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Marines' Duty Ch. 11Mature
The Humvee ride back to base was silent, Staff Sergeant Mick had forced me to take the passengers seat. My eyes fell upon the passing scenery, watching as tall grasses swayed and people went about their day. It was like a war didn't even exist. Old cars parked on the side of the road were bypassed, carts lead by donkeys and old men overtaking the dirty roads. The city was virtually untouched by the monotonous march of time. Perez halted the vehicle as soccer ball rolled before the vehicle and an absent minded child chased it. The young boy's eyes widened at the vehicle, he stood still, a deer caught in the headlights. Mick, who was on the gun, waved to them.
"As-Salāmu`Alaykum!" he greeted. A group of curious children, boys and girls, watched from the side of the road. The girls held tiny, shy smiles that reminded me of the dead girls in the car. My gaze fell to my boots, the memory still to raw and painful to think about. Perez reached under his seat and handed me a few small yellowish-brown packages. I looked up at him, a growl of displeasure rumbled in my throat. Young leaned up between the driver's and passengers seat.
"Come on Micahart, it'll be good for you. I'll help ya'. With a clank the Humvee's door opened, the shut. Slowly, I opened my door and stepped out. The kids stayed where they were watching us with curious almond colored eyes. Young waved me to the groups threshold as I neared he knelled to the kid's eye level, I copied the motion. Young held out one of the packages, it was no bigger than an MRE and contained simple food items; candy, a sandwich, and a few other semi-nutritious items. Young bumped my shoulder, his eyes flicked from me to the children and back. I sighed and looked to child standing before me. A young boy no older than seven with wiry black hair and eyes full of childhood energy.
"As-Salāmu`Alaykum," I said, handing over the packages to the group.
"Shokran jazeelan!" the kid nodded and ran off, his friends in tow with their goody bags. I looked back to Mick on the .50cal, he wore a smile stretching ear to ear.
"What did he say?" My Arabic was basic at best and the accent didn't help much. Young and I stood returning to the vehicle and shutting the doors. I repeated my question: "What did the boy say? Mick?" He looked down into the vehicle as the tires started forward. As he opened his mouth to speak a large explosion shattered the city's calm. Everyones eyes jerked to the city, a large plume of black smoke beginning to rise into the noon time sky.
People began shouting and scurrying. More explosions rocked the ground and Perez hit the accelerator. Our tires tore at the dirt and the Humvee sprung forward, cutting the distance between base and us in five minutes. The front gates automatically opened, allowing us to speed through and grind to a halt out front of the command center. Marines around the base were scrambling, rifles in hand and armor rattling on their bodies. Alpha squad hurried inside the building as I stepped from the vehicle. More stacks of black smoke diluting the blue sky in a river of black.
"Micahart!" A voice shouted from behind me. Walsh, Thane, and Bishop hurried to my side in full battle rattle. Bishop shouldered his shiny new M249 'SAW', our squad needed a light machine gunner.
"What's going on?" I asked, emotionally drained.
"Mortors," Walsh spat the word from his mouth like bad Copenhagen. Intell has been struggling to sort out what's going on. They're speculating it kicked off in the Red District, violence just spread from there into the Yellow District. If it spreads to the Green District, the base will be under serious threat. We already have the Mortors to contend with and the last thing we need is a riled up populace."
I mulled over what Walsh had said, whatever had gotten these people up it would take more than a group of armored Marines to chill them out. I opened my mouth to ask what support we would have but a thundering of rotors answered my questions. A squadron of AH-1's roared, announcing their arrival by hovering just at the bases edge. A large swirl of sand tossed up from the rotor-wash and wiped around us.
"There's one more thing Corporal." I glanced to Thane, mixed expressions playing on his face. "Captain Kujo is leading the convoy to the border of the Yellow District. It's not exactly the scare tactic I had hope for but maybe the Iraqi's will hate him as much as we do."
"MARINES!" Kujo shouted as he shoved the Command building's door open. "Load into your vehicle's we're mobilizing!" Kujo then waddled to into Alpha's Humvee. Walsh pulled on my cammies, motioning to our own vehicle. Thane jumped into the passenger's seat, Bishop took the backseat behind Walsh who took the drivers seat.
"Take the .50cal," Thane pointed to me. I nodded not mentioning the mornings events. The convoy radio hissed to life in an whir of static
"All vehicles, we are now callsign Hunter. Adjust comms chatter accordingly. All of the Cobras above are designated Broadsword 1, 2, 3, and 4. Clear?" Walsh picked up the handset and responded.
"This is Hunter 1, clear. Over." All the other vehicles responded in agreement with their corresponding numbers. Kujo's vehicle was called Hunter Actual because it was the command vehicle at the back of the convoy. Our vehicle, not surprisingly, was the lead car.
"This is Hunter actual, all Hunter and Broadsword callsigns we're Oscar Mike. ROE is clear, anyone with a weapon is declared hostile. This includes women and children. Over." The Helicopters above shifted like a small flock of birds trailing above us and always watching. Our convoy left the front gates and rolled along Angel Rd turning onto an obscure side road. The streets that had once been filled only a half an hour ago was now abandoned. A very bad sign.
"All Hunter callsigns, this is Broadsword 1, keep rolling one more mile and you'll be at one of the main intersections. I'm seeing a group of gunman moving right towards you. How copy, over?" The whine of rotors mixed with the pilots voice, Thane picked up the handset.
"This is Hunter 1, We copy, thanks for the heads up, over." Walsh turned our vehicle into the middle of the intersection and stopped.
"Looks a lot like the riots from back home," Walsh twanged staring at the large crowd of men. Their ages were the militant standard of around 16-35, most were holding makeshift weapons; clubs, farm equipment, and even AK-47s.
"This is Hunter Actual, why are we stopped?" All the other vehicles drove up and parked in a line door to door. It was a standoff in the middle of Ramadi, it was a Gunfight at O.K corral but no one wanted to take the initiative. Perhaps that was a good thing...


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A better deal
IT IS an exciting time to be a Southeast Missouri State University student. With the aquatic center and River Campus, we will get a Springfield or Columbia experience for a much better price.
Trying to keep up
RENT KEEPS going up along with gasoline, food, utilities and natural gas. Everything is going up except pay. Minimum wage went up, but that doesn't enable a family to live without having to choose what bills to let go so they can buy food or clothes or gas to get to work. Something needs to change. Kudos to U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson for trying to see how the average people live when it comes to food.
Downtown safety
FOR EVERY person who vows not to come downtown because if security cameras are installed, 11 others will come.
Health-care costs
JOB-HOPPING isn't the answer to health-care coverage. Many smaller business's don't offer Insurance to their employees. Medical expenses keep getting higher and higher. Not having some kind of insurance sure does cut into your budget by the time you pay for a doctor's visit and the prescribed medication.
No scapegoating
ENOUGH WITH the scapegoating about Vietnam and trying to start it with the current war. The American people, the American soldiers, the American anti-war activists did not lose that war. The country's leaders lost it. They are the one's who treat our soldiers as fodder. They are the one's who embellish threats so we'll support them. They are responsible. And when we pull out of Iraq, it won't be because the soldiers failed and not because of antiwar protesters. It will be because our Leaders failed to plan and had little regard for the repercussions of their effort to secure oil while failing to finish the real threat that existed in Afghanistan.
Hold down the noise
I AGREE you should keep your dogs out of other people's yards. Unfortunately, I was unaware that my dog was doing this until an unpleasant neighbor informed me. My dog has since been put down. I have my neighbor's dogs barking at all hours. There is more to gripe about than dogs being in your yard. How about controlling the noise as well?
