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Comix review: H.P. Lovecraft and Mercyful Fate illustrated
(…) These ancient places are dreaming gorgeously and over-flowing with wonder and terror and escapes from the commonplace, and yet there's not a living soul to understand or profit by them.
In the last couple of months I have received two new comic books: Kim Holm's adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's Pickman's Model and Mark Rudolph's tribute to King Diamond and Mercyful Fate, Satan is Alive. In the spirit of the blogosphere in which I am an infrequent visitor (apologies, but starving the blog has been necessary for offline survival), I will offer brief reviews of each – I am sure connoisseurs will find much to like about both.
First off is Pickman's Model, a project of Norwegian graphic artist Kim Holm. The version received is a 110-page pocket size with limited space on each page; nevertheless, Holm finds room for both two-page spreads and various experiments alongside the basic four-panel sequence. The style is black and white in two modes, alternating between clear and controlled monologue panels and more chaotic, expressive flashback scenes.
As a huge fan of Lovecraft I was a bit anxious to read it, both in terms of the original story's monologue-driven narrative and because of the amount of crappy adaptations out there. But this is good… on par with H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society and other consummate fan productions. Holm has retained the basic frame of the original, but supplies several beautiful area shots and flashbacks held in a much more aggressive and twisted style. Pickman is nasty, especially towards the end, and the unveiling of the latest painting an awesome piece of illustration.
Holm has previously done drawings at metal concerts and the Inferno metal festival in Oslo, and there is something in the attention to faces and scenes which makes this book as alive as live drawings. This comes highly recommended to fans as well as newcomers to mythos literature. It can be read digitally at Freecomics free of charge and purchased from Indyplanet.com for 10$.
The next piece of pop culture art is a collaborative tribute to Danish metal legends Mercyful Fate, Satan is Alive. I actually helped this project on Kickstarter, as I have been a King Diamond-fan for 25 years now. The designer and editor Mark Rudolph is obviously a fan as well, and he has assembled an impressive crew of illustrators and commentators in the book itself to praise the universe King has created from the early 1980s.
As with Pickman's Model, this book is pocket-size and about 120 pages. It is held in black and white (could it be any other way?) and generally offers two types of illustration: the comic strip and the poster, with a couple of short stories thrown in. Coupled with forewords by Fenriz, Scott Carlson and Trevor Strnad, afterword by Philip Anselmo, and interview snippets collected by Chris Dick, this is as good as it gets.
All illustrators focus on one song or theme, which makes it thematically consistent, yet the style varies wildly: from realism to expressive chaos and from manga and superhero to more simple and personal. Kim Holm actually provides two splendid sequences on the lovecraftian songs "The Mad Arab" and "Kutulu", and his contributions are among the best. Nevertheless, the visual style of Kind Diamond is used throughout, and the unapologetic satanic stance of the early Mercyful Fate dominates later inventions. As I have used both in academic research on Satanism, it is good to be reminded just how blasphemous *and* fun this actually is. In essence, Rudolph's book captures the theatrical evil and dark humor found in Mercyful Fate, and I wholeheartedly recommend picking up copies for yourself as well as all your metal friends at Mark Rudolph's website for 20$.
Is violent art made by violent people?
Yesterday, I saw a TV programme documenting the art and ideas of Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard. His subject matter is violence, paedophilia, perversion, and fear, wrapped in a part expressionist, part conceptual package. Much like his idols Richard Kern, Lydia Lunch, and others on the American "post-punk" scene of "aesthetic terrorism" in the 1980s and early 1990s, he offered a nihilist reading of art – the best art has no use, won't change anything, and is ultimately uncomfortable. It is better to ask questions than provide answers, he stated.
This past semester I have been wrapped up in finishing, submitting and defending my thesis on modern Satanism. A large part of the work attends to transgression, non-conformity and antinomianism as mimetic acts of opposition and as "technologies of the self", to use a term from Foucault. That is, trying to discern the subleties between transgression as an end in itself and as a means to an end.
In the first case, it is mostly confirming the norm by transgressing it, as with many rites of passage and theatrical rebellion; in the second, transgression is a necessary means for liberation, expression, growth, or self-knowledge. While the first is usually productive within society (or a subsector within it), the second interrogates the foundations on which society is built and points to a wide variety of alternatives, mainly in the "find out for yourself"-box. This is seldom political or religious, but rather "other". As formulated by Carl Abrahamsson of Cotton Ferox:
Art is very potent (…) a great non-rational way to leave seeds of change in various places and dimensions.
The two strategies use the same basic package of transgressions, often some combination of blasphemy, political radicalism, violence, obscenity, and general untidyness, and the reception (and thus the result) is often equivalent – total rejection or mild amusement. But the intention and the "ideology of transgression" , whether this is conscious or not, is different; one is an inversion and appropriation of society's demons, the other is a hybrid adoption and rejection with a logic outside society's binary mindset. Thus with transgression as a means or technology, it is a state of being that is constantly in flux; transgression as and end is a mask used to shock. Both are mirrors, but one is ultimately pointing inwards, the other outwards.
Watching Melgaard reminded me of one important thing which cuts across these distinctions, namely the importance of symbolization and sanitization of transgression. This is exactly the fine line any transgressor walks between art and life; when churches are burning, kids are molested and people are killed, you have gone too far (for most, anyway). On the other hand, the audience should always be wondering what is real and what is not, as that is one central component of the work itself (regardless if is is performance, theatre, music, stage show, images, sculpture, movies, …). Cosey Fanni Tutti of Throbbing Gristle speaks of "charged gestures", an anti-analytical creativity in the moment involving your whole self and the audience in a process of disgust and discovery:
We were just playing with ideas and fantasies, making them available for people to see. It's great as you're going along and learning and finding reasons why you like the aesthetic of it, the feel of it, and the ideas it provokes. I think improvisation will always be there for me rather than sitting down and trying to analyze things and make something from that analysis. By that point it's become a totally empty gesture. I like charged gestures, so the more real it can be, even if you use fake blood to try and enhance that feeling, then that's fine with me. It's about vulnerability as well. You're laying yourself open completely and then seeing what happens. And that's what you learn from. You learn from mistakes as well as from positive experiences. You don't learn by playing it safe, that's for sure.
Now, this is a beautiful description of a practical "poetics of transgression". What spurred me to write here was a question from the presenter to Melgaard: If he was as violent as his art?
His answer came quick and it was negative. Of course. Even though his art is constantly breaking down the barrier between art and life, it is nurtured by its existence. Violent art is ART, not LIFE; when it becomes life, it is destructive. Take G. G. Allin and compare him to Marilyn Manson.
This illustrates nicely the basic dilemma of transgression as a technology. On the one hand, transgressive art is not necessarily made by reprehensible people (often they are rather deeply occupied with morality). This is the biographical (or intentional) fallacy described by New Criticism: The art work has to be taken on its own level, not the level of psychology or intention of any "author". There is no 1:1-correspondence between art/act and artist. If so, all 1st-person narrators would be the author. This is of course what we do assume, especially with images; they must be made because the author likes them or needs them. But they can be interrogative, or provocative, or playful, or ironic, or simply there because they must.
