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Seeking a fun family outing to focus your heart on the Christmas season? Main Street Bethlehem is a lovely live nativity that my family has visited many times in the past. Each time it is a new experience depending on the ages of the children and families we go with 😉 I feel this is a wonderful hands on way to prepare for Christmas. Below is information and dates for 2012 that I took off their site.
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Explore the narrow streets to faint strains of ancient music and savor the smells of fresh goat butter, campfires, and hot bread. Then immerse yourself in the din of the marketplace; the revelers in the tavern, shouted insults to and from the Roman oppressors, merchants, craftspeople, taxpayers, and beggars all seeking money, or position, or revenge.
Search for the inn, only to find it full (as others did long ago). Then follow the trail to the cave where a road-weary couple has moved in with the animals, their place in God's plan and secular history to be made secure on this night. For the child in their arms was the incarnation of God Himself, come to the world that all who would place their faith in Him might enjoy eternal fellowship in His presence.
Main Street Bethlehem
2012 Dates: December 7th, 8th, 9th and 14th, 15th, 16th – 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. each evening
Two blocks east of the town square.
Admission is free (donations are accepted). Tour buses are welcome. Free refreshments served at exit. Friday and Sunday night visitors may experience a shorter waiting time than on Saturday night.
As this is an outdoor presentation, it is canceled in rainy weather.
Click for a list of area restaurants to enjoy while in Burnet or click on the map below.
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Too fucking high. i've been spending so much time in the dregs lately i'm to the point where i can come up with themes. Today's theme is "Too Fucking High" 'cause there's some weird shit going down when people get up, up and away.
From the juiced-box and dedicated to the airheads: Eminem – Superman
[Press 'Play' for "till then just sit your drunk ass on that fuckin' runway hoe"]
Commoner Dregs
American "Fly Like An" Eagle pilot Kolbjorn Kristiansen was soaring even before he got on the plane. He showed up for his 7 a.m. flight with his BAC already up there and booze on his breath obvious enough for "a witness" to call the sky cops who pulled Cold Bro off the plane and took his ass down, along with the rest of him.
Question: how can you tell if a pilot is FWI (Flying While Intoxicated)? It's not like there are lines to tell if he's swerving or anything.
January 4, 2013: A Little Tied Up
Assume trashed positions. Gudmundur Karl Arthorsson of vodka on Iceland decided to get red eyes on the red eye. He drank an entire fifth of duty free booze in the first 2 hours of a 6-hour flight, started grabbing the women next to him but they weren't the meat or the fish on economy menu. So he spat on some other people to get them as lubricated as he was and then commenced screaming that the plane was going to crash.
After he began choking some dude, the other passengers wanted to get in on the in-fight entertainment so they banded together with some flight attendants and latched his fat behind to the seat. His head was in the clouds but his ass was in a sling.
Celebrity Dregs
November 24, 2012: Muddle of Pudd
Who else other than you is glad their name isn't Gudmundur? Wes Scantlin, singer of the defunked group Puddle of Mudd. Wes is glad because he pulled the same shit as Gudmundur on an airplane but wasn't bound and gagged…until he landed in Austin, TX. 'Cept the plane was going to L.A. Why did the plane land in Texas? For the soul purpose of getting "Scat" off it.
Apparently during the flight he got wasted and then got in a fight with the crew when they wouldn't sell him booze. i'm thinking it's not that they wouldn't but that they couldn't because he done drank it all.
In an effort to be impaired and unbalanced, i will state for the record that the charges against the Wesser of Two Evils were dropped last November due to lack of evidence.
November 30, 2012: General Inhospitable
Not to be undone by Wes, this soap opera diva got popped before she could get in the aria.
Senait Ashenafi, one time "star" of "General Hospital" was discharged from a plane in Dallas (proving once again that Texas is like Lindsay Lohan: people wanna be drunk when they're in it) because, basically, she wasn't being treated like someone of her status. Like she's the Pope, or even the President, or even Oprah Herself for god's sake.
Senait "Investigation" got pissed off because she was seated in economy and not first class. So, no-class babe that she is, she took it out on a flight attendant. i tell you what, just writing these dregs today is given me a whole new respect and pity for flight attendants.
Police came and busted her for public intoxication, which is not all that easy to spot in Texas.
December 27, 2012: What a Pisser!
My favorite thing about the Twilight movies is now the werewolves.
Think about it. Vampires drink blood so they're of no real interest to alkies, but werewolves are like booze hounds on crack.
Case in point, Bronson Pelletier, aka Jared the Werewolf in the Twilight movies got drunk in an airport and decided to mark his territory like any self rejecting werewolf. There he was peeing all over the place when security came pissed off and arrested him. My second favorite part was were he denied it. My favorite part was when the video of him doing it surfaced days later.
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SANFORD — School officials are considering closing Sanford's oldest elementary school in the fall.
Emerson School, built in 1901, is one of the oldest schools in the state still in use as a public school and will require some major repairs if it is to continue to be used as a school. The roof leaks, the electrical service to the building needs repairs, and the first floor windows should be replaced.
The estimate just to replace the roof is $225,000 and over the next three or four years, repairs to the building could amount to as much as $250,000 to $260,000, according to Sanford Superintendent of Schools David Theoharides.
The good news is that Emerson School ranks fourth on the Maine Department of Education's priority list for new school construction, and the State Board of Education has voted to approve going ahead with the first six school projects on the priority list. The not-so-good news is that school construction and major renovation projects generally take four to five years from approval to occupancy — and it has already been a year since the first six projects received the go-ahead.
"Do we really want to spend $250,000 to $260,000 at Emerson over the next four years?" Theoharides asked during a phone interview this week.
