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The Carmelite Miss Mary BF Hales - Owner of champion Lion - see below at left as well -
Her uncle, Sir Edward Hales [1757 – 29] sixth Hales' baronet , had married Lucy Darell in 1789, one of the daughters of Henry Darell , Esq of Calehill, near Ashford ; among the other titles possessed by the family were Earl of Tenterden , Viscount Tunstall and Baron of Elmley .
Their residence was Hales Place which was built partly with stone from St Augustine' Abbey , containing 135 rooms and 535 feet long . It was named after the original owner , Sir Edward Hales , a friend of king James II [ 1633 – 1701 ] . Hales Place was huge and was described as being more fitting for a monarch than a country gentleman . To give some idea of the size of the place , when it was eventually broken up , there were a total of three million bricks sold [ as a comparison , the 235 foot Bell Harry Tower of Canterbury Cathedral contains a mere half a million bricks ] . The residence was built on the area which is now known as 'The Terrace' and had a remarkable view on the City and the Cathedral . The Chapel at the house , which was a superb structure , regularly held Catholic services for over a 100 people out of a total of 300 Catholics in the County at that time . The house was constructed between 1766 and 1768 but never completely finished by Sir Edward . In fact , the cost of construction of such a large building caused him financial difficulty and gradually other parts of the family estates in Kent were sold off to meet the bills .
There was an indenture , dated 25th November 1788 , to provide for the marriage between the sixth baronet & Lucy Darell and under its terms the elder Sir Edward Hales had sold a considerable proportion of the family property . To discharge his increasing debts , Sir Edward Hales was ordered to raise a sum not exceeding £72,000 . Edward Hales was to enjoy an income of £1,000 per annum during the lifetime of his father , his intended wife £500 per annum in case she survived him . £6,666 was set aside for the portion of Sir Edward's two younger daughters .
Sixteen years later, because of the enormous sums that had been spent by his father on Hales Place , the last baronet had to sell the St. Augustine' property . This was done by Act of Parliament and under the direction of the High Court of Chancery ; divided into 32 lots the property was sold during in 1805 . The Kentish Gazette for 17th March 1829, reported the death of Sir Edward Hales , the sixth and last Baronet ~ On Sunday evening the 15th inst. Sir Edward Hales , bart , at Hales Place, St. Stephen's '. This was the last of the male line of Hales and the estate passed to Edward de Morlaincourt , the son of the late baronet' youngest sister , Mary , and he then assumed the name of Hales .
In the centre ~ Sir Edard Hales of Woodchurch in the County of Kent ceated Baronet 29th June 1611 , the original picture in the collection of James Wadmore , Esq ; at right ~ Sir Edward Hales 6th Baronet , from the original at Sir Edward Hales near Canterbury , published by Edward Jeffery , Pall Mall 1823 . Sir Edward Hales [1569-1654] , 1st Baronet , served in several parliaments, and took part with those that raised the rebellion against King Charles I . He married Deborah heiress of the Harlackendens of Woodchurch . There is little doubt that this was the man who built the present Hales Place ; his later years were troubled by the behaviour of his grandson , who took up arms at Maidstone against the Government in 1648 , and was compelled to flee the country. Edward de Morlaincourt had married Edmee Nicolee Felicie Pulcherie de Sercey, the daughter of Admiral the Marquis de Sercey . Edward Hales [ de Morlaincourt ] died on 12th February 1837 at his residence at Passy , near Paris . The Dowager Lady Frances Hales died in 1832 and was buried in the chapel at Hales Place .
The only child of Edward Hales de Morlaincourt and his wife Edmee NF Pulcherie de Sercey who lived to adult age was Mary Barbara Felicity Hales , born at Boulogne on 4th December 1835 . Her mother, Madame Hales, though she resided at Hales Place , felt England to be a place of exile ; the daughter , on the other hand , as she grew up developed a strong affection for this country and an antagonism towards her French relatives . Also, against her mother's wishes, on 6th January 1858, she entered a Carmelite convent at Paris and took simple vows there on 9th May 1859 under the name of Sister Mary Clare .
When the time came for Mary Barbara Felicity Hales to make over her property to the unloved French relatives , encouraged by the lawyer's clerk who came to arrange the signing of the deed , who happened to be an Englishman , she refused . The vital documents were left unsigned . She was inspired by the numerous conversions occurring , and began to dream of establishing a Carmelite establishment in England . Hearing that the English Carmelites , then at Valognes in the diocese of Coutances were seeking an opportunity to return to their country , either early in 1862 or before then she obtained a transfer .
In March of 1862, having obtained leave from the Bishop of Coutances , she went to England , accompanied by Mother Mary Baptist Pendrell , the prioress and one lay sister , and began building a convent in the extreme north-east section of the Hales Place estate , but it never rose beyond two or three feet of walls , and the chapel was never begun . The difficulties grew greater and greater and debts were incurred . Sister Mary refusing to listen to any of the suggestions of the prioress , eventually dissociated herself from the project .
Thus the attempt to establish a Carmelite foundation in Canterbury ended in disappointment , though Miss Hales' connection with the community lasted until 1868 . Some time after her arrival in England the anomaly of Mary Barbara Felicity Hales' [ Sister Mary Clare ] position as a professed nun in possession of landed wealth was brought to the ears of Bishop Grant [ the one who ordained Henry Van Doorne ] , as a result of which she received a summons to Rome . She travelled there , not knowing the reason , under the care of Dom. Swithbert Palmer of Ramsgate , a Benedictine monk . The result of the interview with Pius IX was Sister Mary's forced dispensation from the vows of obedience and poverty, but not [at her own request ] from that of chastity . Other high favours were heaped upon her to soften the blow : she was allowed to have permanent reservation of the Blessed Sacrament and a resident chaplain . The small reliquary of silver and crystal , which is used at St Thomas' , Canterbury , when the relic of that saint is venerated , formerly belonged to Miss Hales . At first Miss Hales [ whose fortune was estimated at 300,000 lire ] was assisted in her financial affairs by two trustworthy persons , one of whom was Dr. Harting , the legal adviser of Cardinal Wiseman .
A letter from Bishop Grant is preserved in the archives , advising Miss Hales now to settle down and look after her servants and estate . They divulge nothing of what may be called the abnormal features of the case , beyond the statement that she desired a dispensation from the vows of poverty and obedience owing to scruples arising from the administration of her estate , and also that she was somewhat unstable in quitting one Carmel for another.
Miss Hales returned from Italy accompanied by two or three Benedictine nuns of the Strict Observance , as she still intended to found a convent at Hales Place . They occupied one wing of the mansion but left in 1870 , first to Tenby in Wales and then to Fort Augustus in Scotland .
The census of 1871 indicated that she was comfortably settled back at Hales Place , Hackington [ Canterbury ] describing herself as 'a landowner of 4434 acres and a farmer of 900 acres employing 14 men and one boy.' There is in the Southwark archives a note concerning an apostolic visitation held at Hales Place on 15th November 1876 , which was presumably connected with the erecting of the house , which was the novitiate of the monastery established by the monks of Ramsgate on 30th November 1867 at Tenterden . The land on which the novitiate was built was the gift of Miss Hales , who also donated £1,000 at the visitation above mentioned . Neither this foundation nor Tenterden , which had been opened in a house formerly belonging to Lady Chatterton proved permanent .
Generosity to religious causes was probably the cause of Miss Hales' financial undoing as , for example , to the Carmel at Paris and her abortive building undertakings . Her tastes were extravagant and she spent considerable sums on antique furniture and objects of virtu. She was also financially incompetent and probably cheated by some who had business dealings with her . There is a vague tradition concerning an unscrupulous lawyer who one day informed her that she had no more money.
At left ~ Scawfell , b 1874 bred by J Hartley [ch Green' Monarch x ch Briton' sis Lupa] , whose great-grandam Hilda was ch Hales' Lion litter sis ; at right ~ Alike Miss Aglionby , sister Mary Clary also owned a number of Saint Bernards bred by the famous breeder , Reverend John Cumming-Macdona of West Kirby nearby Birkenhead , namely Hilda [29] out of Hedwig ex Gessler , Hermit [30] out of Hospice ex champion Tell , Thunder [31] imported from the Hospice and Hope [32] out of Juno ex Victor .
Webb' book about Dogs mentions the following anecdote of Thunder [31] , related by his owner , Miss Hales ~ ' He is so exceedingly good-natured , and has so much of the real Mount St. Bernard disposition , that he has been frequently seen saving little chickens , which had fallen into his pan of water [which was very deep] and instead of taking them in his mouth to lift them out , as one would naturally expect , he puts his nose under them out and lifts them out most quietly . ~ He always allows the chickens to help themselves to his food before he takes it himself , but when he thinks it is time he also should have some , instead of frightening the chickens away , he quietly takes the can by its handle and walks inside his kennel with it .'
A colourful picture is drawn by Miss Lane in her article , based on materials compiled by the late Major Francis Skeet , FSA , over a period of years , of Miss Hales' last year in her ancestral home at Hackington ; ' The exiled ex-Carmelite had only her maids , in black dresses and veils , to watch with her in the faithful vigils in the beautiful chapel where the sanctuary lamp burned day and night . A visit she paid about 1882 to the Franciscan convent at Taunton was accompanied by two Benedictines from Ramsgate , one of whom was Dom John Luck , her confessor; the other seemed to be in charge of her numerous papers .
Her amusements were her dogs which she dearly loved and kept in large numbers , and that exquisite church embroidery which may still be seen in some of the vestments at Taunton which her growing poverty obliged her to sell . Her release from a life of very peculiar struggles and gallantry came on 18th April 1885 . She died at Sarre Court nr Ramsgate , only 39 years old and in almost abject poverty'.
Besides her champion Lion born 1866 & bred by E. Nichols , Miss Hales also owned other highly bred Mastiffs ~ Fabius born 1869 & bred by M.B. Wynn out of Brenda ex Governor' Faust , Priam born 1871 & bred by Edward Sloane of Manchester out of Sybil ex ch Turk' brother Knight Templar , Bellona born 1868 & bred by Father J. Rowe [ Rev. Henry Van Doorne' old friend ] out of ch. King' sis Nell ex Governor'Prince .
Lukey' Governor great-grandsired Edgar Hanbury' champion Queen [drawn by RH Moore] , the dam of Baron Banbury' famous champion Wolsey , born in 1873 , the year Miss Mary Hales stopped exhibiting her Mastiffs at the shows held under the Kennel Club rules and Hanbury' ch Queen [Lindoe' Druid x Phyllis] & ch Wolsey' sire ch Rajah [Griffin x Phyllis] got the challenge prizes at the most important show of the North, Birmingham , under the judging of Malcolm Bush Wynn who also judged at Birmingham the next year , once again ch Queen & ch Taurus [ch King ex Phyllis] . All three were bred by Edgar Hanbury from his brood Phyllis , being out of Phoebe [Governor x Hanbury ch Duchess] sired by Wolf KCSB 2353 [bred by Loftus Leigh Pemberton of Torry Hill , and successively owned by Malcolm Bush Wynn and Charles Bamford of Impington Hall , Cambridge] .
Below - A tale from Chatterbox , a Victorian children story paper founded by Reverend John Erskine Clarke , and perhaps appropriate within the context of this article about the life of a tormented Carmelite .


