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Midnight Sun
Katie Price (Bella Thorne), 17, has had a dangerous sensitivity to the sun since birth. The only time she can leave her house is at night, so she sleeps during the day and at night, is a busker who plays her guitar in the subway. When she meets Charlie (Patrick Schwarzenegger), she doesn't tell him about her condition at first, afraid it will scare him away.
When they finally go on a date one night, it goes really well up until the point when she has to run home as soon as the sun starts to come out. Charlie is filled with questions, but Katie is still afraid to tell him and starts to avoid him.
Based on the 2006 Japanese film of the same name, Taiyo no Uta.
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Allynne Noelle was portraying a Turning Girl in "Symphony in 3 Movements" when she snapped her Lisfranc ligament.
With adrenaline coursing through her veins, the Huntington Beach-born ballerina didn't discover her injury until she fell out of bed the next morning, overwhelmed by pain. A soloist at the Miami City Ballet in November 2009, Noelle knew that the turnaround time was too short for the company to replace her before its matinee performance in a few hours.
A combination of Aleve and "the show must go on" attitude got her through the rigorous Balanchine ballet, as well as the next 10 months.
"It was a 'mind over matter' kind of situation," said Noelle, a self-described perfectionist. "I was in pain the whole while, but my body did what I made it do. My mind blocked it out so I could keep dancing."
After undergoing surgery, in which doctors replaced scar tissue and fracture chips in her right foot with an artificial ligament, and physiotherapy, Noelle, undeterred, auditioned for a principal role at the Los Angeles Ballet.
Dancers at the academy will perform "Balanchine Gold" — part one of the Balanchine Festival 2013 — at locations across Southern California beginning March 9. The second installment, "Balanchine Red," lasts from May through June.
"Artistically, ballet allows me to express myself," said Noelle, 31, of Santa Monica. "I love being able to go to work and do what I love every day. There's a feeling on stage, when you're sharing a part of yourself with the audience, whether it's a story ballet or abstract — it's an experience with someone that comes to be entertained, and we get to move them in some way."
Noelle was led to the barre and ballet shoes in kindergarten due to an invitation by her then-best friend. She immediately "fell in love" with the discipline and structure of the dance form and the opportunity to set goals and work toward them.
It was at the Huntington Academy of Dance that both Noelle and fellow Los Angeles Ballet dancer Kate Highstrete got their start at ages 5 and 3, respectively. Marnell Himes-Ushijima, artistic advisor and founding member of the training institution, provided a strong foundation to both dancers early in their careers, inculcating the importance of an unaffected and clean technique.
Noelle said it was Marnell's lessons that instilled in her the etiquette and professionalism to be respectful and respected in the ballet community, adding that in the years since, she has added heart and artistry to her personal style and works "every day to be anything but vanilla."
Highstrete, whose biggest idols are Gelsey Kirkland and Wendy Whelan, has danced as Myrtha in "Giselle" despite suffering from scoliosis. She also recently worked with local choreographers, including Sonya Tayeh, known for routines on the TV show "So You Think You Can Dance."
"After I started, I just couldn't stop," said Highstrete, 26, a fourth-season corps de ballet dancer who lives in West Hollywood. "It was all I wanted to do. There's just something about ballet that I love, and I think when you want to be a dancer, you know that it's something you absolutely have to do."
While both mapped different journeys, with Highstrete training and climbing the ranks at North Carolina School of the Arts, Lauridsen Ballet Centre and Saint Louis Ballet, and Noelle paying her dues at National Ballet of Canada and Inland Pacific Ballet, neither can imagine her life minus ballet.
Noelle and Highstrete agreed that balance is hard-fought in the life of a ballerina, with practice lasting at least from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. five days a week, with time demands increasing before performances.
"Being a dancer is challenging because it's not a 9-to-5 job from which you go home and you're done," said Highstrete, who teaches Pilates as a second job. "It's a lifestyle. You have to stay in shape and it's an entire dedication of your life — not only a day job."
It was Noelle's injury that forced her to take a close look at the possibility of life without ballet. Drawing momentum from that experience, she now works harder to prioritize herself by picking up new hobbies, spending time with friends and taking undergraduate classes through a satellite program at St. Mary's College.
"Earlier, my friends, my social circle, my career, my goals — it was all ballet," said Noelle, who has long revered the feminine strength of Julie Kent. "It becomes easily all-consuming. When it's something you have been doing since your childhood, you don't always recognize a problem with it until you hit a certain age, which I have. It takes making an effort to have other goals, but it's made me a better artist."
Hooked to pushing themselves to reaching new heights in the ballet studio and outside, the dancers marvel at new discoveries they continue to make, both about ballet and their bodies.
"Every time I thought of quitting, I just couldn't," Highstrete said. "I can't not have ballet in my life. I think it's hard for dancers when we retire because we're used to having something that we are so passionate about, and it's often hard to fill that part of our lives with something else."
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In recent years, convex optimization methods were successfully applied for various image processing tasks and a large number of first-order methods were designed to minimize the corresponding functionals. Interestingly, it was shown recently by Grewenig et al. that the simple idea of so-called "superstep cycles" leads to very efficient schemes for time-dependent (parabolic) image enhancement problems as well as for steady state (elliptic) image compression tasks. The "superstep cycles" approach is similar to the nonstationary (cyclic) Richardson method which has been around for over sixty years. In this paper, we investigate the incorporation of superstep cycles into the gradient descent reprojection method. We show for two problems in compressive sensing and image processing, namely the LASSO approach and the Rudin-Osher-Fatemi model that the resulting simple cyclic gradient descent reprojection algorithm can numerically compare with various state-of-the-art first-order algorithms. However, due to the nonlinear projection within the algorithm convergence proofs even under restrictive assumptions on the linear operators appear to be hard. We demonstrate the difficulties by studying the simplest case of a two-cycle algorithm in R^2 with projections onto the Euclidian ball.
