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The Health News United Kingdom April 25 2018
An epilepsy drug that can damage unborn babies must no longer be prescribed to girls and women of childbearing age in the UK unless they sign a form to say that they understand the risks. Drug regulator MHRA says the new measures it's introducing will keep future generations of children safe. Those already on valproate medication should see their general practitioner to have their treatment reviewed. No woman or girl should stop taking it without medical advice though.
A ban on buy-one-get-one-free offers on junk food, as well as strict new rules on how and when it can be advertised, are among a host of measures aimed at tackling childhood obesity proposed by the leaders of the main opposition parties in a letter to the prime minister on Wednesday. The letter, coordinated by the celebrity chef and healthy eating campaigner Jamie Oliver, also calls for action that would make healthier foods cheaper and easier to recognise, adding that the NHS is struggling to cope with the burgeoning obesity crisis.
The deputy chief executive of the NHS health watchdog has warned that e-cigarettes are being marketed as 'edgy lifestyle devices' which could encourage people to use them for too long,Speaking at the Science and Technology committee, Professor Gillian Leng, of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) said the long term health risks of vaping were still unknown.
News on Health Professional Radio. Today is the 25th of April 2018. Read by Tabetha Moreto.
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43863191
An epilepsy drug that can damage unborn babies must no longer be prescribed to girls and women of childbearing age in the UK unless they sign a form to say that they understand the risks. Drug regulator the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency says the new measures it's introducing will keep future generations of children safe. Those already on valproate medication should see their general practitioner to have their treatment reviewed. No woman or girl should stop taking it without medical advice though.
It is thought about twenty thousand children in the UK have been left with disabilities caused by valproate since the drug was introduced in the nineteen seventies. Affected families have called for a public inquiry and compensation. Epilepsy charities say one in five women on sodium valproate are unaware that taking it during pregnancy can harm the development and physical health of an unborn baby. And more than one in four have not been given information about risks for their unborn child.
If valproate is taken during pregnancy, up to four in ten babies are at risk of developmental disorders, and approximately one in ten are at risk of birth defects. Doctor June Raine, from the MHRA said: "Patient safety is our highest priority. We are committed to making sure women and girls are aware of the very real risks of taking valproate during pregnancy. However, we also know it is vitally important women don't stop taking valproate without first discussing it with their doctor."
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/apr/25/party-leaders-urge-theresa-may-to-act-on-childhood-obesity
It was signed by the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, as well as the heads of the Scottish National party and the Liberal Democrats, Nicola Sturgeon and Vince Cable, and the joint leaders of the Green party, Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley.
Saying a raft of measures needed to be introduced en masse to tackle the problem, they say they would support the prime minister if she banned multi-buy offers on junk food, stopped adverts for it before nine pm and online, and prohibited the use of popular cartoon characters and celebrities in ads.
Among other proposals, they call for the tax system to be "used to make healthy food cheaper and discourage unhealthy choices both at home and on our high streets". The leaders also say the levels of sugar, calories, salt and fat in junk food should be lowered overall, while more training should be given to medical staff to help people with nutrition.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/04/24/e-cigarettes-danger-becoming-lifestyle-choice-safety-proven/
The deputy chief executive of the NHS health watchdog has warned that e-cigarettes are being marketed as 'edgy lifestyle devices' which could encourage people to use them for too long,
Speaking at the Science and Technology committee, Professor Gillian Leng, of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence or NICE said the long term health risks of vaping were still unknown. Professor Leng, said that while it was safe to use e-cigarettes as a quitting aid, there were questions about whether they should be marketed as a 'lifestyle choice.'
Professor Lend added: "They are ninety five percent safer than cigarettes but there is five percent that we don't know about." However Professor John Newton, director of health improvement at Public Health England, said there were 'reassuring patterns' of e-cigarette use. He said: "The large scale surveys suggest that there is a progression from being a smoker, to using e-cigarettes, to stopping."
It found that e-cigarettes could be contributing to at least twenty thousand people quitting smoking every year. But the review found that two in five smokers had never even tried vaping, PHE said that "many thousands of smokers incorrectly believe that vaping is as harmful as smoking."
Meanwhile England's public health minister has said that he should not "be a cheerleader" for e-cigarettes. Health minister Steve Brine told Members of Parliament: "I get criticised for not being a cheerleader for e-cigarettes. I do not think it is my job to be a cheerleader for a sector of industry necessarily.


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4 New Superheavy Elements Land on Periodic Table
By Tia Ghose published 4 January 16
Periodic Table of the Elements (Image credit: isak55 , Shutterstock)
Welcome to the world, elements 113, 115, 117 and 118!
Four new elements will join more than a hundred others on the periodic table of the elements, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) announced last week. The last time the venerable chemistry mainstay added new elements to its roster was in 2012, when elements 114 and 116 got the names flerovium and livermorium, respectively.
"The chemistry community is eager to see its most cherished table finally being completed down to the seventh row. IUPAC has now initiated the process of formalizing names and symbols for these elements," Jan Reedijk, president of the Inorganic Chemistry Division of IUPAC, said in a statement. [Elementary, My Dear: 8 Elements You've Never Heard Of]
Lab-born creatures
Researchers created the new elements in a lab and then verified that the production could be reproduced. But don't expect to find these elements in nature; scientists produced these "superheavy" elements — which describes all elements with atomic numbers greater than 104 — by blasting beams of heavy nuclei at other nuclei inside particle accelerators. Their existence is fleeting; for instance, element 113 lives for just a thousandth of a second before decaying into other, lighter particles.
Right now, the new elements have placeholder names and symbols that denote the elements' atomic numbers. These values refer to the number of protons in each atom's nucleus; for instance, elements 113 and 115 go by ununtrium (Uut) and ununpentium (Uup), respectively.
Now that the superheavy elements have spots on the periodic table, their discoverers can propose more permanent monikers. But don't expect any far-out or wacky names like "Kittensareawesomium." The IUPAC rules dictate that new elements must be named after a mythological concept, a mineral, a country or other place, a property, or a scientist. Stylistic consistency must also be considered, which is why the elements often have Latin-sounding names, with lots of "iums."
Collaborative efforts
The four elements were produced by several different labs: The RIKEN collaboration team in Japan created element 113, while 115 and 117 were produced via collaborations among researchers at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California; and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
Element 118 was actually produced in 2006, but it has taken years to confirm its existence because they are detected indirectly, by the secondary elements they become.
"A particular difficulty in establishing these new elements is that they decay into hitherto unknown isotopes of slightly lighter elements that also need to be unequivocally identified," Paul J. Karol, the chair of the Joint Working Party, the committee that decided the elements' fates, said in the statement. "But in the future, we hope to improve methods that can directly measure the atomic number."
Scientists are already hard at work trying to create elements that would fit into the eighth row of the periodic table. As one moves from left to right along a row on the periodic table, the atomic number increases by 1 with each element, and each successive row has heavier and heavier elements. (Elements in a row, called a period, also share a common feature: They all have the same number of orbital shells where electrons spin.)
"There are a couple of laboratories that have already taken shots at making elements 119 and 120, but with no evidence yet of success," Karol told NPR in an email. "The eighth period should be very interesting because relativistic effects on electrons become significant and difficult to pinpoint. It is in the electron behavior, perhaps better called electron psychology, that the chemical behavior is embodied."
Follow Tia Ghose on Twitterand Google+. Follow Live Science @livescience, Facebook & Google+. Original article on Live Science.
Tia Ghose
Assistant Managing Editor
Tia is the assistant managing editor and was previously a senior writer for Live Science. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, Wired.com and other outlets. She holds a master's degree in bioengineering from the University of Washington, a graduate certificate in science writing from UC Santa Cruz and a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Tia was part of a team at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that published the Empty Cradles series on preterm births, which won multiple awards, including the 2012 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism.
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1st bioengineered hybrid animals discovered — in ancient Mesopotamia

