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SHADES of ''it's the vibe'' were repeated in the Federal Magistrates Court in a dispute between the chief executive of a shire council who was suffering from hepatitis C and a councillor who spread the news.
Kelvin Matthews sued Timothy Hargreaves for unlawful discrimination on the basis of his disability, after the Shark Bay councillor disseminated the fact of his disease to colleagues, residents and media in Western Australia.
Mr Hargreaves emailed his other councillors in March 2008 in capital letters, beneath the heading ''Confidential'': ''I have been given to understand from a seemingly reliable source that Mr Matthews has Hepatitis C.
''This information is not given to you because of a perceived personality problem as you so often suggest between Mr Matthews and myself but as a duty of care responsibility. I don't know sufficient [sic] of the medical prognosis of the various hepatitis conditions but I do know it comes under the heading of contagious diseases.''
The email was one in a string of complaints that Mr Hargreaves made about Mr Matthews between 2008 and his resignation in 2010.
One such email, to the council president, said: ''I have noticed that of late when Mr Matthews has addressed me he has taken to a strange contortioning of his facial muscles and attempts at much winking … In the army we called this sort of behaviour insubordination. [The Bible] warns of a man '… winking with eyes to devise froward things, his lips bringing wickedness to pass'.''
In his defence, Mr Hargreaves said it gave him no joy to share with the community at large that Mr Matthews suffered from a contagious disease, but he had a duty as he had been elected on an anti-corruption ticket.
It behoved him to point out Mr Matthews shared eating and drinking utensils with other staff members. Asked whether he would apologise to Mr Matthews, he said he would, provided no compensation was sought.
He added: ''Mr Matthews conceded he had his own mug … I never noticed him having his own mug, but at least that is an acknowledgement that he knew of the potential for hepatitis being transmitted to others.''
The federal magistrate Toni Lucev said Mr Hargreaves had also raised in his defence ''some form of constitutional issue''. ''The submissions on this issue are nigh on incomprehensible, and it was never apparent to the court precisely what this issue was.''
She said she would have ruled Mr Hargreaves had discriminated against Mr Matthews, but nevertheless dismissed the application as the council and Mr Matthews had already signed a deed of agreement which prevented him from seeking further redress.


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State to begin one-size-fits-all Medicaid payments
Published: Monday, January 21, 2013 at 9:59 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at 9:44 a.m.
Medicaid reimbursement at hospitals throughout Florida aims to be more equitable, and implementing Diagnosis Related Groups for Medicaid reimbursement is intended to be a nudge in that direction — by replacing a hospital's per-diem rates with procedure-based rates.
In other words, a hospital that is now reimbursed $14,000 for a given procedure and one that's reimbursed $1,000 for the same procedure would get the same amount, said Justin Senior, Medicaid director at the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration.
Fair enough, but hardly easy.
Senior said the new system "looks at various procedures and pays a set rate for any given procedure everywhere in the state. That amount is determined by looking at the statewide and national average of the cost and complexity of the procedure."
The DRG system was endorsed last legislative session and is slated for implementation on July 1. It is modeled on the long-standing Medicare reimbursement system that pays hospitals for each "product," or procedure. Senior said that reimbursing Medicaid in a similar way gives hospitals incentives to spend less than the average cost on procedures to earn bigger margins.
"It should drive their costs down. Hospitals that consistently perform procedures at below average costs are going to have more opportunity to make money," Senior said. "If it costs them more, they need to figure out how to be more efficient."
He added that the agency does appreciate a certain cost variance for procedures based on their level of complexity. The system chosen to handle the actual number crunching — the company 3M's APR (all-patient-refined) — allows for those complexities, Senior said.
"It allows hospitals to pinpoint the complexity of the procedure they just performed" and assign a complexity code to it that corresponds to a dollar amount, Senior said. More than 25 hospitals nationwide have adopted 3M's APR DRGs.
"It injects some equity into hospitals and hopefully incentivizes them to reduce their costs and improve their efficiency," Senior said.
But according to the Safety Net Hospital Alliance of Florida, the changes foreseen by AHCA's proposed recommendations don't bode well for the state's 14 safety-net hospitals, which provide more than half the state's charity care and 70 percent of its graduate medical education. James Zingale, the director of research and fiscal analysis for the alliance, said the system "adversely affects safety-net hospitals."
These include many of the state's children's hospitals, one of which is Shands Hospital for Children at the University of Florida, Zingale said. "You have hospitals that are delivering procedures through NIC (neonatal intensive care) unit where the DRG doesn't capture the full cost of that setting."
Also, the state's six teaching hospitals risk being cut 10 percent, or $93 million, in five months, he said. According to AHCA's preliminary numbers, Medicaid reimbursement at Shands at the University of Florida would drop 16 percent, from $177.6 million to $149.5 million.
"It would be a very substantial hit for Shands both at Gainesville and Jacksonville," said Dr. David Guzick, president of the UF&Shands Health System and senior vice president for health affairs, adding that both hospitals take care of many of the state's uninsured patients. "It's not like we have a lot of room to make these cuts."
Meanwhile, many of the state's private hospitals would get more money, according to AHCA recommendations. North Florida Regional Medical Center would receive 44 percent more money in reimbursements, from $7.6 million to $11 million.
Transitioning to a DRG system represents a redistribution of dollars rather than comprehensive cuts, Guzick said.
"The main point is to figure out a way to take care of the 4 million uninsured people in Florida," he said, adding that it would be important to maintain "some recognition of the differential costs" associated with caring for the elderly, children and disabled.
Both Guzick and the Safety Net Hospital Alliance raise the issue of adjusters for specific costs — for example, those associated with graduate medical education. Guzick pointed out that the consultants had used them in the other states using a DRG-grouper system, but not in Florida.
The alliance wrote a letter to the AHCA in November asking that it include an adjustment for the costs associated with graduate medical education. The alliance estimated unreimbursed costs at these hospitals to be more than $350 million annually.
"It is imperative that the implementation of a new Medicaid DRG payment system include an adjustment for these costs," the letter said. "Any new DRG payment methodology that does not recognize this vital component will not only make it more difficult for our teaching hospitals to maintain their current programs, it would have the effect of distributing existing reimbursement for the cost of GME (graduate medical education) programs to all hospitals whether they have any residency programs or not."
Medicare reimburses hospitals for medical education, and Medicaid should do the same, the alliance said.
Senior of AHCA anticipates potential adjusters to be discussed in the upcoming legislative session that begins on March 5.
"We have prepared a fairly simple system, but we do expect that the Legislature is going to consider other policy adjusters."
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Grace to you and peace!
Welcome to the Springs Baptist Church website. Please feel free to join us for corporate worship:
Sunday Morning Worship - 10.00am
(Sunday School runs from 8.30am to 9.30am)
Come and enjoy worshipping God in corporate prayer, praise and careful study of His Word.
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Join us for a time of study in God's precious Word, followed by praise, worship and prayer together.
God's grace to us is such that it is His pleasure to magnify His worth by giving to us sinners the right in Christ Jesus His Son and power through the Holy Spirit to delight in Him without obscuring His glory. (adapted from The Pleasures of God by John Piper)
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. (Romans 5:1)
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TMG - Trimethylglycine (Anhydrous Betaine)
The heart is a muscle that must contract without missing a beat about every second of our lives. The cardiovascular system�s importance to our health goes beyond the critical function of supplying food and oxygen to all the cells. The blood transports hormones and other messenger molecules that signal the coordination of numerous critical functions, and through the white blood cells, the circulatory system is the site of significant immune protection.
Numerous factors can impact circulatory health: the oxidation of molecules, cholesterol levels, homocysteine buildup, fibrin viscosity, lack of nitric oxide, capillary and blood vessel strength and integrity, metabolic inflammation, and energy generation for heartbeat. Maintaining these and other functions is an intricate balancing act. That balance can be provided by the intelligent use of nutrition.
TMG, also known as anhydrous betaine, is found in a variety of plant and animal sources and is utilized in the conversion of homocysteine to methionine. Maintaining normal homocysteine levels is important for the health of the cardiovascular system. TMG has been shown to help protect the liver and raise S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) levels in animal studies. SAM may help to promote a balanced emotional state.
Supplement Facts:
Other Ingredients: dibasic calcium phosphate, stearic acid, microcrystalline cellulose, modified cellulose gum, magnesium stearate and silica.
For daily maintenance, take 1 to 2 tablets. To support lower homocysteine levels, take 2 to 4 tablets daily. Additional benefits may be obtained by taking this product with other methyl donor supplements such as vitamin B-6, vitamin B-12 and folic acid.
If you are pregnant, may become pregnant, or breastfeeding, consult your health care professional before using this product.
