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claire_stokoe brauchte ein neues Anderes Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 189 Designs von 27 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Updated 19/08/08
Designs have been of a very high quality and more numerous than I could have hoped for. Thank you all for your hard work :-D
A few people have mentioned that they feel stock imagery is being used by some designers and the way their messages have come across to me is as if this is in fact copying and or illegal.
I have been naive about this - I was not aware of such issues when I began our competitions on 99designs. We cannot and will not use any images that we are not entitled to use. Hopefully you will all know whether or not your submissions are your own work or, if they do use modified images from stock photos, then you know whether or not they can be reproduced without paying a fee or breaking any rules. Especially since we intend to retail these cards.
The winner of this contest (and any other designs that we are subsequently able to buy from any willing designers) will be asked to confirm in what appears to be a legal document on 99designs, that their submission is their own work and that they ar entitled to sign over the copyright to us and be paid for their work. We have seven days to choose a winner and we will have to take pains to make sure that the winning design is not from stock imagery or a copy - what a hassle - but worth doing.
So please make sure that any submissions that are close copies of someone elses work or that contain images that you are not entitled to use (and therefore we will not be entitled to use) are removed so that when we choose a winner, we don't then have to 'unchoose' them and pick someone else and ask for money back etc., which would be most unpleasant.
Sorry if I'm coming over all heavy but this issue and it's potential ramifications has only been raised to me seriously, comparatively recently. I thought I should make my position clear. I am certainly not accusing anyone of anything, ok? :-D
If anyone feels that I have misunderstood the use of stock images and the rules that go with that, please feel free to explain it to me - I'm not proud, I'm happy to be instructed on this.
We still wish to award up to or even more than 6 prizes however due to unforseen problems with our website, we will need to invest the amount set aside for 5 designs in order to get that done - otherwise we can't start trading and there will be no money for anything - we are a small start up and we need a website to actually start up. Therefore one prize will now be awarded for one design.
This means that for selected designers, if they are still interested in selling their designs, although there may be a wait while we raise the necessary monies to make sure that each design is propery paid for, there is still the opportunity to make money from their designs. Furthermore, each selected designer will be able to earn royalties from every card of ours that carries their design.
We are sorry to have to only award one prize at this time - in fact gutted would be a better description of how I feel about this.
We will run no further contest for this project - I am sure that by the end of this contest there will be enough good designs not to have to.
Despite the recent funding issue, we are committed to this printing project and we hope that at least some of the designers will understand our situation and will allow us to buy designs at a later date. I am already looking into ways to raise the cash, even if I have to take a part-time job to do it - I will find a way, somehow.
Sincerest apologies,
The Brief Summary:
As some of you may already be aware, MInkBaby is a small start-up company that will offer bespoke gifts and services that are aimed at people who want to celebrate a pregnancy or a birth by buying presents for:
Mums-to-be, New Mums and New Babies
We will also offer planning and hosting assistance for pregnancy/baby-related celebrations such as:
Babyshowers, Naming Days, Christenings and First Birthdays.
Eco-friendly baby shower invitations, thank you cards and birth announcements are in short supply - we have had a lot of trouble finding any at all in the UK, let alone those that would be right for us.
As our logo competition draws to a close and as we have had such a fantastic response with some amazing designs, we decided to see if we could find designs that would enable us to be able to offer our own range of baby shower invitation designs.
We are talking here about the pictorial element that would go on any invitation or greetings card.
So what I mean is, you are not required to design the format of the invitation (although if you wish to do so, please feel free!) but rather the more decorative, illustrative, pictorial design to go on the invitation. I don't just mean a pattern round the edge of the card - but a picture that sums up a baby shower or the anticipation of a new baby or the air of celebration inherent in a babyshower.
Our clients will be able to choose whether the design/picture/illustration they like is printed onto paper, card etc. and whether that paper or card is plantable (compostable with wild flower seeds in), recycled, or from sustainable sources.
Because we are a bespoke eco company, this element of eco-friendly choice would be potentially perfect for us - all we need are the right designs.
We were looking ideally for between 2 and 6 inivtation illustration designs to make up our baby shower invitation range - but only if we find the right designs. Now we know the great designs are the but right now can only afford to pay for one.
