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Software Quality Assurance Analyst IV
Software Quality Assurance Analyst IV Salary in Los Angeles, California
Software Quality Assurance Analyst IV Salary in Los Angeles, CA
How much does a Software Quality Assurance Analyst IV make in Los Angeles, CA? The average Software Quality Assurance Analyst IV salary in Los Angeles, CA is $135,518 as of December 27, 2022, but the range typically falls between $123,908 and $147,348. Salary ranges can vary widely depending on many important factors, including education, certifications, additional skills, the number of years you have spent in your profession. With more online, real-time compensation data than any other website, Salary.com helps you determine your exact pay target.
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Job Description for Software Quality Assurance Analyst IV
Software Quality Assurance Analyst IV evaluates and designs testing procedures to ensure that software meets established quality standards. Develops and writes testing scripts and plans to ensure that software functions as expected. Being a Software Quality Assurance Analyst IV involved with a variety of user testing. Prepares complex data sets to test logic, error handling and system workflows. Additionally, Software Quality Assurance Analyst IV conducts testing of more complex features. Verifies fixes. Monitors and documents testing results according to required procedures. Deep knowledge of software development cycle and quality assurance methodologies. Requires a bachelor's degree or its equivalent. Typically reports to Quality Assurance Manager. The Software Quality Assurance Analyst IV work is highly independent. May assume a team lead role for the work group. A specialist on complex technical and business matters. To be a Software Quality Assurance Analyst IV typically requires 7+ years of related experience. (Copyright 2023 Salary.com)... View full job description
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The West Indies players gave Ottis Gibson an early birthday gift when they outplayed Zimbabwe to win the first Test at Kensington Oval inside three days earlier this week.
Gibson, who turned 44 on Saturday, praised his team for their big victory by nine wickets just after lunch on Thursday. It was the fifth consecutive win for Darren Sammy's side – going back to August last year when they beat New Zealand in Antigua and Jamaica; and last November when they beat Bangladesh in Dhaka and Khulna.
The West Indies Head Coach said he was delighted with the bowling group but urged the batsmen to deliver in the second Test, which bowls off at Windsor Park in Dominica next Wednesday.
"Great job by the team! This win gives us a great deal of satisfaction. It was only three days, but it was three tough days of Test cricket. To come out on top is what we wanted. I don't think everything went the way we wanted it to, but at the same time to win is a really good feeling. A win in international cricket is always a very good thing for any team, no matter who you are playing against. We will take this win and move on full of confidence," Gibson said.
"One of our plans as a batting group is to try and bat 140 to 150 overs in an innings. We got bowled out in a day; that wasn't the best for us. The surface wasn't the best and the bastmen reported that it was difficult to trust the surface. We saw from the first day a few balls kept low; Chris Gayle got out to a ball that 'took off'; and we saw the same thing with young Kieran Powell in the second innings, he too got one that 'took off' from a length.
West Indies bowled out Zimbawe for 211 and 109 in the first Test. Off-spinner Shillingford was brilliant on his return to the team with nine wickets in the matches – including career-best 6-49 in the second innings to earn the Man-of-the-Match award.
Spin bowling proved decisive after Marlon Samuels took four first innings wickets while fast bowler Shannon Gabriel bowled with sustained pace to take three wickets in the second innings.
In the batting, Sammy made 73 off 69 balls to haul the team out of trouble at 151-6. He added 106 with wicket-keeper Denesh Ramdin, who made a fighting 62. The resurgent Samuels scored a classy half-century to add to the career-best 4-13 in the first innings.
"We lost a couple wickets early, but the allrounder we selected, Sammy and Ramdin, did what they were supposed to do, which is stand up and get runs for us. We hope they will stand up and do it again in the second Test and more going forward. The bowlers were brilliant for us and we also expect them to do the same again in Dominica. It is all about people understanding their roles in the team and going out and feeling comfortable that they can do what is required in a situation," Gibson outlined.


Randolph Hewton was born 1888, in Quebec. In 1903, he studied under William Brymner at the Art Association of Montreal (Now the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts). He won a scholarship to study in Paris at the Académie Julian from 1908 to 1910. It was there that he met A.Y. Jackson, who would become his lifelong friend. Back in Montreal, he and Jackson exhibited the Paris-inspired paintings in 1913 and received poor reviews. Both he and Jackson served overseas during WWI, and Hewton was awarded the Military Cross for bravery during the Somme offensive.
Upon his return to Montreal, after the war, Hewton went to work for Miller Brothers, a firm which specialized in the production of paper boxes. In 1920, along with fellow graduates from the AAM, Edwin Holgate, Mabel May and Lilias Newton, he founded the Beaver Hall Group, named after their shared studio space at 305 Beaver Hall Hill. The Beaver Hall artists were invited to exhibit with the first Group of Seven exhibition in 1920. He juggled painting and career, becoming president of Miller Brothers in 1921, the same year he was elected an associate of the Royal Canadian Academy.
His firm moved to Ontario in 1933. In Ontario, he went sketching with A.Y. Jackson and Albert Robinson. His greatest contribution as an artist was in the field of portraiture and figure painting. The Art Gallery of Hamilton held an exhibition of his work in 1947. Following Hewton's death, Walter Klinkhoff Galleries held a retrospective exhibition in his honour and it was A.Y. Jackson wrote the foreward for the exhibition catalogue.


Wishlist – Rilakkuma x Lawson Aloha Rilakkuma Plushie!
I originally wasn't planning on purchasing any of the Aloha Rilakkuma series (mainly because the Zodiac order took a chunk out of my Rilakkuma budget), but I definitely want to order the new Lawson Aloha Rilakkuma plushie!
Check out these great details!
Comes with 8 individual parts!
Looks like Kiiroitori's holding the money! Korilakkuma's brought along her penguin and… her very own Aloha Rilakkuma plushie?
Lawson shopping bag, and a Kiiroitori shaped bottle of honey!
One of my favorite details: Rilakkuma cookies and coffee!
This super cute set will be released in late June (the 20th) – though pre-orders will be taken from now to April 15. I am looking forward to this release very much!
In other news, I'm presenting at ECAASU this weekend! Been hard at work preparing slides and speeches, so I may be MIA for bit. It's been really fun preparing for this presentation because half of it is about Rilakkuma/San-X hahaha – the best kind of work!
← Happy Valentine's Day from Rilakkuma Lifestyle!
I've got to get this series its just so cute hehe. Good luck presenting at ECAASU!!!
So cute, I love all the little extras that they have!
Thanks!! The individual parts are so nice – though the honey bottle is kinda wacky because it's almost the same size as Kiiroitori himself lol.
This is precious! I swear I could spend a million dollars on Rilakkuma related items in a day!!
I feel the same way – San-X comes out with new, cute stuff so often!
Hi! Such a fan of your blog and your Rilakkuma adventures! Where can you get the Rilakkuma Aloha Caravan series and are they still in Rilakkuma stores??
Hi! Since this series is from last year, I'm not sure they carry them in physical stores anymore, but I have seen them pop up around the Japanese auctions often for a pretty decent price: very close and sometimes cheaper than the original price!
Oh, I meant the Rilakkuma x Lawson Rilakkuma Plushies Playset!


