Birmingham Royal Ballet in Romeo and Juliet.
We are seldom short of opportunities to see Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet in London, usually from the Royal Ballet, who are planning a long run of it next spring. But it's really refreshing to see Birmingham Royal Ballet's take on the work, which has a more intimate, less grandiose feel. At Sadler's Wells the audience is close to the action, pulling us into a family tragedy rather than stressing the grand spectacle. It was a fine team performance from the company but particular honours go to Momoko Hirata's Juliet who let us know what she was thinking and feeling at every moment.
Hirata is a thoroughly convincing teenage Juliet on her first appearance with her nurse, full of youthful energy and mischief. She even giggles nervously when her parents first present Paris to her as a potential suitor. She still looks shy and unsure of herself on her entry into the ballroom. Her Juliet is something of a Daddy's girl, judging from the relative warmth of her greeting to her parents. From here on, her trajectory is steep: convincingly transfixed by her first sight of Romeo she ultimately finds in herself a steely determination to defy her family and follow her heart no matter what.
Momoko Hirata in Romeo and Juliet.
César Morales as Romeo dances beautifully and expansively. His caring and attentive partnering seems a natural expression of his love. The balcony pas de deux flows as effortlessly as you could wish, with Morales floating a weightless Hirata though the air. It all builds beautifully to a climax in the final all important kiss. But Morales' emotions are initially not so clearly projected as his Juliet's and not until the final act does he find the uninhibited passion to match Hirata's interpretation.
The trio of lads about town in Verona includes Tzu-Chao Chou as Mercutio and Brandon Lawrence as Benvolio. There's quite a notable height discrepancy between these two which can look rather awkward. (Lawrence was a late substitution). Nevertheless, together with Romeo they are an engaging bunch. Tzu-Chao Chou's Mercutio is a little one-note, a relentlessly perky interpretation, Lawrence is naturally elegant and polished.
Rory Mackay, a veteran of the company, is a grey haired Tybalt and gives us a rather different take on the character. Often given as a drunken thug, here he seems a dignified man struggling for control over his temper in the face of relentless provocation, before finally losing it.
Momoko Hirata and Cesar Morales in Romeo and Juliet.
BRB has just over 50 dancers and this is a big production. Sometimes it means that we get luxury casting in roles where you might not expect, for example the principal Celine Gittens as one of the liveliest harlots in the marketplace. The corps are all fully committed to rounding out their characters, the women squabbling and the men relishing their sword fighting opportunities. Even in the smaller roles there is real detail and sometimes we get a new view on a work we think we know well. Ruth Brill's Nurse seems younger, slimmer and feistier than the usual plump old dear: Feargus Campbell's Paris is petulant and sulky: Michael O'Hare as Lord Capulet really can't understand how his darling little girl has got so stroppy.
Designs for this production are by Paul Andrews, and with a very few exceptions (Mercutio's costume doesn't do Tzu-Chao Chou any favours, and the mandolin dancers have some rather odd tasselled outfits) they are attractive and opulent. Lord Capulets dress is particularly resplendent in red velvet. The front cloth gives us an Italian landscape with a town full of walls and towers that might have been painted in the 15th century. The sets are substantial and handsome, though on the Well's stage they can limit the space. This was most noticeable in the marketplace scenes in Act 2 where the performers could have done with more room. Paul Murphy conducted Prokofiev's score for The Royal Ballet Sinfonia with pleasing urgency.
Though it was a strong company performance, the evening really belongs to the principal couple. Hirata's charting of Juliet's journey from naive teenager to determined and passionate woman was eloquent and persuasive. Morales' dancing and partnering were exemplary throughout, and in the tomb scene a transforming ardour animated him further in his final desperate pas de deux with the body of Juliet. They gave blazing life and passion to Juliet and her Romeo.


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Tax policy report IR-2022-002: Order in Council: minimum standards for financial statements prepared by domestic trusts
Date: 21 January 2022 Priority: High
Security level: In Confidence Report number: IR2022/002
Action sought
Action sought Deadline
Minister of Revenue Agree to recommendations 28 January 2022
Authorise the lodgement of the attached Cabinet paper 10 am Thursday 24 February 2022
Contact for telephone discussion (if required)
Name Position Telephone
Stewart Donaldson Principal Policy Advisor S 9(2)(a)
Carl Harris Policy Advisor S 9(2)(a)
Order in Council: minimum standards for financial statements prepared by domestic trusts
1. In September 2021 you gave approval for officials to consult on minimum financial reporting standards for domestic trusts (BN2021/319). Consultation is now complete. This report seeks your agreement to set the minimum standards by Order in Council (OIC).
2. The Taxation (Income Tax Rate and Other Amendments) Act 2020 introduced increased disclosure requirements for trusts to support the Commissioner's ability to assess compliance with the new 39% personal income tax rate and assist the Commissioner in understanding and monitoring the use of structures and entities by trustees.
3. The new rules require trustees of a trust that derives assessable income, and does not fall within a specific exclusion category, to prepare financial statements. This is in addition to requirements to disclose settlors, settlements, distributions and appointer details.
4. An OIC will set minimum standards for the financial statements. This will provide certainty regarding the level of detail to which the statements must be prepared and will impact on the quality of data collected.
5. Policy officials undertook targeted and public consultation on the content of the OIC from June to December 2021. Officials also consulted on operational guidance to address practical matters for trustees, which is planned to be issued in an operational statement in March 2022.
6. The main themes arising from the OIC consultation involved a concern about high compliance costs, a preference for a one-year deferral of all disclosure requirements, general support for the OIC, recommendations concerning the definition and extent of relief for small trusts, and suggestions concerning various technical matters including related legislative amendments.
7. Officials acknowledge that the trust disclosure rules will result in increased compliance costs. This was addressed in the 2020 Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) "Introducing a new top personal income tax rate". The RIA included the recommendation to conduct a post-implementation review of the new disclosure rules. An appropriate time would be in 2023, after trustees using agents have filed their first returns under the new rules (these trustees have until 31 March 2023 to file their returns for the 2021-22 year).
