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She's being attacked, losing her footing as she falls to the dusty ground littered with pine needles. Scurrying like a crab, she attempts to stand and then… nothing.
A cold sweat trickles down Slater Montgomery's spine as he struggles to control his breathing. It's been years since he's felt them – years since he's seen them. The visions which nearly destroyed his childhood. Back then, ignorance and getting high were his allies, providing a false sense of security. Now? He can't get her out of his head. The girl with the wild curls and fear-riddled eyes – the girl of his dreams.
Except, Slater knows this is no dream. It's too real, too raw. The details, her emotion… before he can convince himself not to, Slater finds himself packing a bag and leaving his picturesque Wyoming home in search of the woman haunting his every waking moment. He just needs to see her once, just to be certain she's safe. Just to be sure he's not losing his mind.
What Slater imagined to be impossible – actually finding the mysterious woman – proves to be just the beginning. As secrets are exposed, Slater finds himself trapped in a web darker than he ever could have imagined. One which he's not quite sure either of them will survive.
It started as a vision. A dream-like scene flashing through his mind. The ending?
A nightmare.
Stacy M Wray loves writing and reading anything romance – Judy Blume was one of the first authors she read in middle school. After all, a world without love, heartache, and angst would prove a boring place to live.
Lover of gray and white cats, craver of all things sweet, enthusiast of hiking and camping, wife of an extremely supportive husband, and mom to two amusing adult children, she realizes life is pretty damn good.
She also appreciates that it's never too late to try something new. Never.


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Welcome to The Azura 1 in Yaletown! Located at the end of Richards street, steps to George Wainborn Park, the waterfront beach walk and just across from Granville Island. The Amenities offer a massive indoor pool, state of the art fitness room, hot tub, steam room, theatre room, guest suite, 24 concierge, and more! The suite faces southwest and offers a bright & open concept. Highlights include: Updated modern Kitchen w/solid wood white cabinetry, caesarstone quartz counter tops, stainless steel Blomberg Fridge & Bertazzoni gas stove, Whirlpool dishwasher, touch less faucet, stunning LED pendant lighting, new hardwood laminate flooring. The Master bedroom will accommodate large furniture and has plenty of closet storage. The suite comes with 2 parking stalls, Pets and rentals are allowed.
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Excess body weight before age 50 is associated with higher pancreatic cancer mortality risk
BMI before age 50 may be more strongly associated with pancreatic cancer risk than BMI at older ages.
Whilst pancreatic cancer is relatively uncommon, accounting for just over 3% of all new cancer cases, it is an extremely deadly type of cancer. In the USA, pancreatic cancer is the third leading cause of cancer death, after lung and colorectal cancer, and is expected to cause approximately 46,000 deaths in 2019.
"Pancreatic cancer rates have been steadily increasing since the early 2000s," commented lead author, Eric J. Jacobs (American Cancer Society, GA, USA). "We've been puzzled by that increase because smoking—a major risk factor for pancreatic cancer—is declining."
"Increased weight in the US population is a likely suspect, but previous studies have indicated that excess weight is linked with only a relatively small increase in risk, which doesn't look large enough to fully explain recent increases in pancreatic cancer rates," Jacobs continued.
In this study, researchers wanted to discover if excess weight measured earlier in adulthood might be more strongly linked to pancreatic cancer risk than excess weight measured at older ages.
The researchers examined data from 963,317 US adults with no history of cancer who registered in a nationwide study of cancer mortality that began in 1982 and followed participants through 2014; the American Cancer Society's Cancer Prevention Study II. At the beginning of the study, all participants reported their weight and height. This included some participants as young as 30 while others were in their 70s or 80s. Body Mass Index (BMI) was then calculated from this information.
During the follow-up period, 8,354 participants died of pancreatic cancer. As predicted, higher BMI was linked with increased risk of dying of pancreatic cancer, but this increase in risk was largest for BMI assessed at earlier ages. Jacobs noted that while the study only had information on deaths from pancreatic cancer, the disease is nearly always fatal, so results are expected to be similar to those for new diagnoses of pancreatic cancer.
The results suggest that excess weight could increase risk of death from pancreatic cancer more than previously believed. Moreover, the researchers recorded that recent generations are reaching early middle age with more excess weight than earlier generations previously did. This indicates that excess weight will explain a larger proportion of pancreatic risk in the future.
Interestingly, Jacobs estimates that 28% of pancreatic cancer deaths amongst Americans born between 1970 and 1974 will be attributable to excess weight, in comparison to just 15% of Americans born in the 1930s, who are much less likely to be obese in early middle age. Thus, highlighting the importance of preventing excess weight gain before middle age for reducing rates of pancreatic cancer.
"Our results strongly suggest that to stop and eventually reverse recent increases in pancreatic cancer rates, we will need to do better in preventing excess weight gain in children and younger adults, an achievement which would help prevent many other diseases as well," concluded Jacobs.


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Bay Area's vinyl scene finds its groove as sales surge
Steve Stevenson started working at a record store in 1997, a time when the compact disc was king and sales of vinyl LPs were nosediving, kept alive by a small but dedicated core of digital-audio refuseniks.
He always wanted to run a record shop of his own, and in 2008, against steep odds, he got the chance to do so in Oakland. With bad credit, $4,000, 160 square feet of space and his own record collection, Stevenson opened 1-2-3-4 Go Records and hasn't looked back since.
"Every year we've been open we've had an increase in business," he said.
You might credit Stevenson's record-picking savvy for that — but the real story is that anyone who's been in the LP business over the past decade has had some wind in their sails. Revenue from vinyl hit a 28-year high last year, rising 32 percent to $416 million, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. A resurgent market for vinyl records in the Bay Area matches trends elsewhere in the U.S. and Europe.
Eric Mueller founded Pirates Press in San Francisco in 2004 and said his company, which brokers vinyl-record manufacturing mostly for independent musicians and record labels, has grown exponentially every year since. Last year, the company moved to a 40,000-square-foot office and warehouse in Emeryville to accommodate the swelling volume.
"The first year, we made somewhere around half a million records, and we're making somewhere in the 5 million range per year right now," Mueller said. "We hope that in 2017, we'll be making up to 7 million records."
The medium's unlikely resurrection over the past decade has prompted some artfully-groomed-goatee-stroking among industry observers about how long the vinyl revival might last.
But to talk with members of the Bay Area's tight-knit community of record stores, vinyl pressers and distributors, the regional industry appears to remain vibrant, growing and increasingly innovative.
The trend has not fallen out of its groove this year. Sales of vinyl LPs are up 12 percent compared with 2015, according to data from Nielsen. Independent record stores accounted for 43 percent of vinyl sales, a 2 percent gain.
The most surprising thing for those who long ago dropped vinyl for cassettes, CDs, MP3s, and Pandora and Spotify might be that it's not just collectibles and rarities. New tracks are still being laid down pretty much the same way they have been for the past 86 years — by putting plastic pellets in between the jaws of a record press and applying heat.
And people are playing those old-fashioned albums on newly bought equipment. Tony Green, product manager for Amoeba Music's San Francisco store, said that he's also seen double-digit growth in sales of turntables.
"You would be amazed at the general imbalance of youth versus people of my generation buying them," Green said "It's a young person's thing, and young people, even school-age kids, are talking about it, and I definitely see it expanding."