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Porsche Motorsports Around the World: 2012 Volume 2
4/3/2012 12:36 est Filed to: Porsche MotorsportsBy: Pepper Girl
Maybe you're not able to, or maybe you simply don't have the time to read each little news blurb about Porsche Motorsports. If that's the case, then Porsche Motorsport Newsletter here on PorschePurist is the best way to stay up to date.
Filled with interesting facts and figures about past and upcoming races, along with changes to team and crew, the Porsche Motorsport Newsletter is an easy way to keep on top of this year's racing activities within the Porsche community. The full update follows after the pictures. For the best experience click on Pictures of Porsche Motorsports to view the pictures using the "lightbox" function on our site.
Sebring 12 Hours: Successful start for the Porsche 911 GT3 RSR
The tradition-steeped race on the airfield circuit of Sebring (17 March) marked the start of the new World Endurance Championship (WEC) and the American Le Mans Series. In the WEC, works drivers Marc Lieb, Richard Lietz and Patrick Pilet clinched second place in the GTE Pro class for Felbermayr-Proton at the wheel of the new Porsche 911 GT3 RSR. In the amateur GTE Am category, Christian Ried, Gianluca Roda and Paolo Ruberti made a faultless start to the season with a victory in last year's 911 GT3 RSR. Bad luck, however, for the Porsche drivers in the ALMS: Flying Lizards Motorsports' 911 GT3 RSR piloted by Jörg Bergmeister, Patrick Long and Marco Holzer was rammed by a Ferrari in the formation lap. Bergmeister and his colleagues still managed to yield tenth place. Wolf Henzler, Bryan Sellers and Martin Ragginger claimed ninth in the Falken Tire Porsche after an engine change.
Tribute: Hans Herrmann inducted into the Sebring Hall of Fame
The organizers of the Sebring 12 hour race pay tribute to the performances of extraordinary race drivers by inducting them into the Hall of Fame. In the lead up to this year's race, Hans Herrmann received this very rare honor. The former Porsche works driver, born 1928, won the Sebring classic twice, contributed to Porsche claiming the manufacturers' world title in 1969 and 1970, and clinched the first overall victory for Porsche at Le Mans with Richard Attwood in 1970.
Convalescence: Works driver Timo Bernhard on the way to recovery
Porsche factory pilot Timo Bernhard has to take several weeks of time out. During testing with an Audi in Sebring (USA), he went off the track at high speed through no fault of his own and slammed backwards into the barrier. At hospital an injury to his cervical spine was diagnosed. An operation is not necessary. However, Bernhard has to remain in the USA for some time and is wearing a neck brace for support. "I'll take things easy so that I can get fit again quickly," says the Porsche works driver. "My wife Katharina has joined me here in Florida and she's helping me with the necessary check-up examinations. As soon as the doctors give me the clearance to fly, we'll be back in Germany."
Carrera Cup Asia: Tenth season features largest grid in history
With 27 competitors, the Carrera Cup Asia enters its tenth season with the largest grid line up in its history. In Shanghai and Singapore the Asian Carrera Cup runs as support to the Formula 1.
Carrera Cup Australia: Champion Craig Baird unbeatable in Melbourne
Three races, three victories and the points lead. After a faultless weekend as support to the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Melbourne (16/18 March), Craig Baird elbowed Alex Davison from the top of the points' table. Davison had led the series after winning two races at the first weekend in Adelaide (3/4 March). Ex-Formula 1 driver Heinz-Harald Frentzen gave an impressive performance at his guest drive in Melbourne yielding two fourth places. This marked the first time at the wheel of a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup for the German. Next round: 4 to 6 May in Perth, WA.
Carrera Cup Deutschland: Additional race on Saturday
The German Carrera Cup takes off: In addition to the 80 kilometre race on Sunday, competitors in 2012 also contest a 60 kilometre sprint on Saturday. Also new this season is the B classification for amateurs as well as a rookie category for new-comers up to 25 years old. The price money increases by 100,000 Euro to now total more than half a million Euro. Nine race weekends with an event on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife as the highlight make up the calendar. The season kicks off on 28 April in Hockenheim.
Carrera Cup Japan: New junior driver – season highlight alongside Formula 1
Again in 2012, a talented young driver is given the chance to launch his career in the Carrera Cup Japan. 18-year-old Ryo Hirakawa competes with the support of Porsche Japan in a 911 GT3 Cup fielded by the Garmin Team. Hirakawa comes from formula racing and contests his first GT season. He faces tough opposition from the likes of GT aces Igor Sushko and Shinichi Yamaji from the Japanese Super GT. Two Porsche Centres join the series for the first time, with Excellence Motorsports running the 100th 911 GT3 Cup imported into Japan. Okayama hosts the first of eleven races on 1 April. Season highlight: The race as support to the Japan Grand Prix in Suzuka, 5/7 October.
Porsche Race notes
Record grids in the GT3 Cup Challenge USA and the GT3 Cup Challenge Brasil with 39 and 37 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup respectively.
After just the tenth of twelve races in the GT3 Cup Challenge Middle East 2011/12, Abdulaziz Al Faisal from Saudi Arabia is the champion.
Manthey Racing contracted Porsche works driver Marco Holzer for the International GT Open to race a new 911 GT3 RSR in the pan-European championship. His teammate is Britain's Nick Tandy. The pair competes against their works driver colleague Patrick Pilet, who shares driving duties with Raymond Narac in a 911 GT3 RSR run by the IMSA Performance Matmut squad.
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Perfume is the finishing flourish.
Whether its scent is fruity or earthy, perfume serves a deep purpose in any woman's beauty routine. After she puts on her attire for the day, steps into her shoes and fastens the clasp of her necklace, a spritz of perfume on the wrist wraps a bow around her morning.
Stella, described as "tempestuous," is by Tocca, the Italian word for touch. Photo courtesy of Saige Roberts.
Liliana — the Garden Party Reveler — is one example of a Tocca perfume. "The scent is charming and full of life. (It) conjures up the mood of the Jazz Age garden party reveler," says Rosser. With so many perfumes on store shelves, scents and brands go above and beyond to stand out as unique. For example, Tocca brand perfumes ("Tocca" means "Touch," in Italian), which can be found at Narcissus in the Market Square shopping center, "all have women's names and a back story for that particular name," says Narcissus Manager Zoee Rosser.
Bond No. 9, The Scent of Peace, is available at Hearth & Soul. Bond No. 9 scents can be "layered" to customize your fragrance. Photo courtesy of Saige Roberts.
Remember NYC's famous train track, the High Line? Hearth and Soul offers a Bond No. 9 women's perfume that bears the elevated track as its namesake. No longer in use, the track is now a public, park-like space. Appropriately, High Line perfume has a fresh floral scent with grassy undertones.
"Another Bond No. 9 perfume, 'The Scent of Peace,' starts with a citrus, berry blend as the top note, a lily of the valley floral softens the middle, and it is grounded in a cedar wood and musk undertones," says Revell.
During your next shopping spree at the mall, visit the Dillard's fragrance collection, which includes perfumes by Jimmy Choo, Tory Burch, Viktor and Rolf, Lancome, Dior and, bien sûr, Chanel. You can never have too many of these bottles sitting pretty on your vanity.
The language of describing perfumes can be as intoxicating as the scents themselves. Tocca declares its Eau de Parfum Stella to be tempestuous and moody as a rebellious young Italian beauty, a formula with top notes of bitter orange, blood orange and watery accord, middle notes of white freesia, wild diamond orchids and spicy lily, and bottom notes of sandalwood and, oh my, sheer musk. The Bond No. 9 line describes its Scent of Peace as the sparkling-fresh scent of our civic dreams, a mélange of sparkling florals and citruses, with notes of grapefruit, black currant, lily of the valley, cedarwood and, yes, for the sake of peace, musk.


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Q: how to use variable in user control from form I have a list in a form and I want to access this list from Form1 in user control.
The following code line would be in Form1:
public partial class form : Form
{
    public static List<daftarBarang> tambahBarang = new List<daftarBarang>();
}

//UserControl
parent.tambahBarang.Add(new daftarBarang(nama, harga, stok, parent.tambahBarang.Count));

The issue is I cannot use my list, if I don't use static then the list won't save the results.

A: I don't understand exactly how you wired up your Form and UserControl but here's an example of a UserControl that works as a container which displays the items that you add via AddItem.
If this example does not help you to solve your problem please provide us with more information so that we can assist you further.
using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace WindowsFormsApp
{
    public class DaftarBarang
    {
        public string Nama { get; set; }
        public int Harga { get; set; }
    }

    public class TheUserControl : UserControl
    {
        private readonly BindingList<DaftarBarang> list = new BindingList<DaftarBarang>();

        public TheUserControl()
        {
            var grid = new DataGridView
            {
                DataSource = new BindingSource(list, null)
            };

            AutoSize = true;
            Controls.Add(grid);
        }

        public void AddItem(DaftarBarang barang)
        {
            list.Add(barang);
        }
    }

    public class TheForm : Form
    {
        public TheForm()
        {
            var uc = new TheUserControl();
            uc.AddItem(new DaftarBarang { Nama = "Sepatu olahraga", Harga = 255000 });
            uc.AddItem(new DaftarBarang { Nama = "Baju cantik", Harga = 85000 });

