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Parents, teachers and students can combat the "summer slide" in knowledge. (NAPS)
(NAPSI)—Summer vacations can be a wonderful time to relax and enjoy warm
weather, summer camps and family vacations. However, these lengthy gaps spent
away from the educational environment could negatively impact a student's
academic progress. Researchers who study education call this phenomenon "summer
slide "—the tendency for students to lose some of the academic gains they
made during the previous school year once summer arrives, when they are no
longer in a structured academic environment.
Time away from school does not just mean progress stops. For many
students, they may lose some of the progress they have made. By fifth grade,
summer learning loss can leave students 2.5 to three years behind their
peers. Summer learning loss in the elementary school years alone accounts for
at least half of the ninth-grade reading achievement gap.
One of the best ways to combat the summer slide is a team effort made by
teachers, parents and students themselves. However, Americans have mixed
feelings about summer slide, as well as how to address it. In a recent
University of Phoenix® College
of Education survey of
American adults, 61 percent of respondents agree that it is important that
children be involved in an educational summer program while school is out
during summer break. However, when asked whether it is appropriate for
schools to provide assignments for students to complete while school is out
on summer break, nearly half of respondents (48 percent) said that it is not
appropriate, while only 37 percent said it is appropriate.
"Given these statistics, it may seem challenging to win everyone over to
the idea of being proactive about preventing summer slide," said Pamela Roggeman, Ed.D., academic dean for University of Phoenix College of
Education. "But there are many activities and resources that teachers can
provide to students and their parents during the summer months that don't
include a heavy volume of homework or summer school."
Dr. Roggeman provides the following tips to help
teachers communicate with parents in motivating their students this season:
1. Summer reading. Summer
reading is helpful for students to maintain and continue building their
reading skills. Teachers should consider assigning books that aren't simply
homework based, but will make the child think on a much larger level.
2. Keep an activity journal.
Encourage students to start keeping a journal to regularly document their
activities throughout the summer. Give guidelines about what they can think
about or consider writing about, and build in the potential for them to use
this journal to write a summary at the start of the new school year.
3. Create a parent/student activity
calendar. Provide parents with information for educational camps and
structured social activities that parents can participate in with their
children. Encourage parents to take part in these activities wherever
possible to make it more fun for children and make it feel less like "homework."
4. Capitalize on screen time.
Challenge students to teach their parents about what they have learned from
time spent on videos, podcasts and social media
5. Create a matching agreement.
For every hour spent in front of a screen entertaining themselves by playing
video games or watching Netflix, children should
match that time with time spent on a learning activity. There are a multitude
of educational online options varying from math games to improving
keyboarding skills suited perfectly for this purpose.
6. Set learning self-improvement goals. These goals can include number of
books read, minutes of math tutorials a day, or pages written. Then agree on
a fun reward for goals attained.
Summer does not have to be a time when children fall behind in their
academic development. Teachers, along with parents, with the tips listed
above, can help students stay engaged and keep their minds sharp even when
not in school.
1 http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/dec11/vol69/num04/Slowing-the-Summer-Slide.aspx
2 Ibid.
3 http://www.summerlearning.org/
4 https://childcareta.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/public/ncase-summer-learning-brief.pdf
5 This poll was conducted from June 15-19, 2017, among a national sample of
2,528 adults. E-interviews were conducted online and the data were weighted
to approximate a target sample of adults based on age, race/ethnicity,
gender, educational attainment and region. Results from the full survey have
a margin of error of plus or minus two percentage points.
On the Net:North American Precis Syndicate, Inc.(NAPSI)


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We all scream for ice cream
Today my friend and I were riding bikes and decided to stalk an ice cream truck to it's head-quarters. I gotta say, I died a little when I discovered it was some old vacancy lot. What a let down! Anyways, I thought this would be an appropriate post for that event (Hey now, Tavi's using themes!).
The hat is my dad's (can you guess what his name is? Go on.) I have no idea where this little cap is from but it has a cute touch to it, the ice cream cone makes me happy.
Darn, if my expression wasn't so, uh, sweaty looking this would've been somewhat edit-worthy. A little cross process here and there, +10 temperature, -15 saturation, the like. I'm such a nerd :)
Shirt-childhood closet
Skirt-Used to be mom's, she got it in Italy
Star pin-vintage
P.S. I just edited this because there wasn't a space between a letter and a parenthesis. As my sister says, I am high in perfection and low in significance. Meh.


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Fondly remembering Hope Nursery School
A grateful teacher's 45 years of heartfelt memories
Having had the opportunity and privilege to be the assistant teacher at Hope Nursery School for the last four years, I learned a lot about this community.
I also met people I would not have met otherwise. When the Hope Nursery School Board interviewed me I met the teacher, Moose Lake School personnel, and parents.
When Matt Heaton, (once a student at Hope) came into the room with his State Trooper uniform on I knew this was a serious Board of Directors!
People that were dedicated in providing quality early childhood education to pre-schoolers from Moose Lake and the surrounding communities started asking me questions.
Why would a retired RN want to work with 3 year olds? For a new adventure. An adventure it's been. Thank you.
So, how has this small non-profit thrived for so long in a small community?
Because of a few people who thought early childhood education would be beneficial to their children and perhaps the future of their community.
From the very beginning Hope Nursery became a licensed pre-school with degreed teachers. This happened long before "ECFE" was a well known term.
Community organizations, business people, families, and educators felt Hope Nursery School could make it better for students starting kindergarten. They did it!
In the early years, the University of Minnesota contacted the director asking Hope to become involved in their TLC program. For years Hope was the only program outside the metropolitan area to have this distinction.
Hope was involved for a number of years. As a result of that union, Hope extended their efforts to a summer program that included 7 and 8 year olds. That continued for more than 10 years.
Tonka Toys also contacted Hope and contributed to the program. So many efforts to provide quality education on the pre-school level were made.
Thousands of children have experienced learning how to stand in line, say please and thank you, take turns, cut with scissors, learn their colors, numbers, letters, hopping on one foot, skipping and developing those social skills so critical to a child's development, and a whole lot more.
Without the incredible support and commitment of the entire community, it would not have been possible for a successful non-profit nursery school to survive all these years.
In recent years there was more collaboration with Moose Lake Schools to have children with special needs included in Hope's program.
Teachers from the school would participate in class time at Hope so several children with special needs could be exposed to our curriculum. Thank you.
From the very beginning, Jan Benrud has had a undying commitment to Hope Nursery. She taught for 25 years and has continued to be on the Board all these years.
