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by Stephanie Zonis
Hi! My name is Stephanie Zonis, and welcome to the November, 1999 (Thanksgiving) edition of "I Love Chocolate." The holidays are practically upon us, so this edition of the column is devoted to desserts that might be especially nice for gift-giving and/or company.
I'd like to urge all of my readers to make a special effort to get into the kitchen this holiday season. I grew up in a household where very few convenience products or mixes were used, and it wasn't until I was much older that I discovered just how lucky I'd been. Not everything in the kitchen has to take a lot of time or effort (brownies and stir-fries are just two examples); some foods can almost cook by themselves (many soups fall into this category). Being able to cook even basic foods is a skill I regard as important and necessary, and it is a great shame that so many children in this country grow up believing that food only comes out of a package or from a restaurant. If you do have kids, by all means get them involved when you cook. One of my friends has a toddler daughter whose job is to add vegetables to whatever Daddy is cooking. He chops the vegetables, of course, but she takes her responsibility very seriously, and both are proud of her accomplishments in this line. Get your family to help with food preparation; you'll all be the better for it. OK, end of lecture--let's get cooking!
Perfect chocolate for gift-giving? International Chocolate Company has it all wrapped up! This organization claims to be "the only North American company that makes single-bean chocolate." If you don't know, single-bean chocolate is chocolate made from the cocoa beans of only one country, rather like a varietal wine made from one variety of grape. Cocoa beans, like grapes, are greatly affected by the climate and soil in which they're grown, and beans from different countries will produce markedly different chocolate. International Chocolate Company produces milk and dark chocolates from Ecuador, Mexico, and the Ivory Coast. The chocolates are in neat squares, beautifully wrapped in colored foil, and the squares are presented in velvet jewel boxes (your choice of colors) or in a black-and-gold box.
This is chocolate for people who can appreciate "the good stuff"--or those willing to be students in such a noble endeavor! It is perfectly smooth, as good chocolate should be, and the varietal squares all have different (but delicious) flavors. International Chocolate Company is at 2030 North Redwood Road, Suite 80, Salt Lake City, Utah 84116-1255; their phone there is (801) 359-7375 or (toll-free) (877) 359-7375 (yes, the numbers are identical except for the area code). The website, at www.chocolate4u.com, also offers jewelry and apparel, a book or two on chocolate, and monthly drawings. Check them out!
Are you ready? The Second Annual Chocolate Show is about to make a triumphant return to New York City! Chef-demonstrators this year will include David Norman (Ecce Panis), Stephen Durfee (The French Laundry), Jacques Torres (Le Cirque 2000), Andrew Shotts (The Russian Tea Room), and too many others to list here. There will be more than 40 brands of chocolate represented, from Christopher Norman to Neuchatel to Perugina-Baci to Valrhona to Hauser. Chocolate tastings, interactive exhibits, seminars for adults and children, a kids' corner, chocolate architecture (yes, buildings made out of chocolate!), live music, and much more! You'll be able to purchase chocolate and place orders for the holidays, too. Admission prices: $12 per adult, $10 for students (with ID's), and $8 for seniors and kids under 12. The Show will be held at 123 West 18th Street (The Metropolitan Pavilion), from 26 through 29 November. Hours are: Friday, 26 November, 2 pm to 7 pm; Saturday and Sunday, 27 and 28 November, 11 am to 7 pm; Monday, 29 November, 11 am to 9 pm. If you'd like a brochure, call (toll free) (877) 246-2638. See you all there!
I Love Chocolate wants YOU!!! Do you have a comment, question, or suggestion? How about a recent chocolate "find" you'd like to share? You can contact me at: sdziadwm@[email-address-removed]; I'd like your input on this column. Thanks!
'Til next edition,
Yours in chocolate,
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Keep Your Mouth Shut And Just Play Ball
By Elio Velez
It doesn't look and sound like happy times at the big stadium on Route 3 in East Rutherford.
The New York Giants have caused a ruckus these past two weeks worthy of the old Bronx Zoo days of the Yankees from the 1970's.
Michael Strahan, unhappy sack champion of all-time (thanks to Favre's dive) accused the Giants on March 16 of not wanting to win. This is after Strahan would not agree to a restructured contract because he wasn't sure the Giants would pay his measly $17 million signing bonus.
If he had restructured, the Giants would be able to pay for the free agents they sadly need to stay competitive. Strahan seemed as if he wanted to keep his paychecks instead of looking out for the teams' bottom line.
It wasn't over yet.
Tiki Barber, star running back and future top sports broadcaster did not keep his mouth closed. He said that Strahan was selfish and did not look out for the team's best interests.
That statement came from a player who participates in the media and knows our ability to play up controversial material to cause dissension and strife to any team. Nice thinking there.
Keith Hamilton wanted in the conversation because he felt left out. He backed up Strahan, totally blamed Barber and said the defense was carrying the Giants for years.
If dissing Barber was bad, the whole Giants offense is now put on tactical alert to air their grievances against Hamilton. Earth to Hamilton, the Giants offense ranked higher than the defense last year. What were you doing last year? Oh that's right, you're letting the other team score.
These are well-paid players who are supposed to be grown up to know to keep their problems within the locker room. Keep your petty fifth grade complaints to yourself. We do not need to hear your gripes about your salaries and personal vendettas in March.
They broke the code of the locker room, which is not to discuss anyone's contract situations that can be detrimental. Michael Barrow, a refreshing breeze in a polluted Giants' locker room commented, "It's like the movie 'A Few Good Men,' its The Code, and I think The Code has been violated."
Barrow is right and now fences must be mended. Hasn't it seemed for the last few years that the Giants have been fighting internal battles that has caused team disharmony? The 1997 Viking playoff game, the offense vs. defense war, the Strahan and Jesse Armstead tag team vs. Coach Jim Fassel are just a few battles to remember.
Coach Fassel said it best at the start of voluntary training camp this week. "In my opinion, we're back to work now," Fassel said. "There's no 'He said, she said.' It's over. It's done." This means in laymen's terms to Keep your lips sealed, pump the weights, and prepare to win ball games. That's what football players get paid for.
I may have been wrong…
I do admit my mistakes when I said Kansas would be eliminated early in the tournament. Now in the Final Four, Coach Roy Williams and Kansas might actually win the whole thing.
The Rangers making the playoff prediction sadly seems to be an error in judgment. Only a miracle or the Garden selling their souls to the devil for a forbidden donut (Homer Simpson reference) and a playoff spot occur, the Rangers will be home for the fifth straight year. It just gets worse for Ranger fans. Hope the Garden doesn't raise tickets to celebrate this downfall.
