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Being a landlord is like running a business. Your tenants are like your customers, and your goal should be to keep your customers happy so that they continue to pay you each month. While this relationship is transactional in nature, there are certain things that can make the relationship sour. When a relationship sours between a tenant and landlord, what follows is either a move to evict the tenant or the tenant will seek out a new apartment.
Tenant turnover is a huge hassle that most landlords try to avoid. When it happens, it basically means that their monthly income enters a lull period?one that sustains until a new tenant is found. This can be devastating for business. The rent that a landlord receives each month, in large part, goes back into their various properties. It costs a lot of money to hire gardeners, plumbers, and keep up with general upkeep. If you?re a landlord who is having trouble keeping tenants in your building, there are a few tricks and tactics you can adopt to keep turnover rate low.
Take Time to Vet New Tenants | When you?re looking for new tenants, make sure you take your time. In many cases, tenant turnover happens because the wrong tenant filled the space to begin with. Landlords didn?t take the time to run a simple tenant credit report, or didn?t bother to verify references that the applicant provided. It?s not enough to go on gut instinct alone when vetting someone. You should make sure that they have the ability to pay rent on time and th...
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2006 Hyundai Sonata ReviewThis car review is specific to this model, not the actual vehicle for sale.
All-new mid-size sedan is a compelling buy.
The mid-size, mid-price car market is approaching saturation. Depending on how they're counted, more than seven nameplates compete for shoppers looking for a car that's thrifty, yet performs; that's comfortable, but not expensive; that's fresh and new, but promises to be reliable.
Korea's car makers have never been a part of this class. They've danced around the edges, with the Kia Optima and Hyundai Sonata. But neither car has broken through and established a solid foothold in the mainstream U.S. market.
Enter the all-new 2006 Hyundai Sonata.
While the previous-generation Sonata made a dramatic jump to the top spot in the J.D. Power and Associates 2004 Initial Quality Study ranking of entry midsize cars, the 2006 Sonata has been completely redesigned. It's bigger, better equipped, more technologically advanced and sharper looking than the 2005 model it replaces.
The class in which the new Sonata competes, however, is blurred. Exterior-wise, it goes against mid-size sedans, primarily the Honda Accord, Toyota Camry and Nissan Altima and secondarily against the Chevrolet Malibu, the Kia Optima and the upcoming Ford Fusion. Inside, though, the '06 Sonata moves up a class, to large car, which gives it a potential edge in creature comfort.
With minor and essentially immaterial exceptions, it lives up to that potential. It's roomier in almost every dimension than its midsize competitors, which is no surprise. Fit and finish is on a par with most others in the class, which also is no surprise. In terms of performance, it equals or bests comparably featured cars, which is a surprise. It's cleaner, too, than earlier Sonatas. Just as important, if not more so, the new Sonata is aggressively priced, positioned smack in the middle of the range of prices of the mid-size sedans.
All this combined makes the 2006 Hyundai Sonata good enough to put the mid-priced, midsize market on notice. There's a new player.
The 2006 Hyundai Sonata comes in one body style, a four-door, five-passenger sedan. Two engines and three transmissions are available. The base engine is a 162-horsepower four-cylinder. The uplevel engine is a 235-horsepower V6. The four-cylinder can have either a five-speed manual transmission or a four-speed Shiftronic automatic. The V6 comes only with a new-for-2006 five-speed Shiftronic automatic.
The model line begins with the Sonata GL ($17,895), which comes standard with the four-cylinder engine and manual transmission. Standard equipment includes air conditioning; cruise control; power outside mirrors, windows and central locking with keyless remote; AM/FM/CD/MP3 stereo; and leather-wrapped, tilt steering wheel. There are but two options, the four-speed automatic ($900) and carpeted floor mats ($85).
One step up the ladder is the GLS ($19,395), which comes standard with the four-cylinder engine and automatic transmission. The list of standard items starts with those on the GL and expands to include fog lamps; premium-grade cloth upholstery and cut-pile carpeting; choice of wood-grain or metal-grain interior trim accents; steering wheel-mounted, redundant audio controls; adjustable lumbar in driver's seat; five-function trip computer; carpeted floor mats; and 16-inch alloy wheels in place of the GL's hub-capped steel wheels. The GLS order sheet has two option boxes. One is for a power, tilt-and-slide glass sunroof ($850). The other is for a Premium Package ($1350) containing the aforementioned sunroof plus auto-dimming inside rearview mirror with compass (both with a much-appreciated on/off switch), HomeLink programmable garage and security remote and eight-way power driver's seat.
Next up the GLS V6 ($20,895), which comes standard with a five-speed automatic. This brings with it solar control window glass, chrome exterior window trim and chrome-tipped dual exhausts. The sunroof is an option ($850). The optional Premium Sport Package ($1500) includes the sunroof, 17-inch wheels with Michelin Pilot tires, the electrochromic rearview mirror with compass, HomeLink and power driver's seat.
On the top rung is the LX ($22,895), which comes with everything on the GLS plus leather-trimmed seats and simulated leather interior door panel inserts. Distinguished by chrome exterior door handles, the LX also gets automatic air conditioning with Hyundai's Air Quality System, which shifts to recirculating when it detects offensive or polluted outside air; a sliding cover on the front center console; the auto-dimming inside rearview mirror with compass; the HomeLink system; the eight-way power driver's seat; and a tilt and telescoping steering wheel. The sunroof can be obtained separately ($850) or as part of an LX-exclusive Premium Package ($1400) that also has a AM/FM/CD6 changer/MP3 stereo with subwoofer.
Safety features in addition to the mandatory dual-stage front-seat airbags include front-seat side-impact airbags for torso protection and full-coverage side curtain airbags, designed to provide head protection, all standard on all models. Active-safety features include antilock brakes with electronic brake-force distribution and electronic stability control with traction control, all standard. These crash-avoidance features are optional or not available on many of the other vehicles in this class.
Design tastes are extremely volatile in the automotive world. A styling cue like an arched-eyebrow headlight treatment can go from eye-catching to invisible in a couple years. Or it can survive for decades and come to be accepted as a brand trademark, such as BMW's twin-kidney grille. The Hyundai Sonata hasn't yet found its signature trademark cues, but the 2006's designers are looking in the right places.
The new Sonata's fascia is refreshingly clean and spare, with sharply angled headlight housings and a quiet, clean-cut grille topped with a sliver of chrome. Wide and deep openings beneath the front bumper provide a home for tightly focused foglamps and visually pull the front end closer to the ground while directing cooling air into the radiator. The striking, concave hood reduces the car's perceived mass without cramping the engine compartment.