Do not use if either tamper-evident seal is broken or missing. Keep out of the reach of children.
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Bradford on Avon artist Tanya Lock is to show her work in Edinburgh from May 17 to June 15.
Tanya who won the BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year 2013 in the World Birds' section and Animals in their Environment section.
Her paintings will be shown alongside nine other artists as part of the Creative Coverage Group Exhibition at EDS Gallery at 13A Great King Street.
"It's a great opportunity," says Tanya, who has featured in The Artist magazine and believes this will further raise her profile.
Fiona McCrindle, owner of EDS Gallery said: "These shows are great way of introducing art lovers to a wide variety of high quality artists from all over the UK."
Other artists exhibiting in the show include Gerry Defries, Clare Shepherd, Janine Hares, Anne Butler, John Scott Martin, Vicki Norman, Helen Wilson, Wendy Clouse and Susan Sands.


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This article was published 20/2/2013 (1643 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
BREEZY POINT -- The first sign of spring in Manitoba has arrived in the form of three Amphibex machines cutting Red River ice near the confluence with Netley Creek.
At $1.3 million apiece, the floating steel machines with hydraulic arms have spent the past week cutting into the Red as part of an effort to break up a 25-kilometre stretch of river that extends from Lake Winnipeg to Highway 4.
The intent is to clear a channel for chunks of ice, which are as thick as three-quarters of a metre this winter, to reach the lake and reduce the possibility of back-flows that could raise river levels in communities such as Selkirk and Petersfield.
In 2009, an ice jam on the Red River's lower stretch devastated riverfront areas of the rural municipalities of St. Andrews and St. Clements, resulting in the buyout of 47 homes and cottages. Ice congestion that year also caused the Red to peak in Winnipeg at 22.6 feet above normal winter-ice level, which amounted to the second-highest level in the city since the completion of the Red River Floodway.
The province now has a total of four Amphibexes, with one serving as backup. The steel hulls of each machine have been reinforced, along with the hydraulic strength of their cutting arms, said Steve Topping, executive director of hydrologic forecasting and water management for Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation.
The province has yet to determine the prospects for spring flooding on the Red River in 2013, with forecasters intending to crunch new numbers from the United States before they issue Manitoba's first flood outlook next Wednesday.
The U.S. National Weather Service plans to update its predictions for the Red River today. In January, it predicted a four per cent chance of moderate flooding at Grand Forks before April 30 and a 15 per cent chance of moderate flooding at Fargo during the same period.
As a result, St. Andrews Reeve Don Forfar said he's optimistic there will not be major flooding on the lower Red River, despite the thickness of the ice and a relatively high snowpack.
The greater fear this year, as it was in 2011, is the Assiniboine River basin may experience flooding. Earlier this month, Saskatchewan's Water Security Agency predicted above-normal spring runoff in almost every area of the province that sits inside the Assiniboine River basin, thanks to above-normal snowfall and above-average moisture content within the Saskatchewan snowpack.
Those are only two factors that contribute to potential floods. In Manitoba, soil-moisture levels, which determine the ability of the ground to absorb snowmelt, were much lower during the fall of 2012 than they were during the fall of 2010, which preceded the record Assiniboine River flood, Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger said.
The depth of frost, the rate of snowmelt and the amount of snow or rain that will fall in the coming weeks and months will also determine whether Manitoba experiences a flood, Topping said.
Amphibexes are deployed in an attempt to reduce the odds of flooding.
First, circular saws and drills cut a grid of six-metre squares partway into the Red River ice. Then, two Amphibexes work in tandem to break up a channel.
After ice-cutting work is completed on the Red River, the Amphibexes will move on to the Icelandic River and Fisher River in the Interlake, the Whitemud River southwest of Lake Manitoba and the Portage Diversion channel, which carries Assiniboine River floodwaters into Lake Manitoba.
Manitoba's first flood outlook for 2013 will be revealed on Wednesday, Feb. 27.
On Feb. 12, Saskatchewan's Water Security Agency predicted "well above-normal" or "above-normal" spring runoff for almost all of the upper Assiniboine River drainage basin, the Souris River basin and the Qu'Appelle River basin, based on "above-normal winter precipitation and well above-average water equivalent in the snowpack." The Souris and Qu'Appelle drain into the Assiniboine River in Manitoba.
United States:
On Jan. 21, the U.S. National Weather Service's advanced hydrologic prediction service said there was a four per cent chance of moderate flooding along the Red River at Grand Forks and a 15 per cent chance of moderate flooding at Fargo at some point before April 30. The U.S. weather service also pegged the chance of major flooding at two per cent for Grand Forks and eight per cent for Fargo. An update is expected today.
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When I got the Book How to Grill(for Christmas) , My wife was a skeptic. See she hates to try new things at a restaurant, where I like to explore everything on a menu . Therefore her doubts of the new flavors from the book began. I figured that I had one maybe two shots form the recipes to win her over.
First, I tried the Mojo marinaded pork. She loved the flavor. Now I am beginning to think about that second shot.
Second, simple barbeque chicken with the basic BBQ rub and the vinegar based mop sauce. WINNER. the flavor was amazing.
Third was her suggestion. " What do you need out of that book to smoke a brisket?" The brisket will be cooked this weekend.
In the meanwhile, trying the fajita recipe tonight on the grill. Have a feeling that I will be doing a lot of cooking outside from now on.


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In xhtml I would use DIV tags to layout my pages, then hook it into my css. But with HTML 5 I now have section and article tags I am kind of confused when to use each. I like the header, nav, and footer tags in HTML 5. When laying out main sections or sections within sections. Would it be a good practice to continue to use DIV tags or should I use the new tags? And long term will it really affect my page?
At the moment they are of no real value... HTML5 is still a draft and will be for another several years at the earliest. Plus it is in constant flux but if those few elements are basically only main reason you want to experiment with HTML5. Then either use HTML5 correctly (and include them).
Else a more sensible approach might be to use a fully normative markup language like; XHTML 1.0 markup that actually is semantically rich and is better supported by browsers, and search engines will already know how to analyse effectively, etc.
Maybe this will help. http://html5doctor.com/you-can-still-use-div/
Where can I learn about HTML 5?
It often seems like the people writing the spec are confused by it too, which is why I have no plans to use HTML 5 for markup any time in the near future... I'll probably wait for HTML 6 Strict which will deprecate all the pointless BULL the steaming pile of manure the "whatWG" barfed up.
My advice, forget that HTML 5 idiocy altogether, it offers ZERO improvements over HTML 4.01 STRICT / XHTML 1.0 STRICT, and in many ways with its' loosening of structural rules, new tags for NOTHING, it just pisses away all the progress we've made over the past decade. The only people who might see benefit from that moronically stupid nonsense are the people who just two years ago were vomiting up HTML 3.2, slapping a tranny doctype on it and having the cojones to call themselves skilled in the field... It certainly isn't meant for anyone who grasped the intent of STRICT, the advantages of semantic markup, or practiced ideas like separation of presentation from content.
The link Dashman gave to html5doctor.com is an excellent resource. And if you read their articles, you'll see exactly what Crusty and xhtmlcoder are talking about: they are still deciding themselves when to use which elements, and it still hasn't settled for many of them.
Regarding section and article, you might specifically want to read up on the HTML5 Document Outline which while still not doing anything yet today, does give you a better idea of how section and article differ. There's also a specific article page about <article> and <section> elements that helps show the difference between the two and (for now) when to use one or the other.
From what I hear, their goal is to create a "living standard" and get rid of the versioning, which is why you get that catchall doctype with no version reference. Don't hold your breath for 6 strict if that is the philosophy.
I figured the "living standard" junk was in a sort of political retribution for the W3C finally abandoning XHTML2 and announcing that "if there's going to be a new version of HTML, then we should be involved". So today, the W3C has HTML5 and the WHATWG has "HTML the living standard".
Why versioning is a Good Thing: it allows developers to talk to each other about support and behaviour of software like UAs with an actual vocabulary. Like,"HTML4 forbids inline elements as direct children of form elements, but HTML5 lets you throw anything in there". How do you say that any other way without being a gazilliong times more wordy and confuzling?
Similar with Firefox: they will abandon versions, so at some point you'll be describing a bug and you'll be like, "uh, I have firefox". Right.
Oh I agree about the versioning. But with the minimalist doctype, it pretty much eliminates that in practice right?
Hm, not really.
I guess the doctype was a sort of sign for developers which rules the page is supposed to be following; otherwise, only the validator ever cared. Browsers never did. That's why the "new" doctype works all the way back to IE5 or earlier. Turned out, browsers hadn't been reading them anyways.
