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Free Passes & Exclusive Invites
From now till 31 July 2014, 100 FREE passes will be given out at 3 local attractions! Simply be the first 100 Cardholders to flash your PAssion POSB Debit Card on every first Friday of the month and get 1 free admission at:
- Gardens by the Bay - Entry to Flower Dome or Cloud Forest worth S$12
- Sentosa - Islander Individual Membership (1 year of unlimited admissions to Sentosa) worth S$25
- Singapore Cable Car - Round trip worth S$26
Cardholders may also get exclusive invites to community events such as the Chingay Parade, PAssion Fun Around the Bay, POSB PAssion Run for Kids and more.
To redeem your free admission pass for the above attractions, produce your PAssion POSB Debit Card and NRIC at the following counters. Applicable to only the first 100 PAssion POSB Cardholders per attraction every first Friday of the month from Feb 2014 to Jul 2014. Admission ticket is non-transferable and needs to be for same day usage. It is not applicable with any other special offers or promotions by the attractions.
1. Gardens by the Bay - Ticketing Counter (18 Marina Gardens Drive S018953)
2. Sentosa (Islander Membership for new sign ups only) - Ticketing Counter (Vivocity, 1 Harbourfront Walk, Lobby L, Level 3, S098585). For full T&Cs of the Islander Membership, please visit here. Please see additional FAQ here.
3. Singapore Cable Car - Ticketing Counter (109 Mount Faber Road, S099203)
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Dining and shopping privileges at over 1,500 POSB/DBS merchant outlets
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As a Debit Card carries risks of unauthorised signature-based, MasterCard® PayPass™ or card-not-present transactions, the MasterCard Debit Limit for signature-based, MasterCard® PayPass™ and card-not-present transactions is set at S$0. You may increase the MasterCard Debit Limit upon activation.
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The shared MasterCard® Debit limit for the following is set at S$0:
- Signature-based transactions
- Contactless payment with MasterCard® PayPass™
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#Limit is shared between signature-based transactions, contactless payment with MasterCard® PayPass™/Visa payWave and card-not-present (such as online, phone and mail orders) transactions. The limit on the card is subject to your available bank balance, whichever is lower.
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- Please make a police report and provide us with a copy of the report and in certain circumstances accompanied by written confirmation of the loss/ theft/ disclosure and any other information that we may require.
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- We will refund the amounts deducted from your bank account for unauthorised transactions, in excess of the applicable liability cap, within 14 working days from the time you submit all the necessary information to us.
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A pro-rated membership fee applies if you are an existing PAssion Card member. Existing PAssion Co-brand Cardholders holding on to PAssion Co-brand Cards such as Civil Service Club, HomeTeamNS, Overseas Singaporean Unit and Outward Bound Singapore (OBS) will not be eligible for the membership fee pro-ration.
5. When will my PAssion membership be activated?
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7. Can I apply for a supplementary Card?
8. If I am currently an existing PAssion Cardholder, can I still apply for the PAssion POSB Debit Card?
9. Will the TapForMore Programme in my existing PAssion Card be transferred to the new PAssion POSB Card?
1. What is MasterCard® PayPass™?
2. Will I need to activateMasterCard® PayPass™ when I receive the Card?
For Cards received via mail, you will need to activate your Card using iBanking or at an ATM before you can start using MasterCard® PayPass™ for your purchases.
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|Library football program Feb. 11
|Thursday, January 23, 2014 9:21 PM
Have you ever wondered how a football is made? Children in grades 2-6 will be invited to learn all about it when a representative from the Wilson Football Factory visits the Delphos Public Library at 5 p.m. on Feb. 11, not Feb. 10 as previously announced.
Dan Riegle, salesman with the company, will be the special guest for the "Football Fever" program.
Wilson makes the most famous football in the world — the official ball of the NFL. Riegle will bring video and actual examples and material to demonstrate how the ball is crafted.
Sign up for the program will begin Tuesday with a limit of 25 children. Call the library at 419-695-4015 to register.
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Man exposing himself to female trail users in Walnut Creek area
Original post made on Jun 10, 2013
Read the full story here Web Link posted Sunday, June 9, 2013, 1:35 AM
Comments (6)
on Jun 10, 2013 at 7:38 am
What a loser. Why some men think ppl want to c their ugly parts is amazing. Ladies, carry some visible scissors with you.
on Jun 10, 2013 at 10:09 am
Dear Ann, you sound like a MAN hater. "Their ugly parts" What an awful thing to say.
And then you add more abusive things like "Carry some visible scissors with you" I'm surprised you didn't suggest carrying hedge cutters or a battery operated chain saw.
My, My, My Ann, you are missing the beauty of the male body.
Just my opinion, Julia Pardini from Alamo
on Jun 10, 2013 at 10:57 am
Valerie Solanas' "S.C.U.M. Manifesto (Society For Cutting Up Men":
"Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex."
on Jun 10, 2013 at 11:17 am
WOW This thread sure went south in a hurry (pun intended). Ann, I know you've been told but here goes again. My ugly parts were given to me at birth. They are part of me as a person. Yours are on the inside. You had a 50/50 chance of being male or female. Would you hate yourself if you were? Anyway, this person should be caught tried and punished. I realize this is an especially sensitive subject and I would be furious if I saw something like this too. But lets not let this be an occasion to hate.
Now as far as Marrushi, that's just disturbing. "Institue complete automation" as in men are valuable and would somehow need to be replaced. Would your automation make a buzzing sound like most automation? Just asking?
on Jun 10, 2013 at 3:04 pm
Leave it to the ever-urbane and unflappable David Niven to rescue the thread: Web Link (sfw)
Regarding the sketch -- under these circumstances, is anybody really likely to have remembered this perp's Face?
on Jun 10, 2013 at 6:24 pm
Dont'cha ladies remember - you're supposed to use pinking shears like they taught you in home-ec class.
