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10/18/13 Kristen & Dax Get Hitched
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Friday, October 18, 2013
KRISTEN BELL and DAX SHEPARD got married yesterday . . . at the Beverly Hills County Clerk's Office. A source says they just went to the office to get a marriage license, but a court employee offered to marry them right on the spot . . . and they went for it. Kristen and Dax got engaged in 2009, but they vowed not to get hitched until same-sex marriages were legal.
A lot of people hate MICHAEL BAY'S movies, but this might be taking things a little too far: On the set of "Transformers 4" in Hong Kong yesterday, a man attacked Bay with . . . an AIR CONDITIONING UNIT. Seriously. There's no word how the guy got onto the set or got a hold of the air conditioner. But he swung it at Bay's head. Bay was able to duck the attack and get the A.C. unit away from the guy. Security then tussled with the attacker and two of his friends, and arrested all three of them. No one in the cast or crew was injured.
Kim Kardashian must be feeling confident about her post-pregnancy body -- because for the first time in four months, the new mom has taken a selfie of her butt. There's also a generous amount of side boob in the Instagram pic.
10/17/13 Bruce Jenner a Cross-Dresser?
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Thursday, October 17, 2013
Someone is reportedly trying to sell nude photos of AMY WINEHOUSE, taken during a DRUG BINGE. There's no word when they were taken. Amy died in June of 2011, at the age of 27. Radar Online claims to have seen the photos, and passed on them. The website describes them as "X-rated", but they don't describe anything that's actually pornographic.
LINDSAY LOHAN is reportedly shacking up with a male model named Liam Dean. No big deal there . . . except that Lindsay is 27 . . . and Liam is 19. They were at a club in New York this past Friday, and a witness says, quote, "They looked pretty into each other." Lindsay's publicist denies they're dating.
17-year-old KENDALL JENNER and her 16-year-old sister KYLIE hit up the Vignette Lounge in West Hollywood on Tuesday night. It's a 21-AND-OVER club. The manager says they had FAKE IDs, and the bouncer didn't recognize them. Earlier in the night they were at a fashion show with SCOTT DISICK, who was being a DRUNKEN A-HOLE.
Last week on "Jimmy Kimmel Live", KANYE WEST suggested that KIM KARDASHIAN should have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Well, that's not gonna happen . . . because the Walk doesn't want her. Spokeswoman Ana Martinez says, quote, "We don't have reality stars on the Walk of Fame. We don't have a category for it. We're happy to consider reality stars once they get nominated for, or win, an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar. We'll consider them when they're legitimate actors or singers."
The not-always-reliable "Star" tabloid claims that one of the reasons KRIS and BRUCE JENNER broke up is because Bruce is a CROSS-DRESSER . . . and he WANTS TO BE A WOMAN. Apparently, when the KARDASHIAN girls were young, they found Bruce's lingerie, and his size 13 women's shoes.
The "Star" tabloid says ROBERT PATTINSON went on a "cocaine bender" across L.A. last month. It started at the Viper Room, where RIVER PHOENIX overdosed . . . and ended at the Chateau Marmont, where the same thing happened to JOHN BELUSHI. Then the party went back to Rob's house, where he broke out MORE coke.
10/16/13 Arnold Needs it 5 Times a Day
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
TOM ARNOLD says that ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER needs it FIVE TIMES A DAY . . . and he has "female companions" who come to his house to take care of his needs. His home is also frequently populated by MUSCLE MEN who work out in their underwear on his front lawn.
The British tabloids say KATIE HOLMES and GEORGE CLOONEY might have something going on, after hitting it off at a dinner party. A source says, quote, "Katie really has her sights set on him. There is a genuine connection . . . They are enjoying their new flirtation." Meanwhile, JAMIE FOXX denies rumors that HE'S dating Katie.
Radar Online claims that MILEY CYRUS is dating THEO WENNER . . . the son of "Rolling Stone" founder JANN WENNER. A source says, quote, "Miley talks about how hot Theo is and how nice he's been to her. She's definitely completely in lust with him . . . She said she's never met anyone as sweet as Theo." Theo is 26 . . . and he previously dated LIV TYLER, who's 10 years older.
KRIS HUMPHRIES finally unloaded the engagement ring he gave to KIM KARDASHIAN. It was auctioned off at Christie's in New York for $749,000. Kris will pocket $620,000. The rest is the auction house's cut. The ring was reportedly worth $2 million when Kris bought it.
10/15/13 Britney's Digital Diet
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013
When BRITNEY SPEARS released her new video "Work [B-Word]", there was some talk that she looked a lot thinner than usual . . . and that maybe she'd gone on a DIGITAL DIET, so to speak. Well, a few raw images of the video have surfaced, and they APPEAR to show that Britney was a little bit thicker before some computer trickery was employed to slim her down.
JENNIFER LOPEZ may be getting tired of her latest plaything. She's reportedly getting ready to break up with CASPER SMART. A source says, quote, "She's been hinting that the spark is gone. "They're obviously in very different places in their lives . . . She enjoyed the relationship for what it is, but now that giddiness has turned to sadness." One thing making it tough for her to let go is Casper's relationship with her twins, Max and Emme. The source says, quote, "They love Casper. Jennifer's probably going to at least stay friends with him [for their sake]."
Just so you know, SYLVESTER STALLONE was charging $445 for photo ops at New York Comic Con this past weekend, and $395 for autographs. SIGOURNEY WEAVER charged $200 for photos and $185 for her autograph. And WILLIAM SHATNER and PATRICK STEWART were "only" charging $75 for autographs.
Kris Jenner's sister claims she cheated on husband Bruce Jenner. Karen Houghton said Kris admitted to cheating but she wouldn't say when it took place. Houghton says Bruce is the nicest guy and would have never cheated on her sister and that Kris will find a new man in two days.
10/14/13 Mechael Douglas Lied
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Monday, October 14, 2013
SHIA LABEOUF was reportedly punched in the face and kicked in the groin because he was filming two women puking on a sidewalk in London. They asked him to stop, but he refused . . . so a random stranger who happened by attacked him.
A 2-year-old son that Minnesota Vikings star ADRIAN PETERSON didn't even know he had until recently was beaten to death by his mother's boyfriend. The attack occurred Wednesday, and the boy died Friday. Peterson played Sunday in the Vikings' loss to the Carolina Panthers.
