Steam soybean pods with sea salt.
Crispy veggie spring rolls with sweet chili sauce.
Thinly sliced yellowtail and jalapeno with ponzu sauce.
Thinly sliced tuna with ponzu sauce.
Tuna, mango, avocado and masago mixed with spicy mayo on potato chips.
Crispy seaweed wrap with crab meat, eel, spicy mayo on top.
Spicy tuna, cream cheese, jalapeno deep fried with special sauce.
Spicy tuna crunch served with seaweed salad wrap and tofu skin.
Served with crab meat, caviar, cucumber and chef's special dressing.
Baked baby octopus served with mixed greens and special dressing.
Cooked squid served with mixed greens and dressing.
Salmon, cucumber, avocado and smelt roe.
Lightly fried yellowtail tempura, cucumber with eel sauce.
Cucumber, avocado, oshinko, kanpyo, kani and tamago.
Seven pieces of sushi and one California roll. Served with garden salad or miso soup.
Nine pieces of sushi and one tuna roll. Served with garden salad or miso soup.
Ten pieces of sashimi and white rice. Served with garden salad or miso soup.
Fifteen pieces of sashimi and white rice. Served with garden salad or miso soup.
Six pieces of sushi, eight pieces of sashimi and one tuna roll. Served with garden salad or miso soup.
Eighteen pieces of sushi, one tuna roll and one rainbow roll. Served with garden salad or miso soup.
Twelve pieces of thinly sliced assorted raw fish on a bed of sushi rice. Served with garden salad or miso soup.
Broiled fresh eel over a bed of sushi rice. Served with garden salad or miso soup.
Thinly sliced tuna over a bed of sushi rice. Served with garden salad or miso soup.
California roll, tuna roll and salmon roll. Served with garden salad or miso soup.
Spicy tuna, spicy salmon and spicy yellowtail. Served with garden salad or miso soup.
Eel, crab and avocado inside, with radish sprouts on top with eel sauce.
Spicy crunch scallop inside tuna, avocado, cilantro, salmon and roe on top.
Spicy crab meat and mango inside top with spicy tuna, mango, avocado and wasabi tobiko with special sauce.
Tuna, salmon, crab, avocado, tobiko inside wrap with cucumber with ponzu sauce.
Eel and cucumber roll topped with sliced avocado.
California roll topped avocado and eel with eel sauce.
Shrimp tempura, cucumber topped with crab meat and special sauce.
Tuna, avocado, salmon, topped with kiwi, mango and papaya with special sauce.
Spicy crunch tuna, crab meat top with salmon, eel and avocado with special sauce.
Shrimp tempura, cucumber top with spicy tuna and crunch with chili sauce.
Spicy crab meat, avocado, cucumber, mango top with tuna, salmon and avocado with chef special sauce.
Shrimp tempura, cream cheese, cucumber, avocado and crab meat with soy paper and miso sauce.
Spicy crunch tuna, cucumber top with white tuna, pepper, tuna and avocado with special sauce.
Shrimp tempura, eel cucumber, tobiko and avocado on top.
Crab, avocado, mango inside, scallop on top, masago with special sauce.
Lightly fried soft shell crab, cucumber and spicy crunch tuna wrap with soy paper with eel sauce.
Crispy crab meat inside top with spicy crunch tuna, avocado with eel sauce.
California roll top salmon tuna white fish.
Tuna, avocado, mango, onion and cilantro with spicy mayo.
Salmon, avocado, mango, cilantro with wasabi mayo and spicy mayo.
Eel, cucumber and fried banana on top.
Fried California roll with spicy mayo.
Lightly fried soft shell crab, cucumber, avocado and eel sauce.
Tuna, yellowtail, avocado, mango with smelted roe outside.
Spicy crunch salmon in avocado side and mango on top.
Spicy shrimp, seaweed salad inside and avocado on top with eel sauce.
Fresh mango, tamago and crab top with shrimp, avocado and mango sauce.
Spicy tuna crunch avocado inside and papaya on top with special sauce.
Deep fried roll with crab, spicy tuna, cream cheese, cucumber and avocado.