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I've been thinking a lot about populism lately, both for professional reasons (see forthcoming projects to be announced shortly) and personal ones. Having imbibed the heady nectar of traditional conservatism from Edmund Burke and his great American interpreter Russell Kirk, I once looked down on populism. Indeed, back in 2010, I quoted Kirk on populism:
Populism is a revolt against the Smart Guys. I am very ready to confess that the present Smart Guys, as represented by the dominant mentality of the Academy and of what the Bergers call the Knowledge Class today, are insufficiently endowed with right reason and moral imagination. But it would not be an improvement to supplant them by persons of thoroughgoing ignorance and incompetence.
There is still much that I find problematic about populism. In particular, many of the populist writers I've been reading hold views—especially on race—that are highly distasteful. This is hardly surprising, given that populism has often been "one of the nastiest of American political movements." F.H. Buckley, Conservatism: Beyond Trump, Mod. Age, Spr. 2018. The Southern agrarians, in particular held severely retrograde views on race and, albeit to a lesser extent, class. See Peter Kolozi, Conservatives Against Capitalism: From the Industrial Revolution to Globalization 83 (2017) (discussing the Southern agrarian project's subordination of "poor whites and African Americans").
As I wrote back when I explained my decision to support Donald Trump's presidential run:
Peggy Noonan wrote that:
I keep thinking of how Donald Trump got to be the very likely Republican nominee. There are many answers and reasons, but my thoughts keep revolving around the idea of protection. It is a theme that has been something of a preoccupation in this space over the years, but I think I am seeing it now grow into an overall political dynamic throughout the West.
There are the protected and the unprotected. The protected make public policy. The unprotected live in it. The unprotected are starting to push back, powerfully.
The protected are the accomplished, the secure, the successful—those who have power or access to it. They are protected from much of the roughness of the world. More to the point, they are protected from the world they have created. Again, they make public policy and have for some time.
I want to call them the elite to load the rhetorical dice, but let's stick with the protected.
They are figures in government, politics and media. They live in nice neighborhoods, safe ones. Their families function, their kids go to good schools, they've got some money. All of these things tend to isolate them, or provide buffers. Some of them—in Washington it is important officials in the executive branch or on the Hill; in Brussels, significant figures in the European Union—literally have their own security details.
Because they are protected they feel they can do pretty much anything, impose any reality. They're insulated from many of the effects of their own decisions.
The protected were thus protected, if you will, from the effects of their decisions on the rest of society:
You see the dynamic in many spheres. In Hollywood, as we still call it, where they make our rough culture, they are careful to protect their own children from its ill effects. In places with failing schools, they choose not to help them through the school liberation movement—charter schools, choice, etc.—because they fear to go up against the most reactionary professional group in America, the teachers unions. They let the public schools flounder. But their children go to the best private schools.
This is a terrible feature of our age—that we are governed by protected people who don't seem to care that much about their unprotected fellow citizens.
Life thus has been good for the protected:
But the unprotected watched and saw. They realized the protected were not looking out for them, and they inferred that they were not looking out for the country, either.
The unprotected came to think they owed the establishment—another word for the protected—nothing, no particular loyalty, no old allegiance.
Mr. Trump came from that.
I've been very lucky in life. I've made it into the outer fringes of the protected class. But I'm one generation out of the unprotected class and my heart is still with them. I share their values and, perhaps most important, their religious beliefs. The secularism and "progressive" values of the new elites have no appeal for me. So I get why Trump emerged.
The messenger doubtless is deeply flawed. Trump is no Washington, that's for sure. Donald Trump would not have been my first choice as a GOP nominee. He would't have been my 100th choice. But if the counter-revolutionaries decide they want Trump as the nominee, I will not oppose them. And I will hope that the counter-revolution has now become too big for one deeply and profoundly flawed man to derail.
Progressive policies are no panacea for the problems of the unprotected. Indeed, to the contrary, progressives stand in opposition to the unprotected.
I draw here on a book to which I came belatedly, Joel Kotkin's The New Class Conflict. In it he notes that 95% of income gains during Obama's first term went to the top 1%. He quotes a Huffington Post author as opining that "the rising tide has lifted fewer boars during the Obama years--and the ones it's lifted have been mostly yachts." (4)
This should not surprise us. Peter Temin sought to explore the now well-documented extreme polarization of income and wealth over the last generation in the US. In seeking to explain it, he split the working population into two sectors. He calls one the "primary" or "core" sector, and estimates it embraces about "thirty percent of the population" It is dominated by finance and technology and consists mainly of college educated workers and managers. In other words, the core or primary sector is what Noonan calls the protected class.
Kotkin breaks the protected class into two groups. At the very top, in terms of wealth and income, are the oligarchs of finance and tech. (6-7) Just below them are the Clerisy, which consist of those working at the top of the academic, media, government, and nonprofit sectors. (8) They created and propagate the political worldview Klotkin aptly calls "gentry liberalism," which has become the prevailing political alignment among both the Clerisy and the Oligarchs.
Gentry liberalism is not concerned with the interests of working and middle class Americans. Instead, it is focused on advancing and protecting the interests of the much smaller—but much more affluent—managerial and knowledge classes and the public sector. Put simply, gentry liberalism is about perpetuating the distinction between the protected and unprotected classes.
Gentry liberalism, identity politics, and abortion make up the tripod on which the modern Democratic Party rests and all of them are deal breakers for me. Which leaves one with the GOP. Bummer.
If the GOP has any sense, it will recognize that the protected class is turning its back on the party.
Here's some interesting statistics from Joel Kotkin's book:
- Out of the 10 political groups to which the top 1% of the top 1% (the 0.01%?) contributed, 8 were liberal.
- Obama won 8 of the country's 10 wealthiest counties. Most by double digits
The inference to be drawn, of course, is that the future of the GOP must be one of detaching itself from the 1%, especially the tech and finance oligarchs who openly embrace progressive values, and embracing a reformed populism.
In sum, I find myself moving towards a reformed right of center populism. I expect to be writing about it a lot in this space (maybe leading up to a book). I hope the GOP follows along.


