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The 2015 Edmonton Jewish Film Festival Kicks Into Gear: May 3-5 & 10-12
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by Daniel Larson
It's effectively spring in Edmonton. When tell-tale traces of snow can only found in deep ravines in the river valley, when the patios of Whyte Avenue and Jasper Avenue start to buzz, it means the city is on the cusp of an annual rebirth. This buzz extends to the Jewish community as well, with exciting programming such as the recent Festival Hatzafon and the upcoming 2015 edition of the annual Edmonton Jewish Film Festival! The fact that this initiative in support of Edmonton Partnership 2Gether (P2G) has flourished to the degree that it has, is a testament to the support for the EJFF that comes from not only the Jewish community, but from people of all stripes.
As North American Jewry, we are diverse in our origins, sense of affiliation and cultural or religious identification. This should come as no surprise, indeed this diversity has allowed for our broad Jewish cultural tapestry to enrich the lives of others in ways that speak to them. As communities seeking to engage with our members in meaningful terms, Jewish film festivals, with their broad array of programming options, have flourished. From Toronto to Memphis, Jerusalem to Minsk, and here in Edmonton, communities have identified the impactful power of Jewish film.
The 2015 Edmonton Jewish Film Festival, which will run in early May at the Landmark Cinemas 9 City Centre theatre, is the latest culmination of a project that has grown year-on-year with the fantastic turnout and enthusiasm that encourages us to seek new ways to engage Edmontonians with Jewish film. From May 3-5 & 10-12, as EJFF attendees flip through the festival program, they'll notice our fantastically loyal Jewish sponsors who generously support the festival, as well as an increasing number of advertiser-supporters from the broader community as well. This is a festival that is coming into its own, and people are taking notice. In this issue of the EJN you'll spot our poster, highlighting our fantastic slate of films, with a great mix of drama, comedy and documentary features. We are particularly excited to showcase the award-winning documentary film Above and Beyond, which chronicles the early Israeli Air Force in the 1948 War of Independence, with a focus on the foreign servicemen and servicewomen who came to aid the nascent State of Israel. As our opening night film, we are pleased to welcome Roberta Grossman, director of Above and Beyond for a special in-person Q&A after the screening. For more information about the EJFF, including write-ups and to purchase tickets, visit www.jewishedmonton.org/filmfest. Click here to watch the trailers for the films being screened May 3-5.
About Partnership 2Gether (P2G), the Edmonton Jewish Film Festival's beneficiary:
The Partnership2Gether peoplehood platform (previously known as Partnership 2000) connects some 500 communities around the world in 46 partnerships. P2G is building living bridges among these communities – sharing ideas, strengths, challenges, and models of success.
P2G has become the paradigm for successfully partnering global Jewish communities directly with Israeli communities—the majority of which are in national priority areas. Communities share ideas, strengths, challenges and models of success; and empower one another to generate waves of change. But the impact of these projects goes far beyond the community level—each of us has the opportunity to become directly and personally involved.
About our partnership region:
Located along the confrontation line on the Lebanese border, just steps away from heavy fighting during the 2006 war against Hezbollah, the Galilee Panhandle region knows what it's like to be under threat. At the same time, with a predominance of small communities and its location in the northernmost part of Israel, the Galilee Panhandle faces the great challenge of providing its 50,000 residents with social, educational and employment opportunities.
Communities in the Coast-to-Coast Israel Partnership include:
In Canada – Atlantic Canada, Calgary, Edmonton, Hamilton, Ottawa, Vancouver, and Winnipeg.
In Israel – Kiryat Shmona, Metulla, Yesod HaMa'ala, Upper Galilee, and Mevo'ot Hermon.
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Chemistry: not as easy as A + B -> C
Chemical reactions are usually written as equations, which makes them look really straightforward. But there's nothing inevitable about making A + B -> C.
By Bernie Hobbs
Without a catalyst or heat, most chemical reactions would never happen. (Source: isak55/iStockphoto)
Chemical reactions are the mainstay of life and just about everything else that goes on in this universe. They happen whenever atoms are rearranged to form different molecules, like when fuel burns in your car, or when you digest that weird greasy thing you had for breakfast.
And like all couplings, it takes more than just bringing the right atoms together to make chemistry happen. They've got to come together in a way that breaks some existing chemical bonds so new ones can form.
Chemistry is a contact sport, and turning "A" and "B" into "C" involves getting three things right.
1.	For starters, molecules of "A" and "B" (the reactants) have to bang into one another to get things cracking. So you need high enough concentrations of each to make that likely.
2.	The reactants also have to bang into each other with enough energy to stretch or break any bonds that need breaking. The amount of energy you need to break the necessary bond/bonds is called the activation energy. If the reactants are travelling slowly they probably won't hit with enough energy to strain the bonds, so they'll just bounce away.
3.	Even if "A" and "B" hit with enough energy, they have to be facing the right way to stretch and break the necessary bonds. Ramming into the wrong side of "B" will just see another bounce.
With all those pre-conditions it's a wonder that any chemical reactions happen at all. In fact most reactions need a kick along to get that critical bond broken so the molecular partner-swap can happen.
Heat is a classic kick-starter for reactions — it can both speed molecules up and break chemical bonds. When you light a fire, it's the heat from the match that lets oxygen and fuel burn instead of just sitting there. The heat energy breaks the molecular bonds in the fuel and oxygen, giving oxygen atoms access to the carbon and hydrogen atoms.
But heat is hard to control and it has a nasty habit of burning things. A far more common way to get reactants over the line energy-wise is with catalysts. Almost every reaction happening in living things and in industry right now needs a catalyst to get it going.
Catalysts: where chemistry meets wrestling
Catalysts come in two basic varieties — industrial catalysts are usually metal coatings, while enzymes (usually proteins) do the catalysing in living things. But whether they're expensive sounding metals like platinum, or made-up sounding enzymes, like phosphofructokinase, they all work by doing the same thing: pulling or twisting molecules so their reaction-critical bond is easier to break.
With the bonds under strain like that, lower energy collisions can break them — so reactions can happen at room temperature. Or, in our case, body temperature. A far more comfortable option than lighting a match to get things cracking.
The most familiar industrial catalyst is probably the one under your car.
Catalytic converters: catalysts 101
If you're driving a fossil fuel-burning car (quaint!), you'll have a catalytic converter in your exhaust. Its job is to convert toxic carbon monoxide (CO) into less toxic carbon dioxide (CO2). That reaction involves oxygen (O2) and — usually — a lot of heat.
But the catalytic converter lets this reaction happen with much less energy (lower temperature), thanks to a metal coating made of platinum or palladium. These metals make great catalysts because they're attractive, but not too attractive. So the reactants (O2 and CO) stick to the metal surface, but the product (CO2) doesn't.
Like all partner swapping arrangements, there's a bit more to it than that. The metal atoms are so attractive to oxygen that when an oxygen molecule binds to the surface its bond gets torn apart. But as attractive as platinum is, it's no match for carbon monoxide. The single oxygen atoms bind to the nearest carbon monoxide, and the resulting CO2 just isn't that into precious metals. With those gases gone, the surface is free to wreak havoc on another pair of passing gas molecules.
The part of a catalyst that reactants bind to is called the active site. In a catalytic converter, the metal surface is the active site. But in the huge enzyme molecules that catalyse reactions in living things, the active site is a nook or cranny that's got the right combination of shape and charge to grab hold of reactants and force them to react, then let go of the result.
Enzymes and substrates: catalysts 102
Enzymes are big lumpy molecules, usually proteins. Like platinum, they make good catalysts because their active sites are attractive, although not too attractive.
But enzymes have got way more going for them than above-average looks.
Attractiveness at the molecular level is mostly about charge and fit. The enzyme's active site will have the right balance of charge and shape to attract a reactant molecule. The attraction pulls on the reactant in a way that strains bonds in it, and also holds it at the right angle, so the strained bond in A is exposed to the other reactant, B.
So that's steps 2 and 3 of the chemical reaction checklist taken care of.
But the enzyme's action doesn't stop there — binding the reactant changes the shape of the enzyme slightly, so it can actually bring the reactants close together with their vulnerable bits facing out. And that means the reactants don't need to bang together at high speed, so low temperature is fine.
The new molecule formed (the product) will always have a different shape or charge from the reactants, so it is not a good fit for the active site and the enzyme spits it out. Empty again, the enzyme goes back to its regular shape and is ready to hook up with the next passing reactant. (Here's a nice simple clip of enzyme/reactant action )
Chemistry. It's got all the energy and manipulation of high drama, plus styrofoam models!
Thanks to Associate Professor Terry Walsh, Head of School of Biomedical Sciences at QUT.
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 Cilly (Film), US-amerikanischer Musicalfilm (1929)
 Cilly (Aisne), französische Gemeinde in der Region Hauts-de-France
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Sprężyki (Elateroidea) – nadrodzina chrząszczy z podrzędu wielożernych i serii sprężykokształtnych.

