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Rosie Schaap is not a celebrity. Not even close. She's a writer who happens to moonlight as a bartender. Or, if you prefer, she's a part-time drinks-slinger who happens to pen The New York Times Magazine's Drink column and contribute to NPR's "This American Life."
These career boons, while enviable, do not make for a tell-all autobiography. Heck, Schaap has barely made a dent in her 40s. Yet "Drinking with Men," her first-person chronicles of living life — the first few decades of it, at least — with a glass in her hand, somehow manages to turn its own pages, perhaps because Schaap is good at documenting what many seldom pause to think about: real life.
This piece first ran in Printers Row Journal, delivered to Printers Row members with the Sunday Chicago Tribune and by digital edition via email. Click here to learn about joining Printers Row.
Organized chronologically, beginning in suburban Connecticut with the 15-year-old Schaap's weekly-commute-to-therapy-turned-bar-car-fortune-telling-venture, the 270-page memoir bookends 10 vignettes in the life of a New York City-born, non-practicing Jew who was much more interested in following the Dead than finishing high school (see Chapter Two — a great read, no matter how you feel about Jerry Garcia or his dancing bears).
"We drank and danced, bartered bootlegs, got high and hung out, lived in vans and slept in cars under piles of stripy Mexican blankets in need of a good washing," Schaap writes, and we're reminded why coming-of-age stories are so enthralling: We either lived our own version of these moments, or wanted to.
"Drinking with Men," whose unwittingly precious title isn't explained until the final chapter (after which it's forgiven), is much less one-dimensional than is suggested. Schaap isn't so much hung up on drinking with men as she is on drinking in bars, and her favorites — from a craic-filled poet's pub in Dublin during her study abroad to a fabled piano lounge in Montreal discovered on a revelatory solo journey — are spun into yarns as rich as relationships.
After coming to her senses and saying peace-out to the Deadheads, Schaap dedicates the remaining eight chapters to bars with which she falls in love on her journey toward adulthood. That word, love, is dropped more often in conjunction with the bars than the men she encounters there and with whom she winds up drinking (and, on occasion, shagging), and there comes a point along the way when we can't help but consider the bigger picture: Are all these men (or bars, or both) meant to be placeholders for Schaap's father, who is conspicuously absent from most of the book? And what about her liver? Surely, with the amount of time Schaap spends in bars — away from family (she considers drinking buddies as her second family), away from friends (ditto) — it's taking a beating.
Schaap raises her own red flag exactly halfway through the book, coinciding with her grad-school years, when she's startled by a friend's observation that alcoholism might be a real concern.
"I considered the facts," Schaap writes, literally spelling out the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism's characterization of the disease. "Yes, I was drinking almost every night. How much? Hard to say. I hadn't been counting. … And yes, I was able to stop — as soon as I left the bar. And that was the hard part: leaving."
Good news: "Drinking with Men" doesn't wind up taking some predictable, mushy memoir turn down the substance-abuse rabbit hole. The remaining chapters contain no preachy lessons about the dangers of drinking early and often, and Schaap doesn't wind up at Betty Ford. She can hold her liquor and she doesn't wind up holding it against herself that she takes solace in bars, her "community centers" for people who happen to drink.
Instead, she embraces it. She comically spells out the rules of bar patronage; she introduces us to her favorite characters — her bar family — as they outgrow one dive and build a roost at another. And just when it feels like it's all getting too long-winded, like Schaap has ordered us one too many when we're more than ready to call a cab and head home, suddenly we're reliving her post-Sept. 11 world, a pendulum shift to a time when hanging out at the bar takes a back-seat to bigger matters.
That chapter, "Bar Chaplain," offers the most honest glimpse of Schaap as a born-and-bred New Yorker during an incredibly difficult time in that city's history. It's far more captivating than another self-conscious anecdote about trying to fit in with the guys while being a girl — a self-deprecating issue that, even at the book's close, Schaap still hasn't seemed to solve. No matter: I still get the sense that if I was to pull up an empty bar stool next to (or in front of) the author, I'd wind up staying for more than a round. She's a good storyteller.
Lauren Viera is a Chicago-based journalist who writes frequently about spirits and cocktails.
"Drinking with Men"
By Rosie Schaap, Riverhead Books, 270 pages, $26.95


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Peggy Marshall has been hired as the next principal at Sugarloaf Elementary. She replaces Sallie Carr, who will retire June 30.
Marshall began her teaching career with Henderson County Public Schools in 1992 as a second-grade teacher at Dana Elementary, where she taught for 16 years. She has served as assistant principal at Rugby Middle School since 2011.
"The superior educational opportunities afforded to me as both a student and educator in Henderson County have prepared me for this new endeavor in my life," Marshall said in a news release. "It is both an honor and privilege to join the outstanding Sugarloaf family. I look forward to partnering with the faculty, students, families and community as we continue to move toward academic excellence."
Marshall holds a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from Appalachian State University, where she graduated magna cum laude, and a Master of Science in Educational Administration from the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania.
Henderson County Superintendent of Schools David Jones noted that Marshall was "an excellent classroom teacher. … She will be a wonderful addition to the Sugarloaf community."
A native of Henderson County, Marshall is a graduate of East Henderson High. She is married and has two children.
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I'm waiting for some info from the factory, so far they are late with getting me the testpressings. Will keep you posted of corpse.
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Just got the testpressings in today, finally. It's always strange to email your address and put it down on 5 different forms and they still manage to ship the stuff to the wrong address. Anyway, they're sounding perfect so far, so finally the records should be here within 2 weeks, according to the factory.
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i got only the mail from you for further infos, but nothing about
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We apologize to those who have already pre-ordered their copies, but hope you can understand we are not happy with the incompetence of certain companies either.
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Absurd Der funfzehnjahrige krieg Digipack - 7
Anti The insignificance of life - 7
Avsky Malignant 7
Azaghal Omega 7
Bahimiron Southern Nihilizm 7
Brown Jenkins Dagonite 7
Brown Jenkins Angel eyes 7
Eibon Eibon Mcd 5
Hellvetic Frost Misanthropic devotion - 7
The Slow death S/t 7
Black Goat Black Goat Lp 8
Endless Blizzard Remember your death Gatefold 2Lp 9
Frostkrieg Majestatik eines kalten elements Gatefold Lp 8
Menegroth S/t Lp 8
Necrophagia Harvest ritual Volume 1 Picture Lp 8
Nokturne Embracer of dark ages Lp - 8
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Profanatica The enemy of virtue 2DVD (+booklet) - 14
Absurd Raubritter/Grimmige Volksmusik - 7
Adalruna - A wolf in hollowed places - 7
Ad Noctum Arrogance 7
Alastor Noble north digipack 8 (One of Austrias oldest and best black metal acts)
Azure King of stars Bearer of dark Digipack (Deluxe digipack edition + booklet) 7
Baptism Grim arts of melancholy - 7
Bestial Summoning/Heretic Splitting skulls for Satan - 7
Blackwind Demain, lapocalypse 7
Blackhorned Lost in a twilight world 7
Brocken Moon Das marchen vom Schnee - 7
Caldera Mist through your consciousness - 7
Crimson Moon Xepera Xeper Xeperu 2cd Digipack (Brilliant deluxe digipack + slipcase + booklet) 8
Deathgate Arkanum Stillhallen 7
Decayed Hexagram 7
Dyster Fallen, suicide & forgotten 7
Elffor Into the dark forest 7
Elffor Son of the shades 7
Elite We own the mountains 7
Empty The last breath of my mortal despair 7
Farscape For those who love to kill 7 (Totalitarian thrash from Brazil)
Flame of War Europa 7
Forgotten Woods The race of cain (Digibook cd) 10
Gorgoroth Bergen 1996 Mcd 5
Havohej Dethrone the son of god - 7
Hebosagil Colossal 7 (Slow crushing doom with riff-heavy sludge from northern Finland)
Homselvareg Homselvareg - 7
Impiety Formidonis nex cultus (+ embossed slipcase) - 8
I.Corax Spectral metabolism 7 (Utter brilliance in the field of dark ambient and post industrial. Comes in stunning black/white oversized foldout carton sleeve)
Impiety Paramount evil digipack - 8
Kawir Ara - 7
Leather Nun Absence of light 7
Lysergene Critical mass - 7
Magister Dixit My anger is an eternal field of demonized mercenaries 7
Mayhem From the darkest past 7 (Rough instrumental mix of TMDS w/Grishnack on bass+ 90 rec w/Dead + 86 reh.)
Mgla Presence Mcd 6
Monarque Fier heretique 7
Morker Skuggornas rike 7
Morker Hostmakter 7
Murkrat Murkrat 7
Nargothrond Following the frostpaths 7
Negative Reaction Tales from the insomniac 7 (4th album by these veteran sludge gods)
Niden Div 187 Impergium/Towards judgment - 7
Nidsang The mark of death 7
Nordor Honoris causa 7 (Comes with Slipcase)
Nyktalgia Peisithanatos digibook cd 10 (second tragic and mischievous journey in special limited edition)
Omega Massif Geisterstadt - 7
Pantheon Vargstrike 7
Profanatica The enemy of virtue 2cd 9
Profanatica Profanatitas de domonatia - 7
Rising Dust Taste of fire Mcd - 5
Sink The process 7 (No sludge.No drone.Not experimental.This is the process.Special fold-out full colour carton sleeve)
Slagmaur Domfeldt Digipack 8 (Excellent 6 pannel digipack + booklet)
Slavia Stength and vision Digipack 8
Sombre Labyrinthe Heptagram rising - 7
Somnolence As midgard weeps 7
Sorcier des Glaces Moonrise in total darkness - 7
Stumm I 7
Sturmkaiser Veni vidi vici - 7
Sturmkaiser 1945 mcd 5
Thrustor Night of fire 7
Torgeist - Devoted to Satan Mcd 8
Torgeist Time of Sabbath Mcd 8
Thorngoth Rauhnacht - 7
Thors Hammer May the hammer smash the cross 7
Thunderbolt The sons of the darkness 7
Trancelike Void Destroying something beautiful - 7
Vardan Hidden in a tomb - 7
Vargsang Werewolf of wisteria 7
Vermeth Suicide or be killed 8
Vinterriket Firntann Mcd (Special foldout packaging + booklet) - 7
Voodooshock Voodoom ep - 5
Wall of Sleep Sun faces apostles 7 (Classic doom metal, with huge riffs and an old school Maryland doom vibe)
Wereju Through the depths of unknowing - 7
World Below Repulsion 7 (Fantastic riffing doom with a little epic touch!)
