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Apartment Building Common Area Deal Breakers
We've talked in the past about deal breakers for choosing an apartment, but we're here today to ask about the common areas of your apartment building. Why does the halls or lobby of your building matter? Because things like this glowing salmon pink hallway will permanently burn your retinas - that's why!
This hallway is located in a building in Chicago. The apartment itself is so-so, nothing to write home about and nothing to complain about. But this hallway — this hallway is a color that glows with the afternoon sun in the sky lights. It smells of urine and is always covered in trash. What does the outside of an apartment have to do with anything? Well everything actually!
For starters the aesthetics and upkeep of the common areas will tell you a great deal about your landlord. Does he buy crappy paint from the Oops section at Home Depot? Was it painted well? Does he hire quality labor to get jobs done? It will also tell you about the other tenants in the building and the level of respect they have for the space. Why does that matter? Well, if they leave banana peels in the hallway there's a chance they might not care about blasting their music until 3am, either.
Have you ever lived in a space that had a few issues that really started to wear on you over your length of tenancy? Share your stories in the comments...
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We just moved out of a place more because of the owner than the actual apartment. The people hired to repair things were always the cheapest to be found and did work that lived up to the price. Also, the amount of things the owner didn't care about was getting ridiculous...sewage in the basement (without feeling the need to notify tenants who paid for basement storage), bats that roost in the buildings and come in to greet you at night, and we most recently had a bunch of displaced squirrels decide to roost in the walls of the building...the rent was cheap, the neighborhood good, and the apartment adorable, but it finally all added up to too much to handle!
I'm preparing to move soon and in my new place we're just required to not make a mess and share the common unless we reserved ahead of time. I especially love the hallways though--the building draws several artists and we're allowed to place artwork on the walls pending it isn't outright obscene (no pornography snapshots or drawings). Any space available on the wall is yours for the taking otherwise :).
I also recently moved out of an apartment because of a squirrel infestation. When I reported it to my landlord, he trapped the squirrels and released them, but neglected to patch up the holes in the roof that the squirrels used to enter. Needless to say, they returned "home" over and over again. I never knew squirrels could make so much noise! I finally got tired of my new roommates and had to leave. It's a shame - the apartment was beautiful, inexpensive, and in a great location. I had been there for 5 years before the squirrels moved in. I just couldn't take it.
In another life, when I was in my 20s, I shared an apartment in Boston with two other women. The landlord was a creep, unethical, and notorious in the area for his shoddy landlord practices. One night the toilet got clogged, overflowed all the way down to the vestibule on the first floor, and set the chandelier there on fire. We had practically the entire fire department in the building, running up to our third floor apartment after they had put out the (small) chandelier fire. The landlord demanded money from us for repairs. We refused - it was not our fault - and he took us to small claims court. One of my roommates knew a great lawyer who took an interest in our small case and agreed to represent us for a small fee. The landlord was claiming that we caused the toilet to clog and overflow because we flushed sanitary napkins and tampons down it. Well, we assured the judge that we were not so stupid as to flush sanitary pads down a toilet. As for tampons, our lawyer got a glass of water, and in front of the judge and the landlord, put a tampon in the glass and we all watched it blossom out in the water. It was hysterical! Several weeks later, we got a letter from the court informing us that we'd won and owed the landlord nothing. We thought about countersuing for our legal costs but decided to leave well enough alone. The landlord continued to harass us, though, calling one of my roommates at work, for example, and threatening her. We moved at the end of August to a lovely place in Brookline!
I live in an old-ish apartment building, built shortly after World War 2. The common areas are basic, but the management keeps them painted with carpet with no signs of wear. They vacuum regularly and spray down the hallways with Febreeze. I have absolutely no complaints.
During art school I shared an adorable 1920s flat with my roommate. It was within walking distance to a park, our school, and several restaurants and markets. The landlady, however, neglected the common areas - including security features. Our call box (buzzer) was broken and would go off on it's own - 3am anyone? Also, the security doors to enter the building were glass and were constantly cracked, taped, then finally repaired weeks later. Security cameras were visible, but never turned on (which was obvious, as the power indicator light was never glowing), so when we had issues with a neighbor roaming the hallways intoxicated, they were of no use!
Our last straw was a string of events including a homeless individual sleeping in the common mailroom, a neighbor sliding notes under our door (my roommates secret/creepy admirer), and finally the discovery of multiple piles of -eh-hem- excrement of the human nature in the basement laundry room. Check please!
We've had a terrible time with our landlord since moving to Spain. When we moved in, the heat wasn't working (in January!) and it took many phone calls and bitch sessions to our landlord to fix the problem. In order to "fix" the problem, he just showed up without calling to tell me he was coming over nor that he would be bringing workers through my home. Then they installed a pipe wrong and had to come back two weeks later. Long story short, we didn't have functioning heat for two months (the coldest two months of the year). Fortunately, we raised so much hell that we got to get out of paying rent for the month of February. I still would have preferred the heat though :)
This is exactly why we passed on what might have been a GREAT apartment. The hallway and stairs up were dirty with stuff everywhere and you could tell that no one took care of it. The outside of the house was also...meh. It just gave the impression that whoever the landlord was, s/he didn't care and probably wouldn't be a good landlord. It was hard to pass on that great space with a HUGE bathroom with a checkered tile floor, but I think we made the right decision in going with our gut.
