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September 25, 2010 · 10:00 pm
An Afternoon with the Sony SLT a33
I actually had a chance to spend a decent amount of time with an a33 today (as opposed to about five minutes of initial handling a few days ago). The viewfinder has a great initial impression. You look through it and you get a big, bright view of exactly what you're taking, and the information overlays are great. Doubly so the real-time level. Lighting up with green for go is quite enthralling. I had the a700 with me, and in terms of eyepoint, magnification, and accuracy, the EVF had it soundly beat. It was a true vision filling sight, as opposed to the a700 which is more of a "window to the world" type of view, and definitely a huge step above an a500 or KM 5D's end-of-tunnel view. These are just raw specs, though. I'd rank it in pure size terms as slightly smaller than an a850.
It's one thing to beat an OVF on raw specs, though. The devil is of course in the details. While the EVF is good, it is not perfect. It's not the newest, super highest spec EVF – the resolution is good, much better than I remember the KM A2 being. But there's still some room for improvement and I imagine that a higher spec model would have a better finder in raw resolution/refresh rate terms. In the higher gain mode it does lose some contrast, but it's within allowable limits, especially because using an OVF in a dark situation can be problematic in and of itself.
The EVF absolutely needs some kind of switch to ignore exposure preview (a la KM A2) and ramp up the auto-gain for dark environments. It took Minolta a while to recognize this need from the Dimage 7, hopefully Sony will rectify it faster than Minolta did. Generally the camera is smart about when to use auto-gain, but it does need an override.
The viewfinder felt responsive, at least, as responsive as it could have been in the environment. Swinging the camera around resulted in a kind of rolling shutter effect at certain pan speeds. If the speed was fast enough and a properly panned subject was in the frame, it wasn't really visible. Ditto if it was slow enough. But at, say, person walking speed, you could get some jitter. I blame this mostly on the environment – it wasn't super bright sunlight but rather tungsten model lights. I imagine it could use minimum gain and the maximum refresh rate in a brighter environment.
I did not experience much RGB tearing, and I'm not sure if I was even able to recognize it. For me, this is probably not an issue. Your mileage will definitely vary on this front.
I had the 70-400 G with me and I was keen on seeing just how this lens would work on the a33 body. The verdict is that it reminds me a lot of the "bad old days" of the KM 5D. The old "hanging pinky" syndrome. There is just not enough grip for the pinky finger, and it winds up curling under the body. Admittedly, many cameras have this flaw, but it was obvious for me on the a33. The grip itself? Great. I had no real issues with where my fingers went on the camera, access to buttons, etc. The AV button is in the perfect place and the three buttons (movie, AV, and AEL) are all discernible by different touches. The shutter power switch seems better placed than on the a500, and I actually didn't switch it off accidentally at all, which surprised me. Some users will find this grip to be a dealbreaker with large lenses, and I don't blame them, but admittedly many cameras of this price class have similar issues. The a33's compactness is quite shocking when placed next to an a700.
The body's actual build quality felt good. Certainly no worse than KM 5D. The new textured rubber material felt quite solid and was an improvement over the a700. The plastic body felt good. No creaks or obvious issues, but you can tell that the body shell is plastic. The cinnabar circle around the lens mount is now some kind of metallic copper instead of the orange paint that the a700 has. It's actually a bit subtler and classier. AF-MF switch still feels like a KM 5D switch and has a firm click, but IMO is too hard to switch. Certainly better than the a500's switch, though.
Incidentally, the battery/memory door does clear my Manfrotto RC-2 quick release plate, so using this on a tripod and changing cards or batteries should not be a problem with this type of QR plate. However, some L-brackets or very large quick release plates may be an issue in this regard. Fortunately, most of these systems allow changing of orientation to work around this. Definitely a "try before you buy" here.
The extra "eye spacing" of the EVF from the back of the body was a welcome change from the a700 and other SLRs where I've sort of adapted to holding my face sideways to the camera. If you've got a big schnozz, you might still hit the LCD panel, but I didn't. Also, there is a fraction of a second delay for the automatic switching of EVF and LCD screen. It is something I would probably get used to in time, but these few milliseconds are initially notiecable. There is no warm-up time to the EVF, it just takes a fraction of a second to go from "off" to "on.
Speaking of the LCD panel, the flip-out screen worked very well for waist level shooting. I could easily imagine having this body and the G on a tripod, following action with the LCD screen and not getting so "lost" in the viewfinder. It's just like an old Hasselblad. An a77 type camera MUST have this feature.
The port flaps felt OK for rubber flaps. They closed securely but IMO I prefer the door-type flaps on the a700. That's just a personal thing, someone could probably go either way on it.
Unfortunately, since I have not yet used this camera for my primary type of shooting (aviation), I probably can't truly judge some aspects of it. Say, how well the EVF would work on a jet in blue sky. However, I was able to use both continuous shooting and AF.
The "slideshow effect" of continuous shooting definitely takes some getting used to. I did not experience any buffer blackouts or responsiveness issues; the camera was preloaded with an HG HX "insert letters here" memory stick which felt plenty fast. For things coming at or away from you, I doubt you'd really notice it most of the time. But going from side-to-side it is definitely there. The a33's lower framerates/buffer probably contribute to this a bit, but in Continuous priority on the mode dial the shutter flips so quickly that I was kind of getting the hang of it. I imagine a camera with a more powerful shutter with faster sync speed (cough, a77) will be even better on this front.
Keep in mind that I can still make framing errors with my a700 OVF due to mirror blackouts and tracking going in and out of the frame. It's very tough to truly get perfect at this and even the best shooters with no camera support (e.g. gimbals) will make mistakes from time to time. The EVF is not a solution to these problems and will still exhibit them a bit. However, having a big 100% view can't hurt, and the thing is certainly not terrible. Great for some, adequate for others.
How's the AF? It's good. Very good. Put it up against D5000s, digital Rebels, etc, and it'd come out a clear victor in my estimation. Against a Canon 7D or Nikon D300 or even the new D7000? Those cameras would win, but for a variety of reasons that are, in my estimation, not really due to raw horsepower in terms of AF speed or tracking locks. Would they be better in those terms? Probably, but this camera is nipping at their heels in terms of raw horsepower. It just needs some taming and massaging that those higher level models have and that an a77 SHOULD have.
Again, I was not able to truly test it against my main area of expertise, but I was able to shoot some slow to fast moving objects with the 70-400, and the overall tracking experience felt very good. For instance, a skateboarder doing tricks on a series of ramps was one of the subjects, and it seemed capable of good burst tracking in wide area focus. The camera makes it very clear where it's focusing, as many AF sensors light up at once and quickly change to show you where it's acquiring focus. It's almost christmas-tree like, in a way. The main criticism I could give is that it feels TOO responsive and that hopefully a higher level model will have some ways to tweak the AF system in terms of focus point grouping and time delay for attempting to change focus. The camera seems smart enough to stick with "groups" of points based on your composition, but I am a control freak and would prefer to explicitly say "use the central group of AF points only."
The camera appears to continue AFing in AF-C mode even during your exposure, which may seem disconcerting at first. I'm not sure if there's a shutter speed threshold where it stops doing this. It could be used to one's advantage.
Changing the focus point in local area focus is a breeze – press the AF button and use the four way. Done. Not as convenient as the a700's joystick, but actually more convenient than how it used to be on the 5D and doubly so than the weak a330's "go into a menu" version.
Suffice to say that beginner to most amateur users would, IMO, be satisfied with this AF. More demanding users will miss configurability options but will probably find it usable in many situations and definitely an improvement over what they were using in the past. For me, this kind of AF jump would probably equivalent to the one I experienced from the KM 5D to the a700 in terms of up-front user experience.
Face Detection in Program mode was quite good for some quick portraits. I didn't have to wait on the camera at all, which was a surprise to me, and seemed to give people shots with wide area focus some help. This will definitely be helpful to people who are on full auto. I'd probably use this feature often when doing people shoots, as with wide area focus it means I have to mess around less with specifically choosing focus points. Seeing all four AF points light up in a face detected area when doing a rule-of-thirds composition was quite enjoyable.
On the subject of the camera's UI, it's clearly no a700, but it's not unusable. It is just different and takes getting used to. In a straight holistic view of it, the camera's Fn button mode is really not all that different than QuickNavi on the a700. If you turn on the super-information display overlay on the LCD image, it actually feels like you're directly controlling the options. You can also use the dials on the camera body to manipulate the settings, just as on the a700. Where it feels different is that QuickNavi combined with the a700's joystick is very fast. A four-way controller is a step backwards in terms of speed. But the gestalt is still there. It is also missing the ability for the direct access buttons to enable the Fn view, which the a700 could do. Pressing ISO dumps you into the dedicated ISO selection screen. However, it is nice that the changes to ISO, white balance, etc are instantly reflected in the viewfinder/LCD image. This is not unlike the a550, but since it is using the actual image view, it's truly representative of what you'll shoot.
The Fn menu does remember the last thing you used, at least, it feels like it did.
It would take some getting used to having options on the four-way (e.g. drive, ISO, disp, WB). Not having a C button to set to flash compensation is a bummer. Honestly, the flash button should enable flash compensation with a flash attached, but I did not test this since I did not have my F58 with me. It could be there for all I know, but I doubt it.
I recorded all of two movies – one with AF and one without. The AF movie mode has to be seen to believed. It really works, and it works well. The caveats are all well known at this point, but I could actually see myself using it for recording videos to put on FlightLevel350 or for my personal use. I also tried manual mode with aperture control, and it seemed to work well enough. Both the EVF and the main LCD are great for framing and adjusting focus. Is it missing some stuff? Absolutely. Give me some kind of blinkies for exposure problems, give me an edge detection for focus. AEL works as advertised for locking exposure. Presetting aperture in A mode also works, but you're committed for the length of the clip. The camera does need an individual gain/shutter control, but this is worked around by setting your options in manual mode, pressing AEL, then recording. Unfortunately, there is no predictability as to what variable will be modified when adjusting exposure compensation. An amateur/casual user would generally be OK with this arrangement, but demanding users will not, and the a77 needs to have manual control of these options. If the a55 gets these options, as scuttlebutt seems to be pointing towards, then most of this paragraph is rendered moot.
Ultimately, my opinion is that cameras like the NEX VG-10 are the future for large sensor video recording for a variety of reasons. But video DSLRs are here to stay, so we might as well make the best of the situation.
Depth of Field preview works great. The screen/viewfinder auto gains to show a proper exposure, so no more dim finder. The camera also shows a very accurate depth of field preview – I could not tell the difference between the captured image and the preview (obviously because it's all done on main sensor). It also doubles as a focus stop/exposure lock. That could be useful in some situations.
I cannot judge image quality, as I did not have my own personal SD/MS card to take photos with.
All in all, this is an impressive camera. Is it for everyone? No. But this is the future of digital imaging. Some day the mirror will go away entirely, but this is about 90% there. There's a lot to like, and some things not to like, but for a first step forward, this thing is a big leap forward (with probably a step back for some users depending on their backgrounds or what level of camera they are used to using).
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Mark Albala
I bought one of the A33s, and it has exceeded my expectations. The real deal maker was the quick focus speed, and all I can say is WOW.
I have avoided digital SLRs primarily due to the weight, and the tendency to leave them behind because of their heft. This one negates that problem, which is very much appreciated. Yes, the NEX format is lighter, but the loss of the viewfinder is a real distraction. Vendors, please listen up.
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Les Évasions particulières est un roman de Véronique Olmi paru en  aux Éditions Albin Michel.