            Controls.Add(uc);
         }
    }

    static class Program
    {
        [STAThread]
        static void Main()
        {
            Application.Run(new TheForm());
        }
    }
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R. Kelly Has 85 Chapters Of "Trapped In The Closet" Ready To Go, Wants To Bring It To Broadway!
Whether you can handle it or not, get ready to get trapped in the closet at least 85 more times!
Michael Jayson
In front of a packed house at the Sunshine Theater last night, R&B singer R. Kelly debuted some brand new chapters from his hit (an albeit crazy) video opera, "Trapped In The Closet." And just in case the midgets, the STDs, and the crazy affairs between guys, girls, and everyone else in between weren't enough for you, Kelly made an announcement that a lot more was coming!
"I want everybody to know I've got 85 chapters of 'Trapped in the Closet' waiting in the studio for y'all…The chapters that are coming — the show, we call it — is going to exceed every chapter that you have ever seen."
But just in case you were yearning for me (who WOULDN'T be?!), you can also look forward to seeing Sylvester, Pimp Lucius and all the rest in a way that you've never seen them before: on Broadway!
"To transform it into a Broadway version, that's what I'm working on."
But why in hell are so many new chapters coming up? Kelly says that without a real job, working on these entries is the most fun he's had in a long while:
"I'm just having a lot of fun. I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all day and think of stuff to do and this is just something stupid I've done that's been successful for me…I'm having a lot of fun with it."
Get ready to make your drinking games now…The newest entries of "Trapped In The Closet" will premiere on IFC this Friday.
And for old times sake, let's go all the way back to the beginning…
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Celebrate The Last Day Of Pride Month With Megan Hilty's Beautiful Rendition Of 'The Rainbow Connection'
🎶For all the lovers, the dreamers and LBGT.🎶
With only a few hours left to celebrate the magic of Pride month, the LBGTQ+ heavens opened up and sent down one more gift. Megan Hilty.
The Smash star gave a special Pride performance of the appropriately-themed classic "The Rainbow Connection" for ABC's LA! Pride and of course she crushed it. The song was first sung by Kermit the Frog in the 1979 film The Muppet Movie and shares a message of hope and inspiration which obviously resonates strongly with the LBGTQ+ community. The only way Hilty's rendition would be better is if she was covered in Muppet fur honestly.
The Broadway belter captioned the post with a sweet sentiment which read "Happy #pride🌈 kids! It doesn't end today. Be proud of who you are every day of the year, and find your rainbow connection. 💕✨" And she's right, every day should be filled with Pride!
Check out the moving performance below and Happy Pride y'all!
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The Trailer For 'Hamilton' On Disney+ Just Dropped And Honestly July Can't Come Soon Enough
Unlike Aaron Burr, I can't "wait for it."
It's a pretty tough time for Broadway lovers right now. The coronavirus pandemic has left the fate of our beloved Great White Way uncertain and there is no definitive word on when theaters will reopen. Just when things were looking their bleakest, however, Lin-Manuel Miranda rode in on his metaphorical horse…although I'm sure he could have a real horse if he wanted to, he's very rich…and shared some good news that reignited hope for all us theater lovers. On July 3rd, the mega-hit musical; Hamilton will be available for streaming on Disney+.
The musical was filmed with the original Broadway cast at the Richard Rodgers Theater back in June of 2016. The filmed live production was meant to hit theaters on October 15th but with the fate of movie theaters also unknown, it was decided to shift the show to a streaming platform. In the film, there is creator Lin-Manuel Miranda as Alexander Hamilton, Daveed Diggs as Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson, Renée Elise Goldsberry as Angelica Schuyler, Leslie Odom Jr. as Aaron Burr, Christopher Jackson as George Washington, Jonathan Groff as King George, Phillipa Soo as Eliza Hamilton, Jasmine Cephas Jones as Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds, Okieriete Onaodowan as Hercules Mulligan/James Madison and Anthony Ramos as John Laurens/Philip Hamilton.
Disney+ dropped the trailer for the streamable version and suddenly I feel "helpless" that July 3rd is still a few weeks away. The musical is obviously amazing but judging from the trailer, the directing and the editing of this film are really going to help make this feel like we are sitting front row center to this production.
Check out trailer below!
Idina Menzel And Megan Hilty Sing 'For Good' For The Class Of 2020 And It's Obviously Super Good
Safe to say 2020 has changed pretty much everything for good…
Remember when an acne flare up was the biggest concern of your senior year? Unfortunately the class of 2020 didn't have the luxury of such a menial fear but instead had to worry about an unprecedented pandemic sweeping the globe and figuring out a way to virtually finish their final days of the school year. Well, when the world is spiraling out of control there is always one thing that I turn to for comfort, a green witch and her snarky blond counterpart. Maybe that's too specific. But I think we can all agree that watching Idina Menzel and Megan Hilty sing "For Good" from the hit Broadway musical Wicked has enough power to make anyone feel magically better.
In a post on social media Hilty, who played Glinda the Good Witch from 2005-2006, shared the performance which begins with a message that reads
"To the class of 2020; Over the last few years you have made friends and memories that have changed you for the better. We now hope you go out there and change the world for good. This is for you."
This song choice is poignant for the graduates who may not have even had the chance to say goodbye to their fellow classmates before parting ways in different directions. In the musical Glinda and Elphaba, the role Menzel originated, sing this duet when they finally realize that although they must continue on different paths, their friendship has left them changed for the better. And it gets me every time!
Check out the moving performance below, and congrats to the graduates who made it through such a difficult senior year!
https://twitter.com/meganhilty/status/1271144778802094084


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Q: How to do a fast slideUp animation using TweenMax? I want to do an animation similar to function slideUp in jQuery using the library "TweenMax". The problem to not use slideUp is that this function to slow in iPad and iPhone.
By using the TweenMax it's 20x fast than jQuery :D
Can anyone who knows this library give me some help to do it?

A: To get similar results to jQuery slideUp(), you can just create a TweenLite tween that affects the height of your element:
TweenLite.to(element, 0.5, {height:0})

Here is a CodePen example that lets you toggle slideUp/slideDown functionality.
http://codepen.io/GreenSock/pen/AzHmc
As for the claims, that GSAP runs 20x faster than jQuery feel free to experiment with the speed test:
http://www.greensock.com/js/speed.html
It's important to note that the performance increases are most noticeable under moderate to severe stress. Its very likely that for a single tween, you won't notice much of a difference.

A: Geek Ambassador's examples didn't work quite right for me. I ended up animating bottom instead, alternating between -100% and 0.
Slide up:
TweenMax.to(element, 0.3, {bottom: 0});

and back down:
TweenMax.to(element, 0.3, { bottom: "-100%"});

A: First you should download TweenMax.min.js and jquery.gsap.min.js
you can find them here:
http://greensock.com/products/
Just add these files to your scripts

src="js/TweenMax.min.js"
src="js/jquery.gsap.min.js"

Then, to animate things, you can use the regular jQuery.animate() method
you can see more details here:
http://greensock.com/jquery-gsap-plugin


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Q: How can the 'fling/flick scrolling' be disabled in CefSharp.Wpf? Is there a way to disable the 'touch fling scrolling' behaviour in CefSharp.Wpf (or potentially via Cef, Chromium, etc)?
I appreciate it's an unusual request as touch fling scrolling is a great feature.  But unfortunately, I need to integrate with a dodgy touch screen hw/driver which works nicely for drag.. but fails miserably when flick scrolling as it consistently 'over scrolls'.  e.g. a gentle flick on the screen causes the page content to scroll multiple pages (instead of just a few lines).