Jan Deering worked as the teaching assistant for 20 of the 45 years. I had big shoes to fill taking her place when she retired.
Priscilla Heimbruch has been the Director and teacher for the last three years. She has taught with joy and compassion.
She has been a licensed teacher in this area for many years. She brought a lot of energy and commitment to the program.
In between, there were other teachers and parents committed to the many fundraisers like the Spaghetti Suppers, Holiday Fair, bowling day, trips to the zoo, train rides, visiting a sheep farm and animal shelter.
Having fire trucks, policemen and other community visitors, pet visits, fire drills, Mother's Day Teas and a whole lot of fun just go on and on to give new experiences to 3, 4 and 5 year olds. Thank you.
You don't have to go far to meet someone who has gone to Hope Nursery School. I met someone who told me that during the years there were more than 50 students enrolled, she missed registering her son because she had a flat tire on the way into town and the classes were full.
Another woman was a student and she told me she still remembers singing "Billy Goats Gruff".
We had many parents who were bringing their children to Hope Nursery School because they had been students when they were children.
The first year I was working at Hope Nursery, Emily Saude was the teacher. We had this song we sang and the children would be dancing. At one point the song would say, "Freeze" and the children would stop in their tracks.
Later, while in the gym, as 20 three years olds can do, the activity was getting out of hand, so Emily said, "FREEZE!" and the children all stopped.
One little girl said, "I'm melting, I'm melting! Like a popsicle!"
Then there was the day when one of the boys said his favorite color was pink! (Our little secret.) Another is the day a child recognized their name for the first time. Yeah!
There are so many people to thank. The people who created the first board to get the school off the ground; the volunteers who built shelves, donated books, toys and supplies, helped at fundraisers, donated money, bought and sold raffle tickets. We can't list all of you for fear of leaving anyone out. Thank you.
The board has met several times to discuss the closing of the school due to lack of enrollment for the 2013-14 school year.
We aren't closing because we failed. We're closing because there are now other options for early childhood education in the area.
It was a difficult decision to make but without students, perhaps the need had run its course.
Forty-five school years later, we can close our doors knowing children will still have the opportunity to receive the early childhood education and exposure to social development elsewhere.
What happens now? Since Hope Lutheran Church has provided space and support all these years, the school equipment has been donated to the church.
The money in the bank will be given to "Dollars for Scholars" to create a scholarship Fund for Hope Nursery Graduates who apply and write a required essay.
Though the doors are closing on the last chapter of the Hope Nursery School story, its memory will live on. Scholarships will continue to provide children in this community with HOPE.
Thank you.


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Broccoli with Buttered Pecans is a fabulous way to dress up a plain old vegetable. Let's face it; many won't touch cooked broccoli without cheese sauce. In our house, Hubs has given his seal of approval for Pureed Broccoli, but our favorite preparation would be roasted with garlic and finished with a squeeze of lemon. However, you don't have to be Paula Deen to quickly saute steamed broccoli in butter with the nutty benefit of pecans. After all, it isn't *that much* butter. Just a pat. Just enough to balance with the crisp earthy flavors of the fresh, green broccoli. And, PECANS. Who doesn't like pecans? Well, maybe those with nut allergies. Sorry. Maybe then cheese sauce might be better. But, as for me, I won't turn down Broccoli with Buttered Pecans On My Plate.
Arrange broccoli in a steamer basket over boiling water.
Cover and steam 4 minutes, or until tender-crisp.
Plunge the broccoli into an ice bath to stop the cooking; drain well.
Meanwhile, heat a large non-stick skillet on high.
Add the pecans and reduce heat to medium.
Stir or shake the pan for about 5 minutes until the nuts are toasted and fragrant. (Watch carefully; the oils in the nuts burn easily.)
Remove pecans from skillet and set aside.
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Portrait of a San Francisco Office Client: William Keeler, new-style scientific rancher and multi-purpose land developer, was trained in chemistry at Amherst College and in geology at Stanford University. In 1963 he switched careers, bought more than 60,000 acres near Red Bluff in northern California and organized Dye Creek Cattle Company. WK brand, one of several that mark Bill's 4,000-head breeding herd and a like number of feeder cattle, adorns his belt buckle. 24 who uses science and modern business methods "to do the old things the right way" at his Dye Creek Cattle Company No one illustrates more clearly than William Keeler, President of Dye Creek Cattle Company, the dynamism of the country and people served by the San Francisco Office of Haskins & Sells. Bill, just touching 40, is a hard man to keep up with, and impossible to categorize quickly. Owner of the 37,000-acre Dye Creek Ranch near Red Bluff, California, and of the Tuscan Ranch nearby (another 25,000 acres), Bill has turned his land to multiple use as a recreational hunting preserve and as winter range for his 4,000 head of cattle. As a cattle raiser he keeps up with the latest in modern veterinary medicine, reads technical journals with the thoroughness of a university professor, and employs advanced techniques of crossbreeding and testing so as to promote maximum productivity of his herd. He markets more than 3,500 calves a year, plus about 800 mature animals. For summer range the cattle are transported to more productive grazing land, of which Bill's company owns 3,000 acres and rents another 150,000 acres. He has developed a highly efficient, vertically integrated cattle operation from breeding herd through feed lots and slaughterhouse to retail stores. As a recreational area developer, Bill recognizes the appeal that his large, undeveloped acreage holds for outdoor sportsmen, with its rolling hills, canyons, streams, ponds and woodlands sloping upward from the Sacramento River Valley to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. His property abounded with wildfowl, deer and wild pigs when he bought it in 1963, and since then he has managed and developed the wildlife by preserving natural cover and breeding places, stocking streams and building ponds for ducks and geese. A novelty at Dye Creek is Bill's program of cross-breeding local pigs with European wild boar. As a result, Bill's paying guest-hunters sometimes return home with tales of a fierce charge and a narrow escape from a slashing by a 250-pound wild boar. And they show a pair of tusks to prove the story. City-dwelling sportsmen can fly into Red Bluff airport, where they are met by Wayne Long, Bill Keeler's recreational manager, and airlifted in one of Bill's helicopters to a hunting and fishing lodge a dozen or more miles back in the hill country. Flying in is more economical of time, labor and money than keeping a road open, and the volcanic stones scattered about make much of the Dye Creek land treacherous for jeeps. So Bill's upland property is dotted with landing strips for light planes and helicopter pads. As an out-doorsman he believes there's no better way to get back to nature. And as a businessman, he is making formerly unproductive land pay. Like many professional and business men in the West who must get around without wasting time, Bill is his own airplane pilot. He has turned his interest in flying into a business enterprise, organized under the name Keeairco, Inc., with a dozen planes and helicopters based at Red Bluff. In addition to servicing sportsmen who visit the hunt-ting preserve, Bill uses the aircraft to spray orchards, to check on herds out on the range, to rescue strayed calves and to spot marauders. Paul Anderson of the H&S San Francisco Office, who has worked on the Dye Creek Cattle Company engagement for several years, has gone up in a helicopter to take inventory of cattle on the hoof. Keeairco rents out planes, offers flight services, and uses its helicopters to provide neighboring ranches with spraying and other agricultural aerial applications. Rancher, outdoorsman, entrepreneur, business manager, applied scientist— Bill Keeler is all of these. Although he is constantly on the go and works Copyrighted -- License from Black Star
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My five favourite MMOs
In the spirit of yesterday's post, here are my five favourite games that are MMOs.