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Check out this clean multi-color multi-location screen printed Hanes Ecosmart sweatshirts we printed up for Americorps and UTEC's Grand opening happening November 13th. UTEC short for United Teen Equality Center is an awesome program with the mission and promise to ignite and nurture the ambition of Lowell's most disconnected youth to trade violence and poverty for social and economic success. We love working with programs like UTEC, Make sure to check them out online and on twitter!
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Self-Myofascial Release Vibration: Gimmick or Game Changer?
Foam rolling has taken the fitness world by storm, so much so it is arguably a household term. Anyone who has used one knows you don't have to be a professional athlete to benefit from the tools either. Physical job? Tough workout? Long yoga session or just a long day on your feet? Your foam roller is your best friend and a perfect supplement to massage or physical therapy. If you don't believe me check it out! Research has even proven it time and again - Research Overview.
Chances are if you're reading this you have probably already decided that vibrating foam rollers are an overpriced gimmick and have one of our RAD toolkits sitting in the corner of your studio but if you're still on the fence let me answer a few more questions for you.
WAIT, WHAT'S A VIBRATING FOAM ROLLER? MAYBE I WANT ONE!
Vibrating foam rollers/tools are the latest evolution of SMR tools. Look on any marketplace and you'll see them. They claim to offer greater benefits than traditional, non-mechanical SMR and many garner what they perceive as positive results from using these tools but this hasn't been scientifically or medically proven yet. Studies have begun but many of them are being funded and oftentimes even run by companies that sell a vibrating tool. Ah... the science of the salesman. Be wary of it.
That is not to say serious studies have not been done. Less biased research indicates that vibration can make you feel better, decrease delayed onset muscle soreness, and increase dorsiflexion range of motion. Vibration stimulus may also have some intriguing benefits such as the stimulation of Pacinian corpuscles. Further investigation is needed to determine if these are relevant benefits, however, and to rule out the powerful placebo effect.
Adding an unnecessary element like vibration or temperature is just a distraction from the real work these SMR tools can do, however, and in RAD's opinion, is a bit of an excuse to overcharge. Nonmechanical SMR tools like the ones RAD puts into the world are a fraction of the cost of mechanical tools and have proven benefits. Why not stick with what has been guaranteed to work for over thirty years? That's what we say.
For example….You remember the cold rollers that added the stimuli of cold temperature?
Neither do we. Touted as a game-changer these foam rollers didn't last on the market very long. The research didn't hold up. Countless consumers purchased them wanting to enhance their massage and myofascial experience though. This time hold off a bit. Let's see where vibrating rollers are in a few years after serious studies have been done. For now invest in something cost effective, tried, and true. You want real benefits, not the placebo effect.
Wikipedia identifies 'A placebo [as] a substance or treatment with no active therapeutic effect. A placebo may be given to a person in order to deceive the recipient into thinking that it is an active treatment'. The effect was officially 'discovered' during WW2 when Dr. Henry Beecher ran out of morphine. Instead of telling his patients he applied a saline solution which he claimed was morphine. Remarkably it worked. His patients remained calm and actually claimed to experience physiological changes similar to that of a body under the influence of morphine.
Check out this incredible and much more current study, Mind Over Milkshake, which demonstrates the power of our thoughts and expectations on results. This should make you question whether results of an intervention are due to the intervention itself (vibration, for example) or if the expectation and subsequent physiological changes are due to the placebo effect.
Vibrating foam rollers are, most likely, in the placebo camp. The vibration is tricking your body into thinking you are getting more benefit than you actually are, and the physiological effect of applied vibration creates numbness and temporary relief which can be misinterpreted as actual repair and healing.
There also appear to be some drawbacks to using the vibrating tools that are currently on the market. For instance, you cannot target the origin/insertion of muscles where the GTO (Golgi Tendon Organ~~~The little receptors that are most responsible for muscle lengthening with SMR) is found and this is where you would put pressure to inhibit a hypertonic muscle. Neither can you contact hard-to-reach structures such as the subclavius under the clavicle or the rotatores between the vertebrae in the spine.
It isn't advisable to use it on your neck or head either because the vibration may cause a headache.
Generally while using these new-fangled SMR tools the feeling in the tissue is too vague to sense what's really going on. Essentially the user ends up numbing the tissues (ahem, remember that placebo effect we talked about?) rather than creating awareness and seeking dissociation of structures. This is properly achieved by not only pressure but also lengthening of the tissues and shearing of the body across a tool. Don't need no vibration for that! Just a basic self-myofascial release tool: Batteries neither included nor necessary!
Don't get me wrong, there are benefits to all sorts of different external stimuli on the body: pressure, temperature, stretch, cold, heat, light from a laser, compression, loading (Wolff's law), visualization... you get the picture. It is indisputable that there are many ways to stimulate the nervous system but we are still not certain which is the most beneficial way. The truth is that context likely determines the answer. Vibration might be just what one person needs to find benefit and relief, but the next fifty have to look elsewhere.
Some users have also commented that vibrating tools tended to make their body numb and they felt as though they were vacating the site that they were releasing. The work is being done externally by a foreign object as opposed to internally by their own nervous system response. That is because vibrating tools utilize centripetal and exogenous vibration (developing from external factors) and there is a simple and free way to create centrifugal and endogenous vibration (developing from internal factors). Try saying ''buzzzzzz'' like a bumble bee and notice how the tissues in your body vibrate? That is vibration from the inside out and I bet studies would say it is just as effective as the exogenous vibration created by a tool.
At RAD we believe the benefits of SMR are more than local structural changes at the site of mechanotransduction. It is crucial to find the cause of your individual soreness, tension or pain and then provide your body with the behavioral change that it is yearning. That is what we teach in our RAD Mobility courses. Individuals are encouraged to consider their own history and to assess themselves through a variety of techniques (visually, through palpation, and by using the Nimble 9 movement assessment).
Unless we're dealing with an acute injury or chronic tension, tightness/pain is multifactorial and involves much more than issues in the tissues. That said the mechanical stimulus from a tool is a powerful first step and the Nimble 9 allows you to identify where you are stuck and guides you to precise locations of the body release.
We also recommend visualizing a release and breathing deeply and slowly to maximize expansion and retraction of the cells in your body. By creating tactical biomechanical change we hope to positively affect the nervous system and to consequently improve how we move and feel.
That's really the heart of why we developed the RAD tools and predominantly the reason why our tools are, generally, smaller than other offerings on the market. It's to allow the user to really target the exact place where the mobility impairment is located and to create change in the targeted tissue so that our biomechanics improve. The focus should be on a person's ability to perceive what's going on internally, analyze that feedback, and determine the best course of action from there.
PUT YOUR MONEY TO BETTER USE, MY FRIEND!
To cut to the chase there are many ways to stimulate the nervous system and if you like vibrating tools, go for it. As always, it's your call. RAD Roller won't be coming out with a vibrating tool unless earth shattering research emerges to demonstrate that the technique is truly a game changer. Our advice …?
Save the money you would spend on the inflated cost of a vibrating roller and instead invest in a variety of SMR tools so that you can access all of the structures in your body.
Better yet, take a course and enhance your knowledge or use the extra $200 you saved by not purchasing the vibrating device and book two appointments with the best clinician in town so that you can get assessed and learn strategies for improving your mobility.