Grupa zróżnicowana. U Cerophytidae, goleńczykowatych, podrywkowatych i sprężykowatych wyrostek przedpiersia i bruzda na śródpiersiu tworzą mechanizm sprężynujący, umożliwiający podskakiwanie po przewróceniu na grzbiet. Pojawił się on niezależnie przynajmniej dwa razy. Larwy większości gatunków żywią się martwym drewnem, pozostałych korzeniami lub są drapieżne. Rodziny kantaroidalne, jak omomiłkowate, karmazynkowate i świetlikowate, cechują miękkie ciała, narządy gębowe przystosowane do pokarmu płynnego, a te aktywne w dzień zwykle także ubarwienie ostrzegawcze. W wielu grupach pojawiła się niezależnie neotenia u samic, np. u Omalisidae, Phengodidae, Rhagophthalmidae, świetlikowatych oraz plemion Cebrionini i Drilini ze sprężykowatych. W rodzinach świetlikowatych, Phengodidae, Rhagophthalmidae i sprężykowatych znana jest zdolność do bioluminescencji.

Systematyka i filogeneza
Należą tu ponad 24 tysiące opisanych gatunków. Początkowo klasyfikowane były one w trzech nadrodzinach: Artematopoidea, Cantharoidea i Elateroidea s.str.. O możliwej konieczności połączenia ich w jedną nadrodzinę wspominał już Crowson w 1955 roku, a dokonali tego w 1995 Lawrence i Newton. Monofiletyzm tak definiowanych Elateroidea potwierdzony został m.in. analizami molekularnymi Bocakovej i innych z 2007 oraz Kundraty i Bocáka z 2011 oraz morfologiczną Lawrence'a i innych z 2011 (z wyłączeniem Rhinothipidae). W analizie Lawrence'a Elateroidea jawiły się jako grupa siostrzana Psephenoidea, natomiast w analizie Kundraty i Bocáka oraz Kundraty i innych z 2014 jako siostrzane dla Byrrhoidea.

W obrębie sprężyków pozycję bazalną zajmują Artematopodidae lub klad obejmujący Artematopodidae, Telegeusidae i Omethidae. Badania molekularne wskazują, że rodziny Eucnemidae, Cerophytidae i Throscidae, które dawniej uważane były za pokrewne sprężykowatym, są z nimi dalej spokrewnione niż np. omomiłkowate. Rodziny Lycidae, Lampyridae, Cantharidae, Omalisidae, Rhagophthalmidae, Phengodidae i Elateridae tworzą klad określany jako "wyższe sprężyki", w którym pierwsza z wymienionych zajmuje według analizy Kundraty i innych pozycję bazalną.

W systemie Boucharda i innych z 2011 do sprężyków zaliczono 19 rodzin:

 Rhinorhipidae Lawrence, 1988
 Artematopodidae Lacordaire, 1857
 Brachypsectridae LeConte et Horn, 1883
 Cerophytidae Latreille, 1834
 Eucnemidae Eschscholtz, 1829 – goleńczykowate
 Throscidae Laporte, 1840 – podrywkowate
 †Praelateriidae Dolin, 1973
 Elateridae Leach, 1815 – sprężykowate
 Plastoceridae Crowson, 1972
 Drilidae Blanchard, 1845 – ślimacznikowate
 Omalisidae Lacordaire, 1857 – rozgniotkowate
 †Berendtimiridae Winkler, 1987
 Lycidae Laporte, 1836 – karmazynkowate
 Telegeusidae Leng, 1920
 Phengodidae LeConte, 1861
 Rhagophthalmidae Olivier, 1907
 Lampyridae Rafinesque, 1815 – świetlikowate
 Omethidae LeConte, 1861
 Cantharidae Imhoff, 1856 (1815) – omomiłkowate

Badania molekularne wskazują jednak, że ślimacznikowate należy klasyfikować w obrębie sprężykowatych (zaliczone jako plemię do Agrypinae), a Telegeusidae w obrębie Omethidae.

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Święta Barbara () – obraz Jana van Eycka. Stanowi jeden z cenniejszych zachowanych przykładów rysunku doby średniowiecza ilustrujący realistycznie budowę gotyckiej budowli sakralnej. Wykonany w 1437 r. Znajduje się w zbiorach Królewskiego Muzeum Sztuk Pięknych (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten) w Antwerpii.

Wygląd
Jest to obraz wykonany na desce dębowej o wymiarach 31 × 18 cm. Częściowo wykonany w technice grisaille, co widoczne jest we fragmentach tła. Niemal w całości, nienaruszony zachował się rysunek.

Obraz charakteryzuje się dwoma tematami. Ukazuje on świętą Barbara z Nikomedii – dziewicę i męczennicę z IV wieku, a ponadto epizody z budowy wieży, tworzącej dopełnienie wizerunku. Święta Barbara została przedstawiona przez artystę jako młoda niewiasta o długich włosach, delikatnych rysach twarzy, w pozie siedzącej, w momencie przeglądania grubej ilustrowanej księgi (być może Godzinki). W lewej ręce dzierży palmę – atrybut męczeństwa. Ubrana jest w bardzo długą suknię, odznaczającą się szerokimi rękawami i obszerną dolną partią w której artysta mocno wyeksponował łamane fałdy.

Na drugim planie na osi została przedstawiona budowa gotyckiej wieży, będącej atrybutem świętej. Scenę tę tworzą liczni kamieniarze ukazani w momencie swoich robót. U stóp wieży po prawej stronie widoczna jest prowizoryczna szopa, gdzie pracuje kolejna grupa budowniczych. Pośród pracujących można dostrzec delegację dworu (po lewej stronie obrazu), zdążająca na koniach w stronę placu budowy, czy też grupa niewiast w długich trenach (za plecami świętej).
W głębi widać rzekę oraz krajobraz z licznymi pagórkami i drzewami. Po lewej stronie można dostrzec obwarowane miasto.

Analiza
Święta Barbara była kobietą o niezwykłej urodzie i inteligencji, jej ojciec Dioskurus, gorliwy poganin, zapragnął córkę chronić przed wpływami zepsutej młodzieży, chronić jej cnotę, a także ustrzec przed wpływami chrześcijaństwa. Z tego też powodu wybudował warowną wieżę z dwoma oknami, w której zamknął Barbarę. Przychodzili do niej różni nauczyciele, przekazując swoją wiedzę. Wśród nich był chrześcijanin, który zapoznał swoją uczennicę z nową religią. Barbara uwierzyła Chrystusowi, przyjęła w tajemnicy przed rodzicami z rąk swego nauczyciela chrzest. Postanowiła żyć w dozgonnej czystości dla Jezusa Chrystusa. Dla uczczenia Świętej Trójcy poleciła wybić w wieży trzecie okno.

Jan van Eyck wybrał własną wersję zilustrowania tego atrybutu, choć trzy okna wskazują na dostosowanie się do treści legendy o świętej. Twórca przekształca legendarną wieżę w gotycką świątynię w trakcie budowy, która właśnie trwa "pełną parą". Uwagę zwraca realizm oddania postępujących prac budowlanych, szczególnie na zwieńczeniu wieży, gdzie oprócz budowniczych odkuwających maswerki balustrady widoczny jest dźwig wykonujący swoją funkcję.
Wieża na tym obrazie jest także ilustrowanym "glosariuszem", dzięki któremu można poznać najbardziej charakterystyczne cechy architektury i budownictwa ówczesnych czasów. W jej wyglądzie w sposób bardzo wysublimowany zdefiniował i wyszczególnił najbardziej charakterystyczne elementy architektury gotyckich katedr.

Obraz ten jest świadomym szkicem artysty, kolejnym studium architektury gotyckiej, które da się zaobserwować we wcześniejszych dziełach np. Madonna w kościele znajdującej się w zbiorach berlińskich. Plamy kolorów są owocem późniejszych zamiarów pomalowania kompozycji, na szczęście dla cennego rysunku autor zaniechał pomalowania obrazu. Jan van Eyck zatem celowo wykonał rysunek i potraktował go jako dzieło skończone.