On the other hand we cannot understand such art without the reflections of the authors or artists. They usually have a plan or an artistic concept which is tied to their biography and quirks. Here they are similar to academics who are influenced by experience and pet theories when they select their projects – this is what we call bias, and it is inevitable and human. We shouldn't remove it, but reflect on it. Of course art asks questions and thus understanding is tied to the viewer's own experience; nevertheless, why produce it and why ask if not for some interest of mutual discovery? Even if this interest is fulfilled by the production and not the product, it is still there and can be informative when we as viewers approach the work. As such, the experience of the artist is of some importance for the audience, even if the two should be held separate.
In the book Transgressions: The Offences of Art by Anthony Julius, the rhetoric of "art for art's sake", of which "art can change our perception through alienation" is a part, is outed as a defence, a rhetorical strategy (2002, p. 25 on). Positing art as an utterly independent form glosses over the real problem with offensive art, namely their subject matter. Paedophilia or torture fantasies masked as art is not art, they are crime. There are other defences, but they hide the same issue. Hence any claim of artistic intention or experience is a smokescreen for the circulation of offensive products, an inversion of the biographical fallacy outlined above.
This is absolutely going too far. Nonetheless, the breakdown of art and life is sustaining ambiguity, and transgressive art caters for people who seek transgressive experiences. This is not bad. Fascist aesthetics is not fascism. Hardcore exploitation is not rape. But transgression needs the limit to transgress. Otherwise, there is no charge. To dismiss the intention is thus neglecting the difference between means and ends.
Cycles, Storks and Satanists: A Talk with TheoFantastique
OK, so the blog has suffered while I tended to our second daughter Anna, a conference anthology for Oxford UP (due in September) and my dissertation (due in a week or two). I apologize. To supplicate, I post this (written) interview I have done with John at TheoFantastique – a great blog on occulture and popular culture. The article we discuss is this horror from The Telegraph, March 30, 2011. Here, the "surge" in Satanism online and the resultant accessibility of Satanism is linked to increased demand for exorcism. It is good we have the Catholic Church to help us with classical products in a time of need. This is the final draft; if you want the pretty version, do visit TheoFantastique. Lots of zombies too.
TheoFantastique: Jesper, thank you for making some time to discuss your research as it relates to current events in popular culture. Recently an article in The Telegraph in the UK reported on an alleged rise in Satanism, and according to the Roman Catholic Church, a corresponding need for more exorcists as a response to alleged increases in possession. There is a lot to unpack here, but let's look at the various elements of significance here. To begin, what type of research have you done on Satanism, can you define Satanism in terms of your research, and has there indeed been any kind of rise in Satanism as the article reports?
Jesper Aagaard Petersen: My research focuses on modern religious Satanism, a heterogeneous assortment of individuals, groups and networks using Satan and other mythological beings as a short-hand for their work on the Left-Hand path. This manifestation of Satanism is recent, only gaining ground and formalization during the occult revival of the 1960s; the most well-known exemplar is of course Anton LaVey's Church of Satan. Even so, there are many other interpretations alongside LaVey's – some are atheist and materialist just like the Church, others are explicitly theist, although it often takes a Gnostic or esoteric form rather than a direct mimesis of Christian stereotypes. And there are positions in between. I tend to distinguish 'rational' and 'esoteric' Satanism as fully developed, autonomous and organized types of religious Satanism. These types should in turn be separated from 'reactive' Satanism, which is the (often deeply meaningful, yet fragmented) Satanism of the pact, the teenage bedroom and the black metal concert, and from various demonological discourses on the satanic throughout history.
My studies are primarily based on texts, websites and message boards, but I have complemented these sources with both ethnographic, sociological, and media work. What I do is study the discourses and practices of religious groups through the resources and strategies they bring into the struggle to actually define Satanism. As such, I see contemporary Satanism as a satanic milieu of people, organizations, ideas, practices, and channels for communication. This satanic milieu is both separate from and in dialogue with modern occulture and the wider cultural narratives on the satanic. It is distinct, because modern religious Satanism is about the self and not some diabolical 'other'. The mythological beings used in this identity work have been disembedded from their original context and 'de-otherized' (to use J. Laycock's term). Satan and Satanism are no longer solely defined within a Christian context. As such, 'Satanist' has followed the same trajectory as 'witch', 'vampire', 'pagan, and 'queer', to name a few. Rather than positions of (dangerous) inversion, they are now hybrid roles, used within both cultural narratives of the other and as identities for the self. On the other hand, we should acknowledge some dialogue as well. First of all, dark occulture and cultural narratives do work as pathways to and from the satanic milieu, as Satanists engage with both subcultural and mainstream representations and take what they resonate with. Conversely, real Satanists are not totally below the mainstream radar, even if the media representations are sketchy at best and work more along the lines of freak show exhibits. Although I can say with confidence that theories of slippery slopes are mistaken, these relations thus make popular culture one important socialization 'stage' for modern Satanists.
Regarding the rise of Satanism, that depends on how you define it. The article you mention calls it a "surge" and a "revival". It is true that the 1990s and early 2000s saw an increase of interest in Satanism alongside Witchcraft, Neopaganism, and other religious currents with roots in esotericism and occultism. This has to do with the general re-enchantment of the West in the past 50 years (an enchantment that never really went away, actually, but that is another story), which has developed in dialogue with popular media. It is also true that Satanism is more visible and more accessible because of the Internet, and that it flourishes on the de-regulated arenas the Internet provides. On the other hand, membership figures are hard to come by, and should be seen in relation to degrees of affiliation – a majority of witches or Satanists are tourists or dabblers, and only a small minority affiliate with a group and/or develop a long-term engagement. It is likely that more people are attracted to Satanism than before, and they are more visible today, but actual members still amount to thousands and not millions. In any case, where I differ from the article's conclusion is in the effect of mediated religion on susceptible youth. Watching a movie, accessing a website or participating in a discussion forum does not automatically make you a Satanist, and it certainly does not make you possessed.
TheoFantastique: Is there any reason to make a connection between Satanism in its various forms and the occult and the phenomenon of possession?
Jesper: Well, the simple answer is no. The article in The Telegraph caught my eye, as it fits the recurrent dialectic between real satanic groups on the one hand and anti-satanic discourse on the other, a dialectic covered by for example Phil Jenkins in Mystics and Messiahs (2000). Satanism as a religious option is definitely more visible and has been so since the 1960s witchcraft revival, in no small part because of LaVey's Satanic Bible and the high media profile of the Church, as well as the meteoric rise of the Internet. On the other hand, the satanic panic and ritual abuse cases of the 1980s and early 1990s did much to reposition anti-satanic discourses of evil as the default interpretation of Satanism. Even though the religious (mainly evangelical and to a lesser degree catholic) basis of the moral panic has been exposed, and the secular madness of the media, law enforcement, judicial, education, and social care systems has been criticized extensively, conspiracy and scapegoating remains as a cultural resource. Satanism remains associated with evil in popular discourse and culture.
