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UPDATE: UK industry responds to The Times article alleging tax avoidance in film business
Future Capital Partners says it will "stand absolutely behind the investments"; Ingenious battles allegations by saying that a "rogue inspector" made a "misinformed statement."
Some UK industry sources have given a sceptical response to the front page story in today's Times newspaper, alleging that wealthy investors in film have been abusing tax breaks aimed at the UK's creative industries.
Nevertheless, some are warning that such a prominent story in a national newspaper could affect investor confidence in the film industry.
The Times (of London) story — written by Alexi Mostrous, Fay Schlesinger and Roland Watson — quotes HM Revenue & Customs as saying that "film schemes are a £5 billion risk for us at least."
As one source told Screen, if the Revenue really is losing £5 billion in unpaid tax as claimed, that would mean at least £10 billion is going into film - a figure dismissed as "nonsense."
The Times article (link here) focused in particular on investment schemes set up by Patrick McKenna [pictured] at Ingenious Media and Tim Levy at Future Capital Partners.
Levy's Terra Nova partnership, The Times reported, gave investors the chance to avoid deferred tax by transferring liabilities offshore.
Future Capital Partners has now issued a statement (in full below) that says it stands behind its investments from 1997 to 2007. "We stand absolutely behind the investments we arranged during that period," the company said.
However, Ingenious issued a statement today insisting that its dealings with the Revenue are transparent and railing against breaches of confidentiality at HMRC while accusing a "rogue inspector" of making a "misinformed statement."
"Ingenious has never been in the business of tax avoidance. All of our activities are bone fide commercial ventures, as evidenced by the film profits we have generated for investors and the tax they have paid and will pay on all film revenues arising," the statement read (full text below)."Our film production partnerships have been responsible for many well known and profitable films which have generated UK taxable receipts significantly greater than the initial tax relief given." Ingenious also claimed that the company had "received advance tacit approval for our film production partnerships directly from the most senior officials within the Film Policy Unit of HMRC. If they didn't like them or thought they constituted avoidance in any way why did they give us the green light?"
Details of prominent public figures (including footballers and broadcasters) who've invested in tax efficient film finance schemes like Ingenious Film Partners and Inside Track can be found on website whorunsit.org. However, many of these schemes are several years old.
"A lot of the partnerships were using legislation which was introduced to incentivize people to invest in film. The Government at the time saw them as a good thing," commented Christine Corner, a partner in the media and entertainment group at accountancy firm Grant Thornton.
The Times investigation into the film industry comes as the UK Government has intensified its campaigning against tax avoidance. Today, comedian Jimmy Carr took to Twitter to apologise for his tax affairs after Prime Minister David Cameron called his involvement in a tax avoidance scheme "morally wrong."
It's almost a decade now since the UK Government clampdown on tax driven investment in film during the height of the "sale and leaseback era." Since then, the UK film tax credit has been put in place.
Stay tuned to Screen for the response from Future Film.
Future Capital Partners statement in full
Between 1997 and 2007 the Government put in place tax laws and policies that encouraged investment in film via very generous tax deferrals. FCP was one of the leaders in this sector, created and encouraged by the Government at the time.
We stand absolutely behind the investments we arranged during that period. Those investments created employment, films, taxes – all the benefits that the legislation was designed to achieve.
We now have a situation where because of the current economic environment HMRC and latterly the Government are challenging what are both legally structured and commercial investments.
Recent coverage have been very clear about the differentiation between 'synthetic investments' and those with proper asset backed potential returns. We maintain that, in all circumstances the investments that have
been facilitated by FCP are commercially driven, where there is considerable risk to capital, but significant benefit if the project is successful.
Since 2007 many things have happened and legislation has restricted the ability for individuals to invest in film partnerships.
It is well known that we have diversified our offerings and we continue to offer asset backed investments with potential for profit and risk in diverse industries. As an example, we are now in the process of raising
over £200 million to create over 1000 temporary construction jobs and 150 permanent jobs in Grimsby. On completion, the project is forecast to generate over £1 billion of revenue for this country and the associated
taxes that go with this."
The Ingenious statement in full
Ingenious has never been in the business of tax avoidance. All of our activities are bone fide commercial ventures, as evidenced by the film profits we have generated for investors and the tax they have paid and will pay on all film revenues arising.