JUSTIN BIEBER has been accused of sucker-punching a club DJ's manager at a bar in South Korea because the DJ wouldn't play hip hop for him. The incident even prompted a Tweet from DEADMAU5, who said, quote, "Dear Justin Bieber, would you please grow the [eff] up already? In the meantime, put a shirt on, and stay away from nightclubs."
MICHAEL DOUGLAS LIED about having throat cancer. He actually had TONGUE cancer. So why did he lie? Because he was about to do press for the "Wall Street" sequel, and tongue cancer is a lot more serious. He says, quote, "The surgeon said, 'Let's just say it's throat cancer.'" The doctor also told Michael that if they had to do surgery for tongue cancer, he could potentially lose part of his jaw and tongue.
KIM KARDASHIAN was driving around L.A. the other day, being hounded by the paparazzi, as usual. But her solution was to shield her face with her purse. WHILE DRIVING. Oh, and her daughter North was in the car with her.


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(Australia, United States of America 12 Nov 1960 – )
83.0 x 101.6 cm image 92.9 x 110.7 cm frame
'Guapa (Goodlooking)' 1995 is a series of 10 images which were executed when the artist was in residence at ArtPace in Texas in 1995. The series continues Moffatt's concerns in that she operates as a director and picture maker, rather than picture taker. 'Guapa', like previous series, is about the influence of popular culture, in this case the American roller derby which was televised around the world some decades ago. Moffatt hired local models and posed them in the studio in order to recreate the effect of theatre and violence inherent in sport. That the players are women who are violent is also important. The beauty and heroism is enhanced by printing black & white negatives onto colour photographic paper - the bleached backgrounds and the magenta tints give the work a dreamy quality. The memory of watching black and white television is further enhanced by the flat back frames which should accompany these prints.
As Frances Colpitt has written in the ArtPace catalogue, "In its deception, Moffatt's work is about role-playing, and its effects on identity and autobiography. Deriving from personal experiences and memories, its scope is universal: we all play roles most of our lives".
Centre national de la photographie and Centre Cultural de la Fundació "la Caixa", Tracey Moffatt, Paris, 1999, 53 (colour illus.).
Colpitt, New Works: 95.2, United States of America, 1995, 5 (illus.).
Gael Newton and Tracey Moffatt, Tracey Moffatt Fever Pitch, Guapa, Sydney, 1995, 115 (illus.). Page 21 contains some text about the Guapa (Goodlooking) series
Tracey Moffatt Guapa (Good looking), Mori Gallery, Sydney, 05 Jul 1995–29 Jul 1995

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Ameren Missouri, Casa de Salud and Saint Louis University are partnering to present the first Día Deportivo (Sporting Day) in St. Louis. The competition will be held Saturday, April 21, at SLU's new Medical Center Stadium.
Jorge Riopedre, the executive director of Casa de Salud, said the event will be loosely modeled on an Olympic-style competition so that people of different Hispanic ethnicities that call St. Louis home can engage in friendly competition based on their countries of origin.
Games will include an obstacle course, relay races, soccer skills, long jumps, and sprints, and will conclude with a one mile "fun run."
"A large part of Casa de Salud's work is a commitment to disease prevention through community engagement," Riopedre said. "To that end, this Día Deportivo will be a celebration of family, community and healthy living for the Latino community of the Saint Louis region."
"And we are very pleased that Ameren Missouri will make it possible for families from both sides of the river to come and participate."
Brian Leonard, manager of business and community relations for Ameren Missouri, said the company is committed to supporting the community as a sponsor of events that reflect the region's diversity.
"The individual differences among people and their cultures are important factors that greatly contribute to our region's overall vitality," Leonard said. "At Día Deportivo, people can socialize and enjoy a day of fun while also improving their health.
"It's going to be an outstanding event that showcases the uniqueness and diversity of our community. Ameren Missouri is proud to team with Casa de Salud and Saint Louis University."
Casa's medical staff and volunteers from SLU's Doisy College of Health Sciences will be on hand to offer first aid, raise awareness about health and fitness issues, and to highlight services available to the community.
In addition, a variety of Latin vendors will provide food and drinks for the participants, and winners from each event will receive awards.
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Crowley was also a chess player, painter, astrologer, hedonist, bisexual, drug experimenter, and social critic. He had also claimed to be a Freemason, but the regularity of his initiations have been disputed by a member of the Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon.
Edward Alexander Crowley was born at 36 Clarendon Square in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, between 11:00pm and midnight on October 12, 1875.
His father, Edward Crowley, was trained as an engineer but according to Aleister, never worked as one. He did, however, own shares in a lucrative family brewery business, which allowed him to retire before Aleister was born. Through his father's business he was an acquaintance of Aubrey Beardsley. His mother, Emily Bertha Bishop, drew roots from a Devon and Somerset family. Both of his parents were Exclusive Brethren, a more conservative faction of the Plymouth Brethren.
Crowley grew up in a staunch Brethren household and was only allowed to play with children whose families followed the same faith. His father was a fanatical preacher, travelling around Britain and producing pamphlets. Daily Bible studies and private tutoring were mainstays in "Alick's" childhood.
On February 29, 1880, a sister, Grace Mary Elizabeth, was born but lived only five hours. Crowley was taken to see the body and in his own words (in the third person):
On March 5, 1887, his father died of tongue cancer. This was a turning point in Crowley's life, after which he then began to describe his childhood in the first person in his 'Confessions'.
After the death of his father to whom he was very close, he drifted from his religious upbringing, and his mother's efforts at keeping her son in the Christian faith only served to provoke his skepticism. When he was a child, his constant rebellious behaviour displeased his mother to such an extent that she would chastise him by calling him "The Beast" (from the Book of Revelation), an epithet that Crowley would later adopt for himself. He objected to the labelling of what he saw as life's most worthwhile and enjoyable activities as "sinful".
In 1895, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, after schooling at the public schools Malvern College and Tonbridge School, and originally had the intention of reading Moral Sciences (philosophy), but with approval from his personal tutor, he switched to English literature, which was not then a part of the curriculum offered. His three years at Cambridge were happy ones, due in part to coming into the considerable fortune left by his father.
Here he finally broke with the Church of England, internally if not externally:
In December 1896, following an event that he describes in veiled terms, Crowley decided to pursue a path in occultism and mysticism. By the next year, he began reading books by alchemists and mystics, and books on magic. Biographer Sutin describes the pivotal New Year's event as a homo-erotic experience (Crowley's first) that brought him what he considered "an encounter with an immanent deity. During the year of 1897, Aleister further came to see worldly pursuits as useless. The section on chess below, describes one experience that helped him reach this conclusion. In October a brief illness triggered considerations of mortality and "the futility of all human endeavor," or at least of the diplomatic career that Crowley had previously considered.
