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There has been widespread reporting on Negative Gearing lately, most likely due to the fact that is has been turned into an election issue.
We just wanted to take some time, to outline some of what makes Australian negative gearing systems unique, and in our opinion more fair than in many other countries.
Negative gearing allows a property investor to claim any losses incurred from their rental property against their total personal income for the year.
The losses can be a result of the property not generating enough rental income to cover the costs of holding the property.
Australia is not unique in the way that we have set up our negative gearing policies, and they certainly are more intricate and complex than this simple explanation.
Most developed economies have systems and regulations in place for how property investors are able to claim the losses incurred from their investments. Some countries are similar to ours, and some are very different.
Providing the investor is not in a partnership, or operating as a trust, they are also able to claim any rental losses incurred from their investment property against their total income each year.
The Kiwi's have a very similar system in place to ourselves.
Like us, they also allow for an investor to claim their losses against their personal income in he same year.
Whilst Canada does not in principal allow an investor to claim losses from their property against personal income, there appears to be complicated ways in which it can be done.
Essentially (from the limited resources we have found) it would seem that a Canadian can indeed claim losses on their rental property, as long as those losses are claimed against income that does not constitute a capital gain.
Essentially meaning that the negative geared property will eventually need to be positively geared in order to qualify for the claims. These claims can be made in the same year as the losses.
The USA has some very strict policies in place regarding income streams and having each stream quarantined from the others.
What this means is that it is extremely difficult (albeit, some report it is very technically possible) for an investor to claim any of their rental losses against their personal income.
The UK has strict rules surrounding negative gearing and how any rental losses may be claimed.
An investor can not claim any losses from their investment property against any non-property related income.
Any negative gearing losses that are incurred, are either claimed against other property's profits (providing they have a portfolio larger than one property), or the losses are carried forward into the year in which their property does generate a profit.
This means that any losses made in holding the property, can never be claimed for in the same year, unless they are already making profits from other investment properties.
Like the UK, Germany has some very strict rules on claiming any losses incurred from holding investment property.
No losses may be claimed against the investor's personal income, only against other rental income.
The reality is, and we won't shy away from this, negative gearing is currently providing larger tax cuts to people who are already proactively building wealth than to other Australians.
Numerically, there are more Australians who are on incomes below $80,000 (lets call this Group A) that use Negative Gearing than Australians on incomes above $80,000 (lets call this group B).
This does show that proportionally an Australian on a higher income, are more than twice as likely to be accessing tax deductions from negative gearing. Even if there is numerically more people from Group A that are using negative gearing.
Now we haven't crunched the data exhaustively, and i depends on where you check, as official reports are hard to come by, but it seems that only around 10-20% of Australians actively engage the services of a financial planner.
Negative gearing allows for tax rebates on losses experienced from investing in the Real Estate market. Sometimes these losses are not by choice, and other times the investor goes into the transaction knowing that their investment will run at a loss for a set period of time, even up to a decade or two.
Often the existence of negative gearing can be the difference between an investment strategy being affordable, and simply being a pipe dream. Knowing that there is some space to receive some tax back allows the investor to enter into the arrangement with more confidence.
If "Bob" wants to invest in property as a way of making sure that when he retires he can maintain the same level of comfort that he is used to during his working life, the he must be sure that he can afford the property in all circumstances.
For example, Bob may not always be able to guarantee that his property will be tenanted, as even the best property manager can not force tenants to not break a lease occasionally. This potentially leaves Bob with a few weeks in one year in which he does not have a tenant.
If the cost of holding the property is normally $400 per week, and the property is normally rented out at $400 per week, then in theory Bob's property is actually neutrally geared. He has not purposefully decided to negatively gear and then claim the tax benefits.
However, what Bob did not account for was that there would be 2 weeks that year in which he did not have a tenant in his property. This may be caused for a whole range of reasons, such as tenants losing employment, needing to move interstate or so on.
This 2 week period without rental income means that Bob end's up out of pocket by $800, and actually finding himself negatively geared on the property.
At the end of the financial year, Bob and his accountant know that they can claim this $800 loss from the property as a deduction on Bob's tax return, allowing him to receive a portion of his losses back on tax.
This allows for Bob to know that he has cash flow ready year after year, and that he does not need to keep putting more and more money into the property in order to maintain his investment.
But only because Bob lives in Australia. If Bob was living in many other countries in the world, he would not have been able to claim his rental shortfall against his yearly tax return, as his yearly tax is calculated against his income from working.
In the UK or the USA for example, Bob's losses would have to be covered by Bob in the year that they happen. He would still get to claim the losses later on down the track, but only once he sells the investment property. This eventual sale may be 10 years, or even more down the track however.
The definition of fair, is typically 'treating people equally without favouritism or discrimination'. This egalitarian attitude is a core component of what it is to be Australian.
Within this type of equality, the central goal is to ensure that each person within a society have equal access to resources and opportunities. However, it is still left up to them to access these opportunities and then progress.
This includes ideals such as equally accessible education for every member of society, regardless of race, sexuality, gender, religion, and so on.
Within this type of equality, the central goal is to ensure that each person has an equal outcome as all others. Within this ideology, every member of society should have the same level of wealth and economic ability.
This at times can be seen as a more pro-active ideology, with less philosophical pondering and a larger political motivation.
The Australian system of negative gearing provides for greater equality of opportunity for Australians who are looking to secure their financial futures, whilst at the same time it safeguards our society from moving even further from an equality of outcome.
The reality is that investing in property is one of the most proven and sure ways of generating wealth.
Our negative gearing laws allow for a greater amount of Australian's to access property investment than would otherwise be able to.
When it comes to cash-flow standing in the way of investing in property, we know that it is more likely to prevent someone who is earning a lower income than it is to prevent someone earning a larger income. People who have a larger income will always be able to sacrifice money this year, to ensure that there is wealth in years to come. This is not necessarily the case for a majority of Australians, who don't have the finances to be living decade to decade.
The principle role of our negative gearing is to claim against losses in the same year that they occur, not in 10, or 20 years time when the investment property is sold.


Have you ever imagined what it would be like to be in the epicentre of a hurricane? Spinning objects materials animals ideas hurtling through an infinity of indeterminate space. Space itself distorting in the white heat of a creative explosion.
"If it doesn't work this bunker will become a counter-spiral-noise-inversion-vortex.
Good God, it's only gone and bloody worked!
"Well I never!", stuttered I.
"Good God, it's only gone and bloody worked!", cried a jubilant Professor Method. Music, yes actual music was emanating from two large black boxes on his desk.
"The equations said it would but I never honestly believed them".
"You mean to say you fully expected us to go up in a puff of counter-spiral-whatnot?!", quoth a flabbergasted yours truly.
"NO, of course I didn't you madman!", I lunged forward and grabbed the fellow by the lapels shaking him violently. But even as I shook with rage the sweet tones of ''Rain Stops Play" overtook me and I gradually lowered a sheepish looking Method to the ground.
