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Posted on June 9, 2014 by Angela Burrows
Sportsbooks Making A Push for World Cup Betting Action
The Greatest Show in Soccer is less than a week away, and the gambling action is starting to heat up as well. Bookmakers are salivating over the five-week tournament, and pulling out all the tricks to drum up business. Bitcoin books in particular are pushing the envelope. New to the bookmaking game since the bitcoin world is just now becoming mainstream, these bitcoin books are offering high-dollar contests to attract new customers.
Nitrogen Sportsbook (Nitrogensports.eu), one of the elite bitcoin sportsbooks in the world, is one of those bitcoin books with a lucrative contest. Nitrogen is planning on giving away up to 20 bitcoins in their contest. In addition to a handicapping contest, Nitrogen plans on running trivia contest throughout the tournament, giving away bitcoins in the process.
Anonibet is offering 22 bitcoins in their World Cup contest. The Granddaddy of Bitcoin books, in business since 2011, Anonibet will give away a 10 bitcoin first prize to the player who has the most winning accumulative odds at the end of the World Cup. Smaller prizes will go out to the second and third place finishers.
Billions of dollars are expected to be wagered on in this year's World Cup. While the vast majority of this action will go through traditional sportsbooks, bitcoin books are hoping to grab a piece of that action. "It's a great way to get our name out there," says one bitcoin sportsbook rep. "We are the wave of the future as far as sportsbooks go, and having a solid tournament will show we mean business."
Yankees Small Underdogs on the Road In Kansas City
New York Yankees (+120) at Kansas City Royals (-130, 7.5 O/U )
The Yankees are having trouble scoring runs. New York, 31-31 on the season, haven't scored more than four runs in a game since May 27. Injuries have taken a toll. Carlos Beltran has been ineffective since coming off the disabled list. Mark Teixeira is hitting just .176 in his last 16 games. Derek Jeter, one of the least productive players in the major leagues this season, has just three hits over his last 26 at-bats.
Left-hander Vidal Nuno takes the mound tonight for the road team Yankees. He is 1-2 on the year with a 4.50 ERA. Nuno had gone three straight starts pitching at least six innings until tagged him for two runs on six hits before not making it out of the fifth inning. The Yankees, 4-5 in his starts, have gone over 44% of the time in those starts.
The Kansas City Royals will send left-hander Jason Vargas out as their starter; he has a 5-2 record so far in 2014. Vargas worked eight strong innings at St. Louis on Wednesday, giving up just two runs on nine hits and two walks. He got a no-decision in an extra-inning loss. In only three of 13 starts has he given up more than two earned runs. The Royals have gone over the total in 36% of his starts. Forecasts are calling for 68°F temperatures with winds blowing at 13 mph. The humidity will be around 78%. There is a 60% chance of precipitation.
New York Yankees versus Vargas: 30 years old left-hander, 6'0" 215 pounds. Throws: fastball, changeup, curve,
Finesse Pitcher : 2013 velocity, 87.7: 2014 velocity, 86.6: velocity over the last two weeks, 86.7
Walks, 21 (3 per game) : Strikeouts, 23 (7.4) : Stolen Bases, 9 (30 SBs)
Kansas City Royals versus Nuno: 25 years old left-hander, 5'11" 195 pounds. Throws: fastball, slider, curve, changeup
Fly Ball, Finesse Pitcher : 2013 velocity, 88: 2014 velocity, 88.6: velocity over the last two weeks, 88.6
Posted on June 9, 2014 by Phil Roper
Rangers In Trouble, Take On Kings in Critical Game 3
The New York Rangers haven't trailed in regulation time yet in the Stanley Cup Finals. That's good news most of the time. But the Rangers inability to put the LA Kings away have left New York down 0-2 heading into Game 3 at Madison Square Garden tonight.
"We just didn't get the bounces in overtime," says Mats Zuccarello. "We've got to limit our mistakes. Hopefully the fans will be behind us and give us a good boost."
Rangers' coach Alain Vigneault had this to say at Sunday's news conference:
QUESTION: How concerned are you with Richards' game in Game2? Do you feel changes might be necessary as far as the forward alignment?
VIGNEAULT: I mean, I'm sure Brad, with his experience, knows that their whole line needs to be better. If you look at the stats on that night, it obviously wasn't one of their better nights.
But they're veteran guys. They've been around. They can evaluate their game real well. I'm sure they're going to have a good bounce back game tonight.
QUESTION: Take a look at the success of the fourth line, the way they got the puck in, cycled. Is that a message if you keep it simple you'll have more success?
VIGNEAULT: I would say to you that our three lines last game did exactly that. They got pucks below the top of the circles. We spent a lot of time in their end cycling pucks, getting pucks on the net, getting opportunities.
Chance-wise we're right there with them. We played some good hockey. We got a little bit unfortunate in that last third period. But, you know, we're right there. We feel real good about our game. Going to be a great night to be hockey fans tonight.
QUESTION: Marty St.Louis said it took him a while to get comfortable in this lineup. When did you see him get comfortable and what did that look like to you?
VIGNEAULT: Marty is real dominant on himself. When he got here, offensively he wasn't producing to the pace he was used to, the way he wanted to.
He was doing a lot of other things real well. He was playing, in my estimation, the right way. When you play the right way, you give yourselves a chance. Even though he wasn't on the score sheet, our team was doing what's important: we were winning a lot of hockey games.
When we got into the playoffs, he was still playing the right way, found a way to get on the score sheet. Obviously you only get to this stage if your top players are doing that.
QUESTION: After the way Game1 ended, was Girardi's Game2 even more impressive?
VIGNEAULT: I personally wasn't impressed in the sense that I knew that's how he was going to respond. Dan has got a lot of mental capabilities. He got unfortunate there.
We seemed, in the first two games, to have a couple of those bounces not go our way. Things always even themselves out.
With the right effort, the right attitude, they say if you work hard, luck will come with you. Well, we're working hard, working our butts off here. Very confident we're going to have that same type of effort tonight and are going to be real good.
QUESTION: If you're down 2-0, coming home, sometimes the urge is to do too much. What is your message to the guys, not to do too much out of their element?
VIGNEAULT: We have to hold serve, and we know that. But we know our game and we know the way to play. When we do that, we're a good team.
We have done that for the most part throughout this series. But even though we're playing hard and we're playing the right way, they're a great hockey team.
I mean, it's been nine periods of real good hockey so far. Could have gone one way or the other. They're up 2-0. Give them full credit. We're going to try to make this a series tonight.
QUESTION: It was a tough a game for Brad Richards. Do you have the same expectations you have for Dan in Game 2?
VIGNEAULT: Without a doubt, Brad is a veteran player. I know he's going to respond real well. I'm confident that's what he's going to do.


