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So during the past weekend, TFCon 2019 took place at its usual place at the Hilton in Mississsauga, ON. Having nothing else to really do, I of course did the responsible thing and dragged my four year old along with me to this perennial event. I only bought two things before tapping out fiscally, though I will say that I definitely spent more that I usually would. When I get around to posting item number two, I'm confident most of you will probably agree it was worth it
Item #1 however, is a bit more mundane as it were. As with most shows, TFCon had exclusive figures (usually recolours) for sale by way of one of the sponsors. Being a lover of anything with female boobs (or close to it), I opted to pick up Zinnia.
Now.. who the hell is Zinnia? I.. don't have a clue.
Zinnia is a recolour of a third party Arcee product produced by Ocular Max. I don't know how popular their stuff is. I don't know what the expectations were quality wise. I just knew it was a "she", and off I went. I don't have a clue where the name came from, but her colour I believe is based on the Paradon Medic characters from Transformers mythos.
Third party figures, for the uninitiated, are not bootlegs, but are rather unofficial figures, made usually because Hasbro drops the ball somewhere. Zinnia is one of several MP scaled Arcee products out there.This being an exclusive ended up being $120 CAD.
Every company uses the general character idea, and tweaks things here and there. The vehicle mode is very reminiscent of the Arcee we G1ers know (and sometimes love.. at least before it got creepy with Daniel), though the windshield is a bit on the small side.
A few things to note are that I didn't know this at the time, but the seats already came prefolded for transformation, so I didn't quite get a photo of that. There is also an interchangeable antenna so you can use its more typical fin-like appearance (thus being more in line with G1 Blurr), and there are spots to put her twin pistols.
Transformation into robot mode is generally quite satisfying. Tolerances of parts were surprisingly, very good, with the only real gripe I have is that the backpack doesn't quite lock into place perfectly. I also wish the actual upper chest/should combination locked into place, or at least held itself a bit more securely.
Oh, speaking of transformations, props out to Occular Max. Pictures are one thing, but the written blurbs help a lot as well... mind you much of this might be an issue for me simply because MP figures have Japanese instructions,but it's worth giving credit for.
The finished robot mode is pretty much bang on what is advertised on the illustrations. Zinna has an impressive array of articulation including double jointed knees and elbows, thigh, hip, ankle, toe, upper arm, shoulder, mid torso, neck, and head. Ankles are a bit different than what you could expect, with two separate swivel joints rather than one single ball joint. While a bit more secure, it does look a bit on the odd side. The knees have a certain range of movement within which its actually gripping and holding the leg in place - once beyond this it goes limp noodle as that is what is needed for the transformation.
Eagle eyed readers will note that the box indicates there is Die Cast metal in this figure. There isn't a lot, but for what it's worth the entire lower leg and feet are metal.
The only thing that gives it away that this is a third party figure is the finish on the product. Don't get me wrong. The QC on this figure is definitely tighter than most, if not all, of Hasbro/Takara mainline product. But you'll notice here and there some crude plastic finish, and the paint apps can be a bit on the weaker side.
Further enhancing your display options are the various optional parts Zinnia comes with. She has three expressions (neutral, crazy stalker girlfriend, Lara Croft) and four sets of hands total, one pair of which is dedicated to holding her twin pistols. She has, for reasons, two pairs of open palm hands with slightly different finger placements. I guess one of them is to supplement a single pistol pose?
Also, why does a medic pack so much heat? Beats me.
My personal favourite is the combo of crazy stalker girlfriend and the twin pistols. She looks so deranged that clearly this is the safest, most family friendly combination you can have on the figure, and will naturally create the fewest questions about your sanity and tastes.
I'd say overall, I'm quite impressed with this product. Being an exclusive, I imagine the MSRP on a mainline item might be what, $20 less or so? So for $100 CAD, it's a pretty solid MP style product. Will I go all out and get them all? Not likely - not all characters are worth MPing, and if I can resist them on the Takara side, these more expensive items can be easily resisted by me. But, it does give me a sense of what the even more expensive figures might be like.
In conclusion,I suppose now that I've got a taste of 3P flesh, it's only a matter of time before i strike again.
I couldn't resist posting something, I'm so proud and excited. It's a terrible picture, but there are my suspicious new boys.