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The renovation of this stunning 1929 home near Minneapolis paid tribute to its original features while updating it to serve a large family with modern needs. Interior designer Renée Hallberg of RLH Studio worked closely with the architects and contractors to make sure the spacious home was beautiful and functional. Most important, she worked closely with the clients, who already had pieces they wanted to use.
After working on the project for two years, Hallberg had all the interior decor installed in just two weeks while the family was away on vacation. They came home to a major reveal.
That's interesting: A wall mural in the dining room matches one that Jackie Kennedy chose for the White House.
The original entry was so spectacular that very few changes were made. "We preserved and reused millwork, doors, hardware and light fixtures wherever we could," says Hallberg.
The existing oak floors were stained a dark chocolate tone, and Hallberg brought in the antique chandelier. The molding, staircase, banister and other architectural fixtures are all original to the home.
The checkboard marble floor by the front door, popular in the 1920s, inspired many of the choices made throughout the home.
The original large kitchen was gutted and cut up into a series of small utilitarian rooms. The clients love to cook and entertain, and the family gathers for meals as much as possible.
The floor tiles are porcelain, a practical material for a busy kitchen.
Custom cabinetry includes glass fronts that show off favorite items. The large island is sized for the scale of the kitchen and the large family.
Two other important members of the family spend a lot of time in the kitchen, Charity and B.B. The cushion on their bed nook is covered in indoor-outdoor fabric for durability.
Lots of time is also spent in the breakfast area, where the children do their homework. Hallberg had the clients' existing chairs reupholstered and had a custom table top made for the pedestal base. The banquette on the right was covered in ultrasuede, which stands up well to wear and tear. The chandelier combines old-world iron, beads and some fun deco waves appropriate to a 1929 home.
The star of this pantry area is the long German silver sink, which is original to the house but was previously placed elsewhere. The entire team worked hard to make it fit into this area.
Original features, the clients' own furnishings and Hallberg's additions create a beautiful dining room. "Between the dining table, buffet and walls, the room was dominated by wood and white," says Hallberg. She added a customized Stark rug and chairs upholstered in a striped fabric. She also freshened up the corner cabinets by painting the backgrounds blue and installing lighting inside.
The dining room mural, Vues d'Amérique du Nord, is original to the house and has quite a pedigree. It is hand-blocked on canvas and was made by French company Zuber et Cie. Jackie Kennedy used the same mural in the White House, where it still hangs today.
While the mural was a valuable piece, the sky was an orange-peach color, and there were dingy grays. Hallberg brought in Otto Painting Design to switch the sky to blue and amp up some of the faded colors, so the piece could recall the home's history while fitting with its updated look.
"The family room was built around a lot of pieces my clients already had, including the chest, cocktail table, mirror and more," says Hallberg. She brought in gray and ivory hues from the other rooms, this time paired with light sofas and rich raspberry and sunny yellow accents. "The woman of the house loves these bright and happy colors," says Hallberg.
The rug's pattern is a blowup from the ultrasuede Calvin Klein fabric on the back of the breakfast room banquette. The clients already owned the sofa in the foreground; Hallberg had it reupholstered in a charcoal herringbone with a contrasting welt. The clients also already owned the painting.
"The living room is like candy!" Hallberg exclaims. She combined the client's favorite happy colors and pieces they already owned, like the camelback sofa, cocktail table and table lamp, with new fabrics on the French chairs and the bench. Soft, buttery yellows on the walls and rug keep things sophisticated.
Small details like buttons atop the custom linen drapes and fringe on the bottom of this chair are always on a professional designer's mind. The button detail is also present in the dining room.
The client loved this tile border, so Hallberg worked the rest of this jewel box powder room around it. The floor is covered in a coordinating herringbone tile, and the wallpaper just seemed to fall into place. The ceiling is covered in silver leaf and picks up on the metallic elements of the faucets, mirror and wallpaper.
This den is the ultimate man cave. It was gutted, but the paneling, built-ins and ceiling recall a masculine study from 1929. The onyx fireplace surround adds a modern touch.
The monkey chandelier is one of the client's favorites; he has hung it in three homes. I can't imagine it fitting in another room as perfectly as it does in here.
The clients' vintage Louis Vuitton trunk serves as the coffee table. "We took the same Osbourne and Little fabric we used on the sofa, had it paperbacked and covered the coffered ceiling with it," says Hallberg.
The original home had a regular door from the den into this bar, but now it's a secret. The panel on the right side of the photo opens like a door, but when closed it's camouflaged as part of the den's wall.
Hallberg tied this wallpaper back to the den by using the same Schumacher print on the sofa's throw pillows. The leaded glass design on the upper cabinets is based on that of other glass doors original to the home.
Here is the opposite of the man cave: the woman's getaway spot, a sunroom bathed in light. "This room is a sanctuary room, full of sunlight," says Hallberg.
Designer tip: While these window treatments are custom, Hallberg recommends adding a colored tape border to get a custom look using premade retail window treatments.
This feminine powder room is off the wife's downstairs office. The walls are covered in a ballet-slipper-pink grass cloth. The French vanity was found on 1stdibs; Hallberg had a sink dropped in and a custom marble top fitted around it.
The clients bought back the Murano glass sconces from a trip to Italy and have hung them in all of their homes. They also already owned the mirror; its curves play off the curves of the vanity perfectly.
The gray tones seen in the more public areas of the home soften to soothing slate blue and gray in the master bedroom. The clients already owned most of the furniture and accessories. Hallberg had the bench reupholstered in soft blue mohair, had bedding custom made with fabrics from Kravet and reassigned the clients' prints to a place over the headboard.
The master bathroom was completely gutted. The architects, Cook Architectural Design Studio, designed a stunning barrel ceiling in the master bath. "We used a Venetian plaster on the ceiling to get that glow," says Hallberg.
Also Venetian: the stunning mirror over the vanity, which the clients already owned. Continuing with the mirrored theme, Hallberg had the top of the vanity covered in an inlaid antique mirror. She also added unique hardware from Anthropologie.
The elegant chandeliers in the master bath were found at Vintage Pine in Chicago. The wall sconces are original to the house, but it's amazing how well they work with the new decor.
Off an upstairs kids' hangout, this space was gutted and turned into a cozy study for the kids. "I made an extra-large windowseat so that more than one child could lounge at once," says Hallberg.
Designer tip: Use an indoor-outdoor fabric in children's rooms to stand up to wear and tear.
A young daughter's room brings in happy colors as well, with more custom painting done by Otto Painting and a special fiber-optic ceiling in which light pokes through tiny holes.
Who makes the tufted leather wing chairs?
Gorgeous home with warm, friendly feel.
Some very talented trades people worked on that house for a long time. The Venetian plaster is exquisite.


These gift ideas for your attendees will be as unique as your party.
Bridal shower favors can be as sentimental or as whimsical as you desire, and one of the many ways to show appreciation for your loved ones throughout the pre-celebrations of your big day. Whether you decide on sugary treats from your favorite local bakery or DIY bouquets, we've compiled a list of favor ideas from some of the industry's top experts that are as noteworthy as the shower itself.
1 Add a handwritten detail.
2 Create a bouquet station.
"It makes for a gorgeous visual statement and decor in the room, in which the guests could build their own bouquet to take home with them at the end of the shower," says Rebecca Ickes, owner of Rebecca Marie Photography.
"We did a Kate Spade-inspired bridal shower where we used Kate Spade bracelets as the napkin rings," says Christina Millikin, owner of Glow Events. "Each guest got to take it home as a lovely memento that they could wear for years to come."
Whether you're throwing your bridal shower in your hometown, or at a destination location, integrating local features that represent your wedding site is one way to add even more sentiment to the celebrations. Danielle Elder, founder of Classic Events, made sure to pay tribute to New York City and one of its most favored bakeries when finalizing these sweet favors.
"Offering a selection of reasonably priced red and white wines for guests to choose from on their way out is always a hit!" says Gina Jokilehto-Schigel, owner and creative director of Shi Shi Events. Add flowers to a chic ice bucket to create a stunning display.
"Instead of the typical fruit flavors, our wine bottle shaped pâte de fruit are made with rosé, pinot noir, and cabernet sauvignon wines—so guests can take a little bit of wine country home with them!" explains Marilyne Mitani, executive pastry chef of Paula LeDuc Fine Catering, when detailing their upscale take on the French treat. "The gold boxes are perfect for the jewel-toned pâte de fruit which can be enjoyed by themselves or with cheese and charcuterie," Mitani adds.
7 Include a takeaway display.
Presented like a dessert table, you can integrate an assortment of delicious takeaway treats for guests to enjoy on their ride home. "Make your presentation look as curated and as elegant as your shower, or easily compile your goods into casual takeout boxes," suggests Melissa Davis, founder of Melissa Davis Designs.
8 Consider your place setting.
"Instead of leaving the favors by the door, try personalizing each one at each individual place setting," suggests Amy Nichols, owner of Amy Nichols Special Events. Calligraphed items add even more of a special touch.


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namespace extensions {

using api::experimental_system_info_storage::ParseStorageUnitType;
using api::experimental_system_info_storage::StorageUnitInfo;
using api::experimental_system_info_storage::StorageUnitType;
using chrome::test::TestStorageMonitor;
using content::BrowserThread;
using content::RunAllPendingInMessageLoop;
using content::RunMessageLoop;
using testing::Return;
using testing::_;

struct TestUnitInfo {
  std::string id;
  std::string type;
  double capacity;
  double available_capacity;
  // The change step of free space.
  int change_step;
};

const struct TestUnitInfo kTestingData[] = {
  {"C:", "unknown", 1000, 10, 0},
  {"d:", "removable", 2000, 10, 1 },
  {"/home","harddisk", 3000, 10, 2},
  {"/", "removable", 4000, 10, 3}
};

// The watching interval for unit test is 1 milliseconds.
const size_t kWatchingIntervalMs = 1u;
// The number of times of checking watched storages.
const int kCheckTimes = 10;

class MockStorageObserver : public StorageInfoObserver {
 public:
  MockStorageObserver() {}
  virtual ~MockStorageObserver() {}

  MOCK_METHOD3(OnStorageFreeSpaceChanged, void(const std::string&,
     double, double));

 private:
  DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(MockStorageObserver);
};