The side treatment avoids the all-too-common wedge look with an almost horizontal beltline riding above softly shouldered fenders and door panels. Mirrored 'Z' seams where the end corners of the bumpers meet the quarter panels add interest, while blacked-out window surrounds play down the tallish side glass. Extended C-pillars shorten the deck lid, which itself presents a rounded, gently sculpted profile vaguely reminiscent of the much maligned posterior posture of today's BMW sedans. The flat-flanged rims on the up-level 17-inch wheels suggest a high-end European import more than an affordable Asian nameplate.
The taillight outlines repeat the headlight shapes and bookend a broad, trapezoidal license plate inset. Again, there's a hint of other cars' architecture, most notably contemporary Camrys and Accords. Sporty, California hotrod-idiom dual exhausts mark the V6-equipped models.
The 2006 Hyundai Sonata's interior marks a major step up the quality ladder. Some rough edges on a few plastic molds and a less-than-lustrous finish on some dash panels are the only shortcomings we noticed. The overall look, though, is clearly competitive with most in the class and better than some.
A polished, hard-surfaced applique capped with a thin slice of chrome divides the upper and lower halves of the dash. The upper is a glare-absorbing dark color, the lower a space-enhancing light tone. The passenger airbag enclosure is seamless, mimicking the trend in higher-end midsize sedans.
As with many modern cars, the stereo head is fully integrated into the dash, making difficult any aftermarket customizing of the sound system but adding an upscale touch. Air conditioner controls are mounted beneath the stereo, within the accent trim centered in the lower portion of the center stack. Stereo and air conditioner controls are substantial, finger-friendly, intuitive knobs and buttons, with status and selections clearly displayed in their respective LCD screens.
Three round dials in the hooded instrument cluster communicate the bare necessities of operational data to the driver, with the largest the speedometer nestled inside a polished circle. To its left is the tachometer, to its right conjoined water temperature and fuel gauges. In the lower dash to the left of the steering column are a bank of five switch plugs, only two of which are employed in the U.S. version, one as an on/off for the ESC, the other the dash-light rheostat, and a flip-down storage bin. The ignition key slides into a slot placed where it should be, in the dash to the right of the steering column instead of on the steering column itself.
All models get a leather-wrapped steering wheel. On the GLS and LX, the steering wheel serves multiple duties. Besides the obvious, redundant controls for the audio (arrayed somewhat oddly, with the mode selector on top and the volume controlled by the lower two, versus the more common approach of sandwiching the mode button between the volume controls) are appended to the lower left-side of the hub. On the other side of the hub are the cruise controls, with a helpful Cancel function.
Outward visibility is good, although the wide C-pillars constrict quick, over-the-shoulder traffic checks for lane changing. Rear side windows roll all the way down, thanks to small, fixed, rear quarter windows that move the windows' rear tracks forward in the door. All four doors have roof-mounted, hinged assist handles.
Seats are comfortable, with adequate bolstering for the style of driving to which the Sonata aspires. The cloth upholstery on the GL looks and feels durable; on the GLS, it's a bit fancier in texture and stitching. The leather surfaces in the LX add a touch of class without pretending to be luxurious. The height adjustment on the driver's seat, both manual and power, pivots on the seat's front mounts, which effectively moves the seat forward as it rises. This compels taller drivers to choose between rearward seat travel and forward sightline, not always a happy compromise. On the upside, this adds inches to rear-seat legroom behind the driver, one of the multitude of measures in which the '06 Sonata bests the competition. Among the primary competitors, the new Sonata only comes in second to the Honda Accord in front and rear headroom and to the Toyota Camry in rear-seat headroom, but by a mere one- to three-tenths of an inch. And of the second-tier competitors, the Kia Optima alone betters the new Sonata and then only by three-tenths of an inch in front seat hip room.
Rear seats are accommodating, with the bottom cushion in the center position only minimally higher than and nearly as well padded as the outboard positions. Both rear outboard seating positions have adjustable head restraints, as do the front seats. The rear seatback is split 60/40 and folds to allow the transport of lo.
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Korea's car makers have been unabashedly frank about their lack of sophistication in engine technology and metallurgy. They've acknowledged they have some distance to make up to compete in both regards with the best of Japan and, of late, the U.S. and Europe. The all-new 2006 Hyundai Sonata marks a major step forward in the engine department and more than a couple steps forward in weight reduction.
Both of the 2006 Sonata's engines incorporate some of the latest developments in variable timing of intake valves, which achieves the dual benefits of lower emissions and higher fuel efficiency. Both engines are rated ULEV (Ultra Low Emissions Vehicle) by the Environmental Protection Agency, a first for Hyundai. The new V6 uses a variable intake system that boosts torque and makes more power available over a broader range of engine speed. Fuel economy in the four-cylinder GL with manual transmission, as estimated by the EPA, is 24 miles per gallon in the city and 34 mpg on the highway (up from last year's 22/30); the V6-powered GLS and LX are rated 20/30 (up from the '05's 19/27). And this is in a heavier car, by almost 200 pounds, and with a larger engine compared with the 2005 model. Those added pounds may seem problematic vis-a-vis Hyundai's weight-reduction hopes, but remember, the '06 Sonata is both a larger car by physical size and it's fitted with a number of added features, including vital safety upgrades.
The weight is hardly noticed from behind the wheel. What is noticeable is the state-of-the-art engine technology. Acceleration is brisk in the four-cylinder and brings a grin to the face in the V6. Hyundai officials say the V6 will turn 0-60 miles per hour times of about 7.5 seconds, with a top speed of 130 mph. Shifts are executed easily with the five-speed manual, and chirping the front tires is even easier. The Shiftronic automatic transmission moves between gears smoothly, kicking down for passing with minimal hesitation. The automatic offered responsive performance while tackling the hills of San Francisco. In manual mode, the Shiftronic will upshift automatically when the engine bumps up against redline, and it declines to downshift at all, leaving that to the driver's preferences.
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The suspension suffers more from what's best described as teething than from lack of proper geometry and components. The latter are there: double wishbones in front, multi-links in back, twin-tube gas-pressure shocks and stabilizer bars all 'round, with a larger front bar in the V6 to handle the larger engine's extra weight. But how it all works together still needs, well, work. Against the competition, which has been refining its suspension technology for much longer than Hyundai, the Sonata feels less polished, less of a whole. Not that there's anything wrong or necessarily lacking in the ride and handling, just that some of the transitions, in direction and between types and qualities of pavements, aren't as smooth as the look and feel of the Sonata promises. The front end tucks in nicely as steering is cranked in, but the car doesn't track as surely as expected. There's also the impression of poorly managed unsprung mass when the rear.