What is more, although as a young company we do not have a lot of cash, we are VERY committed to this project and if there are more designs that we like than we can pay for right now (we had a budget for 2 - 6 which is now just theone), we would be very interested in ear-marking those that we cannot afford right now for future purchase, (depending upon the success of our company,) as the business launches and we are able to reinvest profit in extending our range, subject to the agreement of designers.
If the baby shower invitations are successful, there is also the option for the winning design(ers) (and potentially others) to be comissioned in the future to create designs for corresponding baby shower thank you cards and birth announcements etc.
We take all designs and designers very seriously and aim to give feedback to all entered designs as quickly as possible.
Claire has another full time job and I (Ali, posting via Claire's account) has a full time baby, but if you look at our logo contest you should see that constructive feedback has been given to all designers. So you can be sure of getting feedback on all your designs.
as per 99designs policy. This competition will not be withdrawnn unless we can't find a design we like that is also one to which we are legally entitled
That seems unlikely to me but just in case :-D
The design
We are starting our range with babyshower invitation designs.
The right design(s) will ideally be printed onto any of the following eco-friendly/sustainable materials:
- Paper
- Postcard
- Folded card (more like a greetings card)Invitation designs that I love
There is a US site that has baby shower invitations that I love, in terms of the variety of styles they have in their range and the colours they use for it's invites. If you want to enter this contest I strongly recommend that you go look at it here.
So to give you a more indepth idea of your options lets look at a few of their designs:
Their "Teddy Shower" design is one I particularly like because it could theoretically go on a postcard, a piece of paper or a greetings card.
The same principle applies to their "Sweet Chicks" design and the Screaming Baby Shower design.
I would like for there to be pictures in the design of actual baby-related things or at least cute (but not overly cutesy) things. These pictures can be standalone pictures or they could be patterns that incorporate pictures.
Such pictures/picture patterns could include such things as:
babies, dummies/pacifiers, prams/strollers, diapers/nappies, onesies/babygros/ baby booties, rattles, pregant women, baby footprints etc.
They could also be of other, relevant things. We are not looking for baby minks here - that was the logo competition but sorry if I didn't make that clear before :-D
I love most of their designs - the combinations of browns and blues, greens and browns, pinks and browns, yellows and browns (or more and different combinations).
I love the way that one design can be printed in several of the above colour combinations and would be interested in seeing if we could do a similar thing with our winning design(s).
We are of course open to other ideas, this is just to give you an idea of the kind of things we are looking for. You might have some even better ideas!
Whatever the style that you come up with, we want whoever buys our cards/invitations to feel that they will be:
- modern
- funky
- sophisticated
- cute (but not overboard)
- fun
- empoweredWhat should be featured on the designs?
That is a good question. I have listed (and will add more as I get time) a number of designs that I like and don't like - if I don't like a design it's usually more about the style than the content. Prams can look good, prams can look bad, some rubber duckies make you want to hurl and some are carried off perfectly. Style over content here - the only stipulation being that it be relevant to babies/babyshowers in some reasonably obvious way.
Boy/Girl/Gender Neutral
I would be happy to see any and all of the above
Other examples of what currently sells in the UK
Of the more commercially available designs, these are an example of some of the best selling, some I like and some not so much, but just so you know what is currently selling well:
- Mod Mum
- Baby Me
- Trendy Stroller
- Baby Clothes
- Nursery FriendsFor other design examples (UK) you can look here and here.
- The sophisitcated, funky and fun design styles and palette of tinyprints
- The precious wonder (boy and girl) range (scroll down to see invites)
- clothes (boy and girl) range (scroll down to see invites)
- Images that make women feel good about being pregnant, about celebrating pregnancy (theirs or someone elses) and make them feel like impending motherhood will not prevent them from asserting a positive, female identity that is modern, funky, sophisticated, fun and empowered.
(To see the invitation designs you will have to scroll down here)
- Baby's On the Way
- Baby Shower Bliss
- Vintage Nursery
- Baby Shower stitches


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The images of children who have crossed into the U.S. illegally are heart-rending portraits of desperation.
Yet, they also are vividly illustrative of how a well-intentioned law can result in an unintended dilemma.
