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I have a 8 Node Multirole stretched DAG with a witness server in a third datacenter.
To perform the SP1 installations I followed the following steps:
1. Fail over all servers in Datacentre B and ensure all services are fully operational from Datacentre A.
2. Uninstall the Exchange UM language Packs from the previous CU3 release, followed by a reboot.
3. Initiate installation of SP1 on all passive servers followed by another reboot.
4. Install the SP1 UM language packs followed by another reboot.
5. Fail over all databases and services to Datacentre B and repeat the process.
Whilst everything went rather smooth with no service interruption the SP1 installation took about 8 hours in my environment, which could potentially be reduced.
Performing the installation using the unattended option from the command line does greatly reduce execution times.


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Latest research on the Geminids meteor shower
Every year in December, the Geminids meteor shower occurs. It is visible to the naked eye with its many shooting stars – given clear sky.
A sounding rocket campaign in Northern Norway has given new insight to meteor showers.
This photo shows the Perseids meteor shower. Photo: JPL/Nasa
The Geminids are the most pronounced meteor shower with a zenithal hourly rate of 120 meteors (Correira et al., 2010). Only the Quadrantids are equally strong.
The Geminids reach their maximum activity during the night from December 13 to December 14. The activity increases gradually during the four days prior to the maximum, and decreases rapidly after that. Their entry velocity is about 35 km s-1 (Stober et al., 2012), and they ablate at altitudes between approximately 80 and 110 km. Meteors are the source of the metal layer that exists in this altitude region, called the mesosphere/lower thermosphere, and are also believed to be a source of meteoric smoke particles.
During the Geminids in 2010, the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), UiO and the Leibniz-Institute of Atmospheric Physics in Kühlungsborn (IAP), Germany conducted the last of three ECOMA (Existence and charge state of meteoric smoke particles in the middle atmosphere) sounding rocket campaigns from the Andøya Rocket Range in northern Norway. The University of Oslo contributed with the Langmuir needle probe. All rocket launches were supported by ground-based measurements with lidars and radars.
The laser beams at ALOMAR. The yellow beams from the sodium lidar are not strong enough to be visible. The green beams are from an RMR lidar that belongs to Leibniz-Institut für Atmosphärenphysik i Kühlungsborn, Tyskland. The town in the background is Andenes.
The goal was to investigate what effect a major meteor shower has on the abundance and properties of meteoric smoke particles. This study is mostly based on observations with the ALOMAR Weber sodium lidar, and it also includes data from radar observations and three sounding rocket launches. The sodium lidar measures sodium density, temperature and line-of-sight wind speed at altitude between 80 and 110 km.
Sporadic meteors occur at all times and can originate from every radiant angle. The shower meteors, however, originate from one specific radiant angle. Therefore, they can be distinguished from sporadic meteors. During the time of the Geminids in 2010, almost 50% of all measured meteors originated from the Geminids radiant (solar longitude 262°) at Andøya. Thus, one might expect major meteor showers to have a substantial influence on the composition of the middle atmosphere, i.e. the region where they ablate.
We found that the Geminids do not have a noticeable effect on the sodium number density. The sodium column density decreased steadily during the three weeks when we conducted our measurements. Radar measurements show that the number of sporadic meteors decreased during December 2010. This correlates well with the time series of sodium column abundance.
We compared the data from 2010 with data collected in 2009 and 2011. Similarly, we see no sign of a Geminids influence on sodium column density in these years. Surprisingly, the sodium column abundance during December 2010 was much smaller than the climatological winter average.
The last ECOMA rocket was launched from Andøya Rocket Range in December 2010. Photo: Kjell Bjarne Pettersen
Among other quantities, the three launched rockets measured the column abundance of meteoric smoke particles. We also see a decrease here. The maximum activity of the Geminids, which clearly stands out, does not increase the number of meteoric smoke particles.
It seems that this meteor shower has little or no influence on the abundance of sodium and meteoric smoke particles. Instead, sporadic meteors seem to be more important.
By chance, the lidar detected two meteor trails. This possible when a meteor ablates in the atmosphere and its "signature" is measured as a sharp increase in sodium density. From these two meteor trails, we estimate the daily global meteor flux to be 20 t d-1. This is only correct if the meteor flux does not vary with time of year nor latitude. This value is in very good agreement with the largest possible meteor flux to yield realistic sodium column densities and eddy diffusion coefficients (Plane, 2004).
The Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), the Norwegian Space Centre and the Research Council of Norway supported the Norwegian half of the ECOMA project. The ALOMAR Weber sodium lidar is owned and run by the University of Tromsø, the Andøya Rocket Range and GATS, Inc. in Boulder, CO, USA.
Our article "Development of the mesospheric Na layer at 69°N during the Geminids meteor shower 2010" by Dunker et al., 2012 has just been accepted by the journal "Annales Geophysicae". The ECOMA campaign 2010 resulted in more than ten scientific articles, which will be published as a special issue of the journal with the title "Structure, composition, and dynamics of the middle atmosphere and lower ionosphere during a major meteor shower".
The article will soon be available on the journal's website.
More information on the ECOMA campaign
Correira, J., Aikin, A. C., Grebowsky, J. M. and Burrows, J. P.: Metal concentrations in the upper atmosphere during meteor showers, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, pp. 909-917, 2010.
Plane, J. M. C.: A time-resolved model of the mesospheric Na layer: constraints on the meteor input function, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 4, pp. 627-638, 2004.
Stober, G., Schult, C., Baumann, C., Latteck, R. and Rapp, M.: The Geminid meteor shower during the ECOMA rocket campaign: specular and head echo radar observations, submitted to Ann. Geophys., 2012.


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It seems almost inevitable. The river cruise season gets underway and then either high or low water levels due to heavy rains or lack thereof cause some disruptions. And this season is no exception.
Since the start of the month, river cruise lines have been dealing with higher than normal water levels on Europe's Rhine, Danube, Rhone and Seine rivers, which forced several river cruise lines to alter some of their itineraries.
The challenge is that there is no telling when or how severely these highs and lows will happen. But river cruise passengers should perhaps be made aware of the possibility and of the ways in which high or low water levels could impact their trip, because as we have seen year in and year out, some disruptions, however minor, almost always occur at some point in the season.
"So far, it doesn't seem to have deterred clients from river cruising but if these dramatic rain or drought weather patterns continue with more and more sailings affected, it may start to have an impact in the future," said Linda Dinsmore, a river and small ship specialist who runs the website The River Cruise Lady.
Dinsmore admitted that she doesn't talk to clients about water levels before they take a river cruise, and that so far clients haven't been asking about water levels, "so I think it's a situation that you hope doesn't happen."
That said, she had clients that ran into some issues last week on the Rhine River, where they were driven further up the river to board their ship due to the higher waters, an adjustment that "was not too disruptive," she noted.
When water levels are higher than normal, river cruise vessels can't squeeze under the low bridges they need to bypass to complete their sailings, and when water levels are low they can't sail through shallower waters where there isn't enough clearance for the ships' drafts. So, each river cruise line undertakes a variety of contingency plans when this happens, including (but not limited to) busing passengers to ports and destinations they can't reach by ship, having them stay in a hotel for an extra night or two if the ship cannot get to them, or having passengers swap ships, which entails boarding another ship on the other side of an impassable bridge or stretch of water, a strategy Viking River Cruises employed for this most recent water rise.
Viking said on its website that it has contacted guests whose cruises need to be adjusted due to this month's higher water levels, including those on the May 13 Passage to Eastern Europe cruise aboard Viking Lif, which is now taking place on sister ship, Viking Aegir; and those on the May 13 Grand European Tour aboard Viking Aegir, which is now taking place on sister ship, Viking Lif. (Viking said it does not anticipate any further itinerary changes beyond these sailings.)