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Refugee families receive enough government rent assistance to last three months, and food stamps and medicaid benefits don't last forever. Even families that don't speak English, have medical issues, or suffer PTSD because they left a country that's being destroyed by a despot are expected to be self-sufficient after only a few months.
Only one out of ten families get a co-sponsor: a group or church that works with the resettlement organization to provide assistance in whatever ways it can. The other 90% of families either find work and get by, or they must rely on the kindness of others to survive.
A group of volunteers–some affiliated, some not–met with four different Syrian refugee families last night, all of whom really need some of that kindness of others right now. They all have children, and they all need money to buy food and pay bills. They need volunteers with time and cars to drive them to appointments. They need people to look over all these things they get in the mail that are written in the language they don't understand, and help them figure out what they need to do to keep from getting evicted or having their electricity shut off.
Hundreds of you have been so amazingly generous when I have asked for help before. My hope is that we can spread the net wider, and bring in people like you all–people who see how bad things are getting in the world and want to do good–but who are still looking for ways to help.
Would you please pass this message along to anyone who might be able to help in some way? Especially people, businesses, and groups in the Atlanta area who can help out in person.
I will provide my contact information on request.
Thank you. …again.


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If you knew something was tracking your every move—where you've been, where you're planning to go, and who you've been talking to—you'd be on high alert, call the authorities, and try to remove yourself from the situation. Our technology does these very activities and yet millions of people dedicate their day to feeding it more information.
According to statistics websites such as Statista and Smart Insights, 103 million wearable devices were sold in 2016, and there were 325 million connected worldwide. This trend is only expected to rise as wearable devices successfully help consumers manage and increase comfort in their daily lives.
One problem right now is that people often don't understand the risks associated with these wearables. Desktop and laptop computers can be hacked and exploited for information—and so can wearables. Wearable technology as we know it today has not been around long. Learning how it's used not only to track our information but help in instances of litigation through computer forensic and eDiscovery situations is an ongoing process.
However, wearables are extremely vulnerable to exploitation. We'll discuss the risks of wearable devices, why they are vulnerable and which sources we should look towards to resolve these issues.
Information Risks of Wearable Devices
Wearable devices are part of an overall category of electronics termed "The Internet of Things." This category includes items that are always connected online through Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and cellular data, etc. Like all devices that are constantly connected to the internet, they can be discovered and exploited. So, we have to think about what kind of information can be discovered and used. We have an in-depth article about that here. Data stored on these devices can contain some of your most sensitive information—information that could harm you if it was in the wrong hand hands. For instance, if a company is breeched, it could flag compliance issues with PII (Personal Identifiable Information) and HIPAA (Health Insurance Protection Accountability Act).
Many employers use information from wearable devices such as fitness trackers to provide deductibles and benefits to their employees. Each connection to the wearable is a link that must be vetted for security. And one of the major problems is that this data is stored outside of your own internal network of devices. The issue becomes especially serious with smaller companies. Security of these devices is not a new issue but it is an expensive one. Even for the most successful companies, it takes a conscious effort to maintain a secure environment for the data.
One of the most recent cases of information potentially being exploited was uncovered by CNN on Jan. 29, 2018. Fitness trackers worn by military personal were tracking their movements and uploading the data to a heat map for viewing. It was an extremely dangerous situation not only for the individual soldiers on their routes, but for the entire military base which could be stationed in a classified area.
Reasons for Wearables Vulnerabilities
So why exactly are these wearables so vulnerable?
Sources and Solutions for Wearable Security
Where can these attacks come from? Well, it can either be targeted directly at your device, or it could be an existing infection on another one of your synchronized devices. It could also be the parent company of the device or the company providing updates. If they have been compromised, they could easily send out a fake update that infects any user that installs it without knowing.
Additionally, we need to learn to manage where all of this data is located. As new devices cycle into our lives, we need to be aware of the trail of information. In an interview with TechRepublic, Conan Dooley, senior security engineer at Box, talks about the major pitfall of wearable devices. "There is an opaque bubble around all of this data and what we do with it. Until we give people more access to their data and, frankly, the option to delete it, this thing has grown more personal as a result," he said. While deleting data is a complex situation itself, it is a growing issue that must be addressed as more companies enter the marketplace and other risk shutting down or foreclosure. What is the lifecycle of that information?
It is up to the consumer to hold these companies accountable, make conscious decisions when purchasing these wearables and to raise the questions of security as they become more mainstream.
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Friday, July 27, 2012
33 hotel rooms to replace 3 one-family homes
From the Queens Chronicle:
Residents of 186th Street in Fresh Meadows are concerned about plans for a 12-story hotel on their block that will have 49 parking spots.
Jim Gallagher, president of the Fresh Meadows Homeowners Civic Association, said Tuesday the plans he's seen on the Department of Buildings website call for the hotel to be built at 61-27 186 St., next to the former Filene's parking lot. Preliminary plans call for a one-story parking garage to be built in the rear.
Calls to architect Chang Hwa Tan of Elmhurst were not returned and attempts to reach the property's owner, Mayflower Business Group and Xiao Zhuang Ge, of Great Neck, one of the company's principals, were not successful.
The DOB application calls for 33 units. The height of the building will be 127 feet on a 13,000-square-foot lot. The width of the property is 120 feet.
Gallagher said the property — which once housed three single-family homes — is zoned C4-2 and developers can build a hotel there as of right.
Pictured is the "before" shot.
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The DOB application calls for 33 units.
Actually it has 102 hotel rooms and 33 dwelling units (apartments) in total. It will totally destroy this neighborhood.
- Friday, July 27, 2012
I'm very very sorry to say this to the residents on that block but.
Your block is f-d
- Friday, July 27, 2012
Is the nabe zoned for it?
If so sell your house,
or try to adjust to Manhattan congestion.
You have 2 choices.
They don't have enough land in China so the Asiatics have to fill in every available inch in NYC?
- Friday, July 27, 2012
I hope the occupants practice good cleanliness because we'll be living with our noses up their asses.
- Friday, July 27, 2012
That's a very busy area as is. A lil hotel won't make that much of a difference ;)
- Friday, July 27, 2012
What about that mess across the LIE
- Friday, July 27, 2012
Is the nabe zoned for it?
Does it matter? Does zoning even seem to matter anymore in Queens??
- Friday, July 27, 2012
As the article points out, the hotel would comply with zoning; it's as of right. :(
- Friday, July 27, 2012
When is enough going to be enough, it was Glendale with atlas park a few years ago, now fresh meadows must be destroyed. All at that expense of people who don't have council members in their back pockets.
- Friday, July 27, 2012
Wait till Vallone gets to Queens Boro Hall ....
- Sunday, July 29, 2012
You still don't get it folks.
This is an expendable neighborhood.
It was never built
to be one of the better places to live in the borough.
So this is where they dump the high rise that will never be built in Malba, for example.
- Sunday, July 29, 2012
Why do let these Asian developers go through with these permits and build all over Bayside and Fresh Meadows? They are all corrupt and sneaky! Wake up NYC Dept. of Buildings and do your job to stop them!
- Monday, July 30, 2012
No way!
- Monday, July 30, 2012
This 12-storey hotel will rise like a sore thumb in the area. Right now parking is a major problem of residents from nearby residents, & this hotels' guests will intensify the problem. The fenced exclusive parking lot adjacent are always full for the use of the existing stores customers of Federal Realty. The proposed 13-storey hotel will be located in an interior lot with narrow 20 yards street across the residents & too small to accommodate delivery trucks & amount of people to disturb their privacy. The sewer lines & pipes are 75 yrs old!!!
What is DOB thinking? This is a disaster.
- Sunday, January 12, 2014