Zobacz też
 Plan F

Bibliografia
 Jolanta Maurin Białostocka: Van Eyck, Warszawa 1957
 Max Jakob Friedländer: Early Netherlandish Painting:(t. 1) The Van Eycks & Petrus Christus, Leyden 1967
 Erwin Panofsky: Early Netherlandish Painting. Its Origins and Character. Cambridge, 1953
 János Végh: Van Eyck Budapeszt-Berlin-Warszawa 1983

Linki zewnętrzne
 Web Gallery of Art

Obrazy Jana van Eycka
Święta Barbara na obrazach
Obrazy w Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts w Brukseli


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2014 Coffee Fest National Winners and The Making of "America's Best Espresso"
Nick Brown | October 31, 2014
Kenny Smith (center) and Blake Nail (center left) of Sunergos Coffee, winners of the America's Best Espresso championship.
Coffee Fest held its final show of the year this month in Portland, including the national competitions for its three flagship events: America's Best Coffeehouse (barista-focused), America's Best Espresso (roaster-focused) and the Latte Art World Championship open (self-explanatory).
Roast Magazine was proud to be among the sponsors of this year's America's Best Espresso competition, a head-to-head bracket-style elimination tournament in which Sunergos Coffee of Louisville, Ky. took top honors, followed by Resilient Coffee Roasters of Richland, Wash., and Goshen Coffee of Edwardsville, Ill. Palace Coffee Co. of Canyon, Tex., took top spot in the America's Best Coffeehouse National Championship, among an impressive field of established shops including New York's Cafe Grumpy (2nd place) and L.A.'s Klatch Coffee (3rd place). Japanese competitors swept the podium at the Latte Art World Championship, with Yusuke Ota edging out Kenta Tamura (2nd) and Daisuke Tanaka (3rd).
America's Best Espresso
Sunergos came to Portland after taking the top spot at Coffee Fest Chicago in 2013, which served as a regional competition platform for the national finals. Given the bucket-loads of fantastic shots pulled daily throughout the United States and Canada, we reached out to Sunergos Co-Founder Matthew Huested to find out what all went into making the one deemed "best," as pulled for judges by Sunergos Wholesale Director Kenny Smith.
"I don't know what other people's processes are going into these competitions," says Huested, who views the entire competition experience foremost as a platform for craftsmanship, collegiality and coffee discovery. "I'd love to know what kind of effort others are putting into this, and how it compares to ours."
Theirs is intensive. First, as Donald Rumsfeld might put it, there are known knowns that Sunergos brought to the competition (the coffee; the skill of the shot puller; the grinders), and known unknowns that awaited them in Portland (the water supply; the Black Eagle espresso machine supplied by Nuova Simonelli; the skills of the other competitors).
Kenny Smith dialing it in.
The first known, the coffee, begins with coffee selection based on the judging criteria — in this case, the three primary criteria were flavor complexity, mouthfeel and appeal, and aftertaste. The Sunergos team made an early decision to reach out only to suppliers they know and trust. "Our approach with this competition was a little different; We wanted to base everything on long-standing relationships," Huested says. "We trust them, for one, but they're also a huge part of the work we do already."
Sunergos then collected numerous coffees and began roasting and cupping, sampling each coffee with different roast profiles and at various times removed from the roast, at the cupping table and in shot form with various extraction parameters. "Eventually, we narrow it down to one coffee that we're pretty much sure we're going to take, then we start the whole process over again with different roast profiles and different extraction profiles," Huested says.
For their winning coffee, Sunergos settled on a "zero defect" washed Ethiopia Yirgacheffe supplied by their longtime partner Samuel Demiss at Keffa Coffee, who emigrated from Ethiopia to the United States in 2004 and maintains direct relationships with the farms around which he grew up. "Zero Defect" is a term Keffa uses to describe its coffees that have been triple-sorted manually, says Huested.
In roasting and cupping the coffee countless times, inviting friends and colleagues from the Louisville coffee community to share their thoughts, and arguing the merits of a particular roast or extraction, consensus can be hard to come by. "We narrow down, narrow down, narrow down," he says. "Even then, there are some different opinions among us. Kenny Smith, he was rock solid and certain about this coffee; but he was not 100 percent certain about this roast profile. I was not certain about either. However, the beauty of that is none of us are alone in this. We have a team of people making this decision."
As it turns out, the decision was correct.
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Tags: Cafe Grumpy, Coffee Fest, Coffee Fest 2014, Goshen Coffee, Kenny Smith, Klatch Coffee, Matthew Huested, Nuova Simonelli, Nuova Simonelli Black Eagle, Palace Coffee, Resilient Coffee Roasters, Roast Magazine, Sunergos Coffee
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Totally agree and was a real pleasure to be a judge of the competition in Portland.


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Ellen Shipman turned to landscape architecture after a failed marriage in 1910 left her the responsibility of raising three young children. Her personal gardens were admired by Charles Platt, who offered Shipman informal training in design and construction. By early 1920, she moved her office to New York City and continued to practice until 1940, completing nearly 600 gardens. Shipman hired only women, preferring graduates from the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture. In 1933 she was named "Dean of Women Landscape Architects" due to her contributions to design and her relentless support of female designers.
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Hey, fam. On 4/20, I will be in a group show brought to this wonderful world by the LA Street Art Gallery and street artist, sel10ut. If you'd like to come out for a dope night of curated street art works, you can RSVP here!
In celebration of Guactober, I dressed up one of my avocados as Cher from Clueless, and put her to spray on Melrose. You can find her across from the Melrose Trading Post on the corner of Melrose & Ogden in the Fame Yard next to SportieLA!
Today I participated in an art benefit for Marley's Mutts at the Dog Bakery in Venice, California, with Wikid Canvas & Arix Art. For anyone who donated, the three of us made custom dog bandanas for their special puppers! As artists, Venice has given a lot to all three of us... This is the beginning of that heartfelt 'thank you'.
For anyone interested in parenting any of the (adoptable!) dogs seen in this beautiful video made by Wikid Canvas, head over to Marley's Mutts' website to learn more!
Hi, friends. My new mural, "Dip It Low, Chip It Up Slow", inspired by Christina Milian's fresh song Dip It Low is up for your viewing pleasure over at With Love Market & Cafe. Here's some progress shots of that piece in various stages!
Yesterday, my story was included as a feature in a series by Voyage LA Magazine titled "LA's Most Inspiring Stories". You can find my article cataloged with stories from DTLA, where I represent my cute and precious hood of Atwater Village.
Thank you so much to Sid, and the rest of the team at Voyage LA for this beautiful feature. You are all part of the beautiful, creative momentum keeping this city as vibrant and motivating as I love it be.
Link to the article may be found here. Check it out!
From November 11th, 2017, through January 12, 2018, my art was on display at Its Raw Poke Shop in Ocean Beach, San Diego. These are some photos from opening and closing night!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart to all of the amazing people who came out to meet me, buy some art, chat, take pictures, and help me nearly sell out my first solo show. You are all part of my momentum forever.
On November 11th, 2017, I had my first Solo Show in San Diego. This is a review of my artwork by Travis who attended opening night of my show. If you've ever wondered what motivates me to be an artist, this is the answer to that question.