President Obama announced Tuesday he is seeking $3.7 billion to deal with what he appropriately calls a humanitarian crisis. But the president also must buck the left wing of his party and seek changes to speed up and ease deportations.
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UPDATE: SPARKS, Nev. (AP) - Family members have identified a math teacher as the staff member who was killed while trying to stop a shooter at a northern Nevada middle school.
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Especially cabinet hardware!
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Tis the season to be thankful! With yesterday's festivities over and everyone gearing up for Christmas, we thought that we would take some time to share what By Design Interiors' is thankful for!
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E-filing IncomeTax returns in india
By SVAKSHA on 2011 July 13 [Wednesday], 17:31:00 - FINANCE - Permalink
The Indian government agency that runs the Income-Tax portal "incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in" has very thoughtfully provided an electronic filing facility for its citizens which enables all tax-payers to file their Tax returns without a trip to the local Income Tax Office. However, their thoughtfulness only extends to Windows users as they have provided the e-forms only in the MSOffice .xls format which will not run any macros on a non-Windows platform. Now, I have not used Windows for many years now and having been forced to pay for a half-baked edition pre-installed on my laptop, I could not wait for my warranty to finish and free up that disk space.
Last week, I found two Open-Office hacks for the ITR forms 1 and 2 at:ITR-2 form from KSEB is borked -- has locked cells which will not work nor retrieve macros in Open-Office and many fields and cells are protected, making it impossible to enter data so that the Tax macros work properly. The ITR-2 form (available from the above link) has some errors in the conversion for Open Office --In Part B - TI in Computation of total income. It does not allow you to enter any figures in the following fields:
1. Salaries (6 of Schedule S)
2. Income from house property (C of Schedule-HP) (Enter nil if loss)
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Does anyone know how to get locked cell macros to work in Open-Office? All help and pointers to get these hacks working on Open-Office would be a big help. TIA.
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New Draft of Constitution? Well, Not New. And Not a Real Draft.
Last Tuesday the Philadelphia Inquirer reported about the rediscovery of a document in the holdings of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, said to be a lost "early draft" of the U.S. Constitution by James Wilson (shown at right, courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania Law School). The researcher who made the find, and the claim of its importance, is Lorianne Updike Toler, a lawyer pursuing graduate studies at Oxford.
That article quoted one established constitutional scholar on the significance of the discovery: "John P. Kaminski, director of the Center for the Study of the American Constitution in the history department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison."
Kaminski is also one of the six directors of ConSource: The Constitutional Source Project, and chair of its Academic Advisory Board. Toler is a co-founder and former executive director of ConSource, which quickly used the news coverage in an appeal for funds.
However, the same Inquirer story also acknowledged: "The document - one of 21 million in the Historical Society's collection - was known to scholars…" On Friday the society showed on its blog how this document was transcribed and published in The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, a widely used authority edited by Max Farrand, in 1911.
The H.S.P. contacted other historians who've worked on this subject, and their comments on that blog entry indicate that they were underwhelmed. Mark David Hall, author of The Political and Legal Philosophy of James Wilson, 1742-1798:
I was disappointed to find that these documents had long been known to scholars. They were published in the same order suggested by Ms. Toler by Max Farrand in 1911. . . . It seems a stretch to call these notes a "draft" of the Constitution, and labeling them as such adds little to our knowledge of Wilson or the Constitutional Convention.Richard R. Beeman, University of Pennsylvania, author of Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution:
Max Farrand, in his 1911 edition of The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, reprinted all of the documents discovered by Ms. Toler, and in exactly the order in which they appear in the manuscripts she discovered in the HSP archives. It is also the case that the location of those documents is not at all obvious, so Ms. Toler should be given credit for diligent searching and sleuthing. But the lion's share of the credit truly does belong to Max Farrand, who long ago not only discovered the documents, but also recognized them for what they were—important contributions by Wilson to the Committee of Detail Report.William B. Ewald, University of Pennsylvania Law School, author of "James Wilson and the Drafting of the Constitution" (PDF download):
The Wilson drafts are extremely well-known. They were first systematically studied at the end of the nineteenth century by Franklin Jameson, whose monograph appeared in 1902. Jameson did much of the work of piecing together the various drafts of the Constitution. His work was supplemented by Max Farrand, whose magisterial Records of the Constitutional Convention, published in 1911, carefully assembled all the known documents. . . . [This document] is to be found, properly catalogued, in the Wilson collection, exactly as Farrand reported a century ago.Apparently Toler found a page that got separated from the rest of its original stack, bound with other Wilson papers, and finally acquired by the H.S.P. Following common archival procedures, the library staff did not undo that binding and refile the page with the rest. And the pre-computerized catalogue did not specify what each piece of that volume was, meaning that Toler had the thrill of spotting how it fit with other H.S.P. documents.