Basically, I answered an internet ad for a woman who was giving rats away, along with a cage, for free. My friend Marianne, who has a zoo of her own that includes rats, kindly came with me to offer moral support (and her husband Kevin generously provided his services as a driver--I wouldn't have been able to do it without them). The "free" part turned out because the cage is broken and the rats are feeder rats for her snakes--she had them in a shit-smeared tupperware container. The rats were unnamed and untrained. The apartment stank of filth and animal waste, and when she opened the container, her six- or seven-year-old daughter began shrieking with glee and punching the rats on their backs while they panicked.
The stupidest thing possible is to take an animal that is clearly unsocialized from an irresponsible owner. They're probably aggressive. They may very well be sick. I know this very well. I know, I know, I know. But I also knew that if I left them there, I wouldn't be sleeping for a long, long time.
And we grabbed two of the three males (the females would probably be pregnant)
that didn't actively try to bite a hand put near them and we got the hell out. The woman told us that she had just cleaned the cage and we had to drive with the windows down because it stank so much; who knows what it was like before it was "clean."
At home, I emptied all our wastepaper bins and took every accessory and put it all on the balcony to soak in a mixture of soap, vinegar, and hospital-grade disinfectant. And then I stripped and put the cage in the shower with a brush, a brillo pad, and a sponge and just went to work. Then I put it all on the balcony and sprayed it all heavily with disinfectant and just let it sit for half an hour before wiping it down.
And now Kehua and Maihara have a clean, quiet home. I spent some time cooing to them and feeding them muesli through the cage bars, and they've been cleaning themselves and each other like crazy. They already have two totally different personalities. Maihara, a hooded with a grey head and dots down his back, is a bit of muscle. I believe Kehua, the easily spooked little ghost, is a Himalayan (half pink-eyed albino and half siamese), and therefore he is very beautiful but almost blind, with a poor sense of smell and coordination. Don't you love pure-breeding? Grrrr... At least his sense of hearing is normal, and he needs to have a constant murmur of reassurance more than Maihara does.
Interestingly enough, when they were in the dirty cage waiting for me to clean the new one, they were defecating all over the place, and I was so disappointed because I've read rats naturally lean to being housetrained and I'd missed my opportunity with these. But once they were in the clean cage, they immediately scratched a little place in one corner and poo nowhere else.
They are incredibly nervous and jumpy, understandably, and any sudden move or noise causes an explosion of scuffling. I'm already in the habit of sing-songily calling out all my moves: "Nobody panic, I'm getting up!" "Nobody panic, I'm pouring a juice!" "Nobody panic...!" Funnily enough, it seems to work--obviously they don't understand the words, but I think they get the idea and seem to be calmer, though they still flinch and flatten to the ground if you raise your hand suddenly.
I don't know how I thought I could know true happiness before I saw two freshly cleaned rats in a quiet room lay their heads on each other's shoulders, close their eyes, and sigh.
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I photographed this bush over and over again last year without posting any of those images. This, my first effort, was the best--so here it is.
About a year after I bought this place I planted a lilac hedge along the back of the property. The bushes were marketed as miniatures, which turned out to be untrue as the hedge grew to be about a dozen feet tall. But that's OK.
This is the largest bush in the set. It's kind of spooky.
Mayhap I'll post another effort or two before the year ends.
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One of my doctors grounded me for the day a year back, so I kept to the house and yard. It seemed like a good opportunity for a selfie--so I took a bunch of 'em, and posted one.
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This photograph is an outtake from my 2021 photo-a-day project, 365^4.
Number of project photos taken: 67
Title of folder: Around the Yard-Selfies
Other photos taken on 3/18/2021: none
Posting from last October to celebrate the return of OLF Coupeville (weather willing) shortly after high noon 2 February 2016. Going to be fun!
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No Surrealist exhibition would be complete without something by Dutch mathematician Maurits Cornelis Escher! I'd like to think God gave Brother Martin a helping hand, don't you?
Posting 2 perspective shots ... We had some insane winds and some rain in California over the past couple of weeks. The wall couldn't stand up to the elements.