Those newly pressed albums sell well, thanks to contemporary musicians' embrace of vinyl. Despite his punk-rock roots, Stevenson is not averse to stocking the new Taylor Swift album. Over the years, Stevenson has moved his flagship store into progressively larger spaces. Today, 1-2-3-4 Go's Oakland location occupies more than 1,500 square feet. And last year, Stevenson opened a second location in San Francisco's Mission District.
"All of that expansion is only done on the back of what I've been able to bring in through the stores," he said. "I've never had financial backers, I never got a loan. It's all been through the stores."
Between the two stores, Stevenson employs six workers and will collectively pay out $150,000 in payroll this year. "The floor here is $15 an hour," he said.
The industry continues to inspire new entrants as well. Zane Howard quit his job at a meat company in July to focus on his new venture, Second Line Vinyl, a state-of-the-art record-pressing facility in Oakland.
Howard had been searching for a way into the music industry and considered opportunities in music streaming. But he quickly decided the space had become too crowded, and he noticed a surprising trend.
"When streaming was taking off in 2010, that's when vinyl started coming back. I saw that this is more than a fad, this is a trend. Maybe I can create a small business and support local artists with vinyl pressing."
After teaming up with an industry veteran, Howard decided to build all-new record presses, replete with advanced diagnostics and Internet connectivity, rather than rely on decades-old machines.
The goal, Howard said, is to create a new industry standard for quality in record pressing, and to accelerate the pressing process. "Demand is outpacing supply right now. When there's a six-month rate for a vinyl order, that's a problem," he said.
Howard is raising money for his business and hopes to start pressing records by next fall.
Howard's approach of stamping records locally makes him something of an outlier. Mueller's Pirates Press outsources the stamping of records to a facility in the Czech Republic. 16kHz in Oakland sends its work to Southern California.
And then there's the album itself — all the artwork and other pieces that surround the vinyl. Mark Calabro, the owner of 16kHz, says vinyl's status as a collector's item is a big reason behind the medium's sustained success. Advances in printing technology have opened up a world of possibilities for bands to create something alluring or provocative — something beyond what record buyers might have seen in vinyl's heyday a half-century ago.
"There's definitely a lot more emphasis on creating custom options, whether it's making something unique about the jacket or a custom color record," he said. What's more, with collectors in mind, many independent bands and record labels are willing to spring for a vinyl pressing before embarking on a tour, Calabro said.
"These days, people know what the collectors' market wants, so they hold back less on the bells and whistles," he said. "If you have a flashy-looking jacket on the shelf, people are going to gravitate toward that."
Stevenson of 1-2-3-4 Go remembered when people questioned his sanity for entering the vinyl business and signing yearlong leases on stores.
"For the first three years when I started the business, I would tell people what I was doing, and the response was always, 'Why are you doing that? That doesn't make sense,'" he said.
"Now it's kind of crazy. I'll meet different people who don't know me, and I'm introduced as the guy who owns that record store, and they already know about it."
Dominic Fracassa is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @dominicfracassa


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- Repair (reconstruction) and warming of the suburban housefront. Part 1.
- Finish of the veranda and the loggia of suburban house.
- Water-supply of the house from well
- Installation of Kipor KGE12E generator
- Development of blind area and subdrainage of section
- Repair of suburban house and bath-house. Roof at home and bath-house floor.
- Reconstruction of blind area of suburban house. Part 3.
- Repair of the boiler Thermex
- Wooden frame house. Finish of wooden frame by imitation of the building timber
- Construction of open verandah. Development of front porches.
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Wooden frame house. Carcassing.
We wanted to describe long ago process of construction of frame wooden house, but did not know from what to begin. It is resolved to do so: descriptions of civil works will be conducted on the phases of construction, i.e. not all cycle at once, but as it is accepted to build in our company, namely – construction of the foundation, erection of wooden frame, outside planking, interior furnishing. It is as regards "box". "Reactivation" of suburban house, that is, works on installation of engineering services, we will quote separately, as it is made now.
Besides in presented descriptions of works stage on construction of frame houses, we will direct attention on the main moments of construction which should be controlled carefully, to avoid in order to further problems at operation of construction object. At the same time, all smallest nuances of construction of frame house will be most detailed image are considered in the second book from series "Library of Dachny master", issue of which is scheduled in the near future. We remind that the first book devoted to construction of reliable foundation of frame house, has been already manufactured and it is possible to acquire its HERE. Of issue of new books we will notify Сustomers and the visitors of the site in our sending, it is possible to be subscribed to which HERE, as well as filling in form presented in lower part of the browser on all pages of our site. So:
Task in hand: construction of wooden frame.
Progress of work: Progress of work: To works on construction of given object we have joined at ready foundation. Foundation is combined, girder-piled. We considered a given construction in our book. All further works on construction of frame house were executed in strict conformity with developed design documentation.
Carcassing begins after construction of the foundation and its endurance approximately 10-12 days before final seizing of concrete and the set of necessary strength. Specified curing period accounts for 28 days, but it is possible commence performance of works on carcassing and somewhat earlier, not creating maximum loads to foundation. That is exactly what we do.
The first phase of works on construction of wooden frame is processing of all wooden fabricated parts by fermentation compositions. We use well-proven pill "Neomid". Fermentation technology is specified by the GOST 10950-78. When fermentation it is performed, we commence construction of the timber set of house. It is an ideal variant, when timber set panels are attached to the foundation by the anchors incorporated at construction of the foundation (they are filled to foundation), but in this instance the fasteners was executed by the die drilling and by installation of wedging anchors. After the structure of the timber set the framing of ground floor was erected:
We recommend at this stage to control carefully backlashes between timber set panels. If possible, then it is necessary to lay there thermal insulation at stage construction, if design has been already mounted, then big backlashes is better "cover with foam":
At construction of frame it is necessary to control presence of slopes so that at high wind design not "collapse", as on the photo below, as well as presence of all additional reference racks, for example under window openings (otherwise after installation of windows they will subside, forming slots, through which cold air masses will penetrate):
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Following phase of frame erection is construction of the second storey frame (upon availability). In given phase construction of overlapping, windscreens and rafter system enters. Our recommendations on the control of key parameters are presented on the photo:
As a result of performance of works on carcassing approximately following construction should turn out:
After construction of frame the stacking of roofing and outside covering with wind- and steaminsulating material is executed. Here it is especially necessary to control width of overlapping material (both on the roof and on walls). It should be stacked from bottom to top, but in no way no on the contrary:
Following phase of construction of frame house is an outside finish, process of performance of which will be considered in following article.
In more detail with progress of work it is possible become acquainted in our photogallery. Total performance time of works on construction of wooden frame accounted for 1 month.
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#TheList Brenda Bateman, born 25/11/1973, of Charles Street, Milford Haven SA73 2AE – subjected an elderly collie-cross dog called Jess to horrendous levels of neglect; Jess sadly put to sleep
Bateman admitted two animal welfare offences at Haverfordwest Magistrates' Court.
Magistrates heard she failed to seek veterinary care for the collie-cross dog called Jess, who had a severe chronic skin condition and arthritis, causing the animal to suffer unnecessarily.
Bateman also admitted failing to trim the dog's overgrown nails, which led to problems with the way she walked.
Jess was later put to sleep due to her health problems.