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Nikolas Rejto, 17, was born in Oberlin, Ohio, and has lived in Australia since he was 3 years old. Having played the clarinet for most of his childhood, Rejto started playing guitar four years ago under the guidance of his teacher, Raffaele Agostino. Rejto has had numerous successes in Sydney, winning the Sydney Classical Guitar Eisteddfod in 2016 and 2018. He performed at the Pollard Awards, which were broadcast on the radio in 2016 and won 1st prize in several other local competitions. Rejto also performed at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in a special concert honoring refugees in 2017. He is on a music scholarship at St. Luke's Grammar school and has been chosen to represent the school's music department at numerous events.
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Since I was a child, I fell in love with the little that I had heard about Jesus in a family that followed Catholic traditions. Even though they did so in a superficial way, I never stopped seeking and following that desire in my heart.
However, my lack of knowledge in the word of God and the influence of an Indian guru led me to Hinduism. This only led me to depression as my dependence on the guru drove me further away from Jesus.
Around that time in my life, I bumped into the mother of one of my son's friends. She is a Christian and invited me to attend a baptism service at her church. When I got home from church, I looked up "Christian music" on the Internet and came across Hillsong. I did some research and found that there was a Hillsong church in Barcelona and I asked my friend to go with me.
I felt God as soon as I walked into the church and all throughout the service. I felt Jesus in the time of worship, and I was filled with joy. Pastor Juan's message pierced through my heart. I found out that God had plans for my life and my son's life. During the invitation for people to give their hearts to God, I felt like I had been very far away from Him. This was the beginning of a transformation in my life and also in the life of my friend.
At Hillsong I found Jesus, and it's the greatest thing to see how we are growing daily and how He is giving us the right tools to learn more about who he is, how to serve Him and to be a testimony of Him.
Elisabeth has found a home as part of Hillsong Barcelona. Nation Builders giving helps to support the establishment of new Hillsong churches in South America and Europe, including Hillsong Barcelona. Praise God for the new opportunities that are being provided for people to connect with Jesus and be welcomed home.
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I am a Philadelphia-based playwright and novelist who has been confounding audiences and readers since my first production in 2004. I've received grants from the Pew Fellowships in the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and my plays have been produced by such forward-thinking theaters as the MacKnight Foundation (Philadelphia), Plays & Players Theatre, Straw Flower Productions, Philadelphia Theatre Workshop, the Brick Playhouse, the Theater Alliance (Washington, DC), and The Phoenix Theatre (Indianapolis). I've received staged readings in lots of other places, including PlayPenn, InterAct Theatre Company, Theatre Exile, Society Hill Playhouse, and Flashpoint Theatre Company.
I'm also the proud creator, host, editor, and chef on a web series called Martinis with Nick, in which, I get local theater artists drunk and talk to them about Philadelphia theater.


The courses offered by the English Department fall into two categories: core content courses and electives. The core courses are divided into college preparatory levels and honors levels for each grade, with Advanced Placement offerings in the 11th and 12th grades. The honors and AP courses require greater self-motivation and independence on the part of the student. They are the most rigorous and demand that students read at a faster pace and write on a sophisticated level. Students in the 9th grade World Cultures program who seek entrance into the 10th grade honors program must establish and achieve goals, in consultation with their teachers, that reflect their motivation and ability to meet the challenges posed by an honors-level course. In the 10th and 11th grades, students must secure a teacher recommendation. A teacher's recommendation places a student in a class of the appropriate level according to the student's past performance, initiative, and ability. Engaging in research utilizing the Modern Language Association format is required at every level. Summer reading is a requirement for all students. Elective courses are selected by the students according to their interests.
The English component of the interdisciplinary World Cultures program emphasizes global awareness and critical thinking skills through the close reading of literature. In addition, students are introduced at this level to literary genres, Shakespeare, and the research process. The curriculum includes a cross-cultural examination of universal themes, as reflected through both the traditional canon and non-western, contemporary writers. Students develop techniques of literary analysis through many opportunities provided for writing and engaging in diverse projects. Students wishing to pursue honors level study in 10th grade must complete the optional 9th grade portfolio.
The five strands of the Language Arts Core Curriculum Content Standards--reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing--are developed in this course through the study of the literary heritage of Great Britain and its Commonwealth countries. The student's awareness of how English literature has played a unique role in helping to shape the ideas and institutions of Western culture is enhanced through an examination of representative genres. Writing and other activities are motivated by the literature.
English 10 Honors is an accelerated study of the literary heritage of Great Britain and its Commonwealth countries. The reading and writing components are more advanced than in English 10. Students will be required to demonstrate an advanced level of self-motivation and assume responsibility for their learning.
AP Seminar, which serves to fulfill the sophomore year of English requirements, is a foundational course in the AP Capstone Program that engages students in cross-curricular conversations that explore the complexities of academic and real-world topics and issues by analyzing divergent perspectives. Using an inquiry framework, students practice reading and analyzing articles, research studies, and foundational literary and philosophical texts; listening to and viewing speeches, broadcasts, and personal accounts; and experiencing artistic works and performances. Students learn to synthesize information from multiple sources, develop their own perspectives in research-based written essays, and design and deliver oral and visual presentations, both individually and as part of team. Ultimately, the course aims to equip students with the power to analyze and evaluate information with accuracy and precision in order to craft and communicate evidence-based arguments and to produce research-based compositions and presentations. To receive AP weighting, students who enroll in AP Seminar must complete all coursework, must take the AP Seminar Exam in May, and must also enroll in AP Research for the junior or senior year in fulfillment of the two-year AP Capstone Certificate Program.
The five strands of the Language Arts Core Curriculum Content Standards--reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing--are developed through the study of American literature and culture. Through a variety of activities and through a thematic approach to the literature, students will gain a better understanding of the major ideas and values of American society.
American Studies is designed with the idea of connecting literature to the history and political, social, and economic climate of a particular time period. The course traces the development of American culture and defines the American character from the Puritan through the modern periods in terms of literature, art, music, architecture, philosophy, and technology. This approach enables students to understand the context for the development of American ideas in addition to facilitating their expertise in the strands of the Language Arts: reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing.
The Advanced Placement Language and Composition course emphasizes skilled reading of prose, rather than poetry. Students will be instructed in the reading, interpretation, and analysis of a wide variety of complex prose texts written in a range of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contexts. The development of effective expository, analytical, and argumentative writing styles and approaches is one of the primary objectives of this course. Teacher recommendation is required for admission. The course is open to juniors and seniors only. Students are expected to register for and to take the College Board AP Language and Composition Exam at the end of the year.
English 12 is a study of major works that have shaped Western thought. Students will gain a deeper understanding of Western heritage through an examination of a broad spectrum of world literature. This literature is the basis from which students will develop and sharpen their reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing skills. Emphasis is placed on developing close reading strategies and analyzing literature through coherent, cogent writing.
This course surveys the development of Western culture from the classical period through the modern period. Representative examples of literature, philosophy, architecture, art, music, and drama are examined, thus relating students to their cultural heritage. This synthesis of the arts provides students with many opportunities to construct their own meanings through reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and research. Students emerge with an understanding of themes and concepts that shape a coherent vision of Western culture.
The Advanced Placement course in English Literature and Composition involves students in the close reading and critical analysis of literature in preparation for the College Board Advanced Placement examination. By deepening their understanding of literature, students will develop critical standards. Regular writing assignments will include predominantly analytical pieces. This course is open to seniors only. Teacher recommendation is required. Students are expected to register for and to take the College Board AP Literature and Composition Exam at the end of the year.
Public Speaking is a class that is designed to nurture the hesitant speaker as well as further the abilities of students already familiar with the skills needed to speak in front of an audience. Students will learn how to craft and deliver speeches for a variety of purposes and audiences. Progress will be charted through self- and peer-evaluations as well as the video recording of speeches. This course will provide students with practical speaking skills for high school, college, and the workplace. They will develop a new kind of self-confidence that will grow, as they become more effective speakers.
This course will actively involve students in all aspects of acting and the skills required to perform on stage. This course is designed for all students regardless of experience. All students can benefit from the focus skills of this course as they are related to public presence, presentation, audience awareness, and communication. Students will focus on becoming believable actors and effective communicators of human experience and thought. Additionally, they will gain knowledge of the cultural and literary heritage of the theatre, as well as a greater appreciation for the range of human experience.
This course will build on the skills of Acting Workshop I to provide students deeper experience in stage performance. This course is designed for students who have successfully completed Acting Workshop I. In addition to increasing confidence in stage presence, presentation, audience awareness, and effective communication, students will grow in their ability and range as actors, exploring various methods and genres of performance. In Acting Workshop II, students will more independently explore choices about individual performance and will be able to identify their own relationship to acting and recognize potential obstacles to authentic and believable stage performance. Students will strengthen their performance through blocking and movement. Students will explore various methods of characterization and storytelling and engage in performance critique and thinking about theater as both a viewer and performer.
Film Studies is structured primarily as an introductory course to the elements and techniques of film art. The course is predicated on the assumption that film, while commonly viewed as entertainment, is also a valid and serious art form. Therefore, the course approaches this art form from three critical perspectives: analytical, historical/cultural, and aesthetic. To this end, shots, sequences, and a wide range of films from feature-length narratives to animated, experimental, and documentary shorts will be shown to illustrate the material covered in classroom discussions, the styles present during a particular film period, the establishment of film genres, and the accomplishments of noted artists/auteurs.
The English as a Second Language Program provides an opportunity for those students needing assistance in learning the English language. The purpose of the program is to provide students with sufficient fluency in all areas of English to be successfully integrated into the mainstream school program. The program is offered in the high school one period each day for the entire school year. Students enter the program through testing and exit upon becoming English proficient.


