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Lies can get you in trouble. Even when you mean well, sometimes they catch up with you and you get stuck in an impossible position. That's what John learned when he lied by omission about a Christmas gift to spare his mom's feelings, and is now stuck with an expensive GoPro camera that he can't return. [More]
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This summer, outdoors equipment co-op REI made a change: they cut back on their return policy. They no longer accept any item back for any reason indefinitely. Other companies continue the practice, most notably L.L. Bean and Costco. It must be expensive and there must be customers who abuse it. So why do they do it? [More]
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REI is a retailer of outdoor equipment and claims to be the world's largest consumer co-op. They're also famous for their generous return policy, similar to that of Consumerist favorites like L.L. Bean and Costco: they'll take anything back for just about any reason, indefinitely. At least, they used to. That policy changes, as of today. [More]
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Last week, we shared the story of Debra, who returned $114 worth of merchandise to Victoria's Secret, but only received $97 back. When she complained, Vicky's response was that sending items back meant that her purchase was under the $100 threshold to get a $15 off discount. Except, um, her purchase was well over the limit, and she sent everything back. She complained again, and the refunded her $15. After our post ran, the chain tracked her down and sent an apology and a $50 gift certificate, along with a second explanation that doesn't make any sense either. [More]
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Target Can't Find The Product I Returned In Its Own Warehouse & Somehow This Is My Problem
Consumerist reader Anne and her husband just welcomed a new baby girl to their Brooklyn home, and as such, were busy getting ready for her arrival in the weeks leading up to her birth. As part of her nesting activities, Anne ordered a baby rocker from Target and chose a light cream color. But when it arrived, it was really more of a brown hue and she didn't want to keep it.
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Colleen's mom bought her a thoughtful and frugal gift: a Zumba game disc for her Xbox that came from Gamefly's selection of used games. She never got to play it, though, because it arrived not working. That's not a problem, though, because you can always send defective items back. Right? [More]
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A New Jersey woman took the two large Walmart gift cards that her husband had received as a holiday bonus and bought an iPad with them. Only the iPad that she she brought home from the store wasn't the same one described on the box. The memory capacity and serial numbers didn't match. She also couldn't get the tablet to charge, or even to plug in to the cable. The item in her box, you see, was a plastic fake display-model iPad.
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The Herald's editorial "Sign of a system in crisis" brings attention to the importance of oral health and the use of hospital emergency rooms by people with dental problems. The solution is seemingly simple: good oral health practices can prevent costly emergency room visits.
As dentists, we see two key barriers to this solution: lack of knowledge about the importance of oral health and Washington's fractured dental safety net. We believe finding cost effective solutions to these problems will reduce dental related emergency room visits and improve the overall health of our residents.
Low oral health literacy is one of the most significant barriers to dental care. Dentists cannot provide care unless patients see a need for treatment. Even among people with dental insurance, less than 60 percent visit the dentist for regular preventive care. Laws and regulation will not change this, but education can. The Washington Oral Health Foundation, the charitable arm of the Washington State Dental Association, works throughout the state in schools and community centers to educate people about the importance of oral health. Only when we address issues like fear, cultural and language barriers, and lack of knowledge will we begin to solve real problems for many Washingtonians.
Unfortunately, programs that provide dental care for low-income people have been severely cut in Olympia. That penny-wise, pound-foolish decision will result in more pain for patients and more expense for taxpayers. Washington dentists are doing their part, providing charity care to more than 100,000 patients in 2011 alone. However, charity care is not a sustainable health care system.
Some, like the Pew Foundation, suggest that a lesser trained person with no real supervision should treat the most vulnerable. As dentists we know that, instead of lowering the quality of care to those most in need, the better answer is dramatically ramped up prevention and oral health education programs — prevent the problem before it becomes an emergency.
Dr. Rod Wentworth, president
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Dr. Stephen Lee, president
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No. 24/23 #AztecMBB-McNeese State Set For Saturday Night
Dec. 19, 2013
SDSU Game Notes | SDSU Broadcast Flip CardNo. 24/23 San Diego State Men's Hoops Welcomes McNeese State to Viejas Arena Before Breaking for the Holidays
No. 24/23 San Diego State continues its longest homestand of the season on Saturday when McNeese State heads to Montezuma Mesa in what amounts to the Aztecs' final home game before breaking for the holidays. Tip time is set for 7:04 p.m. PT and the game will air live on 4SD. The tilt will also stream online via the Mountain West Network and be heard on The Mighty 1090 and 105.7 The Walrus with Jack Cronin.
SDSU showed no signs of rust after taking 10 days off for final exams in its game vs. Southern Utah on Wednesday. The Aztecs raced to leads of 11-0, 21-2 and 37-4, before ultimately allowing 11 first-half points en route to a 41-11 halftime advantage. The 11 points were the fewest SDSU had given up in a half reaching back to the 1996-97 season (records prior to that are unavailable) and the second-fewest allowed in a half in NCAA Division I this season. Ultimately, San Diego State went on to post the 76-39 victory and shot 50.0 percent in both the first and second halves. Defensively, The Aztecs held the Thunderbirds to a 3-for-18 shooting performance in the first 20 minutes and 28.6 percent for the game.
Individually, senior guard Xavier Thames led the Aztecs with 16 points, four assists and zero turnovers in 20 minutes, which gives his 10 assists and one miscue over his last two games. Entering the McNeese State game, Thames has played 62 minutes, 19 consecutive seconds of turnover-free ball and is the only player in the nation (through Dec. 18 games) to average at least 17.0 points and shoot at least 52.0 percent from behind the arc with a minimum 20 three-point makes.