Speaking after the case RSPCA Cymru inspector Keith Hogben said: "The level of neglect experienced by this poor dog was horrendous.
"Jess had a severe chronic skin condition and overgrown nails, which impacted how she walked. It's so sad that the neglect she endured sadly meant she lost her life.
It is critical that people remember they have very clear legal responsibilities towards their animals. RSPCA Cymru will continue to fight for justice for dogs like this poor collie-cross, in all corners of Wales".
Sentence: £300 in costs, £220 fine and £30 victim surcharge; banned from keeping animals for seven years (expires March 2024).


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Top 6 Restaurants to Eat in Mexico
Mexico is a place where food items and their tastes are diverse and delicious. Mexican cuisine is a big attraction for all visitors. Tacos, cheesy quesadillas and tamales are very famous all over the world. They have also been categorized depending upon the region. Even when one has got various options, a common issue that arises is what to eat in Mexico. Below we present a comprehensive list of the top 6 restaurants to eat in Mexico.
1. Pujol, Mexico City
It is one of the best restaurants in Mexico running under the talented Enrique Olvera who graduated with culinary expertise from New York. The restaurant serves fresh and yummy food and Mexican wine in an elegant style. The unique feature of it is that the chefs use original, home grown products in their dishes which make them extremely scrumptious and appetizing. Most of the foodstuffs here have a French touch with tasteful modifications. Lamb tacos and fermented bananas are famous dishes of Pujol along with new creative dishes by the owner.
2. Biko, Mexico City
When you know of Biko in Mexico City, you won't need to panic anymore about where to eat in Mexico. The menu has got food items' which are a Mexican-Spanish fusion. The interior décor is appreciable with a smooth, calm atmosphere overall. One can enjoy not so fancy but sophisticated dishes which are appetizing and mouth watering. One of the famous menu items served here is Foie Gras with lettuce and cheese.
3. Casa Oaxaca, Oaxaca
Casa Oaxaca offers a blend of Mexican and Mediterranean cuisines and is known as a very fine restaurant with good service. It has two spots, open-air dining area with spectacular views around and a separate, self-supporting spot a few miles away. Both serve hot delicious turkey breast as its popular item along with seafood.
4. Flora's Field Kitchen, San José del Cabo
This amazing restaurant is situated near the Flora farm and so is named Flora's Field Kitchen. Due to this fact, it provides fresh meals prepared with fresh ingredients and served right from pan to your plate. The environment is comfy and friendly. Its popular serving is of exclusively made pizzas and roasted chicken.
5. La Marea Restaurant, Playa del Carmen
Although La Marea Restaurant serves dinner only, it is famous and included among the best restaurants in Mexico. The chef is Jetzabel Rojas Barragán, who is a master in his skills of Mexican cuisine. However you may find a bit of Mediterranean effect in them and like it even more. The special menu item includes lobster tail served along with roasted onions, vanilla butter and chips.
6. MeroToro, Mexico City
This restaurant was opened in 2010 by Gabriela Cámara and Pablo Bueno in Mexico City after the success of their Contramar at a place nearby. Baja style edibles and mouth-watering seafood with sophisticated garnishing are served here. Salads as starters are really appetizing. Its location is an advantage and helps attract the cream of the area to dine here.


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London-based The Veils, fronted by lead singer and songwriter Finn Andrews, release 'Total Depravity' on Nettwerk. The album reunites the band with producers Adam 'Atom' Greenspan and Nick Launay who were behind the critically acclaimed Nux Vomica. Greenspan and Launay have also worked together on projects including Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and more. In addition, Andrews and El-P (from Run The Jewels) collaborated on a few tracks that appear on the album.
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A ferrite is a type of ceramic compound composed of iron oxide (Fe2O3) combined chemically with one or more additional metallic elements.[1] They are both electrically nonconductive and ferrimagnetic, meaning they can be magnetized or attracted to a magnet. Ferrites can be divided into two families based on their magnetic coercivity, their resistance to being demagnetized. Hard ferrites have high coercivity; they are difficult to demagnetize. They are used to make magnets, for devices such as refrigerator magnets, loudspeakers and small electric motors. Soft ferrites have low coercivity. They are used in the electronics industry to make ferrite cores for inductors and transformers, and in various microwave components. Yogoro Kato and Takeshi Takei of the Tokyo Institute of Technology invented ferrite in 1930.[2]
Composition and properties
Ferrites are usually non-conductive ferrimagnetic ceramic compounds derived from iron oxides such as hematite (Fe2O3) or magnetite (Fe3O4) as well as oxides of other metals. Ferrites are, like most of the other ceramics, hard and brittle.
Many ferrites are spinels with the formula AB2O4, where A and B represent various metal cations, usually including iron Fe. Spinel ferrites usually adopt a crystal motif consisting of cubic close-packed (fcc) oxides (O2−) with A cations occupying one eighth of the tetrahedral holes and B cations occupying half of the octahedral holes. If one eighth of the tetrahedral holes are occupied by B cation, then one fourth of the octahedral sites are occupied by A cation and the other one fourth by B cation and it's called the inverse spinel structure. It's also possible to have mixed structure spinel ferrites with formula [M2+1-δFe3+δ][M2+δFe3+2-δ]O4 where δ is the degree of inversion.
The magnetic material known as "ZnFe" has the formula ZnFe2O4, with Fe3+ occupying the octahedral sites and Zn2+ occupy the tetrahedral sites, it's an example of normal structure spinel ferrite.[3][page needed]
Some ferrites have hexagonal crystal structure, like Barium and Strontium ferrites BaFe12O19 (BaO:6Fe2O3) and SrFe12O19 (SrO:6Fe2O3). [4]
In terms of their magnetic properties, the different ferrites are often classified as "soft" or "hard", which refers to their low or high magnetic coercivity, as follows.
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Arika Burton, the new Mrs. DC America 2012 winner, was crowned in front of a crowd of over 250 attendees at the Jack Morton Theatre.
District of Columbia / Free-Press-Release.com / March 14, 2012 — Arika is married to Bradley Burton and they have been married for one and a half years. Arika has a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Maryland in both Finance and International Business. She has also completed the International Finance and European Union Study program in London, England. Arika's community platform is Financial Literacy. She is actively involved in the National Financial Educators Council to raise awareness and improve financial capabilities.
The Mrs. DC America Pageant publicly recognizes beautiful married women, living and/or working within a 25-mile radius of Washington, DC, who have obtained personal, professional and community achievements. An official preliminary pageant to Mrs. America and Mrs. World, the Mrs. DC America Pageant welcomes women from all ethnic backgrounds to compete in a yearly pageant for the title of Mrs. DC America.
The Winners of the Mrs. DC America 2012 contest are:
- Winner: Arika Burton — Local Title: Mrs. DuPont Circle/Community Platform: Financial Awareness
- 1st Runner Up: Hermona Kiros — Local Title: Mrs. Adams Morgan/Community Platform: Benefits of Breastfeeding
- 2nd Runner Up: Natisha Dawson –Local Title: Mrs. Northwest/Community Platform: Healthy Living
- Mrs. Fitness: Arika Burton
- Mrs. Photogenic: Hermona Kiros
- Mrs. Congeniality: Jamii Roberson
- Sponsorship Award: Elizabeth Rice
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I could not wait to get my last manicure off my nails. Unfortunately, I simply did not have time to mess with it until this morning… so it was on my nails four whole days longer than I would have preferred. In comparison – I LOVE the way this one looks!! And it's even a dark color: mostly black even! (Plus, it'll go with all my outfits this week!)