What's happening now is, vendors are building browsers who have a (rudimentary since the stuff's still in draft) HTML5 parser. Any documents sent to them as text/html are parsed with that parser, no matter what doctype you use.
But as HTML5 starts becoming real spec, and as random new stuff gets added here and there (sorta like how the modules of CSS3 are being brought to Release Candidate bit by bit), you gotta wonder how the validator will be updated, and will it matter if browsers fall behind?
If a browser decides to follow something new in the spec that does undo something that used to be legal, how does the browser deal with it? The validator? Web authors? A pain in the butt is what it will be.
Meaning: if there is no versioning, something else will, by necessity, have to take its place. It just won't be shown by the doctype anymore.
Ok, I thought the doctype was a declaration to the browsers what rules you were following, and that if you didn't follow those rules, things could break. Which led me to believe that with the new doctype, the browsers will accept everything, and therefore, rather than versioning, the new recommendations will will not have rollouts to completion but additions (like new tags) will be updated gradually as the browsers accept them. Is that not right?
I'm not as pessimistic as poes is. Browser vendors will always make sure that deprecated code will still be rendered correctly and that their new versions will support new additions/changes to the spec as much as possible. Hey, even IE will have a new version every year from now on When the <time> element suddenly disappeared from the spec, no browser vendor had any intention to remove it.
On validators: they try to do a good job but don't depend on them. They are machines. Right now I only validate my code when something unexpecting is happening (like I forgot to close an element or something, or made a typo). And eventually they will catch up with changes...
Ok, I thought the doctype was a declaration to the browsers what rules you were following, and that if you didn't follow those rules, things could break.
Nope. I mean, sure, that was the original idea: browsers would read the link to the DTD in the doctype and go look up the rules they needed to correctly parse the page. This was exactly the idea for the zombified XHTML2 spec. This was where you and I were going to be making our own tags and stuff. Hahaha. Which you can still do with XML of course...Of course, imagine how much slower everything would be if all browsers had to go grab a set of parsing rules for every page they loaded. And now imagine one web site might run several different namespaces too. Lawlz. But everyone has high-speed internets now don't they? (sarcasm)
Which led me to believe that with the new doctype, the browsers will accept everything, and therefore, rather than versioning, the new recommendations will will not have rollouts to completion but additions (like new tags) will be updated gradually as the browsers accept them. Is that not right?
Well, yes and no. No, you can't make an old browser learn new tricks. IE5 sees the <!doctype html> as a full doctype (actually that doesn't even matter, IE5 doesn't have any concept of Quirks Mode or Doctypes much anyways... but IE6 does, and most other browsers since 6 do, even Firefox etc), but it doesn't mean or say anything about the rules.As far as rules go with adding new things, all you can know is whether a particular version of a particular browser (again, this will suck hairy dirty monkey balls when Mozilla stops revealing version numbers won't it?) supports a particular feature. We pretty much have this now with CSS3.If we need to know if someone supports, say, <header> tags (and what does support mean? I'll get to that), now you have to go look it up on some website like caniuse.com or quirksmode.org's compatibility tables. Some browsers will support it and some won't, meaning more and more tags (and attributes and CSS properties) you the developer have to decide who you're going to leave behind, or who you're going to bloat up your code with polyfills for, or whatever. So there, you're right: vendors decide when they think they have a correct implementation of something, and release either versions who later no longer fit the (changed) spec, or conform with the spec. So like remember when webkit and Opera implemented WebSQL? Mozilla and IE didn't. Later WebSQL was dropped. What does this mean? It means if Mozilla and IE ever had the possibility of being convinced to also support it, that possibility is long gone now. And eventually webkit and Opera may remove their support if it gets in the way of other new things or bloats the browser up too much.Browsers only have to keep backwards compatibility with something they've shipped in the past that has been formally deprecated. Since HTML5 for example is not formally deprecating longdesc or table summary attribute for example, whatever support browsers might have had might just vanish in the next version. They are not required to support it, similar to all the things in the older specs that nobody or one vendor once supported maybe. Also part of the HTML5 idea of "insist on support of what browsers/authors/users already work with".
Then you get everyone else who doesn't know what the tag is: it's added to the DOM, but not part of their default stylesheet. Since browsers are sometimes picky about who's really (in HTML) an inline and who's a block (mostly IE tho :), this kinda sucks, but not so bad. So here's why we're taking all the new tags and setting them to display: block in our stylesheets, because most of these tags are meant to be block elements. Also, because browsers in real life often ignored the HTML4/XHTML1 rules about blocks and inlines anyway (you could always have inlines as direct children of forms and blockquotes, and you could most of the time get away with wrapping anchors around divs filled with stuff, and browsers did their best to figure out what that meant, and mostly figured it out quite well), HTML5 has thrown a lot of those rules out anyway. This, an example of HTML5 trying to be descriptive as well as proscriptive. They wanted to write a spec based on vendor implementations, rather than theoretical rules that didn't physically exist.
The last level of "support" we don't have yet: semantic meaning of the new tags. <header> means nothing to anyone yet, but the idea is that some day it will allow other software and machines to recognise what a document header is. Or what <time> means.
When the <time> element suddenly disappeared from the spec, no browser vendor had any intention to remove it.
However, so far as I know only one browser had even implemented it (Opera). Suppose, like WebSQL, it was permanently removed from the spec. This means the other vendors get to think about it. They can decide not to support it. After all, it's out, right? Opera, on the other hand, would be unlikely to remove it. Hixie wanted to instead use a broader, less useful <data> element. Suppose that had gone through, and Opera was sitting there with <time> elements with pubdate attributes while everyone else got hip with the jive and implemented <data> elements with no pubdate attribute? It would probably mean we as authors would not use <time>. (One of the arguments against removing time wasn't that it was actually supported anywhere, but that people who build blog and CMS systems (pretty much mostly Drupal and Wordpress in this case) had taken something from a Draft Spec and just added it because they thought it was useful. So in other words,"SOMEONE TOOK A DRAFT THINGIE AND ADDED IT SO NOW WE CAN'T TAKE IT BACK OH NOES!"
This is something the spec writers are dealing with anyway. As vendors attempt to implement draft things (which they need to do at least to find out how well or not the new thingie works at all), people start running with it whether it's good or not, doable or not, causes a crapload of new problems or not. If enough people use it, you get <embed>, which is in the HTML5 spec because... everyone supports it. Lots and lots of sites use it. Leaving it out of the spec simply means there a popular HTML tag out there that has zero documentation. So long as browsers support it, people will use it, and there's nothing but a whiny nerdy validator message to tell them otherwise (and the kinds of people who use tags not in the spec are the same kinds of people who don't bother validating anyway, so...). HTML5 wants HTML completely documented.
Why I like vendor prefixes with CSS: the prefix means it's still experimental, and so when it turned out the rest of the world didn't implement something calleddisplay: inline-box;we could all safely stop using thedisplay: -moz-inline-box;stuff we'd been using, and stick to display: inline-block;instead.
With HTML, the closest you could do there is use Javascript to detect support and then add tags when supported. I'm not a huge fan of that, but I understand why people do it.
I really, really, really, REALLY hate the freaking default smilies in my posts. I hate needing to go remember to click that damn checkbox. It should be off by default.
Anyway I just fixed a crappy problem that seems to be an HTML5 issue: I had some form inputs who are being looped through in Javascript and we Do Stuff to their values.
It seems browsers who support input type="number" (who show a spin box, though Safari4/Win isn't showing a spin box and it also didn't work) don't seem to consider those as real inputs, or not added to the nodeList when you do a document.forms.elements call. They all got skipped. Bleh. Back to type="text" for us then. Sucks.
You write smilies, you get smilies :D. Oops, sorry ;)[/ot]
"this will suck hairy dirty monkey balls" :lol:
If I was Beavis or Butthead, I might not have been able to retain anything but that
When I build my own browser, it will be named that.
Which is EXACTLY what ***** every last one of us with the IE5 broken box model and other issues with IE prior to 9. When they were released IE 5, 5.5 and 6 were the most advanced and standards compliant browsers available -- it's easy to forget that today... they got there by implementing CSS2 before it was out of DRAFT... and we're STILL paying for that today. M$ is repeatedly faced by the challenge of "break compatibility with sites written for the browser when we implemented the spec before it was done, or break all of them."
... and it's really funny (and so PATHETIC) to watch people making the SAME MISTAKES TODAY.
Which is part of how HTML 5 then ceases to be a specification; the difference between authoritative and informative. Telling people "don't use that old crap" is a good thing, anyone telling you otherwise needs to go shtup themselves with a massive vunshtoklr.
"people are using it" is NOT a reason to put it into a SPECIFICATION... But again, you read the W3C specs, it's obvious none of them have any sort of engineering backgrounds.
with a massive vunshtoklr
Do I want to know what that is?