No way to win
COMMENTS SAY Iraq is not like Vietnam. Let me tell you one way they are alike. The only ground you hold is the ground you are standing on. I keep hearing "war on terror." How do you wage war on a tactic? This has gone on way too long. The generals say there is no military way to win.
Out of the loop
THAT DAVID Limbaugh didn't realize that Christopher Hitchens is an atheistic secular humanist who demonstrates beyond doubt that it is possible to be moral and do good things without the yoke of organized religion seems to show that Limbaugh is way out of the loop.
What Falwell said
DAVID LIMBAUGH described Jerry Falwell's remarks about 9-11 as "regrettable." Here's what Falwell had to say, in part: "I really believe that the pagans ... the feminists ... the gays and the lesbians ... the ACLU, People for the American Way -- all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger at them and say, 'you helped this happen.'" If these blame-America-first words had been uttered by virtually any American other than Falwell, Limbaugh would have demanded their prosecution for treason and death by hanging.
Religious disagreement
OF COURSE Jerry Falwell didn't preach that people he didn't like were going to hell. He was smarter than that. But I have absolutely no doubt that he believed that people who disagreed with his characterization of Christianity were.
Economy not so good
SOME SAY this is a good economy. I can tell you this it is not a good economy for the middle-class working people. $3 a gallon for gas, higher electric rates, extremely high health-care costs and food costs all add up. The problem is wages have not kept up with the cost of living, causing a big deficit in our budget. If I had plenty of money I would say this is a good economy. But when you're in the working middle class it is not.
Veterans' benefits
TO ALL veterans and those who will be: The Bush administration has asked Congress not to proceed with the entire pay raise to our troops for fiscal year 2008. The administration says the plan is too costly. The plan would cost $7.5 billion over the next six years, less than what we spend in Iraq in a month. The administration also wants to increase the cost of Tricare for retirees of the military, even though this was a guaranteed free service for those who stayed. The administration also strongly opposes a plan to require drug manufacturers to give the same price to the Defense Department Tricare program as it does to the military bases. Call your federal legislators and ask them to vote with the Armed Services Committee and not degrade the benefits of those who serve and have served.
Wine at school
MY SON'S school told a student he could not wear a T-shirt that had a wine bottle on it, even if the wine bottle had no label. It was still obvious it had to do with alcohol. But they can give students wine glasses as prom favors. That makes no sense at all.

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Chapter 3
Early the next morning Lucinda was awakened by the smell of waffles. Considering that waffles were her favorite food for breakfast, she got out of bed and went down stairs.
"Good morning sweetie." Stella says with a smile, "Would you like waffles or eggs this morning?"
"Waffles of course!" Lucinda says sarcastically.
"I thought so, so that's why I fixed plenty." Stella says with a grin.
"So what's the plan for today, since I have turned eighteen?" Lucinda asks curiously.
"Well, I was thinking of leaving that up to you, just remember that we have to be back to serve dinner this evening." Says Stella.
"I was thinking we could go the antique shop in Charleston, South Carolina. Ellie's mother found some interesting things up there the last time she went." Lucinda simply says.
"That sounds wonderful. I haven't been there in a very long time. They must have some new stuff in there by now." Stella says with excitement, "With that said, finish eating and then we can go."
"Alright, just give me five minutes." Lucinda says quickly.
After Lucinda had put her plate in the sink, she ran upstairs to change. Lucinda took a quick look through her closet and decided on a pair of jeans and a red short-sleeve top. She then found a pair of blue sneakers. On the way out the door, Lucinda decided to put on the amulet that Ellie had given her the night before. She also remembered to grab her jacket off the back of the door.
An hour later, Lucinda and Stella arrived at the antique shop in Charleston. The Antique shop was called Nobellas. Nobellas was a small shop with high ceilings and uniquely aged exterior.
"Now, if there's anything you like in here, don't be afraid to ask me to get it for you." Stella tells Lucinda.
"Alright, I'll let you know if I find anything." Lucinda says hurriedly.
Lucinda was quickly heading towards the collectables and books when she saw a collection of wolf antiques. While looking through them she spotted a book about ancient societies of witches that was closely related to the wolves. Along with it came a dream catcher, which Lucinda thought was very odd since it didn't really relate, but since she found it interesting and because it only cost thirty dollars, she asked her mother for it.
"Oh, that's so beautiful." Stella says when she sees the book cover. "You will do well with the book around.
"Uh, thanks." Lucinda says uncertainly.
As soon as they got back Lucinda walked to the house and quickly went up to her room. She then closed the door and put her coat on the back hook. She laid the bag on her bed and sat down with the book in her lap.
The cover of the book was ancient but the pages inside were fairly modern. Lucinda looked back at the cover and was interested in the title, which was "Societies of the world". Lucinda didn't see why the book had caught her attention. But after looking through the book for some time, she came across a society that had several family names that she recognized. One was her own family name, Fang, and the other was Ellie's, which was Northwitch. Lucinda was curious and uncertain what this meant and decided that she would mention it after dinner.
Several minutes passed by before Lucinda was ready to go down to dinner. She walked casually down the stair and into the dining room. The room was bright with a chandelier hanging above cherry table. At the table several people were already seated. She walked up to her Grandmother, Maria, and said hello. She then walked over to her cousin Sally. Lucinda greeted her with a friendly smile and then sat down next to her mother. On the table placed in the center was roasted chicken, potatoes, green beans and, Lucinda's favorite, apple pie. They took their time and ate peacefully, lightly chatting and talking about their day.
Once they were done they moved to the living room for desert and to relax. Maria went into the other room and came back with a descent sized bag and gave it to Lucinda. Lucinda looked into the bag and saw a music box. The song that was played was slow but heartwarming. Lucinda's next gift was from Sally, which was in a small box. Lucinda opened to find a silver wolf pendant on a silver chain. Stella's gift was a new camera so that Lucinda could take pictures of her life and friends. With that done, Lucinda thanks Maria and Sally for their gifts. Maria and Sally left soon after and as Lucinda was climbing the stairs back to her room, Stella noticed the amulet around her neck.
"Oh, that's gorgeous, where did you get that?" Stella asks.
"Elli gave it to me yesterday," Lucinda says with a smile. "I'm glad you like it."
"That's wonderful; he is a really sweet guy to give you that" Stella says with a grin.
"Oh stop it!" Says Lucinda, "Um mom, I was wanting to ask you something."
"What is it?" Stella asks Lucinda with uncertainty.
"You know that boo you got me earlier today, well I've looked at it and I found something interesting. In a list of ancient societies our family name, as well as, Elli's is in there." Lucinda says calmly, "What does it mean?"
"It means I can finally tell you more about our heritage that I couldn't tell you about until today." Stella says with a sigh.
"What do you mean?" Lucinda asks.
"In this world there are regular people and there are others. In our family we can't tell our children about their heritage for safety reasons" Stella calmly says, "It is because…we are witches, but not just any witches, we are pure witches."
"No way, you have got to be joking. Are you trying to tell me that all those stories where true." Lucinda says loudly.
"Most of the stories were real, and a couple I made up." Stella says softly, "You and I came from a strong line witches that are able to make amulets and potions. That is why you knew so many herbs when we visited your grandmother Maria last weekend. What bothers me, though, is how you were suddenly interested in the wolf part of the society." Says Stella.
"Wait, that means that Elli has known!" Lucinda says questionably.
