Kimchi Jjigae - Kimçi Güveci

Benim kore yemeklerini ne kadar sevdiğim, ramen çeşitlerinden tutun da restoranlarına kadar denemeye çalıştığımı duymayan kalmadı sanırım :) Uzun çoook uzun zamandır hep aklımda olan ve denemek istediğim kimchi jjigae nam-ı diğer kimçi güvecini yemek nasip oldu.

27 Kasım'da canııım dostum Pudra Tozu ile görüşme planı yapmıştık. Ablam ile buluşup istikamet Taksim'e gittik. Pudra Tozu'nun gelmesini beklerken ne yesek ne yesek nidalarımıza daha önce gidip kalkmak zorunda kaldığımız kore lokantası geldi. Haydi reee ne duruyoruz diyip soluğu Taksim Kore Restaurantı'nda aldık.

Mekan benim bildiğim kadarıyla 1 veya 2 yıllık olmalı. Çok eski bir yer değil. Ama mekanın bünyesinde barındırdığı karaoke barı ve restaurantı bence gayet güzel. Fiyatları deneyip tecrübe ettiğim diğer iki kore lokantasıyla eş değer, hatta bazıları daha da uygun fiyata. O yüzden Expo sırasında yediğimiz kimbapın tadı damağımızda kalmıştı. Hem kimbap hem de kimchi jjigae yemeği tercih ettik.

Şimdi kıyaslamaya gelirsek. Mekan Seul ve Gaya Restaurant kadar lüks bir yer değil. Beklentilerinizi düşük tutun. Ama lezzeti kıyaslamaya gelirsek sanırım fazlasıyla geçer not aldığını söyleyebilirim. Masaya döşedikleri mezeler çok lezizdi. Yalnız haşlanmış! lahana yaprağının sebebini anlayamadım :D 

Kimbap için diyebileceğim tek şey MÜKEMMEL!!!!! Taze malzemelerle hazırlanmış ve çok lezzetliydi. Bayıldım resmen. Eğer yanına yemek söylememiş olsaydık ikinci bir tabağı söylerdik kesin. Kesinlikle denemelisiniz!!

Kimchi Jjigae yorumuma gelince; beklentilerimin çok üstünde leziz bir yemekti. Ben kimchiyi daha önce ramenle beraber yemiştim. Ve tadı gerçekten de hoşuma gider. Ancak bir yemek olarak denemek ilk defa kısmet oluyor. Kimchinin acı bir turşu+meze olduğunu bilmeyen yoktur eminim. Bizim yediğimiz Kimchi jjigaenin içinde; kimchi, tofu, et veya tavuk, soğan, salatalık ve hatırlamadığım bir iki sebze daha vardı. 

Masaya hala fokurdarken gelen güvecin içinde inanılmaz leziz görünüyordu. Ki tadı da öyleydi. Acı!!!! Kesinlikle acı olduğunu söyleyebilirim. Eğer acı konusunda kendinize güvenmiyorsanız kendinizi bu limandan uzak tutun :) Ama çok leziz çookk ^^ Tadı damağımda kaldı resmen. Yemeklere saldırmadan nasıl fotoğraf çekebildim hayret! şaşıyorum kendime :D 

Biz gittik, yedik ve fazlasıyla memnun kaldık. Kimchi jjigae tek kişilik fiyatı 25 TL. Biz yemeğimizi iki kişilik yaptırdık. Fiyatını sormadım maalesef :/ Ama toplam iki kişi 79 TL hesap ödeyip mekandan ayrıldık. Her zaman gidilip yenilmeyeceği için bence fiyat çok yüksek değil. Önemli olan memnun kalmaktı ve karnımızı doyurmaktı. Bu iki konuda da fazlasıyla tatmin olduk. 

Sizler için fotoğraflar çektim. Ama plansız bir yemek programı olduğundan fotoğrafları maalesef telefonumla çekmek zorunda kaldım. İdare edeceksiniz artık :)) Menünün de fotoğraflarını çektim. Gerçi internet sitelerinde detaylı menüleri var ama olsun :D

Eğer kıyaslamak isterseniz gittiğim üç mekanın da internet sitelerini incelemenizi tavsiye ederim. Fiyatlar konusunda en azıdından bir fikriniz olur. Ben öyle yaptım. Gitmeden önce fiyatlara dikkatlice bakmıştım :)

Taksim Kore Restaurantı Menüsü 

Gaya Kore Restauran Menüsü

Seoul Kore Restaurant Menüsü

Gördüğünüz gibi fiyatları bazısında yüksek bazısında daha uygun olabiliyor. O yüzden sizde benim gibi gitmeden bir göz atın. Hatta telefonla açıp sorun fiyat değişikliği var mı diye. 

