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October 4, 2013
By Christine HamiltonThe American Quarter Horse Journal
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It's nothing but the best advice from top AQHA Professional Horsemen for the free Ride the Pattern clinics at the SmartPak West and Nutrena East AQHA novice championships.
In Las Vegas, the last two clinics featured trainers based in Arizona – Karen Graham of Cave Creek on trail, and Jim and Deanna Searles of Scottsdale on horsemanship.
In both clinics, the horsemen went over the competition patterns, the judges' expectations and how the class procedure would flow. They all emphasized the importance – despite the nerves – of having fun, and enjoying the spotlight with your horse, no matter what.
"A lot of (the trail) questions were about scoring and how to plus," Karen said. "I think a lot of their concerns focused on looking at an obstacle and how they should ride it. Of course it changes for each horse and you have your stride rules.
"For example, in the triangle (in this pattern) you have to trot over one point and then circle around and trot the next point. Some of them were doing three strides coming in and two strides coming out, etc., and I was trying to show them how to 'shape up' which means to get in there on the right angle so that you get two strides on each side.
"They need this information," she added, in support of AQHA Professional Horsemen giving free Ride the Pattern/Ride the Rail clinics at the novice championships. "They need a lot of confidence. Some of them are coming here without trainers or they are coming here facing for the first time patterns that require so much precision… and they are worried about it."
Memorize the pattern, and then don't stress over it, "just let it flow," Karen said. Remember that at this level you're trying to improve your riding, and you need to focus on just feeling good about the ride you end up having.
"I just want them to slow down and think about what they are doing," she added. "Relax, and just take a deep breath and enjoy the moment."
Here are some words of wisdom from the Ride the Pattern horsemanship clinic with AQHA Professional Horsemen Jim and Deanna Searles of Scottsdale, Arizona. Horsemanship shows October 5.

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Visitors to San Francisco aren't paying the required hotel tax on "shared housing."
[UPDATE 3/22: Airbnb owes nearly $1.8 million to the city. Why is Mayor Lee silent?]
Despite a widely watched ruling last year by the San Francisco Treasurer/Tax Collector's Office that Internet-based "shared housing" companies must pay the city's hotel tax, the high-profile local outfit Airbnb and its hosts aren't routinely charging guests that 14 percent tax.
And while privacy laws prevent the city from revealing any company's specific tax payments, it's possible that San Francisco is getting no hotel tax money from Airbnb at all.
Airbnb allows residents to rent out their apartments to visitors through a web interface. Tax Collector Jose Cisneros concluded in April 2012 that the company and its hosts are acting as hotels, and must pay the city's Transient Occupancy Tax.
But almost a year later, Airbnb's website doesn't include the tax in its booking rates. And local hosts who are partially responsible for paying the tax are being given only vague information about their tax obligations.
Hotels add the tax to the price of a room. But when you book a room on the Airbnb site, there's no category for local taxes and the 14 percent isn't added to the price.
When I inquired about renting an Airbnb room in San Francisco this week and asked my would-be host about the issue, he said he was unaware of his tax obligation and referred me to Airbnb's online policies, which are vague at best. One FAQ specifically about tax issues was answered, "We expect all hosts to abide by local laws, agreements, and other applicable regulations, as outlined in our terms of service," later adding, "We encourage you to work with a legal and/or tax professional in your area to determine how to handle compliance."
For a company that bills itself as an easy way for the average renter to make some spare cash, that doesn't seem to encourage compliance with San Francisco law. Even the civic-minded host who clicks through the "How do I collect taxes for my reservations?" question is given this answer, "You are responsible for managing your tax and other regulatory obligations. If you determine that you need to collect tax for renting in your city, please add the tax amount to the listing price."
We couldn't find a listing anywhere that included the city's 14 percent tax.
In theory, the hosts could be paying that money — but the entire transaction is done through the web, and there's nothing on the site that informs hosts that they need to collect 14 percent. In fact, there's no mention in any of the material about any specific city tax.
It's possible that Airbnb is simply covering the 14 percent out of its profits — but the company only collects 6 to 12 percent of the cost of a room as its cut. So by taking on the taxes itself, Airbnb would be losing money on every transaction.
Greg Kato, the policy and legislative director for the Tax Collector's Office, told us he's barred from disclosing information about Airbnb or any individual taxpayer. So the city can't confirm or deny that the money is coming in. He did say that his office takes the issue seriously: "Just because I can't talk to you about individual taxpayers doesn't mean we aren't enforcing the law....We continue to collect taxes, we continue to audit folks and do investigations."
Airbnb could tell us if it's paying, but spokesperson Kimberly Rubey and local consultants to the company have ignored repeated calls and email inquires from the Guardian about the issue.
Airbnb lobbied aggressively to avoid the tax liability, with the support of Mayor Ed Lee. The mayor's top campaign fundraiser, venture capitalist Ron Conway, was a big early investor in the company.
dubiously valid "hotel tax" then, quite simple, people like me would stop using them, and instead use CraigsList or a host of other sites. You would simply skew the playing field against AirBnB and in favor of sites that merely provide "connection" (rather like an online dating site" but where the bookings are done peer-to-peer.
This is similar to the recent decision by Amazon to start charing CA sales tax on online purchases made from CA. I now use other online verndors who do not apply the CA tax.
In any event, as an AirBnB user myself, I feel very strongly that it is entirely inappropriate to charge a hotel tax on what is clearly not a hotel. I will not pay it - it's that simple.
Nobody likes paying taxes, but they fund the city services that we all use, and the city has determined that Airbnb and its users owe them. Change the law if you have the political ability to do so, but mere tax evasion is not a principled or legal position to adopt.
unjust tax law. Imposing a 14% tax on people letting out their spare bedroom for the odd night is a massive inequity and, like every other AirBnB user I have met, we will not pay it.
You support workers going on strike when they are not happy. Consider this a tax strike.