All three men sat back and drank in wave after wave of delicious sound. The parping of the bassoonaphones. The galloping of the French buffalo drum. The ping pang pong of the angelic microfoil. Aye, it was very heaven to be there in that cramped underground laboratory. We tried to take in the ramifications of our breakthrough. What would it mean for music? What would it mean for society? What would it mean for cricket?! Would it at last spell the end of the hated international music league? How would it impact the dreaded summer vestibules? It all remained to be seen. Right now though, we could simply wallow in our own greatness, and look forward to many weeks of intense sound capturing.


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Sunil Bharti Mittal's Paycheque Rises To Rs 30.1 Crore In FY17
Mittal, who was last year re-appointed as chairman of the company for another five years, received salary and allowances of Rs 20.13 crore, while the performance-linked incentive stood at Rs 9 crore during FY17.
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Sunil Bharti Mittal, chairman of India's largest telecom operator Bharti Airtel, took home an annual pay package of Rs 30.1 crore for 2016-17.
The package was over 8 percent higher than the previous year when Mittal had drawn Rs 27.8 crore.
Mittal, who was last year re-appointed as chairman of the company for another five years, received salary and allowances of Rs 20.13 crore, while the performance-linked incentive stood at Rs 9 crore during FY17. That along with Rs 1 crore worth of perquisites, took his overall remuneration to Rs 30.14 crore for the year just ended, as per the latest annual report of the telecom company.
Bharti Airtel managing director and CEO (India and South Asia) Gopal Vittal earned Rs 9.28 crore during FY17, which is almost 50 percent higher than the previous fiscal. During the year, he received salary and allowances worth Rs 6.46 crore, Rs 2.82 crore as performance-linked incentive and Rs 28,800 in perquisites.
Vittal was also granted 1.5 lakh stock options on 8 August 2016 under ESOP Scheme 2005, with vesting period spread over 3 years. Besides, the annual report said Vittal's remuneration does not include perquisite value of Rs 3.1 crore towards the value of stock options exercised during the year. Vittal had drawn Rs 6.21 crore in the previous year.
Meanwhile, Bharti Airtel last week informed the stock exchange that its shareholders will meet on 24 July to consider, among other proposals, re-appointment of Vittal as the managing director of the company for a further period of five years with effect from 1 February 2018.
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Top performing schools, performance of schools CPA board exam May 2016
Admin Tuesday, May 24, 2016
The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) on Tuesday, May 23, announced that 2,967 out of 6,925 (42.84%) passed the Certified Public Accountant Licensure Examination given by the Board of Accountancy in the cities of Manila, Baguio, Cagayan De Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo and Legazpi this May 2016.
List of Passers: May 2016 CPA board exam results
Top 10 Passers: UCP grad tops May 2016 CPA board exam
PRC recognized De La Salle University (DLSU)-Manila as the top performing school as per Commission Resolution No. 2010-547 series of 2010. DLSU-Manila got 93.10 passing rate or 54 out of 58 passed the exam.
University of Santo Tomas (UST) and University of San Jose Recoletos (USJR) ranked second and third, 90.32 and 81.20-percent respectively.
Full Text of Results CPA Board Exam
The performance of schools in the May 2016 C. P. A. Licensure Examination in alphabetical order as per R.A. 8981 otherwise known as PRC Modernization Act of 2000 Section 7(m) "To monitor the performance of schools in licensure examinations and publish the results thereof in a newspaper of national circulation" is as follows:
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Q: Does $\int_{0}^{\infty}{\sin{(\pi{x^2})}\over \sinh{(\pi{x}})\tanh(x\pi)}\mathrm{d}x$ have a simple closed from? Does this integral $(1)$ has a simple closed form?
$$\int_{0}^{\infty}{\sin{(\pi{x^2})}\over \sinh{(\pi{x}})\tanh(x\pi)}\mathrm dx\tag1$$
An attempt of approach
$$\int_{0}^{\infty}{\sin{(\pi{x^2})}\cosh{(x\pi)}\over \sinh{(\pi{x}})^2}\mathrm dx\tag2$$
$$\int_{0}^{\infty}{\sin{(\pi{x^2})}\cosh{(x\pi)}\over 1-\cosh{(\pi{x}})^2}\mathrm dx\tag3$$
$$\int_{0}^{\infty}{\sin{(\pi{x^2})}\cosh{(x\pi)}\over (1-\cosh{(\pi{x}}))(1+\cosh{(x\pi)})}\mathrm dx\tag4$$
$${1\over2}\int_{0}^{\infty}{\sin{(\pi{x^2})}\over 1-\cosh{(\pi{x}})}\mathrm dx-{1\over 2}\int_{0}^{\infty}{\sin{(\pi{x^2})}\over 1+\cosh{(\pi{x}})}\mathrm dx\tag5$$
Not sure what to do next. Any help?

A: This integral may be evaluated using the residue theorem, by considering the complex integral
$$\oint_C dz \frac{\cos{\left (\pi z^2\right )}}{\sinh^3{\left (\pi z\right )}} $$
about the rectangle with vertices $\pm R \pm i$ with small semicircular detours around the poles at $z=\pm i$.  The contour integral is then equal to
$$PV \int_{-R}^R dx \frac{\cos{[\pi (x-i)^2]}}{\sinh^3{[\pi (x-i)]}} + i \epsilon \int_{\pi}^0 d\phi \, e^{i \phi} \frac{\cos{\left [\pi \left (-i+\epsilon e^{i \phi} \right )^2 \right ]}}{\sinh^3{\left [\pi \left (-i+\epsilon e^{i \phi} \right ) \right ]}} \\ + PV \int_R^{-R} dx \frac{\cos{[\pi (x+i)^2]}}{\sinh^3{[\pi (x+i)]}} + i \epsilon \int_{2 \pi}^{\pi} d\phi \, e^{i \phi} \frac{\cos{\left [\pi \left (i+\epsilon e^{i \phi} \right )^2 \right ]}}{\sinh^3{\left [\pi \left (i+\epsilon e^{i \phi} \right ) \right ]}} \\ + i \int_{-1}^1 dy \frac{\cos{\left [\pi \left (R+i y \right )^2 \right ]}}{\sinh^3{\left [\pi \left (R+i y \right ) \right ]}}+i \int_1^{-1} dy \frac{\cos{\left [\pi \left (-R+i y \right )^2 \right ]}}{\sinh^3{\left [\pi \left (-R+i y \right ) \right ]}}$$
Note that the first and third integrals are actually expressed as Cauchy principal values because the individual integrals themselves do not converge.  That said, when combined, the resulting integral does converge and we may remove the $PV$ label.
As $R \to \infty$, the last two integrals go to zero.