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Berkeley DB (BDB) is an unmaintained embedded database software library for key/value data, historically significant in open source software. Berkeley DB is written in C with API bindings for many other programming languages. BDB stores arbitrary key/data pairs as byte arrays, and supports multiple data items for a single key. Berkeley DB is not a relational database, although it has database features including database transactions, multiversion concurrency control and write-ahead logging. BDB runs on a wide variety of operating systems including most Unix-like and Windows systems, and real-time operating systems.

BDB was commercially supported and developed by Sleepycat Software from 1996 to 2006.  Sleepycat Software was acquired by Oracle Corporation in February 2006, who continued to develop and sell the C Berkeley DB library. In 2013 Oracle re-licensed BDB under the AGPL license. and released new versions until May 2020. Bloomberg LP continues to develop a fork of the 2013 version of BDB within their Comdb2 database, under the original Sleepycat permissive license.

Origin
Berkeley DB originated at the University of California, Berkeley as part of BSD, Berkeley's version of the Unix operating system. After 4.3BSD (1986), the BSD developers attempted to remove or replace all code originating in the original AT&T Unix from which BSD was derived. In doing so, they needed to rewrite the Unix database package. Seltzer and Yigit created a new database, unencumbered by any AT&T patents: an on-disk hash table that outperformed the existing dbm libraries. Berkeley DB itself was first released in 1991 and later included with 4.4BSD. In 1996 Netscape requested that the authors of Berkeley DB improve and extend the library, then at version 1.86, to suit Netscape's requirements for an LDAP server and for use in the Netscape browser. That request led to the creation of Sleepycat Software. This company was acquired by Oracle Corporation in February 2006.