Seriously though, a pepper spray weighs 2 ounces. Get one if you jog alone in less-used areas.
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Exclusives: First GoF Filming Pictures and GoF Shooting Script
TLC Reader Tracy went to Ashridge, where we recently reported that the filming on the Portkey scene was going to be taking place, and came back with a whole lot to show for it.
First, we have the pictures, the first GoF filming pics which will return when our server load eases up.
Exclusive: GoF Portkey Scene Filming: Who, Where, What, When
Last week HPANA reported that the HP GoF cast was seen filming the Portkey scene (where the Weasleys, Hermione, Harry and the Diggorys go to the Quidditch World Cup) near Berkhamsted in England.
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The Sunday Herald has a new interview with actor Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid). In this indepth profile, the actor speaks at length about his role as Hagrid, and the impact of a high profile film on his personal life. On the question of whether he or the trio would return for future films after the upcomingContinued...
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UK's Young Performer magazine has a short interview this month with Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, and Daniel Radcliffe. Thanks to Feargirl, who is spending her summer nursing a broken leg, for the excerpts (get better soon, dear!).
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PEORIA, Ill. – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will visit Peoria on Thursday to look at a program to keep low level drug offenders out of prison.
The Pretrial Alternatives to Detention Initiative (PADI) gives drug offenders facing federal charges the option of entering a substance abuse treatment program and an opportunity to improve their lives by finding a job.
The PADI program has been in existence for about 12 years. A small number of participants with non-violent backgrounds are typically selected for the program which requires court monitoring and follow up on the part of the participant.
In 2007, Chantel Hinkle of Peoria was facing 10 years in federal prison under conspiracy drug charges. Hinkle said outside of a prior marijuana charge, she did not have a violent history and chose drug rehab over prison.
"It's like living with your mom, going to school, the only difference is you are an adult you have to report to someone else," she said. "You have to go to court every two weeks to see Judge Gorman."
Hinkle suffers with Transverse Myelitis, a rare disease which causes inflammation in the spine. Her health condition has prohibited her from working outside the home. She said after 115 days in rehab she returned to the same Peoria community where she sold cocaine for several years.
"I just don't want to get high. I just don't want to drink. I been clean for so long now, I'm use to the life I live," she said.
Now she is a full-time mother to a six-year-old daughter and 18-year-old son. Under the PADI program, Hinkle provides reports to federal court and takes random drug tests.
Upon completion of her GED, Hinkle wants to enroll in Illinois Central College. She wants to become a drug counselor for young people.
"There's no future for nobody without education and on drugs they're gonna be somewhere in some rehabilitation needing some help. I want to be the one to help them," she said.
Hinkle continues to participate in the PADI Program. In January she will celebrate five years of being drug-free.


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SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - Caught in the middle of this latest round of severe weather is a softball team from San Diego.
They were in Oklahoma for a tournament dedicated to a victim of the monster tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma.
What a difference a day makes for the San Diego Mystic softball team. Just 24 hours ago they were ordered onto a bathroom floor with a tornado just outside.
Saturday, the team has an even stronger reminder of why they made the trip to begin with.
An entire San Diego softball team crammed into an Oklahoma City hotel bathroom.
"All the girls were pretty much scared, some were to the point that they were crying," said team mom Annette Cotto Otero.
Some with their helmets on in case of falling debris - the San Diego Mystic weren't on the practice field Friday - they were in the middle of a real live tornado.
"You have no control so it was just a matter of you know being of faith and staying positive and doing what they were telling us to do."
The team of teenagers stayed hunkered down for two hours while they rode out the deadly tornados.
They're in town for a softball tournament dedicated to nine-year-old Sydney Angle, who was killed in the May 20th Moore tornado.
Devastating winds claimed nine lives in the Oklahoma City area but the twisters just skipped over the team's hotel.
"We said there is a God, we have those angels up there looking over us."
Otero says her team is ready to be off of the bathroom floor and on the field for tomorrow's emotional big game.
"I'm a little choked up about the whole thing. You think about it and say did we go through that? Yeah we really went through that."
And going through that is something the team says is a memory to last a lifetime.
"This is something that we'll never forget."
The team raised $2,000 to give to the family of the nine-year-old killed on May 20th. The Mystic plans to return home to San Diego on Tuesday.


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Vera L. Healey, 79, King, N.C., formerly Logansport, passed away at 1:36 p.m. Wednesday, May 15, 2013, at Universal Healthcare Center, King, N.C.
Born Dec. 7, 1933, in Tyler Town, Miss., she was the daughter of the late Fleet S. and Ruth Simmons Magee. On April 19, 1959, in McComb, Miss., she was married to Lawrence R. Healey, who preceded her in death Aug. 12, 2001.
A homemaker, Vera was a 1953 graduate of Progress High School in Mississippi. She was a former member of Hillcrest Baptist Church and Victory Baptist Church. Vera was an accomplished seamstress who enjoyed quilting and embroidery.
Surviving are two sons, Lawrence Dale Healey of King, N.C., and Lloyd David Healey of Logansport; and two sisters, Mary Strayband of Osyka, Miss. and Anna L. Magee of Jackson, Miss.
She was preceded in death one brother, Charles Edward Magee.
A funeral service will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday at Fisher Funeral Chapel with Pastor Ralph Hanson officiating. Burial will follow in Paint Creek Cemetery, Camden.
