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The complainant names used in this Investigation Report are Mr Smith, Mr Dunne and Mr Kelly. The complainants' names have been changed to protect their identities. Other complainants referred to have also had their names changed.
In March 1997, Mr Smith successfully applied for an exemption from Vehicle Registration Tax (VRT), under Article 10(1) of the Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers (Tax Concessions) Regulations, 1994 (S.I. No. 353 of 1994), on a car he had bought. Fuel and road tax reliefs were also allowed. He also applied for a refund of VAT on the car.
The VRT relief was claimed in respect of his daughter under the provision in the Regulations relating to passengers with disabilities. It was his third successful application under the scheme. The Revenue Commissioners subsequently decided that Mr Smith's claim to entitlement to an exemption did not come within the terms of Article 10(1) on the basis that his daughter was a full-time resident in a nursing home and was not residing with him as required under the 1994 Regulations.
Mr Smith claimed that it was unfair not to allow him the exemption for the following reasons:
The 1994 Regulations govern the remission or repayment of VRT and other related taxes on a vehicle for use by a driver or a passenger with disabilities. Article 10(1) of the Regulations provides, inter alia, that where a person satisfies the Revenue Commissioners that he/she is a family member of a passenger with disabilities, residing with and responsible for the transportation of that passenger, he/she shall be entitled to be repaid VRT in respect of a vehicle purchased for the purpose of transporting the passenger. Article 10(5)(a) grants the Revenue Commissioners discretion to waive the condition concerning the residency of a claimant in exceptional circumstances.Mr Smith's application was received by Revenue on 12 March 1997. His daughter entered the nursing home in February 1997 when it first opened. At the time of application his daughter had been in the nursing home for a very short time, probably less than four weeks. Following enquiries made in June and September 1997 by the Revenue official responsible for auditing the scheme, who is known as the Control Officer, it emerged that the complainant's daughter had been resident in the home from the time it had opened and that she was transported to and from the home by her parents for day trips on a regular basis.
On the basis of this evidence, Mr Smith was asked to repay to Revenue VRT totalling �5,949 on the grounds that, as he was neither residing with nor responsible for the transport of his daughter, he did not meet the residency requirement and did not qualify under the Regulations. Mr Smith was requested on 13 October 1997 to repay the VRT and was advised of his right of appeal against the decision.
Revenue letter to Mr Smith "Disabled Drivers Section, Customs & Excise
Dear Mr Smith, I refer to your remission of VRT totalling �5,949 on motor vehicle registration number (number deleted) on 27/03/97 under the Disabled Drivers and the Disabled Passengers (Tax Concession) Regulations 1994.
As you are neither residing with nor responsible for the transport of your daughter, Anne Smith, you do not qualify under the above regulations.
By contravening Section 139(3)(d) of the Finance Act 1992, the vehicle is liable to seizure under Section 139(2) of the Finance Act 1992.
A bank draft for �5,949, made payable to the Revenue Commissioners should be forwarded to this office within fourteen days, i.e. 22/10/97. The Vehicle Registration Certificate should also be forwarded so that any restriction on the disposal can be removed.
On receipt of the above monies, the Revenue Commissioners may not institute legal proceedings.
This decision may be appealed. I am enclosing form C&E 6 for your information."
In repaying the VRT, Mr Smith exercised his right of appeal. He addressed his appeal to the Collector, Customs and Excise, Customs House, Galway citing the fact that his daughter was not living in the nursing home on a permanent basis. His letter of appeal was forwarded to the Collector, Customs and Excise, Custom House, Dublin in October 1997. On 13 November 1997, the Collector wrote to Mr Smith stating that, as his daughter was a full-time resident of a nursing home, her case did not come within the terms of Article 10(1) of the 1994 Regulations. Mr Smith was advised that he could make a further appeal to the Appeal Commissioners.
Having issued the letter to Mr Smith, the Collector sent a memo to VRT Administration Branch, Office of the Revenue Commissioners, in which he said:
Responding to the Collector's memo, another Revenue official in the VRT Administration Branch considered that, while there were similarities between the two cases (Smith and Duffy), there were two basic differences:
Mr Smith appealed to the Appeal Commissioners in December 1997 stating that, if the arguments previously made in respect of residency were not acceptable, the exceptional circumstances waiver provided for in Article 10(5)(a) should apply in his case. The appeal was heard on 31 March 1998. The determination of the Appeal Commissioner was that relief should be refused as the daughter was not residing with her father.
The Appeal Commissioner did not make a determination as to whether the exceptional circumstances provided for in Article 10(5)(a) applied in Mr Smith's case. According to the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, the Appeal Commissioners had accepted in a similar case that the determination of exceptional circumstances was a matter wholly at the discretion of the Revenue Commissioners and was not a matter on which the Appeal Commissioners could adjudicate. In that particular case, the Appeal Commissioners had concurred with the view put forward by a Revenue official who had maintained that it was clear that the determination of exceptional circumstances was delegated by the Minister for Finance, through the Regulations, to the Revenue Commissioners and that the Appeal Commissioners had no role to play in the matter. The Appeal Commissioner's role was in relation to establishing the facts of the case and to ensuring the correct application of the law.
Extract from Mr Smith's letter of 27 April 1998 to the Ombudsman
"Anne is presently living in the Nursing Home but she still spends a considerable amount of her time at home, as our house has been fully adapted for her needs.
I was fully aware when I signed the documentation to apply for the VRT of the "Residency Requirement" under the Disabled Drivers and Passengers (Tax Concessions) Regulations 1994 but my family and I regard Anne as being as much resident in our house as in the Home.
If Anne had been a little better physically, she would be able to drive herself and the issue of 'residency' for the VRT would be obsolete in her case.
I believe that the attempts of my daughter to live independently should not be penalised by the withdrawal of the VRT from my car."
In the course of my examination of Mr Smith's complaint, I received four other complaints about the refusal of relief under the 1994 Regulations on grounds that the residency requirement had not been met by the applicant. Two of these complaints, those of Mr Dunne and Mr Kelly, are also the subject of this investigation. The other two complaints - from Ms Moore and Ms Flynn - were resolved to the satisfaction of the complainants; some details of these complaints are given below.
