There’s nothing inherently wrong with commercial yeast, but I prefer to make bread this way because of the wonderful flavor and texture, the health benefits like increased bioavailability of minerals and nutrients, increased keeping quality thanks to the acids generated during natural fermentation, and the fact that it requires so few ingredients (just three!) to make something so delicious. When this gas becomes trapped in the dough’s airtight gluten matrix, the dough begins to rise, resulting in a final loaf of bread with a light and airy texture.Īll recipes on The Perfect Loaf are naturally leavened in other words, you won’t find any commercial yeast or instant yeast here. The wild yeasts produce carbon dioxide gas and ethanol during fermentation. Generally speaking, bacteria are primarily responsible for producing organic acids (lactic acid and acetic acid) that contribute to sourdough bread's flavor, texture, and storage qualities. A sourdough starter culture is used to seed fermentation in new dough when making sourdough bread. Sourdough is a specific type of bread created through a natural fermentation process involving suitable bacteria and wild yeasts in the environment (i.e., the air and even a baker’s hands) and, most importantly, on the grain itself. But, before we go on this beginner’s sourdough bread recipe, let’s first take a look at what sourdough bread is. This how-to guide starts with explaining baking terms and definitions so that we will have a common vocabulary once we get to the recipe.Īnd then, each step of the process has lots of information to ensure you understand what is happening and what to do. That’s why I’ve put together this beginner's sourdough bread tutorial and recipe-it will give you confidence as you take your first steps in baking sourdough bread from your home kitchen. Starting to make your first loaf of sourdough bread can be daunting. This recipe will give you confidence as you take your first steps in baking sourdough bread from your home kitchen. It’s such a simple thing, and yet it brought me so much joy to see my family and friends tear into a freshly baked loaf that I wanted to bake every day of every week. It was–and still is–exciting to mix such elemental ingredients and to see them produce beautiful, life-giving sustenance: it is modern-day alchemy. There was something about the whole bread-making process that I found captivating. Be sure to see the end for a complete video walkthrough of me making this recipe! My Beginner's Sourdough Bread has a light, open crumb (interior) with a deeply-colored, crunchy crust.Īs the new obsession set in, I started making fresh sourdough bread for every meal. This Beginner's Sourdough Bread post has several videos where I walk you through each step of the sourdough bread-making process. And you know what? We ate the entire thing. “Yeah, pretty good bread.” Only later did she fess up that it was “actually just okay, to be honest.” But all-in-all the bread had a nice rise, a crunchy and well-colored crust, and it did taste great considering it was my first loaf of any kind of bread. I folded ever-so-gently while I held my bread until, hours later, I pulled my first sourdough from the oven. ![]() It wasn't until I read a sourdough book cover to cover and painted it with post-it notes, highlights, and dog-eared pages that I felt ready to put my newborn sourdough starter to work. I'd heard others talk about flat and dense loaves-dough that never rose. ![]() I was intimidated to make my first loaf of sourdough bread.
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Only after this step, you’ll see the new connection created inside DBeaver and ready for use. If you don’t, drop me a line in the comments section for help.įinally, click the Finish button. You should receive a popup message saying Connected. ![]() While on the same screen, click the Test Connection button. Feel free to change it to whatever you want. I’ve changed the connection name to local. Let’s change the name of this new connection. Step 5: Configure the connection settings Click the dropdown list, locate and select the value of UTC as shown in the diagram below. ![]() Locate the Server Time Zone field under Advanced Settings. While you are on the same screen, click the Edit Driver Settings button.Ĭlick the Connection properties section and make sure to add the configurations settings listed. In the Password field, enter the password you allocated when installing MySQL Database Server.Īt the bottom of the screen, make sure the Driver name is MySQL 8+. Most of the configuration settings are already populated on the next screen. Make sure to have SQL selected on the left-side menu, then click the icon named MySQL 8+. The process starts by selecting the database you are trying to connect to. Open up DBeaver, click the Database menu and then select the New Database Connection menu item. The installation is a few simple steps and you get it up and running in no time. If you don’t have it installed, hit up their website and download a copy of the software. ![]() What’s DBeaverĭBeaver is a multi-platform, multi-database management tool for developers, database administrators, and analysts.