Friends may call from 1 to 4 p.m. today at the funeral chapel.
Memorial contributions may be made to Victory Baptist Church and Hillcrest Baptist Church.
You may light a candle of hope in remembrance of Vera and share online condolences at www.fisherfuneralchapel.com.
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Schlafly Irish-Style Extra Stout - The Schlafly Tap Room
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Reviews by kemoarps:
3.81/5 rDev -2.8%
Pours a little thing and light around the edges. Decent cola colouring, minimal tan head that was never really there in the first place, so not much hanging out to do. Minimal lacing.
More complex aroma than I expected. Some dry bitter coffee and a surprising amount of vanilla. Roast and ashy behind that.
Solid. The vanilla sweetness that surprised me on the aroma decided not to jump into the fray on the tongue, instead letting an ashy bordering on smokey dry bittersweet coffee and a touch of dark fruits come forth. I can't quite pin it down precisely, but it's more fruity than I expected (not overwhelmingly so, but the aroma didn't give me that impression).
Medium/light body and a decent carbonation level, with a higher ABV than I would expect for the style/etc, but it's very well hidden. It could be easy to get sloppy off a couple of these before you realized what you'd done.
This is a solid entry into the style that won't necessarily blow you away, but is perfectly enjoyable.
03-18-2014 02:33:34 | More by kemoarps
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4/5 rDev +2%
I had this at the Schlafly Tap Room when I was in St. Louis a month or so ago and really enjoyed it. I picked up a six pack there and am finally getting around to reviewing it.
A: Nice and impenetrable black with a gorgeous mocha-colored head that starts out at a finger and recedes fully after about a minute. The lacing is thin, with a mixture of dots and boomerangs.
S: Roasted malts and coffee are the first scents I pick up... I've got to let this warm up a bit. Some vanilla and milk chocolate smells are also apparent. There is a hint of booze mingling in with the other aromas, as well as some earthy, wet soil.
T: I'm convinced that this is a beer that should be drank at room temperature, and no lower. The sad thing is, I knew this before I started this review and still cracked it when slightly chilled. That said, when at proper temperature, this is a tasty brew. The roasted malt flavors are probably the dominant aspect of the taste, but it is pretty well balanced by the vanilla and chocolate notes. The finish is a little more as astringent and coffee-like than I remember it being on tap.
M: Good and creamy, but nothing that blows my mind. It could be bigger and play with all parts of my palate a bit more.
D: This went down easily and I would certainly have another. The slight astringent taste on the finish prohibits me from giving this more of a boost.
03-25-2010 00:48:57 | More by TCHopCraver
4.25/5 rDev +8.4%
10-26-2013 01:40:58 | More by OhioBobcat
3.6/5 rDev -8.2%
12oz brown bottle bottle with a bottled on date for freshness though I think this one could cellar without a problem.
A- Pours out a black colored liquid with slight hues of dark brown at the edges of the glass. Good two fingers of tan head subside to a thin bubbly lace.
S- Soft charcoal aroma with a faint alcohol and dark berry nose.
T&M- Slick and full bodied with a semi- crisp smoothness that rolls over the tongue. Dark chocolate, slight char and toasted grain with a modest hop bitterness. Alcohol is noticeable but still deceiving @ 8.0% abv, hints of black berries and currants come to mind. Finishes a little bitter sweet but more sweet from the residuals.
D- Not as refined as other Export Style Stouts, a bit rough and the roasted character is not as defined and in your face as I had expected. Still a good beer, no doubt about that ... I just think it misses the mark for the style a little bit.
07-05-2007 01:43:54 | More by Jason
4.28/5 rDev +9.2%
Thanks to Vancer for this extra bottle for the BA Anny Club. Slight head. Very dark. Not a whole lot of smell. Nice taste of malt with no alcohol taste noted. I was surprised this had an ABV of 8%. Very drinkable. I have not had too many dry stouts (except those by Victory & Sly Fox) but this is a good brew.
05-09-2007 03:02:38 | More by SkinnyElvis
New Jersey
4/5 rDev +2%
03-23-2014 21:49:23 | More by ImFlyerThanYou
3.95/5 rDev +0.8%
Sent to me in an enormous package of generosity from rsyberg01 for the holiday sponsor a BA. Thanks again Ric!
Appearance- Pours an opaque black with about a half finger of dark brown head that dies back to a coating over the surface of the beer in short order.
Smell- Lots of rich roast coming through in the nose. A fair amount of burnt coffee coming through as well. Smells like a good mixture of sweet, rich, and bitter.
Taste- Rich roasted malt with burnt aspects of coffee and bitter chocolate showing through as well. A nice combination and that characteristic soda bread quality in Irish dry stouts makes a showing here as well. Subtle and well crafted.
Mouthfeel/Drinkability- Mouthfeel becomes just a touch thin as the beer warms but pretty adequate. The flavor profile is rich but not overpowering, and I could see this being a nice session beer if the mood was right.
Overall, a very nice example of the style. I liked this one and would definitely have it again.
01-22-2010 22:46:48 | More by boatshoes
3/5 rDev -23.5%
03-08-2014 20:32:33 | More by mte1972
3.63/5 rDev -7.4%
Dark brown with 1" tan head disolving into a thin layer. Nice lacing
Aromas of chocolate, candied fruit and dates. Nice smelling beer.
Chared wood up front with some alcohol coming through. Lots of character with a bitter-sweet chocolate at the finish that lingers.
Medium to full bodied, pretty smooth.
Good sipping beer with moderate alchohol 8%. I'm planning to throw some beef into this stuff and pop it on the grill, it's begging for the "barbie".