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Les Basses de Camp Batalla són un conjunt de basses i entollaments temporals que es troben en una zona antigament ocupada per una activitat extractiva de basalt. La majoria de basses se situen a la base d'alguns dels fronts abandonats i estan experimentant un ràpid procés de colmatació natural.

Aquesta zona humida se situa en una zona forestal, formada per una pineda de pi pinyer amb abundants alzines, sureres i roures martinencs. S'hi troba per tant l'hàbitat d'interès comunitari 9540 Pinedes mediterrànies. Les basses, en ser de caràcter temporal, no han arribat a formar un bosc de ribera ni cinyells helofítics de boga o canyís. Presenten en canvi diversos tipus d'herbassars humits i comunitats algals, de característiques variables al llarg de l'any i en funció del grau d'inundació assolit.

Aquesta zona humida és interessant sobretot pel fet de presentar hàbitats destinats a l'alimentació, la hivernada o la reproducció de moltes espècies d'amfibis i rèptils aquàtics. S'hi ha citat espècies d'amfibis com salamandra (Salamandra salamandra), tritó palmat (Lissotriton helveticus), tritó verd (Triturus marmoratus), reineta (Hyla meridionalis), gripau corredor (Epidalea calamita), granota pintada (Discoglossus pictus), granoteta de punts (Pelodytes punctatus) i tòtil (Alytes obstetricans).

El procés de colmatació natural de les basses pot originar la seva desaparició a mitjà termini. Potser caldria realitzar alguna mesura de gestió d'hàbitats per garantir-ne la continuïtat, com l'excavació d'alguna de les basses existents, o la creació d'alguna nova bassa. D'altra banda, es troben a la zona algunes deixalles, així com antigues instal·lacions de l'activitat extractiva, que caldria retirar.

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Eyebrow transplant Melbourne is also known as eyebrow reshaping, eyebrow hair transplant.
An eyebrow transplant is a simple, yet sophisticated procedure, that requires extensive experience and exceptional artistic ability. The correct selection of your donor hair follicles will retain their hair-growing qualities giving lasting new eyebrows.
An eyebrow transplant Melbourne cost starts off at $3,500.
You are welcome to book your eyebrow transplant consultation. There is no obligation and it is a free consultation.
Society today, places great pressure our appearance, the need to look and feel good about our personal image. We are made aware that how we feel about our appearance and how others may see us, may have a bearing on our career and personal success.
For people with compromised eyebrows may feel it detracts from their appearance.
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Significant surgical advances, such as microscopic dissection, have increased the number complete single grafts being transplanted. The microscope allows our specially trained doctors and technicians to trim away excess tissue whilst preserving the complete hairs and their supporting systems.
Due to this advanced technology, interest in hair follicle transplants for your eyebrows has increased significantly during the past decade.
Good surgery is the most permanent and successful treatment for any kind of hair loss.
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Eyebrow transplant is the movement of one's own hair follicles from one area to your eyebrows.
Hair transplants cannot be donated by another person as they would be rejected by the body's immune system.
Once in your eyebrows, the follicles grow – and in time will mimic eyebrow hair.
The hair follicles are taken from a small strip of hair from the back of your head. Over time this scar will be invisible.
Usually, the donor area is located at the back or sides of the head, where the hair follicles have a different genetic code, and tend to produce full-size hairs over a person's lifetime.
How long does an eyebrow transplant Melbourne?
The procedure can take between 2 to 3 hours, depending on the number of grafts transplanted.
Eyebrow transplant Armadale, Melbourne is an exacting procedure, involving a team of nurses/technicians and the Doctor.
For further information on the hair transplant procedure.
How many grafts are transplanted?
The eyebrow transplant can range from 100 to 200 or more grafts per eyebrow. Some cases may only need 50 grafts to obtain a better density.
Your procedure is done under local anaesthetic; making it a pain-free experience. Afterwards, there may be some mild discomfort in the donor or recipient areas.
Many patients do not even need to take long term pain relief.
What will I look like after my eyebrow transplant?
Right after the treatment, the area will be red and slightly swollen. There may be some small scabs over the individual grafts that will remain for about a week. There are no bandages.
How long does it take for the new eyebrows to grow?
Our latest techniques result in minimal handling and trauma to the follicles during the procedure.
Most of our patients report that many follicles start growing hair straight after the procedure. Generally, over 90% of the grafts placed will survive and grow normally in their new position.
Grafts placed into scar tissue, or other problem areas may have a lower yield.
Most patients find that they can return to work 3-5 days after an eyebrow transplant. This is more about the appearance than pain.
Occasionally there may be some slight bruising or swelling around the area that may need several days to resolve. Sutures in the donor area are removed 10 days later. You can resume gentle exercise and gym work 2 days after the procedure. Unrestricted activity recommended after two weeks.
The new grafts need to be protected and treated gently for 10 days after your procedure.
You can wash your face the day after the procedure.
Eyebrow transplant complications are not common but can include some bruising, swelling, infection and bleeding.
If they occur, they can generally be easily handled, without risk to you or transplanted hair follicles.
Rarely there is unexpected poor healing of the donor and/or recipient areas, in the form of a scar.
Smoking can adversely affect follicle yield and growth.