A year later, he published his first book of poetry (Aceldama), and left Cambridge, only to meet Julian L. Baker (Frater D. A.) who introduced him to Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
He would have made any public expressions of "distaste" at a time when British law officially forbade homosexuality. The arrest, conviction and imprisonment of Oscar Wilde took place in Crowley's first year at Cambridge. In the autobiographical preface to Crowley's drama The World's Tragedy, he included a section on "Sodomy" where he openly admitted his bisexuality and praised sex between men. However, someone removed these two pages from all copies of the book except those Crowley gave to close friends.
Later, in a January 1929 letter, he wrote While that claim about women conflicts with other statements and actions of Crowley's, it accurately describes his relationships with Pollitt and various working class women during his college years.
Involved as a young adult in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, he first studied mysticism with and made enemies of William Butler Yeats and Arthur Edward Waite. Like many in occult circles of the time, Crowley voiced the view that Waite was a pretentious bore through searing critiques of Waite's writings and editorials of other authors' writings. In his periodical The Equinox, Crowley titled one diatribe, "Wisdom While You Waite", and his note on the passing of Waite bore the title, "Dead Waite".
His friend and former Golden Dawn associate, Allan Bennett, introduced him to the ideas of Buddhism, while Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, acting leader of the Golden Dawn organization, acted as his early mentor in western magic but would later become his enemy. Several decades after Crowley's participation in the Golden Dawn, Mathers claimed copyright protection over a particular ritual and sued Crowley for infringement after Crowley's public display of the ritual. While the public trial continued, both Mathers and Crowley claimed to call forth armies of demons and angels to fight on behalf of their summoner. Both also developed and carried complex Seal of Solomon amulets and talismans.
In a book of fiction, entitled Moonchild, Crowley later portrayed Mathers as the primary villain, including him as a character named SRMD, using the abbreviation of Mathers' magical name. Arthur Edward Waite also appeared in Moonchild as a villain named Arthwaite, while Bennett appeared as the silent, monkish Mahathera Phang.
While he did not officially break with Mathers until 1904, Crowley lost faith in this teacher's abilities soon after the 1900 schism in the Golden Dawn (if not before). Later in the year of that schism, Crowley travelled to Mexico and continued his magical studies in isolation. Crowley's writings suggest that he discovered the word Abrahadabra during this time.
In October 1901, after practising Raja Yoga for some time, he said he had reached a state he called dhyana—one of many states of unification in thoughts that are described in Magick (Liber ABA) (See Crowley on egolessness). 1902 saw him writing the essay Berashith (the first word of Genesis), in which he gave meditation (or restraint of the mind to a single object) as the means of attaining his goal. The essay describes ceremonial magick as a means of training the will, and of constantly directing one's thoughts to a given object through ritual. In his 1903 essay, Science and Matter, Crowley urged an empirical approach to Buddhist teachings.
In 1903 he married Rose Edith Kelly.
Crowley said that a mystical experience in 1904, while on holiday in Cairo, Egypt, led to his founding of the religious philosophy known as Thelema. Aleister's wife Rose started to behave in an odd way, and this led Aleister to think that some entity had made contact with her. At her instructions, he performed an invocation of the Egyptian god Horus on March 20 with (he wrote) "great success." According to Crowley, the god told him that a new magical Aeon had begun, and that Crowley would serve as its prophet. Rose continued to give information, telling Crowley in detailed terms to await a further revelation. On 8 April and for the following two days at exactly noon he allegedly heard a voice, dictating the words of the text, Liber AL vel Legis, or The Book of the Law, which Crowley wrote down. The voice claimed to be that of Aiwass (or Aiwaz) "the minister of Hoor-paar-kraat", or Horus, the god of force and fire, child of Isis and Osiris and self-appointed conquering lord of the New Aeon, announced through his chosen scribe "the prince-priest the Beast" (For citations, see main article The Book of the Law).
Portions of the book are in numerical cipher, which Crowley claimed the inability to decode. Thelemic dogma explains this by pointing to a warning within the Book of the Law — the speaker supposedly warned that the scribe, Ankh-af-na-khonsu (Aleister Crowley), was never to attempt to decode the ciphers, for to do so would end only in folly. The later-written The Law is For All sees Crowley warning everyone not to discuss the writing amongst fellow critics, for fear that a dogmatic position would arise. While he declared a "new Equinox of the Gods" in early 1904, supposedly passing on the revelation of March 20 to the occult community, it took years for Crowley to fully accept the writing of the Book of the Law and follow its doctrine. Only after countless attempts to test its writings did he come to embrace them as the official doctrine of the New Aeon of Horus. The remainder of his professional and personal careers were spent expanding the new frontiers of scientific illuminism.
Rose and Aleister had a daughter, whom Crowley named Nicole Ma Ahathoor Hecate Sappho Jezebel Lilith Crowley, in July 1904. This child died in 1906, during the two and a half months when Crowley had left her with Rose (after a family trip through China). They had another daughter, Lola Zaza, in the summer of that year, and Crowley devised a special ritual of thanksgiving for her birth.
He performed a thanksgiving ritual before his first claimed success in what he called the "Abramelin operation", on 9 October 1906. This was his implementation of a magical work described in The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage. The events of that year gave the Abramelin book a central role in Crowley's system. He described the primary goal of the "Great Work" using a term from this book: "the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel". An essay in the first number of The Equinox gives several reasons for this choice of names:
Crowley was notorious in his lifetime — a frequent target of attacks in the tabloid press, which labelled him "The Wickedest Man in the World" to his evident amusement. At one point, he was expelled from Italy after having established a commune, the organization of which was based on his personal philosophies, the Abbey of Thelema, at Cefalù, Sicily.
Aleister and Rose were divorced in 1909.
In 1907, Crowley's interest took off once again, with two important events. The first was the creation of the Silver Star (A∴A∴), and the second was the composition of the Holy books of Thelema.
In 1910, Crowley performed with members of the A∴A∴ his series of dramatic rites, the Rites of Eleusis.
