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SUSPECTED counterfeit cigarettes and tobacco worth more than £7,000 were discovered in a raid on an Oldbury shop.
The 350 packets were found in a raid by Sandwell Council's trading standards officers and Oldbury Police last Thursday (February 6).
Most of the suspect tobacco products were found in the kitchen of the premises, with others concealed in a jacket worn by the shopkeeper.
A spokesman for Sandwell Council said it couldn't reveal the name of the shop while an investigation is ongoing.
Councillor Farut Shaeen, Sandwell Council's cabinet member for living healthy lives, said: "This is another excellent result for the trading standards team and their partnership with the police.
"Shopkeepers should realise that if they get involved in providing illegal tobacco products they will get caught out and face further action."
Oldbury Police took to twitter to share the good news saying: "Partnership working at its best.
"Today this shop owner had £7000.00 of counterfeit tobacco seized. Evading duty does not pay."
Partnership working at its best. Today this shop owner had £7000.00 of counterfeit tobacco seized. Evading duty does not pay. #Oldbury @sandwellcouncil @SandwellTS @WMPolice @SandwellPolice @SmethwickWMP @RowleyWMP @SandwellNhoods @thinkSandwell pic.twitter.com/6a2ljruCO1— Oldbury Police (@OldburyWMP) February 6, 2020
Councillor Shaeen warned that all cigarettes and tobacco were harmful, but people should be aware that fake tobacco is even more hazardous than the real thing because they can never be sure what they are smoking.
She said: "Fake cigarettes are often a fraction of the price of legal ones, but while most people believe they are getting a bargain, many do not realise the effect buying it has on them and their community."
The sale of counterfeit goods is a serious criminal offence which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years' imprisonment.
Anyone being offered cheap tobacco or any other types of illicit goods should report it to Trading Standards by calling the CEnTSA's confidential fakes hotline on 0300 303 2636.


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We have chosen SDG 3 – Good Health and Well-being – because we think that SDG 3 needs to be worked on because health and well-being is very important for everyone to live and have sustainable lives.
We have established a herbal spiral garden with several medicinal plants that works on various health problems.
– We focused on common diseases in school communities prioritizing Malaria. Therefore, we have grown Artemisia annua which is used in traditional medicine to treat Malaria because it contains Artemisinin. And we haven't had Malaria at our College since the moment we are growing these plants, because it is a mosquito repellent and an infusion from the plant is drank and taken as tea. This can help you to get relieved from Malaria within a few hours.
Our students, teachers, tutors, as well as the community around have enjoyed this wonderful plant, and appreciated the Integrated Land Use Design (ILUD) / Permaculture at our College because of the health and well-being that is being provided by numerous plants at the College in the Herbal spiral.
Below is the list of Artemisia annua benefits next to treating Malaria:
- To treat fever;
- It contains the element thujone which is believed to have antioxidant properties;
- Boosts the immune system;
- Used for cancer studies; it contains the two components Artemisinin and Artesunate and both are studied for cancer treatment;
- And it is used in: aromatherapy, in many of the products in the craft industry such as herbal pillows and potpourri, in the Perfume Industry and in flavoring beverages and wine.
– We also grow Lavender which is also one of the important medicinal plants in the herbal spiral at our College as it combats most of the common diseases and health problems in the college community.
Below are the health benefits of Lavender:
- Help improve sleep;
- Help treat skin blemishes;
- Offer a natural remedy for pain;
- Reduce blood pressure;
- Relieve Asthma symptoms;
- Lessens menopausal hot flashes;
- Help combat fungus growth;
- Potentially promotes hair growth;
- Boosts the memory.
– Rosemary is also one of the plants in the herbal spiral that has played wonders in fulfilling the obligations of health and well-being in our college community. The herb has been hailed since ancient times for its medicinal properties. It was traditionally used to help alleviate muscle pain, improve memory, boost the immune and circulatory system, and promote hair growth.
Rosemary has a range of possible health benefits:
- It contains a rich source of antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds, which are thought to help boost the immune system and improve blood circulation;
- Improving digestion;
- Enhancing memory and concentration;
- Neurological protection; Rosemary contains an ingredient called carnosic acid, which can fight off damage by free radicals in the brain and appears to be protective against brain damage and might improve recovery after, for example, a stroke;
- Prevent brain aging; some studies have suggested that rosemary may significantly help prevent brain aging. The therapeutic ability of rosemary for prevention of Alzheimer's shows promise, but more studies are needed;
- Cancer; research published in Oncology Reports found that crude ethanolic rosemary extract (RO) slowed the spread of human leukemia and breast carcinoma. Another study, published in Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry, concluded that rosemary might be useful as an anti-inflammatory and anti-tumor agent;
- Protection against macular degeneration; a study published in the journal Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, revealed that a carnosic acid, which is a major component of rosemary, can significantly promote eye health.
And last but not least our students enjoy all herbs such as Peppermint as well as Lavender, Rosemary and Artemisia annua in their tea.
We want to make others aware about how to work on SDG 3 and help them to establish herbal spirals and food forests in their school communities. Therefore, we teach our partner schools in Kenya and Togo about Permaculture/ILUD and prioritizing SDG 3 because health and well-being is very important for everyone.
We teach them our knowledge and experience by Skype and WhatsApp and email. ILUD professionals in Uganda, Zimbabwe and Kenya guide us during this project, so that our partner schools understand what needs to be done. And we learn a lot from them about their culture, environment, issues related to climate change, how to work together, and to share knowledge because there is diverse of knowledge in the area of health and well-being especially in relation to the use of herbs.
- In the first 2 pictures below you see the differences before and after the implementation of permaculture;
- Pictures 6 and 7 shows changing compound into food forests and water harvesters;
- In all other pictures you see us during installation of our permaculture project, our herbal gardens, food forests, mush room garden, and all the trees we have planted to grow fruits and to fight global warming – the cheapest climate change solution.

