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Kochi: Taking stiff global competition head on, Indian spices maintained their robust demand in the international market with spices exports from the country touching a whopping Rs. 14,899.68 crores (US$ 2,432.85 million) in 2014-15 as compared to Rs. 13,735.39 crores (US$ 2,267.67 million) a year earlier.
Chilli, mint and mint products, cumin, spice oils & oleoresins, pepper, turmeric, coriander, small cardamom, curry powder/paste and fenugreek contributed substantially to the spice export basket as the demand for Indian spices scaled up phenomenally at the global level.
In the fiscal 2014-15, a total of 8,93,920 tons of spices and spice products valued at Rs.14,899.68 crore were exported, registering a 9 % increase in volume and 8 % in rupee terms in value as compared to 8,17,250 tons valued at Rs.13,735.39 crore in FY 2013-14.
The total export of spices during 2014-15 exceeded the target of 7,55,000 tons valued at Rs 12,304.90 crore (US$ 2000 million) in terms of both volume and value for the financial year 2014-15.
Spices Board, the flagship organisation under the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry, has been able to meet the export target by devising multifaceted activities for promotion of Indian spices and sustaining their demand in the global market.
Dr. A Jayathilak IAS, Chairman, Spices Board said, "The achievement is substantial – 118% increase in terms of volume and 121% in rupee and 122% in dollar terms of value – and it was achieved in the face of tough competition. Increased demand for Indian spices in the international market is a testimony to their unmatched quality and escalating faith in their sustainability."
Chilli continued to propel the growth story as India's largest exported spice, accounting for 347,000 tonnes in quantity and Rs 3,51,710 lakhs in value during FY 2014-15. In terms of volume, chilli was followed by cumin with an export quantity of 1,55,500 tons that earned a foreign exchange worth Rs 1,83,820 lakhs.
Value added spice products like spice oils and oleoresins notched a significant high with figures of 11,475 tons (exports) and Rs 1,91,090 lakhs (earnings). Pepper, 'The King of Spices', contributed significantly to export earnings by bringing home Rs. 1,20, 842.16 lakhs with a corresponding export volume of 21,450 tons in FY 2014-15.
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The Picture Story Library was a series of books that had all the drama, fun, mystery and adventure of a weekly comic strip crammed into one small 62 page digest. They were a monthly treat to go along with your weekly issues. The stories were complete so no waiting around for the next issue to find out what would happen to the characters. Sometimes the stories did feature familiar characters in new stories, regular characters like "The Four Marys", "Wee Slavey" or "The Comp" popped up a lot in these books. The rest of the books were just new stories with new characters, though they did have familiar themes. Sometimes an issue had several stories tied under one theme for example "Chill Out" that told 4 spooky stories.
The Bunty books lasted 455 books, the Mandy books finished at the same time but because they started later than the Bunty there were only 277 books. Judy finished with 375 books and Debbie with 197 books. Particularly towards the end of the run it was common to reprint earlier stories, despite this throughout their long run there was some entertaining original stories.
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We have another very special Grandma B. that we want to feature this week. When she saw this skirt that I'd refashioned, she went right out and found herself a denim mini. Yes, we have our first copycat refashion!
Then we had a "girls only" trip to Jo-Ann's where we hunted and hunted until we found just the right fabric. She turned them over to me and here's what I did:
Step 1: Measure bottom of denim mini skirt.
Step 2: Use that measurement to create a tube from the fabric she'd selected.
Step 3: Sew fabric tube onto bottom of denim mini.
Step 4: Cut out denim strips (we cut up a pair of men's jeans!) sew them together, gather, then sew to bottom of brown layer.
Ta da! That's it! And there you have our first denim mini copycat makeover! But maybe it's the model making this one look so good! She slipped it on for a quick picture, but said she plans to wear it with a blue top, when she finds the perfect shade, and brown heeled boots! How stylish, Grandma B!
Total Time: 1 hour
Total Cost: Well, you'd have to ask Grandma B., we only did the sewing!
Talent Level: Intermediate
Leave Grandma B. some comment love, and let us know what you think. By the way, this before & after picture is pinnable to Pinterest, so pin it and let all the world see our refashions! Be sure to enter our free skirt giveaway so we can see your refashioning talent too!
Updated to add: Grandma B. changed her mind on the length of this skirt, so it's now available on ETSY! Lucky you!


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Anything is possible in America
says Tewolde Habtemicael
Teri Vance
Jan. 15 2098
In a small cement high school in Ethiopia, Tewolde Habtemicael heard for the first time the concept of democracy. What is this? he wondered as American Peace Corps volunteers taught him and his classmates about a government run by the people. We had no concept of democracy before that because we had one king and he did whatever he wanted, Habtemicael, 60, told Blair Romans sophomore government class at Carson High School on Wednesday.
The visiting Americans also helped prepare them for entrance exams for the countrys only university, which accepted just 560 students each year. Habtemicael passed. In college, he ran for vice president of the student union. Because I attentively listened to what my American teachers taught me, I was elected, he said. Invigorated by the idea of democracy, Habtemicael led demonstrations calling on the government to hold elections. Instead, he and three classmates were arrested and sentenced to five years in prison.
A student boycott led to their release a year later. On probation, Habtemicael was forbidden from participating in political activities, a condition he couldnt uphold. Three years later, protesting a military takeover, he was arrested again. This time, they do not take you to court, they kill you, he said. We were on the verge of being executed. They killed our king. We were next. Amnesty International intervened and he was again released, but he knew he couldnt stay.
I walked from Ethiopia to Sudan, he said. I know I have to get away. I want to get to America. I love America because I love democracy. Hiding by day and walking by night, he ended up in Saudi Arabia. He met a Swedish man there, and asked if he could emigrate to his country. The man told him hed be better off going to America. Anythings possible in America, Habtemicael remembers the man telling him. He petitioned the American Embassy to accept him as a political refugee, and the World Council of Churches paid his travel to the United States.
He contacted the Peace Corps volunteer who first had taught him about American values, then a professor at the University of Montana, Missoula. Habtemicael made arrangements to get his masters degree there. I said now I can learn without any problem in the United States. My whole thing was to acquire education, he said. Yes, everything is possible in America.


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On Mon, 04 Feb 2002, Daniel de Rauglaudre wrote: > In this case, if you want syntax extensions and quotations, you are > *obliged* to use the revised syntax: [snip] > Are you ok for this change? I am against, but if you convice me that > I am wrong, I can do it. Though semantics is usually considered the more interesting part of languages, what are the future plans of the OCaml-team with respect to syntax? Can you envision defining a new (even saner ;) syntax in a future release? There have been small (and sometimes larger) syntax changes all over the time, but how about a major change here? I haven't been using Daniel's revised syntax yet, but wouldn't mind if the team introduced this one or a similarly different syntax to clean up the language as long as it is still possible to reuse modules implemented in the old syntax (should be easy given camlp4 in the standard distribution). Otherwise, even if the revised syntax (or an even better one) could be considered superior, nobody will ever use it if it isn't the standard. Any suggestions for a flamewar on syntax? ;) Regards, Markus Mottl -- Markus Mottl firstname.lastname@example.com Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.oefai.at/~markus ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail firstname.lastname@example.com Archives: http://caml.inria.fr


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So today is the first time my mother has said anything about my new lifestyle. I figured her lack of chatter on the topic meant she was fine with it. I was very wrong.
She told me today, as I made myself a vegan burger and home fries for dinner, that this may not be the "diet" for me because it cuts out things I love… So far the only thing I loved that had to be cut out was cheese burgers. Not a very unhealthy choice for me.
The only thing she convinced me of today is that this is the right lifestyle for me and that my results and lack of complaint upsets her. She, like most of the world, doesn't like what we represent, the informed minority.
Now more than ever I am committed to the vegan lifestyle. I will never be tempted to go back because she has voiced in the past that I don't rebel against her enough…
Here it is mother, my rebellion


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Tŷ Adferiad is available as an ideal holiday let for those wishing to explore the North Wales countryside. Accommodation is available from £150 per person from Friday afternoon to Monday morning (based on eight people sharing).
Tŷ Adferiad offers high-quality self-catering accommodation for up to eight (with the option of using other local accommodation for larger groups). The newly-refurbished Tŷ Adferiad townhouse is in the centre of Porthmadog and includes a study room, wi-fi connection, an IT suite, a relaxation room, a newly-fitted kitchen and laundry facilities. The cost includes bedding laundry and cleaning.
Porthmadog is a seaside town sitting at the base of Moel y Gest mountain which extends dramatically towards the Snowdon range. Porthmadog lies on the Glaslyn estuary, renowned as a haven for migrating birds and wildlife. The town itself is full of individual shops and places to eat. Find out more about Porthmadog @ www.porthmadog.co.uk and about the Snowdonia region @ www.visitsnowdonia.info.