Trame narrative
Le roman accompagne chronologiquement les personnages surtout féminins d'une famille française des années 1970, "juste après ", de l'affaire Gabrielle Russier (1969) à l'élection présidentielle française de 1981 (avec Coluche et Mitterrand) : vivisection, bien-être animal, droit à l'avortement (IVG, Manifeste des 343), droit à la contraception, majorité civile en France à 18 ans, homosexualité, Larzac, boat-people, abandon d'enfants, adoption...

La famille Maliveri, chrétienne catholique pratiquante (deux adultes à la foi ardente), modeste, vit à Aix-en-Provence, et un peu à Paris.
Bruno et Agnès résident à Aix, avec leurs trois filles, Sabine, Hélène, Mariette.
Hélène, à trois ans, a été sauvée de la noyade par David Tavel, beau-frère, et sa famille argentée ont presque adopté Hélène, qui passe ses vacances avec eux à Paris ou en Normandie.

Hélène a une vie cloisonnée entre Aix et Paris.
Sabine est la première à se rebeller, se lancer dans le théâtre, cours de Jean-Laurent Cochet, théâtre d'appartement (monologue à partir d'Une vie de Maupassant), puis figuration au cinéma ...
Mariette est accidentée.
Leur adolescence est complexe, avec solitudes, amitiés, amours.

Et les adultes bien davantage, puisque le renouvellement problématique de document d'identité de Bruno précipite les ruptures familiales.

Parmi les personnalités évoquées, autres que politiques : Sartre, Beauvoir, Simone Veil, Simone Weil, Gisèle Halimi, Dolto, Gilbert Bécaud, Joe Dassin, Rezvani, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Tadeusz Kantor, Jean-Luc Godard, Arvo Pärt, etc.

Table des parties
 Tous ensemble ils étaient quelqu'un
 Des rêves d'autre chose
 Un cortège de silences
 Des mensonges sincères
 Une puissance singulière
 Le rythme originel
 La promesse

Personnages
 Maliveri (Aix-en-Provence)
 Bruno, instituteur en école privée catholique ;
 Agnès Richert, son épouse (qui "avait simplement rêvé d'être. Ballerine. Interprète. Pédiatre.") qui gère tout, avant de devenir factrice quand les deux aînées ont quitté le domicile ;
 Sabine, née en 1956, (et Jean-Louis, Mathieu, Éléonore, François, etc) ;
 Hélène, née en 1958, la fille Tavel, grande tige ;
 Mariette, née en 1966, petite souris, asthmatique, en quête de silence ;
 François, le grand-père, dont il faut rembourser les dettes colossales ;
 Tavel (Paris, Neuilly, Normandie)
 le grand-père, banquier suisse ;
 David Tavel, importateur ;
 tante Michelle, née Richert, bibliothécaire ;
 Vincent et Joseph, les deux fils Tavel ;
 Caprice, teckel à poil ras, confident d'Hélène ;
 Balou, ponette shetland...
 Laurence, femme indépendante, séparée de son mari, habitant la Bastide à Aix-en-Provence, devenue amie surtout d'Agnès ;
 Rose, sa fille unique, accidentée à vélo et emmenée à l'hôpital par Bruno ;
 Marius, jardinier (à tout faire) de la bastide ;
 et autres personnages secondaires.