8. Throughout the OIC consultation process in 2021, policy officials attempted to strike a balance between ensuring the OIC does not generate unnecessary compliance costs and ensuring the Commissioner will have sufficient financial information to meet the objectives of the disclosure rules. We believe the proposed OIC content will achieve this.
9. The proposed key features of the OIC are:
9.1 Date of application: Officials propose that the OIC will apply for the 2021-22 and future income years.
9.2 OIC requirements: Officials propose that the OIC specifies core requirements for financial statements that must be met by all trusts and additional requirements that must be met for trusts that are not small trusts.
9.3 Limited relief for small trusts: Officials propose limited relief in the OIC for small trusts. This would simplify their reporting obligations and significantly reduce compliance costs. However, all trusts will provide the same financial information in forms prescribed by the Commissioner to ensure the Commissioner has sufficient financial information to meet the objectives of the disclosure rules.
Small trusts would be defined as having less than $100,000 assessable income, $100,000 tax deductions, and $5 million total assets in the relevant income year. The income and deduction thresholds would exclude income and expenditure relating to the residential property bright-line rules. Officials estimate that these thresholds will provide limited relief for approximately 75% or 135,000 out of 180,000 trusts subject to the new disclosure rules.
9.4 Asset valuation: Valuations will be market value, cost or tax adjusted value, at the discretion of the trustees.
9.5 Associated person disclosures: Associated person transactions must be disclosed in the financial statements if not disclosed in prescribed forms. Disclosures will not be required for transactions at market value. The definition of associated person will be the general definition to be consistent with prescribed forms, however the Commissioner's operational statement will accept a best endeavours approach to reporting all associated persons transactions in the first year if information is not available.
10. Officials have recommended three legislative amendments to the trust disclosure rules in the separate policy report for including amendments to the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2021-22, GST, and Remedial Matters) Bill at the Finance and Expenditure Committee stage (IR2022/017 refers).
11. Officials recommend that the OIC come into force by 31 March 2022. Subject to Cabinet Committee and Cabinet meeting dates, this will require a waiver of the 28-day rule.
12. Officials have been liaising with the Parliamentary Counsel Office (PCO) regarding the drafting of this OIC. Due to the compressed timeframes, there is not sufficient time to obtain Cabinet approval to provide drafting instructions to PCO, and then separately obtain Cabinet Legislation Committee approval to submit the OIC to Executive Council. Officials recommend seeking policy and legislative approval for the OIC in the same Cabinet paper. PCO will begin drafting the OIC following your agreement to the minimum standards set out in this paper.
13. A regulatory impact assessment of the proposed minimum standards will be provided to you before the attached Cabinet paper is lodged with the Cabinet Office.
Recommended action
We recommend that you:
a. agree that the minimum standards for financial statements as set out in Appendix A to this report, which will apply to domestic trusts that are subject to the disclosure rules in section 59BA of the Tax Administration Act 1994, should be set by Order in Council.
Agreed/Not agreed
b. agree that the Order in Council will apply for income years ending from the date the Order is made.
c. direct officials to provide drafting instructions to the Parliamentary Counsel Office.
Directed/Not directed
d. agree to seek a waiver of the 28-day rule to allow the Order in Council to come into force by 31 March 2022.
e. authorise the lodgement of the attached Cabinet paper with the Cabinet Office by 10 am Thursday 24 February 2022 for consideration at the Cabinet Economic Development Committee meeting on 2 March 2022.
Authorised/Not authorised
f. note that a regulatory impact assessment will be provided to you before the attached Cabinet paper is lodged with the Cabinet Office.
g. agree to the release of the attached Cabinet paper, associated minutes, and key advice papers, within 30 days of Cabinet making decisions, subject to minor redactions under the Official Information Act 1982.
S 9(2)(a)
Stewart Donaldson
Principal Policy Advisor
Policy and Regulatory Stewardship
Hon David Parker
/ /2022
14. The Taxation (Income Tax Rate and Other Amendments) Act 2020 introduced increased disclosure requirements for trusts to support the Commissioner's ability to assess compliance with the new 39% personal income tax rate and assist the Commissioner in understanding and monitoring the use of structures and entities by trustees. Amendments to reduce compliance costs for some trusts were subsequently enacted in March 2021 in the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2020-21, Feasibility Expenditure, and Remedial Matters) Act 2021.
15. The increased disclosure requirements apply to trustees of trusts that derive assessable income and are not subject to specific exclusions. These new rules apply for the 2021–22 and later income years and require trustees to include with their annual return:
15.1 A statement of profit or loss and a statement of financial position
15.2 The amount and nature of settlements received
15.3 Settlor details, including details of previous settlors if not previously supplied to the Commissioner
15.4 The amount of distributions made and details of beneficiaries who received the distributions
15.5 Appointer details.
16. Officials propose setting minimum standards for the financial statements by an Order in Council made under section 21C of the Tax Administration Act 1994 (TAA). In the absence of minimum standards, there would be uncertainty regarding the level of detail the statements must be prepared to. This would affect the quality of data collected.
17. Two similar Orders have been made under the same section in the past:
17.1 The Tax Administration (Financial Statements) Order 2014 sets out the minimum standards for financial statements of companies, and
17.2 The Tax Administration (Financial Statements—Foreign Trusts) Order 2017 sets out the minimum standards for financial statements of foreign trusts.
18. The total volume of New Zealand trusts has been estimated to be up to 500,000. Inland Revenue records indicate that approximately 180,000 domestic trusts report assessable income each year and may be affected to some extent by the new disclosure requirements. The financial statement disclosure requirements will primarily affect approximately 55,000 of these domestic trusts. These are trusts that report assessable income to Inland Revenue but do not currently report business income or file any financial statements.