The superintendent met earlier this month with staff members in Sanford's elementary schools to discuss possible restructuring ideas for the buildings that house students in kindergarten through eighth grade.
With two major school construction and renovation projects on the horizon — Sanford High School and Regional Technical School was in second place on the state's capital improvement priority list — and increasing maintenance and repair costs at Emerson and two other older elementary schools, the school department is considering how to make the best use of its facilities and resources during the next few years.
Students are a top priority in the restructuring discussions. Theoharides said that as Sanford prepares for the transition to two new schools, the school department will strive to provide "the best educational environment that we can and the fairest educational environment that we can."
One of the challenges the school department continually faces is trying to reduce the number of transitions from school to school that affects some students.
"Currently, some of our students may start kindergarten at one school, go to another school for grades 1, 2 and 3, then switch to another school for grades 4, 5 and 6. Other students may be fortunate to start kindergarten at a school and stay at that school until grade 6," Theoharides wrote in a recent Superintendent's Update.
Differences in the facilities, like a gym or a stage, also have an impact on activities at the elementary schools. For several years, school administrators have been working to provide equal opportunities for Sanford's elementary school students despite the physical differences in the schools they attend, Theoharides said.
School administrators are considering a "phased-in transition for the 2013-14 school year" that would include moving sixth grade students from the Willard School to Sanford Junior High, closing Emerson School and moving those students — grades 1, 2 and 3 — to Willard School. That would result in Willard housing grades 1 through 5.
Also, because school officials anticipate an increase in kindergarten students next year, two kindergarten classrooms would be created at Lafayette School to relieve overcrowding at the larger elementary schools and to allow Lafayette students to be in the same school for the first four years of their schooling.
Theoharides said Sanford School Department Business Manager Scott Wyman estimated that closing Emerson School would result in a savings of about $120,000 a year on expenses like fuel, insurance, and maintenance. The savings is an important consideration since Sanford is anticipating a decrease of about $161,000 in the subsidy it receives from state funding for education.
The proposed restructuring plan would also be a step in the direction of creating three K through 5 elementary schools in Sanford — Margaret Chase Smith School in the southern part of the city, Carl J. Lamb School in the north and a new school in the central part of the city. The junior high school would then become a middle school, with grades 6 through 8.
There is, however, no guarantee the Maine Department of Education will decide to build a new elementary school in Sanford. The DOE aims to renovate wherever feasible. Over the past three construction cycles, approximately two-thirds of the projects have been additions and renovations; one-third have required new buildings to be constructed.
Theoharides said he will be setting up a meeting with community groups soon to gather their input on the proposed restructuring. He said he expects a final decision to be made in mid-March.


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INDIANAPOLIS — Pacers forward Paul George spent the past summer turning himself into a better player. Now he's planning to dedicate himself to becoming the NBA's best all-around player.
A few minutes after accepting the league's Most Improved Player Award, the 6-foot-9 swingman promised to work even harder to attain the biggest rewards of all — an NBA title and perhaps an MVP.
"I think I can play at an MVP level," George said. "I think that's very much within reach. For me, it's all about being consistent and having that aggressive mindset."
George has already emerged as one of the league's top young players, which explains his runaway victory in the balloting. He received 52 of 120 first-place votes and 311 points, more than double the total of New Orleans' Greivis Vasquez, who had 13 first-place votes and 146 points. Milwaukee's Larry Sanders was third with 141 points and was one of three players to receive 10 first-place votes.
As part of the award, a 2012 Kia Sorrento will be donated to the Hawthorne Community Center, George's hand-picked charity.
George is also expected to be one of the top vote-getters for the Defensive Player of the Year Award, an honor coach Frank Vogel lobbied hard for Tuesday. The question is whether George has what it takes to challenge for the league's top individual honor.
"With the physical talent he has, with the drive he has, there's no ceiling for him," Vogel said.
If 2012-13 proved anything, it's that George is a man of his word. Before leaving town after last season's Eastern Conference semifinal loss to LeBron James and eventual champion Miami, George walked into Vogel's office and promised to come back with a more aggressive mindset and as a more versatile scorer.
James' guidance helped him reach those goals.
The two worked out together in Las Vegas as the U.S. team prepared for the Olympics, but all the while George was watching and learning from the best — not just James.
"It was huge," George said. "Me, growing up, idolizing guys like Kobe [Bryant], watching his whole regimen, watching what time he got up to work out, watching what he was putting in his body. The younger guys, we was totally the opposite, so I had to kind of take notes and follow what they were doing."
The results impressed his teammates, coaches and many around the league.
George averaged 17.4 points and 7.6 rebounds this season, both career highs, and was the only player in the league with at least 140 steals and 50 blocks. He earned his first All-Star appearance, led Indiana to its first Central Division crown in nine years and became the fourth Pacers player to win the Most Improved Player Award since 2000. The others were Jalen Rose, Jermaine O'Neal and Danny Granger.
In 2011-12, George averaged 12.1 points and 5.6 rebounds and made just 19 of 52 shots from the field in the 4-2 playoff loss to the Heat.
The announcement came less than 48 hours after George played his most complete game of the season, too. He joined Mark Jackson as the only players in franchise history to record a triple double in the NBA playoffs. George finished with 23 points, 11 rebounds and 12 assists in the Pacers' 107-90 Game 1 win over Atlanta — giving Indiana its first 1-0 series lead since 2006. Game 2 is Wednesday night in Indy.
After showing steady improvement through each of his first two NBA seasons, George finally got his chance to lead when Granger went down with a left knee injury. Granger, Indiana's top scorer the previous five seasons, played in only five games. So George took it upon himself to make up for the absence.
