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		<title>Sweet Treat&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://tippinthescales.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/sweet-treat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[500,000 million tons of cocoa beans enters the port of Amsterdam yearly, making it the largest end station of this commodity in the world. That&#8217;s 1/3 of the world production!
This year the first UTZ certified cocoa entered the country on Novermber 7, one of the reasons to start the Choca Festival on that date. This fest of the sweet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tippinthescales.wordpress.com&blog=731384&post=4524&subd=tippinthescales&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shots&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://tippinthescales.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/shots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I like to be dramatic, once in a while, the shots I&#8217;m talking about are not gunshots! But flue shots.
The first shot against the &#8216;common&#8217; flue I had 16 days ago, my PG and his assistant invited all their patients to show up on Saturday October 24 between 9 and 16 o&#8217; clock, some 1,000 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tippinthescales.wordpress.com&blog=731384&post=4520&subd=tippinthescales&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Food Quote #8</title>
		<link>http://tippinthescales.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/food-quote-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Quote]]></category>

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		<title>Did You Know?</title>
		<link>http://tippinthescales.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/did-you-know-13/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Did You Know?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Beetroot derives from a wild seashore plant, the sea beet, native to southern Europe and North Africa. It&#8217;s thought to have been brought to Britain by the Romans. Beetroot should be boiled in their skins to prevent the purple juices from leaking out. The leaves of the plant are also edible.
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		<title>Night at the Museum&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://tippinthescales.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/night-at-the-museum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Amsterdam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Museum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the 10th time the first Saturday of November is Museum Night or N8 [Nacht = Dutch for night]. In 42 museums in Amsterdam and 10 other spots around town over 200 extra performences will be held, as diverse as theater performences to specialised guide tours or behind the scene looks.
More information on the N8 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tippinthescales.wordpress.com&blog=731384&post=4515&subd=tippinthescales&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>International Pumpkin Recipes #2</title>
		<link>http://tippinthescales.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/international-pumpkin-recipes-2/</link>
		<comments>http://tippinthescales.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/international-pumpkin-recipes-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thursday Recipe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Italian Pumpkin Ravioli with Sage Butter
Serves: 10-12 as a starter, 4-6 as a main course [makes about 10-12 large ravioli]
Prep time: 1 hour 30 minutes [or 1 hour if using ready-made wonton wrappers] To Cook: 50 minutes 
Shopping List:
For this recipe, you can make your own pasta dough, as below, or you can use frozen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tippinthescales.wordpress.com&blog=731384&post=4474&subd=tippinthescales&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Public Tile Project</title>
		<link>http://tippinthescales.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/public-tile-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NY400 Hudson Year]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the NY400 celebrations coming to a close, there are still projects running in New York and the Hudson Valley. One of them is the Public Tile Project.

The Public Tile Project, lead by the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art [HVCCA], unites the students of the Hudson Valley with their Dutch heritage. In 2009 the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tippinthescales.wordpress.com&blog=731384&post=4502&subd=tippinthescales&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Meme</title>
		<link>http://tippinthescales.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/what-meme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meme]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What is on your Desktop Wallpaper?
A view of a misty Cades Cove [Smoky Mountains] in the morning.
What is your favorite zoo animal?
You would think a Chimpansee or Elephant but it’s a Giraffe. They look so graceful and elegant… and nice! You never hear stories about giraffes going wild and attacking people.
What was your favorite toy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tippinthescales.wordpress.com&blog=731384&post=4497&subd=tippinthescales&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Food Quote #7</title>
		<link>http://tippinthescales.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/food-quote-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Quote]]></category>

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		<title>Quote</title>
		<link>http://tippinthescales.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/quote-28/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Quote]]></category>