Senior forward Josh Davis, meanwhile, notched his 34th career double-double with 13 points and a game-high 14 boards. His 34th double-double is the second-highest total among active players in Division I. Over his last four games, the Raleigh, N.C., native is averaging 12.5 rebounds and is now averaging 10.0 rebounds per game. Junior guard Aqeel Quinn came off the bench and had his best game as an Aztec with 14 points and a career-high seven rebounds in 26 minutes. In all, 13 Aztecs saw action with 11 scoring at least one point, including four walk-ons, three of which were making their SDSU debut.
Following the game, San Diego State will be off until Dec. 27, when it plays host to St. Katherine College, which is located in nearby Encinitas. The final contest of 2013 is set for 7 p.m. PT will air live on FOX Sports San Diego.


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"Quite aside from the intellectual and religious arguments that Rosen canvases, her book offers a panoply of colorful personalities (many of them appear in portrait photographs) that help to show how eugenics was sold to the public. The minibiographies of the eugenics star, so to speak, help to make this an enteraining as well as an instructive work of scholarship." --Magill's Literary Annual
"Preaching Eugenics is not simply revealing history, but an insightful commentary on contemporary debates."--Claremont Review of Books
"...this book takes an important first step in grappling with the role that religious leaders during the twentieth century played in public discussions concerning the regulation of childbirth."--American Historical Review


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Sustainability 2012, 4(5), 1059-1073; doi:10.3390/su4051059
When Should We Care About Sustainability? Applying Human Security as the Decisive Criterion
1 School of Education, University of Northern British Columbia, 4837 Keith Avenue Terrace, BC V8G 1K7, Canada 2 Human Security Institute, 1025 Farkvam Road Terrace, BC V8G 0E7, Canada
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AbstractIt seems intuitively clear that not all human endeavours warrant equal concern over the extent of their sustainability. This raises the question about what criteria might best serve for their prioritisation. We refute, on empirical and theoretical grounds, the counterclaim that sustainability should be of no concern regardless of the circumstances. Human security can serve as a source of criteria that are both widely shared and can be assessed in a reasonably objective manner. Using established classifications, we explore how four forms of sustainability (environmental, economic, social, and cultural) relate to the four pillars of human security (environmental, economic, sociopolitical, and health-related). Our findings, based on probable correlations, suggest that the criteria of human security allow for a reliable discrimination between relatively trivial incidences of unsustainable behavior and those that warrant widely shared serious concern. They also confirm that certain sources of human insecurity, such as poverty or violent conflict, tend to perpetuate unsustainable behavior, a useful consideration for the design of development initiatives. Considering that human security enjoys wide and increasing political support among the international community, it is to be hoped that by publicizing the close correlation between human security and sustainability greater attention will be paid to the latter and to its careful definition.
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The French & Indian War
Race in The French & Indian War
The Indians' Parchment Victory
On paper, there were actually two victors in the French and Indian War. The Treaty of Paris had conferred all land east of the Mississippi River, as well as Canada, to Great Britain. Britain's hold on North America was now secure. But the Delaware Indians of the Ohio Valley had also secured an important territorial concession. In the Treaty of Easton, signed in 1758, Great Britain had promised to renegotiate the Walking Purchase of 1737 through which 750,000 acres of Delaware land had been deeded to Pennsylvania by the Iroquois. In addition, the British had pledged to forbid white settlement west of the Allegheny Mountains, preserving the Ohio Valley as an Indian homeland.
But the Delawares' parchment victory was quickly proven worthless by events. White settlers poured into the Ohio Valley almost as soon as the French were driven from Fort Duquesne. And contrary to wartime promises, the British rebuilt and occupied the forts in the region that had been recently abandoned by the French. On the Forks of the Ohio River, Fort Pitt was built on the ruins of Fort Duquesne, a statement of British ambitions that infuriated the Indians, who believed they had been promised regional independence.
Individual acts of violence soon compounded the Indians' sense of betrayal. In April 1763, Teedyuscung, the chief who had negotiated for the Delawares at Easton in 1758, was killed when his cabin was burned by arsonists; many believed that thugs from the Connecticut-based Susquehanna Company, busily selling lands to white settlers along the Susquehanna River, were responsible. In the same month, an Indian woman was publicly hanged by white authorities after being charged with complicity in the murder of a white man.
A growing sense of injustice found religious and ideological direction in the preaching of the Delaware mystic Neolin. He relayed a message from the Master of Life, preaching that prosperity would return only when the Indians cut off all ties to the white man. And Pontiac, an Ottawa chief, placed this message at the center of his call for a united Indian assault against British occupation in the spring of 1763.
Pontiac's Rebellion
The British fort at Detroit was the first to be attacked. But the rebellion spread quickly. Led by the Ottawas and Ojibwas in the north, and the Delaware and Shawnee in the Ohio Valley, Indians attacked virtually every British fort west of the Appalachians. By the fall of 1763, only Forts Detroit, Pitt, and Niagara were still in British hands.
The scope and speed of the Indian success was striking. Some of the Indians' victories came because the British forts were not heavily manned after the end of the French and Indian War. But the British also badly underestimated the depth of Indian discontent, and in some locations even believed that they were on good relations with their neighbors. At Fort Michilimackinac, a band of Ottawa and Ojibwa warriors was admitted to the fort to retrieve the ball they lost while playing lacrosse outside the walls. Once inside, they drew guns hidden beneath their clothing and killed or captured the entire British garrison.
