110 When should you pay for help?
When should you pay for help?
Kristine is having trouble controlling costs.
Celeste (Alabama) wonders if her business is worth pursuing.
Wes (Moscow, Russia) is debt free and looking to create passive income.
How to make a habit.
Scott A. T.: Broadcasting from One Dallas Tower, welcome to the Financial Rockstar Show. I'm your host, Scott Alan Turner, ready to help you get out of debt, save more money and retire early. In the studio with me, producer Katie. On the show today, I'll be answering your questions about money, business and life. If you have a question you'd like answered on the show, visit go askscott.com and leave me a voicemail. Microphone's giving challenge [inaudible 00:00:30] tighten it up, falling off me, handle here. Come on you. It's still flipping around. What's going on here? All right. I'm just going to have to hold it. Hold it gently and hope I don't make a bunch of noise with it. A few times over the years, a few times over the years … Okay. A few times over the years, I have paid a service to protest my property taxes on my behalf. The first time I noticed my property taxes seemed out of whack compared to the overall value of my home, we'll say.
I compared it to other homes that surrounded me, so my choices were: one, spend hours doing research, gathering paperwork, finding comparables, schedule the protest, showing up at the courthouse or wherever it's held, waiting my turn, presenting my case and in a clear and succinct manner, hope I get it right, hope I get a judgment for me and get their taxes reduced. I don't do that everyday. I'm not an expert. I have to rely on whatever research I found online that says, "Here's the process and here's how you're most likely to succeed and get the results you're looking for." What's this call at? Hey, it was going to take me six hours of work. It may order taken me eight I don't know. There are property tax dispute services out there though, at least in our area charge 275 bucks, 300 bucks and they all dispute your taxes on your behalf. They do everything. All you do is send them a check. Here's the address, here's the money, go. They are the experts and they know the ins and outs. They provide a service so I don't have to spend my 6-rate time, hour of time trying to figure out the system.
If I pay, I'm looking to at least break even. If it's $275 to pay them to do it, I hope then I'm going to save 275 on my taxes to make back the money I paid them, preferably more because I'm not paying them to lose money on the deal. The first time, I think I made … came out ahead, taxes went down about 350 so it was good the first time. This is not a discussion of property taxes, this is just an example. I'm not sure about property taxes. I think the following year when they reassess, they used last year's property taxes as part of the formula. I could be wrong but that 275 I spent that is in perpetuity goes on forever. Next year's base is going to be on this year's base which is based on last year's base and on and on into the future. Maybe. I could be wrong. Could be reading into it, maybe it isn't. Either way, I saved money in year 1.
When I pay for some type of service, for me, and you may do this too, I'm looking for a couple things: 1, I'm looking to get more free time perhaps. Maybe I pay somebody to mow my lawn so that I can do other things — work more and earn more income, spend more time with the kids and watch more Star Trek, whatever. Same thing if i get the house sprayed for bugs, save me from buying the chemicals and going around the house spraying for bugs. If I get the house cleaned … If we eat out, we all eat out, saving time from cooking at home, going grocery shopping. Even if you buy prepared foods from Costco, Walmart, pull paycheck. Buying your coffee from Starbucks, you're paying someone to prepare that food for you. You're going to get more free time. If you get get an oil change instead of doing the oil change yourself so that you save 5 bucks, paying money to save time. It's one of things I look for when I'm paying for service.
Another, I'm looking to save more money than I could otherwise on my own. Pay a CPA to do my taxes even if it cost me $400 to pair a tax return. If the person saves me $400 or more in taxes, I've at least saved my time from doing it. If they save me more than $400 where I paid them, I've also saved money. That can vary from year to year, sometime years, they might save more, sometimes they might they save less. When you work with a realtor to buy a home … You can be your own realtor and save 3% on the transaction costs but you choose to work with an expert, reduce your risk of getting into a bad deal and you're willing to compensate them for that. Buying a brand new home that's being built from the ground up, you could build your own home. I've done around 2 courses, read books, I've done all kinds of research on this, you can be your own general contractor.
Generally, you will save 20% on the cost of a house if you build it yourself and you manage all the subs but you have to take the time to manage all the subs to save that 20%. Another example is looking to make more money that I could otherwise do on my own. My certified financial planner helps me with investments. When you pay someone to manage your assets so that you take out their costs, whatever it is, they would make you more than you could do on your own. They even got a study that showed this, they've … People work with a financial adviser make 3% more on average than those who don't. Even though you're adviser chargers you 1% if you're working with him, you come out 2% ahead. Not everyone all the time but on average from the study. What are the other considerations? What does it cost? We already looked at that, what is it going to cost? What is going to save me? Is it going to save me time to use a service? Is it going to save me money if I go with a service?
What is it going to get me? Is it going to get me more money like if I work with an investment adviser? Is it going to give me more time so I don't have to do certain things? Am I going to come out ahead? I remember the first time I had to pay a CPA $400 to do my taxes, after I'd been using Turbotax for years, my situation changed drastically. I had a home, a part time business which had a schedule k1 that need to be filed. It was a bitter pill to shell out $400 at first time when you're used to spending 50. I don't know if I saved money back then, it was a long time ago. Why does all this matter? Get to the point, Turner. Get to the point. My friend Bill and I had coffee one day. Bill's a CPA. He works with small business owners and he told me about something called the master's tax strategy, the master's tax strategy. Here is the article he sent me. I'm going to read from it, called Rent Your Home To your S Corp And Get Tax Free Income.
Before I get to it, you might not be a small business owner but you probably know somebody who is. You might not have a side gig, you might not be an S corp, you might want to sit down with a CPA after this and start talking about that. What are the advantages of doing that? Here's the article. Your S Corp is a separate entity from you and can have meetings wherever it likes — including at your home. You can rent your home for up to 14 days each year without having to report the income. Have the meeting at your house and charge your company for the rental of your home and you get tax-free income and your company gets to deduct the expenses. Does that sound too good to be true? Of course there are considerations.
One, you can't provide "entertainment" at your meeting. That would color your home as an entertainment facility and kill this strategy. But there are two exceptions. You can have an employee summer picnic and/or a holiday party that involves entertaining; those are allowed exceptions. Add to that great deduction the waiving of the 50% entertainment rule and for those two events you can deduct 100%. Here's an example of how this works. Betty owns Betty's Real Estate and operates as an S Corp. She has a team of 20 agents. Each year, Betty holds ten monthly all-day training sessions for her agents. She has researched competitive bids for these meetings and determined $1,500 a day is a fair and reasonable expense in her area to rent out, say, something at a hotel. Betty can invoice her company a total of $15,000 for the year, remember $1,500 a day, 10 days a year and that income is tax-free to her since she is renting her home for 14 days or less. Her corporation can deduct the $15,000 as well.
In effect, Betty spends company money she would have spent anyway going to the hotel and renting a room, except now she and not a third-party venue, the hotel, receives the income. You can too — as long as you meet IRS guidelines. Continue on on this article. First you need to be able to document that the rent you charge is fair and reasonable for your area. Next is the "entertainment problem," which can be addressed by making sure your event is strictly a training exercise. Document the business activities that took place, maintain a sign-in sheet, and keep copies of your training materials. Finally, have your corporation issue a 1099 for rents paid to you and you will then report the 1099 amount on your personal income taxes on Schedule E, showing a deduction under other expenses for non-taxable income. Okay. A preface of this is I'm not a tax expert, I'm just reading information shared to me. When I said, not in this episode — a different episode, there was a different tax code for business owners and non business owners. This is what I meant.
It is not the rich versus the poor tax code. It is not the rich versus the broke people tax code. It's the business owner versus the non-business owners tax code. Old Betty here just got a $15,000 tax break, $15,000 that she doesn't have to pay taxes on by holding 10 training sessions at her house. Raise your hand if you know about this tax strategy. I do not. You could be running a multi level marketing our of your house, a lot of people do. If you're an S Corp and making money, you might be able to throw tax deductibles parties to the people working under you for Christmas. If you're a small business, Christmas party at your house, deducted. The team you surround yourself with, your legal team, your tax team, your investment team, your business coaching, they cost a lot of money. You will find over time as you accumulate more, which you will, the more valuable your team is going to become to help you accumulate even more on top of that. Action item, you need to decide if you need a CPA for one or if you have one, if you need a new one.