I've had great experiences with my landlords and supers, but since I was just looking for a new place, I was very aware of when I entered buildings that didn't have the same level of upkeep that I was used to. One big warning sign was a Marshal's order on an apartment a few floors down from the one I was being shown (Had it been an elevator building, I never would've noticed!). But things like maintenance of common areas are a big indication of the kind of service you'll get when you're a resident.
Unfortunately the other big issue is the only one I have with my current place: the way the other tenants treat the common areas. Despite the best efforts of my lovely super to keep the lobby and elevator clean, there are tenants who just don't seem to care. I've seen people leave a (full) broken bottle of wine in the middle of the lobby, let their pets roam without leashes and urinate in front of the front door, etc. These are the sorts of things you just won't notice until you actually live someplace for a while.
absolutely yes; the appearance of the common areas does matter!!! it gives clues of what to expect from the landlord/owner/maintenance staff and other tenants.
i looked at an apartment just last night. as soon as i stepped into the lobby of the building i knew that i would not be moving there, no matter how cute the apartment might be. there was an empty juice bottle on the floor outside one apartment and a cup of pop/coffee/? on the stairwell. while thinking that sweet beverages draw bugs (of which i have a strong fear), i could still - maybe - let the bottle and cup pass as being from occasionally lazy neighbors, but then the rental agent didn't even bother to pick up the empties. i also saw poorly labeled mail boxes, an open basket marked for outgoing mail (hardly secure) and a couple of cracks each about three feet long in walls that had been repaired but not painted (to be fair, maybe that was done recently ... but to be realistic, the apartment itself was in shabby condition, with a sloppy paint job and broken window blinds, so i'm thinking those repairs in the walls had been there a while and no one had bothered to re-paint them). i would guess that the walls in the common areas were covered with "oops" paint because, to me, it was an odd/off color - or maybe that's because the lights were very dim. it looked dark and felt depressing and rather oppressive. the carpet felt very sponge-y (gross). also? the person showing me the apartment had set one time to meet, then quickly asked me to delay it by a half-hour so that she wouldn't have to go back to work but could go straight home after showing me the apartment. she arrived late. she told me where my sofa "had" to go in the apartment. and over the phone she told me the rent on that apartment was 615$ a month, then in person twice said the rent was 610$ - while the flyer in the information box out on the lawn indicated the rent was 575$. everyone has the occasional bad day and i guess places can, too - no place is perfect - but i saw too many red flags last night. my search will continue wish me good luck, please. i need it! and good luck to everyone else out there not yet in their dream-homes!
We are fortunate to have great common areas, but we have more problems with other tenants who use it for smoking. The courtyard always smells like smoke and they bring it in with them when they walk back into the building.
I currently live in a building where the common areas are not taken care of. After looking at tons of apartments in the same historical area of Baltimore, we realized many buildings were not kept up the way they should but we fell for the charm of the apartment as well as location. However, here we are rounding out our year lease and are looking elsewhere. The owner and landlord of the building lives in Miami, so I can't really say whether he knows the true condition of the building he owns or not. If you call him to fix something, he sends the maintenance guy who is your run-of-the-mill general handyman who "can fix anything." He is a super sweet older man and very trustworthy but I feel that his work is shabby because he isn't an expert in everything we ask him to fix, and he always leaves the place a mess after fixes (i.e. paint splatters, dirt, etc.). The repairs get done, but the common area has never been swept or mopped since we have been there, and I am always calling to tell them that half the building's light bulbs are out.
Things that we thought weren't a big deal have become a big deal. My boyfriend admits that it does matter, he is embarrassed to ask new people over to our apartment because you have to walk through the charming but dirty lobby and main staircase.
The common areas of my building are clean but it's clear that they have not been well maintained over the years. The walls of the hall are dirty and the carpets are ancient. Luckily my apartment is great, the other tenants are quiet and clean, and maintenance...well they're 'ok' - not great but not that bad. I took a risk and it worked for me.
for me, common areas are like foreshadowing of the experience in the new place so I always pay close attention! a roommate and i moved in to what seemed to be an awesome place near Boston, but the stairs were dirty and pretty ancient, the front door barely worked (a solid shoulder to it and the 'lock' would give), the was a large sign stating "no storage in hallway" but a small pile of stuff under the stairs anyway (come to find out that it was all the landlords stuff) and a broken grandfather clock(?!?) right in front of our door. After a year of being told by my LAZY landlord "you have a hammer, fix it yourself" or "call the handy man yourself, and I'll pay you back", i had had quite enough!
the newer place we moved in to was much different! hallways were being touched up as we moved in, new carpet a few months in, and even a new wall color a little after that. Even when we had torrenchal rains flood the first floor, they were there within the first 24 hours already tearing the carpet out and drying everything out to make sure there was no mold! Lesson learned: dirty/gross/mistreated hallways means bad news!
