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Quick description: Souchong smoked over pine fire, smoky taste.
Lapsang souchong is a black tea originally from the Wuyi region of China province of Fujian, an area that has produced some of the best teas for centuries. It a unique type of tea because the leaves are traditionally smoke-dried over pinewood fires, taking on a distinctive smoky flavor. The tea originated through a creative response to a threat to the tea crop one year, in which the villagers of Tong Mu quickly dried their crop over freshly cut pinewood. Unexpectedly, European customers enjoyed the smoky flavor and the new type of tea became popular.
A type of black tea, Lapsang souchong is not drunk specifically for health benefits, although black teas too are considered relatively healthy beverages. Also, unlike many varieties of tea, it did not originate as a specialty for the elite. Lapsang souchong is rather an example of how human beings have been able to take an obstacle and, through adopting creative measures, transform it into success.
The name Lapsang souchong in Fukienese means "smoky variety" or more correctly "smoky sub-variety," where souchong refers to the large leaf type of tea bush that grows in the Wuyi Mountains of Fujian from where it originates. Its distinctive smoky flavor sometimes causes it to be referred to as smoked tea, or "tarry lapsang."
The tea is traditionally made in villages on Zhen Shan Mountain, using special wooden smoking sheds. The large leaf tea is plucked and partially processed in the surrounding area, and then brought to the sheds to be smoked over the fire and given a final drying. The processing uses pine wood fires, or alternatively cypress wood may be used to dry the leaves.
After panfrying and rolling, they are pressed into wooden barrels and covered with cloth to ferment until they give off a pleasant fragrance. The leaves are fried again and rolled into taut strips. Then they are placed in bamboo baskets and hung on wooden racks over smoking pine fires to dry and absorb the smoke flavor. When finished they are thick, glossy black strips, and produce a dark red beverage with a unique aroma.
Lapsang souchong should be brewed in 100 °C (212 °F) water for three to four minutes to produce the best flavor. It should be strained and more water added for second and third infusions.
Lapsang souchong is a tea that was created by accident not design. The Wuyi Mountains were famous for their large leaf oolong teas, and it is from these that lapsang souchong comes.
In 1646, during the reign of the young Qing emperor Shunzhi his uncle, the chief regent Prince Dorgon, attempted to bring the province of Fuijan under Manchu rule. According to local lore, when the army invaded the Wuyi Shan area the villagers of Tong Mu attempted to hide their tea from the soldiers. The Jiang family has a history of 24 generations of tea makers in Tong Mu village and claims the honor of resourcefully inventing this tea. To prevent it from rotting they quickly dried their tea harvest, heating it by burning freshly cut pinewood from the surrounding forests. Upon their return they discovered that the tea was dark and had a strong smoky flavor; they considered it ruined.
However, when Dutch traders came to buy tea as they had been doing for several years, the villagers offered this "special" tea to them. Surprisingly, the Dutch were impressed and returned the following year to buy more, even offering a higher price than for the usual teas.
The tea was easy to reproduce and became known as bohea. In the local dialect it became known as lapsang (meaning pine wood), and as the term bohea became used broadly for many dark teas the term souchong was added to distinguish this large leaf variety from the Wuyi region.
A black tea, lapsang souchong has a rich color.
Lapsang souchong's flavor is strong and smoky, similar to the smell of a campfire or of Latakia pipe tobacco. The flavor of the pine smoke is meant to complement the natural taste of the black tea, but should not overwhelm it. However, the flavor is very distinctive, with the result that people either love it or hate it.
Variation occurs in the strength of the flavor of the tea and the intensity of the smokiness. Less smoky varieties are thus available for those who prefer only a little smoke flavoring.
When drunk as a tea accompanying food, Lapsang souchong's strong smoky flavor is particularly good with salty and spicy dishes and also with cheese. It is also delicious when drunk beside a warm fireplace.
Its smoky flavor may also be used to add a distinctive tang to a variety of savory culinary creations. For example, when added to mayonnaise Lapsang souchong gives an appropriate flavor for a smoked turkey sandwich.
Lapsang souchong imparts a smoky flavor to oven roasted meat even when the oven is kept at a temperature low enough to achieve a tender roast. Because of this quality, Chinese cooks smoke a variety of foodstuffs over smoldering Lapsang souchong tea.
The highest quality tea of this type, Zhen Shan Xiao Zhong, is rarely available outside China. Since it is made from the small early leaves grown in the Tong Mu village area there is only a short time to pluck them, resulting in a small amount being produced each season. At a relatively high elevation, Tong Mu's winter is colder and longer than the rest of the Wuyi region, which encourages a concentration of amino acids in Tong Mu's tea leaves. In combination with a soil rich in minerals, this results in tea with a characteristic sweet, fruity character. Tong Mu is poorer that the lower Wuyi Shan region. Thus tea makers in Tong Mu burned the readily available pine as a heat source for processing their tea, rather than using the more expensive bamboo charcoal that was commonly used by other tea producing regions. This is a clear example of a zen jhen tea, a tea whose terroir, "a sense of place" (the unique effect of the soil and climate combination of a specific locale on products grown there), as well as its unique processing technique makes it impossible to duplicate elsewhere.
Zhen Shan Xiao Zhong tea is smoked differently from Lapsang souchong, resulting in less absorption of smoke and also less loss of the delicate flavor of the young leaves. The product is a tea that has the familiar smoky flavor but is sweeter and more refined. The smokey quality of Zhen Shan Xiao Zhong is derived from the earthen ovens of Tong Mu village. The tea is put on bamboo baskets and slow roasted over the pine fire heated earthen ovens for 8 to 10 hours. The design of these ovens warms the ground of an enclosed space that is floored with rocks to provide radiant heat. The ovens leak a certain amount of smoke, which can be adjusted to vary the desired smokiness of the tea's flavor.
Chinese tea makers who moved to Taiwan developed a strong tea industry there, cultivating a variety of teas including Lapsang souchong. Although similar to the original in terms of method of production, the Taiwanese tea is stronger and more heavily smoked.
Several companies market Lapsang souchong tea bags.
Lapsang souchong from the original source is increasingly expensive, as Wuyi is a small area and there is increasing interest in this variety of tea, having become popular in Europe and also the United States. Over the years Lapsang souchong tea has suffered many transformations as tea producers would take old tea, smoke it heavily, or even add chemicals with smoke flavor, and sell the result as Lapsang souchong.
Lapsang souchong is also sold in tea bags, although this does not necessarily imply a loss in quality of the tea.
↑ 1.0 1.1 Jane Pettigrew, Bruce Richardson, The New Tea Companion (Perryville, KY: Benjamin Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0979343179).
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Mary Lou Heiss and Robert J. Heiss, The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking Guide (Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1580087452).
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Green Dragon Enterprises, The Production of Black Tea, Seven Cups Fine Chinese Teas. Retrieved February 5, 2009.
↑ Kit Chow, Ione Kramer, All the Tea in China (China Books & Periodicals Inc., 1990, ISBN 0835121941).
↑ Elizabeth Knight and Bruce Richardson, Tea in the City: New York (Benjamin Press, 2006, ISBN 0966347870).
Chow, Kit, and Ione Kramer. All the Tea in China. China Books & Periodicals Inc., 1990. ISBN 0835121941.
Knight, Elizabeth, and Bruce Richardson. Tea in the City: New York. Benjamin Press, 2006. ISBN 0966347870.
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After a hard day's skiing, I felt my kids and their friends deserved to sample some French candy. It also gave me an excuse to go to the Monday market at the French Alpine resort of Val d'Isere to check out the stands. There were a handful of stands doing French candies, nougats, chocolate and assorted other bon bons. When you are at a small town ski resort, a local market would have to pass for cultural exploration.
I thought these strawberry shaped marshmallows covered in red sugar were really pretty but they were huge! We could easily split one strawberry between 3 kids. In fact, we found them a little too big to eat. After all, you really want sweets that are small enough to pop in your mouth when no one is looking.
These ever-popular little bears called petit oursons are a French childhood tradition. They are chocolate-covered marshmallows and completely yummy. I am definitely a fan.
I found these hard French candies which the vendor told me was a Savoy specialty. They are hard candies infused with a variety of random flavours – genepy (a liquor made from wormwood), pine sap, aniseed, eucalyptus etc. I bought some for the adults in our group but everyone preferred the kiddy candy instead.
There was also the usual gummy snacks and caramels. We bypassed those types of French candy because they didn't look that new or different.
The French really like their nougat. In fact, the word nougat comes from French. I didn't know there were so many different types of nougat which vary in composition and chewiness. Real nougat is supposed to be made from sugar but the nougat we Americans know from our candy bars (e.g., Snickers) is made from fructose and corn syrup.
After the market, we also had time to check out the local supermarket. How pretty are these flower-shaped hard candies?
The orange flavoured version of the candies are shaped like little slices of fruit.
I had to get these chocolate covered biscuit ball-shaped candy called Crottes de Marmotte because they would really amuse the children. Marmots are large squirrels that live in the mountains and Crottes de Marmotte translates into Marmot droppings. They taste a bit like Maltesers but the biscuit bit inside is crunchier.
Carambars are another favourite of French children. Our children didn't like them as much as the marshmallow bears. They are the hard, chewy, sticky-teeth type of caramel candy that dentists abhor.
I also discovered chocolate-covered blueberries which were more popular with the adults than the random Savoy hard candy I had bought earlier.
Our venture into exploring French culture through sampling French candy was on the whole successful. As the kids would say in their fairly limited French, Les bon bons were tres bons.