Leziz bir blog yazısının daha sonuna geldik. İstanbul'da benim bildiğim, gitmediğim üç tane kore lokantası kaldı. Biri Koca Mustafa Paşa ile Kumkapı yakınlarında, biri Cankurtaran'da ve sonuncu da Mecidiyeköy'de :) Eğer gidip görmek ve yeni tatlar keşfetmek nasip olursa burada sizlerle paylaşırım.

Sevgiler.

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Angry Birds friends programsız sonsuzluk hilesi

Merhaba Arkadaşlar Bu Hile İle Herşeyiniz Sonsuz olucak güle güle kullanınız..


Hilenin yapılışı; Şimdi hilemize geçelim. Önce bunu yükleyiniz. (Not: mozilla firefoxta konuyu açınız ordan tıklayınız. Eğer şuan google chromede iseniz aşağıdaki dosya yüklenmez.
TIKLA
Açılan sitede aşağıdaki resimde gördüğünüz bölüme tıklayınız.

Yukarıda görüldüğü gibi install extension diyin.


Şimdi sadece I under ile başlayan yazıya tıklamanız kaldı. Daha sonra ise aşağıda resimde gördüğünüz gibi izin ver diyoruz.


Sıra geldi son aşama olan kuruluma. İzin ver dedikten sonra kuruluma izin veriyoruz. Aşağıdaki resimde gösterilmiştir.


Yeniden başlat dedikten sonra ise olayımız bitiyor.



Kullanım; Yukarıdaki işlemleri bitirin ve oyunu açın. Tüm özelliklerin sonsuz olduğunu görün!



 Bu Hile trgala.com dan alıntı yapılmıştır.. teşekkürler trgala.com

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Chillas Family/Roseville Follow-Up

David Chillas' notice of starting his own business

In the last post about Philadelphia lithographer and MCH farmer David Chillas, I made several working assumptions regarding the Chillas family's ownership of property in and around the Roseville Cotton Factory area, just east of Newark. This post seems to have given Donna Peters just the excuse she needed (which is very little, to be honest) to dig through an online database of old newspapers in search of more. In her normal fashion, she came up with a few interesting finds that I think fill in a few more of the gaps in our knowledge.

The first of these (seen above) doesn't really tell us much more than we already knew, but I think it's neat nonetheless. It's an ad placed by David Chillas in the April 19, 1853 edition of the North American and United States Gazette advertising the fact that he was now doing business on his own, after the dissolution of his partnership with Alphonse Brett. He's basically just letting people know that he's working by himself now, and doing business out of the "New Girard Building", 50 South Third Street.

While the Chillas notice is interesting, the other two are far more informative. As often seems to be the case, though, they're illuminating -- but not as much as I wish they were. I'll lay everything out and let you decide, but I think they do help to tell a bit more of the story of the Roseville Cotton Factory.

In the original Roseville post we saw that our knowledge of the ownership of the factory was almost always sort of a hit or miss thing. It seems to have changed hands numerous times, and often we go a decade or so between mentions of who the manager or owner is. The 1832 McLane Report seems to show that Harry Connelly owned it at the time, and his story is chronicled in the other post. The next mention I've found is from February 1841, when the Roseville Manufacturing Company was incorporated. Unless I'm misunderstanding it, complex was owned at that time by Thomas Cooch. As of the last post, all I knew after that was Hamilton Maxwell's involvement and that the Chillas family seemed to own at least part of it later on. Thanks to the two newly-unearthed newspaper ads, we can at least narrow down the Chillas' role a bit.

The first, shown below, comes from the June 5, 1843 edition of the Boston Courier. (If it's hard to read, you can click on it to see a larger image.) It's a notice of sale at auction for "All that valuable estate known as Roseville", including a farm, saw mill, grist mill, factory, over 30 residences, and numerous other structures. It's said to be about 207 acres, 150 of which is cultivated. The ad doesn't specifically state who the owner/seller is, but at the bottom it reads, "For further particulars, apply to Arthur Chillas, Roseville". At this time Arthur Chillas (David's older brother) was the president of the North American Coal Company, and had his (at least primary) residence in Philadelphia. But since the ad lists him, and lists him as being of Roseville, I think it's fair to assume that he owned the property then, probably buying it from Cooch sometime in the previous two years as a business proposition. Meaning, I don't think he himself was running the factory or farming the tract. This also seems to indicate that Cooch's Roseville Manufacturing Company had a rather short run.