It's hard to analyse MMOs in the same way as non-MMOs, because there are so many other factors that affect one's fun – the quality of dev support, the quality and frequency of new content, the friendliness of the community, the critical mass of players that makes a world feel lived-in, and so on.
Still, here are the five MMOs I've enjoyed the most – and, in some cases, miss the most.
- World of Warcraft
Yeah, yeah, WoW is the opiate of the MMO masses; it's old and tired and whatever. I don't care.
Don't get me wrong: I fell out of love with Blizzard a couple of years ago, and I haven't been inclined to cut them much slack since them. But despite my dissatisfaction with what WoW has become, it's impossible to forget the years of happiness and fun it's provided, or the way it's shaped an entire industry and brought it into the mainstream.
When WoW was shaping up for release, our SWG guild put its money on EQ2 instead. Most of us weren't Warcraft enthusiasts, didn't much care about WoW, and many had a history with EQ that made EQ2 look amazing. When WoW came out, we were snobbish about how 'ezymode' it was and how it just gave you stuff on a plate – while we went back to retrieve our corpses again (and corpse runs in EQ/EQ2 were not the simple thing they are in WoW!) and earn some XP to pay back what we'd lost by dying.
And then slowly we all trickled across to WoW, and we realised just how damn good it was. Most importantly, more than any other game at the time, WoW cut away the bits of the MMO gaming paradigm that weren't fun.1 "I'm a game," said WoW. "I'm supposed to be fun. Stop doing those stupid grindy chores in other games, and come and play me." And we listened, and we did, and most of us never looked back.
- Lord of the Rings Online
LotRO is very much a game in the WoW-ish themepark model, but it's far from just "WoW with a Tolkien theme painted on". Its crafting system is more interesting (and more relevant), the game's ambience and atmosphere are absolutely perfect, the narrative does an excellent job of keeping you involved in the story and making you feel integral without overriding the canon, the seasonal festivals are fun and setting-appropriate (instead of just feeling like our holidays pasted onto a fantasy world), its geography is excellent, and the community is generally peaceful, friendly and mature. And it's got a) what's probably the single best F2P implementation I've seen in any subscription game, and b) the best wardrobe/cosmetic gear system ever. The game design is great: each class feels special, with unique mechanics and clear differentiation – playing a WoW warrior, DK or paladin all feels much the same; playing a LotRO loremaster, minstrel or runekeeper does not.
It's not perfect, of course; in particular, the animations and movement engine feel unresponsive, which drove away pretty much everyone I was playing with. The housing system is clunky and lonely, and reportedly unlikely to be improved. And there's been some unhappiness with the direction of the Turbine Store, like the immersion-breaking $50 hobby-horse mount. Those aren't dealbreakers for me, but sadly I don't rule the world (yet).
But If I could wave a magic wand and make all my friends and guildmates want to play one MMO; if I could make everyone I know and want to play with congregate in one game — LotRO would, without doubt, be that game. I'm only not playing it now because nobody else is.
(It also has my single favourite MMO class of all time, the Loremaster. That class was made for me, and I really wish more MMOs had classes like that.)
- Star Wars Galaxies
Oh, SWG. I am so conflicted about you.
SWG was really my first MMO love. I'd played UO years before, but not in a particularly involved way, and I'd missed the whole EQ craze.
SWG was so very flawed. It was massively buggy – for instance, you'd quite often lose half your inventory when you crossed an invisible zone line and it wouldn't come back for a couple of hours, which was irksome to say the least. And being very sandboxy, it didn't take long to run out of things to do for those of us who hadn't quite got the hang of making our own fun yet. All up, I only played for eight months or so before being lured away into EQ2 and then WoW.
And yet SWG had so much going for it that no other game has matched. Its Star Wars atmosphere was perfect – much more Star-Wars-y than SWTOR, to be honest. The game mechanics were interesting, the Galactic Civil War actually made open world PvP relevant (and thus people actually did it for reasons other than ganking lowbies!). The game encouraged roleplaying and storytelling with non-combat classes like dancers and musicians. The housing system was excellent. And the crafting – oh, the crafting. The crafting was basically perfect, and hit pretty much every single one of my buttons as far as crafting goes – and unfortunately it's set an incredibly high bar that no game has since been able to match. I regret leaving SWG behind, more so now than ever – the classic case of "you don't know what you've got til it's gone", really.
I'm very happy to discover, though, that there's a team of volunteer devs developing a Star Wars Galaxies emulator/private server project, at SWG Emu. I haven't checked it out yet, as I'll need to find my original game install discs, but this might be my only chance to get my SWG fix again.
- Glitch
Glitch was a magnificent experiment from a startup studio called Tiny Speck. It launched as a browser-based MMO in 2009 and ran until December 9 this year; they simply couldn't find a way to make it a viable concern. It also didn't help that they were tied to Flash, and thus their future in mobile gaming – which would otherwise have been a perfect fit for Glitch – was limited.
Glitch had a sense of fun and whimsy like no other game I've ever encountered. Almost entirely combat-free, it revolved around exploration, social and emergent gameplay, and crafting. You gathered cooking materials by nibbling piggies, milking butterflies, and squeezing chickens. The fact that there's no longer a game where you can milk a butterfly makes the world a sadder place, in my opinion.
- DC Universe Online
I can't believe I'm putting this on the list, but I actually think DCUO belongs here. (This is the spot where I had about five contenders, all with pros and cons, and eventually I decided DCUO came out on top.) I played it constantly for a couple of months in early 2011 and then dropped it like a hot rock, focusing at the time on all the things it did wrong, and not giving enough love to the things it did right.