World Below Maelstrom 7
Wreck of the Hesperus The sunken threshold 7
After all The vermin breed Lp - 8
Agressor The merciless onslaught Gatefold Lp (1986-1989 demos)
Akerbeltz / Avangh Dhür / Morbid Yell / Hellthrone 4 way Split Lp - 9
Amnion Cryptic wanderings Foldout Lp 9 (Old cryptic funerary black metal)
Arghoslent Hornets of the pogrom Lp 10
Armageddon Ave Satan lp - 8
Asmodee Black drop journey 7ep 3
Assaulter Salvation like destruction Lp - 9 (RECOMMENDED)
Atman lAssasi de venus Foldout Lp 8 (Leading Spanish Black metal)
Beastcraft Baptised in blood and goatsemen Gatefold Lp - 9
Behexen/Satanic Warmaster Split Picture 10 (+ sleeve) 9
Besatt Triumph of antichrist Gatefold Lp + poster 10
Bestial Raids Order of doom 7ep 3
Bestial Raids/Hellish Heretical rites 7 ep 3
Black Pyramid Visions of Gehenna 7ep - 3
Black Steel Hellhammer Lp 8
Bloodthron Genocide Lp 8 (Killer vinyl version with hot-foiled logo/shield)
Corpus Christi The torment continues Gatefold Lp 9
Defuntos Um sofrimento distante 7ep 2
Decayed Resurrectionem Mortuorem Lp - 9
Earthride Taming of the demons Picture Lp 10 (Incredible Maryland doom. Comes with 350 gram die-cut sleeve!)
Excalibur Fils vengeur Lp + poster - 8
Fleurety Min tid skal komme Gatefold 2lp (Legendary album + ep & demo recordings!) - 12
Funeralium Funeralium Gatefold double Lp - 13
Gorgoroth A sorcery written in blood Lp (93 demo + 94 promo + live 2004) 10
Grafenstein Death born Gatefold Lp 8
Havohej Dethrone the son of god Gatefold Lp 9
Holy Death The knight, death and the devil Lp - 8
Infernae/Thy Antichrist Escupiendo las cenizas de Cristo/Human Pandemonium Gatefold Lp - 8
Killbots, The S/t Double Lp 12 (Coloured double vinyl, lim.300)
Laserguys S/t Lp 8 (Lp only release. Extreme noise terror with members from Endwarfment, Perished and Hellstorm)
Lord Hells fucking metal Lp 8
Metalhead Demon 7ep 3
Morker Hostmakter Gatefold Lp + poster - 9
Morrigan The Damned Gatefold Lp + poster 10
Nominon Terra necrosis Lp - 9
Pest (Ger) Pest Lp 9
Potop/Burmese Split Lp - 8 (Potop: Crippled doom like Burning Witch. Burmese: Sadistic & haunting rock/grind)
Profanatica/Unholy Crucifix/Nuclear Desecration/Goatsodomy Trampling the holy faith Lp + A2 poster 12
Profanatica Profanatitas de domonatia Picture Lp (Comes in die cut sleeve + poster) - 10
Profanation Devastation of purity 7 ep - 3
Ramesses Master Gatefold 7ep 3 (Electric Wizard members damage with a more Venom-y and Frost-y touch)
Resistance Bang your fucking skull Lp + poster - 8
Ritual Steel Knights of steel 7ep - 3
Ritual Steel Invincible warriors Lp - 8
Serpent Saints Leather Lucifer Mlp + poster 7
Skyforger - Sword song Lp 9
Slavia Strength and vision lp + poster 10
Soldier Murderous night 7ep 3
Sorgsvart Vikingtid og anarki gatefold 2lp - 10
Storm Warrior At foreign shores (Live in Japan) Lp - 8
Tangorodrim Justus ex fide vivit Lp 10 (Includes A2 poster and postcard)
The bottle doom lazy band The beast must die Lp + poster 9
Vermeth Suicide or be killed Lp + poster - 10
Voodoo Shock The golden beauty 7ep 3 (Germanys leading traditional doom outfit with 2 magnificent rockers)
Whorehouse Massacre, the IV Lp 10 (Haunting rotten hopelessness, comes with 8 page booklet!)
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The Bisons were shutout 2-0 in game one and then fell 13-2 in game two Saturday afternoon at Stillwell Stadium in Kennesaw, Ga.
The Bisons managed only two hits, both by shortstop Branden Cadavid, in game one.
The hit total tied for the lowest of the season. The Bisons recorded only two hits March 28 in a 10-0 loss at Fresno State.
Kennesaw State won 2-1 Friday night in the series opener.
Cadavid singled to center in the second inning and singled to right in the fifth in game one.
Junior right-hander Josh Smith, 3-2, pitched a complete game for the Bisons. He allowed nine hits. He struck out nine batters and walked one.
In the third inning Jacob Robbins opened the inning with a solo home run over the right field fence.
Kennesaw State added another run in the fourth. Jace Whitmer walked and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Ric Bishop. Martin Baker singled to center to score Whitmer.
Robbins led with a game-high three hits.
Chad Jenkins, 2-1, started for Kennesaw State and picked up the win. He pitched 7.2 innings, striking out seven and walking three.
Kenny Faulk came on in relief and faced four batters in 1.1 innings to seal his second save in as many games.
In game two Kennesaw State scored two runs in the first inning, five in the fourth, two in the sixth and four in the eighth.
The Bisons opened with senior right-hander Brandon McClurg who lasted 3.1 innings. McClurg, 2-3, gave up six runs, five earned, and five hits. He struck out two and walked two as he was credited with the loss.
Lipscomb coach Jeff Forehand used four more pitchers to close out the game.
Charles Williams pitched 1.2 innings and allowed one hit and one run, unearned. He also had two strikeouts. Matt Bowling threw one-third of an inning. He was touched for one hit and two runs, both earned. He walked two batters. Josh Cotham pitched two-thirds of an inning. Kyle Tognazzini closed out the game with four hits and four runs, three earned, along with one strikeout in two innings.
The Bisons scored one run in the second inning.
In the eighth they added one more. Antonio Butler led off with a single to second base. He advanced to third on a wild pitch as M.L. Williams struck out. Tyler Wilson singled to center to score Butler.
Cadavid had a hit in game two to close out a team-high three hit day.
Ryan Wilkins finished with a team-leading two hits in game two.
Justin Edwards, 2-3, won the game for Kennesaw State. He gave up four of the Bisons six hits and struck out 10.
The Bisons slipped to 13-17, 8-4 in the A-Sun. Kennesaw State is 14-12, 8-3 in the conference.
The string of road games continues for the Bisons Tuesday at 6 when they travel to Austin Peay for a non-conference game. It will be their ninth consecutive game on the road. They close out the extended road trip Wednesday at 6 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.


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DataSet operates in connection less mode.
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Difference between Dataset and Datareader?
Data Set is a connectionless service and Data reader is a connection oriented service. Dataset is used to store the data, it contains collections of Datatable. Datareader is used to connect to the database for retrieving data.
Data Reader - Forward only where as Dataset - Can loop through dataset.
Data Reader - Connected Recordset where as DataSet - Disconnected Recordset
Data Reader - Less Memory Occupying where as DataSet - It occupies more memory
Data Reader - Only Single Table can be used where as Dataset - Datatable Concept allows data to be stored in multiple tables.
Data Reader - Read only where as DataSet - Can add/update/delete using the dataset
Data Reader - No relationship can be maintained where as DataSet - Relationship can be maintained.
Data Reader - No Xml Storage available where as DataSet - Can be stored as XML.
The Dataset is a core of disconnected architecture. Disconnected architecture means once you have retrieved the data from the database the data source is dropped. The disconnected data become very commonly. The dataset for the disconnected data from the Dataset object. The DataReader is a readonly, forward only stream from the database. While using the datareader can improve the application performance reduces the system overhead because only one buffer row at a time in memory.
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what is difference Between datareader and dataset ?
DataReader is like a forward only recordset. It fetches one row at a time so very less network cost compare to DataSet(Fethces all the rows at a time). DataReader is readonly so we can't do any transaction on them. DataReader will be the best choice where we need to show the data to the user which requires no transaction. As DataReader is forward only so we can't fetch data randomly. .NET Data Providers optimizes the datareader to handle huge amount of data.
DataSet is an in memory representation of a collection of Database objects including tables of a relational database schemas.
DataSet is always a bulky object that requires a lot of memory space compare to DataReader. We can say that the DataSet is a small database because it stores the schema and data in the application memory area. DataSet fetches all data from the datasource at a time to its memory area. So we can traverse through the object to get the required data like querying database.
What is difference between dataset and datareader ?
DataReader is used to fetch data from a database in a much faster way. Since the rows are fetched one at a time, load on the network will be low. Since DataReader is read only, transactions are not allowed . Since it is forward only, random data fetch is not supported.
DataSet is an in memory representation of a tables in a database. Dataset takes lot of application memory compared to DataReader. Its slower compared to DataReader. But user can do transactions using DataSet. It also support querying.
What is the difference between Data Reader & Dataset?
Data Reader is connected datasource, read only, forward only record set.
Dataset is disconnected datatsource resides in memory database that can store multiple tables, relations and constraints;
Can you explain the difference between an ADO.NET Dataset and an ADO Recordset?
