Before and after shot of Rosie's hooves after being on the Dodson & Horrell 'Firm Foot' herbal blend. Rosie is a warmblood mare who experienced dry, cracked hooves over summer. 8 weeks later, they are firming up nicely (see photos).
"I was keen to try the Dodson and Horrell 'Firm Foot' herbal blend as my horse had a huge crack about 3mm wide, extending from the coronet band to the base of the hoof. The crack was wide open and she has suffered several abscesses. To be honest, I thought that was going to be the end of her as she has had all sorts of treatments and is in a bar shoe all the time.
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The crack has started growing out from the coronet – about 1.5cm of new growth, and I don't know how, but the 3mm wide crack is now barely visible. The horse has gone from 3 legged lame to probably a grade 1 lameness and I am tempted to take her out for a walk under saddle soon.
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Best part was this was his first time discovering his humor. Brilliant moment!
children are funny. Eoghan just started tellig us. I'm pooping. And calling people poop pants.
Children are funny. Eoghan just started telling us, I'm pooping. And calling people poop pants.
:-( to hear that you think about discontinuing your blog. I've enjoyed reading smonk you over the past two years - our daugther was born at around the same time as your son. And there's not many dad bloggers out there, even on an international level (at least I haven't found many - which might parallel your statement about crappy sites... ;-).
Actually I've already killed one blog, my first one, a couple of years ago. I felt that I didn't relate to the topic I was writing about (the city I was living in, its' nightlife...) any more. I lived quite well without blogging - but then a few months ago I suddenly felt the urge to do it again and started kindie-rocks.com. I keep wondering if I shall keep up the new blog about every time I'm logging in. There's better things to do, I tell myself. But then again: Hey, it's fun. Keep it up as long as it lasts!


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Investment gain or loss by trustee — revenue or capital account?
ClearLaw, Tax (Legislation and Law)
Trustees must ensure they are aware of:
which investment decisions lead to a gain or loss on revenue account and,
when the trustee must treat a gain or loss as on capital account.
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) released a Draft Taxation Determination TD 2011/D1 on 9 March 2011 that discusses the various factors which assist a trustee determine whether the gain or loss from an investment was on revenue or capital account.
This article discusses the draft determination.
Viviane Karoumbalis
A trustee invariably makes gains or losses when selling trust investments — for example shares, units or real estate. In the ATO's view, the fact that an investment has been made by an entity in its capacity as trustee does not necessarily mean that any gain or loss from that investment will be on capital account.
The ATO's draft TD states that to determine whether a gain or loss is on income or capital account:
first the trustee must consider whether tax law treats the gain or loss as either on revenue or capital account (for example, the capital gains tax provisions of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 (ITAA1997) in relation to managed investment trusts);
if not, then the trustee must conduct its own characterisation.
The characterisation process necessarily involves a "wide survey and an exact scrutiny of all relevant factors to determine whether the trustee's activities constitute a business or profit making scheme". That is, the nature of the trust and the terms and content of the trustee's do not by themselves determine the answer. In fact, the character of the gain or loss must be determined having regard to all of the relevant facts and circumstances.
Are trustees capable of making gains from selling trust investments on revenue account?
The ATO considers that if a trust deed authorises the trustee to engage in business or undertake a profit making activity with the view to generating profits from which distributions can be made, then the profits are likely to be income according to ordinary concepts and therefore on revenue account.
This is in contrast to two High Court decisions, discussed in the Draft TD, namely Charles v Federal Commissioner of Taxation[1] (Charles) and London Australia Investment Co Ltd v Federal Commissioner of Taxation[2] (London Australia).
Those cases suggested that a trustee is incapable of making gains on revenue account because the trustee has a fiduciary duty to preserve the assets comprising the trust fund for the beneficiaries. The ATO takes the view that the finding in Charles was based:
"largely on the unchallenged evidence from the manager of the trust that at no time were securities acquired for the express purpose of re-sale at a profit and that sales were normally made when the managers anticipated a fall in the value of shares".
Consistent with those decisions, however, the ATO considers that gains may be on capital account if:
the trustee is directed to ensure that the value of the trust assets are preserved for the long term in order to provide an income stream; and
the assets were not acquired with the intention of making a profit.
Relevant factors to consider
The Draft TD notes that in characterising whether the gain or loss has been made on revenue or capital account, the following factors need to be considered:
the nature of the trustee's powers and obligations;
the nature and scale of the trustee's investment and other activities;
the investment style employed in respect of the trust assets;
the nature of the trust assets;[3]
whether there are different classes of beneficiaries with competing interests;[4]
the length of time individual investments are held;
the regularity in sale activity involving the trust assets;
the average annual turnover of the trust assets;
the percentage of total income which the gains represent; and
the nature of any connection between the trustee and other parties to the dealings.
When will a gain or loss be on revenue or capital account?
The Draft TD suggests the factors shown in the table below may indicate that a gain or loss made from an investment will be on revenue or capital account. The relevance of these factors depends on the nature and scale of the operation and would need to be considered together. A single factor on its own may have little or no relevance.
More likely to be on Revenue Account if . . .
More likely to be on Capital Account if . . .
The trust deed authorises the trustee to engage in business or to undertake a profit making activity with the view to generate profit from which distributions to investors can be made.
The trustee is authorised or directed to ensure that the value of the assets under their control, including any increments, are preserved for the long term.
Carrying on a business of investment.
A disposal amounts to no more than a change of investment.
A transaction entered into with the intention of making a profit or gain.
The absence of an investment style which envisages an exit point.
A one-off or isolated transaction where the investment was acquired in a business operation or commercial transaction for the purpose of profit-making[5].
A low average annual turnover of shares (stocks).[6]
A high average annual turnover of shares (stocks).
A high proportion of stocks sold have been held for a significant number of years.
A high proportion of shares (stocks) sold have been held for short period of time.
A low level of sales transactions compared to the number of stocks in the portfolio.[7]
High level of sales transactions.
A lack of regularity in the particular sale activity.[8]
Profits on sale normally constitute a small percentage of total income
Significant percentage of 'aged' stocks remain in the portfolio.[9]
The Draft TD provides a number of examples of circumstances of when a gain or loss on an investment will be on a revenue or capital account.
Example 1 — Investments for an incapacitated person
The Draft TD discusses the decision of the Full Federal Court in FC of T v Radnor Pty Ltd [10] (Radnor). The case involved a taxpayer company which, although not a trustee, was used as the vehicle for the investment of the funds of three trusts established to provide lifetime support for an incapacitated person.
In that case, Hill J was determining whether an activity is properly to be characterised as a business activity, and therefore whether any profits are income. In doing so, the judge said it is relevant, although not conclusive, that the activity is undertaken by a taxpayer in the position of a trustee who is obliged to ensure that the value of the assets under its control are preserved for the benefit of the beneficiaries.
The Court considered the provisions of the trust deed and that the taxpayer's entire investment philosophy was to preserve the trusts assets to ensure funds were available for the incapacitated person. The Court found that this fact was fundamental to the conclusion that the taxpayer was not carrying on a business and the gains were on capital account.
Example 2 — Trust with objective of regular distributions
Unit trust established to produce profits from buying, holding and disposing of securities for the purpose of making regular distributions to unit holders.
Trustee's investment policy is to target securities which display above-average earnings growth potential. On average the turnover of stock exceeds 10% of the market value of the portfolio.
Trustee has broad powers to vary investments and a discretion to distribute any part of the trust fund at any time.
The purpose of which the trust was established, the investment policy and with the manner and extent of the trading activities undertaken by the trustee supports the conclusion that the gains and losses on disposal of securities are on revenue account.
Example 3 — Testamentary trust preserving capital
Testamentary trust established for the benefit of the deceased incapacitated spouse.
The trust has no explicit portfolio management style. The annual portfolio turnover is approximately 10% of the market value of the portfolio.
Under the deceased's will, the trustee is directed to hold and invest the estate and apply the income for the deceased's spouse's benefit during her lifetime. The capital passing on the spouse's death to other members of the family.
It appears that the trustee's duty is to preserve the capital so as to produce an income stream to maintain the spouse over time, therefore the gains and losses on disposal of shares are on capital account.