19. Officials proposed minimum standards that are consistent with the following objectives:
Minimise compliance costs while supporting policy objectives. The minimum standards will strike a balance between minimising unnecessary compliance costs and ensuring the Commissioner will have sufficient financial information to meet the objectives of the disclosure rules.
Improve the quality of data. The minimum standards will positively impact on the quality of data collected.
Ensure consistency with existing frameworks. The minimum standards will be consistent with previous minimum standards set for companies and foreign trusts and they will align with accounting principles where appropriate.
Follow the proportionality principle. The minimum standards will be tailored to the size of the trust. Small trusts will not be required to meet all of the minimum standards set for large trusts.
20. Policy officials undertook targeted and public consultation on the content of the OIC from June to December 2021. Officials also consulted on operational guidance to address practical matters for trustees. The main themes arising from the OIC consultation were:
20.1 High compliance costs. The new disclosure rules will result in some trusts incurring significant compliance costs. Submitters suggested this could be addressed by legislating a one-year deferral of all of the trust disclosure rules, to allow trustees to structure out of the rules or give them more time to prepare for implementation of the rules. In addition, legislative amendments could provide small trusts an exemption from all of the trust disclosure rules.
20.2 Support for OIC. The proposal to enact an OIC to set minimum financial reporting standards was supported, as it would provide guidance for trustees.
20.3 OIC relief for small trusts. Submitters engaged on how small trusts should be defined for the purposes of the OIC relief and the scope of that relief.
20.4 Technical matters. Submitters engaged on a range of technical matters that should be required in the OIC, the most significant relating to valuation, associated person disclosures, and disclosures relating to beneficiary accounts.
21. The proposed key features of the OIC content, largely supported by submitters and outlined below and in detail in Appendices A and B, are:
21.1 Date of application: Officials propose that the OIC will apply for the 2021-22 and future income years. There are several areas where compliance for the first year (2021-22) could be on a 'best endeavours' basis and these will be addressed in the Commissioner's operational statement. For example, the calculation of opening balances and the reporting of transactions with associated persons. Compliance with the OIC will not impact on the financial information the Commissioner will collect in prescribed forms.
21.2 OIC requirements: Officials propose that the OIC specifies core requirements for financial statements that must be met by all trusts and additional requirements that must be met for trusts that are not small trusts.
21.3 Limited relief for small trusts: Officials propose limited relief in the OIC for small trusts which would be defined using income, expense and asset thresholds. The proposal is to set these thresholds at $100,000 assessable income, $100,000 tax deductions, and $5 million total assets. The income and deduction thresholds would exclude income and expenditure relating to the residential property bright-line rules. Officials estimate that these thresholds will result in 75% (135,000 out of 180,000) of trusts will be classified as small trusts for the purpose of OIC relief. This means small trusts will have to meet fewer minimum requirements for their financial statements set out in the OIC, but the information they provide to the Commissioner in prescribed forms will remain the same for all trusts (information to be collected in prescribed forms is summarised in Appendix A).
21.4 Asset valuation: Valuations will be market value, cost or tax adjusted value, at the discretion of the trustees. The valuation method for certain assets must be disclosed.
21.5 Associated person disclosures: Associated person transactions must be disclosed in the financial statements if not disclosed in prescribed forms. Disclosures will not be required for transactions at market value. The general definition of associated persons will be applied, however for practical purposes the Commissioner's operational statement will accept a best endeavours approach to reporting associated persons transactions in the first year if information is not available to trustees.
21.6 Beneficiary account movements: Beneficiary account movement details will not be set out in the OIC but movements disclosed in prescribed forms would, at a minimum, be part of the materials supporting the financial statements.
22. Officials have recommended three legislative amendments to the trust disclosure rules in the separate policy report for including amendments in the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2021-22, GST, and Remedial Matters) Bill at the Finance and Expenditure Committee stage (IR2022/017 refers). These proposed changes will:
22.1 Exclude non-cash distributions that are minor services incidental to the operation of the trust from the disclosure requirements.
22.2 Clarify that the new rules require trusts to disclose the nature of each distribution made by the trustee of the trust.
22.3 Exempt all foreign trusts from the new domestic disclosure rules.
Administrative implications
23. Implementation and on-going administration costs will be met through baseline funding.
Appendix A – Summary of proposed minimum requirements for the preparation of financial statements by domestic trusts subject to section 59BA of the Tax Administration Act
25. The OIC will contain minimum requirements for the preparation of financial statements by trusts subject to section 59BA of the Tax Administration Act 1994 (TAA), as summarised below. For the purpose of the OIC, the term "financial statements" includes any notes and other supporting materials forming part of the financial statements.
Tier 1: Core requirements – for all trusts subject to s 59BA
i. Prepare a statement of financial position and a profit and loss statement.
ii. Apply the double-entry method of recording financial transactions.
iii. Use the prescribed valuation principles and disclose the valuation method adopted for shares/ownership interests, land and buildings.
iv. Financial statements must contain all relevant amounts that any forms prescribed by the Commissioner of Inland Revenue under section 35 of the TAA require to be copied from the company's financial statements (for example, the IR10 Financial Statements Summary and the financial statement disclosure section in the IR6 income tax return and the IR6B movement in beneficiary accounts).
Tier 2: Additional requirements for trusts that are not "small trusts"
v. Apply the principles of accrual accounting.
vi. Provide a statement of accounting policies.
vii. Disclose comparable figures for the previous income year to the extent that the trustee has that information.
viii. Disclose several specific items:
A reconciliation between the profit or loss in the statement of profit and loss to taxable income;
An appropriately detailed schedule of the trust's fixed assets and depreciable property used for tax purposes;
Matters relating to trusts with forestry and livestock businesses: information about the cost of timber as at the end of the income year and a reconciliation of movements in the cost of timber during the income year; if the trust is a specified livestock owner, details of livestock valuation methods, valuations, and calculations for tax purposes.
ix. Disclose associated persons transaction details. For the purposes of the disclosure rules:
The disclosure should include details of transactions between the trust and any associated person of the trustee, unless the transaction is minor and incidental to the activities of the trustee;
Transaction details include names of the associated persons, the nature of the association, the nature of the transactions and the amounts involved;
Disclosures are not required if transactions are at a market rate;
If associated person disclosures have been made separately in any forms prescribed by the Commissioner of Inland Revenue, this information does not need to be duplicated in the financial statements.