This is for the third manicure in my little nail art challenge – something I made up for myself for the month of January. The prompt was "black and white" and I think I pulled it off this time.
I started out doing all the nails white and changed my mind after getting all the white paint on… and changing to black on the index and pinky finger. I almost did a reverse stamp on the black too, but ultimately decided to leave them alone. I think this look is awesome and may do it again with some other colors. It's the first time I've used this plate (It's Born Pretty #17) and was worried about the stamp being too dense and looking smudgy or mottled. But, no worries – they all came out perfectly with the exception of my first stamp on my right hand, and it's not too bad. (I think I tried to go too fast.)
So there you have it! My latest nail look. Do you like it as much as I do? What color should I do this look in next?
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Sally Hansen Insta-Dry, Tag, Ur It!
Sally Hansen Hard as Nails, Black Heart
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Sarah Tsiang is OBT's April 2012 WIR! (+ Book Giveaway)
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We are thrilled to announce that poet and children's book author Sarah Tsaing is Open Book: Toronto's April 2012 Writer in Residence! Visit Sarah's WIR page to read her blog and her answers to the Proust Questionnaire. Need some reading recommendations? Sarah's listed ten of her favourite Canadian books. She's also recommended some websites you'll want to check out.
You can send your questions and comments for Sarah to email@example.com or post them directly to her blog.
April Book Giveaway: Open Book and Annick Press are giving away a copy of Sarah's latest book, Warriors and Wailers. To enter your name in the draw, send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com with the title of one of the reading recommendations that Sarah lists on her WIR page. The contest closes on April 30, 2012, and is subject to the following Rules.
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NFL Week 10: Top High, Mid and Low-Salary Plays at Each Position
We are getting to the point in the NFL season where salaries are becoming more accurate (not considering injuries), and we have a more difficult time finding the appropriate value plays. We're here to help. In order to help with making your Thursday lineups, here are my top plays by group at each position.
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Aaron Rodgers $9,900 – Packers are projected to score 30.5 points. The Patriots torched the banged up Bears defense two weeks ago. Bears had a bye week? Oh, that really helped the Giants on Monday night. Rodgers will crush, and you should pair him with Jordy Nelson in GPPS. More on this later.
Cam Newton $7,700 – It's been three-straight poor outings from Cam. His price has slightly reduced as a result. Here's what's going for him though: 1. Cam is running a lot more being healthy, and he is getting some decent rushing yards and is rushing in the red zone in the read-option. 2. The Eagles run the second-most plays per game, which means more opportunities for Cam. 3. The Eagles are 28th against the pass in terms of FPTS allowed. 4. Very few people will play Cam with his recent struggles. 5. Cam has crazy upside. He is the ultimate GPP play.
Mark Sanchez $6,600 – I don't care if you're a Jets fan and think Mark Sanchez is the worst QB you've ever seen. Here's what you can't deny. Chip Kelly's offense favors QB FPTS, these salaries didn't factor in Nick Foles' injury, the Panthers have had one of the worst defenses in the league and Sanchez looked solid against the Texans despite not taking first-team reps the week leading up to the game. Superb GPP and possibly even cash-game play too.
DeMarco Murray $9,300 – Romo is back, so the defense won't load the box. The Cardinals have the No. 1 rush defense in the NFL. Oh, and it's the Jaguars now. Easy play.
Ronnie Hillman $7,400 – My top play on FanDuel. Let's get this straight for the last two weeks: Against the Chargers – 20 carries for 108 yards and 3 catches for 29 yards to get 15.3 FPTS (had two TDs called back for penalties, a run designed for him on the 1 but Manning tripped on his OLman, and was vulchered twice by the FB Thompson). Against the Patriots – Patriots led most the game, yet he showed his PPR value for 7 catches to result in 49 yards and finished with 2 TDs to give him 21.8 FPTS. Now the Broncos draw the 31st-ranked rush defense and the daily fantasy sites still have him priced as the 11th-most expensive back? Ridiculous bargain.
Jeremy Hill $6,900 – You saw that Jeremy Hill is the workhorse back against the Jaguars. Giovani Bernard is expected to be held out again. The Browns have the 19th-ranked FPTS defense against RBs with a very soft schedule so far against RBs. Easy pick, although Hill will guaranteed be used a lot.
Jordy Nelson $8,500 – As I explained for Rodgers, this is a perfect matchup. Nelson's price has dropped slightly based on one week where didn't get targeted because of the matchup with Keenan Lewis. He's golden against the Bears, just as he was the first time these two teams met.
Kelvin Benjamin $6,800 – Same reasoning as Jordy. Lewis shutdown Benjamin last week, Benjamin drew a couple pass interference calls, and he had one drop. Benjamin will have an excellent opportunity to bounce back against the up-tempo Eagles, and he's still reasonably priced for someone who almost always gets into double digits FPTS wise.
Eric Decker $6,400 – The Steelers still have the same issue without Ike Taylor. While William Gay does a decent job on the left side of the field (from the offense perspective), no matter who is on the right side keeps getting picked on. If I and others can figure this out, the Jets should be able to also (you would think). Let's also factor in Ryan Shazier and Troy Polamalu are out. The Jets are only 4.5-point dogs despite the Steelers being red hot and the Jets being ice cold. Michael Vick is as mobile of a QB as they come, and he will put pressure on a banged up Steelers DST. Despite the Jets' struggles, Decker has racked up 16 catches for 103 yards and a TD in his last two games. That's decent for someone at his price, and I expect Decker to post around 9 catches for 80 yards and a TD here.
Martellus Bennett $6,500 – TE's correlate to opposing defenses, mainly because they are a common target underneath the defense when teams are playing catchup. You bet Jay Cutler will be doing this to keep up with Rodgers. Bennett had 9 catches for 134 yards the first time these teams met when neither side punted. I can't say Bennett will match those numbers this time around, but he could very easily grab a TD to match or exceed this.
Delanie Walker $5,800 – The best target on the Titans, and he's the fourth-most targeted TE in the red zone in the NFL.
Heath Miller $5,300 – The Jets are 29th in FPTS allowed to TEs. Miller has had a few duds, but he's had two outstanding games 20.7 and 19.5 FPTS. For as much as Roethlisberger is throwing in the red zone, he has to be considered at least in GPPs.
Justin Tucker $5,300 – Huge favorite and arguably the best kicker in the league. Just check the weather in Baltimore on this one.
Mason Crosby $4,800 – A fairly big favorite at only $4,800. Crosby has one of the best legs in the league and Green Bay will put up a ton of points. He's your safest play.
Patrick Murray $4,500 – Murray is a very good and underrated kicker. Notice the 1-of-3 last week? He had a kick blocked (OLmen fault, it happens) and blasted a 55-yarder into the gusty wind by Lake Erie that came up barely short. Now he's back in Tampa against the Falcons, and these defenses are bad enough that we should see enough FG attempts.
