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My cousin, John Jeffrey Ryan Jr was born on July 1, 1971. My aunt Cathy and uncle Jeff had three children. My mom and dad had three children. We were all of comparable ages. Their oldest, Allison, was close in age to my oldest sister so they always spent time together during visits. I'm 3-1/2 years younger than my older sister so there wasn't much hanging out going on there when we were kids. Too much of a gap. So when we visited my aunt and uncle, my younger sister (18 months younger than me) and I would hang out with their two youngest, Jeff and Patrick.
|Me and Jeff
Then life happens. My parents began divorcing when I was in 2nd grade. The divorce lasted for a very long time (and is a very long story), but the result was that we eventually didn't see my aunt, uncle and cousins anymore. It didn't happen immediately. My dad had custody of us (another long story about a very manipulative man), but my mom still wanted us to be able to go with her to see her family. Eventually those trips stopped. I don't remember why exactly. It may have been us kids acting like little poop-heads and whining about it (my dad really manipulated us to make my mom feel like crap), or it may have been because with my mom having to pay child support to my perpetually unemployed father, she had no money to take us. Either way, it happened and I went without seeing my cousins for eight years or more.
|Jeff's 1st Communion
I was learning Russian at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California and as coincidence would have it, my uncle was stationed there at the same time. He was a military doctor at the medical clinic. This meant that I got to spend some wonderful weekends with them all. My other uncle lived in the area as well so it was like a wonderful family reunion whenever I got over to their house.
|Pat, Jeff and Allison
Time passed and the Army sent me elsewhere. My uncle retired and they moved to Hawaii. As luck would have it, that's where my husband (boyfriend at the time) transferred to and I followed. We loved spending time on weekends with my aunt and uncle. I cherish those memories so much! My cousins would come out to visit a few times a year from California and my husband and I would make sure that we had time to spend with them all.
We got to see Jeff get married. He loved his fiance/wife so much, although I can't really say that we all did. She was in the adult entertainment business. I don't remember the details of her nasty little life, but I believe it was still pictures and stripping that she did...not movies. Despite what she did for a living my cousin seemed truly happy when he was with her. You could tell he loved her. Would do anything for her. In fact "anything" included having a pirate wedding...at sea.
|Jeff and his bride Angel
|Pat and Jeff
Jeff had gone through some hard times emotionally in his life and probably spent a little too much time hanging with the party crowd, but he had made it past all that now. He was really getting his life together and he saw all this as a new beginning. As a tribute to his parents, his wedding was held on their anniversary. So on December 27, 1999 we all went out to Honolulu Bay and boarded a little boat for the wedding. The bride and bridesmaids were dressed as wenches. The groom and best man, as pirates. The Jolly Roger was hoisted and the wedding vows were recited. Jeff looked so happy.
|Angel and Jeff the day after the wedding
|Cutting the cake the day after the wedding
He and his bride left a few weeks later. Life went on and within a few months I heard that they were divorcing. She had been unfaithful to him. Needless to say I would have liked to ruin that little face of hers...no one messes with my cousin...and I knew it was breaking his heart. Sometimes you don't have to ask.
Jeff spent Thanksgiving in Hawaii with his mom and dad. I was very pregnant. Jeff seemed to be doing pretty well. He talked about scripts he was reading and famous people he'd gotten to meet in Los Angeles. Despite the divorce (which wasn't discussed) he seemed to be at a peaceful place in his life. I took no pictures that Thanksgiving. It haunts me still. I will regret it always.
My parting words to my cousin before getting into my little Saturn to drive back to my side of the island was, "the next time you see me, you'll be able to meet the newest member of the family!" I hugged him and left. I would never see my cousin again.
|Jeff and his guitar
Jeff didn't want to spend Christmas in Hawaii in 2000. He wanted to take a trip to Greece. A great opportunity. He didn't say it, but we all could guess that his marriage ending hurt him and the fact that he dedicated it to his parents and had hoped it would last just as long, hurt him. To be back where it happened on what would have been his 1st anniversary was just too much. I truly believe that's the reason he really went to Greece.