Like a typical Tea Party conservative, you're misrepresenting this country's history and founding principles. The Boston Tea Party was a protest about autocratic government using tax policy to support a corporate monopoly (the East India Company) and undermine fair competition and colonial self-determination. Last year's ruling was our elected Tax Collector promoting fair competition and the need for local revenue through a transparent process in which the arguments of Airbnb and its customers were considered and rejected. If you don't like that ruling, just convince six members of the Board of Supervisors to change the law. This isn't "taxation without representation," or organizing for rights in the workplace, or any noble cause that you'd like to align yourself with. It's just you being too greedy and selfish to pay your taxes. If a company's business model doesn't pencil out without an unfair advantage over its competitors (in this case, local hotels), then that company doesn't have a viable business model, no matter how much it gets hyped by the mayor and his billionaire backers.
The Tea Party was not opposed to taxation, they were opposed to taxation without representation.
we would not tax aliens, felons or anyone else who cannot vote here.
imperial power assessing unjust taxes, and a municipality doing the same thing.
Of course the local tax collector is going to decide that ad hoc room and flat rentals are taxable. He wants his money - that's his job.
But it is a gross and obscene distortion of the hotel tax to apply it to someone renting out a spare bedroom because there is no way I am offering hotel services. It's more like i am having a friend stay.
If we allow this punitive and confiscatory tax to stand what next? I can envisage these:
1) A tax on the "imputed rent" if i let someone stay in my home for free
2) A tax on house-swaps where, say, I stay in your Paris home and you stay in my SF home.
This tax also cannot work because it is unenforceable. As I said, even if you convinced AirBnB to add the tax onto bookings, people would just use another site that doesn't do that, akin to how Amazon lost business in CA when it started charging the CA sales tax.
The idea that a tax inspector can enter your home and determine that you are allowing someone else to stay there is a gross infringement of personal liberty and property rights. I hold the tax to be invalid and illegal.
Can't pay; won't pay. Charge hotel taxes on real hotels. I am a landlord, not a hotelier.
I completely agree with you, Guest. I am also a landlord who rents out rooms on Airbnb. Airbnb could hardly be expected to collect hotel taxes, firstly, because the hotel tax rates vary widely across the nation and the world, and some areas have no such taxes. In California the taxes vary by city and some cities have no hotel taxes. Second, hotel taxes only apply for certain short term occupancy. But guests on Airbnb can make bookings for long-term stays as well, which do NOT fall under the hotel tax any more. So in addition to sorting out thousands of different taxes, Airbnb would have to sort out all bookings according to length of stay. Another problem: a guest may initially book for a short stay, but then alter the reservation and stay longer. The initial stay booked may come under hotel tax, but if the booking is extended to over 30 days, then no hotel taxes apply to the whole booking, so what then happens to taxes that were charged? Or alternatively, what if someone originally makes a long term booking, but changes it to short term?
And then too, your point is well made that if Airbnb starts collecting hotel tax, there is nothing to prevent people from using other existing or startup websites from making the same arrangements...for instance Craigslist. I know one landlord who rents out rooms by the day using Craigslist only, not Airbnb. WHo is going to ever sort through the millions of listings on Craigslist to find people doing this? Moreover, Craigslist does not have the private contact information of any of those posting ads on its site, so good luck finding the individual who posted any given ad.
As I see it, there is no point in a hotel tax except for governments finding another way to gouge citizens. Everyone already has to pay federal, state and city income tax, and property taxes which in the Bay Area are very high.
I completely agree with you, Guest. I am also a landlord who rents out rooms on Airbnb. Airbnb could hardly be expected to collect hotel taxes, firstly, because the hotel tax rates vary widely across the nation and the world, and some areas have no such taxes. In California the taxes vary by city and some cities have no hotel taxes. Second, hotel taxes only apply for certain short term occupancy. But guests on Airbnb can make bookings for long-term stays as well, which do NOT fall under the hotel tax any more. So in addition to sorting out thousands of different taxes, Airbnb would have to sort out all bookings according to length of stay. Another problem: a guest may initially book for a short stay, but then alter the reservation and stay longer. The initial stay booked may come under hotel tax, but if the booking is extended to over 30 days, then no hotel taxes apply to the whole booking, so what then happens to taxes that were charged? Or alternatively, what if someone originally makes a long term booking, but changes it to short term?
And then too, your point is well made that if Airbnb starts collecting hotel tax, there is nothing to prevent people from using other existing or startup websites from making the same arrangements...for instance Craigslist. I know one landlord who rents out rooms by the day using Craigslist only, not Airbnb. WHo is going to ever sort through the millions of listings on Craigslist to find people doing this? Moreover, Craigslist does not have the private contact information of any of those posting ads on its site, so good luck finding the individual who posted any given ad.
As I see it, there is no point in a hotel tax except for governments finding another way to gouge citizens. Everyone already has to pay federal, state and city income tax, and property taxes which in the Bay Area are very high.
Bay Area property owners have huge headaches to deal with in terms of the heavy tenant bias of local landlord-tenant laws, high property taxes, and the many entitled, arrogant, disrespectful and bullying tenants in the Bay Area who are happy to make full abuse of laws in rent controlled cities. Some landlords choose to get out of this mess by refusing to do any more long term rentals, and renting on a short term basis only, such as through Airbnb. As more and more rental properties are taken off the rental market by landlords who have grown tired of nightmare tenants and their abuse, tenants will have only themselves to blame for the shortage of long term rental units.
Thing that bugs me about the BTP is that they dressed up like Indios. Why'd they do that? Talk about no balls.
revovutionary war.
Are you some type of latter-day colonial?
The modern Tea Party is a natural reaction against American policies that are increasingly following the very European system that we all feld here to escape.
No, that was chickenshit disguising themselves as Indians. I don't think the natives gave a hoot about whiteys tax squabbles.
It depended which side offered them the best baubles.
Nobody likes taxes since it's basically theft of our earnings and our wealth. But we know taxes are needed to pay for government services so why is it okay that working people pay over 15% payroll tax on every dollar earned, but landlords are incensed tthey might have to pay the applicable hotel tax? I don't have a choice whether to work or not if I want to survive so I have to pay the payroll tax and a dozen other taxes, but landlords and hotels can easily avoid the tax by selling the property to someone who doesn't mind paying the tax.