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Electricity laboratory 12
Laboratory twelve in SC 130 Physical Science focused on the simplest of electrical circuits, electrical conductivity, and Ohm's law.
Cuteleen has lit a single bulb using a wire, a 1.5 volt cell, and a flashlight bulb. This term only a couple of students reported having done this exercise, and both noted that they did not do this activity in class but rather at home playing with a flash light bulb.
For me this captures in a single anecdote the sad state of hands-on science education in the elementary and secondary schools. Term after term only two to three students will have had any encounter with this activity that is sometimes known as "batteries and bulbs." Yet this is an easy to do, basic introduction to electrical circuits.
The students invariably create a short circuit at some point, which leads to a really hot wire. This provides a good opportunity to cover the potential fire danger of short circuits.
This electrical laboratory also explores Ohm's law. Jessica Salvador and Jessica Herry take data as Joyceleen activates the three bulb circuit. Rico and Iniki look on. The result of the gathered data will be an V = iR xy scattergraph where the linear regression has a slope of R. The complication with the rig is that resistance varies with bulb temperature. I prefer bulbs to resistors, however, because the students can see the bulb is lighting up. Otherwise there would be nothing to see but the mysterious deflection of the ammeter and voltmeter.
The third portion of this laboratory is the exploration of which materials conduct electricity. This ties back to the laboratory on heat conduction. Palikkun checks for connectivity while Hanna records the data.
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This section is from the book "Human Sexuality", by J. Richardson Parke. Also available from Amazon: Human Sexuality.
Up to the middle of the last century two directly opposing currents of opinion prevailed concerning the comparative strength of the sexual passion in women and men. Gall, Tait, Lombroso, Windscheid, Moll, Krafft-Ebing, Fehling, and Lowenfeld, may be cited as fairly representative of the negative side of the argument; and Brie ire de Boismont, Benecke, Coltman, Venette, Vedeler, Duncan, Mantegazza and Eulenburg, of the affirmative. The view that woman is fully as passionate as man, tersely if not elegantly expressed in the old Arabic proverb"the longing of the woman for the penis is greater than that of the man for the vulva," is undoubtedly the view of antiquity; founded in part on those erroneous conceptions of female character heretofore noted; and which, before the extension of the Renaissance movement in Europe brought about a more just and sympathetic appreciation of woman's place in society, relegated her to a condition of chattelage and servitude, little better than that of animals. But even at a later date we find the sentiment cropping out. Montaigne, while pointing out that men have imposed their own rule of life and ideals upon women, demanding from the latter opposite and contradictory virtues, argues that women are incomparably more ardent in love than men, and that they know far more than men can teach them; for it is a discipline born in their veins.1
It cannot be denied that in matters of sexual love women, as Venette asserts,1 are more lively in imagination, and romance, and have usually greater leisure to indulge the play of both than men; but as to the question whether men or women derive the greater pleasure from the sexual embrace, the same writer could only reply that "man's pleasure is greater but woman's lasts longer."
In the Kcenigsberg district, near the Baltic, where sexual intercourse before marriage is quite the rule, it has been found that the girls, along with being entirely willing for the act, are not infrequently the seducing parties; and in Koslin, Pomerania, where intercourse between the girls and boys is equally common, the former visit the latter's rooms quite as frequently as the latter do those of the former. In some of the Dantzig districts, says Ellis, the girls give themselves quite freely to the youths, sometimes seducing them, and that not always with a view to marriage.1
1 H. Ellis, lac. at., in, 160.
As a proof that woman is not infrequently the temptress in such matters, it is recorded of Anton Sua Caracalla that, sotting his mother-in-law, a handsome woman, with her breasts exposed, he exclaimed: Ah, si liceret"oh that Tmight!" To which she amorously repliedQuicquid libel lictt"thou may est if thou wilt!" and Isaiah's picture of the whore, with her "bracelets and sweet-balls, and ear-rings, and wimples, and veils, and crisping-pins," was surely not founded on a conception of the sex's coldness. "When she goes along," remarks another of these old cynics, "sh* ruffle* her clothes to make men look at her; her shoes creak; her breasts are tied up; her waist is pulled in, to make it look small; she shows her stocking, or her leg, pulling up her petticoat, and fires men's passion with the languorous glamour of her lascivious eyes. Springes to catch woodcocks," as the saintly Chrysostom wamingly remarks.
As physical sex is of course a large factor in the life of women, it should not be astonishing that the psychical element is equally large; but notwithstanding what has been said, and the admittedly dominant function of reproduction in woman, her intense relationships to life, feeling, sympathy, maternal emotions, and love, it is extremely doubtful whether she is, under any condition, susceptible to the same erotic passions as are felt by man. At least all, or nearly all, modern writers agree that sexual anesthesia is commoner in women than men; meaning, of course, that the physical element of pleasure in, and desire for, intercourse is less in the former than the latter. Investigators of the subject are, however, frequently misled by the statements of women themselves, who, fearing by too free admission of their passion to provoke suspicions of impurity, very often deny the feeling entirely. I have found this to be in many cases a practice of design among young wives, to inspire their husbands with the greater confidence in them; and while it may be frequently used as a cloak for sexual depravity, there is hardly a doubt that it is more frequently either partially true or perfectly innocent in motive.
On the other hand, in most of the modem "realistic" novels, written chiefly by the "new woman," this longing for maternity is only used as a thin veil to disguise the sexual desire; and however men may declaim wing scraping the ground and all his feathers ruffled, is the analogue of the young dandy showing off before his sweetheart; and although it has been discovered by a careful observer 1 that a few birds, such as the stone-curlew, have dances which are not distinctly nuptial, even in these, when participated in by both of a pair, the dance is immediately followed by sexual intercourse.
When two male birds fight, which they frequently do, for one female, with violent passion on one side, and willing preference for the stronger on the other, the only way to account rationally for so much swelling, crowing and strutting, is by comparing it all to the essentially human male vanity which delights in parading its prowess before the eyes of the female; and it is interesting to note how almost rational is the instinct of the male to utilize those points of physical perfection in which he most excels in courting the favor of his feathered lady-love. Those which, like the eagle and turkey, are strong and vigorous, display only their strength; those of gaudy plumage, their beauty; while those possessing little of either, but gifted with the power of song, rely wholly upon sweetness of sound.
The love-making of birds is very interesting, and has been closely observed by Forbes, Hudson, Schreiner and other naturalists; but is too extended a subject to enter on here. It may be remarked, however, that many of them, particularly the ostrich, have a strange habit of courtship known as waltzing. After running some distance, with extended wings, they will suddenly stop and begin to spin rapidly, until they become so giddy that they fall to the ground. Frequently very vicious cocks will "roll" when challenging to combat, or when wooing the hen, inflating the neck, drooping the tail, erecting the plume and expanding the wings in such a way as to display to the very best advantage whatever of beauty of plumage they may possess.
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Here I am SIX years later and it went from the small of my back to up my back, wrapped around my chest, up my neck into the left side of my scalp and starting to make an appearance on my upper arms. With it growing and becoming increasingly annoying and painful I decided to follow the referrals to a dermatologist that seems to enjoy taking on such a complicated case, and not to mention this man is a genius. I did what needed to be done, many biopsies and many tests. I was put on Accutane for 7 months straight after I had Carson, it seemed to help by not letting it grow or crack and bleed anymore, but then it started to grow at a faster rate, and I became more and more uncomfortable. Now I am started down another road, EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENT. Nothing like being a guinea pig to make things interesting.
I am on four different treatments, one is efudex which is a type of chemo to treat skin cancer, also oral medication. I will tell you efudex BURNS BAD, and the absolute worse is the clobex spray I apply to the scalp. OH MY WORD! I could cuss and not be ashamed! I have 30 days to see what happens and I am in the first week, so three more to go.
My fear is that it will consume my entire body, for any woman this does not help all the insecurities we seem to have anyway, or getting an infection and becoming septic if this spreads. I came to terms with the ugly possibilities and told my husband, and his response was "we have been through so much already, but there is nothing we cannot get through together." he hugged me, and I cried. I went the longest time not telling people because at one point I was VERY embarrassed but if you know me, that did not last long and I no longer care what others think of my weirdness.
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Any discussion of sport in Canada begins with hockey. By extension, any discussion of sporting facilities in Canada begins with the Montréal Forum, "the most storied building in hockey history." Home to the Montréal Canadiens—professional hockey's winningest team—for 72 years, the Forum was ultimately abandoned in 1996 for a larger and more lucrative stadium several blocks away. Since then, it's been converted into a theatre complex.
The Forum was a legendary Olympic venue as well. Early on during the 1976 Montreal Summer Games, Nadia Com?neci's scored a perfect 10 on the uneven bars, an Olympic gymnastics first. The 14 year-old Romanian's cumulative score couldn't be displayed on the three-digit electronic scoreboard, so it appeared as "1.00″ instead. She would go on to repeat the feat six more times, and garner three gold medals. The Forum was also the site of the Olympic handball, basketball, volleyball and boxing events. Unremarkable as architecture, the Forum is unparalleled as a historic site among Canadian stadiums.
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The Decision Once there was a girl who was presented with a plan,Her master asked her obedience while she lived upon the land.He asked her to be good, clean, kind and true,He said, do unto others as you would have done to you.He explained that she would need to walk the faithful higher way,To let the light of heaven guide her through each day.He reminded her of His sacrifice for the times that she would fail,Through repentance and obedience in the end she could prevail.He promised if she would be faithful he would grant her eternal life. The condition that she endure well, refusing sin and strife.He spoke to her of her mansion created with great care,He reminded her that obedience was the path to take her there.She nodded as she listened for she understood the plan,Leaving her Master teacher she journeyed through the land.As she lived among men and the trifles of her day,She began to love the world and all it had to say.It's offering of sin and selfishness pleased her carnal mind,A reason to restrain herself she didn't seek to find.Indulging in the things her God commanded her to refuse,She had chosen Satan to be her master, guide and muse.Her footsteps ever followed where her darkened master lead,Her mouth was ever an echo of the darkness that he spread.At last her journey ended and her spirit returned above,She remembered her premortal life clearly and her Fathers endless love.Weeping in her prison she knew what she had done,She had chosen nothing, over all she could have won.Her story is a warning to those who still have time,To repent and follow the Savior who does so sweetly shine.Before each of us is a decision, will we choose our mansion above?Will we live with our Heavenly Father in happiness and love?Written by Michelene Glasson
The message of this song reminds me of the girl in my poem. It is a song of regret not change. I hope we can live now for a song of eternal happiness and joy, rather than a song of eternal regret.
I absolutely love listening to Neal A. Maxwell teach! At the close of this amazing talk he said, "And, if you sense that one day every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord, why not do so now? For in the coming of that collective confession, it will mean much less to kneel down when it is no longer possible to stand up!" I hope we will each decide to follow our beloved Savior Jesus Christ now. Satan encourages us to procrastinate the day of our repentance and commitment to follow our Redeemer. Following this subtle tactic can land us with the eternal consequence of regret. Let us treasure up the truth Amulek taught, "this life is the time for men to prepare to meet God."
I am so very grateful for our beloved prophet Thomas S. Monson and all the apostles of the Lord. This video is a beautiful explanation of our moral agency. I am grateful for my membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints! It is a privilege and blessing to hear the word of the Lord taught by His true ordained servants!:)
How many times have I put this beautiful song on different blog posts? Well I think three. It is a beautiful and hopeful message that we all need to remember. We can repent and change; and why not now? To learn more about the gospel of Jesus Christ or meet with our missionaries please go to www.mormon.org. You can live chat and schedule a time for the missionaries to stop by and share the gospel message with you!:)


