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Tired of changing bike tires alongside the road? Getting a flat tire every now and then might be unavoidable, but if you've been having lots of flats there are certainly several simple things you can do to greatly reduce their frequency.
Pay Attention to Your TiresIf you'd rather ride your bike than walk long distances, then paying attention to your tires is a good thing to do. Take care to inspect them after every ride, repair or replace any damaged tires and keep 'em inflated properly, and you'll have made great progress towards keeping the air in your tires and your feet in the pedals, where they belong.
Watch Out for the Shiny Stuff
When you are going down the road, as much as you can help it, don't ride where the debris collects. Glass, nails, wire, small sharp rocks, etc., are all pushed to the shoulder by the sweeping action of the car tires. They don't want to drive in it, and neither do you. In particular, watch out when you see shiny stuff ahead. That's where the small shards of broken glass are, the stuff that if it gets stuck in your tire, can gradually work its way down and eventually cause you to lose air.
"Whenever I see a puddle of broken glass in my path, which is often, I get off and walk the bike around it," says John Weeks, a 70-year-old cyclist from Topeaka, Kansas. "If I don't see the glass in time I get off at once and check the tires. I have managed to avoid flats for quite some time."
Rub Away Your Troubles
When you do hit a patch of shiny stuff or a lot of small sharp rocks, once you're past it, rub the thick padded part of your glove against your tire as it turns a couple of times. By doing that, you can dislodge anything that has embedded itself in your tire before it has a chance to go deeper. Most flats occur down the road a ways after you've picked up whatever sharp stuff punctures your tube, rather than causing an immediate loss of air.
Of course, it is safest to do this by dismounting briefly and spinning the tire by hand. Faster -- though more risky -- is to do this check while riding. If you go that route, be very careful. Best practice is to keep your hand on the front side of the fork and on the front side of the rear seatstay so that you don't get your hand caught in the spokes.
Check Your Tires After Rides
You can also help yourself avoid flats by thoroughly checking your tires after rides. It just takes a couple of minutes and can save you lots of hassle later. Position yourself in good lighting and take the time to slowly spin each wheel, looking for embedded objects or damage to your tire, like cracks, cuts or punctures on the sides and top.
Patch Those Minor Cuts
If you see a cut or puncture during an inspection, simply dig out any debris and then seal the hole with super glue or shoe goo, even placing the adhesive down in the hole if you can. Let the air out of your tire, then pump it full again. This will help set the sealant in the gouge and hopefully protect against further problems.
If the cut is not repairable, you may need to replace the tire. This can offer you the chance to buy decent puncture-resistant tires. We talk about that below.
Double Tire Method: Twice the Fun, Twice the Protection
Some cyclists have had success in thwarting flats by lining their tires with a second layer of rubber taken from an old pair of bike tires. You won't see the racers on the pro tour doing this as it may add a few grams of weight overall, but hey, personally I don't care - I'm just interested in keeping my tires full of air and not having my buddies stand around watching me trying to patch a tube when we should be riding. And this will certainly help cut down on the number of flats you'll get.
What you need is an old pair of skinny tires from a road bike, 23cm wide or so. Your local bike shop should have plenty of these around to give you. Cut off the bead -- that's the sides of the tire, the part that fits snugly into your rim -- and take the rest of the tire, what used to be the part that actually hit the road, and use them as liners for your real set of tires. Just tuck them in between your tire and tube and inflate as normal. Don't be afraid to trim the old tire as necessary to make it fit.
Use Tire Liners
Rather than cutting up old tires, you can also purchase tire liners that were designed specifically for this purpose. Mr. Tuffy is just one company that makes good tire liners. These work in the same way, helping reduce flats by providing an extra layer of thickness and protection against cuts and punctures.
Buy Better Tires
It's going to cost you some money, but one final way to avoid flats is to buy better tires. Many tires on the market today are specifically advertised as being puncture resistant. They come extra thick and/or kevlar reinforced to make them especially resistant to cuts and punctures. I've been very happy with a pair of Continental's Ultra Gatorskins on my road bike that now have 1,000 plus miles. They greatly reduced the number of flats I was getting in the stock tires that came with the bike. Some good sturdy tires that are more mountain-bike style with knobby treads are the Panaracer Fire XCs. This is another good brand you should check out if you're having trouble with flats on your mountain bike or hybrid.


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Wild Blue - Anheuser-Busch
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Ratings: 1,275 | Reviews: 532 | Display Reviews Only:
Reviews by Cylinsier:
3.08/5 rDev +42.6%
12 oz.
Pours clear dark purplish blue with a bit of white fizz.
Smells of sweet blueberries.
Tastes of sweet and tart blueberry and candi sugar. Some mild lagery bitterness.
Moderate to full body with light tingly carbonation.
I think there is a lot of hate on this beer because it's from AB, but for what it is it's not bad. Sweet, sugary soda-pop beer, yeah, but I enjoyed it. It's not BEER beer but it's not trying to be. I'd have this or one of its sister beers again if I wanted something sweet and sugary. Really not so bad.
06-20-2012 01:58:35 | More by Cylinsier
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1.1/5 rDev -49.1%
Well, they did it, they conned me into buying an A-B beer. Intrigued by an 8% blueberry beer, I picked up a single at the local wine and beer shop and was looking forward to trying it.