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/*
 * Structure of a 10Mb/s Ethernet header.
 */
struct	ether_header {
	u_char	ether_dhost[6];
	u_char	ether_shost[6];
	u_short	ether_type;
};

#define	ETHERTYPE_PUP		0x0200	/* PUP protocol */
#define	ETHERTYPE_IP		0x0800	/* IP protocol */
#define ETHERTYPE_ARP		0x0806	/* Addr. resolution protocol */
#define ETHERTYPE_REVARP	0x8035	/* reverse Addr. resolution protocol */

/*
 * The ETHERTYPE_NTRAILER packet types starting at ETHERTYPE_TRAIL have
 * (type-ETHERTYPE_TRAIL)*512 bytes of data followed
 * by an ETHER type (as given above) and then the (variable-length) header.
 */
#define	ETHERTYPE_TRAIL		0x1000		/* Trailer packet */
#define	ETHERTYPE_NTRAILER	16

#define	ETHERMTU	1500
#define	ETHERMIN	(60-14)

#ifdef KERNEL
/*
 * Macro to map an IP multicast address to an Ethernet multicast address.
 * The high-order 25 bits of the Ethernet address are statically assigned,
 * and the low-order 23 bits are taken from the low end of the IP address.
 */
#define ETHER_MAP_IP_MULTICAST(ipaddr, enaddr) \
	/* struct in_addr *ipaddr; */ \
	/* u_char enaddr[6];	   */ \
{ \
	(enaddr)[0] = 0x01; \
	(enaddr)[1] = 0x00; \
	(enaddr)[2] = 0x5e; \
	(enaddr)[3] = ((u_char *)ipaddr)[1] & 0x7f; \
	(enaddr)[4] = ((u_char *)ipaddr)[2]; \
	(enaddr)[5] = ((u_char *)ipaddr)[3]; \
}
#endif

/*
 * Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol.
 *
 * See RFC 826 for protocol description.  Structure below is adapted
 * to resolving internet addresses.  Field names used correspond to
 * RFC 826.
 */
struct	ether_arp {
	struct	arphdr ea_hdr;	/* fixed-size header */
	u_char	arp_sha[6];	/* sender hardware address */
	u_char	arp_spa[4];	/* sender protocol address */
	u_char	arp_tha[6];	/* target hardware address */
	u_char	arp_tpa[4];	/* target protocol address */
};
#define	arp_hrd	ea_hdr.ar_hrd
#define	arp_pro	ea_hdr.ar_pro
#define	arp_hln	ea_hdr.ar_hln
#define	arp_pln	ea_hdr.ar_pln
#define	arp_op	ea_hdr.ar_op

/*
 * Structure shared between the ethernet driver modules and
 * the address resolution code.  For example, each ec_softc or il_softc
 * begins with this structure.
 */
struct	arpcom {
	struct 	ifnet ac_if;		/* network-visible interface */
	u_char	ac_enaddr[6];		/* ethernet hardware address */
	struct	in_addr ac_ipaddr;	/* copy of ip address- XXX */
	struct	ether_multi *ac_multiaddrs; /* list of ether multicast addrs */
	int	ac_multicnt;		/* length of ac_multiaddrs list */
};

struct llinfo_arp {
	struct	llinfo_arp *la_next;
	struct	llinfo_arp *la_prev;
	struct	rtentry *la_rt;
	struct	mbuf *la_hold;		/* last packet until resolved/timeout */
	long	la_asked;		/* last time we QUERIED for this addr */
#define la_timer la_rt->rt_rmx.rmx_expire /* deletion time in seconds */
};

struct sockaddr_inarp {
	u_char	sin_len;
	u_char	sin_family;
	u_short sin_port;
	struct	in_addr sin_addr;
	struct	in_addr sin_srcaddr;
	u_short	sin_tos;
	u_short	sin_other;
#define SIN_PROXY 1
};
/*
 * IP and ethernet specific routing flags
 */
#define	RTF_USETRAILERS	RTF_PROTO1	/* use trailers */
#define RTF_ANNOUNCE	RTF_PROTO2	/* announce new arp entry */

#ifdef	KERNEL
u_char	etherbroadcastaddr[6];
u_char	ether_ipmulticast_min[6];
u_char	ether_ipmulticast_max[6];
struct	ifqueue arpintrq;

struct	llinfo_arp *arptnew __P((struct in_addr *));
struct	llinfo_arp llinfo_arp;		/* head of the llinfo queue */

void	arpwhohas __P((struct arpcom *, struct in_addr *));
void	arpintr __P((void));
int	arpresolve __P((struct arpcom *,
	   struct rtentry *, struct mbuf *, struct sockaddr *, u_char *));
void	arp_rtrequest __P((int, struct rtentry *, struct sockaddr *));
void	arpwhohas __P((struct arpcom *, struct in_addr *));

int	ether_addmulti __P((struct ifreq *, struct arpcom *));
int	ether_delmulti __P((struct ifreq *, struct arpcom *));

/*
 * Ethernet multicast address structure.  There is one of these for each
 * multicast address or range of multicast addresses that we are supposed
 * to listen to on a particular interface.  They are kept in a linked list,
 * rooted in the interface's arpcom structure.  (This really has nothing to
 * do with ARP, or with the Internet address family, but this appears to be
 * the minimally-disrupting place to put it.)
 */
struct ether_multi {
	u_char	enm_addrlo[6];		/* low  or only address of range */
	u_char	enm_addrhi[6];		/* high or only address of range */
	struct	arpcom *enm_ac;		/* back pointer to arpcom */
	u_int	enm_refcount;		/* no. claims to this addr/range */
	struct	ether_multi *enm_next;	/* ptr to next ether_multi */
};

/*
 * Structure used by macros below to remember position when stepping through
 * all of the ether_multi records.
 */
struct ether_multistep {
	struct ether_multi  *e_enm;
};

/*
 * Macro for looking up the ether_multi record for a given range of Ethernet
 * multicast addresses connected to a given arpcom structure.  If no matching
 * record is found, "enm" returns NULL.
 */
#define ETHER_LOOKUP_MULTI(addrlo, addrhi, ac, enm) \
	/* u_char addrlo[6]; */ \
	/* u_char addrhi[6]; */ \
	/* struct arpcom *ac; */ \
	/* struct ether_multi *enm; */ \
{ \
	for ((enm) = (ac)->ac_multiaddrs; \
	    (enm) != NULL && \
	    (bcmp((enm)->enm_addrlo, (addrlo), 6) != 0 || \
	     bcmp((enm)->enm_addrhi, (addrhi), 6) != 0); \
		(enm) = (enm)->enm_next); \
}

/*
 * Macro to step through all of the ether_multi records, one at a time.
 * The current position is remembered in "step", which the caller must
 * provide.  ETHER_FIRST_MULTI(), below, must be called to initialize "step"
 * and get the first record.  Both macros return a NULL "enm" when there
 * are no remaining records.
 */
#define ETHER_NEXT_MULTI(step, enm) \
	/* struct ether_multistep step; */  \
	/* struct ether_multi *enm; */  \
{ \
	if (((enm) = (step).e_enm) != NULL) \
		(step).e_enm = (enm)->enm_next; \
}

#define ETHER_FIRST_MULTI(step, ac, enm) \
	/* struct ether_multistep step; */ \
	/* struct arpcom *ac; */ \
	/* struct ether_multi *enm; */ \
{ \
	(step).e_enm = (ac)->ac_multiaddrs; \
	ETHER_NEXT_MULTI((step), (enm)); \
}

#endif

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They are also called Pakhwaji, because of they play the timbrel. The word Mirasi comes from the Arabic word "miras" which means inheritance. Many sub groups exist among them.
Mirasi people are a caste living in the northern parts of India. Some have migrated to nearby states. Mirasis in Uttar Pradesh live in regions such as Meerut. They live in most parts of Punjab state.
Mirasi people entertain at fairs and sing at weddings. Many are laborers, and farming tenants, and also sell vegetables. The well-educated work in government, serve in the military and do research for genealogies.
They have a caste council to judge in disputes and make sure that the people behave as they should. Mirasi people do not marry outside their group. They speak Magadhi, Urdu, Rajasthani, Punjabi, and Hindi.
Mirasi people consist of Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs. The Muslims among them believe the basic tenets of Islam, but their Islam is tainted with Hindu beliefs.
One can only imagine the spiritual confusion involved with three major religions within their families and communities.
Bible resources exist in Urdu and Hindi, but Mirasi people remain an unreached people group.
* Pray that Mirasi Muslim people will be liberated by God's Holy Spirit from the many ties that bind them to lives devoid of Christ's blessings.
* Pray that Mirasi Muslims will see past their respective traditional worship to the futility of it all and experience a growing desire to know and follow the one true God.
* Pray for the Lord to multiply the reception and influence of His Word among Mirasi Muslims, leading them to love Him with their whole being.
* Pray for the Holy Spirit to anoint Mirasi Muslim families, especially the children and youth, and to raise up a new generation of fruitful, multiplying witnesses of Christ's mercy and love.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mirasiView Mirasi (Muslim traditions) in all countries.