I received a phone call from my aunt a few days before New Years Eve. Jeff was vacationing in Greece with two female friends and was critically injured in a car accident. The roads were wet and a semi-truck hit the car they were driving. They told me he was in bad condition. That he had been intubated and was on life support. My uncle and cousin, Patrick, were getting everything together that they needed and were flying out to Greece. As a doctor my uncle could hardly sit by and wait for news. He needed to make sure that Jeff was getting the care he needed to recover.
|Jeff, Patrick and Allison
My uncle and Pat arrived in Greece only hours after he passed. They hadn't made it to him in time. My aunt, all alone at her house was actually hesitant to call me because she worried it would effect my pregnancy. I found it incredible that at such a time she was worried about my baby, but I suppose the loss of one child was enough. We asked to come over. She wanted to be alone. It's such a hard position. You sit there and wonder if you should go over anyway or give the person space. It was a situation I was unfamiliar with. We did not go over though until she was ready for us.
I cried harder that night than I can remember ever crying in my life. He was one year older than me. He was 29 years old. He couldn't be gone. Even knowing how critical his condition was the possibility of losing him never had crossed my mind. He was my counterpart in my aunt and uncle's family. I was the middle child and so was he. I always looked at my cousins as siblings. Siblings that I didn't see as frequently as my own, but I loved them all that way. In my heart I lost a brother that day. I still feel that loss today and I cannot even write this tribute to him without using so many tissues.
My uncle and Patrick made the arrangements to have his body sent back to the states. He was cremated and his ashes were sprinkled at sea. That's what I remember anyway. The time was a blur and I tend to block out bad memories. I don't know if there was an obituary notice published. The burial happened in California and being at the end of my pregnancy, I wasn't there.
|Uncle Jeff and Patrick after the LA Triathlon 2002
At the end of my time in the military I was again stationed at the Defense Language Institute. Each year around September, Los Angeles holds a triathlon. Jeff used to compete. Now his family would come out each year to compete in his name. Those that weren't competing would watch and support those taking part. It was an event I didn't miss when I was stationed in California.
Every year, my calendar reminds me that today is Jeff's birthday. He would have been 40. I won't ever remove that reminder. I will never forget him. And while he may never have been able to hold "the newest member of the family" I have no doubt in my heart and mind that he has seen him. Has seen both of my children. I know he watches over us all as the years go by. He's not missing a moment and he will always be with us.
UPDATE: I have gotten a few comments/emails from people who remember and love Jeff. Even though he does not have a physical memorial to visit, I created a virtual one on Find A Grave so everyone that wants to can leave a message for Jeff. I love getting all the comments/emails from friends that knew and loved him. It is more meaningful and special than I can say. You can view the memorial by clicking here.
|Uncle Jeff after the swimming portion of the triathlon
|Uncle Jeff beginning the biking portion of the triathlon
|Uncle Jeff heading for the finish line


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VIDEO: @BishopHying of @MadisonDiocese in Rome for the ad limina visit 3 & 4
Posted on 13 December 2019 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
Bp. Donald Hying of Madison is doing brief videos each day. He has done so also from Rome on his ad limina visit. Here are two more. He has been visiting the Major Basilicas. We have seen St. Paul's and … Continue reading →
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VIDEO: @BishopHying of @MadisonDiocese in Rome for the ad limina visit 1 & 2
Posted on 10 December 2019 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
Two "Moments" with Bp. Hying during his ad limina visit. He has good insights.
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VIDEO: Bp. Hying of @MadisonDiocese – "Let Advent Be Advent"
Posted on 2 December 2019 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
Bp. Donald Hying of Madison posts brief videos each day on a range of topics. Today, he speak about Advent.
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VIDEO: Bp. Hying on St. Margaret Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Posted on 17 October 2019 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
Bp. Hying of Diocese of Madison loves the Sacred Heart of Jesus. As a matter of fact, at his installation Mass he declined to wear the chasuble with his own new coat-of-arms we had made especially to match what everyone … Continue reading →
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VIDEO: @BishopHying of @MadisonDiocese about suffering
Posted on 23 September 2019 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
Bp. Donald J. Hying of the Diocese of Madison is issuing nearly daily brief videos, just a couple minutes each, on varying topics. Lately, he concluded a 5 part series on suffering. Unfortunately, the diocesan channel on YouTube doesn't show … Continue reading →
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VIDEO – Bp. Hying of @MadisonDiocese on minimalism. Then Fr. Z rants at length.