But Pontiac's Rebellion collapsed almost as quickly as it began. Disease took its toll on some tribes. At Fort Pitt, British officers deliberately distributed smallpox-infested blankets to a party of Delawares, and within weeks an epidemic was racing through the surrounding Indian villages. Other tribes abandoned the rebellion after being pressured by the Seven Nations of Canada. This confederation of Mohawks, Hurons, Onondagas, Abenakis, and Algonquins argued that continuing the war would only bring worse problems—a cessation of all trade and the permanent hostility of the British. Pontiac called off his siege of Fort Detroit at the end of October, after failing to convince the French—the Ottawas' old ally—to renew their war against the British.
Britain's New Indian Policy
Still, Pontiac's Rebellion—what one historian has provocatively labeled America's "first war of independence"—was far from a failure.9 For while the British eventually recovered their forts, they learned that Indian needs and power had to be respected if the British wanted to avoid costly future conflicts.
Britain's Proclamation of 1763 was the first expression of this new understanding. It forbade American migration past the Appalachians, allowed only government-licensed traders to trade with the Indians in the backcountry, and prohibited private land sales between Indians and white settlers; in other words, future land transactions could only be negotiated by the government with recognized Indian authorities. The idea of the proclamation was to stop the westward migration of colonial settlers in its tracks.
The proclamation was hardly inspired by altruism; the British were no more sympathetic to Indian territorial claims than they had ever been. But Pontiac's Rebellion had forced upon them a more realistic appreciation of the costs attached to the unregulated migration of white settlers into these contested territories. Moreover, it introduced a more bilateral spirit to the conduct of British-Indian diplomacy. The proclamation was not merely issued in London; it was formally presented at a conference of 2000 Indians, representing 24 tribes, at Niagara in July of 1764. At this conference, the terms of the proclamation were discussed, gifts were exchanged, and peace between all parties was pledged—all contributing to the sense that these new regulations concerning migration and trade were part of a bilateral agreement, not a unilateral edict.
The Indians' Temporary Victory
If we could freeze the story right here, we might conclude that Native Americans did ultimately achieve their objectives in the French and Indian War. This would seem particularly true for the Delaware, Shawnee and Mingo. By aligning themselves first with the French, and after 1758 with the British, the Ohio Indians had won both political and territorial independence by 1763. The British had made good on the promises made at Easton by declaring the Ohio Valley off limits to white expansion, and they had agreed to deal directly with these nations, rather than with Iroquois overlords, in future discussions.
The Iroquois also seem to have achieved much of what they sought. When Tanaghrisson killed Jumonville, the French officer captured by Washington near the Great Meadows in 1754, he did forge an alliance between the British and the Iroquois, and he did force Britain and France into war. Moreover, in the war that resulted, one of the main threats to Iroquois power, the French, was removed from the continent. Of course the British were still there. And the upstart Indians of the Ohio Valley had actually increased their autonomy. But with the hands-off approach announced by the British in 1763, the Iroquois might have easily imagined rebuilding the sort of regional hegemony they had enjoyed prior to 1750. In fact, in 1768 they seemed to be up to their old tricks. In the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, they accepted a westward shift of the proclamation line established in 1763. Contrary to the interests and the will of the Ohio Indians, the Iroquois agreed that the new edge of white settlement would be the Ohio River, not the crest of the Appalachians.
A New Kid in the Ohio Valley
If the story over the next several decades had only spun around these three participants—the Iroquois, the Ohio Indians, and the British government—its plotlines might have been quite different. But during these decades a new and increasingly important player entered the story. The American settlers that poured over the Appalachian Mountains in increasing numbers during the 1760s were no longer quite as British as they once had been. The French and Indian War had shattered some of the mystique surrounding British power, and Britain's postwar colonial policies led Americans to question the intentions of the government they had formerly respected. The new taxes, the new restrictions on trade, and the closing off of the frontier that Americans believed they had just fought a war to secure, left them wondering whose interests the government in London really served.
These feelings would not crystallize immediately. In the years just following the French and Indian War, Americans joined their fellow British citizens across the Atlantic in toasting William Pitt and mourning General Wolfe. And in New York City they erected a statue of their new king, George III. But as the arguments over taxes and trade developed, wartime memories added texture to their growing dissatisfaction. Americans recalled the mocking disrespect paid their provincial militia by the British regulars and the humiliation suffered when one of their officers was ordered about by a lowly British ensign. They remembered the arrogance of Edward Braddock, whose blundering tactics almost cost them the Ohio Valley. And they recalled the heroics of their own, such as George Washington, whose superior performance not only advanced the collective cause but demonstrated the ability of American fighting men to distinguish themselves alongside the supposedly superior British forces. Eventually these memories would help Americans shape a new sense of identity—one that would reassure them that as Americans they could be more than just British colonists—one that gave them confidence as they protested British policies. These protests would climax in 1775 when they faced off against British guns at Lexington and Concord. By that time, the sense of shared enterprise that allowed British and American soldiers to drive the French from the continent seemed like ancient history. Americans' redcoated former comrades-in-arms were now their hated enemy and King George was now seen as a petty tyrant, not a glorious sovereign. Everything had changed. But for the Iroquois, the Delaware, the Shawnee, and the Mingo, it all probably looked very familiar. It was just another battle between white men—a battle that would force them to make another series of difficult choices about which side to support, and what battles they must fight if they were to hang on to any portion of the continent east of the Mississippi River.


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January 11, 2012
E-BOOK ▲: #LoveTaps Featuring Troy Paraiso
My friend Soulful Jenn submitted a few Quotes relating to love I've wrote in the past (and they made the book!), to Jerome Dickens & JoVonna Rodriguez for their new E-Book, "#LoveTaps". Thank you to them, as well as Jenn. Greatness.