This is the last picture from my Chicago trip. I'm kind of relieved that I'm finished posting those pics now...not because I disliked the trip or the pictures; I liked both. I think it's moreso because I'm itching to show you (and remind myself of) the stuff I've taken since then...particularly my New York trip, which of course won't see Flickr for a couple of years at the rate I go, hahaha.
But yeah. It's been a busy time for me. I've probably said that in the descriptions of the last few pictures. Ally and I have been preparing to move. We've been sorting through the stuff we own and putting some things out to the curb, since we're moving to a significantly smaller place. We signed the lease yesterday, and last night we showed our current place to 7 people; some of whom were definitely interested. I told my landlord, and she replied with a hesitant tone because one applicant was on welfare, and then she said we owe her $72 because she accidentally paid one of our bills, and told us basically to let her try to find new tenants (we were doing that so that we could try to sublet for 2 weeks and get some deposit money back). People owe people money, and that's getting complicated, and there have been randoms yelling at each other outside. It's been a stressful time, but piece by piece, it's coming together. I cancelled the gas service today. Ally cancelled electricity today. Ultimately, we'll be out of here in two weeks and there won't be any gas or electricity or internet for the new people who move in, or for our current roommates, and since the landlord doesn't want the responsible tenants to look for replacements, I guess she'll let the irresponsible tenants do that. And more irresponsible people will move in, and the wonderful cycle of stupid bullshit (to paraphrase George Carlin) will continue. The only difference? Ally and I won't be there anymore.
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In posting shots on other social media last year, it seemed that my shots at Ruckinge were not as complete as they should have been.
I did call in last year, but due to COVID, the church was locked.
On Saturday, we were in Ham Street so I could hunt butterflies, and surprisingly, Ham Street has no church within the village, instead there is Ruckinge and Orelestone to the north and east.
Orelestone I only visited last year, so have not been inside, but Ruckinge I last saw inside in 2014.
Saturday mornings there is a regular coffee morning in the shop, and I arrived just after midday as the refreshments were being packed away. Another role into which parish churches step into as other civic buildings are sold off up and down the country.
The tall, squat dower is visible from half a mile away, towering over the mature trees between. Clearly an ancient construction, Norman for sure, and topped by a wee little steeple.
Being a glorious day, I walked round the outside of the church, recording some of the finer details, like the tympanums over the west and south doors.
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A large church of Norman origins, the west door being a much-weathered example of twelfth-century work. The south doorway is also Norman and has the remains of two mass dials carved into its dressed stonework. The masonry inside the church shows clear signs of fire damage, and a nice crownpost roof of the fourteenth century probably marks the date of the rebuilding after the fire. Of the same period are the returned stalls on the south side of the chancel - the fronts being little more than a series of plain upright planks, with some spectacularly proportioned poppy-heads at each end. Outside, the upper stage of the tower dates from the thirteenth century and has a small pyramidal roof with needle spire.
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RUCKING
LIES the next parish westward from Bilsington, for the most part upon the clay-hills. It is written in Domesday, Rochinges, and now usually called and written Ruckinge. Part of it, in which the church stands, is in the hundred of Newchurch, and another part in the hundred of Ham. That part of it which is below the hill southward is in the level of Romney Marsh, and within the liberty and jurisdiction of the justices of it, and the residue is within that of the justices of the county, and within the district of the Weald.
The PARISH lies so obscurely as to be but little known, it is a dreary unpleasant place, the roads are very narrow and miry, as bad as any in the Weald, the soil being a deep miry clay; that from Limne, through Bilsington, Ham-street, and Warehorne, crosses this parish on the side of the clay-hill, inclining nearer to the Marsh. The church stands on the side of the hill, overlooking the Marsh, which lies at the foot of it southward. The upper or northern side of it is mostly coppice wood. It contains about 930 acres of upland, and as many of marsh-land. There is no village, the houses being dispersed about the parish, and are mostly inhabited by poorer sort of people.