What's up Bud? Part 2!!
In my never-ending quest to humiliate Bud Selig, I call into question a report published a few weeks ago that Selig and MLB quietly suspended two umpires for reportedly gambling on baseball games a few years ago.
Why are they suspended and returned to baseball and Pete Rose is totally banned from baseball for life? When Rose was banned, there was a lot of evidence which had proved Rose's guilt in betting on baseball games. Bud Selig has carried the ban until now and has publicly blasted Rose for his past transgressions.
This reeks of hypocrisy. An umpire decides games with him calling the balls and strikes. It should now be questioned on how long this gambling has occurred and how many other umpires have done it. If Bud can ban Pete Rose for life, these umpires should have been banned also. Treat everyone who breaks the law equally because your sentencing of the umpires truly sucks!
Final Thought
Baseball has arrived when the Mets and Yankees start the season on Monday. May the weather be actually decent for their home openers. Until next week, Peace!

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Conversations with God is Neale Donald Walsch's account of his direct conversations with God, beginning in 1992 while Walsch was immersed in a period of deep depression. He composed a letter to God in which he vented his frustrations, and much to his surprise, even shock, God answered him. Focusing on the universal truths that influences all life, Conversations with God offers a picture of the way life could be better.
Conversations with God challenges us to push past the imagined boundaries of what we believe ourselves capable and look instead to all than we can attain as co-creators with God.
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If Neale reads this, maybe he can find out why our forgetfulness is key? This was mentioned but not expanded upon as promised. I would sure like to be able to retain all skills and knowledge that we have learned but forgotten not only in this life but previous ones. It sure seems a shame to waste 20-30 years of every life to learn new skills and relearn old ones. It was consistently stated that our forgetfulness is key to the plan, and that we aren't here to learn, yet with our often failing memories we must learn and relearn. It was said that we are here to remember, and that we know all, future, past events and knowledge of everything. Maybe this is what is gained through meditation, but it doesn't allow one to necessarily practice medicine. It would be great to say I know all about any subject and it be true and socially accepted. It would have been more credible had Neale not mentioned "The Course in Miracles", as the subject matter is very similar. We are constantly evolving spiritually and mentally as a human race: This series seems similar to the difference theologically speaking between democracy and tribal headhunters. Looking back with 20 /20 vision we may say later, how did we ever have such a narrow mind on theology to assume that God is limited to our mental constructs. 400 years ago we thought we could fall off the edge of the earth. I'm in favor of widened beliefs. One thing has me puzzled. If we exist in all moments seperately, how does our consciousness seem so serially connected? What is the miniscule moment of time or awareness that each seperate one of us endures? When time seems to stand still, maybe it's because this moment is experienced by many of our imagined identities and held in awe by each.
"Oh come on!"
Loved Book 1, really believed that Mr. Walsch had that "conversation" with God, because many of his points and explanations for things unseen made perfect sense as "God" explained them. However, Book 2 is a little hard to swallow. God recommends a particular private school as the best one for our kids? God quotes government statistics to argue His points? Trust me, I really want to believe that a conversation with God is possible, but I found myself rolling my eyes and shaking my head far too much while listening to Book 2. There is a Book 3 but I am reluctant to buy it after listening to Book 2. Book 2 took away much of the hope and enlightenment I felt after listening to Book 1 and replaced it with more of the same old skepticism and doubt.
"Great inspirational book & narriation too"
Yes, because it is a book that has so much information. Must put it down, give it sometime and than come back to it when you have experienced yourself then you will be able to acknowledge other ideas & theories.
First of its kind that I have read.
The emotional character that the author would had perceived, although at times I would imagine god to be less frustrated or even angry sometimes, which does a bit go against the fact that God sees nothing as right nor wrong.
What is right? What is wrong? Think Again!
this book has made it so much easiler for me to read books, especially during transit and have enabled me to finish Book 1 and Book 2 already. As a slow reader, listener as well as I had to go back and listen again and again some parts. The additional interviews were really great and at better interviews than in book 1.
"My least favorite of the three but I still good!"
I do have to say of all three books this one was the slowest moving for me. However, that doesn't take away from how much I have enjoyed these books. I have said it on all three of my reviews for these books that these are not for those who are not open minded spiritually. I had a hard time at times trying to grasp what the author was trying to get across and I consider myself a very open minded person. SPOILER++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
For instance, in this book "God" states that Hitler is in heaven. At first I had a very hard time swallowing this. I about pulled over on the side of the road ( I usually listen while driving because I travel much for my job) because I was kind of irritated at first for the thought of saying that. I felt very mad that someone would even suggest someone like Hitler would be in heaven. I had to pull myself away from my preconcieved notions and start the chapter over again because I felt I was being close minded which was not what I wanted to do with the book. It definitely continues to build on the thoughts and ideas of book one. These books are very thought provoking and insightful. I really thought that these books are wonderful reads but this one is the slowest of all of them.
"Another wonderful Creation"
I am so encouraged by this series. Thank you so much for speaking to those of us with questions.
it has opened my eyes to things that really I didn't see... I am looking forward to the 3rd book...and seeing the journey unfold for me...
thank you
"God very misinformed"
I don,t beleive God is as left sided liberal on his views as you Neal Walsh. Im sorry i liked your first book but the second book was due to your liberal views not God's. But if you think it so it is between you and Him.
"The most important book of our time."
This is the most important book you probably could read in your lifetime. And if you only could read 3 books in your life, READ BOOKS 1 2 AND 3. it's that important.
"I live this book"
I bring this book with me. It is like a treasure. I am with the living one all ways.
"Re-define you thoughts"
The sense, integrity and truth emanates from every page. Book 3, as with the other two books, is a book that speaks, promotes and endorses unconditional love in a world full of human made conditions. For many years I was a child of a lesser god, but after reading the conversations trilogy, I have been able to dispel the outdated prejudices, bigotry and hatred (the fears) of ancient rhetoric from my life. I find it hard to express how much happier, content and fulfilled I feel since I have adopted the teaching from these books. They have answered all my questions about life and the universe and our relationship to everything including our purpose for existing. My vision about everything has changed dramatically for the better.
Some people may disbelieve that these books are a true conversation with God. But even if they are only the religious concepts and philosophical thoughts of a human mind expressed on paper, then they are wonderful thoughts with as much backbone as you could wish to experience.
I do recommend that you start with book 1 and listen your way through them objectively. When I first listened to them I felt overwhelmed. It?s not easy to let go of the negative religious indoctrinations that have been brainwashed into us over the decades of our life. In fact, letting go of some parts has been painful, but if you are yearning for a spiritual awakening, then you need look no further.