Then I saw the label and looked it up: Anheuser Busch product. Crap. Then I poured it out. It's a sickening bright fruit juice purple color with a purpleish-pink head that can't wait to vanish. You can smell the fruit juice from a foot away.
Tastes like a blueberry Spark's or something. Just sweet, syrupy juice with no real hint of anything resembling hops or malts anywhere.
Mouthfeel is thin and syrupy, so sweet it makes you pucker, a slight bite on the finish the only thing resembling actual beer.
No I do not want to drink any more of this. I suppose this could be a decent choice for an alternative to juice at breakfast, but unless you're used to wine cooler and are looking for something stronger, avoid this beer!
04-10-2008 01:28:43 | More by boston2bburg
1.5/5 rDev -30.6%
Pours reddish-purple with a purple yogurt looking head.
Smells like a monster energy drink or a red bull. Blueberry and boysenberry are in there but the energy drink thing is unavoidable.
The taste is sweet and sugary, similar to a blueberry soda that has gone flat. The alcohol is hard to detect, which is its only saving grace. Not appealing, couldn't or wouldn't drink another one. Even one has its challenges.
02-23-2010 02:51:33 | More by brownbeer
1.25/5 rDev -42.1%
12-31-2012 01:07:12 | More by tbryan5
North Carolina
2.93/5 rDev +35.6%
Poured from a 12 oz. bottle into a pint glass.
A: Dude! It's purple! Extreme beer? Well, extreme color anyway! This does have the appearance of carbonated blueberry juice, complete with soapy purple head that disappeared within seconds. Zero lacing.
S: Well, it smells like blueberries, some yeast, and something sort of funky that reminded me of balsamic vinegar. Sort of odd.
T: I have to admit, from the look and smell I was ready to not like this. But truthfully, it sort of reminded me of a fruity lambic style brew - definitely not recognizable as a lager. Taste is overwhelmingly sweet blueberry with nothing else coming through until the finish. The finish itself is sort of odd, where the blueberry fizz dissipates giving way to a light malt taste that was probably there the whole time being strangled by the blueberries. Anyway, there is practically no linger but the malts coming through were a bit of a surprise.
M&D: Mouthfeel? Basically just like soda pop or a wine cooler. Beer is definitely not the first thing that comes to mind when drinking this. Oddly, this was relatively easy to drink if you can get past the sweet juiciness. I'm probably going out on a limb here but I think this brew was at least an interesting departure from the norm.
04-11-2008 01:07:38 | More by SIRIUS2
2.5/5 rDev +15.7%
07-02-2014 17:59:00 | More by GeoBear
4.75/5 rDev +119.9%
04-18-2013 04:54:39 | More by loose5682
3.65/5 rDev +69%
EDIT: Drink at your own risk during sporting events. I am confident this is the reason my team lost Saturday. Buyer BEWARE!!!1!11!!
Ive read the reviews, good and bad. Im going to give this Blueberry Lager, Fruit/Veg beer a fair shake.
Pours like a carbonated grape soda, with more remarkable lacing for a lager. Not much head, and it doesnt stay. I would have liked more head.
Smells like a Blueberry Boone's or other malt beverage. I dont get much of any lager, though I might catch grain, though also maybe rice :(. Gonna give it a 3, only because the lager side brings down the Fruit side.
Wow, impressive. Blueberry, light malt, non fructose finish, with what might be a hint of hops. Overall much better than the A and S. I was worried the blueberry sweetness was going to overpower the taste.
Sits very well, blueberry's are well balanced against lager and carbonation. Dissapation in the mouth is perfect.
Not sure I would drink a lot of these, though if blueberry is your thing, this is for you!
09-06-2008 21:03:17 | More by JasonA
1.5/5 rDev -30.6%
09-09-2012 04:30:46 | More by heddar33
2.75/5 rDev +27.3%
02-05-2013 19:58:49 | More by Lazaro
2/5 rDev -7.4%
08-25-2012 02:20:03 | More by BK2084
4.5/5 rDev +108.3%
01-07-2012 18:44:43 | More by WuAnquo1
1.53/5 rDev -29.2%
One pint brown bottle with some ugly ass dog on the fruit kicking a giant blueberry with its hind leg. Poured, it looks like black currant juice, topped with a fizzy, tight purple-y-pink colored head. Retention is mediocre, with a creamy foam ring.
Strong artificial blueberry aroma, bubble-gummy, with a solvent edge.
If it didn't say "Blueberry Lager" on the label, you'd be hard-pressed in recognizing this as an actual beer. It's medium in body, with some syrupy density, and a prickly and spritzy carbonation. Quite tart upfront with acidic berry-like characters, super-sugary artificial blueberry sweetness, and smack of lime in the back. Sour in spots, with a growing alcohol presence as the beer warms. Dry finish, a bit tannic, with a fruit drink powderiness that's not overly desirable.
This is simply a Malt Liquor merged with a concentrate blueberry juice based soft drink. Nothing more.