Posted on 28 August 2019 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
Bp. Donald Hying of the Diocese of Madison is issuing brief daily videos. Today he talks about "minimalism and maximalism". This is really important for our individual lives and for the whole life of the Church, especially in these troubling … Continue reading →
Five short videos about CONFESSION from Bp. Hying of @MadisonDiocese
Posted on 26 August 2019 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
You might take some time to take in several of the daily videos from Bp. Donald Hying of Madison on a topic dear to this blog: the Sacrament of Penance. HERE GO TO CONFESSION! Here is the first of 5 … Continue reading →
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Posted on 16 August 2019 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
It has been a serious week. Let's have something a little less heavy. First, some memes that amused me. For a long-time reader who works for NASA Driving. And now to make you suffer. For the libs here. Welllll… … Continue reading →
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ACTION ITEM: Spiritual Bouquet for Bp. Hying
Posted on 8 August 2019 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
May I suggest to the readership your participation in a Spiritual Bouquet for the new Bishop of Madison, Most Rev. Donald Hying? Bishop Hying took up his crozier in Madison at the end of June. A Spiritual Bouquet is a … Continue reading →
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His Excellency Most Reverend Donald Hying has come to Madison as the diocese's 5th Bishop. On Monday, 24 June, Vespers was celebrated on the vigil of his installation on 25 June. You can see the ceremony and hear the Bishop's … Continue reading →
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A few months ago I published a history of how private English entrepreneurs were America's first settlers. But their businesses basically failed, and it took wealthy religious separatists to get English America off the ground.
There was more to the story of America's entrepreneurial roots.
A couple of hundred miles south of New England, the Dutch West India Company — the sister firm of the world's first publicly traded private firm, the Dutch East India Company — had founded the colony of New Netherland.
The best, most recent history of the period, "The Island at the Center of the World" by Russell Shorto, was published in 2004. Here are 11 amazing things I learned.
Captain Henry Hudson was a Dutch agent whose crew hated him.
Hudson had been fired from the English Muscovy Company for failing to find a Northwest Passage to Asia. It was a chance meeting with a representative of what would become the Dutch West India Company that changed his life. He was recruited to continue his search; this time he navigated his way down what he called (and what is still called by some) the North River.
Hudson would ultimately come to meet a grisly fate, as he refused to give up on his quest for a Northwest Passage. His freezing crew marooned him and his son in modern Hudson Bay.
Most of the earliest settlers of New Amsterdam were Belgian.
If you look at contemporary maps, you'll see the area was labeled New Belgium. That's, in part, because the earliest Dutch settlers, including the Dutch West India Company's third governor, Peter Minuit, were largely of Walloon extraction.
Yes, Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for $24.
Minuit was the Dutch West India Company's third New Netherland governor. He purchased Manhattan from a local Lenape Indian tribe for the modern-day equivalent of about $700. Shorto says the Indians were not swindled but rather expected the Dutch to enter into a military and economic alliance with them. For several years, at least, that was largely true.
New York's first city hall was in a tavern.
It was at the corner of Pearl Street and Coenties Slip downtown. It was long ago torn down, but there's a historical marker there. Here's what it looked like:
There used to be a wall on Wall Street.
It was built by slaves in 1653 to keep out the English. Here's a pic:
The main export from New Amsterdam: beavers.
Eighty-thousand beaver pelts per year passed through Manhattan. "Traders in New Amsterdam, with their ties to the world's greatest trading power, were among the most sophisticated on earth," Shorto says.
Peter Stuyvesant was basically Captain Ahab.
New York's longest-serving governor had lost a leg to cannon shot fighting the Spanish near South America. He'd previously been in charge of Curacao when The Company promoted him to run New Netherland. He ultimately comes off as a sympathetic figure, though his citizens started a quasi-uprising against him. But he loved New Amsterdam and had to be haggled by his own citizens into surrendering to the English. Here's a famous painting of the act:
New Yorkers and local tribes got along great, until a stupid governor massacred surrounding Indians.