Mr Dunne applied for tax relief on behalf of his 84 year old mother who had been granted the primary medical certificate required for qualification under the scheme [the primary medical certificate is provided by the local Health Board where the Senior Area Medical Officer is satisfied that the person meets the scheme's medical criteria]. Mr Dunne lived a short distance from his mother's house with his wife and children. His application for relief was refused on the grounds that he was not residing with his mother. This decision was upheld on appeal and the Revenue Commissioners also stated that the particular circumstances of the case were not of an exceptional nature to warrant the exercise of the waiver of the residency requirement under Regulation 10(5)(a). Mr Dunne was informed of his right to appeal to the Appeal Commissioners but did not exercise this right within the prescribed 30 day period.
Mr Kelly applied for tax relief under the Regulations on behalf of his wife. Mrs Kelly had been granted the primary medical certificate required for qualification under the scheme. Due to the fact that it was not possible for her family to provide the proper nursing care appropriate for her disability at home, she became a resident in a nursing home. Mr Kelly's application for relief was refused on the grounds that he was not residing with his wife. This decision was upheld on appeal. Mr Kelly's request for a hearing before the Appeal Commissioners was refused as it was deemed that he did not have valid legal grounds for such an appeal. He was advised that he could appeal the decision to refuse him access to the Appeal Commissioners. He chose not to do so.
Mr Kelly's letter to Revenue, 29 September 1998 appealing the decision not to give him tax relief
"What is central to my appealing the decision is the fact that my wife not residing with me was not a choice and in the circumstances I feel that the Regulations set out in the letter dated 17/9/98 are too restrictive and unrealistic in my situation and must be for many thousands of people physically handicapped who are no longer able to be looked after in the family home.
My wife Marion is totally paralysed and is unable to move a finger and therefore cannot assist herself in any way. Consequently neither myself (now 65 years of age - Marion is 57) nor my three daughters can continue to lift Marion out of her wheelchair and out of the normal private car - hence the decision to seek an alternative means of transport.
Our entire family are very conscious of the quality of life for Marion who still enjoys life in spite of terrible illness. The nursing home will not provide any means of transport.
On a lighter note I suppose if I joined my wife in the nursing home as a resident I would qualify under the said Regulations!!!"
The Revenue Commissioners also indicated that Article 10(5)(a) of the Regulations which provides for the waiver of the residency requirement in exceptional circumstances was taken into account but that the circumstances of the Kelly case were not considered to be of an exceptional nature for the purposes of the Article. In this connection, I asked the Revenue Commissioners what type of circumstances would be regarded as exceptional under the Article and to give specific examples of cases where the residency requirement has been waived in accordance with Article (10)(5)(a).
In their response, the Revenue Commissioners said that by their very nature "exceptional circumstances" were circumstances that do not arise on a regular basis and as such cannot be made the subject of predetermined criteria. In general terms, the sort of circumstances that were envisaged were those that could not have been foreseen at the time the Regulations were drawn up. Each such case was considered on its own merits and was regarded as being sui generis. In considering any such application, the totality of the case was looked at and all the circumstances, as represented to Revenue, were taken into account. Revenue would take into account, for example:
The Commissioners pointed out that this list was not exhaustive but was an indicator of the type of considerations that can arise. They added that, because such cases are sui generis and "non-precedential", a formal record of cases where the waiver is allowed was not maintained. However, they said that in a recent application the waiver was allowed where the applicant was required, under contract with the residential home, to take his son home for visits on a regular basis and to provide the necessary transportation. The applicant in that case was an old age pensioner who represented to Revenue that he had no vehicle at the time of application, would not otherwise have required one and would not have been able to afford one without the tax relief. In another case, the applicant and the person with disabilities lived in immediately adjoining residences which shared a common entrance - in effect it was decided that the residency rule was met in that case.
Ms Moore applied for tax relief under the Regulations on behalf of her daughter. Ms Moore's daughter had been granted the primary medical certificate required under the scheme. On the application form Ms Moore indicated that her daughter was resident both at the home address and at a nursing home. The Revenue Commissioners refused the application on the basis that the residency requirement was not being complied with.
The decision was upheld on appeal and a hearing before the Appeal Commissioners was requested. This request was granted but, while this appeal was waiting to be heard, the Revenue Commissioners reviewed the case in the light of her complaint to me and decided that, for the purposes of the relief sought, Ms Moore could be regarded as resident with her daughter. The relief was subsequently allowed. In arriving at this decision the Revenue Commissioners said that they took account of the following circumstances:
Ms Flynn applied for tax relief under the Regulations on behalf of her son. Ms Flynn's son had been granted the primary medical certificate required under the scheme. On the application form Ms Flynn indicated that her son was in residential care in a nursing home. The Revenue Commissioners refused the application on the basis that the residency requirement was not being complied with. This decision was upheld on appeal and Ms Flynn was advised as to the procedure for having the refusal dealt with by the Appeal Commissioners.
The decision was subsequently reviewed by the Revenue Commissioners in the light of additional information supplied by Ms Flynn and the decision taken in the Moore case referred to above. As a result of this review, the Revenue Commissioners decided to accept that the residency rule was complied with in this instance bearing in mind:
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Father seen in reel life
By David Flusfeder
Fourth Estate, £11.99
Spencer Ludwig is a middle-aged, balding director of films that garner praise from the critics though little commercial interest. He lives in London, doting on his enthusiastic if demanding daughter and playing a great deal of internet poker. His father, Jimmy, lives in New York with Spencer's stepmother, where he watches boxing on TV and conducts a campaign of attritional brooding against his wife.
Jimmy has aphasia - impaired linguistic ability. He is a permanent invalid with "problems with his lungs, his blood pressure, the nerve endings of his hands and feet… constant pain from stenosis of the spine…. [an] inability to empty his bowels". He wheezes about, dragging his breathing apparatus after him.
When Spencer flies to America - partly out of filial duty, partly to escape the importunings of his producer to take on more lucrative work - he is presented with an opportunity to find some equanimity in his relationship with his father, which has thus far been dominated by Jimmy's gruffness, contempt for his son's profession and obsession with material success.