According to Crowley, in 1912, Theodor Reuss had called on him to address accusations of publishing O.T.O. secrets, which Crowley dismissed, for having never attained the grade in which these secrets were given (9th degree). Reuss opened up the Book of Lies and showed Crowley the passage. This sparked a long conversation which led to the opening of the British section of O.T.O. called Mysteria Mystica Maxima.
During his time in the U.S., Crowley practiced the task of a Magister Templi in the A∴A∴ as he conceived it, namely interpreting every phenomenon as a particular dealing of "God" with his soul. He began to see various women he met as officers in his ongoing initiation, associating them with priests wearing animal masks in Egyptian ritual. A meditation during his relationship with one such woman (Jeanne Robert Foster) led him to claim the title of Magus, also referring to the system of the A∴A∴.
Two periods of magical experimentation followed. In June 1916, he began the first of these at the New Hampshire cottage of Evangeline Adams, having ghostwritten most of two books on astrology for her. His diaries at first show discontent at the gap between his view of the grade of Magus and his view of himself: "It is no good making up my mind to do anything material; for I have no means. But this would vanish if I could make up my mind." Despite his objections to sacrificing a living animal, he resolved to crucify a frog as part of a rehearsal of the life of Jesus in the Gospels (afterward declaring it his willing familiar), "with the idea...that some supreme violation of all the laws of my being would break down my Karma or dissolve the spell that seems to bind me. Slightly more than a month later, having taken ethyl oxide, he had a vision of the universe from modern scientific cosmology that he frequently referred to in later writings.
Crowley began another period of magical work on an island in the Hudson River after buying large amounts of red paint instead of food. Having painted "Do what thou wilt" on the cliffs at both sides of the island, he received gifts from curious visitors. Here at the island he had visions of seeming past lives, though he refused to endorse any theory of what they meant beyond linking them to his unconscious. Towards the end of his stay, he also had a shocking experience he linked to "the Chinese wisdom" which made even Thelema appear insignificant. Nevertheless, he continued in his work. Before leaving the country he formed a sexual and magical relationship with Leah Hirsig, who he met earlier, and with her help began painting canvases with more creativity and passion.
On August 16, 1929 Crowley married Maria de Miramar, from Nicaragua, while in Leipzig. They separated by 1930, but they were never divorced.
In 1934, Crowley was declared bankrupt after losing a court case in which he sued the artist Nina Hamnett for calling him a black magician in her 1932 book, Laughing Torso. In addressing the jury, Mr Justice Swift said:
However, Patricia "Deirdre" MacAlpine approached Crowley on the day of the verdict and offered to bear him a child, whom he named Aleister Ataturk. She sought no mystical or religious role in Crowley's life and rarely saw him after the birth, "an arrangement that suited them both.
During World War II, Ian Fleming and others proposed a disinformation plot in which Crowley would have helped an MI5 agent supply Nazi official Rudolf Hess with faked horoscopes. They could then pass along false information about an alleged pro-German circle in Britain. The government abandoned this plan when Hess flew to Scotland, crashing his plane on the moors near Eaglesham, and was captured. Fleming then suggested using Crowley as an interrogator to determine the influence of astrology on other Nazi leaders, but his superiors rejected this plan. At some point, Fleming also suggested that Britain could use Enochian as a code in order to plant evidence.
Biographer Lawrence Sutin passes on various stories about Crowley's death and last words. Frieda Harris supposedly reported him saying, "I am perplexed," though she did not see him at the very end. According to John Symonds, a Mr. Rowe witnessed Crowley's death along with a nurse, and reported his last words as "Sometimes I hate myself." Biographer Gerald Suster accepted the version of events he received from a "Mr W.H." who worked at the house, in which Crowley dies pacing in his living room. Supposedly Mr W.H. heard a crash while polishing furniture on the floor below, and entered Crowley's rooms to find him dead on the floor. Patricia "Deirdre" MacAlpine, who visited Crowley with their son and her three other children, denied all this and reports a sudden gust of wind and peal of thunder at the (otherwise quiet) moment of his death. According to MacAlpine, Crowley remained bedridden for the last few days of his life, but was in light spirits and conversational. Readings at the cremation service in nearby Brighton included one of his own works, Hymn to Pan, and newspapers referred to the service as a black mass. Brighton council subsequently resolved to take all necessary steps to prevent such an incident from occurring again.
The chief precept of Thelema, derived from the works of François Rabelais, is the sovereignty of Will: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." Crowley's idea of will, however, is not simply the individual's desires or wishes, but also incorporates a sense of the person's destiny or greater purpose: what he termed "True Will."
The second precept of Thelema is "Love is the law, love under will" — and Crowley's meaning of "Love" is as complex as that of "Will." It is frequently sexual: Crowley's system, like elements of the Golden Dawn before him, sees the dichotomy and tension between the male and female as fundamental to existence, and sexual "magic" and metaphor form a significant part of Thelemic ritual. However, Love is also discussed as the Union of Opposites, which Crowley thought was the key to enlightenment.
In this connection there was also the point that I was anxious to prove that spiritual progress did not depend on religious or moral codes, but was like any other science. Magick would yield its secrets to the infidel and the libertine, just as one does not have to be a churchwarden in order to discover a new kind of orchid. There are, of course, certain virtues necessary to the Magician; but they are of the same order as those which make a successful chemist.
Crowley's magical and initiatory system has amongst its innermost reaches a set of teachings on sex magick. He frequently expressed views about sex that were radical for his time, and published numerous poems and tracts combining pagan religious themes with sexual imagery both heterosexual and homosexual, as well as pederastic. One of his most notorious poetry collections, entitled White Stains (1898), was published in Amsterdam in 1898 and dealt specifically with sexually explicit subject matter. However, most of the hundred copies printed for the initial release were later seized and destroyed by British customs.
Sex magick is the use of the sex act — or the energies, passions or arousal states it evokes — as a point upon which to focus the will or magical desire for effects in the non-sexual world. In the view of Allen Greenfield, Crowley was inspired by Paschal Beverly Randolph, an American Abolitionist, Spiritualist medium, and author of the mid-19th century who wrote (in Eulis!, 1874) of using the "nuptive moment" (orgasm) as the time to make a "prayer" for events to occur.
Crowley often introduced new terminology for spiritual and magical practices and theory. For example, he termed theurgy "high magick" and thaumaturgy "low magick." In The Book of the Law and The Vision and the Voice, the Aramaic magical formula Abracadabra was changed to Abrahadabra, which he called the new formula of the Aeon. He also famously spelled magic in the archaic manner, as magick, to differentiate "the true science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.