New Amsterdam was dealt a severe setback when governor William Kieft decided to take revenge for the murder of one of his citizens by massacring an entire Indian settlement in New Jersey. That basically put all the surrounding tribes on a permanent war footing with New Amsterdam's leaders.
The hero of New Amsterdam ended up imprisoned by Dutch authorities and was massacred in his home by Indians.
Adriaen van der Donck was a lawyer by training and was called "The Jonkheer" by his fellow citizens as a sign of respect, and this is where we get the town Yonkers. Van der Donck sailed to Amsterdam to try to fight for New Amsterdam's freedom from the Dutch West India Company, and for his efforts was temporarily imprisoned by Dutch authorities. He was released but banned from serving office for life. Soon after moving back, he was massacred at his home on the site of the modern Van Cortlandt Park.
By the end, New Yorkers didn't care whether they were ruled by the Dutch or the English.
Shorto makes the case that New Amsterdamers were the first to have a true sense of their American identity and that this fueled Van der Donck's mission.
And the Dutch were already on the wane anyway.
The British navy was in its ascendancy, and the Dutch had provoked its ire by massacring English colonists in far-off (modern) New Guinea. This helped lead to two wars. And England's ambassador to the Netherlands, George Downing, was probably the most important diplomat of all time, having negotiated the Dutch out of several key American colonies as well as launching the slave trade. The Dutch West India Company went belly up.
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Lead researchers Stefanie Spilde and John Porcari at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, recruited 15 healthy women, ages 18 to 26, with at least an intermediate level of Pilates experience. Each subject participated in two, 50-minute Pilates mat-training sessions (one beginner and one advanced), following a videotaped Pilates routine for consistency.
Each subject first followed a beginner mat Pilates routine, which consisted of five minutes of breath-linked alignment exercises and 40 minutes of basic Pilates exercises that followed the original method of sequencing. Each session ended with five minutes of stretching and realignment. The advanced routine was similar to the beginner routine except that it used advanced techniques of positioning and pacing for each exercise. During each session, heart rates and oxygen consumption were measured and recorded, and subjects rated their perceived effort using the 6 — 20 Borg scale.
An analysis of the data showed that the intensity of the beginning Pilates routine was lower than the recommended guidelines for improving cardio respiratory fitness. The average percentage of maximal heart rate was 54 percent, which is below the ACSM recommendation of 64 percent to 94 percent. The advanced Pilates routine elicited a higher aerobic response, with 62 percent of maximal heart rate and 43 percent of VO2 max. This would be the equivalent to the energy requirements of walking 3.5 to 4 miles per hour.
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"Pilates has a long list of benefits including improved body mechanics, balance, coordination, strength and flexibility," said Dr. Cedric X. Bryant, chief exercise physiologist for ACE. "While the ACE study shows that a Pilates session burns a relatively small amount of calories, it is still a valuable addition to any exercise routine offering the essential elements of building a strong core and increasing flexibility."


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There is a common idea that women are underrepresented in tech startups because we are "nurturing and not risk-taking enough by nature", an idea often proposed and upvoted in Hacker News discussions. Roy F. Baumeister, Professor of Psychology, also argues something similar in his defense of Lawrence Summers' hypothesis that fewer women than men have high innate ability in science. Professor Baumeister argues that men evolved to take risks, and women evolved to play it safe, because we are allegedly descendants of risk-taking men and risk-averse women.
However, there are a few problems with this explanation of why women are underrepresented among tech entrepreneurs. One problem is that top venture capitalist John Doerr consciously and deliberately invests in tech startups run by white men over women and racial minorities, and even encourages other VCs to follow his lead. Even more, it is understood that this is "the way the venture-capital industry operates". While other industries call this "stereotyping" or "profiling", VCs call it "pattern recognition". In other words, there is systemic discrimination in the tech industry based on gender, as well as race and age.