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The reductions also include $5.5 million in savings from contracts, as well as eliminating central funded graduate tutors ($3 million), the District's contract with Playworks ($1.425 million), and reducing vacant central office positions ($1 million).
The full list of the reductions proposed by district staff can be viewed below.
The cuts were made several months after the district announced pay raises for all WCCUSD employees costing the district $28 million through 2021. The pay hikes aim to retain quality employees in the district, such as teachers.
"The reductions were spurred by several factors, including compensation increases that will total $28 million through 2021, rising pension costs, and reduced revenue caused by decreased enrollment, lower share of the parcel tax due to charter school growth and the of certain state and federal funds," according to the district.
Said WCCUSD Superintendent Matt Duffy:
"We worked very hard to increase compensation across the District and needed to work just as hard to balance our budget. All of the proposed reductions protect our core program, allowing us to focus and make progress on our Roadmap 2022 goals. While no cuts are easy and one can argue that there is some value in each of these services, we must make these hard decisions in order to meet our targets."


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The most interesting aspect of the Spectre Folio is obviously that leather material, and it's worth noting that it isn't a case. As the Folio-name suggests, the leather is integrated into the laptop's metal frame, making this more a futuristic Filofax than traditional laptop.
The leather – which HP says was harvested from the manufacturing of other leather accessories – comes in burgundy, and gives the Folio a distinct look and feel.
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LG was very excited to talk about the G2's 5.2-inch full HD display when it debuted the device in August. It said the extra 0.2 inches made a huge difference in usability when compared to the Samsung GS4, for example, which has a 5.0-inch screen. Whatever. It's slightly bigger. The 1920 x 1080 IPS LCD screen is quite beautiful to behold. It is bright, sharp, and colorful. I noticed only a little brightness drop-off when the phone is tilted side-to-side and there's no blue-shift. It can be used outdoors, but you need to crank up the brightness a bit, especially if you're planning to take some pictures. Full HD screens continue to be awesome, and the G2's is another good example or how far phones have come in the last few years.
The G2 performed well on AT&T's network. I was able to spend about half my review period on AT&T's HSPA+ network and the other half on the LTE network. The G2 remained connected tightly to both. Call set-up times (gap between pressing send and hearing the device ring) were longer than I'd like, but they always connected on the first dial. The G2 did not drop any calls. Data speeds were excellent on both HSPA+ and LTE, though they slowed down a little bit when the coverage was weak.
Sound quality of calls was quite good. I was pleased with the volume and tone of voices coming through the earpiece. Voices were perhaps a bit sharp, but not in a painful way. Set all the way up, I was able to hear calls easily in a busy restaurant during lunch hour. In fact, I could have turned it down a bit. The speakerphone loses some quality, but volume was still pretty good. I was able to hear calls over background music and several conversations. People with whom I spoke through the G2 said I sounded good, but a little distant. Ringers and alerts were plenty loud, and the haptic feedback was strong. One note: LG managed to find an email alert that's more annoying than Verizon's "DRRRROOOIIDDDD" alert. LG got the Vienna Boys Choir to sing "Life Is Good!" in their little high-pitched voices, and that's the default email alert. I found it incredibly annoying, but it can be changed.
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The G2 offers acceptable battery life. It lasts a full day, despite the bright screen and quad-core processor. For a big phone with lots of features, it's nice to see a solid, waking day of battery life. Don't expect it to last much more than that, though. It'll konk out overnight if you forget to plug it in.
LG came out gunning for Samsung with the G2, its new flagship smartphone. The G2's spec list is crammed full of the latest and greatest options, and its software improvements are also notable.
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LG today announced the G2, the successor to last year's flagship smartphone and the first to use the company's new "G" branding for its premium devices. The G2's stand-out feature is a 5.2-inch in-plane switching 1080p HD display.
Jul 23, 2013
The FCC today approved an LG phone with distinct design elements that match teaser images LG has issued for its forthcoming G2 flagship phone. The variant approved by the FCC supports AT&T's unique LTE frequency band.
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Peak-to-Needle Traverse Climber's Log
xDoogiex - Aug 19, 2020 5:35 am Date Climbed: Aug 20, 2020My first of the four great 14er traverses
I don't normally sign route logs here but this one was a ton of fun. 3 of us going solo and a group of 2 met on crestone peak and helped each other
heymcgraw - Jul 15, 2020 7:38 pm Date Climbed: Jul 14, 2020Great Traverse
We had a great day and the weather held. Subjective what people enjoy and what scares people. Main issue for us was route finding, but we did our homework. It's challenging and the crux is short and fun. Hiking down the Needle was no picnic.
MissH - Aug 21, 2017 12:13 am Date Climbed: Aug 20, 2017Fun day
Just under 2 hours. I followed on two short pitches - the 5.2 at the gendarme and the 2-move knife edge. Everything else was climbed free. Wore rock climbing shoes at gendarme to summit.
Woodie Hopper - Sep 20, 2015 12:37 am Date Climbed: Sep 19, 2015Sensational!
Solo. Easy route finding with plenty of conspicuous cairns. Don't do this route if you are uncomfortable with MASSIVE exposure and steep class 4/5. If you slip on the summit pitch, you're likely toast.
1:35 time for the traverse
DanielL - Oct 13, 2013 3:45 pm Date Climbed: Sep 1, 2011Fun climb
Got this done on a great September morning - not a true ridge traverse most of the time but lots of great rock to climb around on!
Pete Castricone - May 31, 2012 3:21 pm Date Climbed: May 30, 2012Peak to Needle
From S. Colony TH in a day. This is a horrible route and not really a "traverse" at all. I would not recommend it to anyone.
zoomloco - Jul 16, 2011 4:36 pmellingwood arete direct to traverse
actually by far the worst of the CO classic 14er traverses. go for blanca traverse. TR at http://zoomloco.xanga.com/732717261/purple-mountain-majesties/
Brian C - Apr 27, 2010 8:27 am Date Climbed: Sep 2, 2009cool
This is great. One of the easier of the "4 traverses". Go do it!
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pyerger - Jun 9, 2009 5:09 pm Date Climbed: Aug 18, 2007peak to needle
Nice traverse, the last pitch was nice and airy.
Ted Eliason - Jan 17, 2009 11:47 amA short day into long
It's 10:00 am, you are at the summit of the needle in a total whiteout, and a group is rapelling onto the traverse from the top. Why not keep going? Only got stuck in one sketchy section mid-way through the traverse that was hard to protect.
benners - Dec 9, 2008 8:44 pm Date Climbed: Aug 8, 2007Classic
We came up and over the final pitch to summit the Needle, the top was sticking out of the clouds, maybe my most memorable moment on a mountain.
ClimbandMine - Jan 14, 2008 6:08 pm Date Climbed: Sep 15, 2007peak to needle
fun hike and scramble. route finding and climbing aren't bad at all.
chicagotransplant - Sep 17, 2007 10:29 am Date Climbed: Sep 16, 2007Peak to Needle
Great scrambling all along this traverse, with the best at the end. Nice steep face climbing on good knobby rock right below the Needle's summit.
shanahan96 - Feb 2, 2007 6:04 pm Date Climbed: Jun 10, 2006peak to needle
my second great fourteener traverse. it wasn't really hard like expected, but the scrambling on the needle side was pretty cool. 2:08 for the traverse.
Brad Snider - Aug 7, 2006 4:13 pm Date Climbed: Jul 24, 2005Peak to Needle
My first of Colorado's 4 great 14er traverses, w/ bc44caesar. Thoroughly enjoyed it!