Another assumption I believe we can make is that Chillas was unsuccessful at selling the property at that June auction. The 1849 map still shows him as owning the property then, and at some time thereafter ownership shifted to his brother David. It should also be noted that it's in this period that the factory apparently suffered a devastating fire that burned it to the ground in late November 1844. It must have been rebuilt, because two years later comes the story of the storm that blew out 1000 of its windows. I can't imagine that a factory "burnt to the ground" would have 1000 intact windows to be broken. What's still not clear is if the factory was operating during this time, or if Chillas was holding it, waiting for someone to come a lease it or buy it from him.

Now, assuming that it was rebuilt after the 1844 fire, the last ad (below) seems to give us another piece of the Roseville puzzle. To be honest, I had to read it a few times before I caught it. What we have here is essentially an expanded version of the ad I included in the first Chillas post. It comes again from the North American and United States Gazette, dated March 1, 1864. It's similar to the last ad, but with a few notable differences. First, the ad is under the name of David Chillas, who sometime around 1857 seems to have purchased the property from his brother Arthur. This ad makes clear that David did not only buy the farm, but owned the mill complex as well. Instead of trying to sell it, this time David is looking for someone to lease the factory, or preferably join him in a business venture. I think the sell/rent difference here is because unlike Arthur in 1843, David is actually living on the property.

From the North American and United States Gazette, 3/1/1864

In my opinion, though, the most interesting bit of this ad is tucked in the middle, just about where you'd (or at least I'd) start skimming over it. "Mill, recently burned down, will be rebuilt by the owner for either Cotton, Wool, or Paper Manufacture." So it seems that the factory had another fire sometime after 1846. Without any more information I can only speculate, but I wonder if maybe the most recent fire spurred Arthur's departure. Maybe he decided he wanted out, and sold the whole thing to his brother, who himself was looking for a career change. I also wonder if this explains another odd thing I came across.

In the previous post, I mentioned finding where David had testified before Congress in some sort of investigation. The whole thing is not available online, but I saw one snippet where he was asked what his current occupation was, and he responded, "A farmer, of sorts." I wonder if the "of sorts" referred to the fact that he also owned a burned out (and presumably abandoned) cotton factory and mill town.

In any case, from the the last bit of information we had previously about Roseville, it seems reasonable to assume that it was soon after this 1864 ad -- maybe even in response to it -- that Hamilton Maxwell entered the picture. He's listed as the factory's operator in an 1864 tax assessment, but it doesn't seem that he was here very long. Scharf, writing in 1888, states that the factory "[...] was burned about twenty years ago, and has not been rebuilt". Other sources hint to an end date soon after the Civil War, too. David Chillas retained ownership of the entire 200+ acre property after its manufacturing era was over. A last piece of information uncovered by Donna would seem to fill in the last gap, at least as far as the 19th Century goes.

The 1881 map shows that Arthur Chillas, David's son, inherited the property. The 1893 map shows it divided between Arthur (with 100 acres) and an A.E. Wiegand (with the remaining 107). Donna came across a 1913 Death Certificate from Philadelphia for a Mrs. Frances Chillas Wiegand. Frances was the daughter of David Chillas, and the wife of Adam E. Wiegand of Philadelphia. Despite what one might assume from the 1893 map, Wiegand was not a farmer but a Conveyancer, if I read the cenuses correctly. This was a kind of real estate attorney, I believe. What I think happened was that after David's death, son Arthur kept the farm part of the tract and sold the manufacturing/milling part to his brother-in-law. Presumably Wiegand meant to resell it, but I have no further information at this time as to what actually happened. All I do know is that the property would never see a return to its industrial past. There is more to be learned about this property, but thanks to a few fortunate finds we have a bit of a better understanding of the history of Roseville and of the Chillas family.

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DECEMBER 4 = The Mystery of the "Mary Celeste"

"We finished loading last night and shall leave on Tuesday morning if we don't get off tomorrow night, the Lord willing. Our vessel is in beautiful trim and I hope we shall have a fine passage but I have never been in her before and cant say how she'll sail. Shall want to write us in about 20 days to Genoa, care of Am. Consul and about 20 days after to Messina care of Am. Consul who will forward it to us if we don't go there."

- From a letter by Captain Benjamin S. Briggs to his mother, November 3, 1872

These words of Captain Briggs reflect the high spirits of an experienced sailor hoping to make a safe passage aboard a ship which he didn't know well. Sadly, his hopes were not to be realized. His ship, the merchant Brigantine Mary Celeste was discovered on today's date, December 4 in the year 1872, adrift, unmanned and apparently abandoned.  The ship's compliment of ten, which included Capt. Briggs, 37, seven crewmen, and two passengers - Capt. Briggs's wife, Sara, 31, and their daughter Sophia, 2 were all missing and were never found.  Their fate remains a mystery to this day.