The second integral approaches, in the limit as $\epsilon \to 0$:
$$i \epsilon \int_{\pi}^0 d\phi \, e^{i \phi} \frac{-1-2 \pi^2 \epsilon^2 e^{i 2 \phi}}{\left (\pi \epsilon e^{i \phi} \right )^3 \left (1 + \frac16 \pi^2 \epsilon^2 e^{i 2 \phi} + \cdots \right )^3} \\ = i \epsilon \int_{\pi}^0 d\phi \, e^{i \phi} \frac{-1-2 \pi^2 \epsilon^2 e^{i 2 \phi}}{\left (\pi \epsilon e^{i \phi} \right )^3} \left (1-\frac12 \pi^2 \epsilon^2 e^{i 2 \phi} \right ) \to -i \frac32$$
The fourth integral approaches an identical limit as $\epsilon \to 0$.
The first and third integrals combine to produce, as $R \to \infty$,
$$i 4 \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} dx \frac{\sin{\left ( \pi x^2 \right )}}{\sinh^2{(\pi x)}} \cosh{(\pi x)} $$
The contour integral is also equal to $i 2 \pi$ times the residue of the integrand at $z=0$.  The residue may be computed by expanding the integrand in a Laurent series about $z=0$, which is
$$\frac1{(\pi z)^3} \left (1 - \frac12 \pi^2 z^4+\cdots \right ) \left (1 - \frac12 \pi^2 z^2+\cdots \right )$$
The residue is the coefficient of $z^{-1}$, or $-1/(2 \pi)$.  Thus,
$$i 4 \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} dx \frac{\sin{\left ( \pi x^2 \right )}}{\sinh^2{(\pi x)}} \cosh{(\pi x)} - i 3 = -i$$
Rearranging things a bit, we find that the original integral is

$$\int_0^{\infty} dx \frac{\sin{\left ( \pi x^2 \right )}}{\sinh^2{(\pi x)}} \cosh{(\pi x)} = \frac14 $$

ADDENDUM
I should mention a subtlety in evaluating the limit as $\epsilon \to 0$ above.  The astute reader may have noticed that the dominant term in the integral could be singular as $\epsilon \to 0$, and would be if the result was an odd power in $\epsilon$.  Nevertheless, as the power of $\epsilon$ is even, the contribution cancels upon integration.

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India's Best Environmental Documentaries – Part 2
Author – Akanksha Rastogi
Continued from India's Best Environmental Documentaries – Part 1
The Vanishing Vultures – Mike Pandey
Delving into an astonishing truth that many commoners are oblivious to, Mike Pandey makes a warning sign of a film following a trail to what could be the extinction of a bird species – "The Vanishing Vultures!" Vultures were one of the most common and efficient scavengers of India. Known as the master of the skies, vultures have been held high importance in India in the food chain and in religions (The Parsi Tower of Silence). It is now being said that around 99% of the species has been wiped out.
The blame falls on an ordinary veterinary drug called 'Diclofenac', which is driving this species to a near complete extinction. By highlighting the fact that only 2,000-3,000 of these birds are left to watch our skies, this film persuaded the Drug Controller General of India to issue a notice to all state drug controllers for banning the production and sale of this veterinary drug. Since this decision in May 2006, there is renewed hope for these predatory birds would slowly revive and their species would flourish again.
A Dance to Forget
"A Dance To Forget" is a 25-minute documentary directed by Rita Banerji. The film starts with describing the atrocities committed to the population of sloth bears to tame them and make them dance for show. A certain sect of nomads called Kalandars tame wild animals, especially sloth bears, to earn a living. Enter World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) and the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), with the intentions of rehabilitating the bears and providing the bear dancers with other, more sustainable forms of livelihood. WSPA and WTI together started an initiative to save the Sloth Bear population in India, and due to their efforts, the film shows that the Kalandars have slowly stopped the practice of bear dancing and the community is now content with their new livelihood. A success story! An interesting fact about this documentary is that its director, script writer, editor and camera person are all women!
Slow Poisoning of India
"The Slow Poisoning of India" is a 26-minute documentary film directed by Ramesh Menon that depicts the effects of chemical pesticide use on local farmers. India is the second largest users of pesticides in Asia and also one of the largest manufactures. Farmers often use the wrong chemicals, while others overuse. The film presents startling case-studies from Kerala, India where villagers are paying a heavy price as a result of the exposure to pesticide spraying for many years.
The film discusses the health impacts in other parts of India and also on how the enchantment of the green revolution in Punjab is fading as land and water bodies are becoming poisoned. The main beneficiary of this process is the multinational chemical companies that bind farmers into a vicious cycle. At the end, the short film provides encouragement to organic farming practices by showing several farmers who have decided to switch to organic farming for both cost and health reasons.
Chasing Earthquakes – Alva Brothers
The Alva Brothers, Niret and Nikhil Alva, together formed Miditech nearly 20 years ago and have won over 90 national and international awards with over 12,000 hours of programming. "Chasing Earthquakes" is one of their most exciting works that has been produced for National Geographic. Earthquakes have always been very uncertain and scientists have never been able to accurately predict when and where an earthquake is going to strike. However, some scientists have taken up an unconventional route that might not be widely accepted, but is a very interesting concept and deserves an audience.
Enter Miditech, a film production house with a reputation of supporting unconventional thoughts at times. The Chasing Earthquakes film makes an interesting case through a simple and passionate mission statement – 'save lives'. The quest is of predicting the next big disaster with the help of scientists whose methods give an almost scientific feel, even though defying the regular scientific methods. Since these disasters don't occur very frequently in a single country, it has been filmed across the world. For those who have seen the 1996 Helen Hunt & Bill Paxton film, Twister, might get a feel of this film. It is their Dorothy!
Factfile –
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http://www.shekardattatri.com/?page_id=98
http://bedibrothersproductions.com/awards.php
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Seeking parents of Billy O'Malley. His given name was William Oats ____________, but his TRUE last name we don't know. I need help so if this story rings a bell or if you have relatives in England that may know something please email me at wdyintexas@sbcglobal.net.He was born either in Ireland or England in or about 1840. He came over to the states through New York City. He left Manchester England and came over to the States to evade his fate after killing his brother in law because his brother in law beat and killed his sister. When he got to New York I am guessing between 1855 and 1865, he changed his name. We don't know what his true last name was. My Great Uncle says he was an O'Brien/O'Bryon and that he changed it to O'Malley so he could'nt be found for the murder in England. My Grandmother says her brother is wrong about his name being O'Brien, she says he was a Marley. So now you see my dilemma. One relative says O'Brien the other says Marley. He married and had children with a woman in New York City but according to my Great uncle She and the children died of some disease that swept through and killed many people. What was their last name? He then moved to Eastman Georgia. He literally built all the buildings in the town by hand. He was the brick-layer. I believe he somehow hooked up with a man who wanted to build a town and Eastman was it. He moved there and settled down and by the year 1894 he married Lilla Buchanan of Eastman. She died in 1898 giving birth to their daughter, Lillie Mae O'Malley. So I am devasted that we don't know who his parents were and who his sister was. I am also seeking a picture of him. Now Billy O'Malley died inor around 1907/1908. He died a respectable member of the community. I am seeking any information that might help. I have pictures of the father, mother, and sister from England. The pictures are dated mid 1850. You can tell that they had some sort of means because they were dressed very well and the background of the pictures was very elaborate. Please if you have any tips or suggestions email me.