. Though the DataSet is universal, other objects in ADO.NET come in different versions for different data sources.
. A DataSet can represent an entire relational database in memory, complete with tables, relations, and views.
. A DataSet is designed to work without any continuing connection to the original data source.
. Data in a DataSet is bulk-loaded, rather than being loaded on demand.
. There's no concept of cursor types in a DataSet.
. DataSets have no current record pointer You can use For Each loops to move through the data.
. You can store many edits in a DataSet, and write them to the original data source in a single operation.
Can you explain the difference between an ADO.NET Dataset and an ADO Recordset?
In ADO, the in-memory representation of data is the recordset. In ADO.NET, it is the dataset. There are important differences between them.
o A recordset looks like a single table. If a recordset is to contain data from multiple database tables, it must use a JOIN query, which assembles the data from the various database tables into a single result table. In contrast, a dataset is a collection of one or more tables. The tables within a dataset are called data tables; specifically, they are DataTable objects. If a dataset contains data from multiple database tables, it will typically contain multiple DataTable objects. That is, each DataTable object typically corresponds to a single database table or view. In this way, a dataset can mimic the structure of the underlying database. A dataset usually also contains relationships. A relationship within a dataset is analogous to a foreign-key relationship in a database -that is, it associates rows of the tables with each other. For example, if a dataset contains a table about investors and another table about each investor's stock purchases, it could also contain a relationship connecting each row of the investor table with the corresponding rows of the purchase table. Because the dataset can hold multiple, separate tables and maintain information about relationships between them, it can hold much richer data structures than a recordset, including self-relating tables and tables with many-to-many relationships.
o In ADO you scan sequentially through the rows of the recordset using the ADO MoveNext method. In ADO.NET, rows are represented as collections, so you can loop through a table as you would through any collection, or access particular rows via ordinal or primary key index. DataRelation objects maintain information about master and detail records and provide a method that allows you to get records related to the one you are working with. For example, starting from the row of the Investor table for "Nate Sun," you can navigate to the set of rows of the Purchase table describing his purchases. A cursor is a database element that controls record navigation, the ability to update data, and the visibility of changes made to the database by other users. ADO.NET does not have an inherent cursor object, but instead includes data classes that provide the functionality of a traditional cursor. For example, the functionality of a forward-only, read-only cursor is available in the ADO.NET DataReader object. For more information about cursor functionality, see Data Access Technologies.
o Minimized Open Connections: In ADO.NET you open connections only long enough to perform a database operation, such as a Select or Update. You can read rows into a dataset and then work with them without staying connected to the data source. In ADO the recordset can provide disconnected access, but ADO is designed primarily for connected access. There is one significant difference between disconnected processing in ADO and ADO.NET. In ADO you communicate with the database by making calls to an OLE DB provider. In ADO.NET you communicate with the database through a data adapter (an OleDbDataAdapter, SqlDataAdapter, OdbcDataAdapter, or OracleDataAdapter object), which makes calls to an OLE DB provider or the APIs provided by the underlying data source. The important difference is that in ADO.NET the data adapter allows you to control how the changes to the dataset are transmitted to the database - by optimizing for performance, performing data validation checks, or adding any other extra processing. Data adapters, data connections, data commands, and data readers are the components that make up a .NET Framework data provider. Microsoft and third-party providers can make available other .NET Framework data providers that can be integrated into Visual Studio.
o Sharing Data Between Applications. Transmitting an ADO.NET dataset between applications is much easier than transmitting an ADO disconnected recordset. To transmit an ADO disconnected recordset from one component to another, you use COM marshalling. To transmit data in ADO.NET, you use a dataset, which can transmit an XML stream.
o Richer data types.COM marshalling provides a limited set of data types - those defined by the COM standard. Because the transmission of datasets in ADO.NET is based on an XML format, there is no restriction on data types. Thus, the components sharing the dataset can use whatever rich set of data types they would ordinarily use.
o Performance. Transmitting a large ADO recordset or a large ADO.NET dataset can consume network resources; as the amount of data grows, the stress placed on the network also rises. Both ADO and ADO.NET let you minimize which data is transmitted. But ADO.NET offers another performance advantage, in that ADO.NET does not require data-type conversions. ADO, which requires COM marshalling to transmit records sets among components, does require that ADO data types be converted to COM data types.
o Penetrating Firewalls.A firewall can interfere with two components trying to transmit disconnected ADO recordsets. Remember, firewalls are typically configured to allow HTML text to pass, but to prevent system-level requests (such as COM marshalling) from passing.
Difference Between Dataset.Clone() and Dataset.Copy() ?
DataSet.Clone()--Reflects Only Schema to The Dataset
DataSet.Copy()--Retrives total Records to Dataset
Difference between DataAdapter and DataReader?
1] Conncection less
2] to execute command need to use sql Command
3] Need not to explicitly open or close database connection
1] Connection based
2] Used in large database
What is the main difference between DataSet.Clone() and DataSet.Copy() ?
DataSet.Clone() would copy only the schema of the DataSet object and it would return the DataSet object that has same struture that the previous dataset object which includes all the relations, constraints and schemas as well. This will not copy the data from the existing one to new one.
The existing Dataset ---
private DataSet CreateMyClone(DataSet myCloneDataSet)
DataSet exampleCloneDS;
exampleCloneDS = myCloneDataSet.Clone();
return exampleCloneDS;
DataSet.Copy() will copy complete code as well as the structure of the existing DataSet object.
What is difference between Dataset.clone and Dataset.copy?
Dataset.Clone- It only copies structure, does not copy data.
Dataset.Copy - Copies both structure and data.
Which object allows for faster reading of data the Datareader or Dataset?
Difference between DataSet Clone and DataSet Copy?
DataSet.Clone() - It only copies the structure but doesnot Copies the Data;
Dataset.Copy() - It copies both Structure and data..
What is the difference between the Clone() and Copy() methods of the DataSet class?
The Clone() method copies only the structure of a DataSet. The copied structure includes all the relation, constraint, and DataTable schemas used by the DataSet. The Clone() method does not copy the data, which is stored in the DataSet.
The Copy() method copies the structure as well as the data stored in the DataSet.
What is typed dataset in C#?
A typed dataset is similar to a dataset with only difference is that the sehema is already present in typed dataset. so if any mismatch in the column will generate compile time errors rather than runtime error as in the case of normal dataset. Also accessing the column value is much easier than the normal dataset as the column definition will be available in the schema.
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Atmospheric Sciences & Global Change
Research Highlights
December 2010
Electricity from the Sun
New methods to examine the potential of concentrating thermal solar power
The average number of days per year when thermal CSP power plants cannot operate due to low direct normal irradiance levels. During many of these days, these plants are expected to still produce power using a backup system using natural gas or biomass. This feature allows CSP plants to produce reliable power year-round. Reprinted from Energy Policy, Vol 38, Author(s), Zhang, Y., SJ Smith, GP Kyle, and PW Stackhouse Jr., Pages 7884-7897, Copyright 2010, with permission from Elsevier. Enlarge Image
Results: New data and methods have been developed to examine the potential for thermal concentrating solar power (CSP) plants to help meet energy and environmental goals. Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, University of Maryland, and NASA analyzed the interactions between CSP plants and the electricity system and found that CSP power plants have the potential to supply a significant fraction of future electricity needs.
Why it matters: CSP technologies hold a promise of clean, domestic power around the world. CSP systems convert the thermal energy in sunlight into electricity. Global use of this technology is projected to grow substantially in the near future with numerous plants under construction worldwide. The potential of solar power technologies is difficult to evaluate, however, because the energy-economic models used to inform decision-makers are not designed to simulate variable renewable resources. The results of this study can be used to produce more realistic estimates of their potential contribution.
Methods: The operation of CSP power plants and their interaction with electric loads, by time of day and season, were analyzed to determine how this technology could be realistically incorporated into energy-economic models. A key characteristic of CSP power plants is their ability to supply reliable power through the use of a low-cost backup option referred to as hybrid plants, whereby natural gas, or even biomass, can be combusted in a low-cost boiler or heating unit to supply power on cloudy days.
Plant performance depended on two key parameters: the number of cloudy days in which power plants cannot operate, and the average amount of sunshine on operational days. This research showed that an accurate characterization of the number of such "no operational" days is key to a realistic characterization of this technology. No existing data sets provided global estimates of this parameter, so the necessary values were estimated using regressions developed from the U.S. National Solar Radiation Database in conjunction with a global solar resource data set developed by NASA. The technology representation and data developed in this work were then implemented in the Global Change Assessment Model(GCAM) to examine how CSP technologies might compete with other electricity supply technologies in 14 global regions. Using the GCAM integrated assessment model, the researchers found that, even under relatively modest assumptions for technological improvement, from 2-10% of electricity supply in various global regions might come from CSP technologies by the end of the century. This work also found that, even assuming the development of thermal storage technologies, gas or biomass use during cloudy days becomes a substantial portion of plant costs in the future as fuel prices increase and CSP plant capital costs fall.
What's next: The methodologies and data developed in this research can potentially be used in many energy-economic models to more realistically examine the potential of CSP technologies. A detailed study of the potential of renewable energy more broadly using this and related work using the GCAM model is underway at PNNL. The work reported here highlighted the importance of estimating new solar resource parameters, which may be possible with the next generation of solar resource assessments being conducted by NASA. The role of CSP backup operation should be more thoroughly examined in detailed renewable energy analyses.
Acknowledgments: This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy with additional support from DOE's Office of Science, the California Energy Commission, and other funding agencies. The Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI) is a unique partnership formed in 2001 by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Maryland.
Reference: Zhang Y, SJ Smith, GP Kyle, and PW Stackhouse Jr. 2009. "Modeling the Potential for Thermal Concentrating Solar Power Technologies." Energy Policy 38:7884-7897. Available online.
Research Team: The research was led by Steven J. Smith, a senior scientist at PNNL's JGCRI; Yabei Zhang, then a graduate student at the University of Maryland's department of Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and now at the World Bank; G. Page Kyle also from PNNL's JGCRI, and Paul Stackhouse Jr. of NASA.