This paper presents a new similarity measure and nonlocal filters for images corrupted by multiplicative noise. The considered filters are generalizations of the nonlocal means filter of Buades et al., which is known to be well suited for removing additive Gaussian noise. To adapt to different noise models, the patch comparison involved in this filter has first of all to be performed by a suitable noise dependent similarity measure. To this purpose, we start by studying a probabilistic measure recently proposed for general noise models by Deledalle et al. We analyze this measure in the context of conditional density functions and examine its properties for images corrupted by additive and multiplicative noise. Since it turns out to have unfavorable properties for multiplicative noise we deduce a new similarity measure consisting of a probability density function specially chosen for this type of noise. The properties of our new measure are studied theoretically as well as by numerical experiments. To obtain the final nonlocal filters we apply a weighted maximum likelihood estimation framework, which also incorporates the noise statistics. Moreover, we define the weights occurring in these filters using our new similarity measure and propose different adaptations to further improve the results. Finally, restoration results for images corrupted by multiplicative Gamma and Rayleigh noise are presented to demonstrate the very good performance of our nonlocal filters.


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As in the title, is there such a feature for xfce4? If not, how can I post a feature request?
The reason I find it useful is that when I snap a terminal window to fill the screen, and then open a new tab, the window grows to a size large than the screen, rendering the bottom of the window invisible, and a re-snap necessary, which is quiet annoying.
If there is a way to edit the source code a little bit and compile it myself to achieve this effect, please give me some guidance.
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Set MiscAlwaysShowTabs=TRUE in ~/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc.
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Thanks. But are you sure it really works? Doesn't work here.
xfce4-terminal version 0.4.8, system LinuxMint 14.
It works here:
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Must be a configuration that was added to a later version of xfce4-terminal.
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Hi, ToZ. I have upgraded to xfce4-terminal 0.6.1, and still no luck.
Could you please check the path and post the content of your terminalrc here?
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Okay, figured it out, I need to put a [Configuration] line in the beginning. Thanks!
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D. Nurkse
Dennis Nurkse was born on December 13, 1949, in New Jersey, the son of Estonian economist Ragnar Nurkse. He received his BA from Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, and worked as a factory worker throughout the 1970s. He has also worked as a construction worker, grant writer, human rights representative to the United Nations, street musician, kindergarten teacher, translator, bartender, and harpsichord builder, among others.
Nurkse is the author of ten poetry collections, including, most recently, Love in the Last Days: After Tristan and Iseult (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017), A Night in Brooklyn (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012), The Border Kingdom (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008), and Burnt Island (Alfred A. Knopf, 2006).
In his review of A Night in Brooklyn, poet Philip Levine writes: "He possesses the ability to employ the language of our American streets, shops, bars, factories, and any place else and construct truly lyrical poems, sometimes of love, sometimes of anger."
Nurkse's honors include awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Whiting Foundation, as well as fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He was appointed Brooklyn poet laureate in 1996 and served in the position until 2001. Nurkse has taught poetry at Brooklyn College, The New School, Rikers Island Correctional Facility, Rutgers University, and University of Southern Maine. He currently teaches in the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College.
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by Laura Jamieson
It's one thing to read about the Holocaust in books, but Germantown Friends School students discovered that it's a whole different experience to hear from a survivor. The Upper School students sat transfixed at an assembly on Oct. 2 as Daniel Goldsmith shared the story of how his life, as a Jewish child in Belgium, was altered by World War II and the Holocaust.
The assembly was the culmination of the GFS summer reading program; High school students, faculty, staff and parents read the novel "Sarah's Key" by Tatiana de Rosnay before returning to school in September. It is the story of the escape and survival of one girl, Sarah, after the 1942 French roundup and deportation to camps of thousands of Parisian Jews.
"When you have the collective experience of everyone reading one book it is amazing to have someone come in and comment on it," said Meg Goldner Rabinowitz, Upper School English teacher and head of the summer reading program.
Like Sarah, Daniel Goldsmith is a child-survivor of the Holocaust, but his story is not fictional. The students felt the weight of reality as Goldsmith revealed that his childhood ended at 8 years old when his father, while boarding a train for a work camp, told young Danny that he was now the man of the house and to take care of his mother and little sister. It was the last time Goldsmith saw his father. He later discovered that he was sent to the gas chambers upon arrival at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Goldsmith retold how he was hidden in orphanages, Catholic schools and even a family's attic from age 8 until 12, when he was reunited with his mother and little sister.
"As the older generation is dying, it is imperative that we tell our stories to you," Goldsmith said. "It's important that we never forget what happened during the Nazi-era and it's important that it never happens again."
He urged the students to, "speak out and act out against evil, prejudice, intolerance and hatred." In response, the students stood up and gave Goldsmith a vigorous standing ovation.


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Over the last little while I have done a few tasty new recipes with avocados and the last one reminded me of just how much I enjoy them! Looking back over the all of the avocados recipes that I have posted I realized that there are more than 50 of them and that meant that it was time to roundup some of my favourites! It certainly was not difficult finding 10 recipes with avocados, on the contrary, it was more difficult trimming the list down to just 10 and here they are!
Avocado works surprisingly well with melted cheese and this Bacon Guacamole Grilled Cheese Sandwich has to be my absolute favourite way to enjoy them all wrapped up in buttery, toasty, golden brown bread. Pure heaven in sandwich form!
These Poached Eggs on Toast with Chipotle Mayonnaise, Bacon and Avocado are a great way to get some avocado goodness for breakfast!
Avocado slices really make this Thai Grilled Chicken Satay Salad with its peanut dressing special.