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Q: java.lang.StackOverflowError in clojure.java.data from-java I have a Java class generated by Protocol Buffers called TextLine. When I instantiate the Java object with:
(def tb (-> (TextLine/newBuilder) (.setText "this is a text line") (.build)))

And then call:
(from-java tb)

I receive a StackOverflowError:
java.lang.StackOverflowError: null
 at java.lang.Class.getMethods (Class.java:1614)
clojure.lang.Reflector.getMethods (Reflector.java:373)
clojure.lang.Reflector.invokeNoArgInstanceMember (Reflector.java:311)
clojure.java.data$add_getter_fn.invokeStatic (data.clj:38)
clojure.java.data$add_getter_fn.invoke (data.clj:37)
clojure.core.protocols$fn__6755.invokeStatic (protocols.clj:167)
clojure.core.protocols/fn (protocols.clj:124)
clojure.core.protocols$fn__6710$G__6705__6719.invoke (protocols.clj:19)
clojure.core.protocols$seq_reduce.invokeStatic (protocols.clj:31)
clojure.core.protocols$fn__6732.invokeStatic (protocols.clj:75)
clojure.core.protocols/fn (protocols.clj:75)
clojure.core.protocols$fn__6684$G__6679__6697.invoke (protocols.clj:13)
clojure.core$reduce.invokeStatic (core.clj:6545)
clojure.core$reduce.invoke (core.clj:6527)
clojure.java.data$eval554$fn__555.invoke (data.clj:135)
clojure.lang.MultiFn.invoke (MultiFn.java:229)
clojure.java.data$make_getter_fn$fn__501.invoke (data.clj:35)
clojure.java.data$eval554$fn__555$iter__556__560$fn__561.invoke (data.clj:136)
clojure.lang.LazySeq.sval (LazySeq.java:40)
clojure.lang.LazySeq.seq (LazySeq.java:49)
clojure.lang.Cons.next (Cons.java:39)
clojure.lang.RT.next (RT.java:688)
clojure.core$next__4341.invokeStatic (core.clj:64)
clojure.core.protocols$fn__6755.invokeStatic (protocols.clj:168)
clojure.core.protocols/fn (protocols.clj:124)
clojure.core.protocols$fn__6710$G__6705__6719.invoke (protocols.clj:19)
clojure.core.protocols$seq_reduce.invokeStatic (protocols.clj:31)
clojure.core.protocols$fn__6738.invokeStatic (protocols.clj:75)
clojure.core.protocols/fn (protocols.clj:75)
clojure.core.protocols$fn__6684$G__6679__6697.invoke (protocols.clj:13)
clojure.core$reduce.invokeStatic (core.clj:6545)
clojure.core$into.invokeStatic (core.clj:6610)
clojure.core$into.invoke (core.clj:6604)
clojure.java.data$eval554$fn__555.invoke (data.clj:136)
clojure.lang.MultiFn.invoke (MultiFn.java:229)
clojure.java.data$make_getter_fn$fn__501.invoke (data.clj:35)
clojure.java.data$eval554$fn__555$iter__556__560$fn__561.invoke (data.clj:136)
clojure.lang.LazySeq.sval (LazySeq.java:40)
clojure.lang.LazySeq.seq (LazySeq.java:49)
clojure.lang.Cons.next (Cons.java:39)
clojure.lang.RT.next (RT.java:688)
clojure.core$next__4341.invokeStatic (core.clj:64)
clojure.core.protocols$fn__6755.invokeStatic (protocols.clj:168)
clojure.core.protocols/fn (protocols.clj:124)
clojure.core.protocols$fn__6710$G__6705__6719.invoke (protocols.clj:19)
clojure.core.protocols$seq_reduce.invokeStatic (protocols.clj:31)
clojure.core.protocols$fn__6738.invokeStatic (protocols.clj:75)
clojure.core.protocols/fn (protocols.clj:75)
clojure.core.protocols$fn__6684$G__6679__6697.invoke (protocols.clj:13)
clojure.core$reduce.invokeStatic (core.clj:6545)
clojure.core$into.invokeStatic (core.clj:6610)
clojure.core$into.invoke (core.clj:6604)
clojure.java.data$eval554$fn__555.invoke (data.clj:136)
clojure.lang.MultiFn.invoke (MultiFn.java:229)
clojure.java.data$make_getter_fn$fn__501.invoke (data.clj:35)
clojure.java.data$eval554$fn__555$iter__556__560$fn__561.invoke (data.clj:136)
clojure.lang.LazySeq.sval (LazySeq.java:40)
clojure.lang.LazySeq.seq (LazySeq.java:49)
clojure.lang.Cons.next (Cons.java:39)
clojure.lang.RT.next (RT.java:688)
clojure.core$next__4341.invokeStatic (core.clj:64)
clojure.core.protocols$fn__6755.invokeStatic (protocols.clj:168)
clojure.core.protocols/fn (protocols.clj:124)
clojure.core.protocols$fn__6710$G__6705__6719.invoke (protocols.clj:19)
....

Any ideas on what could be causing this or the best way to troubleshoot it? I'd really like to interface with the Java object as a Clojure map.

A: I wouldn't recommend using clojure.data.java/from-java for much of anything. The idea that simple function can translate an arbitrary Java object into a reasonable Clojure map without any domain knowledge of the source object is wishful thinking.
I hadn't heard of it before today, but I went and looked at the source and as expected it is basically just an extension of clojure.core/bean, another hopeful attempt at an impossible problem. Specifically, it uses javabean introspection to try to guess what getters and setters represent meaningful fields. Now, However, like many Java classes that weren't designed to be used as beans, protobuf classes contain circular references, which means that recursively bean-ing them up is an infinite task, leading eventually to a stack overflow.
What to do instead? I would recommend just working with the generated Java protobuf classes through Java interop, or perhaps trying to find a good Clojure protobuf library. Don't try to convert the Java objects into idiomatic Clojure data.


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Uber drivers in Europe gain access to Tesla, Polestar and other EVs through Hertz
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DOOM'S DAY
It's not often that an elderly couple takes out Dr. Doom.
For those of you just joining us, Dr. Doom is a super-villain, one of the most heinous and powerful in the Marvel Universe. Like all good evil-doers, he spends his time and resources devising nefarious schemes to take over the world, only to be thwarted by his arch-nemeses The Fantastic Four or whoever's title he happens to be wreaking havoc in any given month.
The dastardly Doctor was only one of a handful of bad guys for which Marvel had a costume that could be used for personal appearances. As far as comfort and maneuverability, Doom's threads were on the favorable side, although the visibility when wearing the suit was low. It was easy to don, functional, and emulated the character beautifully.
The costume also was a treat to perform in. It wasn't every day you could be revered despite being an arrogant prick. Its only drawback was its portability. The costume was kept in a large canvas duffel bag of the size one would use to transport hockey equipment. Thus, it had to be checked whenever traveling.