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SriLankan Airlines has incurred penalties of USD700,000 for the late return of an A320-200 to sub-lessor IndiGo Airlines.
According to company sources who spoke to the News 1st online news portal, 4R-ABK (msn 2584) was due to have been returned to the Indian LCC on May 8 but has been retained for unspecified maintenance reasons.
Analysis of FlightRadar24 ADS-B data shows the aircraft was withdrawn from regular commercial service on December 31, 2016. In April, it was ferried to Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta where it remained, presumably for the aforementioned maintenance concerns, until May 19 when it was ferried back to Colombo Int'l. The aircraft has been parked in the Sri Lankan capital ever since.
SriLankan Airlines declined to comment stating the affair is subject to commercial confidentiality clauses.
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Sending Mail
Please use mail to keep in touch with your camper while he is under the pines at Camp Belknap. Letters and packages come via mail boat, which is a long-standing tradition at camp. Please do not send food of any kind. See below to ensure you mail to the right location.
United States Postal Service (USPS) letters & packages use:
Camper Name, Division & Cabin, Camp Belknap, PO Box 1546, Wolfeboro, NH 03894.
If shipping packages by ground (United Parcel Service or FedEx) use:
Camper Name, Division & Cabin, Camp Belknap, 11 Chase Point Rd., Mirror Lake, NH 03853.
Contacting Camp
If you have questions, please call the main office at (603) 569-3475. For non-urgent matters, you can also email camp at email@example.com. For businesses purposes only, our fax number is (603) 569-1471.
Rules and Important Information
Please click here to review the 2019 INFORMATION AND CAMP POLICIES document for important information for parents and campers.
- Final payment is due May 1.
- Health forms also must be completed by May 1. Click here to view important information on your son's health at camp.
- The following items are ABSOLUTELY NOT PERMITTED: Alcohol, drugs, tobacco (including e-cigarettes and juuls), any illegal substances or items, guns, rifles, knives, hatchets, fireworks of any kind, skateboards, in-line skates, fidget spinners, food (including candy, gum, and soda), money, and electronic devices (as outlined in the above policy document). Campers may not keep a car/vehicle or animal/pet on camp property during camp. These policies are strictly enforced for safety and best camper experiences. Items will be confiscated if found.


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text: perlcraft grinder #! /usr/bin/perl -w # # david landgren # perlfiles -- print out the names of all perl scripts in the given directories # handy for backticking into vi or grep... =for perlmonks [NB: this was posted in CUFP, which was probably the wrong place so it wound up here. My Perl coding leans more to [id://66379|this] than [isbn://1884777791|that] but I am trying to get out of the habit. Be that as it may, I have a ridiculously simple Perl script that I use dozens of times a day, and no doubt other people will find it useful. It simply prints out the names of all the files in a directory that are perl files. I can use this to backtick the list into <tt>vi</tt> or <tt>grep</tt>. Have fun. =cut use strict; use Getopt::Std; use vars qw/$opt_u/; getopts 'u'; @ARGV = ('.') unless @ARGV; my @files; foreach my $dir( @ARGV ) { opendir D, $dir or die "Cannot open directory $dir: $!\n"; while( defined (my $file = readdir(D)) ) { next if $file eq '.' or $file eq '..'; $file = "$dir/$file"; open IN, $file or next; my $line = <IN>; close IN; if( $line =~ m{^#!\s*/usr/(?:local/)?bin/perl} ) { if( $opt_u ) { print "$file\n"; } else { push @files, $file; } } } closedir D; } exit if $opt_u; local $, = "\n"; print sort(@files), "\n"; =head1 NAME perlfiles =head1 SYNOPSIS B<perlfiles> [B<-u>] [directory] [...] =head1 DESCRIPTION Print the names of all perl scripts in a directory. If no directory is given the current directory is assumed. The script opens each file, and looks at the first line to decide whether it looks like a shebang line that would launch perl. =head1 OPTIONS =over 5 =item B<-u> Unsorted. Do not sort the files, rather, print out the filenames in directory order. =back =head1 EXAMPLES C<perlfiles> ./bar ./foo ./rat C<vi `perlfiles`> Edit all the perl files in the current directory. C<vi $(grep -l 'use Socket' $(perlfiles /usr/local/bin))> Edit all the perl files in /usr/local/bin that use the Socket module (assuming a bash- or ksh-like shell). =head1 BUGS Will be fooled by any script that uses a tricky shebang line, or a C<C:\perl\bin\perl.exe> path. In the latter case you probably don't have a real shell, so this script probably isn't of much use (and probably in the former as well for all I know). =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2001 David Landgren. This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =head1 AUTHOR David "grinder" Landgren eval {join chr(64) => qw[landgren bpinet.com]} =cut


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Clinic Cost and Referral
The cost of the initial visit is approximately $450.00. This fee covers the neurological history and examination. There are additional charges for tests that may be required as well as for any referrals. These fees are usually covered by insurance.
Please validate insurance coverage and obtain referral forms if required by your insurance carrier prior to your visit. Please verify that Dr. Gomez is covered by your insurance or you will receive a bill for service after your visit. The University of Chicago Medicine does accept Medicare assignment.


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Press Conference on Inquiry into MMIWG to be held on Sunday, January 31st at 12:00 p.m. EST in Ottawa
The Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC), the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA), and the Canadian Journal of Women in Law (CJWL) are hosting a symposium on the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women on January 30 and 31, 2016 at the University of Ottawa.
Forty five women from across Canada ― Indigenous women and allies ― will meet with six international human rights experts from the United Nations and the Inter American Commission on Human Rights during this private symposium. Also in attendance at the Symposium will be Caroline Bettinger Lopez, who is the Advisor to the White House on Violence against Women.
PLEASE NOTE: This symposium is invite only, however, a press conference will be held on Sunday, January 31st at 12:00 p.m. EST at the University of Ottawa on the 3rd floor of Desmarais Building in room DMS 3105. All media, local and national, are warmly encouraged to attend. Media can expect insight into the ideas and dialogue that emerge throughout this historic two-day symposium.
"This is an historic meeting. Never before has Canada hosted an international group of this nature to discuss the rights of Indigenous women and girls. We look forward to exploring the ways in which a national inquiry can work as a practical, effective mechanism for holding Canada to account and finding real ways to make systemic change happen."
-Dawn Lavell-Harvard, President of the Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC)
"The national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women is a massive undertaking. Major issues must be examined such as policing and social and economic policies that are known to perpetuate Indigenous women's vulnerability to violence. We are confident that this symposium will help put some of these pressing issues on the table."
-Sharon McIvor, Executive Director of the Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA-AFAI)
"Violence against Indigenous women is a crisis in Canada and we cannot look away. And that's exactly why we're here this weekend; prepared to tackle this head on."
-Fay Blaney, Downtown East Side Women's Centre, feminist activist
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I'm a male teenager, currently 17 years old. I have been pretty healthy all of my life, but over the past year or so, I have been been experiencing several things that make me feel that there may be something wrong.
First off, I am unable to gain weight. I am 6', current 124 lbs. I eat 3 or more meals a day. I drink about 2 liters of fluids a day.
There are days when for no reason what-so-ever I will drop 5 or so lbs.
Despite all of this, I believe that I have very low blood pressure. It happens quite often that I stand up and suddenly become to light headed and disoriented that I fall right back to the ground. This has also happened before while walking as well as while sitting.
Occasionally I feel a pain in my chest. The only thing that helps to relieve it is to resist breathing. It goes away after a few minutes, but while it is there, it is sharp.
Im not sure what all of this could be. Someone mentioned the possibility of diabetes to me a while ago, but im not sure what constitutes having diabetes, etc.