A more detailed discussion of these and related issues is contained in Taxation Ruling TR 2005/23 Income tax: listed investment companies and in TR 92/3 Income tax: whether profits on isolated transactions are income.
Further consultation and likely implementation timing
The date for comments and feedback on the Draft TD has passed. Although the Draft TD does not outline any timeline for the further steps after the consultation process, it does state that when the final Determination is issued, it is proposed to apply both before and after its date of issue.
For more information, contact Maddocks on (03) 9288 0555 and ask to speak to a member of the Tax and Revenue or General Commercial Teams.
More Information from Cleardocs
about the Cleardocs:
Discretionary Trust, see here. You can order a trust online from that page;
Unit Trusts (fixed or non-fixed), see here. You can order a trust online from that page;
Hybrid Trust, see here. You can order a trust online from that page;
see a Guide by Maddocks dealing with:
a comparison table of key benefits and things to be wary of in each type of trust, here; and
a comparison table of the key features of each type of trust here.
about Bamford's case, see here
[1] (1954) 90 CLR 598
[2] (1977) 138 CLR 106
[3] Orr v Wendt & Ors [2005] WASCA 199
[5] Federal Commissioner of Taxation v. The Myer Emporium Ltd (1987) 163 CLR 199; 87 ATC 4363; (1987) 18 ATR 693
[6] London Australia
[7] Milton Corporation Ltd v. FC of T 85 ATC 4243
[8] AGC (Investments) Limited v. FC of T (1992) 23 ATR 287
[10] 91 ATC 4689
Andrew Wright
Andrew is a lawyer in the Maddocks Tax & Revenue team.
Andrew provides advice on:
structuring of businesses and transactions;
mergers and acquisitions;
corporate reorganisations;
sale of businesses;
fixed and discretionary trust deeds; and
international tax structuring.
His advice covers both direct and indirect tax considerations.
Prior to joining Maddocks, Andrew was a tax consultant at a Big 4 Chartered Accounting Firm.

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May 29, 2020 – Bollinger Quick Repair, LLC, a Bollinger Shipyards LLC company, has taken delivery of a new 3,400 ton dry-dock. The announcement was made by Bollinger President & CEO, Ben Bordelon, "We are very pleased to announce the delivery and availability of the dry-dock Mr. Eddie to our Bollinger Quick Repair (BQR) facility. I want to congratulate Mr.…
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MTU propulsion systems for Royal Navy Type 31 frigates
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May 29, 2020 – Rolls-Royce is to supply complete MTU propulsion systems for five new Type 31 general-purpose frigates for the Royal Navy. In total, the order comprises of 40 engines and generator sets to be used for main propulsion and on-board power generation, the MTU Callosum propulsion control and monitoring system, and Integrated Logistics Support (ILS). Each new frigate…
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USS Henry M Jackson's 1,000th Patrol
June 1, 2020 – May 31 marks the 108th anniversary of the birth of U.S. Sen. Henry M. Jackson. In a fitting tribute to his legacy, his namesake ship USS Henry M. Jackson (SSBN 730), the Defender of Freedom, is deployed on its 100th strategic deterrent patrol. Jackson is one of the first Ohio-class submarines to reach that historic milestone.…
June 2020Defender of Freedom, SSBN 731, USS Henry M Jackson
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June 1, 2020 – Australia's dedicated submarine sustainment organization, ASC, is collaborating with Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, and DMTC Limited, to pioneer the use of additive manufacturing for the repair of Collins Class submarines. The partners have joined forces to further develop 'cold spray' technology for repairing damaged metal surfaces, to enable the future in situ repair of submarine…
June 2020ASC, cold spray, Stuart Whiley
Presence of French Navy vessels in the northern Indian Ocean
May 29, 2020 (Google Translation) – In May, four French Navy ships were concomitantly in the maritime area of the Indian Ocean under the operational control of ALINDIEN. These four ships contribute to three multilateral operations, in close cooperation with European allies and navies present in the region: The Joan of Arc mission, made up of the helicopter carrier Mistral…
June 2020FS Forbin, FS Guepratte, FS Languedoc, FS Mistral, Indian Ocean, Operation Agenor, Operation Atalanta


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A screenshot from a video uploaded to YouTube that purports to show a June 21 rally in support of the Islamic State, in Ma'an, Jordan. The sign reads: "Ma'an is Jordan's Fallujah," and congratulates the Islamic State on its surge in Iraq. All Eyes on Syria / YouTube
All Eyes on Syria / YouTube
Middle East's stable monarchy comes face to face with extremist threat
If the Islamic State were to infiltrate Jordan next, the US and Israel could be drawn in
July 10, 2014 7:00AM ET
by Michael Pizzi @michaelwpizzi
Several times since the Al-Qaeda-breakaway group staged its astonishing takeover of Sunni-majority Iraq last month, supporters of the Islamic State have marched through the streets in the southeastern Jordanian city of Ma'an raising black flags and declaring their restive city "Jordan's Fallujah" — a reference to the extremist stronghold in Iraq, the first city that fell to the insurgents back in January.
Scores of protesters calling for radical Islamic rule in Jordan's Salafist stronghold wouldn't otherwise worry the country's Hashemite monarchy; Ma'an, an economically depressed city of 50,000, has long been a flashpoint of anti-government unrest in a country otherwise considered the region's bastion of stability.
But ever since the Sunni insurgents of the Islamic State declared their vast holdings across Syria and Iraq to be a restored seventh-century-style caliphate, neighboring Jordan and Lebanon have been on edge. The group explicitly seeks to eradicate the modern state boundaries across the region — and, one day, the globe — and since storming Iraq, its fighters have been knocking on Jordan's door. The group has captured, lost and recaptured towns along the Iraq-Jordan border these past weeks and continues to threaten expansion into the kingdom — whether from across the Iraqi border or from within Jordan itself.
"The caliphate is coming to Jordan," protesters in Ma'an have chanted. "Down with King Abdullah."
Along with Lebanon, Jordan is considered to be part of the "Levant," an amorphous term used primarily to mean Greater Syria, which was until recently included in the Islamic State's name (the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) and therefore figured as one of its next fronts. Jordan's powerful U.S.-backed security forces have acted accordingly; around 40,000 troops have been deployed to shore up Jordan's porous northern and eastern borders, a security source told Al-Arabiya.
Though King Abdullah has by and large weathered the Arab Spring unrest that shook the region over the past couple of years, a brief scare erupted in October 2012 when tens of thousands filled the streets of Amman and other cities, especially Ma'an, to protest Abdullah's decision to lift fuel subsidies just as the desert country's winter cold was about to set in.
Given that about 10 percent of Jordan's oil comes from Iraq, there are fears that the Islamic State takeover could cut supplies to Jordan and spark unrest similar to what the country saw two years ago. Compounding societal tensions are the more than 600,000 refugees from Syria that Jordan has taken in. If Iraq continues to crumble, Iraqis are certain to pour into the refugee nation of Jordan again, as half a million did in 2005 during the U.S.-led invasion.
According to a report by the Jordan Times, the rallies in Ma'an have been organized by the group's affiliate in Jordan — a faction that comprises a meager 200 current and former Islamic State fighters "devoted to recruiting and raising support for the group." One Islamic State supporter who called himself "Abu Mohammad" told the Jordanian newspaper at the first rally, on June 21: "This march aims to show that we are a genuine, independent movement that has true support in Jordan."
To be sure, most analysts doubt that is true and suggest instead that disaffected citizens may be piggybacking on the Islamic State's demonstrated capacity for stoking unrest in Jordan's neighbors. Others point out that while sectarian governments in Syria and Iraq have provided fertile ground for the Islamic State's precipitous takeover of Sunni lands, and while government armies have been either unwilling (Syria) or unable (Iraq) to stop them, Jordan has neither of those vulnerabilities.
"You could see terror attacks, maybe, but what [the Islamic State] is doing in Syria and Iraq is far more profound than terror. They're building military and political capabilities, which they can't do in Jordan," said Faysal Itani, a fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C. "It's far less oppressive, doesn't have sectarian lines, is less militarized, and the security forces are real security forces."
Jordan's Abdullah, though painted as a tyrant by some in Ma'an, is also a Sunni — unlike Syria's Bashar al-Assad and Iraq's Nouri al-Maliki.