Seahawks $5,400/Broncos $5,300 – Seahawks defense is struggling a bit, but a 9-point favorite with the biggest homefield advantage against a turnover-prone Giants team. Broncos generate a ton of sacks and are an 11.5-point favorite. The Raiders do give up the fewest sacks, but they haven't faced many good defenses and a lot of turnovers should be expected outside of that.
Eagles $5,100 – I know I promoted a couple Panthers players earlier, but here's the deal – the Eagles generate the ninth-most sacks and the Panthers allow the ninth-most sacks. Cam is certainly capable of turnovers, and the Eagles also have a huge special teams advantage. Just make sure you don't have conflicting players in your lineups, but both sides are legit.
Saints $4,600 – As I pointed out in my under-the-radar plays, the 49ers have been really struggling without Daniel Kilgore at center. The 49ers allowed 10 sacks last week! They now allow the third-most in the league. Meanwhile, the Saints have four sacks in each of the last two weeks. The Saints are at home, which is a huge advantage when the Superdome is loud for a big opponent and Vegas has New Orleans at -5. Consider this the best value play of the week.View all posts by Nick Juskewycz


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Like a moth to a flame, I was always drawn to the light, it has only been through living, sometimes painfully and brokenly, that I now understand how deceptive some light can be, how hot it can burn, and how deeply the scars can go once the flame has been extinguished.
I chose this title because it reminds me of my father, who passed away in 2010, after a brief but painful battle with cancer. He was only 72. His loss was one of the most profound of my life. My father was my hero. His guidance and love shaped me into the woman I am today. His words of wisdom were always spoken when they were needed most.
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Journal excerpt from June 2011: I sat in the sun watching a few butterflies light on the baskets of hanging flowers adorning the gazebos. They were small and colorful. Their wings were almost see-through. Seeing them reminded me of my Dad for some reason and something he had said to me years before. "Have you ever watched a moth," he had asked me, "it flies toward the light. Always toward the light." He was standing on a ladder, changing the bulbs in the front porch light fixtures. We had a long front porch that extended the length of the house complete with a swing. I had been sitting on the swing holding the fresh light bulbs, waiting to hand them to him. "Come here, Jupiter," he had called, "look at this." I can't remember exactly when or why he'd started calling me Jupiter, but the name had stuck. He was holding one of the light fixtures out to me. I peeked inside and saw the remains of many insects, mostly moths of various sizes and colors. "The moth desires the light so much," Dad had explained, "that it will fly into it repeatedly searching for the source." He then shook the glass fixture into a garbage pail. The insect remains fluttered into the trash like dust. "The moth never understands what will happen," he had continued as he placed the now clean fixture over the newly installed bulb I'd handed him a moment before, "until it is too late." "What do you mean," I'd asked him, not really understanding his words. "The moth eventually finds the source," he explained, indicating the trash can into which he had released the now dead bugs, "and is consumed by it." I was twelve when my father had first explained the mystery of the moth and the light to me. He'd told me that I reminded him of the moth. It would not be the first time he'd say this. At twelve, I'd listened, but hadn't really understood. At sixteen, I had listened impatiently but hadn't really cared. At twenty-one, I was halfway to the source, but unaware. At thirty-five the light had grown hotter, but I was too wrapped up in myself to remember my father's words. Now, at forty-four, the flame had nearly consumed me.
Jennifer Fenwick is a former history teacher, who now makes her career as a program analyst and technical editor. She is the author of, Four Weeks, an inspirational collection of original poetry and reflections about recovery and the power found in surrender; In the Eye of the Storm: Stories of Survival and Hope from the Florida Panhandle, a collection of inspiring stories, images, and poetry following the devastation of Hurricane Michael on October 10, 2018; and In the Aftermath of the Storm: Stories of Hope and Healing. Her books are available on Amazon.


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I spent my early career as an aerospace engineer in the 1980's working in the space program as an analyst. I was fortunate enough to work at the Johnson Space Center in Houston as a Space Shuttle mission planner during the early years of the shuttle program.
I later worked at the Denver Museum of Natural History as a science educator.
My love of travel has led to various speaking and volunteer opportunities. I've lectured on my travels at numerous institutions in the Denver area. I was on the board of Hosteling International – Rocky Mountain Council whose mission was to promote budget travel and cultural awareness.
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How to Change CBARs into CBUSHs
Gnokrojam posted a topic in Altair OptiStructI have a spider of CBARs that I want to change into CBUSHs using Hypermesh. If I use the "config edit" panel it creates 1 noded CBUSHs, since CBUSHs are created under the "masses" panel. How can I make this change? Thank you. Phil Brown
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Simulation@Work posted a topic in Altair HyperMeshI have meshed a geometry using voxel mesh with element size 0.5mm. I have seperated the mesh for design and non design space for topo optimisation. But now I feel the element size is too small and want to only change the element size to say for example 5mm (voxel mesh). How can I do it. I don't want to redo the whole model again.?( Like seperated the design and non design space ). Please guide me.
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We've reviewed and curated each bar for Savor & West to ensure it's high quality. Don't spend your time searching through a few different apps with hundreds of bars, many mediocre. Use Savor & West to find a high quality bar that fits your mood. We think you'll discover great new bars!
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Hi PHers 👋 I'm Tyler, back in April 2016 I made Bar Roulette, the Uber-Yelp bar hopping mashup. I've built something new and I'm excited to share it with you all. In October, I started the ambitious goal of launching four apps in twelve months. Savor & West is the first one 🎉 Curated and based on your mood, Savor & West is an iOS app that's your "personal bar expert." Unlike crowd sourced bar review apps (such as Yelp), every bar in Savor & West is reviewed and curated to ensure it meets a high quality standard. Then, to pick something from this list, the user inputs their mood with different tags and Savor & West suggests the best fit. The idea is that a user shouldn't spend their time searching through a few different apps with hundreds of bars, many mediocre, to find something they might like. Instead, they should use Savor & West to find a high quality bar that actually fits their mood. Because I've had to manually curate each bar and this isn't my full-time gig, I'm launching in four cities first, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and New York City. Try it out this weekend and let me know what you think! Happy to answer any questions! Cheers 🥃
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Hey @tylerswartz, Beautiful design! How does your app differ from similar apps that are already out there?
@jacqvon Great question! There are two things that make Savor & West different than apps like Yelp, Foursquare, etc. The first and biggest is that Savor & West starts with a curated list of bars that meets a certain standard. It still haunts me that someone who used Bar Roulette ended up at a Chili's 😀. Technically, Yelp classifies Chili's as a bar, and in a smaller town it was highly rated. I don't want this to happen for Savor & West, so a user is suggested a bar based on their mood from within an already curated list. The second is that I've tagged all of the bars with about 5 - 8 attributes (ie. Cocktails, Craft Beer, Cozy, Wes Anderson, Speakeasy, Sultry, Art Deco, etc). Instead of just searching by location and type, such as "Whiskey bar in San Francisco," users select a location AND as many tags as they want. These tags create much more dynamic results that are tailored to their mood.
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Sunday, November 25, 2007
Pumpkin: After Pie, Beyond the U.S.