The Mary Celeste is Found Adrift....

The Mary Celeste began her life in 1861 as the Amazon (as which she is pictured above) at the port of Nova Scotia. But by November of 1872,  her name had been changed to the Mary Celeste and her registry had been changed to the port of New York. On November 7 she set sail for Genoa , Italy under the command of Capt. Briggs bearing a cargo of 1,701 barrels of commercial alcohol.  The Del Gratia, carrying barrels of petroleum and commanded by a old friend of Briggs, Captain David Morehouse, sailed from New York on November 15.  On today's date,

the Del Gratia was about 600 miles west of Portugal when her lookouts sighted a ship about 8 miles off of her port bow.  She was drifting listlessly and her sails were slightly torn. Moving closer the ship was identified as the Mary Celeste. Seeing nobody aboard at least above decks, Morehouse sent his first mate, Oliver Deveau to investigate.

And Nobody is There.

Deveau reported that nobody at all was aboard. The personal items of the crew and the passengers were still there securely packed in their places. All of the ships papers were missing except for the captain's logbook, the last entry of which was a routine note of the ships position a few days earlier.  Otherwise, there was no sign of the ten people with whom the Mary Celeste had left New York. The cargo of alcohol was securely stowed, except for nine barrels which were found to be empty, but undamaged.  Several of the hatches were open, the lifeboat was gone, and a heavy rope was tied to the ship's stern, but was torn at the end.  "The whole ship was a thoroughly wet mess" said Deveau, who found about three feet of water in the hold.  But he also reported that the ship was still quite seaworthy and in no danger of sinking.  Also two of the most important navigational tools were missing; the sextant and the marine chronometer.

And a Legendary Mystery is Born.

There were news reports of murder and seizure by pirates at the time, along with suggestions of mutiny by a drunken crew.  But the record of Captain Briggs (left) as a fair and competent officer, as well as the knowledge that the crewmen were all professional sailors lent little credence to that story.  And the fact that all but a few barrels of the cargo were all still there dispelled the idea of piratical attack.  An inquest into these strange events was held in the Vice Admiralty Court in Gibralter, and as there was no substantial evidence of mutiny, pirate attack or any violence, salvagers were awarded insurance payments amounting to about one sixth of the insurance that had been placed on the Mary Celeste. This suggested that the authorities were suspicious of the motives behind

the Del Gratia and her captain, thinking that there had perhaps there had been some sort of collusion to commit insurance fraud. The events created considerable news at the time, but would have been forgotten had it not been for a fictional account of the story that was published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1884 and several subsequent treatments of the story, including a movie starring Bela Lugosi in 1935. These accounts added such lurid, but fictional details as meals prepared and left uneaten, a pipe still lit, and the lifeboat still being there.  These and later accounts tended towards such supernatural explanations as ghostly evil powers, the always reliably sinister Bermuda Triangle, and of course UFO's and space aliens.  The fact is that the explanation is likely much more mundane.

The key might very well be in the barrels that were found empty, but undamaged.  And it was not that they were drained by the crew in a drunken frenzy.  The rest of the barrels were all made from white oak which is naturally water tight and was for this reason normally used to hold liquids.  However the nine barrels that were empty were all made from red oak, which is porous and usually used for dry goods.  For some reason these barrels were used to hold some of the alcohol.  It has been suggested that these barrels may have leaked their contents in sufficient quantity to give off strong fumes which may have even been strong enough to cause a brief but frightening explosion.  This may have given rise to fears that the cargo was about to explode.  This would account for why the ship had clearly been abandoned in a hurry. The theory goes that Briggs ordered the passengers and crew into the life 

boat which was tethered to the ship with  a heavy rope, hoping to return to her when the fumes had dissipated. 

There are other explanations.  One advanced recently by Smithsonian Magazine makes no mention of a torn rope found attached to the ship and says that the leaking barrels would have given off a smell which would have lead to their discovery. Then the barrels would simply have been emptied. But this explanation holds that based on ships records found among the papers of the Attorney General in charge of the investigation, Frederick Solly-Flood it is possible to chart the position of the ship more accurately than previously possible. Due to a faulty chronometer Briggs may have miscalculated the true position of the Mary Celeste.  This and ships pumps which were not working properly would have made Briggs believe that his ship was in danger of sinking when she wasn't really. This would have lead him to put the crew and his family into the lifeboat.  

But a storm arose which tore the lifeboat away from the Mary Celeste and either drowned it's helpless inhabitants, or left them to drift until they died of exposure. But of course, this is all speculation. Whatever the explanation the fact remains that ten human souls including the wife and the young daughter of Captain Briggs along with all of their hopes and dreams for the future were lost, and scattered to the winds of the ocean.