02-23-2008 21:55:26 | More by MOShepp
South Carolina
3.58/5 rDev -8.7%
12 oz bottle served in a goblet.
Looks and smells like a typical Irish Stout, but tasting reveals a slightly high (and a bit too lively) carbonation level and more generous use of hops. The nose is more spicy than usual too. Relatively complex flavor with hints of chocolate, coffee, molasses and dried fruit. Near even sweet/bitter balance. Head has weak retention.
05-30-2014 22:54:00 | More by chinchill
4/5 rDev +2%
04-18-2013 00:34:14 | More by valkyre65
3.75/5 rDev -4.3%
03-02-2014 18:57:20 | More by navband
4.1/5 rDev +4.6%
Bottle shared by Ben - thanks!
Pours one shade from black with a one-finger tan head. The head recedes into a thin layer on top leaving decent lacing.
Smells of smooth roasted malt with mild amounts of black patent malt and cocoa powder. Also present are very mild hints of smokiness.
Tastes similar to how it smells. Black and roasted malt flavors kick things off, each sharing 50% of the profile. Midway through the sip cocoa powder and hints of leafy hops enter into things, carrying through to a solidly bitter finish.
Mouthfeel is good. It's got a nice thickness with smooth carbonation.
Drinkability is also good. I finished my glass without a problem and could have another.
Overall I thought this was a bit too far on the roasty side to be a traditional export stout but that doesn't mean it's not a tasty beer. Well worth a shot.
04-26-2010 03:48:34 | More by glid02
5/5 rDev +27.6%
12-04-2011 17:14:57 | More by drn
4/5 rDev +2%
01-22-2014 23:47:50 | More by cmwilliq
2.25/5 rDev -42.6%
02-21-2013 13:56:17 | More by sgttibbs
3.5/5 rDev -10.7%
05-12-2013 18:23:53 | More by Schlafly33
4.33/5 rDev +10.5%
12oz. brown bottle, purchased at Party Source, poured into an imperial pint.
A: Dark brown with some taracotta(sp? lol) hues. 1 finger worth of light tan head forms and falls withing a minute or so. Some decent lacing.
S: Toasty and roasty malts, not too heavy. A bit of smoky, woody, peaty aromas going on, very interesting. A touch of alcohol. A bit of floral and lightly resinous hops to balance.
T/M: Rich malts. Definitely some of that Irish/Scottish influence. More of the woody and peaty flavors with a full flavored sweetness that's not too heavy and not overdone. Maybe some light molasses. Hops are pretty potent, needed to balance the full malt flavors. A bit of bitterness to cut some of the sweetness. Body is full but not heavy and has a great creamy smoothness. Almost feels like an oatmeal stout.
D: Even at 8%, fully flavored, and full bodied, this brew is still pretty drinkable. Very tasty. I'm actually very happily surprised with this.
08-01-2008 02:07:56 | More by pwoods
New Jersey
3.5/5 rDev -10.7%
03-01-2014 21:16:25 | More by acurtis
3.75/5 rDev -4.3%
03-14-2014 02:42:47 | More by JamesStreet
3.9/5 rDev -0.5%
This beer was poured into an Imperial pint glass at 53° from a 12 ounce bottle. A 'Bottled With Love on' date was on the bottom of the label. One finger of tan head sat on top of the dark brown beer with tinges of red.
The beer was clean smelling with just a hint of sweet malt.
The taste was better thathe non descript bouquet I sensed. There was a smooth, slightly sweet malt taste with a candy like presence.
I enjoyed the aftertaste and the sensation that there was Belgian candy. A slight bitterness teased the sides of the tongue and made this a delight to quaff. Some alcohol was sensed the longer it stayed in the mouth.
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Driver's License Restoration and Clearance Appeals in Michigan Require Sobriety
It seems that no matter how much I write about the importance of sobriety in a Michigan driver's license appeal, some people either miss it, or don't think I really mean it. I have tried, both on my website and in my numerous license restoration blog articles, to make it clear that having truly quit drinking is an absolute prerequisite to winning your license back. This is not talk, nor is it about wanting someone to just say he or she has quit drinking, but rather about someone having actually and honestly quit. If you have made the profound changes to eliminate alcohol from your life, then you know that there is a lot more to this than just saying "I quit drinking."
Here's the deal: The state, meaning the Michigan Secretary of State, revokes the license of anyone who picks up 2 DUI's within 7 years, or 3 DUI's within 10 years. If you get 2 within 7, your license is revoked for at least 1 year, whereas picking up 3 within 10 years will result in a revocation for at least 5 years. These revocations are for the rest of your life, and cannot be appealed in any way for the minimum of (hence the meaning of "at least) of either 1 or 5 years. A formal driver's license restoration or clearance appeal requires filing a substance abuse evaluation and letters of support with the Secretary of State's Driver Assessment and Appeal Division (DAAD) and then attending a hearing where you have to prove to a DAAD hearing officer that you are a safe bet to never drink again.
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Evictions are driving long-time renters out of their homes -- and out of SF. Here are the stories of several people being evicted
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One TIC owner said he was financially burdened, but had only entered into the arrangement because "I wanted to stay here and raise my family, but we couldn't afford a single family home." Yet tenants brought their own set of concerns to the table, saying the temptation to create TICs was putting a major dent in the city's finite stock of rent-controlled units — the single greatest source of affordable housing in San Francisco.
"My feeling is, let's stop doing TICs," Tommi Avicolli Mecca, a tenants right activist with the Housing Rights Committee, told the Guardian following the hearing. "The city has to just start making sure that the condos that are built are the kind of thing [TIC buyers] can afford. Instead, we cannibalize our rental stock? That's a reasonable way? You evict one group of people to house another: How does that make sense?"