What avocado roundup would be complete with out a guacamole recipe and Bacon Guacamole is definitely a great way to go!
The BLT sandwich is already pretty amazing but if you add avocados like in this Avocado BLT with Fried Egg And Chipotle Mayo, things really start to get good!
A more recent discovery, and new favourite, is using avocados in a dressing like this Creamy Avocado Dressing (aka Guacamole Buttermilk Dressing) and it is addictively good!
This Jalapeno Cornbread Grilled Cheese with Chipotle Caramelized Onions, Refried Black Beans and Guacamole is quite the mouthful in more ways than one but you will instantly fall for it with the first bite!
Creamy avocados also go well in spicy salsa like this Avocado and Roasted Tomatillo Salsa!
Avocados and mangoes are another magical combination and they make perfect partners in this Mango, Avocado and Grilled Shrimp Salad with a Peanut Dressing.
If you are looking for a lighter version of an egg salad sandwich, avocados make a great substitution for the mayonnaise without sacrificing and of the creaminess and this Creamy Avocado/Guacamole Egg Salad Sandwich is a particularly nice example.
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BRIDGEPORT -- Penalties kept coming furiously Sunday for the Bridgeport Sound Tigers, and that changed a lot at even strength.
A few forward lines that had been together for a while were broken up while some came back together. Some remained roughly intact at Tuesday's practice at the Wonderland of Ice.
"I was trying to find some balance," coach Scott Pellerin said. "Sometimes in the middle of games, with the penalties, you're putting different guys with different guys, and you see how it looks on a particular shift."
The regular lines split up after a Norfolk penalty early in Bridgeport's 3-2 overtime loss Sunday; that was the first of eight Admirals' power plays.
It so happened that Mike Halmo scored on the second shift after that penalty to give Bridgeport a lead. The Sound Tigers scored just once more, Chad Costello from Matt Watkins, two players who didn't play together often Sunday and had started a game together only once.
One of Sunday's more consistent combinations put John Persson in what had been Halmo's place, on the left side with Brock Nelson and Nino Niederreiter, a fairly common pair this year. The trio was together for a few games before the all-star break.
"We'd played before, and we played pretty good," said Persson, who'd been with Watkins and Kirill Kabanov since the break. "It was pretty good to be back. ... Me and Kabby and Watty had a couple of good games before that. We just didn't score."
The most important things to Pellerin were that players played their roles and communicated, no matter the combination.
"When lines change, there's two ways it can go," Pellerin said. "Either they're really quiet, or they know they haven't played together, and they really talk. I want them to really talk."
The Sound Tigers were without a bunch of regular forwards, including Niederreiter, recovering from having wisdom teeth removed. Blair Riley (lower body) sat out Tuesday after missing his first two games of the season this weekend, but he's expected to be fine; "I'm not worried about him," Pellerin said.
Max MacKay was sick.
The team doesn't play again until Friday, the start of another three games in three days.
"I still haven't decided on the lines," Pellerin said.
"I'll make some changes if I need to."
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Perhaps romantic matches aren't the only ones made in heaven.
In a clever pairing, Brazilian youths who want to learn to speak English have been chatting via webcams with elderly Americans eager to make new friends.
The "Speaking Exchange" project sprung from a partnership between ad agency FCB Brazil and the CNA language school. They created a webtool that CNA teachers use to evaluate the video conversations between the students and seniors who live in a retirement community in Chicago.
The seniors offer language tips — as well as some virtual hugs and "I love you's" – to the students, with the interaction aimed at making the students' learning experience "more real, more human," says a CNA coordinator in a video on FCB Brazil's website.
Case in point: A man holds up a black-and-white picture on the Web cam for a student to see. "That's me and my wife when we were young," he says. "Oh, you were good looking," the student responds. "And you're still good looking."
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5 players who could stop immigration reform
The Senate deal makers on immigration reform have moved quickly to blunt criticisms that could derail its success.
Now the real test of their offense begins.
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The legislative slog starts this week, when the Senate Judiciary Committee begins marking up the bill. There will be no shortage of obstacles in what will be the chief policy battle on Capitol Hill this year, and any one factor could complicate the fragile path toward immigration reform.
( Also on POLITICO: Gang of Eight plots path to Senate supermajority)
These key players and how they handle the immigration debate strategically could make the difference between a bill that reaches President Barack Obama's desk and a legislative death like the last effort six years ago.
Here is POLITICO's list of who to watch:
1. Jim DeMint and The Heritage Foundation
This is the kind of policy fight for which Jim DeMint was hired.
The former South Carolina GOP senator and tea party hero took over last month as president of the 40-year-old conservative think tank, and got straight to work. He has blasted the Gang of Eight's proposal as "amnesty," criticized negotiators for drafting the bill in secret and is trying to highlight the bill's potential costs if millions of undocumented immigrants are made eligible for federal benefits.
( PHOTOS: 20 quotes on immigration reform)
If DeMint and Heritage — with its policy analyses and feisty advocacy arm — can help keep the right unified on immigration, it could force Democrats and the White House to accept amendments they don't like in order to get something through — or simply kill the bill.
Heritage has been here before. The group helped sink previous immigration efforts by focusing on costs. Senior research fellow Robert Rector released a study in 2007 saying that immigration legislation could cost taxpayers $2.6 trillion.
Monday, Heritage said immigration reform could cost $6.3 trillion on new spending on entitlements and social programs.
But Heritage is getting pushback from conservatives and economists on both sides who say that adding millions of new taxpayers and streamlining the legal immigration process will spur growth and benefit the economy.
( PHOTOS: Pols react to immigration deal)
Former Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin authored a study released last month arguing that immigration reform would boost GDP per capita by more than $1,500 and slash more than $2.5 trillion from the cumulative federal deficit.