"He's a rare breed with his purity for the game and his willingness to play team basketball at both ends of the court and his drive to get better," Vogel said. "I think he was ready to explode whether Danny was in or out."
Despite shooting just 3 of 13 from the field Sunday, George made his first 17 foul shots to tie Reggie Miller's postseason mark for best free-throw percentage in a single game, then missed his 18th and final attempt.
Soon he was picking up his first big award.
He doesn't expect it to be his last.
"A lot of players don't get an opportunity to make the playoffs and have a team that can win the championship," George said. "Coach says all the time that this could be your last time in the playoffs. So I've really not focused on where I need to get better or thought about the offseason yet."
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Photos by Susan Walsh, Tom Gannam and Paul Sancya / AP Images
Wednesday was another jam-packed day for the First Lady, who started out with an appearance alongside the President at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Hampton, VA for the final day of his bus tour. While the President pitched his Job's Act, Mrs. O had good news of her own. The First Lady announced that the American Logistics Association (ALA) and their 270 affiliate companies have committed to hiring 25,000 veterans and military spouses by the end of 2013 -- certainly a big win for the Joining Forces effort!
After a quick stop at a pumpkin patch, the First Lady was off to St. Louis to attend Game 1 of the World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Texas Rangers. There, Mrs. O greeted veterans in a program sponsored by Major League Baseball and Joining Forces. Mrs. O and Dr. B also made an on field appearance, joined by Marine Lance Corporal James Sperry and his daughter Hannah for the national anthem.
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With all deference to the summer arts scene, the Berkshires really come into their own in the fall. You find farm stands along many back roads and fantastic foliage everywhere. It can be a hard choice from Boston: the northern Berkshires via the Mohawk Trail (Route 2) or the southern Berkshires via the Mass. Pike.
North or south? Each has its charms. Here's how they stack up on a few essentials:
North: As the state's highest point (3,491 feet), Mount Greylock (visitors center at 30 Rockwell Road, Lanesborough, 413-499-4262) has drawn hikers since Henry David Thoreau ascended in 1844 and spent the night under a pile of lumber to keep warm. It became a state park in 1898, and more than 70 miles of trails crisscross the mountain. You can also drive to the summit for the same stupendous views.
South: Monument Mountain (trailhead on Route 7 between Lenox and Great Barrington) has its share of famous literary hikers as well. On an August 1850 ascent, Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne were caught in a thunderstorm, but toughed it out with a bottle of champagne. There are two woodsy trails to different points on the 1,642-foot rocky summit connected by a more open trail across a rocky ledge. So it's possible to ascend on one trail and descend on the other. The hike takes a little more than two hours.
Advantage: North. Mount Greylock even has its own event, the Greylock Ramble, when hundreds stream up the Cheshire Harbor Trail from Adams on Columbus Day.
North: You can climb the hillside to pick apples from semi-dwarf trees until Lakeview Orchard (94 Old Cheshire Road, Lanesborough, 413-448-6009, www.lakevieworchard.com) closes at the end of October. Or you can select prepicked fruit and vegetables at the farm stand, where the kitchen is known for its fruit pies, secret-recipe pumpkin whoopie pies, and Polish specialties such as golumpki (cabbage leaves wrapped around a beef, pork, rice, and onion filling).
South: Open all year, Taft Farms (119 Park St. North, Great Barring-ton, 413-528-1515, www.taftfarms.com) sells its own pesticide-free vegetables and berries as well as produce from other local farms. The kitchen whips up daily soup specials, muffins, and breads for the deli sandwich menu, as well as ready-to-heat entrees such as chicken pot pie. You can buy Taft's fruit pies by the slice, and they're even better with a scoop of ice cream made nearby in Hadley.
Advantage: North. We like watching the Donut Robot at Lakeview methodically produce tender cakey rings.
North: We're not sure which is the bigger draw — the fresh-roasted coffee or the exquisite cakes and baked goods — but Tunnel City
Coffee (100 Spring St., Williamstown, 413-458-5010) is possibly the busiest place in town. It seems to hum, but that could just be the
hyper-caffeination revving up the collegiate table talk.
South: By contrast, Lenox Coffee (52 Main St., Lenox, 413-637-1606) is a place to sit down at a sunny table and savor every last fleck of artistic foam atop a cappuccino while perusing a copy of the New Yorker or Architectural Digest from the magazine rack.
Advantage: South. Lenox Coffee uses beans from Lee-based Barrington Coffee, which often has rare brews.
North: Natural Bridge State Park (off McCauley Road, North Adams, 413-663-6392, open through Columbus Day) is named for a natural arch of marble that spans Hudson Brook in North Adams. Only a short stroll from the parking lot, this geological oddity was carved by glacial meltwater roughly 13,000 years ago.
South: The main attraction at Bash Bish Falls State Park (Falls Road, Mount Washington, 413-528-0330) is the dramatic 60-foot cataract that plunges out of the woods into a deep pool. The birch and maple foliage of the surrounding glades is electric in the fall.
Advantage: North. Natural Bridge is a twofer, since the site also includes what purports to be the country's only white marble dam, built in the early 19th century.
North: Mezze Bistro + Bar (777 Cold Spring Road, Williamstown, 413-458-0123, www.mezzerestaurant.com) draws on local farms for almost everything from grass-fed beef to hand-crafted artisan cheeses to salad vegetables. Set into the woods south of town, the spacious dining rooms are an idyllic spot to enjoy such dishes as smoked local pork loin with chorizo, potatoes, and collards.