He urged his students to learn to control their own mental and behavioral habits, to the point of switching political views and personalities at will. For control of speech (symbolised as the unicorn) he recommended to choose a commonly-used word, letter, or pronouns and adjectives of the first person, and avoid using it for a week or more. Should they say the word he instructed them to cut themselves with a blade on each occasion to serve as warning or reminder. Later the student could move on to the "Horse" of action and the "Ox" of thought. (These symbols derive from the cabala of Crowley's book 777.)
He later joined the university chess club at Cambridge, where, he says, he beat the president in his first year and practised two hours a day towards becoming a champion — "My one serious worldly ambition had been to become the champion of the world at chess. His writings make it clear that he and his supporters thought he would achieve this goal:
However, he explained that he gave up his chess aspirations in 1897 at the age of 22, when attending a chess conference in Berlin:
In March 1902, Oscar Eckenstein and Crowley undertook the first attempt to scale Chogo Ri (known in the west as K2), located in Pakistan, and Eckenstein had set out to teach Crowley about the techniques of climbing. The Eckenstein-Crowley Expedition consisted of Eckenstein, Crowley, Guy Knowles, H. Pfannl, V. Wesseley, and Dr Jules Jacot-Guillarmod. They ascended June 8, and after eight days, weather conditions were taking their toll. Two months in, they found themselves back down on the plain, which made this Crowley's first recorded defeat.
In May 1905, he was approached by Dr Jules Jacot-Guillarmod (1868 - 1925) to accompany him on the first expedition to Kangchenjunga in Nepal, the third largest mountain in the world. Guillarmod was left to organise the personnel while Crowley left to get things ready in Darjeeling. On July 31 Guillarmod joined Crowley in Darjeeling, bringing with him two countrymen, Charles-Adolphe Reymond and Alexis Pache. Meanwhile, Crowley had recruited a local man, Alcesti C. Rigo de Righi, to act as Transport Manager. The team left Darjeeling on August 8, 1905, and used the Singalila Ridge approach to Kangchenjunga. At Chabanjong they ran into the rear of the 135 Indians/ Central Asians who had been sent ahead on July 24 and July 25, who were carrying food rations for the team. The trek was led by Aleister Crowley, but four members of that party were killed in an avalanche. Crowley's autobiography states they reached about 25,000 feet.
Crowley was sometimes famously scathing about other climbers, in particular Owen Glynne Jones, whom he considered a risk-taking self-publicist, and his 'two photographers' (George and Ashley Abraham).
"Crowley clothed many of his teachings in the thin veil of sensational titillation. By doing so he assured himself that one, his works would only be appreciated by the few individuals capable of doing so, and two, his works would continue to generate interest and be published by and for the benefit of both his admirers and his enemies long after death. He did not - I repeat not - perform or advocate human sacrifice. He was often guilty, however, of the crime of poor judgment.
Like all of us, Crowley had many flaws and shortcomings. The greatest of those, in my opinion, was his inability to understand that everyone else in the world was not as educated and clever as he. It is clear, even in his earliest works, he often took fiendish delight in terrifying those who were either too lazy, too bigoted, or too slow-witted to understand him."DuQuette, Lon Milo The Magick of Aleister Crowley. Weiser Books.
In this vein many of Crowley's more audacious and outright shocking writings were often thinly veiled attempts to communicate methods of sexual magick, often using words like "blood", "death" and "kill" to replace "semen", "ecstacy" and "ejaculation" in the yet puritanical sexual environment of late 19th/early 20th century England. It would seem that Mr.Crowley can certainly be accused of having a sick sense of humour. Take for instance the highly repeated quote from his thickly veiled Book Four: "It would be unwise to condemn as irrational the practice of devouring the heart and liver of an adversary while yet warm. For the highest spiritual working one must choose that victim which contains the greatest and purest force; a male child of perfect innocence and high intelligence is the most satisfactory." Robert Anton Wilson in The Final Secret of the Illuminati (aka Cosmic Trigger Volume One) interpreted the child as a reference to genes in sperm. Crowley added in a footnote to the text on sacrifice, "the intelligence and innocence of that male child are the perfect understanding of the Magician, his one aim, without lust of result."
In the "New Comment" to the Book of the Law, "the Beast 666 adviseth that all children shall be accustomed from infancy to witness every type of sexual act, as also the process of birth, lest falsehood fog, and mystery stupefy, their minds...Politeness has forbidden any direct reference to the subject of sex to secure no happier result than to allow Sigmund Freud and others to prove that our every thought, speech, and gesture, conscious or unconscious, is an indirect reference!" And indeed, according to Freudian Steven Marcus, men in Victorian England had a common sexual fetish for thinly veiled descriptions of men spanking boys. (In their reformatory institutions for children, men "were allowed to birch their inmates across the bare buttocks until the early 1920s, when under government pressure the cane or tawse over trousers became standard.) Many have cited one or both of these quotes from Crowley, without context, as proof of immorality and sometimes of a vast child-abusing conspiracy.
Crowley first developed a drug addiction after a London doctor prescribed heroin for his asthma and bronchitis. His life as an addict influenced his 1922 novel, Diary of a Drug Fiend, but the fiction presented a hopeful outcome of rehabilitation and recovery by means of Magickal techniques and the exercise of True Will. At the time of his death he was addicted to heroin, his narcotic of choice.
Crowley defended the use of violence against the Chinese, specifically the lower classes. He applied the term "nigger" to Italians (in Diary of a Drug Fiend Book I, Chapter 9) and Indians, and called the Indian theosophist Jiddu Krishnamurti "negroid."
Crowley, according to his biographer, Lawrence Sutin, used racial epithets to bully Victor Neuburg during a sadomasochistic magical working: "Crowley leveled numerous brutal verbal attacks on Neuburg's family and Jewish ancestry ...". The two became lovers by the end of that year if not before, but "[w]hether or not Crowley and Neuburg had sexual relations during this magical retirement is unclear," according to Sutin.
Crowley's published expressions of antisemitism were disturbing enough to later editors of his works that one of them, Israel Regardie, attempted to suppress them. In 777 and Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley (Samuel Weiser, 1975), Regardie, a Jew, explained his complete excision of Crowley's antisemitic commentary on the Kabbalah in the 6th unnumbered page of his editorial introduction: "I am ... omitting Crowley's Preface to the book. It is a nasty, malicious piece of writing, and does not do justice to the system with which he is dealing.