IN THE YEAR 791 king Offa gave to Christ-church, in Canterbury, fifteen plough-lands in Kent, among which was this estate of Roching, together with several dennes, for the feed of hogs, in the Weald; (fn. 1) but it was afterwards wrested from the church, during the Danish wars, and it continued in lay hands at the time of the conquest, soon after which it appears to have been in the possession of Hugo de Montfort, from whom archbishop Lanfranc recovered it again to his church, in the solemn assembly, held on this occasion by the king's command, at Pinenden-heath, in the year 1076. This estate coming thus into the hands of the church, on the division made of the revenues of it between the archbishop and his monks, was allotted by him to the latter, and the possession of it was confirmed to them by king Henry I. and II. In Somner's Gavelkind, is a transcript of a release anno 17 Edward I. of the base services of several of the tenants of this manor (gavelkind men) who brought them out, and consequently it was a mere change from service into money, by the mutual consent of lord and tenant. King Edward II. in his 10th year, granted to the prior and convent of Christ-church, free-warren in all their demesne lands in Rucking, among other places. In which state this manor continued till the suppression of the priory, anno 31 Henry VIII. when it came into the king's hands, where it did not remain long, for the king settled it by his dotation charter, in his 33d year, on his new-erected dean and chapter of Canterbury, part of whose possessions it still remains. The heirs of the Rev. Dr. James Andrews, lately deceased, are now entitled to the lease of it. There is no court held for this manor.
The OTHER PART of this parish, not included in the above grant of king Offa, seems to be that which Cuthred, king of Kent, in the year 805, with the consent and leave of Cœnulf, king of Mercia, gave to Aldbertht his servant, and Seledrythe the abbot, being two plough-lands in Hrocing, situated on both sides of the river Limene, to hold in perpetual inheritance, free from all regal tribute, &c. (fn. 2) Soon after the Norman conquest Hugo de Montfort was become possessed of lands in this parish, some of which were those which had been given by king Offa, as above-mentioned, to the priory of Christ-church, which were again recovered from him by archbishop Lanfranc, at the great meeting held at Pinenden. The residue continued in his possession, and are accordingly entered in the survey of Domesday, under the general title of the lands of Hugo de Montfort:
Ralph, son of Richard, holds of Hugo half a suling in Rochinges, which Leuret held of king Edward. It was taxed at half a suling. The arable land is two carucates. There are now twelve villeins having one carucate and an half. Of wood the pannage for one hog. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was worth fifty shillings, and afterwards thirty shillings, now fifty shillings.
IN THIS PART was the MANOR OF WESTBEREIS, alias Rokinges, which seems to have been once accounted as a moiety of the manor of Rucking. The former of these names it appears to have taken from the antient owners of it. After this name was extinct here, which was before the reign of king Henry IV. this manor was come into the name of Prisot, and in the 21st year of king Henry VI. was owned by John Prisot, who was that year made a sergeant-at-law, and in the 27th year of it knighted, and made chief justice of the common pleas, (fn. 3) in whose descendants it continued till the 8th year of king Henry VIII. when Thomas Prisot passed it away by sale to George Hount, in which name it continued till the 9th year of queen Elizabeth, when it was sold to Reginald Stroughill, usually called Struggle, who was in the commission of the peace in king Edward VI.'s reign, a name of antient extraction in Romney Marsh, where there were lands so called, and there they continued in good esteem at Lyd, of which town they were jurats, and possessed lands for many years afterwards. From this name this manor of Westberies, alias Rokinges, went by sale to Pearse, and anno 23 Elizabeth John Pearse, alienated it, being held in capite, to Richard Guildford and Bennet his wife, but he being indicted for not taking the oath of supremacy, they fled the realm, and were attainted of treason, and his lands became forfeited to the crown, where this manor seems to have remained till the death of the latter in 1597, anno 39 Elizabeth, when the queen granted the fee of it to Walter Moyle, gent. who sold it soon afterwards to Francis Bourne, esq. of Sharsted, and his grandson James Bourne owned it at the latter end of king Charles I.'s reign, and in his descendants it continued till it was at length sold to Parker, in which name it remained till John Parker, of London, alienated it in 1706 to Edward Andrews, of Hinxhill, and his daughter Susanna, who married George I'anns, of this parish, and left a daughter of her own name, who afterwards married first John Gray, M. D. of Canterbury, and secondly Tho. Ibbott, clerk, and entit led each of her husbands in turn respectively to the possession of this manor. On her death without issue, her heirs on her mother's side became entitled to it, and in them, to the number of more than thirty, the inheritance of it is at this time vested.