"It was amazing, these books have set me free. I am"
I found myself through the 3 books, after listening to the trilogy I then play random chapters at completely random. As a dj I listen to a lot of music so the tones of the readers is a big thing for me, the book is beautifully presented with both a male and female speaking the words of God, this has been amazing as I was able to picture a mother and father figure speaking to me, and conversing with me. This has been very helpful in helping me better communicate with my mum who is a devout Muslim, I have been able to converse with her about God and not religion. I short these books have changed my life and I am forever gteaful.
"great book!."
loved this book. dramatic reading for the voice of god is not so desireable although in saying that I realised I had supressed emotion about that. so use this book and reflect on all your reactions, feelings and emotions that arise during the programme.
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|Lightning trying to 'stop' Tyler Seguin, Claude Julien wishes they'd stop 'flattering' Bruins
|05.19.11 at 1:31 pm ET
TAMPA — Nobody — even the biggest "play Seguin at all costs" crybabies — could have expected what Tyler Seguin has done in the Eastern Conference finals.
Since making his playoff debut in Game 1 of the conference finals, Seguin has had six points (3 G, 3 A) and has gone from an injury replacement to a big problem for the Lightning in a matter of six periods.
'The first two games, it's clear the players and everybody underestimated his speed," Tampa coach Guy Boucher said of Seguin. "That's the main thing. His speed is obviously a weapon for him and his team. Being a young guy and having success right away, it certainly takes a lot of the nervousness away, and for us we know he's going to be on the ice and we have to be able to keep up with his speed.'
The praise from the Lightning wasn't limited to Boucher, as one player who knows Seguin's style better than most said the team needs to find a way to prevent the rookie from taking over another game like he did in Game 2 (2 G, 2 A). Read the rest of this entry »
|P.J. Stock on D&C: Let's see how Tyler Seguin reacts on road
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TSN and Hockey Night in Canada analyst and former Bruin P.J. Stock joined Dennis & Callahan Thursday morning to preview Game 3 of the Bruins-Lightning Eastern Conference finals series. To hear the interview, visit the Dennis & Callahan audio on demand page.
When asked if he thought coach Claude Julien waited too long to insert 19 year-old Tyler Seguin into the lineup, Stock said he did not have a problem with the coach's decision. "No, not at all, and you know what? He probably wouldn't be in there without [Patrice] Bergeron being injured," Stock said. "I watched him play a lot during the year, and many times I thought he wasn't ready.
"A lot of people are excited about his last two games, but 30 games ago were people saying the same thing? He was a frustrating player that was learning a lot of things. … I didn't know if he was ready." Read the rest of this entry »
|Bruins-Lightning Game 3 preview
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TAMPA ' The Bruins can pick up their third straight road win and first series lead of the Eastern Conference finals with a Game 3 win Thursday at St. Pete Times Forum. The B's might have momentum on their side, as they took a high-scoring contest Tuesday in defeating Tampa, 6-5. With the number three in mind, here's a preview of Thursday's game:
Three things the Bruins need to do:
– Keep Ryding the hot duo: Whether or not Patrice Bergeron returns to the lineup, any shakeup should not include a separation of Tyler Seguin and Michael Ryder. The two have totaled five goals thus far in the series, and their chemistry is evident. The Lightning will try to be more physical to knock the rookie off his game, but Seguin simply needs to show that these games have given him more confidence. Expect him to stay with Ryder and Chris Kelly in Game 3.
– Extend the power play success: Who said this team stunk on the man advantage? Two goals in Game 2 (one of which came with one second remaining after the team failed to score on a 5-on-3) matched their postseason production on the power play entering the night, and there are certainly encouraging nights. Tomas Kaberle played better on the man advantage Tuesday, while Seguin was finally given the opportunity to contribute on special teams and did.
– Tighten it up: As much as Bruins fans can get on board with watching Tim Thomas come up big on multiple breakaway bids, the B's would just rather they not happen at all. The Bruins could have had a much better defensive effort on Tuesday, and correcting it will lower the number of quality opportunities for the Lightning.
Three crazy stats:
– By scoring three goals on Dwayne Roloson Tuesday, the Bruins bumped the Lightning netminder out of the top spot in postseason goals against average and save percentage. The leader in both those categories now? Carey Price, who posted a 2.11 GAA and .934 in the first round against the B's.
– The Bruins are 0-2 in games this postseason in which Nathan Horton fails to register a shot on goal. They're 9-2 when he has at least one. Horton leads the B's with 13 points, and his 34 shots on goal are second to Bergeron among forwards.
– Only two Bruins players have a minus-3 rating over the last three games. Those two players would be Brad Marchand and Mark Recchi. Think they'd like to get Bergeron back?
Three key players:
– Patrice Bergeron: As fun as the Seguin Show was to watch on Tuesday, the Bruins aren't kidding themselves here. They need Bergeron back, and after taking contact he could return to the lineup for one of the games in Tampa. Whether that happens remains to be seen.
– Dwayne Roloson: The Tampa goaltender was not as bad as the numbers were on Tuesday, but it will be interesting to see how he responds to being chased for the first time this postseason.
– Johnny Boychuk: The 27-year-old has goals in two of his last three games, but he was positively wretched in Game 2. Boychuk's sloppiness resulted in a minus-3 rating that would have been worse had the puck he accidentally banked off the skate of Kaberle in front of the net gone in. He ended up playing only 16:06, his lowest time on ice total this postseason.
|Barry Melrose on M&M: Shawn Thornton deserves to be in lineup
|05.18.11 at 4:12 pm ET
ESPN hockey analyst Barry Melrose joined the Mut & Merloni show Wednesday afternoon to talk about the Bruins' 6-5 victory in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals Tuesday night. To hear the interview, go to the Mut & Merloni audio on demand page.
Melrose was quick to compliment the play of Bruins rookie center Tyler Seguin, who tallied four points (two goals, two assists) in Game 2.
"He certainly rode over the horizon at the right time on his white horse because Boston needed a spark and Seguin, in the last two games, has given Boston a spark," Melrose said.
Seguin, who scored only 11 goals in the regular season, patiently waited for his opportunity and took full advantage of it in crunch time.
"He's done everything right," Melrose said. The kid's kept his mouth shut. He's never complained. He's never gotten his agent involved. He's never gone to the press. And when he got a chance to play in Game 1, bang, he was great. And then in Game 2, when they put him on the power play, bang, he scored.
