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Cape Town named Top Beach Destination – WTA

Cape Town Top Beach Destination

The annual World Travel Awards took place in September and resulted in a string of accolades for South African tourism brands and a Best Beach Destination award for Cape Town. Cape Town competed against Bazaruto in Mozambique, Diani Beach, Kenya, …

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Taxation can be a major cost to any business. Complying with your tax responsibilities and ensuring you minimise the impact can help you to achieve your financial objectives.

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Helping businesses grow, through reviewing the financial position, developing growth initiatives and identifying the areas that require attention to achieve your goals.

Tax Facts - Capital Allowances

Deductions for the decline in value of depreciating assets are available under the Uniform capital allowance (UCA) system. In addition to the rules for depreciating assets, deductions are allowed for certain other capital expenditure. Small business entities have the option of choosing simplified depreciation rules.

Land, trading stock and most intangible assets (excluding exceptions such as intellectual property and in-house software) are not depreciating assets.

The decline in value is calculated by spreading the cost of the asset over its effective life, using one of two methods:

  • Prime cost method – decline in value each year is calculated as a percentage of the initial cost of the asset
  • Diminishing value method – decline in value each year is calculated as a percentage of the opening depreciated value of the asset.

MORE: Australian Taxation Office (ATO) Decline in value calculator.

For most depreciating assets, taxpayers can either self-assess the effective life, or use estimates published by the ATO. Taxpayers can recalculate, either up or down, the effective life of an asset if the circumstances of use change and the effective life initially chosen is no longer accurate. An improvement to an asset that increases its cost by 10% or more in a year may result in an obligation to recalculate the effective life of the asset.

Decline in value of cars is restricted to the car limit. From 1 July 2017 the luxury car tax threshold for luxury cars increased to $57,581. Luxury car leases are treated as a notional sale and purchase, with decline in value restricted to the car limit.

The decline in value of certain depreciating assets with a cost or opening adjustable value of less than $1,000 can be calculated through a low-value pool. The decline in value for depreciating assets in the pool is calculated at an annual diminishing value rate of 37.5%.

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Areas of Research:
Numerical Relativity

Frans Pretorius is a Professor of Physics at Princeton University. His primary field of research is general relativity, specializing in numerical solution of the field equations. His work has included studies of gravitational collapse, black hole mergers, cosmic singularities, higher dimensional gravity, models of black hole evaporation, and using gravitational wave observations to test the dynamical, strong-field regime of general relativity. He also designs algorithms to efficiently solve the equations in parallel on large computer clusters, and software to manipulate and visualize the simulation results. Among his honours, in 2007, Dr. Pretorius was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship and was the 2010 recipient of the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics of the American Physical Society. He is also a Scholar in the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Cosmology and Gravity program.

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A Quick Rundown of Canine

Tips to Be Able to Get the Best Canine Breeding Services

The process where dog reproduction is of the primary interest is known as the canine breeding. In this modern world, a large part of the population will be involved in having at least one dog in their homes. In most cases just the best breed of domestic dog will be liked by a significant portion of the community. Dog is one of the animals that will be in the many homes nowadays. It is evident now that domestic dog can be for multiple purposes. It has been evident that people will at most of their time prefer not being lone. As a result one can opt a dog to give him or her the company. It is because the dog has been one of the friendly being with a human. In most of the situation a house that has a dog will be safe from anyone intruding there. Here only the best dog regarding health and energy will be able to improve security in a home. In most cases the best dog and the strong one will be the one that is as a result of interbreeding between two strong races of the dogs. To only hire the best canine breeding services it is advisable to consider the tips below.

Often only someone who is professional in this area of canine breeding will be the best to hire to offer the canine breeding services. Here this particular expert will have read more here and he or she will have time to discover more about the sexual reproduction of the dogs. In this modern world, those experts who will be in a position to deliver to the expectations of the clients are those who are professional in his or her career path due to the reason that they have more info in this area. As a result he or she will be in a position to use only the most effective techniques to perform his or her duties. Here to be able to get the right expert with the necessary level of training one can incorporate different skills. A specific site can be the best place to ensure that you get the info that you require for this appropriate professional. Now in this site, you will get more info concerning this specific expert. It is therefore recommendable to ensure that the person you source to offer the canine breeding services to your dogs has the best training.

Often a canine breeding company that will be able to offer the leading services will be the one having a long time in the market. , In the long run, this company will have reasonable working experience. , As a result, this company will be useful in the canine breeding work.

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Provide for Your Pet’s Future -Prepare Your Estate Plans to Provide Properly for Your Pet

Because pets usually have shorter life spans than their human caregivers, you may have anticipated your animal friend’s passing. But what if you are the one who becomes ill or incapacitated, or dies first? As a responsible pet owner, you provide your pet with food and water, shelter, veterinary care, and love. To ensure that your beloved pet will continue to receive care should something unexpected happen to you, it’s critical to plan ahead.

Make sure you learn what steps you can take to plan and provide for your pet’s future without you. The Humane Society of the United States offers a free kit, “Providing for Your Pet’s Future Without You,” complete with a six-page fact sheet, wallet alert cards, emergency decals for windows and doors, and caregiver information forms. For the full kit, please visit, call 202-452-1100, or write to or Humane Legacy-Pets, The HSUS, 2100 L Street NW, Washington, DC 20037.

NOTE: The following information is intended to provide a general overview and to stimulate your thinking about providing for your pet in the event of your incapacity or death. It is not intended to provide legal advice and is definitely not a substitute for consulting a local attorney of your choosing who is familiar both with the laws of your state and with your personal circumstances and needs, and those of your pets.

Preparing for the Unexpected

In the confusion that accompanies a person’s unexpected illness, accident, or death, pets may be overlooked. In some cases, pets are discovered in the person’s home days after the tragedy. To prevent this from happening to your pet, take these simple precautions:

• Find at least two responsible friends or relatives who agree to serve as temporary emergency caregivers in the event that something unexpected happens to you. Provide them with keys to your home; feeding and care instructions; the name of your veterinarian; and information about the permanent care provisions you have made for your pet.

• Make sure your neighbors, friends, and relatives know how many pets you have and the names and contact numbers of the individuals who have agreed to serve as emergency caregivers. Emergency caregivers should also know how to contact each other.

• Carry a wallet “alert card” that lists the names and phone numbers of your emergency pet caregivers.

• Post removable “in case of emergency” notices on your doors or windows specifying how many and what types of pets you have. These notices will alert emergency-response personnel during a fire or other home emergency. Don’t use stickers; hard-to-remove stickers are often left behind by former residents, so firefighters may assume that the sticker is outdated or, worse, they may risk their lives trying to find a pet no longer in the house.

• Affix to the inside of your front and back doors a removable notice listing emergency contact names and phone numbers. Because pets need care daily and will need immediate attention should you die or become incapacitated, the importance of making these informal arrangements for temporary caregiving cannot be overemphasized.

Ensuring Long-Term or Permanent Care for Your Pet

The best way to make sure your wishes are fulfilled is by making formal arrangements that specifically cover the care of your pet. It’s not enough that long ago your friend verbally promised to take in your animal or even that you’ve decided to leave money to your friend for that purpose. Work with an attorney to draw up a special will, trust, or other document to provide for the care and ownership of your pet, as well as the funds necessary to care for her.

Choosing a Permanent Caregiver

First, decide whether you want all your pets to go to one person, or whether different pets should go to different people. If possible, keep pets who have bonded with one another together. When selecting caregivers, consider partners, adult children, parents, brothers, sisters, and friends who have met your pet and have successfully cared for pets themselves. Also name alternate caregivers in case your first choice becomes unable or unwilling to take your pet. Be sure to discuss your expectations with potential caregivers so they understand the large responsibility of caring for your pet. Remember, the new owner will have full discretion over the animal’s care—including veterinary treatment and euthanasia—so make sure you choose a person you trust implicitly and who will do what is in the best interest of your pet.

Stay in touch with the designated caregivers and alternates. Over time, people’s circumstances and priorities change, and you want to make sure that the arrangements you have made continue to hold from the designated caregivers’ vantage points. If all else fails, it is also possible to direct your executor or personal representative, in your will, to place the animal with another individual or family (that is, in a noninstitutionalized setting). Finding a satisfactory new home can take several weeks of searching, so again, it is important to line up temporary care.