Even Grover Norquist, the man behind the GOP no-tax pledges, wants an immigration bill.
"I believe that free markets lead to economic growth and prosperity for all," Norquist said on Capitol Hill last week. "This includes free and flexible labor markets, which will benefit not only those who wish to come here to pursue the American dream but also those of us blessed enough to have been born in the United States of America."
2. Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.)
The House Judiciary Committee chairman will oversee that chamber's pathway to immigration reform, and he has outlined an approach that, so far, sets up a procedural — and philosophical — clash with the Senate.
In a Republican Conference that stresses regular order, Goodlatte's step-by-step, take-it-slow strategy will be key. Last month, he unveiled two conservative-friendly measures: a temporary agricultural guest worker bill and an E-Verify requirement for employers.
He promises there's more to come but hasn't committed to any timetables. He also does not personally support what he calls a "special" pathway to citizenship. Ensuring eventual citizenship for the 11 million illegal immigrants is a marquee priority of Democrats and a critical component of the Gang of Eight's plan.


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MCW Pro Wrestling "Shamrock Cup" Matches Announced TONIGHT! Jun 26 - 08:56 pm EDT
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MCW Pro Wrestling "Shamrock Cup" Matches Announced TONIGHT!
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text: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 No Link Found Between Stress and MS, Say Researchers Contrary to earlier reports, a new study finds that stress does not appear to increase a person's risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a study published today in Neurology. Researchers studied 2 groups of female nurses from the Nurses' Health Study. The first study started in 1976 and followed 121,700 nurses between the ages of 30 and 55. The second study started in 1989 and followed 116,671 nurses between the ages of 25 and 42. Participants reported general stress at home and at work, including physical and sexual abuse in childhood and as teenagers. Of the first group, 77 people developed MS by 2005. In the second group, 292 people developed the disease by 2004. "The risk of MS is particularly high among young women, and the difference in the number of cases is consistent with the different ages of women in the two groups at the beginning of the MS follow-up," said study author Trond Riise, PhD. After considering factors such as age, ethnicity, latitude of birth, body mass at age 18, and smoking, the study found that severe stress at home did not increase the risk of developing MS. There also was no significant increased risk in developing MS among those who reported severe physical or sexual abuse during childhood or adolescence. "This rules out stress as a major risk factor for MS. Future research can now focus on repeated and more fine-tuned measures of stress," said Riise. Comments I think the conclusion is misleading. Are they specifically looking at past sexual abuse? Severe stress at home is not specific at all. It also doesn't sound like they took into account whether subjects were using any stress coping mechanisms such as therapy, exercise, etc. In my opinion, stress is relative depending on whether or not a person feels like they have some control over it. Lastly the nursing profession itself is stressful and they probably needed another group of subjects in a relatively non-stressful profession as a control group. Posted by Brendan on 6/7/2011 5:01 PM Perhaps stree does not make one more susceptible to onset of MS, but in my years of acute care practice, the majority of my MS patient exaccerbations came after stress inducing events, especially after the Christmas/New Year holidays. You could mark your calendar for the influx of excerbations the first 2 weeks of January. Posted by Vicki on 6/7/2011 9:51 PM


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The title of Riley's presentation is "Understanding Prehistoric Nutrition and Plant Use: Case Studies from Texas and the Colorado Plateau." The lecture is presented in Old Main, Room 225 and is free and open to everyone.
Riley's research focuses on paleoethnobotany, or the study of past human use of plants for subsistence and other aspects of material culture. His lecture provides an overview of the research process by which archaeologists study coprolites, or preserved fecal matter, to determine nutrition and diet choice in past societies. Each coprolite represents the undigested remains of a small number of meals. This allows for the reconstruction of the menus behind these meals. The lecture introduces the incredible range of analyses possible on coprolite specimens followed by two case studies, one from Texas and one from the Colorado Plateau.
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The lecture is the first in the USU Museum of Anthropology's lecture series. The museum will host prominent anthropologists from around the nation for public lectures during the academic year. All lectures are free and open to the public. Funding for the Anthropology Lecture Series is provided in part by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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Debunking the Lovecraftian OccultPosted by LNN
Dear Friendly Residents of the Sol System,
As those currently not preoccupied by the continuous menace of existential risk may have noted, the LNN has been rather quiet lately. However, today we have deactivated the cryogenic suspension of our maltheistic drones and re-fired the furnaces of our cyclopean engines to swing the bow around and broadside you with the following critically important announcement:
The Lovecraft News Network is extremely proud to present the following treatise entitled "Debunking the Lovecraftian Occult" by Thomas Jude Barclay Morrison.
A resident of the bucolic Pennines in England, Mr. Morrison is a prolific writer of fiction and essays, a polymathic musician-singer-songwriter, a dedicated botherer of dolphins, an accomplished Godzilla haikuist, a pious chronicler of alchemical legerdemain, and a heterodoxically inclined expert on the history of the arcane and occult.
He is also great friend of the LNN.
Being privy to his formidable intellectual resources and interest in guerrilla academic pursuits, we invited him to pen a few thoughts on a Lovecraftian topic of his choosing. Mr. Morrison was good enough to submit to us the following article, of which we are simultaneously astounded by and deeply grateful for. His treatise is a devastating phalanx of logic and reason, yet it is gleeful and neither mean-spirited or overtly hostile. It is a gentleman's argument, though we suspect there may be those who passionately disagree with his findings. We have found that such is typically the case with all of the best writings of the most interesting and rhetorically dexterous authors. With the article, we also welcome those who would dispute it to the discussion. Our goal by presenting this is not to end the life of the debate through a definitive endorsement, though we admit to finding the piece quite compelling; instead, we wish to facilitate the breeding of this debate's steroid-addled and radiation-filled, mutant progeny by inviting further argument from the community on all sides of the spectrum of belief.