10-05-2006 01:34:37 | More by Todd
North Carolina
1.55/5 rDev -28.2%
It's a purple beer...so I'm nervous. It's purple like a beet, or radishes. It's a little scary. It smells like blueberry syrup. I envision a cardboard box holding the plastic, Ziploc-like bag of Wild Blue. It's artificial and concentrated (which isn't all by itself a bad thing), but there is a question. The nose on a fruit beer should leave no question.
It's thick and concocted. It's a paste. Like a pharmaceutical suspension--or a natural fruit drink--perhaps it should say "Shake well before using." I had a buddy of mine tell me he likes to drink this beer. Buddy says he likes to do so in the shower. I may not hang out with this buddy anymore....
12-18-2011 02:52:50 | More by marvin213
New York
1.9/5 rDev -12%
It pours a light cranberry color with a pink head. The aroma is strong and full of blueberries and some malt notes. Its flavor is overwhelmingly fake and sweet with blueberries adding some tartness. Hop and malt flavors are barely detected. The palate is medium bodied with a sticky texture and the carbonation is fizzy.
05-03-2008 17:25:18 | More by generallee
2/5 rDev -7.4%
11-25-2011 07:22:14 | More by TimoP
Rhode Island
1/5 rDev -53.7%
08-15-2014 18:52:09 | More by Doomcifer
1.7/5 rDev -21.3%
16 oz brown bottle with a "born on date" freshness date on the label.
A- Looks like cheap burgundy pushed through a sparkler, very little head retention after the purple lace clears.
S- Smells of canned blueberry pie filling and a clean solvent alcohol.
T&M- Tastes like processed juice box juice, cheap lager ... or should I say malt liquor. Thin bodied with a thin and slick syrup like mouth feel. Slickly sweet IMO with some cheap beer qualities in the finish.
D- My palate could not take more than a few sips. There is only one word that really describes this beer.
03-17-2006 02:10:39 | More by Jason
1.75/5 rDev -19%
I recently sampled this beer at the Extreme Beer Fest in Boston (Feb. 2006). I was intrigued by the selection Anheuser would produce for an "extreme" fest and felt I would be remiss not to at least give it a try!
In my glass it literally looked like soda or juice. It was a deep blue/purple color with very little head. It was extremely carbonated and reminded me of a soft drink.
The flavor was INCREDIBLY sweet and tasted more like fake blueberries than actual blueberries. I am a HUGE fan of blueberry beers but this one, unfortunately, was not up to snuff.
As I drank it, I could feel the carbonation swirling in my mouth. At first I didn't mind the taste, but bear in mind that this was a four-ounze sample and about half-way through I felt overwhelmed by the sweetness. It was dificult finishing the small sample. Really, this reminded me more of a wine cooler than a beer. If that's what you're looking for - a sweet, very fruity, overwhelmingly blueberryish beer that goes down like juice, then this is for you. If this doesn't sound like your taste, I would recommend trying something else!
03-10-2006 01:07:02 | More by BlueHammer
1.25/5 rDev -42.1%
Appearance: clear, blueish-purple in color, 1/4 inch head, minimal carbonation
Smell: sour blueberries and grape juice
Taste: spoiled grape juice, alcohol, some hops, and artificial blueberry
Mouthfeel: high carbonation--fizzy, light body, sticky sweet with a sour middle
Drinkability: This tastes like spolied grape juice with maybe a bit of children's medicine. Overly harsh and sour, this was hard to finish. One and done and just a step above Cave Creek Chili as my least favorite beer.
03-29-2010 14:40:07 | More by tigg924
2.38/5 rDev +10.2%
Just drank the thing out of the bottle.
At first taste, it was delicious. Tasted like a smooth blueberry drink with a heavy alcohol content... continue on to beer 2 and 3 and it began to taste more like Four Loko than a beer. Ended up finishing the 6 pack and feeling awful the next day. Beautiful reprieve is the 8 % ABV.
08-19-2013 23:28:32 | More by JayEvans813
1.75/5 rDev -19%
07-31-2014 03:12:44 | More by Andrew_Rios122
2.68/5 rDev +24.1%
The beer pours a reddish-purple with a pink head. The aroma is heavy on the blueberries and cherries. The only notes I get in the aroma are fruit, no malt or hops are present. The flavor is more of the same. There is a ton of blueberry and some alcohol in the flavor. You can tell it is 8 percent. Overall the beer tastes a bit medicinal and quite a bit like blueberry cough syrup. Medium mouthfeel and medium carbonation.
04-04-2011 02:40:20 | More by Mora2000
2/5 rDev -7.4%
12-24-2013 05:59:07 | More by IDYVM
North Carolina
4/5 rDev +85.2%
I guess Im in the overwhelming minority here, but oh well.
I found this to be quite different, but nonetheless, very much enjoy this beer.
Poured from a bottle, into a pint glass. Color is purple, with a decent head. Left a decent lacing on my glass.
I thought I was drinking a blueberry wine, if there is such a thing. However, I did taste sweet malt, that finished with a faint bit of hops, that balanced it nicely.
Overall, I was quite pleased, and would recommend giving it a try.
11-06-2011 02:31:36 | More by startreker
Wild Blue from Anheuser-Busch
53 out of 100 based on 1,275 ratings.