The grueling five-hour hearing illustrated the sad fact that San Franciscans in a slightly better economic position were being pitted against economically disadvantaged renters. The two groups were bitterly divided, and all seemed weary, furious, and frustrated by their housing situations.
The condo-conversion legislation, co-sponsored by Sups. Scott Wiener and Mark Farrell, did not move forward that day. Instead, Board President David Chiu made a motion to table the discussion until Feb. 25, to provide time for "an intensive negotiation process." Chiu, who rents his home, added: "While I myself would like to become a homeowner someday ... I do not support the legislation in its current form."
Sup. Jane Kim sought to appeal to the tenants as well as the TIC owners. "It's very tragic that we have set up a situation where [TICs and renters] are pitted against one another," she said. She hinted at what a possible alternative to might look like. "We should be looking at a ban of scale," she said. "If we allow 1,800 potential units to go thru this year, are we willing to do a freeze for the next 8 to 10 years?"
It's unclear what will happen in the next few weeks, but if this legislation makes it back to the full board in some form, the swing votes are expected to be Sups. London Breed, Malia Cohen and Norman Yee.
New protections were enacted following the late-90s frenzy to discourage real-estate speculators from using the Ellis Act to turn a profit on the backs of vulnerable seniors or disabled tenants. Yet a new wave of investors has discovered they can persuade tenants to leave voluntarily, simply by offering buyouts while simultaneously wielding the threat of an Ellis Act eviction. "The process got more sophisticated," explains San Francisco Rent Board Deputy Director Robert Collins.
Once a tenant has accepted a check in lieu of eviction, rent-controlled units can be converted to market rate, or refurbished and sold as pricey condos, without the legal hindrances of an eviction blemish. Buyouts aren't recorded with the Rent Board, and the agency has no real guidance for residents faced with this particular dilemma. "We don't have the true number on buyouts," says Mecca. "We don't know how many people have left due to intimidation."
Identity-wise, renters impacted by the Ellis Act defy categorization. A contingent of monolingual Chinese residents rallied outside City Hall recently to oppose legislation they believed would give rise to evictions; in the Mission, many targeted tenants are Latinos who primarily speak Spanish. From working immigrants, to aging queer activists, to disabled seniors, to idealists banding together in collective houses, the affected tenants do have one thing in common. When landlords or real-estate speculators perceive that their homes are more valuable unoccupied, their lives are susceptible to being upended by forces beyond their control.
"cleansing" because they are very expensive places that the poor cannot afford?
Posted by Guest on Feb. 06, 2013 @ 12:25 pm
I feel badly when anybody gets evicted through no fault of their own. But what the Bay Guardian seems to not understand is that Ellis Act evictions are a symptom of the problem not the problem itself. When you make owning rental property in San Francisco as onerous, unpleasant and uneconomic as possible, why should you be surprised that more and more landlords are just taking themselves out of the rental business? So called "progressives" pursue housing policies that succeed only in reducing the supply of housing, discouraging landlords from investing in their properties and driving up the cost of housing outside rent control's reach. San Francisco enforces rent control by suppressing annual rent increases to 60 percent of the rise in the cost of living. Over the last decade, permitted annual increases have averaged 1.25 percent. As costs — building owners' tax, maintenance and other expenses — have increased at an annual rate substantially higher than that, every year owning rental property becomes less economically viable. Under inclusionary rules, market-rate and affordable housing in San Francisco are developed in tandem — so opposition to market-rate projects is, by definition, opposition to their affordable equivalent. And tenant activists are among the most ardent opponents of market-rate housing. Therefore, tenant activists should not be surprised this is where the city's rental market is heading because It's where they've driven it and if they need to know who is to blame then they should look in the mirror.
Posted by Guest on Feb. 06, 2013 @ 11:34 am
higher rents. There's a very comprehensive proof of that from the Cato Institute that you should google and read.
Posted by Guest on Feb. 06, 2013 @ 12:24 pm
The Cato Institute is a conservative propaganda mill. No need to read some the-more-selfish-we-become-the-better filth.
Posted by Greedy Landlords Are Ruining San Francisco on Feb. 07, 2013 @ 2:10 pm
No wonder you wouldn't like that.
Posted by Guest on Feb. 07, 2013 @ 2:22 pm
No. The Cato Institute produces "propaganda", not 'factoids' to serve wealthy cold blooded slime and their minions.
Like yourself.
Posted by Guest on Feb. 07, 2013 @ 5:57 pm
Unless you're so ideologically skewed that reason, logic, evidence and proof mean nothing to you. SF is living proof that rent control leads to high rents.
Posted by Guest on Feb. 07, 2013 @ 6:15 pm
You act as if rent control affects the entire city. It is only buildings built before 1979. That is why activists say if you want to buy a condo so bad buy a new space, don't take away the precious, finite stock of pre-1979 buildings. Why is this so hard to understand?
Can't the greedy property owners cooperate. Stay on your side of the line and let the people of modest means alone so they can stay here and teach your children, make your lattes, draw your blood and they don't have to commute in from Richmond.
That Cato report is BS, btw...There are well researched counter reports out there too.
Posted by Sigmarlin on Feb. 06, 2013 @ 8:59 pm
We plan on living west of 82d avenue if we were to make the move, so, no, not that.
Posted by marcos on Feb. 06, 2013 @ 12:36 pm
set the rent at what the market will bear, or at an affordable elvel so as to just cover your costs and no more?