Éditions
 Les Évasions particulières, Éditions Albin Michel,  .

Accueil
Le lectorat francophone est globalement très favorable à cette chronique familiale.
« La romancière fait de chacun d'eux un être aussi complexe qu'attachant, magnifiquement et désespérément humain. »
« Chacun de nous est coupable d'avoir assassiné son enfance. »
« L'entente des sœurs constitue leur principale force. »
Claire Segretain apprécie « la description attentive des ébranlements d'une famille catholique de province dans les années 1970 .»

Notes et références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Années 1970

Liens externes

Roman français paru en 2020
Années 1970
Roman de formation français
Roman se déroulant au XXe siècle
Portrait de femme

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Il lyric video di One Last Dawn, dall'album Curse of Life (Revalve Records).
Aether Void have released the lyric video of the new single One Last Dawn, taken from the from the last album Curse of Life.
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Earlier, Aether Void have released their debut album Curse of Life on March 29th via Revalve records.
The sound of the band could be defined as melodic and powerful Hard'n'Heavy with influences from both classic and modern heavy metal, though it could not be easily compared to any specific band.
Curse of Life has been recorded, mixed and mastered at Art Distillery Studios, in october 2018.
Aether Void is an Italian heavy metal band formed in Modena (IT) in November 2017 from the ashes of "No Way Out", which split up after releasing an EP and a Single.
Three of the former members, Alberto Lugari (Drums), Davide Brusini (Bass) and Erik Marzocchini (Guitar) decided to continue playing and composing together, so they built up a new musical project.
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Q: Replace only inside tag brackets I want the regex to use in preg_replace() to replace text only inside a
tag (between "<" and ">"), without affect the text out of angle brackets limit.
Like this example:
$html = '
this REPLACE_ME cannot be replaced
';
$html = preg_replace('/\bREPLACE_ME\b/', 'REPLACED', $html);

then, the result expected in $html variable must be like this:

this REPLACE_ME cannot be replaced

The regex cannot be around the quotes, because I have other variants like:
<REPLACE_ME>this REPLACE_ME cannot be replaced</REPLACE_ME>

this REPLACE_ME cannot be replaced

A: Regex:
<[^>]*\KREPLACE_ME(?=[^>]*?>)

Replacement string:
REPLACED

DEMO
PHP code would be,
<?php
$mystring = <<<'EOT'

this REPLACE_ME cannot be replaced

<REPLACE_ME>this REPLACE_ME cannot be replaced</REPLACE_ME>

this REPLACE_ME cannot be replaced

EOT;
echo preg_replace('~<[^>]*\KREPLACE_ME(?=[^>]*?>)~', 'REPLACED', $mystring);
?>

Output:

this REPLACE_ME cannot be replaced

<REPLACED>this REPLACE_ME cannot be replaced</REPLACED>

this REPLACE_ME cannot be replaced

Explanation:

*

*< Matches the lesser than < symbol.

*[^>]* Matches any character not of > zero or more times.

*\K Discards the previously matched characters. So from < upto the REPLACE_ME string would be discarded.

*REPLACE_ME Matches the string REPLACE_ME.

*(?=[^>]*?>) Lookahead asserts that the following  characters  must be anything not of > symbol followed by >. This ensures that the matched string REPLACE_ME is within <> block.

A: Perhaps something like this
I think what you're looking for is a positive lookahead or lookbehind.
So the regex I used is:
(?<=<).*?(REPLACE_ME).*?(?=>)

The (?<=<) means make sure there is a < to the left and
then (?=>) means make sure there is a > to the right
Also, consider using an XML parser. Regex is very limited when it comes to tags like this.

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News > Latest Research News > Happiness, Comparatively Speaking: How We Think About Life's Rewards
Happiness, Comparatively Speaking: How We Think About Life's Rewards
You win some, you lose some. You get the perfect job—the one your heart is set on. Or you get snubbed. You win the girl (or guy) of your dreams—or you strike out. Such are life's ups and downs.
But what if you win and lose at the same time? You land a good job—but not a great one. Or you do get a plum offer—but not the one you wanted?
A study published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, says you'll find a way to be happy anyway.
"Good outcomes have relative value and absolute value, and that affects our happiness," explains Carnegie Mellon assistant professor Karim S. Kassam, who conducted the study with Carnegie colleague Carey K. Morewedge, Daniel T. Gilbert of Harvard University, and Timothy D. Wilson of the University of Virginia.
If you're a "winner"—you get the best, relative to the alternatives—you're happy regardless of the prize's absolute value.
"Losers"—who win something less valuable than the alternative—may at first be disappointed, but they usually come around. "People are motivated to think about things in the best possible light," says Kassam. So they move on to reflect on the absolute value, and find satisfaction there.
To test these phenomena, the authors ran two experiments. In the first, 297 people on the Boston streets were given lottery tickets. They were asked to scratch off one side and received cash in the amount printed underneath–$1, $3, $5, or $7. Then they scratched off the other side, revealing either a higher or lower amount. Afterwards, they completed questionnaires rating their happiness, disappointment, or regret.
The "winners" (who got the bigger of two amounts) were, unsurprisingly, happier than the losers—but also equally happy with any prize. The losers' happiness, by contrast, increased with the prize amounts.
How does this work? A second experiment tested the hypothesis that the losers think harder to find happiness. The researchers distracted the participants brains while asking them to consider differing rewards.
In four trials, 31 participants were asked to memorize either a two- or an eight-digit number and choose one of two boxes with prize amounts ($3 or $5) inside, which were displayed on a screen. At the end, they were told, they'd receive the amount in one of their chosen boxes, randomly selected. Then both boxes opened. Unknown to the participants, the design made them all losers—they'd always pick the lesser amount. The combinations of memory difficulty—"cognitive load"—and cash received ($3 or $5) varied. In each trial, participants rated their feelings.
Again, larger prizes made these losers happier—but only when they had enough brainpower to think about it. Under higher cognitive load, they were glad to get either amount.
"When you win something, it's always a positive experience," says Kassam. "But if there's this tinge of negative affect, that motivates people to rationalize, to reframe things in a way that will make them happy." The good news: even if you can't do that extra thinking, you'll settle—for happiness.
For more information about this research, please contact study author:
Karim S. Kassam
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Adriana Lima-Curvina, left, and Andre Dos Santos, right.
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DANBURY — Two Naugatuck residents were recently arrested for falsely reporting a crime as part of an alleged immigration scheme.
On Jan. 25, Adriana Lima-Curvina, 53, and Andre Dos Santos, 41, walked into the Danbury Police Department and reported that an armed robbery and assault had taken place the prior evening in a local shopping plaza.
Detectives soon discovered that Lima-Curvina and Dos Santos had applied for U Nonimmigrant Status — also known as a U Visa — as well as benefits from the Office of Victim's Advocate for injuries they sustained during the alleged incident.
According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U Visas are "set aside for victims of certain crimes who have suffered mental or physical abuse and are helpful to law enforcement or government officials in the investigation or prosecution of criminal activity."
If the visa is approved, the applicant receives a four-year work permit and can apply for lawful permanent residence after having the visa for three years, Detective Lt. Mark Williams said.
After watching surveillance footage from the area, obtaining search warrants and interviewing Lima-Curvina and Dos Santos, detectives developed probable cause to believe the duo had lied about the robbery in order to obtain U Visas and benefits.
Lima-Curvina and Dos Santos were arrested on warrants Nov. 17, and held on $50,000 court-ordered bonds, police said.
They were each charged with criminal attempt to commit first-degree larceny, interfering with an officer and falsely reporting an incident in the second-degree. Lima-Curvina was also charged with making a false statement.
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Kendra Baker is a reporter for the News-Times who previously worked as a general assignment reporter for The Wilton Bulletin. Before The Bulletin, Kendra freelanced for The Redding Pilot and interned for the New Haven Independent. She graduated from Southern Connecticut State University in 2013 with a bachelor's degree in journalism and a minor in psychology. Her work has also been published on ConnecticutHistory.org.