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This commonly occurs on a virtual machine (VM) where the physical host has changed. The license for SkySync is configured to one specific MAC address, and when the physical host for a VM is changed, the MAC address of the VM will also change. This will cause the SkySync license to become invalid.
To remedy this, please contact Portal Architects support, or restore the VM to the original MAC address.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Horary Astrology and the Judgment of Events by Barbara H. Watters
Pleiadian Perspectives on Human Evolution by Amorah Quan Yin
The Pleiadian Emissaries of Light provide this fascinating chronicle of human spiritual evolution from a galactic perspective. This wider history of our solar system restores the long-forgotten connection of humankind with Venus, Mars, Maldek, and Earth. The truth about our ancient past is uncovered, helping us to remember the experiences that have caused us to function dualistically, and guiding us toward karmic wholeness as unified and divine beings.
Tantric Techniques by Jeffrey Hopkins
Tantric deity yoga is the contemplative practice of visualizing oneself as a buddha, replete with compassion and wisdom, acting altruistically to benefit all sentient beings. This book offers a complete system of Tibetan Buddhist tantric meditation that details the process of transforming oneself through the step-by-step use of the imagination. Hopkins offers a contemporary Western perspective on the practice of deity yoga, based on his study and practice of these techniques.
Runes and Runic Inscriptions: Collected Essays on Anglo-Saxon and Viking Runes by R.I. Page
How, where and why runes were used is still often mysterious; they continue to set puzzles for those who study them, among whom few are better known than the author of this book. Here he investigates evidence from Anglo-Saxon runic coins to Manx inscribed stones, including many of the known Anglo-Saxon runic inscriptions (notably the Ruthwell cross and the Franks casket) and manuscripts, and looks in passing at some Scandinavian material, both in Great Britain and elsewhere. In addition to these detailed descriptions of inscriptions, and of the runic futhorc, or alphabet, on which they are based, Page also considers wider issues on which runes throw light: magic, paganism and literacy. Archaeologists, historians and others will find this a uniquely useful and authoritative volume on Anglo-Saxon runes.
Creative Visualization For Dummies (For Dummies (Psychology & Self Help) by Robin Nixon
The secret to getting exactly what you want from life — from the man who has!
A businessman who has built up, owned and sold software companies, a nightclub, a bed and breakfast (plus a couple of alehouses), author Robin Nixon knows that worldly success has little to do with the world. It begins with one's self—and one's deepest thoughts. When altered, your thoughts have the ability to impact your behavior and immediate universe, and, indeed, your destiny. Known as "Creative Visualization," this powerfully simple tool has adherents as well known as Oprah Winfrey. In Creative Visualization For Dummies, Robin Nixon gives you the practical tools for pinpointing your goals, becoming more assertive and self-confident, and increasing energy levels and creativity—while on a new journey of self-fulfillment.
* Includes useful visualization techniques and exercises that help you tune into the mind/body connection
* Offers psychological approaches that allow you to take real steps towards success and happiness
For those interested in finding a new direction or finally creating their own luck, this tell-all guide—from the man who's capitalized on its secrets—will offer an inspiring game plan for a new beginning.
Sacred Temples of India by Chinmaya Dunste
Reiki Wellness
Monday, November 28, 2011
Full-Phase Aspects: Astrology's Mirror by Michael Erlewine
The heart of modern astrology is all about aspect between the Sun, Moon, and planets, a technique passed down from the ancient Greeks. All astrologers use aspects. What is not so well understood is the importance of looking at both right and left-handed aspects, what are called full-phase or mirror aspects. A right-handed or separating Square aspect is not the same as a left-handed or applying Square aspect, just as we discriminate between a First Quarter and Fourth Quarter Moon and should be interpreted differently. Championed by astrologers like Dane Rudhyar and L. Edward Johndro, mirror aspects have until now never been fully utilized by counseling astrologers. Here is this powerful counseling technique made easy and fully illustrated (145 color illustrations), complete with detailed interpretations written by Michael Erlewine.
776 1/2: Tables for Practical Ceremonial by James A. Eshelman
Have you ever tried to use Liber 777 (really use it!) to design and implement magical ritual? Can you read it without your glasses? Can you read it with your glasses? Can you pronounce the Hebrew names and words in 777 once you can read them? Can you find your way around its tables quickly and efficiently? (Can you answer yes to any of these questions?) Aleister Crowley's Liber 777 remains one of the most important occult references of the 20th Century, demonstrating the interrelationships of diverse philosophical, religious, mystical, and magical systems from around the world. One of Crowley's finest contributions to both practical and theoretical philosophy was this correlation of numerous world traditions, of East and West alike. Yet it has never been very handy for the practicing magician.
Now, this extraordinary compilation by James A. Eshelman, titled 776 1/2, is designed exclusively to support the practice of ceremonial magick. According to its author, 776 1/2 is not quite 777. 776 1/2 contains 182 tables of the most useful practical ceremonial information. Although much of this comes originally from 777, most of the tables have been supplemented and expanded. The Hebrew and other letters are large, clear, and readable. The columns have been reorganized into a more useful sequence.
Additionally, almost every Hebrew word or Name in the entire work is also transliterated into English to assist the practitioner in pronunciation. Numerous typographical and other mistakes from 777 have been corrected. New tables have been added on such topics as: The Genii and Averse Spirits of the 22 Paths from Liber Arcanorum and Liber Carcerorum; the Thelemic, Scandinavian, Assyro-Babylonian, Celtic, Voudoun, and Santeria pantheons; Psychological Attributions of the 32 Paths; use of the Unicursal Hexagram; the Enochian alphabet and three models of its enumeration; and more.
Practical correspondences of animals, plants, precious and semiprecious stones, magical weapons, incenses, magical powers and mystical states, and others have been expanded. And that's just the first half of the book! Supplementing these extensive lists is a new essay on Ritual Construction (which is also a partial study guide to Crowley's Magick in Theory & Practice) and ten sample magick rituals for such purposes as generating magical force, prosperity, obtaining angelic guardians, remapping your character patterns, the highest spiritual attainments, and The Thelemic Mass.
This third revised edition expands the already popular 1995 edition with new tables and additional data. The instructional essays have been significantly expanded and updated to incorporate new teaching approaches. A new Appendix contains instructions for frequently used small rituals of banishing, invoking, and energizing including the never-before-published Liber Pleiades. In this new edition, 776 1/2 has grown so much, it should be renamed 776 3/4!
Magical Pathworking: Techniques of Active Imagination by Nick Farrell
Personality refinement is a precursor to serious spiritual work. Through techniques of pathworking (guided meditation), your imagination can shine a magic mirror on your personality. This inner landscape reveals your world as your unconscious sees it - a perspective that enables you to make dramatic changes, even to the point of rooting out neuroses and recovering from psychological trauma.
Become the ruler of your own Inner Kingdom with pathworking information that has been in the hands of the the Western Mystery schools for centuries. Nick Farrell unveils this secret material along with his own extensive research into imagination and mind magic.
Hatha Yoga Pradipika by B K S Iyengar,Swami Svatmarama
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Sitting in Oblivion: The Heart of Daoist Meditation by Livia Kohn
Sitting in Oblivion, an expansion of Seven Steps to the Tao (1987), outlines the history and intricacies of zuowang, an essential form of Daoist meditation. It divides into two parts. Discussion begins by placing the practice in the larger context of the phenomenology of meditation and Chinese religious history. It then has eight chapters, discussing historical forerunners in pre-Han and Twofold Mystery texts, Tang masters and main works, the theory and practice of Tang Daoist meditation, and its relation to Buddhism and modern science. Translation presents eight core texts, some translated here for the first time, and all with ample annotation. Drawing on decades of Daoist scholarship and meditation experience, this book is the culmination of Kohn s extensive, path-breaking work. It makes difficult materials accessible and greatly enhances our understanding of the complex methods and conceptualizations involved in attaining Dao.
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Learning Ritual Magic: Fundamental Theory and Practice for the Solitary Apprentice by John Michael Greer, Earl, Jr. King, Clare Vaughn
Learning Ritual Magic is a training manual for anyone serious about improving their magic based on the western mystery traditions, including tarot, ritual magic, Qabalah, and astrology. "What you get out of [magic] can be measured precisely by what you are willing to put into it—and time is the essential ingredient in successful magical training," the authors write. And just as no one expects to run a marathon or play a Bach violin concerto without sufficient training, so practitioners of the magical arts shouldn't expect to work complex, powerful magical rituals without a solid grounding in the techniques of Hermetic high magic. By spending at least a half hour a day practicing the lessons found in Learning Ritual Magic, the solitary apprentice attains the proper groundwork and experience for working ritual magic.
Learning Ritual Magic provides lessons on meditation and a set of exercises designed to develop basic skills in imagination, will, memory, and self-knowledge, all of which are absolute fundamentals to magical attainment. While the authors discuss the essentials of magical theory, they focus on daily, basic perspectives rather than launching into details of advanced practice.
Designed for the solitary practitioner, Learning Ritual Magic concludes with a ceremony of self-initiation.
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If you are from another country and planning to visit London, you will definitely go to the famous tourist attractions. Some of these are the London Eye, St. Paul's Cathedral, Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge, Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, British Museum, London Dungeon, Hyde Park, Churchill War Rooms, Trafalgar Square, andBorough Market. These are great places to visit because they hold the important parts of the country's history. The only downside in visiting these places is the huge number of tourist; therefore, you won't be able to enjoy your tour.However, there are other attractions that you won't find in any guidebook. So if you don't want to get stuck in a huge crowd of tourists and not enjoy your trip then you definitely need to try these hidden treasures in London.
- Pedestrian Subway in Crystal Palace
Back then, the Crystal Palace was linked with the Crystal Palace HighLevel railway station. However, the palace was destroyed by fire in 1936 while the station was demolished in 1961. In addition, the pedestrian subway also became an air raid shelter during World War II. The place is beautifully designed but it was closed down due to safety concerns. Though, several organizations are trying to persuade the government to open it once again to the public.
- Hunterian Museum
If you like hunting or simply amazed with animal bones, you should visit the Hunterian Museum. This place was built by John Hunter where he has an amazing collection of anatomy and pathology. He was an anatomist, obstetrician, doctor, and a collector of several oddities. Therefore, he had a reputation of being a mad scientist. In this museum, you will find more than 3,500 preparations, fossils, paintings, and drawings.
- The Ruins of St. Dunstan-in-the-East
This church holds several parts of the London history. It was built during the Saxon time but it was first destroyed due to the Great Fire. Sir Christopher Wren decided to rebuild the place with a steeple design. However, it was finally destroyed in 1941 by the Blitz. The Second Great Fire of London happened when Luftwaffe covered London with bombs. The city was rebuilt but the church was left behind. In 1967, the City of London Corporation decided to turn the church into a public garden. Today, it is one of the London's secret gardens.


