us from the real issue and our own continued guilt.
The real issue is the attitude in Korea of men towards women and human trafficking in the sex industry that operates on the scale it does as a consequence of that attitude.
That explained for me the odd fact that the comfort women story did not surface until 40 years after the war. People in 1945 were of course angry about the Japanese occupation but the comfort women did not appear important then, few even knew about it because male attitudes toward women and the trafficking of young women to service them hadn't changed with national liberation.
In a Korea Times column, Maija Rhee Devine (who will give a lecture for the RAS in September on the comfort women) asks "Are comfort women lying?" Her ultimate answer is no, but she points to criticism of the Korean Council for Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, who are suspected of having "coached" the comfort women in some of their testimony.
In the spring of 2014 I visited the Museum of Korean Modern Literature in Incheon and came across a large exhibit on the first floor about the comfort women. There were many comic books presented with each page as a poster affixed in order along the walls. One, below, was titled '70-year-long nightmare':
As always (as I've noted before regarding films here, and here, and here) it all begins with an overly simplistic tale of happy-go-lucky innocent children picking flowers (hell, even Peppermint Candy 'begins' this way) before history (or an evil invader) bowls them over.
Another was titled "Where are we going?" - I've posted a few pages below:
One has to admire the design of this work, though I couldn't help starting to feel that perhaps the artists were depicting the women's suffering a little too enthusiastically. And then I saw this comic:
What follows (I chose not to photograph it) is an incredibly graphic depiction of the rape of a child. That she was a child was made clear by the size of her breasts and lack of pubic hair - it was actually that graphic - and I was appalled that something like that was on display for people of all ages to view at the museum. That said, I wasn't particularly surprised by it, considering the apparent approval there is for such depictions of suffering, as well as the lack of concern there has been regarding raising the low age of consent in Korea. It also brought to mind this photo (of a foreign woman) posted in public as a photo contest entry at the Boryeong Mud Festival in 2011, at least in terms of female nudity being thoughtlessly allowed in a public forum. Also worth remembering is a blog post by Oranckay back in 2004 when the Korean government went out of its way to block its citizens from seeing videos of the beheading of Kim Sun-il in Iraq. In that post he referenced a Korean feminist website (perhaps Ilda) which criticized the government for trying to hide images of the death of a Korean male from the citizenry while letting images of the bodies of prostitute Yun Geum-i (killed by a G.I. in 1992) and the two girls run over by a U.S. bridge-layer (in 2002) proliferate without comment. These images were used to mobilize resistance to the U.S. presence in Korea, and in thinking of this - and of depictions of the comfort women - I'm reminded of a passage in Sheila Miyoshi Jager's 2003 book Narratives of Nation Building in Korea : A Genealogy of Patriotism which, while it refers to anti-USFK campaigns, is also applicable in some ways to the comfort women issue (and is very applicable to Anti-English Spectrum):
Like Sin [Ch'ae-ho], chuch'eron [the (supposedly) North Korean-influenced anti-imperialist 'philosophy' of leftist South Korean students popular from the mid-1980s to the 1990s] sees the entire history of the Korean people as an epic struggle to overcome foreign domination and feudal oppression. The historian's task, in other words, entails the examination of the experience and legacy of the Korean people's struggle to preserve their "core" identity. [...] Perceived as a significant threat to this core identity, miscegenation became associated with a whole host of related themes about the defense of the social body - the retrieval of a superior "core" Korean identity in the name of a phantasmic Korean essence. The ability of the foreign male to penetrate (literally) the inner and inviolable sanctum of Korean women and to establish conjugal alliances with them was perceived not only as a threat to the viability of the family, but as an act that undermined the fundamental cohesion and identity of the Korean nation. Thus we find in Korea that those women who formed marriage alliances across racial lines were popularly perceived as being women of "loose" morals: prostitutes, bar hostesses, or entertainers. In fact the were represented as the polemical inversion of the idealized virtuous female associated with Korea's traditional romance narratives. By allowing themselves to be appropriated by the West, these women were simultaneously perceived as being victims of Western imperialism and faithless profiteers of American capitalism. Both pitied and despised, the whore thus became the symbol of the nation's shame as well as the rallying point for national resistance. (Pages 71-72)
One can't help but notice the role women other than the comfort women play in depictions of the colonial era. Years ago I posted excerpts of children's books depicting the colonial era, which depict certain events the publishers thought were important, such as the murder of Queen Min by Japanese assassins;
The torture of Yu Gwan-sun by Japanese police;
The suppression of the Samil protests by Japanese police;
The assassination of D.W. Stevens in 1908;
The assassination of Ito Hirobumi in 1909;
Also included was Yun Bong-gil's bomb attack in Shanghai in 1932. What we see there, of course, is that the (passive) women serve as victims to motivate the (active) men to carry out acts of terrorism justifiable revenge. Likewise, images like these posted in a public space seem to promote or justify a continued antipathy towards Japan:
Having been reading about Canada's participation in World War I lately (in Marching As to War: Canada's Turbulent Years, 1899-1953 by Pierre Berton) I couldn't help but remember the final stanza of "In Flanders Fields":
As is noted in the poem's Wikipedia entry,