I almost moved into a place because of the commons area. The walls were covered with framed photographs that the tenants had supplied, mostly travel photographs and the courtyard was full of plants. The onsite manager took care of the plants and said I was free to contribute plants to the garden and she would tend to it. The place had a sense of community to it. Tenants that were there while I looked at the apartment came out and introduced themselves. Unfortunately it had off street parking and the tenants I spoke with had admitted their car had been broken into at least once. :(
Our building has brick---ugly yellow, 70's, outdoor-style brick---in all of the hallways instead of drywall. So hideous! My 3-year-old has started asking, "Why is there brick in the hallway?" I wish I knew how to answer that.
The cinderblock stairwells are painted with a weird gold splatter-paint effect, and in the entry area, which does have drywall, has a sloppily-done peach faux finish. The Board is slowly trying to fix up the place. It's also way past time to replace the indoor-outdoor carpet that someone thought was a good idea to put in the hallways.
I don't really care if the common areas are beautiful, but I do care about the buzzer system and locks. Definitely a deal breaker if either of those do not feel secure. Also, a reasonably clean and safe laundry room is important.
When I moved into my previous apartment everthing was great. But a few years later the owners got into trouble (SF people will know what I mean when I say these two words: Skyline Realty) and decided to save money by illegally removing our onsite manager (buildings over a certain number of units require an onsite person by law/ordinance).
First the elevators started going out, which was particularly painful for us because we were on the equivalent of the 8th floor. Once we were even trapped in an elevator for 45 minutes. The only consolation was that cute firemen came to rescue us.
Granted, the elevators were OLD but at least when the onsite guy was there we always had at least one of the two cars to rely on. Now BOTH elevators would be out for days at a time. I felt terrible for the old folks who lived on the upper floors.
Then the garbage pick-up started tapering down, bringing cockroaches and flies to the building.
We hated to leave. Our apartment was wonderful. It had a 180-degree south-facing view of the city and tons of period charm (built in the late 20s/early 30s). The main living area kind of jutted out so it gave the impression of being a sunroom.
But I just couldn't deal with hauling myself and my then-6-year-old up and down all those stairs every day, let alone having to live with BUGS. I feared that mice and rats would soon follow.
Now I'm in an apartment with a view of a wall (sigh), but it's bigger and has two gigantic closets, an eat-in kitchen, and just as much period charm. Bonus: We only have to climb about 8 steps to reach it, and the common areas are SPOTLESS.
First, the good things about my building: super fast elevators (7 floors, 2 levels of parking), a loading dock and receiving room from which I can frequently adopt discarded furniture and kitchen things, and quick maintenance response.
The bad thing: the lighting and carpeting in the place reminds me of a badly lit version of the house in The Shining! Dim and dingy fluorescent lights make the place look horrible, and the carpet makes the place look like an endless tunnel. I guess that means the walls aren't particularly light either - matte white paint with endless scuffs, scratches, and marks. I'm mad that they renovated the lobby a year ago but leave the rest of it looking so ugly. Each apartment is a relief to enter since it's such an improvement over the horrible halls.
I'm totally apathetic about everything except smell.
I moved out of an apartment because the landlord would only use one handy man for every repair at multiple apartment sites, as a result I went 10 days with no hot water because he was too busy to replace the water heater in my unit and the landlord would not pay for a plumber (and neither would I on principle). My request for $50 rent refund was denied, as 10 days was considered "reasonable". Also, the landlord advertised the unit with washer and dryer in unit, after I moved in I learned that the washer didn't work and the dryer never would, because it was a gas dryer and there was no gas hook up for it. I fell for the charm of an older building, and saw the exterior spaces looked neglected, but thought I could fix up my place and live with the rest. But it just kept adding up, with window washing (I was on the 2nd floor and couldn't reach the exteriors and landlord wouldn't pay for any part of it), refinishing the kitchen sink, replacing door handles that fell off, he wouldn't send the handyman to replace them even though I bought new handles. I should have heeded the common spaces as an indicator that the landlord was not concerned about the property in any way. Dirty windows on every unit, cobwebs in every corner of every stairwell, rotting wood window frames, dented garage doors, dirty walkways, broken outdoor lighting, dead trees, oy. Lesson learned.


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Regarding pinMode(), that's curious. You mean it has no effect on A6/A7 because of their analog, input-only nature?
Because the page http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/AnalogInputPins actually uses pinMode() on an analog pin. Ok, that's obviously to set it as OUTPUT. INPUT should be redundant, since they are input by default. But I thought it was a good measure to set them to INPUT, just in case some code previously had set them in OUTPUT mode...