While this season's disruptions are nowhere near the mayhem caused by the historic floods in Europe two years back, they serve as a reminder that river cruising, despite all its potential and success, still has some notable vulnerabilities. And while river cruise companies have grown very accustomed to working around water-level issues, for customers the required itinerary changes can still serve as a disappointment if they weren't made aware of the possibility in advance."The mainstream cruise lines are getting better at handling these conditions and it's not something that occurs too often or for too long when it does," said Pete Larson, owner of River Cruise Guru. But, he added, "I always advise my clients about fluctuating river levels and how it could affect their cruise … Many new river cruisers come from the ocean cruise market where this isn't something they may have experienced or thought about."


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I got a degree in history and philosophy of science (HPS) because I wanted to understand how science and scientists work to give us an understanding of nature--both now and in the past. I got a PhD in history and philosophy of science from the Center for Biology and Society at ASU because it could give me an HPS degree while I was immersed in the life sciences.
As part of my dissertation research, I spent a year on a Fulbright scholarship embedded in the evolutionary phenomics laboratory of Jukka Jernvall in Helsinki, Finland, studying the development and evolution of teeth. That experience of working in the laboratory with the bench scientists transformed my understanding of scientific study of development and evolution, both now and in the past.
Going to Jernvall's lab also confirmed in my mind the absolute necessity that HPSers collaborate with scientists in order to grasp how scientists go about understanding and explaining the natural world. It also made me realize that HPSers and scientists can and should work together to transform the discovery process for both fields.
I defended my dissertation, titled "Development, Evolution, and Teeth: How We Came to Explain the Morphological Evolution of the Mammalian Dentition," in March of 2017. At the beginning of June, 2017, I started a new position at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, MA.
At the MBL, where I work as the Program Administrator and McDonnell Foundation Fellow, I am devoted to bringing HPSers and life scientists together to work on explaining problems in nature. At the MBL, I aim to foster the type of experience that transforms the discovery process, in the same way that working in Jernvall's lab in Finland transformed my own research.
As for my research, I continue to marvel at the developmental processes that shape embryos, and seek to understand how researchers understand the way embryos take form, both now and in the past, as well as how development and evolution intersect.
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My inspiration? It stems from my backyard. There is something absolutely liberating about walking along the path beyond the trees that shelter my home. The landscape enchants me, it calls to me. It draws me out of myself and makes me marvel in the beauty of Mother Nature.
"Where the edge of the earth meets the sky, the human spirit is fed." – Art Wolfe
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Pay attention Camaro fans: this year will feature a continuation of the Yenko Camaro!
GM Authority reports that Brand New Muscle Car and General Marketing Capital, which owns the rights to the licensing rights to Yenko, plans for something really special.
In celebration of the 50 year mark of Yenko Camaros, BNMC has plans for a limited run of continuation cars. Yup, brand-new 1968 Yenko Camaros built in 2018. The Camaros will be custom built and officially licensed Yenko Camaros which means they will also be added to the Official Yenko Worldwide Registry for authenticity.
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Content marketing an opportunity to educate the patient
In Google, it is estimated that one in 20 searches are related to health problems and diseases. In fact, as of May 2017, the famous search engine includes cards with a summary of 900 health conditions. This with the aim of showing reliable information to users who could get wrong information written by unqualified people. However, it does not stop generating distrust, because there are no more reliable web portals in which to get information about diseases and health issues than the official content channels of clinics and hospitals.
Catalina Parada, Director of Operations of Axon Marketing & Communications and surgeon of the Autonomous University of Guadalajara in Mexico and specialist in Organizational Communication, as a result of the experience for more than 12 years with clients from the health and well-being sector such as Hospital de San José , Colombian Association of Internal Medicine, Bodytech, Mexican Dental Business Council, Heel, University Foundation of Health Sciences, Colsanitas, Instafit, among others, affirms "the opportunity in terms of content marketing for clinics, hospitals and in general, for all the organizations of the health sector are served, because they already have the reliability and credibility of their contents by those who read them, so the challenge is to build links with their different audiences, especially with patients 2.0 ". Next, Dr. Parada shares with us the benefits offered by a clinic to open online communication channels and practice content marketing, through communication channels such as the blog.
- Brand positioning: Clinics, hospitals and all health and wellness establishments could be offering information to people who are interested in a topic that has to do with their specialty. This public, which is ultimately a potential client and / or patient of said institutions, can be informed of a medical condition, welfare or improvement of health and know more about a specific condition or possibly learn about side effects of the medications and / or supplements that is taking, from different channels or platforms that the Internet provides. These means, when used by users result in a brand positioning and therefore in growth, all as a result of having delivered useful content on the problems of people.
- More informed users: It is important to take into account that the created contents must be responsibly reviewed by expert professionals in the area being treated to avoid giving erroneous or misrepresented information, in addition to having a clarification that they are not a substitute for medical diagnoses face-to-face Each time users are more informed, more curious and therefore more demanding in their expectations generated in front of institutions and health professionals and the like. They already arrive with a need created, fed and questioned where they can recognize symptoms, learn about treatments to treat the simplest ills, ask for certain diagnostic tests (despite the little information they handle they feel empowered to ask for it) this is leading to a real problem that is afflicting this sector; Therefore, it is important that all contents have warning and guidance phrases for users and / or patients or even in cases of gyms. This way the potential clients will know that the information found is real but it is not deep enough to supply a professional expert in a certain topic. Not to mention that you should avoid placing the name of medicines to avoid self-medication.
- Real life cases: In the health sector there is countless knowledge and specific examples for each topic that can illustrate the contents in a rich and understandable way. On average, 65% of people remember more a message when it is told through a story which gives tools to feed the different channels that lead to an increase in credibility, positioning of brands and delivery of secure information.
- Let them find you through your blog: Having a lot of content and quality makes you more popular in search engines (Google being the most representative) which translates into a greater number of potential clients, patients, users etc, seeing your brand. According to a study, 60% of the websites that have a blog receive have a better positioning in search engines
- Source of professional knowledge: According to studies, 97% of doctors have access to the Internet and this medium is constantly used by these professionals to train and exchange information. In this way, your institution gains position among professionals of the sector and not only potential patients.
- Social responsibility: Content marketing is also a means of teaching. Many companies use their blog to tell their experience about their business. The act of educating users about health issues is a sustainable action that gives value to the brand.


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Charlie and I had an Adventure to Lake Michigan in Muskegon yesterday to film another music video. We didn't even plan to hang out at all today. I just woke up and noticed through the blinds how beautiful the sun looked. First thought in my mind was call up Charlie to see if was down for an adventure and, lucky for me, he was! We basically just took 96 west all the way to exit 1, which landed us somewhere in Muskegon. We stopped at a gas station to ask for directions to where the "cool stuff" was. They were very kind and pointed us towards the lake, which was perfect for the voyage. The experience was majestic to say the least. The breeze was brisk. The sun was hot. I felt like I was home. I always feel like that whenever I'm in nature. It's also awesome to have someone around that appreciates it just as much as you. As soon as we got there we took our shoes off and walked into the water up to our knees. It was very cold, but refreshing! I'm very grateful for that. We got some really good footage for one of my songs off of the upcoming album, 'VSNS.' It's a song called make it, which has a very relaxing energy. I feel like the location suited the visuals very well. Afterwards we walked down the pier and chilled at the end where there was a lighthouse. We took turns jamming out on my classical guitar as others came by and enjoyed the smooth sounds, I'm sure. I would like to start playing and singing more! I never really practice doing that. Had a really good time. Good vibes all around. This was a short, but fun one! Keep your eyes peeled. 😉
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We were approached to design, supply and fit a range of unique lighting features as focal points in a new hair and beauty salon off Gosforth high street, Newcastle. There are a number of salons already on the same street so its no wonder the client wanted to add some eye-catching decoration to catch peoples attention and set their business off from the rest.