[Paul] Fussell criticized the poem in his work The Great War and Modern Memory (1975). He noted the distinction between the pastoral tone of the first nine lines and the "recruiting-poster rhetoric" of the third stanza. Describing it as "vicious" and "stupid", Fussell called the final lines a "propaganda argument against a negotiated peace".
Is the propagation of such images as those above (especially in a manner meant to communicate to the young) not, in its own way, similar propaganda? This is not to say Korea is the only side at fault, of course - political realities in both Japan and Korea militate against solving the Comfort Women and Dokdo issues, and Japan's apologies (listed here - to 2005 - by Konrad Lawson) have often fell short of the mark (though a cultural tendency towards indirectness plays a part in this). Another elephant in the room is the effect on Japanese attitudes towards the war of the U.S. occupation of Japan and the American decision to preserve the imperial institution and protect the Emperor from prosecution during the Tokyo trials; as John Dower has put it, if the Emperor, in whose name the war was fought, wasn't going to be held responsible, why should anyone else feel guilty? One can only hope that, much like an ascendant Germany pushed the UK and France into an alliance before WWI, China's rise will have a similar effect at some point in the future. But as long as the Korean Gordian Knot - its division - remains in place, other problems related to mid-20th century history will be difficult to solve. An insistence in Korea on allowing displays (and popular culture) to portray Korea as a historical victim to inculcate historical bitterness in order to distract the populace and/or encourage a nationalist belief in Korea's moral superiority strikes me as something that will be counterproductive in the long run - even if it has its uses in the short term.
Labels: Colonial Era, Education, Japan, RASKB, Xenophobia or Nationalism
Interviewed in the Korea Times
Jon Dunbar at the Korea Times interviewed me a couple weeks ago about my time in Korea this summer (spent studying Korean at SNU, among other things), future plans, and plans for the blog. As I say in the interview, I plan to blog here when I find the time (and over the next few weeks I should have some time at last, particularly to reflect on the changes Seoul has undergone in the year I was away) and would never take down the archives here. Many thanks to Jon for posting the interview.
On a somewhat related topic, I got to chat with Colin Marshall while I was in town and enjoyed reading his most recent post at the Los Angeles Review of Books Blog about Michael Stephens' 1990 book Lost in Seoul and Other Discoveries on the Korean Peninsula. I haven't read it or Michael Shapiro's The Shadow in the Sun: A Korean Year of Love and Sorrow (though I'd heard of both) but have read Simon Winchester's 1988 book Korea, a Walk Through the Land of Miracles, as well as Ian Baruma and Pico Iyer's work on the 1988 Olympics and P.J. O'Rourke's writing about the 1987 election (all of which are well worth reading). Having read Colin's post, I'll have to find Stephens' book - it sounds like an interesting read.
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Here's what mine looks like. The other one is Grey and green.
Gdog wrote: I take my travel bcd, fins, mask, light, wetsuit, a few pairs of shorts, and a few tshirts and underwear. I carry on my regs and camera. I mean..what else does a guy need?!
This i could fit 2 sets of: fins, mask, lights, boots towels and a few other misc. things?
I want to try to check only 2 bags when we go on the trip. 1 for dive gear and 1 for clothes.
I am able to fit my bcd, wetsuit, fins, mask, light, shorts and tshirts, all in the one bag. I hate taking 2 checked bags, and while its a bit minimalistic, it works for me. I just plan on laundering the tshirts and shorts halfway thru the trip. I carryon my regs, camera housing, laptop, ect, in a backpack as my personal item. I have my camera travel case as my carryon.
So if you are not taking a bcd, the items you mentioned would fit easily.
Thanks for the help! I hate taking two checked bags as well. At least this way its one checked for me and one checked for my wife makes it a little easier.
I've been using Victorinox for years and they have a great warranty, but even so it's a major hassle to get them fixed at times. Thus, I'll be switching to Costco soon too!
Are you renting bcd? Because that's what takes the most room.
I take my travel bcd, fins, mask, light, wetsuit, a few pairs of shorts, and a few tshirts and underwear. I carry on my regs and camera. I mean..what else does a guy need?!
I''ve had the same costco bag as Gdog for the past 8 years - about 25 dive trips. It looks a bit beat up but the zippers, wheels, handle and material are in good shape and I have no plans on replacing it anytime soon.
Its strong enough I guess. Been on two international trips with it. Plus its cheap enough that if a wheel or something gets broken its only 40 bucks for a new one. I liked it well enough I ended up with two. Its nothing fancy. I usually push the 50 lb limit with it. Im taking it to the Phillipines this february.
Works well, doesn't scream dive gear.
I am looking for a new bag, have worn out a couple. Is this one durable? Wheels strong? I usually am pushing the 50 lb limit. Need to pack my reg as I carry all my camera gear.
I've used this bag or something like it from Costco.
For me the main thing has been a hard shell case, but as light as possible because I want to use my weight allowance on dive gear and not an 11 pound suitcase.
Toughness, and weight are the main points, and as was mentioned above, it doesn't scream dive gear.
I also carry on regs, perscription mask, computers... actually as much as I can. Some airlines weigh carry-ons - be aware, and ready to pay the excess baggage fees, particularly if you're doing a "puddle jumper" like the Caribbean inter island small airlines.
I highly suggest that you carry on expensive items like regs and computers. If your luggage is lost or delayed then you can still dive. On my last trip, I carried on my back plate/wing, fins, regs, mask, and computer.
We have a trip to Mexico in a month for my wife's birthday .
Looking for recommendations on a good light travel suitcase/bag where we can get cloths for the trip in it too?