Associated persons are as defined in subpart YB of the Income Tax Act 2007.
26. Officials note that from the 2021-22 and later years, the following financial information will be collected by the Commissioner in prescribed forms for all domestic trusts subject to section 59BA:
Income Tax Return for trusts
i. Total accounting profit before tax
ii. Tax adjustments to reconcile accounting income with assessable income in tax return
iii. Untaxed realised gains
iv. Total assets
v. Associated persons financial arrangements
vi. Shares/ownership Interests
vii. Land
viii. Buildings
ix. Total liabilities
x. Associated persons financial arrangements
xi. Total equity
xii. Drawings
xiii. Closing current account balances
Trust beneficiary form
Beneficiary account movements
i. Opening balance
+ Distributions
ii. Accounting income and other distributions
iii. Corpus
iv. Capital
v. Use of trust property for less than market value
vi. Distribution of trust assets
vii. Forgiveness of debt
- Withdrawals
viii. Amounts withdrawn from the trust during the income year
ix. Closing balance
Appendix B – Summary of policy recommendations
27. The policy recommendations following discussions with stakeholders are summarised below.
28. Minimum standards: Officials propose the OIC will state it contains 'minimum' standards for trustees of trusts required to comply with the disclosure requirements set out in section 59BA of the TAA. Financial statements may be prepared to any level above the minimum specified by the OIC. These minimum standards will not directly affect other disclosures required under section 59BA(2), which include details of settlements, settlors, distributions and appointers.
29. Date of application: Officials propose the OIC be enacted by 31 March 2022 and apply it to the 2021-22 income year for balance dates ending 31 March or later. There are several areas where compliance for the first year (2021-22) could be on a 'best endeavours' basis and these will be addressed in the Commissioner's operational statement rather than the OIC. Changes proposed as a result of consultation remove significant compliance costs so there is no advantage in deferring its application. Making the OIC before 31 March 2022 and applying it for the 2021-22 year onwards will provide useful guidance for trustees. Setting out in an operational statement where the Commissioner will accept a 'best endeavours' approach for the first year will reduce transition costs for many trusts. Early balance-date trusts will not be required to follow the OIC (approximately 400 out of 180,000 trusts with assessable income are early balance date trusts and about half will be able to access the OIC small trust concessions).
30. Financial statement notes and supporting materials: Officials propose the domestic trust OIC will clarify that, for the purposes of the OIC, the term 'financial statements' includes any notes and other supporting materials. Section 59BA(2)(a) requires trusts to provide "a statement of profit or loss and a statement of financial position". Where the OIC refers to financial statements it will align with the companies OIC which states that the term financial statements "includes any notes and other supporting materials forming part of the financial statements". This is an important compliance cost savings measure – making it clear that items required in the OIC can simply be supporting materials rather than in the actual financial statements.
31. Non-standard balance date reporting: Officials propose that financial statements may be prepared to a non-standard balance date (i.e. a balance date that is not 31 March) used for accounting purposes, provided the trust does not derive business income which would require Commissioner approval for non-standard balance date reporting. This concession will relieve passive investment trusts from having to re-state their financial statements to the 31 March tax year if they have non-standard balance dates for accounting purposes.
32. Small trust thresholds: Officials propose that small trust relief thresholds be as follows:
i. To qualify as a small trust, a trustee must report, for the relevant income year:
less than $100,000 assessable income (before allocation); and
less than $100,000 deductible expenditure; and
total assets (including assets that are not in the tax base) valued at less than $5m as at balance date.
ii. The $100,000 assessable income and deductible expenditure figures used for the purpose of determining whether a trust is small will not include income assessed under the bright-line rules or related deductible expenditure.
iii. Assets will be valued using the valuation principles in the OIC and must be consistent with financial statements.
33. Officials estimate that raising these thresholds will provide relief for approximately 75% or 135,000 out of 180,000 trusts subject to the new disclosure rules. Threshold increases remove significant compliance costs but allow IR to continue to collect sufficient information in prescribed forms.
34. Officials considered suggestions from submitters to minimise trusts 'flipping' in and out of the disclosure rules if they have one-off transactions which would put them above the thresholds. Officials recommend the approach suggested by some submitters that the calculation be limited to assessable income (and deductible expenditure) in the current year but that assessable income derived from the bright-line residential property sale rules (and related deductible expenditure) be excluded to avoid anomalies involving residential property sales.
35. Small trust scope of relief: Officials propose the scope of relief for small trusts will mean only four minimum standards will apply to small trusts:
iv. Financial statements must contain all relevant amounts that any forms prescribed by the Commissioner of Inland Revenue under section 35 of the TAA require to be copied from the company's financial statements (for example, the IR10 Financial Statements Summary and the financial statement disclosure section in the IR6 income tax return and the IR6B movement in beneficiary accounts). These increases in the scope of the relief for small trusts remove significant compliance costs but allow the Commissioner to continue to collect sufficient information in prescribed forms.
36. Valuations: Officials propose the valuation method will be left to the judgement of the trustees.
37. The OIC will clarify that for the purposes of calculating market value of properties, the use of rating valuations is an acceptable proxy.
38. In order to prevent inappropriate use of a 'tax value' option, this option will be restricted to assets and liabilities that are in the tax base.