Why did Bitcoin Jump $1K on April 12?
Over the last 24 hours, Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency, saw an unprecedented price surge of more than $1,000.
On Thursday morning New York time, Bitcoin started trading in the range of around $6,780, which was to remain the lowest level of that day. The price hit the intraday high of $8,011 on the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange before cooling off partially, and continued to trade above $8,000 in the early hours of April 13.
Against a daily average global trade volume worth $4 billion USD, Thursday's worldwide BTC trade volumes clocked $8.1 billion during the bull run. Traders continue to closely watch the crucial level of $7,500 – if that level is held, then Bitcoin is expected to surge further. Other technical indicators suggest that bitcoin may face resistance around two crucial levels of $7,600 and then at $8,150. On the downside, the cryptocurrency is expected to maintain support at levels of $7,500 and then at $7,100.
Other cryptocurrencies gained in similar magnitudes. Ethereum was up more than 10 percent, Ripple gained around 12 percent, EOS surged 22 percent, and others like Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Stellar and IOTA too surged in the range of 8 percent to 16 percent.
Some market participants believe that Thursday's sudden upward price move "could be an unwinding of that (tax-related) pressure," and the spike had a compounding effect as it "forced traders who had bet against the cryptocurrency to buy back into the market," reports CNBC.
IRS considers cryptocurrencies as property, making these transactions taxable. Tom Lee, the head of research at Fundstrat Global Advisors, predicts that U.S. households possibly owe around $25 billion in capital gains taxes for their cryptocurrency holdings.
As the U.S. tax deadline of April 17, which often accounts for tax-related selling, comes closer, the tax pressure is expected to lighten, which may lead to increased buying. Market participants see Thursday's upward move as a step in that direction. While regulatory uncertainty about cryptocurrency trading across the globe is expected to continue, as the April 17 deadline passes, market participants expect a continued recovery in bitcoin valuations.
Along with the short term punters, long term investors remain firm about the continued development of the new-age bitcoin infrastructure, which remains on the fast track with increasing adaptability of the cryptocurrency across the globe.
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There's a lot of talk about how well the WSOP is doing, in general, this year. The new space is, well, spacious. The venue is nicer than the Rio ever was, and there are lots of things to like about the move to Bally's/Paris. But while people are praising the series as a whole, they all seem to have a complaint about something as well.
The 2022 WSOP is in full swing at its new home on the Strip. While players are generally pleased, the series hasn't been without problems or complaints. (Image: Chris Wallace/CardsChat)
And I wouldn't be a proper mixed-game player if I didn't have some complaints of my own. We're known for that sort of thing. The things I've noticed are fairly minor, but there are some things you should be aware of if you haven't been to the new WSOP yet.
The crowds aren't gone, and neither are the lines
While there are more cashiers, there still aren't enough to handle the big rushes of players in events like The Housewarming event this weekend. Players waited in lines longer than they should be to register, but which were still nowhere near as bad as the last few years at the Rio. At least not yet. Lines could still get out of hand in some events. Sunday should be one of the largest fields of the entire series, so we'll know more after we see how that goes.
Those crowds don't seem to be a problem for the restaurants or the halls, or even the restrooms, but they have overwhelmed the valet system where I waited for 15 minutes to get my vehicle. I'll be parking in the media spots in the garage on weekends from now on. Players were expecting parking to be an issue, but so far, it's been fine in the garages.
Cash games aren't running smoothly
With no chip runners — and requiring every player to buy chips, as well as cash them out — at a cashier window, the number of lines have grown along with the number of cash games. It's not just frustrating to wait in line for five minutes to get chips and again to cash them out: it hurts the games.
When a player is called on the list for a game, they can't just walk up to the table. They have to go get their seat card from one place, sometimes waiting in line for a minute or two behind people who are trying to get on a list, before getting in line again to get their chips.
So, the process of filling a seat after a player leaves involves a seat card being set out and then picked up by the floor. Then, the floor goes to the lists and calls the player. The player shows up, gets the seat card and goes to get their chips, and finds their table.
If this sounds like a long process, it can be. We never saw a seat filled by a new player in less than five minutes. Five minutes doesn't seem so long until three players leave, and then another leaves, while we're waiting for the seats to be filled and, suddenly, an eight-handed game is four-handed with one person walking. This left us playing three-handed with 20 people on the list for our game, though it didn't last long.
A few chip runners wouldn't be a big expense, and I'm not sure why the WSOP wouldn't hire them. It surely costs them more money in lost rake than it saves them in low-wage hourly workers who make most of their money from tips.
Even opening up every cashier window would certainly alleviate some of this problem. Seeing a long line, and only half the windows open, isn't only slowing down the games, it's frustrating the players, some of whom have no idea how hard it is to run such a big event. Those people just see raw incompetence and a general disinterest in players, rather than a logistical issue, which is yet another reason to solve it.
A bit loud
My personal complaint is the loudspeakers in the cash game area. The good news is that you won't miss it when your name is called. The bad news is that those speakers will bore into your brain and turn it into mush if you are anywhere near them. I've seen Slayer in concert twice, and they would be jealous of these loudspeakers.
When they called me for my mixed game, my mom heard my name and phoned from Michigan to wish me luck. The United Nations showed up and charged two of the floor guys with war crimes. At one point, the speakers made a high-pitched whistling noise and 12 dogs, two cats, and a coyote showed up. What I mean to say is, they were very loud.
Single-table tournament registration still a drag
The buy-ins for single table tournaments are now in the same room in which they're played — right across the aisle, in fact, but there were long lines just to get a ticket to play one. I know I talked about this in the first installment of this blog, but it still baffles me. They could be running twice as many single-table tournaments — and generating twice as much profit from them — if they just dealt with these buy-ins differently.
I'm a mixed-game grump
My other complaint is that the mixed games are run in an absurd way. Our mixed game was a must move to a game with a different mix. The other game wasn't a kill game, but ours was. And, another mixed game of the same size wasn't a game we were moved into, though it was a kill game. And we had a player table change into our must-move game, something I've never seen happen before.
When it came time for us to start moving to the main game, no one wanted to go. The first player chose to leave, then the second player chose to leave. My name was next and I chose to leave as well, not to make a point, but because I didn't want to play all the draw games the other table had chosen when we had chosen our own games that I liked quite well. I don't know if that broke the game; probably not, but it certainly sent some players home who were happy sitting there paying rake.
And, the games are chosen early in the day and can't be changed without unanimous consent. So, the draw games that eight people with a combined age of 760 years choose in the morning are part of the main game all day and all night.
Anyway, I left the game up $350 and the 20-minute wait for the valet was long enough that my ears stopped ringing, so I guess I can't complain. I wouldn't anyway, I'm not much of a complainer….
Someone lost their backer
Just outside the door of Bally's, I overheard a loud telephone conversation that one can only expect to hear at the WSOP.
"You can't drop me now, I just got out of makeup. You mother#@$&@!! I just got even! This is bullshit!"
My fantasy team is cruising along
I played the ODB Fantasy League this year, which is a $500 buy-in version of the $25K Fantasy League, and which is tracked on the same site. It's fun, and I think I got some real bargains on the cheaper players I drafted. Without much knowledge of the schedule that some of these players were going to play this summer, I just went with great players for the more expensive picks.
And I even had a dollar left over. So frugal!
The key is mostly to find players who are going to play the high roller and $10K events with smaller fields, and who have the skill to make final tables. There's just no telling who will do well from year to year in the huge fields of the smaller buy-in events, but the big ones are more predictable.
With his schedule and his long history of good results, I thought Phil Hellmuth was just as good as Negreanu or Deeb, and he was $20 cheaper. With only $200 to spend, that $20 is the difference between taking a flier on a cheap player and getting John Monette, one of the actual best players on the planet.
Some of this comes from my own experiences with the players. Having played with Monette, Friedman, and Chidwick, I thought they were all a steal at these prices. Ball, Koon, Imsirovic, and Soverel are all really good no-limit players who are likely to play a lot of big buy-in events. Monette, Koon, and Chidwick are often brought up when "who is the best in the world" conversations come up around specific disciplines.
Michael Addamo as my bonus player felt like a steal too. I don't know if he'll play many events, but he's an absolute crusher when he plays, and he could end up being the bargain of the bunch if he decides to play a full schedule.
My team has 80 points right now. Imsirovic might not be popular right now, with cheating accusations swirling around his name, but I know he's really good and will play a bunch of big stuff. And, he came through in the 100K bounty to bring in 70 points. Then Monette got me a point in the Dealer's Choice event, and Adam Friedman, who's amazing in Dealer's Choice tournaments, took fourth for 9 points.
That 80 points would have me in fourth place out of 14 teams if this were the 25K Fantasy League, and Hellmuth hasn't even entered the building yet. Reporting isn't up yet for the ODB league, but there will be a lot more than 14 teams, and I'll need some big scores to win it.
If you want to follow along once the tracking is up on the 25kfantasy.com league, my team name is Awesome Cobras. That should put some fear into the other teams and give me a nice advantage. I also considered The Murder Hornets and The Grumpy Wolverines, but I already had an Awesome Cobras t-shirt, so it was the easy choice.
It's warmer at Bally's…
I've been pleased the first few days of the series to find that I don't need a hoodie at all. I'm a big guy who lived in Minnesota for 20 years, so I'm pretty hardened to the cold so, while you may still need a hoodie, so far I have not. The temperature has been perfect.
*Narrator voice with lots of dark reverb chimes in out of nowhere…
"But this perfect temperature had a dark side. An evil that no man could have expected, one that even the best of us can not defeat. The hideous repercussions of a warm poker room would strain his very sanity by…"
Okay stop, you're being dramatic. Yes, I'm aware that's what a narrator with a ton of reverb is supposed to do, but that was ridiculous. Anyway, the downside is that as I walked through the tournament area taking photos, I caught a powerful whiff of what I can only describe as "unwashed grinder" at least 10 times.
I hadn't considered that keeping the room cold also kept the stench down to a reasonable level on players who were too busy rebuying to take a shower. We may all soon regret our complaints about the cold temperatures at the Rio.
I wasn't the only one who noticed…
A minor mistweet
Kathy Liebert stopped me to point out that a tweet from the @WSOP Twitter account had misled her on the return time from dinner break by 13 minutes, and she had been late getting back from break because of it.
KevMath soon replied with an apology, and since KevMath is the best, I'm sure he was immediately forgiven.
Kev tweeting his apology… (Image: Chris Wallace/CardsChat)
That's not how a color up works
A dealer yesterday, upon hearing the floor announce a color up during the break, pulled in all the chips on the table and started sorting them by color. This didn't go over well with players and floor personnel in the area. We've heard that this dealer no longer works at the WSOP. Play was halted until the cameras could determine the correct stacks for the players affected.
Fun With Photos
Here are some fun photos from the last few days. I'll be back with another report soon. Go Awesome Cobras!
Brad Ruben won his fourth bracelet and $126,288 about an hour after this photo was taken. (Image: Chris Wallace/CardsChat)
Siever won his fourth bracelet and $320,059 to bring his lifetime winnings to well over $24 million. (Image: Chris Wallace/CardsChat)
Son, we invented hold'em down in Texas before you was born. (Image: Chris Wallace/CardsChat)
Some players brought the bling to Bally's. (Image: Chris Wallace/CardsChat)
Why be boring when you can be bright blue instead. (Image: Chris Wallace/CardsChat)
Looking sharp! (Image: Chris Wallace/CardsChat)
Frankie Odell in good spirits because his warriors are in the finals. (Image: Chris Wallace/CardsChat)
Kathie Liebert gave me a smile, even after missing a few hands coming back late from dinner break. (Image: Chris Wallace/CardsChat)
Steve Zolotow at the moment he was eliminated. Siever won the event a few hours later. (Image: Chris Wallace/CardsChat)
Ready to go on walkabout. (Image: Chris Wallace/CardsChat)
Nick Schulman is in the house, and hopefully, he'll be back in the broadcast booth too. (Image: Chris Wallace/CardsChat)
Sometimes Norman Chad rants like a crazy old man. Other times, he sleeps. (Image: Chris Wallace/CardsChat)
Todd Bronson counted his chips. Fourteen. Todd had 14 chips. That was a good number. (Image: Chris Wallace/CardsChat)
Adam Friedman is always so happy when he gets to pick the game. (Image: Chris Wallace/CardsChat)
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Alan Shearer: People know Newcastle United mean business
Alan Shearer believes Newcastle United are "starting to upset the big boys" after Sunday's win at Tottenham.
The 2-1 away win in north London means Eddie Howe's side have lost only one of their four meetings with traditional big six teams this season, with even that defeat coming in controversial fashion away at Liverpool.
Sitting in fourth in the Premier League having played most of the Premier League powerhouses without some key players of their own, Newcastle are in dreamland. Indeed, were it not for some dubious VAR calls, they could well be higher.
Clearly, the winter World Cup offers up a challenge those battling on a domestic front have not experienced before. Still, over a month off – part of which will be spent training in Saudi Arabia – could allow the likes of Alexander Isak and Allan Saint-Maximin the chance to get back up to full fitness, while there's the January transfer window to consider.
Should Newcastle invest, and there is little reason not to believe they will, there appears to a real chance of pushing for the top four. While not to get too carried away, neither Manchester United or Liverpool have proven particularly convincing over an extended period of games.
Newcastle look genuine players this season.
What did Shearer say of Newcastle?
Writing in his BBC Sport column, the club legend said: "Their 2-1 win was another example of how Newcastle are starting to upset some of the big boys – and they don't like it.
"It was a similar story when they went to Anfield in August. They were beaten in the end, by a 98th-minute winner, but they were really unlucky to lose and Liverpool were moaning and groaning about how they had, almost, seen the game out.
"It's a good sign, because it shows Newcastle are no longer a soft touch wherever they go – something Manchester United also found out at Old Trafford last week.
"People know things are different now. They know Newcastle are coming, and they know they mean business."