At this time, in recognition of the completion of this most dangerous literary quest, by the considerable power vested in us, we heft our onyx-encrusted battle axe and dub Mr. Thomas Jude Barclay Morrison as "Hewer of the Hebetudinous and Indefatigable Antagonizer of Chaos Magicians" and bestow upon him all the rights, ranks, and privileges requisite of this glorious calling.
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"Debunking the Lovecraftian Occult"by Thomas Jude Barclay Morrison
"I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality." (H. P. Lovecraft, Selected Letters, Vol. II, p. 27)
The both delightfully and horrifyingly bizarre spectacle that we laughably refer to as "the modern world" is graced by the presence of a perhaps surprisingly large number of Lovecraftian occult 'orders', and an ever-growing body of writings concerning the practice of Lovecraftian occultism. This literalising of Lovecraft's tales of crazed and diabolical cultists enslaved by monstrous, ancient god-like entities has to qualify as one of the most curious cultural phenomena, even by the standards of the already highly curious subculture of contemporary Lovecraftiana. I would therefore like to take a few moments of your time, dear reader, in which to survey this singular scene, and to challenge, perhaps, some of the presumptions and misconceptions that underlie it—please do not be alarmed, the process will be almost entirely painless, and I can assure you that you will feel much better in the morning.
Besides the great many Lovecraftian occultists who belong to no formal organisation, and who practice their magic in a solitary way, occult orders claiming to work Lovecraftian magic include the Typhonian Order, the Order of the Trapezoid, the Bate Cabal, the Lovecraftian Coven, the Starry Wisdom group, the Miskatonic Alchemical Expedition, a veritable plethora of Esoteric Orders of Dagon, and of course, the Cult of Cthulhu, already very much known and loved by Adepts and Grand Wizards of the Lovecraft News Network. Lovecraftian occult groups and practitioners like to think that they are highly unique and individualistic—and indeed, there are minor differences between them—but broadly speaking, they are united in the following ways: their fondness for hierarchical organisation, which manifests in a variety of deliciously pompous titles like "High Priest" and "Grand Master"; their fondness for Lovecraft; their fondness for the postmodern occultism known as Chaos Magic; their fondness for Satanism. They are also united in that they continue to exist—a fact which might in itself be viewed as an argument against the reality of the magic they practice, given the fate of those who actually succeed in 'invoking' the 'Old Ones', in Lovecraft's stories.
In written form, the most (in)famous manifestations of Lovecraftian occultism are almost certainly the various competing versions (including those by Donald Tyson and Robert Turner) of Lovecraft's pseudo-grimoire, the Necronomicon—the most renowned of which is that which "Simon" (a nom de plume) penned. These Necronomicons are exactly what you'd expect them to be—collections of spells and rituals designed to invoke and summon Lovecraft's "Old Ones", written in the style of medieval and renaissance grimoires, and in the case of Simon, also that of Sumerian mythology. The number of people who believe these texts to be genuinely archaic is surprisingly high, given the widespread availability of information concerning their spurious nature—although perhaps it should not be surprising, since credulity and wilful myopia have never been in short supply.
Let's take a closer look at the Simon Necronomicon. It's one of the most magnificently unoriginal texts you could hope to encounter. A quarter of it is stolen from Lovecraft, a quarter of it from Aleister Crowley, a quarter from Sumerian mythology, and a quarter from the Key of Solomon and the Lesser Key of Solomon (famous medieval/renaissance grimoires, whose beautiful 'seals' Simon poorly imitates, in the extensive sections of his book taken up with sigils, such as his 'Book of Fifty Names'). Of course, few books are truly original—but Simon fails even to combine his sources in an imaginative, interesting or surprising way. Frankly, if you like books with grimoire-y atmosphere, which is above all what Simon attempts to create, then you're far better off with real grimoires, like the Key of Solomon—and the same is true if you're looking for an authentic book of magic (if there is such a thing). Should you be reckless enough to wish to follow Crowley's Ignis Fatuus, then you'll find his own writings far more interesting than Simon's sycophantic idolisation of him. As for Lovecraft—Simon's Necronomicon completely misrepresents his stories, and in so doing renders him a great disservice.
In the Introduction to Simon's Necronomicon, in the section entitled 'The Mythos and the Magick', Simon states that:
"Lovecraft depicted a kind of Christian Myth of the struggle between opposing forces of Light and Darkness, between God and Satan, in the Cthulhu Mythos."
This is by no means what Lovecraft depicted. The struggle between the "Elder Gods" and the "Ancient Ones", to which Simon refers, is to be found in the pages of August Derleth's work, not Lovecraft's. Unlike 'Cthulhu Mythos' authors such as Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch and Frank Belknap Long, Derleth wrote his stories after Lovecraft's death, with no guidance from or collaboration with Lovecraft. His work is widely acknowledged—by everyone, it seems, but Simon—to be cliched, simplistic, and in general inferior to the work of both Lovecraft and many of the other Mythos writers. It is only in Derleth's stories that you will find Lovecraftian entities engaged in a war of good versus evil. In Lovecraft's own writings, the situation is far more complex and ambiguous than a childish "goodies vs. baddies" scenario, and in claiming that Lovecraft himself wrote of such a struggle, Simon distorts and diminishes Lovecraft and his work.
