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Palladius System

I recently learned about the Cyrillic transliteration system for transliterating Chinese to Cyrillic based languages, such as Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and other Cyrillic-based languages. The Palladius system (Cистема Палла́дия) was created by Russian Orthodox monk and sinologist Palladius Kafarov in the 19th Century.

A transilteration system is a way of converting text from one writing system into another, like the pinyin in Chinese or romaji in Japanese. In this case its Chinese to a cyrillic based language, such as Russian. This however does not mean that russian speakers learn Chinese using the Palladius system, they actually also use the pinyin tones in the textbooks.

An interesting fact is that this system does not have tones in transliteration. Zhōngguó would be Чжунго, which as you can see doesn't have the tones represented. Instead, it's a context based system, which relies on the context to help determine the meaning. Some may be easy e.g. Шанхай for Shanghai or Пекин for Beijing, but some other words may be a bit more tricky.

This system also does not use "hui" for 会 and other words that sound similar, and instead uses хуэй, which sounds kind of like who-ey, because the russian pronunciation of "hui" is not a very polite word.

Here's how the system works down below:

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Guesstimating Remmick’s Age

(Unless Ryan Coogler or Jack O’Connell actually confirmed his age, this will be very silly of me lol)

There is a popular misconception that St Patrick violently ethnically cleansed the Druids out of Ireland (and that was what the snakes were supposed to be). This has been a pet peeve of mine for awhile. The Druids survived well into the 7th and 8th centuries, long after St Patrick arrived to Ireland in the 5th or 6th centuries. St Patrick did not convert the whole of Ireland to Christianity in his lifetime, and was not the first Christian missionary in Ireland - that would be Palladius in the early 5th century. Some Druids willfully converted to Christianity. To quote The Story We Carry In Our Bones: Irish History for Americans,

“two monks named Tirechán and Muirchu, as well as many later hagiographers—mythologized Patrick into someone he never was: a man who fought with druids, used shamrocks to teach the trinity, and drove the snakes from Ireland. In truth, many druids became priests of the new religion, Patrick surely didn’t need shamrocks to teach a people who already had tripartite gods, and Ireland never had any snakes in the first place!”

I don’t think Remmick (if he indeed had the filí gift) would have needed to have lived between early 5th century to 8th century to have an understanding of ancient Irish culture or pre missionary Irish paganism if he used be able to summon his ancestors before. (And there’s plenty of other things to criticize the Catholic Church in Ireland for, such as draconian abortion laws - despite several Irish saints having performed abortions as some of their recorded miracles - the Magdalene Laundries and coverups of sex crimes).

Remmick said that he was taught the Lord’s Prayer in English, early Christian missionaries to Ireland would have probably prayed in Latin. There are several versions of the Lord’s Prayer across history and denominations, but he prays it like I was taught. I’ll have to see the movie again if there are any little differences. The Lord’s Prayer in the Book of Common Prayer published in 1662 by the Church of England is more or less the same way he does it.

I’m estimating that Remmick lived around this time. English was forced as the dominant language in Ireland around the 14th century, Gaeilge is in decline by the 16th century. By 1607, Ireland is under full English control, Cromwell invaded Ireland in 1650 and the Book of Common Prayer is published in 1662. English settlers take Irish land in the plantation systems in the 16th and 17th centuries, this adds up to what Remmick says about his father’s land being stolen.

Remmick arrived in America in 1911, so he presumably stayed in Ireland throughout the induced Great Famine between 1845-1852. The Rocky Road to Dublin is written around the 1860’s.

I have no idea where the fuck he got those damn gold coins from. Unless they are some kind of magic fae gold coins, they look like either Roman aurei, solidus or Spanish doubloons. I don’t know what the currency in ancient Ireland used to be. He had to have been turned into a vampire by someone, my guess it’s a souvenir from an older vampire if Remmick isn’t that old. However, the first minted Spanish doubloon was made in the 16th century.

I’m guesstimating Remmick living as a human between the 16th and 17th centuries. So if my math isn’t wrong, that puts him between 300+ and 400+ years old as of 1932. If I have any mathematical or historical inaccuracies, feel free to correct them!

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eh figuring out ry’s backstory and it Really Hurts, it’s probably incredibly convoluted and bc of sleep deprival doesn’t make much sense, but I think @bunny-loverxiv did send an ask about it like yonks ago too so…. *shrugs*

(under the cut)

to make more sense of why Baras has a Cathar as his apprentice and give more incentive to Ry for revenge, i figure maybe he’s more involved in Ry’s life earlier on outside the class story - having made Master Zhet a friend of Nomen Karr’s, then there’s a reason for him to know about Ry if he monitors Karr’s contacts. At the time he doesn’t yet consider him for actively manipulating, but notes of his volatility/isolation from others AND being Juhani’s descendant that would be easy to use against him should the opportunity arise. 