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Q: How to increase the font size of the legend in seaborn I have the following codes to create a Seaborn strip plot. I am having a hard time figuring out how to increase the font size of the legend appearing in the plot.
g=sns.stripplot(x="Market", y="Rate", hue="Group",data=myBenchmarkData, jitter=True, size=12, alpha=0.5)
g.axes.set_title("4* Rate Market and by Hotel Groups for Year 2016",fontsize=25)
g.set_xlabel("Market",fontsize=20)
g.set_ylabel("Rate (in EUR)",fontsize=20)
g.tick_params(labelsize=15)
plt.savefig ('benchmark1.png')

I am OK with my x-axis and y-axis labels font size but the font size of the legend in my plot is small. How to change it?

A: Use matplotlib function setp according to this example:
import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pylab as plt
sns.set_style("whitegrid")
tips = sns.load_dataset("tips")

ax = sns.stripplot(x="sex", y="total_bill", hue="day", data=tips, jitter=True)
plt.setp(ax.get_legend().get_texts(), fontsize='22') # for legend text
plt.setp(ax.get_legend().get_title(), fontsize='32') # for legend title

plt.show()

Another way is to change font_scale of all graph with plotting_context:
http://seaborn.pydata.org/generated/seaborn.plotting_context.html

A: There is a much easier way to do this today, simply set up your figure and then call
plt.legend(fontsize='x-large', title_fontsize='40')

https://matplotlib.org/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.legend.html
Might depend on the version of matplotlib you're using. I'm using 2.2.3 and it has the fontsize parameter but not the title_fontsize.

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import mock
import six

from designateclient import exceptions as designate_exceptions
from designateclient import v1 as designate_client

from heat.common import exception as heat_exception
from heat.engine.clients.os import designate as client
from heat.tests import common

class DesignateDomainConstraintTest(common.HeatTestCase):

    def test_expected_exceptions(self):
        self.assertEqual((heat_exception.EntityNotFound,),
                         client.DesignateDomainConstraint.expected_exceptions,
                         "DesignateDomainConstraint expected exceptions error")

    def test_constrain(self):
        constrain = client.DesignateDomainConstraint()
        client_mock = mock.MagicMock()
        client_plugin_mock = mock.MagicMock()
        client_plugin_mock.get_domain_id.return_value = None
        client_mock.client_plugin.return_value = client_plugin_mock

        self.assertIsNone(constrain.validate_with_client(client_mock,
                                                         'domain_1'))

        client_plugin_mock.get_domain_id.assert_called_once_with('domain_1')

class DesignateClientPluginTest(common.HeatTestCase):
    @mock.patch.object(designate_client, 'Client')
    @mock.patch.object(client.DesignateClientPlugin, '_get_client_args')
    def test_client(self,
                    get_client_args,
                    client_designate):
        args = dict(
            auth_url='auth_url',
            project_id='project_id',
            token=lambda: '',
            os_endpoint='os_endpoint',
            cacert='cacert',
            insecure='insecure'
        )
        get_client_args.return_value = args

        client_plugin = client.DesignateClientPlugin(
            context=mock.MagicMock()
        )
        client_plugin.client()

        # Make sure the right args are created
        get_client_args.assert_called_once_with(
            service_name='designate',
            service_type='dns'
        )

        # Make sure proper client is created with expected args
        client_designate.assert_called_once_with(
            auth_url='auth_url',
            project_id='project_id',
            token='',
            endpoint='os_endpoint',
            cacert='cacert',
            insecure='insecure'
        )

class DesignateClientPluginDomainTest(common.HeatTestCase):

    sample_uuid = '477e8273-60a7-4c41-b683-fdb0bc7cd152'
    sample_name = 'test-domain.com'

    def _get_mock_domain(self):
        domain = mock.MagicMock()
        domain.id = self.sample_uuid
        domain.name = self.sample_name
        return domain

    def setUp(self):
        super(DesignateClientPluginDomainTest, self).setUp()
        self._client = mock.MagicMock()
        self.client_plugin = client.DesignateClientPlugin(
            context=mock.MagicMock()
        )

    @mock.patch.object(client.DesignateClientPlugin, 'client')
    def test_get_domain_id(self, client_designate):
        self._client.domains.get.return_value = self._get_mock_domain()
        client_designate.return_value = self._client

        self.assertEqual(self.sample_uuid,
                         self.client_plugin.get_domain_id(self.sample_uuid))
        self._client.domains.get.assert_called_once_with(
            self.sample_uuid)