Such distortions are typical of Lovecraftian occult texts. Other than the various Necronomicons, the most widely-known and influential text of Lovecraftian occultism is probably Satanic Rituals, by Anton LaVey (the founder of the Order of the Trapezoid)—the earliest text in which Lovecraftian occult rituals were published. Whilst LaVey's portrayal of Lovecraft and his work is slightly more sophisticated than that of Simon, Satanic Rituals is crammed with misconception after delightful misconception. LaVey's ideological stance continually impares his ability to read the text for what it is—like all ideologues, he views everything through the distorting prism of his fundamentalist beliefs. For example:
"The concept of worship per se is strikingly absent from the Cthulhu mythos. Nyarlathotep, Shub-Niggurath, Yog-Sothoth and Cthulhu are all honored through bizarre festivals, but their relationship to their followers is invariably that of teacher to students. Compare the description of a Lovecraftian ceremony to that of a Christian mass or a Voodoo rite, and it is clear that the element of servility is definitely lacking in the first. "
Let us instead compare the description of a Lovecraftian ceremony with LaVey's description, above, of what happens in such a ceremony:
"In a natural glade of the swamp stood a grassy island of perhaps an acre's extent, clear of trees and tolerably dry. On this now leaped and twisted a more indescribable horde of human abnormality than any but a Sime or an Angarola could paint. Void of clothing, this hybrid spawn were braying, bellowing, and writhing about a monstrous ring-shaped bonfire; in the centre of which, revealed by occasional rifts in the curtain of flame, stood a great granite monolith some eight feet in height; on top of which, incongruous in its diminutiveness, rested the noxious carven statuette. From a wide circle of ten scaffolds set up at regular intervals with the flame-girt monolith as a centre hung, head downward, the oddly marred bodies of the helpless squatters who had disappeared. It was inside this circle that the ring of worshippers jumped and roared, the general direction of the mass motion being from left to right in endless Bacchanal between the ring of bodies and the ring of fire." (H. P. Lovecraft, Call of Cthulhu)This is no teacher, handing on wisdom to his pupils, as LaVey states the relationship between Mythos entities and their followers "invariably" is—Lovecraft describes these 'pupils' as "mentally aberrant" and "degraded and ignorant", within a couple of paragraphs of the above quotation, which is hardly a description of those capable of receiving a teaching. And contrary to what LaVey argues about "the concept of worship" being "strikingly absent" from Lovecraft's ceremonies, this is very much an act of worship, in which Lovecraft's portrayal of the cultists' bestiality (amongst other details, such as the human sacrifices, or the idol that 'lords it over' the cultists, from its throne high on the monolith) is intended to convey a sense of abject, mindless servility to Cthulhu, in which the cultists are diminished, and become less than human. Lovecraft even states that this act of worship is tinged with "a colouring of voodooism"―which LaVey specifically singles out as being unlike Lovecraft's fictional ceremonies. LaVey, with his cult of "the flesh", celebrates and is a propagandist for Dionysian animalism, and so assumes that Lovecraft also must be, simply because he writes about Bacchanalian ceremonies—even though the text itself veritably screams his contempt (fascist and racist, at root) for the cultists.
Exactly the same misconception is evident in the following passage from Satanic Rituals:
"There is evidence that he [Lovecraft] was acutely aware of civilization's effects upon mankind—both educational and repressive. His tales constantly remind the reader that humanity is but a short step from the most depraved and vicious forms of bestiality. He sensed man's drive toward knowledge, even at the risk of sanity. Intellectual excellence, he seemed to say, is achieved in concert with cataclysmic terror—not in avoidance of it. "It's true that Lovecraft's tales constantly warn against the bestiality that lurks in the human heart. But he intends this warning in precisely the opposite way to LaVey's reading of it—Lovecraft is clinging to civilisation, not condemning it. LaVey seems entirely ignorant of one of the most persistent subtexts in Lovecraft's work: his almost Hardyesque lament for the passing away of eighteenth century culture, which he saw as being more civilised than that of the times which followed it.
Consider, for example, The Horror at Red Hook. Lovecraft describes Red Hook as a place in which the veneer of civilisation has fallen away. This is not a place that civilisation has corrupted, as LaVey's argument would lead you to believe, but rather a place which could only benefit from the presence of civilisation. Lovecraft's protagonist is:
"...conscious, as one who united imagination with scientific knowledge, that modern people under lawless conditions tend uncannily to repeat the darkest instinctive patterns of primitive half-ape savagery in their daily life and ritual observances..."Lovecraft clearly states, here, the exact opposite to LaVey's distortion of his views—he argues that "modern people" are degraded as a consequence of civilisation's lack (ie. "lawless conditions"), not as a consequence of civilisation itself, as LaVey suggests, and also that "primitive" people are less than human precisely because they are not civilised.
Of course, Lovecraft being Lovecraft, there is no optimism in this view. Although he regards lack of civilisation as the least desirable option, neither is he very hopeful about civilisation's prognosis:
"...the wishes, hopes, and values of humanity are matters of total indifference to the blind cosmic mechanism." (H. P. Lovecraft, A Confession of Unfaith (1922), in H. P. Lovecraft, Miscellaneous WritingsMoreover, his pessimism is by no means limited to the ultimate fate of civilisation. What admiration he had for civilisation was largely rooted in his almost paranoiac fear of its collapse—he fervently believed that what civilisation he saw around him was very much under threat, menaced by exactly the sort of 'barbarian' immigrants (this is definitely not to overstate his xenophobic views, although it should be remembered that such views were typical of his time) that he depicted with such contempt in The Horror at Red Hook, in which he is careful to banish "American and Scandinavian" (ie. Aryan) people from Red Hook, which he populates with "Syrian, Spanish, Italian, and Negro elements impinging upon one another". His cultists are usually foreigners.