When I was in college, we used to stuff whole small pumpkins with mashed potatoes and seasoned ground beef, and roast them until the flesh was soft and the outsides glazed and mahogany brown—cheap, hearty, and initially impressive, but ultimately rather dull, in the shepherd's pie tradition. Some years I just roast and mash them, or make soup. Ho-hum. Not that these aren't good, but really, what's so pumpkin-y about them? They may just as well have been made with butternut or acorn squash. Pumpkin is a little sweeter and denser, and seems to ask for something that showcases their difference. The Italians of course make the wonderful ravioli de zucca, bathed in sage butter; it's fabulous, and I have made it, but I'm happy to use canned pumpkin for that purpose as well—or to save eating them for dining out, and let the restaurant do the work. The Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and other Latino and Hispanic cultures use pumpkin a lot too, both in main dishes and desserts, particularly custards. But again, canned is fine. How to really showcase the taste and texture of the fresh item had eluded me.
Then about five years ago during a conference in Baltimore, our large group ordered a pumpkin appetizer at an Afghan restaurant run by a member of Hamid Karzai's family. It was the house specialty, but arrived looking astoundingly uninteresting— chunks of ostensibly plain cooked pumpkin sitting unadorned in a big bowl (for our crowd it was served home-style, with a another big bowl, this one of yogurt, alongside). Looks were deceiving: it was exotically sweet and tender, with a true pumpkin taste. I asked our waiter how it was made, and he said it was just pumpkin cooked in the oven with water and honey, served with a savory seasoned yogurt. There is a well known Afghan pumpkin dish made with tomato sauce and served with yogurt, but this was not it, but rather something altogether different and delicious.
As I think these fritters are—inspired by that Afghani appetizer but pushed into the dessert category with New England ingredients, and fried (thinking about Mexico made me do it, but fritters are classic New England fare). For me, they capture the sweet, fruity taste of pumpkin as pumpkin, not pumpkin as squash. Be sure to use a nice hard specimen, and if you like the seeds, clean, dry, and roast them with salt: they're full of minerals. Pumpkin itself is an extremely low-cal, low-fat food, high in vitamin A, calcium, and potassium.
New England Pumpkin Fritters via Afghanistan
These are a bit of work, but as I always say when rationalizing excesses during the holidays, whether of the pecuniary or laborious kind, "It's only once a year." And you can spread it out over two days, preparing the pumpkin on one and frying them on the next; extra hands, of course, make preparation light. These are a nice dessert, and a better breakfast. Even a small pumpkin makes a lot, so if you don't fry it all, you can eat any leftover sweetened pumpkin pieces plain with the yogurt, or mash them up as a side dish. As fritters, serves 15-20.
Preparing the Pumpkin (see safety note below)
1 small sugar pumpkin, about 7" in diameter
1 cup fresh sweet apple cider
¼ cup honey
½ tea Vietnamese cinnamon
2 T unsalted butter
Preheat the oven to 375 F. Cut the pumpkin into quarters and, with a large spoon, remove as much of the pulp and seeds as possible. Cut each quarter in half lengthwise, then further trim the flesh of all remaining fiber. Peel the rind with a vegetable peeler or paring knife. Cut each of the now eight pieces in half crosswise, then cut into 4 or 5 pieces of ½" each, taking care not to break them as they are curved. As you cut them, put them into a non-metal baking dish (a 15x10 "lasagna pan" is good) into which you have blended the cider, honey, and cinnamon, giving them a toss. Dot with the butter. Cover with a sheet of foil and oven-stew them for about 35 minutes, until they can be pierced with a knife and the smaller pieces are starting to turn translucent. You are looking for what might be called al dente—tender, but definitely holding shape; they will cook further when fried. Remove from the oven and allow to cool in the juices. If frying the next day, refrigerate, covered.
Fritters—Batter and Frying
2 cups a-p flour
1 ¾ cups sparkling sweet cider
¼ cup strained cooking liquid from pumpkin
2 eggs, separated
Pinch salt
Mixture of corn oil and lard for frying
Heat 2" of oil and lard to 375 F. A deep, heavy frying pan of at least 12" is good for this.
Combine the flour and salt. Separate the eggs and beat the whites until just stiff; drop the yolks into the flour. Strain the juices from the pumpkin into a 2-cup measure; you should have about 1/3 cup. Remove 2 T and reserve for the yogurt sauce, below. Fill the measure to the 2-cup line with the sparkling cider. Gradually add about 1 ½ cups of the liquid to the flour, first stirring with a wooden spoon and then whisking to remove lumps; I don't bother to strain for this. When reasonably smooth, gently fold in the remaining liquid and the beaten egg whites. With this amount of liquid, the batter will make a relatively light coating; if you want it heavier, cut the liquid by ¼ to ½ cup.
Drop a half-dozen pumpkin pieces into the batter at a time to coat, then lower them into the hot fat. Cook, turning once, until they are a uniform golden brown. Remove to paper towels to drain. Serve as you go, or keep them warm in a 200 F oven while you fry the rest. The pumpkin will now be perfectly tender. After it has cooled, strain the fat into a large spouted cup or bowl, pour it into a bottle or jar, and save it in the refrigerator for another use.
Yogurt Sauce and Serving
8 oz Greek-style plain yogurt
¼ cup 100% maple syrup
2 T strained cooking juices
Powdered (10x) sugar mixed with cinnamon-sugar for dusting
Blend the yogurt with the maple syrup and reserved cooking juices in a small bowl; garnish with a dash of cinnamon. Sprinkle the fritters generously with the 10x-sugar-cinnamon mixture, and serve with the yogurt sauce and some good, strong coffee.
Safety Note: Pumpkins are hard and unwieldy, so take great care when cutting. Use a small, sharp knife with a rigid blade such as a good-quality 4" parer or an inflexible 6" boning knife; a chef's knife or cleaver, while perhaps your first instinct, is dangerous for this. Cut the top out first, making small connecting cuts all around; remove, then cut down each side until you can pop it apart. Rinse/dry your hands frequently while cutting; they get slippery. When peeling, be sure to direct the peeler or knife away from you while holding the pumpkin firmly, flesh-side down, on a cutting board.
3 comments:
- Mama LLama said...
Hi Jane:
Its a fellow foodie here...
My friend Paul passed your blog along ...
And I love it!
Along with coworkers, I am about to reveal RI's first (and only legal) artisan cheese company (Narragansett Creamery).
I would love for you to come to the Official Cheese Cutting Ceremony (12/3).
How do I reach you?
Cheers and beets,
- November 25, 2007 at 1:38 PM
- Jane said...
Thank you, Louella. I am so excited for you (and as an eater, for me). I've been wondering why there were no RI handmade cheeses, and now, here you are, doing just what you should be doing. Congratulations. You can reach me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
- November 25, 2007 at 2:50 PM
- Ed Bruske said...
love that Afghan food. very different, yes?
here's a link to a pretty good American pumpkin dish--pumpkin and wild rice pilaf
- December 1, 2007 at 9:30 PM


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Belgravia today hosts lively street and garden parties in the summer and a series of acclaimed classical concerts in the autumn and spring. It is one of London's most exclusive residential districts with specialist boutique shops, up-market restaurants, gastro-pubs, delicatessens, cafés and art galleries. Belgravia is also a culturally rich neighbourhood, with a commitment to public art, and is home to numerous art galleries and site-specific art installations.
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Being a mostly exclusive residential district, Belgravia is also known as a central London enclave for billionaires with its Chester Square topping the London's most-expensive streets list in 2009 and 2010. As one of the wealthiest districts in the world, Belgravia is known for its high class and famous residents, including:
- Sports: Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich, who owned a 30,000 square feet property in Lowndes Square and former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho lived near Eaton Square.
- Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his first ever symphony at 180 Ebury Street in 1764 when he was just 8 years old. Symphony No 1 in E flat major was composed as young Mozart travelled Europe with his father, and was heavily influenced by Johann Christian Bach, son of Johann Sebastien, who was also living in Belgravia at the time. Belgravia also hosted famous composer Sir Andrew Lloyd Weber who is one of only fifteen people to have won an Emmy, Oscar, Grammy and Tony.
- Four James Bond notables: Writer of James Bond novels Ian Fleming and leading actors of 2 James Bond movies Sir Sean Connery and Sir Roger Moore lived in Belgravia while Sir Christopher Lee, playing the villain in the 1974 movie "The Man with the Golden Gun" was born in Belgravia
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Until the 17th century Belgravia was part of an area called Five Fields, with around 500 acres of swamp, pasture and orchards. The possession of the area north of the Thames passed into the Grosvenor family in 1656, when the daughter and sole heiress of Alexander Davies, Esq., of Ebury Farm, married Sir Thomas Grosvenor, the ancestor of the present Duke of Westminster. The Grosvenors, who still own the estate, vowed to put the Five Fields to new use, and the following centuries saw it flourish into one of London's most desirable addresses.
In 1824, Lord Grosvenor appointed the new master builder of London, Thomas Cubitt, in search of an answer for the problem posed by the inhospitable nature of the land. Mr. Cubitt had devised his own solutions for removing the clay of the marsh, burned it into bricks to later use in the construciton of the district and dumped tons of earth dug out of the banks of the Thames for the building of the new St. Katharine Dock into this former swampland.
Grosvenor's vision for the land included classic Regency-style streets, squares and crescents, all aligned to overlook leafy private gardens and within a few years, together with the work ethic and clever ideas of Thomas Cubitt elegant new terraces of white stucco and a whole new neighborhood would rise to form the Belgravia district.


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The development priorities of Ireland strongly align with the work and mandate of UNFPA. Irish development cooperation policy names human rights and essential services, including health, education and disease prevention, as two of six priority areas for action, where gender equality and women's empowerment are seen as cross-cutting themes to be considered in all interventions. Ireland's emphasis on essential services aligns strongly with UNFPA's work on ending maternal and infant mortality, promoting universal access to quality maternal and reproductive health care, supporting safe motherhood, promoting HIV/AIDS prevention strategies, and ending harmful practices against women and girls including gender-based violence and female genital mutilation. UNFPA's humanitarian work aligns with the Government of Ireland's focus on human rights and fragile contexts.
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Ireland is a longstanding supporter of UNFPA and I commend the vital work being undertaken by the organisation. Its work addresses not only the vital issues of maternal and reproductive health but also the fundamental challenges of gender equality and women's empowerment.As we work towards the global implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, Ireland continues to place a high priority on our partnership with UNFPA. The ambitious vision of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development can only be achieved if we address the inequalities – including gender and reproductive health inequalities – which hold women and girls back from realising their rights and ambitions.Ciarán Cannon T.D, Minister of State for the Diaspora and International Development
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Maternal deaths averted412Unsafe abortions prevented49,632Fistula repair surgeries supported110Adolescents were reached with integrated sexual and reproductive health services134,400
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Girls saved from female genital mutilation213
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SEVERAL thousand people have been told to evacuate their homes and up to 80 homes have been destroyed in wildfire which burning through California.
The blaze has torn through rural communities in the state, as temperatures have soared into the 90's.
Areas hit include Bakersfield, around Lake Isabella, where homes were burned to the ground.
The fire broke out late on Thursday afternoon, and travelled a distance of 11 miles in 13 hours.
As yet no one has been injured, but many properties have been raised to the ground or were in flames.
Kern County fire captain Tyler Townsend said: "I've never been in a wildland fire where I've seen so many homes burn. It's one of the most devastating I've ever seen."
The fire raged as breakouts across western states in the US appeared to be calming.
Adding to the danger was many of the houses had propane tanks.
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In the areas of Bella Vista, South Fork, Weldon, Onyx, Lakeland Estates, Mountain Mesa, South Lake, Squirrel Valley, and Yankee Canyon, several thousand people were told they must evacuate.
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With Destroyer now playing in limited release, I recently sat down with director Karyn Kusama's to talk about making the film. During the wide-ranging interview, she talked about why she didn't want to use soundstages, Nicole Kidman's amazing performance, the challenges of filming the bank heist in camera and on a very limited schedule, what she learned from early screenings, what her three-hour version of the film would have been like, how she works with screenwriters Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi, and more. In addition, she talked about the resurgence of Jennifer's Body and why she loved working on Halt and Catch Fire.
If you haven't seen the trailers for Destroyer, the neo-noir crime thriller is led by an incredible Nicole Kidman performance (one of the best of the year), which sees her playing a LAPD detective Erin Bell who is haunted by her undercover past. When her old gang leader resurfaces, we follow Bell as she tries to figure out where he is. As she pursues him, we see flashbacks that slowly reveal how her undercover operation years ago went so wrong. Scripted by The Invitation writers Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi, the film also stars Sebastian Stan, Toby Kebbell, Bradley Whitford, Tatiana Maslany, Jade Pettyjohn, and Scoot McNairy.
Check out what Karyn Kusama had to say in the player above and below is exactly what we talked about followed by the official synopsis. You can also read Adam Chitwood's Destroyer review here.
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- Has she noticed more people talking about Jennifer's Body the past few years?
- How she works with screenwriters Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi.
- Other projects she is developing right now.
- Talks about Nicole Kidman's amazing performance and the amazing collaboration.
- On not using soundstages and only on location.
- On what you gain when you are actually driving in L.A. traffic.
The challenges of filming the bank heist in camera and on a very limited schedule.
- What did she learn from early screenings of the film?
- How her first cut was closer to 3 hours and what that version would have showed.
- What was it like working on Halt and Catch Fire?
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Destroyer follows the moral and existential odyssey of LAPD detective Erin Bell who, as a young cop, was placed undercover with a gang in the California desert with tragic results. When the leader of that gang re-emerges many years later, she must work her way back through the remaining members and into her own history with them to finally reckon with the demons that destroyed her past.


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According to the Orlando Business Journal, Disney recently filed a slew of permits for high profile projects. The permits filed with Orange County are related to Epcot International Food & Wine Festival, Disney's Caribbean Beach Resort, and Disney's Hollywood Studios.
The 2017 Epcot International Food & Wine Festival begins August 31. Disney has already filed permits related to this year's event. The permits are for providing labor, materials and electrical supplies for the construction of the Global Marketplace kiosks. This year there will be a reported 30 kiosks including "Scotland, New Zealand, Ireland, Belgium, the Caribbean, Patagonia, Brazil and two other kiosks called 'Chocolate' and 'Sustainable Chew.'"
Plenty of work is going on over at Disney's Caribbean Beach Resort while it constructs the Centertown marketplace, which is the new waterfront dining and shopping area coming to the resort. The permit titled "CB Area Development" is most likely related to that update. The permit related to Disney's Caribbean Beach Resort lacks clear information, but it does signal that progress is being made of this resort's substantial project.