The pair set off for Atlantic City - against all medical advice and the hysterical admonitions of Jimmy's wife - where, surprise, surprise, they learn much about themselves and each other. This is, of course, conventional road-movie territory. David Flusfeder's conceit is that, though Spencer had considered making a film about his father, he had left his camera at home after his last girlfriend had raged at him that "because you're frightened of real life, you need to put something between you and real life".
The book is ruefully honest about families and failure
Each encounter with a movie cliché - being pulled over by the cops, tarts with hearts, an improbable run of luck on the poker table - is wittily unpicked by Flusfeder, who produces outcomes that are plausibly deflationary but never unsatisfactory.
A Film by Spencer Ludwig is substantially autobiographical. As Flusfeder has acknowledged, Jimmy is based on his father: both survived wartime Warsaw, the Gulag and Monte Cassino; both married twice, went to America and made their fortune. Though some emotions still run deep - Spencer's stepmother's name is never mentioned in the book - the ironic detachment of Flusfeder's prose prevents self-indulgence creeping in. He shows that, however disappointed we may be, we can't stop imagining fabulous futures and probing stories from our past in order to understand the present.
His book is humorous, wise and ruefully honest about families and failure. And it would make a pretty good film.
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- Fat3 g(4%)
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Lambert Kicked Out Of Gaga's B-Day Party?
Seen here looking like a rejected cast member of Jersey Shore, Adam Lambert did not make a good impression at Lady Gaga's 25th birthday party recently.
According to UsMagazine.com, gossip blogger Perez Hilton said that the former American Idol contestant showed up at the function in Los Angeles, "beyond drunk. Super sloppy embarrassingly drunk," and also that Lambert punched a hole in the ceiling of the restaurant where the party was being held. Witnesses told the mag that Gaga had to have her security kick him out.
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Not content with bullying recovering stroke victim Andrew Marr out of his coffee shop seat (No fan of the man but strokes can get ANY poor cunt!) the malnourished shitbag has got herself pissed up on an Easyjet flight (whilst returning from a stretch of rehab no less) and drunkenly abused passengers, flight crew and the (female) pilot. No doubt with the timeless classic screech of "DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?" It's pretty obvious WHAT you are my dear.
Anyone who would abuse a pilot trying to control several hundred tons of metal and aviation fuel carrying passengers who might actually have worked for a living is an absolute cunt of terrifying proportions.
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About Buca di Beppo - Orland Park
Buca di Beppo serves authentic Italian cuisine in an eclectic, vintage setting. Our dishes are served family-style, meant to be shared by everyone at the table. Two sizes are available: BUCA SMALL feeds two or more and BUCA LARGE feeds four or more. At Buca, guests delight in our lively atmosphere, enjoy the classic tunes of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin and admire our decor, including family photos and candid shots of Italian-American icons, such as Sophia Loren and Joe DiMaggio. Our energetic atmosphere, delicious food and friendly staff make Buca di Beppo the perfect place for great Italian food and fun.
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Orland Park, IL 60462
Dining Style:
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Hours of Operation:
Monday - Thursday: 11:00am - 10:00pm, Friday & Saturday: 11:00am - 11:00pm, Sunday: 11:00am - 9:00pm
Cross Street:
Wheeler Drive
Dress Code:
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Price Range:
$30 and under
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Phone Number:
(708) 349-6262
Whether you're celebrating a special occasion or group event, Buca di Beppo Delivery or Buca To Go is the perfect choice for great Italian food and fun. From casual parties to corporate luncheons, we offer a delicious selection sure to satisfy everyone. Our friendly and professional staff will assist you with your order, arrange a specific pick-up time for Buca To Go or transport your order ($25 delivery fee applies to deliveries). Tablecloths, plates, napkins, eating and serving utensils and condiments are included. No minimum purchase is required. Please allow 3 hours for same-day delivery.
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Buca di Beppo - Orland Park Ratings and Reviews
I have never had a problem with my service at Buca until this past trip and I have been going consistently for years! Our waitress misplaced our order and we did not receive our side dish until we finished our main course so we had to take it to go. The food is always delicious and comes out super fast! Never go without a coupon either, considering they are advertised everywhere!
Brought my immediate family (spouse, kids (who are really adults 25,23). We hadn't been there in years (4 or 5) and thought we'd give it a try again. The food reminded me why we haven't gone there in years - over-priced, recipes are not impressive (lots of salt - felt bloated after eating there), and even the deserts were just mildly palatable. Family style restaurants are always hit or miss - but $30 for a plate of ravioli or spaghetti is pretty steep. And before you think I am price - sensitive - I am not. I've got an MBA and am a frugal and a discerning shopper - the marginal utility of this meal compared to others my family goes to isn't there. I can take my family for a meal at Wildfire or (our family favorite) Ottimo in Orland Park, and have a better meal for less - and won't leave feeling like an inflated goodyear blimp.
The service was excellent - a very attentive waitress (Jessica I believe) was our server.
Was not happy with where we were seated, we had a 5 o'clock reservation so we beat the evening rush and we were seated in the bar area. Our table was right under a air vent with cold air blowing out on us. We asked the waitress to see if they can turn the air down, and they turned it down alright to even colder. My mother in law was wearing her jacket at the table. I'm he food was just ok, the pasta was very bland and the chicken was good but a little dry. We had to ask for oil for our bread a couple times. For the price we paid for four people it was not worth it. Won't be going back there anytime soon and I would not recommend to anyone.
Food was Bland. Waitress was nice, but told us they didn't have special when they did, was rushy when placing our order, and kept removing things from our table before we done. It wasn't noisy because we were sat in an area alone which was cool by us.
Overall, left full but not happy or satisfied. Won't be returning. I gave them 2 stars instead of one, because I've eaten and have dealt with worst at resturants in the past.
My wife and I had a good time. The food was awesome! There was a group of young people sitting by us and were very loud having fun with each other. Our server seemed like she wasn't to enthused about waiting in us to be honest. She tried yo put on a good face but she got away from our table as fast as she could. She didn't even offer us desert. Other than that, the experience was great.
Great food and service! Our server was great with the recommendations, and suggested a lot of good options. The seasonal cocktails we tried we great too. The only complaint is there was a large, large party of like 25 people in the room with us that were incredibly loud.