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City considers making building owners do seismic upgrades
City Hall sources have confirmed the basic details of a San Francisco Public Press report from Friday afternoon that the Board of Supervisors will consider requiring the owners of soft-story buildings of three stories or more to seismically retrofit them by 2020 – at the expense of building owners, something sure to rouse controversy.
The legislation was developed and introduced by the Mayor's Office and it's being sponsored by the board's two most prolific and effective supervisors, Board President David Chiu and Sup. Scott Wiener, which is probably a signal that city officials know this one is going to be "challenging," as one source told us.
Details are still being hammered out before the measure is introduced at tomorrow's board meeting, including some of the financing options that would be open to property owners. But after voters in 2010 narrowly rejected Measure A, a bond that would have provided low-cost loans for the seismic retrofits, property owners could be forced to dig deep to ensure their buildings don't collapse in an earthquake.
Wiener confirmed that the legislation would be mandate on building owners without public money attached: "It would be a mandate that they within a certain time frame do an earthquake retrofit," Wiener told the Guardian.
As the Public Press reported, the legislation would apply to all wood-framed buildings of three stories or more built before 1978, with smaller buildings and single-family homes exempted. In the most recent print edition of the Public Press, extensive coverage of the city's earthquake vulnerabilities estimated that about 58,000 San Franciscans live in the nearly 3,000 soft-story buildings deemed dangerous places to be when the next big earthquake hits.
Wiener said city officials have been deeply involved with negotiations with various effected groups, including building owners and their tenants, who could face displacement as the work is done or higher rents if landlords pass through those costs. Wiener said the legislation is bound to evolve as talks and hearings continue: "There are a lot of variables and the introduction is really just a preliminary step."
provide the funds to do the work, or at least provide low-cost or no-cost loans to do so.
As it stand, such a requirement would lead to more property sales, mergers, demolishments, Ellis Act evictions, TIC creations and condo conversions.
Way to go, assholes. This is what earthquake insurance is for,
"Way to go, assholes. This is what earthquake insurance is for"
Right. Who cares if people die as long as the landlord gets his money.
for the most part... but the perfidious and berzerk want tenants crushed in the rubble *too*.
But it's not, nor never was, a long-term housing solution. That said, a tenant who pays a viable rent and causes no trouble, should enjoy a long tenancy if they choose. It is the parasites that want something for nothing that are being driven out of SF, and good riddance. Nobody owes them anything, and they should pay their own way.
The city doesn't appear to want to pay for it though.
The owners are responsible for keeping their properties safe for human habitation. I would love to have the city pay for it. Let's nationalize these buildings, then they'll be owned by the public, and then I as a member of the public will be more than happy to pay for it. Till then... you own, you pay.
Yes - then WE can all pay for these debatable "seismic improvements." Or rather - everyone but Greg since he doesn't really pay taxes anyway.
You should consider slavery Greg - you seem aimless enough to qualify and Lucretia could definitely use someone to wax Lucretia's luxury car on a daily basis. Wouldn't you like to be close to Lucretia on a daily basis? You would thank Lucretia. Lucretia would treat her new pet well.
Actually, without seismic upgrades, many buildings are not eligible for earthquake insurance—companies won't take on that risk.
Putting in shear walls and tie downs is not cheap. Bolting exposed foundations isn't a huge expense but with the type of faults we have in California bolting isn't much of a help.
Without a pass through this kind of mandate could put a lot of property owners in deep debt and benefit a whole host of contractors.
San Francisco already has the oldest housing stock in the nation. In most other cities, these Edwardians rot-buckets would have been demolished already.
I suspect that Steven thinks this is a good thing but he is not thinking it thru. If buildings become too pricey to remodel, the older buildings may just be allowed to rot, decay and wither on the vine, so a demo permit can be obtained. Or they just fall down.
We've already seen this with SRO's in SF. When the city started mandating insane fire reg's on them requiring six-figure re-do's, guess that happened? A lot of them "mysteriously" burned down.
It's called irony.
arson for profit.
I was saying it is understandable and predictable.
Politics is about reality, not perfection.
than an lapse in ethics. People sometimes die in profit-motivated arsons.
in that regard, and ensured that the occupants were all out before torching the building.
Again, I'm not vindicating their response to being lumbered with excessive costs of remediation, but only commenting on the practical upshot of burdening SRO's with uneconomic liabilities.
SRO's could Ellis, of course, but change of use for a building of that size is harder to swing.
restricted to San Francisco, where, according to your account, the criminal landlords "ensured that the occupants were all out before torching the building."
"According to the Insurance Information Institute, arsonists destroyed nearly $900 million in insured property and killed 295 civilians nationwide in 2007."
building, and in fact that makes little economic sense outside of rent control or, for commercial buildings, for insurance fraud.
How many tenants and homeless people started fires nationwide, I wonder?
LOL. Arson is never the answer. Besides the fact it's illegal and dangerous investigators, both those of the SFFD and the insurance companies, are very skilled these days in "sniffing" out combustibles.
But again, just to be clear, I wasn't advocating arson as an affirmative business strategy. I was merely noting that the last time Sf mandated expensive safety codes on SF SRO's, the incidence of fires in SRO's increased. I feel sure it was just a coincidence, of course. But it helps to bear in mind that policies have real world implications that are not always what was intended.