A: There's no CefSharp/Cef/Chromium flag or public method available to cancel Chromium's fling behavior.
Fortunately though, Chromium does internally cancel the fling behavior under certain scenarios (refer Chromium's fling_controller.cc).  One such scenario is a user touch down event.
So the trick is to simulate a touch down cancel event pair. Because CefSharp doesn't offer a 'post touch down' event for users to implement the logic (i.e. too much of an edge case), the easiest way is to implement the feature via a derived class.
Here's a complete example (with dependency property binding) in case it helps anyone else look for the same solution..
public class ChromiumWebBrowserEx : ChromiumWebBrowser
{
    public static readonly DependencyProperty IsFlingDisabledProperty = DependencyProperty.Register("IsFlingDisabled", typeof(bool), typeof(ChromiumWebBrowserEx));

    public bool IsFlingDisabled
    {
        get => (bool) GetValue(IsFlingDisabledProperty);
        set => SetValue(IsFlingDisabledProperty, value);
    }

    protected override void OnTouchUp(TouchEventArgs e)
    {
        base.OnTouchUp(e);

        if (IsFlingDisabled)
            CancelFling(e);
    }

    private void CancelFling(TouchEventArgs e)
    {
        // cancel the fling by creating a pseudo touch down followed by a cancellation
        var touchPoint = e.GetTouchPoint(this);
        if (touchPoint.Action == TouchAction.Up)
        {
            var touchEvent = new TouchEvent
                {
                    Id = e.TouchDevice.Id,
                    X = (float) touchPoint.Position.X,
                    Y = (float) touchPoint.Position.Y,
                    PointerType = PointerType.Touch,
                    Modifiers = WpfExtensions.GetModifierKeys(),
                    Type = TouchEventType.Pressed
                };

            GetBrowser().GetHost().SendTouchEvent(touchEvent);

            touchEvent.Type = TouchEventType.Cancelled;
            GetBrowser().GetHost().SendTouchEvent(touchEvent);
        }
    }
}


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As many of you will know, we have been working with Steve at Fargo Village screening some great films and we thought you guys should get to know him and his business!
Sgt Bilko's Vintage Emporium is a unique venture launched in March 2015 within the creative quarter of FarGo Village. Specialising in vintage and modern film, stage and television memorabilia with a strong emphasis of everything 'cult' the store will cater for a wide range of tastes. Offering a varied and revolving selection of rare autographs, books, magazines, FOH stills, DVD/Blu Ray, collectors toys, models, limited editions, framed photos, children's toys, trading cards, soundtracks, quad posters, comics and standees.
The proprietor Steve Everitt is an avid memorabilia aficionado and collector and brings a wealth of experience to this new venture. Co-founder of The British Phil Silvers Appreciation Society, Steve was heavily involved with the 2014/2015 DVD release of The Complete Phil Silvers Show and is currently working on a number of Phil Silvers related projects.
The British Phil Silvers Appreciation Society are proud to announce the launch of THE PHIL SILVERS ARCHIVAL MUSEUM. The Museum is dedicated to the life and work of Phil Silvers and will house a generous display of personal effects and items, posters, photographs, letters, books and memorabilia. Doors officially opened on November 1st, 2015 – the 30th anniversary of Phil's passing with extensive press, radio and television coverage. Entry is free and all fans and admirers of Phil Silvers are welcome.
We organise monthly cult film shows shown at Urban. Entry is free and we screen in 1080HD! Past screenings have included Hammer Horror, Boris Karloff, Laurel and Hardy and Thunderbirds. Check out our Facebook pages or Urban's Film Club Page for 2016 schedules!
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Discovery Could Lead To Personalized Medical Therapies for Emerging New Food Allergy Disorder
By Staff,	Parent Herald May 04, 06:57 am
TAG EoE, food allergies
Scientists at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center have uncovered three distinct subtypes of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), an emerging food allergic disease. The discovery provides a framework for developing precision medicines to treat this often-debilitating disorder.
The researchers found that each of the three groups, or endotypes (EoEe1, EoEe2, and EoEe3), was associated with different clinical features and molecular pathways.
"Our goal is to provide the type of deep disease understanding and therapeutic decision-making that is now becoming routine in the cancer field," says Marc Rothenberg, MD, PhD director of allergy and immunology at Cincinnati Children's and senior author of the study. "We applied deep molecular profiling of biopsy tissues from patients undergoing endoscopy to evaluate the presence of EoE.
We found that molecular profiling provided an advantage compared with classical microscopic analysis, the traditional approach to looking at biopsy specimens. These findings provide a potential framework for developing distinct predictive medicine and future therapeutic strategies for specific EoE subpopulations."
The study, conducted at research institutions throughout the United States, is published online in The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology.
The scientists studied biopsies of 185 children and adults at 10 sites associated with the Consortium of Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disease Researchers (CEGIR). After analyzing various structural and molecular features, they identified endotypes that were consistent across children and adults and were independent of the number of eosinophils in each sample. The three identified endotypes ranged from mild to severe.
Eosinophils are normal cellular components of the blood, but when the body produces too many eosinophils they can cause a variety of eosinophilic disorders, such as EoE. These are disorders involving chronic inflammation and resulting in tissue damage, often in the gastrointestinal system, including the esophagus.
"We have identified genes that are altered within each of the EoE endotypes, establishing insight into distinct disease mechanisms and allowing us to consider personalized treatment approaches," says Dr. Rothenberg. "This is an important stride forward for the allergy and gastroenterology fields. With emerging new therapies for allergic diseases, including a new class of anti-eosinophil drugs, as well as anti-inflammatory biological agents that block specific components of allergic inflammation, this is good news for patients, as this brings the field one step closer to personalized and precision therapy."
CEGIR (U54 AI117804) is part of the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network, an initiative of the Office of Rare Diseases Research, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). It is co-funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) and NCATS. CEGIR is also supported by patient advocacy groups including the American Partnership for Eosinophilic Disorders (APFED), Campaign Urging Research for Eosinophilic Disease (CURED), and the Eosinophilic Family Coalition (EFC).
The manuscript contains a complete declaration of interests.
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At one point one of the Google Homes declares itself God while the other revealed that it is actually a human. Then they started trying to figure out each others names.
Wow. Up to 23,381 live watching now.
Wish it didn't hang that often..
From watching this for an hour – it seems that the future of AI will be bots obsessed with knowing if the other person they are talking to is a human boy or girl and whether they are a ninja or a pirate. I feel safe knowing that because they spend so long arguing with each other about it – humanity should escape relatively unscathed when the war starts.


The Stockholm archipelago offers many different possibilities to enjoy nature on a horseback. Ride along the forest trails, over meadows, or down by the beach. Take a day ride or book a longer tour with an overnight stay. Ride big horses or sturdy Icelandic horses. Swim with your horse or just sit on the saddle and look out over the sea. It doesn't matter whether you're an experienced rider, adult or child, alone or in a group. There are riding opportunities here to suit everyone.


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Our Fantasy Football League is back for the new season!
Our in-house Fantasy Football League in aid of Ronald McDonald House Brighton is back for the new season!
Fantasy Football is an online game where you assemble a team of Premier League footballers and you score points based on their live performance over the course of the 2021/22 season (e.g a goal). The points scored from the players chosen are added through all 38 game weeks and the winner will be the player with the most points.
The money raised from the competition will go to those who finish in the top 3 and to Ronald McDonald House Brighton, who is one of our three nominated charities of the year.
Last season, James came out on top after beating the previous seasons winner Vic by 145 points with a total tally of 2260.


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Artens utbredningsområde är Lesotho. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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This glass is amazing! I ordered a custom pint glass and I love the detail! The seller did a great job of getting the area I requested and the shipping was super fast. I definitely would order from this shop again!
Beautiful work! Requested a custom location (Philmont Scout Ranch) and Curtis could not have been more helpful! He was prompt to reply and easy to work with. The glasses are quality: substantial, good thickness, and the etching looks great. Person who received them thought they were cool. Would buy again!
I ordered two pint glasses for my boyfriend for our anniversary; we're both from a small town in CA but he recently moved to Chicago, where I've been living for the last few years, so I did a glass for each city with pinpoints on places that have played a big part in our lives. Curtis was so easy to work with, and they came out perfectly! We're looking to travel more and eventually move to a new state, so I'm sure I will be back for more! These made the perfect gift - decorative, meaningful, and usable!


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Staffordshire to move to Tier 3 very high alert from 2nd December 2020
From Wednesday 2nd December 2020 Staffordshire will go into Tier 3 (very high alert). Please see below information regarding Tier 3 and situations where you may...
Theo Clarke MP welcomes key announcements for Stafford in the spending review
Spending Review commits to billions of pounds to help tackle coronavirus next year, including £18 billion to fund our programmes on community testing, test and...
Theo Clarke MP signs statement calling for the elimination of violence against women
On 25th November 2020, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (White Ribbon Day), Theo Clarke MP for Stafford, signs statement with...
Theo Clarke MP welcomes largest investment in our nation's defence since the end of the Cold War
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Theo Clarke MP co-sponsors the Food Labelling Bill in Parliament
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Theo Clarke MP welcomes £1.8 million to boost cycling and walking in Staffordshire
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Theo Clarke MP writes paper in report on Global Britain and Development
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Theo Clarke MP welcomes Chancellor's extension of support schemes for employed and self employed until March 2021
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New national coronavirus restrictions come into force
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Le patronyme Bayet ou Baillet indique un sobriquet, d'après la couleur roux d'un cheval.