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Oriental Brewery – "The beer that's brewed to suit the climate"
Hugh Farmer: New information in red
Land for Oriental Brewery's plant was acquired in Lai Chi Kok, Kowloon, in the spring of 1907, when it was announced that the consortium behind it intended to spend "over a quarter of a million dollars on an up-to-date brewery".
The Brewery opened in 1908 with a capacity of 100,000 barrels a year, using brewing equipment imported from the United States. The promoters were Americans but it was led by an Englishman, Alfred Hocking, originally from Cornwall, who had emigrated to the US as a young man. (Born? Died 1936)
Hocking moved to Honolulu, Hawaii and became something of an industrialist running a lumber mill and a sugar plantation before starting the Honolulu Brewing and Malting Company in around 1897 or 1898. This was situated on Queen Street from where its Primo lager was launched in 1901. Hocking had a large house, now known as Graystones, built in 1903 at 1302 Nehoa Street, Honolulu.
He then moved to Hong Kong though there is less information about Hocking's time here and the Oriental Brewery than when he was in Honolulu.
By early 1911, Oriental Brewery's beer was on sale in Singapore. And the advert, featured on the home page, says the beer, "can be obtained everywhere in the Far East. Its advertising slogan was: "The beer that's brewed to suit the climate". One of its beers was Prima, echoing the Primo brand Hocking had launched earlier.
In October 1912, however, the company fell into liquidation and, seven months later, it was announced that the brewery had been sold to a syndicate from Manila, which dismantled the plant's equipment and shipped it to the Philippines.
HF: Here are details of the Brewery liquidation. Property, Plant and Equipment and the beguiling sounding steam launch Oriental. Ice, beer and "other cargo"- sounds perfect for a jovial, long weekend cruise around Crooked and Double islands.
Straits Times 11th January 1913
The end of the Oriental Brewery meant the end of brewing in Hong Kong for nearly twenty years. In 1930 Jehangir Ruttonjee founded HK Brewers and Distillers.
This article was first posted on 24th September 2014.
- http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1298073/roll-out-barrel
- https://zythophile.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/how-i-nearly-found-a-brewery-on-my-doorstep/#more-3893
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hocking_House
Related Indhhk articles:
- The Hong Kong Milling Company "the establishment of a brewery…is under consideration". c1905 to 1908. It never happened.
- The Imperial Brewery Company 1907
- Messrs Barretto & Co – managers of The Imperial Brewing Company 1907
- The Opening of the Sham Tseng Brewery 1933


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I have had this beautiful yarn in my quiver of arrows for quite some time and now it is time to share it with everyone. It is called Deluxe Sock,
simply because that is what it is. The Superwash Merino would be dreamy enough on its own but add the security of a little nylon and then the Blur of Cashmere
and you have a MOST delicious yarn, whether for socks or myriad other projects. The yardage is generous enough for you to have many choices!
We have so many Deluxe Sock! Yarn colorways that we have arranged them into colorway families to help you quickly find the ones you want. To jump to your favor colorway family, just click on the following families: purples, blues, blue/greens, greens, yellows, golds, oranges, browns, reds, pinks or neutrals. To order, just type the number skeins you want in the QTY box and click on the "Add to Shopping Cart" button at the end of all of the colorways. on't find your favorite colorway listed? Just ask and I will catch up.
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Phone sex has always been natural to me. That may sound strange if you don't know me… but it's a true statement. Phone sex came into my life at a pretty early age and has never gone away. I have callers that I have known for years, and for whatever reason, they always come back to me.
Sometimes a guy runs across my site and I peak his curiosity enough to email me personally. It's like they write to find out that I am a real person. Or other times they are trying to make a decision on whether or not to call me. Actually, I appreciate that. To me, those are guys who want to spend their time and cash wisely. The fact is that not every girl like myself can be "EVERYTHING" to every caller.
Everyone has had the experience of seeing a "bad" doctor, or a "bad" lawyer, or a "bad" whatever. Usually, the truth isn't that the service isn't "bad"… usually, it's a lack of connection with that particular person. For instance, we consider a doctor bad because they don't communicate well with us or they don't listen closely to us.
The same is true for phone sex. A few main things that make a girl good versus bad is how she communicates. If she doesn't listen closely to you then she isn't going to understand you. If she doesn't understand you then there is no way to relate to you. If she can't relate well to you then she sure isn't able to communicate with you well either. This matter alone can literally RUIN a fantasy. Is that what you want to call for?
As a phone sex caller, you should want to connect with the girl you call. Maybe you'll only ever call her one time, and even so… you still want it to work. It's your money for some hot sexual entertainment… so you want to spend it and be happy with what you got out of it. And so you should!
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Decided to return my FitBit Surge…
It was not "scientific" or accurate enough for me. I am a NERD. Went to school for Exercise Science and YES, I excelled at the NERDY labs we did to test fitness levels, strength, metabolism, body-fat, heart rate, EKG's etc… so having a piece of equipment that doesn't quite operate on the SCIENCE drove me insane!
I think it's a good tool for the general public, but for me I couldn't handle the inaccuracy, especially the inaccuracy of my HR monitor. The main reason I purchased it was for the HR monitor and it was not accurate enough for my purposes. I'm going to try the Polar A300 instead.
I'm really liking this song, and what is also cool about it is the trio…my 3 girls could be them when they grow up!
Track Attack, Practice last night was great! we had a couple new faces, hoping for more each time!!
Next practice is Saturday at 2pm
We did our warm up, drills and stretching. Then ran a 200m, 400m(mine was 68sec) and 100m– Everyone did GREAT! …finished with practicing the triple jump. Right, Right, Left, PIT! or Left, Left, Right, PIT! Fun times!
Next practice we will focus hard on SPEED!! We'll do 100's and some shorter 30m accelerations. Join us you will get FASTER!
My workout total time was 20mins bike in am, 45mins of track attack= 65 mins


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We finally received an answer to Jet's (RIP) (my personal favorite moment in their illustrious history) 2003 single "Are You Gonna Be My Girl." The smart answer is in the form of this understated single from similarly named, drastically dissimilar musically: Wet's "Don't Wanna Be Your Girl." Playing with silence, gentle synths and astounding vocals in a way that James Blake's eponymous debut album was praised for, Wet's EP is one of my favorites to be released recently.
The cover of Wet's EP is a deformed rock in the shape of a face in its hands, a shiny, unfeeling sculpture. The symbolism for Wet is the way these songs feel formed in-time, as lead singer Kelly Zutrau weaves a story throughout, much like a sculptor slowly feels out an unmolded piece of clay into a less unmolded piece of clay. Wet's EP was released on October 15, and can be streamed (and bought) on their Bandcamp page.