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Title: Convenience Store Woman
Author: Sayaka Murata
Translator: Ginny Tapley Takemori
Type: Fiction
Genre: Adult, Contemporary, Cultural, Japan
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: June 12, 2018
A physical copy of this book was kindly provided by Publishers Group Canada, in exchange for an honest review.
Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what they should say, and she copies her coworkers' style of dress and speech patterns so that she can play the part of a normal person.
However, eighteen years later, at age 36, she is still in the same job, has never had a boyfriend, and has only few friends. She feels comfortable in her life, but is aware that she is not living up to society's expectations and causing her family to worry about her. When a similarly alienated but cynical and bitter young man comes to work in the store, he will upset Keiko's contented stasis–but will it be for the better?
Sayaka Murata brilliantly captures the atmosphere of the familiar convenience store that is so much part of life in Japan. With some laugh-out-loud moments prompted by the disconnect between Keiko's thoughts and those of the people around her, she provides a sharp look at Japanese society and the pressure to conform, as well as penetrating insights into the female mind. Convenience Store Woman is a fresh, charming portrait of an unforgettable heroine that recalls Banana Yoshimoto, Han Kang, and Amelie.
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This book must be one of the most unique books that I read so far this year, and perhaps that I have read ever! I really like how it was narrated, and that Convenience Store Woman started off with a very clear description of what a convenience store in Japan is like. Since I have travelled to Japan twice now, I could imagine the convenience store that the main character, Keiko, works in quite easily. But, the description was done so well, that I am sure that even those who have never set foot on Japanese soil well be able to imagine what convenience stores there are like! While the convenience store in this book plays such a vital role that it could almost be considered a character itself, the actual main character was very interesting for me to read about.
I don't think that I have ever come across a character like her before, in fact! I was never quite sure what to think of her, and would definitely consider her to be an unreliable narrator, but despite this, she still made me smile and laugh as I made my way through Convenience Store Woman! Keiko, as well as the other characters in this book, were quite easy to imagine as they went about their lives, and they all felt very dynamic and real. I would like to say more about this book, but fear that I might give too much away. Overall, I really enjoyed this book, and found that it was a quick read even for a slow, and easily-distracted, reader like myself! I just had to know what was going to happen, and how it was all going to end!
– About the Author –
Sayaka Murata (in Japanese, 村田 沙耶香) is one of the most exciting up-and-coming writers in Japan today. She herself still works part time in a convenience store, which gave her the inspiration to write Convenience Store Woman (Conbini Ningen). She debuted in 2003 with Junyu (Breastfeeding), which won the Gunzo Prize for new writers. In 2009 she won the Noma Prize for New Writers with Gin iro no uta (Silver Song), and in 2013 the Mishima Yukio Prize for Shiro-oro no machi no, sono hone no taion no (Of Bones, of Body Heat, of Whitening City). Convenience Store Woman won the 2016 Akutagawa Award. Murata has two short stories published in English (both translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori): "Lover on the Breeze" (Ruptured Fiction(s) of the Earthquake, Waseda Bungaku, 2011) and "A Clean Marriage" (Granta 127: Japan, 2014).
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BRIDGEWATER — Adversity.
Just two games into the season, the Bridgewater-Raynham Regional High School boys lacrosse team has already been forced to overcome it.
Rebounding from a 13-5 season-opening loss at defending state Division 3 champion Cohasset last Saturday — a game in which they also lost senior defenseman-long stick midfielder and team captain Conor Rubenskas to a shoulder injury; then Zach Long, the team's senior faceoff man, broke his thumb at practice on Monday — the Trojans were every bit as dominant as the final score would indicate in defeating Old Rochester Regional, 13-1, in their home opener at B-R on Wednesday afternoon.
"Cohasset is a great team and they exposed a lot of our weaknesses," veteran coach Matt Connolly said after his team had evened its record at 1-1. "I was hoping that was a game we could learn from. To see us bounce back like this was important. Losing a starting defenseman and our faceoff guy was another wrinkle. Losing a lot (from last year's team that went 16-3) to graduation adds another element.
"Today, I think we played as complete a game as we're capable of at this point. I was pleased with the play all over the field and we played hard. We take a lot of pride in doing the little things and we were winning the groundballs and keeping the pressure on."
You won't find his name among the goal scorers — and there were seven of them for B-R — but senior Nate McDermott turned in a step-up performance and earned himself the game ball by taking over in the faceoff circle.
"Nate McDermott did a lot for us as our face-off guy," said Connolly. "He's a middie, but he wears a lot of hats for us. He did that again today. I'm proud of him."
Senior attackman Johnny Lydstone led the goal-scoring parade for B-R with four. Senior midfielder Shane Fries and sophomore attackmen Jack Morgan and Tim Keefe had two apiece. Senior midfielder Kyle Duggan started the onslaught with a goal 2:08 into the game and sophomore attack Ryan Concannon and freshman attack Christian Thornton each scored his first varsity goal to complete the scoring in the fourth quarter.
In control from start to finish, the Trojans had Bulldogs goalie Nate King under siege from the outset.
Duggan struck first followed by Fries, Lydstone (on a rebound of a shot by Fries) and Morgan (from Keefe).
B-R extended its lead to 7-0 before Old Rochester's Owen Powers got his team on the scoreboard late in the first half, stripping Eddie Perry, the Trojans' sophomore goalie, of the ball and rolling it into an empty net.
Fries, Lydstone and Keefe had the second-quarter tallies for B-R.
Any thoughts the Bulldogs (0-2) may have had of any second-half dramatics were dashed when Lydstone sandwiched third-quarter goals around one by Morgan to up the count to 10-1 heading into the fourth.
The schedule gets more difficult over the next week or so for the Trojans, who will host Hanover at noon on Saturday, then entertain Concord-Carlisle on Tuesday of next week before heading to Mansfield for a game on April 12.


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I have very recently begun exploring Italian movies, and Fellini is a revered name of this genre. Sometime back I watched Otto e Mezzo (8 1/2) by this movie-maker, and was rather impressed by the work. The movie is a depiction of a director's brain-work as he struggles through a director's block, exhausted of any original and artistic ideas. During this period, he delves into memories, fantasies, dreams and nightmares, mostly absurd and illogical. However, the viewer is always kept confused between the mind-work and reality, as both of them overlap with a persistence. It is a well known fact that it was an autobiographical movie, and after watching Amarcord, it appears that Fellini likes to put in an autobiographical element to his works.
Amarcord is far removed from the serious and a rather hopeless tone of Otto e Mezzo, and is a rough and risque comedy. It is Fellini's recollection of his rustic hometown of Rimini, as he takes us through an year of this town's life. It's a town which enjoys its silly rituals, lusts after women and has a bunch of bored school boys indulging in fantasies that they hide from their prohibitive church. It is a rather conservative and retrograde town, rejoicing in simple entertainments like cheering the passage of a very large ship (Rex), and tumbles into chaotic activity on arrival of the Fascist leader Mussolini.
Though the movie is largely told from the perspective of young Titta, who is actually a cinematic version of Fellini's own youth, it is actually a collage of different stories featuring different people. Though the scene with the tobacconist features in almost all discussions that I read of the film, I thought there were other sequences which deserved better attention – for example the sequence of church confession which depicted the un-accommodating and unrealistic nature of the church, the sequence about the uselessness of school education and the hilarious scene with uncle Teo!
This film has been described in many places as a 'Coming of age' film, though frankly, the 'growing up' part was not too visible to me. In fact I thought that the end scene where the town's femme fatale gets married to a Fascist officer, almost eliminates from the story Titta and what happens to him at the year's end.
Overall, I think this movie was a well done tribute from Fellini to his hometown, and it was apparent that he was looking back at this small place fondly and without reproach for all its misgivings.