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Kristine: "I would say the area I'm struggling with is being able to control cost and expenses. It crushes my budget a lot. Things the kids need and things that pop up like car repairs." I like that term "budget crushers." That's a great term — what crushes your budget. Any time we're running out of money or we're over extending ourselves, we really need to take a hard look at what we're spending stuff on. That starts with differentiating between needs versus wants because there's a lot confusion that we may have as what is a real need. There's only a few. Car repair, like you mentioned, that's a need. You got to get to work and have income. Kids, if they got holes in their shoes, yeah, that's a need. Kids grow like weeds so if there clothes don't fit, yeah, that's a need. You gotta have clothes that fit. You got to have a winter coat, it's cold. You got to have shorts in the summertime if it's hot. The basic needs for each of us, food is always number 1 because you got to live.
Scott A. T.: You got to pay for shelter, rent, mortgage, whatever that happens to be. Clothing, sometimes. Again, if kids need clothes, yes. Mom and dad? Not usually. We usually have enough clothes. We think it's a need but usually it's a want if we want something new. Then, you've got your transportation because you got to get to work and utilities, you got to have the power on. After that, you've got debt repayments if you're carrying credit card debt, if you've got car loan, medical bills, outstanding debt so you need to pay. You want to look at paying those. Beyond that, everything else, arguable it's a want. Extra curricular activities with the kids, that is a want. I know we would think it's a need. The kids need to go to soccer practice so they need to take band lesson or they need to do after school activities. We want them to do those things, it's good for them but if you can't pay the bills and pay those other things that are truly our needs, then it is a want.
It's a matter of taking the priority order, what you spend money on and just take a critical, critical look at it. Ask if our sitting on the outside, looking in, looking at this budget if this were not my budget, with this thing that I'm spending money, is it really a want or is it a need? It's not a blame game. It's not a blame game at all. It's just an honest evaluation of what you're spending money on. Be honest with yourself because in the end, it's your savings. It's your savings that are taking a beating in the short term for non-essential spending if that stuff exists. You might be doing perfect. So? That's fantastic. Then, you just have to grind it out until you are making a greater income or your costs decrease, your expenses decrease. If you've got a line item on there that says,"Cable bill: $150 a month," that's a want. That is not a need. Trim and cut until it hurts. It hurts because it's only going to hurt for a little bit until you get things under control, get back on track, get to where you do have that buffer, you can have some savings for some goals that you've got set up.
Then, once you get there, then you you can introduce the other things back into the equation; the wants and the getting of more stuff or whatever else that it is you're going to spend your money on. The trimming and the cutting, it's temporary. It's temporary. You gotta keep that in mind. We've got a long life to live. There's lots of time. There's plenty of time to buy stuff, there's plenty of time for the kids to play sports, plenty of time for Sally Sue to take dance lessons on the weekends. It's okay of she takes 6 months off because if you don't do now what you need to do to get ahead, you're always going to be living from behind. The thing is, you can do it, you can do it. Thanks Kristine for the question. Time to pay the bills. Back in a few seconds. You're listening to Scott Alan Turner.
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Celeste: "I opened a private counselling practice about 2 years and even though I've kept the cost a s low as humanly possible, I'm still not turning a profit, only breaking eve. It's a little hard to explain but the lack of profits has been fine for the last 2 years because the business actually paid for me to earn a higher level of licensure in my state and that's extremely costly. Plus, I was able to do this while working part time so that I could administer to my family. However, not that I've got that highest license, I'm wondering if my business is juts a self-funded hobby that's not worth continuing to pursue." My friend Rebecca, she started as a counselor for at-risk kids in the low income neighborhoods of Atlanta and she did that I think for 2, maybe 3 years.
Scott A. T.: Maybe it'd been part of some government program but then 1 or 2 or 3 years is up, got out of that, got into private practice, kind of like what you're doing and just started banking money — setting her own hours, achieved a great amount of success. You're only 2 years in, so it think it's too soon throwing the towel just yet. There is a grind when starting a new business and you're just getting in the beginning phases to here you're planning on going. Breaking even for you, most businesses are breaking broke by now, 2 years in, so you're winning. You're above water and you got to be proud of that. Ask yourself, do you love what you do? Yes or no, do you love what you do? Do you think about it 24/7 figuratively not literally? You got a family, you're playing with the kids, whatever, doing stuff, cooking, going out to eat but when you got some free time, were you thinking about it? Do you jump out of bed in the morning excited to go to your job? Do you annoy your friends and family with all your great ideas?
If your answer those questions are yes, well then you're on to something. The people that are passionate about what they're doing, the reason they succeed and the reason they make money is because they think about it all the time . not all the time but pretty much all the time. When there's a free brain cycle, it's like, "What do I need to grow my business. This is cool over here, let me read up on that and figure out that. Let me go get an education on this particular topic. I think I can apply that to my business and grow it. Let me go see this speaker. Let me take this course." Always thinking about it and that's where the success comes in in the long term because you're learning these things. You're passionate about it, you apply it in your business. The end result is it makes money over the long term. Now, thankfully, I did check out your website before answering your question because unfortunately, for me, you have implemented all the good ideas that I thought I had. I [inaudible 00:21:07] at your coaching page.
Every product that I would've recommended that you go out and build in this niche, you've already done. You've already done it. You got the coaching program for people coming into the industry, how to start a business with a brick and mortar. You've got that product, one on one coaching, different types of coaching, those are all excellent services. You've got the products, you've got the base to build on, you've got the foundation, you've spent the time working in the business. Now, you need to spend the time working on the business, selling stuff, networking, learning how to get these products out to the masses so you can generate more income through it. If you love what you're doing, I would not give up on it. You've already done the hard stuff — building it out. Now, it's just time to figure out ways to grow, grow, grow, get more customers. That's the next phase. It's just a phase that you're going to go through getting to exactly where you want to take your business.
Scott A. T.: Moscow … Hello, Wes. Another pin in the map on the show. Living in Moscow sounds super fun. I would due to be stationed in Tuscany if I had my choice, amongst the vineyards in the countryside. Way to go. That sounds like a great time and you've got an awesome credit score to boot. You're doing it right. Just use it a couple times a month, pay it off, keep the score up for whenever you decide to come back. First thing that immediately jumps out at me is your way overweighted in company stock, 255 of your savings. I'd highly suggest you drop that down to 10% if you can just because of the huge risk of being so concentrated in company stock. If something ever happens with that company that you're with or even just the stock market in general, is a big tanking and that company goes down even more than stock market if that were to happen. Just way overweight, not well diversified in my opinion and a lot of people as well who look at these types of thing, looking at proper diversification within a portfolio.
If that's possible, I don't know if it is, you may have to have a certain vesting schedule for that stock that's in there and if that's okay, you just got to ride out by the look at … Switching some of that over to some more diversified index funds if you have that option. Let's talk about passive income, what are the easy things that you can do to get started, what are some of the more complex things based on the money that you've got sitting around. Number 1, for a lot of people, rental properties. It's a little bit more challenging abroad where you are but plenty of people do it, it's possible. Plenty of people have vacation homes in Europe that they rent out whether they live here in the United States or in another country. They have vacation homes in Europe. You can get one back here in the States and have a property managing company handle it for you and they have those abroad as well. There are people in Florida that have condos in Colorado, people in Boston that have beach condos in Florida. You just have to be willing to be hands off.
One of my brothers, he lives in Connecticut, he's got a rental in Orlando but he lived in Orlando for 10 years, he's familiar with the city. You don't want to go into a situation blind and let someone else just feed you information while you're overseas. You need to have some knowledge on that. Get hands on in the get go and then you can go hands off, maybe 99% after the closing sale and the renter's in place. This is my opinion. Some people are going to say, "Don't have rental unless you can get to it in 90 minutes." That works for them and they like that. Me, personally, I don't have a problem buying a home overseas or far away and the reason is, I look at the worst case scenario and I ask myself, "Can I take the hit? If the worst thing happens, can I take the hit? The absolute worst, what's my risk level?" Maybe that's well the house burns down. The insurance pays for it, I'm covered there. Maybe I have to fly out to some place and spend a couple weeks there if something goes wrong, If there's black mold or something in it.
Ask yourself, would your work let you do that? Can you get away for a couple of weeks if that was the situation? You may just walk through all the what ifs, have a plan b, have a plan c and think things through what you would do. Online businesses, I talk about those a lot, a great source of passive income, had a number of those, talked about them before, generating ideas, getting those up and running. Certainly an option, it's a long term thing, it takes a big time commitment and it can take 1, 2, 3 years to get those up and running and kicking out some cash and yeah, you get the crazies out there that say, "Yeah. Start up my business a month ago and it's already making a thousand dollars." Those are fringe cases. That's the rare few who actually do that. It's a grind doing online business. Those are the 2 most common, those are the 2 most easiest. Again, by easy, I mean there's a lot of information out there and it's a low barrier to entry. It's a low cost of entry to get into either of those.
