Real Madrid can take a leap toward securing this season's La Liga title when they play host to Barcelona in the second of this season's El Clasico meetings on Sunday at the Santiago Bernabeu.
Los Blancos lead second-placed Barca by three points with a game in hand heading into Sunday's showdown, where victory for the hosts could see the crown's destination decided considering only a few games remain in the season.
After exiting the UEFA Champions League in midweek following a 0-0 stalemate at home to Juventus—completing a 3-0 aggregate defeat in the quarter-final clash—Barca will be motivated to resurrect their league chances.
Meanwhile, manager Zinedine Zidane's side can advance their prospects of a double this season, having progressed to the semi-finals of the Champions League following their 6-3 aggregate hammering of Bayern Munich in the last eight.
Unfortunately for Barcelona's chances of stealing a win in the Spanish capital this Sunday, Brazil maestro Neymar doesn't look as though he'll be available to feature for the visitors.
The Croatian is right in that Sunday's duel would be far less complicated with Neymar around, but the South American is paying the price for the dissent he showed after being sent off against Real Sociedad earlier this month.
Latte art is a method of preparing coffee created by pouring steamed milk into a shot of espresso and resulting in a pattern or design on the surface of the latte. It can also be created or embellished by simply "drawing" in the top layer of foam. Latte art is particularly difficult to create consistently, due to the demanding conditions required of both the espresso shot and milk.This, in turn, is limited by the experience of the barista and quality of the espresso machine. The pour itself, then, becomes the last challenge for the latte artist.
Latte art requires first producing espresso with crema and microfoam, and then combining these to make latte art. See microfoam: procedure for how microfoam is made; this article concentrates on the latte art once the foam is made.
Before the milk is added, the espresso shot must have a creamy brown surface, an emulsion known as crema. As the white foam from the milk rises to meet the red/brown surface of the shot, a contrast is created and the design emerges. As the milk is poured, the foam se
parates from the liquid and rises to the top. If the milk and espresso shot are "just right," and the pitcher is moved during the pour, the foam will rise to create a pattern on the surface. Alternatively, a pattern may be etched with a stick after the milk has been poured, rather than during the pour.
Some controversy exists within the coffee community as to whether or not there is excessive focus on latte art amongst baristas. The argument is that too much focus on the superficial appearance of a drink leads some to ignore more important issues, such as taste. This is especially relevant with new baristas.
Happy birthday to the first lady -- Melania Trump is ringing in her 47th year in Washington.
Trump, who is living in New York through the duration of the school year, is spending her day at a luncheon for Senate spouses.
"Looking forward to today's Senate spouses luncheon at the National Gallery of Art. A wonderful group doing great things for our country!" she tweeted Wednesday morning.
She will also be joined at the National Gallery of Art's newly refurbished East Building by second lady Karen Pence, who just returned from a trip to Asia and Australia, as well as the spouses of Trump administration Cabinet members. She will give remarks at the luncheon, per the White House, which will not be open to press. Photo ops with the first lady are also on the agenda.
Lunch will be catered by Design Cuisine, a local caterer where Trump's social secretary Rickie Niceta Lloyd worked prior to joining the East Wing team. Trump said no to birthday celebration sweets at the luncheon, per a source present at the National Gallery.
The Trumps have busy schedules Wednesday, but they have a private celebration planned in the White House residence in the evening, per East Wing communications director Stephanie Grisham.
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Strictly speaking this is a religious festival, but for most of the week, solemnity isn't the keynote - there's a lot of carousing and frivolity, and bars are full day and night with entire families, from grandparents to babes in arms staying up until three or four in the morning.
In essence, Semana Santa involves the marching in procession of brotherhoods of the church and penitents, followed by elaborate floats on which sit seventeenth century images of the Virgin or Christ. For months beforehand, the bands practice their short, fervent flamenco style hymns about the Passion and the Virgin's sorrows throughout the city.
Seville has various shops dedicated to the sale of Nazareno robes, including sandles and Capirote. Many of these shops can be found on the Calle Alcaiceria de la Loza. The cone shape Capirote are made to measure while you wait.
Throughout the week, the processions leave churches all over the city from early afternoon onwards, snaking through the city and back to their resting place many hours later. Good Friday morning is the climax, when the procession leave the churches at midnight and move through the town for most of the night. The highlight is the arrival at the cathedral in the early hours of the morning. On the Thursday, the local women wear black and it's considered disrespectful for tourists to wear T-shirts and shorts.