We fitted a wide range of features within the building which consists of a large room for beauty treatments, a separate large room for hairdressing and several other private treatment rooms and corridors.
If you go past the salon on Salters road, you'd notice straight away it has one of our chandeliers as a centrepiece at the front of the shop. This was made with a mirror base and hanging crystals. We are told it gets so many nice comments and has everyone intrigued.
In two of the treatment rooms, we installed our pre-made fibre optic suspended ceiling tiles to the already fitted grid system. They are a brilliant product to easily transform a commercial looking ceiling into a twinkling, modern and relaxing night sky.
We also installed a sphere chandelier in the side entrance corridor which invites you into the main hairdressing area. This has a slow colour change effect and various size balls at different lengths, a popular style of chandelier we get enquiries about.
Last but not least is the bespoke starry ceiling panel which has the composition of a spiral galaxy. This twinkling masterpiece was installed in one of the larger treatment rooms. It has around 700 stars of four different diameters and is one of the most challenging designs we have created.
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A stay at Avari Dubai Hotel places you in the heart of Dubai, convenient to Reef Mall and Deira City Centre. This 4-star hotel is within close proximity of Al Ghurair Centre and Dubai Creek.
Make yourself at home in one of the 178 air-conditioned rooms featuring minibars and LCD televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature bidets and hair dryers. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks.
Treat yourself with massages and facials. If you're looking for recreational opportunities, you'll find a nightclub, an outdoor pool, and a sauna. This hotel also features complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and a hair salon. If you'd like to spend the day shopping, you can hop on the complimentary shuttle.
Grab a bite to eat at the hotel's restaurant, which serves lunch and dinner. Dining is also available at the 2 coffee shops/cafés, and 24-hour room service is provided. Relax with a refreshing drink at one of the 4 bars/lounges. Buffet breakfasts are available for a fee.
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Kicking It with New Balance VP Global Marketing Chris Davis
Welcome to another year of Authentic Influence! Today, we begin 2019 with a conversation with Chris Davis, VP Global Marketing at New Balance.
Specific topics to be covered in this episode:
Why New Balance prefers a network of ambassadors consisting of pro-level athletes and others over traditional "influencers" to develop true authenticity as opposed to advocacy
How New Balance balances product co-creation and content freedom to maximize the authentic value of its ambassador partners
The ways in which New Balance leverages "challenger" tactics in its marketing, and the implications it has for building influence against the grain
How New Balance has leaned into defying conformity and testing new initiatives, with the realization that comfort and growth cannot coexist
How peer-to-peer influence is the most authentic type of influence available in the market today
New Balance's upcoming partnerships across sports and beyond
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For your viewing pleasure, some amusing highlights from my lab's office yesterday afternoon….
YouTube surfing old school music. Think Milli Vanilli…. there was some MC Hammer too. Playing with this kitchen toy…
For my thesis, I am making bandages that promote wound healing. (nerd alert) They need to be stored in an airtight way so they don't go bad when we ship them off to other universities that are interested in them. Enter FoodSaver. We were foodsavering Kleenex and dark chocolate acai berries.
We also turned to Google for some important questions…
…what is vodka made out of besides potatoes?
We were also trying to decide whether the brownies our high school student brought us were any good. They were made with stevia.
The verdict? I ate two, everyone else thought they were a little weird.
Chemists aren't completely boring! We have fun, too. 🙂
I then went to the gym for an upper body workout and tried to decide what kind of wine I wanted to drink for Wine of the Week. On my way home I stopped at the store to browse the Texas selection. I wasn't feeling any of them, so I turned around to look at the wines from Italy. I immediately saw this one and picked it up.
I hadn't had a Lambrusco in a long time, and it sounded like the perfect choice! Lambrusco's are a little bit sweeter, which normally I don't like in a wine. Kyle thought it tasted like juice at first. But Lambrusco's are slightly sparkling, which I love. Not sure why! It's just a fun wine to drink.
This Lambrusco Dell'Emilia has a fruity, mostly raspberry flavor to it. This wine is often described as lively. It has a bit of a lower alcohol content than most wines, at 8.5%. Whether that is important to you or not, I don't know. 🙂 I couldn't open any links to the producer or winery for some reason, but this site told me that it is made in Emilia-Romagna region in Italy. The best part about this wine? Only $5!
We paired last night's Lambrusco Dell'Emilia with one of my favorite dishes that Kyle makes, shrimp and chicken fried rice.
I've had several requests for this recipe. I promise you it will be coming soon!
For today, it's an off day for working out, but I think I'll get in plenty of walking. Tonight is Kyle's company's annual Six Flags trip. I'm pretty excited!
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The concurrency settings are the same in the OpenAccess classic and the Visual Designer, it is a different UI and API but the concurrency rules are not changed. I am glad you have found your way through this and we will definitely improve in all areas where the documentation of the new API is not as complete as the one for the Classic approach. However if you need any help regarding concurrency and are not able to find it in the section for the Visual Designer, you can always have a look into the classic approach section.
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The awards were initiated March 22, 2010, by Music Theatre International CEO Freddie Gershon and his wife Myrna, who fund the grant. MTI represents the licensing rights to the entire Sondheim catalogue.
The ten winning teachers are Christi Davis of Fayetteville, NC; Rafe Esquith of Los Angeles, CA; Paul Fry of New Haven, CT; Rembert Herbert of New York, NY; Bridget Lambright of Cleveland, OH; Melanie Mann of North Miami Beach, FL; Steven Miller of Rialto, CA; Tom Porton, of Bronx, NY; Evelys Ubiera of Miami, FL; and Jacque Wheeler of Valdosta, GA.
Each of the educators receive a $10,000 grant and are showcased along with the student he or she inspired on the Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards website.
The honors are open to all teachers, not only those within the realm of arts education. Educators from kindergarten through college can be nominated by one of their students. A national panel of judges reviewed the nominations, which were narrowed down from hundreds of applicants.
Among those nominating students were Tony Award-winning In the Heights writer Lin-Manuel Miranda (who nominated Rembert Herbert), author David Pogue (who nominated Paul Fry), Emmy-nominated writer Deb Fordham (who nominated Jacque Wheeler) and performance artist David Gonzalez (who nominated Tom Porton). "Teachers define us," Sondheim said in a previous statement. "In our early years, when we are still being formed, they often see in us more than we see in ourselves, more even than our families see and, as a result, help us to evolve into what we ultimately become. Good teachers are touchstones to paths of achieving more than we might have otherwise accomplished, in directions we might not have gone."
Stephen Sondheim, who began his Broadway career as a lyricist for West Side Storyand Gypsy, made his debut as a composer/lyricist in 1962 with A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Along with collaborators including Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, James Goldman, George Furth, James Lapine, John Weidman and Harold Prince, Sondheim revolutionized the face of musical theatre with Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Pacific Overtures, Anyone Can Whistle, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park with George, Assassins, Into the Woods and Passion. His latest musical, Road Show, debuted at the Public Theater in 2009.
Nominations for the 2012 Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards will be accepted starting September 6, 2011.
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Antique Mary McEwen character wax doll. Measures approximately 21 inches tall. McEwen made these dolls in her Seattle apartment. She made them but she did not sell any of them. They were later discovered in her estate.
Her husband had owned a wax mannequin factory but the industry was quickly replaced with composition mannequins. She made these dolls employing her knowledge from the mannequin business.Many of these dolls were made only as heads or parts. This particular doll has a twill wrapped wooden and wire body with soft cotton stuffed legs and feet. She has very well molded hands in grasping poses. The doll was completely sculpted by Mary McEwen with extreme character features. This sweet lady is wearing a vintage red cotton dress, antique eyelet undergarments, vintage cotton knit socks, vintage bonnet, replaced antique mohair wig.