Although Lovecraft's views on civilisation were tainted with fascism, they were also complex, nuanced, and not a little ambiguous. This is a stark contrast to LaVey's straightforward contempt of civilisation, which is a black-and-white, fundamentalist ideology that does no justice to the complexity of the subject at hand—it is not simply in his outright hostility to civilisation (in contrast to Lovecraft's clinging to it), but also in the simplistic nature of his views, that he is utterly at odds with Lovecraft. He reads his own obsessions into Lovecraft's work, simply because Lovecraft happens to be talking about the same general subject matter (ie. civilisation)—it's a bit like arguing that the authors of the Malleus Maleficarum were advocates of witchcraft, on the basis that their book is about witchcraft. LaVey is either wilfully or delusively blind to anything in Lovecraft's writing which doesn't neatly fit into his rigid ideology, and 'cherry-picks' Lovecraft for superficial similarities to his own world view.
Kenneth Grant—the founder of the Typhonian order—is another influential figure in the field of Lovecraftian occultism, where his The Magical Revival casts a long shadow (Simon's Necronomicon, for example, is heavily influenced by it). Grant approaches Lovecraft from a background rooted in Chaos Magic, rather than Satanism. In Chaos Magic, archetypes found in fiction or popular culture are regarded as being as magically potent as those found in the pantheons of the ancient world—Superman, Elvis and Marilyn Monroe are as fitting symbols with which to make magic as Mars, Orpheus or Venus. Grant, in The Magical Revival, treats Lovecraft's 'Old Ones' in this way, arguing that "fiction, as a vehicle, has often been used by occultists", and that "writers such as Arthur Machen, Brodie Innes, Algernon Blackwood and H.P. Lovecraft are in this category ".
In stating that Lovecraft's writing 'falls into the category' of fiction used "as a vehicle... by occultists", Grant is arguing that Lovecraft was an occultist. Yet his argument is less straightforward and more deceptive than that, because he sees Lovecraft as a mage who lived in denial of his status as mage, who failed to pass—as he rather pompously puts it—"the final pylons of Initiation". This thoroughly condescending view of Lovecraft's achievement is no doubt rooted in Lovecraft's passionate atheism and disbelief in magic—that is, his total rejection of Grant's world-view—and yet this implicit acknowledgement of Lovecraft's disbelief does not stop Grant from arguing that Lovecraft was a subconscious propagandist for magic, writing stories that advocate the occult, without realising that he was doing so.
He contends that Lovecraft's lifelong "night terrors", which inspired so much of his writing, were in fact occult visions—which is very presumptuous of him, it has to be said, given that Lovecraft himself, who did not believe in occult visions, would have objected in the strongest possible terms to his nightmares being represented as such. Grant 'substantiates' his argument by detailing ways in which he believes Lovecraft's Mythos parallels the ideas and mythology of Aleister Crowley. These largely consist of alleged similarities between names used in Lovecraft's stories and names significant in Crowley's work—Yog Sothoth, for instance, he claims to be related to "Sut-Thoth", an Egyptian deity important to Crowley, whilst Azathoth he connects with both Azoth, "the alchemical solvent", and again Thoth, the Egyptian god of writing and scribes, beloved by Crowley. He accepts that Lovecraft and Crowley never met, and that Lovecraft never read Crowley's work, but argues that both took their inspiration from the same occult source.
Linguistic and etymological sophistries of the sort outlined by Grant are a common tool of occult mountebanks, and the fact that phonetic resemblances are undeniably present between certain words has surprising potency, when it comes to blinding intelligent people to the true causes of such similarities. And yet the fact remains that the human tongue can only utter a limited number of sounds, which means that there are bound to be phonetic parallels between any two groups of otherwise entirely unconnected words. To put it bluntly—the alleged linguistic connections between Lovecraft's writing and Crowley's ideas, which Grant outlines, are the result of blind chance, anatomical necessity, and Grant's obsession with the occult, and are flimsy foundations indeed on which to base an argument that Crowley and Lovecraft were inspired by the same occult vision. Grant's writings on the subject of Lovecraft are (like LaVey's) an abundantly excellent example of the following truth: if you are obsessed with something in a big enough way, then you will interpret everything you encounter as being connected with the object of your obsession. If you go looking for them, then you will find names from Lovecraft, Crowley, Solomonic Magic, Ancient Babylon, and Disney® (or any other flavour of pantheon that takes your fancy) everywhere, including in the registration plates of passing cars.
None of this is to deny that there are occult elements in Lovecraft's work. It's well known that he was aware of various occult texts, and that he drew on these texts in his writing:
"Lovecraft was at least somewhat familiar with the literature of occultism, especially in his later years. At the time of his death, his library contained such works as Lewis Spence's Encyclopæia of Occultism, Sir Walter Scott's Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, Camille Flammarion's Haunted Houses, and a variety of works on ghosts, folklore, and mythology. This was not the end of the matter, as Lovecraft also borrowed a number of occult works—as well as Charles Fort's Book of the Damned and New Lands—from libraries and his friends, most notably Herman C. Koenig of New York City... Lovecraft, then, was hardly an authority on matters esoteric and uncanny, but he had some basic knowledge that he incorporated into his tales." (Daniel Harms, H.P. Lovecraft, in Fortean Times, June 2004)Yet pointing out the existence of such influences is not enough, if one intends to argue that Lovecraft held occult beliefs, that he would have approved of his stories being used as the basis of a practice of magic, or that his writings should be read as occult texts. These arguments are largely refuted in his letters, which reveal him as a passionate and outspoken opponent of superstition who regarded magic in all its forms as nothing but superstition. If his works are to be read as occult texts, then one might as well read the telephone directory in search of occult wisdom, because he wrote them with the same lack of intent to create an occult text as the authors of the telephone directory. To argue that he wrote occult texts without realising it is to both ignore the sense of disgust with which he writes his cultists, and which give his stories a significant undercurrent of anti-occult propaganda, and to patronise him, by implying that the poor dear wasn't self-aware enough to understand the true significance of his work (which of course can only be glimpsed by occultists—so much of the occult is about elitism). Lovecraft's writings draw on occult texts, yes—but that by no means makes them occult texts in themselves.