The all-new 2006 Hyundai Sonata is a giant step up for Hyundai, moving the brand closer to Honda, Toyota and Nissan, and contesting for buyers considering Ford and Chevrolet. There's nothing unique or especially exciting about driving the new Sonata, save for the fact it's a Hyundai. By that yardstick, and what that portends for shoppers in the class, it's a blast.
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Craig Thomson's union-issued credit card was used to pay for almost $6000 of sexual services, a court has heard, and some of that spending was later classified as meetings, entertainment and teleconferencing.
The former federal MP is on trial for fraud and theft in Melbourne Magistrates Court. On Wednesday, the court heard a police forensic accountant had examined the Health Services Union credit card statements and found that a Commonwealth Bank Mastercard issued to Mr Thomson when he was national secretary had paid for escort services totalling $5993.
According to a spreadsheet tendered to court, $2475 was paid to Keywed, the business name of Room Escort Services, in April 2005. Two months later, $418 was paid to Nolta, the business name for Tiffany's Girls, the brothel that owns a ''red turbo spa room''. Then in August 2006, $660 was paid to Staff Call, the merchant name for Sydney brothel A Touch of Class.
The payment to Staff Call was later listed as a teleconferencing expense on the HSU's book-keeping system, according to the spreadsheet.
Forensic accountant Gerard Curtin, who compiled the spreadsheets, told the court the spending on sexual services was classified in the union's bookkeeping system under entertainment, meetings at the national office or teleconferencing.
Mr Curtin said $3500 in cash was withdrawn from HSU accounts on one of Mr Thomson's union-issued credit cards between April 2005 and December 2007.
But there was no evidence any of Mr Thomson's personal accounts had been used to reimburse the HSU's accounts, Mr Curtin said.
Mr Thomson is accused of using HSU credit cards and a Flight Centre account to accrue more than $28,000 in personal expenses, including for sexual services, in-house adult films in hotel rooms and flights and cigarettes for his then wife during his term as national secretary from 2002 to 2007.
He is also accused of using the credit cards to make cash withdrawals.
Mr Thomson, 49, has pleaded not guilty to 145 fraud and theft charges.
Prosecutors allege Mr Thomson continued using union funds for personal expenses after he left the HSU in December 2007 to take up his role as a federal MP for the NSW seat of Dobell. He lost his seat after standing as an independent in last year's election.
Just three more witnesses are expected to attend court on Thursday to give evidence, after the prosecution and Mr Thomson's defence team agreed to tender the statements of dozens of witnesses for magistrate Charlie Rozencwajg to read.
The court heard on Wednesday the prosecution believed the question of whether Mr Thomson was authorised to use the credit cards for personal use was the sole outstanding ''live'' issue, as the mechanics of the charges and the transactions were no longer in dispute.
But Greg James, QC, for Mr Thomson, said his client's ''state of mind'' was also likely to be a point of difference when the parties made their closing submissions.
The court heard Mr Curtin had been unable to explain what more than $55,000 in expenses on Mr Thomson's two union-issued credit cards were used for, because of a lack of detail in bookkeeping records.
The hearing continues.
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Bron Marshall invites all of us to take a walk on the wild side, food-wise, with Wild Food, an exciting new food blogging event. I would have wanted to join the first round but I had difficulty luring an edible reptile into my kitchen, so I waited to see what the second round would bring. Well, the time has come and the theme is…Wild Weeds!
Hah! Weeds, or herbs, are much easier to catch then reptiles so I put on my hunting cap and went out into the wild world to see if I could capture some. Ok, truth be told I went to our city's weekend market and bought some from the very nice man at my favorite herb stall. I thought of descending on his stall in my Lara Croft Herb-Raider outfit, but I didn't want to scare off his other customers.
The herb I'm using for this entry, although I am not quite sure exactly how wild it is, is Gotu Kola, also known as: Asiatic Pennywort, Antanan, Pegaga, Kula kud, Brahmi (in Sanskrit, meaning the energy of Brahma), Creeping Saxifrage, and (my favorite) Blood Stopping Grass. It grows in wet places like marshlands, swamps, and paddy fields. That sounds pretty wild right?
Now, don't think I went out and got some ordinary creeping swamp-dweller. Gotu Kola has been used in Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine for hundreds of years! It is known to improve memory (it's a favorite of elephants!) and prevent ageing. It has also been used in treating leprosy and tuberculosis, as well as relieving the pain of rheumatism and arthritis. It has been called many things through the ages, such as: brain food, memory herb, the finest of all herb tonics, a pharmacy in one herb, and the elixir of life. In ancient China, it was a main ingredient in a medicinal blend called "fo ti tieng", a mixture that was called the fountain of youth.
And to think the first time I discovered it (visiting a farm in Tagaytay) I just thought it was a cute salad green.
Gotu Kola is used in Sri Lankan cuisine, most often as a condiment to rice and curry. It can also be brewed into a tea. I have been tossing it into my salad all this time, but for this event I decided to do something different and made it into a pesto.
Gotu Kola Pesto
- 1/2 cup Gotu Kola leaves, remove all stems
- 1/2 clove garlic (unless you like it really garlicky like I do, in which case use one whole clove)
- 1/4 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese
- 1 heaping tablespoon pine nuts
- 1/8 cup olive oil
– Place Gotu Kola, garlic, parmesan, and pine nuts the tall container that comes with your immersion blender, and process while slowly adding in the oil. Alternately, you can do this in a food processor.
– This will make enough pesto for one use, or two if you really want to stretch it.
I hardly ever make big batches of pesto nowadays because it's not really C's thing, and I can't be counted on to finish a bottle by myself before it turns iffy. It's better to have pesto fresh anyways. I had no idea what to expect of this Gotu Kola pesto. The leaves themselves are a bit sour with a slightly bitter kick, but I have tasted young leaves which are actually sweet in the beginning before ending in a spicy note. That's why it's great to mix in salads as it really adds dimension and character. The pesto was surprisingly delicate in flavor with the herbs characteristic astringency nicely muted. I can imagine this would make a great pasta dish…maybe with some peas. Or maybe toasted on some pan de sal (popular local bun) with some kesong puti (local fresh white cheese) Mmm… You can learn more about Gotu Kola here, here, here, and here.
A legendary saying about Gotu Kola goes like this: "Two leaves a day, keeps old age away". I used half a cup of leaves here (a lot more than just two leaves). That's one serving, maybe two. You do the math. Wild.


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I love the magazine, and have been a subscriber for quite a while. We are running a 351W (2.75-inch mains) in an oval track race application, sustained 6,500-7,200 rpm and oil temps are getting out of hand. Class rules prohibit an oil cooler. I have read about heat dissipating coatings. Could a coating on the exterior of the oil pan help? We've used about every method we know of to help the problem but need more cooling. Our oil pan is a rear sump, baffled unit, with 7-quart capacity, and we run a windage tray. If these coatings are helpful, who offers them?