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Johannesburg [South Africa]: Cricket South Africa (CSA) has revealed that leg-spinner Imran Tahir was verbally and racially abused by a cricket fan at the Wanderers Stadium this weekend.
The alleged incident took place during the pink fourth ODI between India and South Africa which the home side went on to win by five wickets by Duckworth-Lewis method.
Reflecting on the same, the CSA said that Tahir had reported the matter to the stadium security, who subsequently escorted the spinner to identify the man and eject him from the Wanderers.
The CSA and the security team are now investigating the incident of racial abuse directed towards Tahir, ESPNcricinfo reported.
Meanwhile, a video was also emerged on social media featuring Tahir talking to fans.The only words which could be heard from Tahir was him insisting "I have family too".
And the CSA said that they are well aware of the circulated video footage, adding that Tahir had not made any physical contact with the offender or any of the children in the vicinity.
South Africa are currently trailing 1-3 in the six-match ODI series against India.
The two sides will now lock horns in the fifth match at the St George's Park, Port Elizabeth on February 13.


Belize NMS: Mainly fair conditions prevail, moisture increases slightly tonight.
24-hour forecast: Sunny with a few cloudy spells today and cloudy at times tonight. Showers will be isolated today, then increase slightly, mainly over the south tonight.
Today: Winds: E-NE 10-20 kt.; seas: Choppy to moderate.; waves: 3-5 ft.; isolated showers.
Tomorrow: Winds: NE 10-20 kt.; seas: Choppy to moderate.; waves: 3-5 ft.; a few showers,mainly and central and southern areas.
Marine Outlook: Friday night:- Winds E-NE 10-20 kt.; seas: Moderate.; waves: 4-6 ft.; a few showers mostly south.
General Outlook: For Friday and Friday night is for cloudy skies at times with a few showers developing mainly over central and southern areas.
On Ambergris Caye this morning the ESE wind is at 8 mph and our expected high is 84 f. Looks like a great day ahead.
The fog will lift or burn off later this morning, due to clear night sky. The easterly Caribbean wind is slowing down, being slowed and possibly later pushed back by the front of a cold air from the States. The cold front might not get to us, but it leading air is having its effect. The high level air is having very little effect. There have been a few patches of rain, mainly down south.
Looks like today will be sunny after the fog has cleared, then white clouds developing, probably no rain.
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Display at Chaika and shopping in downtown Kiev - Tony Cunnane's Autobiography
Display at Chaika and shopping in downtown Kiev
Soviet tour is on
Weather check
The two air displays by the Red Arrows took place overhead Chaika, a small grass airfield about 10kms NW of the city centre, used mainly by the Soviet equivalent of our Air Training Corps; it was also home for a flying club and for model aircraft flying and go-kart racing. To get to Chaika from Borispol took the Red Arrows seven minutes and involved flying at low level over part of a magnificent forest, across the river Dneiper and around the northern outskirts of the city.
Above: I took this photograph of a Soviet soldier taking pics of the line of 10 Red Arrows Hawks at Borispol. A case of "us watching them watching us". It was all very friendly.
On the Saturday the weather was poor with a lot of low cloud and rain and so the Red Arrows could only perform a rolling display. I remained at Borispol which is how I came to the pic of the Soviet soldier. (He didn't take a pic of me because he had no idea who I was.) Squadron Leader Mick George delivered the public commentary, his own translation of the Red Arrows Manager's text. He travelled from Borispol to Chaika in a Soviet Mi-8 helicopter and was accompanied by Warrant Officer Fleckney who carried a large pile of Red Arrows brochures, in English and Russian, plus stickers and other publicity material. With the benefit of hindsight, we might have had a version the glossy brochure printed in Ukrainian rather than Russian but, since the Soviet Union was still intact at the time of our visit, that might have been undiplomatic. Anyway, the public at Chaika did not seem to mind.
Above: Mike Pilkington also stayed behind at Borispol and signed dozens of brochures and other gizzits for the youngsters who must have had a day off school. (Soviet generals, I learned, never signed autographs.)
Below: Only rarely did I get in photographs but someone took this one of me, with a Soviet engineering officer and the Red Arrows engineering officer almost as soon as we arrived at Borispol. I wonder what those kids are doing now.
The Soviets had not advertised the Chaika displays in advance, for reasons best known to themselves, and so the crowds numbered hundreds rather than thousands. In fact, there were probably more casual observers at Borispol watching the Team take off and land than there were at Chaika. This was rather disappointing because, like any artists, the Red Arrows perform best when they have a large audience. However, those who were there were in raptures - they had never seen anything like it before. As the Red Arrows cleared off to the east, Mick George and Roy Fleckney were besieged by autograph hunters and souvenir-seekers and eventually the airport officials had to come to their rescue so that the helicopter could take off for the return flight to Borispol.
After the debriefing back at Borispol, the Red Arrows pilots met a group of MiG-29 fighter pilots who had been flown in from a nearby air force base and an interesting and lively question and answer session ensued. The MiG pilots were interested in how the Red Arrows pilots are selected and they seemed very surprised to learn that the RAF do not pay them extra money whilst they are serving with the Team! Although of course we did not know it then, we would meet those pilots again the following year at Scampton when they formed part of the Russian Air Force aerobatic team, the Russian Knights (this page), and four of them would be killed in December 1995 on returning to Russia from displays in Malaysia at the same air show as the Red Arrows (this page).
Above: There was a presentation of uniform caps at Borispol after the briefings. This took us by surprise - and we had nothing we could present in exchange. Here our AOC and Red Leader are posing, rather self-consciously, for me and the Soviet photographers, wearing brand-new, straight out of the box, Soviet Air Force caps. I, too, was presented with one but I was not photographed wearing it. I still have it in my wardrobe at home and I am rather proud of it.
That afternoon we were all taken for a cultural tour of Kiev although most of us would have preferred to have been left to our own devices to wander around the city centre shopping for souvenirs. Our hosts had laid on a special visit to a Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life on the outskirts of the city and it would have been churlish not to have gone along. The museum was set in rolling, green countryside that could easily have passed for England at first glance.
We were told by the Intourist guide and his pretty female interpreter that within these grounds were more than 200 windmills, barns, and cottages representing all parts of Ukraine from the Crimea to the Carpathian Mountains. They were spread out along an 11km trail of paths. The buildings, and their very life-like interiors, showed Ukrainian life from the 15th Century to the present time but in truth it was difficult to tell the difference.
Unfortunately, long before our group reached the end of the trail, we had broken up into many small groups and the guide and interpreter were eventually left talking to themselves. I found it rather sad and I felt rather guilty, but I suppose this is an occupational hazard for guides every-where.
Later that afternoon most of us had, at last, an opportunity for doing some shopping but there was depressingly little to buy apart from the inevitable matrioshki, the famous wooden Russian dolls that have other smaller dolls inside and, curiously, cheap musical instruments.
Two of the Red Arrows ground crew bought accordions - not that they could play them, but they seemed too cheap to ignore! Red 5, Flight Lieutenant Dom Riley, not to be outdone, bought a 'cello for £12, while others bought trumpets, bugles and cymbals at knock-down prices.
Later still, fortified by some beer, there was an impromptu musical concert on the 15th floor of the hotel in a lobby close to our rooms. Unfortunately, although everyone played with great gusto and enthusiasm, not a single person knew how to play the instruments they were clutching so the appalling noise can be imagined. What the Ukrainians thought of it I cannot imagine: perhaps they thought it was decadent western music. Dom Riley's 'cello stood, very inconveniently, in the small toilet compartment at the back of the BAe 125 during the flights back to Scampton, the only place Dom deemed safe enough for it!