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		<title>If these were my stocks&#8230; I would sell!</title>
		<link>http://tippinthescales.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/if-these-were-my-stocks-i-would-sell/</link>
		<comments>http://tippinthescales.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/if-these-were-my-stocks-i-would-sell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[at random]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Alas, these are just the statistics of monthly visits to this site. When I had 11,000 plus visitors in November 2007 I thought that would be hard to top. It took me almost two years to reach over 12,000 visitors [September 2009] and another 8,500 to get to over 20,340 last night.
Most of these extra [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tippinthescales.wordpress.com&blog=731384&post=4491&subd=tippinthescales&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revenge of the&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://tippinthescales.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/revenge-of-the/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I not only like to you give recipes, I like to read them too. One of the websites in my RSS feed is Craving for&#8230; which directed me to this one.
Enjoy the Revenge of the Brussels Sprouts! Spooky!!!
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		<title>Happy Hallowe&#8217;en!</title>
		<link>http://tippinthescales.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/happy-halloween/</link>
		<comments>http://tippinthescales.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/happy-halloween/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
Female short-nosed fruit bats have been observed performing fellatio on their partners during copulation. Mating pairs spent more time copulating if the female did so.
Read full article and see the clip [NSFW] at New Scientist
Cartoon by Sevens Heaven for NU.NL
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		<title>Did You Know?</title>
		<link>http://tippinthescales.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/did-you-know-12/</link>
		<comments>http://tippinthescales.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/did-you-know-12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Did You Know?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In France, due to the low cost of pumpkins, their flesh was originally used to bulk out the dough in pumpkin bread. Nowadays, with speciality breads in vogue, customers pay through the nose for the same dish, called pain de courge. It is eaten in the morning, with coffee, or as a mid-afternoon snack, like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tippinthescales.wordpress.com&blog=731384&post=4479&subd=tippinthescales&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>International Pumpkin Recipes #1</title>
		<link>http://tippinthescales.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/international-pumpkin-recipes-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thursday Recipe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pumpkins and squashes are used in many countries. In North American they bake pumpkin pies during Thanksgiving while the Italians adore using them in risottos. Further east, in India, the popular Kaddoo [or West Indian pumpkin] is the favoured variety mainly used in braises and curries. The Vietnamese and Chinese use squashes in soups, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tippinthescales.wordpress.com&blog=731384&post=4467&subd=tippinthescales&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Food Quote #6</title>
		<link>http://tippinthescales.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/food-quote-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<title>Did You Know?</title>
		<link>http://tippinthescales.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/did-you-know-11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mushrooms are not universally adored. Some people are not keen on the taste or texture of funghi, while others suffer from an irrational fear of mushrooms, called mycophobia.
Perhaps the fear isn&#8217;t so irrational &#8211; although fatal poisoning from mushrooms is rare, some of the most poisonous and most delicious species belong to the same genus.
 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tippinthescales.wordpress.com&blog=731384&post=4463&subd=tippinthescales&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letter From The Editor&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://tippinthescales.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/letter-from-the-editor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
I could tell you a tale of how all turned up here, but with the help of WordPress, a screen and a keyboard and a lot of thinking, researching, reading, &#8216;borrowing&#8217; and typing it just happened.
Enough said.
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		<title>Hey, how are you?</title>
		<link>http://tippinthescales.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/hey-how-are-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long time but I&#8217;m back at Peter&#8217;s place for a long weekend. My keepers are away for the weekend, Peter hoped I would stay in Amsterdam so he could take care of me. And that he does, four times or more a day we go for walkies, he rubs my belly when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tippinthescales.wordpress.com&blog=731384&post=4456&subd=tippinthescales&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>History Is Just Around The Corner&#8230; #2</title>
		<link>http://tippinthescales.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/history-is-just-around-the-corner-2/</link>
		<comments>http://tippinthescales.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/history-is-just-around-the-corner-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Amsterdam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Remember when I was driving through Van Diemenstraat and the last wall painting was of&#8230; Willem Barentsz [1550-1597], he was a Dutch navigator and explorer, a leader of early expeditions to the far north. [In English his name is mostly written as Barents].
A cartographer by trade, Barentsz sailed to Spain and the Mediterranean to complete [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tippinthescales.wordpress.com&blog=731384&post=4447&subd=tippinthescales&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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