Our film production partnerships have been responsible for many well known and profitable films which have generated UK taxable receipts significantly greater than the initial tax relief given. The films we have produced are self evidently commercial films eg Avatar to name but one of many.
Furthermore, we received advance tacit approval for our film production partnerships directly from the most senior officials within the Film Policy Unit of HMRC. If they didn't like them or thought they constituted avoidance in any way why did they give us the green light?
To clarify, our investors pay UK tax on their share of the worldwide income from the films, a fair number of which are already profitable. Even those films that don't fully recoup their costs give rise to a tax charge on the income they generate.
In short, Ingenious film partnerships cannot be compared to or described in the manner in which they have been as similar to those operated by other firms and which are designed to avoid tax.
Furthermore, our film sale and leaseback partnerships were set up in accordance with specific legislation introduced by the Government in 1997 to encourage investment in British films and fully accord with HMRC's guidelines, as acknowledged by them.
Our dealings with HMRC have been in the ordinary course of business and fully transparent. We have received various assurances from HMRC over a long period of time that our film partnerships have complied with proper accounting and trading rules, which is why we were surprised not to have received their full agreement and why we have now asked for the matter to be brought to a conclusion by an independent tribunal.
We believe that any view expressed by an individual within HMRC about a taxpayer's affairs, if such a statement was actually said given the breach of their own rules that it represents, is a very serious breach of confidentiality and we have therefore instructed our lawyers to take appropriate action. We will also be taking this matter up directly with the most senior officials within HMRC as a matter of urgency. It has to be questioned, therefore, as to how bona fide such a comment really is. We believe it has come from a rogue Inspector who has no authority to make such a misinformed statement. Our day to day dealings with HMRC continue as before and we work towards what we believe more than ever will be a successful outcome at the Tribunal.
In summary, we cannot be involved in tax avoidance at the same time as we are engaged in profit making activities which generate more tax payable than relief given.
Sale and leaseback is an official government inspired deferral of tax (not avoidance) and our production partnerships have generated profit making films on which full UK tax has been paid. We have attempted to work with HMRC for 7 years to resolve any concerns they may have and as they have been unable to articulate what their concerns are we have asked for the matter to be resolved by an independent tribunal. Our film investments are fundamentally different to those "schemes" and "arrangements" whose primary aim is to avoid tax.
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Let's be honest, most high net worth tax payers - the sort of individual most likely to invest in film - are not going to part with their money unless there is a very good reason; they worked (supposedly) hard for it. In a generation when property bubbles, bull markets etc made wealth accumulation relatively easy this sort of investor has no real experience of hard graft to make it (except negotiations where they hone their skills). To get any money requires a really sweet deal to compete with ten years of property inflation. So is it tax planning or tax avoidance? Depends which side you are on. Personally, I've never met an HNW individual who'd never in a million years get there a second time, at least not in this country.
The 'Real' story here is about how the UK film industry was given a rather generous olive branch with some very clever structures devised by the HMRC, only for it to be completely hung off by bankers, advisers, lawyers and accountants. The losers? The very people who it was designed for - the filmmaking community who have been made to feel hugely grateful for all the support that the middlemen have supposedly supplied, never mind about the hundreds of millions of pounds of cash that they have raked in for their own pockets... They will carry on about all the money that they have poured into the industry and all the jobs they have created...but at what real cost? Did you stimulate a vibrant, creative and commercial British film industry? Or was this just one big cash grab and an excuse to parade around as big shot film producers whilst you shifted electronic files from one inbox to another and boost your 'HNW client' lists. Lesson to be learnt here? I'm not sure other than why is it so difficult to create a successful British film industry? We just need to tell good stories that travel. That is where we need help please. Money is good i know but stories make success don't you think?
Well said. I completely agree with the above comment.
Everyone in the UK industry knows fully well that these firms are tax avoiding schemes and not real film investments. Ever got any actual equity for your project from these guys? Exactly.
As the beneficiary of an investment by one of the named funds above, I can categorically confirm that they do invest real money in films. I can't claim to know whether the funds are tax compliant or not, but I can confirm that at least a portion of that money is going to making actual films!