Fantasy Fix: Will Rickie Fowler be a bright spot in New Orleans?
Starters -- (A-List): Rickie Fowler. Rickie has been solid in his three starts at TPC Louisiana, highlighted by a T-10 in 2012. More importantly, he's finished sixth (Houston) and T-5 (Masters) his last two tournaments.
(B-List): Justin Rose. This isn't a great field and Rose is a great player. Also, he's shot seven straight rounds under par at TPC Louisiana and has finished in the top 15 the past two years.
(B-List): Billy Horschel. The defending champ seems ready for a breakthrough in what has been a sluggish start to 2014. As we pointed out following the Masters, the putter has been holding him back. Way back. That wasn't the case at this tournament last year. Remember this great reaction after his birdie on No. 18?
(C-List): John Senden. The recent winner in Tampa played well at Augusta National before taking last week off. He has four top-20 finishes in New Orleans since 2004.
Bench/Backups: Patrick Reed, Ernie Els, Jerry Kelly, and Ryan Palmer.
Knockout/One-and-done pick: Billy Horschel. We really like Fowler this week, but we used him at the Honda, so we'll take Horschel instead. We're hoping the good vibes from returning to the site of his first PGA Tour win translates into some good putting. Heck, even just a decent week on the greens for the man ranked No. 3 on the PGA Tour in ball-striking could result in a big payday for Horschel -- and another big celebration in New Orleans.
Previously used: Keegan Bradley (Doral), Tim Clark (Sony), Graham DeLaet (Phoenix), Luke Donald (Valspar), Rickie Fowler (Honda Classic), Jim Furyk (Heritage), Bill Haas (Farmers), Charles Howell III (Humana), Freddie Jacobson (Valero), Dustin Johnson (Northern Trust), Martin Laird (Kapalua), Graeme McDowell (Bay Hill), Adam Scott (Masters), Jordan Spieth (Houston), Jimmy Walker (Pebble -- winner!).