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Book Review of A Modern Approach to Lifetime Tax Planning for Private Clients (with precedents)
By Laura Banks
In Book Reviews for Private Client practitioners, Tax
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by Chris Whitehouse and Prof Lesley King (Jordan Publishing, ISBN 9781846617560)
The book's authors acknowledge in their preface that "a brave new world has come into existence" with tax avoidance (as distinct from tax evasion) now having become more widely condemned. The words from Lord Walker in the 'Hastings-Bass' appeals of tax avoidance being a "social evil" areset out, but Chris and Lesley state that they are dealing with "middle of the road non-abusive planning" methods which are not viewed as anti-social. The law is as at 1 December 2013 but proposed changes from the 5 December 2013 Pre Budget Report is included where appropriate.
With two such revered authors this new work published in February 2014 comes with much expected of it and it does not disappoint. It methodically, yet clearly and with detailed clarity, sets out the law in this ever changing and increasingly complex area. It is the companion volume to their other book A Modern Approach to Wills, Administration and Estate Planning.
The area covered is huge with the contents pages alone covering 19 pages. The book divides matters up into seven main sections, giving commentary and worked examples throughout. The first two sections examine the legal framework, before the other sections turn to specific topics and to tax planning strategies. The first of the framework sections is "Essential Law on Giving" and the chapters deal with capacity, the power of attorneys and deputies to make gifts, undue influence, the formalities for perfecting the gift, creating a settlement, perpetuities and accumulations, modifying trusts, providing information to beneficiaries, letters of wishes and presumptions of resulting trust and advancement.
The second section covers "Essential Tax Law" with chapters on the general principles of IHT, reservation of benefit and Pre-Owned Assets Tax rules, the IHT taxation of settlements, general principles of CGT, the CGT on settled property, other taxes such as income tax and VAT and anti-avoidance so the General Anti-Avoidance Rule and Disclosure of Tax Avoidance Schemes are discussed.
Specific areas and planning strategies are then covered with the third section dealing with trusts and settlements so looking at drafting considerations, the tax consequences of creating a trust and ongoing charges, administering and ending settlements, pilot trusts with specific mention of the uncertain future for these post 'simplification' (which obviously pre-dates the June 2014 HMRC proposals), trusts for the disabled and bare trusts.
The fourth section is on "the family" so looks at gifts to spouses and civil partners, to children and remoter issue, including trusts for vulnerable beneficiaries, to cohabitants, the consequences of divorce and separation and a chapter on old age addressing the issue of the desire to protect assets against care home fees.
The fifth section then looks at particular assets in more detail so planning with the family home, main residence relief, chattels, businesses and farms, tax efficient investments and insurance-based products.
In the sixth section attention is given to planning using statutory exemptions and reliefs, so the joint ownership of land, gifts for family maintenance (which can be easily overlooked in practice), normal expenditure out of income and charitable giving. The last section is called "residue" and 'sweeps up' such vital topics as taking instructions, identifying objectives and finding out who owns what.
The index is detailed but it is easy to find your way to the required pages in the book. If you have heard either Chris or Lesley lecture in person, you will 'hear' their turns of phrases and easy to follow style (packed with technical punch) coming through the pages to you.
There are useful clear precedents throughout the book with accompanying drafting notes where relevant. Thankfully there is also a CD-ROM with the hardback version of the book which contains the precedents in electronic format. There is an eBook version too.
The practitioner is expertly guided through this labyrinthine area with traps and pitfalls pointed out and planning tips given throughout, for example, on reducing anniversary charges. Cross references are given to where topics are developed further in the book such as reference to where the detailed calculation of an exit charge can be found when considering terminating a trust.
This is a 'must-have' text and essential as a point of reference (or learning) for a practitioner of any level engaged in advising clients on tax planning. At £90 for the hardback version it is not cheap but it is money very well spent. The only possible criticism is that events and new law will quickly overtake some of the valuable content of this first edition and it is hoped that early updates will be available to keep this up to date.
Laura Banks
Senior Associate at Anthony Collins Solicitors Specialist in advising individuals on wills, inheritance tax planning, powers of attorney, trusts and probate. Laura is a past Vice-Chair of STEP Birmingham and was their programme officer for seven years. Contact Laura laura.banks@anthonycollins.comTel: 0121 212 7411 Laura Banks
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School may be out for the summer, but that doesn't mean young people have stopped learning. A junior naturalist camp at LSU in Baton Rouge is teaching students how to build a terrarium, giving them an appreciation for the role plants play in their lives.
Attendees of the Junior Naturalist Camp for Tiger Challenge in Baton Rouge got their hands dirty, played with rocks, and when they were finished, had constructed a terrarium of their very own. The lesson highlighted the important role of plants and taught the students how to care for them.
Kiki Fontenot, a horticulturist from the LSU AgCenter, said, "This can be something the child completely manages. I think it teaches responsibility, first off, and how to care for another living thing, which I think is very important in today's society."
By building the terrarium on their own, the students were actively involved in a hands-on activity that helped them learn what plants need to survive.
Jodi Messina, a teacher at the camp, thinks the program is beneficial. "They understand it more. It's more concrete to them. A lot of these students, they're more hands-on, visual learners. I know I am, so that the way they learn information best."
The plant in this exercise was moss, and it was obvious that the students were aware what they needed to do to keep the moss alive and where to place the terrariums.
Maxwell Gaudet, a student at the camp, showed off some of his knowledge about terrariums. "They can't have a lot of sun, but they can have a little bit of sun. They don't want that much," he explained.
Fontenot stressed that getting children enthusiastic about activities like this helps them appreciate the usefulness of plants for food and medicine. "This is engaging children at a young age and showing that plants can be fun – and they're important to us – so it gets them to look at in a light that is more exciting," she said.
It took the students about an hour to build the terrariums and costs less than a dollar to make one.