ĭBeaver supports a variety of database engines including MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, MS Access, Teradata, Firebird, Apache Hive, Phoenix, Presto and many others. You will need it later to connect to the database. Once complete, double-click the installer and follow the steps to install the database server on your computer. Select the first option and click the Download button. If you already have MySQL Server installed on your computer, you may skip this section. If you wish to have a version of this blog post that targets Windows computers, just drop me a line in the comments section below. That’s why I am combining all the steps to generate a database dump in one place.ĭisclaimer: I am using a MacBook Pro to demonstrate all the steps. I had to resort to my best friend Google and source the bits and pieces in a few blog posts. While trying to generate a dump database using DBeaver, I stumbled across a few challenging issues. Oh, and the heating bill will be about £15,000 per month in winter. They later determined that renovations could cost more than £20 million. So they snapped up the castle for £5.5 million in February 2023. ![]() ‘The market’s moved three per cent in 20 years, it’s insane,’ Stephen mutters. They only wanted a place to spend the summers, when Vegas gets too hot, but London just didn’t seem like good value. That strategy has worked time and time again, but it may be tested with their latest project, in which we’re currently having high tea: this Grade I listed, 1,000-year-old, 19,000-square-foot, 140-acre medieval fortified manor house and estate staring over the English Channel from coastal Kent. ‘When my wife buys property she buys low and then she sells high,’ Stephen says. They have 11 houses, including a gargantuan penthouse in Las Vegas, plus places in Hawaii, the British Virgin Islands, and two in their native Canada. For the past 25 years, ever since they met at a plastic surgery convention in New Orleans (where Stephen knew he’d marry her ‘within 30 seconds of talking to her’), they’ve built, then rebuilt, then expanded everything – from their family (eight children at the last count) to their physical appearances (mostly Ann’s), to their business interests (surgery, finance, TV work, philanthropy, and more) and, perhaps most ambitiously, their property portfolio. The Mulhollands, both 63, are experienced with fixer-uppers. Just repairing the roof tiles was £1 million.’ ‘It’s why my wife deducted a good chunk off the purchase price. Sitting opposite, picking suspiciously at his slice of simnel cake and sharing a pot of green tea, her husband, Stephen (incidentally, a plastic surgeon) nods with alacrity. Fire alarms, new wiring, new plumbing, new boiler, the tunnels… Then we needed to hire people to manage it, run it, clean it out…’ ![]() ![]() ‘Literally, we’ve had to do everything here you can’t see. ‘Buying a castle,’ muses Ann Kaplan Mulholland, ‘is like going to see your doctor and saying you want a facelift, and he goes, “OK, but first you’re going to need a colonoscopy.”’ With a small fork, she separates a morsel of gluten-free, vegan spiced carrot cake, which she will not eat for another hour, and floats a perfectly manicured hand around the Great Hall of Lympne Castle in Kent, her new home. Who needs to strategize when you and 3 other toons can just layer sound and destroy a line of level 12's? In the current gamestate, players who don't have sound are yelled at and oft left to go sad if possible, on Board of Director battles. Sound feels like the easy way out of every fight in the game. Give sound reduced damage and no bonus damage, but make its stun more useful. Not so much a tweak as a new system in the gane, I reckon. In my time playing, I've kinda regretted getting drop, and I really wish I could change it out for lure or sound earlier on. Alot of these useful invasions keep happening in districts no-one can access, leaving everyone else to slog through much tougher enemies to train up on.Ī respec system. A way to rejoin your team after a crash would be a right proper blessing. Improved party system: I tried to do my first VP last night, only to have the game crash and burn at the very final phase. ![]() Thanks for sticking with us for another Backstage Column, and don't forget to comment about your suggestions and tweaks!Ī few things that I'd like to see tweaked would be: The most exciting details are yet to come. We can't wait to see what you think, and what you come up with for us!īe sure to follow the OMG!Con 2016 news as well - we're talking about that event so much for a reason, you know, and it's not just so that we get some more free pies to the face. You'll see the first small set of Tweaks in the coming weeks, followed by many more as time goes on. We're always listening, but now more than ever, we want YOU to send in your ideas on what small changes could make Toontown a better place for everyone!