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Many of our patients travel across the country to seek Dr. Stewart's expertise and experience. So, we have organized and equipped our office and treatment protocol to accommodate traveling patients. We are conveniently located 15 minutes north of the DFW (Dallas/Fort Worth) airport, which allows many of our patients to fly in and out in the same day.
We can arrangements to have you picked up at the airport, as well as make your hotel reservations if you desire. There are many convenient lodging options for patients needing overnight accommodations, as well as fantastic restaurants, shopping, and entertainment all within a few minutes of our office. The hotel that we use offers a shuttle service anywhere within 5 miles (this includes our office and many restaurants and stores), so a rental car is not necessary. Our staff will provide concierge services to make sure that you are cared for through your entire visit and treatment.
I had the pleasure of meeting my wonderful patient Katherine, and her family, for dinner before her jaw surgery in Dallas. Katherine is from Missouri and her treatment prior to surgery was a long process of her and her mother flying in frequently to meet with her orthodontist, oral surgeon, and myself. It's been a team effort and her results are beautiful.


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Shoalhaven (for smaller orchestra) David Lumsdaine
- Duration
- 16 mins
- Composed
- 1982
- Published
- 1997
- Categories
- Instrumentation
- 2 Flute, 2 Oboe, 2 B-flat Clarinet, 2 Bassoon, 2 Horn in F, 2 Cornet in Bb, 2 Trombone, 4 Percussion, 1 Orchestral Strings
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Like the Shoalhaven Philharmonic Society, the amateur orchestra for whom it was composed in 1983, Shoalhaven takes its name from the Shoalhaven River which rises in the Great Dividing Range south of Kangaroo Valley and, passing north of Nowra, flows to the sea across the narrow coastal plain. From the mountains to the sea, this is another place that is rich in associations for myself and my family.
The shape of the piece is a traditional ABA1, the middle section being a blues that pays more than a passing tribute to the memory of my very dear friend, Don Banks. It lasts 16 minutes. It exists in two versions, the original for small orchestra and a larger version made for a youth orchestra.
- Nowra 1983

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There are PANORAMIC views of Carrauntoohil and the Macgillycuddy Reeks from this beautiful c.1/2 site. The site is dry and elevated. It is approx. 1.5 miles from Killorglin town and about 10 miles from killarney town.
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How To Build Muscle for Beginners and Advanced
Primary Muscle Group(s): Forearms
Secondary Muscle Group(s): Biceps
1.Stand erect as you would a barbell curl. Hold a barbell slightly more than shoulder's width.
2. Allow the arms to hand down straight, elbows at your side with your hands in an over grip.
3. As you curl the barbell, keep your wrists straight and level with your forearms, and keep your elbows tucked in.
4. Than lower and repeat. You will really feel your upper forearms work near the elbow.
The reverse barbell curl is a great exercise that targets the upper forearms and biceps. Although the biceps are heavily involoved, they are considered a secondary muscle group for this particular exercise.
This may be a very awkward exercise for those of you who have weak forearms because the position may seem unnatural. I suggest start with just the barbell with no plates on it and slowly add more weight as the weeks go on.
Also, this exercise employs the biceps, so you may want to keep this in mind when you are planning your biceps workouts.
The trick to this exercise is to get a full contraction on the upper forearm. Try pausing at the top portion of the movement to really contract the muscle groups.
Press play to view an instructional video on how to properly perform the reverse barbell curl.
Blake has been weight lifting for about 28 years now. He's 45 years of age and started seriously training when he was 18 years old.
Blake is the founder of Building-Muscle101.com, a successful fitness website that has been around for more than 15 years.


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December 9, 2018
by James Mawson
The numbers are pretty stark: Linux might be the backbone of everything from embedded devices to mainframes and super computers. But it has just a 2% share of desktops and laptops.
It seems the only way to get most people to even touch it is to rip away everything you recognise as Linux to rebuild it as Android.
Until recently, I was in the 98%. I honestly wasn't even conflicted. I used Linux most days both for work and for hobbies – but always in the cloud or on one of those handy little project boards that are everywhere now. For my daily driver, it was Windows all the way.
I guess what's kept me with Windows so long is really that it's just been good enough as a default option that I haven't been prompted to even think about it. Which, to be fair, is a great quality in an operating system.
The last time I tried a dual boot Linux/Windows setup was about 15 years ago. I was using Unix at university, and was quite attracted to the idea of free and open source software, so I decided to give it a go.
This was back when, if you wanted to install Linux, you went to the newsagent and bought a magazine that had a CD-ROM on the front cover. I don't exactly remember what distro it was – probably something like Slackware or Red Hat.
I got it running, poked around a bit and played some of the included games, which were relatively primitive but still quite a lot of fun. After that, I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do with it. I never managed to connect it to the internet.
For a number of years, I had no say in my operating system: work was buying my computer for me. I was a junior developer at a small software company that wrote for Windows machines, so it made sense that it would be a Windows laptop. That was easy to arrange because that's how they came anyway.
When I left this role to work for myself, I kept doing the laptop thing; they're so convenient when you're renting and it's great to work outside on a lovely day. Whenever I bought a new one, it would come with Windows on it, which was great because that's what I used.
I've managed to avoid most of the security headaches in Windows. I got a nasty rootkit about 7 years ago and it's all been smooth sailing since.
A big misgiving about Linux as a main OS is that it never really seemed like it was a total GUI operating system. Whatever desktop environment you used, it was just a nice little place to run your web browser, media player, and maybe an IDE or something. As soon as it's time to install or configure anything, you opened a terminal window.
I'm okay with the command line – up to a point. You definitely want it for "nerd stuff" like server configuration or deploying a website.
But when I'm doing "normie stuff", I'm like most people: I'd really rather just point and click. I want my mind to be on the actual task, not on what command I need to make it happen.
Using a Windows laptop felt like I could have the best of both worlds. Whenever I needed a bash shell, I'd just ssh into a Linux machine and do it from there.
Even when I started doing web tasks that required a bash shell on my local machine, that was no problem. Microsoft had sorted one out for me and it just worked.
In the end, what made me install Ubuntu Studio was not any intent of replacing Windows. I had just started messing around with Linux synthesizers on my home theatre rig and was curious to see what I could do with these on an x86 machine.
The first thing to really hit me was just how fast this is. It boots quick and programs just open. This makes it so much nicer as a place to get things done.
So it made sense to do my web browsing and word processing here as well. Booting back into the Windows partition for that would just be a drag.
I guess, up until this point, I've just taken it for granted as an immutable fact of life that laptops gradually slow down as they age and every few years it will be time for a new one. Every time Microsoft pushes out an update, it gets a little slower.