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A blog by one of the volunteer reviewers for Geocaching.com. It's about geocaching and the review process -- what it takes to get your new caches listed on the world's most popular geocaching web site. ©Copyright 2012 by K.Braband. All rights reserved
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Greetings from down south
Mary and I are on Cozumel, but I've been keeping in touch with the geocaching.com review queue, thanks to wifi in the hotel lobby. Technology is pretty damn amazing these days.
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- WindChill said...
Teasing us is mean....from weather.com:
Cedar Rapids, IA
Apr 5 Today
Partly cloudy skies early will give way to mostly sunny skies this afternoon. High 41F. Winds NW at 15 to 25 mph.
Apr 5 Tonight
Fair to partly cloudy. Cold. Low 19F. Winds NW at 10 to 20 mph.
Enjoy your vacation, and try to bring a little of that sunshine back for us.
- 8:31 AM, April 05, 2007
- welch said...
"Enjoy your vacation, and try to bring a little of that sunshine back for us."
Just want to second that! :D
- 11:35 PM, April 05, 2007
- IowaAdmin said...
It wasn't my attempt to make anyone up north feel bad. :) However, today it was in the mid-80s again. On the down side: We come home tomorrow night.
- 4:29 PM, April 06, 2007


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Nvidia launched its first Kepler based card GTX 680 on 22 of March. The goal was pretty much clear – retake some of the ground they lost to AMD. AMD has proudly sat on the single-GPU throne since the 22 of December, when it launched HD 7970 card. It took a lot of effort for Nvidia to achieve this goal, including redesigning the existing architecture to improve performance as well as consumption. The company did a good job and we'll use Gainward's GTX 680 as proof. Note that Gainward's card is only a sticker away from the reference design.
Gainward GTX 680 2GB runs at reference clocks, i.e. 1006MHz GPU and 6008MHz (GDDR5) memory. There are no shader clocks. The difference between Fermi and Kepler architecture lies in the fact that Nvidia equipped Kepler with more shader units. However, these shaders are now slower and run at GPU clocks. So, instead of doubling shader clocks, Kepler comes with double the amount of shaders. Nvidia made sure to boost the GTX 680's performance and with that in mind, the company not only doubled the GTX 580's shader count, but tripled it. This means that our today's card boasts 1536 shader units (or CUDA cores), compared to the 512 units on GTX 580 cards. GK104 was made by TSMC in 28nm and packs 3.54 billion transistors. Note that while this is impressive enough, it's still not enough to beat the HD 7970's 4.31 billion. GTX 680 cards come with DX 11.1 and PCI-Express 3.0 support.
One of the things we paid a lot of attention to is the new self-tuning logic, i.e. GPU Boost. This tech fine-tunes clocks on the fly in order to squeeze out maximum juice from the GK104 GPU. The tech runs similarly to Intel's Turbo Boost. Namely, when the GPU isn't overloaded and has not exceeded the TDP, GPU Boost will auto-overclock.
Apart from juicing up the performance, Nvidia did a lot of work on power efficiency. You may recall that this was one of the bigger downsides of Nvidia's last two generations (GTX 500/400), especially when compared to AMD's offer.
Gainward's box may be a bit too large for our taste but size tends to win over many customers. We saw some new pictures on the box and the name is now printed on the side of the box. This is probably a wise move as well, since it can be a bit problematic when the boxes are stacked. The package holds a driver CD, DVI-to-VGA converter and Molex-to-6-pin converter.
Geforce GTX 680 looks very much like its predecessor, GTX 580. However, a more detailed inspection reveals several important differences.
Looking at the front, we see that the cooler is blower-style and that the fan was placed towards the top of the card rather than dead center. Once we removed the cooler, we saw that the voltage regulation circuitry was placed horizontally in the lower part of the card, rather than vertically like on GTX 580 cards. It could be that the part of the cooler towards the GPU doesn't get as hot this way. The cooler was designed to cool the GPU, memory and voltage regulation circuitry at the same time.
The GTX 680 is powered via two 6-pin power connectors. It's interesting to see that Nvidia opted on stacked power connectors. We personally don't like this as it makes the task of connecting cables much harder. When disconnecting the cables, you'll have to take out the bottom one first and then the top one, which was rotated by 180 degrees.
We already said that Nvidia implemented a type of auto-overclocking (GPU Boost), which monitors consumption and TDP and then changes clocks on the fly in order to maximize performance. Monitoring consumption come courtesy of the three INA219 power monitor chips (two for 6-pin power connectors and one for PCI-Express consumption).
The memory is faster than ever before, which means Nvidia solved some important issues in this respect. The GTX 680 comes with 2GB GDDR5 memory that runs at 1502MHz (6008 MHZ GDDR5 effectively). The chips on Gainward's card are made by Hynix, and carry the model number H5GQ2H24MFR-R0C. They are specified to run at 1500 MHz (6000 MHz GDDR5 effective).
The card has a dual-link DVI port (with analog VGA), one dual-link DVI port (digital only), one standard HDMI and DisplayPort. Thanks to Nvidia's new display output logic, Kepler based cards can support up to four displays.
The card is 25,6cm long, whereas last top models like the HD 7970 or GTX 570/580 are 27 long. Just like all high-end cards, Gainward's GTX 680 allows for chaining up one or two more Geforce GTX 680 cards, in order to get more performance (for 3D Stereo Vision now is enought to have just one GTX 680 graphics card).
Motherboard: EVGA X79 FTW
CPU: Sandy Bridge-E Core i7 3820 (3.6GHz)
CPU Cooler: Thermalright HR-02 (Thermalright-Europa Distri www.PC-Cooling.de).
Memory: 8GB ADATA DDR3 1600 XPG Gaming series
Harddisk: OCZ Vertex 2 100 GB
Power Supply: CoolerMaster Silent Pro 1000W
Case: CoolerMaster Cosmos II Ultra Tower
Operating System: Win7 64-bit
Nvidia 301.10-desktop-win7-winvista-64bit-english-whql
3DMark 2011
Aliens vs Predator
Crysis 2
Metro 2033
Unigine Heaven
Overclocking and GPU Boost are closely related. Namely, GPU Boost is a hardware implemented feature that cannot be disabled. This feature monitors important operation parameters and calculates optimum GPU clocks. However, although it may seem as an overclocking limiter, overclocking is still flexible enough. In fact, Gainward GTX 680's OC potential isn't half bad.
Shader clock is something that Nvidia abandoned with Kepler, but now we have other two clocks worth noting – Base and Boost clocks. Overclocking the GPU within Precision X overclocking tool uses two sliders" "GPU Clock Offset" that affects the Base clock and Boost clock, whereas the "Power Target" slider moves the TDP threshold, which in turn enables higher Base and Boost clocks.
By upping the GPU clock offset, users actually set a new Base clock. This also increases the Boost clock that's 53MHz higher than the Base clock.
GPU Boost is similar to Intel's Turbo Boost. If an app or game you started doesn't overburden the GPU, i.e. doesn't max out th TDP and thermals, then GPU Boost will up the clock from the Base clock to Boost clock and thus improve performance. Nvidia claims that every GTX 680 is capable of auto-overclocking to Boost clock of 1059MHz. Note however that the clock will still often exceed 1059MHz. The said 1059MHz is the GK104 GPU's average clock. This is possible because Boost clock is a guaranteed overclock, while maximum clock can even be higher. On our Gainward GTX 680, we measured a maximum clock of 1110MHz.
Higher clocks offer the combination of GPU clock offset with Power Target limitation. Nvidia looked at the most demanding games and calculated that the GTX 680's reference Boost clock has a maximum TDP of 195W (Precision X tool calls this Power Target 100%). By moving the Power Target slider, TDP threshold can be set to 225W (Power Target 132%), which is the most two 6-pin power connectors can offer. This is exactly what we did in our overclocking tests, in order to make sure that the power limit does not limit the desired clock.
Playing Crysis 2 at reference Base clock resulted in 13 different GPU clocks, starting from 1006MHz and ending with 1110MHz (1006/1019/1032/1045/1058/1071/1054/1097/1110MHz). So, overclocking Kepler GPUs won't provide stable and fixed OC clocks, since the GPU Boost feature produces a range of OC clocks.
Playing at 2560x1600, we noticed that clocks change almost every few seconds, whether it was downclocking or overclocking. Note that the sole exception was 1110MHz as we didn't see it at this resolution. After we lowered the resolution to 1920x1080 and then 1680x1050, we noticed that clocks remain unchanged longer. In fact, 1280x1024 resulted in almost constant 1097MHz. This clearly shows that GPU Boost gets quite busy when the workload is higher, since it has to intervene and keep the operation parameters within normal limits. This is why it's difficult to say what's the maximum clock, because although it can run stable some time, it doesn't mean it will remain fixed after few hours of gaming.
Our additional "overclocking" resulted in +133MHz offset for the Base clock, i.e. maximum clock of 1230MHz. In average when playing Crysis 2 at 2560x1600 clocks were at and around 1166MHz. The overclocking we're talking about was done without manual fan RPM setting. The fan isn't too loud, although it can be heard.
The maximum offset set by Nvidia is +549, so hard core overclockers will have room to play around.
Gainward GTX 680 temperatures go up to 80°C during gaming. Although this may seem a bit high, it's still good considering the satisfactory noise levels. The GTX 680's fanproduces a bit more noise compared to GTX 580 ones, but it is still audibly quieter than the HD 7970.
Playing games at reference Base clock (1006MHz) resulted in 13 different GPU clocks, starting from 1006MHz and ending with 1110MHz (Boost clock 1059MHz). Note that there were no sudden changes in fan noise.
At the same time, 82°C was a stable temperature that allows further overclocking headroom.
That the cooler is potent was clear from our testing. Namely, we manually sped up the fan to 85% and the temperature dropped from 82°C to 66°C. However, the fan was already too loud at 4000RPM.
