Chocolate Festival ala Cioccolatò in Turin

Turin is known as the main city of a chocolate in Italy. To celebrate this fact, every year the Chocolate Festival Cioccolatò is organised. This year, the event is happening from 25. March to 3. April 2011.

The festival, like in the previous years, will feature famous chocolatiers from all over Italy and this year Enric Rovira is present, as the most famous one. You can look forward on many interesting presentations, see how chocolate is made and of course many, many samples for testing;)

And here some photos for todays chocolate inspirations.

Droplets of Water Versus Insects

While the night covers the forest, many things can happen. For insects, like for humans, it is time for sleep. But droplets of water do not know any sleep. They are simply falling down. These pictures were taken by physiotherapist Miroslaw Swietek at around 3 am at night, in a forest near his home.

This 37-year-old amateur photographer makes shots of motionless bugs in the darkness before setting up his camera and flash just millimeters from them.

I don’t think that he can wake them up.

Images (c) Miroslaw Swietek

Arromanches – the Place of the Normandy Landings

Arromanches-les-Bains or just Arromanches is a place situated near the coast, approximately 25 km northwest of Caen. So what is on this place so special. When I first saw this title, I had no idea.

So I dug a bit to found it out. Arromanches is the place where the Normandy landings took place on the 6 June 1944. So called D-Day.
This Allied invasion of Normandy was called Operation Overlord or Operation Neptune during the World War II. As you can see on the pictures bellow, the place maintain its memories on this happening on the coast and in the museums.

8.9 Magnitude Earthquake in Japan

An 8.9 magnitude earthquake has hit northeastern coast at Honsu, Japan today at Friday, March 11, 2011 at 05:46:23 UTC.

The impact of this quake resulted in a 10 meter tsunami wave.

The wave had impact on the boats and houses near the coast.
A massive oil refinery fire has broken out in Chiba prefecture. Tokyo, which is hundreds of kilometers away, still caught impact from quake, resulted in falling things from shelves.
Japanese ordered the precautionary evacuation of a nuclear Fukushima plant affected by the earthquake, there were some problems with cooling the reactor. About 4 million homes had no power in Tokyo and surrounding areas. Burning fires has been reported at atleast 80 places.

Picture: AP / Kyodo News

Comics Heroes at Wizard World Anaheim

Wizard World conventions become tradition every year, taking place in different cities in U.S.  This conventions are a good place where to meet a lot of famous actors and people and meet people who like the same thing.

For this year 2011, a lot of famous guest announced its presence.

Sir Patrick Stewart, known as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, will attend the Wizard World Chicago Comic Con.

Another person who accepted the invitation is J. Scott Campbell, one of the most popular artists in comics, he will come to the Boston Comic Con.

Five actors from Buffy: the Vampire Slayer will appear at the Wizard World Toronto Comic Con. - Julie Benz, Nicholas Brendon, Mercedes McNab, Clare Kramer and Mark Metcalf.

This event will bring a lot of fans together, and as spoke captain Kirk – It can be fun;)

The schedules for the year 2011 and 2012:
March 18-20 – Toronto Comic Con
April 29 – May 1 – Anaheim Comic Con
May 21-22 – Big Apple Comic Con ‘Spring Edition’
June 17-19 – Philadelphia Comic Con
August 11-14 – Chicago Comic Con
September 17-18 – New England Comic Con
September 24-25 – Big Apple Comic Con
October 22-23 – Mid-Ohio Comic Con
October 28-30 – Central Canada Comic Con (C4)
November 11-13 – Austin Comic Con
December 3-4 – Atlanta Comic Con
January 28-29, 2012 – New Orleans Comic Con
December 1-2, 2012 – Miami Comic Con