The MANOR OF BARDINDEN, or Barbodindenne, was likewise most probably situated in this part of Rucking, and was antiently so called from a family of the same name, who were possessors of it, one of whom, William de Barbodindenne, held it at his death, which was in the 9th year of king Edward III. and in his descendants it continued till at length it was alienated to Sir Robert Belknap, chief justice of the common pleas, who being attainted and banished in the 11th year of king Richard II. his estates became forfeited to the crown. Notwithstanding which, the king, who considered him as a martyr to his interest, granted him his estates again, and among others this manor, which he died possessed of in the 2d year of king Henry IV. His grandson John Belknap, in the beginning of king Henry VI.'s reign, alienated it to Engham, in which name it continued till king Henry VIII.'s reign, when it was sold to Sir Matthew Browne, of Beechworth, who held it in capite at his death, anno 4 and 5 Philip and Mary. His grandson Sir Thomas Browne passed it away by sale, in the 7th year of queen Elizabeth, to Thomas Lovelace, esq. whose cousin and heir William Lovelace, of Bethesden, sergeant-at-law, succeeded him in the possession of it, which afterwards descended down to Col. Richard Lovelace, who, soon after the death of king Charles I. alienated it, with his estates at Bethersden, to Mr. Richard Hulse, afterwards of Lovelace-place, in that parish, but whereabouts this manor is precisely situated, or who have been the proprietors of it since, I have not as yet been able to gain any discovery of.
POUNDHURST is a manor, situated about a mile north-west from the church. It belonged in 1651 to Richard Watts, who sold it to Gadsley, from which name it passed to Hatch, and then to Read, who passed it away to Clarke, of Ashford, and Grace Clarke carried it in marriage to the Rev. Thomas Gellibrand, and at her death in 1782, gave it by will to her son the Rev. Joseph Gellibrand, of Edmonton, the present possessor of it.
The MANOR OF MORE was antiently held by owners of the same name, one of whom, Matthew at More, held it by knight's service in the 20th year of king Edward III. after which this manor of More came into the possession of the family of Brent, who were possessed of it in king Henry VII.'s reign. At length Thomas Brent, esq. of Wilsborough, dying in 1612, s. p. by his will gave this manor to his nephew Richard Dering, esq. of Pluckley, in whose descendants it continued down to Sir Edward Dering, bart. now of Surrenden, the present possessor of it.
Charities.
A PERSON UNKNOWN gave to this parish an annuity of 20s. paid out of lands in Romney Marsh, occupied by Mr. Stone, of Great Chart, which is yearly distributed on New Year's day to the poor, who receive no parish relief.
The poor constantly relieved are about twenty, casually forty.
THIS PARISH is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Limne.
The church, which is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen, is a very small building, having at the west end a pointed tower, out of which rises a small slender spire. In the tower there are five bells. It has a middle isle, and two narrow ones coving to it on each side. It has one chancel, and another building at the east end of the south isle, built of flint, with two handsome gothic windows on the south side, and seems to have been a chantry or oratory. It is now made use of to lay the materials in for the repairs of the church. There is a white stone in the north isle, having once had the figures of a man and woman in brass. There are no other memorials or gravestones in the church. On the outside of the steeple, on the west side, there is a very antient Saxon arched door-way, with carved capitals and zig-zag ornaments round it, and some sculpture under the arch. And there is such another smaller one on the middle of the south side of the south isle.
The church of Rucking seems to have been esteemed part of the possessions of the see of Canterbury ever since the restoring of it to that church, by the means of archbishop Lanfranc as above mentioned, when, on the allotment of the manor to the priory and monks of Christ-church, the archbishop most probably retained the advowson of this church to himself. His grace the archbishop is the present patron of it.
It is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 14l. 13s. 4d. and the yearly tenths at 1l. 9s. 4d. In 1588 it was valued at one hundred pounds, communicants one hundred. In 1640 it was valued at eightyfive pounds, communicants the same as before. There are about eighteen acres of glebe.
In the petition of the clergy, beneficed in Romney Marsh, in 1635, for setting aside the custom of twopence an acre, in lieu of tithe-wool and pasturage, a full account of which has been given before, under Burmarsh, the rector of Rucking was one of those who met on this occasion; when it was agreed on all sides, that wool in the Marsh had never been known to have been paid in specie, the other tithes being paid or compounded for.