The food was great however after 10 minutes I had to ask the hostess if we had a waitress. There were only 3 people in our section and the waitress that was serving the other tables never acknowledged us until the hostess pointed us out. We had to ask for bread and plates for our food. I've been to Buca many times this is the first time we've experienced this type of service.
I am not a big fan of Italian food, but a relative picked Buca for her birthday. I loved it. I got a couple of items to go and I am very impressed. I had the spicy chicken rigatoni which was great. I brought home the baked rigatoni. It was also delicious. The salad was wonderful as well as the peppery olive oil and bread. I very much enjoyed it.
Mothers Day Celebration was unique. Even though the restaurant was extremely busy the customer service was outstanding. Our waitress Jessica was friendly, the manager came to our table twice and the food came quick! And of course delicious food. The ambiance of the restaurant like no other! I love the pictures, statues, the decor is incredible... takes you to another world!!! Thank you Buca di Beppo!!!
Went with kids for my husband's birthday. Our server was fun, knowledgeable, and spot on with refills and making sure we had all we needed. If you have never been before, be prepared. Food is served family style and the portions are HUGE! While this is not the most inventive Italian restaurant we have been to, the food was tasty and no one left disappointed. The decor is awesome! We will be back.
We went for lunch and our meals were about $10 per person. We ordered four items and all were spot on delicious. Although we did not have drinks, I was tempted to have something off their wine list. The staff was very friendly too (the hostess, waitress, and the manager). It was a very good experience.
We went here this evening with a party of 10 to celebrate my son's 18th birthday. The host was pleasant and showed us to our table immediately. We were seated in the "Pope Room". There were no silverware or napkins on the table, the lazy Susan in the center of the table kept falling off the track and it was greasy with fingerprints when we arrived, there was trash on the floor (napkins, straw wrappers and crayons) and there was a child's booster seat shoved under the table.
Our food arrived in a timely matter, but after it came our server was nowhere to be found. He didn't come back to the table to check with us to see if we needed anything additional or if our food was okay. We were done eating and waited at least twenty minutes for him to return. Finally, someone from our group had to seek out the manager to locate our server and send him back to our table.
I wouldn't plan a gathering here again.
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An item at a Mount Washington hardware store is offending some customers, while others say it is no big deal.
Jen Pellerin and Samantha Griffith were stunned by a new product at their local hardware store.
"I stood there, and the guy said can I help you, and I said…..I was kind of speechless," said Griffith.
The product is called the Obama Bop, and has some customers ready to fight.
"It's a bruised face and he looks like he's been beat up, and a big sign that says twenty dollars," explained Pellerin who said despitet views people should show respect, "If you have different views than the president that is in office, it is the office of the President of the United States, you have to show some respect."
The owner of Stouts Building Center Kenneth Stout said the item is not a political statement, "It's just a good comical item, and that's all it is, it doesn't pick one political candidate over another."
When asked when he would get Romney Bops, Stout replied, "They are not available, they didn't make those."
Regardless of who is right, both lost this bout. Pellerin said, "As a business owner you lose 50 percent of your base, as you lost me this morning."
Griffith agreed, "Before this moment, I was being supportive of a local business, after this moment, I'm basically voting with my dollars."
Stout said the items were never meant to offend, "If we offended them we're sorry, we didn't intend to offend anyone.
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OAKLAND — A 21-year-old Oakland man was killed Thursday night in a drive-by shooting near the Fruitvale district in East Oakland, police said.
The man was identified as Daniel Ellis, who lived in the area, police said.
The shooting happened about 7:20 p.m. Thursday in the 2700 block of International Boulevard.
Sgt. Eric Milina said Friday that Ellis was walking on the sidewalk when someone began shooting at him from a car driving westbound on International.
Ellis was hit by gunfire and made it to the 1400 block of Mitchell Street, a short distance away, where he collapsed. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Milina said police have not found a motive for the killing and no arrests have been made.
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Things Husbands Shouldn't Do Without Your Permission
"Oh, no you didn't!" Does that sound familiar? When you're married it's not just about you anymore. At least if you want a happy marriage!
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CAMBRIDGE, UK Nextreme Thermal Solutions announced the cooling of a laser diode in a TO-8 package using an embedded thin-film thermoelectric OptoCooler HV14 module.
Laser diodes are susceptible to heat, which can adversely affect their output power and wavelength. Manufacturers have traditionally used thermoelectric coolers (TEC) for temperature control.
However, as the photonics industry has moved to smaller, more integrated packaging in order to reduce costs, conventional TECs have not kept pace with these size and heat requirements.
Because of this, in some instances designers have chosen to place the cooling device outside the package. Cooling the diode by cooling the entire package is an inefficient method of thermal management.
Thermoelectric coolers made from thin-films are smaller and thinner than conventional TECs and can be embedded in the smallest of packages.
In addition, thin-film TECs have a low mass which enables a more rapid thermal response to changing temperatures. To illustrate the benefits for cooling a laser with an embedded TEC, Nextreme mounted a laser diode on the active side of an OptoCooler HV14 thermoelectric cooler in a TO-8 package.
At 85 degree C, the OptoCooler HV14 module can pump 1.7 watts of heat in a footprint of less than 3mm square. The TEC can create a temperature differential (Delta T) of up to 50 degree C between its hot and cold sides. As a part of the demonstration, a test bed was assembled to measure the effects of cooling on laser output and wavelength.
When the TEC was turned on, the temperature of the diode quickly dropped from 42 degree C to approximately 21 degree C in milliseconds and the output level of the laser nearly doubled from 0.38 to 0.74mW at a drive current of 100mA.
An optical spectrum analyzer measured a wavelength shift toward the blue spectrum of approximately 13.6nm. The OptoCooler HV14 is RoHS compliant and is available for order now.
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Yes, Senator. In just a few years, the bacteria directly evolved into a person. Unfortunately, it didn't evolve the same intellect. It just looks like a human. Now, it holds public office in Louisiana.
These people are too stupid to understand evolution. It's easier to just say God did it.
Sad to say but this Louisianian has seen some upstate politicians who were even dumber than this idiot.
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scomargo wrote:Wuliao Jian: Definitely NOT a Boring Hike!! June 18
You know, I just now understood the humor in that line. Wow, am I slow!