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There are so many things that can affect the engine oil temperature, and I would need to know a lot more about your application on the oval track to really help you out, so some of my answers here will be general in terms and not to your specific need. Oval track engines can behave very different depending on track (paved vs. dirt), body (Sprint Car vs. full-bodied car), length of the track, and number of laps. A dirt Sprint Car on a 5/8-mile track is probably not letting off the gas in the corners where a full-bodied asphalt car is braking hard in the corners. Apples and oranges.
I talked to several of my race team buddies and they aren't experiencing oil temp problems and they aren't running coolers either. I think your problem really won't be solved with special coatings, I think something else is going on that is causing your problem.
What you didn't mention is any problems with the engine coolant temperature. If your engine coolant temperature is running at a nominal level but your engine oil is running hot, that sounds like engine oil breakdown. Of course your primary cooling system is also cooling the oil at the same time through heat transfer. Even if you are running good oil, breakdown at those rpm happens very quickly. One key note to remember as well—all the additives in your oil that help the engine run better break down beforethe engine oil does. That black oil is straight oil—the additives are gone. My friends who run a Sprint Car on oval with mid-sized V-8s say after three races of 30 laps they change the oil, and they're slightly pushing it at that. They run 5/8- to 1-mile tracks on asphalt. Some of my buddies who drag race say that as they get farther into the rounds and they are having to jump right back into line to run again—they are actually changing the oil right there in the lane. They all recommend one thing—use a good quality, name brand racing oil and change it frequently.
If that is not your problem, then here are some other things you might take a look at or try to reduce the engine temperature. Not to say that it is all of these, but could be any number of them.
1. Dirt track: Sucking all that dust into the engine, keep good filters clean and ready.
2. Carburetor tuning: A lean carburetor will increase the temperature of the motor.
3.Timing: It can be everything.
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Most of your heat-dissipating additives are working in the single-digit efficiency range and while they are OK, I really think that if you look at the problem there is something breaking down the efficiency of the oil. Please feel free to let me know exactly the specs on your car and perhaps we can come up with a targeted solution.
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When I bought my '69 Mustang Mach 1 over forty years ago, the trunk lid would stay open. I added a spoiler and now the lid will no longer stay up without a prop rod. I finished a complete restoration and many modifications two years ago. At that time, I replaced the hinge springs. The lid still needs a prop rod to hold it open. Is there any fix for the problem other than a prop rod or replacing the hinges for new ones of the same design?
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Hey, look! The Brewers are nearly in the playoffs now! Nyjer, Prince and Ryan are on the cover of Sports Illustrated, bouncing like Ritalin'd teens at a Big Time Rush concert. Or like Big Time Rush themselves. Milwaukee (Wisconsin even!) is really excited and the greater American sports journalism community is very happy for us, and will deign to pay attention to a small market Midwestern team until someone on the Red Sox or Yankees sneezes or whatever.
Except that if the Brewers don't make their presence known in the playoffs, everyone outside Wisconsin will portray the team as a flop, a loud pretender built to fail. Here's why they're wrong and stupid.
The Brewers are probably, conservatively, the third best team in the National League. I'll give the second slot to Atlanta because they're in the same division with the tiresome but great Phillies, setting aside the fact that the Braves are also in the same division with two teams the Brewers swept on the road (the Mets, the Marlins). The Phillies will be tough, maybe impossible to beat. They're a big, expensive team with a rotation that's almost endearingly nerdy until you see the price tag… $62 million, more than 2/3 of the Brewers total salary.
Picking the favorite between the Braves and Brewers right now, though, is tough. The Crew will have home field advantage in the playoffs, so Dan Uggla and co. will have to deal with our nefariously dimmed scoreboards. The Braves' pitching (starters and relief) will probably be a bit better than the Brewers', but the Brewers' hitting will probably be a bit better than the Braves. Assuming Roenicke sits Yuni when he's being normal Yuni and not Ultra Yuni.
Whatever happens, whoever wins, both teams have filled their rosters nicely and at about the same cost (approximately $90 million.) The assumption may be that the Braves are in a better position in the long run, given that Milwaukee shipped out its farm to get itself a better-than-average starting rotation.
I wonder how true this is, though. While the Brewers' attendance certainly fluctuates a bit from year-to-year –depending on how the team is doing– the Braves can barely fill seats in the 9th largest city in the country during one of their better seasons in recent memory. Obviously, they've got a much more lucrative television deal, and
Papa Ted Turner's Liberty Media's unlikely to seal up the coffers anytime soon, but can they sustain the team indefinitely if no one's going to games? I'm honestly asking. I have no idea.
Sure, Wisconsin's likely to lose a little interest in the team if and when Prince leaves to retire from fielding to the American League; but most of the team's core is tied down past 2012. And assuming the Brewers win the division, I seriously doubt the state will roll its collective eyes just because they failed to win something bigger. Ryan Braun has hitched his wagon to the Brewers' horse until he's 37 –sorry, bad metaphor– and I think Wisconsinites appreciate that a potential hall-of-famer actually wants to spend the bulk of his career in Milwaukee. That kind of thing doesn't happen very often. Derek Jeter is in New York, and Troy Tulowitzki is in Denver. Those are big, fancy cities that are rarely the butt of bad jokes made by cynical, half-clever people. (Also, apparently Denver is built on a cloud or a mountain or something. Who wouldn't want to live there forever?)
It seems to me that Braun's not a bad person to build a franchise around. From what I can tell, he's a hugely positive influence on everyone around him. Hell, if Prince sticks around, I'm sure we'll partly have Braunie to thank for it.
Plus, the Brewers have a surprising dearth of bad contracts at the moment. Randy Wolf looked like a minor bust last year, but he's more or less earned his $10 million in 2011 (although the discrepancy between his ERA and FIP is slightly concerning. That can't be due to stellar defense, can it?) Yuni will probably be gone unless a ruthless shortstop assassin strikes the rest of the majors. And there has been no dumb attempt to tie Casey "Enigma" McGehee to a silly, long term deal.
Melvin's Canadian sense of financial caution bodes well for this team's future, methinks. Sure, the farm is a little bare, but guys like Wily Peralta and Taylor Green could well become more than competent replacements for familiar, more expensive faces. Yes, I just called Casey McGehee's face expensive. What of it?
Cubs fans obviously have reason to fret. There's a good chance half that team will be elsewhere come 2013, for the simple reason that few dudes on that roster are worth what they're paid. And I have to wonder if the Cardinals aren't about to wildly deconstruct if and when Pujols and La Russa make their inevitable dramatic, alligator tear laden exits.