"Yes and that is also why he went to Lightford," Stella simply says, "Lightford is a unique school for young witches to learn the basics and to discover further abilities. Once you graduate from Raven High, you will have the option to go there, even if it's for one to two years to learn the basics."
"What if I choose to ignore my heritage?" Lucinda asks.
"If you choose to ignore it you can go on with school, but you could be in danger considering you are of a pure line of pure witches." Stella says uncertainly, "By going to Lightford you will learn more about your powers and about yourself."
"So you're saying that by not going to Lightford and learning the basics I could be at risk?" Lucinda asks
"Yes, but you don't have to go." Stella answers, "Even if you choose not to go, I can teach you some of the basics before you graduate so you will be somewhat prepared."
"I don't know if I want to go, but I want to learn." Lucinda says excitedly, "When do we start?"
"We will work on the basics on the weekends, starting next week." Stella says proudly.


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The Farmington View Bobcat Booster Club is a group of parents, teachers, and staff who are dedicated to activities that will enhance the overall educational experience for students of Farmington View Elementary School. The group works to provide opportunities that widen all students' educational experiences while helping create a sense of community for families and students at Farmington View. The Bobcat Booster Club works with and supports the objectives of the Hillsboro School District.
The Booster meeting is a great way to stay informed regarding day-to-day decisions being made at Farmington View. Every month Principal Nabil Zerizef willl speak with parents about issues concerning our school community.
In addition, we discuss upcoming events, plan future activities, and discuss how to provide enrichment opportunities for students with the money from our fundraising efforts.
Meetings are always kept under one hour, and child-care is provided.
We greatly appreciate everyone's input and value all opinions.
They provide many valuable "extra" activities and enrichment opportunities for our students.
Last year, Booster funds were used for after school programs, an AmeriCorps member, Accelerated Reader Program, enrichment programs and assemblies, teacher grants, and much more.
In the past, Booster funds have been spent on computers, field trips, library books, PE and playground equipment, TVs and VCRs, the sixth grade graduation party, and have funded many other projects.
Suggestions are always welcome. Everyone works hard to earn the money and the children are always the beneficiaries.
The fundraising activities from this year will determine our budget for next year. We only spend money that has been raised or carried over from the previous year. We try to generate about $20,000 per year, on average, to continue the strong support we've been able to provide for our school. Budget and financial statements are shared at each meeting to keep everyone informed. Every year the budget is developed and presented to members at a Bobcat Booster meeting. The membership approves how the money is budgeted and spent.
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AUSTRALIA: More Suicides, No Lessons
Supporters of asylum seekers here say that the government's response to recent suicides in Australian immigration detention centres ignores what is already well-known: that indefinite, long-term detention in crowded facilities results in deaths.
'We've had so many reviews and they've all pointed to the same thing,' says Ian Rintoul, spokesperson for the Refugee Action Coalition (RAC), which has been vocal in calling on successive governments to abandon the policy of mandatorily detaining 'unauthorised arrivals'. Under this policy, people are held while identity, health and security checks are carried out. These checks can take considerable time.
Rintoul says that there are thousands of people who have languished in immigration detention for six months or more, and hundreds who have been detained from one year to 18 months. Several have been held for even longer.
'Until you deal with the underlying cause, until you deal with the lack of certainty and the anxiety associated with mandatory detention, nothing is going to change. It's very obvious.' Refugee advocates and human rights defenders are among those who have long been opposed to what they regard as the harsh, unfair treatment of those who claim asylum in Australia, often fleeing persecution in their homeland.
The Refugee Council of Australia, the national body representing more than 130 organisations, has been calling on the governing Labour party to abolish indefinite, mandatory detention and implement the reforms it announced back in 2008.
The government's pledges included ending what then minister for immigration Chris Evans called 'dehumanising' long-term detention and removing children from immigration centres. But these have never been put into practice.
'We would say that the system is broken,' says the Council's Sophie Peer. The latest available figures from the department of immigration and citizenship (DIAC) show that there were 6,758 people in Australian immigration detention on Feb.18, up from less than 500 midway through 2009. More than 95 percent of these are asylum seekers who arrived here by boat, labelled by authorities as 'irregular maritime arrivals'.
One of these 'irregulars' was a 20-year-old Afghani who was found dead at the Curtin Immigration Detention Centre in Australia's remote north-west late last month. While DIAC has not released details about the young man's death, refugee advocates have identified him as Mohammed Asif Atay.
According to advocates, he hanged himself on Mar. 28, allegedly in response to delays and a lack of information regarding his application for asylum. The Curtin facility was controversially reopened in June last year for Australia's spiralling immigration detainee population after it had been closed in 2002 following a spate of protests and self-harm incidents.
Mohammed's death followed the apparent suicide of another 20-year-old male detainee from Afghanistan, also an 'irregular maritime arrival', on Mar. 16 at the Scherger Immigration Detention Centre in north-eastern Australia.
These cases brought the total number of suicides among the immigration detention population in a six-month period to five. A Fijian national committed suicide at the Villawood facility in Sydney last September and an Iraqi man killed himself there in November. Also at Villawood, a British man detained for breaching his visa conditions committed suicide in December.
DIAC has reacted to these deaths by recently agreeing to establish an independent review of mental health services available to those held in its immigration detention centres. This decision was apparently based on advice the department received last December from its Detention Health Advisory Group (DeHAG), whose work focuses particularly on issues of mental health.
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|Balaji Chellappa, Sayee Natarajan
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|Purdue Pharma L.P.
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This patent application claims the benefit of priority under 35 U.S.C. �119(e) of U.S. Application Ser. No. 60/867,943, filed Nov. 30, 2006, entitled "Data Cache Techniques in Support of Synchronization of Databases in a Distributed Environment," and of U.S. Application Ser. No. 60/863,243, filed Oct. 27, 2006, entitled "Territory Management System," which are hereby incorporated by reference in their respective entireties.
The present invention relates to the synchronization of databases in a distributed environment, and, more particularly, to software systems and methodologies that optimize database synchronization through the use of data cache techniques.
In many sectors, field representatives are used to educate customers and potential customers on the products of manufacturers and service providers. In the course of their duties, sales representatives make site visits and build a relationship with the customers and potential customers in their assigned territory. Typically, field representatives maintain records of their visits in accordance with any guidelines or requirements of the companies that they represent. The records of site visits can include details and have formats that vary widely among representatives and the companies they represent. The data collected by field representatives is typically aggregated in a centralized repository such as a database server so that the data can be analyzed. Additionally, the centralized repository commonly redistributes information or provides additional information, such as analysis of the data, to the field representatives. This data collection and distribution is typically performed using a client-server database architecture.
As the number of field representatives increases, the performance and scalability of typical client-server database models can degrade, and in some cases render the system inoperable. These performance issues are especially problematic when multiple clients simultaneously attempt to synchronize with the server. Multiple simultaneous client connections are common in environments in which clients synchronize during their "down-time" (e.g., overnight, when the user is not visiting sites and entering data), because users typically have similar schedules.
The performance and scalability degradation results from several factors. In a client-server model, database query optimizers do not predictably perform transactions on the client or the server. This can result in a great discrepancy in the amount of data transmitted over the network compared to the amount of data that is actually required to be modified or added. For example, during synchronization, the client may need to insert only a few new records into the tables on the database server. However, rather than transmitting the few records from the client to the server, the server may transmit the entire table to the client, perform the insertion on the client, and then transmit the table back to the server. Such a transaction greatly increases the quantity of data transmitted over the network, and can lock the entire database server until the transaction is complete, thereby preventing another client from synchronizing at the same time.