Yes, considering I was thinking of you when I wrote that. (If you recall, you had asked for the tones on Wuliao Jian as your wife kept laughing at you for saying you were going to boring mountain.)
snafu, which MRT station and exit did you go to? My wife and I arrived at 9:40 and there was no one there and certainly no demonstration. Also, I don't recal any buses or bus stops outside exit two. Belgium Pie wrote that the buses go from exit 4. Were you there or possibly at Far Eastern Hospital station? Not all blue line trains go to Yongning.
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To a traveler passing by on the highway, Brookside Village, a tiny, blue-collar community 30 minutes southeast of Houston, seems the picture of bucolic tranquillity. If, that is, you happen to notice it: for anyone driving along FM 518, the main drag of Pearland, the green sign quietly noting that Brookside lies to the east is easy to miss. And Brookside itself -- two square miles and a population of around 1,500 -- is scarcely more arresting than its signage. In truth, though it boasts the unlikely designation of Pearland suburb, the tame, green Brookside landscape scarcely is even identifiable as a place.
Instead, both from the modest, respectable ranch houses on the west side, and the dingy trailers and wood houses on the east, one gets the sense that this little community is more of an accident, a bend in the road where day trippers from Houston, Mexican laborers leaving Houston and Pearland natives who found land or a sweetheart that caught their fancy paused and then, without really planning to, stayed. Today, 36 years after it was incorporated, the little town with its widely spaced houses, two bars and one grocery store still feels somehow unfinished, still country.
Especially to someone tired of the pressures of urban existence, Brookside Village might appear to be an oasis, a place where neighbors go out of their way to be neighborly, and the only conversation over the back fence is about how nicely someone's vegetable garden is doing.
But if you thought that, you'd be wrong.
Instead, within this town's spotless kitchens and behind its tractor- trimmed lawns swirl rumors, allegations and whispered suggestions of local malfeasance. Attendance at City Council meetings, once countable on two hands, has in the past year climbed to close to 100.
And most curious of all -- though almost everyone has concerns they're eager to share, and complaints are not at all hard to find -- it's clear that for many Brookside residents all this political intrigue is, well, appealing.
In this sleepy community where there's little to do and even less money to spend on it, what elsewhere might be simple disputes have come to consume residents with something like mystical fervor. It's almost as if, in finding intrigue, the people of Brookside have found purpose. And they have also found a suggestion of malevolent powers. Like Keyser Soze, the enigmatic enforcer in the film The Usual Suspects, someone, many Brookside residents will tell you, is controlling their town behind the scenes.
Just who that person -- or group of persons -- manipulating Brookside Village is said to be depends a lot on whom your informant happens to support in local politics. But while the police, the mayor and a nine-month-old group calling itself Informed Brookside Village Citizens are all singled out as possible behind-the-scenes string pullers, the one name heard most often is that of Councilman Bobby Moore, a quiet, slow-speaking man who often spends Brookside's town meetings staring down at the table.
Though Moore is easily the most taciturn member of Brookside City Council, a great deal of energy is spent talking about him, alluding to him, consulting with him and occasionally insulting him directly. "I have no idea how he does it," says one Brookside woman, in the kind of commentary many in the town like to offer as long as they're not quoted by name. "All I know is Moore's got the police chief and all the police with him. They are using police and Council budget for their own personal gain."
Meanwhile, leaning back in perhaps the most immaculate of Brookside Village's many clean kitchens, the individual reputed by some to run his community smokes a cigarette. A man of medium height, he gives the impression of being heavyset, though he actually isn't. Two of his front teeth are gone, a faded and primitive outline of a heart is tattooed on his forearm and he wheezes a bit when he talks.
Once, when Moore steps out of the kitchen, his wife Susan, who is Brookside Village's jailer, opens their medicine cabinet to show the 26 medications her husband takes since a car accident four years ago ended his career as a truck driver. It was after that, Susan Moore says, that her husband entered local politics. After winning a bitter race for his City Council seat, Moore now devotes himself full-time to local government -- and in particular to helping Brookside's police force.
Moore, says his wife, simply loves the police, perhaps because his three brothers work for the Brazoria County sheriff's office. And while in another town Moore's legal passion might be lauded, in Brookside Village it raises all kinds of eyebrows. That's because Brookside is one of the most thoroughly policed towns in Texas. Nationally, the average for police coverage is about 2.3 officers per thousand residents. With three full-time officers, and three police cars, for its 1,500 people, Brookside may not at first seem unusually well covered. But throw in at least 15 non-paid reserve officers, and the city's reputation for extremely vigilant law enforcement becomes more understandable. How positive all this is varies sharply according to who you talk to.
To the Moores and their supporters, it's a privilege. Many reserve officers, they explain, use Brookside Village as a training ground. After finishing the police academy, aspiring officers come to Brookside as volunteers to get the street experience that will help them when they apply to big-city departments. Brookside, says Bobby Moore, only benefits from this free assistance, and he wants to do all he can to support it.
Opponents, including former councilman Cliff Moffitt and current councilman David Armelli, though, say the police department is bloated. Insuring and outfitting the department, they say, takes an absurd proportion of Brookside's budget. And, others say, there's something pernicious about Moore's fascination with the police: somehow, they insist, he manages to influence the five member City Council to channel Brookside's funds toward the police department rather than toward more pressing problems such as, for instance, repairing streets that are nearly impassable.
The Moores, for their part, describe the councilman's influence in town as plain strength of character, and their friendship with the police as simple boosterism. Granted, Moore may be a little closer to the cop on the beat than is common in a larger city. In February, for example, he accompanied police Sergeant Jeff Hodges on an official police trip to the Astrodome to investigate possible wrongdoing by former councilman Frank Testa. Susan Moore is also close to the police: she likes to refer to "that little officer" or "our little sergeant" and ride around with the officers at night, saying she feels safer with them than by herself in Brookside's jailhouse.
And Brookside officers also apparently feel safe with the Moores. One young reserve officer, Chris Carson, lives at their house. The police chief calls the Moores during the middle of the day. And officers gather from time to time in the Moores' kitchen to confer on various law enforcement projects.