Another option, you just hand over your money to someone to invest in their business if they have a business idea. That's an option. It's a huge risk but it's got a much potential bigger return than, say, the stock market or real estate. You could lose it all. Never invest more than you're willing to lose. Those opportunities, they come through friends, relationships, networking. You have to be on the lookout for those and put the feelers out to get involved of those. You wouldn't just go online and look for somebody who's got this great idea and buying to something that you know nothing about and have no relationship with the person. That'd be a terrible money. Loaning money is something people do and I'm not talking about being a loan shark because you don't want to do that. Peer to peer lending websites, you can make some returns on those. Katie's grandfather, getting back to real estate again, he used to finance rental homes and hold all the notes so he would hold the mortgage. If the renter bailed, which occasionally happens, he's keep the house and all their money, so that's an option.
Buying an existing business, hiring someone else to manage it. That is very time consuming and you really have to know what you're getting into. We're getting into the least risky to the more risky and higher returns here as we go through these. It's easy to go bankrupt if you go that route especially if you finance it and take on debt. Mark Brunell, he is a famous NFL football, made 50 million dollars over his NFL career, he lost it all in bankruptcy. He made 9 bad business investment. That is very hard to do but he managed to do it including every penny in Whataburger franchises. He bought out 9 million dollars into several burger stands and he just made a bonehead move and knew nothing about running a restaurant. You don't do that. You don't buy what you don't know. You don't invest in what you don't know. You get into what you don't understand and certainly, you don't buy 9 of what you don't know. Katie probably spent more time researching what breed of cat to buy than this guy spent on learning about hamburgers. Isn't that right, Ryger? Yes, he says meow. Ryger the cat in the office.
First step, Wes, figure out how much cash you have to play with. Make sure you're putting away 15 to 20% for retirement, which looks like you're doing that. Then, maybe the extra, is your play money which you can have a risk of losing or maybe all that. That's okay if you only sleep over it. You want to figure out your time commitment and then get educated on what path you decide to take since you have a family. If you all you scrape together is 3 extra hours a week, that's enough to start on real estate, not really enough to start in building a business in an reasonable amount of time. Then, when you decide a course of action, head on over to Amazon and you buy a bunch of books and you start reading. Read, read, read, read, read and then you make a plan. Easy peasy, right? Anybody can do it though, it's just time and priorities and sometime, a little money. Thanks, Wes. Please keep me up to date on what you decide to do.
If you want to achieve success in any single part of your life — finances, health, relationships, spirituality, what else is these? It's usually 5 big groups, I'm forgetting one. Anyway, any part of your life, you got to figure out what are the best strategies for those improvements and you just keep repeating them over and over and over again until they become habit. You're looking to lose weight, you're looking areas in your life where you can trim a few calories each day and then repeat that habit day after day after day, week after week after week, month after month after month, year after year after year and you will most likely, lose weigh. You want to work on getting healthier heart and you decide. "I'm going to start walking or I'm going to start running." Take your time everyday and just keep doing it and doing it, doing it, doing it and doing it and then suddenly, it becomes habit and you don't even think about it, you just out. It's 6 AM, time get out and go out and walk around the neighborhood 50 times or whatever it is.
Money, finances, same thing. Save, save, save until it becomes a habit. Budget, budget, budget becomes a habit. Ask for the discount, ask for the discount, ask for the discount until it becomes a habit. Relationships or self-improvement, smile every time you answer the phone until it becomes a habit until you don't have to think about it anymore. Your starting point, wherever you are right now because we are where we are or nowhere else. Can't fix the past, the present is what it is. All you can do is make small and commit to changes, sometimes massive changes but small income ones eventually the massive changes to get us where we're going to go. Where you are, whatever your situation happens to be, that is okay. Your current status is okay. We didn't know what we know now and we wish we had known back then. We're learning. Turn the learning into a motivating factor and a strategy and not an excuse to keep you from going to where you want to go. Those are the words. That's it for this episode. I'm your host Scott Alan Turner. Rockstar Katie is my producer.
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Website: www.austintheatre.org
Address: 719 Congress Avenue, Austin, TX 78701
Stateside at the Paramount was opened as the State Theatre in December 1935. It was built by Interstate Theatres and designed by theatre architect W. Scott Dunne, who designed theatres throughout Texas and Oklahoma including the Plaza Theatre (El Paso, TX) and Texas Theatres in Palestine, Sweetwater, Seguin, and Dallas.
Stateside at the Paramount
The State was the first theatre in Austin specifically designed to screen movies. Other theatres in the downtown area at the time included the Paramount – just a couple of doors down the street; the Queen – across the street; the Capitol on 6th Street; and the Ritz on 6th Street, now the Alamo Drafthouse. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s the State, Paramount, Queen, and Capitol theatres all flourished under the management of Louis Novy on behalf of Interstate Theatres.
Dunne designed the theatre in the Art Deco style popular at the time. Originally there was a retail space separating the State and Paramount theatres, however in later years, likely 1940s, the State theatre's lobby was expanded into the retail space and the two theatres became direct neighbors.
The State's seating capacity was reported as 907 by the Film Daily Yearbook in 1941, but by 1950 was given as 997. Today's capacity is a comfortable 305. The theatre's balcony has been given over to technical use with its metalwork structure highlighted as a feature of the venue.
Theatre Marquee
During the 1970s, the State fell on hard times and screened mostly B-movies and adult films. Then in 1986, the City of Austin bought the theatre and leased it to Live Oak Theatre, a local producing theatre company.
In 1998, Austin architect Sinclair Black and Live Oak's director Don Toner embarked on a $3.5 million rehabilitation, transforming the interior into an inviting 320-seat space with backstage work areas, dressing rooms, a rehearsal hall, and a new lobby. Six months later, Live Oak finalized its purchase of the theatre, moved into the building, and continued its tradition of presenting quality work and supporting the growth of new plays. Embracing the spirit of its new permanent home, the company changed its name to The State Theatre Company.
In 2000, The State Theatre Company merged with its next-door neighbor, the Paramount Theatre for the Performing Arts, to form the Austin Theatre Alliance. An endeavor that began with two distinct operational and business models has combined the best of both to become one of Austin's most uniquely productive performing arts resources: a thriving organization that both presents and produces a broad range of drama, comedy, music, dance, and spoken-word events of the highest caliber, in downtown Austin's most commanding venues.
Backstage at the State
In June of 2006, the State Theatre, having just celebrated its 70th anniversary and in the middle of a successful run of the play Bunk Bed Brothers, suffered the effects of a city water main break that resulted in the flooding of the State's stage and basement, and one-quarter of the auditorium. The massive water leak ruined hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment and forced the cancellation of part of the theatre's 2006-07 season, aside from events that could be moved to other venues. Complicating matters further was the theatre's relationship to the Reynolds-Penland building directly north, the basement of which held all backstage facilities for the State. Major upgrades were required to bring backstage spaces up to code.
After approximately $300,000 worth of repairs were completed, the Austin Theatre Alliance was proud to celebrate the grand reopening of the State Theatre on 1st March 2011 with a private performance by Austin favorite Bob Schneider. The venue is now a popular space for film screenings, live events, podcasts, and is a key venue for the Moontower Comedy Festival .
The State's iconic neon vertical sign was restored and re-lit in October 2013.
How do I visit Stateside at the Paramount?
As of mid-2018, Stateside at the Paramount does not offer regularly-scheduled tours. Check out the many and varied events running there on the theatre's website which includes a calendar of events and online booking.
Also check out the Moontower Comedy Festival , for which Stateside at the Paramount is a key venue.
The Cinema Treasures website contains brief history and many exterior photos over the years.
August 2006 report on the theatre's flooding .
"Historic Movie Houses of Austin" (2016) , by Susan B. Rittereiser, Michael C. Miller, and the Austin Historic Center, published by Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 1467117188.
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Opening advert as printed in the 24th December 1935 edition of the Austin American-Statesman (JPG)
The renovated theatre lobby in February 1976, from the Austin History Center Collection (JPG)
Photos of Stateside at the Paramount
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Balcony structure from below
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Also using GWT 1.6.4 and JDK 1.5_06 on Windows of course.
This works just fine in every browser except IE7 where the panel is rendered with a blue background.
I assume I am setting the background color correctly for GXT panels. It is my understanding I need to specify camel case as I did.
Also the VerticalPanel's parent is a ContentPanel with a BorderLayout.
ContentPanel has a setBorderStyle(String) method, but no setBorderStyle(String,String) as you have specified in your response.