South: Chef-owner Mark Firth of Prairie Whale, formerly known as Bell and Anchor, (178 Main St., Great Barrington, 413-528-5050) takes the farm-to-table concept so seriously that he raises his own pigs, sheep, and laying hens and buys his produce from fellow local farmers. The farmhouse bistro with a funky zinc bar serves boisterous rustic fare like a pork chop with roast potato, stewed peppers, and broccoli.
Advantage: South. The casual country style of Prairie Whale is perfect after a day outdoors.
North: The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, a.k.a. Mass MoCA (1040 Mass MoCA Way, North Adams, 413-662-2111, www.massmoca.org) has galleries as big as its name, often filled with objects of contemporary art bigger than some buildings that house smaller museums. Some pieces stretch all the way to the 1980s, while others are still in the process of invention. Catch "Phoenix" (pictured), Xu Bing's two giant birds assembled from Chinese urban construction debris, before they fly away on Oct. 28.
South: It's not all Saturday Evening Post covers at the Norman Rockwell Museum (9 Route 183, Stockbridge, 413-298-4100, www.nrm.org, pictured below), which keeps itself up to date by addressing the art of illustration in all its forms. Go behind the scenes at Disney Studios with "Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs: The Creation of a Classic" through Oct. 27.
Advantage: Tie. It all depends on whether you'd rather be challenged or comforted.
North: During their 19th-century heyday, the residents of Hancock Shaker Village (1843 West Housatonic St., Pittsfield, 413-443-0188, www.hancockshakervillage.org, open through Oct. 27) called their settlement the City of Peace. The Shakers are gone, but the sense of order and harmony they cultivated remains behind. Like a great mandala, the Round Stone Barn stands at the center of it all.
South: Becoming centered is part of the point at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health (57 Interlaken Road, Stockbridge, 413-448-3152, www.kripalu.org), where a day pass lets you escape into a meditative frame of mind through yoga, hikes, lectures, and healthy eating.
Advantage: South. Kripalu's yoga prepares you to reenter this world. Shakerism is focused on the next.
North: Barrington Stage Company (30 Union St., Pittsfield, 413-236-8888, www.barringtonstageco.org) keeps its largely summer season running through Oct. 13 with "Clybourne Park," a sharply funny tale of race, real estate, and American values. The play scored both a 2011 Pulitzer for drama and a 2012 Tony for best play.
South: Shakespeare & Company (70 Kemble St., Lenox, 413-637-3353, www.shakespeare.org) makes merry by sending up the British comic-thriller genre with a tale of a wife and her lover plotting to snuff her stuffy hubby. "Accomplice" won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. The play runs through Nov. 10.
Advantage: South. Murder at a country house seems a perfect fit amid all those Berkshires estates.
North: The North Adams Artists' Co-op Gallery (33 Main St., 413-664-4003, www.naacogallery.org) features fine arts and studio crafts by about 40 member artists, most of whom are based in the northern Berkshires. Work runs the gamut from painting to jewelry, sculpture to pottery.
South: Founded in 1985, Hoadley Gallery (21 Church St., Lenox, 413-637-2814, www.hoadleygallery.com) cut its teeth on fine crafts (especially jewelry and contemporary pottery) but has expanded in recent years to show some paintings and photography as well. Hoadley represents artists from across the country.
Advantage: North. The emphasis on local talent helps seed the next generation.
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It should be noted that the previous MSI packaging is no longer available and the point and click configuration wizards and all MySQL products are now available in the unified Installer for Windows: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/installer/ We welcome and appreciate your feedback, bug reports, bug fixes, patches, etc.: http://bugs.mysql.com/report.php The list of all "Bugs Fixed" for 5.6.8 may also be viewed online at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/news-5-6-8.html If you are running a MySQL production level system, we would like to direct your attention to MySQL Enterprise Edition, which includes the most comprehensive set of MySQL production, backup, monitoring, modeling, development, and administration and migration tools so businesses can achieve the highest levels of MySQL performance, security and uptime. http://mysql.com/products/enterprise/ Enjoy! On behalf of the MySQL Build Team at Oracle, Jörg Brühe ==== Changes in MySQL 5.6.8 (2012-Nov-7) Installation Notes * On Unix platforms, mysql_install_db supports a new option, --random-passwords, that provides for more secure MySQL installation. Invoking mysql_install_db with this option causes it to perform the following actions in addition to its normal operation: + Create a random password, assign it to the initial root accounts, and set the "password expired" flag for those accounts. + Write the initial password file to the .mysql.secret file in the directory named by the $HOME environment variable. Depending on operating system, using a command such as sudo may cause the value of $HOME to refer to the home directory of the root system user. + Remove the anonymous-user accounts. As a result of these actions, it is necessary after installation to start the server, connect as root using the password written to the .mysql.secret file, and assign a new root password. Until this is done, root cannot do anything else. This must be done for each root account you intend to use. To change the password, you can use the SET PASSWORD statement (for example, with the mysql client). You can also use mysqladmin or mysql_secure_installation. For new RPM install operations (not upgrades), mysql_install_db is invoked with the --random-passwords option. (Install operations using RPMs for Unbreakabkle Linux Network are unaffected and do not use this option.) For installations using a binary .tar.gz distribution, you can invoke mysql_install_db with the --random-passwords option manually. This is recommended for any installation, particularly for sites with sensitive data. This new option is not yet reflected in the "man" pages which are contained in the 5.6.8-rc packages, but the online documentation is current: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-install-db.html * mysql_install_db on Unix platforms will now create a new default configuration file 'my.cnf' from a template that comes with the package. This will be used by default when the server is started. If the 'my.cnf' file already exists, it is assumed to be in use and will not be overwritten. The config file template and the created default file replace the example files that came with earlier releases. Functionality Added or Changed * InnoDB: The InnoDB transportable