On top of that, even if Al-Qaeda's unofficial affiliate in Jordan were able to effectively mobilize anti-government sentiment, the extremist group has rejected the Islamic State's declaration of a caliphate. The radical Salafist movement, largely unified since Al-Qaeda rose to prominence on Sept. 11, 2001, has splintered. For his part, the leader of Al-Qaeda's unofficial affiliate in Jordan, the "Jihadi Salafist" movement, condemned the Ma'an demonstrations as the "actions of uneducated youths."
"The organizers of this rally were misguided and do not represent the Salafist movement or any jihadist group," said Mohammad Shalabi, also known as Abu Sayyaf. "There is no Islamic State in Jordan."
Still, more than 2,200 Jordanian nationals have been recruited to fight with the Islamic State (or alongside it in other hard-line rebel factions) since the group first entered the Syrian civil war, Salafist leaders say. This is despite Jordan's best efforts to contain the flow of extremist fighters into Syria: An amendment to the country's antiterror law passed in April has expanded the scope of Jordan's security forces to crack down on extremism by broadening the definition of "terror act" to include "attempting to join" a group like the Islamic State or providing "indirect funding" for its reign of violence.
If the Islamic State proves it can defend its newly declared caliphate — a tall task — it might accrue greater financial support among extremist cells abroad and draw a larger pool of recruits, experts say. Jordanian extremists could be lured back to their home country if a new front were to open up there.
In that worst-case scenario, Jordan would lean on its powerful allies in the U.S. and Israel, with whom it shares intelligence and a mutual interest in combating extremism. Drawing in either of those countries could be the death knell to the Islamic State's nascent caliphate, which is defended by no more than 10,000 fighters already stretched thin across Syria and Iraq.
The U.S. has long been Jordan's most important military backer, in large part because of Jordan's tacit cooperation with U.S.-allied Israel. Many suspect the Hashemite Kingdom would be a red line for the Obama administration to take stronger action than the hundreds of military "advisers" it has sent to help its reluctant ally in Baghdad.
Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, also suggested his country would come to Jordan's rescue — though he made the comment before turmoil erupted in Gaza and the West Bank. "I think it's our common interest to make sure that a moderate, stable regime like [Jordan] is able to defend itself," Netanyahu said in a speech at an Israeli think tank last month. "We must be able to stop the terrorism and fundamentalism that can reach us from the east at the Jordan line and not in the suburbs of Tel Aviv."
History backs him up: Israel has twice intervened to save the Jordanian monarchy, which is one of only two Arab governments with a peace treaty with Israel. In 1958, Israel facilitated as the U.K. intervened in Jordan to crush an apparent plot by supporters of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser to overthrow King Hussein. Then, in 1970, Israel massed troops along Jordan's border to successfully scare off a Syrian invasion threat.
As Yossi Melman, an Israeli security expert and the author of a book on Israeli intelligence, put it: "Israel, directly or indirectly through the U.S. and the U.K., is, de facto, the ultimate guarantor of Jordanian sovereignty."
Iraq, Jordan
Al Qaeda, ISIL, Sectarianism
Islamic State seeks to be Al-Qaeda for a post-9/11 generation
The extremist group has inspired a new generation of radicals in its bid to conquer the region but has taken huge risks
As ISIL surges, could Lebanon be the next domino to fall?
Three bombings in five days have boosted fears that the sectarian tinderbox of Lebanon could erupt
How long can Maliki hold on?
With talks for a new government delayed, Iraq's prime minister is under pressure to find unity among his rivals
The two competing middle-run scenarios for Iraq
Arguments for partitioning the country are flawed


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Home Entertainment "Seventh Son" Actors Weigh-in on Fantasy Adventure Genre
"Seventh Son" Actors Weigh-in on Fantasy Adventure Genre
In a recent sit-down with the press, "Seventh Son" actors Jeff Bridges ("TRON: Legacy"), Ben Barnes ("The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian") and Kit Harington (HBO's "Games of Thrones") discussed fantasy adventure as a film genre, its viability and enduring appeal.
Universal Pictures and Legendary Pictures' "Seventh Son" is based on the book "The Spook's Apprentice" (AKA "The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch") by Joseph Delaney.
In a time of enchantments when legends and magic collide, the sole remaining warrior of a mystical order (Bridges) travels to find a prophesized hero born with incredible powers, the last Seventh Son (Barnes). Torn from his quiet life as a farmhand, the unlikely young hero embarks on a daring adventure with his battle-hardened mentor to vanquish a dark queen (Julianne Moore) and the army of supernatural assassins she has dispatched against their kingdom.
Question: All of you have some familiarity with genre projects, so what was it about "Seventh Son" that got you interested?
Jeff Bridges: There is a wonderful children's book series, and the first one is The Spook's Apprentice, written by Joseph Delaney. I'm a big fan of myth and mythology, and I saw this as a chance to make a modern-day myth. It also talks about good and evil. My idea is that good and evil are really different sides of the same coin. I ran across a quote that really set me off. I thought, "If we can accomplish in turning people onto this idea, this would be something I'd like to be involved with." It's from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the quote is, "If only it were so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere, insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But, the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being, and who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" And that rang true for me. I think that is something that is evident in the world that we live in today, and certainly in the past. It's something that's a work in progress for us human beings. As an artist, I see it as our task to help bring that dream of peace about.
Kit Harington: I have worked in this genre before, but what was interesting about this project was working in a different category within this genre. People seem to forget there are different categories, sometimes. They group everything into fantasy or sci-fi, but within those genres, there are other things. This was different from anything I had done. It was a wonderful mixture between dark and light. It has the elements of the children's novel in it, and it also has the elements of what horrible acts can be done by humans. I thought that was a really interesting mix to play with.
Ben Barnes: I've done some work in the fantasy realm before, but I think a lot of films are presented as an allegory of good versus evil, and they have very interesting subtexts. Not all too often are the characters really explored, to the point of what dilemmas they're going through, in their approach to what they're doing. I think that whole concept of good versus evil, and are you evil if you're attempting to kill or murder something that you believe to be evil, are dilemmas that these characters are struggling with, particularly my character, as an apprentice. He's somebody who's new to it, but knows that he's meant for something more, in this world. How exactly that's going to play out is something that he doesn't know, and the idea of fate and destiny is painted on top of that, as well. There's a lot of interesting things, thematically.
"Seventh Son" is directed by award-winning filmmaker Sergei Bodrov, director of the Oscar®-nominated foreign language films "Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan" and "Prisoner of the Mountains."
Opening across the Philippines on January 8, 2015, "Seventh Son" is distributed by United International Pictures through Columbia Pictures.
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This dish is perfect for those nights where you want a delicious and filling meal but want to spend less than ten minutes in the kitchen. The soybean noodles cook within minutes and then you simply have to toss them in the savory peanut butter spinach sauce. For a tangy finish, squeeze some lime juice right on before serving.
Prepare the noodles according to package instructions. While they are boiling, make the sauce.
Place the sesame oil, tamari, garlic, ginger, peanut butter, coconut milk, and half the spinach in a food processor and blend for a few seconds, until smooth. Then, bring to simmer in a pot on low heat for a minute or two, until the noodles are ready. Then add those and the remaining fresh baby spinach to the saucepan and carefully toss.
Place in serving bowls, add a little fresh lime juice, the sesame seeds, and the peanuts. Serve with some extra tamari on the side.
Creative plant-based dishes for adventurous foodies.
Ida Hemmingsson-Holl is the creator of the new food blog Planet Plant-Based. She cooks vegan food, naturally free from gluten and white sugar. Ida has a background as global marketing director for one of the world's largest media agencies. She currently resides in Munich, Germany with her husband and two children.


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Another Big Tobacco Bond Deal, Cajun Style
Facing a giant budget deficit, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal plans to borrow $750 million against future income from a landmark legal settlement with cigarette makers.
by Cezary Podkul
April 30, 2015, 11:56 a.m. EDT
A landmark 1998 settlement with Big Tobacco awarded states billions of dollars a year to offset the health-care costs of smoking. What seemed like a boon become a debt trap for many state and local governments when they used it to promise investors billions in the future in exchange for cash advances.