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Talisay's Most Wanted killed in police operation
One of the Most Wanted Persons in Talisay City, Cebu was killed by the members of the Regional Mobile Force Batallion in Central Visayas (RMFB-7) on Wednesday morning (September 12).
Police identified the fatality aa Billy Baguio, a resident of Barangay Tangke, Talisay City.
Members of RMFB-7 were about to arrest Baguio but he fired shots at the police first. This prompted for the police to neutralize Baguio.
The suspect was declared dead on arrival upon reaching Talisay City District Hospital.
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I'm back in KL for the Chinese New Year holidays, yippee! With food typically going over the top to usher in the Year of the Tiger, hear my belly roar!
Tonight was a first at Restoran SS2 Murni in SS2. Be kind, in KL culture I know this means I haven't lived till now. For those that are not native KLites, this is well and truly one snazzy jewel in the crown of Mamak-dom. Mamak being the local term for Malaysian street food where all Malaysian cuisines come together, usually an extremely basic, sweaty, noisy and often open-air environment. Despite its chaotic surroundings, this is very much a destination venue for those in the street food know.
Mamak menus don't tend to vary tremendously, so typically you just have to know your dishes. Like going down to your local boozer, you already know your poison without a menu. So when you feel like you need one, you know it's a little different. This was also a glaringly obvious example of how long I've been living away from home. The food has evolved far beyond the good ol' mixture of Malay, Indian and Chinese, it's now incorporating cuisines of further-flung origins. For example, the guy in charge of roti canai was making something resembling a calzone! I swear it was a tandoori-filled calzone.
Surfing through other Malaysian sites, I find other examples of these mad concoctions like Roti Hawaii or Cheese Naan (served with Condensed Milk!).
Though very tempted to try these exotic creations, I returned to my own stubborn rule that a place is best judged by a classic dish, so I chose the Nasi Lemak. Firstly because it's a staple that a mamak MUST get right, secondly because there were about 5 in the table across from me and it's blackened, caramelised chargrilled chicken leg was hollering my name out.
And oh, did this luscious siren get her victim. Chicken was fragrant from the pandan leaf that it was grilled with. Breaking the perfect fried egg to release it's yellow goo into the coconut rice was a deadly kiss. Finally the zappy sambal belacan cut through the creamy mixture. Super. Spicy. Harmony.
Aside from the alternative take on mamak food, Murni's is famous for these lurid-hued drinks that are both fascinating and scary. Essentially a fruit smoothie, fruit juice crushed with ice taken from a massive container looking like a small skip, and topped up with lychees, cubed jelly and fresh fruit pieces. I wanted to be brave and try the Ribena Special (Ribena syrup swirled in with other juices), but its bright punk purple colour put me off! My brother's tame looking Mango Special however, was actually wonderfully refreshing.
Whilst paying on the way out, the lady in charge handed us flyers for their new opening in Sunway. She said they are so popular they can't cater for the crowds and proudly mentioned the new place was air-conditioned. But what's a mamak without pespiring into your Maggi Mee Goreng? A super-fun and tasty find, I will definitely drop by again before the holiday is done.


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How do you design a toddler space around a Retro-modern Dick and Jane theme? Start with some fabric in primary colors and add some vintage Etsy finds.
See what else we discovered at Ohdeedoh below including beautiful tee pees straight out of a Paris magazine, a DIY picnic caddy, and a roundup of new products we're excited about at Ikea.
The tee pees featured in Milk Magazine made our AT Europe blogger wish she could call one of these little hideaways her own.
Design Sponge showed us how to make this cute picnic caddy with just an empty six pack holder, some wrapping paper, pencil, scissors, and rubber cement.
Some of the new kids items in the Ikea catalog like the Gasell chair and Leka Baby Gym, are bound to become classics and favorites.


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6 Ways to Become a Kickass Seasoned Seller
From the 1980's until now the sales process is a whole new ball game. From closing the deal on a cocktail napkin to now using various tech-tools to simply land a meeting. Sales has indeed changed. I was lucky enough to sit down and chat this past Labor day weekend with one of the greatest saleswoman I have ever met. Back in the day the companies she worked for insured her due to how valuable she was to the company. Wowza.
Backing her game up since the 1980's, she shared with me some of her most simple tips around being a successful seller. So grab a hot dog, take a seat, and enjoy a few insights around how you can learn from the seasoned sellers and step up your own sales game.
1. Grab a coffee with a potential buyer
Forget that you are trying to sell and focus on the person you are engaged with. This will not allow you to build a foundation for a solid relationship but give you the opportunity to listen to their story and their needs. Listen intently and ask questions. Drop your phone, close your laptop and listen. You can tell a whole lot from a potential buyer by just listening. Time frame, budget, issues, pain points, hesitations, even methodologies. Sometimes selling isn't at all about the actual selling. It's about understanding the needs, wants and issues of the person that is about to be your potential buyer.
2. Be Persistent
A lot of times your potential client is busy and doesn't reply to your emails, show any interest, or even buy from your service at that time. Don't show your disappointment. Be a good sport. Hang in there, keep forging ahead with emails and calls. Continuous follow up is going to be key. Let them know you know they are busy but you are there when they need you.
My Sales Tip: Put them on a nurtured drip campaign using ToutApp. That way they are getting highly personalized and consistent follow up over the course of weeks or months.
Most negative reactions I have recieved thus far:
You are persistent…do you know that? Let's hop on a call.
Consistency and persistency will pay off in the end. Just don't go too overboard:
Ease up on the fun dip Jen.
3. Be Transparent and True
If you are asked a tough question that you cannot answer… be honest…don't wing it. Instead of fumbling, let them know you will get back to them the same day with the answer or will have an engineer call them back with the answer. Never drop the ball on any of their requests!
4. Train, Practice, then Throw the Pitch
Did you know that 66% of opportunities close the deal with the person who helps them create the vision and teaches them something new? Pretty neat…right? The salesperson that educated them with new ideas and perspective are more likely to close the deal. You want to add value. And interestingly enough, the #1 reason that people buy is not only due to need but for the sales experience. Train, teach your potential customers first then close the sale. If you're good enough, they will ask for more and make selling that much easier.
5. Build Trust
Trust is built on listening and understanding the customers wants and needs. Do what you say you are going to do. The potential customer must trust you in order to be your partner. You must nurture and care for them. Think authentic, relevant, and personal communications. Think of how you feel when you are do business with people you trust. Be yourself, don't always feel sheltered by professionalism. I am more likely to trust someone if I can tell they are real with me. Sharing a joke or a story may not only put them at ease but allow for certain barriers to be broken down and allow them to open up to you.
My Sales Tip: Get to know your prospects. Beyond the sales workflow and pain points, try to dig deeper. Favorite football team, hometown, hobbies even favorite sales tumblr. Find that personal touch and build that trust.
Every Wednesday, I shoot over this video to my potential customers and they always get a kick of it. Make your communication unique and engaging.
6. Knowledge is Power
But seriously, I cannot stress this one enough. Study, learn more about your customer and what they do and what they will need prior to chatting with them about your product. You should always be craving to learn more. Know and understand the ins and outs of your industry. Biggest pains, puns, latest innovations, selling strategies, best practices. This will give a fresh and insightful perspective for your potential customers. Always try to be the best at what you do day to day.
Master the crap out of your sales market. Read articles on your target industries, join webinars, go to a sales Meet-up, or network events in the area. Follow the top twitter accounts, top bloggers and influence leaders in the field. And soak it in and apply it to what you are doing. You will only become more successful as a sales professional and leverage that knowledge to become a thought leader within your industry.
Sales is truly an art. One can never be perfect at it and there is always room for growth and improvement. It takes years to become a master of sales. Be persistent, be transparent, teach, listen, build trust and throughout it all have your own voice.
Just remember, a good salesperson takes their job seriously and wants to be the at the top of their game. They are competitive and do not want to lose. Have conviction that what you are offering will greatly add to the prospects' life, belief that this is the best offer the prospect can choose, determination to communicate that you are right and drive to close deals on deals on deals.
P.S. If you aren't already – start Touting, for crying out loud.


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Dish interested in T-Mobile partnership, possibly Sprint too
Dish Network Corp., the second largest U.S. satellite-TV provider, is seeking to partner with T-Mobile USA if AT&T Inc.'s takeover bid fails, Chief Executive Officer Joseph Clayton told Bloomberg News.
Dish, which acquired wireless spectrum earlier this year as part of deals for bankrupt DBSD North America Inc. and Terrestar Networks Inc., could merge its spectrum assets with T-Mobile to create a strengthened competitor to AT&T and Verizon Wireless, said Clayton. T-Mobile needs additional spectrum to offer higher-speed wireless service for smartphones such as Apple Inc.'s iPhone. Dish could also partner with a company other than T-Mobile, such as Overland Park-based Sprint Nextel Corp., Clayton said.
Dish is interested in buying assets from AT&T and T-Mobile if the companies divest customers and spectrum to address regulatory concerns over the merger, Clayton said. Dish has publicly opposed the T-Mobile acquisition, saying it hurts competition.
"We're not interested in making money on selling our spectrum," said Clayton in the interview. "We want to use it to create a national wireless network, video, voice and data. We've got expertise in satellite-TV, and we will in satellite broadband. The voice part, we'll need some help with."