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Fox News host @kilmeade compares refugee caravan to oil spill
This morning on Outnumbered, Fox News personality Brian Kilmeade said that he thought all US citizens should see the refugees fleeing violence as if they were an oil spill head towards our shores:
There are difficult issues to figure out, and they're easy issues to figure out where both parties stand, but I thought this would be as black and white as the Deepwater Horizon oil leak, when everyone who saw when that platform exploded, that oil leaking into the water in the Gulf, they said "We've got to stop that!" And Obama paid the price because it took forever to do it, he was just starting. We all agreed "Stop the oil leak!"
When you have eight thousand people, roughly, marching towards our border, who we know nothing about, who Sarah Carter just told me on the radio, she's in Guatemala, most of them are men, very few families. We know nothing about them, coming to our border. I would think Democrats and Republicans would go "Yeah, this is a problem. We have a System."
Dehumanizing immigrants and refugees in not new on Fox News, their mouthpieces gleefully parrot President Donald Trump when he implies all undocumented Latinos are MS-13, and refers to these immigrants as "animals," but this may represent a new low in their efforts to stoke the genocidal side of racism.
Fancying myself something of a wordsmith, I can appreciate how well crafted these 146 words are. First, he adopts a causal attitude while stating that his position is a "no-brainer," that the only two possible parties, or positions, obviously should agree with it. With that out of the way, he brings to mind questions of race with his reference to "black and white." There is a lot being done with those three words here, so we must spend a minute on them.
Those words are used often in reference to race on Fox News, so naturally they bring to mind that topic, but here Kilmeade is using them as synonyms for "good" and "bad," or "right" and "wrong." These are the primary, immutable, even pre-cultural meanings of these words. The application of the word "white" to the European settlers in the "New World," and eventually to Europeans everywhere, and the simultaneous labeling of Africans, or in many cases, all people of color, as "black," are secondary definitions these words acquired less than 400 years ago as African slavery was being established in colonial America. The original trick of white supremacy was the fraudulent claiming of the label "white," together with all its virtuals, for a selected group of people based on a lighter skin color. I have written more about this in The two meanings of white. Here Kilmeade encapsulates all of that in his choice of these three words as he segues into his racist analogy: He compares people fleeing violence to an oil leak that needs to be stopped.
Eight thousand was an over-estimation when he said it.
The choice of "roughly" as a synonym for "approximately" was also not an accident. It was designed to support the image of men marching towards our border, and to support the lie that this is not a caravan of families, which it is.
He brings up Obama, but then gives him a pass. This is to show that he's not a racist.
He has the gall to claim "We know nothing about them," in spite of the fact that, by now, just about every major news organization in the US, including Fox News, has reporters among the marchers. The message: They aren't human like us, a point he makes twice.
He evokes these racist images of white and black again with his oil spill analogy. He doesn't have to mention the colors again. The image he brings to mind is that of black oil spoiling our white beaches.
These forty seconds simply reek with racist imagery. This was a purposefully crafted statement, almost certainly read from a teleprompter. It was no accidental outburst. Fox News is quite consciously attempting to create a fear of immigrants of color coming to what they project as a white country under siege. The way they chose to do this lays the psychological basis for the most inhumane treatment of refugees, including genocidal mass murder. After all, we put fire on advancing oil slicks to stop them from reaching our shores, didn't we?
Attempting to contain Deepwater-Horizon oil spill with fire
Honduran migrant caravan on the move
Oil soaked pelicans from the spill (Daniel Beltra/Greenpeace)
Fox News lies, many women & children are in the caravan
Every major genocide of the last century was proceeded by a propaganda campaign carried out by media outlets designed to paint the targeted people as less than human. In Rwanda, it was radio stations that called the Tutsi "cockroaches," in Nazi Germany, Goebbels' control of all media labeled the Jews as "rats." Now we have Fox News referring to refugees as an oil leak. David Moshman wrote about the role such dehumanization plays in promoting genocide in a paper titled "Us and Them: Identity and Genocide," 2007 Department of Educational Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
In dehumanization, those deemed to be members of the out-group are denied the status of persons. Rather than being seen as members of a human community with individual identities of their own, they are construed as elements of a subhuman, nonhuman, or antihuman collective (Woolf & Hulsizer, 2005).
In the period leading up to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, for example, the Tutsi were persistently portrayed in Hutu Power propaganda as inyenzi, cockroaches. Not only were they a group distinct from the Hutu, regardless of their individual identity commitments, but they were increasingly construed as a group distinct from humanity, not capable of meaningful individual identities. Thus the killing of Tutsi was no more a violation of individual rights than the killing of cock roaches or, in another metaphor also popularized by Hutu Power, the pulling of weeds. On the contrary, given the threat allegedly posed by the Tutsi to the future of Rwanda, their elimination was deemed a moral imperative.
Similarly, a key aspect of the path to the Holocaust was the relentless dehumanization of Jews (Stannard, 1998, pp. 182–183). As Germans with Jewish ancestry were increasingly seen as Jews above all else, they came to be seen as less than fully German, and ultimately as less than fully human, part of a nonhuman mass of Jews. For Hitler, Jews were anti-human. Weitz (2003) provides a concise summary of the biological metaphors of Hitler's Mein Kampf: "Jews were the maggots feeding on a rotting corpse, the parasites that had to be surgically removed, the sexual predators preying on German women, a spider that sucks people's blood, a plague worse than the Black Death, the sponger who spreads like a noxious bacillus and then kills his host" (p. 106). Franz Stangl, in contrast, did not share Hitler's animosity toward Jews, but Stangl's blander dehumanizations were sufficient to enable him to serve as commandant of the death camp Treblinka (Moshman, 2005b; Sereny, 1983). To him the Jews were more like "cattle," a mindless herd, making its way toward the slaughterhouse where it would be transformed into "a mass of rotting flesh" that "had nothing to do with humanity." The Jews were "cargo" to be transported and their bodies were "garbage" to be disposed of. "I rarely saw them as individuals," he explained. "It was always a huge mass." (Sereny, 1983, p. 201)
This brings us right back to the Fox News analogy of the Honduran refugee masses hoping to be saved by coming to the United States as a dirty, smelly, dark, oil slick approaching our white beaches. A danger that clearly must be warded off at all costs. This is first rate racist propaganda. Goebbels would be jealous.
In many racist memes, the people to be dehumanized are called some other animal, like a monkey, rat, or cockroach, in Kilmeade's metaphor, the Honduran refugees aren't even considered animals, not even the distressed oil-soaked birds above. They are likened to the oil.
Its hard to imagine a more racist projection. Its easy to see how it supports the psychology of genocide. A billionaire's corporation is promoting this in the United States today for a reason.
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UPDATED: Did Trump just confirm Khashoggi's murder?
I don't know if he even knows that he has done that, but that's my opinion. You are certainly entitled to your own. What he said this morning, according to the Washington Post, is:
"I just spoke with the King of Saudi Arabia, and he denies any knowledge of what took place with regards to, as he said, to Saudi Arabia's citizen," Trump said while talking to reporters Monday morning. "He firmly denies that."
"We are going to leave nothing uncovered," Trump said later about the investigation into Khashoggi's disappearance. "With that being said, the king firmly denies any knowledge of it. He didn't really know, maybe, I don't want to get into his mind, but it sounded to me like maybe it could have been rogue killers, who knows? We're going to try get to the bottom of it very soon, but his was a flat denial." [emphasis added]
So the Donald has talked to the King and now he is blabbing about it. We don't know how many times the King denied having any knowledge about Khashoggi's disappearance on the phone to Trump, but we do know that Trump has repeated that denial three times in this short statement that was also at pains to point out that while Khashoggi may have been a Washington Post reporter and a legal United States resident, he was also a subject of the King. Trump said he didn't "want to get into [the King's] mind," but! "it sounded to me like maybe it could have been rogue killers." Why would he say that if the King denied having any knowledge of his "disappearance?" It sounds to me like after his talk with the King,Trump was left with no doubt that Khashoggi had been murdered, and now he has already moved on to shifting the blame away from the Kingdom.