What Regardie had removed was Crowley's "Preface to Sepher Sephiroth", originally published in Equinox 1:8. Written in 1911, at the same time that Menahem Mendel Beilis was accused of ritual cannibalism in Kiev, Russia, it contained a clear statement of Crowley's belief in the blood libel against the Jews:
Having thus implicitly defended the recent antisemitic pogroms in Kishinev Russia and elsewhere, on the grounds that the murder of thousands of Jews was a rational response to the implied danger of Jewish ritual cannibalism, Crowley rhetorically asked how a system of value such as Qabala could come from what "the general position of the ethnologist" called "an entirely barbarous race, devoid of any spiritual pursuit," and "polytheists" to boot. As Crowley himself practiced polytheism, some read these remarks as irony.
Crowley repeated his claim that Jews in Eastern Europe practice ritual child-murder in at least one later work as well, namely the section on mysticism in Book Four or Magick. Here he uses quotation marks for "ritual murder" and for "Christian" children.
An article at The Cauldron: A Pagan Forum makes the following claim while speaking of the previously mentioned remark elsewhere in Magick:
Crowley studied and promoted the mystical and magical teachings of some of the same ethnic groups he attacked, in particular Indian yoga, Jewish Kabbalah and goetia, and the Chinese I Ching. Also, in Confessions Chapter 86, as well as a private diary which Lawrence Sutin quotes in Do What Thou Wilt chapter 7, Crowley recorded a memory of a "past life" as the Chinese Taoist writer Ko Hsuan. In another remembered life, Crowley said, he took part in a "Council of Masters" that included many from Asia. He has this to say about the virtues of "Eurasians" and then Jews:
All these remarks must necessarily be contrasted or reconciled with Crowley's explicit philosophical instructions in Magick Without Tears. Chapter 73, which is entitled "'Monsters', Niggers, Jews, etc," states his essentially individualistic and anti-racialist views, citing relevant verses from The Book of the Law: "Ye are against the people, o my chosen!" (Liber Al II:25), "Every man and every woman is a star" (Liber Al I:3). Here Crowley emphasizes by way of commentary upon these verses the instant debasement and un-Thelemic viewpoint which any notion of human beings as "classes" or "races" -- whether belonged-to or feared -- instead of as individuals, is likely to bring. The "Thelemic" philosophical position which he taught in this volume (which is a series of letters of direct personal instruction to various disciples) is clearly an anti-racialistic one. Even in private comments on Mein Kampf, Crowley said that his own preferred "master class" was above all distinctions of race.
Crowley stated that women, except "a few rare individuals," care most about having children and will conspire against their husbands if they lack children to whom to devote themselves. In Confessions, Crowley says he learned this from his first marriage. He claimed that their intentions were to force a man to abandon his life's work for their interests. He only found women "tolerable", he wrote, when they served the role of solely helping a man in his life's work. However, he said that they were incapable of actually understanding the work. He also claimed that women did not have individuality and were solely guided by their habits or impulses.
Nevertheless, when he sought what he called the supreme magical-mystical attainment, Crowley asked Leah Hirsig to direct his ordeals, marking the first time since the schism in the Golden Dawn that another person verifiably took charge of his initiation. In the Hierophant section of the Book of Thoth, he interprets a verse from the Book of the Law that speaks of "the woman girt with a sword; she represents the Scarlet Woman in the hierarchy of the new Aeon.(...)This woman represents Venus as she now is in this new aeon; no longer the mere vehicle of her male counterpart, but armed and militant."
Crowley was a highly prolific writer, not only on the topic of Thelema and magick, but on philosophy, politics, and culture. The poems and plays written in his twenties and found in his Collected Works of Aleister Crowley 1905-1907 were alone enough to substantiate a common writer's career. He left behind a countless number of personal letters and daily journal entries. He self-published many of his books, expending the majority of his inheritance to disseminate his views.
Within the subject of occultism Crowley wrote widely, penning commentaries on magick, divinatory tarot, Yoga, Qabalah, astrology, and numerous other subjects. He also wrote a Thelemic interpolation of the Tao Te Ching, based on earlier English translations since he knew little or no Chinese. Like the Golden Dawn mystics before him, Crowley evidently sought to comprehend the entire human religious and mystical experience in a single philosophy.
Some of his most influential books include:
He also edited and produced a series of publications in book form called The Equinox (subtitled "The Review of Scientific Illuminism"), which served as the voice of his magical order, the A∴A∴. Although the entire set is influential and remains one of the definitive works on occultism, some of the more notable issues are:
Crowley also wrote fiction, including plays and later novels, most of which have not received significant notice outside of occult circles. Some of these fictional works include:
Crowley also had a peculiar sense of humour, which he often utilised as a teaching instrument. He wrote a polemic arguing against George Bernard Shaw's interpretation of the Gospels in his preface to Androcles and the Lion, which was edited by Francis King and published as Crowley on Christ. In his Magick, Book 4 he includes a chapter purporting to illuminate the Qabalistic significance of Mother Goose nursery rhymes. In re Humpty Dumpty, for instance, he recommends the occult authority "Ludovicus Carolus" -- better known as Lewis Carroll. In a footnote to the chapter he admits that he had invented the alleged meanings, to show that one can find occult "Truth" in everything. His "8 Lectures On Yoga" are written under the name Guru Sri Pramahansa Shivaji (which translates into something along the lines of "Great Exalted Guru of Shiva") and are divided into "Yoga for Yahoos" and "Yoga for Yellowbellies". In The Book of Lies, the title to chapter 69 is given as "The Way to Succeed - and the Way to Suck Eggs!" a pun, as the chapter concerns the 69 sex position as a mystical act.
Crowley was also a published, if minor, poet. He wrote the 1929 Hymn to Pan, perhaps his most widely read and anthologised poem. Three pieces by Crowley, "The Quest", "The Neophyte", and "The Rose and the Cross", appear in the 1917 collection The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. Crowley's unusual sense of humour is on display in White Stains, an 1898 collection of pornographic verse pretended to be "the literary remains of George Archibald Bishop, a neuropath of the Second Empire;" the volume is prefaced with a notice that says that " The Editor hopes that Mental Pathologists, for whose eyes alone this treatise is destined, will spare no precaution to prevent it falling into other hands."
Some of his published poetry includes:
The Greek scholar Dionysios Psilopoulos has written on Crowley as a poet (Ph.D., Edinburgh).