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Following his victory in the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest, Krishna found himself in a changed world. Within twenty-four hours both the stylist and hairdresser had left the team. "They were awful careerists," Krishna told us, "both of them left for Japan. A band called Vow Wow had poached them from under my nose."
This betrayal gave Krishna cause to re-evaluate his life.
"The spirit works in strange ways. There was something out of balance inside of me; at a fundamental level. I toured the cloud reefs in a Cessna Sky Yacht reading CS Lewis. I was looking for new insights and ways of seeing through nature, through art."
After experimenting with watercolours, which he found unsatisfactory, Krishna decided to focus on the next generation. "Not children, or not in the genetic sense. I built a race of sentient creatures from the DNA level up." The research facility on the site that had previously been the Aeroville estate in Colindale, which had been silent for so long, was now alive again with polyphonic voices and elegantly reimagined limbs. "Intelligent design is so important to me."
When Krishna returned to the industry to record this new album, Brand Ambassador, things had changed across Europe. The micro-balkanisation on a regional level that had carried his success as Nova Grendoza's entry to the Eurovision had granulated into ever smaller nano-states. "And there were more of those anomalies: why had Israel ever been in the Eurovision? So many regional departments of former North Korea wanted a slice of the cake. Europe has become defuse and indistinct; like Middlesex or NASA."
As a reaction to this multiplicity of global singularities, Krishna work became once again increasingly local; he focussed on the specific. "It's easy to generalise. Everyone is an expert these days. The dilettante who knows his backyard like the back of his hand, and can evoke the genius loci beneath every rock, has been sidelined for a lot of wafflers."
So here, wafflers, is the new album. It's a little over forty minutes long and contains eleven tracks. Ten recorded at Nova Grendoza West and one recorded at Nova Grendoza East. "And a big shout going out to the Searchin' posse: Tom, Doig and Gemma. Yeastflakes is a reboot of the Searchin' number Whipsnade, but it could never have happened without those guys."
Solomon Kirchner, Alperton North-East, 2015


