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Chargettes urged to be sexy
I have to admit I struggled to understand how the three buckets of his strategy could work. Either you would rebalance the three inside of a tax-sheltered plan (like mutual funds in a 401k) but then how would you take advantage of the short-term bucket for life's needs? At least Ray & co were better than the smooth sounding purveyor of managed investment trusts Jacob Cooper who used to ply his trade on KOGO Saturday mornings. I wonder if he is still in jail for ripping off his Mormon elders?— May 16, 2018 4:05 p.m.
Chargettes urged to be sexy
I remember listening to "Buckets of Money" Ray Lucia on the radio when his daughter came into the studio to ask him for money. She was a cheerleader with the Chargers. 2000 ish? And she had no money to fill up her empty tank so she had to walk to the studio to ask Dad for cash. Luckily the Chargers training facility and KOGO's studios were (are?) pretty close together near Aero Drive. And Ray, or his on-air buddy, said "pretty girl but not good with money". I remember thinking, wow if he can't get his daughter to follow his strategy, how can he teach me? Later, through the Chargers she met and married our hometown-pick-up-football-hero-while-on-injured-reserve Ryan Leaf. And even though Ray brought him on the radio, Ryan too appeared to be immune to the Lucia financial coaching charm.— May 14, 2018 8:07 p.m.
Life
So, I want to thank the Reader for letting me win 2 tickets to see a packed preview of this film at Edwards Mira Mesa 18 last night. Because I would have been really sorry to pay money to see it. Matthew, your capsule review nailed the director's intent: triumphant nihilism. Raise your hand if you want to see yet another movie about unmentioned God sending the unstoppable destroyer to wipe out humanity (or at least the International Space Station's crew) because of their pride at playing small-g god with a vial of Martian dirt. Jake G brings appealing baleful looks to the film in between being chased around the ISS by the beast the crew created. The other 5 actors are forgettable red-shirts - except Ryan Reynolds playing himself as a janitor in outer space, at one point quite truthfully turning to the camera and saying "I know 4 other guys who can do my job here"... Matthew, did you sense Jake G wanted to play the space psycho loner supporting role ("he's been out here too long) in the early scenes while Ryan R would be the wise-cracking lead before Ryan R realized what a turd this would be and bailed out? I can tell you the big crowd of the preview realized it too; they didn't gasp, cheer or laugh at any of this movie. Except when the first few minutes of the film played silently (broken sound system) and the guy in front of me yelled out, no wonder this is free!— March 23, 2017 9:11 p.m.
Expedia, Hotwire, and Priceline cost the city millions in taxes
You are correct, TOT is 10.5% but often there are more city taxes. I just priced a Holiday Inn Airport Old Town at $100.88 directly from Holiday Inn online. The tax: $12.81. Which is more than 10.5%. Might be subject to a Tourism Marketing District surcharge of 2%.— March 23, 2017 7:51 p.m.
Expedia, Hotwire, and Priceline cost the city millions in taxes
Dustin, the way I read this is: EXPEDIA online buys a block of rooms from HOLIDAY INN for $30 a night and then sells them online for $100 a night. Holiday Inn is selling the rooms for $30 in the eyes of the City of San Diego Treasurer Tax Collector and that's the value they tax. With a hotel tax around 16.5% that means the city would collect $5 in tax instead of the $16 you would pay booking directly with Holiday Inn and this difference is what the people in the article think of as "free cash" being wasted. Problem is, any tax increase will need a public vote and 2/3 voter approval. So why is the Hotel Motel industry on board with this? Well, Holiday Inn is selling that room to Expedia not for $30 but actually $35 since Expedia is paying for the SD-TTC tax. If the tax gets passed upstream, Holiday Inn can now sell that for $35 and keep 100% for itself. Suddenly a 16.5% better deal for the hotel motel selling its spare rooms into the online secondary market.— March 23, 2017 3:47 a.m.
The Great Wall
Zhang Yimou's first English language feature? I think that honor goes to his 2011 FLOWERS OF WAR with Christian Bale.— February 6, 2017 7:25 p.m.
Gaslamp 15, we hardly knew ye
Shame. I liked the eclectic programming like the 40 Foot Films. Last year we saw at Gaslamp 15 both "Before We Go", Chris Evans' take on my wife's beloved "Before Sunrise", and also the special screening of "Cosplay Dreams". Like others have mentioned, access to Gaslamp 15 was easy for a 7pm Saturday show. I could rip down the 94 and park for free in the East Village near the old library and walk over. 15-20 minutes from my house in La Mesa to get there, much faster than getting into Mission Valley or Fashion Valley's movie houses (although I give major props to FV18 for their Korean film programming this last year! Scott, do you know who AMC's programming director is for that theater, I want to thank them). One thing that always disturbed me was, the almost empty theater when I saw a film. I was never alone, but sometimes the previews were rolling when patron #2 came in! That's no way to pay the rent..— February 7, 2016 4:42 a.m.
UCSD's $516,000 temporary executive
If you ever wonder why UCSD focuses heavily on recruiting world-class researchers and their programs by using this heavily compensated Strategic and Business Development position, that line about UCSD collecting 55% of the program's research budget should explain it. A few decades ago I had a part time position with a similar group at UCSD where I helped build a database of all the facilities research space at all the campus locations. The purpose of the work was to give UCSD a way to calculate the value of square footage of research space. I remember correlating the research grants against the space I measured (by the way physical sciences/medicine/engineering/oceanography were 99.98% of the money). At the time I was there, the "tax" UCSD charged to researchers on their grants was around 30% for "indirect cost recovery" i.e. for providing them with the facilities to do their work. It seems in the intervening years they've managed to ratchet up this fee significantly as well. If you want to think about this position as a salesman bringing in revenue to the university, then the compensation may be appropriate for the job.— December 18, 2015 5:19 a.m.
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
"Couldn't hit a fly if it was trapped in a gun barrel??" Heh heh heh It looks like we're... it looks like we're shy one horse!— August 2, 2015 9:24 p.m.