Note however the codependency between thermals and clock calculations, which may result in different performance depending on thermals. As soon as the card overheats, which causes current leakage increases, GPU Boost will decrease clocks and voltage. Our additional "overclocking" resulted in +133MHz offset for the Base clock, i.e. maximum clock of 1230MHz, but playing games at 2560x1600 resolution resulted in average clocks at and around 1166MHz.
Power Consumption
GTX 680's power consumption is better than that of its main competitor – HD 7970. At the same time, GTX 680 is faster which gives it an edge here. However, AMD's card boasts ZecoCore, a feature that shuts the card down once the display is off, which slashes consumption to mere 1W. The same scenario will see the GTX 680 consume about 14W. Still, GTX 680's power management is definitely a job well done because the card scores more than 20% better than its predecessor GTX 580 while consuming 50W+ less.
Gainward's GTX 680 2GB we tested today is a reference version of the card, but that's not to say we're not pleased with its performance. Naturally, we'd much rather try out the Goes Like Hell Golden Sample Edition, because its GK104 GPU and GDDR5 memory indeed pack some overclocking potential, but our today's sample did quite well.
For those who do not like manual overclocking, Nvidia implemented auto-overclocking circuitry within the chip itself and called it GPU Boost. This feature monitors consumption, temperatures and workload, crunches the data and dynamically alters the clocks to provide optimum performance. This is why our Gainward GTX 680 ran at 1110MHz at times. Consumption is monitored by three internal chips, enabling the GK104 GPU to automatically overclock when the card is below the TDP threshold. The GTX 680's TDP stands at 195W, which is considerably lower than the GTX 580' 244W.
Bottom line is that the GTX 680 is the fastest single-GPU card and provides great performance/consumption ratio. Note however that AMD's HD 7970 does well at 2560x1600 and matches the GTX 680's performance in many tests.
Power consumption and the two-display limit were a thorn in Nvidia's backside for a while now. However, Nvidia finally addressed these issues and the GTX 680 allows for using all four video outs simultaneously.
Currently, AMD's HD 7970 is doing pretty good in Europe. The average price for AMD HD 7970 is around €460, here. Nvidia's GTX 680 is priced at the expected €479, here. The price of GTX 680 will eventually drop in Europe and probably follow the HD 7970 one but, until then, AMD HD 7970 will be doing quite well.
USA, on the other hand, is a bit different. While the EU has seen a slight but constant drop in HD 7970 prices since the launch in December, Newegg.com and other retailers/e-tailers have kept the card at steady US $549.99. Actually, you can currently get it cheaper, for US $534.99, but you have to buy two or more cards, which just a simple deal done by Newegg.com and Sapphire. These prices put AMD in an awkward position in the US, since GTX 680 sells for steady US $499.99.
Gainward's GTX 680 is a great graphics card for gaming at 2560x1600. Gainward's GTX 680 is a reference card, but there is little to complain about, since the basic design is nothing short of excellent. The cooling is good, keeping temperatures at bay with relatively little noise, and we have no complaints about the rest of the card either. Since custom designed and overclocked models are nowhere to be found as of yet, Gainward's card will be a good choice since it's available and among the most affordable GTX 680s.
Gainward has now officially launched its newest Geforce GTX 680 Phantom card with custom PCB, factory overclock and new Phantom II cooler.
The new GTX 680 Phantom features a custom PCB with 6-phase DrMOS VRM desing that should provide additional overclocking potential as well more stability. The new GTX 680 Phantom ended up overclocked to 1084MHz for base and 1150MHz for boost clock while 2GB of GDDR5 memory paired up with 256-bit memory interface is working at 1575MHz (6300MHz effective).
The main feature of the GTX 680 Phantom card is its Phantom II cooler. Unlike previous Phantom cooler seen on the GTX 580, this one features new heatsink/fins design that provides better thermal performance, lower acoustic level and more solid structure. We are still looking at a 2.5-slot design with five "grand-prix" 6mm copper-water heatpipes paired up with copper base, large aluminum heatsink and two 80mm silent PWM GR8 fans. All these features add up to provide up to 7.8dB quieter and up to 6°C cooler card when compared to the reference one.
The availability is set for the middle of next month while the price still remains a mystery.


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This is sounding good. Are you going to smoke all of the meat and peppers first and then cook the chili?
Food looks great. I really like the SS counters and the back splash. Frow what I can see of them any way. Are they custom.? I would love to have ss counters. Im thinking about this for the next house. SS counters in the main kitchen and also in the basement brewery/prep kitchen.
Looks great. Phil- you get the same things we can get? I see a little tin of green chiles there. Did it cost a small fortune? Can't wait to see the finished chili!
I'm interested to know how the euro's like the wings. Is it a novelty to them? Twenty years ago they were just getting popular across the US outside NY state and the east coast. Now they're almost a staple and the damn things cost nearly $4+ a pound. Kinda like skirt steak. Used to cost pennies because no-one knew what to do with it. Blam, fajitas get popular and the meat now costs $7 a pound.


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What went wrong? Was this supposed to happen? Should I throw it out? What do I do now?
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Fermentation began again
I am brewing a stout for the first time. I followed the recipe very close and everything went well in terms of technique, readings sanitation, etc. Put it in the primary for 3 days as the directions said, then when the fermentation reduced way down, I racked it to the secondary (6.5 gal glass). After a week, the fermentation subsided and it was just hanging out another week until I will bottle it. Tomorrow is bottling day and I noticed the bubbler to start bubbling again. about one every 10 seconds. Is it still safe to bottle? Or should I wait another week? Any input would be helpful!!!
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Ask your hydrometer
What is your final gravity? It might be CO2 but you won't know for sure unless you take a reading. Preferably three days in a row. If there is no change and you are in the ball park of your prodicted FG... then your done.
The reason I say this is because you could have under pitched your yeast, fermentaion could have stalled due to a temp change. ect.
Hope that this helps...
The reason I say this is because you could have under pitched your yeast, fermentaion could have stalled due to a temp change. ect.
Hope that this helps...
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Thanks to Jen at VBAC Facts for her post bringing attention to current midwifery legislation in Maryland:
(especially those in Maryland)
We have a bill! The Birth Options Preservation Act is House Bill 1407.
This bill proposes to end the requirement that nurse midwives practicing in Maryland have a written agreement with a doctor. This will go a long way to ensuring greater access to nurse midwives throughout the state! Final language is now available on the web site, directly from
http://mlis.state.md.us/2008rs/billfile/hb1407.htm. That page will also throughout the process have up-to-date public information on the bill.
You have all been asking for some time now: what can we do to help ensure that practices like the Takoma Women's Health Center and the Maternity Center stop closing? Well, here is something you can do right now: We need to all work together to make sure this bill passes! We have the sponsoring Delegates and their staffs all working hard, lobbying not only their colleagues, but
other interested organizations, and things are looking very positive, but without the VISIBLE and AUDIBLE support of midwives and their clients or would-be clients, legislators have no reason to listen.
Below are instructions and driving directions for attending a Nurse-Midwives Rally Night on Monday, February 25th, in Annapolis. Yes, it is a long drive for some of us, but the forecast is for sun and mild temperatures, and we urge you to try your very best to get there, to stand and be counted. This bill could make a huge difference for the women of Maryland ! If this law had been in affect 5 years ago, some of the midwifery practices which were forced to close over the past few years might still be open.
Here's how you can help:
1. Come to the Rally! We will gather for inspirational speeches from legislators, midwives and clients, then go to visit our legislators, armed with talking points and other materials to make our case. We will try to send a midwife with as many groups of consumers as possible. They love hearing from constituents, and will be very welcoming!
2. Bring your family and friends to the rally! Post this announcement on any listserves you are on, put up a notice up at work, post it at your favorite coffee shop, nursery school, pediatricians, etc.
3. Write to your legislators! Whether you attend the rally or not, it is a good idea to write to your legislator and let them know you support HB 1407. Email your letter to your friends and family and encourage them to write to their legislator, too!
4. Volunteer to help the legislative committee! In the next ten days, we will be doing phone calls to members, and to legislators to set up appointments. We can use all the help we can get! Please contact Mairi Breen Rothman to let her know if you will come to the Rally, and how many friends you hope to bring with you. We can help you identify your legislator, so we can make appointments for you to visit your own delegates when you come to Annapolis . (Don't worry—you'll go in a group with a packet of information!) If you can't come, you can still write to your delegate, and we would be happy to give you sample language, so contact Mairi even if you
can't come! Please call Mairi or Tina with any questions (Mairi 301-674-9976,
Tina 410-937-5824)
Hope to hear from ALL of you in the next couple of days. If we all work together, we CAN make this happen!
Mairi Breen Rothman & Tina Fisher, Legislative Liaisons
American College of Nurse-Midwives , Maryland Chapter
Nurse-Midwives Lobby Night in Annapolis
Where: Rally @ the Assembly Room (rm. 114) of the Office of the Comptroller
* Enter at the front door on Calvert Street
* All visitors are required to sign in at the front desk with the
Department of General Services Police. Be prepared to show identification
* Parking information listed below!
* Rally begins @ 6:00 P.M (Please arrive by 5:45!)
* Please plan on being at the Assembly Room by 5:45 P.M. to begin the rally promptly
* Plan on arriving in the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium parking lot by 5:00 P.M. in order to arrive by shuttle on time
* Park: Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, 550 Taylor Avenue, Annapolis, MD 21401
Due to severe parking restraints in the area around the Maryland State Government Complex, we recommend that you park in the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium visitor's parking lot. A shuttle service will pick you up in the visitor's lot and bring you to the Complex, which is only a 2-3 minute ride. Please be prepared to pay a maximum of $5 for parking.