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The following questions are designed to assist cow-calf producers in determining next steps and best management practices when considering how best to manage their cowherd in the event of extended drought. Possible outcomes from this decision tree may include:
• Leaving cows on pasture with supplementation
• Confinement feeding of cows on-farm by producer
• Feeding cows in a commercial feedlot
• Early-weaning calves
• Selling all or a portion of the cowherd
Several critical questions you need to ask to get the cowherd through the drought are:
1. Do you have feedstuffs? Is the supply adequate to provide for all or a large portion of your current herd throughout the remainder of the grazing season, as well as throughout the winter and pre-calving season?
2. How difficult would it be to replace the genetics of your herd? Do you receive premiums for the genetic merit of your herd?
3. What is the stage of production of your cowherd? Cows with higher requirements will require more feed and increase costs.
4. Are you going to early-wean calves? Because lactating cows are expensive to feed, a management option to reduce feeding costs might include early weaning. Additional advantages of early weaning include improving cow body condition, calf performance, conception rates and forage availability for the cow (or decrease amount needed to feed cows for maintenance). Some disadvantages include more attention to management of the calves and increased cash costs.
5. Are you keeping your pairs together? Placing cows with young calves in a confinement setting requires additional considerations.
6. What type of facilities do you have? Do you have access to adequate facilities to provide comfortable housing for the cowherd on-farm?
Recommendations for cows:
• Pen space = 200-800 square feet/cow, depending on the stage of production, surface type, drainage and weather conditions
• Bunk space = 24 to 30 inches/cow
• Shade for cows is important in a dry-lot during the summer
• Free-choice access to abundant, fresh water is essential, as water needs greatly increase in summer months
Recommendations for calves:
• Pen space = 125 square feed/calf during summer and 250 square feet/calf during winter
• Bunk space = 12 inches/calf
• Free-choice access to abundant, fresh water is essential, as water needs greatly increase in summer months. Water should be in a container calves can access easily.
7. Do you have proper feeding equipment to deliver a mixed diet to cows in confinement if necessary?
8. Are you housing pairs on-farm?
9. Do you have a drylot for cows and/or calves on-farm?
10. Can you find a commercial feedlot to feed your cows and calves? Have you worked out the specifics with the feedyard in regards to yardage, diet, biosecurity and other fees? Are you sending either dry cows or weaned calves to the feedlot?
11. Do you have a whole-herd health vaccination program in place for the cows? Two important viruses to protect against from a reproductive standpoint are bovine viral diarrhea and infectious bovine rhinotracheitis. Placing cows in confinement also raises the instances of respiratory diseases, so vaccinating against PI3 and bovine respiratory syncytial virus is strongly recommended. Have the cows been vaccinated?
12. Has your herd been tested for BVD-PI?
13. Did you retain early-weaned calves? Is there a vaccination program in place?
14. How have the calves been processed and are you prepared to feed them?
15. Do you have an accountant to help understand tax implications?
16. Do you have documentation to show drought is the reason for dispersal?
17. Do you have a plan for rebuilding your herd once the drought breaks?
This is just a partial list of the considerations to take into account before moving to the next step in a herd retention program during drought. Work with your extension specialist on developing solutions to these and other issues involved with feeding through drought.
Three reference papers are available on www.KSUBeef.org under "Hot Topics" on confinement feeding- Decision tree: Options for management of cows and calves during drought; Managing cows in a confinement situation; Animal health considerations for cows fed in confinement.
Source: Jaymelynn Farney, beef cattle specialist, Chris Reinhardt, feedlot specialist and Sandy Johnson, livestock production specialist


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HOMELESS people in Taunton could suffer after a charity revealed it may shut its town centre advice centre.
Shelter is considering closing its premises due to a funding crisis, putting 11 jobs at risk.
The Taunton Association for the Homeless charity warns that the closure could put pressure on other advice services in the area, and Taunton Deane Council said it could affect local authorities and the voluntary sector.
TAH chairman John Shipley said: "Shelter gives specific advice in very complex cases and I believe other agencies will struggle to match the level of advice required."
A Shelter spokesman said: "This will be a blow to our staff and particularly the people in the affected areas who will no longer be able to get face-to-face advice and support.
"With the ongoing recession, benefit cuts and the high cost of housing meaning more people struggle to keep a roof over their heads, now's the worst time to take away the housing safety net that helps people stay in their homes."
Staff including housing, debt and benefits advisors and a housing solicitor work at the centre in Apsley House, in Tower Street, which has operated as Shelter's Somerset-wide hub since 1981.
Consultations were held at affected centres after the charity was told by the Ministry of Justice to expect a 50% cut in its legal aid funding to support its face-to-face advice services.
Despite campaigning, the charity has decided it is no longer viable to bid for funding in these areas from April 2013.
The spokesman said: "We'll consult with staff, but it's likely we'll have to propose closures."
TAH, which provides accommodation and support for more than 500 people a year, currently relies on Shelter to handle its more complex housing cases but now fears it will struggle to find alternative agencies with the same specialist knowledge.
A spokesman for Open Door, which operates a day centre for up to 30 home-less people in Taunton, said: "The closure will mean even less good advice will be available to those who need it."


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Iraq - Create new 'village' for people fleeing ISIS Archbishop
Monday, June 30, 2014
A LEADING archbishop has called for the creation of a huge displacement center, the size of a village, in Kurdish northern Iraq for tens of thousands of people many of them Christians fleeing ISIS.
Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar
Warda of Erbil in Kurdistan said thousands of "mobile homes" erected in his
diocese were vital as the region anticipates a mass influx of people desperate
to escape the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).His comments come after reports today that
the jihadists had announced the creation of a caliphate, or Islamic state, in
the territory it controls in Iraq and Syria, appointing Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as
caliph and "leader for Muslims everywhere."
The advance of ISIS has prompted a mass exodus from towns and villages
and the BBC reported that 40,000 people fled towns and villages in the Nineveh
plains outside Mosul amid reports of heavy fighting. Archbishop Warda said that since then, many,
if not most, of the people had returned but added that an influx of people into
Kurdish northern Iraq was highly likely because of the ongoing conflict and
Speaking today in an interview with
Catholic charity, Aid to the Church in Need, Archbishop Warda said: "We are
expecting an influx of people. "It is
not going to be a case of people wanting to stay one day – it will last one
year or up to 18 months. "They cannot
live in tents – especially given so many of them will be elderly and women with
"Creating a village with mobile homes
is necessary to help them."
"We need to find a site where they can
go and where they have the facilities available to help them."
With no end in sight to the conflict
which has uprooted so many communities, Archbishop Warda stressed the need for
government unity in the face of the threat from ISIS. He said: "The international community must
put pressure on the Iraqi government to pull themselves together, to put their
past disputes behind them and negotiate.
"This is what is necessary to deal with the
crisis. Everything is not clear. It is chaotic." Soon after ISIS captured Mosul on June 10th,
Aid to the Church in Need responded by providing $136,900 in emergency help –
food and shelter for many of the Christian families fleeing the city.
The aid project
was overseen by Catholic Chaldean Archbishop Amel Nona of Mosul who fled the
city for the nearby Tal Kayf and began mounting a relief operation amid reports
that 500,000 people were on the move.
Soon after the capture of Mosul by
ISIS, Archbishop Warda said that for the first time in 1,600 years no Sunday
Mass had taken place in the city.
With picture of Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil (©ACN)


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There are plans for MERGE for PostgreSQL 8.4 (if Simon Riggs writes it in time) + there is an example in docs on how to do UPSERT using PL/pgSQL function.
#1 PJ on 2008-05-14 01:31
You cant compare MSSQL vs postgres. I prefer to pay more for a good thing instead of having "FREE" chit...
#1.1 martin on 2010-09-29 13:23
I prefer paying less for a better thing and not being locked into a monopoly platform.
#1.1.1 Joseph on 2012-05-13 17:38
Man, are you sure the enterprise version of SQL Server cost 1 million? I think you're totally wrong, because I implemented it on our company less than 50.000 dollars. And I think the sollution become very mature. Try to inform yourself...
#2.1 Freddie on 2009-08-19 16:25
Lol! I think he was using hyperbole. Regardless, MSSQL is a great system for some companies, but it comes at significantly more up front cost when compared to the other two systems.
#2.1.1 andy on 2010-02-22 17:10
I'm sorry, but if you are going to present a case with such clear bias as "few but ramping up" on your underdog, while shitting bricks on any of the smallest flaws of the guy you dislike, you might as well be done with the fancy html tables and put a picture of a chimp flinging feces.