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It is ironical but in a sense logical that an authentic "proletarian" poet today--one who writes directly from the experience of the people, from the depths of poor people's lives, and mainly poor black people; a poet who speaks their language, and whose poetry in turn can be understood by these people--should be the descendant of a famous old New England family of dissenters, iconoclasts, atheists and freethinkers (among the clergymen members), ardent abolitionists, native non-conformists.
It is ironical, logical, and yet perhaps unexpected and doubly refreshing that John Beecher should fill all these requirements as a rebellious talent bringing to modern times the spirit of his famous ancestors. I might also add he is a very fine poet who speaks directly to my soul (and to yours, I am sure) after a long period when poetry was no longer trying to speak to anybody except the poetic elite--or shall we say clique? In Robert McAlmon's fine book on the 1920s, Being Geniuses Together, just lately revived along with Kay Boyle's Memoirs, he speaks of T.S. Eliot not altogether reverently. "I decided to get in touch with T. S. Eliot," he wrote, "although his cautious articles on criticism did not impress me, nor did his erudition, scholarship, or his lack of a sense of either life or literature. His moldy poetry struck me as the perfect expression of a clerkly and liverish man's apprehension of life, and to me he was Prufrock."
It is Eliot's spirit, however, which has dominated modern poetry down to the elegaic, self-centered, and to me rather weary "confessions" of Robert Lowell. John Beecher's poetry, so much to the contrary, so proud, angry, rebellious; so full of moral dignity and so rocklike--and, believe me, written out of an equal but radical erudition and scholarship --has been one of the very few dissenting voices during this period. Most of the books from which this volume of collected poems has been made were either printed privately or by small radical presses and magazines. It was only indeed in the early '60s, when the oppressive and intimidating atmosphere of the Cold War period had lifted, more than momentarily, as we hope, and the lethargic spell over the national consciousness had been broken by the civil-rights campaign in the South, white and black alike, that Beecher's poetry suddenly came into prominence.
I frankly don't know, nor too much care, how John Beecher gets his marvelous effects in those poetic lines which are carved out from the common speech of the people, or from the beautiful black southern dialects. There are, on the other hand, very subtle, complex, almost metaphysical poems in this collection where Beecher shows what he can do when he wants to work with a more "literary," or perhaps just a more Latinic and polysyllabic mode of language. To achieve the limpid, lucid simplicity of most of these poems, in a poetic style that, even with some Whitmanesque references, is completely fresh and original, an artist must obviously know how to handle the most difficult modes of prosody--must have spent his lifetime, as I suspect John Beecher has, in perfecting the exact kind of "simplicity" he wants to achieve. What he does is to give to the various dialects of our country, south, midwest, west and north, a kind of added height and dignity, while preserving all of the folk knowledge, humor and earthiness. What he does is to embed these folk tongues into the matrix of our literature.
We get in these poems also a kind of informal yet permanent chronicle of the "American century," from the depression years in the steel towns and southern farms to the epoch of Black Power and Vietnam. And what makes this national chronicle so rare is simply that it is viewed constantly, as in the opening verse of Thoreau, "Homage to a Subversive," from the underside of things, the radical and ironically "subversive" side, the side that has been so consistently blocked out and covered over during these years. We have had a plethora of Cold War accounts which have distorted the whole meaning of our national history from the Civil War to our "containment" of Russia and our even more fatal "containment" of China; from John Brown, who was suddenly declared "insane" in the modern period, to the "mad and aggressive" Chairman Mao who has not yet invaded a single foreign country. It is not history we lack in our period, but the courage of men like John Beecher to see history whole, and to record it so beautifully in these verse chronicles and narratives.
In any event, another point of these poems is that they are narrative in essence and contain dramatic movement. Most of the longer ones are based on historical episodes as recreated in Beecher's vision of them; the shorter ones contain the essence of a man or woman's being, often in ten lines, the essence of a human life, or a place, or an event. What a relief--after decades of cryptic, convoluted modern verse about remote and obscure states of human subjectivity, and "alienation." One might say again that nothing human is alien to John Beecher, and what he sees is not at all a mysterious contemporary disease (such as the death of God), but a corrupt social system that all too often not merely alienates its second-class citizens, as based on wealth and skin color, but destroys them, and not merely theoretically but actually through the process of armed violence.
Thus the poetry in this volume starts with the industrial conflict of the 1930s in the southern steel towns: what violence, but what hope in that perhaps last peak of our society! (This whole vision of the South which Beecher conveys is an antidote to both Faulkner's later romanticism -- and race reversion -- and to Richard Wright's magnificent black nightmares.) There is the poem called "The Odyssey of Thomas Benjamin Harrison Higgenbottom," which conveys in brief, but how eloquently, the whole story of the small farmer's obliteration on the national scene.
There is (to mention only a very few highlights of a book which is altogether comprised of good poetry) the epical verse, "In Egypt Land." This is the story of the first farmers' union, organized by the blacks who had nothing more to lose, joined by the whites, and its bloody extermination by the "laws,"--told here with so much compassion and human feeling, dramatic power and lyrical grief, as to make you feel you have participated in the tragedy which is so classical and yet so homespun. "Here I Stand," written in the 1940s is another poem of both classical and epic stature that, though an intensely personal chronicle, is one of the best accounts of the darkening Cold War atmosphere, so oppressive and so fatal to all creative thought and work--an officially created cultural climate that still haunts us, that distorts all our historical perspective even through the '60s, and has run the United States off the time-track of contemporary society. That is the reason we are always so wrong, and so dangerous in our foreign policy, working always from one disaster to another; and I see no remedy for this until our surviving Cold War figures, politicians, educators, journalists, artists, die off or are put away in the national interest.
There is indeed a whole chorus of poems here which describe and record the effects of "the air that kills." Perhaps I value this poetry so much just because I came to the same conclusions before I had read John Beecher's verse; namely, that the whole literary establishment in the 1940s and '50s was a complete fraud, working, whether consciously or not, whether paid-off or voluntarily, to further the interests of the "Free World" and a now-discredited American foreign policy.
Now I have only just begun to describe this book of John Beecher's poems; I would only add that Beecher's sense of the contemporary scene is so unique just because he understands the whole revolutionary core of the American past. In appearance and posture, as well as in his poetry, John Beecher reminds me of nothing so much as the Last of the Abolitionists. This collection of his poetry is so good that I feel honored and privileged to pay homage to it.
Harrison, New York
June 1968
"Introduction" to Hear the Wind Blow: Poems of Protest and Prophecy. By John Beecher. Copyright © 1968 by International Publishers.