That is why I have a problem with the phrase "rise in Satanism" and "occult" in the article. The connotations become conspiratorial and not statistical. The word occult has a specific meaning within Religious Studies tied to the etymology of the word, as hidden. But in popular parlance and Catholic research it has a sinister ring to it. The article posits an causal connection between ease of access and demand for exorcists, but I think a lot of elements are missing from that equation. We have to ask who is searching online and who is in need of an exorcist? Are they even connected? Who makes the connections? There has been a re-enchantment of sorts, and it could of course be interpreted as the work of a cabal of Devil-worshipers influenced by demons. But there is absolutely no reason to see a rise in Satanism, Witchcraft, holistic spirituality and whatnot as anything sinister. Here, modern religious Satanism and the theological discourses on the satanic are two entirely different animals. On the other hand, a higher visibility of things dubbed "occult" and explicitly diabolical might stimulate a higher rate of possession experiences in evangelical and Catholic communities. Certainly the interpretation of possession is connected to cultural resources at hand. And by extension, possession narratives are in fact reported in movies, talk-shows and so on outside these milieus. But then we have moved our attention to very different arenas of religiosity which is not directly associated with the people I study, namely Christian communities and the 'secularized' paranormal demonologies of horror movies (The Entity (1981) or Paranormal Activity (2009), for example).
TheoFantastique: I too have noted the continued presence of the devil, possession, and spirit entities in various horror films and television programs. This relates to what has been labeled as popular occulture. Why do you think the devilish in popular occulture is so prevalent, and how might this not be a factor in reports of the need for exorcism?
Jesper: The Devil and his minions certainly sell. They are protean figures that can be molded to fit your narrative needs. And all narratives need bad guys, so why not use the Devil as has been done in popular culture for hundreds of years? Various elements of Christianity are topoi we all recognize (or at least most of us): The savior, the corrupted, the alluring, the end and so on. In addition, social anxieties and the speed of change needs a narrative interpretation. But this is cyclical. The 1960s explosion spawned not only the somewhat eccentric satanic witch of Rosemary's Baby (1968), but also the unabashedly evil Antichrist of The Omen (1976) and the home invasion of The Exorcist (1973). And then came Michelle Remembers (1980), Multiple Personality Disorders and the MacMartin Preschool. Although thoroughly dismissed, these "real" stories never really went away, they just went back to the milieus from which they emerged, and, crucially, into popular culture as fictional tropes. They also underwent secularization: Aside from explicitly religious demonic fantasies, they continued as spiritual or paranormal narratives. For some two decades, anti-satanism has slumbered, while we have witnessed a resurgence of occultural themes in popular culture and as religious currents. This fin-de-siecle reenchantment is now met with The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005), The Last Rite (2010), and The Rite (2011), to name a few recent movies. Hopefully we will stop before the next stage.
Of course things are more complicated than this. Yet, we have to see reenchantment, the mainstreaming of occulture and the conservative reaction as parts of a whole. In a sense, the periodic resurgence of exorcism and other re-enchantment reminds me that we are not that far removed from Hellenistic times. They too ascribed everything to demonic influence, in part because of the changes they experienced. Nevertheless, to argue that movies or the Internet makes demon-possessed victims in need of exorcism is the worst kind of hypodermic needle-argument on the effect of popular culture. We appropriate culture according to need, context and previous experiences. Of course, the Catholic Church has the Devil and his demons pushing the needle, so all constructivist and reception theory arguments are in vain.
TheoFantastique: What kind of conclusions do you draw as a scholar about the kind of sensationalistic and inaccurate reporting in The Telegraph article, as well as that produced by the Catholic Church about this phenomenon?
Jesper: First of all, that causality is still a misunderstood phenomenon. A simultaneous decline in storks and child births does not prove that children are brought by long-legged birds. But such "explanations" are easy to sell. Further, it proves that popular accounts of academic research on Satanism and other occultural phenomena are sorely needed. While I have little confidence in the "seriousness and scientific rigour" of the Vatican conference, it obviously has a stronger network in which to promote its views. I might scoff at this article (I did yell at the computer screen when I read it), but it is read by a far wider constituency than any article I have ever written (all of them combined too).
Ultimately, these things move in cycles. In the famous 1972 Time magazine article "The Occult Revival: A Substitute Faith", many of the same issues are reported. They even comment that the UK is experiencing such a boom in witchcraft and occultism that the Anglicans and Catholics have convened to suggest the appointment of exorcists in each diocese. Sounds oddly familiar in 2011. It is all about social mobilization and the reframing of perceived social problems. The Catholic Church is at odds with a dominant subjectivist trend in modern culture. At times, it tries to accommodate it. At other times, it rejects it and reframes it a social and moral decay. The availability and visibility of Satanism online is an easy target. When connected to the unrelated rise in exorcism movies and popular interest in spirits, demons, and – well, old-school fire and brimstone – a false causality is formed.
TheoFantastique: Jesper, thank you for your time and thoughts on this.
CAM: Some random ramblings
Today, after a few months of writing articles and changing diapers, I finally got a good idea for a blog post. Because of unfortunate circumstances, I have been substitute lecturer at a couple of seminars in the course New Religious Movements, a course focusing on explicit and implicit manifestations of religiosity in the contemporary West. Wednesday's lecture was about the cultic milieu, a popular topic in this blog, focusing on modeling issues or how to conceptualize implicit religion.
After such a solid dose of social theory, I thought it would be wise to attempt something a little more hands-on. As the regular lecturer had selected Complementary and Alternative Medicine, or CAM for short, as the subject matter, something I have only superficial knowledge about, I reached into the old high school teacher bag-of-tricks and found two good examples of alternative practitioners here in Trondheim, TOMAS and Anita, as the basis of class discussion. On the "home" and "biography" pages, I asked them to find discursive or rhetorical markers pointing towards religious and scientific legitimacy. This turned out to be quite the lucky punch.
In the case of Trondheim Oriental Medicine and Acupuncture Centre (TOMAS), run by Catherine Kim-Nestaas, only the frequent claims of oriental heritage, especially Japanese and Chinese techniques, have a flavor of the alternative (not to mention religion). Otherwise, it is devoid of the usual markers of "spirituality", such as energy, vibrations or healing. The rhetoric is markedly scientific, although the techniques are definitely what we would call alternative – Fire Cupping, Moxabustion and Ear Seeds, for example – and they are described as "complementary" to western medicine. Legitimacy and authority is mainly obtained through the practitioner's degrees (BSc in Biomedical Engineering, Boston U, MSc in Oriental Medicine, Berkeley and other certifications), her "many years of employment in the pharmaceutical industry" and the professional tone of the website itself. Held in the third person and presented as a "centre", the site distances itself from more personal and hence more "spiritual" ventures, even though it is owned and driven by one person.