"That's what he has to do. He's letting his actions speak for himself, and now Claude [Julien] has to play him. And the kid doesn't hurt you defensively, he competes. Is he going to win the Selke award? No. But the guy who wins the Selke isn't going to make the plays that Seguin is making either."
|Shawn McEachern on D&C: Bruins 'just don't have another player' with skill of Tyler Seguin
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Former Bruin Shawn McEachern appeared on the Dennis & Callahan show Wednesday morning to talk about the Eastern Conference finals, which the Bruins evened up with a 6-5 victory over the Lightning in Game 2 Tuesday night. McEachern, a Waltham native who went on to star at Boston University and win a Stanley Cup with the Penguins in 1992, now coaches the hockey team at The Rivers School in Weston. To hear the interview, go to the Dennis & Callahan audio on demand page.
The Bruins held on Tuesday night in a high-scoring affair, a game in which no lead appeared to be safe. "This whole year in the playoffs, all around the league, nobody's been able to hold a lead," McEachern said. "It's been great to watch. It looks like hockey back in the '80s, when Wayne Gretzky was scoring 90 goals."
McEachern didn't predict a winner, but he said the series appears destined to last for a while. "I think it's going to be a long series. I think it's a six- or seven-game series," he said. "I hope it's high-scoring like last night, because it's an awful lot of fun to watch."
Bruins rookie Tyler Seguin exploded with two goals and two assists in Game 2 after scoring a goal in his postseason debut in Game 1. However, McEachern said he had no problem with coach Claude Julien sitting Seguin for the first two rounds of the playoffs.
"He's a 19-year-old kid," McEachern said. "Probably the biggest thing that helped Tyler Seguin was sitting upstairs and watching the first 11 games of the playoffs. The game really slows down for you. He probably really figured it out a little bit.
"The other side is there's no expectations on him when he comes back into the lineup. He wasn't going to be the game-breaker they needed. They were hoping they'd get something out of him, but he played only nine minutes in the first game."
Added McEachern: "I think the thing with Seguin is that he brings something that the Bruins don't have. That high-end speed and skill, they just don't have another player like that."
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|Tyler Seguin is on the right end of the learning curve
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Following one of the most stunning playoff performances by a rookie in Bruins history, 19-year-old Tyler Seguin took it all in stride. Seguin, playing in just his second playoff game after the concussion to Patrice Bergeron at the end of the second round, took over and amazed the TD Garden crowd with a second period performance for the ages.
"It's definitely tough watching from above," Seguin said of his vantage point as a healthy scratch from the press box in the first two rounds. "I try to take everything in and learn as much as I can, but it's hard sitting there and not being able to help the boys. I wanted to take advantage of every opportunity I got."
After scoring a goal and an assist his first playoff opportunity in Game 1 Saturday night, Seguin took over in the second period with the Bruins down, 2-1. He scored the first of his two second-period goals 48 seconds in to tie the game. He would add another goal while setting up both of Michael Ryder's second-period tallies.
"I think it's just the learning curve," Seguin said. "It's been a whole learning curve all year. As the year went on, I've felt more confident and more poised. In big games, I always want to step up. Tonight, I had some lucky bounces, but I was trying to take advantage of all the opportunities and they were going in tonight."
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Neanderthal 'butcher's shop' found near SommeBreaking News
No traces of Neanderthal activity have previously been found in north-west Europe during this period - a 15,000-year interval between two ice ages.
Historians previously thought that Neanderthals, who thrived in cold conditions, had failed to adapt to the warmer weather and had retreated to the east or to the north. The new site at Caours, near Abbeville, close to the mouth of the river Somme, proves that this was not so.
A two-year dig by two French government research bodies has uncovered evidence of a Neanderthal "butcher's shop" on an ancient riverbank to which animals as large as rhinoceros, elephant and aurochs, the forerunner of the cow, were dragged. The Neanderthals - known to be squat, powerful people, who had language and fire and buried their dead - sliced up the animals with flint tools for their meat and pounded their bones for their marrow.
Earlier this month, British archaeologists reported that they had found evidence that a few members of the species (Homo neanderthalis) may have survived in caves in Gibraltar much later than was previously thought - until about 28,000 years ago, or maybe even 24,000 years ago. Previously, it was thought that they vanished about 30,000 years ago.
Both finds are potentially vital new pieces in the frustratingly incomplete jigsaw of modern understanding of our tough and resourceful, near-human, European predecessors. The problem is that the two discoveries seem to be part of different jigsaw puzzles.
Jean-Luc Locht, a Belgian expert in prehistory at the French government's archaeological service, was a researcher at Caours. "This is a very important site, a unique site," he said. "It proves that Neanderthals thrived in a warm northwest Europe and hunted animals like the rhinoceros and the aurochs, just as they previously, and later, hunted ice-age species like the mammoth and the reindeer.
"If we have lost the record of them elsewhere in this period, it must be because the erosive action of the last ice age wiped the record clean."
No Neanderthal remains have been found so far on the new site on the Somme, or among the new finds in Gibraltar. In both cases, their presence at a particular (and highly significant) period has been revealed by other discoveries: flint tools in the case of Gibraltar' a treasure trove of flint tools and fossilised animal bones in the case of the Somme.
The animal bones, found in a geological layer laid down about 125,000 years ago, show signs of having been sawn through, crushed or stripped of their meat by flint tools. The animal species identified include a small fragment of elephant bone, several rhinoceros teeth, and many remnants of aurochs, wild boar and several kinds of deer.
The dig, which will continue next summer, has also unearthed flint scraping or cutting tools and a flint pounding implement, used for crushing bones or splitting other pieces of flint.
Patrick Auguste, one of the other principal researchers on the site, an expert on archaeozoology, or prehistoric animals, at the French national research body, the CNRS, said: "You have to wonder at the artistry, the exceptional skill, with which the flint tools have been shaped. The Neanderthals may have had thicker fingers than us, but they were certainly not clumsy."
The back-to-back French and British announcements create a prehistorical conundrum. The Gibraltar discovery suggests that Neanderthals survived for as long as 8,000 years after a two-legged rival first appeared in Europe out of Africa -Homo sapiens sapiens, or mankind. An 8,000-year period of Neanderthal/ sapiens cohabitation suggests that mankind was not responsible for wiping out the Neanderthals.
The other possible explanation is that Neanderthals were victims of global warming, succumbing to abrupt variations in climate well before the end of the last Ice Age, about 15,000 years ago.
But the new find in the Somme suggests that Neanderthals were able to survive the ending of an earlier ice age.
In which case, the finger of "blame" for the demise of the Neanderthals after thriving in Europe for 270,000 years points, once again, at Homo sapiens.