ĭo you have ideas for new ToonTasks? New Rewards? Ways to make the game easier, harder, and more fun? What kind of things could be redesigned to bring the game up to date? Are there things in other games that you think could work well in Toontown? We'd love to hear your answers to these questions, and many, many, more. While we may not get a list of release notes quite so long, this means that Tweaks will be released sooner, right when they're ready, rather than stored up as one huge update - which results in more great changes for Toontown! We Need YOU!Īs it turns out, making Tweaks to Toontown was a bigger blessing than we thought! We've made so many adjustments that a lot of our own suggestions have already been implemented, which is where you come in. Keeping in the spirit of the community-suggested update, we've listened to YOU and decided to release the tweaks as they are developed rather than saving them up for one big update. You may have forgotten that some of those changes used to be different! A Newly Fabricated FormulaĪlthough we all LOVED seeing a release note list that long, you may have noticed lately that since a lot of the original game's content has been released, we've been lacking release notes at all! You can view the whole list over here on the final Toontown Tweaks Blog Post from last year. That post turned into one of our largest updates EVER, resulting in some of the biggest and most loved changes for the game. The idea was a hit, and so we proudly put together a big update consisting entirely of community-suggested tweaks. ![]() Last year, we released a Backstage post just like this one where we talked about making a couple of Tweaks to Toontown. ![]() Just like last year, we're going to talk about making. There's a lot we've been working on, but first it's time to talk about something more along the lines of the "classics" in terms of updates. ![]() Did you miss us? We're back for another exciting Backstage Column, where we talk about the inside scoop of the Toontown Rewritten team. ![]() An April 1973 Rolling Stone interview dubbed the erstwhile teen-pop star “The Formerly Little Stevie Wonder” and quoted the 23-year-old as saying that he wanted to “get in as much weird shit as possible” 1973’s Innervisions was a start. He opened for The Rolling Stones on their enormous US summer tour, exposing his exploratory soul-funk hybrid to countless rock fans, and released his second opus Talking Book before the end of the year. On the heels of his first post-Motown-emancipation masterpiece Music of My Mind, 1972 was Stevie Wonder’s biggest year yet. Sonically, culturally, and emotionally, Songs in the Key of Life is much more than a gigantic collection of songs it forms an entire worldview. ![]() It starts in deep space with the Afrofuturist “Saturn,” a sci-fi fantasia that evokes no less than The Alan Parsons Project, but as that song’s last synthesizer chords fade out, Wonder zooms light-years in to an urban playground, where we can hear the sound of Black children skipping double Dutch. Then Wonder’s own child, the recently born Aisha, shows up in the sugary sweet Girl Dad anthem “Isn’t She Lovely.”Īs Songs in the Key of Life nears its conclusion, Wonder clears the dance floor for 15 minutes of sumptuous gospel-disco in “As” and “Another Star.” But the album’s defining moment might come on a bonus track, one originally issued as an extra 45 with the album’s vinyl release. At the other end of the spectrum: The stark reality-soul of “Village Ghetto Land” and “Pastime Paradise,” on which Wonder leaves the bandstand for the op-ed pages to decry the abandonment of the civil rights dream and “Black Man,” which de-centered the Eurocentric history curriculum over a track as funky as anything Wonder yet recorded, culminating in a classroom call-and-response with a group of schoolchildren. Think we’re kidding? Start with the brassy, hook-filled, and positively effusive chart-topping singles “Sir Duke” and “I Wish,” both of which have soundtracked countless barbecues and wedding receptions for decades now. In the era of the overblown rock epic, Wonder had created the most sprawling, empathetic, and searching soul album ever released. The album was effortlessly melodic, broad in scope, deeply personal-and often just plain weird. How did Wonder do it? By positioning himself as the benevolent overlord of a vast self-drawn cosmos, one with a remarkable cache of songs: Songs in the Key of Life runs nearly 90 minutes long, and rumors spread that there may have been as many as 200 demos left in the studio vault. More than two years had passed since Wonder’s previous album-an eternity, given Wonder’s previous productivity-and all that pent-up demand made Songs in the Key of Life the fastest-selling album in history (it would sit at the top spot of the