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Meralco to further assess TOR revisions in CSP for greenfield capacity
Jannah Lei Junatas
In a bid to broaden the participation of electricity generating firms in the country, the Manila Electric Company (Meralco) is still assessing the revisions in the terms of reference (TOR) of the competitive selection process (CSP) of its 1,200 MW greenfield capacity tender.
"The TOR is being updated and will go through the Third Party Bids and Awards Committee (TPBAC) for republication. The deadlines, such as for the submission of Expressions of Interest, will be adjusted to consider the new republication date," Meralco Vice President Lawrence S. Fernandez was quoted as saying in a Manila Bulletin report.
The energy firm issued a notice last year stating that it seeks to bid out the power supply agreement (PSA) for its greenfield capacity supply portfolio by February this year. The expected capacity is set to deliver in 2024.
According to the report, the bidding for the new supply capacity will account for the future supply requirements of Meralco in a bid to serve its captive consumers or those who are unable to exercise their power of choice per Retail Competition and Open Access (RCOA) policy in the industry.
As the PSA is being solicited through competitive bidding, it is highly expected that the power rate to be cornered from the power generator-bidders would be the cheapest when reflected in the bills of consumers.
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We went on the Transfagarasan tour and it was amazing! The guide, Diana, was so knowledgeable and interesting to listen to that you could clearly feel how much she loves and cares about her homeland. She is really devoted to her business and a nice person too! She and Radu, who was our driver, answered all our questions about Romania with patience and enthusiasm (even political ones). The drive itself was very comfortable and smooth, so we had enough time to see every beautiful spot we passed. I definitely recommend Uncover Romania to anybody who likes a personal touch or keen on learning new stuff!
Diana was our guide for the Sibiu walking tour. She is very informative and was willing to answer our many questions about Sibiu and the history of the area. I would highly recommend this tour to anyone new to Sibiu or visiting for the first time.
We were in Brasov as part of a motorcycle tour from the UK. On our 'rest' day we wanted to do a walking tour of Bucharest's Old Town and visit the Palace of Parliament. Diana made it very easy to do business with Uncover Romania. She quickly organised a bus and a guide, at reasonable expense, and we had a very good experience. Emilia, our highly knowledgeable guide, was an absolute star. Even though many of her responses to our questions began with the caveat "it's complicated" Emilia provided us with thoroughly entertaining and detailed explanations of the city's, and Romania's, rich history.Happy customers? Yes! Recommended? Highly!
My family booked a four day tour in Transylvania. We were particularly interested in visiting some of the Siebenbuergen (towns that were settled by Germans beginning in the 12th century) We spent a day in Bucharest and then visited Brasov, Sighisoara, and Sibiu. Diana was very knowledgeable about Romania's history and the particular sites that we visited. Her restaurant recommendations were very good and saved us a lot of time trying to decide where to eat. The hotels and guesthouses in which we stayed were all clean and pleasant. We had a great time and learned a lot as well.
Diana took me out to the Bear Sanctuary and on a walking tour of Brasov. She knew heaps of info and was great to spend the day with. This was my first day in Romania and was a awesome start to my holiday. Thanks so much Diana!
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We had an opportunity to have historical tour of Bucharest with Ms. Diana. She was the most learned guide in our tour of 20 days. It was an educative experience to learn about the history of Romania, architecture of city and people. We had almost half day tour with her. She knows everything by heart and to listen to her is a pleasing experience. She ended the tour with lunch at Manuk inn, which was an ultimate place. She also gave very useful advice about restaurants in other cities and we truly enjoyed.


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Jenss Family Travels: Lessons from the Road II
ByRainer Jenss
Rainer Jenss and his family are currently on an around-the-world journey, and they're blogging about their experiences for us at Intelligent Travel. Keep up with the Jensses by bookmarking their posts, and follow the boys' Global Bros blog at National Geographic Kids. This is the second of a three-part blog post. You can catch the first installment here.
Almost two weeks after saying our farewells to the Coates and Lorenz families in Zimbabwe, we found ourselves on the eve of joining up with some more friends from back home who had children around our sons' ages. We had just arrived in Tanzania after having completely immersed ourselves in African wildlife during our visits to Botswana and Namibia, so at this point, the boys were getting quite proficient in their knowledge of the bush and understanding of the animals found in it. Because this had become the center of their universes over the last few weeks, I was curious to see how they would carry on with their friends who were coming from a world of homework, organized sports and American Idol.
It's certainly not difficult to get caught up with all the amazing wildlife found in southern and eastern Africa. For Tyler and Stefan, the bush became their classroom, the guides and trackers their teachers. And just like going to school, their days started early – 5 a.m. to be exact! Granted, all they had to do was get themselves out of bed and into a jeep, but still, it would be a full day of immersion in zoology, biology, geology, and photography – with a little bit of sociology and sex ed thrown in for good measure. That's right, because Stefan (age 9) kept hearing about (and in some cases witnessing) animals mating, I thought it was an opportune time for our father-son chat about the birds and the bees, which actually seemed to resonate in this environment. Now we just needed to come across some mating lions.
In addition to learning that lions mate about every fifteen minutes for two to three straight days, our designated ranger Charles, who guided us around Botswana's Linyanti swamps and Okavango Delta, kept the boys engaged during the eight or so hours we spent bouncing around in the jeep each day. Because he knew we were home-schooling the boys for the year, we took full advantage and allowed him to substitute for us to his heart's content. Besides just observing the likes of lion, cheetah, hyena, baboons and a plethora of other mammals, birds and reptiles, Charles taught us all how to recognize certain behaviors and what they meant. He also made it entertaining by injecting some fun facts like baby elephants having milk tusks which fall out when they are about one year old or that a group of zebra is called a "dazzle," while a herd of rhinos is referred to as a "crash."
The third area we visited in Botswana was in Nxai Pan National Park near the Kalahari. Like the two previous locations, we stayed at another Kwando Camp (our more serious down-and-dirty camping would follow in Tanzania), which happened to be newly opened (we were the second group of guests). But unlike the camps to the north, the environment here was much more sparse and fragile, which prevented the jeeps from driving off the designated tracks. This hit most of the guests pretty hard since all our preceding game drives allowed for off-roading. Although a "dazzle" of literally hundreds of zebras was a spectacular sight to hold, it was a bit frustrating not to be able to follow lions as they stalked a small group off in the distance.
My overall impression of Botswana, particularly when compared to our safari in South Africa, was that this was much more "quintessential" Africa. The game in this country probably far exceeds the human population of 1.5 million, and it certainly has ample spaces in which to roam. When we flew from one camp to the next via prop plane, all the eye could see was wide open spaces. There's little sign of human habitation anywhere, so when you're on safari out here, you really feel like, and are, in the middle of nowhere, which is just the way it should be. That said, we learned that the best time to visit would be during the dry season of May through September when the large herds gather around the region's permanent water supply. The Lebala Camp we stayed at in Linyanti, for example, had a group of 100-200 resident elephants, which was still amazing to see even when compared to the thousands that would assemble later in the year.
One of the advantages of being in this part of Africa during the rainy season is that the landscape becomes more colorful and vibrant. The resulting thick bush and higher grasses, besides attracting all kinds of birdlife, makes seeing predators like lion and leopard more difficult, although they are there. They are also fewer in number since they tend to follow their prey which is still mostly in the woodlands this time of year. So to spot them, it's critical to have experienced guides and trackers, which Charles and his crew certainly were. The friendly staff and excellent service at the Kwando Camps really made for an authentic experience, which we'll remember for what I'm sure will be a return visit.
After eight days in Botswana and trips to Sabi Sabi and the Zambezi, we logged in quite a bit of safari time, which never seems to get boring, even for the kids. To take a little reprieve from game drives, however, our visit to Namibia would not include any safaris. Instead, we dedicated our time to visit the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF)
outside the small city of Otjiwarongo, where the boys would take learning about wildlife to a whole new level, which I will cover in the last installment of this three-part post.
Photos: Giraffe photo, Tyler Jenss; Right and below, Rainer Jenss