Marjorie Perloff
John Beecher's first poems, like those of Van Doren, appeared in the year 1924, but Beecher's tradition is that of Sandburg, Lindsay, and the Edgar Lee Masters of Spoon River Anthology. Beechers verse is, however, not poetry at all. Whatever our definition of poetryas language inherently different from ordinary speech, as fictive discourse, as the phenomenological embodiment of the writers unique consciousness, or as the displacement of myth--Beecher cannot properly be called a "poet." Here, for example, is a passage from "News Item," which complains of the brutal and unwarranted beating the Alabama police gave to a union leader for Goodyear Rubber named John House:
The Government of the United States
should know about John House
but maybe they won't notice the little item
on the back pages of the Birmingham paper
because the front pages are all filled up with Hitler
and how he is threatening democracy
so I am asking
the Government of the United States
to pay a little attention to this. [Poems 1941-1944]
If these sentences were not broken up into line units, no one could distinguish this passage from a Letter To the Editor. There is no structuring of any sort here, whether imagistic, prosodic, syntactic, or verbal, no process of selection from the welter of words which constitutes ordinary speech. Or again, if poetry is defined as fictive discourse, this passage looks much more like actual discourse: Beecher is clearly trying to tell the United States Government something about injustice. Fictionality is not involved.
Beecher's characters are generally sentimental cardboard figures, and his solutions to Americas problems are touchingly simplistic. Even as rhetoric, these poems fail. In 1940, he writes that the way to stop Hitler is to build up "American unity" by helping the "ill-housed/ ill-clothed/ill-fed," by making sure everyone has "a fair wage" and "a decent place to live in," by remembering that "all men are created equal" and that Whites must stop mistreating Blacks. One cannot quarrel with such lofty sentiments, but one never feels that Beecher has grounded these sentiments in real situations or that he understands the complexities of history, politics, or social change. Accordingly, this is verse which has not stood the test of time.
Beecher's best poem is, I think, Here I Stand, written in 1941. This long narrative records the poet's odyssey from Alabama to Washington and then on to New York in search of life and work. Perhaps because it is more personal than most of Beecher's poems, Here I Stand is an authentic and moving record of one man's struggle to get on. In conveying the contradictions that characterize our capitaland indeed our way of life--the poem looks ahead to Ginsberg's Howl or to the city poems of Philip Whalen and Lew Welch. But the poem ends on a histrionic note ("Here I Stand/John Beecher on the block.... Do I hear any bids?"), and some of his descriptive detail is merely flat. William Carlos Williams could juxtapose the most banal objects, creating surfaces of great subtlety and tension, and Stevens' "Man on the Dump" learns how to see the moon come up in an empty sky and can accordingly "reject the trash." Beecher can do neither.
From "Tradition and the Individual TalentA Review Essay." In Southern Humanities Review (1976).
Robert Medredith
Beecher lays bare the class a caste system of the South with delicate inside knowledge, as in the images of "Fire By Night":
When the burnt black bodies of the homeless
Were found in the embers of the Negro church
Into which they had crept to sleep on the floor
The wails of the people traveled down the cold wind
And reached the ears of the rich on the mountain
Like the distant whistle of a fast train coming
These are wonderful lines, echoing Jeffeerson's phrase about slavery in the title, working with the doubleness of "burnt black bodies," suggesting by the diction of "homeless" and "crept" and even "embers" the suffering of the southern black poor, making contrasts by means of "wails" and "the cold wind," and in the last two lines moving with a sure control of the rhythm of the line to a "fast train coming." Not only does Beecher write as a prophetic and outraged advocate of Black humanity but as an apocalyptic critic of the everyday inhumanity of southern Whites, as did some of his ancestors. He specifically identifies himself with the Blacks as workers in the mills and mines of the South, and if the earliest poem in his Collected Poems is a clue ("Big Boy," 1924), he was writing proletarian poetry before proletarian poetry was born in the United States. This section of a nine part sequence called "Report to the Stockholders" will show the mode:
He fell off his crane
And his head hit the steel floor and broke like an egg
He lived a couple of hours with his brains bubbling out
And then he died
And the safety clerk made out a report saying
It was carelessness
And the craneman should have known better
From twenty years experience
Than not to watch his step
And slip in some grease on top of his crane
And then the safety clerk told the superintendent
Hed ought to fix that guardrail
As much as one-fourth of Beechers poetry is in this mode which, with its invariable ironic structure showing the discrepancy between the official report and actual happening, is not my favorite Beecher. All the same, especially taken as a whole, it is a powerful, highly controlled writing which reveals and identifies with a class and a world unfamiliar to most readers of contemporary poetry.
From "Homage to a Subversive: Notes Toward Explaining John Beecher." In The American Poetry Review (1976).
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Ontario Hockey League
North Bay Battalion 3 @ Guelph Storm 4
Storm win best-of-7 OHL Finals, 4-1
D Dylan Blujus [5], NB: 0-0-0, -2, 0 PIM
Playoff totals: 22 GP, 4-6-10, +1, 18 PIM
Season totals: 55 GP, 4-26-30, +12, 56 PIM
2012-13 totals: 68 GP, 2-27-29, -8, 57 PIM
Guelph clinched the 2014 OHL title with another come-from-behind victory, winning 4-3 in Game 5 to win the series, 4-1. North Bay, who had a one-goal lead going into the final minute of Game 3 before losing in regulation, held a 3-2 lead entering the final period. The Storm scored twice on 13 shots, including the championship-winner with 27 seconds left. Guelph will now move on to the Memorial Cup, hosted by nearby London.
North Bay's elimination means Dylan Blujus' junior career is likely over. The 2012 second rounder can be signed and play in the AHL next season for Syracuse. Blujus' right-handed shot is needed in the Tampa Bay organization. He projects as a defense-first defenseman with above-average skating ability.


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Honey Creek
Total Maximum Daily Load, or TMDL, Water Body Record
Honey Creek
Established Aug. 17, 2006
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, established a TMDL for Honey Creek, WBID 1251, in Henry County.
303(d)-listed pollutant:
- Sulfate.
To address the listed pollutant, a TMDL was calculated for:
- Sulfate plus cholride.
Documents in this record:
- Established Honey Creek TMDL.
- Letter transmitting TMDL from EPA to the department.
- Honey Creek Information Sheet.
- Comments and responses - EPA received one comment letter during the public notice period, which was from June 28 to July 31, 2006.


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The Raiders scored a touchdown on their opening possession for the first time in more than a year and Sebastian Janikowski kicked four field goals in a 19-9 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars in their home opener at O.co Coliseum.
Oakland, 1-1, rushed for 226 yards, with running back Darren McFadden leading the way with 129 yards on 19 carries. Janikowski's field goals came from distances of 46, 30, 29 and 29 yards.