The Mormon Times picked up on the story from Philadelphia because Toler is a Provo native and graduate of Brigham Young University. It didn't do her any favors by quoting her as saying:
"This makes James Wilson very much equal to Thomas Jefferson as a drafter of the Constitution," she said. "It means to truly understand the Constitution, we need to study James Wilson a whole lot more."Jefferson was in Paris as the U.S. minister to France during the constitutional convention, and didn't see a need for a stronger national government. [ADDENDUM: Toler has told American Creation: "I was misquoted on Jefferson. The Deseret News has apologized individually to me, and I have asked them to officially print an errata. The quote should have been 'I believe this draft may indicate that James Wilson is to the Constitution what Thomas Jefferson is to the Declaration of Independence.' Understandable error: it's hard to type as fast as I talk."]
Toler's own comment on the H.S.P. blog acknowledges that she is "currently alone in calling these two disparate pieces a 'draft'" of the Constitution, rather than notes prepared for the Committee of Detail or even written during that committee's discussions. But it's not clear even that interpretation is significant. Historians have long credited Wilson with an important role at the Constitutional Convention, and the final document was truly a group effort—that's why there was a convention, after all.
This episode does underscore the value of computerizing sources to make them widely available, as ConSource was founded to do—though it may be duplicating other, larger efforts. The H.S.P. can file the original paper document in only one place. However, digital copies of the pages, transcripts, and catalogue entries can be duplicated and linked in many ways, helping to ensure that scholars never lose the trail to all of Wilson's surviving notes.


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Disney is at it again with the Instagram-worthy snacks. After the massive success of its iridescent sweets and mermaid-inspired cupcakes, Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom will debut a new picture-perfect treat in the coming weeks: a pretty purple doughnut inspired by Ariel from "The Little Mermaid."Not only is the Mermaid Doughnut beautiful - with purple icing, a white chocolate mermaid tail and trinkets from Ariel's treasure chest - it's also totally scrumptious. The handmade yeast doughnut is wonderfully airy, and the dark purple sprinkles add the perfect texture and photographable contrast.So where can you find this Instagram-ready doughnut? At one of Magic Kingdom's hidden snack-stand gems: Prince Eric's Village Market in Fantasyland. The unmarked quick-service location is conveniently located right across from Under the Sea - Journey of the Little Mermaid. So not only can you eat a "Little Mermaid"-inspired treat, you can get the ideal themed photo with it by the ride (before you take a big bite, of course) for your timeline.The Mermaid Doughnut isn't out quite yet, but it is expected to make a splash into the Magic Kingdom in the coming weeks. And who knows? If it becomes a fan favorite, it might just become one of the most iconic snacks at Disney.


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How to deploy a database
When I'm building an application that stores data, there are a few things I try to make sure we can do when it comes to managing the lifecycle of our storage. I'm going to focus on SQL Server, but this applies to other relational storage.
What's in a database?
Even outside of production, a database is more than schema. A database "definition" consists of:
- The database schema (tables, views, procedures, schemas)
- Reference data (ZIP codes, salutations, other things I expect to always "be there")
- Sample master/transactional data (for developers/testers)
- Security (roles, permissions, users)
It may even include management job definitions (backup, shrink), though they tend to be left to DBA's.
Transitions, not States
As each iteration progresses, we'll make changes to our database.
One approach to upgrading existing databases is to "diff" the old state of the database with our new state, and then to manually modify this diff until we have something that works. We then employ the "hope and pray" strategy of managing our database, which generally means "leave it to the DBA" for production. Tools like Red Gate SQL Compare and Visual Studio Database Edition encourage this approach.