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Southwold – Burwell
Burwell Private Burying Grounds
North Side Talbot Road East
Southwold Township, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada
OGS 5908
Elgin County Branch, OGS
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This cemetery has not existed for about the past 35 years. However, two stones were located on the farm of Mr. Larry Knott, R. R. #1 Fingal (lot 12, North Talbot Road East).
From A Pioneer History of Elgin County
David Watson settled on Lot 9 (South Talbot Road East) and died a few years after he came. James Burwell settled on Lot 13 (North Talbot Road East) in 1812 and died there. Charles Benedict settled on Lot 12 (North Talbot Road East) and lived there twenty years and then moved to Kent County.
James Burwell and his wife were buried on their own farm. Timothy Burwell, David Watson, and his wife and Charles Benedict's wife were also buried there.
From correspondence from Helen (Burwell) Smith, San Jose, CA to Jim Thomas, March 2006.She spoke of a stone with Burdick on it in the Knott farm yard. Found this comment"James Burwell and his wife were buried on their own farm. Timothy Burwell, David Watson and his wife, and Charles Benedict's wife were also buried there."
Also she commented, about the David & Sarah Watson stone and:"(broken) Mary? Benedict (proved below) July 19 1834 Aged 38y 9mos 13das / Wife of Charles Benedict (possibly my Great Aunt Mary Burwell) (broken) …mes …of Charles & Mary Benedict died May 10, 1856 age 29ys 18das
No stones for James & wife Hannah Frazee, Timothy (his son) nor Charles B have been found to date."Submitted by Jim Thomas, March 20061. Grey square pillarDavid WATSON / died / Aug. 2, 1825 / aged 49 yrs / Sarah / wife of / David WATSON / died / Jan. 15, 1836 / aged 50 yrs / Gone but not / forgotten /
2. Broken stone, grey slab______ry [?] / ______e of Charles / BENEDICT / died / July 19, 1834 / aged 38 yrs / 9 ms & 13 d's /(This is possibly Mary BURWELL, daughter of James and wife of Charles BENEDICT)


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Businesses are Increasingly Being Held Accountable for Unsolicited Marketing Call Offences
We have all answered the phone only to be greeted by a nuisance caller who claims that you have had an accident, wants to sell you something or knows your personal details. Most people have encountered nuisance calls and may feel there is nothing in place to prevent these irritating and sometimes distressing phone calls.
However, in 2015/2016, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) imposed penalties of almost £2 million for unsolicited marketing call offences. The ICO also imposed a penalty of £130,000 for a breach of the first data protection principle, the first penalty of its kind, for the sale of customer details (without their informed consent) to third parties. Changes in the rules on nuisance marketing have given the ICO greater scope to levy fines.
A recent example demonstrates how businesses are increasingly being held accountable for this offence. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued a company with a monetary penalty notice for £180,000 for jointly instigating at least 6,381 automated marketing calls.
Marketers must comply with the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003
Marketers should familiarise themselves with the applicable law on data protection and marketing as the penalties for not complying include:
Serious financial, commercial and reputational issues for the business, including possible criminal penalties.
A negative impact on the ability of the business to use databases for marketing purposes.
Reputational loss and the potential to be barred from trade bodies.
In this case, the ICO took into account a number of factors, including the company's contravention of regulations 19 of the Privacy Regulations 2003 as it was using an automated calling system without prior consent and regulation 24 of the Privacy Regulations 2003 as it did not identify the person who was sending or instigating the automated marketing calls, nor did it provide the address of a person or a telephone number on which they could be contacted free of charge.
The Privacy Regulations 2016 were not taken into account, as the unlawful marketing pre-dates their coming into force on 16 May 2016, but this decision serves as a reminder of CLI requirements.
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Exile in Oblivion è il quinto album del gruppo punk rock Strung Out, pubblicato il 2 novembre 2004 dalla Fat Wreck Chords.

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Tag: Jim Crow
by Editorial Board	June 6, 2018 4
An Exhibit on 1950s Life Reproduces Segregation
The BOOM exhibit successfully erases the Black experience in Montgomery County during the 1950s.
by William Horne	February 9, 2018 11
White Americans Fail to Address Their Family Histories
There is a conversation about race that white families are just not having. This is mine.
by Editorial Board	October 27, 2017 5
Segregated Cville
Whatever the demographic make-up of these groups of agitators, the overarching idea that communal protests and battles over white supremacy and race are anathema to Charlottesville could not be further from the truth.
From Traitor to Martyr: Robert E. Lee and the Myth of White Victimhood
White Americans have appropriated and closely guard what used to be a typically southern variant of U.S. history to protect their privilege. The current political climate in the United States seems to be congenial to these kinds of defense.
Hate Behind the Pine Curtain
Life and cultural expectations in East Texas continue to promote segregation in both personal and social relationships. Although white supremacist marches like the one in Charlottesville grip American headlines, neo-Nazis and Klansmen supporting the same doctrine in the open are not uncommon behind the Pine Curtain.
by Editorial Board	October 6, 2017 2
A 2002 Documentary that Whitewashes History Gets a New Coat in 2017
By his own admission, film creator Gottlieb was able to spend most of his life in Silver Spring shielded from the community's past that included widespread discrimination in the community's businesses, public buildings, and housing. Even after completing the film, Gottlieb appears to have learned little about the substantial role racism played in shaping his community.
by Editorial Board	September 29, 2017 1
Dyeing Poverty: Thoughts on Poverty and Race
From the Jim Crow era to the present day, discrimination has obstructed equal access in attaining greater wealth and upward mobility for marginalized people.
by Andreas Meyris	August 23, 2017 1
Review: Boom and Bust, Unit 6 of Joyce Appleby's The American Vision
The American Vision falls short of many important historiographical trends. Political history, or more accurately Presidential history, is important for students to learn—our democratic government operates (or is at least supposed to) on a legalistic basis. But history is a discipline that at its best seeks to understand the human experience. It studies human beings doing things. A more comprehensive textbook would necessitate more space be given to history "from the bottom up."
by Editorial Board	August 21, 2017 3
No Country for Johnny Reb or Bobby Lee
Removal without consideration of the historical context that led to their placement and the social wounds inflicted by white supremacy that are continually reopened in communities around the nation does nothing to resolve structural racism and heal those wounds.
Review: The Birth of Modern America, Unit 4 of Joyce Appleby's The American Vision
In an interpretive sense, the authors maintain an admirable focus on the history of technological innovation and its environmental impact, and include substantive discussions of economic principles and theories; their willingness to discuss the influence of Communism and Socialism on American history is particularly impressive.