"Love Taps explores the possibility of what communication, honesty, and love looks like on paper. These are moments when one opens up to their partner, allowing time to build a foundation, and navigating life together. #LoveTaps from the public, are pushes forward when life seems to keep pulling you backwards on the journey of love."
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PIMPRI-CHINCHWAD: "Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a hard-edged business decision. Not because it is a nice thing to do or the government is forcing us to do it but because it is good for business."
The above words of Niall Fitzerald, former CEO, Unilever, brings to fore the vital role that CSR plays today for businesses. With Pimpri Chinchwad and surrounding areas becoming home to some of the biggest national and international corporate like Tata Motors, Volkswagen, KPCL, Cummins, Forbes Marshall etc., the local community has become a focal point of their CSR activities.


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Once you've laid out UI elements in a mockup of a dialog or window, changing the layout can be a pain. You have to move some elements to stick to the edges of the new layout, while others have to stretch horizontally and/or vertically. Fireworks' Scale tool isn't any help with this, since it scales elements proportionally instead of moving them. The new Smart Resize extension can simplify this process of editing an interface mockup: http://johndunning.c...out/SmartResize
From the extension's description:
The Smart Resize auto shape helps you resize a group without distorting its elements or disrupting its layout. Imagine you have a group that contains all the elements of a dialog box: a colored background and border, an icon in the upper left, a close box in the upper right, some text across the full width of the dialog, and some buttons in the bottom right. If you want to make the dialog wider and taller, you'll have to resize the background element, move the close box to the right, move the buttons down and to the right, etc.
Instead of doing all this manual labor, just select your group and run "Commands > Smart Resize > Attach". A Smart Resize auto shape will be grouped with your selection. Drag the auto shape's yellow handles to resize the group in any direction. When you release the mouse, the elements in the group will be moved to maintain their previous relationship to the group boundaries. For instance, an element whose right and bottom edges were 10px from the right and bottom edges of the group will be moved to still be 10px from the new location of the group's right and bottom edges. Elements that extended across more than 80% of the width and/or height of the group will also be resized so that their edges maintain the same relationship to the group's borders. The resizing is smart so that text blocks, rounded rectangles, etc. should not be distorted.
To override the default resizing and snapping behavior, you can use the other commands in this extension. For instance, to force an element to be resized horizontally, even if its initial width is less than 80% of the group's width, sub-select the element and run "Smart Resize > X Anchor - Both". The next time the auto shape is resized, the element's width will be resized as well (i.e., it will be anchored to both the left and right sides of the group). Overrides like this are maintained even if you attach a new Smart Resize shape. If you need to reposition a child in the group, move it, select the group and then run the "Attach" command again; this will update the positions of all the children so that they're maintained when the Smart Resize shape is resized.
New Smart Resize extension
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Posted 06 March 2009 - 06:03 AM
this seems very awsome cant wait to try it
Posted 10 March 2009 - 12:45 AM
it's like 9 slice scaling for groups! awesome!
Posted 10 March 2009 - 01:16 AM
seems interesting
Posted 11 March 2009 - 10:20 AM
But automatic, so you don't have to reset the slices every time, like you do with the 9-slice scale tool. And you don't actually have to group the elements you want to re-layout. You can select multiple objects and run Smart Resize > Attach to enable resizing on the current selection without first creating a group (though there's a bug where the objects are left grouped when you run Detach, which I can fix).
it's like 9 slice scaling for groups! awesome!
Posted 13 March 2009 - 07:27 AM
I have had a tough time lately, resizing and aligning small elements before exporting them and as you know that Smart CSS doesn't work properly if you have any elements, boxes or boundaries overlapping.
So, when I export CSS and Images from Fireworks to Dreamweaver and if I am the Q then this tool is definitely the U.
Thanks for that John (if I may address you so)!
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- Introduction
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- Microsoft SQL Server Defined
- Microsoft SQL Server Features
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- SQL Server Professional Development Plan, Part 1
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- SQL Server Professional Development Plan, Part 3
- Evaluating Technical Options
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- Creating a Disaster Recovery Plan
- Anatomy of a Disaster (Response Plan)
- Database Troubleshooting
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Anatomy of a Disaster (Response Plan)
Last updated Mar 28, 2003.
- "No plan survives contact with the enemy." Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
I've written here on InformIT in multiple locations about having a plan to help you recover from a disaster. Like many data professionals, I'm a bit of a stickler about planning everything out I think that without a good plan, you're inviting even more trouble during a catastrophe. I was also in the military, and had the value of plans drilled into me constantly.
Having those plans, and probably more importantly going through a planning process, has saved my backside more times than I can remember. Plans make sure that I thought everything through, that I had spare parts on hand, that I knew who to call about a particular part of the recovery process, and much more. They simply remove most of the uncertainty during the panic that follows a crisis, when it tends to build the most.
When the plan works, of course.
Because they don't always work. Sometimes the plan doesn't include one little variable which might be the most important variable. The plan might not be valid for the situation, or more likely, the situation might change and the plan doesn't. At that point, the plan doesn't make sense any more.
So does that mean that you shouldn't plan? No. It doesn't. It means that if you're going to put your trust in the plan, it has to work. And the only way you can know that it will work is to try it out. And that's where the difficulty comes in. You might have a great plan it might cover everything you can think of, but if you don't take the time to exercise it through a few times, you're begging for trouble.
Don't believe me? Think you've covered the bases? Allow me to tell you a true story about a team that learned about plans the hard way.