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UPDATED: Senior citizens are facing social isolation due to life in quarantine. Their caregivers have more responsibilities now than ever.
Posted byskricker December 7, 2020 Posted inUncategorized
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Safieh Hekmat and her 99-year-old father say hello on a Zoom call.
"I was isolated before COVID," Safieh Hekmat said. "Now it's worse."
Hekmat has been living with her 99-year-old parents and caregiving for them for over 10 years. Her parents have very few pre-existing conditions for their age, but Hekmat said their health and happiness is very dependent on mental stimulation and social interactions.
Since COVID-19 precautions forced their neighbors inside and closed community centers, she has noticed her parents have become more tired, anxious, and lonely. "I have this nagging guilt whenever I leave the house, I call several times to make sure they don't feel lonely," Hekmat said.
Several years ago, Hekmat discovered Iona Senior Services and brought her parents to a Halloween party to meet and socialize with other people their age. Hekmat said even though they were the oldest people there, they had the most fun. "They were dancing, and my Mom was singing. They were the center of attention," she said. "Even though they are old, they can be full of life."
In-person socialization and interactive activities offer a way for seniors with Dementia, Alzheimer's, and other mental impairments to exercise their minds and slow the speed of their condition. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March, Iona has now replaced most of their in-person events, like art-therapy, museum field trips, classes and workshops, with virtual alternatives. Because of these changes, older adults are experiencing cognitive decline at a much faster pace than before the pandemic, reports the CDC. In addition to assisting the elderly participants, Iona's in-person services were also crucial to the mental health of caregivers because it gave them time to focus on their own lives, families and jobs.
Sharon O'Connor is both a caregiver for her elderly father, who is living with Dementia, and the Director of the Wellness and Arts Center at Iona Senior Services in Tenleytown, Washington D.C.
She recently took a year off from leading support groups at Iona and moved to a house 3 miles away from her father so she could take care of him more easily. When she brings him his meals, pre-cooked and ready to eat, she stands six feet away with a mask on. "It's so hard for him" she said. "He gets very lonely." She says his Dementia has worsened because of his "social isolation."
Social isolation is "the lack of social interaction" that can increase a person's risk of premature death from all causes, reports the CDC. It is associated with a 50% increased risk of dementia, 29% increased risk of heart disease, and 32% increased risk of stroke among older adults. This health risk is also compared to and often exceeds that of smoking, obesity and lack of physical activity.
Recommendations for seniors who are at risk for social isolation include having some form of regular exercising, calling friends as often as possible, trying to learn a new skill, or even consider adopting a pet.
The Department of Aging and Community Living (DACL) is an D.C. government agency that provides funding and resources to older adults in the District. About a third of Iona's overall funding comes from DACL. Right now, the agency's website hosts a streamlined collection of information regarding COVID-19 precautions, volunteering opportunities, adult protective services, wellness centers, transportation resources, and more.
A Communications and External Affairs representative from DACL said their most pressing concern is social isolation. "The physiological impact is as dangerous as smoking 15 cigarettes a day," she said.
In response to this concern, they have conducted several new initiatives, including Call and Talk Programs and Regular Reassurance Calls in which current participants of DACL-funded senior programs will receive regular check-ins to stay connected. DACL is also working to expand online engagement by partnering with Around Town DC, an event directory for people ages 60 and up, to deliver a variety of virtual events.
At Iona, 65 seniors who regularly participated in in-person events, lost the routine of consistently exercising their minds and caregivers, like Safieh Hekmat, lost the only time they had themselves.
"I don't have a life," Hekmat said. In 2017, she quit her job to be her parent's fulltime caregiver. She said she used to have dinner with friends every weekend before COVID to give herself space, but now she said that's not an option.
"I tried a [support] group at Sibley Hospital once," Hekmat said, "but I don't have the energy or time. I really do need it, but I haven't found the right group."
According to an assessment done by the Family Caregiver Alliance, 40% to 70% of family caregivers show significant symptoms of depression and about a quarter to half of the same caregivers meet the diagnostic criteria for major depression.
The National Institute of Mental Health defines depression as having some symptoms of sadness, irritability, low energy, sleep changes, restlessness, weight changes, pessimism and others, while "major depression" must exhibit at least five of the aforementioned symptoms.