So it was that my cheap 4GB machine from 2015 felt like it was nearing the end. In my head, I was already pondering firewood and a longboat.
I suppose when you have a monopoly operating system, nudging your customers toward buying that new machine a little bit earlier might even help move a few more licenses.
I accepted that for a long time. I now thoroughly resent it.
I mean, given what I'm doing – web browsing, word processing, editing text files, opening ssh terminals, some very light image editing – I honestly reckon a 3 year old machine should be able to keep up. These are all tasks you could do in the 90s. It's not like I'm playing the latest Battlefield while rendering the next Star Wars.
With Windows 10, my laptop was struggling with simple tasks. There seemed to be no way of avoiding the expense and hassle of getting a new one. After switching to Linux, I instead spent a pittance on another 4GB memory module for the spare slot.
I reckon I can at least get another year of use out of this machine now. This in itself has made changing worthwhile.
Ubuntu studio comes with the xfce desktop. The default design is intuitive and beautifully styled with kind of a cyberpunk motif. I haven't felt any desire to mess with the default theme, except to change the background image.
I love how simple the interface is. All your programs and settings are there in the menu where you might look for them. By comparison, the Windows 10 desktop seems to always grow more elaborate and crammed with obscurities.
I can't really say how much of my enthusiasm for this desktop is the ease of use and how much is simply down to how much more snappy and responsive it is – you experience these things together.
So far, it seems like you could actually do a lot with this without ever going near the command line. They've actually gotten it to a point where you don't need to edit text files to connect to wi-fi or set your timezone.
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't using the command line a bit more. But that's only because an Ubuntu terminal window is also a great ssh client. For a couple of weeks I was using nano as my main text editor, but I decided that a mouse is actually pretty handy for navigating and selecting text.
For the great mass of people who aren't that into nerd stuff, I don't think you would need the terminal at all.
One thing that I think will help open Linux up to a much larger audience is the graphical front end for the package manager. It's honestly not much different to browsing apps on my Android phone.
I've found myself using both the graphical interface and the command line to install software. The graphical interface is great for browsing, while the command line makes it super simple when you already know what you want to install.
That's just me though. Most people don't know how to run a package manager from the command line because they've never had to learn. The good news for them is that they're not obliged to – you can get by fine with just the graphical interface.
I guess it helps that I was already using so much open source software on Windows: Firefox for web browsing, GIMP to format images for web use, OpenOffice for word processing and the occasional spreadsheet. Moving to Linux has meant still using much the same software. I've switched from OpenOffice to LibreOffice and have barely noticed the difference.
Installing software from the repositories means that it's actually easier than on Windows, because I'm not having to look up a bunch of websites. Closed source applications like Dropbox and Slack were no hassle to install and work the same as always.
Thanks to the package manager, updates and patches are now automated too. On Windows, Firefox knew to update itself, but other software expected you to download and install new versions manually, and I inevitably couldn't be bothered
Every so often, when you boot Ubuntu Studio, there's a little window that politely tells you that you have some updates to install. If you decide you want to install them right now, it will take a matter of minutes. You totally get on with other things in the meantime. Of course, if you absolutely need all your system resources, you're not forced to run it at all until you're ready.
It's a nice change. Windows updates, by contrast, show up out of nowhere like a bank robber, yelling, waving an Uzi and marching you to a big blue update screen for as long as it has to take.
Having not booted into my Windows partition for about a month now, I'm dreading how much of it would have piled up and how long they will take to get through. And the longer I leave it, the worse it's going to get. So maybe I'll just never go back.
All in all, I'm very happy to now use Linux as my main OS. I could almost become a Linux evangelist.
Except for one thing:
I'm used to an easy install with Linux. You flash an SD card or buy a VPS, you're up and running in minutes. Running a virtual machine on your own metal can take a little longer. But not a lot.
Installing Linux on a partition of my laptop was a Biblical effort. It took 6 days to get it to boot.
How could it take so long? Well, it starts with super slow download links: 7 to 13 hours for an image. Then there was the hardware support. Most time consuming of all were the mystery problems and all the time sunk trying to diagnose and fix them.
What had got me interested was playing around with a bit of audio. KXStudio and AVLinux seemed to be the popular choices. Both belong to the Ubuntu/Debian family, which is the style of Linux I know.
KXStudio booted fine from the USB stick. But it didn't like my wireless adapter. The fix for this seemed to involve compiling something from github. This was a bother; I needed a working wireless adapter to connect to the internet.
I figured it might be possible to download either a binary or the source to my Windows partition so I could install it without an internet connection. But after much searching and no clear instructions, I was stuck.
So I downloaded AVLinux and flashed it to a USB stick. The installer connected to the internet fine, so I installed the damn thing, only to find that the partition wouldn't boot and then neither would the USB stick. Also, I was locked out of the UEFI.
I did the only logical thing you can do when you brick your work machine: panic. Then I remembered that I had a live boot restoration utility on a USB stick stashed away somewhere for precisely this occasion.
I then tried Ubuntu Studio 18.10. The Live Boot worked fine and even connected to the internet. So I installed it. This seemed to go off without a hitch.
When I tried to boot into it though, I just got a blank screen. I spent a while trying various kernel parameters like "nomodeset", but with no luck.
A helpful chap on Reddit recommended I try just bog standard Ubuntu, explaining to me that it's easy enough to swap in a low-latency kernel once it's installed.
So it was that I tried Ubuntu 18.04 and 18.10, then Ubuntu Studio 18.04.. then again and again, trying slightly different settings on the installer, all in vain.
Having made so many attempts and spent so much time trying to get these things to work, I was – reluctantly – having to face the possibility that perhaps a distribution based on Debian just wasn't going to work on my machine.
I had no trouble installing this distribution. The installer was super simple and it just worked on my first try.
It didn't boot much faster than Windows 10, but once you were in the desktop it was quite snappy and responsive.
Like Ubuntu Studio, this also has a graphical front end for the package manager. It doesn't quite have the same smooth "app store" experience though. If you're already familiar with command line package managers, it's pretty easy, but I'm not sure how intuitive it would be for everyone else.
I quickly came to discover that Fedora doesn't have anything like the kind of software library that Ubuntu and Debian has. Or at least, that's how it was for the software I was interested. I know that it's often still possible to install things that aren't in the repositories – but we're talking ease of use here. Having to compile it yourself is not an ease of use.
For web browsing and word processing, this was a great operating system. But when it came to tinkering with audio, I couldn't even get JACK to start.
So, after a few days, it was time to move on.