    @mock.patch.object(client.DesignateClientPlugin, 'client')
    def test_get_domain_id_not_found(self, client_designate):
        self._client.domains.get.side_effect = (designate_exceptions
                                                .NotFound)
        client_designate.return_value = self._client

        ex = self.assertRaises(heat_exception.EntityNotFound,
                               self.client_plugin.get_domain_id,
                               self.sample_uuid)
        msg = ("The Designate Domain (%(name)s) could not be found." %
               {'name': self.sample_uuid})
        self.assertEqual(msg, six.text_type(ex))
        self._client.domains.get.assert_called_once_with(
            self.sample_uuid)

    @mock.patch.object(client.DesignateClientPlugin, 'client')
    def test_get_domain_id_by_name(self, client_designate):
        self._client.domains.get.side_effect = (designate_exceptions
                                                .NotFound)
        self._client.domains.list.return_value = [self._get_mock_domain()]
        client_designate.return_value = self._client

        self.assertEqual(self.sample_uuid,
                         self.client_plugin.get_domain_id(self.sample_name))

        self._client.domains.get.assert_called_once_with(
            self.sample_name)
        self._client.domains.list.assert_called_once_with()

    @mock.patch.object(client.DesignateClientPlugin, 'client')
    def test_get_domain_id_by_name_not_found(self, client_designate):
        self._client.domains.get.side_effect = (designate_exceptions
                                                .NotFound)
        self._client.domains.list.return_value = []
        client_designate.return_value = self._client

        ex = self.assertRaises(heat_exception.EntityNotFound,
                               self.client_plugin.get_domain_id,
                               self.sample_name)
        msg = ("The Designate Domain (%(name)s) could not be found." %
               {'name': self.sample_name})
        self.assertEqual(msg, six.text_type(ex))

        self._client.domains.get.assert_called_once_with(
            self.sample_name)
        self._client.domains.list.assert_called_once_with()

    @mock.patch.object(client.DesignateClientPlugin, 'client')
    @mock.patch('designateclient.v1.domains.Domain')
    def test_domain_create(self, mock_domain, client_designate):
        self._client.domains.create.return_value = None
        client_designate.return_value = self._client

        domain = dict(
            name='test-domain.com',
            description='updated description',
            ttl=4200,
            email='xyz@test-domain.com'
        )

        mock_sample_domain = mock.Mock()
        mock_domain.return_value = mock_sample_domain

        self.client_plugin.domain_create(**domain)

        # Make sure domain entity is created with right arguments
        mock_domain.assert_called_once_with(**domain)
        self._client.domains.create.assert_called_once_with(
            mock_sample_domain)

    @mock.patch.object(client.DesignateClientPlugin, 'client')
    def test_domain_update(self, client_designate):
        self._client.domains.update.return_value = None
        mock_domain = self._get_mock_domain()
        self._client.domains.get.return_value = mock_domain

        client_designate.return_value = self._client

        domain = dict(
            id='sample-id',
            description='updated description',
            ttl=4200,
            email='xyz@test-domain.com'
        )

        self.client_plugin.domain_update(**domain)

        self._client.domains.get.assert_called_once_with(
            mock_domain.id)

        for key in domain.keys():
            setattr(mock_domain, key, domain[key])

        self._client.domains.update.assert_called_once_with(
            mock_domain)

class DesignateClientPluginRecordTest(common.HeatTestCase):

    sample_uuid = '477e8273-60a7-4c41-b683-fdb0bc7cd152'
    sample_domain_id = '477e8273-60a7-4c41-b683-fdb0bc7cd153'

    def _get_mock_record(self):
        record = mock.MagicMock()
        record.id = self.sample_uuid
        record.domain_id = self.sample_domain_id
        return record

    def setUp(self):
        super(DesignateClientPluginRecordTest, self).setUp()
        self._client = mock.MagicMock()
        self.client_plugin = client.DesignateClientPlugin(
            context=mock.MagicMock()
        )
        self.client_plugin.get_domain_id = mock.Mock(
            return_value=self.sample_domain_id)

    @mock.patch.object(client.DesignateClientPlugin, 'client')
    @mock.patch('designateclient.v1.records.Record')
    def test_record_create(self, mock_record, client_designate):
        self._client.records.create.return_value = None
        client_designate.return_value = self._client

        record = dict(
            name='test-record.com',
            description='updated description',
            ttl=4200,
            type='',
            priority=1,
            data='1.1.1.1',
            domain=self.sample_domain_id
        )

        mock_sample_record = mock.Mock()
        mock_record.return_value = mock_sample_record

        self.client_plugin.record_create(**record)

        # Make sure record entity is created with right arguments
        domain_id = record.pop('domain')
        mock_record.assert_called_once_with(**record)
        self._client.records.create.assert_called_once_with(
            domain_id,
            mock_sample_record)

    @mock.patch.object(client.DesignateClientPlugin, 'client')
    @mock.patch('designateclient.v1.records.Record')
    def test_record_update(self, mock_record, client_designate):
        self._client.records.update.return_value = None
        mock_record = self._get_mock_record()
        self._client.records.get.return_value = mock_record

        client_designate.return_value = self._client

        record = dict(
            id=self.sample_uuid,
            name='test-record.com',
            description='updated description',
            ttl=4200,
            type='',
            priority=1,
            data='1.1.1.1',
            domain=self.sample_domain_id
        )

        self.client_plugin.record_update(**record)

        self._client.records.get.assert_called_once_with(
            self.sample_domain_id,
            self.sample_uuid)

        for key in record.keys():
            setattr(mock_record, key, record[key])

        self._client.records.update.assert_called_once_with(
            self.sample_domain_id,
            mock_record)

    @mock.patch.object(client.DesignateClientPlugin, 'client')
    @mock.patch('designateclient.v1.records.Record')
    def test_record_delete(self, mock_record, client_designate):
        self._client.records.delete.return_value = None
        client_designate.return_value = self._client

        record = dict(
            id=self.sample_uuid,
            domain=self.sample_domain_id
        )

        self.client_plugin.record_delete(**record)

        self._client.records.delete.assert_called_once_with(
            self.sample_domain_id,
            self.sample_uuid)

    @mock.patch.object(client.DesignateClientPlugin, 'client')
    @mock.patch('designateclient.v1.records.Record')
    def test_record_show(self, mock_record, client_designate):
        self._client.records.get.return_value = None
        client_designate.return_value = self._client

        record = dict(
            id=self.sample_uuid,
            domain=self.sample_domain_id
        )

        self.client_plugin.record_show(**record)

        self._client.records.get.assert_called_once_with(
            self.sample_domain_id,
            self.sample_uuid)