This story needs more follow-up. How many hundreds/thousands of SF housing units are using AirBnB and how many hundreds/thousands of homeowners are paying the city's hotel tax? We don't need public disclosure of specific taxpayer names or financial data, but we should be able to get access to broad categories of tax compliance for different types of taxpayer businesses, including taxpayers who rent out their homes on a short-term basis like hotels.
I'd start with a raid on AirBnB offices to find out the names of all SF homeowners who are using the service, and then let the Treasurer's office correlate those names with the filing of the required tax forms and applicable tax payments.
I suspect the mayor's office and treasurer's office don't want to cross swords with wealthy landlords who are using the AirBnB service, but this is where journalism does its best work - making powerful politicians accountable to the public. Average lower and middle income working people are paying combined taxes of 30-40% on their entire income. It seems only fair wealthy "part-time" hotel operators should be paying their fair share too.
Good article. I hope to read follow-up stories soon.
adding in a "hotel tax" when I am not a hotel is a step too far. This is blatant opportunism on the part of the city, and also represents an insidious form of double taxation since it applies to the gross amount of the revenue, whereas the profit is just a fraction of that.
Cities like hotel taxes because it is passed onto the cost of a room, which is paid for by foreigners and out-of-towners. But there is no provision to pass on the tax to a short-term guest, so it comes out of my pocket.
When you rent out a room on a short-term basis you ARE operating a hotel. If you don't want to pay the tax, don't rent out the room, or rent it for a higher price to cover the tax bill, or sell the building to someone else who isn't a tax cheat like yourself.
I hope there's a 300% penalty, interest, and city-attorney/DA collection charges on all those AirBnB tax cheats so they'll think twice next time about cheating the city out of its legal taxes.
Turndown service? NO
Concierge? NO
Check-in desk? NO
Keycard door entry? NO
Buffet breakfast? NO
Bar and restaurant? NO
Valet parking? NO
Clean and press service? NO
Bag carrying service? NO
Call you a cab? NO
You get the idea.
The tax may be called a "hotel tax," but it's a tax imposed on short-term stays in any facility. All that is required is renting out a sleeping space and collecting a room fee. No other services are required to be provided. I doubt even a restroom facility is a prerequisite to being considered a rental unit subject to the tax.
Until the Treasurer has reviewed all AirBnB and Craigslist records for SF properties that have used their services to rent out sleeping spaces for transients, and compared them against the actual tax returns filed, we'll have no idea how much compliance or non-compliance there really is. My guess is there are at least hundreds of tax cheats currently walking the streets who really should be in jail for tax evasion.
I'll look forward to regular SFBG progress reports of what the Treasurer has found and how far along their complete auditing of all short-term rentals over the past few years is proceeding.
have stayed there. Ditto for many of the other hotel services cited. There is a clear distinction between a hotel and me occasionally having people stay in my home.
Of course, yes, the city can choose to try and tax anything they like, and routinely do, regardless of fairness or reasonableness. And in return people are free to take evasive action and find ways around it, as in when I order stuff off the internet.
But one golden rule of taxation is that there has to be some way of enforcing and collecting and, in this case, that clearly cannot happen and does not happen.
AirBnB may be a soft touch with deep pockets but, if they are compelled to collect a tax, they will lose most of their business, which will find other routes. You mentioned CraigsList but they merely publish ad's - they clearly have no idea what business ends up being transacted and, moreover, do not really know who the advertizers are in real life.
Pick your battles, dude. There is no way we want local bureaucrats busting into our homes to check on whether we might have a guest there. Back off.
It seems that the more "real" the SFASC claims to be, the more it circles back around to just plain stupid. There's a very simple way for Airbnb to collect this tax, it just needs to be added on to each transaction the company facilitates. And I see no evidence that a 14 percent tax will doom a service in which people can charge whatever they want for a room and the only overhead they have is their rent or mortgage. Finally, nobody has proposed local bureaucrats busting into people's homes, a suggestion that real is just plain stupid.
If I want smart comments, I'll still with the original SFASC.
they? If SF wants to collect tax, it should invest in hiring tax collectors to enforce this dubious tax, rather than expect AirBnB to do it for them for free, and especially when a 14% hike in costs will drive business to other rival firms who will not agree to do the same.
Or AirBnB may simply move to, say, Brisbane and give SF the finger.
Steven, since you have often supported civil disobedience in the past, I imagine you will feel the same sympathy for those of us who practice civil disobedience by refusing to [pay this infernal, intrusive, punitive tax.
Such hypocrites!!!.... they want everyone to "pay their fair share". But threaten their subsidized rent and they spew hate as well as the KKK ever did.....
I thought the USA was founded on the princeple of tax evasion-Boston Tea Party and all that. I wish I had the resources to evade some taxes
You were supposed to declate that purchase on your CA tax return. But of course you did not, like everyone else.
Believe it or not I haven't bought anything on line. I'm a failure as a consumer, lord help me.
near guarantee that nobody declares that on their state tax return, as they are supposed to do.
So it is hypocritical of most people to criticize others who avoid taxes.
While in this case, it is really not about avoiding taxes but rather the principle of civil disobedience against an unjust tax. I know for a fact that steven has supported civil disobedience in many prior cases, sich as Occupy.
It's not that simple, the definition of the tax clearly would include AirBnb -
"Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) is charged in California when occupying a room or rooms or other living space in a hotel, inn, tourist home or house, motel or other lodging (defined below) unless the stay is for a period of 31 days or more"
are under an obligation to separately collect it.
With Expedia and Travelocity, they do collect the tax effectively, but only because the hotels include the tax in the price of the rooms they sell via the intermediary.
The equivalent here would be for the AirBnB hosts to add 14% to their asking price, and then pay SF the tax themselves.
The ultimate obligation has to be with the host since they are the ones getting the money from the guest. AirBnB's cut is less than the tax.