The allure of tobacco bonds appears to have won over another customer – cash-strapped Louisiana.
Gov. Bobby Jindal, a potential GOP presidential candidate, is scrambling to deal with a $1.6 billion hole in his next budget. Now, over the opposition of the state's treasurer, Jindal has lined up a $750 million deal to borrow against future income from the state's share of a 1998 legal settlement with cigarette makers.
We've covered tobacco bond deals in depth, most recently focusing on a handful of deals to bail out these costly debts held by many state and local governments.
New Jersey, Rhode Island and two New York counties have rescued failing bonds in the past year. In New Jersey's case, a tobacco bond bailout turned a profit of more than $100 million for a hedge fund in middle of the deal. Six more New York counties have OK'd similar transactions.
As we've reported, these bailouts are the legacy of a borrowing binge by politicians who wanted to turn annual payments from the landmark settlement into upfront cash. Many got just pennies for every dollar they promised to repay.
Louisiana's budget problems, brought on by spending down state savings accounts and a decline in revenues from falling oil and gas prices, quickly caught the attention of Wall Street firms.
In February, Citigroup brought state officials a flashy 62-slide presentation titled "Financing Tools for Managing Budgetary Stress." It featured a list of 36 revenue sources that governments have borrowed against to tide over budgets – everything from taxi surcharges to income from the 1998 tobacco settlement.
Borrowing against future revenues could "buy more runway" for Louisiana, the presentation said, highlighting tobacco bonds as one major option.
Rival Goldman Sachs approached the state in March and also suggested borrowing against the tobacco settlement money or lottery revenues.
At 5 p.m. on Friday, March 13, Jindal's office announced the appointment of four members to a state-run corporation that oversees Louisiana's tobacco borrowing. Four days later, the corporation's 13-member board held a hastily called meeting to approve a $750 million deal with the help of Citigroup.
That didn't sit well with Treasurer John Neely Kennedy, also a Republican, who sits on the board along with Jindal's appointees and other statewide elected officials. "This is about the last savings account left that we haven't taken money from," Kennedy complained at the March session.
The deal would pledge 40 percent of Louisiana's annual tobacco settlement revenues in bond repayment that would stretch out nearly 30 years. In 2001 and 2013, the state borrowed against the other 60 percent of its tobacco settlement money, netting about $1.2 billion. Citigroup served as an underwriter in 2013.
Turning recurring revenues like the tobacco money into upfront payouts is widely considered poor fiscal management.
"You're borrowing money from the future to pay today's expenses. That's how we got into this problem, and this is only kicking the can down the road and paying interest on top of it," said Steven Procopio, Policy Director for Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana, a Baton Rouge research group that has studied the state's financial woes.
Firms like Citigroup get paid based on the size of the bond issue, creating an incentive for big deals. A Citigroup spokesman declined to comment.
Given the size of the new Citigroup deal – it would be Louisiana's second-biggest bond issue after the original 2001 tobacco bond sale – Kennedy wanted to bid out the underwriting and related services contracts to ensure the best price. A spokeswoman for the Louisiana Treasury said it would have been "best practice" to do so.
Competitive bids aren't mandatory under Louisiana law, state budget officials said, but the deal requires approval by the legislature, which adjourns on June 11.
With pressure to meet that deadline, the state decided to hire Citigroup without a competitive bidding process. A sale agreement dated June 1 has already been drafted, documents obtained through a public records request show.
"This whole thing has been ass-backwards," Kennedy told ProPublica. "It's all about getting their hands on the money, and it is not in the best interest of the taxpayers."
Kristy Nichols, top budget officer for Jindal and chairwoman of the tobacco board, said money from the bond sale won't be spent all at once. The bonds will be sold in three stages. Proceeds will pay for two constitutionally dedicated funds – one for state college scholarships and another for coastal restoration – over the next eight years.
If the legislature decides to spend the money more quickly, Jindal's administration won't support the transaction, Nichols said. "It needs to be protected and it needs to be paid out incrementally over the next eight years," she said.
The downside is that the state will have to pay fees three times, once for each transaction. But Nichols said the state has locked in a good price based on an earlier transaction Citigroup and other advisors did for the state. Officials estimate about $2 million in fees for the first $300 million bond sale, which implies about $5 million in total fees for whole eight-year plan.
By the ninth year, the hope is that the Louisiana's 2001 tobacco bonds will be paid back, returning that income stream to the state budget.
Kennedy – who's served as treasurer since 2000 – isn't so sure it'll play out that way. "This is my worry," he said at the March meeting: "You dangle $700 million dollars in front of the Louisiana legislature right now, and it's going to be spent as fast as green grass through a goose."
Cezary Podkul
Cezary Podkul covers finance for ProPublica.
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The Cecil B. DeMille Award is an honorary Golden Globe Award bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) for "outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment".[1][2] The HFPA board of directors selects the honorees from a variety of actors, directors, writers and producers who have made a significant mark in the film industry.[1] It was first presented at the 9th Golden Globe Awards ceremony in February 1952 and is named in honor of its first recipient, director Cecil B. DeMille.[3] The HFPA chose DeMille due to his prestige in the industry and his "internationally recognized and respected name".[3] DeMille received the award the year his penultimate film, The Greatest Show on Earth, premiered.[3] A year later in 1953, the award was presented to producer Walt Disney.[4]
The award has been presented annually since 1952, with exceptions being 1976 and 2008, the latter due to the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike's cancellation of that year's ceremony.[5] The award that year was meant to honor director Steven Spielberg, but due to the cancellation of the ceremony, the award was presented to him the following year.[5] The youngest honoree was actress Judy Garland, at age 39 in 1962. Garland was also the first female honoree.[1] The oldest honoree was producer Samuel Goldwyn, at age 93 in 1973.[1][3] In 1982, Sidney Poitier became the first African-American recipient.[1] In 2018, Oprah Winfrey became the first African-American woman to receive the honor.[6] As of 2018, 64 honorees have received the Cecil B. DeMille Award, 14 women and 50 men.
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When the Sikh empire was annexed by the British in 1849, the then viceroy Lord Dalhousie took away the flag of the Sikh kingdom as a keepsake. The Khemkas staked out his ancestors and bought the flag from them.
Seventy-six years after his death in captivity, Maharaja Ripudaman Singh of Nabha, one of the few rulers of princely states who dared to defy the British, continues to inspire generations.
Uday Nabha Khemka, his grandson who was in the city to launch a book on the maharaja, says stories of his maternal grandfather first inspired him to take up history at Cambridge University, and then philanthropy in the form of Nabha Foundation. Such is the influence of a maharaja, who was dubbed by the British "as a danger to the whole of India".
The clean-shaven Khemka, who sported a blue turban, bears an uncanny resemblance to his grandfather. His mother Maharaj Kumari Jeet Nabha Khemka agrees. Dressed in a blue saree, a colour dear to her father, Jeet Nabha has vivid memories of the time she spent with her father at Kodaikanal, where he was kept in custody without trial. "He was a doting father who loved to read." It's from her that Uday learnt about the man who threw himself into the freedom struggle with utter disregard for his title. "He lost his title, freedom, kingdom and even his family, but he never compromised his principles. He represented the best of Sikh and Indian traditions," says Uday.
When the Sikh empire was annexed by the British in 1849, the then viceroy Lord Dalhousie took away the flag of the Sikh kingdom as a keepsake. The Khemkas staked out his ancestors and bought the flag from them. "It's of great sentimental and historic value, we will one day bring it to Nabha and display it in a museum there," says Uday Nabha Khemka.
Today, members of his family, including his eldest son Dr Jasmer Singh, and residents of Nabha gathered at Taj to unveil his political biography by Dr JS Grewal and Dr Indu Banga — two leading historians of Punjab. "This independent political biography is the outcome of two decades of research," says Uday.
Dwelling on the influences that shaped Ripudaman into a rulers with a spine of steel, Banga says he took pride in the fact that his ancestors were baptised by 10th Sikh master Guru Gobind Singh, who founded the Khalsa. Taught at home by Bhai Kahn Singh, a proponent of the Tat Khalsa movement, and Lala Bishan Das, a close friend of the nationalistic Lala Lajpat Rai, he was as adept in Guru Granth Sahib as in Shakespeare.