Cavill also met Super Grover while he was at Sesame Street. The two stand together in this photo from PBS, shared by Entertainment Weekly. EW says Cavill praised the talented Sesame Street puppeteers. He said, "Can I just say, you guys are incredible. It's really remarkable to watch you guys work. I have enormous respect for what you guys do."


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Mizzou Tennis sneaks past BYU
2 years 5 months 1 week ago Friday, February 03 2017 Feb 3, 2017 Friday, February 03, 2017 8:31:00 PM CST February 03, 2017 in Sports
By: Edward Redler, KOMU 8 Digital Producer
PROVO, UTAH – Missouri Tennis defeated BYU , 4-3, Friday afternoon in Provo, Utah.
Mizzou (3-1) lost the opening doubles point before bouncing back and winning four of the six singles matches to take the victory.
Senior Bea Machado Santos put the Tigers on the board with a singles victory, first singles dual win of the season.
The teams went back and fourth, as BYU (1-1) won at No. 3 singles to tie the score at 2-2, then junior Amina Ismail earned the lead back for Mizzou with a 6-2, 6-2 victory in the No. 5 spot. Ismail currently owns a team-leading 17 overall wins.
Mizzou freshmen Tate Schroeder & Mackenzy Middlebrooks also secured singles victories, including a dual-clinching victory from Middlebrooks to earn the third victory of the season.
Schroeder is now 3-0 to start the season following her win at the No. 4 spot, 6-3, 6-2.
After Ismail's victory, BYU tied the match at 3-3, which produced a winner-take-all scenario for Middlebrooks to clinch the match with a win or a loss.
Tied at 3-3, No. 6 Middlebrooks defeated fellow frehsman Kate Cusick from BYU. The first set went to a tiebreaker, but Middlebrooks eventually took the set 7-6 (9).
Cusick won the second set, 6-4, to force a third set. After falling behind 1-4, Middlebrooks, bounced back to win six of the next seven games to secure her second career dual singles win and Mizzou's third match victory of the season.
Mizzou will face its fifth opponent from its 10-game road trip Friday, Feb. 10, against Kansas State.