In contrast, Anita's Alternativ, run by Anita Holm, strikes the visitor as much more "religious" (at least in the contemporary, "spiritual" sense): She offers "self-help", "holistic treatment" (not "complementary" as in TOMAS' case, although the two concepts seem to converge), Tarot readings and so on. However, apart from Tarot, the range of techniques seems to be parallel to TOMAS', although the tone is different. In addition, Anita is using a more psychological and less orientalizing rhetoric to legitimize her treatments. When she is "listening", she is actually "taking in images/emotions which shows the cause of your ailments". As with Kim-Nestaas, Anita is actively promoting her education and certifications, but in her case, the legitimacy is less scientific apart from basic training in medicine and certification as a care worker. Finally, the website itself seems more personal and less professional, prompting one student to call it "a bit naive" – authentic or honest might say the same. Interestingly, it is in the first person throughout, thus being closer to Anita as a private, holistic entrepreneur.
As the goal of the seminar was to problematize given concepts of "religion" and reflect on alternative medicine as religion, the two examples opened up an interesting discussion on "religion" and "science" as reified and constructed concepts. Actually, instead of trying to put the two examples in one or the other category, "religion" and "science" might be viewed as strategies in which to "sell" the treatments in question in the marketplace. In a different context, I have argued for the same in modern Satanism, dubbing the strategies "esoterization" and "secularization" (we might call them "religionification" and "scientification" instead). In this sense, neither are wholly scientific or wholly religious, but certainly more or less religious. This in turn can be seen in the implicit hierarchies of natural vs. artificial, old vs. new, holistic vs. Cartesian (or material); religion today (as all religion, actually) relates to the human, temporal and natural as a more meaningful or more powerful way of engagement with the world. A specific modern turn would be the equation of world, body and self, making CAM one possible aspect of contemporary, detraditionalized "spirituality" which is only a new way of expressing and doing religion. Of course, it can also be another offer in a wide variety of wellness or prosperity products completely devoid of explicit ideology.
Here, we could contrast the two practitioners with the rumpologist (or Asstrologer) Ulf Buck. Completely blind, he uses butts as palmists use hands to read the character and predict the future of individuals. Another rumpologist, Jaqueline Stallone, claims that
rump reading is an art that was practiced in ancient Babylon, India, Greece, and Rome. She claims that the ancient Greeks thought the butt was the key to health and fidelity.
While I am certain that we can find some "scientification" here as well, rump divination paradoxically moves us closer to traditional "religion" while simultaneously shining a light (or pointing a finger) at a most earthly body part. I can't wait for this to hit Norway.
[for Scandinavian readers, Asbjørn Dyrendal has written 5 good essays on this topic – see http://skepsis.no/blog/?p=1826 and the links at the bottom, and http://skepsis.no/blog/?p=1847]
Vox Plebis?
Next on my list of media annoyances is the extensive use of worthless and usually quite ridiculous vox pop segments in "news" reporting. They're fine if what you are after are the opinions of the people; why the baggy pants and saggy ass? Did Michael Jackson really die, or is he in Shamballah with Elvis? Who will win the World Cup? (on the last question, we should actually ask Paul the Psychic Octopus, which impressively has his own wikipedia page already). But the value in news reporting and especially analytical journalism seems really limited, and more akin to populist infotainment scared of experts.
The worst vox pop segments are the ones repeating what the journalist just said. "Everybody like ice-cream when it's hot" – we don't need three faces confirming that fact. And these segments are increasingly common in analytical journalism, especially on politics. I vaguely remember reading a critical newspaper article stating that reporting today was less about informing the people and more about confirming what the people already know (reference, anyone?). So, less experts and more vox pops. Less demasking of power and more pseudo-democratic "free speech". Vox Plebis. Cheaper and less valid, but vastly more "entertaining" and "engaging".
Other types are the "expert" and "illusory eye-witness account" vox pops. Yesterday 3 alledged terrorists were arrested on behalf of the Norwegian Intelligence Services. Apparently they planned something, perhaps even an attack on an oil rig. So the news go ask the people what to make of it… which is of course platitudes, prejudices and uninformed opinions. Next, they ask the neighbors how one of the terrorists acted… which is exactly the same way any serial killer or child pornography mastermind has acted: inconspicuous, everyday, with as little ripples as possible. Nobody expected him to be anything other than a kind father, husband or neighbor. The same thing was said about Rudolf Höss, Josef Fritzl and Ted Bundy. And we wouldn't really expect the (successful) serial killer or terrorist to act in any other way, would we? While I continuously hope for the one vox pop stating: "yes, he was up at odd hours, the whole block smelled of sulphur and he subscribed to Al Qaeda Illustrated" or just "yes, he looked really crazy", I understand that that is never going to happen, because he would have been caught!
Please – in nine out of ten cases, vox pops are just a waste of valuable media time. Pollution. Not proof of anything but selective news casting. If anything, replace stupid old women and confused shoppers with Paul the Octopus. The betting pool is getting really high.
Buzzword-based Leadership
Leaders and managers subscribing to Value(s)-based Leadership are a recent annoying trend in Scandinavian media. While the philosophy itself probably has old roots – my guess is Humanistic Psychology, Human Potential groups and a variety of self-help and human resource approaches (I have absolutely no knowledge of management theory, and Wikipedia doesn't help) – it is a newly discovered disturbing presence on my TV-screen. Here hordes of nice people blur the distinction between work, life and (secularized) spirituality with buzzwords chosen to represent the core values of their corporation: respect, competence, creativity… here is a list from About.com:
(…) ambition, competency, individuality, equality, integrity, service, responsibility, accuracy, respect, dedication, diversity, improvement, enjoyment/fun, loyalty, credibility, honesty, innovativeness, teamwork, excellence, accountability, empowerment, quality, efficiency, dignity, collaboration, stewardship, empathy, accomplishment, courage, wisdom, independence, security, challenge, influence, learning, compassion, friendliness, discipline/order, generosity, persistency,optimism, dependability, flexibility (…)
The problem with this approach is two-fold. First of all, they are platitudes, the very essence of bullshit bingo: Nobody in their right mind would disagree with courage, wisdom and independence? Or loyalty, credibility and honesty? I understand the motivating intentions behind this use of words; positive thinking is an optimistic and at times working approach. But looking at most of the internet websites I googled, values seem to be filled with power, transforming lazy peoploids into capitalist übermensch and leaders into visionary bodhisattvas.
A lecture in hyperreality; or, why academese matters
To take the last framework first, many historical analyses of the "occult", or "esoteric culture", or "hermetic thought", understood these phenomena as an undercurrent, tradition or counter-culture in the West, alongside the natural sciences and Christianity (eg. F. Yates or M. P. Hall's Secret Teachings left). Although granted a certain amount of significance, especially in times of visibility such as the Renaissance and occult explosions of the late 19th century, early 20th, the 1960s and the 1980s, it was still considered deviant or anti-establishment. In addition, it was a "tradition" of beliefs; disembodied, textual, cognitive, and sui generis. In short, curiously a-historical and essentialized.
Pre-spatial sociological models of a "cult milieu" focused on the cult and cultic innovation (eg. R. Stark & W. S. Bainbridge's work). In contrast with the history of ideas-approach, it was located in the activities of entrepreneurs and the resultant groups that were formed around them. In this way, history became intertwined with market models and genealogies of specific cults; here Bainbridge's model of Scientology (right). The representation is linear and causal, lacking a network structure to capture the fluid activities of the individual believer as well as the broader currents within which entrepreneurs and groups are situated.
