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Game 5, Like Deja Vu all over again
• Starting pitchers: Adam Wainwright (19-9, 2.94 ERA) vs. Jon Lester (15-8, 3.75 ERA)
• Scouting report on Wainwright: Not much went right for Wainwright in Game 1 against the Red Sox. A seven-pitch walk to Jacoby Ellsbury in the first was only the start of the 32-year-old's rough night as he allowed three runs in the opening inning, partly due to poor defensive play behind him. However, with the series tied 2-2, Wainwright has another crack at giving his team the advantage moving forward.
"It's a pretty clean slate [from my last start]," Wainwright said Sunday in his news conference at Busch Stadium. "I honestly don't know why my mechanics were as bad as they were [and] my delivery was off as much as it was. But I feel like I've put a lot of good reps in in front of the mirror and watching film and feeling my delivery again."
"I feel like I've made a lot of good adjustments to be ready for this next game to throw some quality pitches."
In his Game 1 start, Wainwright's curveball was his best pitch. He used his curveball for 15 of his final 33 pitches, a span that saw him retire seven straight batters before allowing a David Ortiz single in the fifth inning that he was able to pitch around. Overall, Wainwright went five innings, allowing five runs (three earned) on six hits and striking out four.
"I learned that they hit mistakes," Wainwright said of his first career start against Boston last Wednesday. "And I learned that if I make mistakes in the middle of the plate up in the zone, they're going to hit them."
Overall, Wainwright is 2-2 in his four postseason starts with a 2.25 ERA. The right-hander has allowed seven runs (five earned) in his past 12 innings after allowing only two runs in his first 16 innings pitched of the playoffs.
• Scouting report on Lester: Putting aside the speculation that he was in some way doctoring his pitches in Game 1, Lester pitched masterfully, shutting out the Cardinals' potent offense for 7 2/3 innings and striking out eight batters. The start was yet another in a string of successful starts Lester has made in October, something he says he doesn't know how to explain.
"I feel like I've pitched pretty [well] throughout most of my seasons, and it's just carried over into the postseason," Lester said Sunday. "I don't know what it is. I like this stage. I like knowing that I've got to go out there and give everything I've got for my teammates, because tomorrow might be our last game. You don't know; I guess that just gives you that little extra focus."
Of Lester's 10 career postseason starts, seven have been of the quality variety — at least six innings pitched and three runs or fewer allowed. The 29-year-old has gone 5-4 in 12 postseason appearances overall, posting a 2.22 ERA. Of his 69 postseason innings pitched, 13 1/3 have come in the World Series, where he has yet to allow a run.
"I think the one thing that we all recognize is that the power stuff wins in the postseason," Red Sox manager John Farrell said Sunday. "He's got it, he maintains it, and yet, in addition to his physical strengths, there's a level of concentration that he's capable of maintaining that gives him the ability to execute consistently over the time he's on the mound. Those two things combined are what's given [him] the career performance he's had in the postseason."
This will be the first time in his career that Lester has made five starts in a single postseason.
Three Cardinals players to watch
• Carlos Beltran, RF: Beltran was only given one shot at Lester in Game 1, striking out swinging on four pitches before being removed from the game due to a rib contusion. Beltran has three hits in 10 World Series at-bats so far, two of which have come in his two at-bats with runners in scoring position. Beltran was left with a bat in his hand at home plate in the ninth inning of Game 4 after Kolten Wong was picked off first base to end the game.
• David Freese, 3B: Since singling in the ninth inning of Game 1, Freese has been held hitless in his past eight at-bats, a streak that's resulted in him being dropped to seventh in the order. Of the 13 runners he's left on base the past four games, six have been left in scoring position.
• Pete Kozma, SS: In keeping with pattern, manager Mike Matheny has selected Kozma to start at short in Games 1 and 3 while going with Daniel Descalso in Games 2 and 4. The difference between the two has been a wash offensively, as Descalso is 0-for-6 while Kozma is 0-for-8 through the first four games of the series. However, Kozma was the only St. Louis Cardinals hitter to not strike out in Game 1, seeing 13 pitches in his three plate appearances.