All in all, even though I decided Fedora wasn't really from me, I still rate it somewhat. There's a very good workstation there for ordinary office work. And I can well believe the claims that it's a great development environment – especially having the entire Red Hat ecosystem downstream of your OS.
Still, the hunt was back on. A friend told me how much he liked using Linux Mint. I'd heard of it before, but knew little about it. I was intrigued when my friend explained it was based on Ubuntu because I'd really missed those repositories. I decided to give it a go.
As near as I can tell, Linux Mint is basically just Ubuntu with a few tweaks to make it really user friendly right out of the box.
The big one is the desktop environment Cinnamon. This is clearly very influenced by Windows XP – a fine OS to pay tribute to in my opinion. It's probably even more beginner-friendly than the default desktop on Ubuntu Studio.
I liked Linux Mint and decided to install it. The fly in the ointment though was that the dreaded wireless adapter problem had reemerged. This was a showstopper for me earlier. But by this point I was willing to consider building a temporary wireless bridge from bits and pieces I had lying around so that I could have an internet connection to try to get the right driver.
I never got that far though. When I tried to, the installer kept aborting when it couldn't install the boot loader. I tried it again and again and the same thing kept happening.
I decided to go back to Ubuntu Studio 18.10. I'd at least gotten this to install before, even if it booted to a blank screen. I figured that there'd be some answer to this problem somewhere, if I only looked hard enough.
I went and installed it again, expecting to be faced with the same problem. But this time it just worked.
I'm pretty glad that it worked in the end. But I still have absolutely no idea what was going wrong or what I did differently to get it to work that one last time.
I admit it's the other dudes in DXM Tech Support team who really know drivers and hardware. My own skills are mostly with web stuff.
But still, I'd like to think I can hold my own a bit. I wrote my first code at the age of 7, I've worked as a software developer before, I can use a bash shell a bit, and installing weird operating systems to play 30 year old video games is my idea of a fun Sunday afternoon.
And I reckon the things I was juggling a few things here that might be a bit beyond any kind of mass audience: things like kernel parameters, endlessly using Gparted and efibootmgr to clean up failed installs, or building my own wireless bridge.
Which is all just a longer way of saying that, while I'm not exactly Linus Torvalds, I can do a thing or two here and there with a computer.
But what if you actually are Linus Torvalds?
It turns out you also think the install is disgusting:
My favourite bit here is in the middle where the Debian fan approaches the microphone for what's meant to be a question. It was totally within her power to just ask him what the difficulty was. Instead she completely dismisses his experience and tells him he should use her favourite Linux instead.
I doubt that she actually meant to be that much of a dick. It'd be more that she's such a fan of the software that it's difficult for her to see any complaint as a genuine area for improvement. For her, it has to be a user education problem.
You can literally have the whole damn thing named after you and still have to put up with that crap. No wonder he can be a bit cranky.
To install Linux, you have to first run all sorts of errands to prepare your machine.
You need the Windows 10 Disk Management tool to resize your C partition, delve into the UEFI to change some settings, install an image writer to burn the installer image to a USB stick, that sort of thing. Often you're presented with multiple alternatives for each of these steps.
My suspicion is that each of these things feels so trivial to most Linux users that it just doesn't occur to them that it's a real point of friction for most people.
Using a different tool for each task is very much in keeping with the UNIX Philosophy: any one thing should do just one thing and do it well.
That's actually excellent for anyone who uses a computer to build things. You have all these lego bricks that you can arrange however makes sense. You can totally just run a Python script, grep the most relevant bits, then make the output presentable by piping it to cowsay.
But not everyone's ready for cowsay. Joe Average has never even heard of UEFI or partitioning and he honestly shouldn't have to.
So this might be the wrong place for a rigid application of the UNIX philosophy. It greatly adds to the number of steps and that's always going to cut down on the number of people who make it to the end.
Even if you've always been amazing at computers, I think you can probably think of something else that once seemed too difficult. For me, that was cooking Indian recipes.
That's been my favourite thing to eat ever since I was a kid. But every time I looked at a recipe, it was just line after line of ingredients I didn't really understand. So I made do with the jars and recipe kits.
When I finally decided to actually give it a go, I realised the ingredients list was so long because of all the spices I'd never cooked with before. It turned out that the most difficult part of using them was bringing them home from the Indian grocers. Putting them in the pan added mere seconds to the actual cooking.
Pretty easy, right? And yet, until I knew that, it was enough to stop me even trying, literally for years.
That's how this stuff works. Every unfamiliar step you add to a process brings people closer to thinking "hmm, that's actually a bit too involved for me" – even if those extra steps are, individually, trivial.
Linux does this to potential new users every day.
The worst thing about adding this to the installation is that it's all front loaded right at the start of someone's decision to try Linux. If they don't make it through the install, then none of the rest of it comes into play.
A big part of what sucks about an unsuccessful Linux install is the amount of time you spend and the number steps you take to reach a point of failure.
So what would be cool is a lightweight installation tool that began with a hardware scan to give you meaningful feedback on what's supported, what's unsupported, and what needs further attention.
Then, if it's all good to go, it could download the live boot image, burn it to a USB stick, take care of the UEFI settings and so on. Then, when you decide you want to install it, it could also take care of defragmenting and resizing the C partition.
It's a thought anyway.
Addressing the install nightmare won't make anyone who wasn't. It's more about boosting the conversion rate of those already interested to actual users.
Off the top of my head, here are some of the other big things that stop people switching:
Linux is more than ok for casual gamers. For console gamers, like me, it's an irrelevance. But if playing the best and latest games on PC is hugely important to you, there's no contest which platform has the best library.
There is an interesting push by the guys behind Steam to turn this around. There's really no reason why Linux couldn't be a major platform for gaming – not everyone realises that the world's best-selling console runs FreeBSD, a close cousin of Linux.
But even if this starts to take off, it will be a while before hardcore gamers start moving away from Windows.
On top of this, the business owners and senior managers with the final say tend to be very busy and preoccupied with a dozen other challenges, and fairly reluctant to consider anything that seems weird and unfamiliar. This makes inertia hard to shift.
The IT staff who might lobby for such a move would be understandably wary of blame for any difficulties that arise with Linux, in a way they won't be for difficulties with Windows.
To do the same thing on Linux, you're installing servers for various protocols and configuring them from the command line or in a text editor. Which is actually a lot less difficult than it first looks if you're willing to roll your sleeves up. But, if we're talking about going mainstream, then realistically most people will be repelled by this at a glance.
Compared to the difficulty of the install, I think this is a relatively minor pain point. For the average home user, so long as they can run their software and connect to the internet, they're pretty happy. And from what I've both seen and heard of DIY Windows networking jobs in the workplace, part of me thinks it's a bad idea to democratise this too far.