Directions (from Washington, D.C. metro area):
Take the Beltway and merge onto US-50 East towarAnnapolis. Get off at Rowe Boulevard South, exit 24, toward Annapolis. Stay in the far right lane as you exit Route 50 onto Rowe Blvd/Md-70 east. Make a right at the second traffic light onto Taylor Avenue/MD-435. The Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium will be on your right before you turn. After turning onto Taylor Avenue, turn at the second entrance to the stadium lot, posted "visitor's parking."
Visitors are required to withdraw a ticket from the parking meter machine at the bus stop. If the machine is broken, do not worry about getting a ticket. Depending on when you leave the lot, you will most likely not be required to pay the parking fee. BE PREPARED TO, THOUGH! Take the shuttle bus to the Department of Legislative Services stop, the last one on the loop (do not hesitate to ask the driver for assistance). When you get off, you will be on College Avenue between the Department of Legislative Services Building and the Lowe House Office Building, adjacent to Bladen Street. Proceed down the left side of Bladen Street until you reach the corner of Bladen and Calvert Street. The Office of the Comptroller will be right in front of you! Enter at the front door.
Contact Information
Mairi Breen Rothman – Legislative Liaison, American College of Nurse Midwives Maryland Chapter (301) 674-9976
Patrick Metz – Legislative Director for Delegate Heather R. Mizeur (301) 858-3493


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On December 16, 2015, the IRS released Notice 2015-87, which contains guidance on a broad range of topics under the Affordable Care Act ("ACA"), including:
- Health Reimbursement Arrangements ("HRAs")
- The application of COBRA to health FSAs with a carryover feature
- Section 6056 Reporting (Applicable Large Employers)
~ Treatment of employer provided flex-credits, opt-out payments and HRAs
~ Cash-in-lieu payments under the Service Contract Act ("SCA") or Davis Bacon Act ("DBA")
~ Penalty relief for "good faith" reporting
- Section 4980H Employer Mandate (Pay-or-Play)
~ Increases to "affordability" safe harbors
~ Increased pay-or-play penalties starting in 2015
~ Hours of service for employees on short- or long-term disability
Set forth below are key pieces of guidance found in the Notice.
HRAs and Other Arrangements that Reimburse Health Insurance Premiums
The Notice confirms prior guidance that prohibits employers from reimbursing employees for the cost of individual market health coverage, whether on a pre-tax or after-tax basis. The following is a summary of guidance provided on HRAs, which breaks little new ground:
- Retiree-only HRAs may reimburse individual market premiums (including premiums for Medicare and Medicare supplement plans)
~ A plan is "retiree-only" if it has fewer than two participants who are current employees
~ Retiree-only HRAs can be stand-alone and are not required to be integrated with a group health plan
- Employees may not use amounts remaining in an HRA to reimburse individual market coverage after group coverage terminates
~ Employers may allow employees to use HRA funds remaining after group coverage terminates as long as they're not used to reimburse individual market premiums
- Spouses and dependents must be enrolled in group health plan coverage for a current employee HRA to reimburse their claims
~ The Notice confirms that HRAs covering family members cannot be integrated with employee-only coverage
~ This requirement applies to plan years beginning in 2017
- HRAs for active employees may reimburse premiums for individual market coverage that solely provides excepted benefits, such as dental or vision coverage
- Amounts credited to a stand-alone HRA before 2014 may reimburse medical expenses pursuant to the terms in effect before 2014 without violating the ACA market reforms
Application of COBRA to Health FSAs with a Carryover Feature
COBRA rules do not require a health FSA to offer continuation coverage upon a qualifying event unless the amount remaining in the FSA exceeds the premium that could be charged to the employee for COBRA for the remainder of the plan year. In other words, the health FSA must be "underspent" at the time of termination in order for COBRA to apply.
The Notice clarifies that when determining if COBRA applies (i.e., if the FSA is underspent at the time of termination), carryover amounts must be included when determining if the amount that the employee is entitled to receive during the remainder of the plan year exceeds the amount the employee must pay for COBRA. However, the cost of COBRA does not include the amount of the carryover as the employee has already paid for the carryover in a prior year.
Example: An employee elects to contribute $2,500 to a health FSA in the current year and carries over $500 from the prior year ($3,000 total). The employee terminates employment June 30, after being reimbursed for $1,600 in medical expenses. The employee is entitled to COBRA under the health FSA because the amount remaining ($1,400) is greater than the COBRA premium that could be charged for the remainder of the year ($1,250, based on a June 30 termination of employment).
The Notice also clarifies that carryover amounts are available to COBRA participants to the same extent as active employees, but that employers may limit the carryover to employees who elect to contribute to the FSA in the following year, thus effectively negating the possibility that COBRA coverage could extend beyond the end of the current plan year. The Notice further provides that employers may limit carryovers to a maximum period (e.g., one or more years).
Example: At the end of the plan year, a COBRA qualified beneficiary has $500 remaining in a health FSA with a carryover feature. The qualified beneficiary is entitled to carry over $500 for the remainder of the COBRA duration, unless the terms of the plan limit carryovers to individuals who have elected to make a salary reduction election to the health FSA for that next plan year.
Section 6056 Reporting
The Notice clarifies several issues regarding the "affordability" of employer-sponsored health coverage, including how to treat various forms of employer contributions, such as amounts available under HRAs, as cafeteria plan flex-credits, and cash opt-out payments for purposes of ACA reporting (e.g., line 15 of Form 1095-C). In short, non-health flex credits and "unconditional" opt-out payments will be treated as increasing an employee's cost of coverage for purposes of Form 1095-C. However, see below for transition relief for arrangements that were in effect prior to December 16, 2015.
HRA Contributions
Most employers do not allow employees to use HRA funds to reimburse premiums under the employer's group health plan. However, if an employee can use funds in an HRA to pay for coverage under the employer's group health plan, the amounts available under an HRA are treated as an employer contribution to coverage. To be treated as an employer contribution, employees must be informed of the amount available under the HRA within a reasonable amount of time before the employee must decide whether to enroll in health coverage.
Example: An employer offers employee-only coverage for $200 per month. The employer also makes available $1,200 in an integrated HRA each year that employees can use to pay for the cost of medical, dental or vision coverage available under the employer's plan. For ACA reporting purposes, the cost of coverage is $100 per month (the $200 contribution is reduced by $100 per month based on the $1,200 annual HRA contribution that is available to reimburse the plan's premiums).
In general, HRAs (including retiree-only HRAs) are subject to the ACA's provider reporting requirements (Code Section 6055) unless they are integrated with the employer's fully insured group health plan or another exception applies (e.g., the plan is supplemental to Medicare).
Flex Credits
The Notice clarifies that employer contributions include cafeteria plan flex credits when they can be used solely to pay for medical care (e.g., used as a health FSA contribution) or the employer's group health plan premiums. These are referred to as "health flex credits."
Example: An employer offers employees the choice of a $480 health FSA contribution or $480 toward the cost of medical, dental or vision coverage under the employer's plan. The $480 is a health flex credit and is treated as reducing the employee's cost of coverage for ACA reporting purposes (line 15 of Form 1095-C would be reduced by $40 per month reflecting the $480 health flex credit).
Unconditional Opt-Out Payments
A cash opt-out payment is "unconditional" when employees may receive it without having to show proof of other coverage, such as enrollment in a spouse's plan. Unconditional opt-out payments are treated as increasing an employee's cost of coverage, although see below for transition relief for 2015 and 2016. With unconditional opt-out payments, an employee must make the regular employee contribution and forgo the opt-out payment to enroll in coverage. Therefore, unconditional opt-out payments are added to the employee's cost of coverage for ACA reporting purposes.
Example: An employer offers employee-only coverage for $125 per month but pays employees $25 each month if they decline coverage. The opt-out payment is treated as increasing the employee's cost of coverage because the employee must forgo the opt-out benefit in addition to making the regular contribution to obtain coverage (line 15 of Form 1095-C would be $150).
Conditional Opt-Out Payments
A cash opt-out payment is "conditional" when made only to employees who show proof of enrollment in other coverage, such as that of a spouse's employer. It does not increase the employee's cost of coverage. In these situations, the opt-out payment is conditioned on an employee satisfying a meaningful requirement related to the provision of health care to employees. In other words, an employee is not entitled to the opt-out benefit simply by declining the employer's health coverage.
Example: An employer offers employee-only coverage for $125 per month but pays employees $25 per month if they opt-out in favor of a spouse's plan. The opt-out is not treated as increasing the employee's cost of coverage because it is subject to a meaningful condition related to the provision of health care to employees (line 15 of Form 1095-C would be $125).
Employers that offer a conditional opt-out benefit should ensure that they only recognize group health plan coverage and not individual market coverage or Medicare as "other coverage." Doing otherwise raises ACA market reform and Medicare Secondary Payer issues (for employers with 20 or more employees), and may not qualify as a conditional opt-out payment because the condition is not related to the provision of health care "to employees."
Transition Relief for Arrangements in Effect Prior to December 16, 2015
For 2015 and 2016 cafeteria plan years, employers may treat non-health flex credits (e.g., unconditional opt-out payments) as employer contributions for ACA reporting purposes as long as they were adopted or in effect prior to December 16, 2015 and were not substantially increased thereafter. In other words, for 2015 and 2016 plan years, employers are not required to treat an unconditional opt-out payment as increasing an employee's cost of coverage. For example, if an employer charges $100 per month for coverage and offers a $50 per month unconditional opt-out, the employer may report the employee's cost of coverage as $100 instead of $150. However, the IRS is encouraging employers to report the cost of coverage as including the opt-out payment (i.e., $150 in this example) and claim relief under the Notice if the IRS assesses an affordability penalty. The IRS prefers this approach as it's more likely an employee will obtain a premium credit if the higher cost is reported, and the true cost to the employee is $150 in this example when the opt-out payment is not conditioned on enrollment in other coverage.