I hope that at the next WHPC some reporter will ask just what the King said that made Trump think that Khashoggi had been murdered.
That's my take. What say you?
UPDATE 1:04PM PT: CNN's Clarissa Ward is reporting the Kingdom is preparing to admit that Khashoggi was killed in an interrogation gone bad. Was their hand forced by Trump's blabbing about "rogue killers," or has he been a part of this operation against Khashoggi from the beginning?
UPDATED 16 Oct. 7:00 PM PT: When I started writing this post yesterday, it was to make a different point, and it had a different title. I tabled that draft when I realized that the really important point to be made about Trump's "rogue killers" statement was that it was the first time either a US or Saudi official talked like he knew Khashoggi had been murdered. That was the breaking news yesterday.
Today, it seems appropriate to return to that original theme in light of a new statement from Trump. Yesterday, the first draft of this post began:
What do "rogue killers" have to do with Kavanaugh?
Does anyone else see a curious congruence between the way Trump & Company handled Dr. Christie Ford's allegations of attempted rape by Brett Kavanaugh, and the way they are handling the way they are handling the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi?
Turkey has alleged that Khashoggi was murdered inside the Saudi Arabian embassy. They say they have convincing evidence, although no corpse has been found, or is likely to be found in the Turkish allegations are true.
In both cases they use a mis-applied presumption of innocence, combined with what they consider a lack of convincing evidence, to allow them to act like the crime never even happened.
The most curious thing about the way that they handled Dr. Ford's allegation that she was 100% sure that it was Kavanaugh that tried to rape her, was to say "We believe Dr. Ford." meaning they believe "somebody" tried to rape her, but she was just wrong about it being Kavanaugh.
With Trump's response this morning to a reporters question about the Khashoggi disappearance, it sounds like he wants to have it both ways again: "maybe it could have been rogue killers, who knows?" Meaning, he now believes Khashoggi was murdered, just not by the Kingdom.
Yesterday I abandoned that draft. Today the New York Post is reporting:
Trump compares Khashoggi 'murder' to Kavanaugh accusations
By Tamar Lapin
President Trump criticized those pointing fingers at Saudi Arabia in the case of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi — comparing the situation to the sexual assault allegations leveled against US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
"Here we go again with, you know, you're guilty until proven innocent. I don't like that. We just went through that with Justice Kavanaugh and he was innocent all the way as far as I'm concerned," Trump said Tuesday.
Trump warned of a rush to judgement in the case.
"I think we have to find out what happened first," he said. More...
So, like I said. Its not at all surprising that Trump sees this obscene and curious congruence, since he is the author of it.
UPDATE: Wednesday Thoughts: I suspect Trump so strongly denies the murder of Khashoggi by MBS because there are some US reporters that he would like to murder himself. If he is empowered by a GOP victory in November, journalists everywhere had better watch their backs.
Brett Kavanaugh and the Resistance Color Code
There are a thousand and one ways in which our misogynistic and racist culture is passed on and fortified. This is a story about one of them.
I was reminded of this one by the recent testimony about the serial sexual abuse of young girls by the youthful Brett Kavanaugh. It comes from my own education in technology. That began with an early interest in electricity and electronics. One of my earliest accomplishments in the field was earning a Merit Badge for Electricity from the Boy Scouts of America. It must have been about the same time I was first learning about resistors, and the color code used to mark them.
Resistors are electrical components used very frequently in electrical or electronic circuits. They are used to provide resistance to the flow of electricity. That resistance is measured in Ohms[Ω]. An Ohm is a measure of, well, electrical resistance. The unit was named after Georg Ohm, a 19th century German Physicist who gave us Ohm's Law, among other things. 1Ω really isn't much resistance at all, so in electronics, more often we talk in terms of kiloohms or megaohms. Resistors come in a wide range of resistances, and since most are very small, simply printing the resistance on them, something like 470KΩ, just isn't workable. I wouldn't have been able to read them even when my eyes were young. Instead they are marked by a series of colored bands. Each color stands for a number, or a power of ten. The colors are Black = 0 or 100, Brown = 1 or 101, Red = 2 or 102, Orange = 3 or 103, Yellow = 4 or 104, Green = 5 or 105, Blue = 6 or 106, Violet = 7 or 107, Gray = 8 or 108, White = 9 or 109.
Typical Resistor Color Code Chart
Now you know how to read resistors, so long as you can remember the colors used, and their proper order. Mnemonics can be very helpful in remembering sequences like these, and that is where the connection to the Kavanaugh saga comes to mind, because the most widely used mnemonic for teaching the resistance color code has been this:
Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly
As you can see, the first letter of each word in this memorable little phrase corresponds to the first letter of the color that occupies that position in the resistance color code. As such, it has historically been an easy way to teach this essential piece of knowledge for anyone working with electrical or electronic hardware. I was probably first taught it, with a snicker, about the same time I was earning that Merit Badge in the Boy Scouts.
Now, it is easy to see that this racy mnemonic also taught something else to the overwhelmingly male technology students it was aimed at. It made the violent crime of rape out to be something frivolous, while at the same time it divided women between "good" and "bad" depending on if force was necessary to have sex with them. It also was, all by itself, another barrier women had to overcome to pursue careers in a number of well-paying, male dominated, fields.
Years later, I found there was an even worst version of this mnemonic. Perhaps I was shielded from it because it combined racism with the misogyny. This is from a European electronics manual:
THE RESISTOR COLOUR CODE
Here is an industry-standard mnemonic e-mailed by Bill Woods for recalling the order and value of colour-markings on resistors. Although a politically/socially dubious phrase, it has nevertheless served to teach budding electronics engineers the code successfully for many years.
"Black Boys Rape Our Young Girls, But Violet Gives Willingly."
I wasn't shielded from discrimination as I developed my technology career. In this version, "our" applied both to the men who needed to remember this bit of technological trivia, and the "young girls," and it went without saying that both were understood to be "white." This racist version may indeed be more popular in Europe. The Daily Mail had this report about a teacher using it lately:
Teacher who taught pupil racist 'rape' rhyme so he
could remember lesson is guilty of misconduct
Teacher James Hersey of Hove, East Sussex, holding a circuit
board: He claims the rhyme he was taught in the 1950s
helps to remember a colour coding system for resistors
A supply teacher who taught a racist rhyme to a pupil - which included the vile phrase 'Black Boys Rape Our Young Girls' - has been found guilty of professional misconduct.
James Hersey, 68, taught the shocking mnemonic to a 16-year-old boy who was revising a wiring colour coding system for electronic resistors.
He taught the boy the ditty: 'Black Boys Rape Our Young Girls, But Virgins Go Without.' Each word represents the first letter of the colours in the code which are; black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, grey and white. More...
Hersey's version of this little ditty packs quite a few "collateral" social lessons into this memory exercise. In addition to the trivialization of rape contained in all versions, and the racist element added to some versions, his version promotes the view that women or girls who are raped, are raped because they want it, after all, "virgins go without."
Christine Blasey Ford's heartfelt testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court showed the lifelong damage that can be caused by teenage acts of sexual violence that are encouraged and trivialized by teaching methods such as this one. I'm not sure if this mnemonic is still used anywhere else in the past seven years. I certainly hope not. Clearly, it's time has passed.
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The Night of the Succubus
© Sue Vincent
Trigger Warning: This story is at least PG-13 with a little R thrown in (I tried to be as circumspect as possible and still retain the overall imagery of the story), so if you're offended by sensual language with a touch of horror, you might want to stop reading now.
Lilith was always the first to arrive, but as the great mother, she was responsible for preparing the holy site for the others.
"Mother!" Naamah ran into the clearing, and with a gazelle-like leap to clear a fallen log, she fell into Lilith's arms. If mother and daughter were human, their embrace would appear lewd and obscene, their hands and tongues sliding sensually over each others supple, lightly clad bodies, but for the most ancient of demons, this was a standard greeting, especially after being parted for an entire year (though at their age, a year wasn't considered very long at all).