But it's fairly normal for home users to want to copy things across a network to, say, a home theatre machine and they should be able to.
The basic idea of social proof is that humans, as social animals, are highly influenced by what everyone. That's a highly rational instinct in a paleolithic environment, where there is an obvious drawback to A/B testing all the things that might kill you. It also suits us in our modern world that throws vastly more decisions at us than anyone has the time or mental resources.
But being on the wrong side of it means you're significantly penalised simply for not already being popular.
On top of this, to the extent that people are aware of Linux, it's mostly as an operating system for a technical elite.
If you think about it, the difficulty of the install feeds back into most of these. Definitely, a larger user base would make games developers care more about the platform. Hypothetically, big titles that are properly optimised for a lighter weight operating system might run better. This is a huge drawcard for hardcore gamers.
Because of the legacy system issues of even fairly small businesses, one easier path into the workplace would be to get the business owner while it's still a one person show.
A large number of new businesses are started by parents of young children, who are often struggling to afford everything. And a great many freelancers and solo entrepreneurs go through feast and famine periods often enough that they've learned to be protective of their cash buffers.
These are all people who'd rather get a couple more years out of a machine than be made to buy a new one. It's a good use case for Linux. So long as they can actually install it.
And creating social proof means building a visibly larger use base. That will happen easier if more interested new users can install successfully.
The easiest installation is one that's already done. So perhaps it's time for off-the-shelf Linux desktops and laptops.
These exist already of course. Big PC makers like Dell have a Linux lineup, while some boutique outfits are exclusively Linux in their product offering.
I'm picturing something kinda different though: an officially branded consumer product by one of the more user friendly distributions, pitched not tech professionals but to a mass market audience. Something that could be reviewed next to Apple and Samsung products.
The desktop environment is ready for a broader audience. The software library is quite excellent for anyone with ordinary computing needs – and with a good graphical front end, it's pretty easy to find and install software. And because Linux is so much gentler on hardware requirements, there's some real scope to offer some solid bang for back here.
I expect most open source developers have had no experience of and even less interest in. So what they could do is license the brand and a subdomain on their website for a given time period to someone already in the business of making and selling computers.
For the sake of the brand, it'd be important to license this to someone you could trust to do a good job of building a decent machine. That would take care and attention, but I don't think it's impossible.
As well as providing a small income stream to developers, and growing the user base through direct sales, the ordinary publicity effort to promote these products would help make Linux visible as a thing that the mass market could use.
I'm just spitballin' really. But if anyone likes this idea, they're welcome to it.
Maybe it seems like I spent a lot of this article talking down Linux on the desktop. The wider truth is that I've voted with my feet. If I don't stick with Ubuntu Studio forever, it will be because I went to a different flavour of Linux.
I really don't want to go back to Windows if I can avoid it.
There are certainly still big obstacles to bringing Linux to a wider audience. But I can't see why they wouldn't be overcome.


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Yesterday someone humbled me by listening. She didn't just nod, smile and walk away. Instead, Mareshah Lynch took action and made me feel special. Listening Takes Effort Mareshah Lynch is the patient counselor at Eye Care of Maine. She works with Peter Kohler, MD, an Ophthalmologist who is a LASIK and Premium Cataract Surgery Specialist in Waterville, Maine. Yesterday I visited Eye Care of Maine's surgical facility because they are a LASIK client of Sightpath Medical. My trip to Maine was short, only one evening and part of a day to observe cases with Dr. Kohler. Prior to beginning surgical cases for the day, I … Read More


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David Ayer — who wrote Training Day and directed the phenomenal End of Watch has quietly pieced together a respectable career (his writing credit on The Fast and Furious, notwithstanding). His next feature is his biggest yet: Fury stars Brad Pitt as a sergeant with one tank, a few soldiers (Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, and Jon Bernthal) and a lot of Germans left to kill.
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Wimblington community speedwatch volunteers catch 17 drivers 'speeding excessively' amid county-wide operation by Cambridgeshire police
Seventeen of the 322 motorists checked by a village speedwatch group on one day last week were said to be "speeding excessively".
Over five patrols during the week volunteers logged 1068 vehicles and in total 57 were speeding excessively.
Two patrols were carried out in Doddington and three in Wimblington.
The volunteers, accompanied by Cambridgeshire police's speedwatch and accident reduction team, spent over an hour on the road recording motorists' speed.
A spokesman for the group said their campaign today was to "further support the speedwatch volunteers and enforce the speed reduction measures being carried out county-wide this week."
The group's operation was part of a week-long initiative to catch speeding drivers.
Vehicles exceeding the speed limit are referred to the police with the aim of educating drivers to reduce their speeds.
A spokesman for the national community speedwatch team said: "In cases where education is blatantly ignored and evidence of repeat or excessive offences is collated (even across county borders), enforcement and prosecution follow."
Jason Ablewhite, police and crime commissioner, said: "I am fully supportive of the enormous contribution speedwatch volunteers make in keeping our roads safer.
"The role they play in helping to reduce speeding as well as educating inconsiderate drivers to change their behaviour is hugely important.
"I am pleased to see the number of schemes increasing and would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved in the scheme."
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Hong Kong listed CITIC Resources will become the fourth-largest oil producer in China after a purchase of an oil asset in Kazakhstan and an oil field in Bohai Bay for US$1.15 billion. The company will follow PetroChina, Sinopec and CNOOC in total oil output, the Standard of Hong Kong reported. The company will buy a 50% interest in JSC Karazhanbasmunai, Argymak Trans Service and Tulpar Munai Services. The stakes are currently owned by CITIC Resources parent company. The purchase heralds an increased focus at CITIC Resources on oil and gas with oil revenue expected to become the largest profit contributor, according to chairman Peter Viem Kwok.
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Project Editor/Senior Writer Ron French joined Bridge in 2011 after having won more than 40 national and state journalism awards since he joined The Detroit News in 1995. French has a long track record of uncovering emerging issues and changing the public policy debate through his work. In 2006, he foretold the coming crisis in the auto industry in a special report detailing how worker health-care costs threatened to bankrupt General Motors. In 2007, French uncovered Michigan's educator pension and health-care costs that are now at the center of policy debate in Lansing. He is also the author of "Driven Abroad," a book chronicling the movement of Michigan jobs overseas. You can reach Ron via email at firstname.lastname@example.com, or call him at 517-657-3501.
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Michigan is failing its students, as state test scores keep tanking
August 29, 2018 | Ron French, Mike Wilkinson, Chastity Pratt
M-STEP results show 1-in-3 third-graders are not proficient in reading. The bad news extends across grades and subjects, impacting white, black and Hispanic students. What should state do now?