A sloppy game but the ladies put together enough runs to pull away by 25 before settling for 16.
Elliott's final home game, as it was for Kane.
From today's game, I think beating USD in the WCC Tourney @USD will be a tough chore. The Toreros played hard, never gave up today.
Crowd looked over 2500, possibly 3000.
I thought Shives, Bekkering and Frieson were co-players of the game, imo. Bowman played okay but missed a bunch of bunnies. Courtney didn't finish as good as she can. That said, a good team effort.
The Gonzaga University women's basketball team closed out its 2007-08 West Coast Conference regular-season home slate on a high note defeating the University of San Diego 76-60 at the McCarthey Athletic Center Saturday afternoon.
The Bulldogs improved to 10-1 in WCC action and 19-7 overall, while the Toreros, who had come into the contest riding a four-game winning streak, fell to 4-6 in conference and 13-11 overall.
Gonzaga played solid on both ends of the court in the first half and went into the locker room with an impressive 50-29 lead. The Bulldogs finished the half shooting 57.6% (19-33) from the floor, including 55.6% (5-9) behind the three-point arc, and was 77.8% (7-9) at the charity stripe.
The Bulldogs broke the game open after a jumper by junior Jami Bjorklund at the 15:49 mark broke a 9-9 tie. The jumper by Bjorklund started a 20-2 run that gave the Zags a 29-11 advantage with a little over 10 minutes left in the half.
The Toreros were able to slice the Bulldogs advantage to 11 with their own 8-1 spurt, but a 20-4 push by Gonzaga over the next six minutes gave GU its largest lead of the half at 50-23 with 1:19 remaining. Sophomore TIffanie Shives capped off the remarkable run with her second three-pointer of the half.
The Bulldogs had three players close out the opening half in double-figures, including sophomore Heather Bowman who scored 14. Shives added 12 points, while freshman Courtney Vandersloot posted 11 and dished out six assists.
It was all San Diego in the first 10 minutes of the second half as the Toreros muscled up 20 points, while limiting Gonzaga to nine, to cut the Zag lead to just 10, 59-49, with 9:21 remaining in the contest.
The Toreros could not sustain their momentum though, as the Bulldogs used a 12-3 spurt to put the game out of their reach.
One of the highlights of the second half was senior Rachel Kane making one last appearance on the McCarthey Athletic Court. Kane, who suffered a career-ending knee injury on Jan. 26, was subbed into the contest with 49 seconds left to a standing ovation. She was in for one play before being subbed out to the hugs and applause of the Bulldog coaches and players.
Gonzaga had five players finish the game in double-figure points. Bowman scored a game-high 19 points and grabbed eight rebounds, dished out three assists and made one steal. Vandersloot added 14 points, seven assists, two rebounds and one steal. Shives added 14 points, while sophomore Vivian Frieson and freshman Janelle Bekkering registered 12 and 10 points, respectively.
San Diego was led by Morgan Henderson and Amanda Rego who scored 17 and 13 points, respectively. Sam Child added 11 points and Amber Sprague brought down a game-high 10 rebounds.
Gonzaga will be back in action Saturday, Feb. 23 when it plays at the University of Portland. Game time is set for 2 p.m.
0; ESTELL, Brianna 0-0 0-2 0. Totals 23-65 12-19 60.
KANE, Rachel 0-0 0-0 0; LORENZO, Tatriana 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 28-68 14-20 76.
2-3; SHIVES, Tiffanie 2-5; ELLIOTT, Michelle 0-2; BJORKLUND, Jami 0-2).
Fouled out--SAN DIEGO TOREROS-MANGRUM, Kaila, GONZAGA BULLDOGS-None.
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When River auditions for a part in an inter-school performance of Romeo and Juliet, she finds herself falling for Flynn, the boy playing Romeo.
River believes in romantic love, and she can't wait to experience it. But does Flynn see things the same way?
The path of true love never did run smooth . . .
River is a born romantic and she wants nothing more than to fall in love with a boy and have him love her back. She meets Flynn when she auditions for a school play but with him playing Romeo to her best friend's Juliet things aren't going to be easy for them.
Falling Fast is the first book I've read by Sophie McKenzie and it won't be the last, it was an enjoyable read and one that is perfect for when you have a couple of hours to spare and want to fill it with a sweet romance with realistic teenage characters. River and Flynn could have been people I was friends with at school and I enjoyed watching them cope with the perils of falling in love for the first time.
River was a really sweet character, she believes in love and is looking for that perfect fairytale romance that probably a lot of young girls dream of (I know I did at that age!). She is very innocent and has a very positive way of looking at the world which is something I really liked about her. Flynn was a character I had mixed feelings about. He could be very caring and he was incredibly protective towards River and his sisters but he had a darker side that left me feeling uncomfortable. He has had a very difficult upbringing so I could understand where he was coming from but he has a huge chip on his shoulder and I hated it when he took his frustrations out on River. She had never been anything but sweet and loving towards him so I was annoyed with his attitude at times. I think I understand where the author is going with this though and I liked the fact that River called him on his bad behaviour rather than just sat back and took it but it did make it hard for me to love his character.
I think both River and Flynn have a lot of growing up to do, Flynn definitely needs to start working on his resentment and anger issues and I'm hoping that River will build on her own confidence and continue to stand up to him. I'm intrigued to see how things progress with both of them as the series continues. I think that this will be a good series to show teenagers that love isn't all hearts and flowers in the real world. People have issues and problems that can effect their relationships and it takes work to make a success of things. I think it could also show teenage girls that they shouldn't put up with guys who don't treat them right and that they should never, ever feel pressured into doing anything that they are uncomfortable with. Flynn straddles a thin line at the moment and I think he can easily tip either way - into a mature young man with his whole life ahead of him or towards becoming an abusive jerk just like his father was. I know which way I want to see him turn and I'm hoping we see him get there.