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Friendly Water for the World's Congo-DRC Country Representative Eliphaz Bashilwango received a very small grant from the Washington State Environmental Health Association and transformed an entire community. He chose a Batwa/Pygmy village – Kahororo – close to the Burundi border.
The Batwa people are an oppressed minority in central Africa, occupying the lowest rung of the social system. Once forest dwellers and hunters, most have been gathered onto what are essentially reservations, like Kahororo. With 4,000 households, Kahororo has virtually 100% unemployment, no roads, no schools, no health facilities. It is located in a swamp. A decade ago, soldiers came through Kahororo and raped some of the women, infecting them with HIV. And there is no clean water. More than half the children were dying before the age of five, most as a result of waterborne illnesses. When a BioSand program was proposed by Eliphaz, the village headman Anania Shigeru expressed grave doubts as to whether his people could be trained to do anything. Nonetheless, following the training program, the participants (14 men and 16 women) produced and installed 31 BioSand Filters in 38 days. Within three weeks, health started to radically improve, and people were clamoring for more filters. Anania voiced his new-found enthusiasm by stating, "The sustained action of Friendly Water for the World is the first intervention toward the development of Kahororo since the world began. We were yesterday forgotten, discriminated against, and marginalized, but today we now have become proud and worthy thanks to the BioSand Filter program." Since then, a World Bank delegation has gone to the community to witness "the miracle of Kahororo."
52 BSFs and 416 water containers are provided to the 26 orphanages of Goma. These orphanages were established to take in orphans from the 17-year war that ravaged through the country. The orphanages provided a shelter but barely nothing more. There was no clean drinking water nor food. Friendly Water for the World with the help of our medical officer in Congo provided BioSand water filters, which eliminated all waterborne diseases especially cholera that was haunting over the orphans and taking the lives of many. to learn more about this success story please follow the link "We Stopped Cholera".
These orphanages are now disease free but still have very low resources to provide for the orphans. This project aim to provide a couple more filters that will be designated to selling water to the surrounding population and make an income that will help support the orphanages and the children.
See our projects in these countries: TanzaniaRwandaIndiaCongo-DRCKenyaUgandaBurundi


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Rated as one of many high recipe apps in the App Retailer, Food Community's In the Kitchen app is your one-cease store for all issues meals. Burger chain Bareburger last yr partnered with 5 delivery apps, including GrubHub and Caviar, for its West Coast flagship in Santa Monica. Look up Feedie-pleasant restaurants in your space, snap an image of your meals, share it on social media, and your meal will earn a donation for The Lunchbox Fund.
– ENTRY all of your recipes and collections saved on the website. Whenever you search the Web using Yahoo, content material on the Search Results Web page comes from a wide range of sources. Discover Indian recipes, videos, and concepts from Food Community. – Browse over 70,000 recipes out of your favorite Meals Community chefs.
On the Feeding America aspect, food bank workers oversee all incoming donations, and monitor how the food is being distributed out to their companion agencies. In case you are in India, UAE, or Lebanon, it's also possible to order food online for supply, with thousands of great food delivery eating places to choose from.
"In terms of restaurant economics, it just is smart that delivery is turning into an more and more giant portion of everybody's business," stated Allen Wong, president of Silverlake Chinese restaurant Fat Dragon and a accomplice on the Sticky Rice Group.
When you're ready to position your order, you'll see your delivery address, an estimated delivery time, and the total price including tax and reserving fee. In just over a yr it has grown its network to the point where it now features some 250,000 unique customers and over 1,000 companion restaurants and shops.


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7 Piece AllStar Band featuring
Glen Pearson, Janice Maxie-Reid, Robert Stewart, James Henry, Rich Aguon, and Joe Thomas.
Sunday, December 1, 2013 7:30pm in PST
Biscuits & Blues, 401 Mason St., San Francisco, California 94102
The Saxon's Fine Jewelers
On Lite Christmas Nite Holiday Concert
Presented by Cascade Sotheby's International Realty
Hosted by North West Brain & Spine Dr Yundt & Hadden
Lite 95.7 welcomes …
The Patrick Lamb Band
Featuring nine of Portland's greatest jazz performers!
Sunday, December 08, 2013 – 7:00 pm
Athletic Club of Bend, 61615 Athletic Club Dr, Bend, Oregon 97702
Chris Standring Christmas Show With Special Guest Kathrin Shorr.
Come celebrate the holidays with Chris & Kathrin, performing songs from their original Christmas album "Send Me Some Snow". Tickets on sale now. Call 818-769-0905 to make a reservation.
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 8:00pm until 10:00pm in PST
Vitello's Restaurant, 4349 Tujunga Avenue, Studio City, California 91604
An Evening of Smooth Jazz (AEOSJ 2013 Nov) featuring The Miller Group & 496 West
When The Miller Group arrived in East Lansing in 2005 to play at the first installment of An Evening of Smooth Jazz at the Hannah Community Center, they let everyone know "they like to have fun".
A question they've asked the audience at every performance since is, if the audience would like to see them come back? Well, it's been almost ten years and a lot has changed except the audience's response.
The "skinny sax man" as he often refers to himself will be here on the Friday after Thanksgiving.for a special installment of An Evening of Smooth Jazz. Rumor has it that they are bringing a CD of some sort.
Opening the show with a few suprises will be Lansing's 496 West.
Platinum VIP: $40.00 with a pre-concert reception, complementary appetizers, seating in the front of the theater.
Individual Tickets: $25.00 All seats reserved
Group sales: http://bmrwpromotions.com/group-tickets/ or call 517-372-7246
Friday, November 29, 2013 – 7:30 pm
Margaret-Livensparger Theater, 5885 W Holt Rd, Holt, Michigan 48842
For two decades, the contemporary jazz quartet known as Fourplay has enjoyed consistent artistic and commercial success by grafting elements of R&B, pop and a variety of other sounds to their unwavering jazz foundations. In the course of a dozen recordings – six of which have climbed to the top of Billboard's Contemporary Jazz Album charts – the supergroup has continued to explore the limitless dimensions and permutations of jazz while at the same time appealing to a broad mainstream audience.
Fourplay featuring: Bob James, piano & keys Chuck Loeb, guitar Nathan East, bass Harvey Mason, drums
Two shows nightly, 8 & 10:30 p.m.
Blue Note Jazz Club, 131 West 3rd St, New York, NY 10012