Posted by Guest on Feb. 06, 2013 @ 12:54 pm
I'm sure Marcos intends to rent out his condo for whatever the market will bear, but he may find out that being an out-of-state absentee landlord is not quite as easy as he thinks it is.
After all it's **so** easy to evict someone in San Francisco...
Posted by Demented, Yet Terribly, Terribly, Persistent on Feb. 06, 2013 @ 1:23 pm
grateful that such actions must be recorded at the Rent Board, and so his vicious persecution of a low income tenant will be available for all to see.
Posted by Guest on Feb. 06, 2013 @ 1:30 pm
If they could afford to rent the unit at market rate in a few years time, then they're axiomatically not low income.
Posted by marcos on Feb. 06, 2013 @ 2:02 pm
cannot afford it, then they should not rent from you?
Hmm, sounds exactly like the argument to justify Ellis'ing a building. Those tenants could not afford to rent in SF either.
Try again.
Posted by Guest on Feb. 06, 2013 @ 2:08 pm
Brutal read, but fun none the less. Talk about getting your dick kicked in. You would think - with such blatantly clear ammo to use against him in regards to him being a tech guy in the Mission who owns a unit that was previously rent controlled housing stock - he'd maybe stay clear of this argument?
But no, he's fighting! Fight on, marcos!
Posted by Scram on Feb. 06, 2013 @ 6:14 pm
just digs himself deeper and deeper.
Posted by Guest on Feb. 07, 2013 @ 1:57 pm
Troll Hijack: when they lose they all tag team on the victor.
Posted by marcos on Feb. 07, 2013 @ 9:02 pm
Of course.
Immigrants and minorities live east of 82nd in Portland. Can't have that.
Posted by Demented, Yet Terribly, Terribly, Persistent on Feb. 06, 2013 @ 1:07 pm
West of 82nd: yuppies,gays and gentrifiers.
East of 82nd: blacks, hispanics and white trash.
marcos wouldn't last 5 minutes east of 82nd and he knows it.
Posted by Guest on Feb. 06, 2013 @ 1:26 pm
The white liberal neighborhoods sorta peter out around 50th and it becomes pretty working class. After 65th it's really Felony Flats.
Posted by Lucretia Snapples on Feb. 06, 2013 @ 4:32 pm
I grew up in San Francisco and it still remains my favorite city in the world...but I'm saddened by the housing situation...driving locals out of the community. this isn't the SPIRIT of the real San Francisco.
Posted by Guest on Feb. 06, 2013 @ 2:40 pm
it's all about a HOUSING SHORTAGE!
Posted by Guest on Feb. 06, 2013 @ 2:54 pm
affordable housing are the same folks who complain about every new condo tower. They want cheaper housing but not more housing. Weird.
Posted by Guest on Feb. 06, 2013 @ 3:04 pm
You're absolutely correct. That was the main thrust of the article. But the apologists for greed and heartlessness haven't a clue what you meant!
Posted by Greedy Landlords Are Ruining San Francisco on Feb. 07, 2013 @ 2:11 pm
Landlords just want a market rent.
Tenants want an artificially rediced rent so that they can have a home that they cannot afford.
Posted by Guest on Feb. 07, 2013 @ 2:19 pm
I'm shocked.
Posted by Guest on Feb. 07, 2013 @ 2:25 pm
While the use of Ellis Act is unfortunate, we need to consider the bigger picture of the rights of home/property owners (the government tells you what you can/can't do?) along with how bad rent control really is. This is more of an issues of rent control where property owners are in effect required to subsidize their customers (tenants). In what other industry is one group of citizens required to subsidize another?
Farm subsidies-tax payers
Corporate subsidies-tax payers
Helping low income tenants is a good thing. EVERYONE should be contributing to that (even HIGH income tenants) and everyone that lives in SF. Share the burden and raise taxes on everyone, rather than restricting the rights of property owners and forcing them to subsidize tenants.
You'll see that buildings will be better maintained, too when the burden is shared by everyone.
Rent control is an example of bad unintended consequences and a bad policy where now it's bad for everyone...
Posted by Guest on Feb. 06, 2013 @ 4:15 pm
If you buy a building with rent controlled units, the price will reflect that. It is not the renters fault that they stuck around so long, paying every rent payment on time and when they moved in it was as MARKET RATE and acceptable to the owner at the time. Please quit exaggerating about the effects of rent control. It is only pre 1979 buildings with more than 2 units. It is not everywhere and doesnt distort the market as madly as you claim. And if a renter is receiving a subsidy? Good for them. It balances out all the ridiculous tax deductions owners get. Depreciation being the worst. Our wages pay the mortgages of bloodsucking profiteers and then landlords complain about how hard their work is. Oh boo hoo. It's hard spending dad's inheritance isnt it?
Posted by Sigmarlin on Feb. 06, 2013 @ 9:05 pm
If you play this right, it's a goldmine. So here's how rent control works out, in the real world. Here's the real consequences...
I own a 1 bedroom rental, which comes up for rent in July. Now, if you are *any* of the following:
- Are over 50
- Show any slight hint of disability
- Have children
- Work a job that doesn't show immediate signs of upward mobility (ex. - waiters and artists - out. Corporate drones and advanced programmers - in)
- Look like you could even possibly be HIV+
- Have a record collection
- Actively work or volunteer in various lefty social causes
- Show any sign of shopping at Rainbow Grocery
- Have any sort of law background
- Read the SFBG
YOU'RE NOT GETTING THE PLACE. EVER. Would love to rent to you, you're probably 10x more interesting than the person who is actually going get the place, but I just can't take that risk. Not a chance. I'll take boring and temporary over interesting and potentially there forever. I've seen $50K payouts - numerous times - and I'm sure as fuck not going to be the guy who gives it to you.