They parted as Rahab and Vashti arrived. Then Shelomit, Helah, and Jezebel joined them. As the sun hung low on the western horizon, the others came, and after engaging in the same ritual greeting, which stopped short of becoming a frenzied orgy (for that was yet to come), the hundreds gathered in several concentric circles around the tall, verdant phallic idol.
"Daughters of Lilith," the mother began, "We gather here on this All Hallows Eve to celebrate our power, and to give thanks to our one true redeemer. It was he who taught me that a woman is never subservient to any man. Though he who shall remain nameless made me from the same clay as the first man, and commanded me to serve the man, the serpent, blessed be he, whispered into my ear, that man was meant to service us."
The horde of succubi cheered, their wanton cries echoing through the deep forest such that no creature dared approach them, the clearing, and their idol.
Under the light of the last quarter of the silvery moon, each of them removed their scanty clothing, robes to rags, baring perpetually youthful, lovely, and sexually curvaceous forms to the trees, the stars, and especially to each other.
Lilith leaped to the top of the emerald cylindrical idol, and parting her legs above it, inserted the tip into her feminine orifice. "Tonight, we honor he who made us what we are, he who showed us the truth, and he who gave us power over men. Tonight is the Dance of the Succubus."
The moss-covered stone idol, glowed red, and then took on flesh and warmth as Lilith lowered herself upon it, allowing its now quivering mass to enter her deeply. Rapidly undulating, she screamed with her first climax, as the myriad of her daughters attacked each other in base and carnal ways, and it would have been difficult for a mere mortal, if one were present, to determine if they were passionately embracing agony or ecstasy.
Then one by one, they each took their turn with the idol, which was now oozing with the genital fluids of both the succubi, and the enormous penis of their malicious and nefarious master, the lord of the underworld, the ruler of the demonic. As the night progressed, the glade was fairly flooded with the moistness of their lust, until the final succubus, Ahlai, the last of the daughters of Lilith, slaked her lascivious desires upon the enormous length of Satan's member.
"Bring forth the sacrifice." Lilith was standing in the midst of her all but exhausted children, most of whom were lying on the ground, soaked with sweat, semen, and their own fluids, panting and seemingly spent. Then a pit formed among them and four male demons rose carrying with them a man.
"He chose this one for this year's offering," growled Ashmedai who was chief among the demons.
"Release him, for no man can resist us," the succubus mother commanded, and immediately the chains binding the man vanished. "Now leave us," she shrieked, and the four demons descended back into the pit of sulfur and smoke, which they sealed behind him.
"You've got to help me. They're gone now. We've got to get away." He was maybe twenty years old or younger, tall, sinewy, dark hair and eyes, and as was proper for the role, a virgin. Of course, he was nude, and unbidden, his manhood began to stiffen and rise at the sight of so many seductive women from every race and ethnicity of the earth, writhing on the grass at his feet.
"What are you doing? Don't come near me. Please, I've got to get back home."
"Oh boy, you are in the only home you'll ever know," cooed Lilith. She moved her hips amorously, the inside of her thighs gleaming with wetness. "Who would like him first?"
A chorus of "pick me, pick me" filled the dark woods as each of the daughters rose and circled the man-child.
"Basemeth, you shall begin, and the rest will follow, whoever can beat off the others to take the vitality of the sacrifice."
"Sacrifice?" His voice broke as he uttered the word.
"My pleasure, dearest mother." The succubus could have been the same age as the boy but she was centuries old. Her skin was flawless, breasts ample and firm, and she was pleased when he glanced upon them, and then became unable to look away. Fine, downy fur covered her head and her pubes, and when she opened her mouth, a long pink tongue snaked across her scarlet lips.
"Don't be afraid, well, not yet, anyway. I'll try to be gentle. I know you are not accustomed to the ways of pleasure, but I shall teach you. We all will, won't we, sisters?" A multitude of ascents filled the boy's ears. Basemath embraced him with slender arms which he discovered had the grip of steel, and then she kissed him, her tongue prying open his lips and teeth. She could feel his hardness against her belly, and she undulated upon him, driving him to madness with his own excitement. And then she took him and he cried out at the first of his many orgasms that night.
And then they all joined in, ravishing his body, again and again taking him physically, forever corrupting his soul.
It was dawn before they finished, and they left his cold, dead body by the phallus, which vanished in the first rays of daylight. Then the daughters of Lilith returned to wander the world of men, tempting saints and sinners alike.
I created this for the Thurday Photo Prompt hosted at Sue Vincent's Daily Echo. The idea is to use one of Sue's original photos, posted at the top, to craft a poem, short story, or other creative work.
Yes, the first thing when I saw the photo was "that," so I merged the approaching Halloween with the myths involving Lilith and the Succubus, adding a few twists of my own.
I know this seems to cast women in a bad light, and makes men the victims, and especially in this #MeToo age, that's probably poor form, but it fit the general theme of the myths I was accessing, so it is what it is.
Oh, all of the names are taken from women in the Bible. I applied them randomly, and have no intent on sullying the reputations of any of those women.
October 25, 2018 James Pyles #writephoto, erotic, halloween, horror, lilith, succubus, sue vincent, Thursday Photo Prompt
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14 thoughts on "The Night of the Succubus"
Well, I don't know what to say! Quite a scene you have painted there James!
James Pyles says:
Thanks…I think.
It was certainly different 😉
Lilith: A "demon" of myth and legend, but the truth is often covered up.
Take for instance the REAL Grimm Fairy Tales; now "those" will spin your head off.
Sometimes, a story is just a story; sadly it puts her in a bad way. 😉
I tried not to make it too scary or too erotic.
ProclaimLiberty says:
Demons of the night with their own human bodies and endocrine systems? Metaphysically, that seems rather a contradiction. But I suppose, like in an unholy dream in a fevered brain, there are no rules to which one might appeal to restrain the irrational inventions of such fantasies.
It's best not to look too logically at horror/fantasy. 😉
ronlanhamwriting says:
Nice use of the succubi. The pic lends itself to the story. Quite unassuming, until night falls. Good job.
the dark netizen says:
Nicely done, James! 😀
Sue Vincent says:
Not one I could reblog as 'family friendly', James, I'm afraid, even with my fairly broad take on that phrase… but it will be included in the round up.
Thanks. No worries.
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Joseph Raaymakers, London Knights The London overage goaltender is splitting the crease with Vegas prospect Jordan Kooy and it's working out pretty well so far. Raaymakers beat Flint Friday and then stayed home while Kooy went to Owen Sound and topped the Attack in a shootout. A well-rested Raaymakers kicked aside 30 shots for his first shutout of the season Sunday in Kitchener.
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The Knights. In the midst of winning six of seven, London was overjoyed to welcome back captain Evan Bouchard and speedy Alex Formenton, who were returned from the Oilers and Senators respectively. Their presence automatically makes London the league favourite and GM Mark Hunter has plenty of ammo to help land some of the best available veteran talent. Bouchard and Formenton each scored in their debut games in Kitchener Sunday.
Erie's shootout foes. A few weeks ago, nobody went past 3-on-3 overtime. Now, there's an abundance of them. Seven games have gone to breakaway contests so far. The Otters are the masters at it with a 3-0 mark. They beat Sault Ste. Marie and North Bay (in a 12-rounder) on the road and Windsor at home. Daniel Murphy has stopped 16 of 21 attempts.
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I was a bit nervous going into this shoot due to my impression of Reed during our video chat. I thought he was perhaps navy seals, and that he ate men. He definitely represented beard gang during that interview but was clean shaven when he showed up to the engagement session. His face wasn't the only thing that changed for the session. Reed turned out to be a pretty funny guy…and nervous! At least for this shoot. In fact we took a little break so he could take a shot! Kathleen took one too, but I think just for fun!! She was totally down to get her photo taken.
Generally speaking couples warm up to me taking their picture after a few moments. I'm a pretty laid back guy, and I like to have some music playing during a shoot when possible. I try to remind couples not to focus on the pictures so much, but to focus on each other. Admittedly this can be easier for some than for others, but that's why we have enough time in the session to warm up and either forget about me or laugh, chat, and realize that I'm harmless and only here to document some loving moments that you can cherish for a lifetime.