The Environment
I was the IT manager of a small group of about eight professionals. We had a project to deploy several hundred very small networked systems across a large territory to remote offices, and those offices would not have an IT presence. We had to create a single server with mail, office and SQL Server on it. Up to five workstations connected to the network, and a nightly job loaded all of the transactions during the day to a miniframe computer from each office.
The creation and distribution for this network was a thing of beauty. The network engineer on the team figured out how to get the buildings wired with a specific color of network cables for each use. The local hubs and routers had those same colors on the ports. The System Administrator on the team had the small server's ports coded with the same color of sticker so that plug-in was a snap.
We all created our parts of the server I had the mail administrator set up mail, the system administrator create file and printer shares, and we even imaged the server drives and had the hardware vendor create an automated process that would see the systems configure themselves on site by location name. It created a domain, handled the networking, and even had an image of the workstations to automatically build each one with everything the user needed.
The system would then contact the miniframe, send us an e-mail that everything went well, and set up all of its own maintenance. If a workstation ever had a problem, the user simply pressed a certain key, and the whole thing was rebuilt. Their data was saved on the server, and they continued working less than an hour later.
The team thought of everything. We had tapes and tape drives in each server. The receptionists at each site were taught to change the tapes each morning, and the servers backed up everything onto tape every night. The "recovery disk" was taped on the side, and everything was all set.
The Setup
One morning I announced that we needed to run a test. How confident did the team feel about a "real" disaster? They looked at each other and said "bring it on."
I had the team "ship" a network (server, router and workstation) to a cubicle in the building. I made them wait a week for the "shipping" to work. I asked accounting if I could borrow someone for a few days for the test, and got the cooperation from that team. I asked for someone who would represent the field, and they got me a lady that had actually worked in a remote office at one point. She was very smart, but had no computer experience. It was perfect.
I asked her to follow the instructions to set up the network, the server and then the workstations. The process the team developed worked like a champ. She had the whole thing up and running in record time, without making a single call to the helpdesk, which was standing by with instructions should they need them.
Once the system was up and running, I asked the "remote office" if she would key in some information for me. I then simulated the end of the day by asking her to put in the tape in the tape drive, and let her get back to her job.
We debriefed, and agreed that this part of the test was a success. I told them that at some point I would simulate a disaster. They agreed, and they went home.
The "Disaster"
After the team went home, I walked over to the server. Keep in mind, this was quite some time back, and Windows Servers were kind of a new thing. In fact, it was Windows NT 4.0, and the latest service packs hadn't even come out yet. So you could get away with a lot of things that you can't today, and the recovery tools weren't nearly as robust.
I erased a critical operating system file, logged off of the server and went home.
The Plan in Meltdown
The next day the team came to work, and set about checking their e-mail and chatting. I sat in my office waiting for the call. The "remote site" came on line and she started working on the terminal.
After an hour or so, the terminal caused the server to take a hit on that file I erased, and bluescreened. She came to my office and said "there's something weird happening on the server." I nodded. "Should I call someone?" I said, "I don't know. Did they tell you to call someone?" She shook her head. I said, "what do you think you should do?" She said "I'll wait and see if it fixes itself." I said "OK". It was about 10:00 by this time.
After about a half hour, she came back to my office. "It's still not working. I think I should call someone." I said "OK". She asked who she should call, and I asked her who they told her to call. She said she wasn't sure the helpdesk maybe? I told her that I thought that might work. It's now lunchtime.
The helpdesk person didn't know we were running a test. They dispatched a local IT troop to the cubicle, and when he got there he asked what was up. She stated she was working on a test of some kind, so the tech left.
When the team came back from lunch, they wondered aloud how the performance on the system might be going. I stayed silent. They decided to call and ask how things were going, so I took a seat nearby to hear the conversation. It was now afternoon. Chaos ensued.
After yelling for the team to join them, they glared at me when she told them she had asked me about this at 10:00. I asked them, "Did you tell her to call me? Did you tell her to call anyone?" They looked down at their feet. I said, "well, we've been down a day. That's about 5,000 dollars worth of billing information lost so far."
I said "You better get started fixing this thing."
After trying to guide the remote worker through understanding what was going on (they couldn't see the screen, she couldn't describe it well) and asking dozens of questions, they realized that the system was down hard. By then it was quitting time, and I told her to go home. They protested but I said, "Do you think they will really stay in the office to help you with this problem in the field?" So they had to wait another day. So far: almost 24 hours of data time lost and they still didn't realize how bad it was.
The next day she came to work, and they were ready. They asked her to put in the tape, and put in the recovery disk. They tried to get the system up to where they could run the tape restore. But then they ran into a problem the rescue disk (which at the time only tried to restore a few system files) was Windows NT RTM, and the system had SP2 applied as part of the build process. So now the hard drive (with the data she keyed in the first day) was totally trashed.
That's when I broke the really bad news to them. I told them I trashed the drive before the first backup had been taken. Even if they managed to get the recovery disk in place, the restore would have had nothing on it.
The recovery
Finally, after three full calendar days, they "shipped" a new server to her from the factory. She had to do the entire installation again. I even made them wait a day to let the "shipping" happen. Then I called a meeting.
Believe me, the confidence level was not high. People realized they had put their faith in a plan that had not been tested. But I reminded them it was a test environment and that this was the time to make the needed changes.
What did they do based on what we learned. They had a second server ready and standing by on a shelf at HQ. The system had the same information, process, tape drive and everything else ready to go.
At the first sign of trouble (we practiced again) they shipped the server after they configured the name of the domain. They sent a recovery disk (with the right files) along as well. If the problem turned out not to need the server, they simply shipped it back.