As an aside, I have to take your bait on the installation: if you call the setup for MSSQL difficult, then you are either outright lying or do not have the mental capacity to hit "Next>>" 5 times and enter a few names when prompted. You seriously saying this is difficult?
Oh, and dropping tables being a misfeature? Are you fucking retarded??
Get a life man, seriously, get a life and be done with your stupid bitterness.
#3 BLAHBLAH on 2008-05-14 05:54
You should learn to read. He clearly states why it is misfeature and he is right, dropping table which has objects (views in this case) depending on it is clearly a misfeature.
Also installation/maintenance is more then just hitting Next five times (all three dbs have installation wizard like that), you want to setup db for your specific use pattern, you want to make backups etc.
#3.1 PJ on 2008-05-14 06:19
Honestly BlahBLAH if that is your real name :) SQL Server is one of those databases we particularly love to work with. So if you think this is a complete bash, you are dead wrong. We are just pointing out things we would like changed in it.
You are forgetting that as PJ said there is more to supporting and maintaining a database than 5 keystrokes and if you think that is all, I feel pity for you. SQL Server 2005 requires you have .NET Framework 2 preinstalled, among other prerequistes. The amount of time you need to wait in between those 5 steps (and if you happen to be on a box that doesn't have those things downloading them) is a LOT MORE than you have to with PostgreSQL and MySQL. Troubleshooting when it actually fails is more work too (at least on Windows).
As we said there is nothing as sweet as the maintenance plan or tuning wizard that comes with SQL Server 2005 and those are things PostgreSQL and MySQL from our experience are sorely lacking.
If truth be known we make a ton more dough supporting SQL Server than any other database and we don't go around throwing poo at our cash cow for no good reason.
Our general philosophy if you care about something you should point out its faults as well as its strengths because otherwise you can't be taken seriously.
#3.2 Regina on 2008-05-14 07:11
The row for "Case-insensitivity" is confusing. What exactly do you mean by PostgreSQL "By default is case-sensitive and a pain to make it not so?" If you're talking about it being case-sensitive about identifiers that have been created as quoted-identifiers, e.g., CREATE TABLE tableX vs. CREATE TABLE "tableX" vs. CREATE TABLE "TableX", then MySQL and MSSQL (I presume) are not following the ANSI/ISO SQL Standard. PostgreSQL isn't following it entirely because the first CREATE should instantiate a table named "TABLEX" in its catalogs, but instead creates one named "tablex". What I found painful (but I haven't used it for a while) is MySQL's use of non-standard backticks for quoting identifiers.
Can you create a table named "user" or "USER" (or some other SQL reserved keyword) in either MySQL or MSSQL? In PostgreSQL you can create both and they can co-exist.
#4 Joe on 2008-05-14 08:37
Actually what we were talking about was text comparisons like
somefield LIKE '%abc%'
somefield LIKE '%ABC%'
In many cases you want those to be treated the same. Sure you could do ILIKE in PostgreSQL, but it doesn't use indexes and is not cross platform. Having to do upper upper is a pain too. Our point is that it should be controlled at the column level and SQL Server lets you do that. PostgreSQL does not let you do that.
#4.1 Leo on 2008-05-14 08:43
Maybe it's because I'm more comfortable on Unix (even though I've used VMS, DOS, Windows, etc.), but treating LIKE '%abc%' the same as LIKE '%ABC%', by default, seems unnatural to me.
#4.1.1 Joe on 2008-05-15 00:13
I think text comparisons in SQL databases are painful.
My solution is to create two columns where one would would suffice. The first column is the DISPLAY text, and the second column is the SEARCH_SORT text. The display text is whatever was entered. The search_sort text is a copy of the text stored as all UPPER or all lower case characters, pick one. My preference is lower case, but historically UPPER case is used. There are minor reasons to go with lower case, but now I'm getting off topic. If your SQL database likes indexes, then you might want to put one on the SEARCH_SORT text column. When you do a comparison, convert the desired search text to the same case as you are using in your search_sort column. Do the search using the text in matching cases. For example:
The search text might be "Katie" and so it gets converted to "katie". "Starts with" was chosen from the user interface so a % gets tacked onto the end of the LIKE search text. In my example, the text in the search_sort_name column is always in lower case, even though the name column retains any mixed case characters.
SELECT person_id, name
FROM person
WHERE search_sort_name LIKE 'katie%'
50016, Katie
There are even more gymnastics involved with the LIKE cause. The wildcard characters, different ways various SQL databases handle wildcard characters and embedded characters in the search text play havoc, but perhaps this is another topic also.
I hope that my techno-babble is useful to someone. ;-)
I must out of painfull experience speak against the point that mysql is case insensitive - it relies on the operating system, so importing and exporting between linux and windows tends to break everything.
#6 Tom Bille on 2008-05-14 10:14
"CREATE TABLE tableX ... should instantiate a table named TABLEX in its catalogs"
Like Oracle does it, then? If that's what ISO says, then the standard is wrong. It's a nuisance and strongly encourages AWFUL_NAMES_LIKE_THIS, since GoodTableNames become unreadable unless you quote absolutely everything.
#7 Bill on 2008-05-14 10:41
MySQL supports CREATE FUNCTION for SQL Functions. MySQL also supports User defined Functions and Aggregate Functions coded in C. Replication is Master->Slave but one server can take 2 roles. 5.1 also ships an Event Scheduler, but current version don't so it's ok to say "no".
You're missing some criteria, like Price, Sequence support, Online Backup...
#8 Nils on 2008-05-14 13:01
Nils - thanks for the correction, we'll update to reflect.
#8.1 Regina on 2008-05-14 13:17
Another good row might be XML/XPath support.
#9 Artacus on 2008-05-14 13:01
"Partial Indexes - e.g. you want to create a unique index but only consider non-null values"
You can do these in SQL Server with indexed views, which work even on the Express edition.
Indexes on views are enforced even when modifying the underlying table directly.
I gather that some of these products have some restrictions in their SQL; eg. no correlated subqueries? I'd like to see some info on that. Otherwise, the article is a good start. #2 is a foul mouthed idiot.
#11 TC on 2008-05-14 13:53
Actually all 3 support correlated subqueries so we didn't think to add that as a deciding point. Although since you mention it, I suppose its something that people wouldn't know and that is an important factor.
#11.1 Leo on 2008-05-14 14:21
What data type support? I'm more familiar with oracle on these, but I find it ridiculous that oracle still forces you to store data out of band (i.e., clobs) for more than 4000 characters, compared to pg's simple straightforward 'text' type. How do mysql and sql server stack up here?
Also, what about full-text search? Oracle has intermedia which is naturally extra cost but is pretty powerful. What do any of these three have?
#12 anonymous on 2008-05-14 14:26
PostgreSQL has tsearch2 for full text, at least more pwoerfull then MySQL's full text.
About case sensitive, most languages I know are case sensitive, unless you tell them not to do so. This goes for perl, php, java etc etc etc.... So I find it natural that in a DB it's also case sensitive.
The examples that Leo are given (LIKE '%ABC%' etc) are not anchored and will never be indexed by any RDMB, as far as I know. So Saying that ILIKE '%abcd%' cannot use an index is true for all databases. I strongly feel in such situations full text needs to be used unless table size is small.
Looking at the tabl,e I don't find this particular usefull... Just my opinion...
#12.1 Ries on 2008-05-14 16:14
Ries - I have to disagree with you on this one. In SQL Server 2005 - right down to the column level you can specify the collation, language and the sort order (dictionary, binary etc) and when you do a LIKE search it if you specify case insensitive dictionary (which is default), it will still use the index.
There are a lot of things databases do differently from programming languages e.g the way they short-circuit.
From a portability standpoint this makes SQL Server apps that utilize this feature (which is a lot) harder to port to PostgreSQL.
#12.1.1 Leo on 2008-05-14 16:40
Slight correction - LIKE 'ABC%' LIKE 'abc%' are index searchable but LIKE '%ABC%' etc are not. So you are right that was a bad example.
#12.1.2 Leo on 2008-05-14 16:49
Clustered indexes?
#13 Mike McNally on 2008-05-14 16:52
We may add that to the pile but that may be a long discussion.
Both PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server offer some form of clustered indexes (MySQL sort of does too, but I think it varies depending on storage engine and for example InnoDb, its always clustered by the primary key which neither PostgreSQL nor SQL Server require - so MySQL clustering works in a similar fashion to MSSQL). MSSQL's maintains the cluster index at a price (price is lower for SQL Server 2005 than it was for SQL Server 2000), while PostgreSQL requires a CLUSTER operation to maintain cluster. So on short side - MSSQL incurs a penalty during update/insert and in some cases having a CLUSTERED index on MSSQL may actually make non-covered index queries slower since all indexes are tagged against the clustered index. Dropping a clustered index also requires rebuild of all indexes in SQL Server since all are referenced to that.