Uday recounted how the maharaja befriended Lala Lajpat Rai among other nationalists. He used his appointment to the imperial legislation council to speak against the repressive measures taken by the British. A reformist at heart, he also espoused education for women and introduced the Anand Marriage Act.
When he took over the throne, he refused to be anointed by the British viceroy and used his own sword and robes.
During the World War I, he refused to send his troops to fight for the British, and was arguably the only Indian ruler, who did not receive a war honour. Banga says though the British deposed him on grounds of maladministration, there was no doubt that he was exiled on July 9, 1923 for supporting Indian nationalists.
Though the Indian National Congress took part in the Jaito morcha to protest his ouster and Jawaharlal Nehru even courted arrest, the maharaja was relegated to the footnotes of history in the independent India. "Instances of princely resistance were glossed over," says Banga.
Today Uday, who believes past is important only if it inspires the present, is trying to take forward Ripudaman's legacy through the Nabha foundation.


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## Introduction

Luvdbie (pronounced loved by) is a leveldb instance wrapped by libuv tcp-server. It is designed to be a performant networked leveldb that can be used as a standalone instance as well as providing an alternative [levelDOWN](https://github.com/rvagg/node-leveldown) implementation in networked database scenarios.

This work was inspired by [this article by @hij1nx](https://medium.com/p/37a93d4e0013) and the [work I did on memory usage in the current leveldb stack](https://github.com/rvagg/node-levelup/issues/171)

## Install

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## Run

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$ luvdbie 8085
```

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Suzuki has unveiled the Kizashi, a new sports saloon that will be available as a hybrid. The car is based on the Concept Kizashi of 2007 and initially will feature a 2.4-litre DOHC inline four-cylinder engine. Suzuki is currently concentrating on the US market with the Kizashi.
The unit is linked to a six-speed manual transmission or a continuously variable transmission (CVT) with paddle shift. Suzuki has confirmed that a hybrid will join the line-up at some point. Both two and four-wheel drive will be available.
The Kizashi has been tested both at Germany's Nurburgring and rural roads of England, says Suzuki, ensuring it is both sporty and comfortable. The suspension is multi-link at the rear, constructed of aluminium, and the car has 18in alloys at each corner.
Visually the Kizashi is far less radical than the concept. The front end is reminiscent of a Volkswagen Jetta and the rear is curved but unadventurous. Overall length is 4650mm and width is 1820mm.Inside there are standard sports seats and a smart swooping dashboard. Safety equipment includes eight standard airbags, ESP, anti-lock brakes, projector beam headlamps and a tyre pressure monitoring system.
The Kizashi saloon goes on sale later this year and will be joined by a crossover and estate.
The Kizashi was expected to take Honda's Accord head on in India. It was showcased along with the A-Star concept at the Auto Expo in New Delhi in Jan 2008. Post the slowdown in 2008 the Kizashi's plans went through an upheaval and there were talks of canning the car. But with the US spec car on track, it would make sense for Maruti Suzuki to also bring it down to India to take on the North America inspired cars from Toyota and Honda.


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Pompeu Fabra University wins national rounds of Jessup Moot Court Competition
Universitat Pompeu Fabra students team is the new winner of Jessup Spain
The team of students representing Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) were named winners of the Spanish national rounds of the 2022 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, after beating the team from University Carlos III of Madrid in the final debate. With this result, both universities have secured a place to compete in the sixty-third edition of the international rounds; the former as national champion and the latter as runner-up. The international competition will be held online from March 24 to April 10, 2022.
For the twelfth consecutive year, Cuatrecasas held the qualifying round of this prestigious international competition on public international law, which this year took place online from February 15 to 18. In this new edition, the competitors were 8 teams of the most outstanding law students from the Autonomous University of Madrid, Comillas Pontifical University (Madrid), ESADE–Ramon Llull University (Barcelona), IE University (Madrid), Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona), the University Carlos III of Madrid, the University of Deusto (Bilbao), and the University of Murcia.
As in every edition, the students debated in teams over a current legal issue before an expert panel of judges, whose members included some of the firm's lawyers. On this occasion, the different rounds revolved around a case between the Democratic Republic of Antara and the Velan Kingdom of Ravaria in relation to the parties' differences concerning the Suthan Referendum.
"The Jessup is a highly demanding competition and it is very rewarding to see the Spanish students outdo themselves year after year," stated Clàudia Baró Huelmo, a member of this year's jury panel and lawyer at Withersworldwide.
The jury panel made the difficult decision in the final debate, after both teams had rested their case. With the verdict, the Pompeu Fabra University law students Anastasia Baranova, Duna Gironès, Francisco Javier Moreno, Diego Ernesto Iván Sánchez and Adrián Vilà were named winners of the 2022 Jessup national rounds; with the support of their coaches Adrián Agenjo Aguado, José Manuel Aznar Puyalto, Silvia Terzulli Gali and Alesia Zhuk.
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I've found this schematic diagram for generating + and - 5V from a single DC supply.
From what I usually see, voltage regulators have bypass capacitors connected on the input and output sides.
However, I do not know where to connect the bypass capacitors in this dual supply case.
Can someone please tell me where to connect them and their values?
That circuit is wrong, it wont work.
You can get dual opposite voltages from AC but not DC.
This circuit outputs +15V and around 0V where there should be -15V. The input of the 7915 is the same as it's output reference.
Depending on the current you need there are various approches to create a ground. If you want +-15V from 24V it will need to be some kind of capacitor switcher/charge pump / step-up converter because 2x15V > 24V.
If the output voltage is lower than 24V then there are other possibilities. There are IC that create a negative voltage from a positive one like the LT1054, you can also create a virtual ground with optocouplers or transistors. What would be the best solution depends on how much current you need.
The label for the thread and the drawing have different voltages. Minor confusion.
You can do a +/- 5 DC out of 24 volts worth of batteries, but you need a "ground" in the middle of the batteries.
The capacitors go on the chips, from output to ground pin, and input to ground pin. Described in the datasheets for the chips.
Since 12 volt batteries are very common, I might assume you have 2 of them and all your ground leads in the drawing need to go between the batteries.


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Prior to joining Metropolitan Commercial Realty, Elise also represented clients with purchasing and selling investment properties from pre-construction developments to resale properties.


5 Things You Can Do to Protect Your Business - Insurance Services of Washington Inc.
You yourself know how much time, talent and money you have put into your business when you were still building it. With that in mind, you should protect it from disasters or any unexpected circumstances. In fact, according to a the National Small Business Poll survey, only 38% of businesses in the USA have an emergency plan.
Here are five tips to do if you want to protect your business from man-made and natural disasters.
When doing a risk assessment, list down what kinds of emergencies will most likely affect your company then try to check what your preparedness level for that emergency is. There are assessment tools available online like the American Red Cross Ready Rating website. In addition to these assessment tools, every business owner should find out if the business has emergency equipment or have a backup for computer data.
After you have done an evaluation of your current preparedness level, it is time you should build an operations contingency plan. Do an extensive review of your business operations and identify the aspects of the business that will be critical to its continued operation and survival. Seek the help of professionals who can help you manage these areas.
When a man-made or natural disaster strikes, things will definitely turn into chaos. You should therefore decide in advance how communications can alleviate panic and misunderstanding and how it can manage things in advance. One tool that can help you in advance is the social media. You can maximize the use of the social media in order to help solve problems when a disaster strikes.
Damage done by a natural disaster or man-made tragedy will significantly affect your business. Besides, you need to take care of employees' needs too before they start calling their personal lawyers to make demands on you. Only a business insurance policy can give you peace of mind and can help you recuperate.
As soon as you get your hands on your business insurance policy, do your best to check whether your policy suits your risk assessment. Check your coverage and make sure that they handle the common disaster situations in your area. Additionally, make inquiries about business interruption insurance so that you can have cash to spend in case your business has been stalled due to damage from the disaster.
It is not easy dealing with a natural disaster when it strikes. You can have all the contingency plans and preparations but still you will need business insurance. Only a business insurance policy can give you peace of mind all the time. Nonetheless, it should not make you that confident nothing will happen, so you must still do your best to protect your business.