Each site got a training video about the tape backups and how to check them. The server was configured to sent out a "distress call" based on a periodic ping from HQ. Health monitoring was put into place. Each server got a Windows NT slipstreamed installation set of CD's (no DVD's back then!) taped to the side, and stickers were placed on the front, back and sides with the helpdesk number and the code to use to indicate the type of problem this was. We also invested in a bare-metal recovery software package when one came out for NT.
We had to use the new process more than once and we learned more each time. That's the key learning from mistakes, and realizing that you don't have a disaster plan you have a disaster recovery plan.
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Rate Your "Relationshp" with Your Disaster Recovery Plan is a great article on putting your eggs in one basket...
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Disaster Recovery Planning: Preparing for the Unthinkable, 3rd Edition should be required reading for any administrator.
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The fight preview show will match WBC welterweight titleholder Floyd Mayweather Jr. and WBA junior middleweight beltholder Miguel Cotto, who will meet on May 5 on HBO Pay Per View from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Mayweather (42-0, 26 knockouts) is pursuing his eighth title belt over five weight divisions against Cotto (37-2, 30 KOs), and they will be face-to-face during the interview with Kellerman.
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Wang Yang tells US treasury secretary that China-US relationship is like a marriage – but not a gay oneAmong the ranks of China's poker-faced, ancient-proverb-citing political elite, the country's vice-premier, Wang Yang, has emerged as an unlikely champion of the extended metaphor.Wang told the US Treasury secretary, Jack Lew, that the China-US relationship was like a marriage. Only not a gay one. And hopefully, nothing like Rupert Murdoch's."In China when we say a pair of new people, we mean a newlywed couple," Wang said on Wednesday, sitting side-by-side with Lew at a high-level meeting
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"While consumers have high hopes for fish sandwiches from a [quick serve], they are often disappointed. That's why we take such care in crafting an exceptional fish sandwich for our customers. From the 100-percent North Pacific cod, the flaky hand-cut fillet, the crunch of the panko breading, or the creamy tartar sauce, Wendy's Premium Cod Sandwich is fish done right," says Derek Detenber, vice president of marketing. "In a sea of fairly unremarkable fast-food fish sandwiches, we believe the Wendy's Premium Cod sandwich rises above the rest."
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10 New Weight Loss and Diet Myths and Facts
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Not mustard, not grapefruit, not green tea, not celery. No food is going to do the work for you. While there are foods that might temporarily speed up your metabolism, it won't be in any sustained way that will impact weight loss. Simpson points out that "much of the data to support these claims stem from nutraceutical research or studies [where] people ingested very large quantities of the particular food or natural health supplements for an extended period of time." And don't try replicating those studies at home. Simpson warns that consuming large quantities of certain foods may offset the body's balance to digest, absorb or neutralize byproducts or toxins in the body. "For example, even though grapefruit has some benefits, it may also affect the way the body absorbs, processes and eliminates certain prescription drugs."
Capitalize on the facts: Stop looking for an easy, miracle solution as tempting as it may be. You know the secret to healthy, maintainable weight loss is to exercise and eat a sensible diet. And that can include the occasional broken cookie �
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Of course there were some tips I've heard before, but hearing them again helped refresh my initiative to use them! The new tips I read about were quite easy to implement and will be quite useful!
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Great article.
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Good information. Back to the basics.
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helpful dieting tips. thank you!
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I always thought eating red meat during a diet was a no-no. Thanks for clarifying that myth.
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that was interesting
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Glad to be reminded of these tips. Thanks!
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Basic info, but great stuff!
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This article is full of the basics of a healthy diet and lifestyle that is conducive to losing weight - thanks for clearing up the myths and drilling in the facts! I am definitely guilty of nighttime binging
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#21940 closed Cleanup/optimization (fixed)
Consistent contribute_to_class's virtual_only
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I needed to create a field like class for my django project and I wanted it to be a virtual field... virtual_only is there for that reason, but my field was inheriting from FileField, and FileField.contribute_to_class() doesn't take virtual_only and so it doesn't passes it to Field.contribute_to_class(). I believe passing virtual_only attribute should be consistent across the source code. I'm attaching a simple patch to fix this. One warning would be for custom fields made by users which have their own contribute_to_class (those will need to be changed to properly receive the virtual_only parameter as optional.)
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Changed 3 years ago by Kronuz
comment:1 Changed 3 years ago by timo
- Needs documentation unset
- Needs tests unset
- Patch needs improvement unset
Would it be better to simply accept and pass on **kwargs? I think that would eliminate the minor backwards compatibility concerns as well.
comment:2 Changed 3 years ago by timo
- Component changed from Uncategorized to Database layer (models, ORM)
- Has patch set
- Patch needs improvement set
- Triage Stage changed from Unreviewed to Accepted
- Type changed from Uncategorized to Cleanup/optimization
comment:3 Changed 2 years ago by anubhav9042
IMO what is done is better, because
In the contribute_to_class in Field class:
def contribute_to_class(self, cls, name, virtual_only=False)
If from subclass:
super(AutoField, self).contribute_to_class(cls, name, **kwargs)
There is only virtual_only as keyword argument, if we pass **kwargs then it will be possible to pass any other variable to it as well, which is wrong I believe.
comment:4 Changed 2 years ago by mitar
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comment:5 Changed 2 years ago by mitar
GeoDjango is also missing virtual_only in their fields: https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/contrib/gis/db/models/fields.py#L213
comment:6 Changed 2 years ago by kostko
- Cc jernej@… added
comment:7 Changed 2 years ago by mitar
Opened pull request: https://github.com/django/django/pull/2946
comment:8 Changed 2 years ago by Tim Graham <timograham@…>
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
comment:9 Changed 22 months ago by gavinwahl
Can this be backported to 1.6 and 1.7?
comment:10 Changed 22 months ago by carljm
Definitely not 1.6, it's in security-fixes-only mode. And I don't think this meets the criteria in our backporting policy for backport to 1.7 either.