You also have to know and trust your executor and provide useful, but not unrealistically confining, instructions in your will. You should also authorize your executor to expend funds from your estate for the temporary care of your pet as well as for the costs of looking for a new home and transporting the animal to it. The will should also grant broad discretion to your executor in making decisions about the animal and in expending estate funds on the animal’s behalf.

Entrusting Your Pet to an Organization

Most humane organizations do not have the space or funds to care for your pet indefinitely and cannot guarantee that someone will adopt your animal, although some may be able to board and care for your pet temporarily until he can be transferred to his designated caregiver. There are, however, a few organizations that specialize in long-term care of pets of deceased owners. For a fee or donation, these “pet retirement homes” or “sanctuaries” may agree to find your pet a new home or care for your pet until she dies. Be aware, however, that pets are companion animals who need lots of care and affection; they may suffer from long-term confinement in such facilities. Your pet will not want to be institutionalized any more than you would want to be.

Before making any formal arrangements, visit the organization to see how animals are cared for, where they are confined, who looks after them, when they are socialized and exercised, and what policies and procedures exist regarding care at the facility and placement with a new family. Also consider what might happen to your pet if the organization were to suffer funding or staff shortages. If you decide to entrust the care of your pet to an organization, choose a well-established organization that has a good record of finding responsible homes quickly.

Requesting Your Pet Be Euthanized Upon Your Death.

Being concerned about what will happen to your pet after your death is normal. But some people take this concern to extremes, requesting that their pet be euthanized out of fear that no one else will care for the animal appropriately. When an owner puts this request in his will, that provision is often ruled invalid by the legal system when the animal is young or in good health and when other humane alternatives are available.

There are some cases when euthanasia may be appropriate. If a pet is very old or requires extensive treatment for a health condition, for example, it may be unfair to both the pet and your designated caregiver to insist on indefinite care. That’s why it’s important to choose a responsible caregiver and thoroughly discuss the animal’s condition and needs so that the caregiver can make the best decision after you’re gone.

Seeking Legal Assistance

Before making formal arrangements to provide for the long-term care of your pet, seek help from professionals who can guide you in preparing legal documents that can protect your interests and those of your pet. However, you must keep in mind the critical importance of making advance personal arrangements to ensure that your pet is cared for immediately if you die or become incapacitated. The formalities of a will or trust may not take over for some time.

Although your lawyer will help you decide what type of document best suits your needs, you should be aware of some drawbacks to wills. For example, a will takes effect only upon your death, and it will not be probated and formally recognized by a court for days or even weeks. What’s more, if legal disputes arise, the final settlement of your property may be prolonged. Even determining the rightful new owner of your pet can get delayed. In other words, it may take a long time before your instructions regarding your pet’s long-term care can be carried out.

This doesn’t necessarily mean that you should not include a provision in your will that provides for your pet. It just means that you should explore creating additional documents that compensate for the will’s limitations.

Setting Up a Trust

Unlike a will, a trust can provide for your pet immediately and can apply not only if you die, but also if you become ill or incapacitated. That’s because you determine when your trust becomes effective. When you create a trust for your pet, you set aside money to be used for his care and you specify a trustee to control the funds.

A trust created separately from your will carries certain benefits. The trust can be written to exclude certain assets from the probate process so that funds are more readily available to care for your pet. Additionally, it can be structured to provide for your pet even during a lengthy disability.

Which Is Right for You—A Will or a Trust?

There are many types of wills and trusts; determining which is best for you and your pet depends on your situation and needs. It’s important to seek the advice of an attorney who both understands your desire to provide for your pet and can help you create a will and/or trust that best provides for him. You and your attorney also need to make sure that a trust for the benefit of one or more specific animals is valid and enforceable in your state. Virginia and DC permit pet trusts, but Maryland does not. Even if your state law recognizes the validity of such trusts, keep in mind that tying up a substantial amount of money or property in a trust for an animal’s benefit may prove to be controversial from the point of view of a relative or other heir. Moreover, trusts are legal entities that are relatively expensive to administer and maintain, all of which underscores the need for careful planning and legal advice. Please visit for information on funding a pet trust with an insurance policy.

After you and your lawyer create a will, a trust, or both, leave copies with the person you’ve chosen to be executor of your estate as well as with the pet’s designated caregiver so that he or she can look after your pet immediately. (The executor and caregiver may or may not be the same person.) Make sure the caregiver also has copies of your pet’s veterinary records and information about her behavior traits and dietary preferences.

Powers of Attorney

Powers of attorney, which authorize someone else to conduct some or all of your affairs for you while you are alive, have become a standard planning device. Such documents can be written to take effect upon your physical or mental incapacity and to continue in effect after you become incapacitated. They are simpler than trusts and do not create a legal entity that needs to be maintained by formal means. Provisions can be inserted in powers of attorney authorizing your attorney-in-fact—the person designated to handle your affairs—to take care of your pets, expend money to do so, and even to place your pets with permanent caregivers if appropriate.

Like any other legal device, however, powers of attorney are documents that by themselves cannot ensure that your pet is fed, walked, medicated, or otherwise cared for daily. Legal devices can only complement your personal efforts in thinking ahead and finding temporary and permanent caregivers who can take over your pet’s care immediately when the need arises. It is critical to coordinate, with more formal legal planning, your own efforts in finding substitute caregivers.

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Wonderful Wildlife Photography

Wildlife photography is regarded as one of the more challenging forms of photography. As well as needing sound technical skills, such as being able to expose correctly, wildlife photographers generally need good field craft skills. For example, some animals are difficult to approach and thus a knowledge of the animal’s behaviour is needed in order to be able to predict their actions. Photographing some species may require stalking skills or the use of a hide/blind for concealment. While wildlife photographs can be taken using basic equipment, successful photography of some types of wildlife requires specialist equipment, such as macro lenses for insects, long focal length lenses for birds and underwater cameras for marine life. However, since the advent of digital cameras, greater adventure travel and automated cameras, a great wildlife photograph can also be the result of being in the right place at the right time.


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My Heart Blisters Like a Broiled Sausage

            A couple old as mud wobbles to my counter. He scowls like he’s just stepped into dog shit, slaps his check down on the counter, [img_assist|nid=7087|title=Milja by Loren Dann© 2011|desc=|link=node|align=right|width=200|height=284]and slides it toward me, message-side up. In a phlegmy voice he growls, “What the hell’s this supposed to mean?”

            The back of the check reads, “You are dead already!” Of course I recognize my Marigold’s arcane, Euro-trash scrawl immediately.

            I say, “We choose our waitresses carefully from among the graduates of the finest waitressing school in Paris.” I lean closer with my secret. “Many of them have read deeply in philosophy. I assure you this is obviously a philosophical statement.”

            The old woman at his side sneers. “Well if this is philosophy, somebody should tell her parents.”

            I respond, “They are as heartbroken as you are.” The couple finally leaves and I’m relieved we’ll never see them again. Neither them, nor their family nor their friends nor their professional colleagues. In fact, a whole army of greedy, gaping, chewing, and drooling mouths now will never darken our door. I restrain myself from running to tell Ron the happy news.

            My Tiger Lily moves in a nimbus of pale yellow light. Water glasses glitter in her presence, French fries glow at her touch. “Too late already so much.”

            She’s come from one of those countries I’ve never heard of, and I’m not embarrassed to admit there are a lot of those. I assume her English will never get any better, which is just fine with me.

            We all work together at the Kitchen Knook on 4th Street close to the shopping mall. I’m the late-shift cashier, a very demanding and responsible position, which is why I’m paid so little. Ron, the night manager, explains that the low pay discourages frivolous people who lack the drive and determination to take the job seriously. And he promises me that with another year of this responsibility I could go anywhere, do anything. Smiling he says, “Even president of, like, General Motors, or something.”

            Of course I’m impressed, even if I can’t remember who General Motors is. I’ve told Ron we ought to have cool military uniforms. I remind him that people love uniforms, and they love to have their food brought to them by persons wearing uniforms. I explain to him that basically, this uniform wearing is the wave of the future, and we need to be part of the future if we expect to succeed. I remind him that I watch the news, so I know what’s going on. I tell him that from what I’ve seen, eventually all the people feeding us will wear uniforms and this will make us all really happy.