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Follow The Frog Through Time
It sure isn't easy being green. Read on to learn how this ecosystem lynchpin fights for its life.
Jill Easton
Bullfrogs are carnivorous and will eat anything they can shove in their mouths. A big female bullfrog can weigh more than a pound.
Photo by Kevin Walsh
Frogs date back to the Jurassic period and hopped among dinosaurs.
Here is an illustration of different types of frogs.
Adirondacks American Bullfrog
A perfect frog pond.
Everyone from the early pioneers and mountain men to the pope in Rome and an Egyptian pharaoh has had run-ins with frogs. They are the stuff of legends, weight watching, drug dreams, history, movies, myths and cartoons. No matter how you look at frogs, they are a big deal.
It was frogs that gave Daniel Boone the strength to rescue his daughter, Jemima, and the Callaway sisters in 1776. A Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party had abducted the girls on the Kentucky frontier near the Boone cabin. They captured the girls while they were playing down by a creek and carried them away on horseback. Daniel saw the girls being taken and chased the raiding party on foot. He tracked the party for three days, wearing only his breeches and a hunting knife.
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During the chase, frogs he hand grabbed and ate provided the famous frontiersman his only food. Daniel caught up with the group and rescued Jemima and her friends. One might say his successful mission was aided by the power of frogs. The amphibians gave him the strength to keep going and overcome impossible odds.
"Ya ever eat a frog?" was famously asked by the character Janey in Lonesome Dove to terrify July Johnson's stepson, but frogs were not a horrifying or unappetizing menu item to early pioneers out west. Those settlers lucky enough to have a pond or river nearby often valued the amphibians more than fish.
Throughout the era of westward expansion, frogs were considered a delicacy. Laura Ingalls Wilder, who wrote Little House on the Prairie and many other Little House books, describes her father staving off starvation for his young family by using a basket trap to catch frogs and fish in a nearby river. The meaty frogs were her favorite. Many other stories, journals and letters of the time talk about the lucky folks who had water nearby that allowed them to supplement their scanty supplies with frog legs.
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Quick Frog Fry Up
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Frog legs just waiting to be dredged in flour and fried for a tasty meal.
4-5 good-sized frogs
Seasoned flour
Skin the frog and cut the feet off at the ankle. Remove the frog's back legs, including the pelvis. Flour the frog and fry.
Ancient Frog History
People have been impressed by frogs since the beginning of history. Frogs are portrayed in the pictographs of many American tribes. But one of the most bizarre frog incidents occurred about 4,000 years ago. A tribe of Hebrews led by Moses and Aaron demanded that an unnamed pharaoh allow the Israelites, who were being held as slaves, to go free. To convince the Egyptian ruler, God sent 10 plagues.
The second plague was a plague of frogs. In the Bible's Book of Exodus, God said, "The Nile will teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace and into your bedroom and onto your bed…and into your ovens and kneading troughs. The frogs will go up on you and your people and all your officials."
Since frogs were an important symbol of fertility, having rogue frogs infesting their houses was a terrible curse indeed. It actually took eight more plagues, but frogs were a grave curse. Having Egyptian semi-gods turn against the Egyptians and into a menacing, nasty curse was horrible. The frogs were an important part of getting the pharaoh to allow Moses and his band of believers in Yahweh to go in search of the promised land.
Even the pope got into the frog business. Around 860 A.D., Pope Nicholas I began to get reports that his friars grew fat while their congregations went hungry. The pope ordained that all good Catholics should eat cold-blooded fish on Fridays. This was to commemorate and show love and respect for Jesus's thirty days without food and water in the desert. The friars, who did indeed like their trenchers full, had frogs declared as cold-blooded so they could partake of their meatier flesh on fasting days. Interestingly, beaver and capybara are also considered cold-blooded and edible on Fridays.
Frogs have been turned to handsome princes by kisses and become the hero of children's books like The Wind in the Willows and The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Other frogs became movie and television stars. Kermit the Frog, created by Jim Henson in 1955, is one of the most easily recognized characters in the world. He is the primo star of the Muppets on Sesame Street, The Muppet Show as well as movies, specials and public service announcements.
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Fighting To Survive
After so many years of success, these amphibians are having a hard time surviving the 21st century. Polluted water, exotic species, the draining of marshes and shallow ponds, increases in predators and the gourmet demand for frog legs affects all frogs and toads. The list of froggy threats is quite long. Frogs are also an indicator species: When frogs disappear, it is sign that something in the ecosystem is off-kilter, which could affect other species.
Around the world, frogs have undergone severe population declines. In many places there are no longer tadpoles in puddles and frog voices mixed into the spring chorus.
The disappearance of frogs isn't just sad tales in science magazines—for me, it's personal. For the first time in several years, the bass-fiddle rasp of bullfrogs filled the night. The young bullfrogs took two years to grow from gelatinous eggs to big tadpoles and then to giant tadpoles 3 inches long. Finally, the bullfrog tadpoles grew legs and became part-time citizens of the bank.
The handsome young frogs filled the night with song and brought death to bugs and small fish during the day. During late afternoons, I'd carry a chair close to the pond edge and sit and watch them. Hundreds of sharp-eyed tweenagers soon realized I was no danger. As long as I didn't move much and stayed in one place, they let me get within a few yards. Their beady eyes and green-brown skin made a nice addition against the cattails, grass and sandy bank.
One afternoon, the young frogs were noticeably diminished. That night their songs were not as noisy. The next afternoon, instead of sitting by the water, I staked out the pond from the nearby forest. Before long, several great blue herons flew in and commenced feasting on my treasured bullfrogs. They each ate dozens and carried more back to their nests of young. Soon there were none. All of the bullfrogs were gone. An important part of our yard ecosystem was no more.
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The FrogWatchers
Frogs are not lost, but there must be changes, and change must come quickly. These survivors from the early Triassic-Holocene era have important friends that go into the night and take census of frog noises. These frog listeners go out at dusk to find out how these amphibians are surviving by listening to frog talk.
These folks, citizen scientists for FrogWatch USA, learn to identify local frog and toad species by their calls. After training, the volunteers drive a regular route to assigned wetlands and count the number of frog voices they can identify. Volunteers collect data from February through August. FrogWatch is sponsored by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (aza.org). The organization has collected data for 15-plus years, which has been used to answer scientific questions and provide information to many groups. With hard data about which species are successful and which are declining, conservation scientists can solve problems that decrease frog numbers.
For thousands of years, frogs have survived quite successfully. With help and changes from people who care about important issues impacting their survival, the bass womp-womp of the bullfrogs, the whine of leopard frogs and the cheep-cheep-cheep of spring peepers will be added again to the music of the night.
This article was originally published in the AMERICAN FRONTIERSMAN ™ 2015 issue #174. Subscription is available in print and digital editions here.
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"To write is to become."
~ Gilles Deleuze
Because sexual content is funny
Posted by Farah in Kareem
actor, actress, culture, funny, lebanese, Monot, sex, society, taboo, Theater
It seems the Lebanese intellectual society never ceases to insult itself ad infinitum. I went to see a play last week at Monot Theater. It was a Lebanese production with a compendium of star actors. My rant will exclude the level of professionalism of the said actors or how good the play itself was. I will thereby focus on the audience. It was a full house with the play entering its last week. No curtains opened and no audience applauded when the renowned and well-deserving Lebanese actor, Talal al-Jurdi, stepped on stage. I found that to be weird and even weirder when actress Rita Hayek came out and the audience roared. Funny! But no judgment.
The play exuded of sexual tension played out by all four actors. That in itself reflected brilliantly on the audience, specifically on the 60-something man in the row in front me. This was supposed to be a classy, well-cultured and well-read audience. Or so I thought. The brief tacky comments can be overlooked, it is the noises and the facial expressions of most of the men present which shocked me – and I still did not mention the old ladies present. We are a people still unable to take a work of art as art. We laugh whenever two kiss, turning each scene of one devoid of meaning save that hung to a kiss, a look, a gesture and an orgasm. That is the reaction by which we have received the introduction of man's most natural of relationships into our art scene: a frustrated laughter. Let us all take lightly what is still a burden to us, what is still a taboo so much so we can do nothing when confronted with it other than burst in laughter. Let us dumb-down our cultural productions, by all means.
I was perplexed. Seriously? The old lady seated next to me gripped the seat then burst out laughing when the tormented free but lost soul, Georgie (played by Rita Hayek) jumps on the socially awkward and shy professor Andre (played by Talal al-Jurdie), trying to kiss him, trying to tell her own teacher that she wants him, trying to incite him to cheat on his fiancé, but most importantly attempting to simplify his reality to him and prove to him that he is no longer in love with his fiancé, that he is fighting the truest of his feelings and desires. It was a play between morality and desire and it was well-played. I will deny that the scene did hold something comical but the message was not to be responded to by a nervous exaggerated laughter. It was funny, period. Not that grip-the-seat-shift-position-cough-or-burst-out-laughing-funny. No! not at all. It was as if the audience was awaiting these kisses and sexual encounters more than the actual development of the plot. I was disappointed and in fact was most of the time preoccupied with the audience's reaction than with what was going on on stage.
Then he messaged her feet and what does the old do? He moaned. And let your imagination crawl on the walls if it has to. You can only imagine what he did when he rushed to the bathroom during intermission.
What I am trying to say, and I do not know whether I was justly able to do so, is that that audience was no way short of being termed idiotic, ignoramuses in suits and heels. I might be exaggerating but I am commenting on what I had seen that night. I insist that last week's audience should not be and is not to be representative of the whole cultured Lebanese society. I refuse to be associated with this type of audience as I believe most of today's theater-goers would, at least I hope so.
review of sense of ending
Posted by Farah in Eye Critique
barnes, book, doubt, ending, england, history, julian, memory, nostalgia, remorse, review, sense, time