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Clifford, who joined the U's on loan last month, agreed an extension on Tuesday after an impressive spell in north Essex.
The Blues youth product, who has made five appearances so far, is now looking forward to the rest of the campaign.
"I've spoken to the gaffer here and to people at Chelsea and they've been really happy with how I've been doing," he told the club's official website.
"It has been a really good experience so far. The gaffer has been fantastic to me and the players have as well, so I'm glad that I took the chance to come here.
"This has definitely been the right move for me, and it has been a chance to experience life away from Chelsea, to play games and experience living with another team mate and I think I've coped well so far."
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Readers up in arms over recent gun accidents involving kids
Pretty brisk response to Friday's column about two recent gun accidents involving local children: One, a 13-year-old girl who was shot and killed when a rifle her adult brother was cleaning discharged; the other, a 4-year-old boy who shot himself in the shoulder with a handgun he found hidden under a pillow at his grandfather's house.
My point was that perhaps there should be more blame – maybe even legal charges – directed at family members whose irresponsible behavior with firearms results in a child's injury or death. State law mandates criminal penalties for people who keep guns where kids can get to them. Yet in many of these cases, shootings are treated as unavoidable household accidents, instead of cases of reckless or negligent behavior. A lot of that is due to a sense that it would be unseemly to blame or prosecute a grieving family member who has "already suffered enough" for a lapse in judgment.
A few readers I heard from took the "suffered enough" line, pointing out that losing a child is a worse punishment than anything the law could dish out. Undoubtedly true – but it should be remembered that it's the dead or injured child – not the responsible adult – who is the victim in each of these cases.
Others torched me with the familiar "gun grabbin' liberal" insult, despite my oft-stated belief that responsible, law abiding people should be permitted to own firearms. Somehow, we have reached the point that some partisans think any suggestion that anyone at all, no matter how reckless or irresponsible, should have any limitations at all placed on gun ownership is left-wing heresy: "You media libs keep trying to demonize guns," said one. This is interesting, since I explicitly wrote, albeit not in all caps with a dozen exclamation points, that "guns are not devils."
Overwhelmingly, though, I heard from readers horrified at the recklessness which would put a child in danger of being injured by a firearm at home. And many of those sentiments came from gun owners themselves.
"I recall the first time I was on a Marine rifle range," one reader wrote. "The Gunny in charge, a very formidable man, said "There are no accidental discharges on my range. You have been taught how the rifle functions – if it goes off, you meant for it to fire." There were no accidental discharges.
"Your politics and views often diverge from mine, but not today. I'm an owner of numerous firearms, and holder of a Concealed Handgun License. I almost always have a weapon near me or on my person.
"I'm the only person with access to these weapons, keeping them under lock and key whenever they are not under my direct control. Those who don't do the same should be held responsible for their failures to treat these tools with the respect required by common sense and our State's laws."
"A weapon should never be pointed at anything you don't intend to destroy! I'm 1st in line to say we don't need any more damnfool gun laws; but every gun owner should have a gun safety course to purchase a weapon."
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The owners of Burger Records, Vacation Vinyl and Gramaphone Records came together to discuss The State of Record Stores at 2013's Scion Music(less) Music Conference. Each of these stores has been able to thrive amid the downturn in music sales by finding their niche and serving their community. For Sean Bohrman of Burger Records it's primarily garage rock in Orange County, for Mark Thompson of Vacation Vinyl it's metal in Silver Lake, and for Michael Serafini of Gramaphone Records it's dance music in Chicago.
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It's Janerik season! or generik, or jararang or whatever you wanna call it.
Does anyone know what it's called in English?
It's Janerik season! or generik, or jararang or whatever you wanna call it.
Does anyone know what it's called in English?
I've been planning to try out a new restaurant in Beirut called Um Sharif, but the two times I called, the place was fully booked, last time being yesterday.
It is not very common for a place to be booked on a Wednesday night in Lebanon, knowing that it's not cheap at all. Indeed, you are bound by a 35$ formula for lunch and a 60$ formula for dinner excluding beverages and arguile.
There's also a live show (Derbakke, 3oud etc ..) every night that starts at 10:45 pm.
I tried looking up the place on Google and found on Naharnet directory having the same number a place I've never heard of called Paris New York located in Beirut. [Naharnet]
I am curious to know if the place is truly worth paying that much money, so I would appreciate if anyone who's been to that place shares his experience on the blog.
I don't really enjoy watching Lebanese movies or TV shows because I always have the impression that they're shot using cameras made for home use with bad lighting, horrible sound and really unconvincing actors. I feel there is always an echo, and to add to that, almost all the stories are the same: guy and girl are in love, girls parents refuse to acknowledge that, guy and girl need to find a way to make it work. Sometimes there is a drunk uncle who ends up killing the guy or the girl.
Let's not talk about the acting… every actor has the same look in every scene. They all look like they're really thinking veeeeeeery hard.
A couple of weeks ago I started watching a series on YouTube called Beirut I love you [Link]. It's a series of short films (~2 to 4 minutes) and the story revolves around the lives of a group of friends who live in Beirut.
I really enjoy the way the clips are shot. For a team of amateurs, I think they do a better job than the pros we have in Lebanon. The two main actors also write and direct the show.