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Hollow Orthodoxy
Taking Orthodoxy beyond the self-congratulatory
We must guard against noticing when another parishioner seems careless in the making of the sign of the cross, while we go about demonstrating for all around us, the proper way. Making sweeping signs of the cross that are done in such a way as to be almost a caricature, following up with profound bows, we can end up distracting fellow worshipers in the process. If we make a public display of our fasting, making sure our non-Orthodox family and friends know how strict we are, we miss the point of fasting. If we struggle to make our icon corner the largest and most complete of anyone in the parish, but never stand before it in prayer, we treat it as nothing more than nice art.
If we allow ourselves to become spiritual gluttons, and turn the traditions of Orthodoxy into occasions for sensual and prideful displays, we will not embrace the grace that can be ours through quiet and penitential struggle. If our public displays of piety become distractions for fellow worshipers, we can actually be diverting our attention from the all important confrontation of our personal sin. Externals, while important to Orthodox piety, and the deepening of our faith, must not be allowed to replace the mystery of faith that comes only with the acquisition of a humble and contrite heart.
We must guard against allowing external displays of Orthodoxy to become an end in themselves, and remember these traditions and pious practices were designed to serve as aids for deepening our faith by connecting our whole being, both body and soul, on this journey to God. We must take Orthodoxy beyond the self-congratulatory of being a part of a beautiful faith, with sublime worship practices, glorious temples, and beautiful vestments.
Without giving our full attention to the struggle for holiness, and deepening our prayer time, we will end with a weak form of Orthodoxy, that is beautiful on the outside , but hollow on the inside. Taking simple little steps under the guidance and direction from one's priest or spiritual father, or by council with that pious little old lady, whose face radiates the light of Christ, we will be able to enter into the Kingdom of God, having gained the humility and joy that does not necessitate being extravagant with the externals.
With love in Christ,
Abbot Tryphon
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Notice: In previous postings on this blog, I wrote that the monastery is not supported by the Western American Diocese, of which we are a part. This statement was incorrect, and in fact our diocese holds a special collection each year for its two main monasteries, of which All-Merciful Saviour Monastery is one, and parishes all throughout the diocese, which are often themselves extremely poor, offer what they are able on our behalf. Additionally, the diocese has in the past offered us additional financial support in cases of extreme need, and has even this year made adjustments to its collections to help bring funds to us earlier in the year. As a monastery of the Western American Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, we are grateful to the diocese, and to its parishes and many faithful who contribute to our life in this way--whose small but heartfelt contributions join with those of our many other benefactors to make our life here possible.
Thursday April 17, 2014 / April 4, 2014
Passion Week: Great Thursday.
Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Food without Oil
Venerable Joseph the Hymnographer of Sicily (883).
Venerable George, monk, of Mt. Maleon in the Peloponnesus (9th c.).
New Hieromartyrs Archimandrite Benjamin (Kononov) and Hieromonk Nicephorus (Kuchin) of Solovki (1928).
New Hieromartyr Nicholas bishop of Velsk, martyr Mary (1932).
New Hieromartyr John priest (1933).
Martyr John (1943).
Venerable Joseph the Muchailing of the Kiev Caves (14th c.).
Venerable Zosimas, abbot of Vorbozomsk (1550).
Venerable Zosimas, monk, of Palestine (560).
Virgin-martyr Pherbutha of Persia, her sister and servants (343).
New Hieromartyr Nicetas the Serb of Albania, Mt. Athos and Serres (1808).
Venerable Theonas, metropolitan of Thessalonica (1541).
Icons of the Mother of God, named "Gerontissa" and "Deliveress".
St. Isidore, bishop of Seville (636).
Holy Martyr Kallinikos.
Venerable James of Old Torzhok in Galich, Kostroma (15th-16th c.).
Martyr Basil of Mangazea in Siberia (1602).
You can read the life of the saint by clicking on the highlighted name.
The Scripture Readings for the Day
1 Corinthians 11:23-32Institution of the Lord's Supper
23 For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; 24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, "Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me." 25 In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me."
26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till He comes.
Examine Yourself
27 Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. 28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. 30 For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep. 31 For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged. 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
Matthew 26:2-20
2 "You know that after two days is the Passover, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified."
3 Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people assembled at the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, 4 and plotted to take Jesus by trickery and kill Him. 5 But they said, "Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar among the people."
The Anointing at Bethany
6 And when Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, 7 a woman came to Him having an alabaster flask of very costly fragrant oil, and she poured it on His head as He sat at the table. 8 But when His disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, "Why this waste? 9 For this fragrant oil might have been sold for much and given to the poor."
10 But when Jesus was aware of it, He said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a good work for Me. 11 For you have the poor with you always, but Me you do not have always. 12 For in pouring this fragrant oil on My body, she did it for My burial. 13 Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her."
Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus
14 Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests 15 and said, "What are you willing to give me if I deliver Him to you?" And they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver. 16 So from that time he sought opportunity to betray Him.
Jesus Celebrates Passover with His Disciples
17 Now on the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying to Him, "Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?"
18 And He said, "Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him, 'The Teacher says, "My time is at hand; I will keep the Passover at your house with My disciples."'"
19 So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them; and they prepared the Passover.
20 When evening had come, He sat down with the twelve.
John 13:3-17
3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God, 4 rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. 5 After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded. 6 Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, "Lord, are You washing my feet?"
7 Jesus answered and said to him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this."
8 Peter said to Him, "You shall never wash my feet!"
Jesus answered him, "If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me."
9 Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!"
10 Jesus said to him, "He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you." 11 For He knew who would betray Him; therefore He said, "You are not all clean."
12 So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you? 13 You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. 14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. 16 Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. 17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
Matthew 26:21-39
21 Now as they were eating, He said, "Assuredly, I say to you, one of you will betray Me."
22 And they were exceedingly sorrowful, and each of them began to say to Him, "Lord, is it I?"
23 He answered and said, "He who dipped his hand with Me in the dish will betray Me. 24 The Son of Man indeed goes just as it is written of Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born."
25 Then Judas, who was betraying Him, answered and said, "Rabbi, is it I?"
He said to him, "You have said it."
Jesus Institutes the Lord's Supper
26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, "Take, eat; this is My body."
27 Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you. 28 For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. 29 But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father's kingdom."
30 And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
Jesus Predicts Peter's Denial
31 Then Jesus said to them, "All of you will be made to stumble because of Me this night, for it is written:
'I will strike the Shepherd,
And the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'
32 But after I have been raised, I will go before you to Galilee."
33 Peter answered and said to Him, "Even if all are made to stumble because of You, I will never be made to stumble."
34 Jesus said to him, "Assuredly, I say to you that this night, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times."
35 Peter said to Him, "Even if I have to die with You, I will not deny You!"
And so said all the disciples.
The Prayer in the Garden
36 Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples, "Sit here while I go and pray over there." 37 And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed. 38 Then He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me."
39 He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, "O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will."
Luke 22:43-45
43 Then an angel appeared to Him from heaven, strengthening Him. 44 And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
45 When He rose up from prayer, and had come to His disciples, He found them sleeping from sorrow.
Matthew 26:40-27:2
40 Then He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "What! Could you not watch with Me one hour? 41 Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
42 Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, saying, "O My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done." 43 And He came and found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy.
44 So He left them, went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words. 45 Then He came to His disciples and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners. 46 Rise, let us be going. See, My betrayer is at hand."
Betrayal and Arrest in Gethsemane
47 And while He was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, with a great multitude with swords and clubs, came from the chief priests and elders of the people.
48 Now His betrayer had given them a sign, saying, "Whomever I kiss, He is the One; seize Him." 49 Immediately he went up to Jesus and said, "Greetings, Rabbi!" and kissed Him.
50 But Jesus said to him, "Friend, why have you come?"
Then they came and laid hands on Jesus and took Him. 51 And suddenly, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword, struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
52 But Jesus said to him, "Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. 53 Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels? 54 How then could the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must happen thus?"
55 In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, "Have you come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to take Me? I sat daily with you, teaching in the temple, and you did not seize Me. 56 But all this was done that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled."
Then all the disciples forsook Him and fled.
Jesus Faces the Sanhedrin
57 And those who had laid hold of Jesus led Him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled. 58 But Peter followed Him at a distance to the high priest's courtyard. And he went in and sat with the servants to see the end.
59 Now the chief priests, the elders, and all the council sought false testimony against Jesus to put Him to death, 60 but found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward 61 and said, "This fellow said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God and to build it in three days.'"
62 And the high priest arose and said to Him, "Do You answer nothing? What is it these men testify against You?" 63 But Jesus kept silent. And the high priest answered and said to Him, "I put You under oath by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God!"
64 Jesus said to him, "It is as you said. Nevertheless, I say to you, hereafter you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven."
65 Then the high priest tore his clothes, saying, "He has spoken blasphemy! What further need do we have of witnesses? Look, now you have heard His blasphemy! 66 What do you think?"
They answered and said, "He is deserving of death."
67 Then they spat in His face and beat Him; and others struck Him with the palms of their hands, 68 saying, "Prophesy to us, Christ! Who is the one who struck You?"
Peter Denies Jesus, and Weeps Bitterly
69 Now Peter sat outside in the courtyard. And a servant girl came to him, saying, "You also were with Jesus of Galilee."
70 But he denied it before them all, saying, "I do not know what you are saying."
71 And when he had gone out to the gateway, another girl saw him and said to those who were there, "This fellow also was with Jesus of Nazareth."
72 But again he denied with an oath, "I do not know the Man!"
73 And a little later those who stood by came up and said to Peter, "Surely you also are one of them, for your speech betrays you."
74 Then he began to curse and swear, saying, "I do not know the Man!"
Immediately a rooster crowed. 75 And Peter remembered the word of Jesus who had said to him, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times." So he went out and wept bitterly.
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27 When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people plotted against Jesus to put Him to death. 2 And when they had bound Him, they led Him away and delivered Him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
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Description of the Competition:
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Description of the Competition The Competition was preceded by a Preliminary Round
held 23-29 September 2005 simultaneously in the Fryderyk Chopin Academy
and in the Palace of Culture and Science. The main Competition was held from
October 2nd to the 24th, 2005, in the National Philharmonic.
257 pianists from 35 countries, including 47 from Poland, entered in the Preliminary Round. 80 candidates, representing 19 countries, qualified for the main Competition. In their number were 20 Polish pianists.
The Preliminary Round Jury comprised 20 members (all Polish). The Competition Jury consisted of 19 persons, including 8 Polish Jurors.
The Preliminary Round used a system of points awarded for each performance on a scale
of 1 to100. At the end of the Preliminary Round the Jury received an anonymous list
of average scores of the candidates arranged from the highest to the lowest.
Selected for the main Competition were 80 candidates with the highest scores.
Their names were published in alphabetical order. Jurors did not assess their students.
The final average was calculated by correcting the numbers of awarded points which
deferred from the first average by 10 or more points according to the algorithm
specified in the Rules of the Preliminary Round Jury.
The assessment system of the main Competition was based on the YES / NO votes expressing
the Jurors' opinions on whether a participant should be passed into the next stage.
The Jurors also assessed each performance by awarding points on a scale of 1 to 100.
The average score was calculated through corrections, just like in the Preliminary Round.
The margins used were 10, 7, 5, 1 for Stage 1 and 2 and for two consecutive ratings
in the Final respectively (the first rating selected the six prize-winners, the second used
a 1-to-6 scale to allocate places, e.g. 4 points equalled fourth place). In the second rating
procedure the Jurors did not employ the YES / NO system.
During discussions the Jurors made decisions by a show of hands, without knowing
the pianists' names, taking into account the number of the YES votes.
Only in case of doubt whether a participant should be passed the average score was disclosed.
Prize I
Rafał Blechacz
Prize II
Prize III
Dong Hyek Lim
(South Korea)
Prize III
Dong Min Lim
(South Korea)
Prize IV
Takashi Yamamoto
Prize IV
Shohei Sekimoto
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Ka Ling
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ARSENAL fought back after falling three goals behind to earn a 3-3 draw against Bournemouth in an English Premier League (EPL) football match at the Dean Court stadium here.
Charlie Daniels (16th minute) and Callum Wilson (20th) ensured that the London club fell 0-2 behind. Ryan Fraser made it 3-0 for the hosts in the 58th minute.
But Arsene Wenger-coached Arsenal refused to surrender and Alexis Sanchez (70th), Lucas Perez (75th) and Olivier Giroud (90+) ensured they secure a point.
Following this draw, Arsenal remained on the fourth spot with 41 points from 20 matches and will drop to the fifth spot if Tottenham Hotspur beat table-toppers Chelsea.
The draw made Bournemouth jump to the ninth spot with 25 points from 20 games.
But the home club head coach Eddie Howe would have been ruing the draw, especially the way his team performed in the first half.
They went ahead when Daniels controlled a sweeping pass in the Arsenal box and beat Petr Cech with a calm finish.
Things soon got even worse for the visitors when Granit Xhaka tangled with Fraser to the left of the area, and Wilson slotted home the resulting penalty.
Arsenal upped the ante after the interval but with the momentum seemingly shifting in the game, Fraser looked to have killed it off when he raced into the box and slotted the ball home.
But the visitors refused to give up, and Chilean forward Sanchez provided some hope when he reacted first to a deflected cross and headed in at the far post, according to Arsenal's website.
There was another twist when 15 minutes later substitute Perez met a flick from Giroud to the left of the Bournemouth box and volleyed it sweetly into the bottom corner.
Simon Francis was soon sent off for a tackle on Aaron Ramsey, before Giroud—the hero on Boxing Day with an 87th-minute goal—was at it again when he rose in the area in stoppage time to glance in the equaliser.
It was a grandstand finish, and Cech had to be alert to beat away a Dan Gosling strike, but there were to be no further goals from a thrilling six-goal game.
After the match, Arsenal coach Wenger hailed the character shown by his team. "I felt that it was a mental test for us to fight back. We have shown an outstanding fighting spirit to come back and it shows great resilience and a refusal to lose the game—that is quite positive," Wenger told arsenal.com.
He also cited the reasons for the disastrous start. "I thought we suffered defensively. They looked sharper than us at the start. It took us a while to get into the game and you could see they had better recovered than us—that was predictable," Wenger said.
"It's difficult to say (whether it was down to tiredness). I could see we were not at our usual level. I believe that we were not on even ground with our opponents, that is for sure, in the preparation of the game."