HMRC should take a long hard look at how EIS is being used by these same companies. As the scheme name implies, its is there to encourage "enterprise" and "investment", yet these companies structure their EIS Funds in such a way that the investor's capital is fully covered by contracted, discounted contracts such as distribution agreements. So even if no "profit" is made, the investors get back 100% plus the 30% EIS tax relief over three years. 30% on the net 70% is a 43% return, tax free so effectively 86%. Not bad compared to 1/4% pa return in the building society, which is about the same level of risk. All courtesy of the general tax payer. And what about the true production companies seeking to find real investment to get a film or project off the ground? No chance, the available funds have all been sucked into these mega funds. Why would a financial advisor even consider presenting a real investment to a client when they can get a tidy fee off recommending just an 86% return. Action needs to be taken to stop these large funds abusing the principle of supporting venture capital with tax incentives.
I agree with the above as well. Unfortunately, I think the film industry is well on track to be excluded from allowable activities under the EIS. Reminds me of how the industry used to be based on insurance schemes, currently it is tax schemes and so wonder what the next wave will be?
It's worse than you think. Tip of the Iceberg actually... You invest and you get 100%+ of your investment back tax free.
The way it was explained to me by one sleazy bugger is they get funds from large accounting firms who take money from their rich clients and take a cut from the clients. Then the fat accounting firms take a cut from Sleazy film industry fat cat financiers; then these fat cats find a filmmaker looking for a budget of 5 or 6 million dollars for their film.
They make tha filmmaker compliant and happy by raising 10 million for the film and taking big fees and cuts from the inflated budget.
Then they inflate the budget on paper to say 100 million dollars (90 million in fake fees and costs not actually spent). Then they claim tax refunds/rebate on the "100 million dollar movie" where 10 million was actually spent.
That tax robbery is the real scam that will trigger a scandal if there are audits...
But what's the harm in millions for Creative accounting firms/fat cat financiers/sleazy producers as long a few artists and filmmakers are able to make a subsistence living from piecework they get on film sets a few times a year. Isn't that a tangible benefit to arts and culture? Is there a better way?
I'd mention the names of the Accounting firms but they just change their names and pay a nominal fine each time they get caught, so it's hard to keep track of them...
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This year's Oscars were all about the beard, from the silver screen to the red carpet.
When Ben Affleck accepted an Academy Award for Best Picture last Sunday, he had left the young upstart of Good Will Hunting and the looks-good-in-tights guy from Daredevil far behind.
He was the mature actor-turned-director who helmed Argo to Oscar gold, the man who knows that filmmaking is difficult and marriage is hard work. (Cut to wife Jennifer Garner looking proud/confused/possibly ticked off.)
For the last few years, Affleck has been going for gravitas. And in Hollywood, where style tends to trump substance, the fastest route to gravitas involves growing a beard.
A recent chart on the New York Magazine website tracks Affleck's career by correlating his Rotten Tomatoes movie scores to whatever facial hair he had going on at the time. (Clean-shaven for Jersey Girl and Gigli. Scruffy for Gone Baby Gone. All-out mountain man for Argo. See where this is headed?)
Affleck's latest beard even has its own parody Twitter account. Live tweeting from the Oscars, Ben Affleck's Beard checked out the other beards, wondered how Jack Nicholson would look with a beard, and meditated on its own mortality. (The beard predicted -- correctly, it turns out -- that it would be hacked post-Oscar.)
Many of the nominated movies were heavily bearded, from the revolutionary beard of Les Miz's Hugh Jackman to the presidential beard of Lincoln's Daniel Day-Lewis to the jaunty Mitteleuropa beard of Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained.
And then there were all those crazy, crazy dwarf beards in The Hobbit.
Sometimes a beard neatly signified theme, as with Zero Dark Thirty's Jason Clarke, who was heavily bearded when he was practising "enhanced interrogation techniques" in a distant desert, but clean-shaven when he was a desk-riding bureaucrat back in D.C. Here, facial grooming signified an emotional and moral disconnect.
Usually the beard was an itchy-scratchy, soup-straining badge of authenticity, which might be why the notoriously Method-y Day-Lewis got tetchy when asked about "wearing" a beard for Lincoln: "What do you mean 'wearing it'? Do you wear your own hair?... It was mine. It was my very own beard."