She is carrying a vintage purse with a kitty painted on it. She also has a vintage bracelet on one arm. Her hands were too large for us to remove the costume safely. These dolls are very difficult to find and considered by many as Rare. Do not miss your chance to own this vintage African American lady doll who is ready to do some serious shopping!Condition: Generally good condition with no serious damage. We did not undress her to inspect for any hidden body damage but feel that she is in good overall condition for her age. Rare to find complete dolls in this great size! Doll stand is not included. Is for item(s) shown only. Please see our other auctions by clicking here: other items. We want you to be happy! We never make second chance offers.
Check out our other items. ASHLEY'S DOLLS & ANTIQUITIES. The item "Mary McEwen Wax Doll, 21 IN, 1920's American Wax Doll, African American Doll" is in sale since Tuesday, June 13, 2017. This item is in the category "Dolls & Bears\Dolls\Antique (Pre-1930)\Other Antique Dolls".The seller is "ashleysdolls" and is located in Whitsett, North Carolina. This item can be shipped worldwide.


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Whew it is Day 7 and how are you doing? This is Your SpiritWoman journey and this first week was either very vigilant or just ho-hum.
Something to think on: People who aren't in transition are numb. If you are alive in Christ Jesus, you are in transition. If you are growing, you are in transition. If you are freaked out by thinking about your triggers, you are in transition. If this has gotten on your nerves, you are in transition. We are moving from the known to the unknown. We are expanding our possibilities.
As we end this week, please give yourself some love, be reminded of hope and most importantly practice forgiveness for yourself and others.
Although the second picture says "become something beautiful" – MY SISTERS YOU ARE ALREADY BEAUTIFUL and if you don't believe me – post I AM BEAUTIFUL ON YOUR MIRROR AND SAY IT UNTIL IT BECOMES REAL IN YOUR MIND, because I believe God for your beauty. Happy Saturday!
Rev. Jacki
Let us today attend to the voice of God. This journey has been chosen as the time when we will seek and hear and learn and gain understanding. Remember God's healing voice protects all things.
Rev. Jacki
Hello Sisters,
Try to make the time during your devotions and if you don't have a devotional period, perhaps this is a time to begin. Our commitment in this 40 days is to shift from a certain way of being that we considered normal, [triggers] into a whole new way of being, leaning and depending on Jesus Christ as our guide.
For the remainder of the 39 days, we are going to be paying very close attention to the thoughts that we are having, the words that we are using, the stories that we are telling. As we do this, we will start to notice the voice in your head, and there's actually two voices. You're going to be able to distinguish between the two of them.
So I ask that you think about the beliefs that you hold about yourself – beliefs that have been unconsciously running the show. I suggest that you write them down and then take another piece of paper and remember that old things have passed away; you are a new creation in Christ and take the card that you were given and declare those beliefs – and here are few others: I am forgiving myself and others; I am NOW willing to let go of past beliefs about myself because those are my past and I take the next steps toward a better future. I begin every day with forgiveness, gratitude and live every day with love. I clear my grief with cleansing tears; My heart beats to the rhythm of love; This is one statement that for me is life changing: I easily let go of ALL disempowering beliefs. TRUST GOD for guidance and watch THINGS CHANGE.
Rev. Jacki
It's Resurrection Sunday evening and I'm a little tired from all of my celebrating. I went to Maundy Thursday service, Good Friday service and Easter service at two different churches. After I went to the early service at my church, I was inspired to visit another in the afternoon. It makes sense that I tired feeling , I have spent a ton of time worshipping and praising the Lord. I've been to four services over this long weekend and have heard a total of 10 different messages. Each individual message definitely spoke to me. This includes pastors who shared on the each of the seven last words.
Each and every service I went to was extremely powerful. The words were so on point. I know that I know that I know Jesus died and he rose again for me. He certainly died for you too. Redemption has been granted. The resurrection is real. Jesus is alive for us all and in us all who believe, accept and know.
For a moment, I'm going to focus on me. I'm not really taking this as a selfish moment. I am, however, putting myself on blast – a sort of public accountability session. Can I spend this much time with the Lord and in the company of believers, live through so many spiritual and emotional experiences and still be the same 'Joy" I was? This is not just limited to the services. I'm also counting all of the effort of the Lenten Challenge. It is possible that all of it is just temporary. Should it be? Of course not! There should be some lasting change. Will there be?
Just as I prepared to type these words, I took a moment to check my twitter account. Unwiittingly, my friend Aqua Copeland gave me the answer.
@Favored1Aqua We can't stay trapped in the same condition, issues, and situations year after year. We have #Resurrection Power!
Clearly, I took on the #LentenChallenge to be transformed. I'm looking for self-improvement and a greater spiritual connection. I've created some positive momentum. Will it stick? Or will I simply go back to my old ways? When I had the opportunity to add old stuff back in to my diet after the stroke of midnight, I didn't miss a beat. Chocolate was popped into my moth. Fish was on plate. Cheesy carbs were also added. While I don't plan to gorge myself as I have done in the past or eat some of these things all the time, I really have yet to commit myself to plan. I could slip into a new bad habit without focus and effort. I am working and praying on a better path. The evidence will be when I act on it.
How I take care of my body temple is only one aspect of making sure that I'm GospelFit and drawing closer to the Lord and connecting to "Resurrection Power!" Even though, I'm feeling a little tired, I'm also feeling on fire for the Lord. Continually working to build my relationship with the Lord needs to bear some tangible fruit. I'll be praying, meditating and focusing on translating that feeling into action. What about you?
Mark 15:37-39 (NIV) 37 With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last. 38 The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. 39 And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, saw how he died, he said, "Surely this man was the Son of God!"
Imagine standing in front of Jesus and finally recognizing that He is the Son of God. It must have been such an awesome experience. I think of the blessing that the centurion had for actually being in the presence of Jesus. It also brings to mind the opportunity that he may have lost. Jesus walked in his midst before while He was alive. Did the centurion know Jesus before the end? Was he changed by that experience? Was he drawn closer to God?
Surely, we know that Sunday is coming! Jesus is near. During this lenten season, we may have taken steps to get ourselves closer to the Lord. We may have faltered. Today ends our Lenten Challenge. However, it does not end our journey. We are standing in the presence of Jesus and we can be transformed.
There are so many levels of transformation during this season. Some of this transformation occurs because we want it to and we are willing to put in the work to be a better disciple for Christ. We are putting time in the Word and with God in Prayer. We also work on taking care of our body temples in a manner that is pleasing to God. For we know that we are to honor God with our temples.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NIV)19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
The ultimate transformation and gift from the Lord is that Jesus died and rose again for you and me. He has cleansed us for now and eternal life. Knowing that we are free from the condemnation of sin is powerful and should help us to lead lives in the abundance that God promised and plans for us. Ultimately, our goal should be to stand in His presence and hear the words, "Well done."
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John 19:17-18 17 and carrying the cross by himself, he went out to what is called The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew[a] is called Golgotha. 18 There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, with Jesus between them.
Are you in a period of testing right now? We know that tests and trials are designed by God to make us and mold us. We are made stronger by the tests and trials that we endure. You've heard folks say, that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Our tests are not designed to kill us be to strenghten our faith. Passing our tests allows us to move to the next level in God, teaching us and preparing us for what lies ahead. Can We Talk?!
As believers, it does not matter who you are and what your relationship is with the Lord you WILL face tests and trials. Our faith is tested when we go through trials. In the 1st chapter of James, he tells us to count it all joy when we face trials of any kind. He goes on to say that the testing of our faith PRODUCES perseverance. And when perseverance has finished its work in us we will be mature and complete, lacking anything.