I never understood the state or model-driven approach, and I'll explain why. Here's a simple example of some T-SQL:
create table dbo.Customer (
Id int not null identity(1,1) constraint PK_CustomerId primary key,
FullName nvarchar(200) not null
See the "create table"? That's not a definition - it's an instruction. If I need to change my table, I don't change the statement above. I just write:
alter table dbo.Customer
add IsPreferred bit not null
constraint DF_Customer_IsPreferred default(0);
Again, an instruction. A transition. I don't tell the database what the state is - I tell it how to get there. I can provide a lot more context, and I have a lot more power.
You'll note that I used a default constraint above - that's because my table might have had data already. Since I was thinking about transitions, I was forced to think about these issues.
Our databases are designed for transitions; attempting to bolt a state-based approach on them is about as dumb as bolting a stateful model on top of the web (and Visual Studio Database Edition is about as much fun as ViewState).
Keep in mind that making changes to databases can be complicated. Here are some things we might do:
- Add a column to an existing table (what will the default values be?)
- Split a column into two columns (how will you deal with data in the existing column?)
- Move a column from one table onto another (remember to move it, not to drop and create the column and lose the data)
- Duplicate data from a column on one table into a column on another (to reduce joins) (don't just create the empty column - figure out how to get the data there)
- Rename a column (don't just create a new one and delete the old one)
- Change the type of a column (how will you convert the old data? What if some rows won't convert?)
- Change the data within a column (maybe all order #'s need to be prefixed with the customer code?)
You can see how performing a "diff" on the old and new state can miss some of the intricacies of real-life data management.
Successful database management
Here are some things I want from my database deployment strategy:
- Source controlled
Your database isn't in source control? You don't deserve one. Go use Excel.
- Testability
I want to be able to write an integration test that takes a backup of the old state, performs the upgrade to the current state, and verifies that the data wasn't corrupted.
- Continuous integration
I want those tests run by my build server, every time I check in. I'd like a CI build that takes a production backup, restores it, and runs and tests any upgrades nightly.
- No shared databases
Every developer should be able to have a copy of the database on their own machine. Deploying that database - with sample data - should be one click.
- Dogfooding upgrades
If Susan makes a change to the database, Harry should be able to execute her transitions on his own database. If he had different test data to her, he might find bugs she didn't. Harry shouldn't just blow away his database and start again.
The benefits to this are enormous. By testing my transitions every single day - on my own dev test data, in my integration tests, on my build server, against production backups - I'm going to be confident that my changes will work in production.
Versions table
There should be something that I can query to know which transitions have been run against my database. The simplest way is with a
Versions table, which tells me the scripts that were run, when they were run, and who they were run by.
When it comes to upgrading, I can query this table, skip the transitions that have been run, and execute the ones that haven't.
Sample data
Development teams often need access to a good set of sample data, ideally lots of it. Again, these should be transition scripts that can be optionally run (since I might not want sample data in production), and in source control.
Document Databases
Most of these principles apply to document databases too. In fact, in some ways the problems are harder. While you don't have a fixed schema, you're probably mapping your documents to objects - what if the structure of the objects change? You may need to run transitional scripts over the document database to manipulate the existing documents. You may also need to re-define your indexes. You want those deployment scenarios to be testable and trusted.
Migration libraries
Rails popularized the approach of using a DSL to describe data migrations. There are a number of .NET ports of this concept, like Fluent Migrator and Machine.Migrations.
Personally, I actually find T-SQL a perfectly good DSL for describing data migrations. I love my ORM's, but for schema work, T-SQL is perfectly adequate.
Again, these libraries focus on transitions (create table, add column), not states, so they're useful, unlike Visual Studio Database Edition, which isn't.
Welcome, my name is Paul Stovell. I live in Brisbane and work on Octopus Deploy, an automated deployment tool.
Prior to founding Octopus Deploy, I worked for an investment bank in London building WPF applications, and before that I worked for Readify, an Australian .NET consulting firm. I also worked on a number of open source projects and was an active user group presenter. I was a Microsoft MVP for WPF from 2006 to 2013.