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Make the debugger stick to the current thread instead of jumping around between threads!
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Please, please fix this! Debugging multithreaded applications is hard enough as it is, without having to manhandle the debugger just so it does the obvious thing you want.
I'm sure everyone knows what I'm talking about. You're stepping through your function, and suddenly your instruction pointer jumps somewhere unexpected and none of the variable values make sense and you realize you're not in the thread you thought you were in. It's really tough or impossible to get back to where you were in the thread you cared about. Or you set a breakpoint two instructions down, and it may be hit by a completely different thread. Or you Ctrl-F10 to step to a point in your code a few lines down, and again you're in some other thread without warning.
There are only two tedious solutions currently:
a) Freeze all threads in the thread window except the one you care about. This leads to locking up many times, and it's a pain to unlock and continue where you started. Essentially you can thaw all threads, put a breakpoint after the line in your thread that's locked, and F5 over and over until that breakpoint is hit in the thread you care about.
b) Breakpoint filters: create a breakpoint, right click on the breakpoint, click Filter, and enter ThreadId = 7740 (your thread id from the threads window). This is hugely tedious, especially when your workflow involves setting and unsetting many breakpoints.
1) Make sure F10, F11, Ctrl-F10, etc., which are intended to be stepping in the current region of code NEVER switch threads, unless an explicit breakpoint is hit on another thread! This involves setting the thread filter to the current thread on whatever internal breakpoint Visual Studio is setting to achieve the desired stepping functionality.
2) Ctrl-F9 (or similar shortcut) to create a breakpoint with the current thread as its filter.
These two changes would make debugging multithreaded applications sooo much better!
Thanks a lot for your attention.
Thank you for using Visual Studio and for your commitment to improving it. We are currently evaluating whether we will be able to address this suggestion in a future release. Thanks for capturing the pain points you feel when stepping through multithreaded applications while debugging. We will be providing an update soon.
Additionally, I wanted to clarify that the debugger will only ever complete a step on the thread from which the step was originated. So if you hit a breakpoint, disable it, and then begin stepping you should not stop on a different thread. If you have other breakpoints in your application and another thread hits one, then you will be debugging in the mixed thread state as described in this item.
Kaycee Anderson
Program Manager, Visual Studio
25 comments
gmit commented
An option to bind breakpoints to the current thread has been added to the lastest Visual Assist (build 2301+; works in VS2015+)!
We definitely need this MS. Please.
If you want to see how to do it right, try out eclipse. They let you control the flow very easily.
NN commented
Just use this extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mayerwin.DebugSingleThread
Parth Mehta commented
Wayne Cochran commented
It seems that when I first hit a breakpoint and immediately disable the breakpoint before another thread hits I can stay on one thread. Once another thread has hit a breakpoint there is no easy way to focus on just one thread anymore -- you enter thread jumping ****. Seems to jump nondeterministically between threads (even when all breakpoints are disabled). Freezing all other threads is *not* the reasonable answer when you have lots of threads.
fandrei commented
"the debugger will only ever complete a step on the thread from which the step was originated." - this is not true, at least in the latest VS2017. It switches between threads every time when I use the "Step over" or "Step into" command.
Ed Nafziger commented
I voted 3 times for this. Absolutely must have. However, I do have a concern as to what I would want to happen if the code I am stepping into starts a new Task. If that task spawns the method or lambda in a new thread, I think I would want to "follow" the execution, so in that specific example I would want to jump into the new thread. But otherwise I think 99% of the time I want to stay in the current thread.
Richard Vondráček commented
I have a feeling that with the async await model the whole thing gets even more complex. I also have a feeling that statement:
" I wanted to clarify that the debugger will only ever complete a step on the thread from which the step was originated."
it not true in many cases. My bet is that the "current" thread is maybe running some continuation after some await in totally other awaitable context (possibly the same thread) but my brain is lost ;-)
I absolutely understand that this is no trivial development at all. And for modern ASP Net applications it is quite critical.
And I wanted to state that maybe we need more than current thread locked debugging. Maybe we need current "awaitable context" locked debugging.
Jim Balter commented
" I wanted to clarify that the debugger will only ever complete a step on the thread from which the step was originated."
You have no idea how your own software works. When I press F10 or F11, my application starts running. That should not be possible in a debugger that functions correctly.
Thomas Markiewicz commented
+1 We need this Microsoft... PLEASE!
DARK Guy commented
I can't believe we're in 2017 and this functionality hasn't been worked on yet. To me, it seems that MS just fakes listening to its users, because it doesn't as it can clearly be evidenced here.
Robert Schmidt-Cisternas commented
Still broken in VS2017 - the debugger is useless when debugging a single thread out of multiple. I'm using .NET Core and ASP.NET Core.
Bob Bryan commented
I too agree that the proposed functionality is absolutely critical to debugging multi-threaded code. Have you ever tried to debug multi-threaded code and watch the instruction pointer stay on the same line (which causes one to think, gee - did I press the F10 key hard enough?), jump forwards, as well as jump backwards every time the step key is pressed? This is all due to multiple threads running thru the code. The debugger needs to provide a little bit of extra functionality that allows developers to control how multiple threads are run to make debugging the code easier, and without having to freeze each and every thread and then unfreeze those same threads later on - which can be quite time consuming.
This is what I would suggest:
Provide a default multiple-threaded debug mode that single steps thru the code without switching to a different thread. That makes the code easier to debug by single-stepping through the code. As others have pointed out, that is how IBM and others do it. There are two sub-modes of this mode. The first sub-mode, the default, stops all other threads from executing through the code, which in effect forces the code to be single-threaded at that point. It should do this by freezing the other threads. The developer would have the option of unfreezing specific threads later on if he should want to debug 2 or more threads running thru the code. The 2nd sub-mode allows other threads to run through the code, but only threads from the thread of interest are allowed to hit breakpoints.
The non-default multiple-thread debug mode allows multiple threads to run through the code, as is the case now. Both the mode and sub-mode should be able to be changed via a context menu or some hot-key combination at any time while debugging.
stu commented
This has been broken since the dawn of time. IBM's OS/2 debugger worked correctly, kdbg works correctly, xdbg or whatever AIX's full screen debugger was called worked correctly, eclipse with gdb works correctly, msvc is the only debugger I've ever used that has this crazy random thread context switching problem, and it has had it at least since this product was called visual c++. If they haven't been able to fix it by now, likely they're never going to. Makes you wonder how MS developers debug their software, obviously they don't use their own tools or they'd have fixed this problem by now.
I find current behavior not user friendly. There should be a flag "stick to current thread" which will automatically check $TID to match current thread ID. It is annoying to be throwned into other thread while you stepping across the code (in particular, it is hard to debug web servers that can serve parallel requests).
Klaus commented
James wrote:
"This is broken then. At least it was in VS2012 (the version I'm currently stuck using). If you're single stepping through code that is being executed in parallel across multiple threads, there's no guarantee which thread you'll end up in next."
I can verify this behavior for the latest VS 2015 Community Edition and it annoys me to death. When I remote debug websites, I get 5-10 second VS hang ups when I suddenly step into my handler code.
Funny enough: I almost forgot about this problem, but then I got a new PC and recognized the massive delay while debugging. I checked my old client and found out, that it stays in the first thread I step into. I assume this change comes from a patch I installed years ago for my VS 2008 SP1 which had severe debug problems. I'm not sure, but I think it was this one: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/957912/updates-for-visual-studio-2008-sp1-debugging-and-breakpoints.
Please fix this, it's such a senseless time killer! A "Stay in first/current thread" button/option would be nice and can't be that difficult to implement.
James commented
"I wanted to clarify that the debugger will only ever complete a step on the thread from which the step was originated. So if you hit a breakpoint, disable it, and then begin stepping you should not stop on a different thread."
This is broken then. At least it was in VS2012 (the version I'm currently stuck using). If you're single stepping through code that is being executed in parallel across multiple threads, there's no guarantee which thread you'll end up in next.
Michael Zhang commented
Any Updates. This feature is going to be increasingly useful as multi-threading applications are exploding these days..
I vote for this request! do you have any update will this be implemented by Visual Studio team ?