// A testing observer used to provide the statistics of how many times
// that the storage free space has been changed and check the change against
// our expectation.
class TestStorageObserver : public StorageInfoObserver {
 public:
  TestStorageObserver() {
    for (size_t i = 0; i < arraysize(kTestingData); ++i)
      testing_data_.push_back(kTestingData[i]);
  }

  virtual ~TestStorageObserver() {}

  virtual void OnStorageFreeSpaceChanged(const std::string& id,
                                         double old_value,
                                         double new_value) OVERRIDE {
    // The observer is added on UI thread, so the callback should be also
    // called on UI thread.
    ASSERT_TRUE(BrowserThread::CurrentlyOn(BrowserThread::UI));
    for (size_t i = 0; i < testing_data_.size(); ++i) {
      if (testing_data_[i].id == id) {
        EXPECT_EQ(old_value, testing_data_[i].available_capacity);
        EXPECT_EQ(new_value, testing_data_[i].available_capacity +
                  testing_data_[i].change_step);
        // Increase the available capacity with the change step for comparison
        // next time.
        testing_data_[i].available_capacity += testing_data_[i].change_step;
        ++free_space_change_times_[id];
        return;
      }
    }
    EXPECT_TRUE(false);
  }

  // Returns the number of change times for the given storage |id|.
  int GetFreeSpaceChangeTimes(const std::string& id) {
    if (ContainsKey(free_space_change_times_, id))
      return free_space_change_times_[id];
    return 0;
  }

 private:
  // A copy of |kTestingData|.
  std::vector<TestUnitInfo> testing_data_;
  // Mapping of storage id and the times of free space has been changed.
  std::map<std::string, int> free_space_change_times_;
};

class TestStorageInfoProvider : public StorageInfoProvider {
 public:
  TestStorageInfoProvider();

 private:
  virtual ~TestStorageInfoProvider();

  virtual bool QueryInfo(StorageInfo* info) OVERRIDE;
  virtual bool QueryUnitInfo(const std::string& id,
                             StorageUnitInfo* info) OVERRIDE;

  // Called each time CheckWatchedStoragesOnBlockingPool is finished.
  virtual void OnCheckWatchedStoragesFinishedForTesting() OVERRIDE;

  // The testing data maintained on the blocking pool.
  std::vector<TestUnitInfo> testing_data_;
  // The number of times for checking watched storage.
  int checking_times_;
};

//
// TestStorageInfoProvider Impl.
//
TestStorageInfoProvider::TestStorageInfoProvider(): checking_times_(0) {
  for (size_t i = 0; i < arraysize(kTestingData); ++i)
    testing_data_.push_back(kTestingData[i]);
  SetWatchingIntervalForTesting(kWatchingIntervalMs);
}

TestStorageInfoProvider::~TestStorageInfoProvider() {}

bool TestStorageInfoProvider::QueryInfo(StorageInfo* info) {
  info->clear();

  for (size_t i = 0; i < testing_data_.size(); ++i) {
    linked_ptr<StorageUnitInfo> unit(new StorageUnitInfo());
    QueryUnitInfo(testing_data_[i].id, unit.get());
    info->push_back(unit);
  }
  return true;
}

bool TestStorageInfoProvider::QueryUnitInfo(
    const std::string& id, StorageUnitInfo* info) {
  for (size_t i = 0; i < testing_data_.size(); ++i) {
    if (testing_data_[i].id == id) {
      info->id = testing_data_[i].id;
      info->type = ParseStorageUnitType(testing_data_[i].type);
      info->capacity = testing_data_[i].capacity;
      info->available_capacity = testing_data_[i].available_capacity;
      // Increase the available capacity with a fixed change step.
      testing_data_[i].available_capacity += testing_data_[i].change_step;
      return true;
    }
  }
  return false;
}

void TestStorageInfoProvider::OnCheckWatchedStoragesFinishedForTesting() {
  ++checking_times_;
  if (checking_times_ < kCheckTimes)
    return;
  checking_times_ = 0;
  // Once the number of checking times reaches up to kCheckTimes, we need to
  // quit the message loop to given UI thread a chance to verify the results.
  // Note the QuitClosure is actually bound to QuitCurrentWhenIdle, it means
  // that the UI thread wil continue to process pending messages util idle.
  BrowserThread::PostTask(BrowserThread::UI, FROM_HERE,
      MessageLoop::QuitClosure());
}

class StorageInfoProviderTest : public testing::Test {
 public:
  StorageInfoProviderTest();
  virtual ~StorageInfoProviderTest();

 protected:
  virtual void SetUp() OVERRIDE;
  virtual void TearDown() OVERRIDE;

  // Run message loop and flush blocking pool to make sure there is no pending
  // tasks on blocking pool.
  static void RunLoopAndFlushBlockingPool();
  static void RunAllPendingAndFlushBlockingPool();

  MessageLoop message_loop_;
  content::TestBrowserThread ui_thread_;
  scoped_refptr<TestStorageInfoProvider> storage_info_provider_;
  scoped_ptr<TestStorageMonitor> storage_test_notifications_;
};

StorageInfoProviderTest::StorageInfoProviderTest()
    : message_loop_(MessageLoop::TYPE_UI),
      ui_thread_(BrowserThread::UI, &message_loop_) {
}

StorageInfoProviderTest::~StorageInfoProviderTest() {
}

void StorageInfoProviderTest::SetUp() {
  ASSERT_TRUE(BrowserThread::CurrentlyOn(BrowserThread::UI));
  storage_test_notifications_.reset(new TestStorageMonitor);
  storage_info_provider_= new TestStorageInfoProvider();
}

void StorageInfoProviderTest::TearDown() {
  RunAllPendingAndFlushBlockingPool();
}

void StorageInfoProviderTest::RunLoopAndFlushBlockingPool() {
  RunMessageLoop();
  content::BrowserThread::GetBlockingPool()->FlushForTesting();
}

void StorageInfoProviderTest::RunAllPendingAndFlushBlockingPool() {
  RunAllPendingInMessageLoop();
  content::BrowserThread::GetBlockingPool()->FlushForTesting();
}

TEST_F(StorageInfoProviderTest, WatchingNoChangedStorage) {
  // Case 1: watching a storage that the free space is not changed.
  MockStorageObserver observer;
  storage_info_provider_->AddObserver(&observer);
  storage_info_provider_->StartWatching(kTestingData[0].id);
  EXPECT_CALL(observer, OnStorageFreeSpaceChanged(kTestingData[0].id,  _,  _))
      .Times(0);
  RunLoopAndFlushBlockingPool();

  storage_info_provider_->RemoveObserver(&observer);
  storage_info_provider_->StopWatching(kTestingData[0].id);
  RunAllPendingAndFlushBlockingPool();
}

TEST_F(StorageInfoProviderTest, WatchingOneStorage) {
  // Case 2: only watching one storage.
  TestStorageObserver observer;
  storage_info_provider_->AddObserver(&observer);
  storage_info_provider_->StartWatching(kTestingData[1].id);
  RunLoopAndFlushBlockingPool();

  // The times of free space change is at least |kCheckTimes|, it is not easy
  // to anticiapte the accurate number since it is still possible for blocking
  // pool to run the pending checking task after completing |kCheckTimes|
  // checking tasks and posting Quit to the message loop of UI thread. The
  // observer guarantees that the free space is changed with the expected
  // delta value.
  EXPECT_GE(observer.GetFreeSpaceChangeTimes(kTestingData[1].id),
            kCheckTimes);
  // Other storages should not be changed. The first two entries are skipped.
  for (size_t i = 2; i < arraysize(kTestingData); ++i) {
    EXPECT_EQ(0, observer.GetFreeSpaceChangeTimes(kTestingData[i].id));
  }

  storage_info_provider_->StopWatching(kTestingData[1].id);
  // Give a chance to run StopWatching task on the blocking pool.
  RunAllPendingAndFlushBlockingPool();

  MockStorageObserver mock_observer;
  storage_info_provider_->AddObserver(&mock_observer);
  // The watched storage won't get free space change notification.
  EXPECT_CALL(mock_observer,
      OnStorageFreeSpaceChanged(kTestingData[1].id, _, _)).Times(0);
  RunAllPendingAndFlushBlockingPool();

  storage_info_provider_->RemoveObserver(&observer);
  storage_info_provider_->RemoveObserver(&mock_observer);
}

TEST_F(StorageInfoProviderTest, WatchingMultipleStorages) {
  // Case 2: watching multiple storages. We ignore the first entry in
  // |kTestingData| since its change_step is zero.
  TestStorageObserver observer;
  storage_info_provider_->AddObserver(&observer);

  for (size_t k = 1; k < arraysize(kTestingData); ++k) {
    storage_info_provider_->StartWatching(kTestingData[k].id);
  }
  RunLoopAndFlushBlockingPool();

  // Right now let's verify the results.
  for (size_t k = 1; k < arraysize(kTestingData); ++k) {
    // See the above comments about the reason why the times of free space
    // changes is at least kCheckTimes.
    EXPECT_GE(observer.GetFreeSpaceChangeTimes(kTestingData[k].id),
              kCheckTimes);
  }

  // Stop watching the first storage.
  storage_info_provider_->StopWatching(kTestingData[1].id);
  RunAllPendingAndFlushBlockingPool();