So let's get that out of the way up front: it was a great game, ahead of its time, that was hampered by a horrible console-compliant port, utterly inadequate multiplayer features and a user-hostile interface. (The month-long downtime due to the PSN hack didn't help, either.)
At the same time, though: it pioneered AoE keybound looting and the limited-toolbar MMO style, its movement engine was the most fun I'd had just running around in any game since WoW's flying mounts (and it hadn't been topped until I discovered Firefall's jump jets), the combat system was unique and even healers got to beat stuff up, instance play supported duos, the instances were fun and interesting, the setting was true to canon, and it had Mark Hamill voicing the Joker. Flying over and around Metropolis was just amazing, and the game deserved a lot more credit for its good points than it got.
- Honorable Mentions
- Star Wars: the Old Republic – would have been on the list, were it not for the limited replayability contributing to a player exodus and stale endgame. As a levelling game, it's superb and would have been at the top of my list, but the fun stops suddenly when you hit 50. Well, it did for me, anyway.
- Firefall – without a doubt my favourite surprise of the year, this MMOFPS will almost certainly be on my 2013 favourites list. But right now it's still in beta, and they're adding content and changing things quite radically and frequently. It's unreasonable to assess the game right now, because it's definitely not a finished product.
- RIFT – I had a lot of fun in RIFT this year, but it's just not compelling enough to draw me in when I've already got other themepark MMOs on the go. It lost the competition for my time against SWTOR, then TSW, then GW2 and now WoW. I like it well enough, but apparently I just don't love it.
- EVE Online – spaceships and lasers; what's not to love? Well, the community full of toxic asshats, for a start. But more importantly, the existence of easy RMT takes something away from the game. I could spend twelve or fifteen hours mining like crazy to make myself half a billion ISK, or I could spend fifteen dollars in the EVE store and net myself half a billion ISK with about three mouse clicks. Don't get me wrong, EVE's still fun, but the existence of RMT (and my introduction to it very early in my EVE-playing career) takes away any incentive to do pretty much any PvE in the game. Add to that the fact that the only way you can improve your character is just to wait for RL time to pass and there's little incentive to play EVE as anything other than "oooh look at the pretty spaceships"; it's lost the risk-vs-reward factor necessary to make it a game.
- The Secret World – another game about which I'm conflicted! TSW's writing is the best I've ever seen in an MMO, the setting is refreshing and novel, the character progression system is very flexible, the missions are compelling and the investigation missions in particular are just amazing. Unfortunately, it's plagued with a lot of challenging, grindy combat that dilutes the awesomeness down to merely 'okay', and it lost the competition for my time and attention. I'm not done with it, but I'm also not feeling the itch to go back any time soon.
All of these games were in competition for the fifth slot which eventually went to DCUO:
So, I imagine some of my choices are pretty unusual — but it's also true that many MMO players get fixed on just a game or two, and fleshing out a whole list of five can be a bit hard. What would your five favourite MMOs be?
- Like XP loss or XP debts for every death. Like corpse runs where you respawn alive but your gear's still on your corpse waiting to be retrieved, in the middle of all the mobs that killed you the first time when you had all your gear. Like needing a full group of players, including a tank and a healer, just to be able to kill same-level non-elite mobs. Like having to run almost everywhere in a world full of monsters you can't solo because taxi points are few and far between. And so on. ↩


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DU's Nick Shore has hat trick, four points in 5-2 victory over Air Force
Junior center Nick Shore had three goals and an assist Friday night in a 5-2 victory over Air Force at Magness Arena. On Dec. 31, Shore's older brother, Drew Shore, had four points (two goals) in a 7-1 victory at Air Force. Drew Shore signed with the Florida Panthers in April, forgoing his senior year and the opportunity to play with Nick and Quentin Shore, a DU freshman center.
Nick didn't immediately remember Drew's four-point night last season. But after thinking about it, he said: "I guess I was trying to match it as much as I could."
DU improved to 2-0; it beat a solid UMass-Lowell squad 5-1 on opening night Friday. "It's obviously big for us to get the sweep this weekend," Nick said. "It's a great way to start off the year."


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AUDIO CHAT: Great British Bake Off champ Nadiya Hussain reveals favourite Yorkshire bake ahead of Flavours Food Festival
Great British Bake Off champ Nadiya Hussain will rise to the challenge of cooking for local fans this weekend but today she revealed her own favourite Yorkshire bake - the Fat Rascal.
The Yorkshire delicacy - a huge fruit scone, decorated with a glacé cherry and almond face - is 'absolutely delicious' served warm, with butter and jam, she says.
But the guilty pleasure isn't something she has ever baked herself, or is likely to.
"It's my favourite Yorkshire food but I've never made a Fat Rascal. Some things are sacred. I don't always want to bake it," said Nadiya, who is giving cooking demonstrations on Sunday at this weekend's two day Flavours Food Festival, at Elsecar Heritage Centre, in Barnsley.
The 32-year-old mum of three added: "It's actually quite nice to have somebody else to make it and I can just turn up, buy it and eat it,
"I learned about the Fat Rascal when I went to Betty's tea room in Harrogate. They are just these enormous, big scones with two cherry eyes and what looks like a mouth made of almonds. It looks just like a big kid's scone and they are absolutely delicious, just warm, buttered with a bit of jam."
LISTEN: Hear Nadiya's full chat with Graham Walker in which she talks about her meteoric rise, how she still suffers from panic disorder, using her new found fame as a platform to highlight that and other social issues. She gives a quick pesto recipe and details of her new festive family story cook book plus more - CLICK HERE.
TICKETS: Get your tickets for Elsecar Flavour's Food Festival and don't miss out on the cooking demonstrations - buy now at www.elsecar-heritage.com.
At the food festival she will demonstrate recipes from her recent cookbook, Nadiya's British Food Adventure, a tie-in with her recent BBC Two TV series of the same name, which saw her travel across the country discovering favourite British dishes cooked in a Bangladeshi style, such as Yorkshire pudding with chia seeds and Masala eggy bread.
She is also celebrating the release of Nadiya's Bake Me a Festive Story - 30 stories and bakes that families can enjoy together at Christmas.
Other demonstrations this weekend will feature MasterChef quarter finalist Chris Hale, TV chef Barrington Douglas, Jenna McCormick, of For Fit's Sake Ltd, Matthew Benson Smith and DeliVita, hosting children's pizza making classes.
VIDEO: Masterchef quarter finalist Chris Hale cooked up a pineapple and rum lunch desert on Facebook Live to tell us about the cooking demonstrations he will be doing at the Flavours Food Festival on the Saturday, October 14 - WATCH HERE.