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Ginger Shrimp Mini Skewers
Dan Goldberg
Ginger, spring onions, and soy sauce give these tiny skewers a tasty Asian twist. Pass a plate of these on the deck while sipping chilled sake or iced green tea. Be sure to soak the skewers in water a few hours before using so they won't splinter or burn.
Yield: Makes 24 miniature (4- to 4 1/2-inch) skewers
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Marinate: 30 Minutes
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Amount per serving
- Calories: 35
- Calories from fat: 66%
- Protein: 2.3g
- Fat: 2.5g
- Saturated fat: 0.4g
- Carbohydrate: 1.1g
- Fiber: 0.1g
- Sodium: 211mg
- Cholesterol: 15mg
- 1 tablespoon thinly sliced ginger, plus 1 tablespoon finely grated ginger
- 1/2 head garlic, cloves peeled and thinly sliced, plus 1 tablespoon finely grated garlic
- 2 thinly sliced spring onions
- 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 24 large shrimp, peeled (leave tails on) and deveined
- 2 tablespoons seasoned rice vinegar
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- Salt and pepper
- 1. Stir together sliced ginger, sliced garlic, spring onions, and olive oil in a bowl. Add shrimp, toss to coat, cover, and marinate in the refrigerator 1/2 hour and up to 2 hours.
- 2. Prepare a charcoal or gas grill for high heat (you can hold your hand at grill level only 2 to 3 seconds).
- 3. Meanwhile, whisk together grated ginger, grated garlic, rice vinegar, and soy sauce in a small bowl. Thread shrimp onto soaked skewers (see notes) and season with salt and pepper.
- 4. Brush the grill with vegetable oil. If using coals, mound to one side to reach about 4 inches below the grill. Lay skewers on grill; close lid on gas grill.
- 5. Grill the shrimp until just opaque, about 1 minute per side. Serve skewers drizzled with ginger sauce.
- Note: Nutritional analysis is per skewer.
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- COURSE: Appetizers, Hors d'Oeuvres
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- MAIN INGREDIENT: Shellfish
- DIETARY CONSIDERATION: Low Calorie, Low Cholesterol, Low Fat, Low Saturated Fat
- COOKING METHOD: Grill
- PUBLICATION: Sunset
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REC 1100 Introduction to the Recreation and Leisure Profession (3)
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Survey and explore the most recent and widely-used recreational computer programs in the recreation and leisure industry. Includes instruction in web page design and implementation, computerized assessments in therapeutic recreation, and brochure, calendar and social network design.
REC 2910 Program Organization and Facility Design (3)
REC 2911 Program Organization and Facility Design - Service Learning (1) Students are required to complete 40 hours of service in a park, recreation and/or therapeutic recreation program or agency.
Writing Emphasis Course
Study of the importance of therapeutic recreation in long term care, sub acute settings and specialized facilities for older adults including concepts and techniques related aging and disability, activity/therapeutic interventions, assessment and documentation.
REC 3510 Cultural Tourism, Traditions and Pastimes (3)
REC 3640 Fundraising in Recreation Agencies (3)
Prerequisite: REC 2910 or permission of instructor.
Prerequisites: REC 2910 or permission of instructor.
Study of applicable techniques and treatment concepts of therapeutic recreation for persons with social and mental disabilities in both community and institutional settings.
REC 3740 Therapeutic Recreation for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities (3)
This course examines the role of therapeutic recreation with individuals with developmental disabilities throughout their life span. Special emphasis on the development of therapeutic techniques, leisure education, community re-integration programs, inclusion and assessment, goal writing and behavior management.
REC 3810 Recreation and the Environment (3)
An exploration of the natural environmental factors that have significant impact on recreation/leisure activities.
REC 3901 Planning and Organizing Activities Service Learning (1)
Students are required to complete 40 hours of service in a park, recreation and/or therapeutic recreation program or agency.
Co-Requisite: REC 3900
REC 3903 Recreation Administration, Supervision and Management (3)
Administrative patterns and management in the various recreational organizations and therapeutic recreation programs/departments including facilities operation, financing, equipment and management of personnel involved in programs and the relationships among units within a government or agency structure.
Writing Emphasis Course
REC 3910 In-Semester Practicum (3)
Prerequisites: Fifteen credits in Recreation courses, a 2.5 grade point average, and permission from Program Coordinator. A passing grade of B or better is required. Limited to Recreation majors.
REC 4310 Process and Techniques in Therapeutic Recreation (3)
Prerequisites: REC 3310 or permission of instructor.
REC 4510 Internship in Recreation (9)
REC 4600 Independent Study (3)
REC 4700 Recreation in Hotels and Resorts (3)
REC 4900 Recreation Leadership Skills (3)
REC 4903 Senior Seminar-Problem Solving (3)
ID 1010 Leisure in a Multicultural Society (3)
Course examines current trends in the growing areas of discretionary spending, changing lifestyles and leisure patterns for various social groups. Emphasis is on cultural values and motivating forces used in the selection of leisure activities experienced today.