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W hitehall voters will have a series of choices when they cast their ballots during the March 15 village elections.
Republican Kan Bartholomew won his party's caucus vote over William Rathbun and will be running for mayor. The Democrats nominated Peter Telisky, a former town supervisor and village mayor, who was the only candidate to file for the position. In the past, Telisky had been registered as a Republican.
Rathbun told party officials that if he did not get the nomination, he would run as an independent candidate.
Bartholomew was elected to the board of trustees a year ago, along with Walt Sanford, a Democrat, who has one more year on his term.
Voters will also choose among three candidates for two seats on the village board of trustees.
Democratic incumbent Michael LaChapelle has filed to run for another term. Mayor Francis "Fra" Putorti and Trustee Sally Raino did not run this year.
Marge Mohn, who is active in tourism issues, is the other Democratic nominee for trustee.
The Republican candidate for trustee is Dan Welch, a former Glens Falls police officer who was recently hired by the town as its recreation director.
George Armstrong, acting chairman of the Republican Party, said it was atypical to not have a candidate for every open seat. "It is unusual," he said. "But we advertised as much as we could and got the word out."
Democratic Chairman Scott Martell said his party's caucus went quickly because the party had the minimum number of candidates. "In that case, the secretary casts a single vote," he said.
The Republicans had their caucus open for three hours for their members to choose between Bartholomew and Rathbun, who established one of the area's maple sugar houses. Bartholomew was nominated by a 26-4 vote.
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|On the second day of their Orkney Islands visit, Crown Princess Mette-Marit and Crown Prince Haakon visited the Skara Brae (UNESCO World Heritage Site) on the Orkney Islands in Scotland. Skara Brae is a stone-built Neolithic settlement. 17 June.
Princess Mette-Marit and Prince Haakon visited Skara Brae
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MM looks adorable! She seems so much happier and pretty in casual clothes.ReplyDelete
Voilà un couple qui a toujours l'air amoureux et complice. Très peu de fla fla pour eux!ReplyDelete
It's nothing about fashion here, but I like them like that, casual and very relaxed on such occasions!(except "his" trousers...)ReplyDelete
I love the second photo! They couldn't look any happier!ReplyDelete
They love unofficial events, both are glowing here! And they are really happy and comfortable in sporty and casual clothes.ReplyDelete
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I was trying to decide what paintings to bring to my blog this week and it became really clear while I was helping my daughter move her business into her new offices on Wolf Ledges Parkway in Akron. If anyone knows the background of the name Wolf Ledges Parkway, I would love to know what it is. Loving wolves, it was a perfect name for her new location and it made me think of all the wonderful photo shoots I have had at Wolf Timbers in Bolivar Ohio. I hope you enjoy.
The featured painting is a watercolor and ink painting of Nira, Keeley, and Ingo. Every line was inked in first and then it was painted using a watercolor medium. This painting took me 6 months to paint and I loved every minute of it. The 5-6 photos that I used to paint this from were from the first photo shoot that I had at Wolf Timbers. On my About Me page, you will see a picture of me being face kissed by Nira as I am holding my breath and being very still. Being face kissed is actually a great honor but the first time is especially awesome. Continue Reading…
This week we have gone from temperatures in the 30s to the 60s and my poor little crocuses are blooming with snow coming in the next few days. But it made me think of spring and I remembered my photos of monarch butterflies in Maine. The shots were actually in the Fall, but the daisies were still blooming in the warm sunshine.
Last week I visited a friend in Naples Florida and had a wonderful time visiting the Everglades and walking on Barefoot Beach looking for shells. I took my little camera and was able to use it for the first time since my accident, September 23, 2014. It was so much fun and I got some great photos which I played with all weekend. The featured image is an untouched photograph, but the others I played with in Photoshop and Painter. I usually go for more realistic art but really liked my abstract stork this week.
No visit to the Everglades would be complete without an alligator picture and this one was sitting right on the edge of the road just asking for us to take pictures. And there were birds of every kind.
My small camera is an Olympus OM-D. I took two lenses, a 45-200mm and a 12-50mm.
I think this photo of the Great White Heron is my favorite although Barefoot Beach is a close second.
A walk on a beach wouldn't be complete without a conch shell. I didn't realize there were so many different varieties.
The day was perfect and you could see forever. I hope you enjoy. Safe journeys until we meet next week.
This week I am going to change things up a bit and look at a little history. I have mentioned that I am a third generation artist, so I thought I would show a few of my great aunt, Annie Puckett's watercolors. It is interesting that the watercolors are actually sketches for later oils. She was in Paris in the late 1800's to early 1900's and these paintings are of Versailles, Madame du Berry's bedroom and other locations in the area that are not identified. I have not been able to find the locations, even after a trip to France with my granddaughter several years ago. The featured image above is an over the door drawing in Madame de Sevigne's home in Paris. Continue Reading…


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How To Make Good Asparagus
Susan Feliciano
My daughter wrote this recipe out when she was young. We have followed it ever since. Years ago we actually raised asparagus for a few seasons - remarkable flavor! I think that may have made her opinionated where asparagus is concerned. Cute!
1 lbfresh asparagus
3 Tbspwater
How to Make How To Make Good Asparagus
- First, NEVER use canned or frozen asparagus; only fresh tastes good.
- Second, BREAK off woody tips of asparagus by holding the stalks in the middle with one hand and at the cut end with the other hand, and bend until the stalk snaps. Do these one at a time for best results.
- Third, FIND a microwave dish that fits the asparagus close to perfectly, so you don't have to bend the stalks. Add 3 tablespoons water and COVER the dish.
- MICROWAVE on high power 3 to 4 minutes, depending on how much asparagus you have and how hot your microwave oven cooks. Recommended times are 4 minutes for up to 750 watt ovens and 3 minutes for ovens 1000 watts or greater.
- SERVE immediately with honey-mustard dressing (Marzetti's is best). REMEMBER asparagus is a finger food; just pick It up, dip it in the dressing, and eat it. DELICIOUS!
About How To Make Good Asparagus
Course/Dish: Vegetables
Main Ingredient: Vegetable
Regional Style: American
Dietary Needs: Vegetarian Diabetic Gluten-Free Vegan Low Fat Dairy Free Low Sodium Wheat Free Low Carb
Other Tags: Quick & Easy For Kids Healthy


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Do you want to make a career out of graphic designing? Do you want to be a sought after professional of the field? Along with technical studies, there are some essential basic skills graphic designers must master to progress in this field.
If you can acquire these skills, you can very well make it to the top.
1. Imagination – Ability to Create a Vision
2. Sketching – Skill of Drawing Ideas
3. Aesthetic – Eye for Beauty
4. Techie – Handy with Graphic Software
5. Knowledge – Know Graphic Concepts
6. Hard Work – Creating from Scratch
7. Originality – Do You Have What It Takes?
8. Being Humble – I'm Not Mr. Know-it-all
9. Positive Attitude – Ability to Take Criticism
10. Take a Chill Pill – When to Let Go
I hope this list was able to spark some positive thoughts in all aspiring graphic designers out there. Did we miss any skill you think is an essential for being a good graphic designer? Do let us know!
Images Source: Unsplash
Blog Update: 5 June 2015
*This post was originally written by Alexis Stone.