(plus there’s supposed to be a Republic/Imperial conflict around the time of the Treaty on Dantooine  which Baras goes to visit, also wanting Satele to turn to the dark side as Revan’s descendant, according to canon which I very briefly read over. I also did not realise there was an all out conflict on Dantooine there either, so uh, shit, poor Dvuhmi family being caught up in the crossfire of Another Goddamn War after getting away from Ord Mantell’s civil war/unrest, so more trauma and opportunity to resent the Republic \o\ not my fault this time, I swear)

Could prrrrobably have it so Karr and his newly knighted padawan Somminick Timmns are after him too, so Ry could have met him as a Padawan. (later on that would be a hilarious and sad reunion on Belsavis with Jaesa involved too, the ex-padawans of his old master, his master’s old friend that got killed, oof.)

anyway, Baras plants a trap meant for Karr by using his spies in the Order to make him suspicious that there are Sith operated slave rings/pit fights on Nar Shaddaa that he’s manning and using to funnel force sensitives into his ranks, but Zhet takes the bait first, doing so on behalf of Karr. Zhet takes Ry along with the intention to capture the Sith in charge and end the operation (liberating the slaves is a secondary objective) and ends up with more than what he expected. Baras was covertly funding a gang/cult to keep tabs on Palladius/Republic activity and the gang’s occasionally thrown a few recruits his way as cannon fodder, but for all intents and purposes it appears to Zhet before he died as if it was just a lowly Sith in charge in his last report back to the Jedi and a random gang that killed him, not people under Baras’ order.

Baras is annoyed because it didn’t go the way he wanted with Karr, but instead he’s left considering the idea again of turning Ry, but to do so he needs to see if he’d be capable of becoming Sith and being a useful asset and to break his spirit enough to be a viable candidate. He leaves him there for a few years instead of having his lackeys kill him outright, and deciding he’d settle for a descendant of Revan’s entourage instead, should he survive that and the trials. 

Ry’s assumed dead by everyone he knew before through a combination force-repression cuffs and trauma he slowly cuts himself off from everyone, (unintentionally) severing Force bonds - which probably feel when the connection’s broken like they’ve sensed he’s died, even Vanami, (but she denies it anyway in a combination of denial and faith that he’s still alive despite what she felt. and she’s right. she blames herself at the time a lot for not being able to train him herself in the first place, then she would still have him and not’ve gone missing getting mixed up in idiotic Jedi and Sith conflicts.)

Story goes on, Ry goes on a murderous rampage killing most of the gang about four years later, the remainder of Baras’ surviving agents try to track him down and extract him, but they fail thanks to the friend Ry made in slavery, Hannen,  (and was probably Ry’s first crush, which is Unfortunate because he only started to realise he really loved him in the month and a few weeks they had after busting themselves out and freeing everyone. Also he ends up naming Teffhan after him). 

Since Penndi’s story starts a year before everyone elses’ and she’s already at the end of Chapter 1 with an established cult, he gets recruited by her instead, fuelled with spite and a whole lot of pain to get back at the Jedi any way he can, especially Karr. Logic kinda fails, he’s just really bitter at that point, willingly going off to join Baras because uh, self destructive, massively suicidal but taking everyone with him kind of mentality, mostly Jedi, and joining the Sith is the direct route, and what bigger irony than joining sides with his master’s friend’s nemesis? (Somewhat according to plan for Baras, I guess, just gets him later than intended.)

He also decides to go by Rylthos by this point and not Rai’lyos because 1) he’s too ashamed of himself and doesn’t think he’s deserving of the name/burying his past? 2) less likely to attract attention as a standardised name instead of Cathar,

Luckily he mellows out with Vette, since he was under Penndi’s tutelage and not immediately thrown into the meat-grinder that is the Korriban education system and he’s angry. but Not angry enough to take it out on her since he knows very well what it’s like to be a slave and it’s the first time in a while he’s Actually had someone to relate to and they both understand each other as alien ex-slaves. But still, he’s Pretty Damn Angry. 

