The Le Cool Dublin FOOD Issue

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Cover by Nicky Hooper, who sez:

You can’t beat a bit of high kitsch every now and again – because it’s a food issue I wanted to do something ambrosial and Fragonard is the master of indulgence and pleasure – but I don’t think hamburgers existed when he painted this, if they did I’m sure he would have added them.

 

The Le Cool Dublin Food  Issue

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Le Cool Dublin are today launching a new series of food videos called FORKFUL. With visual candy suppled  by Mark Duggan and Aoife McElwain, top.

Mark sez:

We want to reduce the videos down to their simplest form and find the personality and beauty in the ingredients and process. Would like people to appreciate them both on an aesthetic and culinary level.

 

Forkful

We Don’t Normally Do This

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Pepper

Patrick Fagan writes:

“Our cat Pepper has gone AWOL in the Dublin 8/South Circular Road area. His coat is black with a slight ginger tinge and a few grey hairs around his neck. He’s an 11-month-old, neutered male and is not quite fully grown yet. Like most cats, he loves sitting on computers and people’s heads, but this fact probably won’t help us find him. If you live around the SCR, near Donore Avenue, please have a look in your shed if possible. He’s a great pet and we’d love to get him back.”

A Long Way From £2 Apple

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Apple’s Irish company documents from the Summer of 1980.

‘Waldwill Limited’ was ‘set up’ by two Irish residents (above) as the company’s only shareholders.

The company became Apple Operations International (AOI), which retains ownership of Apple’s intellectually properties and is technically the most valuable company in the world

Valleywag writes:

These papers gave Apple an inconspicuous home away from home—only two shares in “Waldwill Limited” were issued.
Thirty years later, Waldwill Ltd. is AOI, with over 700,000 outstanding shares, shareholders that include a shadowy British Virgin Islands firm Apple taps to move money, and executive “directors” who are actually in California

 ”Byzantine” plots like this are fairly standard for a company of Apple’s size, says an attorney I spoke with who’s familiar with similar tax strategies. “Companies like Apple use code names for acquisition vehicles and then don’t bother to change the name after the acquisition, particularly if the entity is only holding assets, so the stranger the name, the more likely it’s an Apple affiliate.

Here’s the Document that Started Apple’s Hidden Irish Tax Scheme (Sam Riddle, Valley Wag)