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Here in the UK, a common method used to make a deposit or withdrawal when using an online casino is by using the bank transfer option. While it may not be the quickest or most straightforward method, the higher limits on the amounts you can transfer makes this an attractive option for high rollers.
How does a bank transfer work?
Almost every online casino you will encounter in the UK offers bank transfers as part of their deposit and withdrawal options. It is also quite common to see them referred to as 'wire transfers'. In order to make a bank transfer to a casino you will need the casino's banking information (displayed under wire or bank transfer option), and a bank account of your own.
Sending a bank wire to online casinos
Following the initial sign-up process at a bank transfer casino, you will need to find the cashier and the section relating to bank or wire transfers. Here you will be presented with all of the necessary information relevant to making a bank wire deposit. These details will include the recipient's account name, bank name, bank address, IBAN, Swift Code, account number, sort code and a reference (usually your user name).
After you have the information needed, it is time to decide how much you want to transfer. At this point you should check with the casino in question if there are any minimum transaction amounts. There almost certainly will be and a minimum amount of around £100 is common.
In order to make the wire transfer, simply visit or call your banking provider. They will ask you to provide them with the bank details of the recipient's (the casino) account and the amount you wish to transfer. After you supply the requested information, they will send the money. Please be advised that different banks charge different fees for using this service so it is always worth enquiring into the costs before you commit to the method.
Receiving a bank wire from gambling websites
The process of making a withdrawal via bank transfer is essentially the same as the deposit, only in reverse. This time you supply the casino with your own information and amount you wish to cash out and the money is sent to the bank account associated with the supplied details. Again, your bank may or may not charge a fee to use this service so please check so as not to be hit with any surprise charges.
Pros and cons of bank transfer casinos
There are several advantages and disadvantages to using a bank transfer for making a deposit and we've grouped them together below to help you make the most informed decision when picking a casino and a deposit option to use.
Anonymity of deposits
Owing to the fact that you do not need to link a credit card with your online casino account, many people find the idea of a bank transfer more secure and ultimately more appealing. For the most security conscious, the fees and extra time associated with bank transfers are a small price to pay for this increased security. If you are uneasy about supplying gambling websites with personal details, a bank transfer might be the best idea for you.
High value deposits and withdrawals
Bank transfers do not suffer from the same maximum deposit and withdrawal limits that the likes of Visa and MasterCard sometimes do. While this is unlikely to affect the recreational player, some high rollers would not be able to get the amounts they like to play with online without making use of a bank or wire transfer. If you are attempting to play the highest stakes possible bank transfers are one of the best banking methods. eWallets, such as PayPal, Skrill and Neteller also offer high deposit/payout limits and are quicker.
Speed of transactions
Unfortunately, bank transfers do take considerably longer than Visa, MasterCard or American Express transactions to process. This is a big hindrance for many players who just want to get themselves some funds online to play with. However, if you are committed to getting large amounts of money onto a site or are concerned about the security of your information then the bank transfer option is worth the additional hassle that it entails.
Minimum required amounts
Another feature of the bank transfer that some users will find off putting is the minimum amounts that are imposed on all bank transfers. These are much higher than the token £5 for credit or debit transactions and can be as high as £100 or even more. Naturally for lower limit players this method is unattractive and we recommend Paysafecard or EntroPay.
The final major drawback of using a wire transfer to get money online is the fees that the bank you use will almost certainly charge for using their service. Whilst these are rarely huge, on smaller transactions they can eat into the total and make the process less than worthwhile. Those who value the additional security that the bank transfer can afford will often see the fees as a fair trade off for the increased protection they enjoy from the method.


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Come by the store on Sundays to check out what Nancy has chosen for our "Nancy's Sunday-Only Special". You never know, your favorite inks, stamps, papers, etc, might be on sale!
***Also, We have received a new order of SMOOCH accent inks.
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Memorial Day Weekend
We were fortunate to have both Kathie Shepherd and Judy Ross, owners of "The Creative Quest," teach classes at Stamping Details this past fun-filled Memorial Day Weekend!
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Our 1st Kyxy Promotion Winner!
We recently participated in a joint San Diego craft store promotion on Kyxy radio. Gift certificates were donated, and our first winner, Annie, stopped by to visit. Congratulations Annie, and welcome to the Stamping Details family!
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Community Support
This week we were privileged to receive a visit from Leslie Altman's (one of our teachers) granddaughter to thank Stamping Details for supporting her in the "Miss Teen Poway" competition. Congratulations to Pilar Altman, "First Runner Up Miss Teen Poway"!!
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Monday, May 11, 2009
Printwork's Stamp Board of the Month
We have just received all of the stamps that accompany Printworks' May 2009 Board, titled, "May Flowers."
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Asian Persuasion
Haven't figured out what to do with the new handmade Japanese Washi papers DiAnn brought back from Japan? We have, and we'd love to show you! There is still room in Evelyn's adorable class, "Asian Persuasion," on Saturday, May 16th, from 1:30-3:30pm . Please call us at: (858) 513-8024 for an easy sign-up.
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Australian Premiere
After a decade of partying, Laura and Tyler's friendship is strained when Laura falls in love. But what is really stopping her from fulfilling her dreams?
Laura and Tyler have been flatmates and best friends for 10 years, marauding around the streets of Dublin, rejecting the expectations that bombard modern women and acting purely on desire. For Tyler, this is the best version of life, even with the inevitable hangovers, but when Laura's (younger) sister Jean gets pregnant… on purpose… Laura panics. Should she still be partying into her mid-thirties? And what has her supposed talent as an aspiring writer got her, apart from notebooks full of scribbles?
In an inky-dark bar she meets rising-star pianist Jim, who falls for Laura's wit and passionate attitude to life, and the two soon become engaged. Inspired – or maybe intimidated – by teetotaler Jim's commitment to his work, Laura knuckles down to finish the novel she's been writing for a decade.
Tyler, however, is convinced that marriage is the wrong thing for Laura and that her literary success depends on a life of excess, adventure and – crucially – variety… starting with the devilishly handsome Marty. As Laura tries to balance these precarious pieces of her life, she only makes things worse. Can she really have it all? Or is her life of debauchery with Tyler ruining her attempts to create something meaningful? As Laura struggles to come to grips with what it is that she really wants, she begins to realise that living a life for herself might mean leaving someone else behind.
Director Sophie Hyde | Producer Sarah Brocklehurst, Rebecca Summerton, Cormac Fox, Sophie Hyde | Screenwriter Emma Jane Unsworth | Costume Designer Renate Henschke | Cast Holliday Grainger, Alia Shawkat, Fra Fee, Dermot Murphy, Amy Molloy, Kwaku Fortune, Olwen Fouéré, Pat Shortt
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Sophie's debut-fiction film 52 Tuesdays (director/producer/co-writer) was set and shot every Tuesday for one year and won the directing award in World Cinema Dramatic at Sundance and the Crystal Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. Her first episodic series F*!#ing Adelaide, which she created, produced and directed screened at Berlin Film Festival and Series Mania in 2018 and screened on Australia's ABC1 and iview to glowing reviews. She produced and co-directed the acclaimed feature documentary Life in Movement, winner of the Australian Documentary Prize in 2011 and the Cinedans Jury and Audience prizes. She has been commissioned to make made screen based work for the National Portrait Gallery, Carriageworks and the Art Gallery of South Australia. She also works as a Producer and believes strongly in nurturing new voices. She was recently mentor and executive producer on A Field Guide to Being A 12-year-old-girl, the directorial debut of Tilda Cobham-Hervey which won the short film Crystal Bear at Berlin Film Festival this year. She produced Matt Bate's feature documentaries Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure and Sam Klemke's Time Machine, which both premiered at Sundance. She is currently producing a feature documentary by Maya Newell (Gayby Baby) and in will go into production as creator/director of The Hunt, a 4 x 1 hour TV series in 2019. She is a co-founder of film collaborative, Closer Productions.


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Venus Plus X Analysis
(Critical Survey of Science Fiction and Fantasy)
Venus Plus X stresses its themes to such an extent that it seems more a social and philosophical treatise than a novel. Ideas predominate over plot. In its themes, the novel is culturally notable for two reasons. It was written by a man, and it preceded the flowering of women's science-fictional critiques of sexism by approximately a decade. Theodore Sturgeon addresses issues of sex and gender by presenting contrast through a sort of experimental "control group," a world in which these factors are not present. His method reminds readers of the definitive force of sex and gender in the present. Technically, his idealized world is not feminist but rather hybrid and one-gendered, in this approach paralleling Ursula K. Le Guin's well-known The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) and contrasting with more partisan utopias by and about women such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1914; book form, 1979) and Joanna Russ's angrier The Female Man (1975). Variations on these themes also figure significantly in fiction by Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, and Marge Piercy, among others. Modern science fiction has become a major vehicle for social and cultural commentary, and Sturgeon's book stands early in one thematic strand of this commentary.
Throughout his long career, Sturgeon was intrigued with the theme of human limitations, limitations on individual thought and emotion as well as constricting social conventions. This concern typically takes two sometimes intertwined science-fictional directions in his work: a negative and satirical view of society's thwarting of free thought and love, and a positive imagined utopian world or individuals "more than human" (the title of perhaps Sturgeon's best-known novel, published in 1953). Venus Plus X combines these approaches in its description of the failings of the everyday along with the perfections of a highly fanciful world.
Sturgeon has been noted more as an author of science-fiction short stories, beginning during the late 1930's contemporaneously with A. E. van Vogt, Isaac Asimov, and Robert Heinlein (all of whom helped establish the influence and popularity of John W. Campbell, Jr.'s magazine Astounding Stories). In his tales, Sturgeon's emphasis is on the social and psychological rather than on the facts of science and technology. His supposedly innovative narrative techniques have been faulted for being derivative, and his stress on love and rebellion is sometimes adolescent in its tone.