            A young, attractive woman places her check on my counter, but she is not smiling. “You know,” she says, “this sort of thing usually indicates serious psychological difficulties.” On the back of her check my Little Petunia has scrawled, “The surface is without substance.”

            I respond, “We try to help those who are in difficulty.”

            “That may seem noble to you, but you should not inflict such darkness on those of us already entombed.” A tear sparkles at the corner of her eye. She turns and leaves, and my regret follows her like a thick snake.

            My Buttercup waits tables, from 4 PM until Midnight. What she does is what waitresses do, and her customers bring their checks to my cash register, a cash register of which I am proprietor. They slide their checks across my counter accompanied by either a fist-full of cash, or a shiny credit card. We don’t take checks, that’s our policy.

            Our three other waitresses are named Camille, Ellen and Brandy. Hoping to pump up their tips, each writes a little message on the backs of their checks. Ellen is in law school, so she just writes “Thanks so much!” with a little diamond at the bottom of the exclamation point. Maybe she should change it to a dollar sign. Brandy writes, “Have a Good Day,” and puts smiles in the middles of the “O”s. The horror is that she earnestly means it. I tremble at her glance. But Camille is the worst. Camille writes, “Smile, God Loves you!” and she uses little hearts to dot the “I” and at the bottom of the exclamation point, and in place of all of the “O”s. It must take her ten minutes to draw the thing out. But my Squash-Blossom is different. Where others are mesmerized by the surface, she sees all the way down.

            “Stop touching yourself and start touching others,” is written quirkily on the check slid onto my counter by a young man whose acne will be with him until he’s collecting Social Security.

            He says, “Women these days are so fucked up.”

            I shrug. “Estrogen’s been leaking into the water supply.”

            His eyes get large. “You’re shitting me?”

            “Drink bottled water,” I say. “It’s the only way to be safe.”

            My Rose-Petal always shares her shift with at least two of these other waitresses, along with a revolving door of dark, foreign-looking busboys who pass through so fast I never learn their names. So we have four waitresses for a three-waitress staff. Ron makes up the schedule. He says the task will make him crazy. Apparently, doing the schedule is the hardest thing he’s ever done, even from high school, figuring out how to cover from day to day, week to week. He begs me to pick up the bus-tray whenever I can. These women will drive me nuts, he says, and I’m sure that would be a short trip. But I remind him that busing tables is beneath the responsibilities of the cashier, who must handle money. After all, what is more diseased-ridden in our society than cash, filthy cash?

            Ron does not like me and never agrees with anything I say. But he does not want to hire another cashier. His cashiers tend to steal, and he tells me I’m the first in half a decade not robbing him blind. All Ron wants to do is sit in the back-office at the computer and download porn from the internet. He burns the porn onto CD’s and takes them home with him every night and does god-knows-what thereafter. I’m too nauseated to ask.

            “The brain atrophies before the penis,” is followed by a smiling sun-face with X’s over the eyes. The middle-aged guy belonging to this check grins as he leans across the counter. “I just took my pill,” he whispers, “and I’ve got a woody like a sequoia. What time does she get off?”

            “She doesn’t,” I assure him. “Our evil manager keeps her shackled in the basement. He’s the only one gets to see her.”  [img_assist|nid=7088|title=Out Building Walnut Hill: Pagoda of Weeds by Dae Rebeck-Sanchez © 2011|desc=|link=node|align=right|width=225|height=225]

            He frowns sympathetically. “Any little thing I can do to help?”

            In fact I keep all of these complaints from Ron. He likes my Little Dove even less than he likes me. He thinks she thinks about him. If it wasn’t for the fact that she can carry six filled platters in the middle of a rush, she’d have been long-gone. At closing I count the register while she helps clean up. I lose count every time I look up to see her bending over. I lose count a lot, so this usually takes the rest of the night. Ron comes over to me after firing another busboy. He likes to keep in practice. “Stupid little shit,” he says looking at nothing in particular, and it takes me a second to realize he’s not talking to me. “Any of your creepy friends need a job?”

            I tell him my creepy friends are all over-booked. I tell him it seems like people will only hire the really creepy ones. He looks hard into my eyes. “You don’t like this job, do you?”

            “I love this job,” I say. “I gave up being General Motors just to work here.”

            He looks at me a moment and then he smiles. “My bet is you’re going to be here a good long time.”

            I ask, “Is that a promise?” I finish counting, or actually just give up and write down the amount on the slip that I already know is supposed to be in the register.

            “Oh yeah,” he says, “that is my promise to you!”

            As he walks away I say, “Thanks! Mom will be so pleased.”

            I time my departure to follow her out the door. Half a block from the restaurant I say,

            “Listen, you have to stop writing that shit on the checks. People get upset. They say things. They think things.”

            She shrugs without turning.

            I say, “It seems they are not grateful for your subtle generosity.” She has gorgeous shoulders. I say, “If you don’t like gratitude you should be happy every day.”

            Finally she turns, her arrogant frown thrills me.

            “Do you ever have a good time?” She stops at the corner, her bus is already pulling up. She shrugs as she brings a token out of her pocket. Climbing the steps she does not turn. “Misery is underrated,” she says.

            The doors fold closed, her sweet butt framed sweetly in the folding bus-door windows.

Nothing left for me to do but sigh, which I do louder than the bus.

            Two women. Young, secretary-types. The taller, older one slides the check toward me like we’re conspirators and this is grade school. On the back of the check my Dumpling has written, “A penis in the hand – better two in the bush.”

            “How was your meal today?” I ask with the blandest look I own.

            “Funny,” she says, and the two leave giggling. I spend the next ten minutes figuring.

  After closing, my Nightingale leaves without a glance back. I hustle to catch up, pull up just behind her right shoulder. Her profile fills me with something I cannot name. “Tell me? Was it the Freud that didn’t sit well, or the Kafka?”

            With her firm, long-legged gate she steps on the gas. I hustle double-step to keep up. She turns to face me without losing a step, her grin vicious and wise. “You!” And she says, “You!”

            At the corner she turns. A guy is just getting out of a cab. She strides faster, has her hand on the closing door, slips inside and is gone, all before I can say, “Me! Me! Me!”

            Two little girls, maybe twelve years old between them, timidly place their check and cash on my counter. On the back I read, “Death is your friend!” I shove the cash back toward them

            “Hey!” I say kind of loud and I’m smiling. “It’s your lucky day. You’re lunch was free!

Hope you enjoyed it. Come back again soon!”

            I’m relieved when the little girls turn to each other and smile. The one girl says, “Thanks,” as she grabs the cash. The other says, “Yeah,” and they’re laughing together before they reach the door. And I’m relieved nobody is making a big deal.

            An hour and a half later and it’s slow. To my Dandelion I say, “We have to talk.” I take her by the elbow to lead her to the back. She shrugs me off, gets to the office door before I do, stands arms folded across her generous chest, and watches me approach like a hot dog watches mustard. I stand as close to her as I can without fainting. “Please leave the kids alone. If you aren’t about to say something nice to a kid, just shut up. How about it?”

The fire in her black eyes roasts my scrotum no matter which way I turn. When I don’t say anything she sneers. “Pot-licker,” [img_assist|nid=7091|title=Dinner by Kathleen Montrey © 2011|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=225|height=189]she says and then she moves past me like I’m a can of dead flowers. People want to know why I hate my life.

            Back at the register Ron comes over smiling like his whole face’s shot with botox. He calls out, “Brandy, cover the register a minute?” He signals me to follow and we walk back to the storeroom. He flicks-on the light and closes the door behind us. He paces back and forth like he’s been constipated for a month. Watching him is about to wear me out. I sit down on a case of catsup bottles. He looks like he’s trying to think about something, and then he steps close and leans forward. “We have a problem.” Then he freezes, stares into my face like whatever I do next will twist my future absolutely. So I do nothing. “We’re missing a can of mayonnaise,” he says. Then he watches me like by knowing this I will now change into something.

            “A whole can of mayo, you say?” I squint and dip my head as if I know what he’s getting at. I ask, “Any ideas?” Because I don’t like having-to-think forced upon me. I’d rather that it sneak up on me, like a toothache, until finally I have to do something about it, but all along I’ve been sort of dealing with it in the background.

            “One or two,” he says with cultivated inscrutability and then takes a step back, “one, or two.”