Increasing awareness of caregiver and older adult mental health support is something that Sharon O'Connor and Iona is passionate about.
"I sometimes feel like all the decisions are now on my shoulders as to what to do. God forbid something happens to them, which it will, I have to make all the decisions," Hekmat said, "Before COVID I wouldn't even think about burial versus cremation. I would avoid the subject."
The CDC recommends that caregivers should follow strict guidelines if they are caring for a loved one in a non-healthcare setting, including having a plan should someone in the home contract COVID-19. Hekmat said one of the major challenges she and her parents faced during the pandemic was back in March, when they didn't exactly know how to best protect themselves. Before COVID-19, helpers and visitors would come in and out of the house freely, she said, it was very hard to adjust when they learned that in order to keep her parents safe, it meant doing so more independently.
Lauren Stephenson, the Manager of Development and Communications at Iona, listed four serious challenges that have affected Iona's ability to provide their services. Due to the bulk of their programs now being online, the first challenge, she said, was the "learning curve" it took for Iona staff members to host events online. Second, was the lack of financial resources and access to technology in the homes of senior citizen which makes online programs very hard to manage without caregiver supervision.
"Some folks don't have the cognitive ability, motor skills, or motivation to participate in a Zoom call for instance," Stephenson said.
The third challenge she listed, was their loss of revenue at the beginning of the pandemic. Fifteen percent of the center's revenue comes from participant health insurance, therefore when programing was at a standstill, so were their funds.
Lastly, one of Iona's core missions is to relieve some of the stress caregivers experience by taking their family members safely off their hands for a while. Stephenson said pandemic has made this mission nearly "impossible."
She said, "in a perfect world", they would need increased monetary donations and technology donations to solve these problems and even then, she said, "it won't be easy."
Sharon O'Connor adds, "We have, though, seen an uptick in people using support groups." It is possible that because attend group Zooms virtually can be done without leaving a parent with alone or with helpers, more caregivers are utilizing this resource than before the pandemic, she said.
Sharon O'Connor speaks about her experience during the COVID-19 pandemic and as a caregiver and professional at Iona Senior Services.
She also emphasized the importance of education on mental health and awareness of elder neglect in the older community. "Instead of calling someone a Dementia patient, we say 'a person living with Dementia.' Its better language to use person-first phrases. Its one small thing you can do to help with widespread agism."
An important survey conducted in 2018 to evaluate agism in the workplace by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) found that three out of five older workers have seen or experienced age discrimination in the workplace. However the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) brought a total of 10 age discrimination suits in 2018.
For older individuals like Safieh's parents who often rely on others for help, The World Health Organization (WHO) found this year that one in six people over the age of 60 experience abuse in the past year, but only one out of 24 cases are reported. Their data on "psychological abuse" discovered that 15.7% of cases were reported by older adults themselves in community setting, and 64.2% was reported by staff in institutional settings.
"I think that the hardest thing for older adults to go through is isolation. As a community, we just really need to learn better ways to include older adults. They still continue to have a lot to give and a lot to offer a community. They need to feel valued," said O'Connor.
WHO also notes that prevention methods such as screenings, school-based intergenerational programs, and caregiver support interventions are all forms of awareness that can help decrease the frequency of agist practices in communities. These educational programs and support systems are what O'Connor says are "critical" when it comes to creating a more inclusive community.
"Now we all know how it feels like to be isolated," she said, "We've all had a taste of what it's like to live that way. So many of our elders live that way on a regular basis. That is their life."
For more information about social isolation, please explore the following health resources: AARP Family Caregiving, Challenge.gov, AARP Health, CDC on Loneliness, Area Agencies on Aging
For resources about caregiver support groups in Washington, D.C., please explore the following resources: Iona, Smith Center, AARP DC, Sibley Memorial
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Mór Korach or Maurizio Korach (8 February 1888 − 27 November 1975) was a Hungarian chemical engineer, founder of technical chemistry in Hungary, and a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Residing in Italy between 1912 and 1952, he was internationally recognized for his ceramic engineering researches, significantly developing the Italian ceramic industry.