The final lap of the official route goes from La Campana to Calle Sierpes to the cathedral and around the Giralda and the Bishop's Palace. This is a good area to watch the processions. Grandstands are erected in the main squares, you may be able to buy a back row seat as the best sell out weeks in advance.
Without doubt the local heroes of the night are the lads who carry the thrones. Always hidden away in Seville, but you might catch a glimpse when they pop out for a well earned drink.
The processions take place during the week leading up to but not including Easter Sunday.
Have you ever tought about mob? How they look like? Are they exist in this world? Indeed. What do you think about Chicago or Las Vega or even more New York? Let me tell you. Chicago dan NY mob has connection and the real story was really unbelieveable. When everybody hears about mafia, they first tought I bet is about murder. But that's totally true. Al Capone, the most dangerous and succesfull mob in Chicago at that time already killed many many people to achieved his huge business. Also he's well-known as the cold blood killer because he had no hetitation to kill anyone who blocked his way. But even he died because cancer, that legend who feared anyone left his legacy to NY most genius mob, Lucky Luciano. And his empire still run even from beyond the grave. That was interesting wasn't it?
Porsche
618 motorcycle concept: dubbed
the ‘618’, this futuristic motorcycle concept depicts the future of automotive
brand porsche. Created by
spanish designer, Miguel Angel Bahri, he has created three captivating
industrial product renderings in the past, which all exhibit a unique and
authentic interpretation of each brand.
Miguel Angel Bahri made his porsche motorcycle
for a subject named two ‘wheels project’, with the goal of making a
pure electric bike concept as close to reality as possible. Inspired
by the porsche ‘911 turbo’, ‘918’, and ‘919’, he has taken the design DNA from
these iconic cars and transplanted it into his concept motorcycle. He names it
the ‘618’ as it represents an entry-level, electric, two-wheeled
vehicle for the german-automaker, sitting just below the ‘718’ range.
Working with form an
function in synergy, he thought of the package as a porsche from the very
beginning.
Located in the 30 degree
vision angle of the rider is an eight-inch, touch sensitive, digital
instrument panel, reducing the external design volume while maintaining the
clean form of the motorcycle. these work together with android and iOS smart devices, providing crucial information
such as remaining battery range, the nearest charging point, GPS, and even
internet, while the bike also charges smart phones wirelessly.
Over the weekend, Starbucks gave away free
coffee and discounted handmade drinks around China as part of an Earth Day promotion. The
catch? Customers had to bring in their own non-paper cups.
One WeChat account, Shanghai Highlights (ID: kaopusearch), decided put
the promotion to the test by using unconventional containers to get around the
"non-paper cup" requirement. We're talking water barrels, pots, pans
and washing basins — all to see if they could get that free cuppa joe (or RMB3
discount).
Though their post on the stunt has already been deleted from WeChat,
humorous photos circulating online this weekend showed all the different
creative ways they used to try and activate the promotion. According to
reports, they still ended up having to pay RMB327 for a latte in a
giant metal bowl. The photos were also allegedly taken on April 17, a full five
days before Earth Day
DJ Snake bringing out Lauryn Hill
DJ Snake made the biggest splash at Ultra Music Festival by bringing out Future, and the Parisian DJ/producer made sure to rise to the Coachella occasion for his Saturday night set on the Outdoor Stage. Snake was not only joined by Migos to perform their viral Hot 100 chart-topper “Bad and Boujee,” he unveiled a surprise performance from Lauryn Hill. Hill performed both Fugees (“Ready or Not”) and solo (“Lost Ones”), but it was her chills-inducing rendition of “Killing Me Softly” that crowned the performance. Snake later took to social media to proclaim that his "dreams became reality" in that "legendary moment."
DJ Snake made the biggest splash at Ultra Music Festival by bringing out Future, and the Parisian DJ/producer made sure to rise to the Coachella occasion for his Saturday night set on the Outdoor Stage. Snake was not only joined by Migos to perform their viral Hot 100 chart-topper “Bad and Boujee,” he unveiled a surprise performance from Lauryn Hill. Hill performed both Fugees (“Ready or Not”) and solo (“Lost Ones”), but it was her chills-inducing rendition of “Killing Me Softly” that crowned the performance. Snake later took to social media to proclaim that his "dreams became reality" in that "legendary moment."