US album charts for more than three months). ![]() But when Wonder’s next album, the sprawling double album Songs in the Key of Life, finally appeared in 1976, all was quickly forgiven. Was it a all ploy in contract negotiations with Motown? Perhaps. By telling the press that he was planning a farewell tour-and announcing he’d donate the proceeds to Ghanian charities-Wonder signaled that he didn’t feel his music was up to the challenge of making the world a better and more equitable place. He was also considering leaving the music industry altogether. In 1974, Stevie Wonder was a multiple Grammy winner and the most critically revered pop star in the world. ![]() ![]() Software description provided by the publisher. Terraria May 2011 Top 250 3 Open World Survival Craft Sandbox Survival 2D Multiplayer Adventure 9.99 2. Can you defend your garden from the zombie hordes and emerge victorious? Only time will tell! ZombieCraft.io is the WebGL version of Zomblock Survival (a Unity game) so you can play it without the need for a plugin. ZombieCraft.io is the WebGL version of Zomblock Survival (a Unity game) so you can play it without the need for a plugin. At the beginning of the game and you appear in one of the random locations on the map and have with you basic survival tools. You enter the world of zombie apocalypse and your only goal here is survival. Like its predecessor, Dying Light 2 is an open-world zombie game with survival elements and. ![]() Overall, Zombie Garden & Plants Defense game is a thrilling and challenging adventure that requires quick thinking, strategy, and a keen eye for detail. Polygon Survival this is a polygonal survival shooter with building and crafting. Sadly, however, a lot of people seem to be sleeping on Dying Light 2 despite enjoying the original. You roam through a city (the maps are huge) with your character as you scavange for loot and try to survive. The zombies will come in waves, each one more challenging than the last, so it's crucial to keep upgrading your defenses to keep them at bay. Top-down, tile-based Zombie Survival game. It’s phenomenal narrative, character development and world building stand apart from the perfectly crafted post-apocalyptic world and truly creepy zombies. With each zombie that you successfully defeat, you earn money, which you can then use to buy more plants, workers, and other resources to strengthen your defenses further. Arguably one of the best games of our time, The Last of Us sits firmly on many recommendation lists. These plants are placed in strategic positions throughout the garden to maximize their effectiveness. To enhance your defense, you can buy a variety of plants that are capable of attacking the zombies in different ways, such as shooting peas or lobbing projectiles. As you progress through the game, you will need to plant trees strategically and purchase workers who will collect resources like water and wood to help you fend off the zombies. In Zombie Garden & Plants Defense game, you take on the role of the principale character whose mission is to protect her garden from the onslaught of zombies. ![]() You can send documents up to 100 MB, so it's easy to get what you need over to who you want. Send PDFs, documents, spreadsheets, slideshows, and more, without the hassle of email or file-sharing apps. With What's App, photos and videos send quickly even if you're on a slow connection. You can even capture the moments that matter to you most with a built-in camera. Send photos and videos on the app instantly. When end-to-end encrypted, your messages and calls are secured so only you and the person you're communicating with can read or listen to them, and nobody in between, not even the tool. Some of your most personal moments are shared on the program, which is why it built end-to-end encryption into the latest versions of the app. The program voice and video calls use your phone's Internet connection, instead of your cell plan's voice minutes, so you don't have to worry about expensive calling charges. And with free video calls, you can have face-to-face conversations when voice or text just isn't enough. With voice calls, you can free talk to your friends and family, even if they're in another country. Download the desktop app or visit to get started. With the software on the web and desktop, you can seamlessly sync all of your chats to your computer so that you can chat on whatever device is most convenient for you. You can also name your group, mute or customize notifications, and more. With group chats, you can share messages, photos, and videos with up to 256 people at once. ![]() Keep in touch with the groups of people that matter the most, like your family or coworkers. The tool uses your phone's Internet connection to send messages so you can avoid SMS fees. Message your friends and family for free. This tool supports only 64-bits versions of Windows. The app must be installed on your cell phone so you can use WhatsApp 64-bit on your