Being that seismic retrofitting is such a broad term. Some parts of retrofitting are cheap (foundation bolting being one, relatively cheap option), others a lot more invasive and expensive. There are going to be a lot of problems if the city mandates expensive items like shear walls. This will lead to a flurry of selling to corporations and holding companies which have the money to comply with these new rules while decimating the mom and pop owners who do not.
Our Edwardian is rot-free because it was built with massive chunks old growth coast redwood that have lasted 105 years and will last 105 more with proper, minimal maintenance. We get to walk out our back door into a garden with exotic greenery and the sounds of singing birds.
It may be a condo alright, but it ain't condolicious craptacular.
cesspit of drug addicts, pimps, pushers, prostitutes and petty criminals.
16th and Mission? Sounds idyllic.
Yeah, we live in the middle of a dense urban mixed ethnicity and income neighborhood in the City because if its idylls.
That said, I like being in the garden on a late spring day, the wind bearing the squeals of the kids playing at Marshall School during recess and the faint groan of the BART train on the rails as it slows to pull into 16th Street Station.
Of course, the four fifths of a billion $ SFPD and DPW could not be bothered to keep our streets clean and that is because they hate the children of color who attend Marshall and enjoy the fact that they have to walk through shit and over passed out junkies on their way to schoo.
economic necessity.
Of course unsafe buildings should be seismically updated. And those living in the building should expect to share the expense.
even if they are not mandated. So I imagine that tenants might oppose this, as the resultant rent increases might even drive out tenants.
In fact, landlords might actually want to do this, just to get the passthru's and the rent increases.
"Without a pass through this kind of mandate could put a lot of property owners in deep debt..."
It's okay, if you can't afford it, you don't deserve to live here. Let someone even wealthier and (naturally) more deserving take over your property. What, you think you have some constitutional right to live wherever you like? Please.
Not their tenants - who honestly I could give two shits about. Tenants who support this may want to think twice - this kind of construction is very unpleasant to live through and if the costs are passed through will add quite a bit to their monthly rents. Which is why, now that I think about it, this could be just the thing we've been looking for to "encourage" a few recalcitrant renters to find something more to their liking :-)
being crushed to death in earthquakes, *after* *which* property owners can get a bailout from the government.
It's about owners being forced to do very expensive and highly invasive construction to satisfy the city. What is your answer lil' lilz?
he has no truck with capitalism anyway and would like to see all commercial activity ran by the government. So he would support any policy that inpoverished property and business owners so that the city could step in and buy them for a song.
If you can't afford the costs, MOVE your pampered ass. That's what you've been telling the tenants, right? (That we have no god-given right to live in the city? Well, neither do you!) What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
And those properties will be snapped up by off-shore holding companies and hedge funds and you'll see how much you enjoy dealing with THOSE kind of absentee landlords!!!
Sf gets away with this crap because most SF LL's are mom-and-pop operations. But the big property companies from back east plays the city like a violin.
uneconomic to one owner, it is most likely uneconomic to any other owner either. So it gets to the point where a building is not viable for that use for any owner, and so the use has to change.
You cannot get a quart out of a pint pot.
or Beijing Holdings much less sympathetic to his pleas for "a couple extra days" to pay his rent than was Mamasan Kim - that's for sure.
buildings would be lost and would be rebuilt no longer subject to RC.
Luckily (for people like you anyway) a LL cannot invoke an earthquake quite as easily as he can invoke a fire or a major refit, especially if the city makes other options impossible.
Ellis, earthquake and fires - the three enemies of subsidized tenants. And oh to be a tenant paying a full rent, who fears none of these things.
live in properties owned or regulated by the SFHA or HUD, not by the rent board, which regulates unsubsidized private rentals, where tenants pay a regulated full rent.
There will be a test on word definitions later in the week. You should study harder as you keep making the same mistakes.
with Section 8 or public projects, but also the more insidious cases where a municipality seeks to push the cost of that subsidy onto the owners of the building.
Which of course directly leads to Ellis evictions.
Fires, like Ellis evictions, have a mysterious habit of only happening where a tenant pays an artificially reduced rent. Funny that, huh?
This year's second graders need your desk for their class next year. If you are held back (again), their classroom will be overcrowded.
Billy Madison troll.
What matters is whether a LL gets a ROI that justifies continuing to provide homes for people like you, or whether he gets Mister Ellis to pay you a housecall.
Your choice, whatever your preferred terminology.
Landlords do not invoke the Ellis Act to allow the units to lie fallow. They invoke the Ellis Act to OMI or convert. There are limits on the number of OMI and conversions, so, yeah, invoke the Ellis Act and see how far it gets you.
costs 4.5K per tenant plus some legal costs, but the building immediately becomes more valuable by at least 100K per unit as TIC's. No brainer.
That said, it has been estimated that there are 10,000 rental units in SF that are deliberately left vacany by LL's rather than deal with rent control.
And, ironically, the Ellis Act came about because Santa Monica tried to make that illegal.
You really are clueless, marcos. But at least you got one thing right - the law does not compel LL's to continue to be in the rental business. Your vindication of the Ellis Act there is refreshing.