Very topical for me at the moment.
Our latest project is very database-heavy.
We're going to be using tarantino to run state transitions (but we are using SQL Compare to generate the first hack of state change).
We tried DB Pro for about a day. It failed us with strange compile issues (even though the db schema is valid and creates a DB) and generated an 8MB xml file.
Good article agree with alot of it. I wonder if you extend the versioning from the database to the code that is being run on it. For example in our CI thier are tests to look at code version vs database version and ensures that they can be run against each other. We found that you can have code that builds, tests that pass but something in the db is forgotten. So for each code version has to mapped to a valid db version. While it is not fool proof it has greatly limited the number of misses.
It may even include management job definitions (backup, shrink), though they tend to be left to DBA's
And if it was, I hope if the DBA were any good they would know never to shrink the database (same goes for Auto-Shrink too).
I largely agree with the approach taken by Paul, and have used it successfully on some very large systems.
Actions like keeping your database scripts under version control, having isolated development environments (including the databases), and having automated builds and deployments of the changes are the minimum of what I would recommend.
One distinction I do make is between the schema (mostly tables) and other (executable code) elements.
For any table that holds data, it is usually a non-trivial exercise to move from v1 -> v2 -> v3. Migrations need to be made in order and you cannot simply dump v3 on top of v1.
On the other hand, a stored procedure is much more similar to your client application code. You can easily jump from v1 -> v3, or even then jump back to v2 without the complications of potential data loss.
You can still have problems if the version doesn't match the schema -- the same problems if client code doesn't match -- but this is easier to fix than data loss.
I've also used differencing tools (DB Pro) and had some success, but did find scenarios where the comparison failed. Without a trustworthy tool I found myself using comparison to generate a change script which I then had to manually verify and update.
A differencing tool can fail if you make too many changes, e.g. if I change the name, type (size) and position of a column: following on from the above if I change the FullName column to DisplayName --
create table dbo.Customer (
DisplayName nvarchar(100) not null,
Id int not null identity(1,1) constraint PK_CustomerId primary key,
Address nvarchar(200) null
Paul, Can you share any examples of Versions Table? What I meant is, some sample scripts and how / when do you insert data into the table etc!
Regards, Antony.
Hey Paul,
Great post.
Just checking, When you say 'Source control the database', do you mean source control just scripts that defines the database or actually source controlling the database containing all master/test data into source control?
I can imagine that will be a really expensive approach if this is on top of DBA's regular backup strategies for databases.
Cheers, Ujjaval
So, if you don't have a shared database, exactly what are the integration tests (on the build server) running against? Surely you don't want them to point to your local DB; they should point to a central dev DB?
Good question. Ideally my integration tests would look like this:
public void CanSaveCustomers()
using (var database = new TemporarySqlDatabase())
using (var session = database.SessionFactory.OpenSession())
// Do stuff with session
database.Deploy() creates a new database (with a GUID for the name) on the local SQL instance, deploys the schema/sample data using scripts, and does all the other things from above.
database.SessionFactory would create an configure an NHibernate session factory conected to that database. Finally, the
database.Dispose would delete the SQL database.
These integration tests would run on my dev machine (so long as I have a local SQL Server and the right permissions), and on the build server. The tests could also be run in any order.
Using a configuration option, I might be able to make
database.Deploy act differently - in one configuration, it might create a new, empty database - in another, it might restore a scrubbed production database from backup and upgrade it. That way the same test suite could be run in a "new install" vs. "upgrade" scenario.
That seems really inefficient though (i.e. each test does that?) And surely it means trouble if someone else has a test testing something slightly different?
I'll be honest; I don't think that is quite ... "ideal". I'd be intrigued to see if you find this system actually works (legitimately interested); seems too "heavy" to be practical. But I don't know; I haven't given it much thought since I posted my response, which is so long ago now that I've basically forgotten what I was thinking at the time :P
Take a peek at octalforty Wizardby. This is my open-source project which actually provides a platform-independent framework for database versioning & schema migration.


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The 66-page report uses the word "confusion" 88 times. It says future hurricane warnings should continue even when a storm changes from hurricane to a post-tropical cyclone.