tablespace feature was enhanced to allow ALTER TABLE ... IMPORT TABLESPACE to succeed in some cases where the corresponding .cfg file was not available. This enhancement allows recovery of data even in some cases where the system tablespace (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_sys tem_tablespace) is corrupted or deleted. (Bug #14589582, Bug #66715) * The number of atomic operations performed by the Performance Schema was reduced. (Bug #14658739) * ALTER USER now can be used as a prepared statement. (Bug #66874, Bug #14646014) * On Windows, many MySQL executables depend on the libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll SSL libraries at runtime. To ensure that the proper versions of these libraries are found, the install process copies them into the same directory as the executables. * The SHOW AUTHORS and SHOW CONTRIBUTORS statements have been removed. Bugs Fixed * Important Change: Replication: When running the slave with the --slave-skip-errors option, successive skipped events (errors logged as warnings) were found to contain information from previous warnings, which caused an excessive amount of redundant information to be written to the error log. This problem could occur when using row-based or mixed-format binary logging. The fix for this issue is to clear these warnings prior to processing the next skipped event. In addition, the skipped events are now handled in the same way regardless of the value of binlog_format, and a skipped error always causes a warning to be written to the error log, as long as the value of the log_warnings system variable is greater than 1. (Bug #12776842) * Important Change: The server system variables profiling, have_profiling, and profiling_history_size are now deprecated, and are subject to removal in a future release of the MySQL Server. (Bug #14658683) * InnoDB: When a CREATE INDEX operation failed for an InnoDB FULLTEXT index due to a duplicate key error, some allocated memory was not freed. (Bug #14759111) * InnoDB: An online DDL (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_onl ine_ddl) operation to create a unique index could fail to detect duplicate index values, when the duplicate values were caused by DML (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_dml ) operations while the index was being created. (Bug #14733674) * InnoDB: During a brief time window while creating an InnoDB unique index, MySQL could print a spurious warning message: WARNING: CANNOT FIND INDEX ?index_name IN INNODB INDEX TRANSLATION TA BLE The cause was that MySQL started enforcing the uniqueness constraint before the existence of the index was fully registered. The fix suppresses the incorrect message during this final stage of index creation. (Bug #14735988) * InnoDB: When using the transportable tablespace (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_tra nsportable_tablespace) feature, the ALTER TABLE ... IMPORT TABLESPACE statement could crash if the InnoDB table being flushed contained a FULLTEXT index. With this fix, the table data can be imported, although you must drop and re-create the FULLTEXT index after the import operation. (Bug #14712962, Bug #67081) * InnoDB: If an InnoDB table containing a FULLTEXT index was being modified by a TRUNCATE TABLE statement and on online DDL (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_onl ine_ddl) operation simultaneously, the server could end up with inconsistent internal locks or could crash. (Bug #14676329) * InnoDB: If the server crashed while executing TRUNCATE TABLE for an InnoDB table containing a FULLTEXT index, further errors could occur during crash recovery (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_cra sh_recovery), preventing the server from restarting. (Bug #14676345) * InnoDB: If the MySQL server crashed while XA (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_xa) transactions were in PREPARED state, inconsistent data could be produced during crash recovery (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_cra sh_recovery) if the query cache was enabled. The fix allows MySQL to disable the query cache during crash recovery if required. (Bug #14658648) * InnoDB: MySQL could crash while creating an InnoDB table if the disk became full at a specific moment: after the .frm file (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_frm _file) was created but before the corresponding .ibd file (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_ibd _file) was created. (Bug #14645935) * InnoDB: If the server crashed at the moment specific point when a change buffer (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_cha nge_buffer) entry was being merged into a buffer pool page, the transaction log and the change buffer were left in an inconsistent state. After a restart, MySQL could crash after reading the corresponding secondary index page. The problem was more likely to occur in MySQL 5.5 or later, where the original insert buffering (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_ins ert_buffering) mechanism was generalized to cover other operations. (Bug #14636528, Bug #66819, Bug #58571, Bug #61104, Bug #65443) * InnoDB: With the innodb_file_per_table setting enabled, a DROP TABLE operation could cause a crash, due to a race condition that depended on the timing of pending I/O requests. (Bug #14594600, Bug #66718) * InnoDB: If a crash occurred during a CREATE TABLE operation, the InnoDB data dictionary (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_dat a_dictionary) could be left in an inconsistent state, causing a crash if the partially created table was accessed later. (Bug #14601290) * InnoDB: On startup, MySQL would not start if there was a mismatch between the value of the innodb_log_file_size configuration option and the actual size of the ib_logfile* files that make up the redo log (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_red o_log). This behavior required manually removing the redo log files after changing the value of innodb_log_file_size. The fix causes MySQL to write all dirty pages (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_dir ty_page) to disk and re-create the redo log files during startup if it detects a size mismatch. (Bug #14596550) * InnoDB: If an online DDL (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_onl ine_ddl) operation failed due to a duplicate key error, caused by DML (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_dml ) changes being made concurrently to the table, the server could crash with an assertion error. (Bug #14591797) * InnoDB: If a FULLTEXT index was dropped from an InnoDB table, and the server crashed later for an unrelated reason, an additional error could occur while attempting to access nonexistent FULLTEXT data structures. (Bug #14586855) * InnoDB: A query against an InnoDB table with a FULLTEXT index could crash, if the AGAINST clause contained a character sequence that was encoded incorrectly for the