  MockStorageObserver mock_observer;
  storage_info_provider_->AddObserver(&mock_observer);
  for (size_t k = 2; k < arraysize(kTestingData); ++k) {
    EXPECT_CALL(mock_observer,
        OnStorageFreeSpaceChanged(kTestingData[k].id,  _, _))
        .WillRepeatedly(Return());
  }

  // After stopping watching, the observer won't get change notification.
  EXPECT_CALL(mock_observer,
      OnStorageFreeSpaceChanged(kTestingData[1].id, _, _)).Times(0);
  RunLoopAndFlushBlockingPool();

  for (size_t k = 1; k < arraysize(kTestingData); ++k) {
    storage_info_provider_->StopWatching(kTestingData[k].id);
  }
  RunAllPendingAndFlushBlockingPool();
  storage_info_provider_->RemoveObserver(&observer);
  storage_info_provider_->RemoveObserver(&mock_observer);
}

TEST_F(StorageInfoProviderTest, WatchingInvalidStorage) {
  // Case 3: watching an invalid storage.
  std::string invalid_id("invalid_id");
  MockStorageObserver mock_observer;
  storage_info_provider_->AddObserver(&mock_observer);
  storage_info_provider_->StartWatching(invalid_id);
  EXPECT_CALL(mock_observer,
      OnStorageFreeSpaceChanged(invalid_id, _, _)).Times(0);
  RunAllPendingAndFlushBlockingPool();
  storage_info_provider_->RemoveObserver(&mock_observer);
}

} // namespace extensions

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Kelly Slater wins 2012 Volcom Fiji Pro
June 11, 2012 | Surfing
Kelly Slater has conquered his 49th elite tour victory, taking out the Volcom Fiji Pro over Gabriel Medina, in pumping four-to-six foot (1.5–2 metre) surf, at Cloudbreak.
"It's about time I got him," Slater said. "He had my number in the back half of last year and he'll probably go on to beat everyone for the next 20 years. He can do it all and I think he proved that to a lot of people this week at Restaurants and out here at Cloudbreak."
Slater and Medina pushed the limits of high-performance surfing at the famed, oceanic lefthander. The Floridian posted his second Perfect 10 of the event, in the Semifinal, for a series of deep tube rides and critical turns.
"That's probably the best I could surf out here," Slater said. "The barrel and the turn sections just lined up for me and I was able to do what I did. That was a perfect canvas for me."
"I think everyone who competes on tour is here to win," Slater said. "If you're winning events, then you're winning world titles. At this point in my career, I'm probably more focused on surfing well though. The waves just pumped today. Some guys win, some guys lose, but everyone is happy if the waves are good."
Slater wasted no time in the Final against his young opponent, grabbing an 8.33 and a 9.83 in the opening half of the bout to put Medina on the ropes. The Brazilian, however, would not back down, claiming an 8.60 to put himself back in the hunt.
"I'm pretty happy with my result," Medina said. "The waves here have been so good all week and it has been a great trip. I haven't had the best season in terms of results but I'm very happy to make the Final and congrats to Kelly (Slater) – he was surfing amazing all event."
After an absence at the previous event in Rio de Janeiro, Slater's win in Fiji bolts him up from 8th to 2nd on the ASP World Championship Tour ratings.
The next stop on the 2012 ASP World Championship Tour will be the Billabong Pro Teahupoo from August 16th–27th, 2012.
Volcom Fiji Pro 2012 | Final
1. Kelly Slater (USA) 18.16
2. Gabriel Medina (BRA) 10.87
Kelly Slater's signed jersey is aboard the International Space Station
Kelly Slater scores a Perfect 10 at the age of 47
Kelly Slater dissects his life and career on the Olympic Channel
Kelly Slater to host reality show "Ultimate Surfer"
Kelly Slater discusses his concerns about Tokyo 2020


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layout: post
title:  "How to: CouchDB full replication"
date:   2013-10-23
comments: true
tags:
    - automation
    - couchdb
    - databases
    - nosql
    - pytthon
    - replication
---
If you use CouchDB, for sure you know about the replication feature. It is quite
handy and easy to use, with a single POST request you can trigger the replication of an entire database.

The problem comes in the small (but important) details. When I first tried to
replicate all the databases from our CouchDB in production to our CouchDB for development,
I encountered three problems: The _users database, the design documents and the
security attributes of the databases were not being replicated.

<!--more-->

The _users database and the design documents have the same solution: You just
need to be admin in order to replicate them. Citing the [CouchDB documentation][docs]:

> Only server and database admins can create design docs and access views.

What this means is that, in the POST request that you use to trigger the replication,
you have to prepend the admin credentials, something like:

```bash
curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -X POST http://localhost:5984/_replicate -d ' {"source": "http://admin:admin_password@production:5984/foo", "target": "http://admin:admin_password@stage:5984/foo", "create_target": true, "continuous": true} '
```
This POST request will also work with the _users database.

At this point you have your database with its views replicated but… everyone with
an account can do anything he wants on it! :-/. Ok let's see, again reading the documentation,
we find the following information:

> Note that security objects are not regular versioned documents (that is, they are
not under MVCC rules). This is a design choice to speedup authorization checks
(avoids traversing a database's documents B-Tree).

What this means is that, as security objects are not versioned, they cannot be replicated,
because replication in CouchDB is based on versions. The solution I found, and works
pretty well, is to explicitly copy this object. How? Well, this object is just another
JSON document, so you just need to GET it from the original database, and PUT it in the
destination one. Would be something like this:

```bash
curl -X GET http://admin:admin_password@localhost:5984/foo/_security | xargs curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -X PUT http://admin:admin_password@localhost:5984/foo/_security -d {}
```

Yay! This way you have the database foo completely replicated.

Last but not least, If you've read my other posts you may have noticed that I am
quite a fan of automation, and I usually program in Python. [Here](/assets/codes/couchdb_full_replication/couchdb_replication.py) you have a little present.
This script can be used to automatically set up continuous replication from a source database
to a destination database. It also has an option to trigger a cloning: The destination
database will be **completely removed** and the source database will be cloned there.
Be careful and use it at your own risk ;-).

An idea of how to use it: We have set a continuous replication from our production
database to our stage database. Once a week, **as agreed with all developers**,
we put back the stage database at the same state than the production one.

Hope this post helps! If it does, share!

[docs]: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Replication


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Rock Vrachos Melissa, Thessaly, Central Greece. Elevation -9999 m. (Digital elevation model) . GPS coordinates: 39.29263, 24.09045.
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When I first started on my department 15 years ago, I couldn't wait to get through my probationary year to start working off duty. The idea of working off duty and getting paid almost double my hourly wage was appealing. It wasn't only me, nearly everyone on my squad worked some type of off duty job whether it was traffic control or security.
As a young officer, I fell into the dangerous habit of relying upon off duty. I was no longer able to live off my regular paycheck from my department, I now relied on the supplemental off duty to pay the bills. I didn't realize it at the time, but I was walking a dangerous line.
So many of us work off duty jobs to make ends meet. I know several officers that spend all of their days off working different off duty jobs. Most of us have read the book, "Emotional Survival for Law Enforcement" by Dr. Kevin Gilmartin and know we need our days off. Those days off are important to balance out our stress levels so we can attempt to lead normal lives. Unfortunately, even with this knowledge, many of us are in terrible financial situations that cause us to work more off duty than we should. This constant working and increased stress level has led to many issues to include divorce, financial instability, and job related discipline.
How Do We Stop the Spiral?
In order to stop this downward trajectory, we need to figure out a way to live off our regular salary. The truth is, many of us are one off duty injury away from not being able to pay the bills. Without that off duty income, we would be unable to stay afloat financially. The idea of living off our take home pay may seem like a fairy tale. However, there are many officers in my department who do not work off duty and are able to make ends meet. How do they do it?
The officers I know who are able to live off their salary are content individuals. They drive old vehicles and pack their lunches every day. They act like they're poor, yet they seem happier than the rest of us. They have friends who own boats, rather than owning the boat themselves. These officers found a place of contentment in their lives that does not involve spending.
Years later, when I finally snapped out of my off duty spiral, I found that the easiest way to pay my bills with my regular income was to budget. I learned how to tell my money where to go rather than wondering where it went. As a cop, I always need to be in control. For some reason, early on in my career I had no control over my money. As I matured, I found that I was wasting enormous amounts of money and I continued to work more off duty to make up for my bad spending habits. Perhaps you find yourself in a similar situation?
WE NEED TO BE IN CONTROL, BUT WHY DON'T WE CONTROL OUR MONEY?
No matter how much debt you have right now and how little you make, there is a way out. You may need to continue working off duty to reverse the pendulum, but it's time to take control of your finances.
I still work off duty to this day but it is only one day a week. In addition, all of my off duty money goes towards vacations and extra things I want to pay for in cash. I no longer need my off duty to pay my bills – it truly is extra supplemental income! If you are caught in an off duty death spiral, I encourage you to reach out for help. For your own sanity, create a budget and a plan for your money. Stop digging and start climbing out of this mess. You can do it my friends! If you need more information about budgeting and contentment, please head over to Arrest Your Debt for further information to get your money under control. You work too hard to be this broke!
Until then, stay safe my brothers and sisters – I'll see you out there.
Ryan Junas has been in law enforcement for over 15 years and is a lieutenant for a large police agency in Arizona. He holds a Master of Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Education degree from Northern Arizona University.
In his spare time, Ryan founded Arrest Your Debt LLC which is a financial education website geared to help people pay off debt and build wealth. You can find him over at https://arrestyourdebt.com to learn more about his side project!
Ryan Junas has been in law enforcement for over 14 years and is a lieutenant for a large police agency in Arizona. He holds a Master of Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Education degree from Northern Arizona University. In his spare time, Ryan founded Arrest Your Debt LLC which is a financial education website geared to help people pay off debt and build wealth. You can find him over at https://arrestyourdebt.com to learn more about his side project!