PostgreSQL incurs a penalty for maintenance. There are also other differences such as MSSQL's use of covering indexes (which in many cases MSSQL will not need to go back to the actual table record - can read straight from an index if the query fields can be satisfied by the index).
So in short while PostgreSQL's clustering is less sophisticated it often performs better than SQL Server's. There are pros and cons to both.
#13.1 Regina on 2008-05-18 01:56
In MS-SQL / Transact SQL, you cannot drop a column, table or view if it is schema bound.
create table test_table
( a int not null )
create view test_view
with schemabinding
select a from dbo.test_table
drop table test_table
Msg 3729, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Cannot DROP TABLE 'test_table' because it is being referenced by object 'test_view'.
My opinion, given this comparasion is that SQL Server is the best because it is the most comprehensive and easier to use
#15 PAul on 2008-05-14 23:30
And why would there not be a truly free DBMS - FireBird?
#16 tene on 2008-05-15 04:47
Well PostgreSQL is truly free since it is BSD License too - you can modify and do not need to give back to the community if you don't want to and it is community controlled as opposed to single company controlled. I suspect FireBird is the same. Reading looks like FireBird is IPL licensed (InterBase Public License) which looks similar in spirit to BSD and it is controlled by a non-Profit Firebird Foundation.
We mentioned FireBird even though we haven't investigated it because of its choice of installation features - (SuperServer, Classic and Embedded). This puts it in an interesting spot because we see it as something with almost the lightness of SQLite but that can be spinned into a true server side db, but that is much more powerful than SQLite (e.g. it isn't type impoverished etc). As I recall it is also a one file db which makes it useful from a portability stand-point similar to SQLite. The embedded not requiring installation step is very alluring.
MySQL is just confusing in terms of licensing although arguably less confusing now that they are a part of Sun. They still need to work more on their community image since I get the impression its hard for non-MySQL employees to make direct contributions to the MySQL core code base.
#16.1 Regina on 2008-05-17 19:45
And why you don't have locking mechanism comparison?
#17 Milos Babic on 2008-05-17 06:46
We thought about that too, but we thought locking mechanism would open up a whole can of worms that not everyone would be able to appreciate unless they were deep into the trenches of the DB infrastructure. Comparing Locking mechanisms of the various dbs we felt to do it justice really needs a whole article dedicated to just that. Perhaps in another article we shall cover just that.
Along similar lines there is also the issue of how threads are spurn, page level compression etc.
#17.1 Regina on 2008-05-18 01:43
"install/maintenance process"
SQL Server can be tuned to take up less resources. The idea behind SQL Server is different than say, MySQL. SQL Server was architected to be the only thing on the box. It was designed to consume memory and handle scheduling on its own, so it could be more responsible. As a result, it will grab the resources unless you tell it not to. Now, is it is configurable as something like Oracle? No, it's not. But you can make SQL Server pretty low resource impact. SQL Server Express is actually designed around that concept.
"Can drop tables"
For SQL Server 2005 and above, you have more than schemabinding. You also have DDL triggers which can prevent ANY schema change.
MySQL has MASTER-MASTER replication in addition to MASTER-SLAVE replication. I have set this (M-M) up recently in my production environment and it works well. Clustering is also available.
#19 Kevin on 2008-05-23 10:38
What about MSSQL's DTS/SSIS and Reporting Services? What do the others have to offer or what is available?
How about realistic specification for a 1GB database, 250,000 records/rows and 50 users for an idea of costs and possibly scalability? We all know the minimum specs but they are never real world. (You mention Firebird but I wonder how truly scalable it is.)
Perhaps even a unique selling point and major bugbear, if I'm to leave my MSSQL environment I need to know what's great and what's not?
Best Linux (supported?) distributions for the open source products. I acknowledge that this could be contentious.
Sometimes costs and lack thereof are just not enough.
(By the way, this is the best doc that I've found so far on MSSQL vs MySQL and PostGreSQL, so thanks for your efforts.)
#20 Marcus Anderson on 2008-06-24 06:31
Thanks for the complements. Regarding Reporting Services and SSIS. There is no equivalent packaged in with MySQL or PostgreSQL.
For most of our development - Reporting Services is overkill since it requires all sorts of installation so we usually develop with ActiveReports.NET which works equally well with all databases and allows deploying reports as simple .NET assemblies or in a web App_Code folder without installation. Plus the great thing about it which I have had real frustration with in Reporting services is I can use the same reporting template for various reports. The template can be stored as just an xml file similar to reporting services RDL. We can roll our own authentication scheme easily which seems much harder to do with reporting services. Great for web development.
SSIS - there are alternatives that people use - e.g. some people swear by Scribe and say Scribe is better than SSIS (not sure how much it costs). Personally I've only used SSIS and rolled my own because it was easier to manage so can't speak for Scribe. I actually find SSIS terribly annoying to work with because you need to create your package and then load it into SQL Server if you want it to run as a managed job and when you need to edit it, pull it down etc. I really hope they bring back the ease of being able to edit a package directly like you could with DTS where you could do it straight from enterprise manager. But I digress.
Then there is AutoMate which one of our clients uses and swears by as a much easier and powerful alternative to DTS and SSIS. I think that works with anything you throw at it and has a lot of overlaping functionality with SSIS. If you are not a core .NET developer I think you'd feel more comfy with AutoMate or Scribe.
Then there is always the argument - if you really like SSIS and Reporting Services - just buy the minimum SQL Server that will get you a license for those things. Those work just fine with MySQL and PostgreSQL and I've got one project where I have to report against both SQL Server and PostgreSQL and use reporting services for both.
Then there is scalability. For large databases - e.g. over 20 gigs and many connections, I've been pretty impressed with PostgreSQLs performance. It actually performs better than SQL Server 2005 Standard in most cases (for loading speed and querying speed).
MySQL we have been disappointed with its query optimizer and so don't like it for analytical intensive applications. I think they are trying to improve that in the 6.0 version.
We tend to do a lot of rollup and GIS spatial analysis queries (which is non-existent in SQL Server 2005 and pretty poor in MySQL) and things of that sort so depending on your workflow you may have different experience.
#20.1 Regina on 2008-06-27 00:34
Thanks Regina for your comments.
Your point on using a lower version of SQL Server for the Reporting Services and SSIS is interesting and I must admit to having not considered. It is now another line of investigation! :)
Our requirements for SSIS are basic. We perform basic database replication to other MSSQL 2k servers using views and scheduled DTS scripts (we still have MSSQL 2k). Our databases are comparatively small (c. 1GB) and so are efficient enough. The document did not reference anything about data import/export and for the greater good I asked a generalised question.
Likewise for Reporting Services, I see a great potential to reduce the amount of effort that we make on standard and regular reports for the business. Having our regularly scheduled reports automatically execute and their results retained would serve us enormously (schedule to run out of hours, senior staff can access old reports, etc.). Similarly empowering our senior staff to execute their own reports as and when they require it would benefit them as well as IT. (I would never allow directors and/or our clients to make their own reports from our data - it is too easy to misinterpret any results.)
Thanks again.
#20.1.1 Marcus Anderson on 2008-07-01 05:46
>ANSI Compliancy
>Support life cycle
>Total cost of ownership over (say) 10 years on a typical system - in my case 50 tables (lots of referential integrity), 40 clients, a php web portal and a mirrored DB
>etc, etc
I'm probably an average joe developer currently developing a factory management system and got a test system in SQL Server 2005 now making the decision to keep 2005 or move to MySQL (which would be lower licencing costs for the web clients and the numerous factory touch screens) the questions above are what I am currently asking. I develop in Delphi, php (and C for low-level stuff) and I am comfortable with both MSSQL and MySQL but only really uses standard SQL and table views (I guess I'm a bit old fashioned!) thus I never really get too locked ind. SQL server 2008 looks nice on paper but I worry about breaking changes between versions! I've never tried postgress yet (things to do!)
Can add columns and change names, data types of views without dropping
The entry for PostgreSQL as "NO" is not true -- at least for 8.3 and I think even earlier in the 8.X series. I just did an experiment on a table that had data in it and I changed column names and column data types (I used pgAdmin3). There are some limitations -- you can't change a text column to a numeric format, but there the options are pretty good.
#22 Bill on 2008-10-28 12:00
Bill in your example, was your table used in a view?
Our point was not that you can't change data types of columns and names of columns in a table, but that if that table column is used in a view, it won't let you. Actually you can change data types of columns in a table even if the table is used in a view as long as the column is not used in a view.
This is not entirely a bad thing - since I just had some frustration with MySQL where it let me rip out tables used in views and so forth and then phpmyadmin wouldn't load without me going in and repairing the views. Thats neither here nor there. I can see pros and cons to both.