Database: Check out your Michigan school and district M-STEP scores
August 29, 2018 | Mike Wilkinson, Ron French, Chastity Pratt
See how students in your schools performed in reading language arts, math and other subjects this past school year
Child care for this baby costs more than the University of Michigan
August 28, 2018 | Ron French, Mike Wilkinson
Politicians have plenty to say about college costs. Yet child care expenses can have a bigger impact for many families and businesses. And Michigan has done little to help middle-and-low-income parents.
Yes, you can pay rural Michigan college grads to come home
August 23, 2018 | Ron French
Tired of seeing their best and brightest head to college never to return, three Michigan counties offer to pay up to $15,000 of student debt for grads who come back for jobs. Counties in other states are taking notice.
Next hurdle for Michigan redistricting backers: ballot language
August 1, 2018 | Ron French
The description of a proposal can be no longer than 100 words on November's ballot. Those words can clarify, confuse, anger or motivate voters. The battle over Michigan's redistricting proposal is about to start.
Four takeaways from Michigan Supreme Court upholding redistricting ballot proposal
July 31, 2018 | Ron French
A high-priced battle and a wedge issue for governor. What did the Supreme Court ruling change?
In Jackson, school choice bring new reality: students as fickle customers
July 31, 2018 | Ron French
Jackson loses 40 percent of school-age children to other districts and charters. How districts respond illustrates the free-market educational system for Michigan families, and the budgetary challenges districts face.
Where they stand: Michigan candidates for governor on K-12 education
July 26, 2018 | Ron French
Perhaps no issue is as important to Michigan's future as improving the state's schools and increasing the number of post-secondary graduates. Here's how the candidates answered questions from Bridge.
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July 26, 2018 | Ron French
Some Michigan governor candidates want to make college free, others want to emphasize career tech. Here's what the candidates facing primary challenges are saying about the rising cost of college.
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July 24, 2018 | Ron French
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July 23, 2018 | Ron French
Public outcry over proposed changes to the standards, including deletion of "democratic" from "Core democratic values" at the request of a Republican legislator, has delayed approval.
California's redistricting commission has some free advice for Michigan
July 16, 2018 | Ron French
California has had a citizen redistricting commission since 2008 similar to the one proposed in Michigan. One lesson from the Left Coast: be prepared for lawsuits.
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July 12, 2018 | Ron French
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Proposed changes in what's taught as history in classrooms from kindergarten through high school are causing an uproar. The state is extending public hearings through September.
Ignore the sticker price at Michigan universities. Here's the real cost.
June 28, 2018 | Ron French, Mike Wilkinson
Bridge shows the surprising differences between the published price and the real cost of attending Michigan's 15 public universities. Students from middle-class and low-income families take note.
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June 21, 2018 | Ron French
Leaders from education, business, unions and philanthropy announced Wednesday that they will huddle to improve the state's lagging public schools.
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June 20, 2018 | Ron French
Public meetings that attracted just a few folks have grown bigger and louder since Bridge revealed conservative changes to Michigan K-12 social studies standards.
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The majority of accommodation providers in the New Forest have now re-opened. Please check with businesses when they are taking bookings for future stays and what their rules and regulations are. Please see our webpage for further information about COVID-19.
If you're not a fan of camping because it lacks finesse but would like to sleep closer to nature surrounded by luxury, then glamping is the very thing for you! If you aren't familiar with this trend; with glamping, the tent, tipee, yurt or hut is already there ready for you, so you dont have to worry about struggling putting a tent up. There are also lots of facilities available for you to use inside, usually including a bed, cosy blankets, cooking facilities, a kettle and loads more. Glamping has become extremely popular over the past couple of years, and where better to do it than in the beautiful New Forest?
There are 4 different locations that you can enjoy glamping in the New Forest!
Back of Beyond Camping at St Leonard's, near Ringwood have fantastic glamping facilities onsite so you can get the feel of camping but with a spot of luxury. Back of Beyond is located within a beautiful 30 acres of Dorset countryside, with onsite lakes and is a spacious and relaxing place to stay. This site is also for over 18s only. They have loads of different glamping choices for you, including 4 glamping pods. The pods are so comfy and wonderfully decorated and they have a double bed and kitchen facilities, as well as heating, lighting and private decks! One of the glamping pods is also dog friendly, so you can bring your four-legged friend on holiday with you. They also have two wonderful wooden lodges available, with beautiful French windows leading onto private decks complete with tables, chairs and lounges. Their luxury yurt is the definition of cosy, with plenty of room to relax and unwind, it even has a wood burner inside!
New for 2019 are their amazing shepherds huts that are perfect for a romantic getaway. As well as a comfy bed, kitchen facilities and warming décor, both shepherds huts also have a wood burner, solar power and a deck round the back of the shepherds hut, where you can enjoy the stream. Dogs are also welcome in the huts!
Red Shoot Camping Park now also have a beautiful river keeper's hut, which has also been built in 2019! This hut has everything you need for the perfect break away in the New Forest… including the kitchen sink. Located in a peaceful area deep in the forest with wonderful forest pathways just over the road and next door to a great local pub, this is a great place for a relaxing stay.
As well as fantastic camping and touring facilities, Green Hill Farm also have brilliant Camping Pods! Their Camping Pods are natural well-built, insulated, secure wooden camping huts, that provide comfortable accommodation in place of a tent. All Camping Pods are equiped with a lovely double bed, a kitchenette, underfloor heating, wall plugs and their very own picnic table, their luxury Camping Pods also have a pulled out sofa bed plus a fold out table and 4 chairs.
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Chapelfield is a much-loved campsite where many happy holidays have been enjoyed over the last 10 years. An exciting extra for 2020 will be the opportunity to come 'glamping' at Chapelfield.
Quiet secluded area with fishing on site. Excellent walking access to commons & New Forest. Shops, pubs and bus route to Salisbury and Southampton nearby.
New for 2020! We are pleased to introduce Touareg Bell Tent accommodation at Chapelfield Campsite - a 28 day pop-up campsite in the New Forest. This year we are open from 5th August till 1st September.