I purchased this dress recently to use as my reception dress for my wedding; however, I have found a dress that will be more appropriate for my beach setting.
This is a size 4 petite strapless taffeta wedding dress. No beading. Ruching throughout the front and back of dress. The back is a zip up style. The dress has a small slit at the bottom of the back of the dress. The jacket is detachable and comes with the dress along with the garment bag. There is a faint spot on the back of the dress (in pictures) that the retailer said a dry cleaner would be able to easily remove. Since I am not planning to keep the dress, I have not brought the dress to the dry cleaners.
Dress is posted for $75 OBO. Please feel free to contact me if needed.
The dress is being stored in its garment bag which comes with the dress when purchased.


I'm Kassia Meador, and I've been surfing for Roxy for the last 13 years. Since I was young I was always interested in wetsuit design and fashion. I've always felt as surfers, what we wear in the water is really a reflection of our personal style. But with wetsuits being the way they were, black on black, there wasn't really anything out there to let us show our personal style or stand out. About 5 years ago, I thought it was time to change the way the surf world thought about wetsuits, and I worked on my first collection with Roxy.
My inspirations for the first designs came out of my love for the history of surfing and surf costumes, especially bathing suits trends in Europe during the 40′s and 50′s. I wanted to make something that was flattering, comfortable, and would make us women feel like the best versions of ourselves in the water. That first collection sold out. Since then, I've developed 5 different colletions of wetsuits with Roxy. Growing and selling out every season helped to start a trend the rest of the surf industry would follow—but more importantly, it was a new way for women to look good and feel great in the water all the while having comfort, flexibility and warmth.
This newest collection is infused with the warmest and most comfortable materials, as well as the grooviest colors and lines to keep our female bodies looking strong and fit. I'm the most excited about this collection than any of the past to date, and I know you will be too. So get out there soak up some sunshine, be bold, live large, follow your bliss and glide the day away….