The Recreation Administration Program also coordinates one collateral program. Specific information on these programs is located in the collateral section of the catalogue. These collaterals are interdisciplinary and may be taken at the same time as the academic major or as an additional program. (See Index)
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CPM routed in Nandigram
January 10, 2009
Nandigram (Kolkata): In the Assembly by-elections held on Monday, the Left Front suffered an absolute rout at the hands of Opposition Trinamool Congress in Nandigram.
Maoists denounce democracy
February 19, 2008
Chattisgarh: The Nayagarh attack in Orissa has shown that the Naxals can take on the might of the Indian State.
At Varanasi, CM gets a ceremonial 'cremation'
December 15, 2007
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh): The latest entrant in the lists of mock cremation in the holy ghats of Varanasi is Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.
CPM engineered Muslim rage
December 2, 2007
Mumbai (Maharashtra): Did the CPI(M) have a hand in organising the rioting? Who has gained the most after mobs took to the streets?
Slush funds for Kerala Marxist paper
July 8, 2007
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Kerala comrades are ruling class in jail
March 30, 2007
They are CPM's celebrated soldiers: those who went to jail, fighting and killing for the party. Now, they have become a problem for Kerala's ruling party.
Hindus go to madarasas in leftist Bengal
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So many things to talk about with this one! Robin Thicke's label has gone and dropped yet another Blurred Lines track ahead of the album's July 30 release, and in addition to being another track with a number in the title, "Ain't No Hat 4 That" is another nimble dancefloor jam. Like Justin Timberlake's "Take Back The Night," it channels Off The Wall's breezy disco-funk sound. (Look, we know the comparisons between Thicke and JT are played out, but how can we not use that card for this recent stretch of songs? Are we sure the two dudes aren't morphing into one? Not a complaint, by the way, we love the output from both. They're in the zone right now.)
Also, the song was co-written by Robin's father, Alan Thicke. Yes, he of Growing Pains. Turns out Alan is an established writer of TV theme songs and has a few pop songs to his name. Maybe Robin should think about recruiting dad for some more material — and we want to know which of them is responsible for this SAT-worthy line: "Some say her temperament's obstreperous."
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Capitalism basically wants people to be interchangable cogs, and differences among them, such as on the basis of race, usually are not functional. I mean, they may be functional for a period, like if you want a super exploited workforce or something, but those situations are kind of anomalous. Over the long term, you can expect capitalism to be anti-racist — just because its anti-human. And race is in fact a human characteristic — there's no reason why it should be a negative characteristic, but it is a human characteristic. So therefore identifications based on race interfere with the basic ideal that people should be available just as consumers and producers, interchangable cogs who will purchase all the junk that's produced — that's their ultimate function, and any other properties they might have are kind of irrelevent, and usually a nuisance.
(Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky [New York: The New Press, 2002], pp. 88–89)
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No excavation shall be permitted closer than 12'-0" measured at a right angle from the centerline of track to the trackside of shoring system. If existing conditions preclude the installation of shoring at the required minimum distance, the shifting of tracks or temporary removal of tracks shall be investigated prior to any approval. All costs associated with track shifting or traffic interruption shall be at Contractor's expense.
Evaluate slope and stability conditions to ensure the Railroad embankment will not be adversely affected. Local and global stability conditions must also be evaluated.
All shoring within the limits of Zone A or Zone B must be placed prior to the start of excavation.
Lateral clearances must provide sufficient space for construction of the required ditches parallel to the standard roadbed section. The size of ditches will vary depending upon the flow and terrain and should be designed accordingly.
The shoring system must be designed to support the theoretical embankment shown for zones A and B.
Any excavation, holes or trenches on the Railroad property shall be covered, guarded and/or protected. Handrails, fence, or other barrier methods must meet OSHA and FRA requirements. Temporary lighting may also be required by the Railroad to identify tripping hazards to train crewmen and other Railroad personnel.
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"Pic-a-nic baskets." The talent for scoring such goodness is what made Yogi smarter than the average bear. Because sometimes, there's little better than a meal enjoyed outdoors, unpacked from a pretty hamper and spread out on a tablecloth on the grass. Cold fried chicken, potato salad, chocolate cake… mmm, classic.
Yet if cooking isn't your deal, or you want to eat a bit healthier, options aren't hard to find. Sonoma chefs are busy whipping up great foods, already prepared to-go or made-to-order with just a quick phone call ahead.