PC. Just like the Web app, the New Desktop App lets you, message friends and family, while your phone stays in your pocket. When the app finally got a voice calling feature last year it left us with just one question: when do we get video? Well, now it's underway. Because the app runs natively on your desktop, you'll have support for native desktop notifications and better keyboard shortcuts. The WhatsApp for PC offline installer is available for Windows 11, 10, 8, and 7 and is synced with your mobile device. It offers a user-friendly interface, dependable performance, and strong privacy features, enabling seamless communication with loved ones. WhatsApp, a messaging and video calling application, is utilized by more than 2 billion individuals across 180 countries. ![]() Similarly, kids can learn to anticipate outcomes and strategically solve problems. The consequences of a wrong move in these activities may be small in the grand scheme of things – but learning to consider potential consequences is a life skill that can’t be over-estimated. ![]() Mazes encourage kids to slow down, to think about their next move and to plan ahead. It takes fine motor skills to keep control of the pen, to follow the eye without detouring across the black ‘walls’. Keeping your eye on the right path, without crossing over the lines is a mentally active activity. Printable kids mazes encourage reasoning, memory, concentration and focus. They’re not just passive ways to pass time. Mazes give kids the chance to practice so many skills. Never mind sitting staging at a maze trying your best to find the answer…no need! Teachers and parents alike are going to benefit hugely from this addition. The full list of themes available in this download are:Īt the end of the pdf – you’ll be delighted to hear – there is a list of solutions for each of the mazes. You might also like to create individual workbooks using our other themed resources, depending on your child’s interests. You can print them all off as a book of mazes, or you can print one off at a time as you need them. ![]() This pack of kids printable mazes contains 20 different themes. For example, the car maze shows a picture of a car, the word ‘car’ and a maze in the shape of a car. Children will enjoy finding their own style, their own method, of completing the printable maze games for kids.Įach maze activity has a theme with a vibrant and colourful image, the name of the image and a maze with the same outline as the image. The imaginative child will craft a story while they journey from start to finish. The creative child may use as many colours as they have access to so they can create a masterpiece pathway through the maze. The competitive child will try to speed their way through, practising quick thinking. The perfectionist child will think ahead every step of the way. Wherever there are children, mazes are a great entertainment choice. If you know you’ll reuse the mazes you might consider laminating the printout so they can be cleaned and reused. Teachers may use multiple copies for students in their own classroom.Our maze puzzles can be used at home or in the classroom. You may not share, loan or redistribute these documents. Please note: All Childhood 101 printables are for personal use only, you may not use any part of this content for commercial purposes-that includes selling the document, giving it away to promote your business or website, or printing the file to sell. Having trouble accessing or downloading the file? Please try a different internet browser. When printing, select “Fit to printable area” (or similar) to ensure the page fits with your printer type and local paper size (these have been created at A4 size). Open the PDF and print the pages you require. RELATED: Looking for more problem solving for school aged kids? Check out our free, printable Easter Word Puzzle. Her love of Sudoku led me to the idea of developing a sudoku puzzle with a difference – just in time for Easter, these sudoku use patterned Easter eggs in the place of numbers! They make a fun visual problem solving activity to engage school aged kids in the lead up to the holiday. And they are so good for her – developing problem solving and logical thinking skills, as well as visual perception and ability to spot patterns. Our recently turned 11 year old loves Sudoku puzzles. ![]() Inside: Sudoku with a difference – four fun Easter Sudoku puzzles with Easter eggs instead of numbers. ![]() ![]() IBANs are used primarily for international bank transfers, as they identify the exact destination account for the transfer in one code. They’re always exactly nine digits long as they do not need to incorporate differing lengths of identifiers. Unlike an IBAN, a bank routing number only identifies the location of your financial institution, rather than the individual bank account you hold. They include four digits identifying the location of the Federal Reserve bank your account is connected to, known as the Federal Reserve routing number, four digits identifying the specific financial institution you bank with, and a final digit to verify the accuracy of the routing number using a mathematical calculation. Because countries use different systems for numbering their accounts, the IBAN length will vary from country to country.