¶There is a modus of one shilling per acre on all grafs lands in this parish within the Marsh, and by custom, all the upland pays four-pence per acre for pasturage, and one shilling per acre when mowed, no hay having ever been taken in kind, the other tithes are either taken in kind, or compounded for. Formerly the woods of this parish paid tithes, after the rate of two shillings in the pound, according to the money paid for the fellets of them; but in a suit in the exchequer for tithe of wood, anno 1713, brought by Lodge, rector, against Sir Philip Boteler, it was decreed against the rector, that this parish was within the bounds of the Weald, and the woods in it consequently freed from tithes. Which decree has been acquiesced in ever since.
Posting photos scanned from Kodacolor prints shot at Air/Space America 88 San Diego’s Brown Field on May 22, 1988. As you can see print process, camera, lens and scanner were not of the quality in 1988 as the digital equipment is today.
Posting of the Colors section of the competition.
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Event: Fraternal Order of Police 9th Annual Honor Guard Competition.
Posting this today (January 14, 2012) because it is my dear friend Chelsea's birthday. I actually made this a few years ago. Please see her tag if you'd like to see other works I've done of her. the beautiful portrait was taken by a friend of hers. The rose overlay was taken by me. View On Black
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I am posting this tonight to complete a share promise of some Tarot images.
I have not been able to edit my description below as my focus is not good enough, I will take this line off when I have returned to edit the information below.
AVoD Lodge Ordo Templi Orientis meet in Edinburgh Scotland and online through the World Wide Web. As a part of some the recent conversations online I am posting here some high resolution images taken and edited from the Tarot of Ceremonial Magick by Lon Milo DuQuette. There is no intention to breaking of copyright on the deck originally published in 1994/5. There have been several versions of the deck since the one I have was published and there is a book to accompany you on the journey that you can take with the Tarot of Ceremonial Magick.
Part of the journey with AVoD has been a Chariot ride that has taken us the Empress card. She is Venus, the evergreen regenerative goddess, the all embracing all rejuvenating force that brings Spring to blossom and Summer to ripen before giving the fertile seeds of Autumn to the care of her daughter in the underworld through Winter to return with bountiful fresh growth each new Spring. The name of AVoD was a magickal construct and some of the details of the construct are available on their website listed below. The Daleth Door of The Empress ends the AVoD conjuration with a doorway to show that each progression along the beginning of Aleph to the nailed down system of Vau and over the devilish eye of detail that is Ayin each cycle that completes to some extent finds the green wreath of Daleth reserved for winners and for emperors and even as we are crowned in our own success the Victory of Netzach also leads to a further pathway through the Daleth Door as we complete larger and smaller interactions always finding a new door to a new cycle of interaction some lasting the blink of the eye of Ayin and others taking the perspective of a lifetime as AVoD run simultaneously in patterns of wheels within wheels, worlds within worlds of complete and broken paths that eventual mark the map and draw the picture of lives that we can choose to rework, revise and to step back and change our minds and our paths as celebrate and commemorate with the perception of the continual motion of emotion and reason creating our interactions with self and with others.
The Daleth Sigils from Liber 231 both have further specific links in the short magical treatise by Aleister Crowley. The manuscript is marked as text to work with without trying to edit the original. If you commune with the magickal spirits that are signposted in the text and follow the links they have to each other then you can record your own personal interactions without wishing to change the original. The manuscript can soon turn into vibrant set links along an illuminated ladder of lights and through the shadow paths between the hollow shells of life unloved, unlived, of opportunities lost and of the admissions, confessions, and lessons we can choose to work well with to bring about wellness and heartiness for all of life.
Liber Arcanorum τών ATU τού TAHUTI QUAS VIDIT ASAR IN AMENNTI sub figurâ CCXXXI Liber Carcerorum τών QLIPHOTH cum suis Geniis. Adduntur Sigilla et Nomina Eorum.
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In reproducing images from one card to further study the card, to illustrate the potential of the rest of the cards and to suggest that the accompanying book and cards are a superb composition of much Modern Magick that breaths refreshing and revitalising Hermetic Life into Tarot, Qabalah, Enochian, Tarot Geniis and strong displays of Elemental Alchemical interactions.