Bobby Moore knows that all this causes people to talk about him, says his wife. That they say he and the police are somehow in cahoots, that officers arrest people simply so they can take them to jail, and so give Susan Moore more work to do, and let her, an hourly employee, earn more money. She acknowledges that rumors even fly that she pads her jailhouse time sheet to amass 18 and 22 hour workdays, even that she stuffed ballots in favor of her husband at last year's City Council elections.
All this talk makes her ill, Susan Moore says. But then again, she adds, Brookside always has been contentious. And anyway, she says, the potshots at Bobby Moore only reflect jealousy of a man who thinks for himself, investigates things that look suspicious to him and helps the peace officers out as much as he can.
Among the jealous, she says, are members of the Informed Brookside Village Citizens, a nine-month-old group of about 70 people whose members often clash with her husband. "The village idiots," is how Susan Moore describes them. Although the group is officially apolitical, its leaders are at the forefront of opposition to those presently in power in Brookside. One member of IBVC is Bruce Fundling, who opposed Moore in the last City Council race and who's running for a vacant Council seat in this year's May 4 election. Many of the IBVC members, Fundling included, first entered city politics in earnest after the flood waters of 1994 ravaged their roads.
"They make this personal, totally," Susan Moore says. "[Bobby Moore] tries to help them, then they turn around and attack him."
If Brookside residents have a penchant to suspect and accuse, it's also undeniable that they have often been blessed with plenty to talk about. "Everyone's got a skeleton," Susan Moore says bluntly, and she's nearly right. You can tell when you've gotten close to one when the person you're talking to says they can't quite remember, or don't want to discuss, some event that everyone else in Brookside will gladly describe in detail.
Such is the case with the most recent scandal, the tragicomic indictment of former Council member Frank Testa. Some of his supporters hint cryptically at a frame-up, but the fact is that Testa, who resigned from Council in 1995, was charged this March with stealing $4,521 from the Brookside Village Volunteer Fire Department. The money, Brazoria County District Attorney's Office investigators say, didn't go to buy him a vacation, a new car or to pay off some old debt. Instead, it was allegedly used to buy lifetime memberships in the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. The charge, apparently, is theft in order to one-up the neighbors, and improve his social standing. (Testa was unavailable for comment, and his case has not yet gone to trial.)
Even Bobby Moore, who likes to keep his documentation of various townspeople's infractions in a battered leather briefcase, succumbs to some of these memory lapses. Once such involves his mentor, former police supervisor Jack McCool.
It was McCool who, in the mid-'70s, first instilled in Moore a deep reverence for police work. Moore remembers that he admired McCool so much that he signed on as a reserve officer. One night after he'd been working for six months, he says, he saw then-mayor George Carter speeding down the road, apparently drunk. Moore says he tried to apprehend Carter, but his police chief stopped him. "Believe me, if I had to do it over, George Carter would have been in jail," he says. The next day, says Moore, Carter fired him and the other reserve officers in retaliation.
Carter, a current mayoral candidate, denies any such confrontation ever took place. He says he doesn't recall Bobby Moore as a police officer, nor any events having to do with McCool or reserve officers during his tenure.
And while Moore recalls Carter quite well, he says he draws a blank on the fate of his friend McCool. Brookside Mayor Martinez has no such problem with his recollection; he says McCool was terminated from the police department for driving a young girl he was dating around in his squad car while on duty. And that wasn't the last time a Brookside law officer was accused of misconduct. Over the last three years, in incidents that spawned grudges that last to this day, two other Brookside police chiefs were ousted for separate misdeeds related to the unauthorized purchase of firearms.
In a town as small as Brookside, the accusation or arrest of a community leader leaves a lot of people defensive, outraged or looking for vengeance. And in a place where a goodly number who have close connections to the community have been charged with one thing or another, it's not hard to see how those grudges would stay alive. "It's all personal," Susan Moore likes to repeat tartly.
But in Brookside, it's also not quite that simple. The empty Mexico Moderno restaurant, the near-banishment of a whole segment of the town and the pathetic roads on the west side of the city all bear witness that at least some of the smoke and hot air in Brookside Village is generated by actual fire.
When I first visited Mexico Moderno, one of the two bars in Brookside Village, it was a gusty night when shutters slammed against house walls and bare branches smacked the roof like an intruder forcing his way in. The sounds were enough to make anyone jump, and owner Jose Garcia, who says he is being persecuted by Brookside's police, seemed especially nervous. He was afraid someone might see him talking to a reporter. Two months later, though, Garcia says he doesn't care who he's seen talking with. His business is about dead anyhow.
But on that winter night, there still seemed a chance that things might work out at Mexico Moderno. Garcia, a trim-looking man with a mustache and snappy cowboy clothes, speaks English with enough grace that you'd think he's comfortable in it. He isn't, really. Though he's lived in the United States for close to a decade. Garcia, who's been in Brookside three years, prefers to speak Spanish and to run a Mexican-style bar.
Brookside's population is roughly 40 percent Latino, and many of these residents live in houses only yards away from Garcia's bar. Before Garcia took the place over three years ago, it was fairly tough. Shootings, fights and general disorder were common. But, says Garcia, when he opened his place he transformed it from a common cantina to a family restaurant.
"It used to be ugly and dirty," Garcia says, but he made it into something with a chance for success. On this particular night, though, the bar was deserted. The only living thing near the pool table was a huge rooster, irritably dozing atop the green felt. Garcia lets the animal in when it gets cold outside, and anyway, there was no one in the bar to object. Constant harassment by Brookside's mixed volunteer and full-time police force, Garcia claims, drove his Mexican clientele away.
On Friday and Saturday nights, he says, the police lurk around in front of the restaurant, arresting his clients for public intoxication sometimes as soon as they leave. They arrest and jail people who are walking home to houses only a block away, he complains, even people who are escorted by a sober person. The officers constantly come into the bar, shine their flashlights into clients' faces and insult them, Garcia laments.
The persecution has even been personal, he charges, with police following his car and giving him unwarranted tickets. "Why isn't there justice?" Garcia asks. "White people never have this problem."
Police Chief Fred Turner, though, categorically denies the accusations of harassment. "The police department is a whipping boy" in Brookside, Turner says. "We have a set of laws that the city puts down, and that's what we follow." As for Garcia's customers, notes Turner, they're not being persecuted; they're breaking the law. "He insists on serving them until they get stumbling down drunk," Turner says. "We monitor the whole city for drunks. Of course [police] come out [to Mexico Moderno] -- we only have two beer joints."