Airbnb handles the bookings and takes the payment. They are who should be responsible for collecting the hotel tax. This is not on the people listing their properties. Airbnb is shirking its duties here.
should they collect it? That's effectively the city telling AirBnB that it doesn't want to invest in tax collection and so imposes that on the company instead.
That might be fine if AirBnB were a legal party to the underlying contract, but it is not. It is simply putting two parties in touch with each other, kinda like match.com
AirBnB owes local taxes on it's profits. It is not it's job to do the city's job for them.
And who would use AirBnB if that meant paying the tax? We'd just use CraigsList instead.
When a guest makes a booking on Airbnb, that guest pays Airbnb, not the property owner. Airbnb then pays the owner a portion of that payment. In my view that makes two contracts - one between the guest and Airbnb and then another between Airbnb and the owner.
If the owner had a choice of how payments were made and handled it directly themselves, like on CL or VRBO, then that would be different.
One for the lawyers I guess...
easily change it's business model if they were forced to collect taxes, which does not seem reasonable here.
AirBnB could simply charge a fee for putting a buyer and seller in touch, like with E-Bay, which does not collect sales tax.
This tax is iniquitous because me sharing my home with someone is not by any reasonable measure the act of a hotelier.
The real thing that is going on here is that rent control has gotten so strict that people like me are virtually forced to use AirBnB and temporary stays in order to retain the desired ROI. The city doesn't like that but cannot do anything about ti, except try this flimsy tax idea.
Sorry, guys, but it is either AirBnB or Ellis, TIC or condo. Your choice.
Why would Airbnb change its business model? They, nor the owners, pay the tax. The guests pay the tax. This isn't about the tax payment, it's about how it gets collected.
For months we've heard that any new taxes on landlords would be merely passed along to tenants, even though it was shown repeatedly that this wasn't true. Now Guest (anon) is arguing that he can't afford the taxes and he wouldn't be able to collect them from the short-term renters.
Of course we knew anon always made self-serving arguments to fit his very selfish worldview so it's not surprising he (and others) would resort to lying to make a point, but it's fun to watch nonetheless.
is clear that responsibility for paying the tax does not rest with AirBnB.
Either it sits with the visitor, as you suggest, in which case the city should pursue that visitor for the tax.
Or it sits with the renter, in which case the city should try and enforce that collection.
Neither way is the tax due from AirBnB, and so it seems wrong for the city to employ AirBnB as a free tax collector when they should be doing that job themselves.
I read through the SF Transient Tax Code. It clearly says that the hotel "operator" is responsible for collecting the tax. So I stand corrected there - this is on the owners.
However, I would say this is a grey area in the sense that Airbnb is the one collecting the payment from guests so I would say as part of that collection they should also be collecting the tax. No where in the property listing administration on the website do they have a provision for "Add a tax to be collected". They should have that so the listing price can be shown exclusive of the tax and have it be a level playing field.
So are owners responsible for collecting the tax? Yes. Should Airbnb be doing more to help owners collect the tax? Yes.
(San Francisco Business and Tax Regulations Code, Article 7)
rather implies that your spare bedroom is not subject to the tax because it is not a hotel room.
The transit occupany tax applies to anyone renting out a room on a regular basis, regardless if they are a "hotel" or not. Even the Chronicle agrees with steven's interpretation:
From an April 2012 Chronicle article about the same subject:
"The treasurer's office said its regulation issued Tuesday was simply a clarification of the law, which requires anyone who rents out a guest room to pay the city's roughly 15 percent transient occupancy tax - commonly referred to as the hotel tax. The tax is 14 percent, plus a 1 or 1.5 percent fee for improving tourism districts. There is an exception for rooms that are less than $30 a day or $100 per week.
"We're not changing the law," said Greg Kato, policy and legislative manager for the treasurer and tax collector. "We're simply explaining existing law."
To repeat: ... "which requires *anyone* who rents out a guest room to pay the city's roughly 15 percent transient occupancy tax..."
Based on admissions contained in the comments here, it seems clear many SF landlords who are renting out rooms to short-term transients are not paying the occupancy tax. The DA and Tax Collector's Office should subpeona all AirBnB records to determine who in SF has used their services and then cross reference the tax records to determine who has not paid the required tax.
Most landlords are millionaires. It's appalling the wealthiest among us refuse to pay their fair share of taxes while leaving the tax burden to the lower and middle income working families. Call me not surprised.
Tenants who rent rooms must be included in the investigation. The city can not only collect from the alleged tax evasion, but also free up more rental housing following their eviction due to lease violations.
AirBnB were compelled (somehow - no idea on what basis) to open their books.
Perhaps that is why the city isn't pushing on this - yet another example of the law of unintended consequences.
While if a homeowner occasionally rents out a spare bedroom, who cares?
A hotel regularly rents out rooms because that is the sole business it is in.
But my spare bedroom is regularly used for other purposes, but occasionally used for guest.
Very different.
1) Due from the visitor, or
2) Due from the owner, or
3) Due from whatever third party it can possibly be pinned on.
IOW, nobody knows.
I would take the view that all taxes must ultimately be on the end consumer, much as they are with a sales tax. And that the city should not be trying to push tax collection onto anyone other than the people it pays to do that.
On that basis, it is my view that the city should pursue anyone staying in a short-term facility to pay the tax. This includes SRO's and people renting out their home.
As I wrote in my article, Airbnb and the hosts are jointly liable for paying this tax to the city, and it's up to them to collect it from the guests. If they choose not to, then they still have a "joint and several liability" for paying it. That's why Airbnb is ultimately screwing over its own hosts by thumbing its nose at last year's ruling by the city.
They are not providing hotel rooms themselves, nor are they a party to the peer-to-peer contract between the host and the guest.
As you admit, it is the host who is liable for the tax and, as AirBnB clearly state on their website, the host has a responsibility to offer to pay the tax. Whether they actually do or not is another matter of course, and the city is free to hire tax collectors and investigators to pursue such tax avoidance if they think it will be upheld in a court of law.