Today, you might find yourself restless or discontent. You may be ready to give up or quit. Remember that God may testing you to teach you how to stay. He may be teaching you how to stand in the midst of adversity and uncertainty. If you quit you have forfeited the benefits of perseverance AND God will not be able to bless you at the next level, that next level blessing that will require you to know how to stay.
So if you are praying for a spouse and God is testing your staying power, He won't send that spouse until you learn how to stay. Marriage requires staying power. If you are praying for that great career that can help you get out of debt, give you purpose, and help you care for your family, but you quit every job you get, God won't bless you with that career until you learn how stay. Jobs come and go. Careers require staying power. TODAY you may be learning how to stay and stand through TOMORROW's lengthy sickness of a loved one, a rocky marriage, or through the antics and confusion of a wayward child. Do you have what it takes to stay?
What is God trying to teach you today? It will bless you in the future. Surrender so that you can move to next level of your life. Learn how to stay. Learn how to stand in the face of obstacles and opposition. He will be standing right by your side.
11 As Scripture says, "Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame."[a] 12 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13 for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." Romans 10:11-13
One of the advantages of observing Lent is the opportunity to strip away what might be hindering our Christian walk and to focus on what really matters: our relationship with Jesus and the immense sacrifice He made to reconcile us to the Father.
Although I love the comforting words of Romans 8, the beauty of Romans 10 is how it demystifies the "what" and "who" of salvation. We are saved by grace through faith, manifested in our verbal confession (saying it is so) that Jesus is Lord of our lives. The God of the universe offers this salvation to anyone–no prerequisites–who calls on Him. "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." (Rom. 10:13)
Who could ask for anything more?
But very often, we make our salvation far more complicated than it needs to be. Think about how in the Old Testament, the Jews piled on, in addition to the Ten Commandments, more than 600 rules that needed to be adhered to. Or consider several present-day denominations that enforce a strict code of behavior and dress that goes way beyond what is described in the New Testament.
I love Jesus for making things plain and simple for us. We come to Him in our sin-stained condition. He does not discriminate in pouring out His love on us. To use current language, he is an equal-opportunity God. In the words of the old hymn, "whosoever will may come." All are invited to His table.
My prayer for this Lenten period is that we, like the children Jesus encouraged us to emulate, would come to Him anew, accepting afresh the gift of salvation He freely offers. Regardless of who or what we are, we have the assurance that the Son of God will throw no "shade" on us.
Rather, He calls us to a life in which, as we serve and honor Him, gladly sharing the Good News of the gift of salvation, we will "shine . . . like stars in the sky." (Phil 2:15).
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"Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you had known me, You would have known my Father also. From now on you know him and have seen him" John 14:6–7
How can we know the way to God? Only through Jesus. This is one of the most basic and important passages in Scripture yet so often we fail to live this out….
THE WAY: Jesus says he is the ONLY way to God the Father. In a world with seemingly unlimited choices, some people may argue today that this way is too narrow. But in reality, we know it is wide enough for the whole world, if the world chooses to accept it.
Jesus is the way because he is both God and man. As the way, Jesus is our path to the Father. By uniting our lives with his, we are united with God. Instead of worrying about how limited it sounds to have only one way, we should be saying, "Thank you, God for providing a sure way to get to you!" Trust Jesus to take you to the Father, and all the benefits of being God's child will be yours.
THE TRUTH: As the truth, Jesus is the reality of all God's promises. The sanctity of truth is a theme that we find taught over and over again in the Bible. Jesus refers to Satan as a "liar and the father of lies" (8:44), which helps us understand that falsehood is unholy while truth-telling accords with the Lord's character.
Reflect for a moment on what we know about truth:
• Psalm 119:160 explains that the Word of God is truth.
• Psalm 145:18 makes it plain that the Lord will come near and bless only those who call upon Him in truth.
Yet we do not know the truth if we make no attempt to live it out:
• Truth is something that we can practice (1 John 3:18)
• Faithfulness to the Lord means that we are concerned to walk in His true way (Ps. 86:11).
Walking in His true way is not perfect obedience this side of heaven, but a life of repentance when we see how far short we fall of His standards (1 John 1:5–10).
THE LIFE: Ultimately, once you accept Jesus as the only way to the Father, you can then begin to take hold of the reality of the truth of all God's promises. It is in this that- as the way and the truth Jesus gives us life, both now and most important, for eternity.
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"None of the sins that person has committed will be remembered against them. They have done what is just and right; they will surely live. Ezekiel 33:16
When I read these words, I instantly felt mercy, grace, love, strength, freedom, power, and relief. The type of relief that comes when you know and can say that God has not given up on me; there is still an opportunity for change. Change first must begin within us, before it manifest to the outside. When I read this scripture, I used to think along the lines of the obvious sins, like violating the 10 commandments, but what about the sins that we commit against ourselves.
We often forget how special we are. We are divine masterpieces, formed in love; corrupted and deformed by sin; but reformed by grace. That is what Ezekiel 33:16 is telling me. However, sometimes we forget that about ourselves. In Psalm 139:13 King David wrote: "you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb."
We have been formed in love and are divine masterpieces. Sadly, we don't always see ourselves that way. Instead of thanking God for the body he has given us, we wish we had a smaller nose, bigger hands, more hair, less hair, to be smarter, popular, etc. But God made each of us the way he wanted us to be and he did so in love.
One of our greatest sins is not having love for ourselves and when we do not love ourselves, how can we truly say we love one another and love God. Take a minute and remember the last time, the words that you spoke over yourself were not the most positive. Have you said, oh, I am too fat, I can't do this, I got big, this that, or something else. Has there been something that God has required of you, and knew it was God's voice and you have not done it. Have you cut yourself off from someone and let pride keep you away because maybe they would not understand, or even care? Have you decided that life really is not going to change, and you have stopped, praying fasting and trusting? Or even thinking about stuff and situations and ending the thoughts, so what, who cares if I do or don't… you fill in the blank. You are not alone; many of us have fallen into despair one time or another. The danger is staying in any of these scenarios.
God is patiently waiting for us to start the process of self-love, for our repentance, and recognize that no matter what our physical features are, our mental state is – if we repent in our heart, God will remind us of His great love for us, deliver us from our bondage, and reform us into God's own likeness – the blinders are removed from our eyes, the ever eluding joy is now all over us, and whatever sins we have committed will no longer be remembered and held against us.
The awesome thing is that God isn't asking us to do that which he doesn't give us the power to do. We can love ourselves; we can truly remove that pain, and love ourselves, then love our neighbors and truly love God. And as we are repentant of our negative self-talk, we have a guarantee of God's love that sends the Holy Spirit into our lives to facilitate our changes. The more we began to let go, receive God in all of God's glory, we will want to sing with David: "I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made" (Psalm 139:14a) and the past will no longer be remembered. Live Victoriously.
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1 Peter 4:1-2 (NRSV) Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh,[a] arm yourselves also with the same intention (for whoever has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin), 2 so as to live for the rest of your earthly life[b] no longer by human desires but by the will of God
I got saved when I was a pre-teen. I recall thinking there are so many restrictions associated with being a Christian. You can't do this, that or the other. You can bet that all of those things I wanted to do were things that were harmful for me. I can see it now, but certainly could not appreciate the danger back then. Even as I grew up I still thought this life of being a believer comes with so many restrictions, why would anyone commit to this way of living. Still, as I reflect now I wanted to do whatever I wanted to do, whenever I wanted to do it. Can We Talk?!
Now that I have grown up and understand better my purpose and the purpose and power of my salvation, I understand that the boundaries, restrictions or the Laws were not designed to keep me in bondage, but they were designed to set me free. When I think about no longer being a slave to sin and giving into every desire of my flesh, I understand that I am set free by those boundaries. Do I still sin? YES. Come on, you know the answer to that. Am I under the dominion of sin? NO! There is a difference.