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True Racial Representation Won't Happen If the Nuances Are Disregarded
Pull inspiration from the portrayals who have gotten it right
By Kenya Agunloye
Representation needs to be done in both the big and small ways.
Last fall, I started (then abruptly stopped) Black Looks: Race and Representation, a book by notable black feminist author bell hooks. As a member of the advertising community, I feel it's important to take a close look at how representations of black people in the media influence the way black people are treated in this country. Somewhere around the middle of the second chapter, "Eating the Other" (which was stressing me out), I decided to move on to something lighter. I just needed a break.
Despite its unfinished status, a portion of the introduction stayed with me. "There is a direct and abiding connection between the maintenance of white supremacist patriarchy in this society and the institutionalization via mass media of specific images, representations of race, of blackness that support and maintain the oppression, exploitation and overall domination of all black people."
Take that in. Sit with it. Ruminate on it. It's a reasonable and infuriating explanation for the deliberate lack of progress in representing blackness in the media.
Need for nuance
How people of color—specifically black women—are included in the media is equally as important as diversity, if not more. Studies show that media portrayals serve as an important source of information about black people and contribute to societal perceptions, subsequently shaping attitudes and treatment toward black people.
True racial diversity and representation hinge on making space for a multitude of black narratives.
With this understanding, black audiences and creators are critical of storylines that may include diverse characters but lack nuance. True racial diversity and representation hinge on making space for a multitude of black narratives. If images matter, the stories we tell with those images matter even more.
Trash the tropes
Black women are underrepresented in media, and when they are included, oftentimes disparaging and negative stereotypes are reflected. We've become all too familiar with the angry black woman and/or the oversexualized jezebel tropes that are consistently portrayed in mainstream media.
Neither I nor a countless number of other black women relate to these narratives in the slightest. Black women are way more complex and worthy of exploration than the media leads you to believe. Failure to properly reflect black women or anyone from a marginalized group has implications. The theory of symbolic annihilation states that racial groups who aren't presented as fully developed in the media may see their social status diminished. Not only does the media communicate messages that affect the way others think about black women but it also affects how black women think about themselves.
Portrayals done right
Supporting black filmmakers, directors, showrunners and content creators such as Shonda Rhimes, Lena Waithe, Issa Rae, Regina King and Mara Brock Akil is critical because they are both creating opportunities for people and women of color and writing narratives representative of the multidimensional black women who exist.
Remember Master of None's "Thanksgiving" episode with Lena Waithe and Angela Bassett? This episode was so groundbreaking because it shared the emotional coming out experience of a gay black woman to her mother. The show's Emmy Award-winning acclaim was newsworthy since this breakout episode portrayed a black female storyline that has often gone untold. Its praise was worthy, as this was a universally shared storyline that resonated with so many black and non-black women.
And please tell me you watch Issa Rae's Insecure. It's another example of the development of black female narratives. Insecure, a show about your average black woman and her friends navigating life and just trying to figure it all out, is my modern-day Seinfeld. Is there a woman on earth who can't relate to getting ghosted by her new love interest, having to work through the post-breakup blues or feeling stifled in their career and wanting out? This storyline is mundane, universal and—finally—told from a black perspective.
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Kenya Agunloye is an associate producer, film at Droga5.