I had heightened expectations for Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending following my reading of his 1989 novel History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters. I won't deny that I was a bit disappointed. I had expected it to contain a bit more of something I am yet unable to name. All what I am certain of is that there is something missing and this feeling of lack only increases along with the number of pages. What I can admit, without any doubt or reluctance, is that the Barnes who had written History has changed so much today. I will not get into the controversy around him winning the Booker Prize in 2011; that is a different argument altogether.
The Sense of an Ending is a story about history and time. One senses a perpetual effort throughout the book to define time or history; the protagonist, Tony, even narrates backwards.The book starts with a memory and before Tony sets out to tell us what really matters, what the story is really about — there are constant moments which he evokes only to assert that they are not part of the story — he takes us back to his childhood. He seems keen on asserting his "incompetence," if that is an accurate word to use in his case, at understanding or comprehending other people's behavior and attitude. However, he does accentuate an intellectual tick, especially as an adolescent:intellectual his conversations with his friends, his impression about Adrian, his analyses on situations, which are sometimes "philosophically self-evident, as he keeps saying, his choice of books and so on. However, there is a perpetual feel throughout the book that the three friends live in Adrian's intellectual shadow, they feed off of him, compete for his attention and approval.
Though their relationship with Adrian is integral to understanding Tony in the first degree, it is not the whole story. The reader finds out that Tony is a confused person, attempting all the while to understand why people treat him the way they do, amid feelings of doubt, remorse, and self-pity. He simply does not want to hurt anyone ever again, as he exclaims toward the end of the book.
I don't know how accurate it is to claim that the level of depth with which Barnes handles the concepts of time, history, and memory is capricious, in a constant flux, once in depth and at other in complete naivety. There were also instances where I felt it to be rather too cheesy, resembling those highly emotional self-help text books. At some point toward the end of the book, as Tony starts to understand what he has been missing, or made to miss thereof, he wonders, "How often do we tell our own life story? How often we adjust, embellished, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fever are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but –mainly — to ourselves" (95).
In one sense or another, his perpetual state of self-pity irritated me, and at times made me wish him the worst, as if he deserved everything that is happening to him; it was expected that such a character would have such an ending. We anticipated his ending, we felt that sense of ending from the start. Maybe that was Barnes' intention, though I believe there is a different and deeper side of the story.
"It seemed to me that we ought occasionally to be reminded of instability beneath our feet," he says. This line definitely caught my attention. It is beautiful! Yet, Tony's instability gets to the reader as fast as it gets to him.
In school, their history class debated the most accurate definition of history.
'We could start, perhaps, with the seemingly simple question, What is History? Any thoughts, Webster?'
'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly.
'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd say that. Well, as long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated. Simpson?'
Colin was more prepared than me. 'History is a raw onion sandwich, sir.'
'For what reason?'
'It just appears, sir. It burps. We've seen it again and again this year. Same old story, same old oscillation between tyranny and rebellion, war and peace, prosperity and impoverishment.'
'Rather a lot for a sandwich to contain, wouldn't you say?'
'Finn?'
''History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.'' (17)
As the story unfolds and the older Tony starts narrating his present in view of his past, rather than his past, his view of history changes. "I survived," he writes. "He survived to tell the tale' — that's what people say, don't they? History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious nor defeated" (56).
Then still further into the novel, Tony gives a more personal perception of what constitutes history and time:
Perhaps I just feel safer with the history that's been more or less agreed upon. Or perhaps it's that same paradox again: the history that happens underneath our noses ought to be the clearest, and yet it's the most deliquescent. We live in time, it bounds us and defines us, and time is supposed to measure history, isn't it? But if we can't understand time, can't grasp its mysteries of pace and progress, what chance do we have with history — even our own small, personal, largely undocumented piece of it? (60)
However, it seems rather ironic, or maybe predictable, that Tony would reach a conclusion such as the one he proclaims at the end of the book. He says, "There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond these, there is unrest. There is great unrest" (150). Should I take this statement sarcastically? A huge part of me wants to consider this conclusion a cynical and witty one, but there is a tiny voice battling that.
I think it is worth mentioning, that Tony's instability which the reader feels and touches is demonstrated, not only in the events taking place or his internal monologues or even his own actions and their consequence, in other words, not only through the plot, but also through the form of the narrative itself. From page 56 onward (part two of the book), I felt that the narrative became more broken, more fragmented than it was before. The fragments were shorter and jumped from one place to another in a different manner than they did in the first part.
Tony's remembrances and the way he invokes his memories in a mixture of nostalgia and defeatism. He seems to be berating himself and the lifestyle he has led.
I remember a period in late adolescence when my mind would make itself drunk with images of adventurousness. This is how it will be when i grow up. I shall go there, do this, discover that, love her, and then her and her and her. I shall live as people in novels live and have lived. Which ones I was not sure, only that passion and danger, ecstasy and despair (but then more ecstasy) would be in attendance. However … who said that thing about 'littleness of life that art exaggerated'? There was a moment in my late twenties when I admitted that my adventurousness had long since petered out. I would never do those things adolescence had dreamt about. Instead, I mowed my lawn, I took holidays, I had my life.
But time … how time first grounds us and then confound us. We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them. Time … give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical. (93)
The second kind of memory present is tinged with nostalgia and a constant doubt that memories are truly memories rather than a recreation of a nostalgic and emotional subject. Tony exclaims, "We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time" (63).
Not quite the end
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The city is not as gloomy as it seems, the head held up high whenever one walks to lift one's heart.
It's humid and sticky this time of year around, such weather seems infested with skirmishes and quarrels,
A myriad of collective misunderstandings and edginess during the day, endless laughter and drunkenness during the night.
The rest is spent suspended on swings of mood, slumber, and sometimes helplessness.
There is always space for dreams and nightmares alike, depending on your temperament, attitude, and judgment — and occasionally, belonging.
In a city so laden with history, its inhabitants live in time;
Some are frozen in it, others captivated by the fact that it either goes too fast or too slow. And there are some who are haunted by it, by the past which they've internalized and now mistake it for a present, by a present which is never present and a future they are fighting for, for its visibility before its contingency.
Such is the case of many and the narrated story of few.
Becoming Lebanese
25 Thursday Oct 2012
Becoming, Beirut, inhumane, intellectual, intelligence, Iran, KSA, Lebanon, life, parties, Patriotism, politics, religion, Syria, think, tweet, Wilde
Note: I apologize for the long quote and thank a friend for inspiring the title (I borrowed it from one of his tweets).
We often hear that we tend to take life too seriously, that we are uptight and should relax, chill, take it easy, be more down to earth.
But after yesterday, I do tell you we are definitely taking life lightly; we belittle what it means to 'live.' We quote out desire for life in colored slogans instead.
We made life cheap.
It sounds sort of pathetic, vulgar and pathetic even that no amount of words or volumes thereof would give it justice.
That promise of patriotism we convince ourselves we have taken is nothing more than a farce.
Patriotism is neither in this camp nor in that.
Patriotism does, in no way, entail the willingness to fire a bullet at random, or to turn against a friend, or a neighbor, or sell our souls, minds, and bodies to the devil, be it Israel, Iran, Syria, KSA or whatever country, just fill in the blanks there.
Patriotism does not entail founding and operating your own military squad, or appointing yourself the guardian of security and peace, or naming your camp a nation. We are not in an American movie. It does not make you own the right to grant life or give it away, to terrorize and plunder, to exterminate our finest men then belittle their worth. Patriotism does not favor the life of a high status figure over its citizens and it certainly does not leave those hundreds of traumatized homeless and injured children to pause (or is it pose?) for reflection and retrospection, for calculations and political gimmicks.
Patriotism is not a mind game nor does it entail underestimating anyone's intelligence. No one is stupid anymore.
Patriotism is not a mutated and brainwashed belief in one's country; it is not the obliteration of thought and the eradication of values.
It is definitely not turning against your own kind, your own species; it is not becoming inhumane.
It is a disgrace what we have come to.
But it is also our fault.
In Arabic there is a saying: كما أنتم يولّى عليكم, which means you are only ruled by the likes of you.
We vote, each year.
We participate in political festivals, meetings and celebrations. We belong to political and religious groups.
We are blindly driven by beliefs, creeds and ideologies.
We follow. We never were leaders of our own selves, minds and sentiments.
Now tell me, objectively, where did we go wrong?
Instead of revolting against a system you have made, revolt against the selves which bore them, revel against who and what you were when you chose to forgo who you really are because you're too lazy to 'think' and be yourself; because it is easier to follow the crowd.
Maybe it is high time we educate ourselves and tame our animalistic temperament and remember a few words Oscar Wilde once said: "Be yourself, all others are taken."
It is time you revel and expel the clutter of selves infested within you. It is time we 'become' Lebanese, to quote my intelligent friend.
Another masquerade
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A word. Countries have lived and died, were built and destroyed, by one word. Respect for human beings and their intelligence in the first degree constituted the politics of many a powerful nation.
But today, we do things differently. Modernity have proclaimed that we lose our values alongside our humanity, we either become barbarians or mere comatosed sheep – robots in either option.