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August 31st, 2015
Popular culture likes to lament about how the US and developed countries are outsourcing all their jobs to other countries out of cost necessity. This can be accurate but it is vastly over exaggerated. Regular individuals encounter this culture clash when they're on the line with another country with customer support, like a call center for tech support.
Now this can be frustrating because sometimes 'Sanjay' has to go by 'Steve' and talk to an individual who is having an issue with his new thingamajig, meaning he may not have any technical background. So two vastly different individuals who both actively go into the call can experience some clash of understanding and patience.
So I will break my own rule here and speak in the first person. I am one of the Project Managers here at Codal which is an interesting and wholly challenging role to play. Since most of our team is not located in the same place we need to have a constant stream of communication that runs 24 hours a day. The liaison between our clients, our developers, and all those in between is the Project Manager (PM), at least in this specific instant.
It's a unique role because my working hours have taken the space of one of the time overlays. Implementing a good agile strategy means the engine can't stall, this doesn't mean we can't stop and shift into reverse (which is doable in agile), we just can't have the engine stop running.
Any direction is better than that. So our team in Ahmedabad come in a little later than normal business hours in the US so they have an opportunity to report to the US team in an ample fashion. In my opinion, a good PM has to be there for his team abroad on their time. We want to anticipate any issues during their most productive hours, which means the good PM comes in extra early to mitigate any potential issues.
Just as any job has multiple learning curves, global project management requires a capacity for complete openness and adaption. In India for instance, the glaring cultural differences can be an obstacle for production if it is not managed correctly. If the Fourth of July in the US is on a weekday this might be a hindrance on the team abroad, just as the Indian Festival of Lights, 'Diwali,' will pause development and could be a hindrance in the US. Our solution is to optimize what we can work on internally when the overlays are obstructed.
We've got an office in London for instance, where it's only six hours ahead, so adding another layer to this overlay can increase the complexity of project management. Suddenly I have to consider who is having breakfast in Chicago, lunch in The UK, and dinner in India, all at the same time.
The language barrier is probably the easiest thing to point to as one of the hardest issues of project management. I will admit this can be hard, but the one alleviation to this issue is not complaining to upper management, rather, it's to work with your team to communicate better. This is the first step to improving the barrier: admitting there is a problem. Now I can only speak of my own experience, but if one were to step back a moment he or she would realize that many of the team members in India know multiple languages. We've got Hindi speakers, Sanskrit speakers, Gujarati speakers, and English speakers.
In the States just at our office alone we have Spanish speakers, Gujarati speakers, Italian speakers, Russian speakers, Hebrew speakers, and of course English speakers. Everyone has a capacity to have a large skill set explaining problems different ways and in different languages. I didn't even count all of the coding languages of which there are dozens.
In any case, when a PM is honest about having an issue with something like language, working to solve it teacher-student wise is actually a very positive experience. Challenging my teams to write responses to client inquiries means two things: I can focus on more pending issues and our team members gain an intangible and priceless skill they can take with them outside of work.
Politicians often complain about how stateside jobs are being moved overseas. They're right, especially with primary and secondary industries, that is sourcing raw materials or material production of goods. What we're supposed to have here in the US is a huge tertiary market which is the service industry. This is where the real high paying jobs seem to be at threat of being lost. Having this misconception can really cost the truth.
The truth is the US does not have as much high skilled technical development solutions as it might think it has. This in turn makes the labor market much more competitive and the barriers to entry are raised further for development firms like Codal if we were to rely strictly on homegrown resources.
These development skills are not American by nature… they're human skills. My teams that I work with are fantastic and they're highly skilled. The most interesting insight is a willingness to move toward the best development strategy. It's easy to be condescending, and many PM's can be. All of my team members are much more learned than I and I have the utmost respect for them. That stance and orientation is the second step in good project management.
When I worked retail in college, one of the most inconvenient situations was when a customer would come in a couple minutes before closing. I very much disliked this and openly view it as the most passively rude thing a customer can do. Corporate giants will insist that the customer is always right, but guess what, they might have money but that doesn't buy compassion.
Due to the time difference, I should come during the team abroad's dinner time. This would be the equivalent of coming in right before the store is about to close. It's really annoying. So to improve our development I find that coming in extra early during their afternoon helps keep everyone on the same page because they won't feel the need to rush.
Global project management relies on this type of understanding. At the same time, one of our engineering leads in the US stays up extra late to facilitate a smooth handoff of the day's tasks. Identifying times that can have the capacity for miscommunication and then implementing a solution for those times is a really effective strategy for happy clients and on time delivery of products.
Global project management is a team effort. The approach one takes needs to be open. Ethnocentric and rigid cultural norms need to decay a little bit on both sides in order for effective development to be the ideal.
Honesty, openness, understanding, and humor are the best tools to managing projects in three different places at once. This role is unique insofar as it is the funnel for all bits of information in data, in whatever language to be directed to its proper destination. I love it and hope to progress these strategies further as my career grows and as Codal grows.


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She finally let the little kid inside her come out to play
Trina Lucido promotes creativity by creating a coloring journal
You are a creative person.
We all are.
And at some point you have to quit doubting yourself. You have to quit listening to people who say you can't. And you have to just do it.
Trina Lucido told me this as she sat by a table and bed filled with her artistic creations — handmade greeting cards and her own foray into the wild new craze of adult coloring books.
"Stay true to yourself," she said.
People really do want art in their lives. They want to create.
Trina Lucido
This makeshift studio in her Palmetto Dunes home on Hilton Head Island seems a lifetime away from the hectic pace of home in the Washington, D.C., area. Her drawing table overlooks a lagoon. A triangular engineers' ruler holds open her vintage red train case filled with art supplies she never leaves home without. On the other side of the room are the trappings of her 14-year-old son's art — a keyboard and guitar, and the makings of a podcast.
"You do want approval from other people," Lucido said, "but you have to believe in what you are doing, whether they don't like it or whether they do like it."
Lucido was told by an art teacher when she was 10 that her rabbit didn't look real enough. This burden hopped in her little brain and did not come out for 40 years.
Meanwhile, she got a degree from Georgetown University in applied mathematics. Her dad was a doctor, stressing math and science. She was good at it but found herself having more fun making the covers for her reports than writing them. She convinced her parents to send her to the the Corcoran School of Art + Design, where she dived into the magical new world of the Macintosh and learned the trade of graphic design for newspapers and public relations firms.
Somewhere in there, as her husband's online marketing firm grew, she, in effect, told the art teacher of 40 years ago to stuff it. She began to draw.
Lucido now fills stacks of notebooks with sketches, writing and colorful brushes of the intriguing things she sees — a flower arrangement, an architectural flourish, a paint sample sheet, a patch of wallpaper. She stresses journaling. Her new adult coloring book is also an artist's journal.
Lucido relishes the feeling she gets inside when she acts on her creativity. It's when you think you could sit and do it for the rest of your life.
For her, one thing leads to another, and her creativity becomes an "idea Hydra" that can't be cut back.
She has an agent and markets her coloring books, cards, and vintage odds and ends like old train tickets at pop-up shows and on her online site called Jubilee Flea.
You have to work hard at being creative, she said.
"You really need to carve out time for yourself."
For her, that includes time on Hilton Head, where the colors, trees, and the sound and smell of the Atlantic's surf punch her re-set button.
The Lucidos have owned an island home for 10 years. She vacationed here as a child.
She's attracted to the art on Hilton Head and Bluffton's gallery row.
"I love going to that little theater," she said of the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina. "It has a small-town feel but great productions."
More people today are traipsing across life's stage, daring to put their own little rabbits out there for all to see.
"People really do want art in their lives," Lucido said. "They want to create."
Adult coloring books prove it. They bring out the little kid that lives in each of us. The kid doesn't care if the cows are orange, the clouds are pink or the rabbits look like four-wheelers.
On Lucido's desk overlooking the lagoon is a partially finished page of a future coloring book. It's filled with letters ready to be colored in:
"I Can Totally Do This."
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