So there's you're rent control. Congrats on the results. You fuckin' dummies, lol.
Posted by Scram on Feb. 06, 2013 @ 10:47 pm
Evil Scram,
Please choke to death as soon as possible on your own greedy vomit.
a "funkin' dummy"
Posted by San Francisco's Lovely Soul Murdered by Greed on Feb. 07, 2013 @ 1:27 pm
anyone who looks like he will stick around, isn't a (non lawyer) professional, or is a loser to never to be able to find a place.
I not rent only very short-term, a few nights or weeks, at most. Mostly to foreigners (CraigsList nor has sites all over the world - perfect for finding visitors, tourists and those on short-term work or study contracts)
They are polite, respectful, pay in advance, never assert any "rights" and, most importantly, LEAVE.
Rent Control and those who abuse it have ruined the rental game for everyone.
Posted by Guest on Feb. 07, 2013 @ 1:49 pm
Preposterous and vile comment. Rent control is fair, very fair. There are other human beings in this world besides property "owners" and their demoniacal greed. These other human beings need to be protected from the likes of you. Hence, rent control.
Posted by Greedy Landlords Are Ruining San Francisco on Feb. 07, 2013 @ 2:02 pm
properties, just like you can choose who stays in or visits your home.
and rent control makes it inevitable that landlords will prefer tenants who will move on quickly.
Outside of RC, landlords want the opposite - find a good tenant and keep him forever. But with RC, that approach is suicide, and leads to Ellis evictions.
Posted by Guest on Feb. 07, 2013 @ 2:12 pm
Not really. Landlords have to operate under the fair housing laws at the federal level, have to essentially use price as the criteria for deciding who to rent to or face a discrimination lawsuit. After they've rented, then they are not able to choose who lives there because we have a rent stabilization law.
Posted by marcos on Feb. 07, 2013 @ 2:34 pm
how this works.
Yeah, sure, I cannot reject a candidate because he is white, straight or christian. That's true.
But from the poor of applicants who meet my credit and background criteria, I am perfectly free to choose who. I don't have to choose the black lesbian just because she is a black lesbian and the rest are white males. a lot of people are confused and think that I do.
Likewise, if I have ten qualified candidates, and one is a German academic here for a 6 month assignment then I can absolutely choose him. Looking like a "lifer" who is going to be an asshole about his "rights" is not a protected group.
Posted by Guest on Feb. 07, 2013 @ 2:49 pm
if you're rejecting people on the basis of race or sexual orientation.
Posted by Guest on Feb. 10, 2013 @ 12:35 pm
A LL sets his criteria for a tenant in terms of income, credit score, background check and so on. If you make those criteria strict, you'll typically find that 90% of the successful candidates are white anyway.
Suppose there are ten straight white males who qualify and one black lesbians. I am then free to choose on personal criteria. That is no basis there for a claim of discrimination.
However, if only the black lesbian qualifies and then I choose a white male who did not qualify, I could be in trouble. Still not likely as such cases are very hard to prove. But possible.
Any landlord would know this.
Posted by anon on Feb. 10, 2013 @ 1:09 pm
Where are the African Americans, first generation immigrants, and families with children in this article?
Posted by Liz Schoyer on Feb. 07, 2013 @ 2:35 pm
The main commentators here are all white males.
It shows all the time.
Posted by Guest on Feb. 07, 2013 @ 2:50 pm
"Where are the African Americans, first generation immigrants, and families with children in this article?"
Generally speaking, they don't benefit from rent control. The article accurately indicates the demographic of who benefits from rent control - Tim's (and the SFBG's) demographic: white, generally educated people.
It's why Tim cares so deeply about this.
Posted by Demented, Yet Terribly, Terribly, Persistent on Feb. 08, 2013 @ 7:08 am
From my SF highschool, those that inherited their grandmother's house have stayed. A few other's are lawyers, but they are functionally poor from the law school debt.
What isn't talked about in this article, but is interesting are the people who use Rent Control to take advantage of subtenants by charging a "market rate" or disproportionate amount for a bedroom in a rent controlled apartment. For example, my friend pays $1200 for a bedroom in a rent controlled building on 10th and Howard. It's a grotty building and a funky apartment with roaches, and the areas is sketchy, so it seemed like a lot to me. After probing, my friend's observations we found this out. The master tenant or roommate has lived there for six years. Bedrooms in that area were not $1200 six years ago. The total rent is $1900. Turns out the master tenant is going to school and only working half time. He is charging my friend double of what he pays.
That is illegal, and you can research that at the Rent Board, Topic 154, Limit's on Rend Charged by Master Tenant:
"A master tenant may not charge a subtenant more rent upon initial occupancy of the subtenant than that rent which the master tenant is currently paying to the landlord."
Posted by Loquasica on Feb. 07, 2013 @ 4:42 pm
I do not think the City is truly bothered by developers' use of the Ellis Act. First, the city benefits from this process as this increases its property tax revenues. Thanks to Prop 13, long-time owners of housing stock have benefited from extremely low tax rates. Once the old buildings is sold, the new buyers have to pay current property tax rates. Second, as city politicians elected by their constituencies to represent the entire city, losing a few renters who pay sub-market rents will not adversely affect their chances of re-election. If anything, the politicians will probably appreciate the ultimate "upgrade" to their neighborhoods (currently, all but one superintendent are homeowners), that is being produced by the new owners who do not care for anything other than their own pocket book. Our elected officials are not representing the vast majority of renters in the city; rather, they are protected their own interests as property owners.