There is no "joint and several" liability. You made that up. And anyway, hosts can find guests thru CraigsList or similar, and avoid AirBnB altogether if a 14% levy was imposed.
While the SFASC appreciates Steven's article and his participation in the discussion after we must disagree with his conclusion: Airbnb is not a hotel. The city's tax structure, specifically the hotel tax, was designed for a time when people didn't engage in peer-to-peer commerce like we are seeing with Airbnb. Perhaps a tax is justified - then one designed specifically FOR this type of service would be preferable.
We urge Steven and those advocating for a "one size fits all" approach to these new types of services, to take a step back and see if it's possible to solve this problem without stifling businesses built on new models.
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would surely, eventually, got something right.
And he has done here.
I'm sorry to hear the SFASC has an issue with my arguments because I appreciate the work you've done bringing sanity to our comments section. Please allow me to submit an argument for your consideration. This tax is actually called the Transient Occupancy Tax, even though it's popularly called the hotel tax. It's designed to help pay for the city services that visitors use, from our transportation system to police services to street cleaning, as well as contributing to the general fiscal health of this great city. And on an even more basic level, most economic transactions are taxed in this society, it's how we pay for our government. Sure, there's always been an underground economy (ie the drug trade, sex work, day labor, etc.) involving peer-to-peer transactions, but in this case we're talking about a multi-million-dollar corporation that is taking a healthy profit on each of these transactions and I don't understand the argument that it should be exempt from taxes. And even if we differ on that point, isn't that something that should be hashed out in a transparent political process involving our elected officials rather than a unilateral corporate decision to engage in tax evasion? C'mon, SFASC, that doesn't sound like a very smart position that you appear to be taking.
the value of her transactions? But that someone who rents out his spare room to a Swiss visitor should?
Why the difference? surely not because SFBG gets most of it's revenues from hooker ad's? In whichc ase, your argument is no different from AirBnB's - you want to tax other businesses but not your own.
And anyway, SF has a sales tax and a gross receipts tax already. Why the need for another 14% on top?
Tourists typically pay top dollar for everything while they are here, while consuming far fewer services than residents, so the city already makes a fat profit out of them. That's no argument for another 14% on top.
To your other point, the issue isn't AirBnB paying the tax because they do not owe the tax, The visitor does. So why do you want private companies doing the city's tax collection for free? Shouldn't the city at least pay AirBnB's extra costs for doing that?
You are 100% wrong on this, Steven. So wrong, in fact, that even SFASC has called it.
Thank you Steven for you reasoned comment - the SFASC does not take issue with the need for a tax but would like for any tax to fit the new business model we're seeing with peer-to-peer sharing of services like rooms and taxi cabs and others. Perhaps a model like Task Rabbit would work where the service reports to tax authorities and reminds participants they are subject to tax laws as well as issuing something like a 1099 form? That would ensure the income is reported and subject to tax laws. We see the application of a 14% tax designed for large corporate hotels as stifling the creativity of peer-to-peer solutions.
And yes we agree with Steven that anything which is hashed out should be done so in a transparent political process. We believe no one disagrees on that. However as you well know - very little in San Francisco politics occurs in that manner.
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Okay, so in the "first six-game winner in the National League" pool, who had Kyle McClellan? Because after beating the Astros Thursday afternoon, it's him.
Just to refresh anyone's memory, when Kyle McClellan reported to the Cardinals' training camp this spring, he 100-percent expected to throw around 75 innings this season as a relief pitcher, if only because that's what he's always done before and nobody seemed to expect anything different from him. In fact, McClellan hadn't been a starting pitcher since 2006, when he started three games in rookie ball while recovering from an injury. What's more, when McClellan had started in the minors, he wasn't particularly effective.
None of that would stop Tony La Russa and Dave Duncan, though. When Adam Wainwright went down in March with a season-ending elbow injury, the brain trust turned to McClellan, who does feature the five-pitch repertoire more typical of a starting pitcher than a reliever. Given the Cardinals' options -- plucking someone from the minors, making a trade, or signing some castoff like Freddy Garcia or Bartolo Colon (hey, who could know?) -- giving McClellan a shot seemed less than crazy, especially considering Duncan's historical success rate with unorthodox moves.
Of course, all the Cardinals wanted was a serviceable No. 5 starter. They couldn't have in a million years hoped, let alone expected, that McClellan would, after eight starts, lead the major leagues with six wins and boast a 3.43 ERA. Not in a million years.
Can he keep it going? Well, he's obviously not going to finish the season 18-3. So the real question is about his ERA, and the answer is no, he almost certainly cannot.
While McClellan's ERA ranks 21st among the 59 qualifying National League pitchers, his strikeout-to-walk ratio ranks just 49th; his strikeout rate, 57th. He's given up six home runs in 58 innings, which is good enough for the middle of the National League pack.
Now, you might be nodding (or shaking) your head and saying, "Yes, yes ... But what about the ground balls? Doesn't Dave Duncan teach the ground balls? And might not that explain McClellan's success despite the low strikeout rate?"
Yes, yes ... Duncan does teach the ground balls. And McClellan is indeed somewhat accomplished at inducing the ground balls. Just not enough to explain his ERA or his six wins. This season almost exactly half the batted balls against McClellan have been grounders, which isn't surprising because that's almost exactly what's happened in each of his three previous major-league seasons. And "half" is just slightly more than the National League average.
Real ground-ball pitchers -- guys like Derek Lowe, Charlie Morton, and McClellan's teammate Jake Westbrook -- hover in the 60-percent range. They can, to some degree anyway, survive with low strikeout rates because they give up few home runs and get lots of double plays.
Kyle McClellan hasn't really done anything well this season ... except not give up runs. That's an admirable performance, but it's not a quality. He might, for the rest of this season, be a perfectly acceptable No. 5 starter. But unless something changes, that's all he will be.


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Waterloo Mayor Buck Clark will take his place Friday morning as board president of the Iowa League of Cities.
He's in Dubuque this week for the League's annual conference.
Clark will lead the nation's longest, continuously-operating municipal league, now in its 144th year.