I edited the photographs that I have taken and I would like you to look at the original images in the deck and refer to the accompanying book. I have listed details of Lon Milo DuQuette’s web page that gives details of his published works and links to buy them. Also there are links to Magical Omaha MagicalOmaha.com where the cards and book of Tarot of Ceremonial Magick by Lon Milo DuQuette are available. The images shown here include a watermark to illustrate that they are edited version of the originals. There is a photograph rendition and an oil painting styled version for each of the three images made.
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A cropped version of this photo once featured in the Guess Where UK Group. Hence the comments. The original posting is here.
This landmark Grade I listed building on the South Circular Road was designed by James Wild and Owen Jones. Its modern appearance belies its age – it was completed in 1841! The building's style stands in sharp contrast to the classical style of the early 19th century and the English Gothic revival popular later in that century. In fact it's thought that, after architects had exhausted those two styles, they turned for inspiration to a simpler style most notably exemplified by Christ Church, Streatham.
There are (at least) two other unusual things about the church. The first is the prominent Star of David above the entrance. Nobody knows why it's there but, apparently, the symbol was not so strongly associated with the Jewish faith at the time the church was built. The second novel aspect is the incorporation of bricks of contrasting colours. This feature was down to Owen and was widely used later in the 19th century in more ornate buildings by architects such as Alfred Waterhouse and George Gilbert Scott.
It was Wild who was was chiefly responsible for the structure of the church. He had travelled widely in Europe during his formative period and had seen many examples of Romanesque, Byzantine and Islamic architecture, including the Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain. He must surely also have visited the Basilica of St Zeno in Verona – see the first comment below.
For more about the church, visit its website at www.christchurchstreatham.org.uk and the Southwark Diocese website at www.southwark.anglican.org/thebridge/0009/page02.htm. Note the rounded apse – more associated in my mind with Roman Catholic churches. Father Steven Tricklebank replaced Father Chris Ivory as parish priest about ten years ago and (as at August 2012) is still in post.
There's more about Wild and Jones in Empire building: Orientalism and Victorian Architecture by Mark Crinson starting at page 97.
Robert Cutts
Following on from my previous posting here we have 31926 R426SOY another one of the East Lancashire Pyoneer bodied Dennis Arrows delivered new to Capital Citybus of London. However, R426SOY was a one off example built to be displayed at the 1997 Bus and Coach Show at the NEC in Birmingham and which I had a great involvement in building when working with the development team at East Lancs. It was also the last of the Capital Citybus vehicles delivered in their original all over yellow livery before the introduction of the red and yellow scheme designed by First Group. Again it was built as a dual door vehicle to H49/27D layout.
Posting a few pics while travelling to Australia for a holiday.
I'm that guy who's unable to sleep in vehicles easily. So as i looked around out of boredom, i saw an old lady who was filling up her customs form in the dark.
This album was fully taken on my canonet.
Camera: Canonet QL17GIII
Film: Kodak
While posting this pic here, I realised that these are the same kids whom I had clicked even last year at the same festival and the same beach. Aparantely they were in a very similar pose, the only difference being the young girl was holding the small idol and the guy was holding the metal pot with coconut.
I would say its really a small world
Here is the pic clicked last year:
Posting this photo just to show how really... snug the Bombardier Q400 is. Enjoy and use responsibly please.
PHOTO CREDIT: Joe A. Kunzler Photo, AvgeekJoe Productions, growlernoise-AT-gmail-DOT-com
A visit to the Dorset town of Shaftesbury - home of Gold Hill.
The Post Office in Shaftesbury on the corner of Angel Lane and Coppice Street.
Built in 1946. Is also a Savings Bank.
Was the site of the Angel Inn, home of Shaftesbury's first postmaster in 1667.
A later building housed coachbuilders, then a car repairer.
A Posting Box. SP7 109.
As of 9/7/07, 98 / 100 of the first Google results for 'Kent Bye' (without quotes) are actually relevant to me.
That's quite different from just a few years ago where searching for my name would yield a ton of non-relevant results including lots of tournament brackets w/ players of last names of "Kent" getting bye rounds as well as people saying bye bye to a person named Kent in their salutation.
