The Lion at Ickleton, near Saffron Walden, Cambridgeshire, has opened a community café to provide a safe space to help people connect and socialise. Pub is the Hub regional advisor, Terry Stork, with volunteers at The Lion The pub was re-opened in June after members of the local community raised £440,000 for the purchase. The […] The post Pub’s community café aims to combat isolation first appeared on Beer Today. The post Pub’s community café aims to combat isolation appeared first ...| Beer Today
The loneliness epidemic. I hear that a lot of people are lonely these days, so lonely in fact, that now the news and media are calling it an epidemic. It seems that there are so many people who are feeling … Continue reading → The post The Loneliness Epidemic: A New Perspective appeared first on The Goddess Principles.| The Goddess Principles
The idealized model of a transactional data storage system is one of a sequential, serializable system, where clients can submit transactions and the system ensures the outcomes are as if those transactions were executed against a single copy of that data. In practice, performance limitations of this model have historically pushed systems to explore a wide set of alternative, weakly consistent models.| William Schultz
The infection of political insulation has reached college students. As twenty-somethings begin to dip their toes in political waters, there seems to be a ploy from the media urging young people to turn away from their political counterparts and only surround themselves with like-minded individuals, achieving pure political insulation. But does this philosophy actually move […]| The Chicago Thinker
The desire to watch Wolf’s Rain again has finally borne fruit. Those of you who have not seen this stunning masterpiece (I almost said flawless, but it does contain four recap episodes in a row) ar…| Medieval Otaku
Paint your feet in empty footsteps over uncharted spacious wonders, to bask in the desolate aura of freedom.Tremble in beloved and hapless isolation, under a cloudless sky,to cringe when nature ign…| Words and Coffee Writing
Mary Dahm and Shane Mauss reflect on how the Covid pandemic disrupted everything—and unexpectedly liberated Solos.| Peter McGraw
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The lake keeps secretsjust like the rest of us, holding them closeunder the watchful eyes.It sits there a while,a bleak tableau,painted in damp mist:a living wilderness.Once you’re inside, th…| Words and Coffee Writing
In A Critique of Snapshot Isolation, published in EuroSys 2012, they present write-snapshot isolation, a simple but clever approach to making snapshot isolation serializable. This work was published a few years after Michael Cahill’s original work on Serializable Snapshot Isolation (TODS 2009), and around a similar time as the work of Dan Ports on implementing serializable snapshot isolation (VLDB 2012), which applied Cahill’s ideas in PostgreSQL.| William Schultz
Database transactions are traditionally modeled as a sequence of read/write operations on a set of keys, where each read operation returns some value and each write sets a key to some value. This is reflected in most of the formalisms that define various transactional isolation semantics (Adya, Crooks, etc.).| William Schultz
The writer reflects on their challenging PhD journey, grappling with emotional and administrative hurdles while transitioning from a long-term role supporting neurodivergent youth. They express fru…| Autistic and Living the Dream
Jason Ferenczi reflects on the Artisans of Peace Retreat in South Africa and the need for nonrivalrous space and creativity in peacebuilding. The post The Power of Encounter appeared first on unRival Network.| unRival Network
How much will President-elect Donald Trump's administration pull back from involvement in the world during? Less than commonly believed.| The Bush School of Government & Public Service
Remote work loneliness is a real challenge that can impact your well-being. Here, you can discover practical ways to stay connected and thrive.| The Remote Filipino Worker
No man is an island. Because generally, meat sinks. However, once post-mortem bacterial activity happens in a sealed gut, then the increase of gases changes the equation. But even then, it’s only temporary. Because of the crabs.| Welcome to the Petting Zoo
Malgré son rayonnement, Greg Egan est peu souvent passé par mon blog et ce, alors que j'ai un certain nombre de ses textes dans ma pile à l...| www.anudar.fr
I would briefly like to bring up a topic that many have asked about as relationships in their lives change over time — loneliness. An acquaintance of mine from my seminary studies, Fr. Peregrine O.Praem., a canon at St. Michael’s Abbey in Silverado, California, has recently offered a wonderful lecture on loneliness, that I highly […]| Truth & Love
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