Lorde covering snippet of Kanye West's
"Runaway"
With her
sophomore studio effort Melodrama sure to be a summer staple when it drops in
June, Lorde has been firing off gems like "Green Light," plus
her latest Coachella premieres "Homemade Dynamite"
and the album's title track. But perhaps even better than her hazy performance
in Indio, Calif. was her side commentary. Before launching into another newbie
titled "Liability" (which she performed recently on NBC's Saturday Night Live),
the New Zealand singer-songwriter explained, "It's a song about, f--king,
just feeling like you're a pain, a tax on everyone at one point another
which I feel all the time." She noted how the song reminded her of the
lines from West's My
Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy cut
"Runaway," before singing "Let's have a toast for
the douchebags, let's have a toast for the assholes, let's have a toast
for the scumbags."
Marshmello drum battling
with Travis Barker
From Drake and Pharrell to Migos the
hip-hop world definitely provided the biggest and most thrilling surprise
guests of the weekend (even including The Weeknd). But that doesn't discredit
what the DJs on the bill brought for this year's Coachella: Gryffin bringing
out Daya, DJ Snake having Lauryn Hill, Dillon Francis with
G-Eazy. Marshmello added to the famous guests Sunday night (April 16)
by having Blink-182's Travis Barker take the drums during his set, eventually
challenging him to a drum battle which was easily one of the most unexpected
yet awesome parts of the weekend -- even though Barker handily prevailed.
Marshmello wasn't done there -- the masked artist also brought out
A$AP Ferg, Black Youngsta, YouTube star Lele Pons, who co-starred in the music video for "Summer," and guitarist Andrew
Watt to debut a new song.
Experiencing Lady Gaga's piano version of "Edge of Glory"
Until "A Million
Reasons," Lady Gaga's collection of
songs were much more club-worthy than tear-jerking. When she played "Edge
of Glory" at Coachella, though, she opted for a piano version that made both
her powerful vocals and the song's emotional lyrics really shine, and all you
could do was cry (well, at least that's what happened to me...). Her whole set
was a journey through all that is Gaga, from the dancing to the sequins to the
all-or-nothing performance, but her piano medley was the biggest reminder that
Gaga has one of the most dynamic voices in pop music today -- and there was
just something about hearing that voice sing a typically upbeat track with only
a piano behind it.
Kendrick Lamar channeling Kung Fu Kenny
The word
"dull" could never be associated with the always daring Kendrick
Lamar and his headlining set at Coachella, three days following the release of
his album DAMN., was
the antithesis of snooze fest. Not only was his set perhaps the most visually
stunning of the headlining acts (at one point, he performed in an illuminated
cage while he rapped in front of a fiery display at another), Lamar and his TDE
label delivered a martial arts film starring his alter ego, Kung Fu Kenny, that
ended on the appropriate note: a sample of Boris
Gardiner’s “Every N---er is a Star,” which appeared on K.Dot's
"Wesley's Theory" off To Pimp a Butterfly.
The Weeknd making a cameo
This week is my beautiful days. I have been trough a lot activities at campus. There are many events that i held recently and those were so fun. I learnt some new brand new information and those were precious. Honestly, I haven't written blog constantly recently because actually my feeling said that I was too lazy to typed some words here and sometimes I have no idea what kind of topic that I should put here. But tonight I pushed myself to finished this blog.
One architecture firm hopes to
create the longest building in the world by bending a skyscraper in half. The
Big Bend is a curved, 4,000 foot-long skyscraper planned on Manhattan’s
Billionaire’s Row. It’s the brainchild of Oiio Studio.
The Big Bend is a curved, 4,000
foot-long skyscraper planned on Manhattan’s Billionaire’s Row. It’s the
brainchild of Oiio Studio.
It’s no secret that there is a space
issue in Manhattan. Architects build up because there is no room to build out.
“If we manage to bend our structure
instead of bending the zoning rules of New York, we would be able to create one
of the most prestigious buildings in Manhattan,” reads the building proposal on
Oiio’s website.
The designer of the project, Ioannis
Oiaonomou, was inspired to create the U-shaped structure after learning that a
company created an elevator that not only moves vertically, but also
horizontally.
The Big Bend is just an idea – for
now.
Oiaonomou has sent the plans to a
few companies and is currently seeking investments.