I had the good fortune to portray the character on several occasions (see prior post, "See You, in the Funny Papers"). Fortunately, this was not one of them. The hapless victim in this story, Fred, was joining my portrayal of Spider-Man as featured guests of Edmonton, Canada's annual Canada Day Parade. Sponsoring our inclusion in this most important of our northern neighbor's holidays were my old friends, the unpredictable, yet oddly loveable Darwin and his saintly better-half Lola (see prior post, "Survival of the Fittest, Parts I and II"). As such, immediately following the parade, Spider-Man and Dr. Doom were scheduled for a signing at one of Darwin's and Lola's comic shops.
This was to be Fred's coming out party; his very first gig as any character for Marvel. The head of Marvel's Personal Appearance Department, Barbara, thought it would be a good idea to pair me with Fred, so I could secretly monitor his performance. This speaks volumes about Barb's judgment and trust in your's truly (Whether misguided or not, I'll let you decide).
I met Fred at the airport. He was slightly taller and broader than I was. He'll make a great Dr. Doom, I thought (You don't want your Spidey more imposing than your Doom). His long brunette hair framed a friendly face and a big smile. Fred looked like a rock star, only more effusive. At the time, he was working as either a stunt man or extra or both on the short-lived Burt Reynolds show B.L. Stryker. We immediately hit it off.
Our flight departed the evening before the parade with a scheduled stopover in Minnesota. Delays while approaching Minnesota had us concerned that we would miss our connection. We discovered that our worries were unfounded upon landing. Due to bad weather over Edmonton, nothing was flying into the area. Our connecting flight was canceled. Worse, the weather up north was adversely affecting the phone lines. Try as we might, we couldn't get through to Darwin and Lola to tell them of our plight. Not that it would have mattered; the number we had was for the comic outlet at which we would be appearing the next day, not their home. And the store was certainly closed by this time.
At wit's end, we called Barbara. Barbara was always bemoaning how her work—due to its nature—followed her home. She had to be prepared for calls exactly like the one we were making. Still, I felt terrible disturbing her. Our delay had us landing in Minnesota just shy of midnight. It would be an hour later in New York. We woke Barbara, who was clearly perturbed. Her response to our situation: "What do you want me to do?" We suggested she either contact Darwin and Lola at their home or at least give us the number so we could try.
"I don't have those numbers here," she snapped, in a tone that suggested we were off our gourds for ever assuming that she might have that information.
Gee, Barbara, what part of your job actually makes it home, I thought.
We dutifully apologized-through gritted teeth-and resumed our endeavors to call someone up north. The only other number we had was the hotel at which we'd be staying. Miraculously, the call connected. We explained the situation to the receptionist and left a message for Darwin and Lola that we'd be getting up at the crack of dawn to be the first in line to get on the standby list for the earliest flight the next morning. Of course, we had no idea there even was an early-morning flight to Edmonton the next day or whether it would arrive in time for us to participate in the parade if there were. But we weren't going to not try to get there. We crossed our fingers that Darwin and Lola would check with the hotel.
By this time, the food vouchers the airline had given us were no good. All the restaurants in the airport food court had closed, which, given the selection, was probably not a bad thing. Thus, we proceeded to Bloomington, Minnesota's famous Thunderbird Motel, where we could at least redeem our accommodation coupons and get a few hours sleep before returning to the airport at the crack of dawn.
Marked by a towering, multi-colored, illuminated roadside totem pole–designed sign and a colossal Indian statue at the entrance, the Thunderbird Motel also is unique in that its lobby doubles as a Native American museum. Cases, filled with an amazing array of headdresses, quivers, arrows, papooses, clothing, moccasins and stuffed buffalo, moose heads, snakes, bears and the like, lined the walls. Given our exhausted state, it was surreal, like something directed by David Lynch. We scheduled a wake-up call that would allow about three hours of sleep and headed for our room. I dropped off with Fred heading out of the room for a smoke.
He seemed to return just as the wake-up call startled me out of bed. Had he been wandering the hallways of the motel all night? Perhaps he's an aficionado of Native American memorabilia? I didn't have time to dwell on my internal queries; airport check-in awaited, and we couldn't afford to be late. Besides, Fred seemed mightily concerned about the whole megillah. Not surprising as it was his first gig. He obviously wanted it to go well and probably shouldered a lot of guilt, though faultless. I, conversely, was familiar with the occasional hiccup in appearances, and though certainly concerned and focused to do whatever it took to ameliorate the situation, I remained nonplussed.
With nary a moment to spare in the Bow and Arrow Coffee Shop, we rushed to the airport and succeeded in being the first in line at the counter. With luck, there would be two openings. Just in case, it was decided that my name go first. If only one of us made it, Spider-Man was the obvious choice. We tried phoning Darwin and Lola again to no avail. If worse came to worse, if they did not greet us upon deplaning, we would dress in a cab on the way to the parade's origin and join the festivities, which were set to begin soon after the scheduled landing of our flight.
When they announced the standby names, our initial joy at hearing my name, turned to confusion, when it was followed by two other names, neither of which was Fred's. I may not be a math whiz but even I understood that if there were three available stand-by spots on the flight and Fred and I were the first two names on the list, then he and I were shoe-ins for two of those three spots. Apparently not. Confused and upset, we approached the counter at the gate. Yes, Fred and I were atop the stand-by list. And yes, there were three spots open. But the third and fourth spots were held by an elderly couple who were on a second honeymoon to celebrate their 50th anniversary and the airline didn't have the heart to break the octogenarian love birds up.
Fred and I, on the other hand, had no such qualms.
"You don't understand," Fred pleaded, "small children are expecting both of us to be there. You'll be breaking their little hearts."
I have to admit it was amusing to see the dreaded Dr. Doom beg not to be bumped from a flight. When he started telling the counter attendant that the children the airline would be disappointing with his absence were "special," it began to sound more in character. When that wasn't eliciting the desired response, Fred tried "handicapped." What was next? I thought, Orphans? How low and vile to fabricate mentally-challenged and physically-disabled children as an excuse to gain a plane seat. Add to that the elderly couple Fred was attempting to bump and the occasion for which they were traveling, and Fred was beginning to make Dr. Doom seem like Mother Theresa in comparison.
"They've been together for 50 years, what difference is another hour or two going to make?!" I imagined him desperately spouting at any moment. Fortunately, he relented before crossing that line or venturing to using terms like "cancer-stricken" or "Make-A-Wish Foundation."
Instead Doom stepped away duly defeated; no bodies, no smoldering carnage, not even a "Curse you, Reed Richards! Next time, it will be I, Victor von Doom who stands triumphant!," while shaking a gauntleted fist. I felt terrible. The next available flight wouldn't get Fred into Edmonton until well after the parade was over. If he were lucky, he'd make part of the scheduled store signing. His disappointment was palpable.
Meanwhile, the prune-faced paramours giddily scurried past his slumped figure onto the plane. I got on and the plane took off... on time, ironically. Accompanying me, was Dr. Doom, only without his body. The suit was checked and in the baggage hold. It and Fred would reunite later in Edmonton… unless, of course, he was bumped by someone traveling to deliver an organ to a dying child or something equally inarguable.