To be fair, some sociologists reacted rather differently to Colin Campbell's proposal; for example, Roy Wallis' studies of the Growth movement attempt to model the links between principal ideas, practices, groups and sources in a way that suggests multi-linearity and genealogical chaos. His bubble structure (left) – which by the way should be visualized in 3D, so you need goggles – seeks to capture the overlaps and interrelations within and between "sectors" in the Human Potential Movement; or the "milieu" within which it is located. Naturally, it is a reduction, a snapshot; but because of that, it is visually appealing and actually quite useful both in the classroom and in research. It is relatively easy to extend it to encompass the cultic milieu as a whole or reconstitute it with a new center; as such, modern Satanism in various guises can be placed in the lower left corner or made a core around which other Left-Hand path groups, esotericism, witchcraft and so on are placed.
The final understanding of milieu is the ethnographic one of communities, whether based on affective ties, style, subculture, market or practitioner-client relations. Some empirically oriented researchers have attempted to "find" it; for example, Heelas and Woodhead's Kendall study isolates the "holistic milieu" in an English town. Similarly, Danny Jorgenson has studied tarot in the "esoteric community" at a specific site in California (Jorgensen, 1982); in earlier articles, he seems to strain on the un-substantial nature of the cultic milieu and opts to concentrate on the community of leaders and devotees within groups and the relations between them. In the later, more definitive study (1992), he has come to terms with the encompassing nature of the milieu and, parallel to Wallis, place the "esoteric community" in the centre of a relational chart (right), thus anticipating the ambiguity of territoriality and virtuality I endorse. Nevertheless, while I accept this interpretation as a possible operationalization of the theory, rooting the metaphor of "milieu" in concrete "ecologies" or "habitats" of practitioners, businesses, network and participants, and then relating these to wider networks of communication, I think a significant element of the theory is nonetheless lost.
The cultic milieu is a virtual space. While grounded in observations, it is obviously not an unity "on the floor", but an construction of "fuzzy" homogeneity "after the fact" that integrates the discursive and hence social practice of both practitioners and participants. In other words, the concept of the cultic milieu connects the levels of structure and agency through a network of networks, simultaneously conceptualized as a sociological entity "with consistent features at a level beyond that of constitutive groups and actors" (Redden 2005: 233), as a fluid discursive space of cultural materials from which to appropriate and to which rejected knowledge flow, and as a collective imagination of the seeker "ethos" – that of self-religion. The concept of milieu can thus be used to analyze individual trajectories of consumption, the constitution and dissolution of groups and offers in a "spiritual marketplace", the constitution of this milieu in various submilieus, and the broader interrelations of the cultic milieu and mainstream culture.
Accordingly, we could profitably locate the cultic milieu and the individual vectors within it through ever-widening circles stretched out between what Helen Berger and Douglas Ezzy has dubbed "individual seekership" and "cultural orientation" (2007): The individual participant; local affiliations and "scenes"; organized groups; the satanic milieu with discursive communities and influential texts; the cultic milieu of which it is a part, and finally; occulture, interacting with popular culture, mainstream society and orthodox "culture". Pathways exist within and between all of these levels, and socialization of Satanism can take many directions, blurring the boundary between margins and mainstream considerably.
I call this the extra-dimensionality of milieus: As they are of a virtual kind, they exist as a potential or an extra dimension on "orthodox" everyday social life, invisible unless you are aware of them. For example, the New Age substream exists in a shop in a side street, or the friend or family member that "goes New Age", or an invisible lecture circuit, or TV-shows (many of them on networks marketed for middle-aged women), or fairs and conferences, and so on. Of course, other submilieus are more marginalized and less embedded in concrete scenes; the satanic milieu is a case in point. But it still exists as books on a shelf in the bookshop, or media appearances or small groups of peers – and all submilieus are visible online. Because of this extra-dimensional character, the milieus can appear anywhere and are actively embedded in various "dwellings": bodies, homes, concerts, summer parties, academies and so on. While the cultic milieu is necessarily an abstract, sub-milieus can be concrete in both historical and social perspectives.
This notion of virtuality and fluid locality is influenced by Arjun Appadurai's concept of scapes, "fluid, irregular shapes" that are "deeply perspectival constructs" (Appadurai, 1996, p. 33). His theory of globalized culture presented in Modernity at Large (1996) is thoroughly de-essentialized, as the "disjunctive order" of late modernity cannot be understood through "center-periphery models" (32), but must be reframed as interrelated "dimensions of global cultural flows". Cultural processes today should be studied as local "implosions" of global flows (ibid.: chapter 7 and 9) and thus be conceptualized along fractal, polythetic and chaotic lines (ibid.: 46). Translated into this discussion, the cultic milieu is a "religioscape", both created in subjective imagination and manifest in concrete social institutions and practices, as "the imagination has become an organized field of social practices, a form of work (…), and a form of negotiation between sites of agency (individuals) and globally defined fields of possibility" (ibid.: 31). It is both an "imagined community" (Anderson, 1991) or a "community of sentiment" (Appadurai, 1996), and situated in sociological abstractions that extends on geographical and territorial metaphors, such as "intermediary social spaces" (Heelas, 2005) or "invisible religion" (Luckmann, 1967). This conceptualization of the cultic milieu grasps the complexity of a reality that is both inside and outside, both imaginary and social.


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Sunday, July 15, 2012
The Dude is going through the same thing tonight. So is his mother. So we should be an interesting trio for a while.
Today has been a crazy hectic day. The boys and I went to church this morning, ran back here and grabbed lunch, then went and got The Dude and drove an hour each way to a party for my niece's daughter - it was a combination 8th birthday and adoption party, and I'm very happy to say that her stepfather is now legally her father! After we got back from there, we dropped The Dude back off at his house and then the boys went to Vacation Bible School at our church for a few hours, then came home, got baths, and watched a movie. Alex went to bed on his own, but at some point I have to move Daniel from where he crashed on the loveseat and put him in bed.
And now, I get to go clean up the kitchen and work on some laundry and stuff. The Dude's brother, sister-in-law, and nieces will be here bright and early in the morning for breakfast before they head back home to Colorado. The boys have a dentist appointment in the morning, and then we have VBS again so it's going to be yet another crazy, fun-filled day!
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At the weekend mummy and daddy took me on an aeroplane again - just one this time.
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We landed in a place where everyone was speaking that language mummy speaks to Pudge and I when we are alone in the mornings.
It was raining quite a lot :-(
We went on a bus and by the time we got to the city it had stopped.
We went to a place where they sold very big ice creams. We saw this nice tower (and a nice man gave me a little silver copy of it just because I was looking cute in the park).
Then we saw some pretty white churches. Mum said she doesn't understand why they have to use such nice buildings for religious purposes! I think she'd like Notre Dame better if they made it a curry restaurant like the church in Glasgow!
I got to taste onion soup and baguette and all the waiters loved me so so much they gave me free biscuits and hugged me.
There was even a wee girl on the metro train who said to her mum a few times Je peux donner un p'tit bisou au bébé? - when her mum ignored her pleas she jumped on me from nowhere and smothered me with kisses... I guess I must be the bébé in question!