Since its initial release, Berkeley DB has gone through various versions.  Each major release cycle has introduced a single new major feature generally layering on top of the earlier features to add functionality to the product.  The 1.x releases focused on managing key/value data storage and are referred to as "Data Store" (DS).  The 2.x releases added a locking system enabling concurrent access to data.  This is what is known as "Concurrent Data Store" (CDS).  The 3.x releases added a logging system for transactions and recovery, called "Transactional Data Store" (TDS).  The 4.x releases added the ability to replicate log records and create a distributed highly available single-master multi-replica database.  This is called the "High Availability" (HA) feature set.  Berkeley DB's evolution has sometimes led to minor API changes or log format changes, but very rarely have database formats changed.  Berkeley DB HA supports online upgrades from one version to the next by maintaining the ability to read and apply the prior release's log records.

The FreeBSD and OpenBSD operating systems continue to use Berkeley DB 1.8x for compatibility reasons; Linux-based operating systems commonly include several versions to accommodate for applications still using older interfaces/files.

Starting with the 6.0.21 (Oracle 12c) release, all Berkeley DB products are licensed under the GNU AGPL. Previously, Berkeley DB was redistributed under the 4-clause BSD license (before version 2.0), and the Sleepycat Public License, which is an OSI-approved open-source license as well as an FSF-approved free software license. The product ships with complete source code, build script, test suite, and documentation. The comprehensive feature along with the licensing terms have led to its use in a multitude of free and open-source software. Those who do not wish to abide by the terms of the GNU AGPL, or use an older version with the Sleepycat Public License, have the option of purchasing another proprietary license for redistribution from Oracle Corporation. This technique is called dual licensing.

Berkeley DB includes compatibility interfaces for some historic Unix database libraries: dbm, ndbm and hsearch (a System V and POSIX library for creating in-memory hash tables).

Architecture
Berkeley DB has an architecture notably simpler than relational database management systems. Like SQLite and LMDB, it is not based on a server/client model, and does not provide support for network access programs access the database using in-process API calls. Oracle added support for SQL in 11g R2 release based on the popular SQLite API by including a version of SQLite in Berkeley DB (it uses Berkeley DB for storage).

A program accessing the database is free to decide how the data is to be stored in a record. Berkeley DB puts no constraints on the record's data. The record and its key can both be up to four gigabytes long.

Despite having a simple architecture, Berkeley DB supports database features such as ACID transactions, fine-grained locking, hot backups and replication.

Oracle Corporation use of  name "Berkeley DB"
The name "Berkeley DB" is used by Oracle Corporation for three different products, only one of which is BDB:

 Berkeley DB, the C database library that is the subject of this article
 Berkeley DB Java Edition, a pure Java library whose design is modelled after the C library but is otherwise unrelated
 Berkeley DB XML, a C++ program that supports XQuery, and which includes a legacy version of the C database library

Open Source Programs still using Berkeley DB
BDB was once very widespread, but usage dropped steeply from 2013 (see licensing section). Notable software that still uses Berkeley DB for data storage include:
 Bogofilter – A free/open source spam filter that saves its wordlists using Berkeley DB by default
 Sendmail – A free/open source MTA first release in 1983 for Linux/Unix systems and no longer widely used
 Spamassassin – A free/open source anti-spam application

Licensing

Berkeley DB V2.0 and higher is available under a dual license:

 Oracle commercial license
 The GNU AGPL v3.

Switching the open source license in 2013 from the Sleepycat license to the AGPL had a major effect on open source software. Since BDB is a library, any application linking to it must be under an AGPL-compatible license. Many open source applications and all closed source applications would need to be relicensed to become AGPL-compatible, which was not acceptable to many developers and open source operating systems. By 2013 there were many alternatives to BDB, and Debian Linux was typical in their decision to completely phase out Berkeley DB, with a preference for the Lightning Memory-Mapped Database (LMDB).

References

External links

 Oracle Berkeley DB
 Oracle Berkeley DB Downloads
 Oracle Berkeley DB Documentation
 Oracle Berkeley DB Licensing Information
 Licensing pitfalls for Oracle Technology Products
 Oracle Licensing Knowledge Net
 The Berkeley DB Book by Himanshu Yadava

Database engines
Database-related software for Linux
Embedded databases
Free database management systems
Free software programmed in C
Key-value databases
NoSQL
Oracle software
Structured storage
Software using the GNU AGPL license