One other nice thing about PostgreSQL is that if you rename a table, it corrects the views that use that table.
#22.1 Regina on 2008-10-29 08:06
Graphical View Designer (e.g. you can see tables and select fields drag lines to do joins) included no additional charge
It's worth noting that there are many third party relational viewers available at no charge. One of them is Open Office Base, and can connect to SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
#23 Bill on 2008-10-28 12:13
A nice comparison, thanks.
Regarding locking:
I think a simple case to show the differences in the locking strategy is the question "do writers block readers" which can easily be tested using two concurrent connections. One does
UPDATE employees SET salary = salary * 1.1;
whereas the other does
SELECT * FROM employees;
(before the first one commits, and of course with autocommit turned off)
An interesting question (though nearly impossible to put in a simple comparison) is how things scale when dealing with a large number of concurrent reads and writes.
There is an interesting comparison about the scalability on different platforms between MySQL and Postgres here:
#24 Thomas on 2009-01-29 17:51
Thanks for the complements. Regarding Reporting Services and SSIS. There is no equivalent packaged in with MySQL or PostgreSQL.thank you very much for informing to me .good work :)
"SQL Server's deprecated timestamp which is a binary"
Where did you get the info that TIMESTAMP datatype is deprecated in SQL Server? I'm pretty sure it isn't.
#26 chojrak11 on 2009-04-18 14:11
Lots of places. It got superceded by rowversion.
Here for example:
The util that keeps a counter of use of deprecated features one of the counters is timestamp data type count:
Total number of times the deprecated timestamp data type was encountered in a DDL statement. Use the rowversion data type instead.
I think the main reason it was deprecated is that its confusing. when other databases use the term timestamp it is meant to mean a datetime not some binary glob thing to keep track of versions.
#26.1 Leo on 2009-04-18 16:08
"Timestamp" on SQL Server is not only confusing, it's totally useless except for replication agents. It's not a time, and therefore not useful at all to the application programmer. Their datetime type is not a viable replacement either, because it doesn't update automatically: what if an application is coded poorly and doesn't update the time when modifying records? What if one application running in the U.S. and one running in Japan both use local times? It's not just a matter of a query that can be fixed - your data is screwed.
MySQL's timestamp datatype, OTOH, is *really* slick, it automatically updates the time any time the record is changed (not just any time you do an update query - you actually have to change the record), and the updates are happening on the server side, so timezones aren't an issue.
(Postgres might also do this, I've never used it so I don't know.)
Coming from a MySQL background into a SQL Server environment, Microsoft's implementation of the timestamp type has been a source of a great deal of frustration (in fact just about anything on SQL Server is frustrating after having experienced the simplicity, efficency, and elegance of MySQL)
Now that Postgres 8.4 has been released you might want to update the entry for Windowing functions (PG's support is far better than SQL Server's now)
And you might add common table expressions to the overview which is supported by SQL Server and Postgres alike (although not 100% along the standard by SQL Server)
#27 Thomas on 2009-07-04 04:37
Thanks for pointing htat out. We'll be amending this in a bit. We are planning to add in CTE too, but are planing a bigger comparison of that.
In case you haven't noticed, we just completed an entry comparing the windowing functionality between PostgreSQL, SQL Server 2008, IBM DB2, and Oracle
#27.1 Leo on 2009-07-05 03:47
Very useful! I've been looking forward to move to PG from MySQL and now I'm sure of the choice :)
Very good article!
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Martin, you could be using MyISAM as your table engine, InnoDB offer better DB reliability options.
MS SQL has "no support of timezone or just plain DATE"
Isn't it named smalldatetime? It's available even on much older SQL versions.
Also, no one mentions the reliability.
I have both MS SQL and MySQL. I have never had to restart MS SQL and/or encountered data corruption while MySQL proved to be more fragile. Yes, it's expensive and close-source, but it's a trade-off.
Thanks for the comparison table BTW.
#30 Denix on 2010-03-17 14:57
No -- DATE type is not supposed to have time in it. This new type wasn't introduced into SQL Server until SQL Server 2008. The smalldatetime of prior versions is a date with time with no concept of timezone (it just has more of a limit on the Year range than datetime). So the best you can do is assume the timezone is what you are currently in. Which is problematic if you are dealing with data from all over the world and want the data type to reflect the timezone.
As far as the MySQL/MSSQL case, I think that is fairly subjective. MySQL innodb for example you won't get as much corruption, but I haven't had issues with MyISAM either. I think if you have a bad drive, recovering from MYISAM may be harder. I have had issues with MSSQL, but I don't blame that on MSSQL. I blame that on the fact that we use MSSQL a lot and for more high end stuff than MySQL so we are bound to have more issues.
PostgreSQL has been pretty rocksolid for us on both Windows and Linux. But on the downside if you have a crash with MySQL MyISAM -- seems much easier to throw back the missing files and be done. No messy consistency checking going on or playing back logs etc.
The MyISAM structure is relatively trivial which makes it in some cases easier to fix when you have major damage since you can throw piees togehter from backup. Which depending on which side you are looking at is a feature/misfeature. :).
So see what I mean subjective. If we made any sweeping statements about any, people will call us on it because it would all be pretty anectdotal.
#30.1 Regina on 2010-03-18 02:45
Good comparison.
For the case of stability, maybe on Windows MySQL is less stable than the others (Specially MSSQL). I used to work on Windows Server 2008 and MySQL 5.0 (25~50 simultaneous connections, 5 different databases and total data of about 500 MB) and it crashes a few times (Windows also crashed some times :-(). I changed to a Linux Ubuntu Server, and in the same condition my company has been working for one and a half year and the servers (Ubuntu and MySQL) crashed 0 (zero) times. So the problem is in the database server or the OS server? :-)
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Im looking for functionality in PostgreSql, that will do the same as SqlDependency objects in Microsoft SQL-server 2005. Is this possible ?
Haven't played around with SQLDependency to know how exactly it works and also haven't played around with what I think is the PostgreSQL equivalent - which I think is: PostgreSQL SQL Notify. Take a look at that and see if it does what you need:
#34.1 Regina on 2011-04-04 07:00
Sadly the functionality does not look like being the same... Its a shame - I think it prevents alot from migrating.
Hi! everyone, I've to develop a small retail store management application for our Store. I've selected the front end as JAVA and back end is ??? (Still confusing also) 1.Using File Handling(but i don't have experience in this and Complicated too) 2.Oracle 3.MySql 4.MS Access 5.Ms Excel files as a database.
Can anyone suggest me which one is light weight and higher performance for small database, with able to work within 1GB of RAM.
Thanks for read it,will you help me..
#35 jeeva on 2011-09-17 11:25
I would stay away from Oracle. It's not known well for working with low memory.
You probably also want something that has a good jdbc driver if you are building your front-end in java. So I would cross MS Access and Excel off your list.
That leaves you with
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Firebird, SQLite (I think SQLite has a jdbc driver though not sure since we only use it in PHP and .NET web apps), SQLServer Express.
All the above have minimal memory requirements. PostgreSQL,MySQL, and firebird have better scaling than SQLite if your database grows. SQLServer Express has too many .NET dependencies so a pain to install, so I would stay away from that. Then there is licensing. If this is a product you sell and need to package with your software, I would stay clear of MySQL since the Dual licensing is too confusing and gets really messy if its software you need to distribute to clients.
There are also java only databases like HSQLDB though haven't used that but if you are married to Java, might be a good option. Downside is that it doesn't have as nice of support with other tools.
#35.1 Regina on 2011-09-19 00:07
Great article... But why such unprofessional terminology/wording in the Microsoft SQL Server column? That completely ruins the credibility of this comparison... Sad.
#36 RS on 2012-01-27 06:14
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Los Angeles River advocates hope to block a $1.6-billion makeover of Universal Studios unless a bike path is created between movie sets and the waterway.
A broad coalition of environmental and planning groups is asking the L.A. Planning Commission to deny NBCUniversal's so-called Evolution plan. The commission meets in Van Nuys today to review the movie studio and theme park expansion.
Proponents of the 1-mile bicycle and pedestrian path on a privately used county road through the studio backlot say it's required by a new state law as well as city and county river master plans.
"At the very least, we'd like a 12- to 17-foot bikeway allowing continued access along the L.A. River on what is publicly owned property," said Omar Brownson, executive director of the Los Angeles River Revitalization Corp., among nine nonprofit groups to pen a letter asking the commission to deny the project.
"It's inconsistent with the public trust to leave it out."
Six years ago, the Universal City entertainment company launched a $3-billion plan to transform its nearly 400-acre property atop Cahuenga Pass into an entertainment industry, retail and residential hub.