If TIC's can't convert to condo because there are so many units in the lottery pool, then your economic logic #fails. Nobody wants to get into the TIC game now that everyone knows how risky and dangerous it is.
then you must have no explanation for the spike in ellis evictions which Tim claims is destroying the heart of this city. Rent control destroys the very people it is designed to help. Ironic, huh?
But then, as you acknowledge, no LL is "compelled" to stay in the rental business, thanks to Mr. Ellis - someone who people like you made famous. How does that feel, asswipe?
Stopping this legislation at the Board or winning a referendum will draw a line--here and no further--where the TIC brand will be so tarnished thanks to the whining of TIC advocates that the market will collapse on this risky form of ownership.
being no good for anyone - particularly those who can avail themselves only of this type of home ownership in SF.
"Collapsing markets" for purchasing risky and dangerous TIC's will result in fewer evictions as the lure of "easy" condo conversion proves illusory.
That is why defeating this legislation is so important. The TIC commune members have done a bang up job in shouting from the rooftops the downsides of TIC ownership. They should do more of that so that we can catch it on video and air 30 second spots.
On my block, I'd say that hald the buildings are now TIC's. 15 years ago, they were all rentals. Some of those buildings have sincre condo converted but most have not and, in some cases, can not because they were Ellis'ed.
None have been foreclosed upon or even been subject to a short sale. And half the cars on my block are expensive European models.
The crisis is in your head. TIC's in SF are flourishing because there is a demand from tenants who want to own. Those who complained at that meeting were a self-selected group with a motive. But most TIC owners just quietly get on with their lives in their new home. Why would you hate that?
It sure looks to me like TIC commune/collective shareholders' hair is on fire in despair before the Supervisors' Committee....if that does not reflect the crisis that the risky and dangerous TIC's are in now, I don't know what would.
If TIC's are a problem for their owners, then we should help them especially given that, instead of the fix costing the city money, it will make money for the city. Everyone wins.
If TIC's are not a problem for their owners, then why do you care what happens to them either way? It's quite simply no concern of yours.
Any TIC owner in an Ellis'ed building can never condo anyway, and will forever be TIC's. They cannot be helped either way.
Either there is no problem. Or there is a problem but it can be fixed. Eventually, I suspect that all TIC's will be condo'ed. Because, eventually, rent control will go away.
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There were a few surprises on Tuesday night, April 24 as voters chose their party's candidates for the November election. With few exceptions, in this overwhelmingly Democratic city, local primary winners typically go on to win office in November.
In one closely watched race — the 197th District — J.P. Miranda won in over Jewel Williams, the daughter of Sheriff Jewell Williams.
Miranda won 40 percent of the vote with 2,977 votes. That compared to 38 percent for Jewel, which translated to 2,519 votes.
Miranda will now run against Steve Crum, the Republican, in the Nov. 6 election.
Jewel's campaign in the North Philadelphia district raised eyebrows because she seemed to rely largely on possible voter confusion between her and her father, who held the seat until January when he resigned to assume the post of sheriff. Jewel campaigned little. Her campaign office was reportedly empty most days.
Miranda had a history of political involvement. He worked for Council President Darrell Clarke and state Sen. Shirley Kitchen. In addition, in 2004 he worked for the John Kerry campaign. He also worked with the administration of Mayor Michael Nutter as it worked to help federal officials with the U.S. Census.
Voters in the 197th District had to choose someone to serve for the remainder of Jewell's term and decided on Gary Williams over former state senator and perennial candidate for mayor T. Milton Street.
From a party standpoint, perhaps the biggest was an upset was in race for state House in the 182nd Legislative District, which covers much of Center City. State Rep. Babette Josephs, who has held the seat since 1985, lost to newcomer Brian Sims.
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That changed Tuesday evening.
According to preliminary results, Sims won with 3,661 votes. Josephs had 3,428.
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The sound of a million baseball writers on a million computers, typing a million words about the millions of dollars the Phillies have committed to a handful of players. We are staring into the abyss, and the abyss is staring back at us, waiting to make a snarky Ryan Howard joke.
So, yeah, you're going to read a lot about the money the Phillies have committed to their future payroll. You've probably read a few articles already. But it's not because of unoriginality. It's because it's a lot of freaking money. It's like how you'll never read a retrospective of Thriller that doesn't include something about how well the album sold. Sure, you probably know it was the greatest selling album ever, but here's that number again: 110 million albums. One hundred and ten million albums. It's worth repeating again and again. It's just that amazing.
The Phillies will have over $132 million committed to eight players next year. That leaves them needing 17 players for $46 million if they don't want to go over the luxury tax. A good breakdown (pre-Hamels) can be found here.
There it is. The quota is filled. An article about the Phillies has to include something about future payrolls, or else the bus explodes. Have no choice. But it's a lot of freaking money. And it's important when considering how the Phillies will approach the trading deadline, the offseason, and everything after. So, yeah, it gets mentioned.
It's usually mentioned in the wrong way, though. It's usually mentioned in a lolphillies context, as if the team is going to show up next year wearing barrels with straps instead of uniforms, and the Phillies' fans will wander around Citizen's Bank Park with wheelbarrows filled with devalued Phillies-bucks like a scene from post-war Germany.