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Echo Park (1986 film)
Echo Park is a 1986 American comedy-drama film set in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The plot follows several aspiring actors, musicians and models.[1]
|Echo Park
DVD cover
|Directed by
|Robert Dornhelm
|Produced by
|Walter Shenson
|Written by
|Michael Ventura
|Susan Dey
Tom Hulce
Michael Bowen
Cheech Marin
|Music by
|David Anderle
Aaron Jacoves
|Karl Kofler
|Edited by
|Ingrid Koller
|Distributed by
|Atlantic Releasing Corporation
Release date
|‹See TfM›
Running time
|88 min
|United States
|Box office
|$700,000 (domestic)
The cast includes Tom Hulce, Susan Dey, Cheech Marin and Michael Bowen. Cassandra Peterson, better known as Elvira, has a brief cameo as a secretary.[2] Echo Park was the final film of veteran actor Timothy Carey.[3]
May, a single mom, wants to become an actress. Her next-door neighbor August, a bodybuilder, wants to become a worthy successor to his hero, Arnold Schwarzenegger. They live in a district of Los Angeles known as Echo Park, not far from Dodger Stadium, and dream of a better life.
Jonathan, a pizza delivery boy, arrives at May's door and is immediately smitten with her. As he entertains her young son, Henry, she goes out to pursue an acting opportunity that has come along, only to discover that it involves disrobing in private residences, delivering "strip-o-grams."
May gives that a try, August tries to meet his idol at a reception at the Austrian embassy, while Jonathan worries that the two are more than mere neighbors.
Echo Park maintains an 86% fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes.[4] Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars, saying that the film "has no great statement to make and no particular plot to unfold. Its ambition is to introduce us to these people and let them live with us for a while. The movie is low-key, unaffected and sometimes very funny."[2]
- ^ Ebert, Roger. "Echo Park movie review & film summary (1986) | Roger Ebert". rogerebert.com/. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
- ^ a b Roger Ebert's review of Echo Park.
- ^ Canby, Vincent (April 25, 1986). "Film: 'Echo Park,' with Tom Hulce". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
- ^ Rotten Tomatoes entry for Echo Park.
External linksEdit
- Echo Park at AllMovie
- Echo Park at AMC
- Echo Park on IMDb
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A long time ago (1996), I began writing a goofy column called More Stuff for the Buck County (PA) Intelligencer Record.
My most popular columns were the ones in which I described all the silly, funny and sweet names that kids called their grandparents – and the stories of how they got their names. I called them Grandmomisms, and readers sent me scores of new ones and the columns kept coming. Nine in all.
Here's a few examples: Grandma Meatball, Dibba Dibba, Grammy Cluck Cluck, Gummy, Grandma Hootie, Spike, Grumpy, Moo-Moo and Mimi, Super Al, Kinky, Zaz, Yoda Mom and Yoda Pop, Grandma Banana and Grandma Apple Pie.
And now, it's time to re-start Grandmomisms … starting with my mother-in law, Joyce.
I never wrote about Joyce in my Grandmomisms columns, because, well, she was called Grandma Joyce back then by her six grandkids. Sorry Grandma Joyce, but that doesn't make the grade … or column.
So, skip ahead a decade or so and Grandma Joyce lives around the corner from her daughter, Victoria, her husband, Andy, and their two little girls: Sophie and Colette (Grandma Joyce's seventh and eighth grandkids). Grandma Joyce is over the house all the time: babysitting, eating dinner, knitting and complimenting Victoria on her parenting skills. And, every time Grandma Joyce heads home, she says: "I'll be back."
The perceptive little Sophie, who is just starting to grasp the basics of talking, starts calling her Be Back, which morphed into Beebok. It catches on and Grandma Joyce is now Beebok. And loves it.
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One of the things my mother-in-law wanted to do when we were on our vacation in San Diego {recaps HERE and HERE} was taking pictures of the whole family on the beach. Brent's nephew lives in Maryland, so we aren't all together very often. She hired a photographer who was easy to work with and got some GREAT shots. Here are some of my favorites. Be warned - your heart might explode.
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Beach Photos!
Labels: Brent, cousins, Drew, fabulous in-laws, pregnancy #3, Trent, trips, vacation
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- Emily said...
Ah I love these! We are heading to the beach next month for a Friends Vacation and my one friend wants to practice taking beach photos of families. I sent her yours like CAN WE DO THIS?!?!
- August 24, 2016 at 7:30 AM
Awwwe! You have some cute kids! I like the one of you all walking, too. -AP
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you were right...it exploded!! so many favs in there!
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Great pics!!
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Other essential elements include meditation, breathwork, yoga, cultivating and maintaining high-quality relationships, and intentional reinforcement of mindsets that promote human connection, such as gratitude, altruism and collective efficacy. What's real in the mind is real is real in the body, and it is our perceptions—not "objective" reality—that drive our biochemistry. Accordingly, finding a silver lining—even under the most dire of circumstances—instigates a biochemical "upward spiral" which fosters constructive thinking in a demanding moment and, over the long-term, protects health and psychological well-being.


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Cape Town - Police have confirmed that an investigation has been launched into graphic sexual messages apparently sent from the head of detectives in the Western Cape to an official group comprising several detective commanders in the province.
News24 understands that Major-General Patrick Mbotho, the deputy provincial commissioner of detectives, sent the two messages from his official cellphone via WhatsApp last Thursday, July 13.
The first message said he wanted "this" done to his private parts.
A graphic close up video of a man and woman having sex was then also sent to the group of detective heads, of which a few other senior police heads are also members.
News24 has seen the messages, as well as those of an apology that Mbotho then sent.
"Sorry guys delete that," one said.
"It's a bad joke to my friend," another said.
On Monday, Mbotho sounded mortified when he briefly chatted to News24.
"I'm not being rude, I wish I could talk to you," he said.
Mbotho said when he realised he had sent the messages; he wished he could have been swallowed into a hole.
He referred News24 to communications officers for official comment.
Police spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Andre Traut said: "Western Cape police management is aware of the allegations, which are currently under investigation."
READ: NC top cop met underworld figure Modack
African National Congress activist Colin Arendse wrote to several police managers, including police minister Fikile Mbalula, on Monday as the graphic messages had been forwarded to him.
"I'm told that several detective commanders who are part of this WhatsApp group were devastated and shocked at the extremely graphic nature of the pornographic clip and the sick message," Arendse's email to them said.
"General Mbotho, it pains me that while the people of the Western Cape are dodging live bullets and wondering when you will oversee the finalisation of several outstanding dockets, you have the time to engage in illegal and morally corrupt activities."
Mbotho has before been the centre of controversy.
In May this year several sources with intimate knowledge of policing said Mbotho had twice met with underworld figure Nafiz Modack, who is said to be heading up a new faction taking over the control of club security from another faction.
Sources had said these meetings had been about firearms and luxury cars.
However, Brigadier Novela Potelwa, speaking on Mbotho's behalf at the time, denied this.
"This serves to confirm that the gentleman referred to in your email [Modack] was in Major-General Mbotho's office in connection with a complaint he had against the police," she said.
