コロンビアでテロがありました。Colombia’s government declared three days of mourning after at least 21 people died in a car bomb at a Bogota police cadet training academy, and 68 were wounded — the worst such incident in the city in 16 year…

医療ミスによる有害事象について"First do no harm" is an often quoted term from Hippocrates. Everyone working in health care is familiar with the term. At a very minimum, the health system needs to offer that assurance and security to the pu…

アルバイト先で販売しているlemmon drizzle cakeのdrizzleが気になりました。『ジーニアス英和辞典』で調べると「細雨，霧雨，こぬか雨」「細雨が降る，…に〈液体・調味料など〉をかける」とありました。Cambridge Dictionaryによると“rain in very small, l…

阪神淡路大震災から24年の時が経ちました。Memorial services mark 24th anniversary of Hanshin earthquakeAreas in Hyogo Prefecture that experienced the Great Hanshin Earthquake were filled with the silent prayers of bereaved families, victims …

阪神淡路大震災から、24年の時が流れています。The 7.3 quake buried residents in flattened buildings and uprooted highway overpasses and train tracks, while fires raged through collapsed timber houses and acrid smoke darkened the sky.以下省略…

「はてなダイアリー」が運営会社の事情で閉鎖されることになりました。こんな techno-peasant にも friendly なブログなのに残念です。使用者側で過去ログの移行をとのことですが、わたしには無理な相談。したがって向こうがやってくれる「自動移行」を選択…

Tragic princess: Foreign high schoolers have slim education opportunities in JapanTOKYO -- Foreign children are not subject to Japan's compulsory education system, a fact viewed as one of the main reasons that many such youth known to thei…