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The French They Never Taught You, 2nd Edition
Tips for Teachers and Advanced Students
By J.J. Biname, P.G. Socken
SubjectsFrench / French and Language Studies
November 2006
Print ISBN: 9781551303161
Grammar is not a four-letter word. Learning vocabulary is not a form of punishment. They are the basis of any language, and a student who wants more than a tourist's booklet of useful phrases will need to learn them sooner or later. The second edition of this popular little book takes the sting out of the exercise and even makes it a pleasant experience. By tackling issues not addressed in other texts or by doing so in a new way, we examine questions you will find novel and intriguing.
In the section on grammar, we propose a new and better way to tell the use of the passé simple or passé composé and the imparfait. There really are differences in causal conjunctions (parce que/car/comme/puisque). The agreement of the past participle of pronominal verbs (Elle s'est coupée au doigt) is also explained clearly. The updated section on vocabulary helps you distinguish between pouvoir and puissance (power), and the section on style deals with such issues as letter-writing and levels of language.
The purpose of this work, like that of second-language teachers, is to inspire students to seek what is unique in both languages and to reflect on the relationship and interplay between them.
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Part One: Grammar1. PrepositionsFor – expressing timeTo + infinitive2. Adverbial PhrasesAdverbial phrases of place3. PronounsDon't or duquel?On…vous4. VerbsAgreement of the past participle of pronominal verbsPlus-que-parfait or passé antérieur (passé surcomposé)?Je l'ai vue les volerThe passive versus the active voiceImparfait, passé simple and passé compose: the traditional approachPassé simple (passé compose) / imparfait: a new approachSome basic points about sentence structureFuture anterior of conjecture, conditional of unconfirmed informationPresent participle and gerundive5. ConjunctionsCausal conjunctions6. AdjectivesThe position of the adjective (Part I)The position of the adjective (Part II)7. ArticlesParts of the bodyFrançais / le français8. AdverbsNegativesPosition of adverbs9. MiscellaneousIt is, he is (Part I)It is (Part II)You can seeGenderNegatives and positives: inversionGuaranteePart Two: Vocabulary1. Test2. Être en accord or Être d'accord?3. Relatives 4. Holiday, Vacation5. Décider6. Pouvoir and Puissance (Power)7. To Suggest8. To Visit9. Se servir de10. Scarcely, Hardly11. Could, Would12. Oui or Si?13. D'avance / À l'avance14. Mener/ Porter15. Sans doute and Other False Friends16.S'assurer que17. Food…for Thought18. Tranché19. Each / Every20. Encore and Toujours21. When is a Rue Not a Street22. Espoir / Espérance23. Numbers, Figures and Digits24. There Are Words…And There Are Words: Mots / Paroles25. So26. Diminutives27. Bouchées, Fournées, Soirées…Chaque jour et Chaque année: Reflections on a Suffix28. An Employee Isn't un employéConclusion
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This is Sir James Hetherland of Newport, Rhode Island, documenting my time in this expedition into the deep unknown of the sea. I know it's a week early, but… I just can't help myself! Two whole years of preparation for this! My cousins, Phillip and Argy, set it up. I merely am being brought along to document the different creatures we find down there. Many are too afraid to venture down into the depths of the sea and others say we'll find nothing but the other side of the world.
Well, whatever the case, we're spending a lot of money to be able to go down there and, hopefully, we'll get it all back and then some. Many hired hands are banking on our trip to be profitable to support their families, or their own private vices.
At any rate, Susan, my wife, is heavy with child at the moment. I have my own personal reasons for hoping this trip will bring forth good fortune. We're hoping the new knowledge we bring back will be able to set us up for life, but who knows? And most interesting of all, Argy has managed to create a way for us to sink down low enough into the sea without suffering from compressive problems.
He calls it a "Deepwater Sinker." If this expedition is a success, he will be made a millionaire for his invention. England will be hailed as the first military power to gain hold of an underwater vessel!
Day 6:
I haven't been able to update this journal since Monday. Damnable weather has been giving us the run-around as we scramble to get all of the needed supplies onto the large hunk of a vessel. Its odd shape makes storing things a bit difficult. I brought this up to Argy, but as usual, he shrugged me off with his atypical, "Yee-har! Don' worreh 'boot it, mate!"
Also, I must note the rather strange occurrence I had today: a ragged, old hermit of a woman crept up to me this evening. She seemed to have been stalking me all day, as I spotted her staring at me as I was at the docks, taking care of preparations, then again while I was at Wilson's shop. This evening I finally confronted her about it and she spoke to me in the most hoarse, churning voice I had ever heard… And that rancid breath! It was like she had eaten a rat or something!
She told me our expedition was a bust, basically. That our "demise was certain" if we continued with our charted course. Naturally, I shunned her as a wicked old wretch and was on my way. Damn doomsayers and their hunger for attention…
Day 6 ½:
She was here again. Twice I awoke to the sound of pattering on my window pane. On the second time I turned and there she was, staring at me with a pair of white, glossy eyes and a mouth hanging with very few fanged teeth. She had been scratching against my window with her yellowed, cracked fingernails. I let out a scream and turned to light a lamp but by the time I had, she was gone. Susan thought I had lost my mind… But I could've sworn that I saw her. I could've.
Day 7:
Launch day. The old woman wasn't here today, thankfully, though I alerted the town guard of the incidents. They agreed to keep watch around my neighborhood for suspicious activity. I don't want her around my Susan, especially when she's with child. At first I simply thought she was a mere crazed bat with a penchant for prescribing false death sentences, but now… I keep hearing her awful moaning and that damned window pattering in the back of my head. It sends me chills even still.
Day 8:
We are now underwater and are still sliding deeper into the unknown! Thanks to our pressurized vessel, we will be safe from harm. I will now be writing every hour on a notation of the different things of note we see. I look forward to it!
Day 8 - Hour 1:
Everything is dim out here, underwater. Below us, through a pressure-protective window, we can see the dark chasm where we'll be searching. This vessel has windows almost everywhere to see what is outside, as well as shielded lamps that can be accessed from the inside, meaning we'll have to change them periodically. Argy cracks jokes still while the men guide the vessel down. Something makes me… uneasy. To myself, I heard a high-pitched… moan of some kind. Phillips assured me it was just a whale, but I saw nothing out there. Everything is… dim.
Day 8 - Hour 2:
Everything is dark and cold. The lamps have been lit and, already, we've spotted some strange sights. Phillips is pretty well-versed in Marine zoology and classifies some of the things we've seen so far as eels and jellyfish. Still, other things down here have chilled us all to the bone…
Earlier we spotted a dozen lights shining below us and, after further inspection, we found a group of lit-up jellyfish that looked like swimming lanterns being devoured by creatures with large rows of sharp teeth. Their eyes were a glossy white, reminding me of the old wretch from before… I had to turn to my gaze lest I faint. The resulting white goo floating up to our vessel was enough to nearly make me vomit.