He was born in Miskolc, Hungary, and studied at the Budapest University of Technology until 1911, then migrated to Italy in 1912 for political reasons. From 1916 until 1932 on he was a teacher in the art school of International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza, also directed the research laboratory of the museum. After 1925 he was the chairman of the technical chemistry department at the University of Bologna. During World War II he joined the Italian Communist Party and took part in the resistance movement. Called by the Hungarian government he moved back to Hungary in 1952. He assisted to the foundation of the Central Research Institute for Construction Materials of which he was the first director between 1953 and 1957. From 1960 until 1968 he was acting as founder director of the Research Institute of Technical Chemistry in Budapest.

His main research field was the technical chemistry of ceramic manufacture, chemical processing of ceramics. In 1928 he was the first to invent and construct an electric tunnel kiln, later on he worked out a new ceramics firing method (what he named 'sandwich firing'). In addition to this he also made extensive researches on thermal insulators and technology of glazed tile manufacture. During the late period of his career he put down the theoretical fundamentals of technical chemistry and successfully adapted mathematical models (e.g. graph theory) to describe chemical processes.

He was a corresponding (1956), then a full member (1958) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In Italy he was a popular writer under the name of Marcello Cora; he collaborated to prestigious review La Ronda and wrote novels such as Il figliuol prodigo (1933). He died in Budapest, Hungary.

Works
Elementi di tecnologia ceramica I–III. Faenza, Museo delle ceramiche, 1928, 51 + 48 + 83 p.
On methodological problems of technology. in: Periodica Polytechnica 1958. 145–171.
Általános kémiai technológia. [General chemical technology.] Budapest, Tankönyvkiadó, 1967, 327 p.