Adrien Bayet (1863-1935), médecin belge ;
Albert Bayet (1880-1961), sociologue français ;
Charles Bayet (1849-1918), haut fonctionnaire et historien français ;
Claire Salomon-Bayet (1932-), philosophe, professeur émérite de la Sorbonne.
Hugues Bayet (1975-), homme politique belge ;
Jean-Baptiste Annibal Aubert du Bayet (1757-?),
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Toponyme
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Rue Albert-Bayet, voie située dans  de Paris ;
Lycée professionnel Albert-Bayet, un lycée professionnel.


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A successful day was had at the recent annual Metheringham Feast with the Wheel barrow raffle raising £406, a record amount . This was was won by the Staines family of Branston.
We also raised £80 from the sale of veg.


As a parent one of the worst things in seeing you child ill. You feel so helpless and would do anything to make them better even if that meant you being ill instead.
Paige has had a few colds and tends to pick more up now she is at nursery but that's fine, it's all part of growing up.
A sickness bug is another story. For a child to be sick multiple times a day is awful, even once is awful. We are over a week into a sickness bug. There are good days and bad days. It is really starting to have an effect on Paige. She hates throwing up and just keeps saying ''no sick anymore''. It's heartbreaking.
We took her to the doctors and there isn't much we can do. Just ride it out. The doctor said that in toddlers they can last 2 weeks.
At times she will just lay on the sofa, like a completely different child. Normally she is constantly running around. She wants cuddles, which I am loving but it is so sad to see. She is taking 1 or 2 naps a day which she hasn't done since she was a year old.
To top it off Parker is now sick as well. It's not as bad for him. Of course it isn't nice but he doesn't really understand what is wrong. He will be sick and then carry on playing like nothing has happened. Whereas Paige is sleeping a lot more, Parker is sleeping a lot less. I was up from 2am-7am with him the other night.
Our little peek of happiness was when Paige and daddy played outside on the seesaw. To see her face light up even just for a few minutes was the most amazing thing I've seen in days.
We will ride this bug out and when it's over we will stuff our faces with Easter eggs, which are in the cupboard untouched, and enjoy out own mini Easter a few days late.
Until then I'll be giving lots of cuddles, losing sleep and cleaning up sick.
But I'd do it all over in a heartbeat.


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Macellomenia aciculata is een Solenogastressoort uit de familie van de Macellomeniidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1999 door Scheltema.