This year's spate of unusually hairy movies translated into a lot of beardage at the awards show itself. Chris Pine was working the "couldn't be bothered to shave" look, while Paul Rudd puckishly combined an untamed beard with long hair for a '70s Jesus vibe. Jason Schwartzman, sporting a mere moustache, looked like he was doing a comic impersonation of a riverboat gambler.
The fashion police were divided on whether these hirsute leading men looked more like Dapper Dan or Grizzly Adams in a tux. GQ wasn't happy. "That much facial hair rarely makes a man look distinguished -- it makes him look homeless," sniffed the men's style mag. Affleck's look just screamed "bus shelter hobo sassiness," according to one blogger.
Esquire, on the other hand, considered Affleck's face fuzz to be "meticulously crafted" as his movie and proclaimed George Clooney's salt-and-pepper look "pretty damn heroic."
These polarized responses aren't surprising. The semiotics of beards are hard to pin down. Beards can be worn by saints or scoundrels, by the wise or the completely deranged. They can denote authenticity or irony. They can look solid and grown up or edgy and avant-garde.
A picture of the Argo guys holding their gold statues shows Ben Affleck and producers George Clooney and Grant Heslov with some very serious beards, all falling comfortably into the "burly" range. The men seem to be going for a concerted display of old-school moral authority and retrosexual manliness. Clooney, in particular, is wearing his defiantly grey beard like a flag. (Since Clooney was clean-shaven at January's Golden Globes, he is clearly the winner of Hollywood's unofficial beard-growing-contest.)
In hindsight, this concentrated display of beard also served as a handy reminder that the Academy is still a bastion of middle-aged white guys. It's easy to read too much into the Oscar beard trend -- surely some of these rugs are just good-luck rally beards or "can't be bothered to shave" beards. But maybe it's significant that the upswing in manly facial hair coincided with a fairly poor evening for women. Kicking off with host Seth MacFarlane's misogynist musical number We Saw Your Boobs, the show often felt sour. One New Yorker commentator called it a "hostile, ugly, sexist night."
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Breaking CurfewLogic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.
The coach of the college baseball team, Mike Buck, was checking the residence grounds to be certain his players were in by curfew. Suddenly, he heard a loud crash and turned to catch a glimpse of a man running into the residence. Buck thought it was his star right-handed pitcher, James Macullah, but he couldn't be sure. Buck went to James' room and opened the door. James stood in the middle of the room, his right leg in his pants and his left leg out. James, looking at the wristwatch on his left arm said, "I heard a loud crash and was getting dressed to see what happened", he stammered. "Forget the bull," said Buck, "I'm certain it was you who just ran in here. For that little caper, you won't be playing tomorrow." How could Buck be so certain it was James who had been out after curfew?
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Is there a real character in HP series with a name like that? I just heard her. She is said to be Snape's adopted daughter from the Muggle's World wayback from the year 1990 making her at the age of 10,Snape never let her learn magic in Hogwarts or any other Schools from the Wizarding World, but Sev enrolled her at a pagan academy still located at Muggle's World.Then, she had been a Death Eater at the age of 15 because Sev introduce her to Voldy as a Lost girl at the Wizarding World.Mitch and Sev hide their relationship except for Albus.But mitchelle is not a bad girl, she's a spy of albus like his Father,then,she had accompanied the trio at the book seven but when I read the book, i don't find anything.I'm just wandering ...is she true? --*Giulliven
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AN EXCITING new street dance class means adults and children in Porlock can dance their way into the New Year.
It is part of a new community fitness initiative, organised by 1610.
Former Royal Ballet Star Duncan Hume, is setting up a new after school dance club for pupils at St Dubricus School.
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Duncan is already a big hit in other parts of West Somerset.
He teaches dance classes at Dulverton Primary School and has his own Jitterbugs class at the West Somerset Sports and Leisure Centre in Minehead.
Duncan said: "The classes are aimed at children learning new dance movies while having fun with their friends.
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A frail 86-year-old woman was left shocked after she was mugged as she walked home from church on Sunday.
The pensioner, who uses a walking frame to help her get around, had just left Melksham United Church and was making her way down Spa Road at 12.13pm.
A man approached her and grabbed her handbag, almost knocking her to the ground.
PCSO Helen Wilson, from Melksham Neighbourhood Policing Team, said: "She was very shaken.
"She had her bag grabbed from behind, pulling her off her walker which almost sent her to the ground.
"Then he just made off towards the town centre."