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Abby Richter (Katherine Heigl) produced a T.V. morning news show in beautiful Sacramento, the capital city of California which is located at the union of the Sacramento River and American River.
Her show is about to be cancelled because of poor ratings. And the manager of the show Stuart (Nick Searey) has talked to Abby about it because he is very concerned if something does not improve fast---they might be pulled. He told Abby he had two daughters in college and he needed his job and now she needs to find a solution to their problem.
With this on her mind Abby ---she still agreed to keep a blind date with a guy who is 5'8' much shorter than Abby.
She is a person who likes to control all the events in her life---including guys. She actually has a list of what she is looking for in a perfect man. Abby walks home after the blind date and he probably thought it was the worse blind date in history.
As she started to bed---her cat D'Artagnan stepped on the remote control and changed the channel to "The Ugly Truth Show" and Abby got the shock of her life.
Mike Chadway (Gerard Butler) a Sacramento cable talk show "Host" a channel where listeners call in to talk with him about the ugly truths of life.
Mike believed and stated on live T.V. is--- men are simple creatures and all they want is sex---so throw away all the books that talk about what men want. Because all they care about is how a woman looks---they just want sex.
Abby was so upset by what she heard that she called in to speak to Mike Chadway. She asked him if he believed in love and he replied that he believed in passion. Well it went downhill from there and he ended up saying she was probably a dog (which crudely put—she was ugly.)
Abby awaken to another day and found that her boss Stuart was smiling so big he could not contain himself---he told everyone he had hired Mike Chadway to do The Ugly Truth on their show.
What a great surprise for most and other knew how Abby felt about so they agreed with her. But after the first day on the show the rating sky-rocket and not only was Stuart happy but the owners wanted to
Fly in and have dinner with Mike who saved their show.
Now Abby had to work with Mike because of the rating; however, she still had a poor attitude towards him. But it was slowly changes as he gave her advice about how to reel in the doctor who lived in her apartment unit. She finally listened to Mike and his instructions to her are working in her favor.
Abby told Mike that Colin was the perfect man and she and Colin started dating. He took her to nice places and she pretended to be someone she was not---that Mike implanted into her head---so she could get the man of her dreams.
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I've been watching some videos on TED.com today and one of the videos, as you'll see below, is about delayed gratification. Then i remembered abut some books and some studies i've been reading the last few years about this subject and…here i am making a post about it.
Delayed gratification is by definition : " the ability to wait in order to obtain something that one wants. This ability is usually considered to be a personality trait which is important for life success. Daniel Goleman has suggested that it is an important component of emotional intelligence. People who lack this trait are said to need instant gratification and may suffer from poor impulse control."
All the books i read about this subject have one example in common: "The marshmallow test".
This test was conducted in the 60's by the American psychologist Walter Mischel who tested 4 year old children as following:
They were brought into a room and a marshmallow was placed on the table in front of them. They were then told that if they waited 15 minutes without eating the marshmallow, they will be given another one.
Some kids ate it, some not.
As those kids were growing up, the scientist were observing them and relate the marshmallow test results to their success and failure.
Those who didn't eat the marshmallow were more successful than the ones that did eat it.
In the video bellow, Joachim De Posada talks about and demonstrates this test with a group of children.
Don't eat the marshmallow yet | Video on TED.com.
It's a popular belief that those who can delay gratification become later on successful people, but not everyone hunts success.
There are some that purely hunt "self-control", some that avoid getting greedy and some others that understand results on the long term or better put, they understand the impact of their impulses.
Monks are the first example to come in my mind right now.
Can i delay gratification? Sure i can, but not for everything.
I can delay it for food without a blink, for sweets, for clothes and so many other things. You learn to do that when you don't have a choice.
Those who struggle know what i am talking about.
But there is one thing i can't delay if i have to do it alone: smoking.
I'd probably end up saying "to hell with it!" while blowing the smoke off.
If i had to go through a test to survive the 15 minutes or 15 hours a cigarette, i would pass it but is only because i would know what's in it for me at the end of the test. And no, is not getting two cigarettes at the end. It's gratification, not the instant one….it's being pleased with myself for managing to resist the urge. This is priceless. Delayed gratification is good for your soul.
If you wish you learn more about this subject, all you have to do is google the subject and you will get tons of results.


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These crunchy strings provide texture in okonomiyaki (see related recipe). You'll need a large squeeze bottle, which will help create strings when the batter hits the oil, and an instant-read thermometer.
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Discussion in 'Fan Zone' started by xwalker, Nov 27, 2012.
Dockery. Dockery. Dockery.
A crappy player who is cheaper is still a crappy player. Why keep him, even at vet minimum? He has stunk out loud for two straight seasons now, he's not going to get any better.
We still owe him 4.375 million in gauarneteed money
He has 18 million in guaranteed and, the signing bonus was on 10. He salary the last two years and a roster bonus now has 4.375 left in guaranteed
Scandrick will be a 3.78 cap hit next year he will be a 6.52 if cut.
I don't see Ratliff and scandrick going anywhere. Also the new CBA only allows one player to be used as a june 1st cut.
that's interesting. guaranteed money is supposed to count against the whole not just when it is paid afaik.
i dont know that i have ever seen a guy in this nfl system getting guarantees 3 years later except some rookie deals.
If he does have that 4.35m guaranteed in 2013 he may well be restructured.
In his initial deal they couldn't spread the cap hit farther than 5 years so 16/17 were left with just base money. a restructure now would certainly save cap cash.
The salary has been very low, usually the first two or three years plus the signing bonus will be all the guaranteed money, but sieve ratliff salary so low the first two years he will be here for another year
dallas will use that cut on one of the guys for sure.
they will also likely cut one or more before then.
the only thing worse than dead money is overpaying mediocre or bad players. dallas learned that the hard way with terence newman.
i fully anticipate free getting cut but they may not bother waiting til june 1st.
scandrick or ratliff could be axed or they could limp along another year.
both could also be restructured to save cap cash. sometimes taking a cap hit is just a fact of life. getting rid of additional cap hits by removing their base salary is your best move.
replacements are not expensive. not in years 1 and 2.
i like jay ratliff quite a lot but josh brent and lissemore are solid players.
jay hatcher is having a career year. crawford looks promising.
OS simply has underwhelmed. He can play nickel slot guy but that is really it. He is terrible outside. And he makes a lot of money for a guy you dont wanna shift outside as your 3rd CB option. So cap hit or not, he might need to go.
If I had to guess this second I'd say Dallas cuts Doug Free and Miles Austin.
Austin before June 1 and Free after.