Wondrously, I arrived as planned and Lola was there to greet me. She had gotten our hotel message, after all. "Where's Doom," she asked.
"He didn't make it. I'll explain on the way to the parade," I offered.
There wasn't a vestige of the havoc the previous day's storm wrought. It was beautiful, cool and sunny. As we sped to the kick-off point, I dressed in the backseat while explaining the last 24 hours. I barely had time to adjust my eyes in the rearview mirror when the car screeched to a halt. A small flatbed trailer, hitched to a truck, greeted my arrival. A sign attached to the truck's grill read, SPIDER-MAN AND DR. DOOM BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE COMIC CASTLE followed by the shop's address and phone number. Of course, Dr. Doom was M.I.A., but it was too late to make any amendments as the parade was getting under way.
As the truck pulled away with me in tow, I expressed my concerns about being confined to the trailer, wanting rather to bound about, ham it up with the onlookers and shake hands along the parade route. Lola was more than happy to oblige. She figured as much from me, given my past performances at her and Darwin's conventions. But having never seen the Dr. Doom costume nor being aware of its limitations, she was unsure if he'd need something to pull him or not. She provided the trailer just in case. It would turn out to be a fortuitous decision.
I hadn't traversed a block before the crowds pelted me from both sides with "Yo, Spidey, where's Dr. Doom?"
"Oh, I dealt with him earlier," I countered. "How was I supposed to know he was here for the parade? I thought he was trying to conquer Canada."
The parade route couldn't have been more than a mile. Yet, halfway along, amid the leaps, posing and hand-shaking, I noticed the bottom of my feet starting to hurt. It wasn't a muscular pain, but rather the sort one experiences from a scraped knee. I couldn't fathom what was the problem. I'd participated in far longer parades on many previous occasions. Hell, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was measurably greater and I had a couple of those already under my belt. The physical fallout from such events was never greater than the type of intense muscle pain one gets the morning after a good leg workout the day before.
Initially, I shrugged it off, alleviating my stinging soles with short bouts of walking on my hands. That wouldn't get me too far, though, so I made dramatic pauses, crept slowly, did whatever I could to milk the route for as long as possible. But the pain became too severe and I found myself leaping onto the trailer to finish the remainder of the parade. I was mortified and more than a little worried. And the crowds weren't exactly sympathetic.
"Hey, Spider-Man, why aren't you swinging?" and "What? Are your webs tired (guffaw, guffaw)?" were a couple of the less pointed razzings I received.
"That storm blew me so off course, I was up all night swinging from Vancouver… I'm knackered!" I bantered back.
Blessedly, I was incapacitated for only the last few blocks, but it seemed like an eternity to complete. Lola met me at the finish and whisked me away to the signing at her store. I remember gingerly making my way to her car, trying to cover my painful steps with spider-like moves. Surely, I fooled all. Spider-Man often looks like he's tiptoeing on broken glass.
There was already a line out the door when we arrived, but I told Lola I needed time to check my feet. In the office, I removed my suit to discover that I'd taken a layer of skin off my soles. They were raw and bloody. I could only guess that the streets of Edmonton weren't as smoothly paved as those in The States. Their roughness was the only difference I could detect. Strangely, although my soles were shredded, the thin strip of red leather that served as the only protection on the costume's feet weren't damaged in the least. Neither a hole nor tear was evident.
The normally subdued Lola freaked when she saw them. Or at least her eyes grew slightly wider than usual, which for her was akin to the eye-popping, jaw-dropping of a Tex Avery cartoon character. Then again, Lola's reaction may have been from me sitting in my bikini underwear. I didn't think to cover up. My attention was on my injured tootsies. Besides, I dressed in front of strangers before when doing productions. Heck, didn't I dress in the backseat of her car on the way to the parade? And it wasn't like I was naked.
She hurried back with alcohol and bandages. And boy, did that alcohol feel good (That distant scream you heard in the late 90s? That was me.). Soon I was making my way to the signing table. Fortunately, it was near enough to the office that I didn't have to do too much scampering to hide my pain.
The signing went well. Sure, the inquiries as to Dr. Doom's whereabouts continued, but with my feet tended to and already feeling much improved, I was enjoying quipping with these "Doom-sayers."
"Big surprise, Doom not showing… He is a bad guy, after all. If he can't seize control of the planet, he takes solace in making people unhappy!" I'd playfully jab.
Fred didn't arrive until after the signing. In fact, I accompanied Lola back to the airport to greet him. The Dr. Doom suit sat by the baggage carousel, waiting there for Fred to retrieve him since my plane arrived that morning. His mien and body language was even more downtrodden than before. Had Eeyore been present, he would have pulled me aside to express his concern. Fred wanted so much to play Dr. Doom that it wasn't hard to convince him to don the costume for some publicity shots with Spidey at the store.
In the costume, Fred was a transformed man. He strode out of the front door of the comic store and deliberately into the street, stopping traffic and creating quite a scene. With the pain of my soles a distant memory, I followed his lead and confronted him. A struggle ensued, much to the delight of the drivers and passersby. Fred and I had experience in stage combat and made the most of it, tumbling over car hoods, flipping on top of one another. Had this been New York, we would have been run over, flipped the bird at the very least. For Fred, our mock clash of titans was cathartic. His spirits lifted and he had returned to the amiable teddy bear I had met at La Guardia Airport the morning prior.
The next morning, we had breakfast with both Lola and Darwin (having apparently returned from the Galapagos Islands, no doubt). It was an equally beautiful day to the one previous and I couldn't help but think that the travails of the last 48 hours were far behind us. The sun was shining, as we made our way to the car when suddenly, the sky went black.
"Ow! What the—?" Something had hit me. Something big.
Golf balls were pelting us from the heavens, bouncing off the tarmac and car as we hurried inside. I felt like Captain Kangaroo falling victim to Mr. Moose and his signature torrent of Ping-Pong balls. Except those never hurt the good Captain. If I never knew the experience of "being agape" before that moment, I certainly did then. It can't be hailing, I thought incredulously. It's July 2! I was trapped in some strange Canadian mash-up of After Hours and Trains, Planes and Automobiles. I just wanted to get home! Fortunately, the hailing stopped as suddenly as it started and we departed on time.
The return flight was not stopping through Minnesota, but rather Chicago, so Fred and I were hopeful that we would encounter no further problems. But fate still had one blow left to deliver: we missed our connection. There was only one thing to do. We proceeded to the airport bar and got hammered while awaiting the next flight home.
We arrived in New York in the wee hours of the morning. I tried to explain to Fred that appearances normally proceeded swimmingly without problem; that the nightmare that this particular gig became was nothing more than an anomaly. I liked Fred and wanted to work with him again in the future. More importantly, I believed he had the mix of spirit, dedication, playfulness and professionalism that the best character actors possessed. He would have been a tremendous addition to the team. But I caught the look on his face as we parted and I knew we'd never meet in costume again.