            He sits down on boxes of canned soup and sighs, rubs his hands together and then along the tops of his thighs. The aura of defeat hovers over him as miasmal as a fart.

            To move things along I ask, “One of the gallon cans?” I’m incredulous because it is incredible, and I want to be certain before I continue with this thinking-thing. He nods.

            “And you’re sure it’s not misplaced?” I ask. “Because you looked everywhere?” Silence in this case is assent.

            “Well,” I say still not grasping the magnitude of our situation, “it wasn’t like it was a can of the good stuff. Can’t be more than a few dollars a can. I mean, we’ll make it up in tips.”

            Suddenly he looks at me in a way that I had never expected him to look. As if his face was a box of tools, and this expression was just not included. “You don’t get it, do you?” Suspicion tightens his eyes. “Can you be so fucking self-centered and naive?” He stands, slowly steps forward to bring his face right up to mine so that I have to lean back. “This isn’t just about the fucking money. It isn’t even about any fucking principles. The question I can’t answer is why? And even worse how?” His own suspicion turns to incredulity. “Pick up one of those fucking cans. How you going to sneak one of those out of here? Where the fuck you going to hide it? How you going to carry it so nobody guesses? What kind of fucking bag you going to put it in so nobody says, hey, where you taking that gallon of fucking mayo?”

            Before I can venture any stupid guesses he says, “And why? How much goddamn mayo can one family eat, for Christ sake?” He begins to pant, his voice is getting louder, and I’m wishing he brushed his teeth more often. “You can’t put this shit on goddamn breakfast cereal, for Christ sake!”

            Ron looks around the floor like he’s surrounded by scorpions. “And if somebody’s snatched the mayo, should we maybe put an armed guard on the tuna?” His face has become very red. “I defy anyone to explain to me why any normal human being would steal a gallon of goddamn mayonnaise!”

            Who could imagine Ron is a passionate philosopher? But he’s already given-up trying to find anything out from me. He’s turned and is already reaching for the door handle. So with hardly a twitch he’s opened the door. And there stands my little Flesh-Bulb.

            She’s looking a bit cowed though she’s easily a head taller than Ron. He stares up at her a long time. My Sweet Onion cannot return his look. He steps around her and returns to the restaurant. She stands another moment looking at the floor and then she returns to the restaurant. And me? I’m still sitting on my ass, Brandy covering the register for me, and I’m waiting for this head-thing to stop, so much like a blender running filled with steel screws.

             A priest comes to my register smiling, slides his check toward me with his cash. I see her handwriting and tremble. I turn it over to read, “Sleep with God!”

            The priest says, “Your staff has a rare and subtle sense of the world behind the mask. I shall return often.”

            Panic grabs my throat, I suppress the scream and manage to whisper, “That would perhaps not be wise.” The priest’s smile disappears, as his eyes get large. Leaning closer I say, “Our manager is a Satanist, and he would say anything to corrupt you.” I drop my voice to add, “He would even lie to you.”

            The priest is about to turn. I touch his sleeve and add, “Pray for our souls.” The door closes and he never looks back.

            About a second later Brandy steps up smiling. “Let me know if you need me to cover for you.” Her voice is so bright I put on sunglasses.

            “That’s generous of you, but I can’t possibly burden you with this enormous responsibility.”

            I pull another girly magazine from the rack and lean back as I open it.

            When I look up again I’m surprised to see Brandy still standing there. She cranks her smile up another level. “I hear Ron’s got you on some kind of inventory duty or something. About the tuna, I mean. It’s a little slow today. Maybe I could give you a hand.” Now I’m looking for the hidden camera. These places always have hidden cameras even though they usually don’t work, but if we have them, they must be really well hidden. So I ask, “Did you wait on that priest?”

  Brandy experiences a panic entirely out of proportion to the question, which relieves me completely. “No,” she says, “that’s what’s-her-name’s table. Why?” As if she doesn’t know.

“Did he complain?”

            “No, worse. He was so impressed he threatened to bring all his priest-friends here. Does that make any sense to you?” I look at her real hard, a sort of highlight and underline to the point.

            She turns and scans the room as if help might arrive any second. She shrugs before she turns back again. “I guess some old guys find her type charming. Don’t ask me. Old guys are always so obvious.” There’s nothing to that with my name on it, so I let it drift. After another minute she drifts too, and I’m relieved.

            A withered and old woman about four feet tall staggers to the counter, slides her check

Across and says, “What the hell’s this shit?” My Little Cauliflower has written, “Sex is death.”

            “Words to live by,” I say hoping that if I don’t look at her she’ll evaporate.

            “Know anybody needs to get laid, give ’em this.” Then trembling, she scribbles a phone number at the bottom of one of the take-out menus stacked on the counter. She doesn’t wait for me to answer, but it takes her four minutes to walk to the door. When she’s gone I fold up the menu and shove it into my back pocket. I know that one never knows.

            A heartbeat later Ron’s standing beside my shoulder. “You know who that is?”

            “Don’t know who she is, but I know what she wants.”

            “She’s maybe old and crazy but she’s rich as they come.”

            “Then, here!” I say and pass him the menu. “She’s waiting for you to call.”

            He looks at the menu with widening eyes. “You shitting me?”

            “Would I shit you?”

            He grins. “That’s why I let you work here.” He walks away lips muttering the phone number like he expects to remember it.

            Walking behind my gorgeous Petunia as she makes her way to her bus I say, “Your English is getting so much better.”

            Walking fast she shrugs without turning.

  Perhaps my little Artichoke is a secret poet. Her way with words is so elegantly awkward.

Or perhaps she simply speaks as she thinks. Thinking and speaking so rarely coincide, but perhaps my Apricot Jelly has discovered some secret. And perhaps if I’m earnest and determined she’ll share that secret with me. We reach her bus stop and I’m about to peel off toward my apartment but she turns to me. “Every day is coffee. How is that? How is that?”

            I’m stunned. No words, her eyes are black icicles in bright sunlight. And for the first time ever, she smiles. Her teeth are bad but her smile is brilliant. By the time my brain remembers I have a mouth and the muscles in my jaw unlock, she’s already climbed the steps to the bus and has gone. When I get home I make a note on my calendar, it’s that sort of thing.

            Later in the week we’re really busy, a convention or something, I only find out after the fact, but ninety percent of our customers are female and almost all of them are young, some sort of convention. For the entire evening rush, Ron’s running in one direction and looking in the other. Beaming with his natural-born idiocy, he can’t get to these tables fast enough. He’s even carrying platters and busing tables, an explosion of activity that demands to be commemorated with a photograph it’s so unlikely. It’s Brandy’s day off, just Camille and Ellen and my Sweet Plantain, and we’re all stunned by Ron’s enthusiastic participation, though for different reasons and to different degrees. Ron’s one of those hiding-managers; don’t bother him unless the register’s short or there’s blood on the floor. My little Star-Light maneuvers around Ron like he’s a pile of dog shit. Even Camille finds his participation remarkable, so she makes a remark.

            “What’s he doing here?”

            “As little as possible.”

            “Doesn’t he know even how to carry dishes?”

            “Like the rest of us, he knows as little as he can get away with.”

            “Something’s going to happen,” she says.

            “Something always does.” I know I’ll be proved right, but I’m surprised at how soon.

            The collision happens when I’m not looking, but the sound wakes even the comatose. And before the last glass shatters, the stream of venom from my little Buttercup’s sweet lips is terrifying Ron shields himself with his server tray. Fortunately, my Sugar Cube has reverted to her mother tongue, so no one understands what she’s saying, but none of us needs a translation. Women at the tables giggle and point, terror, and embarrassment alternate in Ron’s eyes like lights on a billboard.

            My little Lollipop’s pale face is red as a sunset, and then to all of our surprise, big, bright tears appear in her eyes. Its then my heart shatters like another dropped glass.

  In the next instant Ellen appears with broom and dustpan muttering about lawsuits. My little Nectarine is sobbing, tears glide down her cheeks, and I struggle to resist running over to lap them up with my tongue.

            But Ron suddenly recaptures his self-importance and sense of disproportion and explains to my Love-Doll that she’s fired.