Some systems have attempted to address this problem by creating additional infrastructure external to the client-server database. For example, the synchronizing machine can create a queue into which the new or modified records are inserted. The queue is then processed by transmitting each record to the other machine where it is processed. This approach is limited by the additional processing time that is required during execution because it is built on-top-of the database and because it requires sequential processing of the queue rather than taking advantage of the built-in services of the database.
The present invention addresses these deficiencies in the art and provides other improvements useful to the synchronization of client-server databases.
In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, a method for synchronizing databases is provided over a communication connection that is established between a database server and a client. A client-cache-table is created on the client having one more fields corresponding to at least one field in the client database. The client-cache-table is populated with at least one database record in accordance with a synchronization criterion. A server-cache-table is also created on the database server, such that the server-cache-table has one or more fields corresponding to at least one field in the client-cache-table. At least one record in the populated client-cache-table is inserted into the server-cache-table, and the server-cache-table is merged into the database server.
In accordance with a further aspect of the present invention, the databases of a client and a database server can be synchronized. A communication connection between the database server and the client is established and the client is identified to the database server. A client-cache-table is created on the client and at least one database records from a results-cache-table on the database server is inserted into the client-cache-table. The client-cache-table is then merged into the client database.
In accordance with yet a further aspect of the present invention, the tables on the database server include at least one parent table and associated child tables. The parent table and associated child tables are populated with database records that are associated with at least one client. A parent-cache-table is created on the server for at least one of the parent tables and is associated with the client. The parent-cache-table is populated with at least one of the database records associated with the client. Furthermore, the results-cache-table is populated with at least one database record from the parent-cache-table and associated child tables. Optionally, the database records that populate the results-cache-table further satisfy a synchronization criterion.
These and other aspects, features, and advantages will be apparent from the following description of certain embodiments and the accompanying drawing figures.
By way of overview and introduction, the present invention is discussed below with respect to a territory management system that provides representatives with a tool for conducting their activities in an efficient manner. Such a territory management tool typically requires synchronization of a central database with one or more client databases owned and operated by the field representatives. Furthermore, the client database frequently requires synchronization with information created and stored on the database server, or uploaded to the database server during the synchronization of a different client.
The management system is preferably implemented as a software-based system, having components executing on a number of systems including a central computer and a multiplicity of remote machines, with each representative having a remote machine for his or her personal use and for forwarding adverse event information to a location associated with or accessible by the central computer. Without loss of generality, the present invention is described in relation to a particular representative using a single remote machine in the course of his or her activities covering an assigned territory. In the preferred embodiment described below, the representative is bespoke or contracted to a pharmaceutical manufacturer, and the representative "covers" a territory through visits to health care providers ("HCPs"), physicians and nurses (collectively, more generally, "prescribers") at which the representative is able to discuss and promote the use of the manufacturer's products. However, the invention has industrial applicability in other sectors including in connection with field representative activities in promoting products and services of general nature, including, without limitation, in the medical device sector.
A preferred software tool for territory management is described in part in the aforesaid U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/863,243, entitled "Territory Management System." The Territory Management System software provides through a Web-browser interface a number of tools that assist the representative in planning, recording, and tracking activities with customers such as prescribers. In relevant part, the Territory Management System software can assist a representative with managing, processing and deciphering sales information following their efforts in servicing his or her assigned territory. The Territory Management System software includes additional features that can assist representatives in other ways, such as in complying with concerning certain regulatory requirements or state or federal constraints concerning gifts to health care professionals, in reducing discrepancies in sample inventories as between stored and on-hand inventories, and in scheduling site visits to HCPs. Various features of the Territory Management System software are described in certain co-pending provisional patent applications which are referenced below, to the extent they have pertinence to the discussion of the present invention.
The remote machine used by the representative includes a suitable complement of hardware and software including, by way of example, a processor, memory, an accessible database, communications equipment, and input/output devices.
The process 100 illustrated in
Thus, at block 105, the representative makes a site visit to a particular prescriber's office. The representative typically makes a number of visits during the course of a day, whether scheduled or drop-in, and these visits can be coordinated through a calendar function provided by the same programmed system that handles the representative's reporting of any expense information. The scheduling and calendar functions form no part of the present invention, but are described in co-pending U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/868,015, filed on Nov. 30, 2006, entitled "Cycle Planning Tool for Territory Management" and U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/868,027, filed on Nov. 30, 2006, entitled "Itinerary Search Tool for Territory Management," which are each hereby incorporated by reference in their respective entireties.
It may be that the prescriber is not available for a conference with the representative, in which case the representative proceeds to a next appointment by traveling to another site within his or her territory, preferably with guidance from a calendared set of appointments that fill the day. If, however, a conference is held with a prescriber at a particular site visit, then the representative is supposed to capture a summary of who was met, what products (services) were discussed, whether samples were provided (and details concerning same), whether any adverse event information was discussed, propose a next meeting and follow-up discussion points, and document any expenses attributable to any prescribers that were visited. This information is captured in a "call note," which, upon entry into his or her machine, is a "call completion" concerning a sales call made at a given date and time. Functionality, systems and methodologies suited to adverse-event data capture, management and reporting are described in co-pending U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/867,923, filed on Nov. 30, 2006, entitled "Adverse Event Data Capture Software, Systems, And Methodologies" ("AE Capture"), which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. Functionality, systems and methodologies suited to expense capture are described in co-pending U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/867,906, filed Nov. 30, 2006, entitled "Pharmaceutical Representative Expense Report Management Software, Systems, And Methodologies," which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. All of this information must ultimately be synchronized with the central database.
Representatives generally seek to satisfy any concerns expressed by the customers in their territory, and so follow-up points can be captured in the territory management software so that the representative can better address those concerns with their customers. Representatives also have obligations to the company they represent to document any expenses attributable to visits to their customers and any adverse events that may have been reported for investigation or follow-up. Again, this information ultimately must be synchronized with the central database.
Use of the territory management system commences then at block 110 at which the representative initiates the entry of visitation notes, known as making a "call completion" because he or she has completed a sales call to the prescriber/customer and has meeting notes to record. The user can initiate this data entry process in a variety of ways. For example, a calendar feature of the management system can present an icon such as a telephone icon for selection which causes a call-notes entry form to be displayed. Alternatively, the calendar feature of the management system can include entries showing the time, location, or both, of the visits for that day which the representative can select to bring up the call-notes entry form. Yet another alternative is that the representative can call up a prescriber summary page which can include a link (or an icon as mentioned above) to enter call notes that are to be associated with that prescriber visit. These features are described in the aforementioned A/E Capture disclosure, and are not described further herein.
At block 110, the user inputs call notes and any adverse information using a suitable data entry form, such as the call-notes entry form described in the aforementioned AE Capture disclosure, which is recorded into the local database on the user's machine.
At step 120, the determination is made whether the database should be synchronized with the server. Synchronization can be initiated in multiple ways. For example, the user can instruct the client computer to synchronize with the database server, synchronization can be scheduled for a particular time or after a specified time interval, or the client database can determine that the certain one or more synchronization criterion have been met, such as a period of inactivity or network connectivity.
If synchronization is not appropriate at 120, the user and the client return to step 105, conceptually, to continue the process of visiting sites. However, if synchronization is initiated, the client proceeds to step 160, identifying the process illustrated in
While the user is conducting site visits 105 and recording call notes, any adverse event information 110, and other relevant information, the database server can perform maintenance and administrative tasks. For example, database maintenance 130 can include consistency checks, backups, and can re-compute database indices. Additionally, at block 135, manager review of the database can be performed through user interaction or automated algorithmic program code. Additionally, automated reports can be processed at step 140.