39. Associated person disclosures: Officials propose:
i. Trustees must disclose associated persons transaction details, with the exception of trustees of small trusts who must only disclose associated person transactions when required to do so in prescribed forms.
ii. Transaction details include names of the associated persons, the nature of the association, the nature of the transactions and the amounts involved.
iii. Associated persons are defined in subpart YB of the Income Tax Act 2007.
iv. The disclosure should include details of transactions between the trust and any associated person of the trustee, unless the transaction is minor and incidental to the activities of the trustee.
v. Disclosures are not required if transactions are at a market rate.
vi. If associated person disclosures have been made separately in any forms prescribed by the Commissioner of Inland Revenue, this information does not need to be duplicated in the financial statements.
40. The approach will reduce duplication with disclosures in prescribed forms, provide more clarity as to what disclosure is required, and reduce the extent of disclosures required (for example, by excluding minor and incidental transactions).
41. Beneficiary account movements: Officials propose there will be no requirement in the OIC to provide a line-by-line reconciliation in beneficiary accounts. Instead, the OIC will clarify that financial statements must contain all relevant amounts that any forms prescribed by the Commissioner of Inland Revenue including the IR6B movement in beneficiary accounts. The beneficiary account movements disclosed in the prescribed form will be sufficient for the purpose of the OIC. This will save compliance costs.
42. Gross-up options: Officials propose the OIC will not prescribe dividend gross-up for imputation credits and interest/dividend gross-up for RWT. The gross-up option will be left to the judgement of the trustees.
43. Trusts Act 2019: Officials propose the OIC will explicitly note that there are requirements for trustees to keep records under section 45 of the Trusts Act 2019. Section 45 of the Trusts Act 2019 requires each trustee of a trust to keep, so far as is reasonable, records of the trust property that identify the assets, liabilities, income, and expenses of the trust and that are appropriate to the value and complexity of the trust property.
44. This requirement differs from the OIC as it does not explicitly require trustees to compile financial statements and it allows the trustee to exercise judgement as to what is reasonable and appropriate in respect of record keeping. However, it is a legislative provision that could be usefully referenced in the OIC, while clarifying that the minimum reporting standards in the OIC are more prescriptive and in some cases apply income tax concepts (for example, the use of tax valuations).
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Servo zoom can now be controlled using the wide-tele zoom rocker on supported cameras (for example JVC GY-LS300), with a touch screen interface (most Panasonic cameras), or from PlayMemories Mobile App for Sony cameras.
For supported Sony cameras, the Record button on the grip of the Cinema EOS CN-E 18-80mm T4.4 L IS KAS S lens can be assigned to one of more than 50 functions on the A7 series and other supported cameras. By assigning it to the MOVIE function, the user may start/stop recording and zoom with the lens' hand grip which is handy for a small-form-factor camera like A7R Mark II.
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Never has any cinema lens received such comprehensive electronic integration across disparate lens mounts and brands like Blackmagic, JVC, Panasonic, Sony and of course, Canon Cinema EOS natively.
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Russia is also suspending the activities of the NATO Military Liaison Mission and terminating the work of the NATO Information Office in Moscow.
MOSCOW, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- The Russian Foreign Ministry announced Monday that Moscow has decided to suspend the operation of the Russian Permanent Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in retaliation for the alliance's "unfriendly actions."
Russia's ambassador to Belgium will be authorized for emergency contacts with the NATO headquarters, while an ambassador of the NATO member states in Moscow can perform similar functions, the ministry said in a statement.
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Q: Forcing b-PAC to generate DataMatrix barcodes of a specific symbol size I am using Brother's b-PAC3.2 SDK in C# to generate and print DataMatrix barcodes using a Brother label printer. My application uses a template created using their P-touch Editor that just has the barcode and a label.
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A: Please show the content of the url you are calling. If your URL contains 127.0.0.1 your are calling the local host of the android emulator (and your server does not run on the emulator).
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Jewish Wisdom on Raising My ADHD Son
Mar 18, 2017 | by Maayan Meir
Each of us is given different traits, inclinations, capabilities. The only question is: what do we choose to do with them?
I am the mother of that boy, the one makes teachers drink more coffee and take an Advil before they enter the classroom. The one whose mother sees the school number on the phone display and never thinks: Is he sick? Rather she just wonders: What has he done now?
Don't get me wrong. My son is one of the most adorable children you can ever hope to meet: a bright-eyed, cheerful imp who is adept at charming people off their feet. He is also truly caring and generous. Unfortunately, all these wonderful qualities can suddenly go into hiding and all you'll see in him is his severe case of ADHD.
Before he got his diagnosis, his behavior kept baffling me. He was my first child and I was so proud of him: of his quick wit, advanced vocabulary, friendly demeanor…and yet I couldn't understand him. How could such a smart child behave so badly? How could a child with a giving, loving nature bite a friend because of a silly disagreement? How could a child who hugged me so tightly defy me minutes later?
As sweet and wonderful as my son is, he has a very hard time always behaving in the way we expect children to behave.
The ADHD diagnosis gave me the answer. As sweet and wonderful as my son is, he has a very hard time always behaving in the way we expect children to behave. ADHD is far from being a disorder which only affects attentiveness; it is a disorder of executive functions. Children (and adults) with ADHD find it immeasurably more difficult to do things like self-regulate their emotions, plan ahead, or use working memory.
While there are many things that we are doing to help him (and yes, medication is one of these things) I used to worry almost obsessively about my son's future. I needed to know what the likeliest outcome was for a child with the kind of ADHD which made him stand out everywhere.
I read the statistics and the anecdata till my head hurt. People with ADHD are more likely to end up in prison…but they are also likely to be successful entrepreneurs. People with ADHD are involved in many more accidents…but they also demonstrate remarkable creativity. Some books and websites tried to tell me that ADHD was a terrible disability. Others tried to sell the idea that it was a tremendous gift. I didn't know whom to believe. I didn't know which of the pieces of information I found applied to my son. I didn't have a crystal ball, but how much did I wish that I could see into the future and sooth my anxiety!