Packed with food stalls and live entertainment, the second Flavours Food Festival will feature an array of local producers, street food and drinks traders, a dedicated craft marquee and a vintage street.
Entry is £5 per person, each day, with an additional £10 to see the Nadiya Hussain cooking demonstrations, Sunday only, October 15, at noon and 3pm. Other cooking demos are part of the entry ticket. Under-14s go free, except for the Nadiya demo. Opening times are Saturday, October 14, 10am to 9pm, Sunday, October 15, 10am to 5pm.
There is ample free parking on site at Elsecar Heritage Centre, with 1,000 additional free parking spaces at nearby Milton Forge field.
Nadiya has strong Yorkshire links. She married a Yorkshireman, had all her three children and became a household favourite, winning 2015's Great British Bake Off, while living in Leeds. Now in Milton Keynes, she still has family in the region.
"My in-laws live up there so we are back and forth all the time and my kids to this day refuse to pick up a southern accent. When they have a cup of tea they have to have Yorkshire Tea. I cannot buy any other tea in my house," she said.
It will be her first visit to the town but she is hoping for a coffee catch up at some point with her Barnsley TV pal, former Pop Idol runner up and TV presenter Sam Nixon.
Born to a British-Bangladeshi family in Luton, Nadiya's meteoric success in the past two years has seen her celebrity status rising faster than a Yorkshire pudding.
Since her Bake Off win she has had her own TV shows, been a reporter for The One Show, a guest panellist on Loose Women and even baked the official 90th birthday cake for The Queen.
She co-presents BBC's The Big Family Cooking Showdown, alongside Zoë Ball, which was billed as a replacement to GBBO, following its move to Channel 4.
But she doesn't see it as a rival, saying there is room for both shows on TV. And she admits she's still an avid fan of Bake Off.
Nadiya also admitted she still suffers from panic disorder but wants to to use her new found fame as a platform to highlight that and other social issues.
"To say Bake Off changed my life is an understatement. My life has not been the same ever since," said Nadiya - listen to the full interview online at www.thestar.co.uk.
She added: "I never went in to Bake Off to win. I suffer from panic disorder and I went in just to try to find a way of managing my panic, because it had taken over my life. I have come out the other end.
"If I have been given this platform then it seems such a waste to not use it properly, or use it wisely.
"I'm really lucky because I am part of lots of different worlds. I am Muslim. I am Bangladeshi. I'm British and I bake cake. There are lots of issues that we all have to tackle. I would like to help and using this platform for good.
"I feel privileged to be in this position so I am certainly not just going to sit here and bake cake. There's more out there.
"I love my work. I get to be at home and I get to travel. It's phenomenal the way my life has just changed but I am loving every single second of it. My philosophy is, as as long as I believe that I am not doing it forever, I'll make the most of every opportunity, every single day. I think that's what's really important, is to make the most of every opportunity that I am given and just enjoy every day, because it doesn't feel like work to me."
She said of GBBO: "The show has almost become part of our DNA. Everyone loves Bake Off but there is room for a show like Showdown. It's not baking, it's cooking and families. It's not about one person, it's three people, so it is a very different show. People have asked,' is Showdown the new Bake Off?' Well no. Bake Off is the new bake off because it is different now. But the world of telly is a big place. There is room for both shows.
"There is no way that I'm not going to watch Bake Off, absolutely. But now I record it and watch it, because I don't like adverts."


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Nevada gas prices on rise again
INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. – The conversion to summer-blend gasoline, nationwide refinery issues and a rise in crude oil prices have sent Nevada gas prices to new highs, according to the latest AAA Nevada monthly gas survey.
As of Tuesday, the average price in Nevada for regular unleaded gasoline was $3.54 a gallon, an increase of 38 cents from the last AAA gas price release of Jan. 8, 2013, when the average price was $3.16 a gallon.
The highest gas price of the Nevada metro areas tracked by AAA is in Sparks, at $3.74 a gallon, with Reno second at $3.72. Conversely, drivers in North Las Vegas paid an average price of $3.43 as of Tuesday. The highest average price of gasoline in the nation's metro areas is in Hilo, Hawaii, at $4.26 per gallon.
In Incline Village, according to posts at http://www.nevadagasprices.com as of Wednesday afternoon, the average per-gallon regular price was $4.09 at the 76 and Chevron gas stations and $3.91 at 7-Eleven.
Prices have increased in every state over the last week, according to AAA, with California and the mountain states leading the way with the most significant price jumps: Nevada, 18 cents; Colorado, 15 cents; Arizona, 14 cents, California, 13 cents; and Utah, 12 cents.
The national average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline was $3.60 as of Tuesday.


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As a third generation Holocaust survivor I feel my connection to the subject differs from the previous generations' connection – a matter I discuss from time to time on my blog. The show 'Mabat Sheni' (A Second Glance), on Israel's TV Channel 1, featured an interesting segment this week called 'Holocaust and Satire'. Directed by Michal Kafra, the segment discussed subversive and challenging interpretations of traditional Israeli Holocaust commemorations.
The segment has no English subtitles but I am not sure that is a bad thing. Here is part 1 of 2:
Click here for the concluding part.


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Since Frontier was founded in 1976, we've been a co-op. But what exactly does that mean?
Our co-op members are the owners of Frontier. They guide our business decisions, share in our success, and support organic farmers around the world.
Since the co-op began, we've remained firmly committed to our founding values — values like integrity, openness, social responsibility, and respect for the environment.
We've always considered the way we do business an essential part of our success — and we consider it a requirement of our success that we grow and prosper by contributing to the world rather than exploiting it.
We feel this special relationship of ownership is at the heart of our success. Not only do we have unique insight into natural products by having our member/owners in direct contact with the consumers of the products, the co-op structure has fostered our honest, responsible business practices that are increasingly valued in the marketplace.
A sentence that came out of one of Frontier's earliest planning sessions expresses one of our most important commitments:
"In all that we do, at all times and with all people,
we will conduct our affairs and the affairs of the company with absolute integrity."
We apply this test to everything from our product ingredient decisions to the sharing of information with our customers.


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Hey everyone, here's another flower tutorial for you all. This one has a few extra pointers that my other flower tutorials don't have and deals with a new kind of flower, the Day Lily. So, get your pencils, paper, and eraser ready!
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Want to know how much money a foreign government has spent to lobby members of Congress? How many times a lawmaker met with a lobbyist representing a foreign government? What if that person made a political donation on the same day?
Good luck finding the answers from the federal office charged with tracking American citizens who get paid to represent foreign interests in the U.S.