Day 8 - Hour 3:
Something has rocked our vessel. At first we all assumed it to be us hitting another rock formation or something, which we must be careful about doing since a puncture hole would mean the death of us all, but almost immediately after we saw a mass of scales glide over us. As the beast passed us by, we looked to the window on our rear and noticed it fully: a long, scaled monster of green with small legs and webbed talons propelling it forward. Luckily, we never saw the creature's face for I'm certain I would've suffered a heart attack if I had. I urged Argy to bring us further up but he rebuked me, calling me a coward and that the expedition is going perfectly. How long are we to be down here in this dark Den of Demons?
Day 8 - Hour 4:
I awoke this time to the sound of the high-pitched moaning again. I asked Phillips if whales could survive down in this cold area and he denied, thus proving it was something… different. As time passed, we came upon a massive row of bones and a skull similar to that of a crocodile. On close inspection, we discovered small, spider-like things skittering across the remains.
They were a dark green and, when our vessel was mere inches from them, Argy dared to tap at the window to get their attention. They emitted the most accursed hissing sound my ears ever had the discomfort of hearing. Argy himself even recoiled in fright at their hostile speech pattern. As they hissed, they twitched at us while emitting dark green fibers that floated up from their furs. Their large, spider-like fangs clicked together hungrily as they stared at us, but they merely stood there, waiting. We moved on, but as we did they continued to stare at our departure for a while before returning to their business.
Day 8 - Hour 5:
We have discovered a sort of cave formation near the ocean floor. Argy thinks we should check it out, but Phillips and I agree that we should conclude this expedition soon. One of our crewmen, Reginald, has fallen ill since the sight of the spider creatures. Argy agrees that we shall return after this last venture. I sure hope he's right… I'm tired of seeing these monstrosities.
Day 8 - Hour 6:
Sweet Christ in Heaven! I'm still shaking from it! Yet another Demon has impeded us on our journey, this time with full-intent on killing us! It had a suction-like mouth with rows upon rows of sharp fangs, pressed against our window's glass.
Like the old woman and several others of the creatures living down in this abysmal world, this… thing had white, glossy eyes that stared directly at us as it sucked against the glass, hungry for our flesh and blood! It didn't know what we are. It couldn't have, it had never met a creature like us before nor we it and yet it was so… hungry… It cared not what we were, all it cared about was food! God help us… We thought this was an expedition, but we are descending into the pit of Hell itself!
Argy has been driven mad with despair. Several times have we doubled back to escape this labyrinth we've entered, but each time we just end up in circles and possibly run into that… that THING again! I can't take it… I need off! I need off!
Day 8 - Hour 6 ½:
We've… made it into a wide, spacious area but not an exit. A ceiling is far above our heads, meaning we are still trapped. I have… come to silently accept the possibility that we may not make it out of this Hell. Reginald has vomited in a corner and it wreaks in this tank of despair.
Everyone is quiet, for we know if any one of us speaks, we all shall join in a chorus of cries and pleads to God Almighty. It's freezing down here… I want to cry… I want to go home, to hear my Susan's soft words again… This is all that woman's fault, and Argy! If he had not brought our damned souls down here, we wouldn't be terrorized by these abominations of God!
Day 8 - Hour 7:
I don't know whether to count ourselves privileged… or accursed. We have looked into the Devil's eyes, at last… The eyes of the Demon God… The glossy, white eyes that see nothing… and everything. Upon reaching the end of this canyon, we discovered what looked like a wall of grey, smoothness.
But upon fixing our lamps one last time, the wall revealed itself an eyelid. I heard that call, that wretched call, once more… It was loud and it cracked one of our windows. I don't have long. This may be a futile attempt to document this last moment of my life, but I feel it necessary.
Phillips, that philosophical prat, has christened the Demon Leviathan, the sea monster mentioned in Job. For now, it stares at us, judging us… lowly mortals as we are, but that call it made will most certainly attract others. It's feeding its monstrous children in this underdark, and we have been made a prime meal due to our damaged vessel. Argy is still raving mad and it took Joseph smashing a tool box over his head to shut him up. If anyone manages to read this, ever… Leave this place immediately and never return, but tell of our tale and our plight… And warn those above to never visit those below. There are monsters down below. This is the Hell.
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|Ship: Disney Fantasy
|Stateroom: 9064
|Condition: 4
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|Category: 5A
|Location: Mid
|Sail Date: 04/14/12
Notes: Great location midship. However it is on port side, and right in front of the elevators and stair well. You can hear kids running in the hallway at times and people walking by talking. Higher traffic area naturally due to its location. On the flip side, its right there when you get off the elevators and doesn't require a longer walk down the hall.
Otherwise, interior is fine as expected on a newer Disney ship. Would stay here again, but we booked VGT, so am happy with the location given the VGT booking. Only would like the starboard side sometime to get the great Castaway Cay view. Alas, our next cruise in two weeks is port side, again a VGT. Will update that when we return!
|Ship: Disney Dream
|Stateroom: 9064
|Condition: 4
|Deck: 9
|Category: 4
|Location: Mid
|Sail Date: 05/29/11
Notes: The room was fabulous. The layout roomy. However, since the ship had only been sailing for 5 months, there was the table in front of the couch that had some damage to it. Visually, it made the rest of the room appear a bit "used". Loved the taller beds so suitcases all fit underneath! The host for our room was outstanding! Had beach massage at Castaway Cay. For the price and privacy, probably wouldn't do it again. Remy's, fabulous food with wine pairing. 3 1/2 hour meal was the best!!


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The Breathing Wheel is a tale of mystery and imagination by Anthony Ravenwood and we launched his début novel at the tail end of last year.
It has a splendid baddie the kids will love to hate called Gronwolfe, a twisted old soul with nothing more than vengeful havoc on his mind.
The hero of the piece is Jacob Gwytherin and alongside his childhood sweetheart Martha, readers will discover spectacular dryads, gryphons, sinister spirits and twisted hags too; the illustrations by Stephen Bayliss are fabulous.
This fast-paced quest has a full cast of mystical characters who find themselves embroiled in an evil curse destined to destroy the village and kill everyone in its wake and Ant embraced the challenge of writing a soundtrack to accompany the book – no mean feat!
On top of that, he's going to be performing the story with magnificent songs that will really bring the tale to life, live. Take a peek at his Facebook page for more details of the performace.
Ant has just released a creepy trailer featuring Gronwolfe which I thought you might enjoy, well, you know what I mean…
If you'd like to come along to the event, he'd love to see you there – visit Ant's website and keep an eye on his blog posts for more teasers and you might find it useful to subscribe to his feed so you don't miss a thing.
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Hinds led 48-40 at halftime, and both teams scored 49 in the last half to preserve the win for Hinds.
Hinds shot 70.5 percent from the floor in the game while the Bulldogs shot 47.8 percent.
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Hunstanton's most famous feature, amongst geologists and holidaymakers alike, is its magnificent cliffs which extend along the town's coastline and beach. You cannot help but notice the cliffs' distinctive layers of red chalk, white chalk and brown sandstone. Locally, the brown sandstone is known as carrstone. Many homes have been built throughout the area with such carrstone.