Service Contract Act ("SCA") and Davis Bacon Act ("DBA") Employees
The Notice provides much-needed relief to employers with SCA and DBA employees. For plan years beginning in 2015 and 2016 and until further guidance is provided, such employers may treat "cash-in-lieu" payments as employer contributions toward the cost of health coverage, to the extent the amount of the payment does not exceed the amount required to satisfy the requirement to provide fringe benefit payments under the SCA or DBA. If not for this guidance, employers would have been required to treat "cash-in-lieu" payments as employee contributions for ACA purposes.
Example: An employer offers SCA or DBA employees the choice of coverage under a group health plan or $500 per month. For the employee, $500 per month does not exceed the amount required to satisfy the employer's fringe benefit requirements. The employee's cost of coverage is $0 per month for purposes of line 15 of Form 1095-C, although the employee may consider the required contribution to be $500 per month for premium tax credit purposes.
The IRS encourages employers not to reduce the amount of the employee's required contribution on Line 15 of Form 1095-C by the amount of a cash-in-lieu payment and claim relief under the Notice if contacted by the IRS regarding an assessable payment.
Penalty Relief for Good Faith Reporting
The Notice confirms that the IRS will not impose penalties on employers who file incomplete or incorrect returns for calendar year 2015 if they can show that they have made good faith efforts to comply. This relief does not apply to timeliness failures. However, employers that fail to timely meet the requirements still may be eligible for penalty relief if the IRS determines that there was reasonable cause for the timeliness failure.
Note: Penalties have increased for 2016 (applicable to 2016 returns that are filed in 2017)
Section 4980H Pay-or-Play
Increases to Affordability Safe Harbors
Under the pay-or-play mandate, an offer of employer-sponsored health coverage is "affordable" if the cost of employee-only coverage does not exceed 9.5% of an employee's household income, as indexed for inflation. For 2015 and 2016, the indexed numbers are 9.56% and 9.66%, respectively.
When it comes to determining "affordability" of health coverage, using an employee's household income would be difficult, if not impossible. Therefore, IRS regulations permit employers to use one of three safe harbors to determine affordability based on whether the applicable premium exceeds 9.5% of W-2 income, an employee's Rate of Pay or a measure of the Federal Poverty Level. That is, an employer using one of the safe harbors would not need to ask about an employee's household income to determine whether the insurance is affordable for purposes of the ACA; it would simply take the applicable safe harbor, multiply by 9.5% and measure the result against the premium for self-only coverage.
Prior guidance indicated that although the percentage of household income an employee may be charged may change each year, the three safe harbors are "hard-wired" at 9.5%. The Notice clarifies that the three affordability safe harbors are adjusted retroactively to match the indexed thresholds that apply to household income for 2015 and 2016. The Notice also confirms that the increased thresholds apply when determining if coverage is affordable under the interim guidance for multiemployer plans and whether a "qualifying offer" has been made for Section 6056 reporting purposes.
Increased Pay-or-Play Penalties
The Notice officially confirms that penalties under the employer mandate increase each year starting with 2015.
Crediting "Hours of Service" during STD and LTD
The Notices provides new guidance for employers regarding crediting hours of service for employees on leave. In general, any hours for which an employee is paid or entitled to pay are treated as "hours of service" for ACA purpose. The Notice confirms this concept but also provides that hours of service do not include hours for which the employee is paid under the employer's short- or long-term disability program as long as the employee contributed to the cost of coverage on an after-tax basis (or premiums were included in income). If employees pay for such coverage pre-tax, the payments will be treated as hours of service. The Notice also confirms that hours for which an employee is paid under workmen's compensation, unemployment or state disability programs are not hours of service for ACA purposes.
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West Chester Daze gets started tomorrow night. The three day event kicks off with the beer tent opening at 6p.m. Other events tomorrow night include a bean bag tournament, chicken bingo, and karaoke.
The parade starts at 10am on Saturday and keep it tuned to KCII for weather delays. Fun for the kids starts at 1 with things like a pan for gold game and an inflatable bounce house. Another bean bag tournament and a horseshoe tournament will take place on Saturday as well. Closing out the night will be a Street Dance by Adam and Evils.
West Chester Daze will wrap up Sunday with an outdoor service at 10:30am and an Alumni Banquet and Auction at the Heritage Building starting at noon. For the full schedule of events click on station events.


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Want To Play D&D???
Fortnightly Dragon League gather at the Cock and Bull, find us upstairs where we have secured a space to game in.
There is opportunity for anyone who would like to run a game of D&D or other RPGs, along with our Dragon League Board Game Nights.
Discover new games like Love Letter, Coup, Kittens in a Blender or bring out the old favourites! You name it, UNO, Pass the Pigs, Cards Against Humanity, Scrabble, Monotony, R*I*S*K or Firefly.
We are keen to open this night up to discovering and exploring new and interesting games!
Our D&D resources are available on site for anyone who wants to create a character so they are ready to play in our Dragon League Dungeons & Dragons Games.


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As a following up, I upgraded my Mac laptop to 10.8 and the problem continued. The problem seems to be combination LLVM GCC 4.2 in either MacOS 10.7 or 10.8 because LLVM GCC 4.2 in MacOS 10.6 works OK. And the problem is Apple not moving past 4.2 (and I hear they never will)
I solved it by:
1. Installing GCC 4.8 using MacPorts described well here
http://www.ficksworkshop.com/blog/14-co ... gcc-on-mac
2. To continue using XCode (because I need Mac apps in the same project), you can induce it to allow GCC 4.8 with these excellent instructions:
http://hamelot.co.uk/programming/add-cu ... -to-xcode/
and replacing 4.7 in the post with 4.8. I don't know what this change was made to take so much work.
Not only does the code now compile and run without OpenMP problems, it speeds up more that the number of processors on my laptop, which is likely due to GCC 4.8 improvements over GCC 4.2


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Contemporary home architecture design located in Bryanston Johannesburg, South Africa, we presented to you as design inspiration in this sample interior and exterior pictures gallery shonw below. A new luxury residence built in about 1400 square meter planned by Nico & Werner van der Meulen of Nico van der Meulen Architects cc placed on a 4000 square meter stand in Eccleston Rd, Bryanston. Upon entering through the modern gatehouse design idea you look down the sloping driveway through some large cantilevers protruding from the house structure, some in rust, other rooms clad with unfilled travertine, and an atrium behind a mantis grating screen. Due to the house slope of the stand design, an innovative large basement was designed on the lower side of the property, making a stepped effect on the stand. Next to the front door a large reflective koi pond flows over a retaining wall next to the drive way, with an illuminated indoor glass staircase design behind a two storey curtain wall in the background.
House in Bryanston Interior design was completed by M Square Lifestyle Design, and the luxury furniture, room interior decoration and feature lights were by M Square Lifestyle Necessities. The comfortable lounge leads directly onto the deck next to the pool through full width frame-less stacking doors, and through the bar to the lanai. An atrium allows the residents to open the living rooms to cool breezes. The only decorative wall design in the lounge is a double height wall punctured by a 4 meter long fireplace and several illuminated niches, with a covered ceiling with rope lights over it. All the other walls are glass. The house front door is a large piece of pivoted frame-less glass, leading into a double volume entrance hall and formal lounge with a view across the lounge and pool into the garden beyond. A bridge suspended with minimalist steel cables spans across this space. The lift shaft home forms a strong vertical element completed in rust behind the pond. Every single one of this is framed with a cantilevered concrete beam. The wooden staircase behind the koi pond is a double glass construction, with lights between the two layers of glass. Above the lower garage a huge cantilevered structure hangs out, suspended by beams built into its roof. So, newhosueofart.com team now waiting for your opinion about this new residence architectures.


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by Mike Masnick
Thu, Sep 25th 2008 10:21am
Filed Under:
canada, competition, gps, monopoly power
bell canada
It's good to have market power, apparently. Remember how Bell Canada started throttle bandwidth to its reseller partners without telling them? And then told them to shut up and take it when they complained? Oh, right, and then tried launching its own video download store just as it was making it more difficult for anyone else's to work? Apparently, the company may be doing that again... Michael Geist points us to reports that Bell Canada is looking to purposely degrade the GPS signal on certain Blackberrys for anyone using third party mapping programs, such as Google's. However (wouldn't you know it?), Bell is promising to allow the GPS to work properly if you pay the company $10/month and use Bell's own mapping solution.
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Anonymous Coward, 25 Sep 2008 @ 10:23amVerizon Wireless does this in the US already.
Me, 25 Sep 2008 @ 10:26am
Really what else is newWhat else is new verizon will do the same with the BB, you can not use the GPS but if you pay them $10/m u can get vznav. But when you really think about it they are charging you for the device, let it be a discount for a contract or full retail we are paying for the device and be able to use what ever the manufacture provides with out the interferance of the serive provider crippling the phone BB or other.
Matt Bennett, 25 Sep 2008 @ 10:52am
So what's special about Canada that makes screwing the customer easier?What exactly about the Canadian market, either business or legislative-wise, makes it so easy to give customers the shaft? Cuz it looks to me, that between Rogers and Bell Canada, Canadian cell phone users are pretty screwed. It's not like US wireless carriers are exactly benevolent, but in comparison to Canada they are.
crucible, 25 Sep 2008 @ 3:50pm
Re: So what's special about Canada that makes screwing the customer easier?Yes we do get the shaft up here...Sometimes it actually hurts to sit down.
NeoConBushSupporter, 25 Sep 2008 @ 10:53am
Bush was right!This is why we need STARWARS people . . . he was right again! Sure some of you said "trust the Canadians", "there our friends" and "we dont need to waste money on a giant Missle Defense Sheild " . . . what are you saying now, huh?
VOTE McCain 2008 - CLOSED UNTIL CRISIS SOLVED AND WORLD SAVED
Gordon the Beaver, 25 Sep 2008 @ 10:57am
Re: Bush was right!What on earth are you trying to say?? ... Your ramblings make no sense.
Dave, 25 Sep 2008 @ 11:55am
Re: Re: Bush was right!It's sarcasm... just laugh and enjoy...