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celeste

http://www.maryceleste.net/briggs.htm

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4289

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/abandoned-ship-the-mary-celeste-174488104/?page=1

Images:

The Mary Celeste as the Amazon =
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celeste

The Mary Celeste discovered on 12/4 =
http://marycelestemystery.blogspot.com/

Captain Briggs =
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celeste

Movie poster =
http://www.flickeringmyth.com/2010/08/movies-for-free-mystery-of-mary-celeste.html

The Mary Celeste in a storm =
http://realmofryan.blogspot.com/2010/03/we-need-mary-celeste.html

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Korece Hikaye Kitabı-2 진주를 먹은 거위 (İnciyi yutan kaz)

선비 = 옛날에 양반 계층의 남자로 학문을 연구하던 사람

[Alim, bilgin, öğretmen]



똑똑하다 = 머리가 좋다

[Zeki, akıllı (aklı iyi = zeki)]



초라하다 = 입고 있는 옷이 오래 되고 값이 싸 보이다

[zavallı, aciz; kılıksız, adi (shabby, poor-looking, mean, miserable)]



주막 = 예전에 길거리에 있던 술집 겸 여관

[lokal, han (eskiden caddelerde olan meyhane ve motel)]



헛간 = 쉽게 막 쓰는 물건을 쌓아 두는 곳

[ahır, kulube (shed, barn)]



울음을 터뜨리다 = 갑자기 크게 울다

[ağlayış

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[04.12.2013] Bangtan Twitter Güncellemeleri | #HappyBTSJinDay

[JIMIN] #HappyBTSJinDay Hyung en iyisi!!

[RAPMON] Şu an kayıt yapmakla meşgul olan JungKookie'nin yerini ben alacağım!! Doğum günün kutlu olsun en iyisi en iyiysi~~ #HappyBTSJinDay 

[V] #HappyBTSJinDay Büyükbaba doğum günün kutlu olsun..

[SUGA] #HappyBTSJinDay Suga'nın gözünden sayfası Jin hyung'a mutlu bir yaş diler

[JHOPE]  #HappyBTSJinDay doğum günün kutlu olsun pembe pembe prenses @-@/

[JUNGKOOK]  #HappyBTSJinDay hyung doğum günün kutlu olsun.

Üyeler sırayı karıştırmış olsalar da ellerine-telefonlarının ekranlarına yazdıklarını birleştirince "석찐형생일축 /Seok Jjin Hyung, doğum günün kutlu olsun" yazıyor.

[JIN] Yemek yemek için bile çok meşgul olan üyelerimiz, beni kutlamak için geri döndüğünüz için çok teşekkür ederimㅠㅠ

[JIN] Ayrıca doğum günümü kutlayan tüm ARMY'lere çok teşekkür ederimㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

Eng Trans cr; BTS_Trans

Tr Trans: S-Nuna @BTSTurkey

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Rod Stewart 2013 - Photos

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My Top 5 Weight Loss Must Haves!

On my weekly weekend recap, I happily reported that I lost 5 pounds this past week.

However, I lied. 

When I went to my doctors appointment this afternoon, I was actually informed I lost 8.2 pounds.

Um... AWESOME!

I can not wait to write all about my plan and what I am doing, but I need about seven more weeks before I can, so bare with me. I am doing some trial and error and experimenting. 

Last week, I had a complete blood panel done. Basically a physical. I have been honest about my weight struggle this year. I do not really want to go in a lot of detail on this entry, but basically January through April my body was put through hell. Pair the physical pain with mental and emotional, and it resulted in me "letting myself" go for a while.

You see, I have lost over 100 pounds. My journey first started in September of 2008 when I was 19 years old. Here is the thing though: the journey never ends. Just because you lose a significant amount of weight, does not mean the journey is finished. It is a complete lifestyle change. I did a great job of keeping it off until earlier this year. 

Since obtaining my new job at the end of October and making some big changes in my life, I have been a lot happier. Actually not just "a lot happier", but unbelievably happy. I almost feel like a brand new person. I tell some people I have been "reborn". Thus, I have picked myself up, dusted myself off, and now I am back at kicking ass and finishing getting the weight off that I have gained this year - all 34 pounds of it. I am down 8 right now - that is a start.