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Appendix I: SDL Requirement: Heap Manager Fail Fast Setting
During the past few years, Microsoft added core defenses at the operating system level to help protect against some types of attacks. None of them are perfect, but when used together they can provide an effective defense. Examples include the firewall, the –GS flag, heap checking, and DEP (also known as NX). Generally, Microsoft introduces an initial version or subset of the defense and then augments it over time as developers and end users become accustomed to it.
A good example is Data Execution Protection (DEP). This feature was never enabled in Microsoft® Windows 2000 because it had no hardware support, but became available in Windows Server® 2003 as an unsupported boot.ini option. DEP was then supported for the first time in Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), but set only for the system and not for non-system applications.
Another example, and the focus of this requirement, is the ability to detect and respond to heap corruption. In the past, there was no protection in the heap from heap-based buffer overruns. Microsoft then added metadata checking, primarily in the form of forward and backward link checking post block-free to determine whether a heap overrun had occurred. However, for application compatibility reasons, the mitigation was limited to preventing the arbitrary write controlled by a potential exploit from taking place, and the application was allowed to continue to run after the point the corruption was detected. Windows Vista™ includes a more robust mechanism: the application terminates when heap corruption is detected. This mechanism also helps developers find and fix heap–based overruns early in the development lifecycle.
This Heap Manager Fail Fast Setting requirement might cause reliability issues in applications that have poor heap memory management. However, the failing code is found immediately and can be fixed, which makes software both more secure and more reliable. Windows Vista has encountered only one such example in a third-party ActiveX® control.
This capability is enabled for some core operating system components, but not for non-system applications running on Windows Vista. This appendix outlines how to enable the option for non-system applications.
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Operating System
New Code and Legacy Code
External Applicability
Exceptions and Special Cases
Requirement Definition
Compliance Measurement
Requirement: Measurement by Product/Service Team
Goals and Justification
Currently, even if corruption is detected in the heap manager, the process might continue to run successfully, depending on the corruption pattern, the data affected, and the usage. Some applications might hide memory-related bugs by handling exceptions, such as access violations, that are raised inside the heap manager. The goal is to find bugs early and create robust code. Therefore, certain critical operating system components must hard fail when heap corruption is detected. Also, any new application developed and tested on Vista should terminate on heap corruptions.
This requirement has two major benefits:
The first benefit applies to development: With this requirement in place, problematic code is more likely to be found because the failure is immediate. Think of it as an "assert" on heap overrun. However, the code that performs heap-based memory allocation and manipulation must be tested correctly. The best method to find this class of bug is through fuzz testing.
The second benefit is in deployment: If a bug is missed during development and a heap-based overrun exploit occurs, the exploit would become a denial-of-service issue rather than a potential code execution bug.
The requirement is a no-op on versions of the Windows operating system prior to Windows Vista because the required setting is ignored.
The following subsections specify the scope of the Heap Manager Fail Test Setting requirement proposal.
Operating System
This requirement applies only to Win32.
This proposal applies to code that runs on customers' computers (products), as well as to code that runs only on Microsoft-owned computers and used by customers (services).
This proposal applies to unmanaged (native) code such C and C++ but not to managed code such as C#.
New Code and/or Legacy Code
This proposal applies to new code but not to legacy code.
External Applicability
This proposal applies to external third-party ISV code.
Exceptions and Special Cases
There are no exceptions or special cases for new code.
Requirement Definition
Before you use any heap–based memory, you must add the following code to your application startup:
Microsoft also recommends that the code use the Low-Fragmentation Heap, which has been shown to be more resistant to attack than the "normal" heap in Windows. To use the Low-Fragmentation Heap, use the following code:
DWORD Frag = 2;
You must add these function calls as early as possible on application startup. This requirement applies to all unmanaged .EXE files, but not to dynamic-link libraries (DLLs), which do not need to call this function.
Compliance Measurement
A product/service team can verify compliance in either of the two ways mentioned in the following requirement.
Requirement: Measurement by Product/Service Team
Verify that the correct function is included in the main() function of the product and attest to its use.
Run the application under a kernel debugger, issue the !heap -s command, and verify that the following text appears: Termination on corruption : ENABLED.
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PHOTO CAPTION: Sophomore Aishwarya Palaniappan works on homework in the school library. Whenever she needs to stay after school, the library is her go-to place. (Photo by Solai Alagappan)
By Solai Alagappan
Libraries are a great place to be after school hours for people of all ages. The number of visitors who come seems to be increasing, and it's easy to see why. Not many places besides libraries offer an endless amount of books, open workspaces, and a quiet atmosphere. Not only that, but they also offer a simple way to be able to read books from the comfort of your home through online downloads.
Dean Baumeister, the coordinator of reference services of the Memorial Hall Library in downtown Andover, said the number of people using the library has increased due to electronic books. He stated, "We have had a steady increase of visitors in the last five, ten, fifteen years and a steady increase in the number of ebook titles we have made available, so there has been an increase in both."
Freshman Elizabeth Anderson prefers electronic books as she not only visits the library once a week but also reads most of her books on Kindle. "I mostly read books on the Kindle because the library has a website where you can have books sent straight to the Kindle," she explained.
One of the times that Memorial Hall is filled the most is when Andover has power outages, and people lose electricity, wifi, or heat. The library can offer all of these things due to its location.
Baumeister explained, "Geographically, we are located near the safety center and so the electric company and utility company try to keep things running in the areas close to the safety center. A lot of times when there is a widespread power outage, we still have power. When we have power, we also have heat and wifi. Of course, we are a public space so we have places for people to sit down, get warm, get on their devices, charge them up and get on the wifi so they can connect with the world to figure out what's happening. That's, I think, probably the biggest reason that they come."
The library at Andover High School is also used by many students. Librarian Mr. Berube explained, "We have a lot of kids who come in, and they have silent sustained reading with some of the English classes. Their teacher would bring them down, and they would pick out a fiction book to check out."
Most of the students visit before and after school, when they can finish homework and study with friends. Mr. Berube stated, "There is a line outside the door here waiting in the hallway until 7:20 when I open the doors. There are up to seventy or more kids in here before school until the bell rings. Then, I have kids here until four o'clock when I close up after school. Then again, during a school day, they only come with their class and a few during lunch."
The AHS library also offers many online books used for research on E-brary, which is a platform for electronic textbooks.
Mr. Berube explained, "We have 150,000 electronic books, and kids, mostly when they're freshmen, come and see me with their history class, and I give them a number that allows them access to this database, so they can search for books online. You can also download them to Kindle if you wanted to."
Whether it's for research, projects, or homework, online copies of school books prevent students from having to carry heavier physical copies in their backpack. Anderson states, "When it comes to having a heavy backpack, online textbooks are better."
Although electronic books may be easier to access, physical copies may be more beneficial and help retain information. Mr. Berube explained, "I prefer a physical copy and I think most people do. The reason we went to the electronic books is that it's cheaper. We could never afford to buy 150,000 physical books. Plus, these books often times have unlimited licenses, which means instead of buying multiple copies of one book, you buy the book electronically, and all 18,000 kids can read the same book at the same time."
Libraries have always been the ideal place for working, being with friends, or reading a book. They have become even more popular with new online books. As new technology enhances the way of studying and reading, making it simpler for more people to be able to work, the number of library visitors will continue to grow.