At step 150, the database server can receive a request to synchronize with a client database. If no synchronization request is received, the database server continues to perform its administrative tasks as necessary (e.g., steps 130, 135, and 145.) However, if a synchronization request is received, the server proceeds to step 160, identifying the process illustrated in
Database synchronization can be conducted over a heterogeneous network 210 as illustrated in
Additionally, a variety of wireless networks can be utilized to facilitate client-server communications and database synchronization. Laptop 220C and tablet PC 240B can connect via an internal cellular modem or PC Card cellular modem. Tablet PC 240A or Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) 230B can connect to a wireless access point 250 to communicate with server 270. Alternatively, PDA 230A can connect using a wireless standard such as Bluetooth or via a wired link to a cellphone 260 that can communicate over the network 210 with the server 270.
The present invention can be implemented over a client server network as well as a peer-to-peer network. If operated over a peer-to-peer network, multiple databases at each respective client can be synchronized and updated to account for the data input or modified on the peer clients. However, for the purposes of expediency, in the below discussion, each actor in a network transaction is referred to as a client or a server.
Additionally, it should be noted that
Each type of connection (e.g., modem, cellular network, broadband, etc . . . ) and device has its own connection characteristics, such as speed, availability, and reliability. The database synchronization set forth by the present invention can function over these types of communication links and communication devices, as well as many others.
The process of database synchronization is illustrated in
With reference now to
The connection is preferably a database link, such as that provided by the Oracle database. The database link allows for the execution of SQL or other standard database language instructions to operate on remote databases. Thus, for example, the database link allows the client to "INSERT" a record on the database server. Other protocols and languages, known in the art, that provide similar functionality can be used as well.
Preferably, the client and server communicate to determine the last synchronization ("sync") time between the two machines at step 320. Determining the last sync time can further reduce the overhead and processing required for synchronization by eliminating any records that have not been modified or added since the last sync time. However, if desired a full synchronization can be executed. Full synchronization can be useful if one of the databases has been corrupted. The uncorrupted database can synchronize and overwrite the corrupted records of the database even if the system indicates the records were previously synchronized.
The last sync time can be maintained by the client or the server. If the client stores the last sync time, the client can log the date and time of the most recent synchronization and provide the time to the server or respond with the time at the request of the server. Alternatively, the server can maintain a record of each client and the last times the client synchronized with the database server and, thereby, provide the last sync time to the client in a similar manner. Optionally, both the server and client can maintain a record of the last sync time and exchange that time. If there is a discrepancy, the earlier time is preferably utilized as the last sync time. Using the earlier sync time can result in possible redundancy of data. However, this redundancy can be accounted for and eliminated on the machine receiving the data by determining the data is already in the database. Utilizing the earlier sync time prevents data from being incorrectly excluded from a synchronization transaction.
Once the last sync time is determined a determination can be made as to whether synchronization is necessary at step 330. If neither the client nor the server has modified any database records since the last sync time, then database synchronization is not necessary, and the client and server can proceed to step 390 and update the last sync time.
However, if synchronization is necessary, the client and server can optionally communicate to determine which tables are necessary to synchronize at step 340. This determination can include several factors. For example, certain tables on the server can be server-specific and therefore, not necessary for the client to perform its function and even pose potential security risks if the information stored therein were transmitted to the client. Additionally, certain data may be scheduled for synchronization on a periodic basis that is less frequent than every synchronization transaction.
After the last sync time, and optionally after synchronization tables have been identified, the client and server can execute several steps of the synchronization process in parallel and independently for more efficient processing.
At step 350C, the client creates a client-cache-table to store the records, or copies of the records, that are to be synchronized with the database server. Client-cache-tables can comprise traditional (permanent) database tables that are populated and cleared for each synchronization session. Alternatively, client-cache-tables can be a file or data-structure stored in the computer's memory. However, the client-cache-table preferably comprises a temporary table. Temporary tables are designed to hold session-private data that exists only for the duration of a transaction or session. Furthermore, data locks are not required for the data of the temporary tables because each session has its own private data. A client-cache-table is preferably created for each table that is identified as requiring synchronization. The client-cache-tables to be created are in response to the determination at step 340.
The client data records that satisfy synchronization criteria are identified at step 360C. Synchronization criteria can include one or more test or rule. Preferably, one such synchronization criterion identifies the data record as being modified, added, or deleted after the last sync time. Synchronization criteria can also include the type of data, the owner of the data, or the priority of the data. The data records satisfying the synchronization criteria are then populated in the client-cache-table at step 370C.
The server can prepare to receive the data records from the client, while the client is preparing its client-cache-table 350C, identifying the records to be synchronized 360C, and populating the client-cache-table with those records 370C. At step 350S, the server creates a server-cache-table in response to the determination at step 340 to receive and store the synchronization records from the client. A server-cache-table is preferably created for each table that is identified as requiring synchronization.
Creating client-cache-tables and server-cache-tables on the client and server, respectively, isolates the main client and/or database server tables from the network database transactions. In doing so, the database query optimizer can make better decisions regarding how to transfer the data from the client to the server, or vice versa. Furthermore, the creation of cache tables reduces the amount of data that must be processed by the client and/or the server and be transmitted over the network. These, and other factors, can increase performance as the size of the dataset stored in the client database and/or server increases, as the number of clients increases, and as bandwidth of the network or processing power of the client and/or server decreases, among other computing environmental conditions.
Thus, once the cache tables on the client and server have been created and the client-cache-table populated, the client and server can efficiently perform the transfer of unsynchronized data. At step 370C the records stored in the client-cache-table that are to be synchronized with the server are selected, and at step 380S, the records are inserted into the server-cache-table after being transmitted over the network (Data Transmission). Preferably, the selection and insertion of data are executed through a standard database language command, such as a SQL command, and transmitted over a database link.
Once the client data records from the client-cache-table have been inserted into the server-cache-table at step 370S, the server-cache-table can be merged into the tables of the database server at step 380S. The merge process can be executed through a merge-command defined by the database language of the system. The merger can insert, or create, new records, update existing records, and delete existing records. A records can be deleted by marking a particular field of the record as null. The null field can be used to indicate the deletion. Alternatively, if the null field is in records in the cache-table, it can be used instruct the database server to delete the record from the database when the merge is performed.
Optionally, the merge process can identify duplicate records, and correctly ignore or accept the duplicate records. Duplicate records can result from various conditions. For example, duplicate records can result if the last sync time is incorrect due to a disconnection of a synchronization session prior to updating the last sync time (step 390) and after the merge step at 380S.
The synchronization transaction is preferably logged at step 385S. Logging the transaction allows for auditing if an error occurs. Additionally, a log can be used to "replay" the transactions to recreate a database if there is an error or lost data.
Preferably, the client is notified at step 390 that the transaction has completed and been logged. This notification can be implicit in the database link transaction that selects the client-cache-table data records and inserts the records into the server-cache-table. However, additional notification of completion can be transmitted as an additional verification or to confirm with non-database application layer software that the synchronization is complete, e.g., as an e-mail or other electronic message to the client.
The last sync time is update at step 390. As discussed above, the last sync time can be stored on the client, the server, or both. Preferably, the sync time is the time the data was copied from the client tables to the client-cache-table. Thus, any data records that are modified or created on the client during synchronization will be timestamped after the last sync time and therefore synchronized during the next transaction.