Getting tangled up in the whole conflict of Karr and Baras would make it a lot more meaningful and give some deeper parallels to Jaesa too. Gradually he’d come to realise he’s doing the same thing to Jaesa that had happened with him in being a pawn for Baras against Karr so he ends up going oh fuck, I am an Idiot and tries reaching out to Jaesa instead of ruining her life even more on Tatooine and Alderaan. There’s about when he starts getting reluctant to continue Baras’ orders, and potentially wonders if he’s had more of a hand in Zhet dying than just an intel slipup because he’d never thought to consider that before, but he’s not got anywhere else to go, (who would take him back after what he’s done?) and he’s still disillusioned with the Jedi. He continues to serve Baras but gets increasingly bitter and starts trying to go behind his back to sabotage him, it’s the least he can do to start making up for what he’s done, but he’s still just kinda. waiting for something to off him.

Karr gets sent back to the Order, unable to use the Force like Timmns says, but relaying back to them that not only was his friend’s Padawan alive, but under Baras’ thumb all along. and maybe he’s more invested in the whole trying to reform the empire thing with Jaesa since they’re both stuck there now.

(also Brenki!!!! they meet on Taris!)

It’s only when Draahg drops the cave on him on Quesh that Ry gets to know the full extent of what Baras did, confirming Ry’s feelings by mocking him about how he was always too weak, out of the loop, and how easy it was for Baras to manipulate him into his puppet by telling him that it was Baras’ doing he was a slave and ruined his life as thoroughly as he did, just to twist the knife in the wound. And that’s enough to get him out the cave, and Draahg’s mistake, because he’s powered on Absolute SPITE ^TM at that point, currently outweighing his desire to just let something kill him because Oh Boy, he’s Super Suicidal but he’s gotta take down Baras AND Draahg before he’s letting himself die, even if that means doing things for the Emperor and it’s ROUND 2 of being someone else’s puppet, and taking a few steps backwards in development and holy shit. He’s not ok at all. He throws himself into the Wrath thing at first because he just wants revenge and he doesn’t feel powerless, but at least has some of the control/maturity he lacked the first time around.

(his relationship with Brenki sours a little because he’s just fixated singlemindedly on revenge, and doesn’t contact her for a while either. mostly because what’s there to say apart from, i’m doing even more terrible things? brenki kinda gets railroaded into it too with Tormen, but it’s Definitely not the same scale. they fix it post class story round about corellia/ilum it’s just…. oh jeez. complicated. while he went back home after taris, the second dantooine visit doesn’t happen until after the class story ends/post-ilum, just because he feels he’s not ready to come home again in the state he is until then.)

And then after a second round of realising “OH FUCK. I AM A MORON, I WANT OUT” fighting draahg/mid chapter 3 and in the final confrontation with baras changes the plan slightly with Jaesa to sabotage as much of the Sith as possible or at least reduce their effectiveness enough for more reasonable people to get in charge.

Maybe he ends up sparing Baras this time round - while he desperately wants revenge for what Baras did and death feels final, that’s also what Baras wants, and isn’t it more poetic to let him wallow in the knowledge he’s been beaten?

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Raspberry, Herb of the Year and Herb of the Month: History and Lore

By Pat Greathead

Raspberry, Rubus spp., is the International Herb Association’s Herb of the YearTM for 2020 and The Herb Society of America’s Herb of the Month for January (Brambles). The genus Rubus includes both the red and black raspberry and the blackberry as well as almost 700 other species. Rubus is in the Rosacea family.

My Wisconsin Unit of The Herb Society each year examines the IHA Herb of the Year.TM In this blog post, I have mainly focused on red raspberry leaf and have used information from many websites in writing this article. I hope you enjoy reading it as this is the year of the raspberry!

Raspberry leaves are among the most pleasant tasting of all the herbal remedies, with a taste much like black tea, without the caffeine. Raspberries are native to Asia and arrived in North America via prehistoric people, with the first records of domestication coming from the writings of the Roman agricultural writer Palladius in the 5th century. Evidence has been found that early cave-dwelling humans ate raspberries. Seeds were discovered in Roman forts in Britain, so it is thought the Romans and animals spread raspberries throughout Europe.

Red raspberries were said to have been discovered and much loved by the Olympian gods on Mount Ida in northwest Turkey, hence their botanical name Rubus idaeus, which means ‘bramble (branch) bush of Ida’ in Latin. According to Société’s Materia Medica blog, “In the story of Ida, the nursemaid to the infant Zeus pricked her finger while picking the snow-white berries, staining them red for all eternity.” (Société, 2018) Fruits were gathered from the wild by the people of Troy in the foothills of Mt. Ida around the time of Christ.

