history of chocolate

The word "chocolate" entered the English language from Spanish.How the word came into Spanish is less certain, and there are multiple competing explanations. Perhaps the most cited explanation is that "chocolate" comes from Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, from the word "chocolatl", which many sources derived from the Nahuatl word "xocolatl" (pronounced [ ʃoˈkolaːtɬ]) made up from the words "xococ" meaning sour or bitter, and "atl" meaning water or drink.However, as William Bright noted the word "chocolatl" doesn't occur in central Mexican colonial sources making this an unlikely derivation. Santamaria gives a derivation from the Yucatec Maya word "chokol" meaning hot, and the Nahuatl "atl" meaning water. More recently Dakin and Wichman derive it from another Nahuatl term, "chicolatl" from Eastern Nahuatl meaning "beaten drink".They derive this term from the word for the frothing stick, "chicoli". The word xocoatl means beverage of maize.The words "cacaua atl" mean drink of cacao.The word "xocolatl" does not appear in Molina's dictionary.

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The Climb

Artist: Miley Cyrus
Title: The Climb
I can almost see it
That dream I am dreaming
But there's a voice inside my head saying
"You'll never reach it"

Every step I'm taking
Every move I make feels
Lost with no direction
My faith is shaking

But I gotta keep trying
Gotta keep my head held high

There's always gonna be another mountain
I'm always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna be a uphill battle
Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose

Ain't about how fast I get there
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb

The struggles I'm facing
The chances I'm taking
Sometimes might knock me down
But no, I'm not breaking

I may not know it
But these are the moments that
I'm gonna remember most, yeah
Just gotta keep going

And I, I got to be strong
Just keep pushing on

'Cause there's always gonna be another mountain
I'm always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna be a uphill battle
Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose

Ain't about how fast I get there
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb, yeah!

There's always gonna be another mountain
I'm always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna be an uphill battle
Sometime's gonna have to lose

Ain't about how fast I get there
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb, yeah!

Keep on moving, keep climbing

Hubble trouble

Title: Hubble trouble
Book: When life gives you lemons
Publish: Mc Graw Hill
Written: Earl Stafford
Success, like failure, changes the way we look at the world. Too much success too quickly can make a person cocky and arrogant, and even leave him or her out of touch with reality. Earl Stafford allowed some early success to tempt him into believing he was invincible, and when disaster struck, he got the lesson of his life.
That is why Stafford values the failure he endured almost as much as the success he eventually enjoyed. Failure imbued him with a permanent sense of humility, something he has passed on to his own children. Failure also taught him that, while you can't always control circumstances, you can control your state of mind. He learned to trust in his faith and his core beliefs, the guideposts that get you through the roughest storms. Nothing builds character quite like a gut-testing setback, and in that sense, Stafford realized, those who experience failure are, indeed, fortunate.

Frankly speaking

Read from "Kerjaya" magazine. Last 2 months..
Title: Frankly speaking..
Story: Barry Potekin
Written: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Barry Potekin went from living in a mansion and buying custom-made shirts by the dozen to sleeping on a friend's sofa and not being able to buy a bagel. That sort of journey just has to be edifying. The real tragedy isn't falling from grace, as Potiken did. The real tragedy is not learning from the experience. A mistake remains a mistake if it's repeated; it becomes a stepping stone to success if we learn from it.
And as often happens, the circumstances of our failures make it possible for us to achieve real success. The things we learn about ourselves in defeat embolden us to reach for a goals we never dreamed of reaching. Potekin's early success as a gold and silver trader obscured the fact he was neither a particularly good businessperson nor a particularly good human being. It was only after he failed spectacularly that he could put the pieces back together in a way that made for a better, richer life. Small wonder that so many people who crash and burn. Barry Potekin included.

Thingking Big

Source: Motivate Book
Publish: Mc Graw Hill
Written: Richard T.Williams
Story about The Rick Hvizdak..
It was kind of rejection that made Rick Hvizdak take stock of himself, and from the outside looking in he seemed a failure in comparison to his rich and successful sibling. That, however, was the not way that Hvizdak saw himself. Instead of feeling victimized or otherwise vulnerable, Hvizdak recognized the freedom that failure bestowed on him. Liberated from a job he never really loved, Hvizdak was finally all systems go to chase his rightful dream.
He might have never devised the plan that made him rich had he not spend months among the ranks of the unemployed. He might have never summoned the courage to go out on a limb had he not experienced the hardship of poverty. Hvizdak's response to adversity was a textbook example of grace under pressure. Rather than scratch and claw to get back to where he was, he used the opportunity to truly shoot for the stars.

Helping hand

Read from Health magazine..August 2009 edition. About helping hand.. Written by William Saroyan..
Pat Biedar never expected to be running her husband's company, but she was forced by circumstance to do it. And the humiliating failure she experienced cold have easily led to sell the company she and her husband worked so hard to create. Instead, she chose to stick it out and learn from her mistakes, and eventually she turned her fortunes around.
Biedar's path to success was humbling and eye-opening. She learned a great deal about how to run a business, but she learned even more about how to run a life. Biedar's story shows that there is much to gain from failure, as long as we stay attuned to the lessons it offers. It's remarkable how many people who have experienced failure-Pat Biedar included-say they wouldn't trade their struggles for anything in the world.

Recipe for Success

From the book "When Life Gives you Lemons" title "Recipe for success" by Robert G. Ingersoll..Publish from Mc Grow Hill..Story about Linda Fisher..
Linda Fisher very nearly gave up when the Carroll county health officials put her out of business. She was a baker down to her bones, and yet they were telling her that she could not bake. Even worse, she was being humiliated in front of all her friends. She felt like a complete failure in their eyes. Defeats don't come much more disheartening than that.
But Linda Fisher didn't gives up or move out of town. She got a lucky break, and then she set out on her route again, despite her apprehension about how her friends would treat her. The warm and happy reception she received was a blessing that Linda Fisher might have missed had she slunk out of town. And it was only possible after the heartbreak of her defeat. By then, of course, Linda Fisher was no stranger to enduring hard time. she did not think in terms of failures and success. She thought more on bumps in the road that had to be traversed. like the recipes her mother handed down to her, her approach to handling adversity was simple and get past it somehow, then go on.