One day while once again letting worry get the better of me, I recalled a Talmudic saying I had read some years ago. "A person who is born under the astrological sign of Mars will have a tendency to spill blood… he will be either a surgeon, or a criminal, or a butcher, or a mohel."
Think about it. How would you feel if you were given such a diagnosis: "Your child was born with a tendency to spill blood…"? Wouldn't you be freaked out?
Yet the Talmud does NOT freak out. A tendency to spill blood? Just another trait. And the one who has this trait can be average, righteous – or wicked. Just like any other person.
That was when the penny dropped for me. There is nothing inherently good or bad in my son – nothing inherently good or bad in any of us. We are given different traits, inclinations, capabilities. The only question is: what do we choose to do with them?
My son is not obedient by nature. Unlike other children, he is not inclined to bow his head respectfully just because someone is older, bigger, or scarier than him. Is that necessarily a bad thing? Too many of us, after all, spend our life showing respect and deference to certain people just because they are bigger, richer, or more influential. My son, on the other hand, is not likely to ever fall into that error. Yes, he needs to be taught respect and humility, but when he will show respect it will only be because he has internalized the moral duty demanding that. He will never show respect out of fear or inferiority feelings.
Or take his abundant energy. A child who can't sit still in the classroom is disruptive to their teachers and peers, but life in general is not much like school. One should, of course, invest their energies in the right thing, but what a blessing it is to have prodigious energies and use them for the right cause! Think of it as doing good with a racing car engine instead of with an electric bicycle engine. How often do we all wish that we could do just a little bit more? A person with ADHD can often do a great deal more – and without getting exhausted.
Yes, my son has unique challenges, but none of this determines his future.
Even traits like rule-bending and boundary testing have their positive sides. There are rules which must not be bent and boundaries which will never change, but many things in life are more flexible than that. In many areas of life, every progress that has been achieved was due to people willing to challenge old assumptions and to disregard common wisdom. Many experts, for instance, believe that Albert Einstein had ADHD. It can definitely explain the fearless way in which he revolutionized physics. So what if something had been held true for hundreds of years? That alone would never be a consideration for most people with ADHD.
I do not, of course, expect my son to turn out to be an Einstein. I have no idea what kind of person he is going to be – nor do I know that about any of my other children. But the Talmud's message about traits has helped me to stop fearing the future so much. Yes, my son has unique challenges, because he has a unique set of traits. But none of this can determine his future.
Instead of worrying, all I should do is parent him as well as I can, pray that he will always exercise his free will wisely, and believe that he is capable of greatness – just like any other child.
Maayan Meir
Maayan Meir is a journalist and writer. Her children are her greatest source of inspiration.
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(7) Yael, December 15, 2019 12:17 PM
Charlie Harary, the famous, talented, sought after speaker and CEO,
says that his mother told him if he was growing up now, he would definitely be on medication. He had undiagnosed ADHD, his mother thinks. And he's an extremely successful individual. You can easily access him for advice and encouragement.
In case it's an outcome you haven't been presented with
This was very well written, it was like you were describing my son from kindergarten on. So while I can't tell you where your son will end up but my is now a graduate fellow at the university of Minnesota.
(5) Rose, February 20, 2019 12:03 AM
What an understanding and great mother. A worthwhile article.
(4) MESA, March 20, 2017 4:56 PM
Make sure you get the book "Delivered from Distraction" by Drs Edward Hallowell and John Ratey. It tells ADD like it is, but it presents so many positive things about ADD and the people who are "blessed" with it. I don't think either of these doctors are Jewish, but the book definitely echoes the Jewish way of thinking about this.
(3) Anonymous, March 20, 2017 12:47 AM
All may turn out well
I'm the father of two sons, one with ADD and the other, the younger, with ADHD. From what you wrote, I think your son's (invisible) disability is more severe than those of my sons., too, was baffled by the older son's sudden nursery-school misbehavior. Fortunately, we found a psychologist and psychiatrist who helped. When I was fretting about giving him behavior-altering medication, a friend whose son also had ADD asked me: "If he had diabetes, would you give him insulin?" Medication -- and some counseling with a child psychologist -- helped enormously, so much so that we had to tell his teachers of his ADD; they said they hardly could notice. Our second son's problems more severe. Again, medication helped, but still, he has a little trouble letting go of an idea until you agree with him, and he laughs far too loudly.My sons now are 35 and 32. They never have gotten into trouble, and the younger son is the sweetest guy in the world -- always willing to help us as he's doing while I recover from surgery that limits my mobility.
Our sons are smarter than my wife and me added together. (ADD usually occurs in very intelligent children.) Our older son has a Ph. D. and is seeking a tenure-track position while trying to pay the bills from the exploitation wages of a college adjunct teacher. Our younger son, who always had to sit in the front row of the classroom to pay attention, is a mechanical engineer with a master's degree and a new job at a major medical-device company at an annual wage that exceeds the best I ever did. I'm not telling you this to brag but to try to give you hope that with proper medication, appropriate attention in school (a school psychologist should be involved and every teacher has to be informed every year) and proper counseling, your son may, indeed, become a happy, well-liked successful adult.
Hang in there, and best of luck.
Re: The school phone number on the phone display
My now adult child has high functioning autism. I had the same reaction you described when I saw that phone number. I wish you all the best as you navigate this difficult journey.
(1) Naomi, March 19, 2017 9:47 AM
Education to fit
ADHD kids perhaps even more than others also need education Al pi darcho. My son sounds much like yours. He caused mayhem at home, in Jewish day school, and in a mainstream public school class. Then I surrendered to our school district's attorney Individual Education Plan process. Now my son is in a small, highly specialized special ed class with tons of structure, acceptance, high expectstiond and personalized rewards. B"H he's making great progress, academically, socially and in his personal middot. I hope your son does, too.