Another problem with the hypothesis of female risk-aversion is that outside of the tech industry, women have been launching new businesses at twice the rate of men for three decades:
The phenomenal growth of women-owned businesses has made headlines for three decades—women consistently have been launching new enterprises at twice the rate of men, and their growth rates of employment and revenue have outpaced the economy.
Yet a third problem with this hypothesis is that a recent study suggests that women are not innately risk-adverse:
Many studies have indeed found that women tend to be more averse to risks and losses than men – they prefer options with higher certainty, and they prefer to avoid losses rather than acquire gains. But according to Priyanka Carr and Claude Steele, this apparent gender difference isn't the basis for sexual stereotypes, it's the result of them.
When the volunteers were just told about puzzle-solving exercises, both men and women rejected the same number of lotteries (around three on average). But when stereotypes were brought to mind, the women became more loss-averse – more than men who had the same experience, and more than the other women who weren't thinking about stereotypes.
Carr and Steele write that "similar gender differences observed in previous studies may have arisen not from innate and stable factors, but from powerful but subtle cues of stereotypes embedded in the environment and task instructions."
As a commenter pointed out, being reminded of your gender happens all the time in daily life, for women.
The more innocent, scientific motivation behind evolutionary psychology is to take known evolved structures and derive possible gender differences in behaviour, but neurosexists reason in the reverse: they see gender differences and derive that there must exist corresponding evolved structures.


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"Patterned ground" in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Frozen ground causes formations like these. Source: NSIDC
A heavyweight boxer in the climate change match is missing from the 5th climate assessment report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Friday.
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New images of 2013's Arctic sea ice mega-fracture have been posted on NASA's website. Sea ice fractures are not uncommon, though, according to NASA, the extent of this one is. Two things have combined this year to create the mega-fracture:
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It is National Severe Weather Preparedness Week, and today we're going to make a disaster supply kit. What goes in it depends highly on what your risks are, and the special needs of your family and pets. Water, food, and clean air are important things to have if an emergency happens. Each family or individual's kit should be customized to meet specific needs, such as medications and infant formula. It should also be customized to...
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Community invited to join in 'Messiah' sing-along
Refreshments, Christmas tree trimming and Hanukkah candle lighting will follow
The Brandeis community is invited to join in the annual sing-along of George Frideric Handel's masterpiece "Messiah" on Dec. 13.
Students, faculty and staff will gather in Shapiro Student Center atrium from 4 to 5 p.m. The program will be led by students from the Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra and the Brandeis University Chorus.
This year, for the first time, President Fred Lawrence will conduct the famed "Hallelujah Chorus."
Handel is regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time, famous for his operas, oratorios, and chamber works. "Messiah" was first performed in Dublin in 1742. After an initially modest reception, the oratorio gained popularity and is now one of the best-loved and most frequently performed works in Western music. Scores will be available for anyone who would like to join in. If you don't sing, stop by to enjoy the music.
At 5 p.m., following the sing-along, the Brandeis Catholic community will continue the celebration with caroling, tree trimming, eggnog, and kosher Christmas cookies; and there will be a Hanukkah candle lighting at 5:45 p.m.
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"We focused on illnesses where current medical treatment does not provide adequate relief or coverage of symptoms," Grant said. "These findings provide a strong science-based context in which policymakers and the public can begin discussing the place of cannabis in medical care."
Despite California's passage in 1996 of Proposition 215, which allows patients with a valid doctor's recommendation to grow and possess marijuana for personal medical use, the federal government classifies marijuana as an illicit drug with no medical use and has closed pot clubs and prosecuted suppliers. Thirteen other states have passed similar measures legalizing medical marijuana.
Proponents of medical marijuana see Wednesday's news as the turning of the tide for what they hope would become federal acceptance of pot's therapeutic benefits.