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St. Petersburg is Russia's cultural capital; nicknamed the 'Venice of the North', it draws all of the romantics. The sheer number of museums, palaces, parks and theatres is overwhelming. The abundance of apartments-turned-museums, where the country's cultural heritage was created, could lead one to believe that all of the country's writers, poets and musicians lived exclusively in this city. You can buy tickets to and from St. Petersburg on Aeroflot's website or at any of our offices.
Not just part of the city, but the whole historical centre is protected by UNESCO. Among the few other cities that enjoy that privilege are Venice, Rome, and Paris.
St. Petersburg is perfect in sunny weather (and yes, despite all of the legends about its gloomy climate, the city does enjoy plenty of sunny days), but given its abundance of museums, you'll never get bored, even if it starts to rain. Not to mention the countless cozy cafes and famous bakeries that will make your journey pleasant, no matter what time of the year you visit.
The fastest and easiest way to get to St. Petersburg is to fly. Aeroflot operates direct flights from Moscow(duration: only 1h 30m). The plane lands at Pulkovo Airport, 15 km from the centre of the city. The best way to save money is to buy round-trip plane tickets. The best fares sell out quickly, so we recommend booking in advance.
The new ultra-modern stadium was built on the site of the Kirov Stadium and is now the home of FC Zenit. The arena opened in 2017 and hosted 2017 Cup matches, including the opening and the final matches.
St. Petersburg wouldn't be complete without the Neva River and its numerous streams and canals. You can enjoy a pleasant boat ride, taking in the views and learning that Pushkin recited his poems in that building, or that Dostoyevsky studied in that castle. There are 68 rivers, creeks and canals in total, as well as 580 bridges, 20 of which are the city's famous drawbridges.
The rivers separate the city into 3 main parts: the historical centre with its main artery, Nevsky Prospekt, the Petrogradskaya Side and Vasilievsky Island.
Nevsky Prospekt, together with all of the side streets that merge into it, is where most of the landmarks are concentrated. Tours of the city usually start on Dvortsovaya Square, home to the Alexander Column and the most important museum of the city and country alike, the Hermitage (the most visited museum in Russia). The list of gems goes on: the Admiralty, Kazan Cathedral, the gingerbread-house-like Church of the Saviour on Blood, the Alexandrinsky Theatre (the oldest drama theatre in Russia), the modest Mikhailovsky Palace with its park and Russian Museum, the Anichkov Bridge and countless unique palaces such as Vorontsovsky, Anichkov, Sheremetyevsky, and Belosselsky-Belozersky.
You can take a stroll along the embankment all the way to Saint Isaac's Cathedral and the Bronze Horseman or to the Field of Mars, or even cross the Palace Bridge to get to the Spit of Vasilievsky Island with its Rostral Columns. Right next to them are all the main sights in the area: the Kunstkammer, the Stock Exchange and Menshikov Palace. Going deeper into the island, you can find the largest private contemporary art museum in Russia, Erarta, where many exciting exhibitions and concerts take place.
On the Petrogradskaya Side, you will find the Peter and Paul Fortress, the Cabin of Peter the Great, the magnificent Botanical Garden, the Zoo and the Artillery Museum. St. Petersburg's parks and gardens merit a special mention, as well. Besides the Botanical Garden, we recommend that you pay a visit to Alexandrovsky Garden, the Summer Garden with its stunning sculptures, Krestovsky Island with its Amusement Park and the parks on Yelagin and Kamenny islands.
Once you've seen all the sights the city has to offer, it's time to switch your attention to the suburbs, which are equally famous and beautiful. This, of course, includes Peterhof with its fountains and lanes, Tsarskoe Selo with the lyceum where Pushkin studied, the Kronstadt Fortress, Pavlovsk, where the royal residence is located, Lomonosov with the Greater Menshikov Palace ensemble and Strelna and Gatchina with their parks and palaces.


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Листопа́дні росли́ни — в ботаніці, це рослини, головним чином дерева або кущі, чиє листя обпадає в певну пору року. У одних випадках це пов'язано з низькими температурами в зимовий період на територіях з помірним або арктичним кліматом; у інших обпадання відбувається в посушливий сезон в регіонах з сезонним регулюванням опадів. Протилежну листопадним рослинам групу складають так звані вічнозелені рослини, чиє листя не обпадає. Окрім цього, є рослини з проміжним циклом — їх називають напівлистопадними.

Багато листопадних рослин квітнуть в період, коли листя на них відсутнє — це збільшує їх продуктивність при запиленні. Відсутність листя спрощує процес запилення у рослин, що обпилюються за допомогою вітру, і покращує їх видимість для комах-обпилювачів. Проте ця стратегія ризикована, оскільки люті морози або посуха можуть погубити насіння.

Скидаючи листя, дерева і чагарники зменшують свою потребу у волозі — в морозну погоду вода замерзає і стає недоступною. За відсутності листя збільшується продувність рослин, що зберігає їх стовбури і стебла від пошкоджень, викликаних сніжними штормами.

Ліси листопадних дерев формують характерний біом — листопадні ліси.

Причини опадання листя

Ботаніка
Періодичні явища
Фізіологія рослин
Листя


a fun activity in Tokyo!
you will experience the enjoyable and informative cooking activity!
*Seasoning and flavoring materials for all classes are free of alcohol/animal products.
*No pork in all dish.
*All meat (chicken and beef) used in any classes is halal certified.
*A compact prayer space is available.
The activity time can be flexible.
In this class, you will learn how to make not only fillings also wrappers from scratch.
Japanese curry and chicken cutlet is the best combination.
DELICIOUS JAPANESE DISH loved by men and women of all ages!
not only taste good also fun to make!
We are always happy to arrange your class upon your request .
Ramen, Katsudon, Gyudon and others...feel free to let us know your request!
Please click BOOKING tab to display the booking form.
Once we receive your booking request, we will send you a confirmation email with a request for the payment. Credit card payment through PayPal in advance is required. Your booking will be completed after the payment.
Please make a book at least 3 days prior to the lesson.
Children (age 6 - 12) will get 20% discount from a full price.
We are located on 2nd floor. You will find a coffee shop 'Matsuzaki Coffee' on GF in the building. We'll come down and meet you in front of the coffee shop at meeting time.
This cooking was exceeded our expectations. We learn a lot, had fun, and the food was delicious. A great activity for the family!
This was the perfect way to spend an afternoon! I can' t wait to try the recipe I learned today when I get back home. The entire experience was so much fun, Nahoko is adorable and super knowledgeable AND the food was DELICIOUS. you won't be sorry you came!!
My entire family had a wonderful time cooking with Nahoko. Her instructions were clear and simple, and the food we made was delicious! We were going home to Los Angeles with her recipes and inspiration to make Donburi at home! We highly recommend the experience!
We loved our class at Yorokobi kitchen. The lesson was full of laughter, joy, and great information. Nahoko is super friendly and great teacher. If you are looking for a cooking class in Tokyo, we really recommend this class for a fun and detailed lesson!
Great class! Sushi was delicious and teaching was clear and informative! Thank you!
What a treat! Nahoko is lovely and speaks very good English. We made delicious soup and sushi. Arigato!
The mystery of sushi revealed. Thank you Nahoko!
Arigato Nahoko! I loved leaning how to make sushi and miso soup. It makes me want to go home and make it for myself. Everything was delicious and satisfying. This afternoon was an unforgettable part of my visit to Tokyo.
A memorable experience. Clearly our time with you was one of the highlights of our trip.
YOROKOBI kitchen was featured on the blog post in THE NERDVENTURISTS !
Nahoko got interviewed as a host providing Japanese cooking class for international visitors.
Resistered as one of Japanese tadaku hosts to spread the enjoyment of Japanese cooking experience to more people!
We've got introduced on Halal Media Japan as a halal cooking class!
Nahoko got interviewed as a part of 100夢 project by Kaede Takase.
Hi! I'm Nahoko Ouchi, a cooking instructor here and recipe developer. Thank you for visiting YOROKOBI kitchen's website. Cooking has been my big passion since I was little. Also, I always love to share Japanese culture with people from other countries. Through my whole cultural experiences such as living in the U.S, joining a cultural exchange project, working in Australia, becoming a host family for an exchange student in my home in Tokyo, and traveling abroad, I realized how fun cultural exchange is and how important it is. That made me decide to found a Japanese cooking class for international visitors from all over the world.
In class, you will make delicious authentic Japanese dishes using Japanese unique ingredients, cooking utensils and cookwares.
I would like you enjoy healthy food here, so I pick only fresh ingredients and seasonings containing no food additives and preservatives.
All recipes are developed reproducible. Printed recipes are also provided. You will be able to make what you learn at the class again easily at home.
To meet your dietary needs, always happy to give you a class flexibly arranged following your requests. Please feel free to share your dietary restrictions, food allergies or religious restrictions with us.
YOROKOBI is Japanese word for happiness. YOROKOBI kitchen is always here to offer you some happy moments through Japanese cooking!
loves cooking, baking and eating!


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Q: Help me organize my rubies So I think I have a bunch of rubies scattered around here. I want to install rails 3 and watch the railscast online and the person uses rvm to manage ruby versions. I went to install rvm and followed the instruction. I got to the point where I need to do
rvm install 1.9.2

EDIT: and I did
rvm 1.9.2

However after the installation, I try
ruby -v

and get
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [universal-darwin10.0]

I also go and do
which ruby

and get
/usr/bin/ruby

How do I set up my path so that I can use the ruby that is installed using rvm?
inside /Users/denniss/.rvm/bin I have the ruby-1.9.2-rc2
and my .profile looks like
export PATH="$PATH:/Applications/android/tools"
export PATH="$PATH:/Applications/rubystack/apache2/bin"
export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH"
export PATH="/Users/denniss/.rvm/bin/:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

A: Type:
rvm list

That'll display all the versions of ruby you have.
Then type :
rvm use 1.9.2

And everytime you open you're terminal it will default to your original ruby. To change this type :
rvm --default 1.9.2

Note: You don't need to use RVM to use Rails3. I recommend keeping the ruby v you have, and just installed rails 3 for the new app. Rails 2 and Rails 3 will not overwrite each other.