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Italian mozzarella champion Obikà launched its premiere London restaurant in Canary Wharf back in November. Purportedly Italy's favourite restaurant group, Obikà's focus is to offer premium Mozzarella di Bufala Campana DOP served alongside a typical assortment of Italian artisan products, such as Prosciutto Crudo di Parma DOP, Bresaola della Valtellina (cured beef) and Isle of Ewe smoked salmon along with a mouthwatering list of antipasti, hot dishes, freshly baked pizza and aperitifs.
If you love proper mozzarella and down to earth southern Italian cooking then you're very much in luck (especially if you live or work round Canary Wharf). And if you're wondering how such a cheesy concept can result in a franchise spanning six countries in three continents, you should head over to the Wharf and see what the hubbub's all about.
The open and airy Obikà benefits from its location within the large-windowed winter garden interior. But, honestly, the place could be a real dump and still be worth a visit. The mozzarella (whether delicate classica, naturally smoked affumicata or creamy burrata) is indeed a delicious draw. The £12.50 lunch menu (choose from three main courses plus a "mini dessert", mineral water or soft drink and a coffee) presents an efficient and reasonably priced way to savour the simple beauty of one of Italy's most delicious exports.
Obikà is located at Unit 1 West Wintergarden, 35 Bank Street, E14 5NW (but don't be surprised if more outlets start springing up all over town).
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Saket Chaudhary's upcoming slice of life comedy film, Hindi Medium, is set to release on May 19.
Cast: Irrfan Khan, Saba Qamar, Deepak Dobriyal
Producers: Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar
Director: Saket Chaudhary
Music: Sachin-Jigar
Story & Background :
Hindi Medium is the story of a couple (Irrfan Khan and Saba Qamar) who are hell bent on ensuring that their child has a good education. In this case, a good education being synonymous with fluency in English to prove one's worth.
The two, in their struggle to get their child admitted into an English medium school, live up to the unhealthy obsession of society because "Koi angrezi mein baat karega toh uski rooh kaap uthegi, fit nahi ho paegi society mein, toh lonely and depressed ho jaegi aur usne drugs le liye toh?"
Irrfan Khan plays a Punjabi saree shop owner, while Saba Qamar, who is making her Bollywood debut with this film, plays his wife.
Hindi Medium also stars Deepak Dobriyal, Vijay Kumar Dogra and Jaspal Sharma in pivotal roles.
The trailer of the film, was out two weeks ago. It highlights the "Iss desh mein Angrezi zabaan nahi hain, class hai" mindset. If you haven't seen it yet, watch it here:
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Sidmouth men bowl to Interclub win over Torquay
PUBLISHED: 12:10 17 February 2018 | UPDATED: 12:10 17 February 2018
Sidmouth men were in Saturday morning action against a team from Torquay in the Devon Interclub competition, writes Carol Smith.
Sidmouth went into the game having lost their last three games – all by narrow margins – but this time they came through as winners, though it was something of a nail-biting encounter!
News filtered through that both the Sidmouth away rinks had been edged out, but only by a combined total of eight shots, which, I might add, is pretty good when playing away!
And so to the action at home where the rink of Bill Sheerman, Allan Davis, Mark Stephens and skip Ken Wheeler had already won 23-11.
Chris Nappin's rink had one more end to go and Chris was four shots down when he stepped forward to bowl (no pressure then!).
With ice cold nerve, Chris drew with his second shot and that left Sidmouth 80-78 winners overall – phew!
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It is being held on Saturday, February 24, and runs from 10.30am through to 1pm.
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Challenges for Knowledge Transfer - KT-Challenges-2011
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Welcome to KT-Challenges!
Financial stringency, spending cuts, problems achieving growth, both universities and industry across the UK and wider Europe face some of the most severe challenges for a decade. Universities need to generate more income through knowledge transfer, while at the same time maximising its impact. Companies are looking for new and innovative solutions to their problems, which could be achieved through the exchange of knowledge with universities, if the firms can be persuaded to commit.
How can the available knowledge transfer opportunities be exploited, with constrained resources?
'Challenges for Knowledge Transfer - A Time of Change' is a one-day symposium that aims to address this challenge, while also providing opportunities for the success stories of KTP to be told through work-in-progress presentations.
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The symposium will be of interest to knowledge transfer professionals, academics, managers and researchers involved in knowledge exchange across a range of disciplines.
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Sheffield Hallam University
S1 1WB Sheffield
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Thursday, July 7, 2011 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (CEST)
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For as long as I can remember, I have fallen foul of the expectation that a situation would be perfect because that was I how I had imagined it in my head. I often had dreamt up beautiful perfect scenarios where special occasions would resemble that of a movie scene, perfectly behaved children, lots of love and laughter, absolutely no arguing, whining, moaning or fighting. No one running off, no one kicking off and everyone having fun. Idyllic scenes, instagram worthy scenes – utter perfection. We have all been there I am sure, dreaming of these wonderful scenarios. But how often does that actually happen???
In reality, I would imagine the answer is very rarely – not in the real world anyway. But time after time and disappointment after disappointment, I still find myself imagining that the next time will be different, the next time it will play out like it does in my head. I feel confident that we will have learnt from the mistakes that were made last time the dream was crushed, and this time it will be perfect. Invariably, as I'm sure you can imagine, the same thing happens – I imagine something to be perfect and it fails miserably. Not because anything terrible actually happened but because it was impossible to live up to my aspiration. The only thing I don't seem to learn after each occasion is that the common denominator in all this disappointment is my ridiculous perception of what real life actually is like. Not just real life with children but real life in any situation. Perhaps I have watched too many films, looked at too many magazines and too much social media – my perception of real life is warped and maybe I am in denial.
Except, I am not in denial at all. My rational brain sees it all, realises everything and does eventually kick in when it all comes tumbling down in to a heap of crushed dreams and disappointment. That makes it sound all very dramatic and in reality, it is not me lying in a heap on the floor sobbing and screaming why! In fact, it is usually me just getting frustrated, angry and a bit shouty. It may then culminate in a bit of a blow out, a stomp to another room, a bit of crying and then lashings of mum guilt for how I reacted and behaved. It is at this point that my rational brain comes back and reminds me that it was just a dream and ultimately it was unattainable.
Over the last 6 months whilst I have been coping with my anxiety, I have been constantly battling with the loss of my rational side of my brain when an anxiety attack occurs. I have always prided myself on being rational and in control, and unfortunately the anxiety and panic attacks have been eating away at that side of my brain. In fact, this has probably been the single hardest thing to come to terms with throughout my illness and the thing I have fought hardest against.
Counselling helped me to realise that this is a normal response during times of anxiety and it also helped me to realise that my need to control everything is actually quite damaging to my mental health and something that I need to work on managing better. It is something I have been pondering for a while and although I think it will be slow progress I do feel like maybe I am starting to learn to let go a bit.
Yesterday was Mother's Day and this would have been a prime opportunity for me to build up my expectations to insurmountable heights and then come plummeting down when reality kicked in. But instead I took a more reasonable approach to the day, after all I have young children who can't be expected to behave perfectly at all times although some of the time would be good though!! I opted for a relaxed day at home, no expectations, no pressure to be anywhere at a particular time – no real plans. Do you know what? It felt good, really good. There were no major dramas, no tantrums – from me or the children and everyone had the flexibility to do a bit of what they wanted.
Was it instagrammable? No probably not. Was it the stuff they make films out of? Highly unlikely. Was it perfect? Well actually for me it was, for my current situation and frame of mind it was exactly what was needed.
And the key to achieving the perfect day? Well its quite simple, aim for the achievable and you wont be disappointed. Who wants to live like the movies anyway?!?!?


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SURPRISE… I am in New York city :)
I wasn't able to say this until now as Yvonne was surprising her boyfriend for his birthday.
This post is so late because I wasn't able to get online until now but here are photos from the flight across America. Travelling would have been made easier if the wheel on my suitcase hadn't decided to break en route to the airport yesterday morning. Travelling clearly refuses to run smoothly for me. Think I better just accept this now, ha.
Anywho.. I am off to explore the city so will have photos of this beautiful city to show you in what should be todays post later.
Until next time,
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I am really tempted at making the Galaxy Note 10+ my next smartphone. For now, I have a review unit and spent most of Friday and Saturday (literally — I didn't do much of anything else) using it. There are only a finger-full of things I don't like, but — overall — I think Samsung made an incredible smartphone/phablet. Here are some of the things that helped make my time with Samsung's new phablet glorious.
The most annoying thing about owning a smartphone is worrying about losing all the juice and having to recharge it. If you do have to recharge the Galaxy Note 10+ during the day, the fast-charging capabilities are, indeed, fast. With the 25W charger that comes in the box (you can also purchase a 50W plug), the Note 10+ went from 13 percent to 63 percent in about 25 minutes.
It's very likely you won't worry much about the 4,500mAh battery completely depleting during the day, even if you are a power user like myself. And this is with the screen brightness turned up almost 80 percent of capacity.
Speaking of the screen, the Note 10+ has the best screen that's ever been put on a smartphone. The color reproduction is perfect, it works well outdoors, and there are many options to tune the screen to the greatest desires of your eyes.
I initially thought that a 6.8-inch screen would be too big for a smartphone, but Samsung proved this notion wrong. Since the bezel space is almost nonexistent, the phone is still pocketable. And if you find the 6.8-inch screen too large, you can always get the regular Note 10, which has a 6.3-inch screen.
The rich, robust, and encompassing sound is the same as it is on the Galaxy S10+. You won't need external speakers with the Note 10+ unless you connect it to your television set and want the whole room filled with sound. Of course, you'll probably want to have headphones on if you are listening to music, but even that isn't necessary if you want to play your music out in the open.
S Pen
The S Pen has always been the Note's distinguishing feature, but Samsung makes it more unique this time. Though the S Pen still feels cheap, it feels like more than a stylus since it can remotely operate the camera and other things. It has certain "flick" gestures that allow you to go though or rewind a presentation. It is also great to use with Spotify. Most importantly, it does what it was meant to — write well.
Phone Calls
Phone quality has taken a backseat to other smartphone features over the past decade or so, but Samsung makes sure that your voice sounds robust and clear. Even when on speakerphone, my friends on the other end said I sounded clear. One couldn't even believe I was on Speakerphone.
I need to spend more time with the camera before I can make any full-ranging judgments. Perhaps I will add my impressions to this article or write a whole separate one just on the Note 10+'s camera capabilities.
The Galaxy Note 10+ may cost $1099, but it is (gulp) actually worth the price for those who need a top-notch phone, camera, media player, GPS, internet browsing machine, and digital notepad in your pocket. Even if you think you don't need all these things, you'll change your mind once you spend time with Samsung's latest Galaxy Note.