The report by the University of California's Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research can be found at www.cmcr.ucsd.edu.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/17/MNRF1C3964.DTL#ixzz0fvRdkJhr


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Ok, at this point, we have to take a step back and realize that we cannot avoid all coordination between the two layers. The distributed storage layer needs to be consistent with the order of updates at the transaction layer, because it serves reads and you like it to serve the most recent version, not an old version. OK, to fix this, what if we used a multiversion store and stage data for replication without coordination and consistency, and on top of this we commit transactions with 2PC? But who decides the version numbers? If it is the transaction layer, where does it learn the old version number: from the storage layer. And, this cyclic dependency will create a problem when the storage/replication layer is inconsistent and as a result inconsistent version number maybe learned and proposed back. A way to fix this is to use timestamps for version numbers. But that would require precise clock synchronization so that the timestamps also match the transaction ordering. I guess this would be possible to do with atomic clocks, or maybe with PTP.
Actually, it turned out the paper also resorted to a multiversion store, but did not need very precise clock synchronization, and went with NTP synchronization. In fact, they could have gone without any clock synchronization. Clock synchronization is only used for improving the performance, not for satisfying safety. The paper lays out a principled cross-layer codesign of a linearizable transaction protocol on top of the unordered/inconsistent replication. And the design is complicated as we will see below. This shows that if we had very precise and dependable clock synchronization to rely on, we can simplify many problems in distributed systems, including this one.
Of course a co-design, or a cross-layer design, has an associated drawback: now these two layers are tangled, and you cannot swap storage layer protocols and transaction layer protocols and expect any combination to work without problems. When using a consistent replication layer (such as Paxos replication), you don't have to worry about swapping transaction layer protocols; use OCC, or 2PC, etc. But, when using an inconsistent replication (IR) layer, a special purpose transaction protocol that works on top of IR is needed. Any OCC or 2PC protocol will not work because building over IR imposes restrictions on the transaction protocol. The paper proposes TAPIR (Transactional Application Protocol for Inconsistent Replication) as the transaction layer protocol to accompany IR.
The results are nice as they show significant improvement. They demonstrate TAPIR in a transactional key-value store, TAPIR-KV, which supports linearizable transactions over a partitioned set of keys. The experiments found that TAPIR-KV had: (1) 50% lower commit latency and (2) more than 3x better throughput compared to systems using conventional transaction protocols, including an implementation of Spanner's transaction protocol, and (3) comparable performance to MongoDB and Redis, widely-used eventual consistency systems.
What is not nice is the complexity this consistency relaxation at the replication layer imposes on the overall system design. IR is complex, and TAPIR involves even more complex ideas/techniques. It looks like this is inevitable complexity to compensate for the inconsistent/unordered replication at the storage layer.
Inconsistent Replication (IR) protocol for relaxing the consistency of replicationIn the IR protocol, instead of ordering of operations, replicas agree on the operation results. What does this mean? The unordered operation set provides the following 3 guarantees.
P1. [Fault tolerance] At any time, every operation in the operation set is in the record of at least one replica in any quorum of f+1 non-failed replicas.
P2. [Visibility] For any two operations in the operation set, at least one is visible to the other.
P3. [Consensus results] At any time, the result returned by a successful consensus operation is in the record of at least one replica in any quorum. The only exception is if the consensus result has been explicitly modified by the application (i.e., transaction) layer protocol through Merge, after which the outcome of Merge will be recorded instead.
What is this Merge business, you ask.
"Some replicas may miss operations or need to reconcile their state if the consensus result chosen by the application (i.e., transaction) protocol does not match their result. To ensure that IR replicas eventually converge, they periodically synchronize. Similar to eventual consistency, IR relies on the application (i.e., transaction) protocol to reconcile inconsistent replicas. On synchronization, a single IR node first upcalls into the application protocol with Merge, which takes records from inconsistent replicas and merges them into a master record of successful operations and consensus results. Then, IR upcalls into the application (i.e., transaction) protocol with Sync at each replica. Sync takes the master record and reconciles application (i.e., transaction) protocol state to make the replica consistent with the chosen consensus results."
Requirements from IR clientsIR imposes some hard requirements on the transaction layer. These limit the transaction layer and complicate its design.
1. Invariant checks must be performed pairwise.
This is the most restrictive requirement. "IR's limitation is that it can only support system guarantees that depend on conflicts between pairs of operations. For example, IR can be used to replicate a lock server but not a sales app that only sells thing in stock. The lock server's mutual exclusion guarantee is a pair-wise invariant, but calculating the store's stock requires a full history of operations that only strong consistency can achieve."