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Q: [here-api]REST API to find all streets that cross a line I have a line defined by the locations of its 2 ends. Is there a Here REST API call that retrieves all the streets/roads that cross this line?
Thanks.


I just got back from a beautiful 10 day trip across France with my bf. Since this blog is about both books and adventures, I thought I would share how it went!
Back in March when we booked the trip, I searched high and low on the interwebs for ideas of what we might do. My best source, it turns out, was following blogs and Instagram accounts. I thought I would add to the pool that is already out there just in case others need ideas. The posts will be in four parts: The Set Up (getting ready and day 1), Avignon (days 2 - 3), Nice (days 4-5), and Paris (days 6-10). You ready? Let's go!
BF and I are the type of folk who like to hop in a car and go for a drive to a different state on a whim. We talked about staying primarily in Paris but then liked the idea of splitting the trip. We wanted the freedom to take little day trips or wander into a different country if we felt like it. Ultimately, we decided to rent a car, slowly make our way down to Nice, ditch the car after a couple of days in Nice, and then take the train to Paris.
We knew Nice and Paris were musts on our list of places but where to stop on our way to Nice was a bit puzzling. I did some research on the internet and couldn't find a whole lot about the little cities between Paris and Nice. I looked at driving times to figure out what might make the most sense in terms of hours. We would be landing in Paris after a red-eye direct flight from Boston. We were going to rent the car at the airport and hit the road from there. So we picked a random spot (Dijon) that was about 3 hours from Paris. We picked Avignon after that because it was a straight shot from Dijon, in Provence, and not too far from Nice. We decided to drop off the car in Nice because we also wanted the experience of taking the train. BF and I also figured that after 6 days of bouncing around, the 6 hour trip back to Paris might be a bit cozier as passengers.
We landed in Paris exhausted but ready to go! BF went through the rental line (soooo long! It took over an hour!) and we ended up with a cute little VW Golf. BF also got an international data plan so we could use GPS to find our way around. We were told we would have to pay extra for GPS in the car. Turns out we couldn't figure out the data with his phone on the first day and the GPS in the car did work so we ended up using that. It was magical!
Our plan was to drive through the city of Troyes on our way to Dijon because it took us through the Champagne region of France.
We stopped in Troyes, as planned and holy crap was it beautiful! It is an old medieval town with cobblestone streets and has amazing timber architecture. (My pictures are not as good as a google image search. So you should do that too. Or click here because I already did it for you.) I was super excited about France already! We got some street bread - what we affectionately started calling baguettes because, seriously, everyone just walks around France with baguettes - and wandered around a bit trying to find some WiFi so we could contact our first Air BnB host.
About an hour later, we left Troyes, headed for Dijon. The GPS in the car gave us route options, one that included the scenic route. We opted for that and hit the road.
The drive from Troyes to Dijon was simply stunning. Acres and acres of vineyards. We passed so many champagne vineyards but decided to keep driving instead of stopping.
Yes - That is a GIANT champagne cork.
Our Air BnB was a garden studio near the owner's property. It turns out that while this was true, the world outside of her gated entrance was a little lacking in charm. Dijon was not as vibrant and lively as Troyes. We aren't sure if it was just a quiet night, if we were tired, if we were in the wrong part of the city or what. We weren't too impressed with the city that invented dijon mustard. However, Dijon was really just a stopping point on our way south. So in the end we were ok with the decision.
The next morning, we stopped at a local grocery store, picked up road trip snacks, baguettes, and some real DIJON dijon mustard. Then we hit the road again!
So there you have it! Day 1! Next up is Day 2 - Avignon.
1. To get data working on your phone, you probably need to restart it.
2. WiFi is pronounced wee-fee. If you say it wrong they can't help you find it.


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Act No. 64
ACT NO. 64 - AN ACT EXTENDING GENERAL ORDER NUMBER THIRTY OF THE MILITARY GOVERNOR, DATED MARCH TENTH, NINETEEN HUNDRED, RELATING TO CUSTOMS DUTIES IN THE JOLO ARCHIPELAGO, UNTIL DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND ONE, AND ENLARGING ITS PROVISIONS
Section 1. Whereas the Sultan of Jolo Archipelago and the Moro inhabitants thereof have been loyal to the United States, and have preserved peace and order in a manner unprecedented in the history of the Spanish control of that Archipelago, and
Whereas, the said Moros have, during the past year, suffered severely from loss of cattle by reason of an epidemic disease, in consequence of which Major-General Otis issued General Order Number Thirty, dated March tenth, nineteen hundred, suspending until December thirty-first, nineteen hundred, the prescribed customs dues on the importation of cattle, articles of food, petroleum, tobacco, matches, clothing and articles for use in the manufacture of the same, sewing machines, agricultural implements and machinery for use in preparing products of the soil for home consumption or export, provided such articles of consumption, trade or merchandise, were owned, imported, and handled by the native inhabitants of the said Archipelago, and that all business connected therewith in the Archipelago was conducted by and between the inhabitants thereof, and further permitting the Moro inhabitants of the Archipelago to export free of duty all products of the soil where they were solely concerned in person and interest in handling and shipping the same; and
Whereas, the conditions leading to the issue of General Order Number Thirty have not improved, and the necessity for the relief therein extended continues and a somewhat wider relief is demanded:
The operation of General Order Number Thirty, of March tenth, nineteen hundred, is hereby extended to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and one, and is enlarged so as to include within its exempting provisions, furniture, lumber, and material for the construction of houses and boats, crockery and glassware, wagons, carts, books, and stationery.
Sec. 2. In view of the emergency presented by the above conditions, and the public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.


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Deep Metric Learning Using Triplet Network
==========================================
This code replicates the results from the paper "Deep metric learning using Triplet network" (http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6622).

It can train a TripletNet on any of the {Cifar10/100, STL10, SVHN, MNIST} datasets.