Hunstanton's first lighthouse was built in 1666. It stood at St Edmund's Point until it was burnt down in 1776. Its replacement did not last long and was replaced in 1844 by the present structure. During the First World War, the lighthouse was used as a base for secret wireless transmissions monitoring Germany navy signals. In World War II it was used as an observation station and gunnery. In 1996 the lighthouse was sold once again. It is believed to be used as a holiday home even today. There is a red brick building nearby the lighthouse which is a coastguard look- out station.
The current lighthouse ceased to operate as a functioning lighthouse in 1921. The lighthouse role was instead fulfilled initially by a lightship and subsequently by a fog buoy and light operated by remote control. Since 1964, the current lighthouse has been a holiday home when the building was sold by the local Council following an advertisement in The Times for £4,740. Seventy offers were received within two days. Located not far from the lighthouse in Old Hunstanton is the RNLI lifeboat station. Well worth a visit.
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I have to say in my defence that things have been very very busy!!
The system works well by putting the blog update onto the computer calender, only trouble is that when it pops up to remind you to do the update you need to do it there and then. If you delete it and think I'll do it later it somehow gets missed.
The complete build we were doing is finished apart from the IVA test. We had a little enforced delay whilst we waited for the new heated glass to arrive for the windscreen. The delay meant that we were forced into missing the inspection date and so now have to wait for another.
The new screen glass is excellent and although it caused a delay now it is here is is well worth the wait.
We have produced some new seats with detachable headrests for the IVA test. They look great and appear to be very comfortable as well.
All in all the few modifications we have made to the current build will make things a lot better for any new kit buyers as several changes have brought some significant improvements.
As and when we see these changes develop I will be altering the website to provide all the information.
Off to Stafford showground tomorrow for the kit car show and so expecting a busy weekend.
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Smash the State Party
This isn't a Jura event, but it'll be fun anyways... SMASH THE STATE PARTY
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sydney park, st peters, on the 7th of may 2006 at 1pm will be the first
annual smash the state party. in the spirit of may day we will be
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providing the tunes for the day will be VAE VICTUS, SAY CHEESE AND DIE!. THE SUBVERTS, UNATTENDED BAGGAGE!
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Looking for a simple, quiet, enjoyable sipping wine for a hot summer afternoon, a picnic, or just sitting outside on the patio at sunset with your dog? Try a Chenin Blanc.
The aroma of Chenin Blanc includes hints of honey, melon, peach and other fruits. Its crisp taste is due to the acid level of the wine. It"s perfect with light dishes and complements most appetizers and light dinners or lunches.
While California produces a respectable Chenin Blanc, the best known Chenin Blanc grape is from the Loire Valley of France, producing a wine called Vouvray.
Producers Across the World
Chenin Blanc can be traced back to the ninth century in Central Loire, France. To this day Central Loire produces the finest examples of Chenin Blanc.
In South Africa, Chenin Blanc is known as Steen. Chenin Blanc Cosecha Tardia and Drostdy Hof Chenin Blanc are excellent examples of South African Steen. The Chenin Blanc grape is an important part of the South African wine industry; Nearly a third of vines in South Africa are Chenin Blanc.
In Brazil, Chenin Blanc is planted as Pinot Blanco. The grape is also grown in Chile, Mexico and Argentina, where there are over 10,000 acres of the grape. In comparison, Australia has close to 1,500 acres and New Zealand has 500.
In California, Bonny Doon Chenin Blanc from the Bonny Doon winery is well known and respected. In general, however, the California climate is not conducive to Chenin Blanc grape production. Unfortunately many comments on California Chenin Blanc use words such as "bland" or "blah."
The Cream of the (Wine) Crop
Wine connoisseurs, without exception, say that the very best Chenin Blanc comes from the grape"s birthplace, the Loire Valley. Overproduction for quantity rather than quality everywhere else results in mediocre Chenin Blanc, critics say, while French vintners take their time and do it right.
Vouvray produces one of the best lines of Chenin Blanc, and names like Savennieres, Montiouis and Saumur, are also very well respected. A sparkling wine, Cremane de Loire, is also rated as outstanding.
California Chenin Blancs
While Californian Chenin Blanc labors under a bad (and many would say deserved) reputation, a few Californian wineries produce some good Chenin Blancs. Here are some recommendations for California Chenin Blanc labels and their approximate prices:
- Ballentine Vineyards ($14)
- Callaway Chenin Blanc ($7ish)
- Casa Nuestra ($16)
- Hogue ($8)
- Pine Ridge ($10).
The taste and smells of a Chenin Blanc, no matter where it"s produced, are fruity and citrusy. Honeydew melon, lemon, orange and other fruits can be detected by a good nose and palate.
While a reasonably good Chenin Blanc comes in between $8 and $20, you might want to treat yourself and invest in a Chenin Blanc from the Loire Valley: a sure bet, if somewhat more expensive. A good, crisp, refreshing glass of cold Chenin Blanc goes well with just about anything, including a relaxing day under a shady tree.


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I never thought a mobile web application update to change the dynamic of a whole website and social media presence it didn't check this out. the images above were from a meme site, and web application credit will be here by this afternoon. after the show there are two little audio clips that reflect how Linkedin should be feeling this week.
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Do you produce a positive emotional response when in front of your mirror? Stop with the excuses people when it comes to looking better and presenting yourself in a positive way it only benefits you. If your husband or boyfriend or whoever complains about it or wants a better looking representation of the you he wants new that's great and he deserve that but it starts with you meaning your life without him or with him is still going to be a less quality life while you look like shit and are things you can do to fix it and be comfortable but not comfortable meaning looking badly. ,, if your listening to this to get the product list suggestion beginning then as promised go to 10 minutes and 16 seconds this time get a pen or something to write this down with.
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Micro Linear selects Helic's VeloceRF™ for RFIC inductor synthesis modeling and verification
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ATHENS, GREECE, June 8, 2005 – Helic S.A. proudly announces that another semiconductor company has selected its VeloceRF EDA product. Micro Linear Corporation (Nasdaq: MLIN), a leading digital wireless transceiver U.S. company, will be using VeloceRF for synthesis, modeling and verification of integrated inductors in its RFIC designs.
Silicon-integrated wireless designs and shrinking process geometries impose stringent performance constraints for integrated inductor components, while modeling challenges are the toughest ever. Micro Linear chose VeloceRF for its advanced features in synthesis and layout of optimized spiral inductors, and for its unique speed vs. accuracy characteristics. Seamless integration in the design flow and support for parasitic inductance strongly influenced the decision.
Bob Koupal, Director of Engineering at Micro Linear said: "We evaluated EDA tools that address integrated inductor modeling and design, concentrating on the accuracy of the models, their integration into standard design flows, and their component synthesis and verification capabilities. We concluded that for our needs, VeloceRF is the best-in-class design tool that combines all in one. Based on the commitment of the Helic team to our design needs, their technical expertise and high-quality support services they provided, we decided to adopt VeloceRF into our flow."
"Moving towards their next generation of wireless chips, Micro Linear gave us challenging design flow specifications very hard to meet. We are doing our best to help a world-class design team to succeed with its novel product line", said Dr. Yorgos Koutsoyannopoulos, CEO of Helic S.A.
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