character set of the table. (Bug #14588091) * InnoDB: The server could crash with a confusing message if it ran out of space for temporary files during index creation. InnoDB: Assertion failure in thread thread_num in file mtr0mtr.cc lin e 306 InnoDB: Failing assertion: mtr->state == 12231 (Bug #14586256) * InnoDB: An ALTER TABLE on an InnoDB table that dropped the primary key and then re-created it with columns in a different order could cause an error. The issue affected tables where the swapped columns referenced each other in a single-table foreign key (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_for eign_key) relationship. The data dictionary could be left in an inconsistent state, where the table was listed in SHOW TABLES output but could not be queried or dropped. For example, if the table was declared with primary key columns (c1,c2) and a foreign key with c1 REFERENCES c2: ALTER TABLE t2 DROP PRIMARY KEY, ADD PRIMARY KEY (c2, c1); ERROR 1030 (HY000): Got error 38 from storage engine (Bug #14548753) * InnoDB: Table names containing non-ASCII characters were displayed incorrectly when the MYSQL.INNODB_TABLE_STATS.TABLE_NAME column was queried. (Bug #14404879) * InnoDB: A race condition could cause a crash during an online CREATE INDEX statement for an InnoDB table. This bug only affected very small tables. It required a DML (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_dml ) operation to be in progress for the table, affecting the primary key (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_pri mary_key) columns, at the same time the CREATE INDEX statement was issued. (Bug #14117641) * InnoDB: The server could crash with an assertion error during operations on tables with ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED. (Bug #14001972) * InnoDB: In rare circumstances, during operations on an InnoDB table containing foreign keys (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_for eign_key), pages in the buffer pool (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_buf fer_pool) could be evicted but not written to disk, leading to data inconsistency. (Bug #13688491) * InnoDB: In rare circumstances, MySQL could apply InnoDB undo (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_und o) records out of order during a ROLLBACK (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/glossary.html#glos_rol lback) of an operation that modified a BLOB column. This issue could cause an assertion error in debug builds: !bpage->file_page_was_freed (Bug #13249921) * Partitioning: The server now skips pruning of tables (see Partition Pruning (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/partitioning-pruning.h tml)) that use a storage engine which handles its own partitioning internally. The server now also explicitly rejects attempts to use explicit partitioning for such tables. (Bug #14672885) * Partitioning: When used with a table having multiple columns in its primary key, but partitioned by KEY using a column that was not part of the primary key as the partitioning column, a query using an aggregate function and DISTINCT such as SELECT SUM(DISTINCT pk_column_1) FROM table WHERE pk_column_2 = constant was not handled correctly. (Bug #14495351) * Replication: When using a multithreaded slave, if all worker threads were kept busy, it was possible for cleanup of an internal MTS circular buffer to fail, resulting in a full buffer and failure of the slave. (Bug #14710881) * Replication: When invoked while while gtid_mode was set to OFF, the SQL_THREAD_WAIT_AFTER_GTIDS() function waited indefinitely, unless a timeout was specified. In the latter case, the function could return incorrect values. Now, when gtid_mode is OFF, SQL_THREAD_WAIT_AFTER_GTIDS() always returns NULL, as expected. (Bug #14640065) * Replication: Executing FLUSH LOGS in parallel with COMMIT could cause the server to hang. (Bug #14640486) * Replication: Partially-failed GRANT and REVOKE statements were not always handled the same way on the master and the slave. We now log an incident event whenever an error occurs, even if it is only a partial error, with a message stating that manual reconciliation is required. (Bug #14598585) * Replication: Backtick (`) characters were not always handled correctly in internally generated SQL statements, which could sometimes lead to errors on the slave. (Bug #14548159) * Replication: There existed a gap in time between the appending of the current GTID to the server's list of logged GTIDs and the commit of the transaction by the storage engine. On slow platforms, or when using profiling, this could cause SELECT SQL_THREAD_WAIT_AFTER_GTIDS(gtid) to return before the data actually reached the database. Now the current GTID is appended to the logged GTIDs following the commit, which removes this gap and so eliminates a possible source of inconsistency. (Bug #14116526) * Replication: The error shown when a relay log file was missing from the relay log index file informed the user only that the log file was not found, but did not specify the exact reason. Now in such cases, the error message returned is Could not find target log file mentioned in relay log info in the index file 'index_file_name' during relay log initialization. (Bug #11758505) * Replication: Following an insert into a nontransactional table that failed due to insufficient disk space, the server did not properly clean up all pending events, leading to an assert or possibly to other errors. (Bug #11750014) * Patches for materialized semi-joins caused failures of the query plan interface used by NDBCLUSTER. (Bug #14704659) * With the optimizer tracing enabled, the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.OPTIMIZER_TRACE table can be queried to find tracing information about the last statements. However, for queries for which the results were retrieved from the query cache, this information was not available. (Bug #14665052) * USE dbname could fail with Unknown database when dbname contained multiple backtick (`) characters. (Bug #14645196) * Outer joins could execute inefficiently and return incorrect results if joins were pushed down to the storage engine. (Bug #14644936) * In debug builds, the server could crash because db_suicide() failed to handle SIGABRT signals. (Bug #14649493) * Attempts to insert, update, delete from, or lock unknown Performance Schema tables failed with an ER_TABLEACCESS_DENIED_ERROR error rather than ER_NO_SUCH_TABLE. (Bug #14633008) * An incomplete result could be stored in the query cache when a query failed with an error (providing that the query cache was enabled, and was set to a nonzero size). This fix ensures that it is no longer possible for queries that finish with an error to be cached. (Bug #14621700) References: This bug was introduced by Bug #40264. * The server could crash when registering tables in the query cache for queries that selected from views. (Bug #14619935) * Index condition pushdown in conjunction with descending