Now I'm posting this here because every now and again I do an egosearch. And I've noticed how it's changed a lot almost every time I look at it. Stuff that is at the top I wouldn't have thought of -- like the vlog post on the five things people don't know about me.
Who knows, this picture could get a ton of links and all of a sudden this could be the number one slot. I'll never be able to predict it.
But I think it's an interesting testament to three things.
1.) How Google's search has gotten so much better over the last 5 years -- I'm surprised w/ how many one-off comments I've made show up in the results.
2.) How I've increased the amount of information I've put out there associated w/ my name.
3.) How SEO-friendly my name is. As far as I can tell, there's not a lot of other "Kent Bye's" out there
What will this look like in 5 years? I have no idea. But maybe I'll do this every so often to keep a visual record of it to be able to quickly look back on it.
There's archive.org to look at old websites, but there's no Google Search archive where you can do a Google search and look at the results from 3 years ago. I'm still waiting for The Google Search Archive.
METHODOLOGY:
* I changed my Google search preferences to show the first 100 results instead of 10
* I saved the HTML file of the first 100 results to my desktop.
* Then I opened file:///Users/kent/Desktop/search.html in Paparazzi! screencap program
From December 23, 2001: This is a pretty low quality photo of the intersection of 7th St. and Redondo Ave. in Long Beach that I obviously took through a dirty windshield. Taken with my first digital camera, an HP 315 Photosmart 2.1 megapixal. But I am posting for posterity...
1. Gas prices!! Under $1/gallon and Hummers were flying out of showrooms.
2. The venerable Rexall Drug store across the street is now gone.
3. All Ultramar stations in southern California have been rebranded as Valero.
4. The old Verizon Dodge van...not historic, they are still using these antiques!
5. Rain clouds in southern California!!!
Posting five photos taken yesterday, 12 July 2025, when I did quite a long drive SW of Calgary and SW of Nanton, including Williams Coulee. It was a hot day and reached 30C. The scenery is beautiful the whole drive and I knew there would be old barns to see and photograph. The only bird photos I took were of Vesper Sparrows, a Swainson's Hawk on a pile of hay bales, and a Western Meadowlark.
I got lost a few times, and was confused when one main road I turned on to gave it as 120 St E on my car GPS. I had never experienced that before - I have always known it as Highway 2! I ended up leaving that road and driving E until I found myself in an area that I was familiar with. I don't usually drive in this whole area, so I hope I remember that 120 St E is the same road as Highway 2.
[Re-posting this not-quite-in-focus photo that I took on 5 November 2005.]
In November of 2005, I made my first trip to Paris. Catherine had invited me and offered me a place to stay with her and her family at her newly purchased apartment. BUT... a week or so before boarding my flight, she told me that her place wasn't ready yet thanks to problems with one of the contractors. So, another Flickr friend, Maja, told me that she would help and contacted someone she knew in Paris, to ask him if he would help. Callixte provided me a place to stay on little Rue Léopold Robert in Montparnasse for a few nights before I landed a couple of more nights at Phil's, and then ultimately with Catherine. At that point, Callixte and I weren't connected on Flickr, so he knew nothing about me, so I will always be thankful and grateful for his blind trust in Maja and me.
We found out later that we shared a birthday, albeit years apart.
Bon anniversaire, Callixte, et merci mille fois ! Je te suis toujours reconnaissant.
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India's consul general in Melbourne Subhakanta Behera, 50, died Friday after a heart attack at his residence in the Australian city, leaving the Indian community there shocked.
The 1987-batch Indian Foreign Service officer is survived by wife Rajashree, son Ananya and daughter Amruta.
Behera's family want to cremate him in hometown Bhubaneswar in Odisha, said an official of the Ministry for External Affairs (MEA).
"The consulate will facilitate the family's return to India," the official said.
Behera, who had a doctorate from Oxford University, was appointed the Indian consul general to Melbourne in May last year.
In his career, Behera held key postings in Moscow, Washington and London, besides postings in Uzbekistan and Bulgaria. He had returned to New Dehli as MEA joint secretary.
Behera was also a writer -- having published stories, poetry anthologies, essay collections, a novel and two academic papers.
Read more: india.nydailynews.com/newsarticle/65f88949c6fe7d255ceb47b...