The leaf was traditionally used in ancient times to prepare the womb for childbirth, to aid delivery and breastfeeding, and some farmers used it for their pregnant goats. Other uses were as a remedy for common ailments due to its abundance of minerals, vitamins, and tannins. (Tannins help to tone and tighten tissue). Chemicals in the leaf were believed to help the blood vessels relax. The ancient Greeks, Romans, Chinese, and Ayurvedic physicians also used it widely as a treatment for wounds and diarrhea (somewhat interchanged with blackberry).

By Medieval times (5th-15th century), raspberry had a great many uses, including using the juices in paintings and illuminated manuscripts and the leaves as a woman’s tonic. Société’s blog on red raspberry states that, “In early Christian artwork raspberries were used to symbolize kindness. Its red juice invoked the energy of the blood which runs from the heart and carries love, nutrition, and kindness through the body.” (Société, 2018)  King Edward the 1st (1272-1307) was said to be the first to call for mass cultivation of raspberries, whose popularity spread quickly throughout Europe. Raspberry leaf was first described in 1597 in the book The Herbal, or A General History of Plants by John Norton, the Queen’s printer.

By the 17th century, British gardens were rich with berries and berry bushes. Culpeper (1616-1654) in his book The Complete Herbal talked about raspberry leaf as “very binding and good for fevers, ulcers, putrid sores of the mouth and secret parts, for stones of the kidneys and too much flowing of the women’s courses.”  By the 18th century, berry cultivation practices had spread throughout Europe. An old Irish beekeeper’s recipe was to gather foxglove, raspberry, wild marjoram, mint, chamomile and valerian on May day, mix with butter made that day, boil together with honey, and rub the vessel into which you want the bees to gather, both inside and out.  Place it in the middle of a tree, and bees will soon come.  Again from Société’s Materia Medica, “In Germany, raspberry was used to tame bewitched horses by tying a bit of the cane to the horse’s body. In the Philippines, raspberry canes were hung outside homes to protect those who dwelt within from any souls who may inadvertently wander in” (remember the thorns!). (Société, 2018)

When settlers from Europe came to America, they found Native Americans already utilizing and eating berries, some believing raspberry had strong protective powers against unwanted spiritual beings. Teas of raspberry leaves were given to women of the Cherokee, Iroquois, and Mohawk Nations to soothe labor pains, ease contractions, and ease nausea. Due to the nomadic nature of their culture, berries were dried for preservation and ease of transportation.

Settlers also brought cultivated raspberries that were native to Europe with them to the new colonies. In 1761, George Washington moved to his estate in Mount Vernon where he began to cultivate berries in his extensive gardens. The first commercial nursery plants were sold by William Price in 1771. Jefferson planted raspberries at Monticello on numerous occasions beginning in 1774. In 1735, Irish herbalist K’Eogh described these uses for raspberry: “An application of the flowers bruised with honey is beneficial for inflammations of the eyes, burning fever and boils…the fruit is food for the heart and diseases of the mouth.”

Raspberry tea made political history after England imposed the Boston Port Act, which exacted a tea tax on the American Colonies in 1773 to help the financially troubled East India Company. Tea made from sage or raspberry leaves then became a popular substitute for the colonists’ favorite beverage.

Collected by French botanist André Michaux and included in his Flora Boreali-Americana (1803), our native red raspberry, Rubus strigosus, is now found across much of North America, including all of Canada and the northern half of the US to North Carolina and California. After the Civil War (1861-1865), major production areas emerged in the regions of New York, Michigan, Oregon, Washington, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana. By 1880 approximately 2,000 acres were in cultivation.

By 1867 over 40 different varieties of raspberry were known. “In 1890, JM Hodge, a Scottish solicitor and raspberry grower from Blairgowrie, rented some land specifically to grow raspberries on a larger scale. He formed the Blairgowrie & Rattray Fruit Growers Association, bringing together local producers and beginning industrial production.” (Oxfordshire Gardener, 2019)

In King’s American Dispensatory (1898), it is described that the leaves and fruits are the parts of the plant that are used for medicinal purposes. The leaves impart some of their constituents to water, giving to the infusion an odor and flavor somewhat similar to that of some kinds of black tea, and that raspberry is “of much service in dysentery, pleasant to the taste, mitigating suffering and ultimately affecting a cure.”   According to M. Grieve (1931) experience has shown that raspberry leaf has been used in cases of severe dysmenorrhea. She writes “an infusion of Raspberry leaves, taken cold is a reliable remedy for extreme laxity of the bowels. The infusion alone, or as a component part, never fails to give immediate relief and it is especially useful in stomach complaints of children.”