Akiles Products, Inc. is a manufacturer of comb binding machines, coil binding machines, wire binding machines and combo binding machines like the Rubicoil and Coilmac series. Established in 1993, Akiles Products, Inc. is currently one of the leading suppliers and manufacturers in the binding machine and laminator industry for the USA, Canada, and Latin American markets. Akiles Products, Inc. was founded on the principle to provide excellent and consistent quality products with efficient customer service at a reasonable and competitive price. Their interest is to establish healthy, win-win working relationships solely with dealers and distributors on a long-term basis. Akiles also produces the fast and efficient heated pouch laminators and lamination equipment .
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A friend of mine is selling a fireplace that you hang on the wall. I want it. I have no place to put it, but I really really want it. There is LITERALLY no place in my house that can accommodate this item. I want it. If I buy it, it will sit in my garage for years never being used. I really really want it. If I buy it, my hubby will be furious with me. It is not in the budget. I think I might buy it. The money I spend will come out of my baby basset's Christmas money. Maybe I should get it. MY CHILDREN WILL CRY AND THINK SANTA DOESN'T LOVE THEM! It's so pretty, maybe?
PRIMAL Origin (A PRIMAL Action Thriller Book 1) (The PRIMAL Series)
by Jack Silkstone
Genre: Action & Adventure | Literature & Fiction | Thrillers
"Your mission is to build an organization capable of dealing with men… Men who think they are above the law. Men who sow hatred and pain wherever they walk. Men who are evil."
That's the call to arms for Vance, Ice, Mitch, and Bishop, a team of highly trained operatives who've gone rogue and formed PRIMAL, a global vigilante unit. They protect the innocent, punish the guilty, and wage war against terrorism, all in the name of justice. Their first target: the wealthy CEO of a powerful corporation-and a die-hard jihadist supporter-scheming to exterminate Western influence in the United Arab Emirates. Our four warriors challenge his murderous ambitions, turning the dark arts of clandestine ops against a seemingly untouchable evil. Success gives them access to new resources and new targets, and within a matter of days they've brought a Russian mafia cartel to its knees.
Middle Eastern warmongers, insipid Russian mobsters, and all those who prey on the weak and helpless can rest assured: justice comes with a dose of fury when it's delivered by PRIMAL.
Devlin Security Force Boxed Set
Genre: Romance | Suspense
DEVLIN SECURITY FORCE, Protecting Priceless Treasures
Former Special Forces officer Thomas Devlin founded Devlin Security Force after witnessing the destruction and theft of antiquities in Iraq. The DSF mission of protecting and recovering art and artifacts means combating Centaur, a shadowy international crime syndicate.
ON DEADLY GROUND
Desperate to save her brother, museum director Kate Fontaine must work with Max Rivera, the ex-military guide she doesn't trust to return a precious Mayan artifact to its temple, but when desire flares between them, outrunning international black-market smugglers and an earthquake seems simple compared to risking their hearts.
RING OF TRUTH
Recovering crown jewels could get the FBI off Cortez Jones's back, but he needs the help of Mara Marton who blames his jewel-thief father for destroying her family. Mara wants this chance to prove her father's innocence, but how can she trust Cort? Sparks fly as they race black-market smugglers to the jewels. There's no turning back, once their lives — and their heart are on the line.
CLEOPATRA'S NECKLACE
Thomas Devlin must recover Cleopatra's necklace, but when the smugglers pursue his old flame, he jets to her aid. Cleo's involvement with the necklace's forger sends her on the run. She knows Thomas will protect her but will he crush her love again? As they race against time, they learn more is at stake than recovering the antiquity. The peril escalates, and so does the risk to their hearts.
AT LAST (A DEVLIN WEDDING NOVELLA)
Owing her brother and his bride, maid of honor Andie Devlin is determined to make their wedding perfect. She's falling for Mike Pagano but fears he'll judge her wild-child past. He wants to keep her safe from an attack threatening the wedding, but more than that, he wants her in his arms. When she learns her brother assigned him as her bodyguard, she pushes him away… leaving her vulnerable.
Last Shot (Dev Haskell – Private Investigator, Book 6)
by Mike Faricy
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Mystery | Thrillers
Last Shot is the SIXTH offbeat (and very funny) mystery in the Dev Haskell Private Investigator series.
Dysfunctional PI Dev Haskell receives a request from beautiful, red-headed Desi Quinn to investigate the trumped-up charges that ruined her life and sent her to prison six years ago. Desi's life was destroyed after a brief relationship with upstanding citizen, Man-of-the-Year Gaston Driscoll, who just happened to be her boss. She views Dev as her last hope–her last shot–but the impossibly dangerous scenario she describes makes Dev think the investigation would be out of his league; he politely declines.
As Desi's story slowly unravels, Dev realizes (under a mountain of guilt) that he made a huge mistake. He embarks on a mission to make things right, only to become a killer's next target. An entertaining tale of intrigue, rank ineptitude, and raucously entertaining one night stands, Last Shot is another funny, fast paced, engrossing thriller from Minnesota's master of the bizarre.
The Chosen Knights (Secret Knights Book 1)
by Mary Ting
When teens go missing in Hawaii, a group of demon-hunters — half human and half angel — disguised as high school students, must leave Crossroads, the place where they reside. In a race against time, they uncover the mystery connecting the missing teens, which dates back to the era of the Knights Templar. However, when they discover one of the Templars passed down a book containing all the secrets and codes to finding a particular treasure, they soon realize this forbidden treasure needs to be found before Cyrus, the lord of the possessor demons, acquires it — a treasure which been safeguarded and hidden from him.
There is only one problem: the pages containing the clues leading to the treasure is missing. When the first page is found, Cyrus threatens to kill more descendants of the Knights Templar if it is not given to him by Friday the thirteenth. In the midst of threats and discovery, the demon-hunting angels find they are not alone when supernatural beings begin to reveal themselves. Can they put their differences aside and work together to solve the Knights Templars' cipher? As they astral travel to the past, they witness a lot more than they have bargained for. And some things are better left unseen.
Brunch at Ruby's
by DL White
Genre: African American | Literature & Fiction | United States
Ruby's Soul Food Cafe has been the neighborhood hot spot their whole lives, so it's only fitting that Ruby's is where Debra, Maxine and Renee meet monthly to do what girlfriends do– eat, drink and offer unsolicited advice on life and love.
Debra Macklin has it all: a successful career, a long marriage and a happy 12 year old daughter. But she's hiding a secret that could not only shatter her perfect image, but destroy her marriage and career. When her secret is spilled, Debra is poised to lose everything she holds dear.
Maxine Donovan is a self made woman but despite all she earns and owns, she's on a constant quest for Mr. Right. Handsome, aloof Malcolm Brooks might just be The One, but when Malcolm's attention turns toward her friend instead, Maxine is ready to risk a strong bond to fight for him.
Renee Gladwell left a lucrative job and a handsome boyfriend to nurse her father and Gladwell Books back to health. A temporary stay has turned into four years of struggling with Alzheimer's and a family owned bookstore that is in no shape to sell. Renee is in limbo, caring for a man who is slowly forgetting his past — including her. When she meets Malcolm Brooks, her life brightens, but is love worth risking a friendship?
Brunch at Ruby's is a funny, inspiring, soulful look into a lifelong friendship where bonds are bent, but never broken.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- David Segui will not have to share first base with anyone for at least the next three weeks, but he took no joy in the news Thursday that veteran Glenn Davis had accepted an optional assignment to join the Triple-A Rochester Red Wings.
If that constitutes a major career opportunity, Segui is choosing to look at it in more personal terms.
"I'm glad to play every day," he said, "but I don't like to see it at his expense. I think we've become pretty close friends. Glenn and Tim [Hulett] are the guys that I'm closest to on the team."
Baseball doesn't usually make such strange bedfellows. Segui started the season in the background, but his solid performance at the plate eventually pushed Davis out of the everyday lineup. That is the kind of thing that can strain a baseball friendship, but Davis and Segui remained on very good terms right up until Davis departed the club on Thursday.
Segui, 26, has wanted to be an everyday player in the major leagues for as long as he can remember, so it might have been easier to view Davis in more competitive terms. Instead, he finds himself coming to the defense of a player who seemingly has distanced himself from most of his teammates.
"I wouldn't say that they don't like him," Segui said. "I think it's a lot like what happened with Luis [Mercedes]. Maybe a lot of guys just didn't take the time to get to know him. Glenn is not the kind of guy who's going to be in the back of the bus whooping it up. There's nothing wrong with that as far as I'm concerned."
Davis apparently angered club officials by staying at a different hotel than the rest of the team in New York this week, but Segui claims that Davis very much wanted to be liked by the other players.
"He wanted to be liked," Segui said, "but he came here and took care of business. He came to work, not to play cards in the clubhouse or be part of some clique. He came, did his work, and left. Maybe some guys didn't like that, but it never bothered me."
There have long been rumors that Davis was not well liked in the Orioles clubhouse. He came to Baltimore in a deal that sent three good young players to the Houston Astros, and he came to displace another player -- Randy Milligan -- who was very popular among his teammates.
He quickly became the highest-paid player on the club and just as quickly suffered a debilitating injury that kept him from winning anyone over with his performance.
It took awhile, but according to Segui, Davis won a lot of respect with the grueling physical regimen he undertook to overcome his physical problems.
"I think a lot of people are pulling for him to do well," Segui said. "Everybody knows how frustrated he has been. It was hard to hear him getting booed all the time."
Manager Johnny Oates, who himself expressed exasperation with Davis on a few occasions last year, thinks that his players owe it to Davis and to themselves to be supportive.
"I would hope that every guy in the clubhouse is rooting for him, because he's part of this team," Oates said. "I don't think that it should be a situation where he has to win anyone over. I wouldn't expect everybody to want to go to dinner with everybody else, but when they walk through the clubhouse door, I want everybody pulling for everybody."
Segui was with Davis the night before he made the decision to voluntarily accept the assignment to Rochester. Davis has not spoken to reporters about that decision yet, but he confided in his young friend one last time.
"I knew they had talked to him about it," Segui said. "I talked to him a little bit. I think he was kind of ready. He was starting to realize that it was a good thing for him to go somewhere and play."
Last night's Orioles-Angels game in Anaheim, Calif., did not end in time to be included in this edition. A complete report can be found in later editions of The Sun. For the latest sports results, call SUNDIAL at (410) 783-1800, ext. 5001 (in Anne Arundel County, call  268-7736, ext. 5001).