Ī routing number consists of nine digits that are unique to your bank, but do not identify your account. IBANs are composed of up to 34 alphanumeric characters, which include a two letter country code, a check number, a bank identification code, a branch code, and a basic bank account number. This means two individuals that hold a US bank account with the same bank will have the same routing number on their checks the bank account number differentiates between them. Unlike IBANs, bank routing numbers are unique to banking institutions, but not individuals. Also known as the American Bankers Association (ABA) routing number, or Routing Transfer Number (RTN), a routing number is assigned to a banking institution when it is set up. What is a routing number?Ī bank routing number is a unique set of nine digits used as a bank identifier code in the US. IBANs are specific to each individual bank account, so every account that uses the IBAN system globally will have a slightly different code, even if they’re held with the same financial institution. If you’re transferring money to a contact located outside your country of residence, you’re likely to be asked for an IBAN to facilitate the transfer. ![]() An IBAN, or International Bank Account Number, is a unique identifier for bank accounts around the world, usually used for worldwide interbank financial telecommunication. ![]() The wipe can be sealed and re-used so please take as many paw prints as you can.The inkless wipe may feel dry, this is normal and it will still work with the inkless paper.Inkless wipes are very safe but we do advise wiping your pet’s paw with a baby wipe/damp cloth after.If your print smudges or your pet’s paw is very furry, don’t worry we tidy up and darken the prints for you.This saves filling your paper with lots of your own fingerprints! It is usually best to have two people taking the print one to rub the wipe over your pet’s paw and one to hold the paper flat & still.Dogs are often more calm and relaxed after being taken our for a pee.If your pet has very furry paws please try to carefully trim the fur yourself or book your pet in at the groomers.The process is very quick and simple and won’t cause any mess as everything is inkless!.How To Capture Your Furbaby’s Paw Print With An Inkless Paw Print Kit Preparation & Tips Your pet’s paw prints will also be checked and any extra furry bits tidied up for you.Ī digital copy of your furbaby’s paw prints are kept on file for 6 months free of charge and this storage can be extended after 6 months if you would like that peace of mind they are kept safe for you. Paw print kits from Cheeky Little Prints are presented in a beautiful presentation folder so you have somewhere safe to keep your furry friend’s precious paw prints. If you’re uncertain about using an ink, returning to the aforementioned paints is likely the best solution.Another option is to order an inkless paw print kit so you can capture your furbaby’s unique pawprints without any mess and have them to keep forever. Many companies now sell dog-friendly ink kits, as well. ![]() Remember to always opt for non-toxic ink! Consider archival ink, as it is less likely to fade. ![]() Just be sure to check it regularly, otherwise, the pressing might crack. You can then bake the pressing at about 200 degrees Fahrenheit for two to three hours. With some wax paper, cover the mold and press your dog’s foot into it. Add water until you have enough to knead into a ball. This is actually a safe way to get a good imprint of your dog’s paw. You may wish to take more than one print to make sure you get a good one. From there, just dip your dog’s paw in the paint, then gently press it onto a sturdy paper for a couple of seconds. Tempera or water-based paints are also good as they tend to be non-toxic. These methods will likely work best and won’t cost too much. You want to use non-toxic products that are safe for your pooch. Anything that is easy to clean will also be helpful down the road. If you’re going to be using paints, make sure the paints are child safe. ![]() Don’t do anything if your dog’s feet are injured or cut. A quick wipe-down with a moist towel should be all that is necessary. There are several ways to do it.įirst things first: make sure your dog’s paws are clean. However, taking your dog’s paw prints yourself can be a fun DIY project and bonding experience. If your dog has recently passed away, some cremation and memorial services will take a paw print for you as a keepsake of your precious pet. Some manufacturers sell dog paw print kits that can help you get a cast of your dog’s paws. |
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