text: So me and the girl I was seeing had broken up with me she told me it was because our friends and interests were different but she still enjoys spending time with me. We stop talking for 2 weeks and I text her saying that she still has clothes at my house and we start flirting again one thing leads to another and we are seeing each other everyday after work, on the monday she would text me saying come over then on tuesday I would say to her come over and we would do this all week. When laying in bed together she starts to kiss me on my head and arms and wants to cuddle me so I do too so its not like we were just having sex, Then we start going out and doing stuff (getting food going to movies ect) and she even stays at my house for like four days leading up till Xmas we do our shopping together then we go our separate ways for the holiday. Then afterwards we pretty much are doing the same thing untill one week she stop responding to my texts are frequent. What I'm thinking happened is she was waiting for me to ask her back out but I never did. I want to text her that I wish I asked her to be my girlfriend again once we started to see eachother but I don't want to look like a fool if I do.


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Councillors approve new £14.5m shared campus in Arbroath
Plans have been approved for a new £14.5 million shared campus for Hayshead and St Thomas RC primary schools and early years facility in Arbroath.
Angus Council's development standards committee yesterday gave the go-ahead for the demolition of the existing primary school and the subsequent construction of the shared campus including Hayshead Primary School, St Thomas RC Primary School and early years facility.
Designed by Holmes Miller, the proposals include a 3,360 sq.m building with six interconnected single and two storey blocks, solar panels and two sports pitches as well as car parking and landscaping.
The main vehicular access to the site will be relocated to Hayshead Road and the proposed car park will accommodate 68 spaces, with six space drop-off zone, four motorcycle parking spaces and four disabled parking spaces. The existing parking spaces on St Abbs Road will also be retained. Pedestrian access will be retained at the St Abbs and Horologe Hill entrances.
Speaking after committee, children and learning convener, Councillor Derek Wann, said: "We are committed to investing in our schools, children and communities. This is a significant application that not only marks an important chapter in the Arbroath schools project, but also our ambitious for a school estate that provides all of our young people with the best possible start in life.
"A new bespoke, shared campus will provide our young people with an inspirational learning environment and I know it will be a facility that will serve the community both now and for generations to come."
Construction of the shared campus is due to start in autumn 2018, with both schools expected to occupy the new building in February 2020.


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Tropika (Aberdeen)
Is there actually any shopping to do in Aberdeen Centre that doesn't involve food? Well, on this one weekend, we came by to pick up some cables from NCIX and bumped into our nephew and his friends so we decided to try out Tropika (located on the lower floor near Mei Jan Hong).
Our meal started out with a Tropical Fruit Punch and Ice Age drink – the latter of which was a frothy mixture of coconut juice and lychee slush.
The Chicken and Pork Satay ($1.30 each) comes with a yummy peanut sauce.
Roti Canai ($2.95) is starting to become one of my favourite appy dishes. It's not just because of the soft, fluffy, and flaky texture of the bread… it's also the slightly spicy curry dipping sauce.
The Singapore Laksa was quite good and had a smooth and creamy spicy curry soup in addition to plenty of toppings.
Pad Thai ($13.95)
Mee Goreng ($13.95)
Pineapple Fried Rice ($14.95) served in a carved out pineapple.
My only complaint about this place is that they don't open on time… we actually wound up calling them while we were standing outside waiting for the gate to open. Even though they told us they were open, it took them another good 5-10 minutes before they opened their gate.
Food: 4.5 / 5
Service: 3.5 / 5
4151 Hazelbridge Way
Richmond, BC
Posted on June 20, 2012, in Malaysian, Restaurant Review and tagged Aberdeen Centre, Food, Laksa, Malaysian, restaurant review, Richmond, Roti. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.