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Covid-19: Ebonyi builds 350-bed capacity isolation, treatment centres in 3 months
Apr 25, 2020 ebonyi state government
Isolation and treatment centre
By Oswald Agwu
Ebonyi State government said a 300- bed capacity Coronavirus and other infectious diseases treatment Centre located inside the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki (AE-FUTHA 2) has reached 95% completion.
This is in addition to another 50-beded fully completed and operational Isolation/treatment centre located inside the unity square, Abakaliki.
The State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Daniel Umezuruike confirmed this to newsmen at the AE-FUTHA shortly after accompanying Governor David Umahi on a supervision and monitoring tour of the projects.
The Commissioner explained that all the equipment for the 300-beded capacity coronavirus isolation facility have been provided and would be installed in the next one week after completion of finishing works.
He disclosed that a total of 160 coronavirus samples from the state have been tested so far and with results all negative, adding that another 60 samples from nearby states have also been tested.
He however noted that the results for other State have been sent to their origins and would be announced by them.
Umezurike said: "this complex you are seeing is the isolation/ treatment centre of infectious diseases precisely covid-19 in Ebonyi state and this structure was started just three-four months ago when the disease was discovered in China.
Governor Umahi on inspection tour
"After seeing the way the disease was spreading, His Excellency the Governor who reasons as if he knows tomorrow, said that one day this disease will get to every part of the world and that it is good to start preparing.
"He immediately started this structure and today we have gotten to 95% completion.
"What is left is to put the finishing touches, basically the fittings and the places will be good to go as an isolation ward.
"The facility is a 300-bed facility isolation and all the equipment have also been provided ready to be installed.
"We also have another isolation ward in the unity square and it is a 50-beded space.
"We completed the 50-beded space and discovered that it will not be enough and we had to commence the building of this 300-beded space that is nearing completion.
"As at present, we don't have any case of convid-19 in Ebonyi state and we have tested 160 samples from Ebonyi state and over 60 from nearby states. "We don't have the right to report their cases but all the ones we tested, tested negative, and we have done quite a lot to ensure that we don't record any case of convid-19 in Ebonyi state.
"We are also preparing, such that if we have any case, we should be able to contain it and that is what we are doing."
The Commissioner further dispelled as mere rumour the reported outbreak of Cholera in Ohaukwu local government area of the State in which it was alleged that 10 persons died.
He said: "What happened in Ngbo, Ohaukwu local government area is that one woman living with the son died and they didn't know the cause of death and they rought her and buried in her home town.
"After some days, they started having abdominal discomfort, vomiting and diarrhea.
"It started three days ago and two days ago, our team was there with the teams from the World Health Organisation, Medicins Sans Frontiers and Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team.
"We conducted an investigation and discovered that it was actually diarrhea, and with all the interventions and protocol, we sent more health workers there.
"It was only that women index case that we recorded mortality."
Covid-19: Legislature will continue to support the fight, says Sen Adamu
Ebonyi Health Commissioner, Umezuike links malaria to Covid-19


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Microsoft Unveils Google Docs Killer: Office 14
By Yardena Arar
Microsoft has been hinting for some time at plans to not just rival but outdo Google Docs, and today we finally got a glimpse of what the company has in mind. Surprise: They're turning to an old dog that's going to learn some impressive-looking new tricks-Microsoft Office.
In demos at the very end of a long Professional Developers Conference keynote that also marked the public debut of Windows 7, a Microsoft Office team member showed how web versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote that will be bundled with the next release of Office will allow people to seamlessly collaborate on documents that can reside online or on PCs. (Microsoft later posted a news release about its plans to create "lightweight" versions of Office apps for the Web.)
This screenshot shows how a OneNote document might look using the Web version of the Microsoft Office note-taking application. Note that there's a button for launching the desktop version.
In one of the demos, the keynote audience saw two people modifying a One Note document-one from within a desktop version of OneNote and another working on the browser-based version of the note-taking application. And in another, we watched a full-featured spreadsheet being modified in similar fashion, in close to real time (there was a slight lag).
The Webification of Office promises functionality that goes beyond what Microsoft already offers as Google alternatives in its existing Windows Live program-in fact, Microsoft says it will deliver the Office apps via Office Live. The beauty of this approach (and why it might actually succeed in winning converts from Google Docs) is that Microsoft starts the Web competition with a big advantage in terms of formats: Office documents remain the lingua franca of business communication.
The demos suggest that the problem of offline access would go away, since documents would be automatically synced (via Live Mesh technology). What remains to be seen is what you'd need to do to avail yourself of Web-desktop synchronicity-would you have to sign up for some kind of Microsoft collaboration service, or pay for storage space that Google now gives away for free?
We don't yet know when Microsoft plans to release the next version of Office (although if past history is any indication, it shouldn't be too long after Windows 7, which is still officially slated to debut in early 2010). But Microsoft has said it will be working on extending anytime-anywhere functionality to mobile devices (presumably Windows Mobile devices). In his remarks during both today's and yesterday's keynotes, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie said over and over again that Microsoft intends to bring customers the benefits of the desktop, the Web, and mobility in the years to come.


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Brixham councillors and residents are calling for the urgent reinstatement of the bus service connecting their community with Torbay Hospital.
Since the withdrawal of the 67 bus service around six months ago, residents needing to visit Torbay Hospital in Torquay now have to take three buses, or pay £22 in each direction for a taxi, Brixham Town Council heard at its meeting on Thursday.
A petition which is available in the Rowcroft shop in Fore Street has reached more than 500 signatures so far.
At the council meeting on Thursday, he said: "Good government is about providing the best conditions in which the people of our communities can live their lives, it is not about making their lives harder.
"It is not remotely funny that our elderly residents have to endure three bus journeys to alight at a point where they still have to walk uphill to reach Torbay Hospital, or to spend £22 to travel in one direction by taxi, or sit at home having to worry how they will make their appointment on time.
Council chairman Cllr Rosemary Clarke said lots of people who use the town's Memory Café, where she volunteers, had spoken to her about their concerns.
Cllr Jackie Stockman said that 23 per cent of households in Brixham do not own cars and therefore the community 'relies heavily' on its bus routes.
The town council unanimously agreed to call upon Torbay Council to work with partners to reconnect the community with Torbay Hospital by means of a dedicated bus route as a matter of urgency.


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Join Zoo Crew and visit as much as you like for a whole year. Pop in for half an hour to wave hello to your favourite Otter or spend the whole day exploring the Zoo.
be able to take part in exclusive Zoo Crew events and activities.
When you buy your Zoo Crew online, you'll have three months to activate your membership.
Remember to wear your pass while you're at the Zoo to claim your discounts and be recognised by our friendly staff.
By joining Zoo Crew you'll help us provide the best possible care for our animals and support our wild conservation projects.10% from every Zoo Crew pass goes directly to helping wild conservation.
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Curious about a Zoo Crew membership but haven't been to the Zoo for a while? Why not come visit, and if you buy a Zoo Crew membership we'll deduct your entry price from your Zoo Crew membership purchase. Terms and conditions apply*.
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Wellington Zoo is a charitable trust. As a valued Zoo Crew member you're helping us provide the best possible care for our animals. We appreciate Zoo Crew member's support and acceptance of these conditions below.
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Combining the best parts of fairway drivers and distance drivers you get a control driver.
The CD was the first driver produced by Discmania. It is also very well suited to be the first faster driver for many players due to its ease of throwing and multiple types of throws it allows. The neutral flight gives the thrower a lot of room to work with using different launch angles and speeds. It is fast but not overly fast, not overstable or understable, with good glide. It is thus very much in the middle of all the flight ratings – just like you will often find it in the middle on the course too – of the fairway, that is.
The CD teaches you control. Put one in your bag and experience it yourself.
Good for: Controlled drives, for all skill levels.