The cache-tables are preferably cleared one the transaction is complete. Some database implementations automatically clear temporary tables once the particular session associated with the cache-tables is closed. Alternatively, the system can purposefully clear the cache table after the transaction has been committed or if the communication connection is lost prior to committing the transaction.
The foregoing discussion focuses synchronizing on data from the client to the server, and discusses the mechanisms used to efficiently effect the synchronization. Similar mechanisms can be utilized to synchronize data from the server to the client. The following discussion describes the process of synchronizing server data to the client as illustrated in
As discussed with respect to
The last sync time is determined at step 420. The server can determine the last sync time utilizing the identification of the client determined at 415. Alternatively, the last sync time can be determined in any of the ways discussed above with respect to step 315. Further, the determination of whether synchronization is made at step 430. When synchronization is not necessary, the last sync time is updated at step 490. However, if synchronization is required, the client and server preferably determine and identify the database server tables necessary to examine during synchronization.
As discussed above, the client and database server can execute various steps of the synchronization process in parallel and independently for more efficient processing.
In this scenario, data is being transferred from the server to the client, rather than client to server as described with respect to
On the server, cached data can be utilized in multiple ways to increase the speed and efficiency of synchronization of data from the server to the client. At 460S, the server creates a results-cache-table, also in response to the determination at step 440, that stores the data to be synchronized with the client during the database link transaction. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, the server can mirror the steps of the client during the synchronization of data from the client to the server by proceeding to identify the data records satisfying the synchronization criteria at 470S, and populating the results-cache-table with those data records at step 475S. The data records stored in the results-cache-table are then selected and inserted into the client-cache-table on the client at step 480.
Alternatively, the server can further optimize synchronization by employing additional cache tables. For example, as illustrated in
If parent-cache-tables are utilized to prepare the data synchronization with the client, the identification of records satisfying the search criteria at step 470S can be performed over the set of parent-cache-tables, child tables, and, optionally or selectively, any database tables for which parent-cache-tables have not been created.
The synchronization criteria used to identify data records for server-to-client synchronization can be similar to those of client-to-server synchronization. Additionally, synchronization criteria can be used to assist in re-aligning the data for which each client is responsible. The processes, systems, and methodologies of re-aligning data responsibility and/or ownership form no part of the present invention, but are described in co-pending U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/867,945, filed on Nov. 30, 2006, entitled "Software, Systems and Methodologies For Realignment of Remote Databases By A Central Database In Support of Field Representative Territory Assignments," which is each hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
Once the results-cache-table has been populated with the data records identified as satisfying the search criteria at step 475S, the results-cache-table records can be inserted into the client-cache-table on the client at step 480. The client-cache-table can then be merged in the client database at step 485, and the last sync time updated on the client and/or server 490. The merger and synchronization can be committed at step 495.
Note that while the above discussion references client-to-server synchronization and server-to-client synchronization as two separate processes, the steps involved are very similar, and in some cases can mirror each other. Additionally, synchronization in both directions can be performed simultaneously, thereby reducing much of the processing and overhead required for synchronization. For example, establishing a communication channel between the server and the client, steps 310 and 410, is only required once. Additionally, the last sync time determined in steps 320 and 420 can be determined once and used to synchronize in both directions. However, it can be beneficial to store two synchronization times, one for client-to-server synchronization, and another for server-to-client synchronization. Similarly, the determination of whether synchronization is necessary (steps 330 and 430) and the identification of tables to be synchronized (steps 340 and 440) can be combined to determine the parameters for both synchronization directions.
Furthermore, in the foregoing description, certain flow diagrams have been shown and processes described in relation to those flow diagrams which provide a reference for discussion purposes. In an actual implementation of the methods of the present invention, the steps can comprise event-driven routines that can run in parallel and can be launched and executed other than as shown by the simple depiction in the flow diagrams. In short, the particular order of the steps in the flow diagrams is illustrative of the invention, but not limiting of the various permutations that can be achieved in a given embodiment. Accordingly, it is the performance of the steps recited in the claims appended below which is pertinent, and not the order of operation of the steps themselves.
While the invention has been described in connection with a certain embodiment thereof and in relation to a particular environment, the invention is not limited to the described embodiments and environments but rather is more broadly defined by the recitations in the claims below and equivalents thereof.
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According to the NFPA, there are between 350,000 and 400,000 house fires in the U.S. every year and this results in almost $8 billion in annual damages. Those are some scary statistics especially for those of us with families to protect.
Cooking – Cooking is the leading cause of home fires and fire injuries According to the National Fire Protection Association 40 percent of all house fires are caused by cooking related incidents. 1 in 8 households will have a cooking fire each year. The leading cause of kitchen fires is unattended cooking. To take the following precautions to prevent cooking fires:
• Watch what you heat
• Watch what you heat
• Simmering, basting, roasting, or broiling - Stay in the home so that it is possible to periodically check the food
• Stay alert - Avoid cooking when sleepy or drowsy
• Keep things that catch fire away from heat
• Know what to do if you have a cooking fire.
• Keep kids away from cooking area
• Prevent scalds and burns - Place objects so they cannot be pulled or knocked over
• Install and use cooking appliances safely
• Have working smoke alarms
Kids playing with fire – Another very common cause of fires that we all hear of fairly frequently is kids playing with matches or a lighter and not fully comprehending the risks they are taking. According to NFPA in 2004-2008, the annual average of fires involving fire-play reported to U.S. municipal fire departments was as follows:
Total Fires
• 57,700 fires
• 113 civilian deaths
• 916 civilian injuries
• $286 million direct loss
Home Structure Fires
• 7,900 fires
• 104 civilian deaths
• 775 civilian injuries
• $197 million direct loss
Smoking – Smoking materials (i.e., cigarettes, cigars, pipes, etc.) are the leading cause of fire deaths in the United States. In 2008, U.S. fire departments responded to an estimated 114,800 smoking-material fires in the U.S., down from 140,700 in 2007. These fires resulted in an estimated 680 civilian deaths, 1,520 civilian injuries and $737 million in direct property damage.
Heating – In 2008, heating equipment was involved in an estimated 66,100 reported U.S. home structure fires, with associated losses of 480 civilian deaths, 1,660 civilian injuries, and $1.1 billion in direct property damage. These fires accounted for 17% of all reported home fires.
Facts & Figures - Based on 2004-2008 annual averages:
• Space heaters, whether portable or stationary, accounted for one-third (32%) of home heating fires and four out of five (82%) of home heating fire deaths.
• The leading factor contributing to home heating fires (25%) was failure to clean, principally creosote from solid-fueled heating equipment, primarily chimneys.
• Placing things that can burn too close to heating equipment or placing heating equipment too close to things that can burn, such as upholstered furniture, clothing, mattress, or bedding, was the leading factor contributing to ignition in fatal home heating fires and accounted for more than half (52%) of home heating fire deaths.
• Half (49%) of all home heating fires occurred in December, January and February
Source: NFPA's "Home Fires Involving Heating Equipment" report by John R. Hall, Jr., September 2010
Electrical – Even what homeowners might think of as a "minor" problem can lead to a devastating fire. In fact, electricity is a leading cause of home fires in the U.S. Each year fires that start in electrical systems or lighting equipment. It can damage more than 24, 000 homes, kill 320 people and injure 830 or more. The Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that 50 people die every year from accidental electrocutions involving residential wiring, panel boards, circuit breakers, and outlets. Another 40 electrocutions each year involve household appliances that are connected to the wiring of homes.