            Without a thought beyond a determination to spare my little Pop-Tart any more embarrassment I decide to tell Ron that I quit, and then describe to him how deep into Hell I know he’ll fall. And I’m ready to do this. And I promise myself I’ll do this, just as soon as I can step away from the register.

            But somehow my hands have become cramped around the edge of the counter. Somehow they’ve escaped my control and have conspired to hold onto the counter-edge. Do they know something I don’t? Do they understand something that has completely escaped me? Do they recognize something about me that I ignore at my own peril? Have they learned something from working here that I’ve forgotten, or worse, never even recognized? Just clamped onto the edge of the counter, and I can’t make my hands relax.

            Suddenly and to my surprise Ron’s standing immediately beside me. “You put up with this shit every day, you deserve a raise.” And then he mutters into my ear a number.

            He’s breathing hard so I’m pretty certain he’s serious. Frozen by greed and cowardice, perhaps, my left hand, the faithless hand, the treacherous hand, the hand that can’t be trusted, devious, cynical, and cruel remains gripping the counter. I call upon my trusty right hand, but clearly it has entered into a conspiracy with the left. My hands in remorseless grip of the counter are listening to Ron and they like the sound of his number. My hands are thinking about my landlord and my checkbook, and how good it feels to wrap themselves around a mug of cold beer. And thinking this they begin to think how they would miss all this. So my devious, treacherous hands betray me. As they so often have in the past, they do as they wish and not as I want. My hands are content to watch my little Pudding-Cup tearfully gather her things, exchange her apron for her overcoat, and then walk to the door. But worst, most dreadfully, most terribly, my hands smile derisively as my Tulip-Blossom steps out the door without even a single, vicious glance back.

            When Brandy comes in the next day she makes it clear to Ron she believes my Succulent Rasinette was dealt with too harshly. Ron fires her before her coat’s off. She looks hard at me as she leaves, but no tears for her. She’s tougher than I’d guessed. By the dinner-rush two new waitresses are plying our victuals; women who’ve been yelling at cooks and filling water glasses since Nixon was president. A reassuring stability has emerged, refreshing in its inconsequentiality.

            My hands are ecstatic with money play, but my heart remains unemployed.

In addition to the novel Master Siger’s Dream, recently published by What Books Press of Los Angeles, A. W. DeAnnuntis’s fiction has appeared in: Silent Voices, The Armchair Aesthete, Timber Creek Review, Lynx Eye, Los Angeles Review, Yemassee, First Class, Pacific Coast Journal, Short Stories Bimonthly, Luna Negra, CrossConnect, Mind in Motion (where he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize), and many others.

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Filling In the NLE Gaps

Key companies are completing workflows and adding useful features to leading editing systems.

“Instant” Dailies

The job of synchronizing dailies and pushing out Timecode burn-in copies to Producers and those who need them, can be simplified and partly automated. It boils down to three simple steps: Synchronize any dual system audio with the video clips; Build a sequence; Add a TC filter to all clips in the sequence.

What to do with Final Cut Pro XML

There are dozens of third party applications that add functionality to Final Cut Pro using XML to communicate with Final Cut Pro. I’ll get to them later in the article, but first let’s look at what you can do with Final Cut Pro XML with nothing more than a text editor. The good thing is that you don’t have to understand XML to use it!

When to stay in the native codec of the source, and when to convert to something else

There is some confusion, and probably more than a little difference of opinion, in when to stay in the native codec of the source, and when to convert to some other codec for editing and output. In this article I plan on providing some reasonable guidelines, specific examples and what the exceptions might be.

Uploading Movies for YouTube with maximum quality

What people tend to forget is that you are sending YouTube a master for them to compress, therefore send the highest quality you can, that fits with their limitations.

What is XML and what does it mean for Final Cut Studio users?

You’ve probably heard the term XML and never been able to quite pin down what it means, because every time you see the term it seems to mean something different.

How2 Upgrade to Final Cut Pro 4 the Right Way

In this article, DV Guru Philip Hodgetts walks you step by step how to upgrade to Final Cut Pro 4 — the right way so that you’ll save yourself mistakes and headaches.

Why are my Final Cut Pro Productions darker on my clients’ PCs?

Gamma correction for Mac and PCs

Great Titles with the DV Codec

A heavily illustrated article showing how to avoid major problems caused by video interlacing and the DV codec to produce the best possible titles.

Media 100 844/X Lowers Price, Expands Line-Up

Just ahead of the release, Philip Hodgetts spent an afternoon interviewing Media 100 CEO John Molinari and VP of Corporate Communications, Mike Savello.

Media 100’s Pegasus – 844/X

It’s official. Media 100’s new ‘Pegasus’ 844/X has been announced and Philip Hodgetts has given us the definitive analysis of the new product. You won’t find a more in-depth report.

Media 100 & Pegasus

In 1994 Media 100 revolutionized the video post production industry by bringing broadcast quality finishing to the computer desktop for the first time as the initial step in democratizing video. Can they do it again? How does the new Mission and Vision fit with the original vision that drove Media 100? Or was the sale of Cleaner and other software products to focus on the “Pegasus” project a mistake?

Is there still a business for Media 100 in editing?

The Non-linear Editing market is in a very interesting position right now.  On the cusp between the first wave – integrated hardware based solutions – and mass market commoditization.

Displacement Mapping in Adobe After Effects

Two of the less well known features of After Effects’ Production Bundle are the Time Displacement Filter and the Displacement Filter. Both use the values of one image to affect the target image. In this tutorial, Philip Hodgetts first looks at the affect of the Displacement Filter first, then moves on to Time Displacement before discussing a source of gradient images suitable for Displacement and Time Displacement Mapping.

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The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has been trying for more than four years to sell or lease 40-plus acres of the St. Charles Borromeo Seminary campus in Lower Merion Township.

Thanks to a federal judge's decision late last week in a fight over a real estate deal involving Main Line Health and a New Jersey developer of senior-care facilities, the archdiocese's wait for a payoff from the Wynnewood property could now extend for years.

Until the litigation ends, no one can buy the seminary property, which sits across Lancaster Avenue from Lankenau Medical Center. A settlement also could clear the way for a sale.

In a 29-page ruling Friday, U.S. District Judge Gene E.K. Pratter rejected motions for summary judgment by Main Line Health and the seminary, finding that enough evidence existed for a trial to decide whether the health system breached a fiduciary duty to developer William Burris when it decided in 2015 to pursue the seminary property itself, cutting Burris out of a deal he brought to Main Line Health in 2014.

The key issue in the case is whether Main Line Health and Burris had a partnership or were at least jointly promoting a proposal to build a nursing home or some other facility for seniors on the seminary property. If either of those relationships existed, Main Line Health may have been in no position to take the deal from Burris.

"While email exchanges between Main Line executives, and Main Line's shifting position vis-à-vis Mr. Burris may raise doubts about whether a Burris-Main Line partnership existed, those inconsistencies or shifts are ultimately for a jury, not the court, to evaluate," Pratter wrote.

The seminary sale is at least the second proposed real estate deal by the archdiocese in recent years to get bogged down. A plan to sell 200 acres in Marple Township for $47 million fell apart when township officials rejected the developer's proposal.

On Tuesday, the archdiocese, which has been using the money from real estate sales to fund pension and other liabilities, and Main Line Health said they are were limited in what they could say about the Burris case.

"We still hope to reach a successful resolution of this matter in the near future," said Ken Gavin, spokesman for the archdiocese.

"While we will not discuss or comment on pending litigation, we are anxious for all of the relevant facts to come to light over the course of the legal process," Main Line Health said.

Burris' lawyer, Paul R. Rosen, was not so reticent. "William Burris was shocked at the underhanded conduct of the St. Charles Seminary in its conspiracy with his partner Main Line Health System as the events unfolded, and he remains so today," Rosen said.

When Burris learned in March 2013 that the archdiocese wanted to sell or lease the bulk of the seminary campus, he started working on a proposal for a mix of senior apartments, assisted-living units, and a facility, potentially in partnership with Main Line Health, where individuals could get short-term medical care after surgery or an illness.

Main Line Health executives appeared to be on board, but in August 2015 the health system decided to make the purchase without Burris.

"I've got to believe we can craft a much more attractive offer … and then get the land and sit on it until we decide what we want to do. We can't lose this one," Lydia Hammer, Main Line Health's senior vice president of marketing and business development, wrote in an email in September of that year.