But again I do believe they will have long discussions about OS(future fit and cost) and Ratliff(future cost and health). How they handle those guys may well be determined by the next month. For Ratliff how he gets back and helps and for OS how Jenkins looks at slot.


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- 24-hour front desk
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- Business center
- Number of coffee shops/cafes - 2
- Concierge services
- Conference space
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Fitness facilities
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Hair salon
- Designated smoking areas
- Grocery/convenience store
- Free WiFi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Number of outdoor pools - 2
- Total number of rooms - 938
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Multilingual staff
- Garden
- Porter/bellhop
- Year Built 1982
- Number of restaurants - 2
- Shopping on site
- Outdoor seasonal pool
- Wedding services
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pools
- Free Wi-Fi
- Grocery/convenience store
- Refrigerator
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Room Amenities
Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa offers 938 air-conditioned accommodations with minibars and safes. Rooms open to balconies. Televisions come with pay movies. Refrigerators and coffee/tea makers are provided. Rooms have partially open bathrooms. Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations, slippers, bidets, and complimentary toiletries.
This Tokyo hotel provides complimentary wired and wireless Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include desks and complimentary newspapers. Additionally, rooms include hair dryers and blackout drapes/curtains. In-room massages, hypo-allergenic bedding, and irons/ironing boards can be requested. Housekeeping is provided daily.
- Pay movies
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Balcony
- Air conditioning
- Free newspaper
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Refrigerator
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- In-room massage available
- Slippers
- Shower/tub combination
- Bidet
- In-room safe
- Television
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Partially open bathroom
- Room service (limited hours)
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Free wired high-speed Internet
Where to Eat
Shimizu - Japanese restaurant. Specializes in sushi and tempura. Counter or table seating. Interior features miniature raked rock gardens and wooden window curtains. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Marmolada - Buffet restaurant. Monthly changing menus featuring food from various countries. Street view. Glass exterior wall. Wooden floor. Open morning till night.
Ean Japanese Tea House - Tea house located in Japanese garden. Tatami reed flooring. Serves kaiseki Japanese course meals at lunch and dinner. Reservations required.
Tohri - Chinese restaurant. Specializes in Peking cuisine. Serves course meals and à la carte items. Private rooms available. Serves lunch and dinner.
Momiji - Lobby lounge. Serves light fare. Garden view. Leather armchairs and glass tables. Open from morning till night.
Il Leone - Basement-level Italian restaurant. Brick walls. Seating on embroidered velvet armchairs or leather sofas. Bar seating. Private rooms are available. Open for dinner.
Shumei - Private Japanese-style room. Located within the hotel garden. Serves course meals. Reservations required. Open for lunch and dinner.
Edelweiss Café - Western food. Table or counter seating. Pastries and cakes available for take-out. Open from morning till night.
Asama - Secluded bar. Live piano performances on weekday nights. High ceiling, wood-paneled walls, brown leather armchairs, and dark-green carpeting. Open from evening till late night.
Nearby Things to Do
The Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa features two outdoor pools which are open during summer. The Sky Pool is 18 meters by eight meters and may be used by guests of all ages. The 18 meter by 15 meter Diamond Pool may be used by guests over 16 years of age. Charges apply; details available on request.
Guests have access to the health club at the neighboring Sakura Tower Takanawa Prince Hotel. Dumbbells, bench press, and squat stations with Olympic barbells are available, as well as strength-training machines, pulleys, and medicine and Swiss exercise balls. Stationary bikes and treadmills feature a personal monitor for TV or DVDs. Access to the health club is JPY2,100 (US$18) for hotel guests. The health club is open from 6 AM to 10 PM. Guests under 16 years of age are not admitted.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 6 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Debit cards not accepted
No rollaway/extra beds available
Please note that guests with visible tattoos are not allowed to use the swimming pool and pool area.
Additional policies and fees may apply when booking more than 10 people. For more details, please contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
Optional extras
- A facilities fee includes use of:
Hotel Name
- Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa
- Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa Tokyo
- Grand Prince New Hotel Takanawa
- Grand Prince New Takanawa
- Grand Prince New Takanawa Hotel
- Grand Prince New Takanawa Tokyo
- Hotel Prince Takanawa
- New Takanawa Prince
- Prince New Takanawa Hotel
- Takanawa Prince
- Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa Tokyo, Japan
We should mention
Children 6 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare requires all international visitors to submit their passport number and nationality when registering at any lodging facility (inns, hotels, motels, etc. ). Additionally, lodging proprietors are required to photocopy passports for all registering guests and keep the photocopy on file.
Green Program
For guests wishing to be environmentally friendly, the hotel participates in active environmental friendly practices. In lieu of a "no room cleaning" request, a JYP500 per room, per night credit for hotel facility-use will be issued.
For more information, please contact the hotel.


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Dr. Matthew Taylor is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He obtained his doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the University of Missouri-St. Louis (1997), and subsequently completed a year-long clinical internship at the Phoenix Psychology Internship Consortium (PPIC), where he participated in rotations at the Phoenix Indian Medical Center, the Arizona State Hospital, and the Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center.
Dr. Taylor's research interests fall under the broad category of minority mental health and multicultural psychology, with one specific emphasis on multiracial identity development. Specifically: 1) the relationship between racial socialization experiences of multiracial individuals and racial and cultural identity construction; 2) the negotiation between family-based socialization messages and the sociohistorical constructions of race and associated racial messages and experiences (e.g., racism); and 3) the development of existential-phenomenological therapy constructs for multiracial individuals.
His other area of interest focuses on substance use and abuse and related problems (e.g., domestic violence and victimization) among rural minority groups (African American and Native American). This research has focused on individual variables, such as self-efficacy and self-esteem, in addition to other risk and resiliency factors, such as the impact of sport on minority youth substance use.
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Multicultural Issues in Clinical Psychology (Graduate)
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Dr. Taylor has a dual appointment with both the Clinical and I/O Programs.
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One day there was one very HOT mama. The mama's name was Ginger. After Ginger was born a couple hours later, she turned into a gangster! She bought her self an Ak-47 at 2 hours old. She went with her gang, The Hot Mamas, to the store of cookies, they stole ALL the cookies! The cops were after the Hot Mamas. So they chased them all the way down the road. The Hot Mamas turned around pulled out there Ak's and shot the hell out of all the cops, 30 seconds later you saw a lot of people on the floor, with no heads. The Hot Mamas got away and were never found again. But, they still live to this very day killing people, and 1,000,000 people died, ever since Ginger was born!
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McDonnell Defense Opens With Bookkeeper, Not Big Name
By Dawn Chase and Valerie Bauerlein
RICHMOND, Va.—Attorneys for former Gov. Bob McDonnell began presenting their case in his trial on federal corruption charges Monday, trying to bolster his image as a straight-shooter whose finances were an open book.
