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.

STANDING TALL

The Micheal Ain Story..
It was the kind of abysmal failure that could have easily ended Micheal Ain's dream to go to medical school. After all, it wasn't that his grades were poor or that his candidacy was otherwise flawed. The obstacle was simply his size or more accurately, people's perceptions that his size would prevent him from becoming a good doctor. And it wasn't just one or two admissions deans who felt this way. It was 30 out of 30, a clean sweep.
Micheal Ain early hardships in his life:-Undergoing a grueling operation at a young age, playing competitive sports against athletes twice his size. He had instilled in him a never-say-die approach to achieving his goals. More importantly, he learned early on not to use his size as an excuse, but rather to workout everyone until he leveled the playing field. And so, when he got 30 rejections in the mail, he responded by making himself a better candidate and he eventually succeeded. Overcoming those early setbacks on his path to becoming a surgeon has, in turn, made him a better doctor.

INFLUENZA

Influenza, commonly referred to as the flu, is an infectious disease caused by RNA viruses of the family Orthomyxoviridae (the influenza viruses), that affects birds and mammals. The name influenza comes from the Italian influenza, meaning "influence" (Latin: influentia). The most common symptoms of the disease are chills, fever, sore throat, muscle pains, severe headache, coughing, weakness and general discomfort.Fever and coughs are the most frequent symptoms. In more serious cases, influenza causes pneumonia, which can be fatal, particularly for the young and the elderly. Although it is often confused with other influenza-like illnesses, especially the common cold, influenza is a much more severe disease than the common cold and is caused by a different type of virus.

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German Manufacturing Provides Support for Euro Climb

German Manufacturing Provides Support for Euro Climb

Germany and France posted favorable reports today indicating that the wealthiest countries in the Eurozone may be finding its way out of recession, evidence which helped the euro to gain versus several currencies towards the end of this week’s session.
After surprising economists worldwide several days ago when Germany and France posted an unexpected growth for the second quarter, today, the strongest economies in the Eurozone bloc posted a rise in manufacturing and services industries, once again going beyond estimations and bringing optimism suggesting that the current recession in the region may be having its final days. The PMI numbers were not sufficient to make the euro to rally versus the yen, since China affirmed that it may restrict capital requirements for domestic banks, causing an instant negative reaction in Asian stocks, which is a yen positive factor.
Analysts evaluate the current market reaction to European PMI numbers as a short-term market impulse, even though the data provided are solid and indeed an evidence of economic improvements, mainly in Germany, while France performed less positively in these reports. Germany is the Eurozone’s economic heart, and when the country finds its way out of recession the Euro is like to be bullish.
EUR/USD traded at 1.4303 as of 9:55 GMT from a previous rate of 1.4237 in the intraday comparison. EUR/JPY traded near neutrality from yesterday’s rate at 134.12.

Robo-copter can navigate inside your home

by Tim Hornyak

Just when you were getting used to the idea of unmanned aerial vehicles patrolling the skies over your city, they're beginning to enter buildings.

This flying robot designed by a U.S.-German team recently won a contest in which the goal was to autonomously navigate inside a simulated nuclear power plant and find and image a control panel without the aid of a GPS.

The Pelican, based on hardware designed by German start-up Ascending Technologies with programming by a team at MIT, accomplished the mission on its fourth attempt, but with only a few minutes to spare. It netted a $10,000 prize at the International Aerial Robotics Competition.

The Pelican is a micro air vehicle (MAV) with aquadrotor design, using four propellers on a carbon-fiber frame for lift and control. It maps hallways and rooms with a 32-yard-range laser scanner and stereo cameras while wirelessly reporting its progress to offboard computers. The location and mapping algorithm was implemented by the MIT team.

Entering its 20th year, the small but venerable IARC proposes challenges that cannot be met with current technology, military or otherwise. In its next mission, the sixth, MAVs will have to penetrate a simulated security compound, steal a flash drive and replace it with a dud before exiting safely and undetected.

It's a good thing MAVs still sound like a thousand mosquitoes due to rotor noise. Otherwise they might start putting spies out of business.