"I've been on the board now for four years and was asked to consider this position and was honored to do so," Clark said Thursday. "I'm really thrilled and excited and honored to take over the helm."
Serving as league president will benefit all of Waterloo, Clark said, as the position allows him to partner with and learn from other big cities in Iowa.
"Having those relationships and having that ability to network with all of the officials in the state is really kind of a big deal," Clark said. "For a city to have the president of the board, it's important."
Nearly 500 city officials from all across the state are in Dubuque for the conference.
"The League of Cities plays a really important part in cities' participation in state government throughout the state," said Clark, who has served as the league's president elect for the past year. "We represent small towns and large towns and we do a lot of lobbying efforts for things that effect cities."
Clark must be re-elected mayor in order to continue serving the one-year term as league president. He's up for re-election this fall, facing 2009 mayoral contender Steve Schmitt.
Alan Kemp is the Iowa League of Cities' executive director and said the annual conference covers topics that can benefit cities big and small alike.
"We always talk about governance: How to be more effective in terms of governing a city," Kemp said. "We get down to more technical information: How do you comply with regulations like open meetings or water quality issues? We also try to give them a chance to learn more about what other communities are doing."
The Iowa League of Cities represents approximately 870 of Iowa's 945 cities.
City officials in Dubuque said they're excited to be hosting it this year.
"We have about a half a dozen locations that we can hold this conference around the state," Kemp said. "We tend to move it around because we want to give the cities the opportunity to showcase what they have done, and Dubuque's a perfect opportunity for that."
The Port of Dubuque's Grand River Center is the site of the three-day, city-centered conference.This conference comes to Dubuque right on the heels of the Sustainable Communities Conference, which saw more than 500 people attending from 25 states, city public information officer Randy Gehl said.


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Looking for a playmaker at cornerback, the Jaguars reached a deal on Wednesday with free agent CB Aaron Ross. According to Tania Ganguli of the Florida Times-Union, the deal is for three years and will be worth up to $15.3 million with incentives.
Ross (6-0, 190) intercepted 10 passes in five seasons for the Giants. He started 15 games in 2011, recording 60 tackles, defending 12 passes and grabbing four interceptions.
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Aishwarya Rai is a familiar fixture on the Cannes Fest red carpet. And this year, she's front and center in a new Bollywood film, Bollywood - The Greatest Love Story Ever Told (pictured), produced expressly for Cannes.
Shekhar Kapoor produced Bollywood - The Greatest Love Story Ever Told for the 64th festival, where it will screen out of competition. The musical documentary started from a conversation when Kapoor was on last year's Cannes Jury. He decided to go ahead and make a compilation of "the most beautiful moments in the history of Indian musical films, with all their moving pageantry and dance." In the film, Kapoor, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and Jeff Zimbalist pay tribute to the Bollywood cinema genre that was spawned in India's moviemaking capital, Mumbai.
I cannot wait. Two of my fave Bollywood numbers from Lagaan are below. What are yours? I'll post them. UPDATED: More of your picks are below.
Main Vari Vari from Mangal Pandey starring Aamir Khan and Rani Mukherjee.
Michael | April 23, 2011 9:13 AM
I am looking forward to see the world's most beautiful God gift of Goddess Aishwarya Rai.
Joan Cohen | April 23, 2011 6:33 AM
Not to be missed by fans of Bollywood movies is DUM MAARO DUM, now playing at the Culver Plaza. Directed by Rohan Sippy, it stars the wonderful Abhishek Bachan as a police officer with secrets. In fact, everyone in this thriller/romance, action film has secrets and the film continually surprises. Shot very much like a US film with split screens, time shifts and (for India) appropriate violence and sex, the film takes place in beautiful Goa, which is almost totally Christian so there is not a sari in sight. The main plot is about drug running but there is so much more happening in the film. It doesn't hurt that the main romantic couple are played by the hunky newcomer Rani Daggubati and the beautiful Bipasha Basu, both very easy on the eyes.Partly produced by Fox International, DUM MAARO DUM could have crossover potential. And - yes, there are many songs and dances in the film, enough for a CD.
Melissa | April 23, 2011 5:24 AM
There are so many! Some of my favorites in no particular order -
Maahi Ve from KAL HO NAA HO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_i6HPPPwSg&feature=fvst
Choli Ke Peeche from KHALNAYAK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa8M3cr6eko
Holi Khele Raghuvira from BAGHBAN: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFx87ILa3IY&feature=related
Jalwa from WANTED: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpLrxUEo2Tw
Tumse Milke Dil Ka Jo Haal from MAIN HOON NA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXb_XPXA2zw
Title song from BLUFFMASTER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv1HS7gKi80
Udd Udd Dabang from DABANG: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n91pPKiRc2w
Yeh Dosti from SHOLAY: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atqaq_WjsXU
Mike | April 22, 2011 7:14 AM
Chaiyya Chaiyya from DIL SE (1998)
billy | April 22, 2011 6:57 AM
Kajra Re from 'Bunty aur Bubli'
Main Vari Vari from 'Mangal Pandey'
Joan Cohen | April 22, 2011 5:44 AM
In the 1970s - 76 I think - there was a Bollywood compilation film called "Cinema Cinema" which was a "That's Entertainment" for Bollywood musicals up to that time. Sadly, there is no video or DVD of the film but there is a CD with the songs. I was lucky enough to see the film during its little noticed L.A. run and have never forgotten it. I am so glad that there will now be an update.
Brian | April 22, 2011 5:15 AM
I believe that picture you show is from DEVDAS (2002), which is one of my favorites and the one DVD I use to show people what Bollywood is like at its best. I'm also a big fan of MOHABBATEIN (2000), a teen musical with nods to WEST SIDE STORY, GREASE, BYE BYE BIRDIE, DEAD POETS SOCIETY, etc.


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I have faced this problem many times. Usually I don't install many apps on MMC card.I faced this problem today. My phone memory was 26.9 mb. It was all going fine suddenly the thme changed to the basic theme from the theme installed in the MMC. I checked for music but there was no songs. It showed me the massage"Corrupted Files" or something like that. But the MMC card was still occupied i.e. it wasn't formatted. But it lloked like a formatted MMC card.