##Data
You can get the needed data using the following repos:
* CIFAR10/100: https://github.com/soumith/cifar.torch.git
* STL10: https://github.com/eladhoffer/stl10.torch
* SVHN: https://github.com/torch/tutorials/blob/master/A_datasets/svhn.lua
* MNIST: https://github.com/andresy/mnist

##Dependencies
* Torch (http://torch.ch)
* "eladtools" (https://github.com/eladhoffer/eladtools) for optimizer.
* "nngraph" (https://github.com/torch/nngraph) for TripletNet configuration.
* "cudnn.torch" (https://github.com/soumith/cudnn.torch) for faster training. Can be avoided by changing "cudnn" to "nn" in models.

##Models
Available models are at the "Models" directory. The basic Model.lua was used in the paper, while NiN based models achieve slightly better
results.

##Training
You can start training using:
```lua
th Main.lua -dataset Cifar10 -LR 0.1 -save new_exp_dir
```

##Additional flags
|Flag             | Default Value        |Description
|:----------------|:--------------------:|:----------------------------------------------
|modelsFolder     |  ./Models/           | Models Folder
|network          |  Model.lua           | Model file - must return valid network.
|LR               |  0.1                 | learning rate
|LRDecay          |  0                   | learning rate decay (in # samples
|weightDecay      |  1e-4                | L2 penalty on the weights
|momentum         |  0.9                 | momentum
|batchSize        |  128                 | batch size
|optimization     |  sgd                 | optimization method
|epoch            |  -1                  | number of epochs to train (-1 for unbounded)
|threads          |  8                   | number of threads
|type             |  cuda                | float or cuda
|devid            |  1                   | device ID (if using CUDA)
|load             |  none                | load existing net weights
|save             |  time-identifier     | save directory
|dataset          |  Cifar10             | Dataset - Cifar10, Cifar100, STL10, SVHN, MNIST
|normalize        |  1                   | 1 - normalize using only 1 mean and std values
|whiten           |  false               | whiten data
|augment          |  false               | Augment training data
|preProcDir       |  ./PreProcData/      | Data for pre-processing (means,Pinv,P)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Q: Hide a page in the admin end without a plugin? I'm creating a series of pages with iFrames embedded in them, but it seems the only way to do this within Wordpress (i.e. using the templating system) is to create pages in the admin end and then create individual templates for each of those pages.
Is it possible to hide those pages from the admin without a plugin? I see no need for the client to see those pages when they can't edit anything in them.
Thanks,
osu

A: you can use parse_query filter hook to exclude your pages using post__not_in attribute
add_filter( 'parse_query', 'exclude_pages_from_admin' );
function exclude_pages_from_admin($query) {
    global $pagenow,$post_type;
    if (is_admin() && $pagenow=='edit.php' && $post_type =='page') {
        $query->query_vars['post__not_in'] = array('21','22','23');
    }
}

this will exclude pages with the ids of 21,22,23
and to make sure this pages will not be included on the front end using wp_list_pages
you can use wp_list_pages_excludes filter hook:
 add_filter('wp_list_pages_excludes', 'exclude_from_wp_list_pages');
 function exclude_from_wp_list_pages($exclude_array){
    $exclude_array = $exclude_array + array('21','22','23');
    return $exclude_array;
 }


Thanks to a great present from my wife of a generously large gift card to Barnes & Noble, which just opened a two-story location in our local mini-mega-mall, I spent a pleasant hour+ becoming acquainted with its wares this evening (David Quammen's The Reluctant Mr. Darwin and an inexpensive copy of Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason, if you must know, as an appetizer).
However, as always, I came away from a visit to one of these bastions of current American taste in reading rather depressed. The science section was excruciatingly small and tucked away in the farthest corner from the door. Not counting "Idiot Guides" and their kin, there was no more than four six-foot-high, four-foot-wide shelves devoted to books on science. A good portion of those were biographies, such as Quammen's, and most of the rest were popularizations of science. There were little or no "hard" science, though, to be fair, they may have been shelved in the "Reference" section, which I did not peruse. And then you had the gross mis-shelving, such as Guillermo Gonzalez' The Privileged Planet, flying under false science colors.
On the other hand, there were three of the same sized shelves of Bibles alone. Add to that four shelves of "Christian Inspiration" and four more of just plain "Christian" books and science was greatly outgunned by one religion alone. Add to that sections on "Eastern Religions," "New Age," "Astrology," and the like, and science was swamped by purveyors of faith. And we need not even count the ordinary woo, such as "Alternative Medicine." Heck, even one sub-category of Japanese animation known as "Manga" had more shelf space than science.
It's not like Americans don't have some sort of interest in science -- the science fiction section was five times larger than the science area. We just like to read about fantastic futures we won't be participating in.
The only hopeful sign was that there were a large selection of low-cost Barnes & Noble editions of great literature that were being pushed as "summer reading." Maybe future generations of Americans will at least be reading the classics during lulls in serving up hamburgers to the Chinese and Indian tourists.
I feel your pain, brother. Visiting B&N has been an exercise in angst lately.
And I'm always ambivalent too -- which just adds to the pain -- because the younger generation at least seem willing to come to a store that mostly has books and actually pay for some approximation of literature and knowledge. I had lived in dread of having an "Eloi moment," when everyone around me, drugged on tv and computer games and the internet, had forgotten what books were or why they were important.
I was referred to this post by Dana, and I must say that I empathize. I'm becoming increasingly frustrated with what gets passed off as "literature" these days!
Good luck in your pursuit of science!


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Believe in yourself. Henry Ford famously said "whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're right".
Take the risk. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. There's plenty of sayings about how important it is and to be an entrepreneur, you've got to take a risk.
Set achievable goals. Break your idea down into small steps and start with the first one.
Find good people who will support you, believe in you and invest in you. Or perhaps find a partner who you can share the journey with.
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