Today, we no longer have the patience to make leaders kneel through silence and pacific protests, we no longer believe in the power of the word. I confine my statement today to the case and context of Downtown, Beirut today, Oct. 21, 2012. Facing a silent assassin, a camouflaged murderer, we will not turn into thugs, that will only make us no different from the very low-lives we are fighting against.
In 2005, I was among those who called for the truth, who chose life. It took me a year after that to realize that the side I have taken does not represent me. Today, especially today, neither side represents me still. But I do have the intelligence and the brains to know what is right. How to act? I want lots of things. I do want to bring this government down, but I do not want the proposed alternative. I do want change but it is not through the potential of either camps.
Today I was ashamed to say I belonged to a people who turned a funeral procession (a tragic occasion) into a festival, a celebration of political muscles, a stage for speeches of hate and accusation. I might agree with who March 14 believes is doing the killings. But I certainly do not agree with how they choose to act their beliefs out, how each politician manages his affairs or how their followers refuse to think and merely choose to follow. I am not even mentioning March 8 for apparent reasons within the context of what I am saying. I have always refrained from posting political entries. But today might have changed things. I do believe there is no grey area in politics. It is either black or white. I still believe so. I do however believe that politics is a dirty game and all politicians are liars, counterfeiters and corrupt par excellence, no matter the side they belong to. This is simply what they do. I refuse to be anyone's Frankenstein, anyone's herd or experiment. I refuse to rent out, or even sell out, my mental capabilities to any political figure. I am smart and intelligent and refuse to give that up. I refuse to allow anyone to label me anything other than a free thinking Lebanese. So all I am trying to say today, is shame on everyone who threw not a stone or a stick but a wrong glance at the ISF protecting the Serail, on everyone who selfishly helped turn a sad moment into a despicable riot. We all want justice and freedom, but not like that. God bless the martyrs who paid the price of external and internal conspiracies and all the innocent civilian souls who always pay the price. What is even worse is that this time, the wrong time and place were home.
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"He was in a great cone spinning down to a black point." Allow me to make an exception and start my mini review with a quote. So far, 42 pages of Makes Lunch by William S. Burroughs are enough to prepare me for the kind of read I have waiting for me. To be more accurate, the title alone and the fact that Burroughs wrote this while high were a cue by themselves spiking my interest in this book. This is no Alice in Wonderland . Psychedelic par excellance in vulgar terms, it "messes," to avoid using an uncivil word, with your mind. Certainly not an easy read, but one that should not be missed.
From one bibliophile to another…
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Jacques Bonnet lives up to his reputation as novelist, translator and a manic bibliophile through his book Phantoms on the Bookshelves. Originally written in French, this book expands the tale of one bibliophile to many others, allowing the readers hearty peeks into their bookshelves, their patterns and habits of collecting, buying and selling, and obtaining books as well as the art of reading them. Reading in this book takes the very act into a different level, the jouissance inherit in reading itself. No longer is the term reading self-evident; rather it is orgasmic, addictive. It is a life and a career of its own, it is writing and breathing and living. And I relate.
Bonnet satiates the thirst of literature and book lovers through valuable literary anecdotes. His accounts are both informative and charming (if you are a book lover, expect a few Goosebump-y episodes every now and then). Bonnet tells it all: from organizing your bookshelves and creating an exclusive system, to the difference between real/fiction characters and the author, to the tales and habits of reading, writing, record-keeping and library collections. The book is an easy, fast and enjoyable read of 123 pages distributed among 9 chapters.
Bonnet tells us that reading is a conversation with the past, a walk down a Borges-ian labyrinth or a Zafon-ian cemetery of forgotten books. It is a lively experience, a meeting with the dead and the great, (not in such a disturbing manner as this sentence conveys).
Bonnet quotes the author of Les Fous Litteraires (Literary Madmen), Andres Blavier in a splendid quote which reads:
"What bliss it is, after a day in a city you have always meant to visit, as you sit in your hotel room at the end of the afternoon, working through the books, postcards and brochures destined to find their way to your bookshelves, all giving you the comforting feeling that you are taking home some tangible elements of what has already become the past! It gives you the impression of lost time, whereas everything else, the emotions and sensations of the journey, will be fleeting memories."
On another note, Bonnet also shares his own experience with writing, reading and book-collecting, allowing us to trace the contours of that obsession and relating it, in its manifold of layers, to our own, hidden or explicit. He admits that he would never have compiled the amount of books he has now had he been born in the internet generation. He writes:
"Oddly enough, the infinite source of information which the internet provides does not have the same magical status as my library. Here I am in front of my computer, I can look up everything I want, jumping even further in time and space than through my books but there's something missing: that touch of the divine. Perhaps it's something physical: I'm only using my fingertips: the whole process is outside me, going through a screen and a machine. Nothing like these walls lined with books which I know – almost – by heart. On one hand, I feel as if I have a fabulous artificial arm, able to move about in that interstellar space outside, while on the other, I am inside a womb whose walls are my book-lined shelves – the archetype in literature would be inside Nautilus [sic.] 20,000 leagues under the sea. As you see, it is not always a rational matter."
Bonnet's Phantoms of the Bookshelves also credits the genius of great writers, collectors and thinkers, while all the while, intentionally or not, sharing valuable titles and recommendations. After 123 pages, I came to be reminded of another similar and valuable book about books, reading, collecting and the internet age by Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carriere, This is not the End of the Book; is a conversation curated by Jean-Philippe De Tonnac. Both books are a must on every bookshelf.
I own a chair with wheels and I know how to use them!
I have no wish, nor do I possess the temper, to sit straight in my chair, without fail, un-doubtful, un-fidgety, unnerved. My chair has wheels which demand attention. And I will never deny them their rights. So if you may, you might want to consider moving sideways just a little bit as I roll past.
I will refrain from hurtful jargon, but I do wish to make a point here. As un-unique and mundane an idea it is to possess a chair on wheels, I beg to argue that my chair is nothing close to blekh-ness. I do not mean, God forbid that it is trendy or funky, or even fashionable. No. It is far from stardom or the tedious life of a celebrity. What it is however is much much simpler than that; it is wild (as in its wheels run out of control every time you feel gracious enough to give them a little bit more liberty), comfortable, and convenient. What it is not is cheap. While it does roll out of control most of the times to be fair, my rolling chair is something of a genius. But enough of that. Let us talk about those wheels. I am dying to talk about those wheels.
With the new trend of tire-burning and tire-blocking the streets and highways of Lebanon, every minute someone sneezes in the wrong direction, I feel invincible in my chair on wheels (size does not matter after all, though we might face what you might call an inconvenience regarding a miscalculated road length vs. tire-coverage, my statement still stands). Yup! I am invincible.
In Italiano, per cortesia
Qualche volta, sento il bisogno di avere una conversazione con il mio specchio.
Non sono matta! Lo faccio con una convizione di sanita` mentale; un monologo interno che scelgo di fare ad alta voce.
Oggi, il mio specchio non e` contento. Dice che per lui ho dei problemi. Penso che abbia ragione, ma non ho detto niente. Ho guardato bene il mio viso, in silenzio. Ho voluto sentire cio` che il mio specchio voleva dirmi.
"Ho, solamente, una cosa da dirti," mi ha detto. "Ascolta bene."
"Ascoltare che cosa?" gli ho risposto.
"La piccola voce dentro la tua testa."
"Quale voce?"
"Ascolta bene e basta."
Per questa ragione, ho passato tutta la mattina ad ascoltare ogni piccola voce che potevo sentire: nel parco mentre leggevo, mentre facevo un giro in bicicletta, mentre guidavo la mia macchina nel traffico, mentre pranzavo con i miei amici, e anche mentre guardavo le notizie alla TV.
In altre parole, quando ero sola o con qualcuno, facevo del mio meglio per seguire il consiglio del mio specchio.
Ho ascoltato, ma non ho sentito neinte.
Alla fine della giornata, ho avuto un enorme mal di testa per aver ascoltato, contemporaneamente, tutte le voci del mondo.
In quel momento specifico, ho odiato il mio specchio, e anche parlargli. Stasera e` la sera nelle quele ho deciso di romperlo a pezzi, o forse solamente stoccando del muro per non vedere piu`.
Picture taken at Tate Modern, installation by Japanese Artist Kusuma.
And if it were a moon-lit night and your face shone beneath the velvet that were my eyes, would you still call it a romantic cliche?
Would you still halt to ponder the right from the desire, the light from the fire, the sir from the sire, the maiden from the squire?
Would you still assume ignorance in matters of the heart and declare the victory of your wit?
Would you not surrender for at least a while before you discover that you have done so for your lifetime?
But you are immortal, and matter merely dissolves to be absorbed by another as your memory stretches till the end of time and back. You have created a cycle and you fell prey to your wit. For you have achieved so much and drawn the course of a lifetime for little minuscule chemicals running wild within all gray and white matter; those you thought you were protecting, defending, fighting for against two or three million atomic and molecular attacks.
You have failed and in your failure you have triumphed.
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Q: data.table v.1.11.0+ no longer freads data file that was fread by v.1.10.4-3 I've encountered a possible bug in the new version of data.table. I have a 2GB .csv file with c. 3 million rows and 67 columns. I can use fread() to read it all fine from data.table v.1.10.4-3, but v.1.11.0+ terminates at a row somewhere down the middle. The base read.csv() also hits the same problem. I really like data.table and want to create a bug report on Github, but obviously I can't upload the 2GB data file anywhere.
I need a way of splicing maybe ~10 rows around the problematic point (the row number is known) in order to create a portable reproducible example. Any ideas how I can do that without reading in the .csv file?
Also, is there a program I can use to open the raw file to look at the problematic point and see what causes the issue? Notepad/Excel won't open a file this big.
EDIT: the verbose output.
EDIT2: this is the problematic line. It shows that what is supposed to be one line is somehow split into 3 lines. I can only assume it is due to an export bug in an ancient software (SAP Business Objects) that was used to create the CSV. It is unsurprising that it causes an issue. However, it surprising that data.table v.1.10.4-3 was able to handle it in a smart way and read it correctly, whereas v.1.11.0+ could not. Could it do something with encoding or technical hidden characters?
EDIT3: proof that this is what really happens.