The woman was not injured in the attack and is now recovering at home.
Church minister, the Rev Cathy Arscott, said the whole congregation had shown their support.
"It's an awful thing to have happened, but there has been a lot of care, and her friends from the church have been looking after her," she said.
"It was immediately after the service, and some friends had walked with her part of the way, when she said she would be all right to go the rest of the way by herself.
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PCSO Wilson said: "It's in the early stages of the investigation, but we do have a description. The man was white, in his late 20s, and wearing a light blue and grey hooded top.
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>Health and Nutrition>Insomnia is screwing up my running.
Here is an solid formula. I have sleep issues also. I take the formula below or something similar. I also take a homeopathic formula called RESCUE SLEEP as needed especially if I wake up in middle of night. I swear it clears my mind.
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That's spot on for last night's sleep. I went to sleep shortly before 10, woke up and looked at the clock at 11:35, and went right back to sleep. I was able to make it till four before waking up, so it was a good night. At that point, I just stayed awake. Going back to sleep for 30 minutes would have been a disaster.
You got it. It you woke up at 11:35 and went right back to sleep, the next 90 minute cycle was 1 AM, then 2:30 AM and 4AM when you woke up and stayed awake. At 4 AM, the end of the next cycle would have been 5:30 AM so waking up at 4:30 would have been difficult.
Marathon Maniac #991 Half Fanatic #58 Double Agent #22 It's a perfect day and I feel great!
I'll check into that one, too--thanks, Tchuck.
One of the herbs, Valerian, smells bad (when you open bottle) but it is very good for relaxation.
Sorry, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to have sleepless nights now just mulling over the idea that someone intentionally created the term "sleep hygiene".
Sorry, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to have sleepless nights now just mulling over the idea that someone intentionally created the term "sleep hygiene".
So, SRL, have you been practicing good code hygiene?
Ew, did I really say that?
Well at least someone here is making relevance to the subject. - S.J.
I practice good message board hygiene by doing things like thread flossing.
First I'll apologize for the lack of paragraphs...darn iphone. Anyway, I run at 5 AM. It's the only time that really works for me, and I like it. The problem is that the last month or so, I've been waking up around 2:00, and I'm wide awake for a couple of hours. Sometimes I just go ahead and get up and head out to run at the usual time, and I'm fine till around 4 PM. Then I'm toast for the rest of the day. Other times, I'll start getting sleepy around four, and reset my alarm clock to allow myself to get a couple more hours of sleep. Of course that means no run. Is there anything safe to take that will allow me to sleep well, but still be awake and alert at 4:30 AM? I should add that I cut off all caffeine by around 1 PM. Shouldn't that be early enough? And I'm not going to bed super early. Usually around 9:30-10:00.
I have had the exact same problem in the past and still do sometimes. While I am still going through trials and errors to figure out the cause and solution, I have learned that (1) This happens when I try to run too much (for my capacity) (2) The problem significantly lessons when I drink decaf and is almost gone when I stop drinking coffee in any form.
I have yet to try other combinations like run too much but not drink coffee at all etc.
running is somewhat like playing golf to me. crappy shots all day long, ready to give it up & wondering why I'm trying so hard just to get this stupid little ball into a stupid little hole but then out of the blue comes a monster drive or a long putt that actually gets into the cup. bingo! that one shot keeps me going for the rest of day no matter how crappy I continue to play & gets me back out again on another day. strange. -- skyedog
Over the years, I found out that insomnia(inability to sleep), waking up in the middle of the night is an indicator of over-training.
Eating processed food especially at night adds to this.
What I do is cut back on the training and stop all speed sessions and try to eat more healthy unprocessed food
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I've had the same problem for years. Changing the amount I run did not help.
Try going to bed earlier, if I go to bed later I tend to have a SHORTER sleep cycle. Also, if it is interrupted sleep cycles I get back to sleep better if the wake up is early enough to give me time to relax about it (i.e. if I am awake for 90 minutes I can still get a good chunk of sleep after it). My most restful sleep is the sleep I get before midnight. (as it is now 11:45 pm it does not bode well for tonight)
Dont do computer stuff, but dont stress about the going back to sleep part, keep the lights low and keep stimulus to a minimum and go back to sleep when you can.