The report says the biggest problem was warning of the massive storm surge. Nearly 4 out of 5 coastal residents surveyed said Sandy's storm surge was higher than they expected.


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That's what happened on July 21, when Paige Reese McLaughlin was born.
Missy McLaughlin was home with her oldest child when she went into labor.
Her husband raced home and they called 911.
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Any TV interview that ends with an effeminate BMW driver in an Elmo t-shirt screaming "Call 1-800-GET-THIN chubby butt!" is a good one, so respect the San Francisco cameraman at KRON-TV for holding his own against this law-breaking driver on the Bay Bridge.
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Spring is in the air and many of us take time out to spring clean our homes, garages, etc to get rid of all the clutter and dirt we have accumulated over the past seasons. But as you go about doing this, have you considered giving your mind a spring clean too, to get rid of any emotional clutter and junk you may have accumulated?
You would be amazed by the kind of 'baggage' we pick up over the seasons of our lives. These include esteem and confidence issues, lost identities, unresolved issues (past or present), poor personal boundaries & standards, negative emotions (e.g. fear, shame, blame, hatred, anger, grief, resentment, etc), unmet needs, inner conflicts and much more. And when you factor in the fact that many of us become emotionally battered and bruised through our challenging and/or painful life experiences, it is easy to see how we can end up amassing excessive weight of the emotional kind – consciously or not.
Therefore, over time, your mind can resemble a cluttered wardrobe, filled to the brim with items that don't serve you and stuff you did not even know was there! In short, you accumulate the emotional baggage that ends up hindering your progress. With this in tow, it is any surprise the abundant life does not seem to be a reality in our lives. We wonder why we keep getting trapped with certain mindsets or patterns of behaviours that don't line up with Gods standards for us. We are baffled when we keep going around the same mountain – time and time again – wondering why we don't seem to break free. We scratch our heads and can't fathom why after so many religious practices on our part, we always find ourselves back at square one.
A Time To Renew Your Mind?
Could it just be you need to give your mind (and emotions) a spring clean? Putting it in biblical terms, do you need to renew your mind? If so, you are now presented with two options:
Option 1: You can bury your head in the sand, put on your "hallelujah, I'm so blessed" mask and pretend you are the epitome of wellness. You can keep mindlessly confessing "all is well" and be on your merry way – though I am not sure how far you will get through. By the way, this is the 'easy' option that costs you nothing more than the effort it takes you to 'keep up appearances' (which can be tasking too, if the truth be told).
Option 2: Be proactive and take positive action to tackle your emotional baggage. Of course, this will cost you but the benefits are immense. Moreover, you get to loose weight of the emotional kind and experience emotional freedom to live the life you were created to live.
Option two is my preferred choice because after working with people (in particular women) coupled with my very own personal experiences, I have seen the dreadful impact these issues can have on believers and non-believers alike. This silent plague has infiltrated every nook and cranny of our modern society and the church is not excluded. Many of us are sitting in pews or preaching from pulpits as mere shadows of the glorious individual God had in mind when He created us. Why? Because the excess baggage we have been carrying has bent us out of shape.
Loose The Weight!
But aren't we supposed to be created in His image? I don't know about you but my God is not a baggage-ridden God. And from what I have read in the bible, all He created was 'good'. Personally, I am sick and tired of us carrying this extra weight around. Moreover, I am disheartened at the fact that the potential of many may never be realised whilst in this state.
So before you make your weekly pilgrimage to church adorning the "EB" (emotional baggage) designer label, which, unlike high society fashion labels, is not exclusive to those who can afford it, take a moment to reflect on the state of your own mind. If it is not up to Gods standard, I implore you to do something about it.
If you would like powerful yet simple ideas to help you spring clean your mind, watch out for part two of this article. In the meantime, I leave you with this thought: The reality is that we all fit somewhere on the continuum of emotional wellness/recovery. And so, to ensure you are closer to the wellness end of the scale, you will need to keep monitoring and regulating yourself through the likes of prayer, quiet times, studying of Gods Word, godly counsel, nurturing your mind (e.g. through books, teaching, etc), belonging to a community of trustworthy and honest people. Whatever you do, don't leave your mind out of the loop – because it needs TLC too – just like other facets of your being.
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