A: Thanks for including the output. It shows that fread is issuing a warning. Did you miss this warning before?

Warning message:
In fread("Data/FP17s with TCD in March 2018.csv", na.strings = c("#EMPTY",  :
  Stopped early on line 138986. Expected 67 fields but found 22. Consider fill=TRUE and comment.char=. First discarded non-empty line: <<916439/0001,Q69,GDS Contract,MR A SYED,916439,Mr,SYED A Mr,A,SYED,58955,3718.00,Nine Mile Ride Dental Practice,Dental Surgery,193 Nine Mile Ride,Finchampstead,WOKINGHAM,RG40 4JD,2181233168.00,TORIN,FASTNEDGE,1 ANCHORITE CLOSE,>>

This is very helpful, surely. It tells you the line number: 138986. It says that this line is 22 fields but it expects 67. Could the warning be better by stating why it is expecting 67 fields at that point (e.g. by saying there are 67 column names and it has seen 67 columns up to that point?)  It gives you a hint of what to try (fill=TRUE) which would fill that too-short line with NA in columns 23:67. Then it includes the data from the line, too.
Does it work with fill=TRUE, as the warning message suggests?
You say it worked in 1.10.4-3 but I suspect it's more likely it stopped early there too, but without warning. If so, that was a bug not to warn, now fixed.

A: Using Powershell on Windows:
Get-Content YourFile.csv | Select -Index (0,19,20,21,22) > OutputFileName.csv

would dump the header and lines 20-23 into a new file.

A: Use a combination of skip and nrow:
You mentioned that you have no problem reading the file with v.1.10.4-3, right?. So use that to skip most of the .csv and set nrow to the number of rows you want. Once you have that data.table, you can write that portion of the file and you have a portable reproducible example.
For example:
DT <- fread(my_file.csv, skip=138981, nrow=10)