After community opposition, however, NBCUniversal this year scrapped plans to inhabit a high-rise development proposed above a Red Line stop.
Then it announced it would jettison a controversial plan to build 3,000 homes on its property - a move that drew support from key city and county officials who said new neighbors could threaten the historic studios and kill entertainment industry jobs.
The media company now proposes to buttress its riverfront lots with nearly 1.5 million square feet of movie and TV production and office space. It also plans to expand its theme park, restaurant and retail draws by 327,000 square feet, plus add two 500-room hotels.
NBCUniversal also pledged $100 million in nearby transportation improvements.
"Our plan represents a $1.6billion investment in Los Angeles and brings over 30,000 jobs during construction and operations," said Corinne Verdery, NBCUniversal's chief real-estate development and planning officer, in a statement Wednesday to the Daily News.
"We are ready to begin just as soon as we get approvals and begin to create much needed construction, entertainment and tourism jobs for our community."
What few expected, after environmental studies, was the 11th-hour attempt to block the mega Universal Studios project with a bike path.
At risk, Evolution backers say, are 35,000 future jobs - enough to cut the region's jobless rate by nearly 1 percent, economists say.
"We are a huge supporter of this," said Ron Wood, president and CEO of the Valley Economic Alliance. "It means jobs. It means prosperity.
"Groups like this should not be able to hold up a project until they extract their pound of flesh... It's just insane."
Backers of the bike and pedestrian path, however, say it conforms with a growing greenway movement to bring back life to the Los Angeles River.
That means bike paths, parks and public access along its 51-mile route. It also means providing a crucial non-automotive link between the San Fernando Valley and Griffith Park, proponents say.
In a letter to Planning Commission President William Roschen, the Friends of the Los Angeles River and other advocates asked the commission to deny the development unless the greenway path is included.
Other opponents include the Los Angeles Conservation Corps., Mujeres de la Tierra, North East Trees, The Trust for Public Land, Urban Rivers Institute and Urban Semillas.
They said a county-owned service road known as Muddy Waters Drive - and to the studios as River Road - winds through the studios on the south side of the Los Angeles River, between Lankershim and Barham boulevards.
They say it could easily be converted into a river walk.
They also said not providing a bike and pedestrian path would be inconsistent with city and county river master plans, as well as a recent state law requiring recreational greenways along the L.A. River.
"We're not trying to stop the project," said Eric Bruins, planning and policy director for the Los Angeles County Bike Coalition, which also signed the letter. "We (just) want to see the river greenway.
"NBC is really missing an opportunity to embrace the river as an asset to (its) project."
County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky and City Councilman Tom LaBonge both strongly backed the Evolution project stripped of its housing component. Yaroslavsky was not available for comment Wednesday because of the Yom Kippur holiday.
"Here's the absolute, here's the thing: I've always said my long-range goal is a (river) bikeway from Canoga Park to Long Beach," LaBonge said.
"But I would not deny the project" because of the bikeway, he said. "There's something bigger than the bikeway, and that's the whole Evolution plan."
LaBonge said there will be ample opportunity for the county, NBCUniversal and river advocates to determine a path. "We'll figure this out," he said.
NBCUniversal officials expressed concern about a bike path on a service road that goes directly through their backlot teeming with actors and production clients.
Verdery, of NBCUniversal, said the development plan does include a small river park and path on its property bordering the river.
"The remainder of the river edge along our property is owned by the county and we are committed to working with them on an overall river plan when that happens," she said.
Residents had mixed feelings about the Universal Studios development, as well as the lack of a river greenway.
The Studio City Neighborhood Council did not support the Evolution development because of a lack of schools and infrastructure for its initial housing project.
Lisa Sarkin, a vice president and chairwoman of its land use committee, said she will ask planning commissioners today to postpone project approval until it complies with the city's L.A River master plan.
"I believe NBC should comply with that," she said. "Maybe if (the river path) went someplace, people would use it. ... I also believe there should be an east-west road, from Barham to Lankershim, along the bike path."
But Michael George, vice president of the Cahuenga Pass Residents Association, said he fully supports the project.
"I'm for it 100 percent," said George, a resident of the Hollywood Hills across from Universal Studios. "I can understand people wanting a bike path - I love bikes, I ride bikes all the time.
"But hold up a whole plan? It sounds like NBC is being held hostage."


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This Year's Oscar Nominees at the Academy Awards: A History in Pictures
The Academy Awards are a hallowed institution full of Best Pictures, some of which appeal greatly to men and others which they may not want to revisit ever again (Shakespeare in Love). Which is why we asked math expert and writer Garth Sundem to devise a list that privileges the winners that have proven both popular over time and palatable to a certain male sensibility. His formula, pictured above, takes into account both critic and audience scores (so the everyman counts); the Google returns for a title's association with "greatest"; genre (anything along the gritty continuum is good; musicals are not); whether a character dies (a little morbid, but an important indicator nonetheless); extra wins for awe-inspiring visual effects and lead male performances (bonuses for Brando, Bogart, and the like); and memorable quotes (according to IMDb, anyway).
The results are illuminating, if not to everyone's specification. We didn't fudge the numbers against the overwhelmingly liked Gone with the Wind, nor the overwhelmingly talked-about American Beauty. But they're mostly spot-on: The first five movies alone are named for their lone heroes (or antiheroes) who have to face down large odds in one way or another. Manly stuff. They're also entertaining. We suggest you flip through the titles, starting with the best Best Picture for men and ending with a title once famously described as "the sugar-coated lie people seem to want to eat." Plus: a look at how the 2012 nominees shake out. Then hop on Netflix and prioritize accordingly. —Kate Shapiro
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TC = RottenTomatoes critics score (Tomatometer)
TA = RottenTomatoes.com audience score
GN = Genre (+1 for action/sci-fi/sports/spy/crime/war/historical/horror/western/gangster. -1 for musical)
D = +1 if someone dies
OA = Other awards (+1 each for Best Actor or Best Visual Effects)
ON = Other nominations (how many times has the male lead been nominated for Best Actor?)
QML = Number of quotes listed under male lead on Wikiquotes
Q = Number of quotes listed under film on IMDb
GG = Number of Google hits for "Movie Title" AND "Greatest Movie"
BESTbest = The movie's final score (note that the bottom four all have negative numbers)
Garth Sundem is the author of The Geeks' Guide to World Domination.
*Note: This article was originally published in 2012. Recent Best Picture winners have been added with new data.
It's not hard to see why The Godfather would end up on top of a list like this one: It's bridged the taste divide between Roger Ebert and Lil Wayne. It was the career-defining moment for both Brando and Pacino. It's based on a novel about an Italian-American mafia, fantastic in its own right (so much so that Paramount is now willing to fight for its legacy). It's as epic as it is narrow, its gangsters matched in gall only by their director, Francis Ford Coppola, who made a powerful movie none of us seem to be able to forget about American dreams and American violence, as applicable now as then. Everlasting, really. —Paul Schrodt
Critic score: 1
Audience score: 0.97
Other selected Oscars: 1
Genre: Gangster
Google "greatest movie" results: 2,090,000
Memorable quotes: 77
Male lead quotes: 5
Death: Yes
Nominations for male lead: 7
Final score: 146.2402876
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One of most fascinating burial grounds in London is now online – Bunhill Fields. North of the square mile of the City of London this is where your non-conformist/dissenter ancestors may well have been buried. The original records are kept at the National Archives under RG4. The time span for this collection is 1713 – 1854.
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As does the Blake Society – http://www.blakesociety.org/blakes-grave/bunhill-fields-a-history/
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I'll say this: Pete Sampras can still serve.
I was in the Verizon Center last Friday, watching the HSBC Tennis Cup, a exhibition-slash-leg of a tennis seniors tour. The four players (Sampras, Andre Agassi, Michael Chang, and Jim Courier) have kept a lot of their shotmaking, but you can tell that the speed, the power, the endurance have all been slipping. It's hard to admit, of people who were larger-than-life back then, but they looked . . . well, old at times.
(It was a little disquieting to be reminded that Michael Chang won the French Open 23 years ago. 23! To steal a line from a Friends episode, his French Open title is old enough to drink!)
What's more terrifying is, of course: they're not actually old. Chang is 39; Sampras is 40; Agassi and Courier 41. And yet, as top-level competitive athletes, they've been over the hill for almost a decade. In virtually every other endeavor, they would be just hitting their peaks. If they hadn't made millions of dollars playing tennis, they'd be mid-career. (I wonder what your mid-life crisis looks like when you've already been a millionaire world-famous athlete.) But does any of us know when we hit our tipping point, if we already have, or will we just recognize it once we are far past appreciating it in the moment?
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