"During the meeting, it transpired that the nature of complaint fell outside the jurisdiction of the SAPS Western Cape and he was subsequently referred to the office of the judge of [the Hawks]."
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Major-General Jeremy Vearey had previously been the deputy provincial commissioner for detective services, but was replaced by Mbotho in 2016.
This now forms part of a Labour Court case as Vearey, who was shifted to a position he previously filled, commander of the Cape Town cluster of police stations, believes he was demoted.
Vearey, as well as another top Western Cape police officer, Major-General Peter Jacobs - who also believes he was demoted - are taking on, among others, Mbotho, then-acting national police commissioner Khomotso Phahlane and provincial crime intelligence head Major-General Mzwandile Tiyo, in the Labour Court case.


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A man accused of killing a South Carolina high school student had been protected from deportation under the DACA program, U.S. officials confirmed to Fox News Thursday evening.
Daniel De Jesus Rangel-Sherrer, 19, is accused of murder, kidnapping and possession of a weapon during a violent crime in connection with the death of 18-year-old Diana Martinez-Gonzalez.
Martinez-Gonzalez, a junior at Greenville High School, was found dead in a wooded area Oct. 4. Officials said she had been forced into the woods and shot multiple times in the head.
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Happy #GivingTuesday! I am excited to share with you a great way for you to give back this holiday season and beyond. My Power of One and Mary Kay are working together to make the holidays brighter for those vets who are in the KC Veterans hospital.
Kansas City area businesswoman, Kristi Anderson and her team of 160 unit members are making a difference in the lives of veterans this holiday season. From now until Monday, December 19, 2106 you can purchase a special gift package for only $20. Then Kristi and her team along with their families and Sue Vicory from My Power of One and her staff, will sing carols while they deliver the holiday packages to patients at the Kansas City Veterans Hospital on Tuesday, December 20, 2016.
While, I was at KC Live the other day I got the chance to meet someone from My Power of One. Kacy, this adorable pup traveled the 48 contiguous states with Sue as she conducted Acts of Kindness and spread the word about MPO1.
My Power of One is an e-commerce lifestyle brand. Owner, Sue Vicory, believes in the power that resides within each ONE of us to make a difference in our world. Over 18 different words are featured in the line with each t-shirt and hat proclaiming ONE word. The company's circular giving philosophy ensures a percentage of sales is donated to local, regional and national causes. It only takes ONE positive word to change the way you think. That's My Power of ONE.
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Humanity is not characterized by its quick or rational decision-making. But over the long term, some issues eventually reach a higher-than-normal degree of consensus and materialize, meaning shared decisions presaging fundamental change can be taken.
Last July 19, Greenpeace activists redressed the main entrance of the Barclays bank headquarters in Canary Wharf in an oil drip effect, in protest over the bank's refusal to stop funding pipelines that take oil from Canada's tar sands to market in the U.S. and Asia. But this type of protests and actions are not exclusive to Greenpeace activists anymore: on July 12, Ireland announced that its €8 billion sovereign fund has taken the historic decision, unanimously supported by all political parties, to sell all investments in coal, oil, gas and peat "as soon as is practicable." Ireland is the first sovereign fund to make this decision: oil-producing Norway, with the largest sovereign fund in the world, said in April 2016 that it was no longer investing in a long list of coal-related groups, and has been proposing for quite some time ditching oil and gas holdings due to their increasing volatility.
The reasons for Ireland's move are that existing fossil fuel reserves are too large to be used without producing catastrophic climate change and therefore, to continue exploring and burning fossil fuels is morally wrong and economically risky. The divestment movement is growing rapidly: relevant pension funds, large insurance companies such as AXA, cities such as New York, the Catholic Church, or university funds such as Edinburgh or Glasgow, among many others, are now pulling out of fossil fuels investments. Some, like the city of San Francisco, intend to go further and consider suing some oil and coal companies because of their role in climate change.
There is a growing momentum to divesting in assets of fossil fuel companies: even the Rockefeller family, which owes its fortune to oil, announced it was preparing to divest in fossil fuels in 2014. The Go Fossil Free page, which has provided sound arguments to many financial institutions to join the movement, has a list of 837 institutions and individuals already committed to carrying out comprehensive disinvestments, and says it has doubled in length since its launch in 2014.
In more and more countries around the world, the decision not to invest in fossil fuel companies is becoming a pillar of corporate social responsibility, reflecting awareness of what now constitutes the most important problem facing the world, and consistently, a way to improve their image.
In November 2015, I asked how long it would take for the use of fossil fuels to become morally wrong. The measures being taken by some companies and institutions should be followed by individual investors as part of a commitment to something we know is important, but that few people are willing to do anything about. The fossil fuel companies are today's equivalent to the tobacco industry, and soon so will be all those who buy their products and services, such as non-electric cars or utilities that generate electricity via coal and oil, as well as many others.
We need greater social pressure to drive change, and it needs to take place everywhere around the world. Fossil fuels played their part in our history, but it's a chapter we need to close as soon as possible.
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Hoping to design a symbolic, but ultimately useful weapon for the Astral Vanguard, Solan Starworks developed a melee weapon that wouldn't be left behind in the age of vibro and monomolecular blades. Instead using their highly sophisticated laser technology, Solan's Starworks division crafted a sleek, flat-tipped rectangular war sword that couldn't be used to kill unless the wielder wished it. It uses a dual projector layout that sends a punishing, high intensity laser beam between two points, in this case the top and bottom of the blade on both sides, to cleave efficiently through most substances. Light and heat emissions that might harm the user are minimal.
Without the beam edging online, the Faelraiz is essentially a glorified military-grade paddle.
As earlier Leyflar Supercapacitors were too bulky, a sleeker version, called the Spec2, was developed for this weapon. It is smaller and more elongated, but essentially has the exact same capabilities. It is locked in the hilt of the weapon, but can only be removed while safety is initiated.
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Safety: A dark grey bar that has to be twisted to engage safety. Activation: After disabling safety, push up or pull down on bar. Pushing down activates one edge, while pushing up activates both.
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Jerk-spiced Turkey Picnic Loaf
- 8 ounces of finely chopped mushrooms
- 1 ½ pounds turkey breast meat
- ½ cup of flour
- ½ cup of chicken broth (fat-skimmed)
- 1 finely chopped onion
- 1 egg
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 tablespoon molasses
- ¼ teaspoon cayenne
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ¾ cup pickled cocktail onion (drained & cut in half)
- 2 tablespoon salad oil
- 6 ounces thin slices prosciutto
- ½ teaspoon ground allspice
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoons cider or white vinegar
Cooking Process:
Put a 12-inch pan over high heat and stir onions and mushrooms with 2 tablespoons of oil until they become brown. Usually it will take around 7-8 minutes.