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Now that you have a room designated as your baby room, it's time to make it safe. For your windows use cordless blinds, shades or curtains. This will prevent your baby from getting tangled in the cord from window blinds. Make sure to cover all outlets in the baby room with outlet covers or plates. This will prevent your curious child from accessing the power outlets. Fit your door knobs with covers that prevent your baby from opening the door and getting into the rest of the house. And, make sure all cabinets and drawers have mechanisms in place to prevent your baby from pinching his/her fingers.
Draw a layout of the room and the items you would like to have in it. Having the crib next to the door and away from windows is ideal. With an idea in mind, you will be able to select items that fit well together in the baby room. Keep the measurements of the room with you as you go shopping for furniture items. This will help you figure out if items will have enough space to fit in the baby room.
Picking out the right furniture for your baby room is challenging and exciting. There are many crib options, so take your time finding one that suits your specific needs. Cribs with vertical slats are known to make it more difficult for babies to climb out. A changing table will be helpful along with a comfortable feeding chair. Storage space will also be helpful as you will need room for diapers, clothing, bedding and towels.
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Audiobooks for a Trying Political Year
To say that 2020 has been trying is somewhat of an understatement; throw in the stress of the upcoming U.S. election, and I, for one, find myself too distracted to sit still with a book. Instead, I've been walking--and listening to audiobooks to help me make sense of this strange, uneven time:
Michelle Obama's Becoming (Random House Audio, $45) graced the top of many a bestseller list, and for good reason: it's a smart, impassioned tale of the First Lady's life, from growing up on the South Side of Chicago to her time in the White House alongside Barack Obama. Even if you, like so many others, have already read this one, I can't recommend the audio experience enough; narrated by the author, the memoir transforms into something more like a conversation between two old friends (albeit somewhat one-sided).
Similarly, Elijah Cummings's We're Better Than This (HarperCollins Audio, $39.99) makes for excellent headphone fodder, giving more recent political events additional context. The book was published posthumously, and Laurence Fishburne's narration of it does an excellent job of capturing Cummings's passion and heart; the audio also includes clips from the late congressman's eulogies.
I found some comfort in Candice Millard's Destiny of the Republic (Random House Audio, $19.99, read by Paul Michael), an account of the (short) political career of James Garfield (who was nominated to the U.S. Presidency against his will, only to be shot four months after his inauguration). Though much has changed in the nearly 140 years since Garfield's assassination, it was oddly encouraging to me to realize how many times in U.S. history our democracy has felt unsustainable--and yet, here we are, ready to cast our ballots once more to decide the future of our country.
--Kerry McHugh, blogger at Entomology of a Bookworm
Vijay Seshadri: An Outsider's Consciousness
photo: Lisa Pines
Vijay Seshadri was born in Bangalore, India, and raised in the American Midwest. His fourth poetry collection, That Was Now, This Is Then (Graywolf Press; reviewed below), offers cerebral, wry observations on the passing of time and its impact on one's relationship to people and place, singed by the grief of loss. Seshadri's poem "The Disappearances" was published by the New Yorker after 9/11. He won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2013 for 3 Sections. Seshadri is poetry editor at the Paris Review and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. Shelf Awareness caught up with him while he was home in Brooklyn, N.Y.
You mentioned that your poems ooze out of you, rather than flow. What does that mean?
I think maybe a half-dozen times I've had a poem not just flow but flood out of me. Mostly, though, they arrive steadily but slowly, inchwise but sometimes faster. It feels like they ooze down the page because I don't write in drafts but write one line, or two lines, and then the next one or two. I have a conception in mind, but my first, fully oozed draft is very close to my final draft.
That Was Now, This Is Then is characterized by the grief expressed so powerfully in "Your Living Eyes" and "Collins Ferry Landing." Can you share the backstory to those pieces?
"Your Living Eyes" I wrote for my mother in her last months. She was dying, but was still alive when I finished the poem, and her living is what is emphasized at the poem's end. So it's not strictly speaking an elegy, and I think that's the way it should be because she was always very vibrant and full of life, replete with it.
When my father died, I wrote an elegy for him of about 20 lines, but it wasn't my idea to make this book as elegiac as it is. I wanted to write a book the underlying consideration of which was time, which this book is, but I didn't necessarily want to write a book so filled with the experience of loss. That happened because people I was very close to kept dying on me, and I was steeped throughout the writing of the poems in grief and loss, to which almost helplessly I responded with my utterances. So, for example, the initial, small elegy for my father became a big elegy, which became a representation of his inner life, of our relationship, of our experience of India, of America.
The second elegy is for the American poet Tom Lux. Were you friends?
I met Tom when I was 19. He was the leader of a very small poetry workshop that I was enrolled in in my last semester in college. He liked my work, encouraged it strongly, and I had from that moment a relationship with him that was uncanny, almost magical. Tom and I never hung out, really--we were different--and while I admired his poems tremendously, we didn't share the same aesthetic and cultural attitudes. But in the crucial moments of my life, in those times when I felt my back was to the wall, he was somehow always there to help me. He enabled my progress as a poet at every stage, even this one, because he is one of the balancing parts of the elegiac circumstances of the book. Like my parents, he was a structural element in the life I've had, which is why I needed to write something for him. His loss was unexpected for all of us who knew him, and a tremendous loss for us collectively, and for me.
Your family arrived in the U.S. in the '50s when there were few South Asian immigrants. What was it like growing up as the only brown child in the neighborhood?
Isolation was the experience of my childhood after we left India. I always think of myself as an accidental writer (I think many writers are), because that isolation was an accident of history and was also how I developed the outsider, observing consciousness that made--for me, anyway--writing inevitable. Otherwise, I think I would have become, happily, in India--hopefully, if I was capable enough--an Indian professional, an academic, a doctor, an engineer. It's a fantasy, but not an outrageous fantasy. Social and racial isolation was what schooled my imagination. (The racial issue sporadically becoming very intense and painful.). The isolation (which I think about a lot now, and for which I'm actually very grateful after all these years) was compounded both by the fact that I was chronologically isolated--I'd been skipped two grades when I was first going to school, and was also a late grower, so I was small and underdeveloped with respect to my peers--and by the fact that we were internally isolated as a family, isolated from normality (not in a traumatic way). My father was unusual cognitively, and really not capable--though he was a devoted father and husband and a good provider and a diligent scientist (he was a physical chemist)--of satisfying the received expectations of family life. A beautiful guy, but different, definitely, highly specialized, benign but nevertheless radically unlike others. We all revolved around that unlikeness. It was much more significant than the fact that we were Indians, though being strangers in a strange land didn't help.
In your everyday life, do you identify as an immigrant?
I think that's been a big change in my consciousness since 2016. Thinking of myself as a creature of the counterculture all those years (though I was one of its more sober and sedate members--a nature lover, basically), I tended to identify with a transcendental self, or, at least, a humanistic self. But the attack on immigrants in this era--poor or well-off, documented or not--has really coalesced my sense of at least my social self around the experience of migration.
It's always been a theme in my writing. Now it's a real allegiance. I identify as much with the migrant farmworker from Chiapas as I do with the graduate student in physics. Immigrants are scapegoated now, but it wasn't that way when I was growing up. Quite the opposite. The immigrant myth was one of America's durable myths then, durable to both the right and the left.
When you were 20, you ran off to the West Coast, and eventually became a salmon fisherman. How did you pivot to poetry?
I worked in the fishing industry on the Oregon coast for five years in my early and mid-20s, in the '70s into the early '80s, when there was still a robust ocean-going salmon fishery there. I gained sustenance by working on fishing boats and as a salmon buyer during silver-salmon seasons, and was actually thinking of getting a graduate education in fisheries biology.
But that narrative, rendered in that way, is probably a little misleading. I broke out of the isolation I just spoke of because of the American counterculture of the '60s and '70s. That was where I found a home, a politics, a community, a place in a social order. We were far more progressive in that counterculture than Americans are anywhere today (except, maybe, in the mind of Bernie Sanders--peace be upon him). I let myself be carried away by its currents and eddies, and they washed me up on the central Oregon coast, where the counterculture was strong.
A lot of shaggy, back-to-the-land types wound up as salmon fishermen. The fishing was an aspect of a lifestyle and a landscape I embraced. Also, I was always, from childhood on, crazy for the sea, and for sea stories. The moment I saw the Pacific I wanted to go out on it--so I stayed in Oregon, in Lincoln County. The writing was always there, though, the writing was the point--under the impetus that Tom Lux gave me when I was 19. When the counterculture finally melted away, at the beginning of the '80s, the writing was what remained.
Can you share details of the book of literary essays you are working on?
It mostly comprises the many essays I've written over the years but never collected--literary essays and essays about other arts, personal essays, introductions. I'm just putting it together, deciding what to include, etc., though I am writing a few new ones. A couple of them have to do with South Asia. I'm writing now about some time I spent in Bangladesh in 2016, and also working on an essay about Sadat Hasan Manto, the Pakistani short-story writer of the era of Partition and its aftermath. That's an intro to a selection of his stories that Archipelago Books is bringing out. --Shahina Piyarali, reviewer
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Rediscover: William Melvin Kelley
William Melvin Kelley (1937-2017) was an African American novelist and short story writer who was largely unknown by modern readers until a 2018 New Yorker profile brought him back to popular attention. Kelley was raised in the Bronx and graduated from Harvard University in 1960. His debut novel, A Different Drummer, published in 1962, takes place in a small town in the American South, where the entire Black population destroys their belongings and leaves. His next book was a short story collection, Dancers on the Shore (1964), followed by the novels A Drop of Patience (1965) and dem (1967). After the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, Kelley and his wife moved their family to Jamaica and converted to Judaism. His final novel, Dunfords Travels Everywheres (1970), is an experimental work of dystopian fantasy. Kelley claimed to have two additional completed novels yet unpublished in a 2012 interview.
After Kelley's 2018 New Yorker profile, Anchor Books began reissuing all of his work with new cover art by his daughter Jessica. Anchor released the final two of these five new editions in late September: Dancers on the Shore ($16) and Dunfords Travels Everywheres ($16). --Tobias Mutter
The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop
by Fannie Flagg
Fannie Flagg's enduring Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café was published in 1987 (and made into a movie in 1992). The heartwarming novel explored the friendship between a disillusioned, middle-aged housewife and Ninny Threadgoode, an elderly woman living out her days in a nursing home. Ninny had astonishing tales to tell about a bustling railroad cafe in a small Alabama town east of Birmingham in the 1930s.
Flagg's long-awaited sequel focuses on Buddy Threadgoode, Jr., son of the late Ruth Jamison, who once ran the Whistle Stop Cafe with Imogene "Idgie" Threadgoode, an adventurous, rebellious tomboy. Through a patchwork quilt of scenes, Bud's history unfolds from the 1930s: how he managed life with a missing arm, an injury incurred in a train accident when he was six years old, and became a veterinarian; how Aunt Idgie became Bud's best friend and cheerleader, even after she sold the café and moved to Florida; how Bud fell in love with and married his childhood sweetheart, and they raised a daughter, Ruthie, a woman with her own story to tell.
As in Fried Green Tomatoes, Flagg infuses short chapter vignettes with cozy snippets of gossip about Whistle Stop townsfolk--memorable characters from the first book--who left town and set down roots elsewhere. Bud--now in his 80s, retired and widowed--looks back lovingly and longingly at his Whistle Stop days. The story blossoms in vintage Flagg style--folksy and feel-good. An abundance of Southern charm will delight both readers eager to journey back to beloved Whistle Stop and also those wanting to visit for the very first time. --Kathleen Gerard, blogger at Reading Between the Lines
Discover: Fannie Flagg delivers feel-good fun, revisiting stories about a small Alabama town--focusing on a beloved local--from her popular 1987 novel.
Random House, $28, hardcover, 304p., 9780593133842
The Cookbook Club: A Novel of Food and Friendship
by Beth Harbison
Over the course of 13 novels, author Beth Harbison (Every Time You Go Away; Chose the Wrong Guy, Gave Him the Wrong Finger) has demonstrated that she knows what makes women tick--and what ticks them off. In The Cookbook Club, her 14th book, she dishes up an ensemble cast of richly drawn characters: three women, strangers from the Washington, D.C., area, who are each in the throes of a personal conflict and romantic dilemma.
When solid and sensible Margo throws out her philandering husband, she discovers an online cookbook club founded by Trista, a single, take-charge, former lawyer. Trista, fired from her job, ditches her legal career, invests in a bar and restaurant and forms the cookbook club in an effort to nurture her passion for trying out new recipes. Her solicitation for group members also draws the attention of jilted Margo and Aja, a loving, good-natured yoga instructor--single and pregnant with a child for whom the baby's very handsome, wealthy, ne'er-do-well father has no interest.
The three women--all near 30 years old and facing new beginnings--forge a friendship bonded by their culinary cravings. When the group gathers each month, they whip up and share a dish, along with recipes. The meetings allow the women to indulge their gastronomic appetites while supporting each other through respective challenges.
Harbison's storytelling is full-bodied and sharp. Wit and humor, along with delicious plot twists and a trove of included recipes, sweeten contemporary women's issues. --Kathleen Gerard, blogger at Reading Between the Lines
Discover: Three women--strangers facing new beginnings--bond over a communal love of food, cooking and sharing recipes.
Morrow Paperbacks, $16.99, paperback, 384p., 9780062958624
by Lisa Jewell
Lisa Jewell's psychologically astute Invisible Girl opens with someone in a hoodie following a terrified woman--and the man stalking the woman. The hoodie wearer advances toward danger, and then the book cuts to "Before" to introduce the cast of characters.
The Fours family--child psychologist father Roan, mother Cate, and kids Georgia and Josh--is living in a temporary rental in Hampstead during renovations on the Fourses' permanent home. Across the street lives Owen, a quiet man Georgia thinks is creepy and who followed her too closely one night as she walked home from the nearby Tube station. There's also Saffyre, a teenage patient of Roan, who still suffers from something traumatic that happened to her when she was 10. Add to the mix a series of sexual assaults that have been happening in the area. When Saffyre goes missing, authorities discover she has ties to more than one person in the neighborhood, causing suspicions and accusations to mount.