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https://www.middletownpress.com/news/article/Two-pedestrians-hit-on-I-91-early-Sunday-11868765.php
Two pedestrians hit on I-91 early Sunday
Amanda Pinto, New Haven Register
Published 12:00 am EDT, Monday, June 13, 2011
NEW HAVEN -- Two men were injured, one of them seriously, when a car struck them as they were standing beside a stopped vehicle straddling the center lanes of I-91 Northbound near exit 8 on Sunday.
At about 2:25 a.m., Gerry Capo, 24, of Springfield, Mass., and Santiago Figueroa, 35, of Agawam, Mass. were standing in the right center lane of the highway next to a Dodge Durango that had been in a previous accident, police said.
A Nissan, driven by Taylor M Conlon, 20, of Wallingford, sideswiped the car and struck both Capo and Figueroa before fleeing the scene, police said.
Capo suffered an incapacitating injury in the accident, police said.
No more information about his condition or the hospital he where he was taken to were available.
The driver of the Durango, Anarelis Oliveros, 27, of Hartford, was not injured in either accident, police said.
Police later found the Nissan at the registered owner's address, police said. No arrests were announced and the investigation is ongoing, police said.


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The Queen shares scary near-death experience she had in 1994
By Meaghan Wray
At a Buckingham Palace garden party on Tuesday (May 21), the Queen opened up about how she nearly died in 1994 when a rogue cricket ball was flying towards her. HELLO! UK chatted with one party goer, Lucy Stafford, who shared the scary story.
"The Queen was very funny. She reminisced about how her bodyguard had caught a cricket ball flying towards her at a match in 1994," she told HELLO! UK. "She said she would have been dead if it hadn't been caught!"
Deaths due to cricket balls aren't unheard of! The most recent incident took place in 2014, when South Australia batsman Phillip Hughes passed away at age 25 after being hit in the neck by a ball.
It was also long rumoured that Frederick, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of King George II and father of George III, who was once heir to the British throne, died from complications due to an injury from a cricket ball. Scientists now think his 1751 death was due to a pulmonary embolism.
Players are still fairly frequently injured by the flying objects to this day.
What an incredible day! So honoured to have been invited to a garden party at Buckingham Palace. We had the most delicious afternoon tea in the gardens and even finished the day by meeting the Queen (who told us about how a cricket ball almost killed her in 1994) and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Can't quite believe it all really happened!
A post shared by Lucy Stafford (@lucystaffie) on May 21, 2019 at 10:26am PDT
Incredibly, this brush with demise by cricket ball is not the only near-death experience the Queen has had. Her Majesty survived two assassination attempts in 1981, and had a scary run-in with a bedroom intruder at Buckingham Palace the very next year. She was also once nearly shot by palace staff while going for a walk on the grounds at around 3 a.m. A guard who spotted her called out, asking her to identify herself.
MORE: The Royal Family's shocking near-death experiences
"Bloody hell, Your Majesty, I nearly shot you," he replied when she said she was the Queen.
"That's quite all right, next time I'll ring through beforehand so you don't have to shoot me," the monarch said back, with all of her characteristic dry humour.
Lucy scored an invite to the sunny palace party after founding Hospital Love Blankets, a charitable organization that puts together care packages for young adults who spend a lot of time in hospitals. The incredible 19-year-old also has been part of campaigns advocating for the inclusion of medical cannabis in the United Kingdom.
The young woman took to Instagram to share some fun photos from the event. In a carousel of snaps, Lucy poses alongside a woman, who appears to be her mom, named Kate. She also shared a photo of the Queen, as well as Duchess Kate and Prince William sharing a cheeky dance moment.
Kate and William shared a sweet moment, captured by Lucy. Photo: © Instagram/@lucystaffie
"What an incredible day!" she wrote. "So honoured to have been invited to a garden party at Buckingham Palace. We had the most delicious afternoon tea in the gardens and even finished the day by meeting the Queen (who told us about how a cricket ball almost killed her in 1994) and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Can't quite believe it all really happened!"
On a happier note, two incredibly lucky Canadians also got the chance to meet the Queen at the garden party. Emma and Maggie Archibald told the Halifax Chronicle-Herald meeting Her Majesty was nerve-wracking, but that the monarch was very interested in what they both did for a living.
Stars and royals who have been vaccinated against COVID-19
The best royal style of 2020
Stars and royals who have tested positive for the coronavirus or say they've likely had it
Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan make special donation in honour of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden receive first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine
King Harald and Queen Sonja of Norway have received the COVID-19 vaccine
The Queen and Prince Philip to return to Buckingham Palace ahead of Trooping the Colour: report
Princess Margaret's grandson Arthur Chatto thrills royals fans with first online workout video
Sarah Ferguson is writing a historical romance novel
This was the Queen's response when she was shown a self-checkout machine at the grocery store
The Queen reveals her biggest worry about hosting garden parties
The funny way the Queen greeted Prince William and Duchess Kate at the Chelsea Flower Show


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NewTek Discussions > LightWave 3D Technique Discussions > Visual Effects > Cloud color from vertex light?
View Full Version : Cloud color from vertex light?
Is there any way I can link the color of an HV to a vertex light map? For instance, you have a mesh representing a cloud. You generate a light map (vertex light map) for it. Then you take the cloud object into layout and activate hypervoxels on it, putting a HV at every point. Now how might you take the vertex light map data and apply it to the HV sprites?
Not sure if that´s doable, you can create vertex colors and apply to particles or hypervoxels on a object..check image for some hint where you activate that.
dpont´s node volume plugin for hypervoxels.
well I don´t think you can put vertex color maps on to Hypervoxels in sprite or volume mode through the method above ..it works only on surface mode I think.
Tested by painting a vertex color map on to the point cluster.
Have to check the dpont node options..