This problem is seriously annoying me. All my favourite musics are gone...all apps are gone..Now I have to upload musics again.
I updated my phone's firmware to 40.0.005. But the problem is still there..
Please help me...
10-04-2010 16:48
Seems like a corrupted system files on the memory card. Note that if the problems are caused by memory card files, firmware updates nor hard resets do not fix this.
There are two ways to fix memory card issues:
1. Run your memory card through disk checker
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Format the memory card via windows and also run a scan disc on the card .
Put your stuff back on the card from your backup .
But the MMC card was still occupied i.e. it wasn't formatted. But it lloked like a formatted MMC card.
A card is formatted to use and stays formated when occupied .
18-11-2010 3:21
There is many posts about this issue in this and other sites (so many!) and always the same obvious useless answer: reformat.
I experience the problem myself, It's like the tenth time the phones suddently reformats the mmc card. and it's like the tenth (another thent) time I reformat the mmc card to resolv a filesystem corruption.
I try another mmc and it's exactly the same, it got corrupted after some days of use. Also tried exercise the memory card using an adapter directly conected to the pc and results were ok, then I exercise the memory using the phone and again result were fine (no error, exercise where sequencially read/write/read/write random data).
The problem it's no the memory, it's a flaw in the phone firmware.
I Contacted Nokia support, they recomended reformat the mmc (agghhh!).
If someone knows where we can complain or get more info/support please tell me.
Until then I'll be uploading my music library and reinstalling my apps (AGAIN!)


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PLATTSBURGH — Nancy Hobbs hopes the Interfaith Food Shelf will raise enough food and money for hungry people this year.
In January, the Plattsburgh organization provided food to 2,312 people, 435 more than at the same time last year, according to Hobbs, a Food Shelf volunteer. That's 726 households, up from 576 in January 2012.
The latest numbers include 80 households that Hobbs said had not been served before.
Interfaith Food Shelf is again working to win funds from the Feinstein Foundation, which will distribute $1 million nationwide this year proportionally among the groups that take part in its the challenge set for March 1 through April 30.
Hobbs is encouraging people, clubs and local businesses to donate double what they otherwise would have given within that time period.
Donations may be monetary, pledges or food, which will be valued at $1 per item or pound.
"People are more apt to give when they know their donation will (earn more for the cause)," Hobbs said.
The Interfaith Food Shelf is located at Plattsburgh United Methodist Church on Beekman Street, where donors can drop off food and donations, as well.
Hours are 9 a.m. to noon Monday through Friday and 4 to 7 p.m. Friday evenings.
Hobbs said clubs, churches, schools and local businesses donate to the Interfaith Food Shelf regularly, among them the YMCA and Price Chopper.
"There are a lot of people responsible for the success of the organization," she said.
There are no special qualifications for people to receive food from the Interfaith Food Shelf. All are welcome, no matter how much money they make, because it is an emergency place for the needy to obtain food, Hobbs said.
She thinks the Feinstein Challenge is beneficial because it gives money back to the organizations that feed people.
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Wednesday night, Bay City's vessel, the Appledore IV arrived after several days on the water.
TV5 Reporter Gino Vicci was aboard the vessel with several mid-Michigan students. Their journey started in Cleveland. During their time at sea, the students learned what it takes to sail, including sleeping at all different hours of the day.
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JustinToronto, CanadaGood ServiceI ordered the Sedu for my girlfriend as a late X-mas present. The shipping was a little hefty $21.00 to Canada by UPS Overnight Express, but I got it pretty quickly and I didnt have to pay any customs or duties, so I guess that was taken care of in the $21.00. I was really happy about that. The Sedu works great and is a lot better than her Conair metal iron. Her hair is pretty straight already, but the Sedu gets rid of some pouffy spots and makes it softer. She looks even hotter now that she has it!
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CATEGORIES Casting, CinematicalChace Crawford has been sitting pretty in the role of Nate Archibald for quite some time now, but if the guy is serious about his acting career, he better be preparing for life after Gossip Girl. I'm a sucker for the show, but let's face it, there's just so much rotten rich kid blackmailing, party throwing and backstabbing we can handle. Perhaps going from one wealthy youth to another in Twelve would be more promising if critics hadn't trounced the film after its premiere at Sundance.
He almost took a major step outside of his comfort zone with the remake of Footloose, but then he ditched the project due to schedule issues– or cold feet perhaps? Anyway, Crawford clinched a role that will finally expand his repertoire, that of a pacifist butcher living in Woodstock in the indie Peace, Love, and Misunderstanding. According to THR, the film stars Catherine Keener as Diane, an all business lawyer recently left by her husband, who takes her son and daughter to her hippie mother's (Jane Fonda) house in Woodstock where family drama ensues. While there, Crawford's character develops a thing for Diane's daughter. Okay, so he'll still likely be the pretty boy after the girl, but at least he's out of New York City.
The cast is great and it sounds like a sweet indie in the making, but I can't help but to liken it to Georgia Rule. Whether it's Fonda's involvement or the fact that the story involves the convergence of three generations, the general concept sounds very similar. I can even imagine the dynamic between Diane's daughter and Crawford's character being very comparable to that of Rachel and Harlan (Lindsay Lohan and Garrett Hedlund); street-smart girl meets innocent country boy.
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Sony brings its flagship smartphone to the US as the Xperia Z1S for T-Mobile
A better camera, faster processor, and better waterproofing make for a significant upgrade
Sony announced today that starting January 22nd, the Xperia Z1S will be available from T-Mobile. The Z1S is a variant of the Xperia Z1, Sony's current flagship device that's been for sale in different parts of the world for the past few months. It features a 5-inch, 1080p display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, 2GB of RAM, and Sony's 20.7-megapixel camera. Like its predecessor, the Xperia Z, the Z1S is also waterproof, though it can be submerged a bit deeper than the Z (up to 4.9 feet for up to 30 minutes) thanks to its higher IP58 rating.