See also
A Magyar Tudományos Akadémia tagjai 1825–2002 II. [Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 1825-2002.] Budapest, 2003, pp. 667.
Carmine Di Biase - Maurizio Korach(Marcello Cora): la Ronda e la letteratura tedesca , Napoli, Societa' editrice napoletana, 1978.

References

20th-century Hungarian engineers
Hungarian chemical engineers
Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1888 births
1975 deaths

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Q: what does %util mean in iostat command output? if it is 100%, can we add more workload on it? recently I was asked this question during a phone interview. I know that iostat command can be used to check disk performance in Linux. But I am not sure how to answer this question. Does this mean the disk is fully loaded?
Thanks.

A: You cannot determine how much I/O load is present from %util. It only represents the percentage of sample time during which at least one io was outstanding within the scheduler/driver/storage.
So with iostat 1 (sample rate of 1 second), a %util of 75% means
there was at least 1 io outstanding to storage 750 milliseconds of the total 1 second sample time.
it does not represent anything useful in terms of actual load except in the case where you are dealing with a single physical disk.In the case of a single physical disk (such as a direct attached SATA disk), %util represents roughly what percentage of the time the disk was working on an io.
With a single physical disk and its single physical disk head, once iostat reaches 100% then no additional io work can be done AT THAT LOAD POINT.
Where the load point is comprised of the size of the io, the ratio of reads versus writes, how random or sequential that load is. Determining a load alarm limit is highly dependent upon both the storage technology being used AND the application.
I had one experience testing the performance of one storage product. I use fio tool on Linux system side.
I can still add more workload to the disks even the utilization went to 100%.
fio --name=fiotest --filename=/xxx/fiotest --size=16Gb --rw=write --bs=1M --direct=1 --numjobs=8 --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=8 --group_reporting --runtime=60

Device            r/s     w/s     rkB/s     wkB/s   rrqm/s   wrqm/s  %rrqm  %wrqm r_await w_await aqu-sz rareq-sz wareq-sz  svctm  %util

sdf              0.00 **2269.67**      0.00 **774805.33**     0.00  **9833.67**   0.00  **81.25**    0.00   **27.00  61.28**     0.00   **341.37   0.44  99.97**

sdd              0.00 **2267.33**      0.00 **774144.00**     0.00  **9835.33**   0.00  **81.27**    0.00   **25.49  57.78**     0.00   **341.43   0.44  99.97**

sde              0.00 **2270.67**      0.00 **775061.33**     0.00  **9833.33**   0.00  **81.24**    0.00   **26.11  59.30**     0.00   **341.34   0.44  99.97**

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle

Starting 8 processes
Jobs: 8 (f=0): [f(8)][100.0%][w=519MiB/s][w=518 IOPS][eta 00m:00s]
fiotest: (groupid=0, jobs=8): err= 0: pid=10248: Thu Oct 20 03:26:28 2022
write: IOPS=2002, BW=2003MiB/s (2100MB/s)(117GiB/60040msec); 0 zone resets

fio --name=fiotest --filename=/xxx/fiotest --size=16Gb --rw=read --bs=1M --direct=1 --numjobs=8 --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=8 --group_reporting --runtime=60

Device            r/s     w/s     rkB/s     wkB/s   rrqm/s   wrqm/s  %rrqm  %wrqm r_await w_await aqu-sz rareq-sz wareq-sz  svctm  %util

sdf           **2271.33**    0.00 **775146.67**      0.00  **9842.00**     0.00  **81.25**   0.00   **25.91**    0.00  **58.85   341.27**     0.00   **0.44  99.63**

sdd           **2264.67**    0.00 **774464.00**      0.00  **9846.67**     0.00  **81.30**   0.00   **25.02**    0.00  **56.67   341.98**     0.00   **0.44  99.43**

sde           **2272.33**    0.00 **775061.33**      0.00  **9841.00**     0.00  **81.24**   0.00   **25.36**    0.00  **57.62   341.09**     0.00   **0.44  99.77**

dm-7          **36341.33**    0.00 **2325845.33**      0.00     0.00     0.00   0.00   0.00   **25.42**    0.00 **923.68    64.00**     0.00   **0.03 100.07**

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