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The trial court then made findings regarding the father's abdication of residential time. The court found the mother lacked adequate income to meet the children's needs absent a deviation. The court increased the child support to more than $400 above the standard calculation and ordered the increase be retroactive to the date after the mother filed her petition to modify the child support.
The father appealed. He argued the court erred in increasing the child support above the standard calculation because he had not abdicated his residential time. He referenced a dictionary definition of "abdication" which stated it meant "failure to fulfill a responsibility or duty." He argued the parties had agreed that visitation with him was not in the children's best interest so he had not failed to fulfill a responsibility. The appeals court found it did not matter if the parties agreed he should not have visitation. The change added to the mother's expenses while decreasing the father's expenses. The appeals court therefore found no error in the deviation.
The father also challenged the retroactive application of the increase. He argued it was inequitable due to the trial court's error in originally finding it could not deviate from the standard calculation. The appeals court noted the father had contributed to that error by arguing the court could not deviate above the standard calculation. The appeals court then found the equities supported the retroactive date. The father had stopped visitation in late 2010. The mother's expenses had been increased and the father's expenses had been decreased since that time. Even with the retroactivity, the mother was not fully compensated for more than two years after the father stopped his visitation.
The appeals court therefore affirmed the trial court's modification of the child support order. This decision suggests that it does not matter if a parent chooses to stop visitation unilaterally or if the parents agree to stop visitation. If one parent voluntarily stops visitation and it increases the other parent's expenses, the court may deviate from the standard calculation to account for that change.
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New ultra-difficulty mode in upcoming console version of Resident Evil: Revelations changes enemy and item placement.
The upcoming Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, and Wii U versions of Resident Evil: Revelations will feature an especially challenging Infernal difficulty mode, which Capcom has detailed in a new trailer.
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Resident Evil: Revelations was released on the 3DS last year. The game was awarded a respectable 8.5 in its GameSpot review.
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From the Bozeman Daily Comical comes this story about snowmobiles in Yellowstone/Grand Teton Parks.
The Clinton administration had instituted an outright ban of snowmobiles, which has been somewhat reversed by the Bush administration.
The Clintonistas caved to the environmentalist lobby without so much as a whimper (surprise!). There were, of course, the requisite public meetings, where people could give their opinion before the government did what it was going to do anyway.
Fortunately, this was done in the twelfth hour of the administration, so it wasn't in effect very long before it was vacated.
In the Clintonistas decision-making process, it was never considered that banning snowmobiles would effectively wipe West Yellowstone off the map. Of course, after witnessing this and the suckerfish debacle in Oregon, we know that this was pretty much SOP for that administration. Environment over people, even when the actual science doesn't bear it out.
I've had the good fortune to take a snowmobile trip through Yellowstone. It was magnificent. There are few sights to rival Old Faithful in the wintertime. Everyone should go see it.
I would suggest doing it in the next year or two, before you have to be "certified" to do it.
Note the $2.5 million price tag attached to the whole project. We're from the government, and we're here to help!
No one seems very happy about the plan, so maybe that means it's the right one.
Bin Laden Alive?
If this is true, you can almost hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the liberals. "Failure! Doom! The war on Terror has failed."
So what if we haven't gotten him yet? We are slowly, but most certainly, taking out the infrastructure that supports him.
Once Iraq falls, we can concentrate on putting a choke hold on the House of Saud, and put an end to Wahabism once and for all.
How many strikes before you're out?
The teachers strike >continues here in Billings.
Everytime I think about it, my blood pressure starts rising, so I try not to think about it. But, you can't hardly turn around without it smacking you in the face.
On the opinion page of todays Guess-At-It, there is a letter from a 31-year teacher who only makes $45,000, which he snidely refers to as a "princely salary."
In Billings, 45 grand ain't bad wages. I can sympathize with the fact that it may seem paltry after putting in 31 years, but I've said it before: You don't go into teaching to get rich. I can't think of anything I've ever seen that remotely suggests that teaching is the way to wealth and glory. To be a teacher, you have to love what you are doing.
He goes on to complain about his retirement plan, and that he will only be receiving half his current wages. Wow, that's too bad. I'll bet the folks who aren't even offered a retirement plan feel just awful about that.
Don't get me wrong, many of the greatest people I know are or were teachers. The points he makes in his letter are valid. When my wife taught, we figured out that, when everything was said and done, she probably made $3.75/hour. It was worth a chuckle, but we also knew that it wouldn't get much better.
If you want to complain about the hours you work, and the pay you get — you can get another job. We had a fantastic math teacher in high school who routinely turned down better offers. He kept at it because he loved what he was doing. He was the first teacher in the building in the morning, and the last one to leave. He and his wife attended almost every extra-curricular event where his students were involved. He never complained.
There is a sentence in there that is a little telling, though:
And I am ecstatic that we have teachers who will prepare children to be productive, tax-paying citizens.(emphasis mine.)
Interesting that he should mention "tax-paying" here. He also admits that he doesn't whine about the taxes he pays. I'm only guessing that he equates productivity to paying taxes.
One thing that isn't mentioned in the letter, either, is that he is making $45,000 for only 9 months of work. Granted, a lot gets crammed into that 9 months, but it's still only 9 months.
I have to mention his gripe about insurance. I wonder if he's been out in the private sector lately. Insurance plans suck, and they are getting worse every year — across the board. It's not unique to the public sector. In my circle, I don't know of anyone whose retirement plan (if they have one) includes insurance.
There's a little fact that seems to be buried underneath the noise: last year, the school board closed 3 schools in a cost-cutting measure, yet I am somehow paying $100 more on my property taxes this year — most of it for the School District. It's been proven ad infinitum: you can't fix something by throwing more money at it. Yet, that's what they are trying to do.
The school board doesn't get a free pass, either. I'm curious as to the reticence of some of the board members, and why requests for meetings are going unanswered. The district doesn't have a stellar record of money management in the past few years, having squandered $2 million by missing a filing deadline last year.
Still, that doesn't excuse the teachers. If you're in it for the kids, then you should be in the classroom. If you're worried about substitutes taking your job, get back in the classroom where they can't have it. If you don't want the subs to be making that money, go back in and make it yourself. It's that simple.
I can only hope that this will wake some people up to the necessity of school choice.
I shouldn't have written that last sentence. My blood pressure is rising again…
Our Tax Dollars (not) At Work
There are few things that get under my skin more than a teacher's strike.
"If the board would give me $1.2 million, I could probably get a deal," he [mediator Paul Melvin] said.
Read that sentence again. "If the board would give me $1.2 million, I could probably get a deal. (emphasis added)"
Here's the thing. The board doesn't have the money to "give." It's the taxpayers' money, and there's only a finite amount of it. If you put $1.2 million into insurance, you have to take $1.2 million out of something else. Where should that come from? Teacher salaries? Building funds? Maintenance? The best place to get the money would be out of administration, but the odds of that happening fall somewhere between none and zero.