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All of last week I was at JavaOne. It was an exhausting but very
interesting week. Like last year, there were many interesting sessions,
too many to list them here. Let me just mention the one I enjoyed most
was the one by Neal Gafter on Closures
for the Java Programming Language (BOF-2358). I can't wait until
they're in the Java language!
Not only did I attend sessions and BOFs, I also presented BOFs. Three of them to be
precise. I recorded the audio on my MP3 player. Unfortunately the
quality of the audio is pretty bad. I'm posting the audio recordings
below. I'm also posting the slides. Here they are:
BOF8847: Developing Components for Java Business Integration: Binding Components and Service Engines
Presented by Frank Kieviet, Alex Fung, Sherry Weng, and Srinivasan
Attendance: about 100
You cannot cover how to write JBI components in just 45 minutes. We
were also not sure about what the audience was interested in. That's
why we assumed that the audience would consist mostly of people who
have never written a JBI component before, and are relatively new to
JBI. That's why we decided to talk mostly about general information on
JBI and JBI components, and highlight the power of JBI and discuss how
to go about developing one.
As an experiment I wanted to try a new format (at least new for me):
rather than slicing up the session into four parts of 10 minutes, we
cast the session into a "discussion forum". Of course the questions and
answers (and even the jokes) were well rehearsed.
Unfortunately, the audio/visual people that control the meeting
rooms, had forgotten to start the session timer. As a result the audio
was cut unexpectedly just a minute before we could finish up.
Nevertheless, I think it was an interesting session.
JavaOne07-BOF8847 (pdf)
BOF8745: Leveraging Java EE in JBI and vice versa
Presented by Frank Kieviet and Bhavanishankara Sapaliga
Attendance: about 60
This BOF was originally to be presented by Vikas Awasthi and
Bhavanishankara Sapaliga, but Vikas couldn't make it, so I replaced
him. We focused the session on how JBI and EE can play together, trying
to make it interesting for both JBI application developers as well as
for EE developers. At the end I ran a demo with NetBeans showing three
different scenarios. The demo-gods were with me: the demo went very
smoothly. Unfortunately I forgot to demo how to add an EJB to a
composite application. Another valuable lesson learned.
JavaOne07-BOF8745 (pdf)
BOF9982: The java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen Space error
Presented by Edward Chou and Frank Kieviet
Attendance: about 116
This session was on Thursday night at 10pm. That night was the
JavaOne After dark bash. Free beers, music and snacks for everyone.
Therefore we didn't expect much of an attendance: memory leaks are a
rather dry subject, and why leave the party early to go to this
session? Also, some of our thunder had been stolen by SAP who demo-ed a
tool to track memory leaks in a morning-session earlier that week. So
we were quite surprised when about 116 people turned up for our
session. Most stayed until the very end, and there were also quite a
few interesting questions. Apparently a lot of people struggle with
memory leaks in permgen space -- in my presentation I mention that I
get about a hundred hits on my blog every
day from people who search for this memory exception in Google.
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On Monday's Morning Edition, Hayden Planetarium director and pop-culture go-to science guy Neil deGrasse Tyson tells NPR's David Greene the story of how he came to lend a hand to Superman.
DC Comics, Tyson explains, approached him for permission to use the Planetarium — as well as his likeness — in a story where Superman witnesses the destruction of Krypton, since the light from the distant planet is just now arriving on Earth. Tyson told DC Comics that he was happy to help, and that instead of just making up the story of Superman seeing Krypton, he could help them ground it in at least some actual science.
OK, so here's how Tyson explains it: Superman didn't age during his trip to Earth, because he was still an infant upon arrival, meaning he must have traveled here through a wormhole with his little ship. If he's in his late 20s now (the estimate DC provided) and this is the time when he can witness the explosion of his home planet, then the planet is 27 or so light years away.
While it's impossible to see planets that far away, you can see stars, so Tyson picked out a real, existing, actual red star — its name is LHS 2520, if you would like to send it a congratulatory note — to serve as the star around which Krypton orbits.
The story, of course, is somewhat emotional for poor Superman, who already knows what's coming (he has perhaps the ultimate spoiler alert) but can only watch helplessly, given that ... well, it happened 27 years ago.
Would it really be possible to see the misery so far away? Tyson says the answer is ... sort of. There's a method that can be used to make multiple telescopes work together to form an interferometer — a super-powerful device that, in the comic, is so big that it "turn[s] the entire Earth into one coherent telescope." Of course, that requires Superman to muster the power of all the telescopes on Earth and get them working together, which Tyson admits in real life would be a teensy bit difficult.
It's still difficult, of course, to be the guy who has to watch home disappear. Greene naturally asks whether Tyson gave Superman a nice hug. "It was a huggable moment. Maybe the next panel would have had me hugging him," Tyson says.
It's hard work being an astrophysicist, but in this case, Tyson says he was happy to "assist Superman in his time of need." Superman, of course, is special. "I would not have done it for Aquaman."
We have an update now on the planet Krypton. It is Superman's home and a renowned astrophysicist discovered the exact location of the planet, just in time for Superman to get a glimpse of it. Superman was able to watch his planet blow up, seeing a dazzling light display that took 27 years to reach the planet Earth.
Now, the scientist who helped the Man of the Steel locate his home planet in the galaxy, none other than Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, who faster than a speeding bullet joins us in our studio this morning.
Dr. Tyson, good morning.
DR. NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: Thanks. Thanks for having me.
GREENE: Hey, it's good for you to be here. I'm having trouble...
GREENE: ...keeping a straight face.
GREENE: So what really happened here? I mean, it is true that you somehow have gotten roped into a "Superman" comic.
TYSON: Well, I - roped-in can't be the right reference there. I gleefully accepted the invitation...
GREENE: No arm-twisting.
TYSON: ...to - well, assist Superman in his time of need. Wouldn't you?
GREENE: Sure, I mean if he asked.
TYSON: If Elasticman called, no - or Aquaman. But Superman has a special place in the pantheon of superheroes.
GREENE: Sure.
TYSON: I got a call from DC Comics and they said that they wanted to create an issue where Superman would visit the Hayden Planetarium, where I serve as director, in New York City.
GREENE: In New York, right.
TYSON: And they wanted to portray the planetarium in the comic, 'cause they wanted sort of permission to do that. And we said sure. And then they wanted to know if they could portray me in conversation with Superman, showing him Krypton. So I said sure, right?
GREENE: OK, yeah. Why not?
TYSON: Yeah, why not? But then I said wait a minute, what's going on in the story? Well, in the story, Superman observes the destruction of Krypton.