I do not expect any real legislation against this process. For the record, after almost 30 years residence in North Beach, I anticipate receiving an Ellis Act eviction soon.
Posted by Guest on Feb. 07, 2013 @ 5:43 pm
Now it's time for someone else to make some money. You appear to agree that is fair, and that these conversions upgrade the human stock of this city.
Posted by Guest on Feb. 07, 2013 @ 6:13 pm
Upgrade to the human stock is nonsense and was presented sarcastically. The qualities that made this city great over the last 30 years have been the artistic, cultural and creative citizens. After all of these years, they are forced out, as if they are garbage -- little concern for their welfare. It comes down to money, everything else is nonsense in this discussion. Renters have and will always be second class citizens, even though they make up the majority of city residents and their voices are not reflected in this political discussion. There is nowhere in the Bay Area for artistic people to move to -- Oakland has become too expensive also, since fixer houses sell for $400K-$500K. I hear good things about Portland.
Posted by Guest on Feb. 08, 2013 @ 2:16 pm
wouldn't a few dozen be sufficient? Where is the public policy imperative of letting such outcasts live here en masse? And at our expense?
Posted by anon on Feb. 09, 2013 @ 10:52 am
Bad artists are the key to San Francisco's culture!
Bad artists are "Drinkers of Infinity", and should be above such mundane things like paying rent!
Any self-identified "creative person" should have a cheap apartment in perpetuity!
Posted by Demented, Yet Terribly, Terribly, Persistent on Feb. 09, 2013 @ 11:19 am
Anybody who had *actually* *attended* Jesse Helms' art appreciation seminar would know that.
Posted by I cull bill pains on Feb. 09, 2013 @ 11:48 am
The writer states that TICs are "creating an incentive for buyers to enter into risky, high-interest shared mortgages" and that's just not true at all. I am no fan of TICs, but there is nothing at all risky about buying a TIC in San Francisco.
Living in a TIC gives you stability and comparatively cheap monthly livings expenses IF YOU HAVE A DOWN PAYMENT, which nobody has. And you're not taking away a rental unit, because you are turning yourself form a renter to an owner, a net net.
If you can come up with $100,000 to $150,000 to buy a $600k you can buy a two to three bedroom flat in San Francisco, and get an individual mortgage that is almost identical to a condo in every way. Not everybody buys for the possibility of condo conversion. Also: You don't have to get a shared mortgage. There are banks that lend on TICs the same way they lend on condos.
At that point, your mortgage costs are around $2400-$2900 per month, a large portion of which is tax deductible. After tax for a middle class person making $80,000 per year is about $2,200-$2800. Now tell me where in San Francisco you can rent a three bedroom flat for less than $2,800. You can't.
And of course, you have control of your life, and when and if you move, you have lots of equity saved up after years of paying for the place. A good deal all around.
But who can afford a downpayment? Who can get into these deals? Very few. And that's the unfair part. Only the rich or very lucky can get into these deals.
If this City really wanted to solve the housing crisis, they would buy up apartment buildings all over town, and offer no interest loans to people to buy the units and underwrite their ownership of their flat. The renter would become an owner, and would in every case save money buy owning rather than renting. There would be defaults, sure, but 90% of more would work out fine. A City of owners is stable and good for our community.
Nobody should live with the unpredictability of having someone buy out your home and kick you out. But at the end of the day, ownership rights are holy in America. That won't change. The goal should be for City government to do everything it can to turn every renter who wants to be one, an owner.
Posted by Guest on Feb. 08, 2013 @ 5:42 am
Good, then there is no need for a program to drain the condo conversion pool because lottery odds were too high.
Did you hear the endless caterwauling of TIC commune members about the absolute and immediate necessity of them converting to condo during last month's hearing?
The sounds of middle class entitlement demanding a gift from the government for their benefit and convenience that screws over others was deafening.
Either there is a big problem with TICs or there is not. Bait and switch and distract, TICs are a bad deal all around under current rules.
Posted by marcos on Feb. 08, 2013 @ 7:05 am
TICs groups who could only qualify for shared loans will just have to give up their properties to the higher income buyers who qualify for fractional loans. Isn't that the plan?
Posted by Guest on Feb. 08, 2013 @ 9:07 am
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- ProductInno3D Geforce 9600 GT
- Chipset
Geforce 9600 GT
- Memory256 / 512MB /1GB G DDR3
- Core Frequency650MHz
- Memory Frequency1800MHz
- Interface PCI-Express
- Memory Bus256-bit
- Stream Processors64
- Max. Resolution2560 x 1600
- SLI ReadyYes
- Output1. Dual-Link DVI
- HDCPYes
- 1. A PCI-Express compliant motherboard with full size expension slot
2. Minimum 450W or greater system power supply (with 12V current rating of 30A)
- Note:
1. PCB, components, specification and packing are subjected to change without notice


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Walnut Ridge is the "Country Club" of Des Moines disc golf. This beautifully manicured course features both open and wooded fairways set along Saylorville Lake. This pristine course offers many blind pins, tunnel shots, wooded corridors, and wide-open fairways. Consistency and accuracy are highly rewarded at a course that will test you mentally as well as physically. The challenging fairways and many shot options will impress pros and ams alike.
Course Info - Public - 18 Hole Course
- Established: 1998
- Baskets: Mach 5
- Tee Surface: Concrete
- Par: N/A
- Pro Par: N/A
- Length: Short to A -
Long to A -
Short to B -
Long to B -
- Tee Signs: Yes
- Bathrooms: Yes
- Water: Yes
Note: Open May - Sept
Sunrise to Sunset
- Public - 18 Hole Course