Traverso's Gourmet Foods, Santa Rosa
With its spiffy new store at Fountaingrove Village, the selection of edibles has gotten even bigger and better for this longtime favorite destination. The boutique shop has been a Santa Rosa fixture for more than eighty years, with one of the County's most impressive selections of domestic and imported food, wine, and liquors. The sandwiches alone are a marvel to behold, and you can build-your-own from nearly three dozen meats, a dozen cheeses, eight breads, and 16 toppings. Or, let the deli pros craft one for you, such as the hot, gooey chicken Parmigiano, a delicate caprese, toothsome pulled pork, or traditional egg salad. This is also where you can old-style sammy treats, like baloney, beef tongue, liverwurst, and salami. Don't forget that perfect bottle of wine, from an impressive line of local boutique and hard-to-find labels.
2097 Stagecoach Road, Santa Rosa, 707-542-2530, traversos.com.
Oliver's Market, Santa Rosa and Cotati
Locally owned and operated, this chic grocery specializes in local products, most of which are artisan and some of which are exclusive to the stores. On-site bakeries make mouthwatering cakes (yes, chocolate), cookies, pastries and more, for desserts that demand front-and-center display on your red-and-white checker tablecloth. The delis brim with hot entrées made by staff chefs, grab and go meals (fried chicken, indeed), fresh salads, homemade soups, and sandwiches on fresh-from-the-oven French bread. Plus, for a more international nibble, each store has a taqueria and a sushi bar. Baked-to-order pizza is another option, a prepared cheese platter is a must, and the wine, beer and spirits department stocks gorgeous quaffs from all around the world.
560 Montecito Center, Santa Rosa, 707-537-7123. Also 546 E. Cotati Avenue, Cotati, 707-795-9501, and 461 Stony Point Road, Santa Rosa, 707-284-3530, oliversmarket.com.
Pearson & Co. Fine Food To Go, Santa Rosa
More than 35 entrees, salads, soups, sandwiches, pastries and desserts are prepared daily, conveniently packed for take-out. Try the lovely B.L.A.T. (applewood bacon, avocado, tomatoes, pesto mayonnaise and mixed greens on toasted whole wheat), a hot ham & cheese panini layered with Black Forest ham, Jarlsberg and Dijon on focaccia, and a rainbow of salads such as golden beet and carrot, avocado and jicama, or a combo served with soup du jour. Heartier appetites can enjoy chicken enchiladas, old fashioned meatloaf, or Dungeness crab and rock shrimp cakes with lemon caper aioli. There's good reason, by the way, that a popular dessert is called Astonishingly Delicious Chocolate Pudding.
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It has been a while since I last posted, and since then I have shifted cities, companies and the type of work that I do. And yes, have married and become a father as well. And most of those things have ensured that writing posts has become fairly rare. This week, I have some time and wanted to restart with an idea that has been floating around in my head for some time — The relationship between customers, employees and shareholders and how we can use this to analyse an industry.
The Components of an Economy
The standard economics books I have read say that a marketplace is made up of buyers and sellers, all seeking to maximise their overall value. But if we look at the world around us, the "market" does not seem to have much negotiating of overall value. Sure, the famous "invisible hand" is supposed to be working to ensure this, but it seems fairly invisible to me!
Instead, I have been trying to see economic principles with respect to three components of the economy that I see in daily life whenever we buy (or sell) something.
One, the person who buys the goods, who is called the buyer, customer, client, sucker….depending on the industry you are in.
Second, the shareholder of the company, or the proprietor of the firm who is selling you the stuff that you are buying
Thirdly, the employee who actually delivers the stuff that you buy. In some cases, like my local barbershop, the employee may be the proprietor. In other cases, like my bank, there may be many employees who deliver the product to me.
Most economic textbooks take the employee as one of the costs of production, and then say "TaDa….standard buyer seller model!", and they are probably right. However, it may be interesting to take all three components and work to see what sort of dynamic evolves when you have a perfect market.
The Example — Telecom in India
The context and industry overview
One of the more interesting examples of this interaction was seen in the Telecom Industry between 200-12. For various reasons, which need their own blog post to discuss, there were a very large set of telecom service providers in India in this period. While 10-15 service providers does not a perfect market make, in the oligopoly that is telecom, this is not at all common. As a comparison, most developed markets have 2-3 major players in mobile telephony and maybe 1 or 2 minor competitors. So 15 service providers is quite a large number in the relatively low margin telecom world in India.
As most economic theories would tell you, when you have a larger number of sellers, this would ten to drive down prices and make companies try to grab customers any way they can, and that is exactly what happened. Indian mobile phone tariffs plummeted, with already low call charges dropping to the lowest in the world.
Analysis — A free for all, and what ensues.
One of the things that I expected was that telecom service providers would start differentiating themselves in this crowded market with solutions that were tailored to individual market segments. This would mean that one of the service providers would capture the corporate data market, while another would be targeting the low margin, but high volume retail voice market. In other words the world of Telecom would start to resemble the world of soap sellers, with one group saying, 20% moisturizing milk and the other group saying, "the soap of the stars".
But that did not happen….at least from my perspective. Instead, tariff plans across the board seemed to converge in a pure price battle, as if all the businesses had no other alternative.