Why then is that other bar, Linda's, prospering? Located about five minutes away from Mexico Moderno, and frequented mainly by Anglos, it's a popular watering spot for off-duty policemen; on a night when Mexico Moderno is virtually vacant, Linda's parking lot is close to full. Susan Moore says she knows the reason why one bar succeeds while the other doesn't: Linda's is located on the border of Brookside Village, and customers who leave the place drive into Pearland, where Brookside cops can't pursue them.
But Jose Garcia isn't the only person in Brookside who believes he's been singled out because he's Latino. The several dozen Mexican immigrants who wait every morning for day labor on a lot across the street from Garcia's bar agree. "People are afraid of the police," says a man who calls himself Fermin.
His companions nod emphatically. Some say that police officers, whose names they don't know, have burst into their houses without warrants or explanation, at times in the middle of the night. Even more vocal than Jose Garcia or the laborers, however, have been members of Informed Brookside Village Citizens.
"Eighty percent of the people they're doing bad stuff to is Mexicans," says former councilman Cliff Moffitt, a member of IBVC. While Moffitt isn't against the police, Jose Garcia's empty restaurant, he says, is only the most obvious example of a police department with too much power in the daily life of Brookside Village.
In the opinion of Moffitt, one symbol of what's wrong with Brookside is the pitted and flood-gouged west Brookside road he lives on. He's been told the road can't be fixed because the town hasn't the money for it. But the road problems, he insists, have little to do with a tight budget, and everything to do with priorities.
True, the roads on the town's west side will be costly to fix: Brazoria County Commissioner Billy Joe Plaster estimates that street repairs will start at $200,000. In the past, Plaster explains, Brazoria County simply absorbed the costs of special road projects. This year, however, Plaster told Brookside, as he had told other communities, that it would have to start fending for itself. For a town whose entire annual budget is less than $300,000, the repair figure seems astronomical. Yet, Plaster adds, he hasn't asked the town to pay for all of its roadwork. "We've told Brookside they've got to come up with some money to help," Plaster says. "They can tell me what they can come up with. But they haven't told me anything."
That, says Moffitt, is because Brookside's money is mismanaged. For example, the 15 to 17 part-time police officers have to be insured at more than $350 a year each. Then there's the other costs of supporting them -- it is, he says, too much.
But Police Chief Turner insists this expense is right and fitting. It's not too much, he maintains, to insure an officer when he's offering his service for free. Brookside also needs all its police vigilance, Turner says. For the casual visitor, that's hard to understand. Brookside is such a sleepy community that it's difficult to envision where serious crime could be lurking. The simple ranch houses occupy two- and three-acre lots. A horse or two may nibble grass between some of the homes, but otherwise there isn't much in Brookside to tempt a crook. And on the east side, where most Mexican immigrants live, the houses are downright bedraggled: wooden trailers with faded gingerbread trim and shotgun houses crowd into cramped lots.
Yet more robberies take place per year in Brookside than in larger, busier Pearland. And, Turner says, gangs crisscross Brookside on their travels from Pearland and Alvin. Sometimes gang members even come into Brookside to hide. There have been three homicides in Brookside during the past year, two of which Turner attributes to gang vendettas.
"There are gangs everywhere," he says darkly. "Brookside, Alvin, Telephone Road. Hell, we're surrounded by them. I have a lady from the Informed Citizens, she said nothing bad ever happens in Brookside. That's how informed they are. They never stick their heads outside their houses."
Turner, a tall man with iron-colored hair and a big hearty handshake, makes no pretense of civility toward those he considers his opponents on police issues. As far as his critics in IBVC are concerned, he says, "I've never in my life seen such born liars."
Some critics of the police department use even stronger language than Turner's. It's not crime that keeps Brookside's policemen so active, the whispered argument goes. Instead, they say, it's to bring money into the police department, which absorbs 40 to 50 percent of the town's budget. And even the briefest look at the town's arrest records suggest that gang-related crime isn't all that's keeping Brookside up at night.
Instead, the records show the typical bread and butter of a small town police department: speeders and public intoxication and drivers without insurance. Lots of them. Last July, for example, Brookside police arrested and temporarily jailed 27 people. All but seven of these were for traffic infractions or public intoxication. In August, there were 28 arrests, 19 of them for traffic violations or public intoxication.
Arrests peaked at 31 in November. The great majority of the names on the arrest list are Hispanic. The trend is so striking that not only Latinos in Brookside are wondering whether all tipsy revelers and people who drive 43 miles per hour in a 40 mile per hour zone really require being carted to jail.
"Except for a couple of offenses, a [Texas] police officer has the discretion to make an arrest or give a citation," explains Jerry Dowling, professor of criminal justice at Sam Houston State University. "Now as a practical matter, it is the practice in the state normally to write people a citation for traffic violations other than DWI. Offenses such as speeding or running stop signs get a citation simply because of [the wish] to efficiently use police resources."
In Brookside, though, arrests seem the order of the day, and critics of the police department's hegemony object to that on more than just principle. Instead, they cite a welter of suspicions, some farfetched, some less so: allegations of setting up speed traps and of targeting immigrants who are less likely to go to court and reclaim the money they've put up for bond.
"It's called cash money. It's called black market," says one member of IBVC, who (of course) asked not to be named.
Though much of the talk that seems to keep Brookside alive takes place behind closed doors, in the town's kitchens or across telephone lines into sympathetic ears, a dispute over Brookside's roads early this year sparked an unusual public showdown. It happened on February 15, at the City Council meeting. Moments before it started, a man in a brown jacket sauntered to the Council table and poured himself some coffee.
"I want to get my money's worth," he told the mayor and five councilmembers, "before you-all throw me out of Brookside."
He wasn't speaking figuratively. Instead, like many of the 57 families in his west Brookside neighborhood, the man had just heard of a proposal to have his entire area deannexed from Brookside Village -- or, as Council member Frank McCain, the motion's sponsor, tried to style it, liberated. If Brookside couldn't afford to repave the problem roads of the west side, he reasoned, it made sense to turn the area over to Brazoria County and let them deal with it.