Gaining a significant amount of weight this year made me really worry about my health. My heart, blood pressure, cholesterol, thyroid, and most of all, possibly obtaining diabetes. Well, I am elated to say that when I went to my follow-up appointment today everything was perfect. I am in tip-top health. I definitely did not expect that. I thought maybe I have screwed my thyroid up from gaining weight, that I was in danger to develop diabetes, and that my blood pressure would be through the roof. To be honest, I was just scared that I had completely thrown my health away. That is how low I have felt this year.

Since health and fitness are the two of the biggest parts of my life, I thought I would share my current top 5 must haves to help aid in my journey! I would also leave to hear what you guys use as well. What has helped you? Please feel free to leave your tips in the comments below. We all need support and advice!

1.) Coconut Oil

As crazy as this sounds. I eat one tablespoon of this a day. I literally put a tablespoon in the jar, scoop it out, and force myself to eat it. It really does not have must of a taste. I think most of the struggle is mental. Initially my mind wants to think it's butter so I almost gag eating it, but then when I taste it, I am fine. Of course you can also cook with it! Use it as a non-stick spray. The benefits of coconut oil will literally astound you! I buy mine at Earthfare and I also know it can be found at Trader Joe's and Whole Foods. Click here to read all about the amazing benefits!

2) Quest Protein Bars

These bars save me from hunger and when I am go-go-go, which is 95% of the time. You truly have to be careful about the protein bars that you eat. Most of them are NOT better than candy bars, literally 90% of protein bars out there have more sugar than candy bars! They also can be loaded with additives. Quest Bars have 21g of protein which is perfect as a meal replacement. I eat 6 "small" meals a day and a Quest Bar paired with an apple is ALWAYS my meal #2. Furthermore Quest Bars have 21g of carbohydrates and 17 of those is dietary fiber. That is fantastic! 80% of people do not get enough fiber in their diets so this is a great source. To show you how even more amazing Quest Bars are, most of them have just 1g of sugar. Not to mention the taste. They are absolutely delicious. And I say that as a picky eater. My top two favorites are chocolate chip cookie dough and white chocolate raspberry. I buy them at GNC mostly. You can buy them by the box or as singles! GNC always has a special on them as well -- buy 3 get 1 FREE! They can also be ordered online on Quest Bar's website. 

3) Vitamin B12 Injections

This may sound a little odd, but it isn't. Instead of taking a vitamin B12 pill, I opt to get an injection. Naturally, a persons body does not absorb a "pill" as well as it does an injection directly into the blood stream. Vitamin B12 Injections have changed my life. However, they do not cause weight loss. What B12 does is improve your overall well being. I am NEVER fatigued at work anymore. I am able to handle stress and pressure easily, my mood is constantly stable and positive, and I simply feel so much better. I work out in the evenings and sometimes I am exhausted by the time 5 o'clock rolls around. I work in a corporate office environment, but I am the Office Manager. That means I NEVER sit down. I run around all day, so some days the last thing I want to do  is go to the gym when I get off of work. Oh, and you can forget me getting up early to go workout. I hate morning workout's. B12 has helped me so much with that. I have a lot more energy and best of all that energy is not coming from sugar or caffeine. I get my injections at a place called "Medi Weight Loss". They are $10 a week there. Medi is national franchise with locations throughout the United States. I have heard a lot of people tell me they are also available at primary care doctors offices as well as other weight loss clinics. If you do not have a "Medi Weight Loss" clinic around you, I would search and call around for any wellness practices in your area. Another benefit; a lot of insurance companies cover the injections! Thankfully since my company has a "wellness" program, I get reimbursed for them. Check with your employer as well, it can't hurt!

4) My Health Journal and "Life" Planner

Aside from a strong mind, organization is one of the top 3 most important aspects of losing weight. I use my planner to record expenses, write grocery lists and meal ideas, appointments, goals, and more. I use it to list all of my thoughts. My planner was designed for it too! I bought it at Target for $20 and best of all, the dates are not printed in there, you write them. So if you buy it today, it starts today. Every health professional and doctor I have ever spoken with has told me how imperative recording your nutrition and workouts are and that if more people did and stuck with it, they would see such a difference. I use my journal to list out my daily nutrition and exercise. My journal is nothing but a simple pink notebook that I also bought at Target for around $1. One may think it is time consuming, but it really isn't. It takes me maybe 10-15 minutes a day. And lets face it, if you really want something, you will make time for it. Recording what I eat keeps me in check. It ensures I do not under or overeat, that I am consuming the adequate amount of proteins, fiber, etc. A lot of times, if you take the time to write your diet out, you would be surprised at how quickly calories can add up! By keeping myself prepared and organized, I stay on track and motivated. I have noticed that I always do better losing weight when I keep up with it in my journal. 

5) BCAA's.