Then add nutmeg, allspice, cayenne, ground cinnamon and salt according to your taste. Stir for 2 minutes until it is fragrant. Then add vinegar, molasses and stir until the liquid is evaporated. Take it in a bowl and mix flour to blend and stir (about 5 minutes) until the temperature comes to hand-hot.
After that, put egg, broth and turkey meat into the bowl and mix it well. Add pickle onion.
Take a 9-inch nonstick loaf pan and oil it. Take the prosciutto slices and line the pan with a single layer. Scrape meat mixture into the pan and gently pat or spread level. Fold prosciutto slices over meat.
Then bake the turkey loaf on convection oven in 350° temperature. Between cooking take a food thermometer and insert it into the center or thickest part of the meat and check if the temperature reaches 160° and cut the meat to test if the meat is no longer pink. It should take around 55 minutes and the loaf begins to shrink.
Take out the dish from oven keep it in room temperature for about 10-12 minutes. Take the loaf in a platter and it is ready to serve.
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A Lunar Fortune is a reward for participating in the Canthan New Year celebration.
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- From the Lunar Fortune Giver in exchange for 3 Lunar Tokens
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- From Lucky Hochei for winning a round of rock-paper-scissors against him
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- Your new year will be a blessed one!
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- Lunar Fortunes are identified by the year they were given out, e.g. Lunar Fortune [Year of the Pig].
- Each year's fortunes can only contain the relevant miniature, e.g. Year of the Rat fortunes can drop only Miniature Celestial Rats.
- Lunar Fortunes of the same year stack with each other, but not with those from other years.
- Unlike nearly any other gift, items that drop from the fortunes fall to the ground (they are 'not placed into inventory), except for cash.
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When Be At One Bar opened in Bournemouth last August, I added it to my mental list of 'places to try', but the opportunity sadly never arose (let's face it, I'm not exactly a party animal). That is, until last week, until I found myself front and centre at the bar, surrounded by some other lovely Bournemouth Bloggers, ready to try out the new Be At One Bar summer menu!
They've put a lot of thought into the interiors at Be At One, from herringbone floors to neon signs to the marble and baby pink bathrooms, the whole spot is pretty instagrammable. It's nestled at the bottom of Richmond Hill in Bournemouth, making it probably the most central bar in town (and a short ten minute stumbling distance from home).
We were greeted by the super friendly bar team, who made us fresh peach Bellini's on arrival, whilst chatting to us about the bar, the drinks and what it's like working at Be At One. It was nice to see a team so knowledgable and excited about their work, it was clear they all loved their jobs.
All the bar staff at Be At One Bar are Free Pour Trained, so not only are your drinks made faster, it's a lot more entertaining to watch too! Without the tie of having to measure every ingredient out by hand, staff are free to play around a bit more whilst making the drinks! They also gave us a demonstration of the straws they use, made from 100% corn, they dissolve in hot water! No single use plastics here!
To say the cocktail menu at Be At One Bar is extensive would be an understatement, with over 120 cocktails on the menu at any one time, you're guaranteed to find something that tickles your fancy. They even have the Be At One Bar app, which has 'Cocktail Tinder' to help you find your perfect match! They've put a lot of thought into the experience here, and honestly there were so many cocktails I wanted to try!
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Oxford economist Paul Collier has spent much of his career studying the lives of the poorest people on earth. His popular The Bottom Billion considered the causes and possible solutions to extreme poverty. In his new book, Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century, Collier's focus is on how the poor may be helped, or hindered, by migration. It is not primarily about the 'rights' of host populations to 'decide who comes to this country, and the circumstances in which they come', but rather about which migration policies are best for the world's poorest.
Without restrictions, Collier argues, migration rates would increase dramatically. In a Gallup Poll from a few years ago, around 40% of people in the poorest quartile of countries indicated that they would choose to migrate to rich ones if given the chance. If supply could meet demand, some countries would face an exodus.
For Collier, the question is not whether migration is 'good' or 'bad', but how much is ideal. His answer is that the door should be neither open nor closed, but slightly ajar.
The issue on which Collier speaks with the most authority is whether migration is good for those left behind. Undoubtedly this is an aspect of migration that is often forgotten. Those who seek entry to wealthy countries are rarely the poorest of the poor; they are those with the resources and skills necessary to migrate. Left behind are those without options. How does migration affect them?
Resolving the question is tricky, but Collier ultimately concludes that for small, poor countries in particular, current levels of international migration are likely excessive, and do many of the world's poor more harm than good.
The main downside of migration for poor countries is a loss of human capital. 'A talent transfer from poor to societies to rich ones', Collier notes, 'is not necessarily something that should be cause for global celebration.' Whilst migration at low levels generates an incentive for youngsters to pursue further education and follow in the steps of successful role models, at faster rates it drains a country of the very people most needed to pull it out of poverty.
The main benefit of migration for poor countries comes in the form of remittances, which in 2012 totaled around US$400 billion. However, besides being very unevenly distributed (many poor people do not have relatives in wealthy countries able to send remittances), there is evidence that weaker migration restrictions decrease remittances: 'remittances to most countries would be increased were the migration policies of host countries somewhat more restrictive.'
So, high rates of migration have the potential to induce the leaking of talent and decrease the commitment on behalf of those who make it to wealthy countries to send wealth back to their countries of origin. According to Collier, 'even present rates of migration are most likely beyond the happy medium at which it is most beneficial to them (the bottom billion). At the margin, migration is already handicapping their struggle out of poverty.'
One positive role than migration can play is in the transmission of ideas, a topic Collier discusses at length. A disproportionate number of competent leaders in poor countries have been foreign educated: as of 1990, over two-thirds of the heads of government in developing countries had studied abroad. This is likely to be hugely beneficial, since recent research indicates that education has a substantial positive effect on leadership performance.
One of the key weaknesses of Exodus is that, in speaking about migration overall, it does not offer definitive answers to whether increased migration from particular countries would be beneficial. Increased emigration might harm Mali, for instance, but continue to benefit India. Additionally, the overwhelming focus of the book is on economic migration. In Australia, at least, much of the debate has focused on those fleeing conflict.
I suspect Collier's book will rattle those on both sides of the migration debate. In particular, the clear losers, if his policy prescriptions were to be implemented, would be those who wish to migrate. But not everyone can win. In the interests of the world's poor overall, significantly faster rates of immigration should, Collier says, be avoided.
Exodus is an extremely interesting and elegantly written discussion of global migration. Collier's commitment to the world's poor is obvious, though his conclusions as to how best to help them will undoubtedly cause a stir.
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