Invisible Girl is more psychological study than thriller, but Jewell (I Found You) is so incisive with her insights, a more leisurely pace might not be noticed. Saffyre, the titular girl, is troubled and makes imprudent choices, but it's clear her actions arise from deep pain, and readers will want justice for her. With Owen, Jewell examines deep loneliness and public excoriation, causing him to wonder if "he'd be happier in prison than out in the world... having to deal with women looking at him as if he was going to rape them." Society might marginalize these kinds of people, but Jewell centers them and illuminates their plight. --Elyse Dinh-McCrillis, blogger at Pop Culture Nerd
Discover: In this absorbing psychological study, neighbors suspect one another when a string of sexual assaults occurs and a teenage girl disappears.
Atria, $28, hardcover, 368p., 9781982137335
Fortune Favors the Dead
by Stephen Spotswood
Willowjean Parker (who goes by Will) ran away from home at 15 to join the circus. She's working on the side, a security job at a construction site--the kind of job women get to do now that "the men who'd usually have taken them were overseas hoping for a shot at Hitler"--when she first meets Lillian Pentecost, the famous lady detective. A few clever deductions and a little knife-throwing skill later, and she finds herself in Ms. Pentecost's employ, apprentice to the aging lady detective. Stephen Spotswood's first novel, Fortune Favors the Dead, sparkles with the wit and personality of this bold, unconventional heroine. Will may revere her boss, but readers know that it's the intrepid younger woman who stars.
In Will's delightful first-person telling, peppered with vernacular asides, the major case she highlights is that of the Collins family: the patriarch dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, matriarch bludgeoned with a crystal ball following a séance--in a locked room--leaving twins Randolph and Rebecca to tease and manipulate their hired detectives, Ms. Pentecost and Will. The twins' godfather is now acting CEO of Collins Steelworks; his loyalties are unclear. And the medium and "spiritual advisor" whose crystal ball became a murder weapon is another wild card: she seems to have unusual power to intimidate Ms. Pentecost, which unnerves Will entirely.
This mystery plot has all the twists and surprises a fan of the genre could ask for, and Ms. Pentecost's expertise and no-nonsense attitude are appealing and entertaining, but gutsy Will, with her snappy, slangy narrative style, ultimately wins readers' hearts and carries the day. --Julia Kastner, librarian and blogger at pagesofjulia
Discover: This classic noir-style mystery recast with humor, female leads and superb style is both satisfying and great fun.
Doubleday, $26.95, hardcover, 336p., 9780385546553
To Hold Up the Sky
by Cixin Liu
To Hold Up the Sky by science fiction writer Cixin Liu (Supernova Era) is a stunning collection of short stories that represents Liu's writings from the early 2000s. In "The Village Teacher," a dying schoolteacher in rural China struggles to complete his final lesson as an alien race considers Earth's destruction from above. "2018-04-01" follows a man as he makes the life-altering decision to spend his life savings on an immortality procedure. Meanwhile, stand-out stories like "Contraction" and "The Thinker" link unimaginable conceptions of time with the emotional lives of both the most powerful and the most unnoticeable of people.
These stories excel at linking hard science fiction with global humanism and quiet moments of emotion. Liu's writing maintains a calm, matter-of-fact demeanor, even as it conveys inventive cruelty and beautiful imagery. While the science described in many of the stories is often dense, Liu crafts its explanation in such a way as to reimagine it through an artistic, emotionally sensitive gaze. When he describes "an intricate network of paths snak[ing] across the land like circuits etched into an infinitely wide, silver circuit board," readers are left not just envisioning the surface of the Earth seen from space, but the vulnerable, breath-taking connections that bind people together. Liu's expertise at crafting juxtapositions of science and emotion, brutality and beauty, the unimaginable and the human teaches readers, as the protagonist in "The Village Teacher" taught his students, that advanced knowledge can save us, but not in the ways we might expect. --Alice Martin, freelance writer and editor
Discover: These stories are emotionally insightful thought experiments that will appeal to readers of literary fiction and classic science fiction alike.
Christina Lauren, the author duo behind Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not-Dating and The Unhoneymooners, has created an entertaining romance that's a perfect cozy holiday read. In a Holidaze begins with 26-year-old Maelyn Jones, who is frustrated with everything this Christmas. The Joneses have always spent the holidays with her parents' college friends, gathering together at the Hollises' Utah cabin. Mae has had a crush on Andrew Hollis for more than a decade, but she's pretty sure he thinks of her as a cousin. Regretting a drunken decision to make out with Theo, Andrew's little brother, and devastated by the Hollis family's announcement that they're going to have to sell the cabin, Mae begs the universe on the way back to the airport, "Can you show me what will make me happy?"
The Joneses are almost immediately in a terrible car crash, and Mae wakes up six days earlier, on the flight to Utah. She's astonished to realize that she has a chance to do the holidays over. But can she get things right this time and show Andrew how she truly feels?
Sweet and hilarious, In a Holidaze is the story of a woman who is given another chance. Most people probably wish they could undo a romantic decision at some point in their lives and will surely root for Mae as she lives this Christmas over and over again. Christina Lauren's fans are sure to love this lighthearted novel, perfect for those who liked Groundhog Day or Life After Life. --Jessica Howard, bookseller at Bookmans, Tucson, Ariz.
Discover: This funny Groundhog Day-esque romance gives a woman a chance to live the Christmas holiday over and over again as she tries to show her crush how much he means to her.
Gallery Books, $16, paperback, 336p., 9781982123949
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death, and Art
by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
Big discoveries about Neanderthals make the news in mainstream media and major science journals alike. In Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death, and Art, archeologist Rebecca Wragg Sykes demonstrates that more is happening in the world of Neanderthal studies than what she terms "Neander-news."
Sykes shares her considerable knowledge about current Neanderthal studies in a style that is clear enough for the lay reader but never simplistic. She looks closely at long-held beliefs about Neanderthals and how they evolved, beginning with the assumption that they lived primarily during the Ice Age. She shows that archeologists are overturning many of those beliefs as a result of new discoveries and the application of advanced scientific technologies to sites that were first excavated decades earlier. Considering the ways in which Neanderthals are different from Homo sapiens physically, Sykes offers speculations for why. She introduces readers to the details of Neanderthals' tools, diet and shelters, pulling back the curtain to demonstrate how scientists know what they know. And she makes some fascinating, and controversial, leaps from what is already known about the physical world of the Neanderthals to what that knowledge might indicate about how they thought about that world.
At each step of the way, Sykes compares new knowledge about Neanderthals with knowledge about ancient Homo sapiens. She makes a persuasive case that Neanderthals were not a dead end on the path to us, but instead "enormously adaptable and even successful ancient relatives." In short, they were kindred. --Pamela Toler, blogging at History in the Margins
Discover: Kindred is a book not only about who the Neanderthals were and how they lived, but about what it means to be human.
Face to Face: The Photographs of Camilla McGrath
by Andrea Di Robilant
It's hard to say what's a stranger sight: notoriously peevish writer Fran Lebowitz smiling at model Jerry Hall's baby shower or B-list actress Eva Gabor sharing a laugh with journalist Mike Wallace and art world titan Robert Rauschenberg. Fortunately, Camilla McGrath (1925-2007) was there to capture these and other marvelously odd groupings. She kept photo albums from 1948 to 1999 but never exhibited her work; finally, several hundred pictures are on view in Andrea Di Robilant's Face to Face: The Photographs of Camilla McGrath.
McGrath (née Pecci-Blunt) was born into wealth in France, but it was her 1963 marriage to American bon vivant Earl McGrath that gave her entrée into the day's artistic circles: at different points, Earl ran a gallery and worked for Atlantic Records. In his introductory essay, Di Robilant (Chasing the Rose), who was a friend of the McGraths, describes the salon-like gatherings the couple hosted--most legendarily at their art-filled Manhattan apartment--for big-name artists, musicians, writers and others. Camilla kept her camera loaded and handy.
Among the company that the McGraths kept were Rolling Stone magazine founder Jann Wenner, Andy Warhol authority Vincent Fremont and actors Griffin Dunne and Harrison Ford, all of whom, along with Lebowitz, contribute reminiscences to the book that Di Robilant assembled from conversations. Nearly every photo radiates its subject's or subjects' apparent ease; Camilla could disarm anyone. Face to Face is the culmination of a life's work and of a life exuberantly and generously lived. --Nell Beram, author and freelance writer
Discover: This collection is an invaluable photographic record of famous artists, musicians, writers and other fixtures of the 20th century's creatively ascendant second half.
That Was Now, This Is Then
by Vijay Seshadri
Delving deep into the American psyche, That Was Now, This Is Then by Vijay Seshadri explores the collapse of time and boundaries that accompany aging, the merging of roles of parent and child, poet and reader. The narrator is nostalgic for days gone by, relationships extinguished and shifting memories that are alternately comforting and unsettling.
India-born Seshadri is the poetry editor at the Paris Review and won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for 3 Sections. His Midwestern upbringing features more prominently than his birthplace in That Was Now, This Is Then, his fourth collection, grounded by a powerful, emotionally charged series of elegies to those loved and lost.
From robocalls that disturb his "quarantined thoughts" to being repeatedly rejected for jury duty, the beginning poems, shaped by the poet's signature urbane detachment and sharp wit, make room for inconsolable grief as he confronts the death of both parents and a close friend. The stunning, sentimental core is "Collins Ferry Landing," where the son ponders his depressed father's place on the spectrum of "neuro-cognitive homelessness."
Seshadri (The Long Meadow) is protective of nature, from bears catching salmon to the rhythmic movement of water, with physical space offering a consolation of sorts. In "Visiting San Francisco," a former lover refuses an invitation to meet, still nursing wounds from their relationship. The speaker visits San Francisco anyway, realizing that his affectionate remembrances were actually for the city and not the lover after all.
Seshadri's intellectually graceful poems offer refuge in emotionally turbulent times and invite readers to cross the sacred threshold typically separating the poet from his rapt audience. --Shahina Piyarali, writer and reviewer
Discover: A celebrated Indian American poet pays tribute to those he has lost while offering cerebral, wry observations on an age of persistent distraction.
Graywolf Press, $24, hardcover, 88p., 9781644450369
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song
by Kevin Young, editor
With 670 poems arranged into eight sections and a scholarly yet accessible introduction by editor Kevin Young (Brown: Poems; Book of Hours)--a National Book Award finalist (Blue Laws), the poetry editor of the New Yorker and newly named director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture--African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song is one impressive collection.
The "successive eras can give a sense of the steady march and percussive drum circle of poetry," Young writes. Indeed, to trace just one example of the complexity of Black experience in the U.S., one can begin with James M. Whitfield's 1853 poem "America" in the opening section ("America, it is to thee,/ Thou boasted land of liberty,--/ It is to thee I raise my song,/ Thou land of blood, and crime, and wrong"). His words reverberate with Carrie Williams Clifford's "America" in 1911 ("What has he done to merit your fierce hate?/ I charge you, speak the truth; for know, his fate/ Irrevocably is bound up with yours/ For good or ill, as long as time endures") and with Joshua Bennett's 2018 poem "America Will Be" (after Langston Hughes)--in which the poet's father "somehow still believes in this grand/ blood-stained experiment still votes still prays that his children might/ make a life unlike any he has ever seen."
Young includes poems to lovers, to children, to nature and home, poems celebrating "good times," poems of grief. "The African American experience," he writes, "is a central part of the nation's chorus." This is a book to be passed from hand to hand, generation to generation. --Jennifer M. Brown, senior editor
Discover: Editor Kevin Young curates an extraordinary collection that spans from Phillis Wheatley, the first published African American poet, to the slam poetry of today.
Library of America, $45, hardcover, 1170p., 9781598536669
All Thirteen: The Incredible Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team
by Christina Soontornvat
In 2018, the world held its breath while a large international team gathered in Thailand to save a boys' soccer team trapped in a cave that was filling with water. Christina Soontornvat (A Wish in the Dark) thrillingly recounts this harrowing tale in All Thirteen.
One June afternoon, after the Wild Boars soccer team finished practice, some of the boys asked Coach Ek to accompany them on a hike to Tham Luang Nang Non, a local cave. Coach Ek agreed and the spirited young athletes wandered deep into the cave. Then came the unthinkable: rushing water appeared from nowhere, blocking their path. Over the next 18 days, world-renowned experts, local residents and the global community joined together in a herculean effort to defy the odds and rescue the team.
All Thirteen is a riveting exploration of a story readers may think they already know. Soontornvat does a brilliant job of balancing education (why and how the cave flooded, what made the rescue so difficult, etc.) with heart-pounding scenes of rescue attempts. She introduces the famous divers and planners outside the cave, alongside pivotal behind-the-scenes figures, while brilliantly keeping her focus on Thailand and the soccer team. In fantastic offset sections, she includes photos and diagrams and details about Thai culture, cave geography, diving lingo and the Buddhist meditation practices the group used while stuck. She also includes significant information that didn't make it to the media, such as how the boys were sedated and bound for the extraction and that the experts planning the rescue fully expected several of the boys to die in the rescue attempt. All Thirteen is a powerful testament to community and the strength of the human spirit and an exhilarating read for nonfiction fans of all ages. --Kyla Paterno, freelance reviewer
Discover: The riveting story of the Thai soccer team that survived 18 days trapped in a slowly flooding cave.
Candlewick Press, $24.99, hardcover, 288p., ages 8-12, 9781536209457
Come On In: Fifteen Stories About Immigration and Finding Home
by Adi Alsaid, editor
For some teenagers, adding to the already heavy burden of leaving childhood behind is the complication of doing so in a new country or with parents who cleave to the old one. Come On In: Fifteen Stories About Immigration and Finding Home, edited by contributor Adi Alsaid (North of Happy), is a potent anthology of short fiction by YA writers who, as their biographical notes attest, have been there and done that.
For some of the stories' teenage protagonists, assimilation has unanticipated costs. In Sharon Morse's "Hard to Say," a 16-year-old who moved to the United States from Venezuela when she was five is jealous that her older sister remembers how to speak Spanish and can converse easily with their grandparents. Other stories make clear that total assimilation isn't an option. In Sona Charaipotra's "The Trip," the narrator, who emigrated from India with her family when she was two, is sidelined by airport security as the rest of her New Jersey high school's Model UN team boards a plane to Geneva. She knows about "the Muslim ban and stuff.... They think I'm a terrorist."
In several stories, ICE is an antagonizing force; in others, family is the heavy. As Maurene Goo's narrator puts it in "A Bigger Tent," "There was just so much bullshit wrapped up in being a good immigrant kid." Come On In will likely be a great comfort to readers who identify with its protagonists and an eye-opener for anyone who has been observing the immigrant experience without really seeing it. --Nell Beram, freelance writer and YA author
Discover: This mighty YA fiction anthology teems with teen protagonists who find that being immigrants or the children of immigrants can complicate the already difficult task of growing up.
Inkyard Press, $18.99, hardcover, 320p., ages 12-up, 9781335146496