Candles – During 2003-2007, U.S. fire departments responded to an estimated average of 15,260 home structure fires started by candles per year. These fires caused an annual average of 166 civilian deaths, 1,289 civilian fire injuries, and $450 million in direct property damage. Candles caused 4% of the reported home fires, 6% of home fire deaths, 10% of home fire injuries, and 7% of direct property damage during this period. Homes include dwellings, duplexes, manufactured housing and apartments.
Facts and figures - During the five-year period of 2003-2007:
• More than one-third (36%) of home candle fires started in bedrooms. These fires caused 44% of the associated deaths and half (49%) of the associated injuries.
• On average, 42 home candle fires were reported per day.
• Falling asleep was a factor in 12% percent of the home candle fires and 36% of the associated deaths.
• More than half (55%) of home candle fires occurred when some form of combustible material was left or came too close to the candle.
• December is the peak time of year for home candle fires. In December, 13% of home candle fires began with decorations compared to 4% the rest of the year.
Source: NFPA's "Home Candle Fires " report by Marty Ahrens, June 2010.
Dryers – There have been reports of dryer sheets that could lead to fires in the laundry area but it is far more common for improper dryer vents and venting to be the cause of a dryer related fire. It's also incredibly important to stay on top of clearing lint away from the dryer (under it, on top of it, behind it, etc.). Treat this has highly flammable material and just keep your dryer well maintained. Here is another great article on this subject: http://www.consumerreports.org/
Flammables in the House – there are a lot of products left around the home that are highly flammable (especially if the garage is attached to the home). Be careful of where you place any flammable materials (fuels, oils, etc.). Don't place them next to a possible source of a fire as they can rapidly turn a bad situation into a disaster. The simplest rule is to keep them contained and a away from the home to the greatest extent possible.
Christmas trees & Holiday lights – Although these fires are not common, when they do occur, they are likely to be unusually serious. On average, one of every 21 reported home structure Christmas tree fires resulted in a death compared to an average of one death per 137 total reported home structure fires. Christmas tree must be well watered if you let it get too dry it can quickly result in a fire so just check it frequently and leave the lights off if you are going to be away from home for a while.
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Let me see if I can fashion some sort of macrocosmic point out of one little financier's tale of greed, corruption, immorality, privilege and non-downfall thanks to a structured, systemic inequality that pervades our legal system. I'm sure something will come to me.
But the rest of me can't rest. First of all, there's my inner outraged Little Briton, who wants him hung from the nearest signal post, drawn and quartered and his head stuck on a rusty pike as a warning to others to Play By The Minimal Rules Required For A Civilised Society, You Bastards. Then there's the ever-baffled Catholic in me, wondering how anyone could sit, calmly, day after day, knowing he was transgressing the rules of God and man without having a carriageful of convulsions and repenting the sin before he'd even left East Sussex. How did the rhythm of the train delivering him to his destination not sound in those guilty ears like a message of doom? "You'll-be-caught-you'll-be-caught-oh-the-shame-oh-the-shame-going-to-hell-going-to-hell…"
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What happened to forging Nazi diaries? Or pretending to be Sidney Poitier's son, or Anastasia, or the yeti or Loch Ness monster? Where's the style? Where's the chutzpah? Where's the effort, the imagination, the joy?
Modern fraud is a tawdry thing – large or small, it's primarily and dryly financial, involving identification of loopholes in computer programs and regulatory frameworks, skimming off an extra piece here and there, maybe a few times, maybe a million, but never with any panache.
One of the strangest things about humans is that while we collectively worship cash, we instinctively recognise all kinds of other currency, too. If you hustle us but give us a laugh in the process, provoke a gasp of admiration at the scale of your ambition or a stunned silence at the sudden glimpse of unexplored possibilities that were hiding in plain sight all along… well, we'll happily set that off against your ill-gotten gains. You will enter into legend. Leonardo DiCaprio will star in films about you. We will laud you as we leniently punish you. But you have to put in the effort. You have to sell London Bridge, not dodge your fare there.


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1184?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13045624#comment-13045624 ] Nuutti Kotivuori commented on COUCHDB-1184: ------------------------------------------- If I do a GET to fetch a document, modify it and then do a PUT to insert it back, leaving "_rev" intact, I should get a conflict if the document has been modified in any way in the meanwhile. I think this constraint should hold even if the "modification" is deleting the document. So, a PUT with a "_rev" on a non-existing document should fail with conflict - and this behaviour should be consistent with bulk doc inserts as well, regardless if they contain a design document or not (or if there's a validation function or not). This way, a PUT without a "_rev" means explicitly "INSERT OR FAIL" and PUT with a "_rev" means "UPDATE OR FAIL". This behaviour also means that there is never a need to make the new rev of the document "one larger" than the "_rev" given in, as there is never a "_rev" given in on insert - with the possible exception of "all or nothing" bulk inserts which do not check for conflicts. > Bulk insert of design documents fails with conflict if the documents contain "_rev" when they do not exist in the database > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: COUCHDB-1184 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1184 > Project: CouchDB > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 0.11 > Reporter: Nuutti Kotivuori > > First a simple example to reproduce: > $ curl -X PUT http://localhost:5984/repltest > {"ok":true} > $ curl -H "Content-type: application/json" -X POST --data '{"docs":[{"_id":"_design/a","_rev":"1-2f4a8d26d103e914167052aea70a5031"}]}' http://localhost:5984/repltest/_bulk_docs > [{"id":"_design/a","error":"conflict","reason":"Document update conflict."}] > So, inserting a previously non-existing design document in to a database via bulk docs post fails the inserted design document has a "_rev" member. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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Title - No Secrets (Part II of the Evolution Trilogy)
Author - Noah Colum
Pairing - Eric/Kelso, Hyde/Eric. I know, I'm whoring him out. Bear with me.
Rating - PG-13 (Whole series NC-17)
Warnings - Slash, Classic Rock. Graphic sex found in other segments.
Disclaimer - Characters property of Fox. Lyrics property of Columbia and Sony.
Summary - I'd give my very sanity to feel you the way Kelso has.
[x-posted in sundry locations]
I know what you did with him.
I know what that record means to the two of you, and what you do every time you say you're going to listen to it. I can't figure out how you've kept it hidden from Jackie and Donna. I'd think they'd be more perceptive.
Of course, it's to my credit that I've let you think you're in the clear. Fez has too, of course, but it's more out of some weird respect for Kelso.
I know you, though. I've always known about you. I even hinted at it, fairly regularly. I never would have guessed you'd come out to him and not me. I mean, Christ, Forman, I've been your best friend since grade school. And I'd be lying if I told you I didn't want more than that.
The closest time I felt to you was the night you came back from seeing Car Wash with Buddy. I told you that you were irresistible, and I meant it. You will probably never know how jealous of Buddy I became, and that's my fault for being silent.
The night after that, you asked me to go upstairs, to talk.
"Buddy kissed me," you said. I nodded, waiting for you to continue.
And continue you did. "And I -- I think I kind of liked it."
Your forehead wrinkled, your brown eyes almost in tears. I had never wanted to take you in my arms more than that moment. As it was, it took all I had to just sit still and listen. I wanted you to come to terms with yourself, but I wanted even more than that to hurt buddy for hurting you. "That's no big deal, Forman," I said, maintaining the Zen.
You collapsed backwards onto the couch, staring up at the ceiling, your arms lying beside you and your legs stretched out across Kitty's rug. "No, Hyde, it is a big deal." You lay there, almost in a trance. "I got kissed by a guy. I mean, I got kissed. By a guy."