index range scan could return incorrect results if there were multiple ranges in the range scan. (Bug #14604223) * EXPLAIN DELETE ... WHERE impossible_condition could function incorrectly when it was used in a stored routine. (Bug #14601802) References: This bug was introduced by Bug #11752097. * The configure.pl script that converts GNU configure options to CMake equivalents generated erroneous output for the --with-client-ldflags and --with-mysqld-ldflags options. It now ignores those options. (Bug #14593123) * The server printed excessive Got error 159 when reading table messages to the error log when one transaction attempted to access a table that had been modified by another. (Bug #14579877) * The optimizer could choose an incorrect execution plan for updates to InnoDB tables based on indexes that use column prefixes. (Bug #14578060) * A query with a subquery and ORDER BY and LIMIT clauses returned fewer rows than expected when executed using semi-join materialization. (Bug #14580874) * Materialization of a subquery in the FROM clause could return the wrong number of rows if the subquery included a LIMIT clause. (Bug #14576727) * In-source builds modified the source file sql/share/dictionary.txt. (Bug #14562699) * A query with a subquery in the JOIN ... ON clause with an outer reference to a field that was out of scope could cause the server to crash. (Bug #14498914) * On Windows, mysql_plugin could not find my_print_defaults. (Bug #14471052) * When used in GRANT statements, quoted user name or host name values containing leading or trailing spaces caused privileges to be assigned incorrectly until a FLUSH PRIVILEGES statement was issued. Now, as a result of this fix, quoted name and host identifiers used in a GRANT statement are automatically trimmed of any leading and trailing spaces, before privileges are assigned. (Bug #14328259) * On Mac OS X, the version_compile_machine system variable did not include the value 64 for server binaries compiled on a 64-bit system. (Bug #13859866) * Access to INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables through a view could leak memory. (Bug #13734987) * On Microsoft Windows with CMake 2.6, the build process would not stop if the create_initial_db step failed. (Bug #13713525) * The test in mysqld_safe for the presence of the --plugin_dir option and assignment of a default value to it were performed before the actual argument parsing took place. (Bug #13548161) * The number of connection errors from a given host as counted by the server was periodically reset, with the result that max_connect_errors was never reached and invalid hosts were never blocked from trying to connect. (Bug #11753779) References: See also Bug #38247, Bug #43006, Bug #45584, Bug #45606. * A cached query result was not empty at the end of statement execution as expected. This could occur when executing queries (with the query cache enabled and set to a nonzero size) where the result was not sent to the client such as those executed by the Event Scheduler, or when executing stored routines containing queries while the server was running in bootstrap mode. (Bug #11755580, Bug #14609893) * The Range checked for each record optimization is now used for conditions with outer query references. (Bug #11750963) * Metadata locking resulted in excessive contention in read-only workloads involving InnoDB tables and a low number of connections. Now the set of metadata locks can be partitioned into separate hashes to permit connections accessing different objects to use different locking hashes and reduce contention. The new metadata_locks_hash_instances system variable can be used to specify the number of hashes. (Bug #66473, Bug #14569140) * ST_Contains() and ST_Within() incorrectly reported that a polygon did not contain itself. ST_Equals() incorrectly returned 0 for polygons that differed only in shifted vertices. (Bug #64653, Bug #13864679) * ST_Difference() could incorrectly produce empty polygons in the result. (Bug #64649, Bug #13865773) * For some queries involving ORDER BY, the optimizer chose the wrong index for accessing the table. (Bug #45969, Bug #11754370, Bug #14338686) * In debug builds, vio_read() printed errno rather than socket_error to the debug trace. (Bug #28775, Bug #11746795) -- Joerg Bruehe, MySQL Build Team, joerg.bruehe@stripped (+49 30) 417 01 487 ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG, Komturstrasse 18a, D-12099 Berlin Geschaeftsfuehrer: Juergen Kunz Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRA 95603 Komplementaerin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Utrecht, Niederlande Geschaeftsfuehrer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher
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Imagine this. What if your boss told you that if you worked on one specific day, the company would give you 81 years worth of pay? What if you could earn the same amount of money for 81 years of work with just one night of labor? Would you agree to this bargain?
Allah, praised and glorified, has promised His believers an even better deal. Muslims can attain the same amount of blessings and rewards in one night of worship, as they would if they worshipped 1000 regular months. That's over 81 years. That's the blessing of Lailatul Qadar.
Lailatul Qadar, translated as the Night of Power, is the greatest night of the year. During this period, Muslims should spend their nights in worship and seek forgiveness, reward, and blessings of Allah.
What Should We Do During Laylatul Qadr?
Here are some recommended things that we should do during laylatul qadr.
- Qiyamul Layl: Translated roughly as "Standing for Prayer at Night." During any other time of the year outside of Ramadan, this prayer is the same as Tahajjud. However, during Ramadan, the Taraweeh prayer replaces Tahajjud, and Qiyamul Layl is a separate prayer Muslims can make at night. It is highly recommended that we make this prayer during Lailatul Qadar.
- Dua: Roughly translated as "supplication", this is an informal prayer in which the Muslim asks Allah for anything he or she may need or want. There is no specific method of making dua, but it is preferred that the Muslim requests blessings upon Prophet Mohammad (peace be up on him), prays for his/her parents, and asks Allah for forgiveness. Allah loves it when His slaves ask Him for things, so asking during lailatul qadr is especially beneficial.
- Leaving the mundane: Muslims should decrease their involvement in wordly actions during lailatul qadar. While it's okay to eat, drink and sleep during the Night of Power, they should refrain from sexual relations and frivolous activities like watching TV or common gossip.
What Does The Quran Say About Laylatul Qadar?
Lailatul Qadar is only directly referenced in one chapter of the Quran. This is chapter 97 which goes by the name Al-Qadr, meaning "The Power." Though this is a short chapter, it is very profound when we consider the meaning behind the words.