Three Red Sox players to watch
• David Ortiz, 1B: A lot of the talk leading into the World Series was about how many games Ortiz would play at first base over Mike Napoli. But Ortiz has ended that conversation, with a gaudy .727 batting average, a result of eight hits in 11 at-bats. His eight hits have accounted for a third of the Red Sox's total in the series (24). He also has two of Boston's three homers and he leads the team in RBI (5) and runs (5). He has collected hits in his past four at-bats and is the only Boston starter to not strike out so far.
• Jonny Gomes, LF: With outfielder Shane Victorino's status still unknown following his late scratch before Game 4, Gomes re-proved his worth in the lineup to Farrell by hitting what turned out to be the game-winning three-run home run for Boston in the sixth inning, ending his 0-for-9 skid to start the World Series. Gomes also worked a 10-pitch walk in the fifth and a six-pitch walk in the eighth inning of Sunday's game, a step back on the right track for a player with whom Boston has won eight of nine postseason starts.
• Xander Bogaerts, 3B: Bogaerts started off the series going 0-for-6 with four strikeouts in Games 1 and 2 before turning it on in St. Louis to collect three hits in his past seven at-bats. The 21-year-old's .231 average is third on the team behind Ortiz (.727) and Dustin Pedroia (.267).
Three key considerations:
• Red Sox reliever Junichi Tazawa has appeared in all four World Series games, the only pitcher on either team to do so. Farrell has used Tazawa to face just one batter in three of his four appearances, something the 27-year-old did in only two of his 71 appearances during the regular season.
• Sunday night's win guaranteed that the series will shift back to Fenway Park for at least a Game 6. So far this postseason, Boston is 5-2 at home compared to 4-3 on the road.
• David Ross will be back behind the plate in Game 5, according to Farrell. Ross has caught all four of Lester's starts this postseason, including Game 1 where he went 1-for-2 against Wainwright. It will be Ross's second consecutive start since regular starter Jarrod Saltalamacchia made a throw that led to the obstruction call that ended Game 3.


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"Once I applied 5s to the supply chain, our Sigma score has improved and my DPUs are down." (Pause for blank stare). Ever found yourself in a conversation where unidentified flying acronyms were being dropped? Unfortunately, there isn't a Rosetta Stone for business terms and methodologies, however, what has helped me to grasp concepts has been the ability to compare it to everyday life. Take a sigh of relief knowing you don't need an assembly line of widgets to apply Lean Six Sigma principles.
There are two parts—Lean and Six Sigma. Lean is purely to reduce waste and trim fat off of a process. This helps to detect where the process is being duplicated, deviated or manually spoon fed. In my experience, this can be multiple hand offs or approvals for a deliverable. Eliminate the email traffic and manual paper pushing, these are calories a process doesn't need.
Six Sigma, the mathematical half, seeks to reduce variation using a Sigma score; with 6 being the highest efficiency and 1 being the least, but always room for continuous improvement. To illustrate this, I'll use a silly but universal example of the clothing closet.
I'm constantly running late because I can't find that "one" shirt in my closet. This daily tardiness variation (defect per unit) can be reduced, while increasing my Sigma score by applying the 5s'. Sort out the clothes I don't wear to reduce clutter. Set the clothes by color for easier selection. Shine the space to be ideal—durable hangers or organizers. Standardize to find the one best way for arrangement of my closet; by color, by season, by style. Systemize to sustain the closet space; replace my closet light, or using the common rule, if you haven't worn it in 6 months it needs to go—better known as the Goodwill drop-off.
Now is the moment you realize you are already applying Six Sigma principles in your life. As illustrated, there are no boundaries to the application of it—big or small, personal life or professional. First, the clothing closet, then the food pantry, and next, the world! A word of warning, if you weren't ADD about such things before, this may cause repeatable 5s syndrome.
This isn't a one size fits all tactic, there are many approaches and frames to streamline processes. Lean and Six Sigma are just a few lenses to view from. Understanding shouldn't be buried in the terminology, they should be broken down and made touchable for any person to grab on to. A guiding mantra as you embark on bettering processes around you; if a step within a process doesn't change something to improve it, it's not adding value.