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Kejsar Bindusara (kallade sig Amitraghatha "en som slår de ovänskapliga"), född 320, död 272 f.Kr., var den andre Mauryaregenten av Magadha, med huvudstaden Pataliputra, och efterträdare till Chandragupta Maurya. Han regerade mellan cirka 296 f.Kr. och 272 f.Kr., för att då efterträdas av sin son Ashoka.

Bindusara erövrade ytterligare områden under sin regeringstid, och utsträckte riket till hela Nordindien mellan öst- och västkust.

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'''
  Factutils: helper scripts for source code entities

  Copyright 2012-2020 Codinuum Software Lab <https://codinuum.com>

  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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import RDF

from .const import ENTITY_NS, EXTERNAL_NS, SEP
from .exn import Invalid_argument
from .rdf import Resource
from .range import LCRange, ORange, LORange, LCORange, MAX_RANGE
from .fileid import FileDigest, FileDesc
from . import fileid
from . import range

import pathsetup
import dp

class External(Resource):
    def __init__(self, sym=None, **args):
        nd = args.get('node', None)
        if nd != None:
            Resource.__init__(self, node=nd)
        else:
            if sym != None:
                Resource.__init__(self, EXTERNAL_NS + sym)
            else:
                Resource.__init__(self, EXTERNAL_NS + '???')
                self._valid = False

    def __str__(self):
        return '<%s>' % self.get_uri()

class SourceCodeEntity(Resource):
    def __init__(self, **args):
        Resource.__init__(self)
        self._enc = None
        self._file_id = None
        self._range = MAX_RANGE
        self._local_name = None
        self._node = None
        self._valid = False

        try:
            self._file_id = FileDesc(args['project'],
                                     args['version'],
                                     args['proj_rel_path'])
        except KeyError:
            pass

        try:
            self._file_id = args['file_id']
        except KeyError:
            pass

        try:
            self._range = args['range']
        except KeyError:
            pass

        try:
            sl = args['start_line']
            sc = args['start_column']
            so = args['start_offset']
            el = args['end_line']
            ec = args['end_column']
            eo = args['end_offset']
            self._range = LCORange(sl, sc, so, el, ec, eo)
        except KeyError:
            pass

        try:
            sl = args['start_line']
            sc = args['start_column']
            el = args['end_line']
            ec = args['end_column']
            self._range = LCRange(sl, sc, el, ec)
        except KeyError:
            pass

        try:
            sl = args['start_line']
            so = args['start_offset']
            el = args['end_line']
            eo = args['end_offset']
            self._range = LORange(sl, so, el, eo)
        except KeyError:
            pass

        try:
            so = args['start_offset']
            eo = args['end_offset']
            self._range = ORange(so, eo)
        except KeyError:
            pass

        try:
            self._node = RDF.Node(uri_string=args['uri'])
        except KeyError:
            pass

        if self._file_id and self._range:
            self._enc = self._file_id.get_enc()

            self._valid = self._file_id.is_valid() & self._range.is_valid()

            if self._range == MAX_RANGE:
                compos = [self._enc, self._file_id.encode()]
            else:
                self._enc += self._range.get_enc()
                compos = [self._enc, self._file_id.encode(), self._range.encode()]

            self._local_name = SEP.join(compos)
            uri = RDF.Uri(ENTITY_NS + self._local_name)
            self._node = RDF.Node(uri)

        elif self._node:
            uri_str = str(self._node.uri)
            if uri_str.startswith(ENTITY_NS):
                self._local_name = uri_str.replace(ENTITY_NS, '')

                try:
                    compos = self._local_name.split(SEP)
                    self._enc = compos[0]
                    self._file_id = fileid.from_encoded(compos[1])
                    try:
                        self._range = range.from_encoded(compos[2])
                    except IndexError:
                        pass

                    self._valid = self._file_id.is_valid() & self._range.is_valid()

                except Exception as e:
                    #self.warning(str(e))
                    self._valid = False

            else:
                self._valid = False

        else:
            self._valid = False

    def __str__(self):
        return '<%s>' % self.get_uri()

    def get_encoding(self):
        return self._enc

    def get_range(self):
        return self._range

    def get_file_id(self):
        return self._file_id

    def get_uri(self):
        return self._node.uri

    def get_local_name(self):
        return self._local_name

    def contains(self, other):
        b = False
        if self._file_id == other._file_id:
            b = self._range.contains(other._range)
#            self.debug('%s vs %s --> %s' % (self.get_range(), other.get_range(), b))

        return b

    def is_file(self):
        return self._range == MAX_RANGE


The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene against "failed states" around the globe. In this much anticipated sequel to his international bestseller Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky turns the tables, charging the United States with being a "failed state," and thus a danger to its own people and the world.
"Failed states" Chomsky writes, are those "that do not protect their citizens from violence and perhaps even destruction, that regard themselves as beyond the reach of domestic or international law, and that suffer from a 'democratic deficit,' having democratic forms but with limited substance." Exploring recent U.S. foreign and domestic policies, Chomsky assesses Washington's escalation of the nuclear risk; the dangerous consequences of the occupation of Iraq; and America's self-exemption from international law. He also examines an American electoral system that frustrates genuine political alternatives, thus impeding any meaningful democracy.
Forceful, lucid, and meticulously documented, Failed States offers a comprehensive analysis of a global superpower that has long claimed the right to reshape other nations while its own democratic institutions are in severe crisis, and its policies and practices have recklessly placed the world on the brink of disaster. Systematically dismantling America's claim to being the world's arbiter of democracy, Failed States is Chomsky's most focused--and urgent--critique to date.
A failed state is when the corruption has taken over the government and the criminals run things. Yup America is a failed state.
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