 According to the Telegraph’s Eleanor Doughty, “In the 1950’s, Scotland, known for its raspberry growing, brought raspberries down to London on a dedicated steam train known as The Raspberry Special.” (Doughty, 2015)

Today red raspberry leaf is used for gastrointestinal tract disorders, including diarrhea and stomach pains; also to treat heart problems, fevers, vitamin deficiencies, diabetes; and for respiratory system disorders, swine flu, and common flu. It is also beneficial in promoting urination, sweating, and bile production.

Many people use it for general skin and blood purification. Some use red raspberry leaf to ease painful periods, morning sickness associated with pregnancy, heavy periods, and in preventing miscarriage, as well as to ease labor and delivery. Similar to its ancient use, a strong raspberry leaf tea or tincture will soothe sunburn, eczema, and skin rashes when used externally. Swishing with a tincture or infusion of raspberry leaf is thought to relieve sore throats and the gums, and can help alleviate the symptoms of gingivitis or gum disease. In Europe, small quantities of red raspberry leaf are a source of natural flavoring in food preparation.

The website Practical Herbalist states that “Raspberry is one of the few herbs that must be processed from dry leaves. Fresh leaves contain a substance that causes stomach upset as they wilt. Making a tincture from raspberry leaves is simple. The easiest way to process this tincture is to add dried raspberry leaves to brandy.” The tincture should be shaken regularly for a few months and then strained.

For more information on raspberries and some recipes too, please see The Herb Society of America’s January Herb of the Month web page on Brambles.

Below are websites with more information about raspberries:

Alexander, Courtney. “Berries As Symbols and in Folklore.” Available at https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.cornell.edu/dist/0/7265/files/2016/12/berryfolklore-2ljzt0q.pdf

Doughty, Eleanor. “12 things you didn’t know about raspberries.” Available at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/11761546/12-things-you-didn’t-know-about-raspberries.html

Oxfordshire Gardener. “Raspberry Special: Growing Scotland’s Best Berries.” Available at http://theoxfordshiregardener.co.uk/growing-raspberries-scotlands-best-berries/

Practical Herbalist. “Raspberry: the Female Toner.” Available at https://www.thepracticalherbalist.com/raspberry-the-female-toner/

Société.  “Materia Medica Red Raspberry”. Available at https://www.societeapothecary.com/blog/2018/6/21/materia-medica-raspberry-leaf

Washington Red Raspberry Commission. “History.” Available at https://www.red-raspberry.org/history

Pat Greathead is a very active Life Member of The Herb Society of America and the Wisconsin Unit. She gardens in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.

Herb Society of America Medical Disclaimer … It is the policy of The Herb Society of America not to advise or recommend herbs for medicinal or health use. This information is intended for educational purposes only and should not be considered as a recommendation or an endorsement of any medical or health treatment.

Raspberry, Herb of the Year and Herb of the Month: History and Lore published first on https://marcuskeever.blogspot.com/

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Fruit Hunter

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I remember my first time to the St. Lawrence Market, I was enchanted by the variety in stores, food and organization of that place. Back in my country we have street markets that are famous as a food market, like the Mercadao Municipal in Sao Paulo, famous for its restaurants selling street food as ham and pineapple sandwich or huge mortadella sandwiches, but St. Lawrence was different, there were things I have never seen or knew that existed or how it tasted.

One of my favorite things is knowing different touristic points and since I attend to the Nutrition Course at George Brown College, it awakened my curiosity to explore the St. Lawrence Market. First sight, I wanted to explore every corner of that place and ended up eating and buying so much food, every store gives your the opportunity to try different products.

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My last blog project for Theory of Food is called “Fruit Hunter” and it made me think about all the wonders I discovered here in Toronto, so rich in culture and different ingredients from all over the world, since it is the city of immigrants, where people from every place in the world comes to try a better life, adapts to its culture and habits, but also enriches with their own.

Maybe my choice seems trivial and not surprising for people who were born here, but for me it was something new, something I have never tried (besides in  artificial gelatin flavors). This two little fruit are typical from Canada, produced in large scale and not so expensive as back in Brazil, besides having excellent nutritional properties like antioxidants, vitamins and even chemopreventatives, important to prevent cancer. I was supposed to choose one, but instead, I decided to choose two, that are basically from the same group, has similar properties, they are excellent for creation of recipes and combine with each other really well: raspberries and blackberries.