I'd like to round off our stroll through the murky underworld of Lovecraftian occultism, dear reader, by stating—for the record, and so it's out in the open—my views on Satanism and Chaos Magic, since these belief systems are so significant to the theory and practice of Lovecraftian occultism. In a nutshell, and as you've probably already guessed, I believe both Satanism and Chaos Magic to be deeply flawed. In the case of Satanism, I simply can't get away from the fact that the Christians invented the Devil. Satanism, therefore, is forever chained to the very ideology it has made its enemy. By defining itself solely in relation to Christianity, it remains fundamentally Christian in perspective—Satanists completely fail to escape the Christian metaphor. A Satanist is just a Christian standing on their head. I'm reminded of LaVey's observation that:
"Lovecraft recorded his aversion to conventional religious dogma in The Silver Key, and he regarded with a similar scorn those who, rejecting religion, succumbed to a controversial substitute, i.e. the popular notion of witchcraft." (from Satanic Rituals)
LaVey, for once, is exactly right—although he doesn't realise that Satanism is precisely the sort of deliberately controversial and populist substitute for the dogmas of religion that Lovecraft despised.
In the case of Chaos Magic, although I have more respect for it than I do for Satanism, I find its defining characteristic of 'paradigm shifts' to be shallow and self-defeating. Chaos Magic advocates taking up and discarding world views and belief systems as they serve the magician's purpose—a Chaos magician works with Lovecraft's deities one week, the pantheon of ancient Egypt the week after that, and the cast of Star Trek the week after that, and regards all such belief systems as fundamentally untrue ("nothing is true, everything is permitted", the Chaos magicians cry, seemingly unaware of the rather ambiguous context in which Nietzsche first framed their one-liner). This attempt to manipulate the power of belief must ultimately fail because anyone who can throw away a belief system and adopt a different one overnight, and without a second thought, simply because it's useful to do so, and who moreover overtly states that they hold no belief system to be true, doesn't really believe in the first place. Chaos magicians are the antithesis of medieval and renaissance mages, to whom belief was not a clever game, but the literal and unchangeable truth—and yet Chaos magicians argue that it is in precisely that kind of rock-solid, unshakable belief that magical power lies. There is no illuminating paradox here—just a straightforward contradiction, born of flawed logic.
As for occult tradition in general—it's true to say that I have a lot more respect for the occultism of renaissance and medieval times than I do for postmodern forms of magic. Yes, pre-modern occultism is steeped in dogma and superstition, but there's a depth to it that I find lacking in postmodern occultism—and even a humility in the face of mystery that feels like a breath of fresh air, after reading the writings of know-it-alls like LaVey or Crowley. It also has an atmosphere, an aesthetic, and a poetry that is all of its own, and which I find far more unique, imaginative and downright bizarre than that of, say, Satanism or Chaos Magic. On the wider matter of magic itself—above all, I recognise that "there is more in heaven and earth than is dreamed of in your philosophy". For this reason, I'm not going to expound my views on magic here, because that would be to either deny that there is mystery or imply that I could confidently explain the mysterious, and fall into precisely the kind of arrogance that I abhor in the writings of Crowley and LaVey. Suffice it to say that my views are ambiguous, evolving, and sceptical—but that although I am dismissive of postmodern occultism, I am by no means entirely dismissive of either occultism or magic itself.
Last of all, now that I have completed my attempt to tear the Lovecraftian occult to shreds before your very eyes, let me take a moment to celebrate it—for make no mistake, I have genuine affection for it. I wholeheartedly believe that we would all be impoverished, if delusions like those of the Lovecraftian occultist were to ever go out of fashion. Life can only be enriched by the existence of harmless and entertaining insanities like the literalising of works of fiction, or the adopting of splendidly pompous titles like "Intergalactic Grand Potentate of the Thirteen Sacred Dishes of Ishra", or "Seven Hundred and Thirty Fourth Heresiarch of the Thrice Reviled Ixplatagm", or whatever. In short, it's hokum, but it's dashed good hokum, and for this reason, Lovecraftian occultists—I salute you! May your grandiloquent delusions remain unconquerable, and bring you nothing but satisfaction and joy! May drab and mediocre reality never sully you!


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An upgrade to Merck & Co. drove the drug maker's shares to a new 52-week high Monday even though the rest of the market was stumbling out of the gate.
Morgan Stanley analyst David Risinger raised his rating on Merck /quotes/zigman/574389/delayed /quotes/nls/mrk MRK to overweight from underweight, saying the company's prospects for a new cancer drug have improved and could bring more than $6 billion in annual sales by 2020. Shares were up 3% to $53.57 in recent action.
Risinger noted Merck's decision to file for approval for the drug — known as MK-3475, it is geared toward boosting the immune system to fight cancer –a year earlier than expected. He also pointed out Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. /quotes/zigman/220498/delayed /quotes/nls/bmy BMY revealed on Friday it's not sure its competitor to MK-3475, a combination of drugs known as Yervoy and PD-1, may not dominate the market for treatment of lung cancer.
Merck's overall performance is improving as well, Risinger said in his note to clients.
"Management is taking the right steps — cost cuts, [research and development] changes and considering strategic action — to boost [the] company's outlook," he said.
Mark Schoenebaum of ISI Group isn't so sure that $6 billion in sales is on the horizon; he says $2 billion is "baked into" Merck's valuation from MK-3475 vs. $7 billion for Bristol-Myers. But Bristol-Myers's revelation does level the playing field somewhat for these types of drugs.
"As a monotherapy, however, we believe [Bristol-Myers] is likely still ahead of [Merck] in lung cancer. But if the combo of Yervoy+PD-1 is not the 'killer app' in lung, this should give [Merck] the ability to compete more effectively," Schoenebaum said in a note to clients.
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