BCAA's are "branched-chain amino acid's". YES! They are essential! These are amazing and must haves for ANYONE who engages in any type of exercise and/or physical activity. They do not cause you to gain weight  nor are they dangerous, they are solely for muscle recovery and they absolutely make a difference. They also help fatigue. I take two capsules after every training session and two in the morning when I first wake up. If I wake up tired, sore, and stiff in the morning, as soon as I take two of them, they make me feel like a new person. Branched-chain amino acids stimulate the building of protein in muscle and reduce muscle breakdown. Another interesting benefit of them is that they prevent faulty message transmission in the brain cells of people with advanced liver disease. I buy mine at GNC and order through Bodybuilding.com. 

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Ana Tzarev ve "Baharın Şarkısı"

 

Hırvat sanatçı Ana Tzarev’in İstanbul’daki ikinci kişisel
sergisi 13 Kasım’da Taksim Cumhuriyet Sanat Galerisi’nde sanatseverlerle
buluştu.   Çiçeklere bağlılığıyla tanınan
sanatçının “Baharın Şarkısı” adlı sergisini bu haftasonu görme fırsatım oldu.

Tabloları Avrupa’dan Avustralya’ya kadar birçok
koleksiyonerin duvarını süsleyen ve çalışma tarzı post-empresyonist ve
modernist ustaların

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DECEMBER 2 = Napoleon's "Masterpiece"

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"Passing in front of several regiments in battle array, the Emperor said, 'Soldiers! We must end this battle with a thunderclap that will confound the arrogance of our enemies;' and instantly their hats waving at the ends of their bayonets and their shouts of "Vive l'Empereur!' gave the actual signal for the battle to begin..."
- Bulletin of the Grande Armee, Dec. 2, 1805

Napoleon's Greatest Victory

With this stirring description of his address to his army, Napoleon informed the world of his greatest victory in the Battle of Austerlitz which took place on today's date, December 2, in 1805. It was something fairly rare in military history - a complete and total defeat of one army over another, with the defeated army retiring from the field in disorder. It would set the standard for victory, one which Napoleon himself would invoke time and again in the future. It would cement his reputation as a military genius forever, a reputation which would serve him well in the future, scaring many a foe from taking the field against him. It was in his own words, his "Masterpiece." And yet, it happened in the shadow of a defeat far away, some months before which Napoleon seems barely to have even noted. But it was one which would seal Napoleon's fate a full decade before the Battle of Waterloo would drive him to St. Helena.

Napoleon's Invasion of England?

Napoleon had taken the European scene by storm. By arising seemingly out of nowhere from the ashes of the French Revolution, this once obscure captain of artillery had risen from giving the mob the "Whiff of Grapeshot" which had preserved the Government of the Directory to complete mastery of the French government. By 1802, he had proclaimed himself "First Consul" of the French Republic, and on December 1 of that year placed a facsimile of the Crown of Charlemagne

upon his own head (right), side- stepping the Pope and pro- claiming himself  "Emperor of the French". He had driven the armies of his enemies from the European continent, and he had camped his armies on the shores of the English Channel to prepare them for an invasion of England. He needed only to gain mastery of the Channel long enough for his army to get across. Towards that end he dispatched Admiral Villeneuve to combine his naval forces with those of the Spanish to defeat the British navy, or at least to keep it busy while he got across the channel and onto England.

The Grand Armee's Road to Austerlitz

Whether or not he really intended to follow through with this ambitious plan is not known, and will likely remain one of history's great mysteries. What is known is that in late August he wheeled his armies to the southeast and having designated them the "Grande Armee", marched them to meet the armies of "the Third Coalition" (the third group of nations to combine with the intention of defeating Napoleon) consisting primarily of England, Austria and Russia. A combined Russian/Austrian force was marching into Moravia (a region of central Europe which now comprises the eastern portion of the Czsech Republic), and Napoleon, who had little patience with or understanding of the complexities of Naval warfare decided to go with his strength, and fight his enemies on land.

Czar Alexander I and Kutuzov

Having completely outmaneuvered the Austrians at the Battle of Ulm and bagged 25,000 of their men under the command of General Von Mack, Napoleon then marched into the Austrian capitol of Vienna, taking the city and driving the Austrian Emperor Francis out to join his

armies. Napoleon's army now faced the Austro-Russian force near the village of Austerlitz. It was a battle which the Allied armies were supremely confident of winning. In fact they had been joined by Russian Czar, Alexander I,and between them, he and the Austrian Emperor had overruled the advice of the wily old veteran commander of the Russian forces, General Mikhail Kutuzov (above). In one of many scenes from this story which Tolstoy would later depict in his epic novel "War and Peace" at the council of war held the night before the battle Kutuzov, knowing that his views would be ignored, appeared to sleep through the meeting.