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SHOWTIME Sports has unveiled the network's complete spring 2017 boxing schedule following today's earlier announcement that the heavyweight boxing event of the year will be televised live on SHOWTIME. The stacked lineup includes seven world championship fights across eight live boxing telecasts over an eight-week span.
On Saturday, April 29, Anthony Joshua will face Wladimir Klitschko in the most significant heavyweight world championship fight in more than a decade. The event will air live on SHOWTIME at 4:15 p.m. ET/1:15 p.m. PT from a sold-out Wembley Stadium, where a record crowd of more than 90,000 spectators is expected.
Also announced today, SHOWTIME and Premier Boxing Champions will present the rematch between WBC Light Heavyweight Champion Adonis Stevenson and Andrzej Fonfara on Saturday, June 3. This bout is an encore of a 2014 action-packed fight in which Stevenson edged Fonfara to defend his 175-pound crown.
The SHOWTIME boxing lineup also includes two significant welterweight bouts with world title implications: Andre Berto vs. Shawn Porter (April 22) and Kell Brook vs. Errol Spence Jr. (May 27). Both events are presented in association with Premier Boxing Champions. The April 22 Berto vs. Porter event will feature an anticipated 154-pound world title fight between Jermell Charlo and Charles Hatley as well as world champion Amanda Serrano attempting to become the first woman—and first fighter of Puerto Rican decent—to win a world title in five different weight classes.
On Saturday, May 20, SHOWTIME will present a unique twin-bill of world championship fights. First, boxing's hottest young star, newly minted world champion Gervonta Davis, will make his first world title defense against Liam Walsh from London. Later that evening, featherweight world champion Gary Russell Jr. and former world champion Andre Dirrell will be featured in separate bouts. Start times for both live telecasts are to be determined.
In all, SHOWTIME Sports will present one live SHOWTIME BOXING INTERNATIONAL telecast, one live ShoBox: The New Generation telecast, and five SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING telecasts, all free to network subscribers. Plus, SHOWTIME is in the early stages of planning for the return of four-division world champion Adrien Broner and undefeated star Mikey Garcia in separate events this summer.
The spring lineup complements the network's robust 2017 boxing schedule. In the first 10 weeks of the year, SHOWTIME Sports presented eight world championship fights, including two world title unification bouts (Jack vs. DeGale and Thurman vs. Garcia, SHOWTIME Boxing on CBS), two world title rematches (Frampton vs. Santa Cruz II and Linares vs. Crolla II), the live-stream of the first-ever boxing event on Twitter (Broner vs. Granados), the resurgence of women's boxing (Serrano vs. Rivas) and the first women's boxing main event in premium television history (Shields vs. Szabados).
"SHOWTIME continues its unrivaled commitment to the sport. There simply is no other network in boxing delivering world-class events on a consistent basis," said Stephen Espinoza, Executive Vice President & General Manager, SHOWTIME Sports.
"Our 2017 schedule already includes some 17 live boxing telecasts, 15 world championship fights, with the top-rated fighters squaring off in boxing's deepest weight divisions. We continue to break the glass ceiling on women's boxing, deliver the biggest bouts from overseas and see champions take on champions to unify divisions. We are proud to be re-shaping the boxing landscape both in and out of the ring."
See below for the SHOWTIME boxing spring calendar. This is the network's third major boxing schedule announcement of the past 13 months.
Saturday, April 22 – SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING
Presented by Premier Boxing Champions
Main Event: Andre Berto (31-4, 24 KOs) vs. Shawn Porter (26-2, 16 KOs) – WBC Welterweight World Title Eliminator
Co-Feature: Jermell Charlo (28-0, 13 KOs) vs. Charles Hatley (26-1-1, 18 KOs) – WBC Super Welterweight World Championship
SHOX: Amanda Serrano (31-1-1, 23 KOs) vs. Dahiana Santana (35-8, 14 KO's) – 10-Rd. WBO Bantamweight World Championship
Start Time: 9:30 p.m. ET / 6:30 p.m. PT (SHO Boxing on SHO EXTREME, 7:30p ET/PT)
Venue: Brooklyn's Barclays Center
Notes: · The winner of Berto-Porter becomes the WBC mandatory challenger to Unified World Champion Keith Thurman.
Saturday, April 29 – SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING
Main Event: Anthony Joshua (18-0, 18 KOs) vs. Wladimir Klitschko (64-4, 53 KOs) – IBF and vacant (Super) WBA Heavyweight World Championship
Start Time: 4:15 p.m. ET/1:15 p.m. PT, live on SHOWTIME
Venue: Wembley Stadium, London
Notes: · Most significant heavyweight world title fight in 15 years—since Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson in June, 2002
Saturday, May 20 – SHOWTIME BOXING INTERNATIONAL
Main Event: Gervonta Davis (17-0, 16 KOs) vs. Liam Walsh (21-0, 14 KOs) – IBF Super Featherweight World Championship
Start Time: TBD, live from London
Venue: Copper Box Arena in London, England
Notes: · Matchup of undefeated fighters. Champion vs. No. 1-ranked contender
Saturday, May 20 – SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING
Main Event: Gary Russell Jr. (21-1, 16 KOs) vs. Oscar Escandon (25-2, 17 KOs) – WBC Featherweight World Championship
Co-Features: Andre Dirrell (25-2, 16 KOs) vs. José Uzcátegui (26-1, 22 KOs) – IBF Super Middleweight Interim World Championship
Rances Barthelemy (25-0, 13 KOs) vs. Kiryl Relikh (21-1, 19 KOs) – WBA Super Lightweight Eliminator
Start Time: TBD
Venue: MGM National Harbor in Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area
Notes: · Sixth featherweight title fight on SHOWTIME since Feb. 2016, and second this year.
Saturday, May 27 – SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING
Main Event: Kell Brook (36-1, 25 KOs) vs. Errol Spence Jr. (21-0, 19 KOs) – IBF Welterweight World Championship
Start Time: TBD, live from England
Venue: Bramall Lane Football Ground in Sheffield, England
Notes: · World Champion vs. IBF No. 1-ranked contender
Saturday, June 3 – SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING
Presented by Premier Boxing Champions
Main Event: Adonis Stevenson (28-1, 23 KOs) vs. Andrzej Fonfara (29-4, 17 KOs) II – WBC Light Heavyweight World Championship
Co-Main: Eleider Alvarez (22-0, 11 KOs) vs. Jean Pascal (31-4-1, 18 KOs) – WBC Silver Light Heavyweight Title
Start Time: TBD
Notes: · Stevenson-Fonfara II is a rematch of 2014 all-action championship bout in which both fighters scored knock downs
Friday, June 9 – ShoBox: The New Generation (Hall of Fame Induction Weekend)
Main Event: Joel Diaz Jr. (23-0, 19 KOs) vs. Abel Ramos (17-2-2, 12 KOs) – 10 Round Super Lightweight Bout
Start Time: 10 p.m. ET/PT
Venue: Turning Stone Resort & Casino in Verona, N.Y.
Notes: · International Boxing Hall of Fame Induction Weekend
Expected This Summer
Four-division world champion Adrien Broner and WBC Lightweight World Champion Mikey Garcia in separate events live on SHOWTIME.


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The Xawe were a humanoid amphibian species from the planet Xawen in either the Alpha or Beta Quadrant. At least one individual had mud-colored skin and half a dozen fleshy barbels at the corners of a wide lipless mouth, and it was hard to visually discern gender at first glance. They usually kept to themselves and did not engage in trade much, but when they did their ships were heavily laden with items to trade, making them targets for pirates. They had a couple of colonies along the border of Cardassian space. The Xawe had a monetary economy, which involves taxing inhabitants of colonies such as Anabasi, and their world was known for manufacturing computer equipment, which they treated as an art form. Negotiations for the Xawe to enter the United Federation of Planets were ongoing in the 2370s.
In 2371, the Xawe starship Gift of Flight was attacked by the Helios and destroyed. (DS9 novel: Proud Helios)


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Struggling with finding online orgo 2 class
alwaysivy posted a topic in Pre-PA General DiscussionHello all, I am currently attending a 4 year college to get my undergraduate degree done, but as lots do, I failed Organic Chemistry II. Now I'm looking for an online class to supplement the requirement. It's literally the last class I need to move forward. I found one from a community college near to my school, but the issue with that is the classes have already started. While I was got all the paperwork done, my home college took about a week to send it out, messing up the scheduling portion of attending the community college since they stop scheduling classes after a certain date. I had talked to them before this and they made it seem like that wouldn't be an issue, but now talking to them again, it seems to be a problem. I'm worried as this is the last semester I have before my financial aid runs out. The school takes so long to do anything even with my calling that I don't know if it will be worth the effort to try to get accepted as a visiting student at a different school if I cannot schedule. I have been looking at Doane University, but I'm afraid that the same thing will happen. I am not sure how to proceed, so any advice would be helpful. If I withdraw and try to complete the class over summer instead, maybe that would be better, but I'm not sure if my financial aid will carry that long.
Combined Pre-reqs
Finntastic posted a topic in Pre-PA General DiscussionI know this is mainly a "contact the school" issue, but I'm wondering is anyone has ever had a problem with programs accepting a combined organic chem and biochem course? I just found out one of them won't allow it after I applied
Online Organic Chemistry II with no lab
alwaysivy posted a topic in Pre-PA General DiscussionHello, I've been searching for awhile. I tried to apply to a course that was offered at a community college, but my home school took too long processing the paperwork they needed, so my plans fell through. My request is a bit specific. I need an 8 weeks course (or at least one I can complete before May) that is Organic Chemistry II but with no lab portion, as I have already completed that part of the course. The closest I've come is Doane but their course only seems to have the lab portion attached. Please and thank you! EDIT: Needed to fulfill Bachelor's Degree before going further
OChem II Importance?
KL2017 posted a topic in Pre-PA General DiscussionHello all! I am about to begin my last semester of my undergrad and can't decide whether or not I should take organic chemistry II. I will be completing my BS in biomedical science this spring. I have a 303 GRE which I plan to retake for a higher score. I have a 3.53 overall GPA, a 3.43 science, and a 3.71+ prerequisite GPA (better when general biology, general chemistry, and/or elective upper division courses are included). I have 900 health care hours as a CNA (over 1500 by next cycle) and 40 hours of shadowing experience. I also work with disabled students part time and have a medical mission trip to Haiti (volunteer and 1 week long) coming up this spring. My letters of recommendation were good and came from my HCE RN supervisor, HCE employer who is an MD, biochemistry professor, physiology professor (from the PA program physiology class at my university), and the PA I shadow. I applied to 5 schools this cycle and received two interviews and haven't heard back from 2 programs yet. I was waitlisted at Chatham University and have an interview at DMU next week. I would be extremely excited to be accepted into either program but I am looking/planning ahead should I not be accepted this cycle. I have all of my prerequisites filled for the programs I want to apply to next cycle but I don't know whether I should take organic chemistry II or not. It is not a prerequisite for anywhere I am interested in but I have heard that some schools may "ding" me for taking physics II instead of ochem II? My reasoning for not taking the course is as follows: 1) Not required for any programs I am interested in. 2) I struggled with the first semester of Ochem (took it twice and got a C the first time, a B the second). 3) I want to gain enough HCE hours to apply to programs that require more this spring and study time for this course will take away from that (it is much more difficult than physics II). 4) Since anyone with a bachelors and the prerequisites can apply to PA programs, I assume I won't be "dinged" for not taking this course (especially when I have many upper division biology courses with a 3.54 GPA to support my application) 5) It has been a very stressful year. I take care of my little sister who has bipolar depression and a history of abuse. Because of this and a busy schedule (working ~35 hours/week and attending school full-time) I often struggle with emotional and physical exhaustion. I worry about Ochem II being very difficult to manage this semester. Any advice on whether this course is worth the stress, time, and forfeit of HCE hours? Any additional advice about how to turn my application up a notch? Thank you for any advice provided!
Interview: Rehearsed vs Organic?
Figritout posted a topic in Pre-PA General DiscussionGreetings, I am preparing for a few interviews I have in the near future and wanted to pose this question. All the literature I have found says that I should prepare for my interview, that is, read possible questions, practice my answers, know what I am going to say before I get into the room, etc etc.... and, this just struck me as...odd? So my question is this: Does prepare for your interview mean: Read all the practice questions I can, have an answer in mind, rehearse my answers, practice what I think I should say before hand etc. etc. Or does prepare for your interview mean: Look kid... you've had 4 hard years of school which you graduated with outstanding grades, you've worked hard in multiple settings and collected over 1000s of experience hours, you organically and honestly want to become a PA, all of these things have led me to this moment... so rely on my education, rely on my experience, and rely on my honest and organic drive to become an PA and simply answer the questions as truthfully and organically as possible... even if the answers are not the "right" answer? Or do the interviewers just want to hear the "right" answer, practiced, rehearsed, and articulated well? idk just to me the real world is never rehearsed or practiced... its live, in the moment, and crazy... and you have to just trust yourself and rely on your eduction to do the right thing in that exact moment... why should a PA interview be any different? Thanks in advance
I have to take either survey of orgo or orgo 1 and 2 for my major. Would just taking survey of orgo be okay for my PA school app? or should I take orgo 1 and 2?
Organic Chemistry Without Lab?
Adomke posted a topic in Pre-PA General DiscussionI have a B.S. in science but never took my Chemistry classes so am at my local community college finishing those. My local college offers an organic chemistry course without a lab *specifically* tailored towards pre-pa for MUSC. I plan on applying to most of my schools out of state along with MUSC. My question is, would most programs take organic chemistry without a lab as the orgo pre-req? Thanks!
Applying with outstanding prerequisites
notyetnever posted a topic in Pre-PA General DiscussionDoes anyone know if there are drawbacks to applying to a PA program if I still have one prerequisite to complete? All the programs say it is okay to apply with one or two left to finish. For me, I'll either have genetics or organic chemistry left to take after I apply and I'm wondering if that will have a negative impact on my chances for an interview. Of course I would still have enough time to complete the necessary prereqs before each school's actual deadline.