The Z1S runs Android 4.3 Jelly Bean with Sony's custom interface and apps. It has a number of apps to take advantage of its high-powered camera, including a new "background defocus" app, which lets you simulate the blur effect of a large camera and bright lens with your phone.
Compared to the Xperia Z, which T-Mobile will continue to sell alongside the new phone, the Z1S is slightly larger and heavier. It also has a dedicated camera key, but retains the rectangular shape and large glass front and rear panels of the older phone. The edges have been softened and refined, however, making the Z1S more comfortable to hold than the Z. The new processor is also much more powerful — the Z1S is noticeably snappier and more responsive than the Z ever was.
The Z1S looks very similar to the international Z1, though its headphone jack has been moved to the center of the top edge. Internally, everything is the same, save for more internal storage (32GB vs. 16GB) and full support for T-Mobile's network.
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The Edinburgh Buddhist Centre is part of the Triratna Buddhist Community (formerly Friends of the Western Buddhist Order) an international Buddhist movement whose aim is to make the Buddha's teachings applicable to modern western life.
The centre no longer has its own premises. However, we continue to offer a range of activities operating through the Healthy Life Centre, 35 – 37 Bread Street, just off Lothian Road.
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|Monday, October 29, 2012 9:36 AM
I have to admit I'm stilling pouting over the lack of trick-or-treaters at my door Thursday evening. I know North Main Street is off the beaten path for most but dang it, I had candy, my porch light was on and some just turned on Ninth Street and headed east or west as I watched with a little lip quiver.
Were they trying to say my candy wasn't what it ought to be? (Stolen from The Wizard of Oz from the scene with the talking apple trees.)
My friend a few streets over had 60 and I was jealous. We always buy a big bowlful of candy with the intention of passing out every last piece. (Well, that's my intention. My husband's is to have leftovers. He has a ginormous sweet tooth that requires nearly constant attention. Me? I just sneak a bag of Smarties back and I'm good to go.)
OK, back to my pout. I'm not sure how to remedy the situation and still keep the autonomy of my own porch and the ease of chatting with the neighbors in between handing out candy.
In my trick-or-treat days, we went through our neighborhood and one street over each way and called it a night. Our sacks were full. Sometimes our candy would last for months. When Cameron was of Trick-or-Treat age, I can remember throwing out picked-through bags in December. Does anyone need that much candy? Besides my husband, that is?
The Trunk-or-Treat at Trinity United Methodist Church is a huge draw. It's a safe place for kids to gather, get treats and have some fun. The adults get in on the action by decorating their trunks and wearing costumes. They don't have to get up and answer the door every few minutes — the tricksters come to them. It's a good gig if that's what you're in to.
Perhaps I'm holding on to something of the past. Maybe group offerings are the wave of the future of Beggar's Night and porches will be dark. I'm still going to hang in there and keep the tradition of sitting outside bathed in the porch light and passing out candy to those who cross over Tenth Street. I holler at the ones who head up or down Tenth to come down and get a treat. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Oh well, their loss.
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Storm clear-up continues - but more weather warnings issued for Dorset this week
Updated 11:48am Monday 10th February 2014 in News By Katie Clark
A CLEAR-UP following last week's storms is underway across Dorset today but more unsettled weather is predicted this week.
The Met Office has yellow warnings for rain in place for Bournemouth, Poole and Dorset on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week.
A spokesperson said: "Further spells of rain, heavy at times, and accompanied by strong winds are expected during Monday night and Tuesday.
"The public should be aware of the risk of further disruption due to flooding."
The chief forecaster added: "Another area of low pressure and its associated fronts are likely to affect the UK during Monday night and Tuesday, bringing a further spell of heavy rain and strong winds, particularly to southern areas.
"There remains considerably uncertainty in the track and timing of this low pressure system, but 10 to 20 mm rainfall is likely quite widely, with over 30mm possible across parts of South Wales and southwest England.
"With ongoing flooding in some places, any further rain will only add to the problems. Very gusty winds may be an added hazard in places."
Regarding the weather conditions on Wednesday and Thursday, the forecaster added: "Another Atlantic depression is expected to bring a spell of heavy rainfall and strong winds to parts of the UK later on Wednesday, perhaps lasting into Thursday.
"The track and intensity of the depression is currently very uncertain, meaning that confidence in rainfall amounts and distribution across the UK is low.
"However, southern and western parts of England and Wales look most likely to see further heavy rainfall. Falling soon after earlier widespread rainfall, the cumulative effects of these weather systems are likely to exacerbate the current flooding situation. This Alert will be updated over the coming days."
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This morning the Avon Causeway re-opened after a weekend closure due to high water levels, as well as Shore Road in Swanage, which has been closed since Wednesday due to high tides and stormy conditions.
Wareham South Causeway has also reopened with Borough of Poole working to clear the prom this morning.
Stapehill Road and Stony Lane in Burton both remain closed.
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2:28pm Mon 10 Feb 14
whataboutthat says...
Townee wrote:Remarkably quickly it seems - heavens, can't have Datchett under water, Eton is just down the road old boy...
Now the Thames has hit record levels we will see the rich people who live on the banks squealing and I wonder how long this government will take to help them.
2:41pm Mon 10 Feb 14
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2:57pm Mon 10 Feb 14
scrumpyjack says...
BarrHumbug wrote:I agree completely.
I thought that, Somerset had been underwater for over a month before any action was taken, along the Thames the water level only has to reach the bank and the army and navy are out in force!
I have been away for the weekend and was astounded by the press coverage because this time it is the Thames and suddenly it is top story on all news channels.
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I had a dud primer (777) cost me a very nice buck yesterday. Or my inexperience hunting with a muzzleloader did, If i had a backup primer easily accessible I would have a different ending to my hunt today. So is it common for a primer to not fire? what`s the best way to store them? Should a guy use a sealed container with a desiccant? i guess this is one subject i did not come across studying muzzleloader basics after my purchase.
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