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The main advice that I would give to myself would be to not stress myself out with every little thing that happens because as long as I put time and dedication into what I do, my work will not be in vain. While it may seem that your whole life is riding on an A or B in a class, having that mind set will not serve in your best interest. Grades are very important, especially in college, but in stressing yourself out, those grades will become farther away from reality as you will not be thinking clearly and rationally about how to approach the major obstacles that are stopping you from achieving the grade you desire. Along with this piece of advice I would tell myself to be open to any opportunities that are presented to you because without being open, you will never be able to experience college to the fullest. Ambition is absolutely the biggest necessity for having a successful college career because opportunity will not seek you out, you have to take the initiative and take opportunities as you see them.
I started college because I knew that I wanted a better life for myself and my future family. I needed to know that I could be independent and would be able to take care of my family. College was going to make me a better person. It was hard for me to take college seriously when I first enrolled. I believe this was mostly because I doubted myself and partly because I was still trying to figure out how I was going to survive outside of college. I struggled through it at first and hit a few bumps in the road, but I worked through it and eventually got to a place where I started believing in myself. I figured out better ways to study and manage my time. Feeling like I finally had a purpose in life made all the difference in the world. It changed my approach and my outlook on school. I have been successful in every class since then and am so excited to start the nursing program in two semesters. I can see a light at the end of the tunnel that keeps getting bigger every time I look up. Never give up the dream!
Take AP classes. They prepare you well for the exams in college. Scholarships are also very important. If you receive enough of them, you will not need to work, and you will be able to focus on your studies, so apply to every single one that you can. Next, get a friend who has been through it all. You already have your older sisters who go to the same university as you. Whenever you have a question about college, go to them. They actually are a little older and wiser than you. One more thing, be wary of the party scene and video games. They both can interfere with your studies. Enjoy them in moderation. Friends from high school should also be enjoyed in moderation. Branch out. You might become best friends with students from a rival high school or even another state. Don't be the person that only hangs out with his high school buddies and girlfriend. You will never learn what else is out there. Finally, come into the experience with no expectations and an open mind. That way, you will be ready for anything.
Don't let any one thing determine where you go to college. It is so easy to have a really good time on a campus tour and decide right then, this is where I want to be. It is really important to think about the kind of activities you want to do, the kind of people you want to meet, and how much you want to spend. Take everything into consideration. Try to spend a night on campus with someone who lives in the dorms. It's a crazy rxperience. Most importantly, once you decide, get involved. The worst thing that you can do is tell yourself that you will sign up for that club or group next semester. You can't make friends by sitting in your dorm room! Join everything that sounds remotely interesting. Go to a few meetings before your homework load gets to be too much! It is easier to stay involved than it is to get involved half way through. Finally, don't stress too much. You probably aren't going to lose out on a job or a internship because you got a C on that one test freshman year. Put your sanity first!
I would tell myself that attending a tri-mester college is a lot harder then I imagine and to buckle down; I can't just wait to figure out that small step in calculas which doesn't matter all that much. I should get help as soon as I need it. Also, I should probably just attend the cheaper East Stroudsburg University down the road rather then going to the much more expensive Drexel University. I would probably wonder why, but in the end I would be unable to get private loan to attend the other college and would only have one term of credits transfer out of the three term year. However, I might consider the fact that going there was worth the experience, so I would tell myself to just study hard to make transfering easier; also to make sure I know VERY early what my loan status for the following year is so I don't find out after admissions for all colleges are locked i have no-where to go. Also for one last word of advice I would tell myself to savor every moment, I'll never know when it's going to be over.
I f I were able to go back in time and tell myself what I know now, I'd say resist the urge to put college on hold for any length of time. Although I finally did get motivated to enroll in school eventually, taking that year off after high school broke the momentum I could have maintained to help me stay on task. I'd say relying on my Mom to get financially prepared is not a good idea. I would tell my 18 year old self, to get it in gear. There are many scholarships that were available to me at the time, if only I had applied. Those same scholarships are even available now, but are not accessible to me now. When I had the chance to attend Howard University, I had no idea how to complete any of the financial aid documentation, so when it came to it, I didn't have the money or the knowledge to even apply for other funding. I'd tell myself to just push through the struggles because harder times are ahead, and maybe not study Music Education and listen to my uncle and find an area in computers instead.
While it's important to find a school that has the major you would like to study, know that this very well could change by the time you are ready to graduate. So choose a school that is in a city or town that you really love (size, location, surroundings, weather), make sure they offer a wide variety of classes if you are unsure of your area of study, and look at the activities and events that the school offers. Study hard, do your homework (on time!), meet with the professors when they give you office hours, go to the writing center to get help on papers, take advantage of the public transportation, but also HAVE FUN! Go to sporting events, enjoy the union, go out to eat, explore the city (farmers market, ethnic restaurants, lakes, parks), don't go home every weekend, join new clubs to meet people, volunteer around the community, become involved! College is a great time to meet some of your best friends, gain a well-rounded education, learn to live on your own, and discover who you are as a person.
Save the money! I worked throughout high school and always spent the money I earned right away on things that I do not even use anymore. The biggest stressor during my college career, other than school, has been money. I would tell myself to save as much as I could because, there are some emergencies that happen that you cannot control. I would also tell myself to stay true to who I am. Once I got into college, there are a couple of times that I have questioned about who I was, if I was doing the right thing, and if I was where I belonged. I would say that get to know yourself as best as you can while you're in high school, because it saves time during college of trying to figure out who you are. The last thing I would tell myself is that you have a blank slate. You are going to a new place where people may or may not know you. Embrace that, try new things, do not dwell on things that happend in high school, because nobody cares in college. You have a blank slate where you can become whoever you want.
My initial impressions of success in college life were purely focused on good grades and getting to know and impress the professors. I could not have been more wrong. Although both are very important, they are only a small part of the college experience. The relationships that I have developed, on this journey to my adult life, are what really have surprised me. I came to this school with a narrow understanding of people and with a small group of friends in tow. Now in my second year of college, I have developed a wide variety of relationships. These relationships vary from very close friends to sports mates, to a self developed prayer study group. A year ago I would never have thought that I would have thrown my relationship net so wide! This is what I now believe the college experience is really about, forming new relationships and making life long connections. And if I am correct, I look forward to a successful completion of my college life and the realization of a transition to my chosen career.


Increase of mass' transport for the zero superficial tension effect, with correlated advantages in the extractive efficiency and in the duration of the extraction (minutes vs. hours).
With a minimum modulation of temperature and pressure in the process, the solvent properties are modified in an important way.
CO2 is a low-viscosity, eco-friendly and green solvent, not flammable, inert and non-toxic.
High diffusivity (so it can increase the extractive kinetics).
Co-solvents (water, ethanol) can further modify the solvent proprieties.
The relatively low extraction temperatures help conserve volatile compounds.
This process is not influenced by oxidation: the extraction vessel, full of supercritical CO2, is an inert space for the oxidation process also at high temperature (50-70 °C).
Antibacterial and so the final extracts are high quality products, for a microbiology point of view.
Cheap: it's common in the atmosphere (0.04% and rising) and it's concentrated in a pure solution (99,9% of CO2, gas state,20-25 bar), simply available in safe cylinders or bottles.
During the process the CO2 is continually recycled and this reduces the primary cost of extraction. At the same time, the small quantity of solvent lost during the process, and so released in the atmosphere, doesn't increase global CO2 emissions, because the same CO2 was concentrated from the atmosphere in cylinders.
If a polar co-solvent (like water and ethanol) was used for the extraction of polar or medium polar chemical compounds, the extracted substances are easily isolated with the evaporation of the co-solvent.


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Home Entertainment Padmavati trailer crosses15 million views in 24 hours, beats record of Baahubali...
Padmavati trailer crosses15 million views in 24 hours, beats record of Baahubali 2
Mumbai: The much awaited trailer of filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali's period drama 'Padmavati' was released on Monday and it has crossed 15 million views on YouTube in 24 hours, beating the record of 'Baahubali 2'.
The trailer of 'Padmavati', starring Deepika Padukone, Shahid Kapoor and Ranveer Singh, was unveiled on the You Tube channel of Viacom 18 Motion Pictures on Monday evening. The 3.09-minute-long video has registered 15,258,415 views, 3,25,000 likes, 26,000 dislikes and 35,103 comments in less than 24 hours. The video has also received 20,671,000 views, 385,000 likes, 33,000 dislikes and 43,187 comments as of 10.30 am on Wednesday.
No Hindi movie trailer had crossed the mark of 10 million views on YouTube in a day. It was the Hindi version of 'Baahubali 2' which was the first one to surpass this mark.
After witnessing the grandeur of 'Baahubali 2', people are eagerly waiting to experience the larger than life drama once again on the silver screen.
'Padmavati' will depict the tension between the Rajput and Khilji dynasty ruler. Deepika will essay the role of Hindu Rajput queen Rani Padmini. While Shahid will play the role of Maharawal Ratan Singh, Ranveer will be seen portraying the role of Alauddin Khilji.
Both Shahid and Ranveer were thrilled to see the massive numbers. The actors to expressed their happiness on social media. "Overwhelmed by the love pouring in. Humbled and thankful. Love you all #PadmavatiTrailer @FilmPadmavati," tweeted Shahid.
Ranveer Singh posted on his Instagram account, "Although this film, for me, is beyond numbers..this is a pretty amazing record! Congrats to the team! #PadmavatiTrailer @FilmPadmavati"
The movie will hit the silver screens on December 1.
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Mumbai: The much awaited trailer of filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali's period drama 'Padmavati' was released on Monday and it has crossed 15 million views on YouTube in 24 hours, beating the record of 'Baahubali 2'. The trailer of 'Padmavati', starring…
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