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William Quigley in an undated photo.
Difficult times in Bill Quigley's life instilled in him an ethic to be productive, to work hard, to seek to do the right thing and believe in the potential of success — all things he passed along to his children.
William "Bill" Earl Quigley, an orphan adopted during the Great Depression and a military veteran who went on to become a supervising engineer with AT&T, died Saturday from Parkinson's disease. He was 92.
"The most important thing about my dad was, how the Founding Fathers wrote of the pursuit of happiness. His version of the American Dream played off that," said Quigley's son, U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley of Chicago.
Born in Indianapolis, William Quigley was starting his sophomore year at Purdue University when he was drafted into the Army during the Korean War, where he served on the Signal Corps. There he learned technology that was then in its infancy, including satellite and microwave communications.
After his military service, he spent his career working for AT&T as a supervising engineer and was a member of the Communications Workers of America. He was transferred and promoted to the Chicago area and moved to Ottawa, Ill., upon his retirement.
Rep. Quigley said many people in today's era of people moving from job to job don't remember employment lasting decades.
William Quigley did volunteer work at a homeless shelter and served on the Ottawa Planning Commission. But he also was a longtime tinkerer with an interest in electronics that including building the family's first color TV.
True to his Indiana roots, he was what his family described as a "fanatical" fan of the Indianapolis 500 and attended races at the Brickyard for more than 60 years, wearing victory-flag checkered socks while running stopwatches on the lead cars.
He also was an avid chess player — his son said he learned the game before he learned to read and made his father proud when he first defeated him.
William Quigley married Joan Louise Deputy in 1951 in Augusta, Ga., and the couple celebrated their 67th wedding anniversary last June.
In addition to his son and wife, he is survived by his daughters Chris Benson and Linda Quigley; daughter-in-law Betty Quigley; and six grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at Gladfelter-Roetker Funeral Home in Ottawa. A visitation will be held before services.
Burial will be a private ceremony at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery. Memorials may be made to PAWS in honor of his love for four-legged orphans, including Missy I, Missy II and Missy III.


While the era of endless Zynga acquisitions has certainly slowed to a crawl in recent months, that doesn't mean the big Z isn't willing to snap up a good company when they see one. Back in November (how perfectly timed!), the company announced the acquisition of November Software – a mobile games developer that, at that time of acquisition, had been working on a game called Golden Arrow.
The game has been given a new name and a fresh coat of paint, but at its heart, Battlestone is the same project that those anticipating Golden Arrow have been waiting for: an action RPG that can fit snuggly in your pocket or on your favorite tablet device.
The game will also feature a number of tropes common to the genre, such as a variety of characters to choose from and upgradable heroes. "Players develop their gameplay strategy here," says Swistun, "swapping out different heroes for just the right combat environment and opponents." Gamers will also be treated to a guild system and weekly PVP tournaments.
There's no word yet on when the game will make its official release, though Swistun's blog post bandies about terms like "it won't be long," so… fingers crossed. There's also no confirmation on platforms, though prior to acquisition November Software announced Golden Arrow as a game destined for both Android and iOS.
If you're an Android gamer in a select market you can get an early look at the game in beta by visiting Google Play. Everyone else: sit tight and prepare for battle.


It seems that any time you try to find something out from the banks, they make it so difficult for you to get the information you need. This was the case when it came to writing, but perseverance is the key to eventually getting what you need.
In all honesty, the calculation of interest on an outstanding balance on a credit card is much simpler than most people think.
First, your credit card provider does the average daily balance (ADB). In order to figure this out they must work out the total balance of each individual day in the reporting period.
Once this has been done they will total the balances of all the days and then divide by the number of days in your card's billing period (you can find this in your monthly statement).
Say you have a card that has an interest rate of 17% and a balance of $ 500 at the beginning of the reporting period (in this case is 28 days). You went through this period without making a purchase with a credit card until the 23rd, when you made a purchase of $ 400.
This means that for 22 days the balance was $ 500 and for the remaining 6 days of your statement period your balance was $ 900.
Well, the next step is figuring out the interest that will be charged.
This is done by multiplying the ADB by the Annual Percentage Rate (APR – also known as the credit card interest rate) and the number of days in the reporting period. Then, this number is divided by 365 to take into account the fact that the interest rate is an annual percentage rate of rather than a monthly one.
NOTE: All figures are rounded to two decimal places.
So these calculations are made on the basis of an average daily balance method with a single billing cycle. However, some providers use the method of double billing cycle, when the average daily balance is calculated over two reporting periods.
This method could end up costing you more money if the balance on your card tends to fluctuate from month to month. If this is (or could be) the case, then be sure to contact your credit card provider in order to find out how they calculate interest on their credit cards.
And remember, different expenditures have different interest rates. So you'll have different interest totals for purchases as you would for any cash advances and balance transfers that you may have carried out.