You might recognize the main actor, Cyril Aris, from a recent bank commercial for car loans. My Dad loves that commercial, he laughs every time he sees it. Can't find a clip online though. It's the one where a girl asks a guy to drop her off after a party, and the guy agrees and stops a service and opens the doors for her. He says he has a dentist appointment and ends up going home on his mobilette.
The clips are in Arabic with English subtitles.
Here's a link to the YouTube account of Orange Dog Productions, which produces these short films [Link]
When you read this piece of news, you'd think the driver who hit the 59 year old person and left him to die is immoral and an asshole, but the truth is you might want to do the same thing if you ever hit a person with your car in Lebanon.
Why is that? Because of our rotten and archaic laws that blame the driver under any circumstances, even if one throws himself/herself in front of your car. Indeed, looking at the place of the accident, this highway is one of the most dangerous in Lebanon yet people insist on crossing it and not having a bridge is not a good enough excuse to risk your life and blaming the government afterwards.
I remember at some point there were beggars throwing their children in front of cars to get some money out of it and there was nothing you could do about it except driving away.
Even people passing by might not want to call the ambulance because they could be dragged for interrogation later on. I personally saw someone lying on the road on my way up to Mansourieh few years back and did not hesitate to call the ambulance yet luckily did not receive a call afterwards, probably because it was a foreign worker and no one reported him as missing, or officials just ignored the whole thing.
IPT opened a self-service gas station in Kaslik. I think they already have one on the Batroun highway. There's still a full service option though.
Has anyone tried it yet?
I never realized there was an American band called Beirut until today. The name however has nothing to do with their music as it is a mix of Eastern Europe, and Balkan folk with Western pop music. [Link]
I tried looking for the reason behind that name but could not find anything which is pretty weird. It would be interesting to know why he chose the name? Maybe we should email him about it.
You can listen to some of their songs here. [Link]
As I've posted two weeks ago [Link], I headed during Easter to Kobayat, one of the biggest villages in Akkar District North of Lebanon. The village has over 15,000 inhabitants, most of them being Christian Maronites.
I was told that the road to Kobayat is long, tricky and dangerous but the reality is the road from Tripoli to Halba is the only one worthy worrying about. The road is awful at night, there's no lighting and apparently a lot of thefts and crimes occur over there. Also, that's basically where the Lebanese army clashed with the Islamists of Fath el Islam few years back. Nevertheless, you just need to go there during day light and all will be fine. Moreover, once you reach Halba, the road from there is in great shape and well lit.
The only stop we made was at Kasr el Helo [Hallab] in Tripoli where we had the famous Sfee7a Baalbakiyye and Halawit el Jeben. It's pretty amazing how every time I've been to
Al Hallab, the place despite being huge is crowded.
Once we've reached Kobayat around 8:30 pm, we headed to the chalets we had rented, rested for a bit and headed to a restaurant at the extremities of the town. On our way there, I thought I was passing by Gemmayze street on a Saturday night. Pubs, restaurants and cafes were full and there was traffic everywhere. The only difference was that not only young people were filling the places, but also grown men and old people sitting outside, drinking Arak or beer and playing backgammon or cards.
The restaurant we were going to was practically in the middle of nowhere, yet was crowded and fully booked. Added to that, the food (Arabic food) was surprisingly great, the atmosphere was fun, and people kept dancing until 3 am. Don't ask me how to get to that restaurant because I have no clue how we got there. All I know its name was Tilal el Sahar or something like that. On our way back, people were still partying and having fun and there was an ongoing party in the resort we were staying in.
I am not sure if it was because everyone was on vacation, but Kobayat was alive and kicking just like Beirut on a Saturday night. That pretty much covers Day1 of my trip to Kobayat.
For those wishing to learn more about Kobayat, their website, despite its lousy design, has tons of information about the town. They even have pictures of every house in the town with the name of its owner [Houses from Kobayat], with the most impressive one being Dr.Ernest el Haj's house. [Picture]
It looks a lot better than it tastes
Does anyone else think that this GIF is extremely funny?
Picture from Plus961
The video Mark posted on the "Dancing Darak" made me ask around to see whether this guy is for real an ISF officer or not, and reminded me of the incident I had once while driving.
Apparently, there are two plausible options here:
1- The officer is really in the Darak (ISF) but I doubt he'll last until the end of this week before getting fired.
2- The officer was a part-timer in the ISF (on a contractual basis) and did not give away his suit back upon the contract's expiration.
According to a friend of mine, there are a lot of Lebanese enrolling on a contractual basis with the ISF and keeping the suits afterwards. What they do is that they wear the suits, pretend to be real officers and offer drivers to pay bribes instead of receiving tickets.
Few weeks back, one of those fake officers was caught after it turns out he was involved in major car thefts with some friends of his in the Maameltein region. He would stop a car for talking on the phone or not wearing the seat belt and then some friends of his would storm the drivers with weapons and steal the car.
Question is how can one detect those fake officers?
– ISF officers do not usually hide in the dark and come out of nowhere to surprise you.
– ISF officers rarely are alone but rather work in groups and there's always a car or a motorcycle next to them.
– Most of the times, there's a checkpoint involved when ISF officers are distributing tickets.
If anyone has further tips on how to avoid those fake officers, please feel free to share them.
PS: I think the ISF or Minister of Interior should issue a PR warning to Lebanese citizens on those imposters.
Paris Hilton has a reality show called My New BFF which for this season is based in Dubai. Two of the girls on the show are Lebanese, one girl is Christiane Zeitouny (above) and the other is Angel Arbid (below). Angel already got kicked off the show but Christy is still there. I just thought I would share this very important bit of information. [Link]


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