Caffeine for me actually HELPED quite a bit, but try cutting it out earlier. I do best with 2 largish cups (drip) in rather rapid succession...say in the first 3 hours of the day, and then stop.
Don't workout after noon. Be cautious with carbs/sugars late in the day. Red wine is a killer for the interrupted sleep pattern.
Magnesium citrate helps me quite a bit. Use caution when first starting it as it is a natural laxative, but normal doses have never really affected me. It also is a slight natural relaxant. I can take one when I wake up at 3 am and it helps take me back down faster.
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"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7
Something I learned many years ago, and it addresses what to do when you find yourself awake and unable to sleep, not what to drink/buy/eat /do to prevent it. I don't think it is completely preventable.
When you are awake and unable to sleep, let your body rest. Lie relatively still. They claimed the worst effect of insomnia is not the lost sleep, it is the stress over it: "I can't sleep! I must sleep!". If you believe that a few hours of rest will be almost as beneficial as sleep, you can relax more. Let your body rest, it will take sleep if it needs sleep. Chances are, if you are not stressed out about it, you will rest a bit then fall back to sleep.
yes, I have found that the best thing is to just accept that you're awake and try to relax, make the best of it.
If it's still early in the night I will sometimes drink valerian tea to help me relax. If it's a super stubborn insomnia episode, however, the tea doesn't work for long.
also, word of caution re valerian: it does stink, and cats love it, but if they eat it they get all high and weird and it makes them foam at the mouth. So keep your cats away from your valerian! I let mine play with the tea wrapper, apparently it creates a nice buzz without all the mess. Cat mouth foam is really bad for your sleep hygiene.
Something I learned many years ago, and it addresses what to do when you find yourself awake and unable to sleep, not what to drink/buy/eat /do to prevent it. I don't think it is completely preventable.
When you are awake and unable to sleep, let your body rest. Lie relatively still. They claimed the worst effect of insomnia is not the lost sleep, it is the stress over it: "I can't sleep! I must sleep!". If you believe that a few hours of rest will be almost as beneficial as sleep, you can relax more. Let your body rest, it will take sleep if it needs sleep. Chances are, if you are not stressed out about it, you will rest a bit then fall back to sleep.
Oh, the other thing that helps me for getting back to sleep is a sleep mask or tshirt over the eyes. I dont wear it all night long, but when I am trying to go back to sleep, there is something about the light pressure on the eyes that quiets the mind. I know my awake break is usually 60-90 minutes so I dont grab for it right away, but when I am starting to feel drowsy again.
Chronic Insomniac here, too, and I am going through a terrible bout of it right now.....my 2 cents - if it is a night or two here and there, then address the externals everyone has mentioned: the "hygeine issues".....however - when the issue becomes chronic or wreaks havoc in your daily life, it is time to address the underlying issue - stress? depression? hormonal issues? thyroid?
When my insomnia gets out of hand I take a low dose of Ambien to stop the sleepless cycle - I am generally highly over-sensitive to any prescription meds and tend to avoid taking anything synthetic, but in my experience too many nights of bad sleep tend to create more nights of bad sleep and if little fixes [computer screens, caffeine etc] don't fix it, you can get into a really scary place mentally and physically; people love to bash prescription meds, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do to get through the issue....
Melatonin has never fixed my true Insomnia issues, though when I am in my regular sleep patterns, it does help me stay in a deeper sleep. Overtraining may sometimes be a cause - but I can say that I am no where close to my usual running volume right now and still have insomnia....
I hope you get some sleep.
PS -Words With Friends has kept me up waaay too late.....I have been trying to stop playing after 9:00 since it seems to wake up my brain too much.....


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This article was published 22/2/2013 (1641 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The attitude expressed by Shirley Render, executive director of the Western Canada Aviation Museum, toward the idea of making the Gimli Glider part of its collection reveals what can be wrong with the thinking of museum officials.
"It's too much of what people fly today," said Render, meaning the Gimli Glider is still too new for their collection.
So what? Does she mean an old crop-duster nobody ever heard of is more interesting just because it is older?
Render justifies her argument by stating the WCAM prefers planes people "don't know too much about."
All well and good to provide people with new information, but my guess is that most Manitobans under the age of 35 know very little about the Gimli Glider, and the story, now 30 years old, is the most fascinating in Manitoba's aviation history.