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People dying of pancreatic cancer in Trinidad because of late detection
More people are dying from pancreatic cancer in T&T than in the United States, although the rate of incidents for the disease are higher in the US where it is the 11th most common form of cancer.
According to Dr Jordan M. Winter, a surgeon who has researched the disease, the higher mortality rate may have to do with the fact that pancreatic cancer is being detected here at a later stage
Dr Winter, who will be making a presentation at today's 4th Distinguished Lecture Series on Pancreatic Cancer hosted by the John E. Sabga Foundation, said with earlier detection pancreatic cancer can be cured, so it is important to pay attention to symptoms and seek medical help.
"Months do matter with this disease," he said.
Symptoms of pancreatic cancer include abdominal discomfort, nausea, vomiting and decreased appetite, Dr Winter said.
"But there are three symptoms you must pay attention to that are clearly linked to pancreatic cancer. One is unexplained weight loss. You're losing weight but you're not trying. Worsening diabetes and new-onset diabetes. The third is depression and anxiety at a later stage in life," he said.
Anyone experiencing a cluster of these syndromes should consult a doctor and do follow-ups a month, then three months later if there isn't a conclusive diagnosis.
Dr Winter is the Chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Centre and Director of Surgical Services at UH Seidman Cancer Centre in Cleveland, Ohio. His area of specialisation is the medical and surgical management of pancreatic and related cancers and he is recognised as a leader in translational and basic research.
He is the director of the Winter Lab which is at the forefront of investigational efforts to find alternative treatments for pancreatic cancer. Research is focused on how pancreatic cancer cells survive in their microenvironment and identifying their metabolic weaknesses to discover new and effective therapies.
He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and a dozen book chapters, many of which focus on pancreatic cancer.
Dr Winter and his team have discovered that a cancer drug designed against one protein has potent anti-tumour activity against a related protein which is especially necessary for the survival of pancreatic and other aggressive cancers. The drug works by interfering with survival pathways needed to overcome the nutrient-deprived environment, which is characteristic of these untreatable cancers.
"We see efficacy in every tumour we have tested to date, including ovarian, lung, colon, and melanoma. Mice with pancreatic cancer survive much longer with the drug, compared to placebo," he explained
Dr Winter described it as "the most exciting line of investigation I have been a part of to date."
The John E. Sabga Foundation has been working to raise awareness and provide education and support on pancreatic cancer. This evening's lecture series is part of activities to mark Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month.
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Blue and Gold Macaws in Trinidad saved from extirpation
Bullet-riddled body of missing Trinidad teen found
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For my money, bakers are Jedi knights. Give me a recipe for any kind of dish and I can hold my own in the kitchen. Though untrained, I can cook. Baking is another story. I'm a disaster. Something is missing in my toolkit. Oddly, though this shortcoming makes me the odd man out, my baking fails help me to appreciate Baker's Batch even more.
Baker's Batch is an online platform that celebrates all things great about baking. It's a destination where people can find great baking recipes, great bakers and great baking products.
I call bakers Jedis because their art is ancient and amazing and marginalized. Mass produced baked goods clog our shelves. Yet, everyone loves baked goods. Everyone knows the difference between handmade and machine shopped goodies. And loves the real deal.
Especially in the States, this general assessment of the baking scene holds true. Buuuuut, something is rising. In coffee shops, cafés, farmers markets and more and more grocery stores, better baked goods are mounting a comeback. Baker's Batch should help accelerate this trend.
Nothing comforts us or delights us quite like fresh baked breads and sweets. In my wife's home country, Argentina, you can't hardly walk a block without encountering a panaderia – a store that sells bread and pastries. Not only do panaderias lend an amazing fragrance to the streets, but they ensure that quality baked goods are a normal part of everyday life.
My US friends, this is a cultural shift worth supporting. Bring on the cakes, cookies, and croissants! What I wouldn't give for some medialunas to go with an afternoon coffee about now (unfamiliar? look 'em up or request learning more about medialunas on Baker's Batch).
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Match ends, Los Angeles Football Club 3, Sacramento Republic 2.
Second Half ends, Los Angeles Football Club 3, Sacramento Republic 2.
Attempt saved. Villyan Bijev (Sacramento Republic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Wilson Kneeshaw (Sacramento Republic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Offside, Los Angeles Football Club. Tyler Miller tries a through ball, but Latif Blessing is caught offside.
Foul by Wilson Kneeshaw (Sacramento Republic).
Corner, Los Angeles Football Club. Conceded by Jaime Villarreal.
João Moutinho (Los Angeles Football Club) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by João Moutinho (Los Angeles Football Club).
Cameron Iwasa (Sacramento Republic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Wilson Kneeshaw (Sacramento Republic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Diego Rossi (Los Angeles Football Club) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Eduard Atuesta.
Attempt missed. Cameron Iwasa (Sacramento Republic) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Mitchell Taintor.
Foul by Calum Mallace (Los Angeles Football Club).
Foul by Shannon Gomez (Sacramento Republic).
Attempt blocked. Benny Feilhaber (Los Angeles Football Club) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by João Moutinho.
Foul by Tristan Blackmon (Los Angeles Football Club).
Attempt blocked. Latif Blessing (Los Angeles Football Club) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Diego Rossi.
Corner, Los Angeles Football Club. Conceded by Justin Schmidt.
Attempt blocked. Diego Rossi (Los Angeles Football Club) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Latif Blessing.
Corner, Los Angeles Football Club. Conceded by Elliot Hord.
Foul by Jure Matjasic (Sacramento Republic).
Diego Rossi (Los Angeles Football Club) hits the right post with a left footed shot from the left side of the box. Assisted by Benny Feilhaber.
Jure Matjasic (Sacramento Republic) is shown the yellow card.
Offside, Los Angeles Football Club. Walker Zimmerman tries a through ball, but Diego Rossi is caught offside.
Aaron Kovar (Los Angeles Football Club) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Benny Feilhaber (Los Angeles Football Club) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Latif Blessing.
Attempt missed. Adam Moffat (Sacramento Republic) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Villyan Bijev.
Offside, Los Angeles Football Club. Benny Feilhaber tries a through ball, but Latif Blessing is caught offside.
Foul by Villyan Bijev (Sacramento Republic).
Aaron Kovar (Los Angeles Football Club) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Sacramento Republic. Conceded by Tristan Blackmon.
Attempt saved. Lee Nguyen (Los Angeles Football Club) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Benny Feilhaber.
Foul by Jeremy Hall (Sacramento Republic).
Second Half begins Los Angeles Football Club 0, Sacramento Republic 1.
First Half ends, Los Angeles Football Club 0, Sacramento Republic 1.
Shannon Gomez (Sacramento Republic) is shown the yellow card.
Jure Matjasic (Sacramento Republic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Offside, Los Angeles Football Club. Diego Rossi tries a through ball, but Latif Blessing is caught offside.
Penalty saved! Benny Feilhaber (Los Angeles Football Club) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.
Penalty conceded by Justin Schmidt (Sacramento Republic) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Los Angeles Football Club. Benny Feilhaber draws a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt missed. Adam Moffat (Sacramento Republic) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Aaron Kovar (Los Angeles Football Club).
Shannon Gomez (Sacramento Republic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Jure Matjasic (Sacramento Republic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Adam Moffat (Sacramento Republic).
Attempt saved. Jure Matjasic (Sacramento Republic) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Villyan Bijev.
Corner, Los Angeles Football Club. Conceded by Josh Cohen.
Attempt saved. Benny Feilhaber (Los Angeles Football Club) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Offside, Los Angeles Football Club. Latif Blessing tries a through ball, but Aaron Kovar is caught offside.
Foul by Elliot Hord (Sacramento Republic).
João Moutinho (Los Angeles Football Club) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Eduard Atuesta (Los Angeles Football Club) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Latif Blessing.
Corner, Sacramento Republic. Conceded by João Moutinho.
Attempt missed. Villyan Bijev (Sacramento Republic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt saved. Villyan Bijev (Sacramento Republic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Cameron Iwasa (Sacramento Republic) hits the right post with a left footed shot from the left side of the box. Assisted by Jure Matjasic with a through ball.
Attempt saved. Diego Rossi (Los Angeles Football Club) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Latif Blessing with a through ball.
Attempt missed. Diego Rossi (Los Angeles Football Club) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Benny Feilhaber.
Offside, Los Angeles Football Club. Eduard Atuesta tries a through ball, but Aaron Kovar is caught offside.
Carlos Rodríguez (Sacramento Republic) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Carlos Rodríguez (Sacramento Republic).
Attempt missed. Aaron Kovar (Los Angeles Football Club) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high following a corner.
Attempt blocked. Aaron Kovar (Los Angeles Football Club) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Diego Rossi.
Corner, Los Angeles Football Club. Conceded by Carlos Rodríguez.
Attempt saved. Benny Feilhaber (Los Angeles Football Club) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Walker Zimmerman.
Corner, Los Angeles Football Club. Conceded by Shannon Gomez.
Offside, Sacramento Republic. Mitchell Taintor tries a through ball, but Jure Matjasic is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Jure Matjasic (Sacramento Republic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Villyan Bijev.
Attempt missed. Lee Nguyen (Los Angeles Football Club) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Benny Feilhaber with a headed pass.
Attempt missed. Benny Feilhaber (Los Angeles Football Club) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by João Moutinho with a cross.
Attempt missed. Adam Moffat (Sacramento Republic) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Lee Nguyen (Los Angeles Football Club) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box. Assisted by Latif Blessing.
Stoppage in match Villyan Bijev (Sacramento Republic) because of an injury.
Offside, Los Angeles Football Club. Tristan Blackmon tries a through ball, but Aaron Kovar is caught offside.


