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Learn so much at this site.  Cook Cook to the right temperature Why it matters Did you know that the bacteria that cause food poisoning multiply quickest in the "Danger Zone" between 40˚ and 140˚ Fahrenheit? And while many people think they can tell when food is "done" simply by checking its color and texture, there's no way to be sure it's safe without following a few important but simple steps Follow these top tips to keep your family safe Use a food thermometer. Cooked food is safe only after it's been heated to a high enough temperature to kill harmful bacteria. Color and texture alone won't tell you whether your food is done. Instead, use a food thermometer to be sure. Keep food hot after cooking (at 140 ˚F or above). The possibility of bacterial growth actually increases as food cools after cooking because the drop in temperature allows bacteria to thrive. But you can keep your food above the safe temperature of 140˚F by using a heat source lik...

Finally, yeay! AirAsia X takes off for Honolulu on June 28, tickets start from RM499 Malaysia's long-haul budget airline AirAsia X Bhd is set to fly to Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, starting June 28 this year.  The celebratory airfare will start from as low as RM499, inclusive of taxes and fees one-way, while the Premium Flatbed will be offered from RM2,999 one-way.  Bookings for the special fares can be made from midnight on Feb 11 to Feb 26.  The travel period for the offer is from June 28, 2017 to Feb 6, 2018. AirAsia X will operate a four-times-weekly service from KL to Honolulu, via Osaka, Japan.  Passengers transiting in Osaka do not require a Japanese visa during the two-hour stopover and can return to their seats on the flight after clearing security with any carry-on luggage and belongings.  Passengers may also opt for the 'multi-city option' on AirAsia's website prior to booking their flights, which allows them to spend a few days in Osaka before flying on to Honolul...

Amazon calls 2016 holiday season its best ever; shares rise The Amazon Echo home assistant and its smaller version, Echo Dot, topped the best-sellers list, said Jeff Wilke, chief executive of Amazon's worldwide consumer division, in a press release. "Despite our best efforts and ramped-up production, we still had trouble keeping them in stock," he said. Sales of voice-controlled Echo devices were nine times more than they were during last year's holiday season, the company said. Amazon did not disclose comparable sales figures from a year earlier. "It's all relative to other numbers that they've never told us," said analyst Jan Dawson of Jackdaw Research. Amazon likely sold between 4 million and 5 million devices this year to date with Alexa, the voice-controlled assistant on the Echo, estimated Morningstar analyst R.J. Hottovy in a research note. Shoppers can command the Echo to perform a host of tasks, from playing music to turning on Christmas lig...

Please don't see my animated blockbuster, says Japan's 'new Miyazaki' The ying and yang doesn't end there. The story is set between the beautiful mountainous Nagano region where Shinkai grew up and Tokyo's hyper modern megapolis. It also plays on the tension of teenagers desperate to quit their small towns for the big city yet who are still entranced by the beauty of age-old Japanese traditions. "It is a film about memory, but also about losing memories," said Shinkai, who adapted the story from his own novel. "It's about individual memory and collective memory, the forgetting of a certain morality and sense of tradition." While he is resigned to the fact that the comparison with Miyazaki will haunt him forever, he insisted that they are very different. To prove it he commissioned the Japanese J-rock group Radwimps - whose music you could see giving the old master tinnitus - to do the soundtrack. Shinkai is also at pains to point out that...

Fear is the great extinguisher of dreams... Conversely, it can be your best mentor and source of motivation. Paula Amato