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Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Wong Chau Jun Restaurant
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steamed grouper fish slices with hor fun definitely new to me. but definitely goes well!ReplyDelete
oh, this is something new to me, have not heard, seen and of course not tasted before.. jakun me~~ :pReplyDelete
I know I'd love this dish....1) steamed fish and 2) slippery thin hor fun. No, I've not across this in KL as a dish together! Those broad type hor fun is also quite difficult to find here.ReplyDelete
I only had this like, twice all these years. Not because I don't like it, but because most of the time they were not open when we arrived, or we arrived too late and everything sold out. :(ReplyDelete
Really not bad, this steamed fish hor fun...
This dish is new to me. I'm sure I would enjoy it of I had a chance to try.ReplyDelete
Wow! Not cheap but expected as fish dish.ReplyDelete
Did you try the tomyam mihoon.. it is not too bad too! :)ReplyDelete
This is a new dish to me. Sounds nice and tasty.ReplyDelete
This plate of Hor Fun is yummy and I have seen this type of servings in Haadyai and Penang over the years. Not sure if this is a Thai influence or not as the Penang folks visit Haadyai more frequently than coming to KL as the distance driving is faster and shopping is cheaper for them. So the hawker food also slowly spilled to the island. Just my 2 cents.ReplyDelete
Haven't seen that kind of presentation before. If we have white hor fun, it'd normally be in soup right? So you're supposed to mix fish, hor fun and black sauce to eat?ReplyDelete


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NATIONAL broadcaster the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) seems to have risen from the dead.
The ongoing cleansing ceremony, instigated by the Ministry of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services, which has seen top management falling by the wayside and fresh minds coming in, seems to be paying off.
Last week, the institution started paying off its debts, which went as far back as more than a year ago.
More targeted at artistes and the suppliers of content for the broadcaster, the payments are meant to patch up relations that had all but crumbled between ZBC and the creative sector.
The national broadcaster is racing against time as the deadline for digital migration is fast approaching.
Zimbabwe is required to migrate from the current analogue broadcasting technology to the digital broadcasting technology by June 17, 2015, in accordance with the migration deadline set by the International Telecommunications Union.
Upon successful implementation of digital migration — ZBC will become a multi-channel entity, with more than the two channels it currently has.
Acting chief executive officer Mr Patrick Mavhura, who has captained the ZBC ship for close to two months now, hinted that the organisation could start with at least six stations.
Should this come to fruition, the stations will need a considerable amount of local content.
"At the moment we have not yet agreed, so this is not formal yet, but we were planning to have at least six channels. So getting as much content as we can is very important right now as we need to stock up as much as possible," said Mavhura.
He said that the company will be meeting several other stakeholders this week, including independent film producers and members of the Zimbabwe Film Industry.
Said Mavhura: "These are efforts to re-engage all stakeholders. Over the past two years we had serious financial constraints, but now we have pledged and are going to pay the full amount that we owe the artistes."
Mavhura says after paying off the debts, which he expects to be done by end of February, the company will ensure that the artistes are paid "timeously" for the content they bring in.
So far, ZBC has disbursed more than US$20 000 and is planning to pay out more towards payment of the more immediate US$84 000 it owes to its content creators.
But how is the ZBC raising this money? Is the Government involved?
"We are making several efforts to pay off these debts. Recently we partnered with Zinara (Zimbabwe National Road Administration) for collection of licence fees and there are several other fundraising techniques that we have employed.
"Government will come in later, of course, to deal with the cost of digital migration itself, but the debts and acquisition of content is solely our responsibility," said Mavhura.
The acting chief executive said ZBC was engaging all stakeholders and holding workshops and seminars to ensure that "everyone is on board" as the national broadcaster attempts to win back its content suppliers, advertisers and viewers.
Several artistes who supplied content to ZBC and are still owed monies, confirmed to The Sunday Mail Leisure that they began receiving part of their payments last week.
Vusa Dzimwasha, an actor, confirmed that not only him but several other artistes were having a surprisingly different January this year.
"Most artistes had almost given up on getting paid by ZBC, especially after their well-publicised financial problems. This is quite a surprise and it has definitely injected some energy and positivity into our new year," said Dzimwasha.
Meanwhile, the Zimbabwe Arts and Culture Industry Association (ZACIA) has commended efforts by ZBC, saying relations which had become frosty over the past few years would now begin to thaw.
"Over the past few years the relations between the national broadcaster and the artistes were strained and the working environment was almost unbearable for the artistes engaged by ZBC for specific services in their different genres due to the then late payments," said ZACIA president Boniface Chimedza.
Formed in 2013, ZACIA is an arts and culture association whose primary objective is to protect and promote the Zimbabwean artistes, "from all artistic genres, through securing their future and welfare, by taking definite, positive and measurable steps towards fully establishing their artistic careers".
According to Chimedza, artistes through ZACIA have managed to create a better working relationship with the ZBC.
"This has given both the ZBC and the artistes a brighter and better future, which is likely to see the quality of programmes on the national broadcaster's channels improving dramatically," said Chimedza.
He added: "Digital migration efforts by ZBC are sure and the national broadcaster's commitment towards the same is serious. This is a welcome development.
"Both ZBC and the artistes renewed their commitment to engage and work in harmony – producing quality programmes, which the nation and people of Zimbabwe will be proud of. The national broadcaster underwent serious financial challenges over the past few years and that had a boomerang effect on its stakeholders; who include Zimbabwean artistes."
Chimedza says all artistes are to sign contracts upon their engagement with ZBC at whatever level.
"The payments to artistes will be done faster and plans are underway by ZACIA to ensure that all artistes receive their payments through their bank accounts."
ZACIA is the only association in Zimbabwe representing all artistic genres.
The artistic genres represented by the association include Film Producers, Film Directors, Scriptwriters, Actors, Presenters, Dancers, Musicians, Sculptors, Painters, Photographers, Models and Weavers, to name just a few.
License fees are rumoured to face increase, to tend to the channels