In October 2015, Main Line's chief financial officer, Michael Buongiorno, sent Main Line board member Jim Buck an email – including Burris' slides and plans – on the proposal to buy seminary property for $26 million, $1 million more than Burris offered.

"Must say I'm not excited at the prospect (don't sense anyone is, really), but I understand the need to control our destiny, and guard our flank, by considering this seriously," Buck responded.

Main Line Health's offer eventually rose to $28.5 million for the lower 40 acres, with a $15 million option on the seminary's 29-acre upper campus, which is set back from the intersection of Lancaster and City Avenues, court records said.


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Book signings are a whole new world for me. I’ve been doing a number of them over the last few months. They ranged from interviews with my friend Lee Goldberg to readings from the books by yours truly.

Los Angeles has been destroyed and laid to waste in more movies than any city other that Tokyo. But unlike New York and Rome and London, when L.A. gets wrecked, nobody feels that twinge in the heart that comes with losing a beloved landmark. When Los Angeles gets the post-apocalyptic treatment, it usually gets better. Why is that?


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Cynthia Gellner and her son Aiden at Lucy Park in Wichita Falls, TX had their family portraits session taken in the spring of 2016.

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Save the Date - Horti Asia 2012

Long-time readers of my blog might remember when I went on a buying spree in Thailand's Chatuchak Plant Market.  Even before leaving Bangkok, I swore I would go back.

Now here is a perfectly good reason to go plant chasing in Bangkok again.  Thailand is gearing up to host . . .

Horti ASIA 2012, poised to become the most massive horticulture trade show in ASEAN (The Association of Southeast Asian Nations), will present a platform to the entire horticulture and food sector - from producers to retailers - to come together and do business.

Horti ASIA 2012 aims to support the current fast growing horticulture and floriculture industries in the South East Asia region and act as a platform to share new innovations and trading necessary technologies in order to improve the horticultural industry.

In addition, Horti ASIA 2012 will be a center stage to exhibit His Majesty The King's agricultural initiative projects to celebrate his 84th birthday.

The event will be held at the Bangkok International Trade & Exhibition Centre (BITEC) in Thailand.

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Suburban Constellations.
Governance, Land and Infrastructure
in the 21st Century

Roger Keil (Edited by)

Published by JOVIS Publishers, Berlin | Softcover, 16,8 x 24 cm
208 pages, 130 images, 2013 | ISBN 9783868592313

In a world of cities, suburbanization is the most visible and pervasive phenomenon. Global sprawl engulfs us but it does so in remarkably differentiated ways. While the single-family home subdivisions of North America remain the "classical case", there are now many other forms of suburbanism around the globe.
The high rise housing estates around many European and Canadian cities, the belts and wedges of squatter settlements in the global south, the burgeoning megacity peripheries between Istanbul and Shanghai and the technopoles and edge cities in all corners of the world are all part of a pervasive trend towards global suburbanisms. Suburban Constellations provides a first account of this global development.
22 of the most well-known global urban scholars analyze the multiple manifestations of suburbanization and suburbanism. They are joined by artistic and illustrative contributions. Overviews of suburbanization trends in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia complete Suburban Constellations.

Roger Keil
Welcome to the Suburban Revolution
Roger Keil

• Suburbanization in the Twenty-First-Century World
Terry McGee
• Governance and Global Suburbanisms
Pierre Hamel
• How Land Markets Make and Change Suburbs
Richard Harris
• The Infrastructure is the Message: Shaping the Suburban Morphology and Lifestyle
Pierre Filion
• We’re a Long Way from Levittown, Dorothy: Everyday Suburbanism as a Global Way of Life
Lisa Drummond & Danielle Labbé
• Hiking the Mexico Periphery
Feike De Jong

• FlexSpace - Suburban forms
Ute Lehrer
• Suburban Redevelopment: Decline and Renewal in Tornoto`s In-between City
Douglas Young
• Suburban Boundaries: beyond Greenbelts and Edges
Roger Keil & Rob Shields
• Automobiles, Highways, and Suburban Dispersion
Pierre Filion
• Beyond  the Networked City? Suburban Constellations in Water and Sanitarian Systems
Jochen Monstadt & Sophie Schramm
• Suburbs at Risk
Robin Bloch, Nikolaos Papachristodoulou & Donald Brown
• Walking out of Montreal
Roger Keil

• Suburbanization and the Remaking of Metropolitan Canada
Markus Moos & Pablo Mendez
Katerina Cizek
• A City of Rivers and Broken Side Mirrors
Nathan Schalter
• Making Them Talk, Then Act, Together! The Greater Toronto Suburban Working Group
Sean Hertel & Roger Keil
• Khodinskoe Field Development, Moscow
Oginoi Knauss
• Fort McMurray, the Suburb at the End of the Highway
Claire Ntaior
• Walking out ot Tallinn
Roger Keil

• Suburbanisms in Africa?
Alan Mabin
• The American Suburb as Utopian Constellation
Jan Nijman
• Latin America at the Urban Margin: Socio-Spatial Fragmentation and Authoritarian Governance
Dirk Heinrichs & Henning Nuissl
• Global Suburbanism: Navigating by the Constellation of Europe
Nicholas A. Phelps
• On Capital's Edge: Gurgaon, India's Millennial City
Shubhra Gururani
• Chinese Suburban Constellations: The growth Machine, Urbanization, and Middle-Class Dreams
Fulong Wu
• Desire, Dryness, and Decadence: Living Big in Australia's Suburbs
Louise C.Johnson
• Escape from the Burbs?
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Roger Keil teaches at the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, §toronto and is the Principal Investigator of Global Suburbanisms. Among the other he is the co-editor of Suburban Governance: A Global View and author of the forth coming Global Suburbs (Polity).


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84″ Tri-pod Projection Screen 4:3 GB

84″ Tri-pod Projection Screen 4:3 GB

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Spherical glass beads embedded in the surface provide more reflection, giving a brighter image compared to matt white. This brighter image is limited to a smaller viewing angle than matt white. Glass Bead screens will slightly alter the purity of the colours displayed and will have ‘sweet spots’ where the picture is at its premium. The picture at other viewing angles can appear slightly darker (yet still lighter than a MW screen).r.

Aspect Ratio: 4:3
View-able Area Dimensions (approx.):
   Diagonal: 84″ (210cm)
   Height: 128cm
   Width: 170cm
Surrounding Black Boarder Dimensions (approx.):
   Upper: 4cm
   Lower: 10cm
   Left & Right: 4cm
Top Bar Height Dimension (approx.):
   Max: 260cm
   Min: 210cm
Cassette Height Dimension (approx.):
   Max: 110cm
   Min: 50cm
Cassette Dimensions (approx.):
   Length: 185cm
   Height: 9cm
   Depth: 8.5 cm
Screen surface: Glass Bead
Gain: 2.5
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The Right-hand Pillar of Mercy is known as the Silver Pillar. It is the active, male, or projective pillar and symbolizes the energy channel of Pingala. It overlies the sephiroth of Chokmah, Chesed, and Netzach.

The Left-hand Pillar of Severity is known as the Black Pillar. It is the passive, female, or receptive pillar and symbolizes the energy channel of Ida. It overlies the sephiroth of Binah, Geburah, and Hod. The Silver Pillar is the Force side of the Tree, and the Black Pillar is the Form side.

At the head of the Black Pillar is the sephirah of Binah, center of primordial form, and at the head of the Silver Pillar is the sephirah of Chokmah, center of primordial force.

The central sephiroth constitute the Middle Pillar, said to be the pillar of consciousness, depicted in yellow in the diagram. The Middle Pillar symbolizes the force channel of Shushumna. This pillar exists in the polarity created by Force and Form.

THE PILLARS

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The spheres of the Tree of Life diagram fall into three columns known as The Pillars. The concept of pillars is a very old one in the mysteries and signifies duality and polarity. According to tradition Hermes Trismegistus concealed the knowledge of the antediluvian world in two pillars. One contained Art and the other contained Science.

Entry into Solomon’s Temple was gained between the great pillars of Jachin and Boaz. Jachin means "He will establish," and Boaz, means "strength" (2 Chron 3:17).