For other uses, see Exposition (disambiguation).
Indirect exposition, sometimes called incluing, is a technique of worldbuilding in which the reader is gradually exposed to background information about the world in which a story is set. The idea is to clue the readers in to the world the author is building without them being aware of it. This can be done in a number of ways: through dialogues, flashbacks, characters' thoughts, background details, in-universe media, or the narrator telling a backstory. Instead of saying "I am a woman", a first person narrator can say "I kept the papers inside my purse." The reader (in most English-speaking cultures) now knows the character is probably female.
Indirect exposition has always occurred in storytelling incidentally, but is first clearly identified, in the modern literary world, in the writing of Rudyard Kipling. In his stories set in India like The Jungle Book, Kipling was faced with the problem of Western readers not knowing the culture and environment of that land, so he gradually developed the technique of explaining through example. But this was relatively subtle, compared to Kiplings' science fiction stories, where he used the technique much more obviously and necessarily, to explain an entirely fantastic world unknown to any reader, in his Aerial Board of Control universe.
Kipling's writing influenced other science fiction writers, most notably the "Dean of Science Fiction", Robert Heinlein, who became known for his advanced rhetorical and storytelling techniques, including indirect exposition.
The word incluing is attributed to fantasy and science fiction author Jo Walton. She defined it as "the process of scattering information seamlessly through the text, as opposed to stopping the story to impart the information." "Information dump" (or info-dump) is the term given for overt exposition, which writers want to avoid. In an idiot lecture, characters tell each other information that needs to be explained for the purpose of the audience, but of which the characters in-universe would already be aware. Writers are advised to avoid writing dialogues beginning with "As you well know, Professor, a prime number is..."
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