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Startseite / "Yeah, I am Johnny Fuck Me Walker, the rich black man from New York in Africa"
"Yeah, I am Johnny Fuck Me Walker, the rich black man from New York in Africa"
The marriage swindler, the African woman and the illusion of the American dream
Editions:Hardcover (Deutsch): € 14,99 EUR
Dieser Roman ist auch auf Deutsch erhältlich!
"I'm going to America! My internet prince, the rich man from New York is coming!" shouted Anzehma euphorically. At this time she didn't have the slightest idea that the man was not an Afro-American but a con artist who had never even left Cameroon once in his life and that her family would be confronted with a huge pile of debt very soon. But how could she have resisted a man like Johnny: "Tell him that I'm Johnny Fuck Me Walker. Tell him that I have breakfast with Beyonce C. Tell him that Jay Z is praying for me. Tell him that at the funeral of Michael Jackson, I sat next to Barack Obama. Tell him that I only need to call Washington, and they pick me up with helicopters here."
Every day more and more people reach Europe just to be stranded in refugee camps. They take on unbelievable strains, invest all of their possessions, leave their families and don't stop even in the face of danger and death. It is widely recognized that some African men and women use Europeans to get to safety. But there are also Africans who betray their fellow countrymen for the same purpose, as it is told in this novel. This story is based on true events that have taken place in an African country as told.
Finally, an opportunity for Johnny Walker to get out of this country: Away from Cameroon, with its poverty and lack of perspectives, and straight to the West. Countries full of possibilities that you can easily take your pick from: Because for many Africans this is a fact: Here money lies around on the street, you can't walk down to the shops without being offered a career and nothing blocks the road to happiness and wealth. Johnny can't wait to be able to provide himself and his family with this sort of life. There's just a minor catch: Johnny has to get hold of the money for flight and visa within a few weeks, the mediator is requesting 15 000€! Without a cent on his account, without family or rich friends that's a demanding task – so Johnny and his best friend Roger set up a plan that has quite an impact.
Using the name Johnny Fuck Me Walker he pretends to be a rich Afro-American from New York, who has met Obama and Beyoncé personally and who used to go out to dinner with Michael Jackson. He only speaks English, with a full American accent of course, to make his story believable. His best friend Roger is by his side as an interpreter and usually doesn't stick too closely to translating word-for-word, which makes for some interesting turns. Johnny tries his hand at being a marriage swindler and fools Anzehma, a young girl he's met on the internet, into believing he is the love of her life. With borrowed money he presents her and her whole village the luxurious lifestyle of the rich, which convinces everyone he really is a rich Afro-American who has come to save them all from poverty. Johnny and Anzehma stay in the fanciest hotels in town, they go out for dinner to the finest restaurants and he generously provides her with lots of cash. He promises to marry her and to take her to America.
Additionally, being one of Obama's good friends, he wants to help all of the villagers to an entry visa to America. All they have to do is pay a small amount for their own ticket.
The wedding is all planned when Johnny's money is "stolen" all of the sudden – so Anzehma and everyone else scrambles to pool the money to help Johnny out: All in all about 350 000€ that Johnny uses to keep playing the rich guy and throw a huge party for the whole village.
Johnny Fuck Me Walker and Roger's plan seems to play out perfectly. They're about to disappear with the rest of the money – when a minor police officer gets suspicious and starts to investigate Johnny and Roger. Will he be able to cross their plan before it is too late?
A love story full of surprises, hope and devastation, that pictures the human character realistically and brings out unlikely relationships.
A dark story about the European dream, the dream of wealth and happiness and the myth of a perfect world.
And a funny story about two best friends who set a ridiculous plan in motion and try to cope with a lot of humour and spontaneity.
Published: 10. Februar 2016
English, Romane
Africa, African love story, Drama
[please note: Johnny speaks only English, Anzehma only French, which is why Roger is translating for them]
October 8, 2013: Dinner and the ATM trick.
"Hey beautiful women, you are too hot, you are so sexy", said Johnny when they met again at night in a trendy restaurant at the beach. "He says you're so beautiful and he's attracted to you so much", translated Roger in his own way. They were driving in a rental car past the harbor to the restaurant at a beach near Douala. Roger wasn't only the interpreter, but the driver as well. They had rented a Mercedes ML 400 this morning. It cost 250 Euros a day; they had just rented it for a week. "We'll be a lot further by then, if everything goes as planned", Roger had reckoned. They wanted to give Anzehma the perfect impression. She had to be really convinced that Johnny was a rich man, because you'd rather give your money to a rich man than to a poor man.
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