Bob McDonnell and his wife Maureen are accused of accepting—and trying to conceal–more than $160,000 in jewelry, cash, clothing and trips in exchange for promoting wealthy backer Jonnie Williams Sr.'s dietary-supplement business.
The courtroom was packed Monday morning to see who the defense would call first from its list of more than 100 potential witnesses.
Would it be Mr. McDonnell himself? His attorneys have said the onetime presidential prospect will read a love letter from the witness stand that he wrote to his wife as their marriage crumbled. A key plank in his defense is that he couldn't conspire with his wife to defraud anyone of anything, since they were barely speaking.
Others hoped the defense might lead with a big name. The defense was given some blank subpoenas to use for character witnesses, and the former GOP vice-presidential hopeful has some famous friends, including Mitt Romney and Chris Christie.
Well, the defense started with a little bit less of a bang, calling the family bookkeeper, hired in 2009 to track the finances of a real-estate partnership owned by Mr. McDonnell and one of his sisters. The business was struggling during the economic downturn, and prosecutors say the McDonnells took secret loans from Mr. Williams to help keep it afloat.
The bookkeeper said the former governor never hesitated to give her online access to his bank accounts, and he always answered her questions. She did acknowledge, though, under cross-examination by prosecutors, that she was flummoxed when Mr. McDonnell asked for a copy of her "standard confidentiality agreement."
No one had ever asked for that before, she said. The request was made just after the federal investigation into the McDonnells began, according to a timeline presented by prosecutors.
Mr. Williams is now the star witness in the case against the McDonnells, and the Louis Vuitton coat, Rolex watch, golf clubs and piles of dresses he gave them were laid out in court, just before the prosecution rested its case.
Bob and Maureen McDonnell are being tried at the same time and her defense team will present her case after his attorneys wrap up, most likely next week. The jury is expected to start deliberations just before Labor Day.


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A year after propeller wash from a landing Chinook helicopter lifted a boy off his feet and caused him injuries requiring hospitalization, the city of Prairie Village has yet to receive any legal action from the boy's family.
"So far, we haven't gotten anything," said City Administrator Quinn Bennion. "But when an incident involves a minor, it can be years before any action is filed."
The Chinook landing had become a favorite part of the city's annual VillageFest Fourth of July ceremony. But strong gusts from the choppers propellers knocked three people off their feet last year. Two adults suffered minor injuries and were treated at the scene. The boy was taken to Children's Mercy Hospital.
"Our understanding is that he made a quick and full recovery," Bennion said.
This YouTube video shows the 2010 VillageFest landing, but not any of the injuries taking place:
If legal action is filed, it's likely that both the city of Prairie Village and the U.S. Army, which operates the Chinook, could face liabilities.
No helicopter landing will take place at this year's VillageFest. Instead, a skydiving team will land in an open field south of the skate park at 9:45 a.m.


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So, you're trying to line up financing for that luxury car you've always wanted; or that new addition on the house your wife has been "gently" reminding you of; or how about the new sports boat to take the kids water skiing every other weekend? Well, in order to make any of these things happen, most of us turn to our friendly local bank to inquire about a loan to turn our dreams into a reality. Your average banker will often tell you that yes, they finance such requests as those mentioned above. All you have to do is fill out an application, then he or she will run your credit report and take a look at your DTI. This is where you stop and think to yourself, "I know what a credit score is, but what is this DTI they are referring to?"
DTI stands for debt to income ratio. Okay, so what is debt to income ratio? Debt to income ratio is a personal finance measurement that compares the amount of money you earn to the amount of money you owe your creditors. Banks and lenders calculate how much debt their customers can take on before they may start having financial difficulties. The banks and lenders then use these calculations to set lending amounts before approving any new debt the customer is looking to take on. Preferred maximum debt to income ratios will vary from lender to lender, but you can count on a figure somewhere between 36% and 40% as the norm maximum debt to income ratio.
To calculate debt to income ratio, first add up all the payments you make each month to service your debt. Such debt often includes your housing expense (mortgage or rent), credit card payments, car loans, and other debts such as student loans, investment loans, etc. Next, divide your total monthly debt by your gross income per month (before taxes), then multiply that number by 100 to get your debt to income ratio as a percentage.
Let's say each month your mortgage payment is $1,400, your car payment is $400 and you pay $200 on credit cards. Totaled, your monthly debt commitment is $2,000 per month.
If you make $54,000 a year, your monthly gross income is $54,000 divided by 12 months for a total of $4,500 per month.
Therefore, your debt to income ratio is $2,000 (outstanding monthly debt payments) divided by $4,500 (monthly income), which works out to about .44 (x 100) you get a 44% debt to income ratio.
In this example, a 44% debt to income ratio, by most bank standards, will be considered high; therefore, if this was your situation, you might be declined for a new loan request. In some cases, however, an approval may be granted, but that approval may come at a cost in which you would be asked to pay a higher than market interest rate for your new loan.
So there you have it - a brief insight of what your banker is referring to when he mentions your DTI ratio. It should be noted that by keeping your debt to income ratio low, you can be assured that you can financially handle the debt you have already taken on, and most likely qualify for future credit. Carefully manage that debt and before you know it, you'll have that new car, home addition or boat you've always wanted!
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Paul Daigneault joined the Conservatory in 2002 and teaches the courses Junior Musical Theater and Senior Directing Emphasis.
Daigneault is the founder and artistic director of SpeakEasy Stage Company in Boston, where he has produced more than 100 Boston premieres. His SpeakEasy directing highlights include Violet (2016); Mothers & Sons; Big Fish; The Color Purple; In the Heights; Xanadu; Next to Normal; Nine; Body Awareness; The Great American Trailer Park Musical; [title of show]; The Savannah Disputation; Jerry Springer—The Opera; The New Century; Some Men; Zanna, Don't!; Parade (2008 Elliot Norton Award—Outstanding Director, Midsize Company); Almost, Maine; Caroline, or Change; Take Me Out; Company; A Man of No Importance (co-production Súgán); Bat Boy: The Musical (2003 Elliot Norton Award—Outstanding Director, Small Company); Passion; A New Brain; Violet (2000); Songs for a New World; Floyd Collins; Love! Valour! Compassion!; and Jeffrey.