But while the Phillies will need to do some serious payroll finagling to get the payroll under control for 2013 and 2014, they needed Cole Hamels. Absolutely needed him. If you're going to pay Cliff Lee and Roy Halladay and Jonathan Papelbon and Ryan Howard and Chase Utley and Jimmy Rollins next year, what's the point without Hamels? He's the only player without serious questions in the group. Without him, the team is paying a lot for a 2013 roster with more questions than answers. Might as well max out the credit cards and make sure next year's team is substantially better.
If they traded Hamels for prospects, they would still have had to deal with the Howard contract. They'd still have Utley and his Knees of Mystery. They'd still worry that Halladay is on the decline, and that Lee was more than just unlucky. The realized fears that left the team in last place would still be around, this time without Cole Hamels. It helps that he's a homegrown, popular player, too. It's a PR thing as much as a baseball thing, and Phillies fans wouldn't have been thrilled with a complete rebuild. It sounds exciting when the prospects are coming in, but then you're at the park one day in 2013, buying a $9 beer, and listening to Melvin Mora's name coming over the P.A. A complete rebuild is never as glamorous as you think it is the July before.
The Hamels deal probably gives you an idea of what they're going to do at the deadline, too. Hunter Pence is going to be pricey next year, but he's not a long-term commitment. Unless the Phillies could get back a major-league ready player -- something between a prospect and a known quantity, akin to what Josh Reddick looked like when he was with the Red Sox last year -- it wouldn't make sense to deal Pence for a bunch of 18-year-olds with live arms and all sorts of promise. No one knows what the Phillies will need in 2016. In 2013, they'll probably need Pence.
Victorino is different as a pending free agent, and he certainly could be traded. But it'd make a lot more sense for the Phillies to look for instant help -- young bullpen arms, or a semi-prospect who can fill in around the infield. And in the offseason, they'll look to replace Victorino with someone who comes cheap on a one- or two-year deal. Think Cody Ross.
Oh, god, I didn't mean Phillies fans were supposed to think about the actual Cody Ross. Look at all that blood and spittle. I meant the idea of a player like him -- a short-term deal to a player who falls through the cracks of the offseason.
Although, you know, Ross will be on the market …
Enough! The point isn't to troll Phillies fans. No more than usual, at least. It's to highlight that Hamels is a long-term move that will help in the short term for a team that is built for the short term like no other team in baseball. Hamels made sense for them in 2013. They'll worry about the end of the contract whenever they need to. For now, though, he's extending the window that might have closed without him. It doesn't matter if it's a good move in 2016. It's going to help keep the short-term hopes of a short-term team alive in the short term. That's worth a lot, actually.


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Spring Swap n' Switch
Feeling the need to tunnel out from winter? Follow that urge because it's a great idea to clear your home of what you don't need. I know that spring cleaning can be a daunting task... but if you turn it into an event for family and friends it can turn that "Ugh!" into a smile on your mug! (Bonus-- You'll be making room for new possibilities!)
First things first, arm each family member with a bag and then send them on the mission to collect items that are outgrown, not played with or unnecessary. You may wish to take a peek into each bag to make sure that Grandma's tea pot, your child's retainer or the remote control didn't make the cut! Similarly, if you've collected an item that makes your child protest, ask him/her to make a case for keeping it. If they can sway you then it's a keeper. (Bonus-- communication skills are bolstered!)
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Let the local extended family and friends know what you're up to and invite them to participate with you in a combined event together. Set a date, post signs and set up the yard for you first annual""Spring Swap n' Switch!"
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can warrior one change the way your life unfolds?
It is that time of year again...where I spend a lot of my time in the kitchen. As much as I love the new studio, the kitchen will always be my favorite place. I love being in that warm, bright space on dark, gray days. I love the heat and the smells and having tasks to do. Don't let me mislead you. I am not a great cook. I can cook about five things really, really well. The wonderful husband is the chef. Seriously. I have a sweet yoga studio and a husband who is an amazing cook. Life is rough.
I digress.
Back to the kitchen. In the fall and winter in the kitchen is when I get to watch Ted Talks. This weekend while baking five batches of brownies, I was fascinated by this talk by Amy Cuddy:
If you don't want to watch the whole thing, here is a very brief summary. Body language can change the way your life unfolds. If you do a classically "powerful" pose for a couple of minutes before an interview or a presentation, you will manifest (maybe not the best word) that power. Think of arms in a victory "V". As we sit hunched over our phones, computers, and iPads, that small posture could be translating deeper in our lives. Not just bad posture and an ouchy back. But taking up less space and feeling less powerful.
In her experiments, Amy had two different groups of people. One group did "small" poses for two minutes before an interview and one group did "powerful" poses before and interview. They interviewed with people who gave zero, zilch, nada feedback and the interview was taped without sound. They then showed the soundless videos and asked people who they would hire. Overwhelmingly it was the "powerful" pose group.
Amy also talks a lot about "fake it til you make it". Practice that powerful pose like it is totally true (even if it isn't) and eventually it will become true. You will become powerful.
Also important to note, she talked about self perception. These experiements aren't how people percieve you, they are how you percieve yourself.
What does this have to do with Warrior I?