Context Labs roots and founding team stem from our work at MIT Sloan and the MIT Media Lab focusing on innovation dynamics, commencing with the group's co-founding in 2012 of MIT Sloan's Regional Entrepreneurial Acceleration Lab (REAL).
The InnovationScope™ platform, a real-time navigator of innovation clusters, enables cities, regions and countries to deeply describe their geographical innovative activities. It granularizes by entrepreneurial and innovation clusters, successes and gaps. The platform helps organizations make informed decisions regarding their strategic investments focused on innovation.
The subsequent technology developed in this effort by our founders, known as InnovationScope™, with its platform for global data interoperability from diverse data sources, proved foundational for Context Labs development efforts for Chainplate Foundation™, Snapshackle Interoperability™, and VUEGraph Analytics™.
Similarly, InnovationScope™ can support and advise multinationals and early-stage investors for strategic and targeted investments regarding certain domains or regions, facilitating a better predictive metric for return-on-investment.
The underlying core of the InnovationScope™ framework is known as Pentahelix™theory, implemented as a big data analytics platform called the Cluster Rank Engine™ (CRE) which was developed by the Context Labs team. The framework integrates big data analytics, graph theory algorithms and systems dynamics, to produce insights to influence outcomes in innovation strategy and planning.
In addition, and to encourage interoperability between a multitude of global data resources and devices, Context Labs developed an open data format that generalizes to a wide range of urban data streams, called CityX™.


One of the reason I will never give up writing Christmas cards, I thoroughly enjoy it. Plus I make everyone in the family sign the card, I refuse to sign their name, even if it means I have to start our cards in October being that two of them are away at school.
I used to write a letter to my gran each week. When she passed away, my uncle gave them all back to me...bound with a ribbon, the way she kept them. You could tell that they had been read over and over.


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Pallas Athena, the goddess of wisdom and war, granted Diana great wisdom, intelligence, and military prowess. Athena's gift has enabled Diana to master over a dozen languages (including those of alien origin), multiple complex crafts, sciences and philosophies, as well as leadership, military strategy, and armed and unarmed combat. More recently, Athena bound her own eyesight to Diana's, granting her increased empathy.[182]
The success of the superhero television series Supergirl informed the marketing and promotion strategy used for Wonder Woman.[155] According to Time Warner chief marketing officer Kristen O'Hara, they wanted to approach the Wonder Woman marketing campaign in a light manner, similar to how they did with Supergirl. O'Hara elaborated that the modest campaign route they took for Supergirl aided in establishing a large central fanbase among women well in advance of the series, which reportedly generated 5 million female superhero fans in one week.[155] They were then able to model over time, and grow that audience leading up to the 15-months-later release of Wonder Woman.[155] Though neither the film nor the series are aimed exclusively at women, the latter's campaign gave them their first opportunity to begin collecting data about female superhero fans.[155] In May 2017, a promo for Wonder Woman was released during the season finale of Supergirl, featuring a remix of the song "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" and Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) wearing Wonder Woman's boots.[156] The promo included an appearance by Lynda Carter, star of the 1970s Wonder Woman, who plays the American president on Supergirl.[156]
This volume of James Robinson's run on Wonder Woman shows signs that all the good faith DC comics gain from fans is slowly becoming disappointing. This is very troubling seeing how I have enjoyed James Robinson's writing in many other comic book series. I do agree with many of the other reviewers this volume has some really great art but the story is at times flawed or mediocre. My biggest gripe is with the character of Jason. To me it just felt like throughout this arc of the story they mad Jas ...more
Diana, after her death, was granted divinity as the Goddess of Truth by her gods for such faithful devotion.[78] During her brief time as a god of Olympus, Diana was replaced in the role of Wonder Woman by her mother, Queen Hippolyta.[79] Unlike Diana receiving the title of Wonder Woman in honor, Hippolyta's role as Wonder Woman was meant to be a punishment for her betrayal in Artemis' death as well as for unintentionally killing her own daughter.[80] However, Hippolyta eventually grew to enjoy the freedom and adventure the title came with. Whereas Diana used the Lasso of Truth as her primary weapon, Hippolyta favored a broad sword.
Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered island paradise, when a pilot crashes on their shores and tells of a massive conflict raging in the outside world, Diana leaves her home, convinced she can stop the threat. Fighting alongside man in a war to end all wars, Diana will discover her full powers and her true destiny. Written by ahmetkozan
A stand-alone #0 issue was released in September which explored Diana's childhood and her tutelage under Ares, the God of War, now known most often as simply 'War'.[148] The issue was narrated in the style of a typical Silver Age comic book and saw Diana in her childhood years.[149] The main plot of the issue was Diana training under War as he thought of her being an extraordinary girl with immense potential. The issue ultimately concluded with Diana learning and experiencing the importance of mercy, which she first learned when War showed it to her during their sparring. This later translated into her refusal to kill the Minotaur – a task given to her by War; however, this show of mercy makes her a failure in War's eyes, which was actually his fault since he inadvertently "taught" her mercy and affection as his protege.[148][149][150] Later in the series, Wonder Woman is forced to kill War during a conflict with her evil half-brother, Zeus' son First Born, and herself becomes the God of War. After the Amazons are restored, she rules over them both as a warrior queen and God of War, as the ongoing conflict with First Born escalates. At the end of Azzarello's run, as part of a final conflict, Wonder Woman kills First Born, while Zeke is revealed to have been Zeus' plan for resurrection, with Zola revealed to have been a mortal shell for the goddess Athena, who gave birth to Zeus just as he once did to her. Wonder Woman pleads with Athena not to allow the Zola personality, whom she has grown to love as a friend, die with Athena's awakening. Athena leaves the site in animal form, leaving a stunned and confused Zola behind with Wonder Woman.[151]
Wonder Woman appears as one of the lead characters in the Justice League title written by Geoff Johns and drawn by Jim Lee that was launched in 2011 as part of The New 52.[152] In August 2012, she and Superman shared a kiss in Justice League Vol 2 #12, which has since developed into a romantic relationship.[153][154][155] DC launched a Superman/Wonder Woman series that debuted in late 2013, which focuses both the threats they face together, and on their romance as a "Power Couple".[156][157]
By the time that Robert Kanigher took over the character, a change away from traditional comics as a whole was accomplished. He eventually veered completely away from superheroism and essentially only told stories involving the Wonder Family, which consisted of Wonder Woman, her teenage version Wonder Girl, her baby version Wonder Tot and her mother. This eventually proved not very popular and Kanigher was forced to rethink the character and cast her in a more traditional superhero context (he actually explained this decision in comics to the reader with his various creations vying to remain in continuity against his wishes). It was at this time for instance that Wonder Woman saw the return of some characters that had been missing for some time such as the Cheetah or Doctor Psycho. It was also at this time that she became a founding member of the original Justice League of America.
In March 2005, Warner Bros. and Silver Pictures announced that Joss Whedon would write and direct the film.[74] Early drafts of his screenplay included Steve Trevor as the narrator, a fierce battle between Diana and her mother over Trevor's welfare, and after leaving Themyscira, his need to frequently rescue a Diana rendered helpless by the modern world.[75] Whedon was not able to complete a final version of his screenplay, and left the project in 2007.[76][77]
While Diana stood admiring the replica, Bruce Wayne appeared. He proceeds to angrily confront her by grabbing Diana's arm and asking her about the information device that she had stolen. Bruce claims to see right through her "babe in the woods" act, saying that while Diana doesn't know him, he's met "a few women like [her]". Diana, however, calmly smiles and retorts that Bruce has never met any women like her. She then proceeds to tell Bruce that she was unable to obtain anything from Bruce's device, due to Lex Luthor's data having military-grade encryption. Diana explains her intention to re-obtain her photograph from Luthor, stating that she only borrowed Bruce's device, and has already returned it to him shortly beforehand (placing it into the glove compartment of his car), before calmly excusing herself and leaving.[5]
Perhaps due to her Amazonian background, Diana greatly respects other noble selfless warriors, as evidenced when she attended Superman's funeral in Smallville and spoke of how he had been much more than a soldier (adding to what Batman said about Metropolis burying an empty casket). As a result of her great posthumous respect, she was, therefore, more than willing to aid Batman in honoring the heroic death of Superman, by helping round up the metahumans from Lex Luthor's files to form a team of superheroes (later known as the Justice League) to protect the world from the imminent mysterious alien invader Steppenwolf and his Parademon minions after Superman's death left the world vulnerable.


I have been working with special-needs children since I was 15. I know how to present information in a way tailored to the individual and how to be engaging. I am patient, enjoy the company of people with special needs and treat them with respect.


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Vivien Henz (* 24. August 2004) ist ein luxemburgischer Leichtathlet, der sich auf den Mittelstreckenlauf spezialisiert hat.

Sportliche Laufbahn
Erste internationale Erfahrungen sammelte Vivien Henz im Jahr 2021, als er bei den U20-Europameisterschaften in Tallinn in 3:51,49 min den zwölften Platz im 1500-Meter-Lauf belegte. Im Jahr darauf gelangte er dann bei den U20-Weltmeisterschaften in Cali mit 3:39,60 min auf Rang sieben.

In den Jahren 2020 und 2021 wurde Henz luxemburgischer Meister im 800-Meter-Lauf sowie 2022 über 1500 Meter. Zudem wurde er 2022 Hallenmeister im 3000-Meter-Lauf.