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"Dr. Martin Luther King made everybody be together. He stopped people from being segregated." Tia Reed, 8
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"This is a day on, not a day off. I believe in what he did and we wouldn't be here without him." Kayla Jackson, 29
"I marched 60 years ago with Martin Luther King in Birmingham, Selma and Montgomery. I do love the dream he started. All should be free. Dorothy Robinson." 69
"We're marching because we're celebrating what Dr. King did. He ended segregation and gave all blacks and whites freedom." Jacoby Jackson, 9
"I'm walking for justice, equality and a better world. This brings us together. If we're not together you can't do anything." Eloise Stevens, 55
"He was a man of peace. He saved us." Deshawn Ford, 8
"We're keeping the dream alive. He died for a major cause and I want everyone to know and keep the memory." Tim Grandberry, 59
"We are marching to support the struggle of Martin Luther King for everyone to have the same opportunities in life." Sharine Burns, 18
"This is to keep everything alive. As you get older you get a better understanding of what this is about. The children will understand as the participate. I've had experience with segregation in different aspects of life." Eddie Baker, 68
"It's Martin Luther king Jr.'s birthday. It's important because he stopped segregation." Anaya Dey, 10
"I believe in what Martin Luther King did. It means freedom." Sherrell Burns, 17
"We're marching because we're living the dream of the late Martin Luther King. He paved the way for us to be here." Marrion Johnson, 63
"We're marching to remember the legacy of King's life and what that meant worldwide so we don't forget the sacrifice of his life. We still have many struggles. His words help is deal with the present and plan for the future. We all remember no matter what religion, creed or color." Horace Judson
"We are marching together to experience the efforts of Dr. Martin Luther King. It's meaningful for the students to be here and think about those who marched alongside Dr. King. His thoughts and ideologies are something we keep with us." Danny Leopold


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Jo of the Gates wrote:In Any depiction I've seen of A'Tuin the elephants are always facing outward, their hindquarters toward the center. The first time I ever READ Terry Pratchett's description I imagined them trunk-to-tail, as you see in circus parades. If they walk around the turtle's back, that would cause the rotation of the disk. Does Terry ever mention the position of the elephants?
Tonyblack wrote:I do think that Jo has a real point about what, if not the elephants, cause the Disc to rotate. And what sex are the elephants? We know that the scientists on the Disc are keen to know the sex of A'Tuin, but isn't the sex of the elephants important also?
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Beware the Asthma Spike
Much work is being done to educate North Americans about controlling asthma, and hospital admissions are down. But what remains consistently unimproved is the so-called asthma spike – the day on which many parents will show up at the hospital with school-age children in the throes of asthma attacks.
Using data accumulated since 1990, scientists in Hamilton, Ontario and London, England have been able to plot the spike on a graph at precisely 17 1/2 days after Labor Day. "If you look at the magnitude of the peak relative to the rest of the year, by 2004 it's pretty much the same as it was in 1990," says epidemiologist Neil Johnston, who along with colleagues at St. Joseph's Healthcare, McMaster University, and Imperial College, has led this research.
The spread of the cold virus is the biggest driver of the spike in students between the ages of 5 and 15, but a number of factors contribute to it. "Kids get back to school and the guy in the next desk or the child they share a school bus ride with has a cold, and maybe they share a drink," Johnston says.
"But it's also a period when aero-allergens are at very high levels – ragweed and house dust mite. Then you've got the stress of the return to school, allergens in the classroom, and the likelihood that asthma is not as well controlled because kids have been well and their parents haven't been giving them their [controller] drugs.
"You've got a multiple whammy, and that's what drives the peak."
There are two other related asthma "peaks": one in pre-school children, who appear to catch whatever cold brother or sister brings home, since their spike is plotted at 19 to 20 days after Labor Day. For those 16 to 49 with asthma, their peak shows up one week after the big post-Labor Day surge among schoolchildren.
So how do you keep a child from becoming a statistic on Johnston's graph? He says it begins with awareness and control and making sure asthma medications are up-to-date. Experts remind that your child's school needs to have a copy of your child's asthma action plan. If either the plan or the drugs need changes, see a doctor or specialist (respirologist or allergist) promptly. Experts also advise frequent hand-washing to stem the spread of infection.
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I, for one, run for the hills when some nut job with a wrench in his hands suggests tackling the floorpans in his classic hot rod. Why, you ask? Put simply, on this job, there is not one single nut to turn in the entire process. Body fabricators use words such as bend, Bondo, cut, weld, etc. It's a language that very few of us speak, and when we try, we end up looking like that tourist failing to fit in with the locals.
Up here in the Northeast (and the Midwest, Northwest, New England, ...), you are almost guaranteed to find rusted floors with a few holes in them. Just about any car that sees the road salt, dirt, and grime meets this fate. So let's say you do decide you have the right stuff to tackle such a job. The seats come out first, followed by the trim that probably says "Body By Fisher." Then you start peeling up rug and find some nasty mess of sound deadening material and accrued ooze that may or may not be glowing. Now what?
Luckily, Bob Gonier over at the Mercer County [New Jersey] Technical School knows exactly what to do and is teaching the future of the hobby the tricks of the trade when faced with ill-tempered floors. He was more than happy to get to cutting on our Camaro. In reality, we didn't have much choice. The Back To The Street '71 Camaro is going to be full of goodies, including a FatMan Fabrication front and rear suspension, GM Performance Parts ZZ454 crate engine, Level 10 Transmissions 4L60E, and much more. We weren't about to start cutting corners now ... metaphorically that is.
We called Ground Up Restoration in Meriden, Connecticut, and placed an order for both a driver- and passenger-side floorpan for the second generation Camaro. The good news is these are relatively cheap in the world of sheetmetal. As with most fabrication, the work here is extremely labor intensive and Bob ended up with several hours in the pans making sure the job was done right. "I spent a good amount of time with my students showing them the proper techniques. If I, or any other fabricator was going to tackle this job, its going to take the better part of a full week to complete," said Bob.
The fabrication went smoother than expected and we banged out these floorpans on and off in approximately two weeks. After some TLC, and a coat of primer, our floorpans looked better than when they came out of the factory. Follow along as we get to cuttin'.


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Mississippi State head basketball coach Rick Ray has come to the conclusion that his team is going to have to win some "ugly basketball games."
The Bulldogs did exactly that Tuesday night.
MSU beat the University of Texas-San Antonio 53-42 inside Humphrey Coliseum.