There are a lot of powerful poses in yoga. But, in my mind Warrior I really fits that "arms in a v victory" pose.
So, we know that yoga makes us feel good. Are we cultivating something way, way deeper? We are turning ourselves from the hunched, small creature to the standing tall yogi in a very real way in the body, but is it extending beyond that? After you do Warrior I five times in a class or your own practice, do you hit that presentation out of the park? Do you feel powerful? Will it change the way your life unfolds?


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I thought we could arrange possible places and dates etc once we have seen if the interest would be high enough, as no point in going into too much depth at this point to find interest to be very low. I think we should leave the interest poll running until after the weekend and take things further from there?
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Would be good for the members who have shown an interest if they could put forward some ideas for the preffered location for the meet, along with the area in which they come from so we can best suit everyone attending.
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But tell me when and where and I'm in.
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Hiya, id be interested in a meet as ive never been to one before, iv got a 93 Scorpio 2.0 auto, done a few things to it so far not big jobs but needed doin, check out the pics in the gallery if you like, keep us informed as to possible meet, would be good.
As the topic says people. Mark down if you would be interested and we can arrange dates e.t.c after this point.
Posted 11 November 2009 - 11:06 PM
I am guessing that with Christmas coming up people will be busy over the next month or so, so I was thinking on holding the meet after Christmas.
Are there any objections to this/eager people?
As to the location .... the Strathclyde park idea is very good, although the theme park will be closed until around March, i notice there are many other things open throughout the year ..
Crazy Golf
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Pool for those over 21
As you can see plenty of things to do to suit everyone,
Of course we are open to all other ideas also,
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im a reg organiser for vxon (gutless task) i struggle to get 3 of us to meet at a time despite 3 of us living 10mins apart. we usually go for a bit of a drive then grab some pies and irn bru. anyone on here from dundee/angus?
Hopefully we get a bit more than 3 to the FOC meet
Not Dundee/Angus but near by in Kirkcaldy/Fife
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JOSH ELLIOTT: And the clothing company Benetton has bowed to pressure from the Vatican this morning, pulling its latest ad showing the Pope kissing a top Islamic leader from Egypt. The Vatican called this picture, and I quote, "a grave act of disrespect," end quote. It was part of Benetton 's Unhate campaign, challenging people to have the courage not to hate. The campaign also features, as you can see here, photoshopped pictures of President Obama kissing the President of China and even kissing Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. German leader Angela Merkel, shown canoodling with french President Sarkozy. I believe that was a canoodle.
ROBIN ROBERTS: But, Benetton is taking down just the one with the Pope or all of them?
ELLIOTT: At this point, just the one with the Pope. It remains to be seen with the rest of the campaign.
ROBERTS: We'll see.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: They've gotten a lot out of it already.
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JEFF GLOR: The Benetton clothing company is known for provocative ad campaigns, but they have now decided to pull an ad that angered the Catholic Church. The campaign called Unhate features faked photos of world leaders kissing, including one of President Obama and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. There was also an image of Pope Benedict kissing a Muslim leader. That has now been taken down.
SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: And a new ad campaign from the United Colors of Benetton has the Vatican threatening legal action. The unhate campaign features photoshopped pictures of world leaders kissing some of their rivals. The campaign features an image of President Obama kissing the Chinese president Hu Jintao. And another shows Israeli and Palestinian leaders. But, it was an image of Pope Benedict kissing a prominent Muslim cleric that has the Vatican furious. Benetton has now pulled that picture, but the Vatican has now condemned that ad as a grave act of disrespect.
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It's a good thing they pulled them ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 5:40pm.
... before they were attacked by a screaming pack of Catholic suicide bombers! I sure that "the religion of peace" had noooooo problem with the images.
Actually this picture was photo shopped. There is one of Obama slipping the tongue to Chavez that I have no doubt is real. Probably what gave Hugo cancer. At least something good came from Obama sucking face if that's true.
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Submitted by WarEagle66 on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 6:01pm.
I was sort of thinking the same thing in that...if you are gay...the Catholic Church does not do what that Muslim Cleric would have done to you.
I wonder if there was a death-warrent put out for insulting Islam?
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Benetton Hate
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Clearly Benetton hates Catholics. What's that ... about a billion people?
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There is a third option between hate and embrace..that is indifference. I am an atheist and wont apologize for it. But I sent my three children thru private Catholic school because I believed it offered a superior education.
So as far as I'm concerned, Benetton is just trying to appeal to some market I don;t care about.
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How would the Leftists feel
Submitted by helomech on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 6:56pm.
How would the Leftists feel if it was their beloved fraud-of-a-president in a lip-lock with some terrorist leader? Not too funny, I would imagine..
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"The ads also featured
Submitted by LinTaylor on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 7:18pm.
"The ads also featured pictures of Barack Obama kissing Venezuela's Hugo Chavez."
The only picture in that whole collage that isn't a Photoshop.
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Submitted by ELCore on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 7:20pm.
One doesn't have to be much of a psychologist to see that people who think up ad campaigns like that are themselves fueled by hatred.
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Exactly . . . They are using
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Exactly . . . They are using intolerance to preach intolerance, and they are so blinded by their own bigotry and hatred that they don't even realize it.
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