The Pratzen Heights

The French forces faced the Austro-Russian army across a valley separating them on the cold and foggy morning of December 2, the day after the one year anniversary of Napoleon's self-crowning as Emperor. The Allied army occupied the commanding position of the Pratzen Heights which overlooked the entire battlefield. Napoleon had placed an

apparently weaker force on the southern end of his position in hopes of drawing the Allied force into moving their main attack force to that position. The ruse worked like a charm. Anxious to attack a French force that seemed to be withdrawing, the Czar ordered his forces to the southern end of the battle line. He apparently did not realize that in so doing, he was evacuating the center of his own very strong position. Kutuzov did realize this, and tried to hold up the move until the French plan became more clear. "Come General! We are not on the parade ground where everyone must be in place!" the Czar said to him dismissively. The Allies marched right into Napoleon's trap.

Marshall Soult's Corps Closes the Trap

As soon as the Allied force had moved off of the Pratzen Heights, Napoleon ordered Marshall Soult's Corps which had been waiting in the valley below under the cover of the fog to advance. Suddenly the sun burst through the fog to reveal the advancing bayonets of Soult's troops moving up the hill. This was the famous "Sun of Austerlitz". Kutuzov who had been suspecting just such a move tried furiously to react. Riding around with a handkerchief to his face to cover a wound that he had sustained, the old General tried to bring some of his forces back. But it was too late.

Marshall Davout's Corps Arrives

The Allied army soon discovered that the French had only been appearing to with- draw to the South. Suddenly, the thin French line was reinforced by Marshall Davout's Corps which Napoleon had ordered up to the scene of the battle. Now instead of attacking the fleeing French, the Allies found themselves facing a full Corps in front of them, and Marshall Soult's Corps in their rear. Davout's timely arrival provided an anvil upon which Marshall Soult's artillery proceeded to smash the Allies to bits. The French guns began to pound the Allies mercilessly, as they tried to escape across the frozen Sachsen pond. Contemporary illustrations show the Allies being drowned beneath the ice by the thousands as the French artillery began raining down upon them, breaking the ice beneath their feet. The battle turned into a rout.

The French who began the day with an army of some 73,000 men suffered approximately 7,000 casualties. The Allies suffered twice that number of losses. And worse yet, they had fled the battle in disorder. The Czar wound up the day crying beneath a tree. Kutuzov picked up the pieces of the Russian forces and withdrew back into Russia. The Czar, unable to bear the reminder of his signal failure banished the old man to a command in the southern reaches of the empire. The Austrian Emperor would soon meet with Napoleon and sue for peace. More fighting between the French and the Prussians would occur, but eventually the Czar would embrace Napoleon at their meeting on a barge in the middle of the Niemann River near Tilsit, and sign an alliance with him. But Napoleon soon began to over-reach himself. He would impose a "Continental System" to block English trade with the European continent. Such an embargo was bound to fail, and in the end Napoleon made the supreme error of invading Russia to knock them out of the war. It would prove to be his doom. Kutuzov would be recalled and lead the Russians in chasing the remnants of the frozen French army out of Russia about seven years hence.

Trafalgar Spells Naploleon's Doom

But he finished the day at Austerlitz at the top of his game as a general; Austerlitz was his masterpiece. Owen Connelly has said that it was only luck that would allow Marshall Davout show up in time to seal the Allied fate on the southern end of the line. And there has been much to disprove the image of thousands of Allied troops drowning beneath the ice of the Sachsen Pond. But the fact is that the French completely smashed the Austrians and the Russians that day. And Napoleon would for years after invoke "the sun of Austerlitz" as a talisman of success. But it was all for naught. Some months before Austerlitz, at the Battle of Trafalgar a diminutive little man with one eye and one arm - Sir Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, would at the head of the British fleet sailing on board his flagship H.M.S. Victory, smash the combined Franco/Spanish fleet and insure British control of the seas for over one hundred years. In the opinion of this writer, THIS sealed Napoleon's fate ten years before his final land defeat at Waterloo. Because Britain could never be subdued - because she would always be there to oppose Napoleon in the field as with Spain and Waterloo, or to finance those who would - the Russians, the Austrians and the Prussians - Napoleon was doomed to lose in the end.



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Sources =

"The Age of Napoleon" by Christopher Herold Horizon Magazine & American Heritage Publ.Co., New York, 1963.

"Blundering to Glory: Naploeon's Military Campaigns" by Owen Connelly, Rowman & Littlefield Publ. Inc., New York, 1995.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Austerlitz

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Austerlitz-baron-Pascal.jpg

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