A: You have to switch to the new version with rvm 1.9.2.  This is only temporary, however.  To permanently set it, you can pass the --default: rvm --default 1.9.2.

A: Correct, if RVM is not loading the used ruby into the environment then you are most likely not sourcing it in your profiles.
[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"  # This loads RVM into a shell session.

This is in both the installer output and the documentation for installation:
http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/rvm/install/
~Wayne

A: Actually, I forgot to add the
[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"  # This loads RVM into a shell session.

at the very end of my ~/.profile

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New York Times admits using different standards on Biden, Kavanaugh sexual misconduct allegations
Executive editor Dean Baquet acknowledges paper allowed Biden camp final edits on past inappropriate behavior
By Sophie Mann
Updated: April 14, 2020 - 10:57am
New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet explained Monday why his newspaper took 19 days to publish a story on a 1993 sexual assault allegation against Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, saying he wanted to wait until his reporters had a complete story.
The Times published the story on Sunday, detailing the allegation by Tara Reade, a congressional aide when Biden was a senator. Reade initially discussed her accusation on a podcast on March 25.
The Times' media critic, Ben Smith, interviewed Baquet to ask why it took the paper nearly three weeks to publish or post anything about the accusation against the now Democratic presumptive presidential nominee – not even so much as trigger a news alert.
Baquet responds by saying that "lots of people covered it as breaking news at the time," but he didn't think the reporting was strong enough anywhere (aside from The Intercept) to help the public understand the story, which is what he wanted the Times to be able to do.
Baquet, who has overseen the Times' coverage of the #MeToo movement was asked by Smith why coverage of Justice Brett Kavanaugh's accusers was published immediately. Smith specifically cites the allegations by Julie Swetnick, represented at the time by Michael Avenatti. The Times published her accusations the same day that she publicly made them, despite being unable to corroborate them independently. Swetnick would go on to significantly roll back the extent of the allegations she made.
Baquet called the Kavanaugh case "the biggest political story in the country," implying that it would be covered by the paper differently than the Tara Reade case, with which Americans are generally less familiar. "It was just a different news judgment moment," continues Baquet.
"Kavanaugh was a running, hot story. I don't think it's that the ethical standards were different. I think the news judgments had to be made from a different perspective in a running hot story," concluded the executive editor.
Smith presses Baquet on the bias question when he asks if the editor was reluctant to promote a story that could help Donald Trump win re-election in November.
"I can't make that calculation. I won't. I won't let my head or my heart go there. I think once you start making those kinds of calculation, you are not a journalist anymore. you're some sort of political actor," replied Baquet.
Later on in the interview, Baquet confirms that the Times made an edit to the story post-publication at the behest of the Biden campaign.
It is also worth noting that, unlike any of their previous #MeToo reports, the Times decided to use the allegations of sexual assault leveled against President Trump as a framing device for the article about Biden.
Georgia GOP gubernatorial candidate Perdue proposes election law enforcement unit in wake of 2020
Texas Gov. Abbott's reelection bid shadowed by adviser's anti-Trump retweets
Fulton County commissioner moves to 'rescind' Trump's 2016 win


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Sandongqiao section of Jiangbeizui Riverside Park to be opened
CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- As the core of urban development, the "Two Rivers and Four Banks" in the central area of Chongqing has been regarded as "A Land of Natural Beauty, A City with Cultural Appeal" city business card. The reporter learned from the Jiangbei District Housing and Urban-Rural Development Commission, following the opening of the first phase of the project last year after the National Day, the second phase Sandongqiao section of the Jiangbeizui Riverside Park is expected to be opened at the end of this month, early next month.
The project of Jiangbeizui Riverside Park started from Chang'an Pier on the north bank of Jialing River, and finally ended in Guanyin Temple at the south foot of Tazi Mountain.
According to the introduction, the harnessing and upgrading project of "Two Rivers and Four Banks" in Jiangbei District starts from Gaojia Huayuan Bridge and ends at Tazi Mountain, with a total length of about 18 kilometers, involving five projects, including three public space projects of Jiangbeizui Riverside Park, Panxi River Riverside Park and Xiang'guo Temple Riverside Park, and two connection projects of Cultural Innovation Ecological Bay of Western Artillery Bureau and Jialing River Xingyue Huoli Bay.
Citizens are relaxing in the park.
The total length of Jiangbeizui Riverside Park is 6.01km long.
It is learned that the Sandongqiao section of Jiangbeizui Riverside Park, which will be opened soon, is located between Fisherman's Pier and Chaotianmen Bridge, near Traditional Street of Sandongqiao in Jiangbeizui CBD. This section is not only planted with thousands of red berries and bayberries, but also built with two city balconies and comfortable walking trails. To restore the riverside ecology, thousands of meters of reeds were planted. By the end of this year, after the construction of Jiangbeizui Riverside Park, it will become a waterfront ecological park integrating fitness and recreation. (Translated by Wang Junli, Fathom Language Limited)
Jiangbeizui Riverside Park cycling trail.


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Q: How to use AVSpeechSynthesizer to read a UILocalNotification? I have an objective-c application that receive local notifications. I want read the alertBody of notification when this will be showed to user on his iPhone in background. How can I do this?
I'm trying this code, but not works:
Here I load my local notification while the app is in background, and I load speak function that should be said the alertBody text.
UILocalNotification *notification = [[UILocalNotification alloc] init];
        NSDictionary *infoDict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:@"key1", @"1", nil];
        notification.userInfo = infoDict;
        notification.alertBody = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Can you hear this notification?"];
        notification.soundName =  @"Alarm-Clock.caf";
       [self speak:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", notification.alertBody]];
        [[UIApplication sharedApplication] scheduleLocalNotification:notification];

@property (strong, nonatomic)  AVSpeechSynthesizer *synthesizer;

 - (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];

    self.synthesizer = [[AVSpeechSynthesizer alloc] init];
    self.synthesizer.delegate=self;

    ...
    }

-(void) speak:(NSString *) text{
    AVSpeechUtterance *utterance = [AVSpeechUtterance speechUtteranceWithString:texto];
    utterance.volume = 1.0;
    if (floor(NSFoundationVersionNumber) <= NSFoundationVersionNumber_iOS_8_3)
    {
        utterance.rate = 0.15;
    }else{
        utterance.rate = 0.45;
    }
    [self.synthesizer speakUtterance:utterance];
}

- (void)speechSynthesizer:(AVSpeechSynthesizer *)synthesizer didFinishSpeechUtterance:(AVSpeechUtterance *)utterance
{

}

And I have added AVFoundation framework, background modes and Audio, Airplay, and Picture in Picture in capabilities.
How could I change my code to speak the alertBody of my UILocal notification?


Pakistan does "not want to go towards war" with India, its military spokesman said Wednesday, hours after Islamabad said it shot down two Indian warplanes in its airspace, igniting fears of all-out conflict between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
"We do not want escalation, we do not want to go towards war," Major General Asif Ghafoor told a press conference in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, calling for talks with New Delhi.
He added that two Indian pilots had been captured, with one in custody and one in hospital.


A blue sky and copper gorge are made with a multitude of fortification lines in this detailed Blue Bed Thunder Egg Agate mined from Richardson's. Gently undulating Fine Silver and Copper carved into an abstracted terrain serves as the setting while 18 gauge Sterling Silver wraps this 8.5 'two into one' band around your finger.
The Thunder Egg is left open backed in its Fine Silver setting to let the light shine through. The stone was sourced in Oregon, hand polished, and the setting fabricated from scratch by Karen Britt. Each piece is a one of a kind piece of art, because no two stones are the same and the settings are created by hand, no two pieces are the same (even the earrings). It should be mentioned that all stones are used in their natural state; never dyed or heated to change their appearance. All the metals used are either recycled or fair, humane trade verified and all components used in the jewelry will return to the earth leaving no footprint. Thank you for enjoying the art.


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