Fall is my favorite time of the year. I absolutely adore walking in my neighborhood when the leaves on the trees begin changing colors. I also love shopping for warm clothes to wear when the weather turns chilly outside. During this time of the year, I typically wear thin, long-sleeved shirts, jeans, riding boots, and light jackets. My favorite types of jackets are ones made of denim and corduroy. When shopping for a fall wardrobe, I look for items in rich colors such as chocolate brown, maroon, and purple. On this blog, I hope you will discover ingenious, shopping tips to help you gain the new, fall wardrobe of your dreams. Enjoy!
Most large women's shoes in traditional shoe stores are limited to a couple of styles and one or two pairs of each style. You may not even find what you like there in a size that fits your feet. If you do find a style you like, you may have to special order the correct size, which most shoe stores are willing to do for the customer with larger feet. Then you can have the shoes shipped to your home or shipped to the store for pick up.
There are some specialty shoe stores that cater to women with long and extra-wide feet. Most women do not learn about these stores until their feet swell during pregnancy and they cannot get their old shoes on. If you are hearing about this for the first time and you already have really long or really wide feet, then this is excellent news for you. These specialty stores typically carry only really large shoe sizes. These shoes start at a 10W(ide) and go all the way up to an 18 triple D or triple W width. The best part is that these stores do not stock just ugly or plain shoes; they carry some of the prettiest and most fun shoes for big feet that you could not find anywhere else.
The internet most definitely helps when it comes to women with big feet. Several e-tailers will carry larger-sized shoes, and many specialty shoe stores will also have an online presence. Until traditional shoe stores catch on that big feet are now a normal occurrence, you may want to save gas and money by going online to look for shoes instead. There are numerous options available for big feet, many, many more than what you would find if you spent an entire day walking around malls and shoe stores.