When we are under the dominion of sin, we HAVE to sin. We don't have a choice. Sin may in fact, be our way of life. When I recognize the power over sin I have through the blood of Christ I am able to DECIDE or CHOOSE to sin OR NOT in every situation in my life. I am aware that the choices I am making are sinful and those choices have the potential to lead to death.
I hope that you can comprehend the freedom that your salvation affords you. When we are able to live according to the will of God, instead of being driven by our fleshly desires we are set free. As a believer there are certain activities that I choose not to partake in. But that does not mean that I am missing out on anything. In fact, the opposite is true. I have gained so much through this relationship with Jesus. Riches untold. Loving the Lord makes us want to live according to His will. For me, it means that I have freedom to live a wonderfully blessed life.


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I had one of those magical encounters today.
I decided to treat myself to lunch at my favourite little posh café in town after my floatation session, during which I decided I should really stop smoking.
After I enjoyed my Tuna, cheese and onion pannini, I decided to have my decaf coffee at one of their outside tables with a cigarette. And there was a man sitting there too.
Soon enough he started chatting to me and I find out he was diagnose with Prostate Cancer two months ago.
His whole attitude towards it and life was heartwarming.
He was a very simple man, in his 70s. He had by all accounts a very simple life, yet extraordinary in my eyes.
He has been married for 52 years, and, had only recently retired from his job to which he was married to, he joked, for 53 years. He laughed that he'd been married to his job longer than his wife.
He only retired when he got sick. He said he was glad not to be working now.
He said if he had one piece of advice to give to anyone was "don't graft so hard". He said his only regret was having worked so hard all his life.
He was such a good, funny man though. He said he didn't care if he died or not now. He was good with where he was.
And he was, you could feel it as he chatted.
He joked that when the nurse was setting his next checkup for the cancer in 6 months time, his son told the nurse that he might not have that long to live, so the nurse cheerfully said, fine, I will set the appointment for 7 months then. That made him giggle. And me.
He also told me he was reborn. He explained that he wasn't always a good man, he used to drink and have a gambling problem. One day, he decided to do away with himself and was going to hang himself.
As he was preparing the event, he asked God for help in his desperation. And God answered. He calls himself reborn now, and I know exactly what he means. This was 14 years ago and he has been settled ever since, able to appreciate life for all it has to offer, the good and the bad.
We sat there a while, watching people go about their business and chatting, enjoying a cigarette together.
I am so glad I haven't stopped smoking yet. Smoking has enabled me to connect to random people on a different level, especially recently.
As we parted, his hand reached out to shake mine. I told him best of luck and that I hoped he made his 7 months appointment. I have a feeling he will.
He had said earlier a lot of people had been praying for him at a local church when they heard his predicament. He felt that had made a difference.
It made me realise the power of positive thinking comes in all shape and sizes.


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Donald John "Smart Gut" Trump has blasted General Motors for closing plants and for announcing plans to lay off as many as 15,000 employees as part of a company restructuring.
I laughed when I heard the president declare that the government "saved" GM "and this is the thanks we get."
Oh, wait! That rescue mission was launched during the first term of President Obama. Do you remember that one? The auto industry was in trouble. The new president got Congress to approve a massive bailout for automakers. The money propped them up, helped preserve them; it saved them from collapse.
Then the automakers paid the government back for the money they received!
I guess what rankles Trump the most is that GM's decision to lay off those workers turns one of the president's signature campaign promises into, well, an empty campaign promise.


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States Consider Following Calif.'s Suit and Banning Tanning
Several states may soon join California, which at the start of this year became the first state to make it illegal for teenagers to use cancer-causing tanning beds.
Utah and a handful of other states may soon join California, which at the start of this year became the first state to make it illegal for teenagers to use cancer-causing tanning beds, reports the Salt Lake Tribune.
The Beehive State, which has the highest rate of melanoma (the deadliest form of skin cancer), has required parental consent for minors to fake tan since 2007. But according to studies, tanning salons have failed to enforce the law, the Tribune reports, so state Sen. Patricia Jones is drafting legislation to ban anyone under 18 from using the devices.
In 2009, the World Health Organization classified tanning beds as a human carcinogen after several studies linked their use to skin cancer -- a risk that increases with each tanning session.
"The government needs to send a clear and unambiguous message that tanning beds are not safe," Samantha Guild of a melanoma research organization told the paper.
In Central Utah, almost half of 12th-grade girls have used a tanning device at least once during the past year, according to the Tribune.
Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island are also considering adding tanning beds to the list of substances and activities teenagers can't partake in, the paper reports.
In California, lawmakers had the support of the medical and insurance communities; however, the tanning industry tried to block the ban and argued that teens would instead use unregulated home tanning appliances. State Sen. Ted Lieu, the law's sponsor, said they would instead "do what Snooki on Jersey Shore does. They will do spray tanning," which is a safe way of getting a glow.
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midnight strikes and it's @labellerochelle 's birthday!
those of you who know me – even a little – know that friendship means a lot to me.
if i call you a friend – you're a friend.
you're not one of those average mufuxxas that i kick it with from time to time to waste time.
and like my bother 'yayo' said: i didn't get where i am walking with losers.
i've conditioned myself to walk with nothing but success stories and pretty people.
sometime simultaneously.
when i was in high school i hung out with some 'real loser type motherfxckers' (like nas said about shorty on belly).
dudes who thought it looked cool to smoke black and milds for the hell of it.
dudes who made trips to new york with grams in their pockets just to get a few dollars for lunch.
they're all locked up now.
all of them.
i hung with chicks who now drive cabs for other loser type motherfxckers.
chicks who date dudes who knock them up prior to knocking them down.
we all grew up in the same neighborhood.
so what the fxck happened?
'it must be the shoes!'
i've never owned a pair of jordans that i paid full price for. maybe the jordans that came in those fancy boxes on saturday mornings led them down some strange path.
the last time i saw my boy 'Q' was when i was teaching sex education at the local jail in my hometown – after finishing the masters program at bethune-cookman.
i once kicked it on project benches in playgrounds with niggas who called drug dealing a 'hustle.'
niggas who respected the shooter.
now i hang with real hustlers.
folks i run into in the hallways at howard university on their way to class because graduation is coming soon and they know shit is crazy in the real world.
we are never any better than the company we keep.
so i keep company who study hard & work hard & party hard.
i keep people around me like my MCMS folks who are about to graduate and progress because failure is not an option. BECAUSE I SAID SO.
on the planet we kick it on, loiterers get arrested. we must move one.
and i never ride the nuts of anyone – but sometimes people come along that need to be written about.
people like @labellerochelle & @amandasophia & @jefro5 & big dave & kendra p (my platonic wife) & chemia & cierra & don chukie
& everybody else in my mcms family. (if i didn't mention you in my blog – you are still in my heart folks)
side note: this note is starting to sound like a suicide note or some shit.
the point though: you don't find success walking with losers.
so i don't.
and tomorrow i will party with my success stories for old times sake – laugh – pop bottles and make toasts in honor of one of my FRIENDS:
and you are more than welcome to come through.
and i leave you with this:
'let's dance in style – let's dance for a while
heaven can wait – we're only watching the skies
hoping for the best – but expecting the worst
are you going to drop the bomb or not?
let us die young or live forever
we don't have the power but we never say never
sitting in a sandpit – life is a short trip
the music's for the sad men
forever young – i want to be forever young'
'may the best of your todays be the worst of your tomorrows.
but we ain't even thinking that far'
-jay z


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Xara Photo & Graphic Designer is full-featured photo editing software with powerful graphic design tools. In addition to adjusting colors and lighting, you can use the graphic design tools to transform your photos. The lack of organizing tools makes it less appealing compared to other software we tested.
Magix sells this software for $59.99. We didn't find it selling on Amazon when we looked. This is a decent price for this kind of software as it is cheaper than many of its competitors. If you want to give this program a go, consider trying the 30-day trial period.