Bestleistungen
 800 Meter: 1:49,90 min, 11. Juni 2022 in Marsa
 800 Meter (Halle): 1:52,20 min, 16. Januar 2022 in Metz
 1000 Meter: 2:26,73 min, 22. Juli 2021 in Saarbrücken (nationale U18-Bestleistung)
 1500 Meter: 3:38,89 min, 2. Juli 2022 in Heusden-Zolder (luxemburgischer U20-Rekord)
 1500 Meter (Halle): 3:43,34 min, 12. Februar 2022 in Metz (luxemburgischer U20-Rekord)
 3000 Meter: 8:13,20 min, 30. April 2022 in Luxemburg (luxemburgischer U20-Rekord)
 3000 Meter (Halle): 8:26,34 min, 27. Februar 2022 in Luxemburg

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800-Meter-Läufer (Luxemburg)
1500-Meter-Läufer (Luxemburg)
3000-Meter-Läufer (Luxemburg)
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It's April 15 and Democrats are reminding voters of the 2017 tax act.
It's Tax Day, so national Democrats are seeking to convince voters in targeted districts that they didn't get anything out of the Republicans' big tax reform bill of 2017.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has launched a social media advertising campaign for April 15 keyed to its #GOPTaxScam theme, declaring, "Thanks for Nothing". It's running in a handful of contested congressional districts held by Republicans who voted yes on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, and charges that the tax breaks went to the wealthy, and little or none to middle-class voters.
The ads are running in California, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, and Texas, though not Florida yet.
Democrats are backing up the campaign with a citation to a news report from CBS News that declares that voters in such states that have high real estate taxes are being hit with federal income tax increases as the result of caps on their state and local taxes deductions.
I notice the Socialist media and the DNC fail to use actual statistics. It is so much easier to LIE and don't let the facts get in the way. In fact, the average tax payer who makes under $100,000 are paying $2,000 less this years in Federal Income tax. Thankfully, in Florida we have no state Income Tax which is basically theft for the pay and benefits of the Socialist Oligarchy in charge of those states.
All I hear from the liberals is "Fair Share". Well, everyone needs to pay their "Fair Share" of federal taxes, despite what their states charge.
If you don't like your state taxes, change them or move.


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Q: java.sql.SQLException: Fail to convert to internal representation( where the column has both int values and few values are N/A) I have a table as below:
column1 -  12312,12235,43242,53465,82745
  column2 -  12,45,56,N/A,N/A
and my java program is as below:
public Map<Integer, String> fetchResultValue(String query)
        throws SQLException, IllegalAccessException,
        InvocationTargetException, NoSuchMethodException,
        ClassNotFoundException, InstantiationException {
    Map<Integer, String> m = new HashMap<Integer, String>();
    PreparedStatement pstmt = null;
    Connection con = null;
    try {
        con = getConnection(true);
        pstmt = con.prepareStatement(query);
        ResultSet rs = pstmt.executeQuery();
        while (rs.next()) {
            m.put(rs.getInt(1), rs.getString(2));
        }
        return m;
    } finally {
        this.cleanResources(con, pstmt);
    }
}

and Im getting that exception for reading column2 values and I initially tried using rs.getInte(2) instead of rs.getString(2) but even then i was getting that exception so how do I read that column values.

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A Novel (The Heirloom Novels)
CD-Audio (3/20/2018)
"Filled with cherished memories and treasured recipes, The Recipe Box is a touching tribute to the women and food that unite us and connect our past to the present." —Richard Paul Evans, #1 New York Times bestselling author
"An easy, delightful novel" –Good Housekeeping
In The Recipe Box, bestselling beloved author Viola Shipman spins a tale about a lost young woman and the family recipe box that changes her life.
Growing up in northern Michigan, Samantha "Sam" Mullins felt trapped on her family's orchard and pie shop, so she left with dreams of making her own mark in the world. But life as an overworked, undervalued sous chef at a reality star's New York bakery is not what Sam dreamed.
When the chef embarrasses Sam, she quits and returns home. Unemployed, single, and defeated, she spends a summer working on her family's orchard cooking and baking alongside the women in her life—including her mother, Deana, and grandmother, Willo. One beloved, flour-flecked, ink-smeared recipe at a time, Sam begins to learn about and understand the women in her life, her family's history, and her passion for food through their treasured recipe box.
As Sam discovers what matters most she opens her heart to a man she left behind, but who now might be the key to her happiness.
Praise For The Recipe Box: A Novel (The Heirloom Novels)…
Praise for The Recipe Box
"Shipman's (The Charm Bracelet; The Hope Chest) multigenerational creation skillfully layers the triumphs and struggles of each family member with recurring adages proven true no matter the era. She presents a thoroughly enchanting story of strength and resilience that love provides in families. Numerous recipes and delicious descriptions will further entice readers to try their hand at baking" –Library Journal
"Shipman has sensitively crafted another tender, deeply resonant novel that readers can savor." —Shelf Awareness
"Shipman's charming stories remind us how family recipe collections link generations and spark our fondest memories. Treasure them!" —Julee Rosso, author of The Silver Palate Cookbook
"The Recipe Box is as tantalizing as apples baking in butter and cinnamon, enlivening the senses in a way that reminds us that the heart never forgets where it belongs." —Laura Lane McNeal, author of Dollbaby
"This heartwarming story of family and food will appeal to fans of gentle, intergenerational women's fiction." —Booklist
Praise for Viola Shipman
"A graceful, moving, emotionally impactful read." —Garth Stein, New York Times bestselling author of A Sudden Light and The Art of Racing in The Rain
"[The Hope Chest] demonstrates the enduring power of love and kindness...a good choice for fans of gentle, heartwarming fiction." —Booklist
"Saugatuck, MI, springs to life in this nostalgic, gentle story of lifelong love along." —Library Journal
"Rich in character and story, The Charm Bracelet is utterly charming!" —Debbie Macomber, New York Times bestselling author
"A rare jewel." —Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author
"Readers will be charmed." —Good Housekeeping
Thomas Dunne Books, 9781250146779, 336pp.
VIOLA SHIPMAN is a pen name for award-winning memoirist Wade Rouse. His novels, including The Charm Bracelet, The Hope Chest, The Summer Cottage, and The Heirloom Garden, have been translated into over a dozen languages and become international bestsellers. Rouse lives in Michigan and writes regularly for People, Good Housekeeping and Coastal Living. He is a contributor for All Things Considered.
Conversation Starters from ReadingGroupChoices.com
1. The Recipe Box is inspired by the author's grandmothers' beloved recipe boxes. Do you have a recipe box? What memories does it convey, and what does it mean to you? The Recipe Box is also inspired by the author's treasured family recipes. What are your favorite family recipes? Why are they so beloved? Do they have a history? If so, what is it? Does your family ask for the same foods to be made on certain holidays/occasions? If so, what are they and why?
2. In The Recipe Box, the author writes, "You bake for someone because it is a way of connecting generations . . . an act of love." Why are food and cooking such great generational and emotional connectors? Why are they so important in our lives and the lives of our families?
3. Do you still bake with family? Teach younger generations how to bake? What does that mean to you/them? Are we losing that connection?
4. Recipe cards – from the handwriting to chocolate-y fingerprints – have a history. But today, we look online for recipes, from favorite food blogs to Food Network shows to Facebook videos. Do you have family recipe cards? Do you think we are sacrificing history for convenience today?
5. In the novel, the author didn't share how baking can go off the rails. (In writing this book, the author tested all of the recipes many times, and once – while tired after being on book tour – added curry instead of cinnamon, and also once burned a crust and set off the smoke alarms.) Share a funny story about a recipe that went horribly wrong.
6. A main theme in the novel is the importance of home and history. Sam – the main character – can't wait to move from her hometown and away from her family to start a new life and career. Many people today move from the areas where they were raised for college, job opportunities, or marriage. Do you think that the ideas of "home" and "hometown" have changed since you were growing up? Has America changed since you were growing up? How? Why? Is this harming our small towns and family histories?
7. Another theme in the novel centers on Sam choosing – her father believes intentionally – the wrong men, personally and professionally. Do you know women who do this, or have you ever stayed in a relationship or job too long for convenience sake or because you felt stuck? Why?
8. Sam's job working for a reality star turned celebrity chef is a nightmare. Have you ever had a nightmarish job? Did you stay or quit? Did you ever have to stand up to a bad boss? What was that like? Sam's father turns down a wonderful career opportunity to run his wife's family's orchard. Have you or someone you love ever said no to a great job? Why?
9. Willo, Sam's grandmother, is turning 75. Although the orchard and pie pantry that she owns and runs is celebrating her birthday with a big party, Willo is content with aging, feeling as if she's led a life "with few regrets." How do you feel about aging? Do you have regrets in life? What are they, and how did they impact you and your decisions? Do you think American society has difficulty embracing aging with grace?
10. What are your other favorite novels that feature food? What are your favorite cookbooks? The Recipe Box is set on an orchard that has a U-Pick and Pie Pantry and is inspired by a place close to where the author lives. Do you have a favorite bakery, donut shop, or pie pantry close to where you live? Or a U-Pick orchard?