I shrugged, curious beneath it all. "Was it good?"
You turned to look at me, snapping quickly and almost curling around yourself slightly. "What kind of question is that?"
I repeated it for you. "Was. It. Good."
Your eyes went wide. "How could you even ask me -- Yeah, it was." You looked almost relieved, and I felt my heart jump. You were so close to confessing what I knew all along.
"But I'm not, you know. I'm really not gay." And just like that, you dashed my hopes and I knew I'd have to wait at least a little bit longer. "I mean, I don't have to tell you that, right, man? You know better than anybody."
Yes, I know. I know about the dreams you had for weeks after, I know about the way you used to draw him on your history notes and then later turn him into Stormtroopers or some other dumb shit like that. I know just how much you looked forward to Chem labs with him.
Yeah, Forman. I read your journals. You really shouldn't keep them for three years.
Which is how I found out about Journey. Rather, it's how I found out that you and Kelso had sex while Steve Perry sang in the background. I pulled out the record, you know, to see what made it so special for you two. I came to the conclusion it wasn't the album.
You're gay, Eric Forman. But it doesn't bother me.
Because so am I.
You know what? I've been in love with you since nearly the day we met. I would give just about anything to feel your lips on mine. I'd give my very sanity to feel you the way Kelso has.
So I'm trying.
I dim the lights in the basement. I'm kind of new at this, so hold on while I try my best not to lose my head.
You ask me what I'm doing, and I respond by turning on the stereo. It's Journey, of course. Evolution, the same album you thought you had hidden behind your bookcase. But I've got the arm set to track six, Sweet and Simple. The piano slinks out of the speakers alongside Steve's sleek tenor voice, and your eyes widen.
You know that I know what you know. I smile coolly, trying to soothe your heart which is, I'm sure, beating fast.
I slide my sunglasses off, taking your chin into my hand, bringing your lips to mine. I am sure you can feel my heart, it must be hiding just behind my throat and screaming for mercy. I slip my tongue between your lips, feeling my knees give slightly. I feel your hands around my hips, and I want to scream, I want to jump and dance and sing, for chrissakes. I am kissing you and you are holding me and there isn't one thing more I could ask for.
I sense that you agree, I can taste your consent. I hold you close, letting the glasses clatter to the ground, slipping my hands behind your head, tracing your hair as I feel you feeling me. I want more of you, but I want to take it slowly. You know that I could give you so much more than he could. I could give you anything you want. I would love you if you would take me.
I want you to want me, Forman. I want you to want me more than you wanted Kelso. I want you to want me differently than you wanted Kelso.
I want you to love me, Eric Forman. I want you to take me into your arms and hold me the way you are at this moment.
But this will do for now.
We stand there and I am unaware of anything around us except the music which envelops us, which surrounds us like fog as we explore each other in ways I've frankly always wanted. I feel myself dissolve into you, I feel myself letting go of my mask, releasing the Zen into the air, watching it fly away, carried on Steve Perry's voice. This is, indeed, sweet as sugar.
It's what I like to do, Steve says, and I'm absolutely with him on this. There isn't much I'd rather do than hold you as you hold me, and touch your hair and face and shoulders and feel you touching my waist and hips and back. I am surprised by how delicate you are, amazed by the thought that if I am not careful I may break you.
You are precious to me, Eric Forman. You know that I would sooner die than see you hurt. I would easily give my life before I could let you suffer. I am telling this to you, with my lips and arms and hands and tongue. And, in the same manner, you are telling me that you know, that you've always known.
Thank you for this, Eric Forman. Thank you for letting this be, for letting me be, letting us be, for being content with simply being. Your very existence is the reason I bother to continue mine.
The track winds down and your lips leave mine. My mouth begs to return to yours, my lips feel naked and alone without yours pressed against them. I reach down, lift the arm off the record, switch it off. The snap of the lever breaks us out of the moment.
You look at me, put a hand behind your head, stretching, your forehead crinkling as always. There's confusion behind your eyes, tempered with a drop of discomfort. "Hyde, um…" You're lost for words, and I'm falling even more in love with you. "What was that?"
I sigh, looking away. "Something I meant to do a long time ago."
You take my hand, and I'm surprised by how soft your hands are, and amazed that I've never noticed. "How did you know?"
"I didn't." I've immediately created a lie out of habit. I discard it a moment later, because I'm through lying to you. I don't ever want to lie to you again. "I read your journal, Forman." No secrets this time.
I feel your hand slip away. "You what?" You're shocked. You have every right.
I try to cover myself. I don't want you angry at me. "We never talk anymore, and…" I scramble for words. "I miss knowing what's on your mind."
You're defensive, you feel violated and I understand. It's my fault. "What do you care? You never cared in the first place." You're nonplussed. "How could you do that to me?"
I take a breath, and turn and kiss you again, quickly. "For that." I take your hand again. "I feel ungrounded, Forman. I don't have much of a life, you know. Without you talking to me, I'm almost listless.."
Your voice is soft. "What are you saying?" It's not an accusation, but a genuine question.
I look into your eyes. I see my face reflecting in those receptive brown orbs, and I feel the urge to put my sunglasses back on, to hide behind their familiar polarized buffer from the things I've dreamed about and been afraid to say.
I suppress the urge and carry on. "I'm saying I love you, Eric." I take a deep breath, letting it out slowly. "I've always loved you."
You're surprised again. "What did you call me?" My hopes fall slightly; you always focus on the least important details.
I revert to sarcasm, slightly wounded. "It's your name, isn't it?"
You smile, shaking your head. You take my hand again, wonder glowing in your face. "What I meant to say is that I love you too, Steven." You touch my cheek and I revel in the warmth of your skin against mine. Once again I feel my knees protest, but I manage to remain standing. I bring your hand closer to my face, feeling you feeling me.
And then your hand is gone, retreating to your pocket. I look at you and you look at me. Your lips part and words emerge, hanging in the air until I'm able to comprehend them.
"I've got to go upstairs." I finally nod in agreement as the words reach me.
And then you're gone. The room is instantly colder. I take my shirt off, throwing it in the corner, and step out of my jeans, leaving them in a pile where I removed them. I settle down into the cot, sliding under the covers and closing my eyes as I turn off the lamp.
I hear a knock at the door of the basement, and cautious steps down the stairs. "You awake?"
It's you. My heart leaps and I sit up, switching the lamp back on. I try to stay cool. "Yeah, what's up?"
You're holding a pillow, wearing only your pajama bottoms. "Uh, can I sleep down here with you tonight?"
I frown, scratching my head. " I dunno, man." I shrug. "I don't want us to do anything tonight, you know?" I don't know how to say what I mean. "I don't want us to be about that."
You shrug back, smiling. "I didn't come down here for that." You sit down next to me, putting your hand on my shoulder. "I came down here to fall asleep with you."
You've captured my heart once again. I put an arm around your shoulders, small and bare, and I draw you into me. "Stick with me, kid." I smile and kiss you on the cheek, and we slide beneath the covers together.
Together. We are together. Those three words bounce around in my head. I hold you close, and I feel you shift around.
You rest your head on my chest, slipping your arms around my waist.
You are close to me. I am close to you. I stroke your hair, staying awake as you fulfill the dreams I'd given up on. I trace your spine gently as your breathing slows. I hear you sigh, and it's a sigh of contented sleep.
And then you murmur something. I almost miss it. "Goodnight, Steven. I love you."
I smile, listening to your breathing, trailing fingers up and down your spine, enjoying the feelings of your arms around my waist. "Goodnight, Eric. I love you too."


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