2. Application (i.e., transaction) protocols must be able to change consensus operation results.
3. Application (i.e., transaction) protocols should not expect operations to execute in the same order.
I don't provide explanation for the last two, because they are complicated. I am not sure I understand the explanation provided in the paper. This boils down to the following: the transaction protocol needs to sort out the mess of inconsistent ordering at the replication/storage layer, by essentially resorting to retry (with reordering) or abort (due to conflict) transactions and getting it right in the next round. This retry with reordering resembles the Fast Paxos approach. Due to inconsistent ordering at the replicas, this is the price to pay.
TAPIRTAPIR is designed to work on top of IR's weak guarantees to provide linearizable (strict-serializability) distributed transactions: (1) TAPIR does not have any leaders or centralized coordination, (2) TAPIR Reads always go to the closest replica, and (3) TAPIR Commit takes a single round-trip to the participants in the common case.
TAPIR uses clients as 2PC coordinators. A client Begins a transaction, then executes Reads and Writes during the transaction's execution period. During this period, the client can Abort the transaction. Once it finishes execution, the client Commits the transaction, after which it can no longer abort the transaction. The 2PC protocol will run to completion, committing or aborting the transaction based entirely on the decision of the participants.
TAPIR uses optimistic transaction ordering via NTP timestamps and OCC in order to concentrate all ordering decisions into a single set of validation checks at the proposed transaction timestamp. Under load, its abort rate can be as bad as OCC. The evaluation section shows a graph comparing TAPIR and OCC abort rates.
TAPIR protocol is complicated. To the credit of the authors, they provide a TLA+ model and model checking of TAPIR to support its correctness.
Finally, let's consider this question: what happens when the TAPIR client fails? Since client is the coordinator of the 2PC transaction, this is similar to coordinator failure in 2PC, and leads to blocking and a complicated recovery procedure which necessitates going to 3PC. In other words, TAPIR doesn't solve the 2PC blocking problem of transactions. A recovery procedure at the client level is needed if the client/coordinator blocks or dies. (RIFL, as we discuss below, considers almost the dual problem of IR/TAPIR and results in a cleaner recovery for the client level.)
RIFL comparisonRIFL also appeared on SOSP 15 as the TAPIR paper. RIFL takes a different approach to the problem. RIFL advocates building transactions over a linearizability layer at the replication, the advantage of which is cleaner recovery at the transaction layer. RIFL eliminated the complex recovery procedures of Sinfonia transactions, when the initiator (transaction manager) dies.
EvaluationThe paper uses Retwis Twitter clone and YCSB benchmark for evaluation. Evaluation is done on Google App Engine. Note that peak throughput is lower than both Cassandra and Redis, but those are eventual consistency systems, while TAPIR-KV uses a distributed transaction protocol that ensures strict serializability. Unfortunately the consistency violations in the eventual consistency KVs are not provided. That would be interesting to see and compare. They may turn out to be not so bad, as PBS paper and Facebook consistency papers point out.
Related linksLink to the paper
SOSP conference presentation where Irene does a great job of presenting overview of the ideas/techniques involved
The code for TAPIR is available here
Irene's blog post on lessons learned from TAPIR


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[INF 335C] Information in Cyberspace
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An overview of the history and social impact of Internet, Web, and other network technologies. Students will learn methods and tools of media creation with an emphasis on technological self-sufficiency. Up to three lecture hours a week for one semester, supplemented by web-based instruction. Only one of the following may be counted: Information Studies 312, 335C, 335W. *this course supersedes INF 335W as of fall 2016.


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Written by NPN Reviewers on May 11th, 2013
Babywearing, Natural Parenting Products, Nurturing Touch, Reviews and Giveaways
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From our reviewer, Momma Jorje:
My Organic Boba Carrier 3G arrived, neatly folded in a pretty box with a full color instruction manual including step-by-step photographs (also available online). This photo does not do the colors justice.
It is a beautiful carrier.
The carrier has several different adjustments you can make, but it wasn't overwhelming. It only took a few minutes to have it on and ready to load with a child. You'll want help the first few times you load a baby on your back, but with practice I mastered loading a back carry alone.
Spencer was cozy back there. He could get his hands up and out to play with my hair, have them go through the straps or just tuck them in close to his body. The carrier totally supports his body. His legs were higher than his bum (it is not a "crotch dangler.")
Spencer is about 20 pounds and is fairly easy to load onto my back. Sasha gets a bit jealous of him, though. On this day, she was sad and needing some reconnect time with me. She is 3½ years old and about 30 pounds, but I managed to load her on my back by myself after having practiced with Spencer. As you can see, she was thrilled to be on my back. She gets to sit on the counter and cook with me, but this was miles better!
This photo from the Boba site shows the colors better as well as a front carry. According to their manual, this carry is fine from 15-30 pounds. You see how these two are face-to-face? I found that even carrying Spencer (20 pounds, remember), he was too tall. I had to look around his head and would also hit my chin on him.
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The Boba will also work as a Newborn Carrier (7-15 pounds) by snapping the bottom (no attachments or inserts necessary). It works great as a newborn carrier, but I don't like the snap placement when I carry Spencer because he winds up with these little circle indentations on his legs. This may not be an issue if you keep your baby clothed, but I tend to give him lots of naked time. (Wearing a naked baby is a great way to hone your Elimination Communication skills.)
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Dialogues with Parents at Acorn Hill, A Waldorf Kindergarten
Nancy Foster
What an absolutely wonderful book! Nancy Foster has not only given us great explanation of just about everything parents new to Waldorf education ever wonder about, but she has gone on to give some of the best parenting advice ever written down. In other words, she has poured over 30 years experience as a Waldorf kindergarten teacher into the most concise, readable and useful wee book every printed on the subject teaching and parenting young children. This is a genuinely must-have book for anyone working with or raising young children.
Table of Contents:
Our Classroom Environment
- Color in the Classroom
- Why Curtains?
- Teachers' Dress
- The Significance of Candles
- Naming the Teacher
- No Cars and Trucks?
- What about Puzzles?
- Musical Instruments in the Classroom
Work and Play at School
- The Rhythm of the Morning
- Saying "You may . . . "
- Ironing in the Classroom: Danger?
- Boys and Waldorf Education
- Playing Cats and Dogs
- Music in the Mood of the Fifth
- Can Energetic Boys Enjoy Handwork?
- Gun Play at School
- Field Trips?
- Fairy Tales for Young Children
- The Challenge of Circle Time
- Puppetry and "Told" Stories
Children at Home
- Colors for a Child's Bedroom
- Older and Younger Siblings
- Boredom
- Telephone
- Bedtime Ritual
- Feeding a Child
- Swords vs. Guns
- TV Away from Home
- Barbie
- Forbidden Words?
- Appropriate Gifts
- "What did you learn in school today?"
- Toys in the Neighborhood
- Helping Children in a Time of Trouble – A Few Thoughts
- Is the World a Good Place?
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In trying to read others' reviews I pressed the add review and stars and it gave the book a rating of 3. If I had read the book I might have awarded it a 10. As it is I have only read the table of contents listed on the WECAN site – judging from this it looks fantastic.
@ Marcie Matthews – I just did the same thing. I am really looking forward to reading the book in order to review it properly.
Foster's book is a great read for several reasons. One, it is short and concise. If you have or care for small children, it's nice to be able to pick up and put down something that improves your brain. That said, I read the entire thing in just two sittings, because it was so interesting. For another, she answers questions that you may have about Waldorf education, about how to be a teacher in a Waldorf setting, or how to implement some of these ideas in your home with your own children. Finally, Foster offers multiple points of view, and explains her reasoning. The book is in a question answer format, since the columns came from the Acorn Hill Kindergarten newsletter. The topics range from the color schemes in the classrooms (soothing pastels) to handling your children's interactions with other mainstream (non-Waldorf) style families. She also offers some great advice in shutting down unappealing types of play among groups of children, which I imagine will start coming in handy for me with my children soon.