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New Delhi, May, 2014: Does a high prescription make it impossible for you to take a break from wearing your spectacles? Have your regular spectacles given you an everlasting image of a 'nerdy geek'? Then, this summer think about giving yourself an image makeover.
A leader in polarized lens technology, Maui Jim offers a perfect summer solution to wearers of high index spectacles. After all, people who need vision correction need not stay deprived of the comfort and style of technology sunglasses.
Prescription sunglasses are special technology backed sunglasses that come with powered lenses to meet the needs of a person's vision correction. They are available for all kinds of prescription even bifocal and progressive prescriptions.
Sunglass maker Maui Jim specializes in producing customized prescription shades and can equip your sunglasses with power requirement ranging anywhere from +3.50 to -6.50.
Prescription sunglasses merge two different requirements for eyes into one product. They play the dual role of giving you the power of an indexed lens that corrects refractive error while protecting your eyes from the glare of the sun. They are basically sunglasses that come with your own corrective prescription built into the lenses that are already equipped with sun protection technology.
They allow you to have a clear vision and at the same time be protected against the bright sun while driving, while holidaying on a beach or indulging in any outdoor activity. They are best suited to people who have to spend a lot of time outdoors.
Rx technology as it is called, it can also help you get an image makeover. With indexed sunglasses, you can jettison your regular high prescription spectacles and surprise your friends.
"Prescription sunglasses are our major specialty and more and more people today are finding it an amazing technology. Prescription sunglasses are certainly a way to the future. They enable people to achieve the benefits of sunglasses while not worrying about vision correction lenses. Even people who wear contact lenses will find prescription sunglasses a better option for their eyes. Maui Jim's patented PolarizedPlus color-infused lens technology works extremely well in conjugation with our Rx technology to give the clearest and most beautiful vision to people including those who have high prescriptions," says Mr I Rahumathullah, Managing Director, Maui Jim India.
Maui Jim is focusing heavily on the prescription eye wear segment through its dealer network that comprises mostly opticians who help people find the right pair of glasses (or sunglasses). Maui Jim currently has over 1,000 dealers distributing its prescription wears across India, and the company is looking to expand this network aggressively.
A lot of people who wear prescription glasses use transitional or photochromatic lenses that darken when exposed to light. However, the transition is not as smooth as required. Prescriptions sunglasses, hence, are a better option as compared to transition lenses.
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3 tips to renting an apartment are discussed below.
Renting your very first apartment is not an easy task as you do not know much about the renting process. Furthermore, since this will be your first experience in renting apartments, it is normal for you to unaware what the process is. As a student, you may have your parents, relatives or even friends to search an apartment for you, but not everyone has the knowledge to do so. If you are under such situation, you may think that the task to rent apartments is almost impossible. So, here are some tips for you to get yourself a rented apartment.
1. Determine the amount of money that you would most likely willing to pay for the apartment's rental or you can make a budget list too. Decide on which type of apartment that you could rent based on your budget. Some advertisements will indicate the price that you will need to pay. Call the owner and try to negotiate with him. There are a lot of ads online, but beware as some of the ads are scam ads. If you were asked for personal details when you were just enquiring, do not bother replying back. It might be a scam. Therefore, you are advised to search for another ad instead.
2. Check on your new landlord or any agency's reputation to make sure that they do not have any complaints against them. Survey and ask around, neighbours or those people who have rented the house before. Besides that, make sure that the facilities around the apartment area can be accessed easily. For instance public transportation, walking routes, market, restaurants and etc.
3. If you do not have enough money to rent an apartment on your own, you might want to consider in getting yourself a roommate. There are several aspects that you need to consider regarding this matter, such as space allocation, cleanliness, cleaning duties and etc.
To rent an apartment is one decision that has a long-term impact, and to find the most suitable one is a tall order. Just like the majority of apartment seekers, you certainly want to find one that will meet your needs and still be affordable to you. Some useful tips can help you in your quest.
Before you begin your search, you should have a clear idea of what you want. For instance, the number of bedrooms that you will need, the distance you have to travel each day to work or school, any particular place you want to go to regularly, and other preferences that you may have to trim down on your choices.
You may want to use the internet to help you in your search. Some sites on apartment rentals can offer search features that will save you a lot of work and further narrow your choices down. The local newspaper can also provide valuable information.
It is also a good point to make a cell phone call from the prospective apartment. This is to find out whether you will have a weak or strong signal once you move in. This could be very important to check since you'll probably speaking on your phone a lot, especially if you choose not to purchase a landline and use the cable or local phone company for service.


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Jeff Bridges and Hailee Steinfeld in the 2010 'True Grit'
Some time ago, word went out in the land that Ethan Coen and Joel Coen would undertake a new version of True Grit. The brothers deemed the 1968 Charles Portis novel a great book and felt that many of its riches remained untapped by the 1969 film version. With No Country for Old Men as proof that the Coens know how to bring an estimable novel to the screen, we're salivating to see their film. But why did some people start trashing the first True Grit movie as soon as they heard a new one was coming?
The first True Grit was an abundantly good film—and in 1969 its Old Hollywood classicism held its own alongside Sam Peckinpah's radical, breakout work on The Wild Bunch. Why should it be a problem if we end up with two fine movies entitled True Grit, each with its own particular virtues? Instead, too often, we fall into the insidious pattern of talking about remakes—indeed, movies in general—as if it were a zero-sum game. Only one can survive. I like this movie, so let's beat up on the other one until it gives up the title—literally. That's just silly.
So saddle up old Bo—or Little Blackie, as the case may be—and ride the remake trail looking for multiple versions that are anything but redundant. There are quite a few, and some of them may surprise you.
We begin with a remake that got named best picture of its year—although Warner Bros. didn't go out of their way to mention that Martin Scorsese's The Departed (2006) was based on an ultracrisp Hong Kong movie, Infernal Affairs (2002), which had revivified the played-out HK gangster genre. Both films tell the parallel, occasionally intersecting stories of two police detectives leading double lives: one (Andy Lau/Matt Damon) as a police department mole planted by a mob leader (Eric Tsang/Jack Nicholson), the other (Tony Leung Chiu Wai/Leonardo DiCaprio) as a longtime deep-cover operative posing as the mob leader's righthand man. Some admirers prefer the Hong Kong movie, directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak from a script by Alan Mak and Felix Chong, for telling its twisty tale in a whirlwind hour-and-40-minutes, whereas Scorsese took two-and-a-half hours. But Scorsese's epic savors the history of the mob boss, the moles, and their (South Boston) community more deeply and is richer in atmosphere. It also offers a hogfeast of character-acting opportunities for Alec Baldwin, Mark Wahlberg, Ray Winstone, et al., and arias of finely florid dialogue by William Monahan. Best of all, it has Vera Farmiga, mesmerizing as the police shrink who becomes the lover of both secret agents. And at the very least, its success freed us of the ritual obligation to bemoan, year after year, that Martin Scorsese had never won an Oscar.
In 1928 Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur scored a huge hit with their play The Front Page, about a Machiavellian newspaper editor scheming to keep his star reporter, Hildy Johnson, from quitting to get married. A 1931 film version followed, directed by two-time Academy Award winner Lewis Milestone—a respectable effort, though Milestone's early-talkie experimentation would not age well. Fade in eight years later to a Hollywood livingroom where director Howard Hawks "was trying to prove to somebody that The Front Page had the best dialogue of any modern play." As it chanced, a woman read Hildy's lines that evening and inspiration struck. Within weeks Hawks and screenwriter Charles Lederer were preparing His Girl Friday (1940), a gender-bending adaptation that turned Hildy Johnson from Hildebrand to Hildegarde and made her the editor's ex-wife, looking to remarry. The sex change did no damage to the original concept (fact is, it lowered the creepiness quotient of Walter's boys'-club possessiveness), and Hawks was further inspired to appropriate some brilliant comedy-of-divorce material—including a certain supporting actor—from Leo McCarey's 1937 gem The Awful Truth. That film's star, Cary Grant, plays editor Walter Burns, and Rosalind Russell as Hildy matches him in hurtling energy, flawless timing, and mastery at overlapping dialogue in the trademark Hawksian manner. Add expert ensemble work by the character actors in the criminal courts pressroom gang and you've got a peerless comedy guaranteed to leave you both exhausted and exhilarated.