Matt, 25 Sep 2008 @ 11:10am
Re: Bush was right!I hope that whole thing was sarcasm....then again, you know how some people are with supporting McSame.
Anonymous Coward, 25 Sep 2008 @ 1:59pm
Re: Re: Bush was right!McSame? Is that what you are going with? What about Obama lobbyist whore?
Anonymous Coward, 25 Sep 2008 @ 4:19pm
Re: Re: Bush was right!I think the sarcasm went right over your head. (S)he is a Dem posting as a Rep to make them look stupid. I thought (s)he wasn't fooling anyone, but I was wrong. BTW, I'm a Dem, but I know that most people in both parties are neither stupid, nor blind. They vote for what is best for either themselves or the country as a whole. In this election, I'm not sure which candidate that is.
Tony, 26 Sep 2008 @ 11:19am
Re: Re: Re: Bush was right!"In this election, I'm not sure which candidate that is."
Anyone remember Brewster's Millions?
"None of the above"
lee, 25 Sep 2008 @ 12:24pm
Re: Bush was right!Not!
Blow Me
hegemon13, 25 Sep 2008 @ 11:05am
Blatant antitrustThe company is abusing its market position and power to artificially degrade competing products and force the sale of a separate product of its own. This is the exact same thing MS did with the bogus DOS error messages if you were using OS/2 or other non-Windows GUI. It is the same charge MS had leveled against them for bundling IE, making it part of the OS, and attempting to cripple third-party browsers. If Canada's antitrust laws are anything like the US's, they are asking for a huge antitrust suit.
Anonymous Coward, 25 Sep 2008 @ 11:07amThis is just a rumour based on some blogs as far as I can see.
I'm not sure that this is even technically possible (since GPS is internal to these models RIM devices and picked up from satellites not owned by bell)
facts are handy little things.
Anonymous Coward, 25 Sep 2008 @ 11:28am
Re:It's possible. Owners of VZW BBs in the US know that they cannot make use of 3rd party mapping apps that need to access the BBs built in GPS.
Only the VZW Navigator can make use of the native GPS. The GPS has been crippled otherwise.
This is true of Google Maps and BBs own mapping application.
Woody Green, 25 Sep 2008 @ 12:48pm
Re:It is not only technically possible, it is highly likely. There is money to be milked from those customers.
Actually many (not all) wireless providers customize the software on your phone prior to shipment. Manufactures like RIM (Blackberry) provide this option for their phones. The provider can ship original manufacture software or their own modified release. Think of it as a provider SDK (Software Development Kit). Wireless providers can add options, disable features, modify certain phone behaviors, pre-install add-ons, etc...
In my case T-Mo's custom release of 8320 Curve software (22.214.171.124) breaks the modem functionality for all but Windows (I do not think they did it intentionally, but dumb on their part anyway). I go to RIM and download unmodified software by fibbing about who my provider is and viola, the modem functionality works fine with Linux as it does for all non-T-Mo phones. And as a bonus, I get a whole new set of features T-Mo did not ship like video camera support.
It would not be hard for Bell Canada, or any provider with their own development staff, to ship a modified OS install on the blackberry causing the it to fuzz your location numbers (eg: add random small offset) as part of the Blackberry API call Google (or other software author) has to make to get the GPS coordinates.
I love to dispel a good conspiracy theory as much as anyone else, but this one is likely true.
GPS user, 25 Sep 2008 @ 11:16am
Dont need no stinkin telco GPS crapI'll just continue using my Garmin for GPS requirements.
Thanks anyways
Kevin, 25 Sep 2008 @ 11:26am
Does this Matter?Whether or not this is true, shouldn't the accuracy of the incoming GPS Signal still have to be within the standard error of 2 to 3 meters. If the error was obviously outside this range I would think it constitutes a failure to provide the service as advertised. And if that failure was consistent Bell would be in violation of their contracts with mobile subscribers.
Unless specifically stated that they would only guarantee GPS accuracy on their own proprietary applications, I don't see how they can get away with this from a legal standpoint. Then again, I'm not a lawyer. I hope I made enough sense for someone with the appropriate knowledge to flush out the details.
dorpass, 25 Sep 2008 @ 12:43pm
Re: Does this Matter?There is no explicit promise to provide a certain accuracy for GPS. So no violation of contract is present. You might argue that there is an implied promise of the GPS working with any software, but since they already provide their own service, they can argue that they don't have to support anyone else.
The location error can be added AFTER the hardware GPS has sent the correct location.
Anonymous Coward, 25 Sep 2008 @ 11:49am
Are you sure......that they're not using aGPS (where the actual location is figured out by triangulation between cell towers)?
Another Nail for Net NeutralityCompanies may whine about regulation, but they seem to lack the "maturity" to act responsibly.
Lets see, the financial institutions were freed of some regulation and look what happened. They used "innovation" to create junk financial instruments, which are now bring down our economy.
Those opposed to network neutrality claim that regulation would hurt "innovation". Mike's post is another example of how companies can potentially abuse "innovation" simply for their own self interest and not to foster the societal economic growth they claim.
Anonymous Coward, 25 Sep 2008 @ 12:25pm
Re: Another Nail for Net Neutrality". . . companies can potentially abuse "innovation" simply for their own self interest and not to foster the societal economic growth they claim."
Companies will always "abuse" innovation for thier own self interest, always have and always will. The trick is to make sure that the company's self interest and the societal greater interest are the same.
Yakko Warner, 25 Sep 2008 @ 3:31pm
Re: Another Nail for Net NeutralityFirst thing I thought of was Comcast's bandwidth caps, announced just as Netflix and Microsoft announce streaming movies via the Xbox 360.
Stream movies from Netflix or YouTube or anywhere else, or use Vonage or some other VOIP provider, and you run the risk of overflowing your data allotment for the month. Oh, but use our movies on demand, or VOIP phone, and you're fine.
John, 25 Sep 2008 @ 12:15pm
softwarethey are obvious that they are just modding the firmware so all you need to do is reflash the deuice with american/european firmware
Anonymous Coward, 25 Sep 2008 @ 12:32pm
Re: softwareGreat idea: Flash it with firmware that disables it entirely (à la Verizon). Bell (like Verizon) uses CDMA, so European GSM firmware just wouldn't work.
NullOp, 25 Sep 2008 @ 12:35pm
It could happen...I encourage everyone to "Vote With Your Dollars." Bell wants to essentially steal your money by screwing competitors. Then screw Bell and find another vendor for whatever service you need. The service may not be as "good" BUT Bell will certainly take note if enough customers do it!
mobiGeek, 25 Sep 2008 @ 1:14pm
Proof?I've posted in a few of the threads linked to in the original article, but I still have not seen any proof of this move by Bell other than one post by someone claiming to be a Bell employee that "leaked" this.
If there is an actual "internal memo", then where is it?
Anonymous Coward, 25 Sep 2008 @ 1:30pmextortion
outwresting, or exaction is a criminal offense, which occurs, when a person unlawfully obtains either money, property or services from a person, entity, or institution, through coercion.
Anonymous Coward, 25 Sep 2008 @ 1:39pmWoody - thanks for that. I love learning something. very cool.
Shuryno, 25 Sep 2008 @ 1:49pm
Anyone suprised by anything Bell doesIs exactly the kind of customer they're looking for.
Bell is a plague, everyone should be educated and stay clear of Bell Canada, Canada's largest Crook. Tell your friends!
This company will keep us in the dark age, keeping us from innovations, trying to pull a Microsoft on us.
Johnny Canada, 25 Sep 2008 @ 3:20pm
Anyone suprised by anything Bell doesShuryno, and our choices are ???
Fido (part of Roger$)
nobell (profile), 25 Sep 2008 @ 6:13pmOh yeah.
This will really help them compete against the iPhone offered only by their competitor with it's cell-tower and wifi enhanced free GPS.
Good move Bell.
P.S. Screw you, Bell, for stealing 120 minutes of my life this week while I talked to your 'people' in Bangalore about the fraudulent charge you added to my bill.
P.P.S All of the Bell executives' email addresses are in the format firstname.lastname at bell.ca. I bet some of you are smart enough to figure out where to send your complaints. It worked for me.
Call Me, 25 Sep 2008 @ 6:39pm
Is this the party to whom I am speaking ?Telcom GPS sucks, just like all the other crap they have added to the cell "phone". btw, it's not really a phone anymore is it ?
The picture quality is worse than an Instamatic 104, a monaural 45 vinyl record sounds better than the mp3 player, web browsing is a joke, and now GPS - holy crap.
What more could you ask for ? ... A phone ???


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As a result, his current results are more specific than they were a year and a half ago. While he still only matches up with some 4th cousins in the database, which are not a close relatives at all, the matches continue to build.
His current ethnicity results have pretty much eliminated the possibility that he is of Native American decent. Family legends can generate rumors within a family that pass on down the line. From Betsy Ross as a relative to Native American heritage, sometimes people just have a wish list. Well, the wish list is just that.
DNA and factual documentation tell the truth. Since Betsy Ross was only a Ross by marriage and did not have children with Ross, she is not a relative. That was fairly easy to eliminate. The Native American heritage has been challenging to prove. At this point, it has been dis-proven.
The following are his updated ethnicity results.
Europe 99%
• Great Britain 62%
• Europe West 19%
• Ireland 11%
• Trace Regions 7%
• Italy/Greece 2%
• Scandinavia 2%
• European Jewish 1%
• Iberian Peninsula 1%
• Finland/Northwest Russia < 1%
West Asia <1 div="">
Does this give us the full picture? To me, it is still pretty general. What we do know in tracing my husband's line is that he does have Scottish ancestry for sure. Our last name is German. We know they come from southern Germany.
My husband has indicated over and over that he is Irish. Turns out that he is just a little bit. Since I have not done the DNA test, I have no real frame of reference. I would assume my DNA test would plant me mainly in Ireland.
When it comes to DNA, I am still not sure how this tool would aid me in my search to go back further in time. I suppose more research is needed before I jump on the bandwagon.