The teachers claim that they'd much rather be teaching. Well, then, why don't you keep teaching while this gets ironed out? It's not as if you can't keep the issue at the fore. From the article: 'The teachers said they were thankful the schools were closed. "It would be awfully tough to see the kids," said government teacher and picket captain Bob Staley.' In other words, it's wrong, they know it is wrong, and they do it anyway, even though they would be unable to look the very kids they are supposed to help in the eye. A future Democrat voter says, "I'm into fighting the system if it's unfair," he said, adding that he looks up to "revolutionaries." Not that it's an unexpected sentiment from a product of a government indoctrination center.
Look, it's not like I don't know what teachers make. My wife taught for quite a while, and I considered doing the same. But, here's the thing: You know what you are getting into. You don't expect to make millions going into teaching. You know that the pay is low, and the hours stink. You make that choice.
Their ability to see the big picture stops at the ends of their collective (ha, collective!) noses. There are volleyball games being canceled, which the teams couldl have to forfeit, thus affecting their chances to get into the playoffs. (Other schools have proven to be extremely gracious, choosing to reschedule the missed games, rather than taking the forfeits.) That might not be a big deal, but it could affect some kids chances of getting scholarships. The state volleyball tournament was moved from here to Great Falls, which is an economic loss for businesses in the area.
That's why our kids will be going to private school.


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There was a lot of news about Birmingham City this week. On Monday, the draw for the FA Cup fourth round brought up the intriguing possibility of Blues being the away team at St Andrew's if Coventry win the third round replay. The FA confirmed that Coventry would be the home team if the tie goes ahead. A club announcement said that the Middlesbrough game would be moved to Tuesday evening, 21 January.
On Tuesday, the accounts were published and revealed that "freehold land and buildings" had been sold to Birmingham City Stadium Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Birmingham Sports Holding Limited. This raised questions about the application to register St Andrew's as an Asset of Community Value. A post on the Blues Trust website explained the timeline for this and said,
"The failure of the Club to tell the fans that the ground had been sold … is a continuing example of the unwillingness of Directors to engage with supporters. We understand that the EFL had known for some time that the ground had been sold, but because the sale value does not appear to have been inflated, the EFL had no issues with it. So why was this information withheld from Supporters by the club?"
Blues Trust also published a link to an article in the South China Morning Post, which included a reference to the Blues Trust statement.
A new group of Blues fans, 1875, set up a new website and sent a letter to Birmingham Sports Holdings Chairman Zhao Wenqing, requesting him to improve the situation at Blues. They believe that writing to the powers that be will be more effective than moaning on social media.
The Birmingham Mail published some articles about the EFL charge and other matters at the club. One had a large headline that said, "The fans deserve to know what's going on at Blues." I agree with that.
Amid all this disturbing news, there were some reassuring quotes from Pep Clotet. He said that Marc Roberts should be available for the Cardiff game, Blues' next home fixture on 18 January. And, commenting on the EFL's charge that the club had breached the imposed business plan, Clotet said the staff and players had been informed "there is nothing to worry about and what we need to do is focus on our job which is trying to win games."
I hope that today they will try to win their game against Luton and will succeed in doing that.
This entry was posted in Birmingham City FC, Blues Trust, Football and tagged 1875, ACV, BCFC, Birmingham City F.C., Birmingham Mail, Marc Roberts, Pep Clotet on January 11, 2020 by Puddleglum.
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If we did a poll about what is the most obvious place where to set an erotic film, one of the answers is for sure a "Strip Club". Easy. Easy. A place where the flesh is already in the wind as an optional included in the package. A place where those who enter in it certainly doesn't drink a coke and look at the furnitures.
So "Sinful Deeds" in addition to being an erotic movie, it would also be a thriller with a bad location not at all surprising. And if you want to know it begin with two bodies twisted into a bed, just to cut the preliminaries...er... the introduction and go straight to the point. These are the characteristics of this American film of 2003, which reveals everything immediately and makes us understand in the first few minutes what to expect.
Tons of soft-core and naked scenes between dance and music on which falls, in a polite and non-invasive way, the "blood" that the thriller side of the movie wants. A violent side that doesn't trigger even half spurt (of blood) or slaugthered bodies but showing only a knife that go up and down.
At this point, you should have easily understood who are the victims of the killer and you just have to believe in the easier idea, yes...are the strippers and we don't want to say who is the killer! Very easy to image!
Around the core of the story (if we can define this...) there are the heroine of the moment and the policeman who investigates.
"Sinful Deeds" is probably one of the worst thriller in the history of cinema, a soft-core movie like many others, that fails to hide in any way among the many tits and asses a really bad story, a lack of direction and acting at limit the offense to the audience. We didn't expect much from a direct-to-video movie, but here overdo it too much.
This movie was directed by Dante Giove director who hangs out in the genre, it has a cast which we can't deny the physical apparences, composed by Syren, porn star and model Philippine moved to Hawaii and other stars of the genre, like Angelica Sin, Adjia and Isabella. By the men there the experts Brad Bartman and John Crow who can boast a great rasemblance with Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist Flea.


More than a third of Singapore's small and medium enterprises (SMEs) were hit by ransomware attacks in the past year, with many of them having to cease operations to fix the cyber security issue, according to a study released today.
Thirty-five per cent of the country's SMEs fell victim to the increasingly common cyber threats, revealed cyber security vendor Malwarebytes, which commissioned a study of more than 1,000 such companies across Singapore, France, Britain, Germany, Australia, and North America.
While large businesses and governments have often been the target of attacks in the past, the survey shows that the impact is growing wider as hackers begin expanding their reach.
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Of the Singapore SMEs surveyed, 73 per cent place a high or very high priority on fixing the ransomware problem. Despite these investments, nearly half of the organisations surveyed expressed little to only moderate confidence in their ability to stop a ransomware attack.
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When Jason Bateman was on Valerie, I had what felt like a totally inappropriate crush on him. I mean, he was playing a teen son and I was in my 30s, so it was a little unseemly. But now he is a regular adult-aged person and hasn't gotten any less hot, so I feel justified in continuing my admiration.
Uh huh. Yes. More, please.
Remember Bateman in "It's Your Move," a sitcom from the late 80s? That show was hilarious!
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Wayfarer, I suggest that you give me your potentials. A Hot People post can be a decision assistance tool.
If you would please; The chick who played Abigail Adams in the John Adams mini-series. Laura something or other I think. The chick that played the mom in the terminator movie. If you can find the one where she is in jail working out that would be cool. Sting. He's hot for a dude. You in the black dress again. Carmen from the L word. Mrs. Obama. Anyone else you think I might like. Thank you.
We just watched Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. Should have been called Jason Bateman in a joker hat equals hot. And man, did you see him in The Kingdom? Wowzers.
This was well played, my friend.
Not to say that all of these people are not HOT for somebody, I'm really a current culture turd. Other than Michele Obama, I really have no clue about most of them. Oh, Sting, I remember him. His voice was good, other than that, physically, he didn't do much for me. Just sayin'. I'm not that kind of woman.
I am happy that you found your hat. Nice photo. You look happy about the hat too.