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IRG plays a key role in our retail relationships, as a well-managed, secure WAN is the foundation for almost all other technologies retailers need. —Eric Olafson, CEO, Tomax
Pittsburgh (PRWEB) June 02, 2014
Industry Retail Group, Inc. (IRG) (http://www.industryretail.com), a Vector Security company and provider of retail-centric, broadband-based applications and managed services, announced its Platinum Sponsorship of the Visibility 2014 User Conference held by Tomax. The Visibility Conference will be held June 3-4, 2014 at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center.
The Visibility Conference is Tomax' key customer and ecosystem partner event. The Tomax Retail.net solutions and partner technologies and services are featured across compelling retail areas including data security, Omni channel, mobile, cloud and big data – as well as all the infrastructure and services required to support real-time retailing. IRG has been a strategic partner to Tomax and Retail.net for many years and have numerous shared customers. Tomax and IRG work in partnership to deliver these technologies securely and seamlessly to their retail clients.
Paul Gillmore, IRG's Vice President of Sales, will be presenting how Vector Security's acquisition of IRG in 2013 now leads the groundwork for true business visibility for retailers. IRG's CEO & President Mike Luzio shared, "Paul Gillmore has a keen understanding of the demand on retailers—to improve customer experience while maximizing security and operational efficiencies. We're glad to have him present how we come alongside retailers to meet these demands."
The two-day Visibility Conference will feature 14 other retail technology vendors, as well as a keynote address by Noelle Pikus Pace, silver medalist at the Sochi Winter Olympics.
"We were so pleased when IRG stepped up to serve again as our Platinum sponsor," said Eric Olafson, CEO of Tomax. "They play a key role in our retail relationships, as a well-managed, secure WAN is the foundation for almost all other technologies retailers need. We've built a strong relationship and have the same objective: bringing innovative technologies to our clients and executing as promised every time."
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Tomax solution, Retail.net, is the leading cloud+mobile solution for retailers. Everything and everyone is connected: from master data to merchandising, store ops and the entire customer experience. Retail.net is a platform for the mobile enabled associate, a better customer experience, higher average transactions, and lower IT costs. Now serving: over 50 chains and independent retail groups representing over 25,000 stores. Check out our family of bolt-on, on demand solutions for retailers at http://www.retail.net.
About Industry Retail Group
Industry Retail Group, Inc. (IRG) (http://www.industryretail.com), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vector Security, is a Gartner-recognized, and VISA PCI DSS validated, provider of customized managed network services, offering a comprehensive portfolio of broadband and broadband-centric services targeted to retailers and other multi-site companies. IRG is single-source purveyor of managed IP communication, application and turnkey professional services; plug-in IRG applications such as Hotspot and Enterprise Wi-Fi solutions, Mobility, Hosted VoIP, and IP-based Video Surveillance to further leverage customers' broadband investments. IRG's client base includes Fortune 1000 retailers, quick-serve restaurants and convenience store chains.
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For more than 40 years, Vector Security, Inc. (http://www.vectorsecurity.com) has been a premier provider of intelligent security solutions tailored to the needs of the customer. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, the company offers a full suite of electronic security services for residential, business and national account customers across North America and the Caribbean through a network of branches and authorized dealers. Vector Security is a sister company of the Philadelphia Contributionship, a mutual insurance company founded in 1752, and currently provides cost-effective, technology-based security solutions to more than 270,000 homes and businesses.


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The Pacific Ocean. It was AWESOME.
Me doing my thing (I was in heaven):
Glaciers did this:
Did woodpeckers make these holes I wonder?
Greggy says this is a sea otter pathway:
I wonder how this log got those cuts. Some logging thing?
Above the sea. A little grassy area...
...visited by rabbits!
Man, they got some big kelp!
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December 31, 2008
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Thirty seconds after we arrived in Powell River...
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It has been more than I had imagined in the past five years. I have had success with my blog and I have had failure and like everything else in life I have learned from it all and continue learning every day. I have made connections with some of my favourite brands and have had the opportunity to do things I couldn't have done without the doors my blog has opened. Above all I have made many friends. People who I may or may not have had the opportunity to meet face to face but have touched my life in some way to be considered having a special place in my heart.
To me, AME is more than just another Mommy Blog. A Motherhood Experience is a special place on the Internets. From my fellow bloggers who motivate each other and have shown me the blogging world is its own special community by itself, to readers who keep coming just to see if there`s a new funny story or giveaway, you are the ones (besides my family) who inspire me to continue on. Inspire me to continue to do what I love and love what I do. I am a blogger and proud to be.
You`d think after five years I would have organized some kind of celebratory giveaway but once again, I completely forgot until about a week ago and well there just wasn`t any time to come up with anything good. If you haven`t already, you can head over to the giveaway section and enter some current giveaways!
So here`s a post or toast if you will to five years of A Motherhood Experience and to the next five, Happy Blogiversary AME!
Posted by AME in celebration of A Motherhood Experience`s 5th blogiversary. Opinions and comments on this blog are honest and those of the author!


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Color your World Stress-Free
Color therapy has been successfully used in mediation by using chakra healing points as well as within your environment to stimulate mood chnages.
Our senses are heightened by lights and different shades of paint. These alter our mood just as does watching a candle flicker in the night or the stillness that is generated by viewing light reflected and shimmering off crystals.
Color Therapy has the power to spawn many elements leading to success.
There are many applications of color therapy and practitioners are continually increasing the span into many fields of expertise. This is also called chromotherapy.
Color therapy has been targeted more and more by the holistic and alternative treatments as they unveil the benefits and healing that these colors can provide.
Interior designers and others use colors to stimulate emotions and moods meant to inspire the owner and bring about emotional reactions. Specific colors can be used to instigate success, prompt consumers to purchase, initiate relaxation and calm experiences, provoke hunger, improve memory, promote energy and so on.
Some of the tools used in color therapy as well as in your immediate surroundings to stimulate relaxation are precious stones, candles, prisms, crystals, colored fabrics, light bulbs, paint, and art.
Color is energy. You can also create strong colors and relaxation using mental imagery. The mind is composed of pineal glands which when introduced to light will stimulate our psychological functions which in turn can alter and affect our moods. Different colors emit different shades (colors) of light and this can trigger us to feel particular sensations.
Just as mental imagery triggers the muscles to respond when you are imagining that you are physically doing something or when you are watching a movie and your muscles tense in the anticipation of an event happening on the screen – colors also stimulate the body and mind.
When working with meditation and the balancing of chakras, colors are utilized to unblock meridians. There are seven colors that are associated with the chakras spiritual energy centers at different spots on the human body. When a chakra point of origin is out of balance it can be that you have an overabundance or a deficiency in this particular area of your life.
Once you determine which chakra is out of balance, you can visualize and bring to life that color and its energy through your minds eye and focus the healing energy in that unbalanced chakra. This chakra will be strengthened, balanced, and harmonized with the others by the use of your own mental vibrations.
A person who is knowledgeable in meditation can flood any weak organ with the color indicated for normalizing that organ if he projects that color in his mind before and during his meditation.
Although there are colors and the perceived emotions they may conjure, I don't believe each color has been researched and proven to be one hundred percent accurate.
This doesn't mean that the information is less valuable it simply means that you must experiment with color therapy and see which colors elicit the mood that you are attempting to bring fourth.
To give you some guidelines as to what colors stimulate what moods I've listed a few of these below.
Red correlates with the Base Chakra located at the base of your spine. This chakra is the one of focus if you need help in the area of survival, meaning shelter, food, and water to meet your daily needs.
Orange correlates with the 2nd Chakra located in the lower abdomen. This chakra is the one of focus if you need help in the area of sexuality and desires. . It can be used to correct digestive problems and eating disorders. This can stimulate the nervous system and increase your appetite.
Yellow correlates with the 3rd Chakra located in the belly button area called the solar plexus. This chakra is the one of focus if you need help in the area confidence, control and security in your life.
Green correlates with the 4th Chakra located in the heart area. This chakra is the one of focus if you need help in the area in healing any emotional turmoil, past hurts and complaints. Strengthens security and trust, replaces energy in areas of weakness.
Blue correlates with the 5th Chakra located in the throat. This chakra is the one of focus if you need help in the area of self absorption. It opens you to positive communications with others. It promotes understanding and compassion to see other's perceptions rather than blocking out whatever you cannot personally relate to.
Indigo correlates with the 6th Chakra located on your lower forehead between the eyes. This chakra is the one of focus if you need help in the area of developing your intuition and dissipating your narrow mindedness.
Violet correlates with the 7th Chakra located on the top center of your head. This chakra is the one of focus if you need help in the area of creativity and imagination. This chakra makes use of your sixth sense and gives you the strength to follow your intuition.
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