But to the 80 odd residents who had hastily assembled that afternoon, the explanation didn't ring true. (As it turned out, it wasn't accurate. Brazoria County wouldn't accept the roads in their current condition, commissioner Plaster says.) Why, they wondered, had the motion appeared on the agenda without any discussion? Why had McCain hired the city attorney to draft the legislation before it was even debated? Above all, audience members said, it was highly suspicious that after two years of bickering over Brookside's roads, a measure to sever the offending part of town altogether might be passed in one night -- less than a week before the sign up day for the May 4 elections.
Was it only coincidence that the scheme to fix the roads would also have the effect of ridding Brookside's leadership of an opposition mayoral candidate, at least two rival City Council candidates and almost all the officers of the dissident IBVC? The lone councilman to speak out against the plan, David Armelli, complained that "it's to keep [the opposition] from filing and running for office. The whole thing involves the police department. Bobby Moore [and sympathetic councilmembers] plus the mayor are in these schemes together .... This is their way of getting the people from the west end and keeping them from voting." If the west-side citizens hadn't mobilized so swiftly, Armelli says, Council would have voted for the deannexation and that would have been that.
During the meeting in the one-room community center where signs for Lions Club functions leaned against one wall and a half-dozen police officers lined up against the other, residents of Brookside took their place at the microphone, one after another, to agree.
"It seems to me, fellows, like you are doing something that's going to get you in trouble," drawled a man named Nathan Zainfield.
"Mr. McCain, I do not believe in my heart that you are the person that dreamed this up," added Steve McCown, looking meaningfully at Moore.
Futilely, McCain tried to explain that his plan was an innocent one.
"I work for the benefit of the city," he told the audience. "I want to make sure you understand that this is a strictly financial consideration."
"That's a lie! That's a lie!" someone barked. Others muttered their agreement.
And in the end, they had their way. Instead of being voted on, the deannexation plan got tabled; in the weeks before voting day, it would be postponed twice, then finally killed, ensuring that Brookside's opposition candidates would have their day at the polls this Saturday.
Some sort of shakeup seems the likely result. Opposition Council candidate Bruce Fundling, fiery and accusatory for the past year, in recent weeks has become politic to the point of being insipid. Arrests have plummeted to almost nothing, smoothing the waters during campaign time. And although Martinez has made it known he'll accept write-in votes, opposition mayoral candidate George Carter is officially running unopposed. If he wins, Carter says, he will see to it that numerous pieces of information about Brookside, including specifics about where its budget goes, will be revealed.
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But it's easy to imagine that no matter what new names go on Council, or what old ones stay, or what bureaucratic fixes are made, Brookside Village's lively political culture will stay much the same. That's not such a bad thing, opines Carter: if nothing else, Brookside has a healthy democracy. There may be, however, something deeper, more atavistic, that fuels Brookside's democratic spirit. Something that came out at that Council meeting to fight deannexation, and hasn't entirely receded since: an unmistakable exhilaration, an alert excitement.
Brookside's citizens, after all, have gotten rather eloquent of late. Both the Moores and their IBVC rivals have gotten adept at citing precedents, documenting their neighbors' foibles and studying the testimonials and damning letters about one another that they collect in battered briefcases and manila folders. Clearly, there was something nourishing to the west-siders about a room full of protesters, all working together, just as there was something bracing about how Steve McCown put his complaint about deannexation to Council.
"I've talked to Washington, Austin and Angleton," McCown intoned solemnly. "I know you cannot do this. I know you will be stopped."
Then he fixed an eye on Bobby Moore and said, "Make my day."
Gina Gomez contributed to this story.


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LAKETON, TEXAS. Laketon, fifteen miles east of Pampa in the ranching area of northeastern Gray County, was named for several local small playas and founded as a switch on the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway in the early 1900s. A post office was established in 1907 and discontinued in 1910, when mail went through Miami. However, the opening of the Laketon gas field caused the post office to be reestablished in 1929. The settlement became a shipping point after the discovery of oil and gas in the 1920s. By 1930 it had four stores and ten residents. In 1947 it reported two businesses, a school, and a population of fifty. The growth of Pampa as an industrial center, coupled with improved transportation, led to the town's decline. The post office was again closed in 1954. From 1970 to 1990 Laketon reported twelve residents, a store, a church, and a service station. The gas field was still in production in the 1980s.
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The House Chambers is where the 51 members representing the districts of Hawaii meet to discuss and vote on potential legislation. Over the years, Kuroda has noticed increased interest in both chambers elicited from visitors and thought that it would be a worthwhile venture to keep the House Chamber open all day. "In the past, the public only had access to the chamber if they were sitting in on a hearing," he said. "So we decided why not welcome them in and let them look around when there is not a hearing?"
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So we are from a very crowded, urban area and were thinking of moving back South, where we have relatives. I was doing some real estate research and stumbled upon dozens of gated communities in the area we want to move. What do you think about them? Would you live there? Do you think they are overpriced for what they offer?
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My stepson lives in one with his daughter, he is a single Dad. He likes the security gate of course. They're ok. Not sure of expense, but they're not for us. The neighbors seemed stacked on top of each other.
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I think that I would never live in one. It is not my thing. I like my urban areas.
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I am not interested in a gated community, but I also prefer a more rural setting with a little more privacy and larger lots. I could see the advantage to having a closely-knit community, neighborhood facilities, etc. But I could also see the HOA being really restrictive.
Overall, it's not my type of thing but I can understand why it might work well for some people. I think you have to figure out what your priorities are in a home/neighborhood, and that might help give a sense of whether a gated community offers that for you.
My parents lived in one for 8 years and it was a new development. The neighbors were so close to them and they first bought into the development the HOA was $25, upkeep on the playarea and the gates and landscaping. Two years later it was $45, and then went up $10 every year. Along with the fee increase came new rules, no parking on the street only in the spaces near the park. So guests would have to trek two blocks if they wanted to come and visit or if you had a spot available they could park in your driveway but residents could not park in the guest parking. Then my dad trimmed the tree in the front to short. They wrote a letter saying he had to buy a new tree and only allowed 5 specific kinds. It had to be so many inches tall etc. It was too much for them. He hated the HOA.


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