The incident is steeped in the row over conversion from imperial to metric, which used to polarize Canada and still befuddles the United States. Failure to properly calculate how much fuel went into the planned flight from Montreal to Edmonton caused it to run out of gas at 12,500 metres.
The fact this story has a unique Manitoba connection now comes into play, because this plane and all souls on board may have perished if first officer Maurice Quintal didn't happen to have connections with this very province.
The story is rife with fate. First of all, pilot Bob Pearson had 15 years' experience flying gliders. Not all pilots have this type of training and, as things turned out, there is no way the plane would ever have landed safely if the pilot didn't have experience flying engineless planes.
And Quintal just happened to have been stationed at the former air force base in Gimli. When it was calculated the plane could not glide as far as the airport in Winnipeg, they were able to quickly find another option, and time was of the essence.
As things turned out, the plane was going a mite too fast to land safely on the runway in Gimli and the time and distance it would take to perform a 360-degree stalling tactic so it wouldn't overshoot the runway would have put them down short in a farmer's field.
The only way to slow the plane down was to perform a slip-slide -- a gliding technique in which you turn the aircraft sideways and at a 60-degree angle to create drag. Pearson had never performed this technique in a glider, let alone a wide-body Boeing 767, but he managed miraculously to pull it off.
More good fortune happened as the front wheel did not come down on landing, which caused the nose of the plane to scrape along the ground and slow the plane before it crashed into some drag racers who were having a picnic on the converted airstrip.
In the end, the only serious injuries the passengers incurred came from sliding a greater length to the ground because the plane ended up at an unusual angle without the front wheel.
It is a fascinating story, and many Manitobans do not know the full details. Certainly tourists, who are supposed to be a major part of a museum's audience, will most likely not be familiar with it.
Perhaps the Gimli Glider is just too big and will take up too much space at the museum. That's OK because a better use for the huge aircraft, which is now up for sale, might be what they do with most old memorabilia such as this.
Convert the interior into a restaurant and park it downtown. And if you want the real experience air travellers had in 1983, you can have crabby Air Canada stewards serve overcooked steak that has no discernible taste.
And suffocate from the pollution wafting forward from the smoking section.
Don Marks is a Winnipeg writer.


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The first diamond to be discovered along the Diamond Coast was found in 1925 by Jack Carstens.
The Diamond Coast Hiking Trail, jointly managed by De Beers and the Namaqua National Park, links the former mining towns of Kleinzee and Koingnaas, situated near the border between South Africa and Namibia.
The trail is 50km long and the walk is divided into three days, allowing participants to take in the scenery and history without having to rush.
The hiking trail is run by De Beers' Coast of Diamonds and they will provide tents, chairs and ablution facilities. Hikers, however, need to bring their own sleeping bags, food and refreshments. Supplies are transported between camping sites by vehicle, meaning hikers need only carry the minimum.
The hike starts in Koingnaas and concludes in Kleinzee, where explorers will be taken on a tour of a diamond mine, as well as the local diamond museum.
Budding geologists will be amazed by the variety of rock and mineral remains along the hiking trail, include chert, garnet, jasper and epidyte.
The natural scenery is an eclectic blend of coastal terrain, including unspoilt sand dunes, punctuated by an array of wildflowers and indigenous plants.
Some of the wildlife you may catch a glimpse of along the way includes springbuck, gemsbuck, water mongoose and brown hyaenas. Birds to be seen include ostriches, buzzards, hawks and sunbirds.
Various 4x4 tours of the Diamond Coast are also offered by the Coast of Diamonds for those who wish to see some of the shipwrecks in the area that are not on the hiking trail route.
Please note that in order to obtain security clearance to the area in time, those interested in walking the Diamond Coast Hiking Trail should book well in advance. It's such a unique hike, you should make a point of doing it.
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How to get here
Kleinzee has an airstrip that you can take a charter flight to. Or you can hire a car in Cape Town and enjoy the scenic 660km drive along the west coast of South Africa.
Best time to visit
Hikes are available throughout the year, but if you wish to avoid the heat, visit between April and October.
What will it cost
The hike costs approximately R1 600 per person.
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Sleeping bag, food and drink for three days, tough hiking boots, and plenty of sunscreen and a hat.
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The fresh seafood available in Kleinzee is highly recommended.