It took three tries to get The Maltese Falcon right. The Dashiell Hammett novel came out in 1930. Warner Bros. bought the rights and in 1931 made a not-bad movie, notable today for its Pre-Code frankness and the sleaziness of private eye Sam Spade as portrayed by Ricardo Cortez. In 1936 the studio recycled their property as Satan Met a Lady (1936), a ludicrous farrago that didn't credit the source novel by name, changed Sam Spade to Ted Shane (an inanely grinning Warren William), and made Kasper Gutman, "the fat man," a woman. Another five years passed. Then John Huston selected Falcon for his directorial debut. As the fair-haired boy among Warner screenwriters, Huston knew the book was readymade movie material with world-class dialogue; previous versions just hadn't taken advantage of that. The studio almost blew it by assigning George Raft to star, but Raft passed and the role of Sam Spade went to Humphrey Bogart, whose legend had begun to take form a few months earlier in the Huston-scripted High Sierra (1941). The rightest cast in Hollywood history fell into place around him—Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Elisha Cook Jr.—and Huston designed the most intricate camera strategy he would ever employ. The result was (somebody told you?) a masterpiece, the definitive private-eye mystery, a riveting duel of wits among a cast of vivid characters, and an early waft of what would eventually be identified as film noir.
Sometimes the original version is easy to transcend. Ocean's Eleven (1960) was the first "Rat Pack" movie, which is to say, the first movie conceived and built for Frank Sinatra and his best showbiz chums to inhabit and trash like a rock star's hotel room. It also began a streak of trashing, or at least besmirching, the reputations of some worthy directors—in this case, Lewis Milestone, who soon found that direction was neither wanted nor listened to. A caper movie, Ocean's Eleven had veterans of the 82nd Airborne conspiring to rob Las Vegas casinos. The caper part is endurable; the run-up to it, an endless slog of bad wisecracks and unrelieved male-chauvinist-piggery, is not. Still, that notion of taking down five Vegas casinos during an ingeniously engineered blackout kept audiences interested. Forty years later, director Steven Soderbergh, hot off dual Oscar nominations for Erin Brockovich and Traffic, decided to revisit it. With pal and producing partner George Clooney as ringleader Danny Ocean, a cadre of co-conspirators including Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, and a sublime Carl Reiner and Elliott Gould, and Julia Roberts (the former Erin Brockovich) as Ocean's ex-wife, the party was on. This time it was a good one. However, as much fun as the 2001 Ocean's Eleven delivered, it should never have birthed a franchise. Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen were almost, though not quite, as intolerably smug as the Rat Pack effort.
The Departed aside, the practice of remaking foreign-language films for the multiplex is mostly parasitic and often offensive. And when the foreign film is as singular, surprising, and unexpectedly fine as Tomas Alfredson's Let the Right One In (2008), the idea of plunking the story down in America and finding a horror-genre designated hitter to direct it sets one's blood a-boil. So imagine the shock and gratitude upon discovering that Matt Reeves has honored everything that made the Swedish masterpiece so extraordinary and moving, translated it directly when he could, and brought his own intelligent and discreet perspective to whatever needed adding or adapting. Let Me In (2010), like its predecessor, is a vampire movie so subtle that one hates having to mention it's a vampire movie. The main characters are two twelve-year-old outcasts who find each other in a snowy residential courtyard … although one of them has been twelve for many lifetimes. There's nothing gratuitous about the several gory deaths in the film, and the monster is heartbreakingly human in every way but one. This American version of John Ajvide Lindqvist's story takes place in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where (who knew?) it snows just as in Sweden. The juxtaposition of gothic horror and crisp mountain horizons delivers aesthetic satisfaction, as does the resetting of the story in a culture where vehicular traffic is an insistent fact of life. Let Me In is new again, though its wisdom is ancient.
After dismissive reviews in 1955, Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows went on to become the most widely admired of the director's elegant melodramas of the Fifties. Its plot concerns a handsome widow (Jane Wyman) in a small New England town who falls in love with a younger man (Rock Hudson), her gardener. Her grown children and her friends disapprove, to the extent that she breaks off the relationship and accepts the prospect of a lonely old age. Then she realizes how lonely that's going to be and … well, you should see it for yourself. All That Heaven Allows has been remade twice, though in both cases it's more a matter of homage: a postmodern filmmaker expecting viewers to recognize his film as an alternate version and have their experience deepened by the additional frame he's thrown around the original. Of course, Sirk's original was already frame-filled; his lucid, analytical visual style was key to investing potentially mawkish material with complexity, intelligence, and power. Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Sirk tribute, Ali—Fear Eats the Soul (1974), deals with the unlikely but tender love between an elderly German charwoman (Brigitte Mira) and a Moroccan "guest worker" (El Hedi ben Salem). Todd Haynes's Far From Heaven (2002) sets its tale where Sirk did, in a picturesque Fifties New England. Its heroine (Julianne Moore) is not widowed but married to a man (Dennis Quaid) who's secretly homosexual, and this time the sympathetic gardener is black (Dennis Haysbert).
Some remakes enjoy such stature that we may never suspect they're remakes at all. My Darling Clementine (1946) is among the best-loved of John Ford's classic Westerns, a historically inaccurate yet exquisitely imagined retelling of Wyatt Earp in Tombstone. No one ever forgets Henry Fonda's Wyatt leaning back in his chair on the hotel porch; or the chilling malevolence of Walter Brennan's Old Man Clanton; or the surgery performed on a saloon table with only a handheld kerosene lamp for light; or the showdown at O.K. Corral, the brusque popping of gunshots amid cloaking dust as the morning stagecoach rattles by. Above all, there is the poem of Sunday morning in Tombstone, the slow, auspicious gathering of the citizenry to flow toward an unbuilt church, and a worship service whose text will be music and dancing. Clementine is a film of breathtaking beauty and loving grace notes, yet on another level the production was a convenient way for Ford to fulfill a studio contract. 20th Century–Fox head Darryl Zanuck suggested remaking Frontier Marshal, a sturdy 1939 Fox B-movie in which Randolph Scott had played Earp opposite Cesar Romero's Doc Holliday. Although barely more than an hour long and downright abrupt in its climax, that movie includes prototypes of key scenes in Clementine. Director Allan Dwan started in the picture business before Ford, and his camera eye is nearly as attentive to the surrounding Tombstone community as Ford's would be.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) was one of the movies that nailed the Fifties. A small-town doctor (the late Kevin McCarthy) comes to realize that everyone in his community is being replaced by alien, soulless lookalikes. Was this sci-fi story an allegory of Cold War paranoia ("Commies are everywhere and they're taking over!") or a cry of protest against an age of conformity? To which the correct answer is: Yes. Daniel Mainwaring adapted the novel by Jack Finney; Don Siegel, who was on a roll at the time, directed. Then and now, an absolutely terrific movie. So who needed another version in 1978? Well, maybe people who'd noticed that the "Me generation" thing was getting out of hand. Director Philip Kaufman and screenwriter W.D. Richter set their adaptation in supertrendy San Francisco and delivered not only the creepy-suspenseful goods but also a witty detailing of how gratification seekers keep bouncing off one another's lives like misspent spermatozoa while pursuing insular notions of contentment. In the hero's best friend part, Jeff Goldblum created a zany, maddening, touching portrait of an insufficiently gifted narcissist compensating for neglect, and Leonard Nimoy was perfect casting as the celebrity psychiatrist and bestselling self-help author whose patients can truly say, "You've changed my life!" Donald Sutherland starred; Don Siegel and Kevin McCarthy did cameos. There have been two subsequent remakes: Abel Ferrara's Body Snatchers (1993), full-on nightmarish but uneven; and the quite superfluous The Invasion (2007).