This symbolism is carried into the design of the columns of a masonic temple. There are usually two literal pillars in the Lodge, and three are often depicted in masonic art. One of the masonic pillars corresponds to the Sun and is the Jachin Column, whereas the other corresponds to the Moon and is the Boaz Column. In masonic art they are usually depicted on opposite sides from their qabalistic positions.

Qabalistically, the Right-hand of the two, as seen when facing them, is the Pillar of Mercy, and the Left-Hand of the two is the Pillar of Severity. Between them would fall the Middle Pillar, the Pillar of Mildness or Equilibrium.

The Middle Pillar of consciousness could be thought of as existing in the matrix of force and form, and as consciousness is the basis of all things, this helps explain the teaching that manifestation exists because of polarity. When the magician or initiate stands between the pillars, he or she becomes the middle pillar, inevitably tending to produce balance and harmony by induction. Recall the hermetic aphorism, "Equilibrium is the basis of the Great Work."

In another sense we can take the pillars as manifesting in the order in which their top sphere is activated by the Lightning Flash. Thus, the Middle Pillar comes first, then the Silver Pillar, and finally the Black Pillar. One can think of consciousness generating force and force generating form. Another way of saying this is that form is patterned force, and force is patterned consciousness.


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Alice Cooper / Cheap Trick / Atlanta, GA / 08-26-2005

On a mild summer’s night, among the picnic baskets and bottles of wine, Atlanta’s Chastain Park Amphitheatre hosted one of the most anticipated tours of the year; Cheap Trick and Alice Cooper.  Despite the strict decibel levels of the venue and a less than enthusiastic crowd, both bands proved that they can still rock with the best of them.

Kicking off their set with the now mandatory opening number “Hello There,” Cheap Trick seemed flat and uninspired.  This is a band that thrives on audience reaction and besides the obvious hits, the crowd just didn’t seem all that interested.  There were missed notes and flubbed drum fills throughout the first half of the set.  The crowd seemed to grow impatient during guitarist Rick Nielsen’s speeches between songs.  Normally, his between song antics are highlights of the night, but here it just seemed like filler.  Luckily by the time “Voices” came around midway through the set, the band had hit their stride and played like they’re capable of.  By the ending trilogy of hits “The Flame,” “That 70’s Song” and “Surrender,” the crowd was into it and dancing in the aisles.  While they got a better response than most opening bands do, it still wasn’t up to the Cheap Trick standards.  The last 4 times around have been amazing so I guess they were due an average show.

Alice Cooper on the other hand was every bit as good as he’s ever been.  It’s clear the crowd was there for him.  Opening with “Department of Youth,” Cooper and his band of ringers, including Eric Singer on drums, rocked through a pretty straightforward first half with minimal theatrics.  Aside from the random sword, crutch or diamond necklace, the theatrics weren’t needed when the songs are as strong as “I’m 18.”  The crowd sang along to “No More Mr. Nice Guy,” “Billion Dollar Babies” and a beautifully done unplugged version of “I Never Cry.”

Of course when you go see Alice Cooper, you expect a certain amount of the theatrics.  He didn’t disappoint.  “Go to Hell” ushered in the “story time” part of the show, with Cooper’s daughter Calico dressed like an S & M vampire.  Cooper literally disappeared so the band could rock through the instrumental “Black Widow” before returning as the Showman to deliver the gluttonous “Gimmie,” and assemble pieces of his own body in the upright coffin.

Shortly after, the lights blacked out and Vincent Prices’ voice could be heard blaring over the PA.  Cooper appeared on stage complete with a huge yellow snake draped around his neck to deliver “Welcome to My Nightmare.”  This is where the morality play kicked in.  Schizophrenic Steven kills his wife during “the Awakening” and reflects on it during “Only Women Bleed” before being locked in a straight jacket for “Ballad of Dwight Frye” and finally being beheaded during “Killer.”  As the band pounded an instrumental version of “I Love the Dead,” the executioner paraded around the stage with the severed head and spit blood on the first few rows before placing the head into the upright coffin to complete the hybrid Frankenstein.  An interesting note for the hardcore fans: during Calico’s little dance celebrating the beheading of her dad, she did a quick version of the “Some Folks” dance from the “Welcome to My Nightmare” tour.

Since a guy like Alice can’t stay dead long, he emerged from the coffin to do a stellar version of the anthem “School’s Out” that signaled the end of the show.

The encore provided the best moment of the show for the hardcores.  After a routine delivery of “Poison,” Alice pulled out one of the rare songs that he’s fond of performing.  This time it was From the Inside’s “I Wish I Was Born in Beverly Hills.”  Once again, Calico appeared on stage.  This time she portrayed Paris Hilton with her Chihuahua and a throng of paparazzi following her.  While fighting off the photographers, her little dog went for the jugular and attacked her.  The final encore was “Under My Wheels.”

It’s really a shame that Alice Cooper never gets the credit he deserves as being the originator of theatricality in rock.  No one took it to the level that he did, and it’s great to see him out there still doing it.  He’s no longer evil or shocking, but he doesn’t need to be.  Alice is an entertainer that knows his audience and delivers the goods night after night.  That’s all he needs to do.

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Hello all! How was your week? There are so many great things coming together this month and I can’t wait to fill you in! This weekend is full of meetings and I’m PUMPED! I love collaborating with others & helping each other any way we can.

Before I get to some Friday Favorites from this week – Did you catch the Lunge Ups from yesterday’s power plates challenge?

ps. This is my FAVORITE MOVE…that is, until I see YOUR moves today! I can’t believe it’s the last day of the month & the challenge. I swear it was just Christmas morning.

Don’t forget to share YOUR moves today with #PowerPlatesChallenge and check out the APP for inspiration.

So even with the cold days – this week was FULL of Color! Here’s a recap of some recent eats:

Aladdin’s Eatery TO GO – Tuna Steak Salad with house dressing, feta, & extra Tahini Yogurt Dressing that I used the next day with leftovers.

Greens, Pickled Beets, Roasted Rosemary Carrots & Parsnips, Olives, Green Onions, Leftover Dressing, Add protein of choice and you’re good to go! This fueled me for my Power Hour event on Tuesday Night at a local College!

They rocked the plank holds in between circuit stations! That lovely lady in red? My future mother in law Gale! She was so awesome and I loved that she came to support the event! More pictures coming soon!

SO fun & I met so many awesome students! I travel around to schools to do workouts & Fueling Your Body presentations, so if you’re at all interested just contact me Winking smile

Honeycrisp Apples….oh how I’ve missed you! Sprinkled with cinnamon makes a go to Pre-Workout snack.

Close repeat to my above salad but greens, roasted carrots & parsnips, olives, peppers, baba ghannouj, tahini, side of organic Tempeh & Wild Rice!

Not only were my meals some of my favorite highlights of the week –but I LOOVE seeing you all so excited when you get your prizes from Giveaways! My girls Liz  & Emily got their VEGA Protein…

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Within the past 12 years colleagues of the general were absolutely sure that Oleg Kalugin was a traitor
Russia's Foreign Counterintelligence Service (SVR) thinks that former KGB general Oleg Kalugin received American citizenship in exchange for high treason. The head of the SVR press-bureau Boris Labusov said on Wednesday that Kalugin's American citizenship was even worse than the 30 piece of silver for which Judas betrayed Christ.

On June 2002, the Moscow City Court sentenced Oleg Kalugin in his absence to 15 years of imprisonment. The Court decided that the charges of high treason against the general in accordance with the clause 275 of the RF Criminal Code were proven. The Court determined that past and present activity of the general "caused damage to Russia's national security" as Kalugin revealed state secrets to the USA.
Within the past 12 years colleagues of the general were absolutely sure that Oleg Kalugin was a traitor, but they suspected him of betrayal since the end of the 1970s. There was no direct evidence proving that the general was a traitor, but several suspicious coincidences suggested this idea. After contacting Oleg Kalugin, Czech citizen Karl Koecher illegally staying in America was detained there. One more failure was connected with the name of Oleg Kalugin when captain Artamonov escaped to Sweden with his lover while his destroyer was in the port of Gdansk.  Later the man obtained quick promotion in the CIA. Because of the romantic reason of the escape and the good reputation of the young officer, the Soviet KGB made attempts to persuade him to cooperate with the KGB. When it became clear that Artamonov was playing games with the KGB, it was decided to kidnap him at a conspiratorial meeting in Vienna and bring him back to the Soviet Union. The CIA learnt about the intention from some unknown sources. The Soviet intelligence officers are sure that Artamonov was poisoned right before the meeting as the man died in 5 hours. Oleg Kalugin was one of the leaders of that operation.