"We have been talking to our guys for quite some time about we have to go out and win some ugly basketball games," Ray said. "We are going to grind out and win some ugly basketball games. That's what we need to do."
The Bulldogs (3-5) limited the Roadrunners to just 15-of-55 shooting from the field for just under 28 percent. The 15 field goals is tied for the fewest by an MSU opponents. Alcorn State only managed to make 15 field goals. The Bulldogs also forced 20 turnovers.
"We work hard on defense in practice," MSU freshman guard Craig Sword said. "That's all we work on is defense."
The 42 points allowed by the Bulldogs ties the season low. MSU only allowed 42 to Alcorn State last week. It also is lowest since 2008 against LSU when the Tigers scored 39.
"Obviously really pleased with our defensive effort," Ray said. "The defensive effort was tremendous. For us to play that hard, guarding the basketball, ball pressure when you are playing a team that sets a lot of ball screens, I'm really pleased with that."
The Bulldogs forced two shot clock violations in the first half and the defensive momentum carried over all game.
Senior forward Wendell Lewis scored a career-high 20 points to give him back-to-back double digit games. Lewis scored 16 points in a 73-63 loss to Providence last Saturday.
"I took the same approach as I had last game," Lewis said. "(I wanted to) go out, work hard and crash. If I don't get it in the post, I'm going to the glass to get an offensive rebound. (I want to) help the team out."
Lewis is the first Bulldog player this season to reach 20 points.
"I've been in a good mood, staying positive, working out, taking treatment and taking care of myself," Lewis said. "I'm just in a good mood."
Ray has wanted Lewis to become more of a presence on the court and that is why he has not started him the last three games. It seems to be motivating him.
"Wendell Lewis continues to get better and play," Ray said. "He got some easy opportunities at the rim, but he finished those easy opportunities. In the past, he might have missed some of those."
Both teams went scoreless for about 7 minutes in the first half. The Bulldogs scored with 8:21 remaining in the first half for a 16-14 lead.
Neither team scored until the 1:49 mark when Lewis made a layup to make it 18-14.
"We struggle offensively, we make some bad decisions and we have a young team," Ray said. "I thought our guys tried to pass the basketball around, didn't get selfish with it and didn't try to take some things upon their own interest when things got bad for us offensively."
During the scoreless stretch each team combined for 12 turnovers, 15 missed field goals and two missed free throws.
The Roadrunners (3-5) made a free throw with 43 seconds left and Larry Wilkins had a dunk with 6 seconds remaining. The Bulldogs entered the locker room with a 23-17 halftime lead.
Ray had some butterflies before his team took the court. He saw one of the best practices on Monday and was scared it wasn't going to carry over.
"Our guys were really good in our walk-through (Monday night)," Ray said. "They were jumping to the basketball, they were talking and they were showing hands on closeouts. It made me so nervous that I stayed up to about 4 o'clock in the morning because I thought something's wrong here, (and) something's not got going to be right.
"It turned out not to be that way."
The Roadrunners were led by Kannon Burrage's 15 points. Hyjii Thomas added 10 points.
Along with Lewis, Sword got into double digits with 13 points. Freshman guard Fred Thomas added nine points and junior forward Colin Borchert had 10 rebounds.
Mississippi State does not play again until Saturday, Dec. 15. The Bulldogs travel to Chicago to meet Loyola-Chicago in a rematch of the famous 1963 game.View more articles in:


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For their first video of 2015, Montreal's Stars have eschewed the genre's typical glamour and bravado in favor of a considerably more pragmatic approach. "Trap Door," one of the singles off of their 2014 album No One Is... Read more »
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It's not often that a remix can make a song more dance-y while maintaining the darkness, but that's what this new take on Stars' "Backlines" does. Without drawing things out or overindulging, Eight and a Half... Read more »
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- Luau Larry and Flamingo Frank Pink Flamingo Garden Statues: These hilarious statues are excellent poolside decor, especially for folks who host fun garden parties. Buy these fun loving flamingos for friends and your own backyard.
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There is a high risk of rip currents at Panhandle beaches until Sunday, according to the Florida Division of Emergency Management.
"Weather conditions may begin to improve this weekend, but beachgoers and boaters should still remember to use caution when enjoying the water," said FDEM Deputy State Meteorologist Tiffany Hersey in a news release. "The high rip current risk is expected to continue through the weekend due to onshore winds combined with the recent disturbed weather pattern."
Rip currents are strong currents that run perpendicular to shore and into the ocean.
Colored beach flags indicate the current conditions of the water, including whether rip currents are a threat.
Yellow flags flew on Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, and Walton County beaches on Thursday.
Find out about Okaloosa beach conditions at the Okaloosa County Beach Safety Facebook page. >>
Find out about Santa Rosa beach conditions on the county's website. >>
Find out about Walton beach conditions on the South Walton Fire District Facebook page. >>
Different beaches may use different colors but a commonly used series include:
- Double Red: beach is closed to the public
- Single Red: high hazard, e.g., strong surf or currents
- Yellow: medium hazard
- Green: calm conditions although caution is still necessary
- Purple: flown with either red or yellow: dangerous marine life
When at the beach:
- Stay at least 100 feet away from piers and jetties. Permanent rip currents often exist alongside these structures.
- Pay especially close attention to children and persons who are elderly when at the beach. Even in shallow water, wave action can cause loss of footing.
- Be cautious. Always assume rip currents are present even if you don't see them.
If caught in a rip current:
- DON'T PANIC. Remain calm to conserve energy and think clearly.
- NEVER swim against the rip. Stay afloat and signal for help.
- Swim out of the current in a direction following the shoreline. When out of the current, swim at an angle--away from the current--towards shore.
- If you are unable to swim out of the rip current, float or calmly tread water.
- Draw attention to yourself: face the shore, wave your arms, and yell for help.
- If you see someone in trouble, don't become a victim too:
- Get help from a lifeguard or, if one is unavailable, have someone call 9-1-1.
- Throw the rip current victim something that floats--a lifejacket, a cooler, an inflatable ball.
- Yell instructions on how to escape.
Practice Safe Boating:
- Check forecasts well ahead of time.
- Be sure everyone aboard is wearing a life jacket.
- If caught in a thunderstorm, go below deck if possible, and stay away from masts or ungrounded metal objects.
- Have a VHF marine band radio on board.
- Know the limitations of your boat. If small craft advisories or gale warnings are issued, you should postpone travel.