GREENE: Because it takes a long time for light from that explosion to reach the Earth.
TYSON: Well, so then I said, well, if that's the case, let's explore the astrophysics of this. I mean, why not? They were just ready to draw it and just make the story up. I said we might be able to anchor this with real data.
How old is Superman? They said, Well, we never specified but we say about late 20s. So I said, well, let's get a star that's late 20s light years away. All right? Now remember when he arrived at Earth, he was an infant. When he was launched from Krypton he was an infant, so he didn't age at all, essentially. So there are two ways he could have gotten here: traveling at most of the speed of light, where you don't hardly age at all, or traveling through a wormhole.
If you travel through wormhole, you beat the light beam that left your planet.
GREENE: And so, Superman traveled through a wormhole?
TYSON: Well, we have to assert that because...
GREENE: We have to assert that, right.
TYSON: ...if he now sees 27 years later the destruction of Krypton, he essentially got here instantly on this little Moses-style basket that was cast into space.
GREENE: Through the wormhole.
TYSON: It had to be through wormhole.
GREENE: OK, so Superman gets here instantly through a wormhole. Twenty-seven years after the explosion of Krypton. He's able to see it, this planet...
TYSON: He comes the planetarium and my character, as portrayed - it is me. I mean, it's a cameo for me in the comic.
GREENE: Yeah.
TYSON: I'm wearing my trademark vest and I - and they...
GREENE: With suns on it.
Yeah. And I said, oh, by the way, if it makes a difference to you, could you take off a few a few pounds for me?
GREENE: You give them advice.
TYSON: And they said, Dr. Tyson, these are the comics - everyone looks good.
GREENE: Well, I'm looking at right here. You look very good.
TYSON: I know. I'm really buff in the comic. I can be buff in the comic.
GREENE: Well, in just to be clear. You actually did find a planet that based on all the specs could be Krypton.
TYSON: Well, we didn't. So no, we can't see actual planets at that distance. You can infer their presence. And I said we can show sort of the what we call the light curve of the host star, where a star dims a little bit when the planet eclipses it. But they wanted something more dramatic. And I said, well, then we have to construct a new way to observe the universe for this episode.
And so, what I said was let's gather all the telescopes of the world, have them look at this particular star. I found them a star 27 light years away, a red star. And we know that Superman's home star was red. So I got this. All right?
GREENE: You got it.
TYSON: And if you're into the idea of the star, it's LHS 2520 - if you care. All right?
GREENE: OK, all you amateur astronomers who are listening...
TYSON: Exactly, and so I handed them the star. They said that's it, let's use that. And then we invent the notion of a planet orbiting it, and we call that planet Krypton.
GREENE: All right.
TYSON: And so, we got that covered. And we assembled the armament of all the telescopes of the world to observe that star system...
GREENE: You have full power to assemble all the telescopes of the world.
TYSON: In the comics, yes. I had that power.
TYSON: As I assembled all telescopes of the world...
TYSON: ...to turn the entire Earth into one coherent telescope. All right?
GREENE: Wow.
TYSON: If all the telescopes observed the same object at the same time, and you bring the data together in a particular way, you can create what's called an interferometer. We do this all the time but not on this scale, and we haven't figured out how to do it on the scale yet.
GREENE: Normally all the telescopes would not all agree to do this.
TYSON: Exactly.
GREENE: But for the sake of a comic book, but in theory this could happen.
TYSON: In the comics. And not only would they not agreed to do it, it would be very hard to do. It's also at a challenge beyond our current capacity to assemble the data in such a way to make one coherent image. And I said we don't know how to do that. And then, the comic, they said don't worry - Superman will.
GREENE: You and Superman, quite a team.
TYSON: Oh, my gosh. So I'm now buds with Superman. And so, he comes in and I say, I can't make sense of these data. And he stands over the computer and is mind goes to the computer, and out comes this image beautifully displayed on the dome of the Hayden Planetarium. And it is - I'd hate to give away the story - but he sees the destruction of this planet.
GREENE: Wow.
TYSON: And he's been coming every year apparently, as the story tells it, and knowing that this year would be different from the others. And it's a rather solemn story. I mean, at the end, his head is bowed and he's sad.
GREENE: He got emotional.
TYSON: And I even got a little misty eyed, as I just read through this. Because here is something he knew already happened. But to see it takes it into another emotional realm.
GREENE: Did you give him a hug?
TYSON: Ah...
TYSON: It was a huggable moment.
TYSON: Maybe the next panel would have had me hugging him. But they end with him just sort of bowing his head in solemn reflection of what he just witnessed.
GREENE: Well, you look great in a comic book. You look great in our studios. Thanks for coming by.
TYSON: Well, thanks for having me. It was great being buds with Superman. Like I said, I would not have done it for Aquaman.
GREENE: Aquaman is another thing.
TYSON: Oh, also I must say, I'm a long-time resident of Metropolis. You know, I'm a native New Yorker so I get to think of that as Metropolis.
GREENE: You owed him something.
TYSON: I think so. I mean, he's been good to us all my life. So the least I could do is help the man find his home star. So this was - I felt an important bit of civic, personal, emotional, intellectual duty to serve that role.
GREENE: And you can read the story in "Superman" Action Comics. Dr. Tyson, which one is it?
TYSON: Yeah, Action Comics 14.
GREENE: There you have it.
TYSON: It's there now. I went to my local comic store and they have like a whole stack of them. I bought the whole stack.
TYSON: There might not be any left for you, I don't know.
GREENE: I mean, how many people can say they met Superman? Neil deGrasse Tyson did and he was here to talk about it. The astrophysicist is director of the Hayden Planetarium and a frequent guest on this program.
It is MORNING EDITION from NPR news. I'm David Greene.
And I'm Renee Montagne.
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC, "SUPERMAN THEME SONG") Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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My friend adam is having a halloween party, and I made these favor boxes to give out as prizes to for the best costume. The boxes are from the paper source, and i decorated them with a deco color paint marker. Each box is filled with one of : mini snickers, mini butterfinger, nerds, and peanut m & m's.
I can't wait to see everyones costume!
I will be out of commission the rest of the week, to prep for the party and craft fair on Sunday.
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Sea Salt and Cracked Pepper Macadamia Nuts
Perfectly roasted macadamia nuts with a dash of sea salt and then just the right sprinkling of cracked black pepper. It's a classic taste for this delicious snack that is also energy dense. Grab a handful post-workout, at your desk or anytime of day.