By 2006 the James Bond franchise had been running on empty for so long that it was hard to muster curiosity about the new Double-O Seven, Daniel Craig. That changed utterly about five minutes into Casino Royale. Blond hair notwithstanding, this Craig person was a darker Bond than we'd ever thought to see—darker even than Sean Connery's, because Connery had that twinkle. Craig brought a nervy, wounded gravitas to the part, potent enough to cue us to take Bond's preposterous missions seriously. Turns out the new one mattered more than any since From Russia With Love (1963). Casino Royale, the first Bond novel, had been adapted twice before: there was an hourlong live-TV drama in 1954 (Barry Nelson—Barry Nelson?!—was Bond; Peter Lorre, Le Chiffre), and in 1967 independent producer Charles K. Feldman had made a multi-director, big-screen mess of it with three different James Bonds (David Niven, Peter Sellers, and Woody Allen). So that's why the 2006 Casino Royale counts as a remake, even if it's the only screen version that matters. Martin Campbell directed with both panache and care, and instead of the usual silly Bond gadgetry, the key technology was real-world: a Smart Phone! Mads Mikkelsen's Le Chiffre was a credibly dangerous, rather than cartoonish, villain, and Eva Green's Vesper Lynd became the first Bond woman of emotional consequence since Diana Rigg's Tracy in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
James Mangold's 3:10 to Yuma (2007) can be deemed a successful remake; it made money, got some good reviews, apparently satisfied a lot of people. Yet it's a textbook example of how to vulgarize a classic. Delmer Daves's 1957 original wasn't quite a great Western, but it was awfully good. Van Heflin played a small-time rancher who's about to lose his place, and Glenn Ford was the captured bandit he's deputized to escort to prison. The film is principally a character study, with the charming but lethal badman tempting the unheroic family man to take a bribe, let him escape, and go home safe. Inconveniently for the badman, he starts to admire his captor. The original 3:10 to Yuma, from a short story by Elmore Leonard, was as lean and spare as its drought-season black and white cinematography. Spare, too, in the matter of killings: only four or five (one is ambiguous). Mangold kills off ten times that many, even importing a Gatling gun at one point to increase the firepower, and most of the deaths are gratuitous. Oddly enough, he overcompensates by loading down Russell Crowe's outlaw and Christian Bale's rancher with enough backstory and motivations to break a horse's spine. Crowe and Bale are fine—Crowe especially, giving his bloody badman an artist's touch—and Ben Foster is memorably ornate as Crowe's kill-happy lieutenant. To Mangold's credit, he doesn't go hipster on the genre, twist the conventions with cheap irony. That's something. But the original version is really something.
Copyright 2013 Richard T. Jameson
Tags: 3:10 to Yuma, Casino Royale, Far From Heaven, His Girl Friday, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Let Me In, My Darling Clementine, Ocean's Eleven, The Departed, The Maltese Falcon, True Grit
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New figures released today by Shelter reveal the shocking extent of Scotland's child homelessness problem.
According to these statistics, around 38 children in 2017-18 became homeless per day in Scotland. This is roughly equivalent to six or seven children in each school in Scotland.
The analysis published alongside the figures also claims that homeless families with children were spending more time in temporary accommodation than families without, by about 40 days on average.
Alison Watson, deputy director of Shelter Scotland said: "The sheer scale of homelessness among children in Scotland is damning on our society. For the equivalent of a class and half of schoolchildren to be made homeless everyday [sic] just isn't right. The fact families with children then have to endure the limbo of temporary accommodation longer than other homeless households just compounds their misery.
Shelter have reiterated their calls on the government to produce a comprehensive health and housing policy to combat the growing crisis.
The report also features testimonies from people who have experienced homelessness, such as Linda McDonald who lived in temporary accommodation in Glasgow for three years with her two children. She said: "I was terrified at the start. I was scared of the unknown. I had my son and my daughter as well and I was trying to do my best for them.


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Q: Using Django Count() with conditional lookup types So I'm trying to aggregate exam data, and because the database lives on another server I'm trying to reduce this to as few database calls as possible.
I have this model (whose corresponding table is in a mySQL database if that matters):
class Exam(models.Model):
    submitted              = models.BooleanField(default=False)
    score                  = models.DecimalField(default=Decimal(0))

And this query:
>>> exam_models.Exam.objects\
...     .using("exam_datebase")\
...     .aggregate(average=Avg("score"),
...                total=Count("submitted"))
{'average': 22.251082, 'total': 231}

What I'm looking for is a way to also retrieve the number of passed exams, something along the lines of:
>>> exam_models.Exam.objects\
...     .using("exam_datebase")\
...     .aggregate(average=Avg("score"),
...                total=Count("submitted"))
...                passed=Count("score__gte=80"))
{'average': 22.251082, 'total': 231, 'passed': 42}

I know I can just send another query using .filter(score__gte=80).count(), but I was really hoping to get both the total count and the passing count on the same aggregate. Any ideas?

A: You are either going to need two queries, or do the aggregation manually.
To see why, let's consider the underlying SQL that Django generates and uses to query the database.
Exam.objects.aggregate(average=Avg("score"), total=Count("submitted"))

roughly translates to
SELECT AVG(score), COUNT(submitted)
FROM exam

The "Count" part of the aggregate is applying to the SELECT clause in the underlying sql query.  But if we want to include only scores greater than some value, the SQL query would need to look something like this:
SELECT AVG(score), COUNT(submitted)
FROM exam
WHERE score > 80

Filtering Exams with a particular "score" is applies to the WHERE or HAVING clause of the underlying SQL statement.
Unfortunately, there is not really a way to combine these two things. So, you are stuck doing two queries.
Having said all that, if you REALLY want to do a single query, one option is to just do the aggregation in your python code:
exams = Exam.objects.all()
total_score = 0
total_submitted = 0
passed = 0
for exam in exams:
    total_score += exam.score
    if exam.submitted:
        total_submitted += 1
    if exam.score >= 80:
        passed += 1
exam_aggregates = {
    'average': total_score / len(exams),
    'submitted': total_submitted,
    'passed': passed,
}

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Today in Music History...December 10, 2016
Music History: December 10
1906: Harold Adamson
1910: John Hammond
1914: Dorothy Lamour
1918: Professor Longhair
1924: Ken Albers (The Four Freshmen)
1926: Guitar Slim
1927: Joe Olivier (Bill Haley and His Comets)
1943: Chad Stuart (Chad and Jeremy)
1946: Ace Kefford (The Move), Walter "Clyde" Orange (The Commodores)
1948: Jessica Cleaves (Friends of Distinction), Ralph Tavares (Tavares)
1951: Johnny Rodriguez
1952: Susan Dey (The Partridge Family)
1967: Otis Redding
1988: Bill Harris (The Clovers)
1996: Faron Young
1999: Rick Danko (The Band)
2003: Bill Deal (The Rhondels)
1927: Although the radio show known as the WSM Barn Dance had been broadcasting out of Nashville, TN, for some time, this is the first day on which the show is announced as "The Grand Ole Opry."
1959: The Platters' four male members are acquitted of charges made on August 10th in Cincinnati, OH, of "aiding and abetting prostitution, lewdness and assignation."
1963: Donny Osmond makes his debut with the Osmonds on NBC's The Andy Williams Show.
1965: The Grateful Dead perform their first concert in San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium (and only their second overall).
1967: The previously unknown San Francisco group The Steve Miller Blues Band signs to Capitol for an unprecedented $750,000, dropping "Blues" from their name in the process.
1967: Otis Redding and four members of his band, the Bar-Kays, are killed when their tour plane crashes into a frozen near Madison, WI. Three days earlier, Redding had recorded what was to be his breakthough pop hit, "Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay."
1971: During a concert in London, Frank Zappa is thrown into the orchestra pit by a fan's jealous boyfriend, breaking his leg and ankle and fracturing his skull. Zappa takes months to recover.
1972: Roberta Flack and two members of her backup band are injured when her bass player totals her new Citroen near Manhattan.
1980: The body of John Lennon is cremated.
1985: Three Dog Night's Danny Hutton and Cory Wells fire third vocalist Chuck Negron.
1991: Legendary rock DJ and promoter Alan Freed is posthumously awarded a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
1966: The Electric Prunes, "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night"
1976: Wings, Wings Over America
1930: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, "Mood Indigo"
1949: Fats Domino, "The Fat Man"
1966: The Beatles, "Strawberry Fields Forever"
1975: The Who's The Who by Numbers album is certified gold
1979: Kool and the Gang's "Ladies Night" is certified gold
1979: Michael Jackson's Off the Wall album is certified platinum
1965: Ray Charles' "Crying Time" enters the pop charts
1966: The Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" hits #1
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