These two fruit are produced here in Canada and their seasonality is from May to September.

Blackberries

Species: genus Rubus

Family: Rosacea

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Brief History: Blackberries were perceived by the ancient cultures as being a wild plant, and historical accounts for a backyard culture of blackberry bushes are few. The Greeks used the blackberry as a remedy for Gout, and the Romans made a tea from the leaves of the blackberry plant to treat various illnesses.

Botanical information:  In botany, a berry is a fleshy or pulpy indehiscent fruit in which the entire ovary wall ripens into a relatively soft pericarp, the seeds are embedded in the common flesh of the ovary, and typically there is more than one seed.

Sensory Evaluation: Blackberries are soft, but you still can feel their minuscule seeds when you are biting it. There is some tartness, but it does not overcome its succulence and they are excellent to balance sweet dishes.

Raspberries

Species: genus Rubus

Family: Rosacea

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Brief History:  Archaeological evidence shows that Paleolithic cave dwellers ate raspberries. The delectable fruit has been a part of the human diet ever since, though the canes were not cultivated until about the 4th century A.D., as documented by Palladius. In the Hellenistic period raspberries were associated with fertility are found in Greek mythology. In the Greek stories, the berries were once white but when Zeus' nursemaid, Ida, pricked her finger on a thorn it stained the berries red and they have remained so ever since.

Botanical Information:  Raspberries are vigorous and can be locally invasive. They propagate using basal shoots (also known as suckers), extended underground shoots that develop roots and individual plants. They can sucker new canes some distance from the main plant. For this reason, raspberries spread well, and can take over gardens if left unchecked. Raspberries are often propagated using cuttings, and will root readily in moist soil conditions.

Sensory Evaluation: Soft mouthfeel, you can taste a sweet but not overcoming sweet flavor. Like the blackberries, you can feel the minuscule seeds while you bite their soft meat.

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During my fourth semester, I developed a recipe for people to eat during Cancer treatment, since they have no appetite, sores in their mouth developed because of the aggressive treatments, these two fruit also boost their immune system with vitamin C and minerals, helps to improve bowels health, since it is full in fiber and also probiotics (from the yogurt). Besides all the nutritional properties, this recipe is fresh and easy to make.

Avocado Berries Mousse

Prep/Cooking time:

Portions: 4

Ingredients:

300g Greek yogurt, plain

1 avocado

200g Raspberries

200g Blackberries

1/4 cup Maple syrup or agave nectar

Lemongrass (as much as you prefer)

4 Gelatin sheets

250ml Water

Directions:

1. Warm up the water and place the lemongrass inside to infuse, turn off the heat and cover it, reserve to cool it down (you are going to dissolve the gelatin and maple syrup in this water, it cannot be cold, either hot).

2. Using a blender, mix the raspberries,blueberries with a little bit of water, strain this paste, to avoid the sandy taste of the seeds. Reserve.

3. Strain the water to separate the lemon grass pieces, dissolve the gelatin sheets and the maple syrup and add to the blender when it is cooled down.

4. Using a blender, mix the berries puree and all the other ingredients, including the lemongrass tea mixed with gelatin sheets and maple syrup.

5. Divide in ramekins and bring to the fridge for 30 minutes to 1 hour.

6. Serve.

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As someone who studies both Mandarin and Russian, this is so helpful to improve my Mandarin pronunciation, because the pronunciation of some letters is more straightforward using the Palladius system.

Palladius System

I recently learned about the Cyrillic transliteration system for transliterating Chinese to Cyrillic based languages, such as Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and other Cyrillic-based languages. The Palladius system (Cистема Палла́дия) was created by Russian Orthodox monk and sinologist Palladius Kafarov in the 19th Century.

A transilteration system is a way of converting text from one writing system into another, like the pinyin in Chinese or romaji in Japanese. In this case its Chinese to a cyrillic based language, such as Russian. This however does not mean that russian speakers learn Chinese using the Palladius system, they actually also use the pinyin tones in the textbooks.

An interesting fact is that this system does not have tones in transliteration. Zhōngguó would be Чжунго, which as you can see doesn't have the tones represented. Instead, it's a context based system, which relies on the context to help determine the meaning. Some may be easy e.g. Шанхай for Shanghai or Пекин for Beijing, but some other words may be a bit more tricky.

This system also does not use "hui" for 会 and other words that sound similar, and instead uses хуэй, which sounds kind of like who-ey, because the russian pronunciation of "hui" is not a very polite word.

Here's how the system works down below: