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For the second time in four games, top-ranked and undefeated Spartanburg Methodist was taken to overtime by an opponent that had designs for knocking off the No. 1 junior college basketball team in the country.
And, once again, the Pioneers survived.
SMC, in for an epic battle against a rejuvenated squad it had destroyed by 38 points in early December, rallied from a six-point deficit during the final three minutes of regulation and beat Denmark Tech, 79-76, at Bridges Arena to improve to 29-0.
"Not ideal," SMC head coach Jeff Brookman said. "But we'll take it."
The Pioneers, who have already punched their ticket for a return trip to the NJCAA tournament next month in Hutchinson, Kan., can wrap up a perfect regular season Wednesday night at home against the Limestone junior varsity team. Unless the Division II Saints send down some of their best players from the varsity squad, it should be merely a formality.
SMC's undefeated mark was seriously threatened Feb. 12 at USC Salkehatchie, but the Pioneers pulled out a 65-63 win in Walterboro only hours after they were officially named No. 1. Denmark Tech, despite the 94-56 loss to SMC on Dec. 2, played with the same confidence, and the Panthers owned a 37-33 lead at the midway point.
"At halftime, Coach told us that we had 20 minutes to do something that this school has never done and will probably never do again," said sophomore forward Ronell Crockett, a former T.L. Hanna standout who finished with a team-high 18 points. "We were excited. But at the same time, we were nervous."
Denmark Tech made back-to-back 3-pointers for a 68-62 lead with 2:45 remaining in regulation. The Panthers were starting to sense that a monumental upset was imminent.
But then Crockett hit a couple of free throws. After a loose-ball scramble that looked like a rugby scrum, SMC got possession and Chapman High graduate Jalen Nesbitt (16 points) went strong to the basket for a three-point play. Ben Johnson (Boiling Springs) of SMC then buried a 3-pointer from his favorite spot, the corner, for a 70-68 lead with 1:15 to play.
Denmark Tech missed at the other end and SMC drained most of the clock, thanks to a diving rebound on the offensive end and quick timeout by Cory Rush to prevent a tie-up, but the Pioneers missed two free throws with 15.9 seconds left to give the Panthers a chance.
Although SMC played smothering defense, Brian Bell of Denmark Tech got into the lane and released a wild shot as he fell to the floor and the ball went through the hoop with 0.9 seconds left to force an overtime period.
"They made tough, contested shots all game," Brookman said. "That shot was no different. But it shouldn't have come to that."
In the overtime, SMC point guard Travis Black (Spartanburg Christian) slipped in for a layup. Bell answered with a 3-pointer at the other end to give Denmark Tech the lead. Then Nesbitt gave SMC the advantage on a layup from an in-bounds pass. He hit a long jumper, toes on the 3-point arc, for a 76-73 lead. DaQuan Jeffries (Broome) banked in an offensive rebound for a five-point difference.
The Panthers, who went six straight overtime possessions without scoring, still had a chance at the end but missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer.
"They never went away," Brookman said. "They came ready to play. We were their Super Bowl. They played hard and they competed. In the first half, they outplayed us and got every loose ball. In the second half, we settled down a little bit. We'd been in this situation before, luckily, and we grinded out a win."
Kelsey Terry (Westside) scored 12 points off the bench for SMC. Black, who finished with nine, is the team's best free-throw shooter but was just 1-for-8. In fact, the Pioneers won despite going 16-for-33 at the foul line. Of course, in that overtime win against USC Salkehatchie, they were 0-for-21 on 3-pointers.
"When you win all of your games," Crockett said, "you have to overcome some things."
SMC survives OT to stay unbeaten
For the second time in four games, top-ranked and undefeated Spartanburg Methodist was taken to overtime by an opponent that had designs for knocking off the No. 1 junior college basketball team in the country.


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Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said on Friday it does not expect U.S. lawmakers' negotiations over the "fiscal cliff" to have an impact on the sovereign credit ratings of the U.S. federal government.
The credit ratings agency said it believes the same general conditions under which it downgraded the U.S. credit rating to AA-plus/A-1-plus from AAA in August 2011 continue to exist.
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S&P said the additional tax revenues and lower government spending that will come into force if no deal is reached to avert the fiscal cliff "would likely result in the U.S. economy contracting by half a percent in 2013 and unemployment rising a percent to 9 percent by 2014."
Even if Democrats and Republicans were to reach a short-term agreement in the next several days, that agreement would be vulnerable to reversal, particularly in the next few weeks, S&P said.
The rating agency said it expects that any deal that might be reached this weekend would be in line with its previous assumptions that the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 are extended "and additional measures are insufficient to place the U.S. medium-term public finances on a sustainable footing.
"Our existing negative outlook on the U.S. rating speaks to the risk of a deliberate further loosening of fiscal policy, for example, through a material weakening of the Budget Control Act of 2011 without compensating measures," S&P said.
President Barack Obama and congressional leaders were set to meet on Friday in an effort to divert a fiscal crisis, although there were few signs of progress in resolving differences over the federal budget and expectations were low for a deal before a December 31 deadline.
Instead, members of Congress are increasingly looking at the period immediately after the deadline to come up with a retroactive fix to avoid steep tax hikes and sharp spending cuts that economists have said could plunge the country into another recession.

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Trying to decide whether to circumcise? Here's a new study to consider. Research from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle and recently published in the medical journal Cancer suggests that men who are circumcised have a slightly lower risk of developing prostate cancer. The researchers in the study stopped short of saying the removal of foreskin actually helps to prevent prostate cancer, but said more research is needed.
Plus: Should We Circumcise Our Son?
The study of 1600 men compared two groups, those who had been circumcised and those who had not. Controlling for factors like age, race and previous prostate cancer screening, those who had been circumcised had a 15 percent lower risk of the disease. Researchers hypothesize, among other possible explanations, that the foreskin can tear slightly during sexual activity, which may allow bacteria and viruses to enter the body and eventually cause cancer.
Circumcision continues to be a lightning-rod topic among parents. Opponents call the procedure, usually done in the first days of life, barbaric. Activists in San Francisco went so far as to propose a bill that would make it illegal, although it was struck down. However, studies have linked circumcision to decreased HPV and HIV transmission, as well as fewer urinary tract infections.


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An Oct. 11 wedding is being planned by Nicole Nocera and Jason Thompson, both of Butler.
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The bride-elect is a 2003 graduate of Butler High School, a 2007 graduate of Mercyhurst University and a 2012 graduate of Robert Morris University.
She is a substitute teacher for area schools.
Her fiance graduated in 2002 from Clarion-Limestone High School and in 2012 from Triangle Tech.
He is employed as a PLC technician for Traco in Cranberry Township.


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Welcome to the Virus Encyclopedia of Panda Security.
Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95
Lineage.LJO is a virus that spreads to other computers by copying its code to other files or programs.
It captures certain information entered or saved by the user, with the corresponding threat to privacy:
passwords saved by certain Windows services.
It uses stealth techniques to avoid being detected by the user:
Lineage.LJO uses the following propagation or distribution methods:
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Okay, I hesitate to share this info with you because of the potential hazards, but like a terrain 5 rated cache you can decide what is in your best interests.
It is possible to create your own custom Garmin maps and upload them with MapSource to your GPS. The only risk is you can render your GPSr into a nice dash ornament if you do something wrong. If you are not happy with that kind of risk, read no further.
Step by step instructions are available here: http://www.gpsinformation.org/adamnewham/article2/The example shown is building a golf course map for your GPS.
Another site here: http://www.keenpeople.com/index.php?
I've used the MapEdit (http://www.geopainting.com/en/) approach and found it to be intuitive and very slick. You can import shapefiles (one of the most common GIS formats) and do customization and labeling. You can also load raster (image) layers like orthophotos and then digitize features over top of them.
Anyway, hope this potentially new found power to create maps doesn't distract too much from caching.


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The bq2945xx family of products is a secondary-level voltage monitor and protector for
Li-Ion battery pack systems. Each cell is monitored independently for an overvoltage condition.
Based on the configuration, an output is triggered after a fixed delay if any of the two or three
cells has an overvoltage condition. This output is triggered into a high state after an overvoltage
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Well, I had a great time at this workshop. I absolutely love my group, The Fab5 (Savannah, DeeJay, John, and Helen); we worked so well with each other. Our photo PSA got published in the newspaper and we just have been so creative and just made the most out of this week that we had together. I really am going to miss them, In the beginning I'm going to be honest I did not think that me and my group were going to get along but in the end I think that we are the best group when it comes to teamwork. We always stick together.
Some of the pressure was taken off the week with the help of " The Guhs."(Jonathon, Malaizsa, and Danalycia), we had a lot of fun this week laughing and joking around and going on adventures. It was fun though. They just are so hilarious!
Also Ashleigh, my Roomie, she is so sweet I loved being on her company. She is also very funny and I just was very happy to have met her.
Yolanda and Will were hilarious I had a good time dancing with them doing the stanky leg and all that jazz. I love the way Will sings and dances he's really good at it. Yolanda is very nice and I hope that she does very well at USM in the fall.
Justina, Laurel, Elizabeth, Becca, and Ashley you all are AMAZING! Lol. But I had lots of fun with you all you guys definitely added some comedy to the group especially Laurel and Justina.
My councilors Keona and Jonathan were great. They did an excellent job helping us out and making sure everything was correct on our papers. Jonathan really helped me out with editing my article for the newspaper and we had lots of fun in the first day doing Broadcast Journalism with Keona.
To Dr. Campbell and Dr. LeDuff I just wanted to say thank-you for making this opportunity available for high school student like us to expand our horizons and hopefully help us to choose a career path. This workshop definitely gave me some insight.
To Jarred and Mr, Rodney thank you for being patient with me take after, take after, take..... after take!
To Mr. Justin and Sarah I had alot of fun with both of you all thanks for making it fun!
to Dr. Coleman and Chuck thank you for your your mind you guys helped me so much in developing a good picture and what is a good picture and the editing process and all the other stuff that comes with being a photographer.
To all my "Shopmates", I just wish you all the best in college and beyond. :)


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Interstate Department Stores, Inc.
List of Deals
- 1928 Interstate Department Stores: 7% cumulative preferred stock with common stock warrants
- 1935 Interstate Department Stores, Inc.
- 1937 common stock offering to stockholders
- 1961 $5,859,400 4 5/8% conv. sub. deb. due 1981 convertible into common stock
- 1964 offering of 200,000 shares common stock
- 1969 offering of 500,000 shares of common stock
Interstate Department Stores was incorporated in Delaware on February 14, 1928, to acquire the capital stock of twenty-two companies operating twenty-three department stores in the states of Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, New York, Ohio, Wisconsin, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
Interstate acquired the Aurora Dry Goods Company of Aurora, Illinois, in October 1929. Interstate earned $1.1 million from sales of $25.5 million in 1929. During the 1930s Interstate sales and earnings fluctuated from year to year, but gradually rose. Sales were $23.9 million in 1936, followed by an increase to $28 million in 1937 and then a decline to $26.9 million in 1938.
In January 1944 Interstate announced that it had arranged for $8 million of private financing for store expansion and to retire the outstanding preferred stock.
Even though the post-World War II period was a time of prosperity for the United States, Interstate did not benefit significantly. The company earned $1.4 million from sales of $62.8 million in 1948, and in 1957 profits were actually lower at $1.3 million on sales of $67.2 million. It was not until Interstate began an aggressive acquisition program in the late 1950s that the company began to grow once again.
Interstate operated forty-eight stores in fifteen states in late 1958, selling low- and medium-price merchandise. In April 1959 Interstate acquired the entire stock of White Front Stores, Inc., of Los Angeles for 16,393 shares and $600,000. White Front was a two-unit, low-mark-up operation, with volume of more than $20 million per year. This acquisition was of great help to Interstate, providing the company with record sales of $85 million in 1960, up from $65.6 million in fiscal 1959.
The company acquired the entire stock of Topps Stores in September 1960 for 16,000 shares and Maddi-Lou Trust for 4,000 shares. Topps was a privately owned, ten-store discount retail chain with stores in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Illinois.
Interstate entered food retailing in 1962, creating twenty new discount stores, seven of which sold grocery items. Each store averaged about 20,000 square feet in space, and they were spread out over eleven states.
In 1966 Interstate bought Children's Supermart, Inc., a Washington, D.C. area chain store consisting of four discount toy stores. In March 1969 it acquired Children's Bargain Town, Inc., an eight-store discount toy chain with annual sales of approximately $17 million. At the same time, it also purchased Steel City Department Stores, Inc., for $15 million.
Through its subsidiaries, Interstate operated 139 retail stores in 115 cities in the United States by 1969. Sales for the company grew from $115 million for the fiscal year ending January 31, 1961, to $641 million by 1969.


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Alec Baldwin's Broadway play Orphans is set to close six weeks early due to slow ticket sales.
The drama, about a gangster who is taken hostage by two brothers, picked up two Tony Award nominations for Best Revival of a Play and Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play (Tom Sturridge) last week, but it appears the critical acclaim was not enough to save the production, which opened at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater on 18 April and was expected to run until 30 June.
A post on the show's Twitter.com blog on Monday reads: "@OrphansonBway will play its final performance on May 19th. That leaves only 16 more chances to see this incredible production."
Editors at The Hollywood Reporter suggest Orphans grossed less than $500,000 in the last full week of April, with Baldwin, Sturridge and their co-star Ben Foster playing to audiences 70 per cent full.
The early closure news is the latest drama linked to the production – Shia LaBeouf was fired from the play after clashing with Baldwin during rehearsals. He was replaced by Foster.
Alec Baldwin's Broadway play Orphans is set to close six weeks early due to slow ticket sales.


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Categories: Criminal Law
Instructor(s) Klingele, Cecelia
This small section course focuses on the how legislatures define criminal conduct and how criminal laws are interpreted and applied in courts of law. Emphasis is placed on teaching students to carefully read and interpret statutes and to understand how statutory codes govern the ability of prosecutors to bring criminal charges and seek sanctions against criminal suspects. Students will gain an understanding of the roles of prosecutor, judge, and jury in adjudicating criminal cases, and of the Constitutional and statutory constraints on the ability of the State to pursue criminal charges. Students will also develop an appreciation for the law's limits in preventing and controlling undesirable conduct.
In addition to a traditional end-of-semester examination, students will be required to complete one short writing assignment and two drafts of a legal memorandum on an assigned topic relevant to the class. During the course of the semester, students will also be expected to observe several court proceedings.


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(n = 117; p-value = 0.0051; fold-enrichment = 1.23). Furthermore, we also observed significant overlap between the rs3737787 correlated genes and the 2,189 genes differentially expressed between FCHL cases and normolipidemic controls (n = 245; p-value = 0.0030; fold-enrichment = 1.16) (
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The gene expression variation between individuals in the Mexican FCHL fat biopsies is due to a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Ascertainment for disease status enriches the cases with factors leading to hyperlipidemia, and contrasting the cases with the controls will allow these factors to be more easily identified. We utilized weighted gene co-expression networking analysis (WGCNA) to identify gene co-expression modules summarizing the main trends in variation for the Mexican FCHL case/control fat biopsies. The WGCNA method clustered the 14,942 gene expression probes on the Mexican FCHL case/control microarrays into 28 gene co-expression modules (
Table S4
). Each of the modules was labeled with a unique color as an identifier. We then characterized each module for enrichment of functionally-related genes (
Table S5
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Even casual observers of the cryptocurrency space can see that the massive hype cycle in 2017 has subsided quite a bit and we're in a down market this year. This bearish sentiment isn't isolated to just cryptocurrencies. It's extended to the underlying blockchain technology itself. People are realizing it's not the technological panacea it was purported to be. It's not going to take down governments overnight. It's not going to swiftly enable robot proxies of ourselves to duke it out with our robot adversaries. Turns out, we can't even effectively trade artwork using the blockchain yet.
So naturally, as humans tend to do, we've swung the pendulum way too far the other way. Many crypto-influencers are castigating the blockchain every chance they get. The same people who touted its merits and declared anyone who didn't jump on the bandwagon would be left in the dust are now hurling pejoratives at almost every new blockchain project they come across.
The flavor of the week in blockchain criticism basically sounds like this:
Where X is one of PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB or any other widely used SQL or NoSQL database. If one of these databases has partitioning features (i.e. distribution or decentralization) then the speaker feels even more confident in slamming blockchains.
We get why the critics are doing this. In some ways they have a point. It's also an effective way to sound technically qualified and credible when speaking to an audience of non-developers. Even when speaking to developers, a simple statement like this seems smart and authoritative. Here is an example:
Miko is a pretty well known figure in the crypto space. We're not sure how much software development he does these days but we'll assume he's a fairly technical guy. We also understand he only has so many characters on Twitter to make a point. But we'll explain why his last statement is a . At the very least, even if he's right for your use case, we'll present some other important considerations when comparing databases (both distributed and centralized) to blockchains.
Let's first address the obvious advantages of centralized, traditional databases. Vitalik Buterin gave a nice talk on how much faster and cheaper writes and storage are when you don't have to decentralized things. Here are the highlights:
Blockchains are slow and more expensive. So what do they do well?
This is where people who haven't actually done much work with distributed databases make their mistakes when they say "blockchains are stupid". The most common things you hear are:
In theory this sounds great. If distributed databases could do distribution as well as blockchains do, then yes, blockchains would probably be obviated.
However, what no one talks about is that distributed databases are really hard to get right. Very few companies have done it well. In the next couple sections, we'll explain why.
Working with distributed systems is fundamentally different from working with single computers, and the main difference is in the number of things that go wrong. We didn't say go wrong on purpose, because as every experienced system administrator will tell you, all things that have the to go wrong, go wrong.
by definition, mean that we are operating on multiple nodes. The operational correctness of our system has to deal with the messy reality of the physical world, like long lived network partitions, switch failures, power outages, HVAC, etc. As a thought exercise, let's consider deploying a geographically distributed database over the internet, where network delays and connection timeouts are common. The internet and most internal datacenter networks (often Ethernet) are asynchronous packet networks. On asynchronous networks, a node may send a message to another node, but the network gives no guarantees as to when it will arrive, or whether it will arrive at all.
Essentially, when we don't receive a response to a message, it's very hard to tell why.
So what happens if the nodes of our distributed database lose messages? How bad is this? The answer depends on the use case of our application. Are we guaranteeing 100% consistency of our data and full auditability to our end users, or is it acceptable that some of the data is lost? Many of the distributed stores touted as "highly scalable" do not offer guarantees of data consistency. Some modes have no guarantees and some are consistent. With concurrent writes, usually one of the values wins and intermediate querying of the data by third parties produces one of the values, but not all. Similarly, if multiple values are modified in a transaction, the observer can sometimes see a random mix of the two separate sessions. Some systems are even designed to reject (or simply ignore) values once the write throughput goes above a certain limit (e.g. stream processing with AWS Kinesis). When building analytics systems, it's fine to lose a couple data points out of millions, but when building systems that offer strong guarantees around data consistency, linearizability, ordering and causality, we have to guarantee the fidelity of every single data point, even if it's changed concurrently by multiple users.
We'll focus our argument that on applications that require strong consistency guarantees. Bitcoin in particular is the quintessential application where consistency guarantees are crucial, e.g. losing track of a single Bitcoin transaction is a really big deal. The same consistency guarantees are critical for other cryptocurrencies.
Given the fact that communication between distributed database nodes can be unreliable, intermittent, or perhaps non-existent, our application using a distributed database (or our system administrator) has to be able to deal with data conflicts. Being able to deal with conflicts is the fundamental difference between standard distributed databases and blockchains. Conflict resolution, transaction verification and transaction auditability, i.e. consensus, is a core function of blockchains and has been built into them at a base level.
So what kind of databases are out there and why are they worse at achieving consensus?
The first class of data stores that come to mind are relational (SQL) databases. They do support transactions and they claim atomicity of transactions, which one would think would make them good choices for implementing applications with strong consistency guarantees. A popular comment related to SQL databases is, "use an ACID database if you're handling financial data".
But that really misses a large chunk of what we want out of consistency guarantees. Many popular relational database systems (which are usually considered "ACID") use weak isolation, and can cause all sorts of inconsistencies with concurrent writes. For example, if we submit multiple parallel value decrement transactions (e.g. on financial account balances), with weak isolation levels, we can easily end up with a negative balance. And these weak isolation levels (usually the default setting) are what makes relational databases scale well.
The fully consistent alternative is serializable isolation (i.e. one transaction at a time) and perhaps SSI (serializable snapshot isolation) which was implemented for the first time in PostgreSQL 9.1 and is used in FoundationDB. Another alternative is optimistic locking (typically implemented at the application level) which scales well, but only if you don't expect frequent conflicts. But how realistic is it to not expect frequent conflicts? In any retail store on Black Friday, how often does the merchant's balance have to change?
Let's now look at what happens with distributed databases if one or more of their nodes fail.
First, let's cover some of the standard ways traditional SQL databases handle distribution. Given that we want to have a truly distributed database we assume that the nodes are in different locations and don't use specialized storage or networks (like shared discs, e.g. NAS). File system replication (e.g. DRDB) can be used to implement fault tolerance, but any network partition will break the replication link immediately, very quickly producing "split brain" situations, which require manual file systems constantly diff-ing to resolve conflicts. This leaves us with the standard master-slave/standby models in traditional SQL databases. In this model, we have one node to which we write (i.e. the master) and binary log replication keeps other instances up-to-date. In the event of a master failure (stepdown) one of the replicas needs to take over. So far, so good, but how does this failover to the newly elected master happen? Is it manual (performed by humans) or automatic?
If the failover is done manually by a human (which is the safest in these kinds of setups) then we'll obviously have downtime. Someone has to be paged and woken up. They will have to assess the situation and decide to promote a specific replica to a master.
However, If the failover is automatic then there's a big chance things will go horribly wrong. Say some automated logic uses a timeout to verify that the current master is dead. What if the timeout is because of a network partition between the automated logic and the master? What if the master wakes up right after the timeout and it was just running a very taxing query that took all of its CPU resources and it needed some time to accept new connections? We end up with an inconsistent database very easily. Some writes can end up on one server and not another. This is exactly what happened to GitHub in 2012.
Okay, what about the multi-master (leader) replication model for SQL (e.g. Tungsten Replicator for MySQL, BDR for PostgreSQL, GoldenGate for Oracle)? While these systems can achieve cross datacenter replication (i.e. a truly distributed model) the same data may be concurrently modified in multiple datacenters and the application using the database must be able to resolve the conflicts. Alright, no big deal, we'll resolve the conflict with the most recent value, except wait, even if we do store timestamps with our data, how much can we trust our system clock? Yes, we have NTP to synchronize the clock, but at any given moment the machine clock can be off by tens of seconds or even minutes. This is why Google uses atomic clocks in their datacenters for their Spanner database.
What about NoSQL distributed databases, for example MongoDB? It supports sharding and implements a consensus protocol for leader election. It sounds like it would work, right? Not so fast. They use something called "eventual consistency", which is exactly what it sounds like. It's a whole 'nother can of worms. In "eventual consistency", writes can be but may actually never be This can happenif the writing node goes down before execution. They also have something called "linearizable reads", where a read request is only fulfilled after MongoDB checks to see the majority of nodes are returning the same value. This at least ensures all the nodes are getting back the same value, although at a performance cost.
The path to a consistent distributed database has been a rocky one for MongoDB and it could be argued they've done the most work out of anyone. It appears that the 3.2 and 3.4 MongoDB versions have finally implemented a working consensus protocol, however, there's still one problem — they don't allow for multi-document transactions (this might be different with MongoDB 4.0). What this means is that if we want to execute a simple withdraw and deposit to an account in one go, we are out of luck.
The good news for distributed databases is that there are some newer solutions that are very good at distributed availability and consistency. AWS DynamoDB, Google Spanner, Azure CosmosDB are a few examples.
Before we proclaim these solutions are blockchain killers, guess what DynamoDB uses for replica synchronization to figure out the correct version of an object? Merkle trees! Exactly what we see in blockchains!
Going back to the beginning of this post, while there are consistent, durable, linearizable, distributed databases that do transactions well, you can't "just use Oracle or PostgreSQL". Designing, running and maintaining systems like these requires the engineering talents of Google, Amazon and Microsoft, and even for them it's not easy. People often criticize blockchains as being expensive to run and operate, but don't consider the cost of running one of these aforementioned alternatives. Not all of these services are free. Next, calculate the actual and mental overhead of having to keep a change log of all previous writes for audit purposes. And finally, what are the costs of improperly dealing with a malicious node (which these distributed options don't address)? You can see how complicated this gets and why you can't just do a 1:1 comparison between blockchains and traditional databases.
Blockchains were built for transaction consistency in a datastore, allowing for auditability, atomicity, linearizability, durability, and most importantly, data integrity. From a data systems standpoint, blockchain technologies offer some very interesting ideas. They serve a similar purpose to distributed databases using data models and transaction mechanisms, where different replicas can be hosted by mutually untrusting organizations. The replicas continually check each other's integrity and use a consensus protocol to agree on the transactions that should be executed. Blockchains use cryptographic auditing that rely on Merkle trees.
To achieve consistency, blockchains follow the order-execute architecture. This means that the blockchain network orders transactions first, using a consensus protocol, and then executes them in the same order on all peers sequentially. This approach is what typically causes the performance issues with many blockchains. The execution is serial (much like the only fully consistent relational database mode — serializable transactions) and the consensus protocol (e.g. Proof-of-Work, used in many popular blockchains) can be slow and computationally wasteful.
There are alternatives to the order-execute model. For example Hyperledger's execute-order-validate can achieve much higher transaction throughput and allows for consensus protocol substitutions with less computationally intensive algorithms, such as Proof-of-Stake and Byzantine Fault Tolerant ordering. Setting up Hyperledger involves connecting multiple-nodes with services like Kafka and Zookeeper, which are battle tested components for ensuring strong event ordering and node consensus. Hyperledger's performance does degrade with adding more geographically distributed nodes, but a lot of that can be countered with the optional node gossip protocol. Similarly, Corda is moving towards parallel processing through heavy use of inter-node gossip protocols to achieve higher transaction throughput. It can also achieve higher throughput by replacing the consensus protocol with RAFT to significantly reduce the computing power necessary for node consensus (RAFT is a very popular consensus algorithm, notably implemented by etcd).
The aim of this post was to present a counterpoint to the mid-2018 trend of slamming blockchain technologies. It's really easy for a crypto-influencer to sound smart by saying "".
We believe people like Miko Matsumara are well intentioned. They have been in this space for a long time and are understandably fatigued by every layman and his dog starting a new cryptocurrency and asking for funding. However, we need to be cautious when stating that everyone should just use PostgreSQL. There are legitimate places to use the blockchain, particularly when you have many trustless parties, as Miko pointed out himself.
The key is to understand the relative strengths of blockchains, centralized databases and distributed databases and apply them to your specific use case.
Don't just use a blockchain because it's the cool thing to do. But more importantly, don't just use a distributed database because it's the thing to do.
Don't forget to check out our other technical blog posts!
Despite the millennial engagements dominating headlines, a growing number of reports show that young people are waiting longer to get married than previous generations.
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And most millennials cite a variety of reasons as to why they're delaying saying "I do." The same 2017 Pew survey found that the No. 1 reason (29%) that people in this generation remain unmarried is because they aren't financially stable enough. Twenty-six percent said they haven't found the right person, and 26% reported not being ready to settle down.
"Some people want to pay off school loans and other debts and get their careers on track before settling down," Syrtash said. "We used to move from our parents' home to a home with our partners and grow up with our partners — and today, many people get married years after school, after they've established their lives as adults."
Despite millennials' tendency to delay getting hitched, an April survey from the dating website eHarmony found that they're the happiest in their relationships compared to other generations.
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For Leona Neveu, 24, getting married to her husband last year felt like the most natural thing to do. "I never really had a timeline on getting married, but when I met my husband, I knew he was the man I wanted to spend the rest of my life with," the Western Massachusetts native told Moneyish. "Dating for two years affirmed that, and neither of us saw any benefit in waiting for years and years before making it official."
Neveu believes too many people her age get hung up on finding "the one." "Even if I waited to get married until I was 35, I can guarantee there will still be growth and change that occurs after that, and that I won't be the same person at age 60," she said. "If you keep waiting until you have everything figured out, you will be waiting forever."
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When someone finally sits you down and tells you the cold hard truth, it can be difficult to hear.
But if you want to get most of our life, you need to get to the heart of the matter and cut the crap out of your life so you can focus on what's actually important.
Here are 22 brutal truths about life no one wants to admit but they'll make you a much better person when you do.
Are you in pain? Are you suffering? Have you lost something or someone dear to you?
Guess what? Everything you have ever felt has already been felt by everyone else around you.
It's time to realize that your pain isn't special; it's just part of being alive. No one cares.
We weren't all born with talent. If there's anything inside of you that says, "I'm good at doing this," then you need to make your life about doing this . If you throw it away, you throw away everything.
Who controls your thoughts, your words, your actions? You do. If you do something bad or hurtful or wrong, it's your fault. Stay responsible for everything you represent.
Stop worrying about death or worrying about being remembered. Death is death—when you're gone, you're gone. Live before you have to go.
Stop running from your fears, anxieties, and pains. Admit that you are flawed and you feel things you don't want to feel, and then feel them. The sooner you do, the sooner you can move on.
Stop trying. Make sure you make the most important person in the world your friend: yourself.
Don't let money stand in your way from living your life. You don't need a wallet full of bills to make the most out of your day. All you need to give yourself and those around you is time.
Happiness is everywhere. In every laugh, every smile, every "Hello". Stop ignoring the happiness vibrating all around you in your search for a "greater" happiness. This is it, right here: enjoy it.
If you aren't happy on the inside, no amount of fortunes could make you happy. Happiness comes from the heart.
Don't make your life about grieving over others and worrying about the day they'll lay down and die. Death is a part of life; live life while you have it.
You know all those long nights you spent building your fortune, ignoring your health, your loved ones, and your life? When you die, those nights will be for nothing, because that money can't be used after you die.
Remember the you who lives in the place beyond your anxieties, stresses, and worries. The you who defines who you really are, surrounded by what makes you smile and what makes you passionate. Remember that "you" always.
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For the 15th consecutive year, UC Davis Medical Center has been selected as a Consumer Choice Award winner by the National Research Corporation (NRC).
The 2013-14 award recognizes a single hospital in each of 300 markets nationwide that health-care consumers choose as providing the highest-quality health care.
"The dedicated, hard-working health-care teams at UC Davis Medical Center deserve the credit for ensuring that our hospital is the destination of choice for care in our region," said Ann Madden Rice, CEO of the medical center. "We are gratified by this recognition from the NRC, which reflects the trust that our patients and the Sacramento region place in us to deliver high-quality, safe patient care."
The award is based on a survey conducted between September 2012 and August 2013 that covered about 270,000 households and 3,200 hospitals throughout the continental U.S. Health-care decision makers were asked to rate their local hospitals on multiple quality and image ratings, from best doctors to highest patient safety.
Out of 15 hospitals in the Sacramento region, UC Davis Medical Center received the highest percentage of "best" ratings in six areas:
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The classes will meet from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesdays, Feb. 12 and 19, at the University of Illinois Extension office, 1350 W. Prairie Drive in Sycamore. Marilyn Csernus, nutrition and wellness extension educator, will be the instructor.
Participants will learn how to shop for heart-healthy foods and stock a healthy pantry; strategies to include more fruits and vegetables in daily meals; how to select and use healthy oils and fats; ways to include fish, soy foods, legumes, nuts and seeds in meals and more.
At each session, participants will receive recipes, watch cooking demonstrations, taste foods to meet their dietary needs, and learn about proper diet and exercise to better care for their health. The fee for the program is $15 per person. Preregistration is preferred.
For more information or to register, visit web.extension.illinois.edu/bdo or call 815-758-8194.
As Valentine's Day approaches, thoughts center on affairs of the heart. But care of our physical hearts is every bit as important, University of Illinois Extension nutrition and wellness educator Laura Barr said.
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that cardiovascular disease is the primary cause of death in the United States, with one in every three deaths resulting from heart disease and stroke. That translates into 2,200 deaths per day," Barr said.
These illnesses are leading causes of disability, decreasing work productivity and stifling recreational activities. In addition, hospitalizations for heart disease and stroke cost more than $444 billion in health care expenses and lost productivity in 2010.
The top lifestyle risk factors for cardiovascular disease are smoking, a sedentary lifestyle and a high dietary intake of saturated fats and sodium, she said.
The expert said it's best to work on one or two habits at a time. Too many changes at one time may lead to frustration and the possibility of giving up altogether. Giving up smoking is the top priority; that habit alone can make or break your present and future quality of life.
Barr urged people to learn about healthy eating through credible sources such as universities, professional networks or government agencies. Internet resources or advertisements may have messages that have not been proven scientifically and are biased in their claims.
Find a medical group you trust and where you feel comfortable to establish a wellness file. An annual exam is a great way to prevent disease and illness. Have your physician review your weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides and fasting glucose to see if you fall in a healthy range. If you don't, talk to your doctor about changes you can make to your lifestyle.
The best way to maintain a healthy weight is to be more physically active, which also results in improved fitness and strength and better concentration and mood. Your health will also improve as you move toward a diet high in vegetables and fruit and low in sodium, sugar and animal fats.


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Saturday, November 14, 2015
Kickstarter - Gemstone Dice: Holiday Edition! RPG Polyhedral and d6 Sets (Dice, Dice, Baby!)
What is it with dice and Kickstarter recently? There seems to be more dice Kickstarters running at the same time than Ic remember happening before. I'm not complaining, just noticing.
Gemstone Dice: Holiday Edition! RPG Polyhedral and d6 Sets
is a Kickstarter running to fund gemstone dice. No, not diamonds and rubies, but semi-precious gemstones.
It's actually kinda cool.
Rach is tempted to ask for the snow quartz as a gift if the stretch goal is met. Of course, they do not guarantee the dice before Christmas, so "Holiday Edition" is a bit of a misnomer. Unless your gifting holiday is Presidents Day that is.
Me? The prices seem high, but what do I know? Maybe I need some gems in my dice bag...
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At that point the state invoked Act 248, which provides for the civil commitment of mentally disabled people who are a danger to others. Sexual assault, and lewd and lascivious conduct with a child, are among the acts which can establish that danger of harm. But when she applied to Lamoille Superior Court on February 27 for a writ of habeas corpus, attorney Gertrude Miller pointed out that the charge William had faced, lewd and lascivious conduct, did not rise to that standard — there was no child involved. Her argument was simple: The court proceedings of November 2006 that placed William in the custody of the commissioner of the Department of Aging and Independent Living (DAIL) were so flawed that they "did not and do not give the commissioner legal authority to have custody of Mr. Bennett." In court on March 4, Caledonia County State's Attorney Lisa Warren referred Judge Dennis Pearson to the police affidavit on which the charge against William was based. "It showed bodily harm to the victim," she said. "The state did feel there was enough to possibly charge attempted sexual assault." Kim Velk, the attorney for the DAIL, agreed. "It's not what's charged, it's the conduct," she told Judge Pearson. The judge noted that the state Supreme Court has recently grappled with that issue, and asked the attorneys for written arguments. Ms. Miller also argued that, in those 2006 proceedings, her client had given up important constitutional rights without due process. She argued that neither William nor his mother, who was both his legal guardian and "guardian ad litem" during his criminal case, had signed the stipulation that confined him to the state's custody. To that, Ms. Warren, the prosecutor, replied that the court needs to see a transcript of the 2006 proceedings. "The record will show that Judge Manley went around the room to make sure everybody was on board, including the mother," she said. Judge Pearson gave the lawyers until April 8 to read the transcript and file legal arguments. The upshot of the 2006 ruling was that William was enrolled in the Safe Choices program. It is run by Northeast Kingdom Human Services to treat — and protect the public from — men who have been charged with a serious sexual offense and judged too mentally disabled to stand trial. Asked in the courthouse corridor how she had felt about the 2006 stipulation, Ms. Gilman again became tearful. "I was really scared," she said. "I really did not understand what Safe Choices was. I had no idea. "I had no idea there were no real rules, and no end date — that's the biggest thing. "I had no idea the annual reviews would be so one-sided. "I had no idea they weren't going to provide the services somebody with a disability needs to function, to be a productive, safe, well-adjusted member of society." 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"I do have a learning disability — not a very serious one," he said. In the fall of 2010 Ms. Gilman got a court's permission to move her son out of Safe Choices and into the care of Sterling Community Services, a community mental health agency that serves Lamoille County. That didn't work out well either. William said he still received no education, but spent his time watching television and playing video games. He was placed in the home of Wayne Demar of Eden, who testified Friday that he and his wife, Wendy, cared for Sterling clients who were in crisis and needed a place to go. William said he wasn't happy at the Demar house. They were smokers, he said, and smoked in the car while he was a passenger, though he suffers from asthma. He said they also rejected his doctor's advice that he switch to a low-fat diet. And he found it hard to get the amount of exercise his doctor ordered. 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