So you had this weird situation, where there were 15 mobile service providers but none of them were any good. Customer service was a joke, and any kind of customization that was requested was inevitably met with "Our Policies/systems do not allow this" My first instinct was to say that these companies are stupid. Why are they not investing in building a differentiated model? It would make so much sense!
But these companies are being run by smart and knowledgeable people who know way more about the business than me, As an example, one of my classmates at my Business School (who is definitely at least as smart as me, and is more hardworking too!) is working for one of those telecom companies. And as top management, I was sure that Sunil Mittal, and Arun Sarin (at the time) were no mugs either. So why could they not figure it out?
So, i changed my assumptions. What if they had figured it out, but something was stopping them? It could not be management quality, so what could it be. The other two alternatives are people, and capital. And now things became a lot more understandable!
Results — The unfortunate trio
First, some context. Any company needs to return cash to its investors (and certainly its lenders). There needs to be some amount of revenue that HAS to be set aside to ensure that capital providers are remunerated. And in telecom, the major expenses are spectrum fees (one time, usually financed with debt) and employee costs. I am deliberately excluding network costs and tower costs, which are not insignificant, but which muddy up the waters in this analysis.
So once you pay the debt holders (which should be non-negotiable), you have to distribute profits among the shareholders and employees. However, the hyper-competitive nature of the industry meant that nobody was making a lot of money. So companies could not pay their shareholders very much….and even though there was a lot of demand for telecom employees because of the number of companies, the sheer cash crunch at companies meant that employees were not getting paid that much! So employees at these companies were not happy at all. Wage hikes were below their expectations, and work hours seem to stretch longer and longer!
"What about shareholders?", you may ask. Well, shareholders were suffering too. From what I could see, Vodafone India was not making enough money to break even, so Vodafone Plc needed to invest in India. Bharti Airtel, decided to try to diversify its holdings by moving out of India, which needed a lot of debt, which in turn has depressed their earnings per share. Reliance Communications tried playing the volume game, and for some time was the largest telecom company in India by subscribers (maybe it still is, but I don't think so). But because its subscribers did not really make it much money, it also had to take on a huge pile of debt. Tata Docomo, which started the fare wars in India with its famous 1p per minute tariffs is yet to make a profit (I think).
Now customers should have had a great deal! But that does not seem to be true either. Sure, the number of subscribers shot up dramatically, but I have yet to meet a satisfied telecom subscriber! Service quality across the industry has suffered, and network congestion means that signal drops are (relatively) common across all service providers.
None of the three stakeholders in the industry are entirely satisfied with the status quo. As shareholders go, three of the smaller competitors seem to have disappeared (with some help from the courts). With the reduction in competition, we are now seeing a more traditional competitive landscape (though how long it lasts is a question mark). Companies are reducing debt and raising equity in an effort to ensure that risks in their capital structure are reduced.
At the same time, customer tariffs are beginning to rise, though tariffs in India are still among the lowest in the world. But as a result of the risks taken in the 2007-12 period, data tariffs rates which are too high for the average Indian ensure that data is yet to drive the profitability of these companies meaningfully. The road to providing differentiated services to customers is still not taken.
And employees? They are usually the last to benefit in any business cycle, and my own guess is that wage hikes and addition of hires would only begin after profitability of the companies improves significantly.
Final Thoughts
Competition is supposed to be an unmitigated good. However, the telecom industry does not seem to accept this, and globally we tend to see that the industry is captured by 2-3 players. There are multiple and complex reasons for this. The jargon terms here tend to be network effect, regulation, spectrum auction policies and stuff like that. Whatever the reasons are, the impact of having multiple players is not an unconditional good.
In later blogs, I shall try to use the three party stakeholder system of economic analysis on other industries to see if any conclusions can be drawn. But this example is one that makes me wonder whether free markets are actually a stable equilibrium state, or is like a tripod, which can be tipped over with an imbalance from any side?


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Watch as the South Dakota storm from May 9, 2011 gathers and becomes tornadic. Footage from near The Badlands to near Philip, SD.
14.5 hours from St Clair, MO later, I have returned back home. No visual tornadoes, but still one hell of a time.
On the road in Kansas searching for tornadoes
We're on the road in central Kansas watching things unfold this morning as perhaps our best shot to catch a tornado on film comes today.
We got on our first active tornado warned storm of the trip, and it produced a tornado. Poor visibility and lack of light kept us from seeing it, but it was likely very close.
Today is South Dakota… Not quite where I expected to end up.
Today we go hunting for tornadoes in the South Dakota area. And a brief recap of the non-event in Nebraska yesterday.
Nebraska: First thought? It's kind of chilly for storms.
We're in Nebraska today, looking for some supercells and maybe a tornado if we're lucky.
On the road again… Headed to the Oklahoma/Kansas border?
We traveled about 7 hours for our first storms since the ride out here, and we lucked out by finding the only one to get severe warned in the region.