This photo editing application has a lot of different tools to edit photos, and because of these added capabilities, we found the software was more complicated to use than other programs on our lineup. However, Xara mitigates the learning curve by including tutorials and videos that give you an overview of where all the tools are located in the interface and how you use them.
The Xara photo software has all the standard editing tools: crop, rotate, resize, red eye removal and more. With selection tools, shape tools, and painting and drawing tools, you can add basic design elements to photos. The photo editor also has color-management tools, so you can adjust the color saturation, brightness and contrast of photos. A cross-process photo effect tool makes it possible to achieve many different looks from the same photo by manipulating contrast and saturation. Blend modes include dodge, which brightens, and burn, which darkens.
Xara allows you to add effects to text, so you can manipulate fonts to make them more dynamic. You also have access to more than 1,500 additional symbols through Google. The content library offers a lot of options as well. There is a SmartShapes collection with charts, speech bubbles and more.
This software also gives you access to over 500,000 royalty-free photos that are searchable by keyword. The collection of photo grids offers a unique way to display those images or your own in an arrangement that is modern looking, even if the photos are different shapes and sizes.
The program has the ability to remove backgrounds or subjects in the backgrounds of your photos. While you can completely alter your images, it takes practice to achieve ideal results. You can also use the cloning tool and layer masks to minimize or mask imperfections in your photos.
The picture editor has 140 different ready-made filters you can apply to images that change the colors and textures. Filters like Black & White, Cold, Intense and Summer alter the "feel" of your photos in noticeable ways. It also has over 60 creative Live Effect plug-ins, which help you add editable effects to your projects. In addition, Xara features automatic editing options that adjust an image's color, focus or level.
While it offers several tools, both basic and advanced, the program lacks some features. Without batch processing, you cannot apply the same edit to multiple photos without opening each image. The program cannot create HDR images, and there isn't a lens distortion corrector. While none of these tools are vital to photo editing, they would improve the software's usability.
Xara Photo & Graphic Designer does not come with a built-in organizing system to help you keep track of photos. It doesn't come with any photo organizing system, so you'll have to use another program if you're wanting this feature.
Xara supports 58 different file formats, so you can import and export most file types. The photo editor supports the most popular image formats, including JPG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, PSD, PDF and animated GIFs. It also has tools to optimize photos for the web.
This program also provides printing project resources and templates. It has illustration and graphic design tools, which gives you more freedom to create projects like printable photo cards. When you want to share your edited photos, the software allows you to post to social media sites directly from the program.
Xara offers customer help and support both within the program and on the Xara webpage. Within the software, you can access the user guide and view tutorials. Online, you can find answers to your questions on the FAQs page. Xara also has a user forum and lists an email address for technical support.
While Xara Photo & Graphic Designer has a steeper learning curve than other photo editors on our list, it has impressive capabilities and editing tools. With a wide selection of tools, creative filters and fonts, you can completely transform your photos. This professional photo editing software has the tools necessary for photographers looking to take their photos a step further. The lack of built-in organizing tools makes it drop lower in our ranking.


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The Assistance Program expresses our care for one another by helping active and retired Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) ministers, employees, and their families in need with financial assistance. Each year, the Assistance Program gives out more than 1,000 grants, for a total of more than $5 million.
Eligibility requirements vary by grant; see the individual grant pages for details. Generally, grants are available to ministers, employees, spouses, and surviving spouses participating in the Benefits Plan of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A).
Minister Educational Debt Assistance helps eligible ministers repay educational debt of up to $25,000 over five years. This makes it easier for them to accept a wide range of positions and wholly commit their best gifts to ministry.
Sabbath Sabbatical Support Grants provide eligible ministers with a portion of the support they need — up to $3,000 — to engage in planned activities for personal and professional renewal.
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Emergency Assistance Grants* are one-time grants that address an emergency or unexpected need facing a minister or employee. Groups of ministers and employees affected by natural disasters may also qualify. The grant is initiated by a mid council, employer, or multiple bodies of the Church, which typically share in its cost with the Assistance Program.
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White House Shifts Focus On Miers
White House Shifts Focus On Miers
(CBS/AP) With Harriet Miers still under attack from the right, President Bush is launching a new, more aggressive strategy in defense of his Supreme Court nominee.
The White House wasn't expecting conservative opposition and it spent much of last week on the defensive. This week, the president and members of the administration are trying to frame the debate around Miers' legal qualifications, reports CBS News senior White House correspondent Bill Plante.
Miers looked close to home for free cases
By CALVIN WOODWARD
WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers looked close to home, or the office, in choosing the free legal cases to take on as a private lawyer. No sweeping constitutional matters for her, or even terribly contentious ones.
She helped a garage attendant for her building complete an adoption. She won a case for a Nigerian woman who was fighting a deportation order. She lost when representing an indigent single mother denied disability benefits.
"She handled small matters," said lawyer Jerry Clements, who has worked with Miers. "Somebody needed a divorce, somebody needed an adoption."
As head of the State Bar of Texas, she urged lawyers to take on more pro bono, or unpaid, cases for the poor, but she resisted proposals to make such work mandatory. "The real issue is how to provide more services of better quality to the poor who need them," she said.
Her Dallas law firm, Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP, didn't keep track of how many free cases she accepted or how many hours she devoted to them, and associates are not aware of her doing so on a frequent basis.
In any event, her pro bono cases were strikingly more private or limited in legal precedent than those taken on by Chief Justice John Roberts when he worked as a lawyer at the Washington law firm of Hogan & Hartson for some 13 years.
In her pro bono work, as in other aspects of her career, Miers left a light mark on matters of great controversy.
Roberts provided assistance on a death row appeal, helped lawyers on Supreme Court arguments to overturn a Colorado referendum that would have allowed discrimination against gays, and advised Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in the 2000 presidential election dispute.
Miers once pitched in with Catholic Charities of Dallas to save a woman from being sent back to her native Nigeria.
That woman "was alone in life with her little baby, just a kind of a victim in a terrible relationship," said Vanna Slaughter, who handles immigration matters for Catholic Charities. The woman's advocates had to demonstrate that she would face extreme hardship if deported, and the charity did not think it could help her win.
Slaughter said Miers met the woman separately, called the charity offering her help, and must have spent more than 100 hours on the case. "It was a pretty daunting situation and she prevailed in it," Slaughter said. "We're forever grateful to her."
Clements said Miers also helped a man who parked cars in their firm's garage. "One of them desperately needed help with an adoption issue," he said.
In 1981 case of Ware v. Schweiker, she represented Carolina Ware, a single mother caring for six dependent children who had sought Social Security disability benefits, arguing that various medical problems had prevented her from working.
Ware, who waived the right to a lawyer in her initial appeal, had her claim denied. She sought another hearing and Miers was her lawyer.
"Now ably represented by volunteer private counsel, obtained through a community legal aid service, an applicant for Social Security Disability Benefits and for Social Security Supplemental Income seeks reversal of the secretary's decision, made after a hearing at which she was not represented, denying her those benefits," the judge wrote.
Ware and Miers lost as the court agreed that the denial of benefits was appropriate. The court said Ware had offered no medical evidence except for her own testimony.
Associated Press writer Donna Cassata contributed to this report.
Maybe Souter's the 'Male Harriet Miers'
In the fight over Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, a lot of really nasty stuff has been said about Justice David Souter as critics try to draw a sharply negative comparison with President Bush 's pick. Namely: Souter was a Republican unknown whose political friends conned former President George H. W. Bush into naming him to the court, where he blossomed into an embarrassing moderate liberal. Conservative Phyllis Schafly sneers that Miers is a "female Souter." Or maybe he's a male Miers: Both are single, in their 60s, frugal, and workaholics. What would happen if Cupid strikes in the court, some ask?