On defense, the Raiders had no trouble with the quick-tempo, no-huddle offense of the Jaguars, bottling up their attempts to run and displaying crisp tackling skills on the short throws of quarterback Chad Henne.
The Jaguars had a 27-yard field goal by Josh Scobee in the first half and scored with 2:53 to play on an 13-yard pass from Henne to tight end Clay Harbor when trailing by 16 points.
The drive came following a lost McFadden fumble following a 28-yard gain to the 48-yard line.
In a game that was billed nationally as the battle for the first pick in the NFL draft, given the recent fortunes of the two franchises, Jacksonville looked a lot closer to being in position to select either South Carolina defensive end Jadaveon Clowney or Louisville quarterback Teddy Bridgewater than the Raiders.
The Raiders were far from smooth in the passing game, with Terrelle Pryor completing 15 of 24 passes for 126 yards without a touchdown or an interception. Pryor rushed for 50 yards on nine carries.
After the Raiders deferred to Jacksonville after winning the coin toss, their defense set the tone by forcing a three-and-out on the first series.
Phillip Adams than raced around the right side for a 30-yard punt return to the Jacksonville 38.
The Raiders took advantage of a 15-yard Jacksonville penalty, got a 7-yard run by McFadden to the 16 and a 5-yard run by Terrelle Pryor to the 7 before Reece scored from from the 11.
It was the first touchdown on a first possession since the regular-season finale against the San Diego Chargers in 2011.
Thin but Pryor got the Raiders in position for five field goal attempts, including one missed by Janikowski from 42 yards out.
The Raiders may have suffered a significant injury in the first half, as strong safety Tyvon Branch left the game with a leg injury, had to be helped off the field, and did not return.
The Raiders bottled up former De La Salle High star Maurice Jones-Drew, who had 27 yards on 10 carries before leaving with an injury.


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digging into boring Pi, getting out of boring time
I figured it would be nice to start a new year on this blog on Pi Day. So happy new year, two months and a myriad of unposted posts late!
So hi again, my three visitors. How does it feel to read me saying "hi again" every six months or so?


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By Andria Cheng
Beth Jacob, the highest-level executive to leave Target Corp. following the company's big data breach, said it's time for a change.
"This is a difficult decision after 12 rewarding years," Jacob, the company's chief information officer, said in a letter to Target's /quotes/zigman/253872/delayed /quotes/nls/tgt TGT Chief Executive Gregg Steinhafel obtained by MarketWatch. "But this is a good time for a change. This is a time of significant transformation for the retail industry and for Target. With the quality of its talent and the power of its brand, I'm confident Target will embrace the current opportunities and continue to be strong and successful in the future."
Jacob, whose resignation is effective Wednesday, was appointed to her position in 2008 after serving as Target's director of guest contact centers and vice president of guest operations. Under her reign, Target took back its online operations that it had previously outsourced to Amazon /quotes/zigman/63011/delayed /quotes/nls/amzn AMZN .
She didn't immediately respond to a request seeking additional comment.
Target's data breach, disclosed in December, has hurt the discounter's brand image and eaten into its profit. The company still doesn't know how much it will all cost.
The hack hit up to 40 million card accounts and up to 70 million customer's personal data. It cost the company $61 million in breach-related costs in the fourth quarter, or $17 million after $44 million in expected insurance payments.
Target said it's investing more than $100 million in cards equipped with chips and protected by pin entry, which industry watchers have said are less prone to hacking than the traditional magnetic-stripe and signature cards commonly used in the U.S.
With Jacob's departure, Target is looking outside the company for an interim CIO. It's also looking externally to fill two new positions: a chief compliance officer and a chief information security officer. At the same time, it's hired Promontory Financial Group to help evaluate its technology, structure, processes and talent as a part of the transformation.
"While we are still in the process of an ongoing investigation, we recognize that the information security environment is evolving rapidly," said Steinhafel in an emailed statement. "To ensure that Target is well positioned following the data breach we suffered last year, we are undertaking an overhaul of our information security and compliance structure and practices at Target."
Cowen & Co. analyst Faye Landes, who rates the stock underperform, said any plans the new hires may implement likely won't come cheap. Security experts have faulted Target for not taking simple steps like walling off its payment system from the rest of its network, making it easier for hackers to get in, the Wall Street Journal reported. The company has since moved to isolate its different platforms and networks.
"It's conceivable that the steps that the new executives advise will be costly," Landes wrote in a report, adding it appears likely that Target has been underinvesting in IT. "Her replacement will not be someone who tells the press that it's a misconception that 'the most important skill set of a CIO is that of a techie'."
Landes was referring to an interview Jacob had with the company's hometown Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal in 2012.
When Jacob was asked in the article about "her favorite IT crisis story," security breaches weren't on her mind at the time. She touched instead on the company's website crash after unprecedented demand for its Missoni for Target collection in 2011. "How our team responded and grew was a great takeaway for me," she responded in the article. "Our team rallied and worked literally 24/7 to get through the immediate issues and make sure our site was stable for the key holiday shopping season, which it was. We learned a lot, and we continue to learn from the experience. That's Target's culture."
Target will be learning again, hard and fast.
— Andria Cheng
— Follow her on Twitter @AndriaCheng
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The three-minute ad, which launches today online, will also be aired in cinemas, via press and outdoor. The film will also be cut down to 60 and 30-seconds throughout January.
Created by Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH), the tongue-in-cheek ad is a pastiche of a Jerry Bruckheimer blockbuster trailer and includes a series of spoof scenes, such as two colleagues discussing what they did over the Guardian and Observer weekend.
It also highlights the launch of Cook, the Guardian's new 16-page food and drink supplement.
The ad will feature the strapline, 'We own the weekend', and includes established Guardian weekend editorial supplements.
The film was directed by Tim Godsall and produced by Biscuit Films. The creative team on the ad was Wesley Hawes and Gary McCreadie. David Kolbusz was the creative director on the ad. PHD handled the media activity.
Cook will come free with every Saturday Guardian and will also feature in the Guardian and Observer iPad edition and Guardian Kindle edition.
David Pemsel, chief commercial officer, Guardian News & Media, said: "We wanted to continue last year's marketing successes by experimenting with a new, bold approach to January marketing in 2013. We're delighted to have Hugh Grant on board, helping us create a fun and irreverent style which taps into the spirit of our weekend papers."Follow @SaraKimberley


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Assistant coach Miles Doughty, a former Pointer wrestler, is a founding member of the nationally known musical band Slightly Stoopid, along with classmate Kyle McDonald.
Formed in 1995 in Ocean Beach, the band has appeared on tour with other major acts, while releasing seven studio albums and attracting a following that includes comedian George Lopez.