Erin Zimmerman was a Senior Consultant with IBM before joining our team. Her expertise includes Supply Chain, Process Excellence, strategic planning, and project management. Erin says what makes her tick is flaky croissants, morning coffee, tree run skiing, adding stamps to her passport, and running.


text: Atmel AT24C128C I2C-Compatible (2-Wire) Serial EEPROM 128-Kbit (16,384 x 8) DATASHEET Features Low-voltage and standard-voltage operation VCC = 1.7V to 5.5V Internally organized as 16,384 x 8 2-wire serial interface Schmitt Trigger, filtered inputs for noise suppression Bidirectional data transfer protocol 400kHz (1.7V) and 1MHz (2.5V, 2.7V, 5.0V) compatibility Write Protect pin for hardware protection 64-byte page write mode Partial page writes allowed Self-timed write cycle (5ms max) High reliability Endurance: 1,000,000 write cycles Data retention: 40 years Lead-free/Halogen-free devices available Green package options (Pb/Halide-free/RoHS compliant) 8-lead JEDEC SOIC, 8-lead TSSOP, 8-pad UDFN, 8-pad XDFN, and 8-ball VFBGA packages Die sale options: wafer form, waffle pack, and bumped wafers Description The Atmel® AT24C128C provides 131,072-bits of Serial Electrically Erasable and Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM) organized as 16,384 words of eight bits each. The device's cascading feature allows up to eight devices to share a common 2-wire bus. The device is optimized for use in many industrial and commercial applications where low-power and low-voltage operation are essential. The devices are available in space-saving 8-lead JEDEC SOIC, 8-lead TSSOP, 8-pad UDFN, 8-pad XDFN, and 8-ball VFBGA packages. In addition, this device operates from 1.7V to 5.5V. 8734B–SEEPR–9/2012 1. Pin Configurations and Pinouts Table 1-1. Pin Configuration 8-lead SOIC Function A0 Address Input A1 Address Input A2 Address Input GND Ground SDA Serial Data SCL Serial Clock Input A0 1 8 8 1 A0 Write Protect VCC VCC WP A1 2 7 WP WP 7 2 A1 Device Power Supply A2 3 6 SCL SCL 6 3 A2 GND 4 5 SDA SDA 5 4 GND VCC A0 1 8 VCC A1 2 7 WP A2 3 6 SCL GND 4 SDA 5 A0 A1 A2 GND 1 8 2 7 3 6 4 5 Top View Top View 8-pad UDFN/XDFN 8-ball VFBGA Top View 2. 8-lead TSSOP Pin VCC WP SCL SDA Bottom View Absolute Maximum Ratings* Operating Temperature . . . . . . . . . . .−55°C to +125°C Storage Temperature . . . . . . . . . . . −65°C to + 150°C Voltage on any pin with respect to ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . − 1.0 V +7.0V Maximum Operating Voltage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.25V DC Output Current. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.0mA *Notice: Stresses beyond those listed under "Absolute Maximum Ratings" may cause permanent damage to the device. This is a stress rating only and functional operation of the device at these or any other conditions beyond those indicated in the operational sections of this specification are not implied. Exposure to absolute maximum rating conditions for extended periods may affect device reliability. Atmel AT24C128C [DATASHEET] 8734B–SEEPR–9/2012 2 3. Block Diagram VCC GND WP Start Stop Logic SDA Serial Control Logic LOAD Device Address Comparator A2 A1 A0 R/W EN H.V. Pump/Timing COMP LOAD Data Word Addr/Counter Y DEC Data Recovery INC X DEC SCL EEPROM Serial MUX DOUT/ACK LOGIC DIN DOUT 4. Pin Descriptions Serial Clock (SCL): The SCL input is used to positive-edge clock data into each EEPROM device and negative-edge clock data out of each device. Serial Data (SDA): The SDA pin is bidirectional for serial data transfer. This pin is open drain driven and may be wire-ORed with any number of other open-drain or open-collector devices. Device Addresses (A2, A1, A0): The A2, A1, and A0 pins are device address inputs that