Silly issues, all, say Souter's few allies who'll talk. He isn't paying attention to how Miers's critics are hooking the two together, they say. "I pay little attention to this kind of foolishness, and I don't think he does either," says former New Hampshire Sen. Warren Rudman, Souter's rabbi in the 1990 confirmation. Blasted as a political Trojan horse by even party elders, Souter evidently is ignoring all the harsh words, and friends say he's probably not even aware of the flap. The abstemious justice watches little TV, skips court stories in the media, and devotes all his energy to his work. "That's David," says a friend. "If I told him about what people were saying, he'd say, 'What? I didn't know that.' " Souter's pal pauses, chuckles, then adds: "We should all be so lucky."
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Researchers at HP, chipmaker ARM, and Facebook have dreamt up a new breed of server processor specifically designed to provide quick and efficient access to information on the web's most popular services.
In a paper due to be published next month, the researchers propose a chip that's custom-built to run Memcached, a popular open source software platform that lets services like Facebook, Twitter, and Wikipedia speed the delivery of data to the world's web surfers. In building this chip, you would start with a low-power processor not unlike the one in your cell phone, but then you would add hardware that could help Memcached zip information across a data center network.
It's an intriguing design, but more importantly, it provides a glimpse into how server chips are likely to change over the coming years – and how this will effect the competitive landscape among chipmakers. Today, Intel owns this market because it makes inexpensive general-purpose processors that run extremely fast. ARM's chips aren't as powerful, but the company has something else going for it. ARM licenses its designs to a wide range of chip makers who can then modify them and build all sorts of specialized gear – gear like the system-on-chip proposed in this new paper.
"We've already seen it in the cellphone world. With the iPhone, fifty percent of the chip area is accelerators specifically for this, that, and the other thing," says Thomas Wenisch, a computer science professor at the University of Michigan who also worked on the paper. "Cellphones and data centers are going to become more and more similar."
Intel knows this as well as anyone. Though it doesn't foster a ARM-like community of outside chip designers, it's already working to customize chips on behalf of companies like Facebook and Google, and like ARM, it's fashioning ultra-low-power chips suited to servers. But ARM provides the prospect of even greater specialization and choice – and that's what web outfits like Facebook are looking for.
With specialized chips, Facebook and other web giants can significantly reduce the power and cost need to operate their already massive networks of data centers. "Custom accelerators are just more energy efficient than general purpose processors," says Wenisch. "You'll see a general trend towards specialization."
The new research paper doesn't necessarily reveal the immediate plans of HP, ARM, or Facebook. HP declined to comment on the paper. ARM didn't respond to a request for comment. And Facebook says the paper was not an official company project. The Facebook researcher cited in the paper, David Meisner, did most of the work while completing his PhD thesis under Wenisch.
The paper also names two other former students of Wenisch: Kevin Lim, now with HP Labs, and Ali Saidi, now with ARM. The fifth name on the paper is HP Fellow Parthasarathy Ranganathan, a key figure behind Project Moonshot, the company's much-discussed effort to build servers from "cellphone-class" chips. But that doesn't mean HP will offer servers equipped with chips custom-built for Memcached.
What the paper shows is that there better ways of running certain software inside the vast data centers that underpin services such as Facebook, Amazon, and Twitter. About a year ago, Thomas Wenisch and his fellow researchers started testing Memcached on two different types of servers: one equipped with Intel's Xeon processor, a classic server chip, and one based on an Intel Atom, a chip originally built for cellphones. What they found is that neither was well suited to running Memcached. The Xeon was overkill, and the Atom just wasn't fast enough.
"Xeon class chips are good at this – but they're expensive and they consume a lot of energy," Wenisch says. "But, at least right now, chips like Atom can't run through the operating system code needed to put a packet across the network as fast as they need to."
At a place like Twitter, Memcached is used to store site data that's accessed more often than most. It stores this data not on hard drives, but in computer memory, so that that it can be accessed all the quicker. According to Wenisch, retrieving this data doesn't require much processing power. "It's a really a simple thing," he say. "There's a key in memory. You find it. And you ship it out over the network."
When they started the project, the researchers assumed that the Intel Atom would be well suited to this task. But as it turns out, the chip didn't have the juice needed for the final step. "We were expecting that it would be really great for this – much more cost effective, much more energy effective," he says. "But as it turns out, it's not so great. You still have to go through all this code to push a packet out onto the network – and that limits the performance. The lower-end processors just can't run the networking stack fast enough to really push the network to its limit."
The solution is to build a new chip that includes hardware whose sole purpose is to send the data over a network. Using tools developed by HP, the team mocked up a prototype of the chip, and using simulated models, they showed how effective this setup could be. They call this new architecture "Thin Servers with Smart Pipes," or TSSP for short.
Today, says Andy Konwinski, a University of California, at Berkeley researcher who builds software for use inside large data centers, most of this software still runs on standard server chips. But what this new research paper shows is standard chips aren't necessarily the way to go – something we've already heard from others, including Frank Frankovsky, who oversees hardware design at Facebook.
This is why Frankovsky and others are pleased that so many different chip makers are now building server processors based on ARM's low-power chip architecture and other designs. ARM licenses its core designs to outside companies like Applied Micro and Texas-startup Calxeda, who then modify it for particular tasks. In the end, this gives web giants like Facebook more options to choose from.
ARM chips are dominant in the world of cellphones, and many believe they've got a real shot at taking off in the web data center. "It's essentially a revolution," says Jason Mars, a professor at University of California, San Diego, who looks at ways of reducing power and cost in the data center. "This business model has taken the mobile market by storm," he says, "and it looks like it can translate to data centers."


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Published: 11 July 2012 | Author: Bernard Clarke
Earlier this month, we introduced new instructions for conveyancers acting on behalf of lenders in transactions in which a separate conveyancer represents the interests of the property buyer. The new instructions for separate representation came into effect on 2 July and apply to transactions in England and Wales.
It is important to remember, however, that in the overwhelming majority of transactions the interests of lenders and borrowers are aligned, so the same conveyancer can act for both. This arrangement will therefore continue in most cases. Having the same conveyancer representing the lender and purchaser is usually cheaper and more efficient than separate representation.
In some cases, however, the borrower may want to use a conveyancer who is not on the lender's panel of approved practitioners. In a minority of other cases, there may be a conflict of interest that requires the lender and the buyer to be represented separately or there may be other factors like, for example, the high value or complexity of the transaction, that make separate representation more appropriate. In such cases, it is important that there is clarity on what is required. That is what the new instructions are intended to deliver.
In recent years, lenders have been more active in managing the list of conveyancers they are prepared to instruct to act on their behalf. As a result, there may now be more instances in which a buyer wants to use a conveyancer who is not on a lender's panel. There are a number of reasons for this, including:
- instances where the buyer wants to use a firms that is small, new or has undertaken only a small volumes of conveyancing;
- differences in the ability of firms to deliver services that are specifically required by the lender;
- lender concerns over the quality and probity of work; and
- the commercial arrangements of the lender.
The instructions have been published for the small number of cases in which joint representation is not possible. They are supported by the Law Society of England and Wales and the Council for Licensed Conveyancers.
It is also important to bear in mind that the absence of a conveyancing firm from a lender's panel should not necessarily deter a borrower who wants to use it.
We are concerned, however, about the recent decision by the Law Society of Scotland to consider moving to compulsory separate conveyancing representation for lenders and buyers in every transaction. In our view, separate representation is only necessary for the kinds of reasons cited above, or in cases where the buyer's and lender's choice of conveyancer differs.
As in the rest of the UK, we favour joint representation wherever possible. It is cheaper and more efficient for the lender and buyer, and enables transactions to be completed as quickly and smoothly as possible. Joint representation therefore remains the best option for lenders and borrowers in the overwhelming majority of cases.


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