At the end of the 1980s when Oleg Kalugin was fired from the KGB he started a different policy. In August 1990 he met with the electorate in Kuban and told that cryptographer Johnnie Walker supplied the KGB with secret information, about one million of messages over 17 years. After that the "spy of the century", who was in prison in the USA at that time, had his term increased.
Kalugin's revelations were given orally and in a written form. He informed about dozens of US planes downed over Vietnam; he said he had interrogated them personally.  The KGB general revealed the ciphers and channels the intelligence service used for delivery of weapons, ammunition and documents to Western Europe. He unveiled details of the KGB's cooperation with the intelligence of socialist countries.

Having exhausted all allowed resources in Russia, in 1995 Oleg Kalugin concluded a contract with Intercon International, a consulting firm based in Washington, DC; according to the contract Kalugin became the senior consultant of a TV series on the struggle between the KGB and the CIA. He left for the USA using a work permit, settled in a suburb of Washington and started his activity. He wrote the books "My 32 Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West", "The First Directorate" and others. The publication of the memoirs entailed several arrests of American, Canadian, Australian citizens on charges of espionage in favor of the USSR. There is every reason to suppose that Oleg Kalugin was connected with the arrests of the Russian SVR agents Aldrich Ames, Edwin Moore, Robert Hansen and Robert Lipka (the people were arrested in the USA). In June 2001 Oleg Kalugin was a witness at a trial on former US army colonel George Trofimoff. On the basis of Kalugin's testimony the retired US army reserve colonel was found guilty of espionage in favor of the USSR and the Russian Federation; the man was sentenced to life imprisonment.

The Western sponsors of Kalugin were not that generous and the former KGB general had to start small-scale and medium-sized business. Together with CIA ex-director William Colby he created a computer game called Spy Craft. The names of the game authors are mentioned in the titers. What is more, Oleg Kalugin often worked as a guide about Washington sites connected with espionage.

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Hurricane Ivan taking aim at Cuba

Hurricane Ivan has battered the Cayman Islands with roaring winds and surging seas and taken aim at Cuba and the United States after cutting a deadly path through the Caribbean. A monster storm packing 150-mph winds, Ivan tore off roofs, produced waves the size of two-story buildings and submerged an airport runway as it roared past Grand Cayman -- the largest of the three islands that make up the wealthy British territory of 45,000 people. Panicked residents climbed on kitchen counters to escape floodwaters that overwhelmed their houses. Some said the winds sounded like a locomotive train. "They pretty much got the worst of it," said Michael Formosa, meteorologist at the U.S. National Hurricane Centre, after the hurricane's eye passed close to Grand Cayman on Sunday. On one of the three islands, tiny Cayman Brac, some residents packed into caves for shelter. Ivan killed at least 16 people in Jamaica and caused heavy flooding and mudslides when it brushed past on Friday night and Saturday. But the island of 2.7 million people appeared to have been spared the total havoc wrought on Grenada last week, informs Reuters. According to USATODAY, Hurricane Ivan, with winds near 150 mph, moved toward western Cuba after ripping roofs from buildings and shutting down power in Grand Cayman. The path of the hurricane may cross the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday. At least 11 people were killed in Jamaica, which avoided a direct hit from Ivan yesterday, the Associated Press reported. Ivan has been blamed for at least 56 deaths in the Caribbean, including 34 in Grenada. Heavy rain, ``possibly causing life-threatening flash floods and mudslides,'' is expected along Ivan's path, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said in its 5 p.m. New York time advisory. The hurricane's center is expected to pass near or over western Cuba tomorrow. ``This is a very dangerous situation for Cuba,'' said Hector Guerrero, a hurricane center meteorologist, in an interview. ``It's very powerful.'' Grand Cayman, the largest of the three Cayman Islands, lost power, the center said, citing the Cayman Meteorological Service. Water up to 2 feet (0.6 meters) deep covered the runaway at Grand Cayman's airport and waves as high as 5 feet flowed through many homes and buildings, the hurricane center said. Meteorologists say Ivan will likely hit western Cuba on Monday as it continues moving northwest through the Caribbean. Cuban officials have warned citizens to take shelter. Tuesday, Ivan is projected to enter the eastern Gulf of Mexico, where it may affect Florida. The southeastern U.S. state has suffered two direct hits by hurricanes in the past four weeks. A tropical storm watch has been issued for the Florida Keys. Ivan is blamed for at least 44 deaths so far, including 14 in Jamaica and 17 in Grenada, where the storm wrecked most of the island's homes, reports VOANews.

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The Gospel is a message about a person the Lord Jesus Christ. He came from heaven and journeyed to the cross where he suffered and died. Why did he go to the cross? The simple answer is “for YOU”. Our sins separate us from the presence of God because he’s holy. But Jesus came and took our sins on himself so we might be brought back into a relationship with God.

Bible Scriptures: Darby Translation

1. Romans 10:8-10But what says it? The word is near thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach:that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from among [the] dead, thou shalt be saved.For with [the] heart is believed to righteousness; and with [the] mouth confession made to salvation.”

2. Hebrews 12:1-2 “Let *us* also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us, looking stedfastly on Jesus the leader and completer of faith: who, in view of the joy lying before him, endured [the] cross, having despised [the] shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

3. Isaiah 35:7-10And the mirage shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of wild dogs, where they lay down, shall be grass with reeds and rushes. And a highway shall be there and a way, and it shall be called, The way of holiness: the unclean shall not pass through it; but it shall be for these. Those that go [this] way—even fools,—shall not err [therein]. No lion shall be there, nor shall ravenous beast go up thereon, nor be found there; but the redeemed shall walk [there].And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come to Zion with singing; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”

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The arcade-shooter action title Super Mutant Alien Assault, which released in July 2016 on the PS4, has come to the PlayStation Vita. Fellow Traveller Games and developer Cybernate made the decision to port the frenetic shooter to the Vita with a new set of Trophies so, sadly, no Cross-Buy here.

The story is set in a future where the last of humanity has fled Earth in a fleet of spaceships. Currently in cryostasis, they’re relying on their plucky security droids to keep them alive against an onslaught of alien enemies.

Unlockable weapons, abilities, and moves make up your arsenal against a variety of killer aliens who will mutate if left alive for too long. Bosses and randomized layouts round out the action to keep things fresh each time you play.

Rated T, Super Mutant Alien Assault is available now on the PlayStation Store for $9.99.

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Audit of the management of emergency preparedness at Åsgard B

On 28 and 29 January 2016, the PSA carried out an audit of Statoil Petroleum AS (Statoil)'s management of emergency preparedness at Åsgard B.

The objective of this audit was to review and evaluate the management's administration of emergency preparedness at Åsgard B. We wanted to verify that Statoil has established processes to ensure that proper account is taken of assumptions, prerequisites, limitations and recommendations in the emergency preparedness analysis for Åsgard B, and that they are communicated out to the emergency preparedness organisation.

Two non-conformities were identified in connection with:

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No improvement points were detected during this audit.

Entails that a condition is assessed as not complying with a regulatory requirement.

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Ashanti Gold Corp to exercise Anumso Earn-in Option for 51%

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Ashanti Gold Corp to exercise Anumso Earn-in Option for 51%

Goldplat, the AIM quoted gold producer with international gold recovery operations located in South Africa and Ghana and a gold mine in Kenya, notes the announcement released by Ashanti Gold Corp. ('Ashanti') in relation to Goldplat's Anumso Gold Project in Ghana ('Anumso'), in which Ashanti has decided to use its right to exercise an earn-in option for 51% of Anumso. Goldplat is currently conducting a review of Ashanti's work on the licence as a formal part of the earn-in agreement and both parties are working on a development plan to further advance Anumso.

Gerard Kisbey-Green, CEO of Goldplat, said, 'I am delighted that Ashanti have elected to exercise their option over Anumso, validating their confidence in the project. We have worked well with Ashanti to date and I believe that the partnership has, and will continue to add value to the asset, and more importantly, to our shareholders and to all other stakeholders including the local community.'

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