are hard wired (directly to GND or to VCC) for compatibility with other Atmel AT24C devices. When the pins are hard wired, as many as eight 128K devices may be addressed on a single bus system. (Device addressing is discussed in detail in Section 7. "Device Addressing" on page 9). A device is selected when a corresponding hardware and software match is true. If these pins are left floating, the A2, A1, and A0 pins will be internally pulled down to GND. However, due to capacitive coupling that may appear during customer applications, Atmel recommends always connecting the address pins to a known state. When using a pull-up resistor, Atmel recommends using 10k or less. Write Protect (WP): The Write Protect input, when connected to GND, allows normal write operations. When WP is connected directly to VCC, all write operations to the memory are inhibited. If the pin is left floating, the WP pin will be internally pulled down to GND. However, due to capacitive coupling that may appear during customer applications, Atmel recommends always connecting the WP pins to a known state. When using a pull-up resistor, Atmel recommends using 10k or less. Table 4-1. WP Pin Status Write Protect Part of the Array Protected Atmel AT24C128C At VCC Full Array At GND Normal Read/Write Operations Atmel AT24C128C [DATASHEET] 8734B–SEEPR–9/2012 3 5. Memory Organization Atmel AT24C128C, 128K Serial EEPROM: The 128K is internally organized as 256 pages of 64-bytes each. Random word addressing requires a 14-bit data word address. Table 5-1. Pin Capacitance(1) Applicable over recommended operating range from: TA = 25°C, f = 1.0MHz, VCC = 1.7V to 5.5V. Symbol Test Condition CI/O CIN Note: 1. Table 5-2. Max Units Conditions Input/Output Capacitance (SDA) 8 pF VI/O = 0V Input Capacitance (A0, A1, A2, and SCL) 6 pF VIN = 0V This parameter is characterized and is not 100% tested. DC Characteristics Applicable over recommended operating range from: TAI = -40°C to +85°C, VCC = 1.7V to 5.5V (unless otherwise noted). Symbol Parameter VCC1 Supply Voltage ICC1 Supply Current VCC = 5.0V Read at 400kHz ICC2 Supply Current VCC = 5.0V Write at 400kHz ISB1 Standby Current Input Leakage ILI Current VCC = 5.0V Output Leakage ILO Current VCC = 5.0V Test Condition Min Typ Max Units 5.5 V 1.0 2.0 mA 2.0 3.0 mA 1.0 A 6.0 A 1.7 VCC = 1.7V VCC = 5.0V VIN = VCC or VSS VIN = VCC or VSS 0.10 3.0 A VOUT = VCC or VSS 0.05 3.0 A VIL Input Low Level(1) -0.6 VCC x 0.3 V VIH Input High Level((1) VCC x 0.7 VCC + 0.5 V VOL1 Output Low Level VCC = 1.7V IOL = 0.15mA 0.2 V VOL2 Output Low Level VCC = 3.0V IOL = 2.1mA 0.4 V Note: 1. VIL min and VIH max are reference only and are not tested. Atmel AT24C128C [DATASHEET] 8734B–SEEPR–9/2012 4 Table 5-3. AC Characteristics (Industrial Temperature) Applicable over recommended operating range from: TAI = −40°C to +85°C, VCC = 1.7V to 5.5V, CL = 100pF (unless otherwise noted). Test conditions are listed in Note 2. 1.7V Symbol Parameter Min fSCL Clock Frequency, SCL tLOW Clock Pulse Width Low tHIGH Clock Pulse Width High 2.5V, 5.0V Max Min 400 Max Units 1000 kHz 1300 400 ns 600 400 ns (1) tI Noise Suppression Time 100 tAA Clock Low to Data Out Valid tBUF Time the bus must be free before a new transmission can start(1) 1300 500 ns tHD.STA Start Hold Time 600 250 ns tSU.STA Start Set-up Time 600 250 ns tHD.DAT Data In Hold Time 0 0 ns tSU.DAT Data In Set-up Time 100 100 ns 50 (1) 900 50 50 ns 550 ns tR Inputs Rise Time tF Inputs Fall Time(1) tSU.STO Stop Set-up Time 600 250 ns tDH Data Out Hold Time 50 50 ns tWR Write Cycle Time 5 Endurance(1) 25°C, Page Mode, 3.3V 1,000,000 Notes: 1. 2. 