Outside the theater, Daigneault serves on the board of the Intensive Care Unit Patient and Family Advisory Council at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Professional Awards and Recognitions
- Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence (Boston Theater Critics Association, 2014)
- Rev. J. Donald Monan, S. J., Professorship in Theatre Arts (Boston College, 2011-2012)
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Swimming and seafood, art and archipelagos
Despite being one of Europe's most fashionable places to visit, Croatia doesn't feel like a place that has been thoroughly worked over by the tourist industry. Though development continues apace along the more commercialized stretches of the coast, Croatian tourism has spun off in a number of positive directions. Whether backpackers or touring families, long-distance cyclists, yachters or spa-hotel surfers, all travellers have seen a big leap forward in the range and quality of what the country has to offer.
A renewed respect for natural ingredients has become the watchword of Croatian cuisine, with locally sourced foodstuffs, wines and olive oils standing up increasingly well to globalization. Croatia has a growing reputation for niche festivals – not just in the party-the-weekend-away music events held on beaches and in abandoned factories and ancient sea-forts up and down the coast, but also in the mushrooming number of arts festivals and small-town cultural shindigs. And in Zagreb and elsewhere, a raft of new galleries and art attractions has given the country a cool and contemporary sheen.
Croatia is blessed with a wealth of natural riches, boasting almost 2000km of rocky, indented shore and more than a thousand islands, many blanketed in luxuriant vegetation. Even during the heavily visited months of July and August there are still enough off-the-beaten-track islands, quiet coves and stone-built fishing villages to make you feel as if you're visiting Europe at its most unspoiled. There's plenty in the way of urbane glamour too, if that's what you're after, with swanky hotels, yacht-filled harbours and cocktail bars aplenty – especially in à-la-mode destinations such as Dubrovnik and Hvar. Wherever you go though you'll find that Croatia retains an appeal for independent travellers that's in short supply at more package-oriented destinations elsewhere in the Mediterranean. Most budget and mid-range accommodation is still in the form of private rooms and apartments, and there has been an explosion in the number of backpacker-friendly hostel-type establishments in the major cities.
The country has certainly come a long way since the early 1990s, when within the space of half a decade – almost uniquely in contemporary Europe – it experienced the collapse of communism, a war of national survival and the securing of independence. Two decades on, visitors will be struck by the tangible sense of pride that independent statehood has brought. National culture is a far from one-dimensional affair, however, and much of the country's individuality is due to its geographical position straddling the point at which the sober central European virtues of hard work and order collide with the spontaneity, vivacity and taste for the good things in life that characterize the countries of southern Europe – a cultural blend of Mitteleuropa and Mediterranean that gives Croatia its particular flavour. Not only that, but the country also stands on one of the great fault lines of European civilization, the point at which the Catholicism of Central Europe meets the Islam and Orthodox Christianity of the East. Though Croats traditionally see themselves as a Western people, distinct from the other South Slavs who made up the former state of Yugoslavia, many of the hallmarks of Balkan culture – patriarchal families, hospitality towards strangers and a fondness for grilled food – are as common in Croatia as in any other part of southeastern Europe, suggesting that the country's relationship with its neighbours is closer than many Croats may admit.
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The masked 'Visual Assassin' of the Kottonmouth Kings. H doesn't talk but holds up signs, smokes weed, fucks groupies and dances.
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Pakelika (The Visual Assassin) member of the the punk rock, hip hop group known as the Kottonmouth Kings. He is called the visual assassin because of his own dance style known as Hydro-mechanics that he created. He is the best dancer in the whole fucking world. his jobs are simple he has to dance smoke weed and fuck as many bitches as he can. He wears a sever wheather mask because he belives that it isnt what you look like its what you belive, and also he doesn't talk because the world isnt ready for what he has to say.
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By Mikha Flores, VERA Files
Election Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. really wanted to become an ambassador, not Comelec Chair.
In a rare banter with reporters on Friday, the poll chief said that had he gotten his way, he would have preferred to serve in the country's Foreign Service than administer national elections.
It would have been a stress-free job, he said, referring to the ambassadorial post he had wanted from President Benigno Aquino early in his term. Brillantes was Aquino's lawyer in the 2010 elections.
Brillantes, who appeared more jovial compared to his mood last Tuesday when he first considered resigning, said he really wanted a post in an Eastern European country where only a few Filipinos work and live.
But he ended up at the Commission on Elections and "that's when my troubles began."
The election chairman is now contemplating resigning his post after being dealt a series of setbacks. He will spend time with close friends this weekend and ask for their thoughts before announcing his decision next week.
Brillantes found himself in bind this week after the Supreme Court issued a temporary restraining order (not a status quo ante as earlier reported) over the Comelec's airtime limits for candidates' television and radio advertisements.
It was the fourth time in many weeks that the high court reversed the poll body's decisions, prompting an annoyed Brillantes to ask whether it was the Supreme Court that is running the elections.
Earlier, the Comelec also got a TRO stopping the removal of an oversized poster in a Bacolod Church. The Supreme Court also remanded 41 party-list cases back to the Comelec for re-hearing and issued new guidelines in accrediting such groups.
Will Brillantes throw in the towel is a question in many people's minds. Will he again ask Aquino for an ambassadorial post? Incidentally, Brillantes' brother, Jose, is undersecretary for Foreign Affairs. But the poll chief said he did not want to follow in his footsteps. "Iyon ang ayoko. Gusto ko siyang palitan, (I don't want any job. I want to replace him)," he quipped.
(VERA Files is put out by veteran journalists taking a deeper look at current issues. Vera is Latin for "true.")


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Top Gear Says It Did Not Rig Lotus Vs Tesla Race
Tesla is suing the BBC following a 2008 episode of Top Gear in which its electric Roadster ran out of power while competing against a gas-powered Lotus.
In a report written by the BBC, Top Gear Host Jeremy Clarkson, was quoted as saying: "Although Tesla say it'll do 200 miles, we worked out that on our track it would run out after just 55 miles."
Tesla has a lot riding on its $109,000 supercar, reportedly the fastest production electric car. The company says the Roadster was certified by a third-party European Union test as being good for 211 miles.
If driven "mindfully," says Tesla on its Web site, it could last for 313 miles, but because it was "driven aggressively" by Top Gear the charge did not last as long. Tesla also said it disagreed with several other aspects of Top Gear.
"The BBC stands by the programme," said a Top Gear spokeswoman, "and will be vigorously defending this claim."
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After my first research scholarship in Germany, I received another scholarship to return to Berlin to work this time at the Max Delbr�ck Center for Molecular Medicine. It was a wonderful work and social experience. Over Easter, I got the chance to visit Switzerland. And at the end of the appointment, I was invited by friends I had made in Dallas to visit Italy for the first time. Before returning home, I stopped over in Paris to finish a bottle of wine with some friends.
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