Verily We have sent it down in The Night of Power (Lailatul Qadar)
And what will explain Lailatul Qadar to you?
Lailatul Qadar is better than a thousand months
Therein descend the Angels and the Spirit with the permission of their Lord, with every matter.
Peace therein, until the coming of dawn.
Now, let's look at this chapter in depth. The following information is based on Ibn Kathir's explanation of the Quran.
"Verily We have sent it down in the Night of Power."
"It" in this verse refers to the Quran. Allah tells us that the Quran was sent down during Lailatul Qadar. And we know from previous verses in the Quran, that the Quran was sent down during the month of Ramadan.
Chapter 44, verse 1-4 state: Ha-Mim. By the manifest Book that makes things clear. We sent it down on a blessed night. Verily, We are ever warning. Therein (that night) is decreed every matter with wisdom.
So from this verse, we know that the Quran was sent not just during the month of Ramadan, but specifically during lailatul qadr.
"And what will explain Lailatul Qadar to you? Lailatul Qadar is better than a thousand months."
Allah explains the Night of Power as only He can. He tells us that Lailatul Qadar is better than a thousand months during which there is no Night of Power. Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him) stated that whoever is deprived of good on Laylatul Qadr is truly deprived. Our prophet has also stated that whoever stands (prays) during laylatul qadr expecting the reward of Allah, will be forgiven their previous sins.
"Therein descend the Angels and the Spirit with the permission of their Lord, with every matter."
Because of the magnificent blessings of this night, the angels descend from Heaven. They come down in great numbers with the blessings and mercy of Allah. They visit the believers worshiping Allah whether they are reciting Quran, making dhikr (remembrance) or performing prayer.
"The Spirit" in this verse refers to the angel Jibreel (Gabriel). We can see how important lailatul qadar is if the highest ranking angel of all is descending upon the earth. Angel Jibreel is the one who visited Prophet Muhammad with the first verses of the Quran.
The phrase "with every matter" means that during this night, the matters of life and death, the provisions of every human, is decided during this night. (See the verses from Chapter 44 above.) Truly, what a blessed night to seek the mercy of Allah!
"Peace therein, until the coming of dawn."
Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) has stated:
"Verily, the month of Ramadan has come to you all. It is a blessed month, which Allah has obligated you all to fast. During it the gates of Paradise are opened, the gates of Hell are closed and the devils are shackled."
With the gates of Hell closed and the devils locked up, lailatul qadar is full of peace for the Muslims until the dawn. The angels give the worshippers tidings of peace until the dawn. All of it is good and there is no evil until the coming of dawn.
When Is Lailatul Qadar?
The question everyone has is: "When is the Night of Power? Which night is lailatul qadar?"
We already know from the Quranic verses above, that lailatul qadar occurs during the month of Ramadan. A narrative from Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), the prophet's wife, states: "when the last ten days of Ramadan began, the Prophet (peace be upon him) would stay up at night, wake his family and tie his lower garment tight."
So now we know that Lailatul Qadar is during the last ten nights of Ramadan.
There is a statement from Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) that reveals more evidence. He stated:
"Verily I saw Lailatul Qadr, and I was caused to forget it, and indeed it is during the last ten (nights). It is during an odd night and I saw myself as if I were prostrating in mud and water."
This shows that the Night of Power occurs during the odd numbered nights during the last ten days of Ramadan.
It was recorded that after he made this statement, Prophet Muhammad led his companions in prayer. While they were praying, it began to rain, and after Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) came up from prostration, his forehead was covered in mud and water. One narration states this occurred on the twenty-first nght.
However, another narration states that lailatul qadar may occur during another night.
"Seek it in the last ten (nights) of Ramadan. In the ninth it still remains, in the seventh it still remains, in the fifth it still remains."
Yet another narration from the companion Ubay Ibn Ka'b states otherwise. When informed that another Ibn Mas'ud (another companion of our prophet) said whoever stands for prayer during the entire year will catch lailatul qadar, Ubay responded: "May Allah have mercy upon him. Indeed he knows that it is during the month of Ramadan and that it is the twenty-seventh night."
And then the companion Abu Hurayrah reported that Prophet Muhammad stated:
"Verily, it is during the twenty-seventh or the twenty-ninth night. And verily, the angels who are on the earth during that night are more numerous than the number of pebbles."
And Ubaidah Ibn Samit reported that Prophet Muhammad said:
"Seek it in Ramadan in the last ten nights. For verily, it is during the odd nights, the twenty-first, or the twenty-third, or the twenty-fifth, or the twenty-seventh, or the twenty-ninth, or during the last night."
So, we can see that while there is ample evidence that Lailatul Qadar occurs during the odd numbered nights of the last ten days of Ramadan, there's no absolute evidence of the exact night. What is for the Muslim then, is to spend each of the last ten nights involved in worship, hoping to catch the Night of Power.
Several scholars believe that the Night of Power moves about during the last ten nights from year to year, and is not necessarily the same night every year. There appears to be sound evidence for this theory. This gives us even more reason to seek lailatul qadar during each of the last ten nights, instead of just focusing on one particular day.
This night is also a good time to increase our understanding of Islam. This is a good time to learn Quran or memorize a new dua. Even if you only know the basics of Islamic beliefs, you should take advantage of Lailatul Qadar.
And Allah knows best.


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This course focuses on: (1) the nature of language and dialects; (2) language characteristics of Spanish and English; (3) influences of languages on each other; (4) first and second language acquisition processes; (5) general principles for developing language proficiency. Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Students pursuing the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) must be admitted to and in good standing in the College of Education.
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