While playing in a celebrity golf tournament, Lopez learned of Doughty's love of wrestling and involvement with the Pointer team. When asked what his wrestlers could use, Doughty mentioned the team's outdated mat used for matches in the school's Trepanier Gym.
Lopez told Doughty to order a new mat through the comic's foundation, and the Pointers are now competing on a state-of-the-art mat that cost $10,000. It features the Pointer logo and a ribbed backing that makes it much easier to set up and remove.
Meanwhile, Doughty and his bandmates are on tour. In his absence, his father, Brian Lamb, a former Pointer wrestling head coach, is assisting head coach Phil Moore as the Pointers pursue a league title.
Girls' soccer closing in on league title
The Lady Pointer soccer team is nearing a City League championship with league play almost complete.
Sporting a league record of 4-0-2 (9-6-3 overall), the Pointers, under head coach John Murphy, have two remaining league matches against Clairemont on Feb. 13 and Madison on Feb. 14. Both encounters will take place on the Pointers' Bennie Edens Field at home with 3 p.m. starts both days.
Team scoring is evenly distributed this season, with four players leading goal scoring. Jewell Roth (senior midfielder), Taylor Hopkins (sophomore midfielder/forward), Jordan Patane (freshman midfielder/forward) and Graysen Choy (junior defender/midfielder) are tied for the lead with three apiece.
Goaltending duties have been shared as well, with senior Mia Sakasegawa owning a 1.2 goals-against average. Junior Jordan Green sports a 1.8 average, freshman Brynn Kays has posted a 2.3 mark and freshman Grace Haselton holds a .5 record.
Shutouts have been credited to Green (four), Kays (three), Sakasegawa (two) and Haselton (one).


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Why? Because you can! And pickle, and jam, or otherwise celebrate the resurgence of the domestic arts our forebears held so dear. Put on your best apron and step into our kitchen, won't you?
Foraging outdoors with children can be fun and a great way to give them a sense of pride and excitement to cook and eat good, nourishing food.


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VIDEO: Jeremy Lin shows off an improved 3-point stroke in a win over Philly
HOUSTON — When Jeremy Lin stepped back onto the court at Madison Square Garden two weeks ago, the signs were there. A throng of reporters around his locker, the kind of electrical hum that comes off power lines filling the air.
Linsanity, it was said, had returned, when in fact nothing could have been farther from the truth.
Despite having filled up the hoop with 31 and 34 points in the Rockets' previous two games, this was not Lin making headlines around the basketball globe with every step, just a guy trying to make shots.
The stats say Lin has been a better shooter this season than last, his field goal percentage is up from 44.1 to 50.6 and his 3-point shooting improved from 33.9 to 39.7.
The eyes say that he is a better player, too. He's playing with more confidence and a sense of true belonging that's better than what he had during those surreal 2 1/2 weeks with the Knicks when he (seemingly) had the NBA world in the palm of his hand.
That was a time that was never built to last. These are the days that are determining Lin's place in the NBA as either a footnote or a foot soldier.
"Jeremy's played very well, doing the things we've asked him to do," said Rockets coach Kevin McHale. "It's like I've said over and over and like I've told Jeremy many times, nobody could ever keep up with that pace of play that he had during those few weeks in New York. It's just not realistic.
"I always thought there was going to be some leveling off last season when he came to us, but the truth is I was never as disappointed in him as a lot of people on the outside, and maybe Jeremy, were in him. For a guy who was playing what really amounted to his rookie season in the league, I thought he did well and there were things he had to work on."
The most obvious was Lin's shot, which had a hitch at the top and rarely looked comfortable as he let the ball fly. He spent the summer breaking the shot down, rebuilding it and learning to repeat it with constant use in workouts with Dwight Howard in Colorado and James Harden in California. Lin doesn't pause anymore or look to pass the ball when he gets open perimeter shots. In raising his scoring average to 16.3 points per game, Lin has made at least half his attempts 10 times in the Rockets' first 15 games.
"I've seen him shoot the ball all summer," Howard said. "I know he can shoot the ball. We want him and need him to feel that it's his place to shoot the ball."
Lin is doing it while still trying to find his place in the Rockets' rotation. McHale made the decision to open the season with Pat Beverley as the starting point guard. However, due to injuries to Beverley and Harden, Lin has since started seven games. He played 31 1/2 minutes, scored 14 points and shot 4-for-8 on Monday night as the Rockets came from behind to win at Memphis, but during the comeback Lin was sitting on the bench. As was Howard.
What Lin has improved as much as his shot is his ability to handle change, embrace new roles and ignore all of the outside-the-game distractions.
While the Twitterverse and knee-jerk over-reaction of the online world has tried to stir up a contest or a controversy with Harden and him — it is, you know, supposed to be a team sport — Lin just keeps moving forward. There are still defensive deficiencies, though he is considerably better, and even more attentive there than Harden. There is still the matter of trying to get all of these disparate parts of the Rockets to fit together.
Howard isn't the explosive low post presence that he used to be back in Orlando either, 1-on-1 tutoring from Hakeem Olajuwon be damned. But there have been the indications that Lin has recovered a bit of the what-do-I-care swagger that was missing from his game last season as he tried to free himself from the weight of Linsanity.
"I'll never forget that experience and I wouldn't want to forget any of it," he said. "There are some negatives in the aftermath that have made some things difficult. But let's face it, it also opened up a lot of opportunities for me. In the end, I just can't let it define me."
Others have done enough of that already, trying to make more of an issue and a stir about his Lin's shift to a reserve role and his place in the Rockets' offensive hierarchy. Next season is the $15 million "poison pill" part of his contract the Rockets constructed in his three-year deal that helped sweep him their way. Clever then, indeed. But will Lin be that level of player, able to hold up under the scrutiny that will come again with the big raise?
It's a question and a problem that can wait. For now, Jeremy Lin is content to take steps.


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Inc. Magazine recently posted a good article, How to Comply With the Americans With Disabilities Act, addressed specifically to small businesses. Given the very recent publication of revised ADA regulations (which you can find here), the article is timely. It also contains links to other resources, including the Department of Justice's "ADA Business Connection" (where, among many other resources, you will find a 13 minute video entitled "Ten Small Business Mistakes") and the "ADA Guide for Small Businesses".
I won't repeat the information given in the article, just leave you with the following "teasers" to encourage you to read the article yourself and download the resources it links to:
Teaser #1: No matter how small your business may be, the ADA may still apply to you in some way.
Teaser #2: The ADA applies both to employment relationships and to customer relationships (including, but not limited to, the physical space your business occupies).
If you are starting a new business it would be well worth your while to familiarize yourself with the requirements of the ADA; even seasoned business owners will likely find something in the article or the resource links that they didn't know or have forgotten, however. Forewarned is forearmed!