These Sea Salt & Cracked Pepper Macadamia Nuts are available in Six - 4oz Bags (to save you money) or One - 4oz Bag to enjoy!
They are so good you won't want to share!
- Macadamia Nuts
- Cane Sugar
- Spices
- Salt
- Macadamia Nut Oil
- Manufactured in a facility that also processes peanuts, other tree nuts (almonds, brazil nuts, cashews, coconuts, filberts/hazel nuts, pecans, pine nuts, pistachios, walnuts), wheat, soy and eggs.
- Serving Size 28g - Servings per Container - About 4
- Calories - 200; Cal From Fat - 190
- Total Fat 21g
- Cholesterol 0mg
- Sodium 130mg
- Total Carb 4g
- Protein 2g
- non GMO
- Certified Gluten Free
- Made w/ Whole Foods
- Low Carb
- Cholesterol Free
- Soy Free
- Wheat Free
- Sulfite Free
Respecting Nature's Gift of Food
Hawaiians share a deep-rooted cultural respect for the natural resources of the islands. From locally-sourced products to ingredients that are grown sustainably, without damage to the environment, our harvesting and sourcing processes incorporate our Hawaiian love and respect for nature.
Practicing Sustainability
At Royal Hawaiian, we show our respect for the land and Hawaii's delicate ecosystem by practicing sustainability. We conserve water by relying almost exclusively on rainfall for irrigation. We've also acquired over a thousand acres of neglected macadamia orchards and rejuvenated the land by planting new trees. Giving back to nature is the Royal Hawaiian way.
Turning Waste Into Fuel
We recycle and reuse almost every part of the nut to fuel our next batch of home-grown macadamias. The hulls of the nuts are composted to renourish the soil and fertilize the rest of our orchards. Used macadamia nut shells are burned as an energy source to power our facilities. Our macadamia nuts are a gift from nature that never stop giving.
The Health Benefits of Macadamias
Though deliciously sweet, macadamias nuts are also a healthy, nutritious, and all-natural addition to a well-balanced diet. Macadamias are a high source of protein and rich in vitamins and minerals such as vitamin A, riboflavin, and iron. Our nuts are also cholesterol free and contain 80% monounsaturated fat (the good kind!) - lowering overall cholesterol and harmful LDL cholesterol while raising levels of HDL (good) cholesterol.
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Dear MySQL users, MySQL Connector/Python v1.0.8 is a new version of the 1.0 production release of the pure Python database driver for MySQL. MySQL Connector/Python version 1.0 is compatible with MySQL Server versions 5.5 and greater, but should work with earlier versions (greater than v4.1). Python v2.6 and greater as well as Python v3.1 and greater are supported. Python v2.4 and v2.5 are known to work, but are not officially supported. MySQL Connector/Python v1.0.8 is available for download from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/python/#downloads A brief summary of changes in MySQL Connector/Python v1.0 is listed below. Please check the ChangeLog file inside the distribution for a more complete list of changes or online at: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/connector-python/en/ Changes in MySQL Connector/Python v1.0.8 ---------------------------------------- Bug Fixes: * Fixed MySQLConnection.ping() so it only reconnects when the reconnect argument is set to True. (Bug #15915243, Bug #67650) * Fixed storing multiple results after calling stored procedures which are using arguments. (Bug #15916486, Bug #67710) * Fixed handling MySQL errors when doing handshake. (Bug #15836979) * Fixed support for connecting to MySQL using IPv6 addresses. (Bug #15876886, Bug #15927825) * Fixed reading the header of MySQL packets. Previously, we were reading the MySQL packet headers as 4 (or 7) bytes long buffers from the socket. When we did have the correct length, we would immediately raise an exception. We now keep reading data from the socket until we got the full header or bail out on errors. (Bug #14829471, Bug #67303) * Fixed the error message when the TCP/IP port number is not a valid integer. Strings are first converted to integer and raise an error with a proper error when this fails. (Bug #13808727, Bug #64543) * Fixed authenticating for Python v2 using usernames and/or passwords which contain Unicode characters using Python v2. (Bug #14843456, Bug #67306) * Fixed reporting of socket errors. (Bug #14802017) * Fixed executemany() to support the pyformat parameter style. (Bug #14754894, Bug #67146). The regular expression parsing the INSERT statement did not work when pyformat markers where used, that is, '%(c1)s' for example. This is now fixed so both ANSI C printf and Python extended format codes can be used by MySQLCursor.executemany(). Documentation ------------- Online: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-python/en/index.html The source distribution includes the manual in various formats under the docs/ folder. Reporting Bugs -------------- We welcome and appreciate your feedback and bug reports: http://bugs.mysql.com/ Enjoy! On Behalf of the MySQL build team at Oracle Hery Ramilison
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Several weeks ago I purchased this bookplate in Boston and posted it on the blog asking for some information about the owner and the artist. With help from the Google Detective Agency and dumb luck the mystery has been solved. The artist Maurice Sullivan was a physician in Baltimore, who prior to marrying Beatrice Adams designed a bookplate for her. At the time she was a social worker so Dr.Sullivan depicted a woman helping a man in distress.
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This August, a celebration of the life of one of Glastonbury Festival's biggest supporters, Joe Strummer, takes place in a secret location in Somerset.
The Strummer of Love festival (which is not organised by Glastonbury Festivals) promises to be a glorious one-off taking place between 17 and 19 August, marking the anniversary of what would have been Joe's 60th birthday, and also marking 10 years since his death.
Says Michael Eavis: "I got to know Joe in the last years of his life, and his support in our unpopular campaign to control the numbers here in 2002 was invaluable to me. It's good to know that the spirit of Strummerville will still be alive in our part of the world, especially in our year off."
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Finance & Development, March 1989
- The Design of Trade Liberalization
- The Uruguay Round: Revitalizing the Global Trading System
- Agricultural Trade Policies of Industrial Countries
- Nontariff Barriers of Developed Countries, 1966–86
- Industrial Policies of Industrial Countries
- Korea's Fruitful Cooperation with the Fund
- World Economy in Transition
- Exchange Rate Arrangements and Monetary Policy
- Misconceptions About the Value-Added Tax
- Experience with Policy Reforms Under Adjustment
- Policy Implementation Under Adjustment Lending
- Expenditure Reductions in High-debt Countries
- Growth-Oriented Adjustment: Spain in the 1980s
- Reforming Transport Policy
- Managing Agricultural Development in Africa
- Books
- Books in Brief
- Other Books Received
- Letters
The Uruguay Round: Revitalizing the Global Trading System
- International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
- Published Date:
- January 1989
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