Heading back to Texas, some storms may fire today
Desperation setting in? Ha! Maybe…
The Storm Prediction Center has "see texted" the west Texas region as a dryline begins to form over the area today. This feature, increasing instability, and an eventual mid-level trough passage all mentioned yesterday, promise to at least give us some weather to see [...]
Wakita, Oklahoma: Home of the Twister Museum
More Plains sunshine sent us to Wakita to check out where Twister was filmed.
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The Curious Case of Martin Erat
David Singleton | Aug 20, 2010 | Comments 9
As I've been pouring over the NHL CBA in preparation of a blog regarding the next round of CBA discussions, I decided to go a take a break from all that reading and examine the curious case of Martin Erat (who only looks like he gets younger every year). Signed in the 2007 offseason to a 7 year, $31.5 million contract, Erat (and Legwand) were thought to be the future stars for the Nashville Predators. Erat, in particular, looked to the that player with the sniper-like shot and likely capable of posting a few 30 goal seasons given his age at the time (just prior to turning 27). (For a look at the case of David Legwand, Sam has done an excellent analysis over at PredsBlog.com.)
What established those expectations? It begins with Erat's skills. He has a great shot, great speed, and is fairly difficult to knock off the puck. Combine those skills with the speed and playmaking skills shown by Legwand at that time, and everyone became excited for the potential of those two as they progressed through what should have been their prime years.
In the two years since signing his contract, Erat went from consecutive 57 point seasons (the last of which with 23 goals) to a 50 and then 49 point season this past year. Why has Erat not been able to take the next step? He has all the natural skills of a goal scorer, but has yet to top 30 goals (or get any closer than the 23 he had prior to new contract) while other Predators have. I decided to make an attempt to answer the question by looking at the other 30 goal scorers this past season (which included Patric Hornqvist).
There were 24 players that scored 30 or more goals in the 2009 – 2010 regular season. For comparison efforts, I've taken the average of those 24 players in several categories and charted them along with both Patric Hornqvist's and Erat's individual numbers/ranking (if you were to include Erat).
|Shot %
|168 (24th)
|12.5 (20th)
|17:59 (20th)
|23.3 (14th)
|5 (24th)
|24.6 (tied 21st)
|2:46 (24th)
|275 (10th)
|10.9 (23rd)
|15:41 (25th)
|19.7 (25th)
|10 (tied 13th)
|33.3 (tied 5th)
|2:50 (23rd)
From the chart, I noticed that Erat received 44 seconds less PP time than the average time received by the 30+ goal scorers last season. While that number is significant, along with Erat's ranking of 24th out of 25 players in that statistic, it's mitigated by the fact that there were a significant number of players within a very close range to Erat's 2:46- like Hornqvist's 2:50 of PP TOI/G or Bobby Ryan's 2:52 of TOI/G and 11 PP G. (Off topic question- did anyone else other than me not realize that Jarome Iglinia and Rick Nash were not the leading forwards for their respective teams PP TOI/G?)
The most amazing statistic to me from the chart above is the total shots on goal. Erat was more than 100 shots lower than the average number of shots put on net by the 30+ goal scorers. Erat has some of the best goal scoring talents on the team, but greatly trailed Hornqvist (275) , Weber (222), and Arnott (216) last season. Arnott's departure leaves Erat with the most dangerous shot among the forwards.
Arnott averaged about 3.4 S/G over the 63 games he played. If Erat could average that many shots (just slightly better than 1 S/G per period), with a 12% Sh%, he would be around 250 shots (about 74 games) and hit the 30 goal plateau. With proper attention to detail, and potentially increased PP time, I believe that the 30 goal season is within his reach. More importantly, I believe it's a necessity for the Predators to once again reach the playoffs. Not to mention that Hornqvist needs all the rebounds he can get.
There's an old basketball adage (insert "hockey isn't basketball" comment here) that shooters must be fed the ball and continue to shoot. It's an adage I believe translates well to hockey. Those players with natural goal scoring talents don't score unless they shoot.
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About the Author: Nashville Predators Blogger, Software Engineer (C#.NET), Novice Woodworker, Southern Cook, Husband, Father of Two. You may contact me at David.R.Singleton AT gmail.com.
Comments (9)
good stats sir
People have been saying the same about Spezza and Thornton for years.
Some players just don't shoot as much as they could or seemingly should…
[...] The Curious Case of Martin Erat | Hockey IndependentDavid compares Erat to the 30-goal scorers around the league, and recommends that he shoot the puck more often. That's easier said than done, however, and since Marty just set his career high with shot on goal last season with 168, I wouldn't expect that after 8 NHL seasons he's suddenly going to ramp up those numbers. [...]
The guy took more shots in 09-10 than he ever did before. It seems like he's reached the peak of his shooting numbers, and if he tries to force it anymore, it'll probably just result in a lower SH%, and the same number of goals.
Unless his SH% jumps up to 15-18%, he'll probably always be a 20 goal scorer and not much more.


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