300 300 ns 300 100 ns 5 ms Write Cycles This parameter is ensured by characterization and is not 100% tested. AC measurement conditions: RL (connects to VCC): 1.3kΩ (2.5V, 5.5V), 10kΩ (1.7V) Input pulse voltages: 0.3VCC to 0.7VCC Input rise and fall times: ≤ 50ns Input and output timing reference voltages: 0.5 x VCC Atmel AT24C128C [DATASHEET] 8734B–SEEPR–9/2012 5 6. Device Operation Clock and Data Transitions: The SDA pin is normally pulled high with an external device. Data on the SDA pin may change only during SCL low time periods (See Figure 6-1). Data changes during SCL high periods will indicate a start or stop condition as defined below. Figure 6-1. Data Validity SDA SCL Data Stable Data Stable Data Change Start Condition: A high-to-low transition of SDA with SCL high is a start condition that must precede any other command (See Figure 6-2). Figure 6-2. Start and Stop Definition SDA SCL Start Stop Stop Condition: A low-to-high transition of SDA with SCL high is a stop condition. After a read sequence, the stop command will place the EEPROM in a standby power mode (See Figure 6-2). Acknowledge: All addresses and data words are serially transmitted to and from the EEPROM in 8-bit words. The EEPROM sends a zero during the ninth clock cycle to acknowledge that it has received each word. Standby Mode: AT24C128C features a low-power standby mode that is enabled upon power-up and after the receipt of the stop bit and the completion of any internal operations. Atmel AT24C128C [DATASHEET] 8734B–SEEPR–9/2012 6 Software Reset: After an interruption in protocol, power loss or system reset, any 2-wire part can be protocol reset by following these steps: 1. Create a Start bit condition 2. Clock nine cycles 3. Create another Start bit followed by stop bit condition as shown below. The device is ready for next communication after above steps has been completed. Figure 6-3. Software Reset Dummy Clock Cycles 1 SCL 2 3 8 9 Start Bit Start Bit Stop Bit SDA Figure 6-4. Bus Timing tHIGH tF tR tLOW tLOW SCL tSU.STA tHD.STA tHD.DAT tSU.DAT tSU.STO SDA In tAA tDH tBUF SDA Out Atmel AT24C128C [DATASHEET] 8734B–SEEPR–9/2012 7 Figure 6-5. Write Cycle Timing SCL SDA 8th Bit ACK WORDN tWR Start Condition Stop Condition Note: 1. (1) The write cycle time tWR is the time from a valid stop condition of a write sequence to the end of the internal clear/write cycle. Figure 6-6. Output Acknowledge 1 SCL 8 9 Data In Data Out Start Acknowledge Atmel AT24C128C [DATASHEET] 8734B–SEEPR–9/2012 8 7. Device Addressing The 128K EEPROM requires an 8-bit device address word following a start condition to enable the chip for a read or write operation (Figure 7-1). The device address word consists of a mandatory one, zero sequence for the first four most significant bits as shown. This is common to all 2-wire EEPROM devices. Figure 7-1. Device Addressing 1 MSB 0 1 0 A2 A1 A0 R/W LSB The next three bits are the A2, A1, and A0 device address bits to allow as many as eight devices on the same bus. These bits must compare to their corresponding hard wired input pins. The A2, A1, and A0 pins use an internal proprietary circuit that biases them to a logic low condition if the pins are allowed to float. The eighth bit of the device address is the read/write operation select bit. A read operation is initiated if this bit is high, and a write operation is initiated if this bit is low. Upon a compare of the device address, the EEPROM will output a zero. If a compare is not made, the device will return to a standby state. Data Security: AT24C128C has a hardware data protection scheme that allows the user to write protect the whole memory when the WP pin is at VCC. Atmel AT24C128C [DATASHEET] 8734B–SEEPR–9/2012 9 8. Write Operations Byte Write: A write operation requires two 8-bit data word addresses following the device address word and acknowledgment. Upon receipt of this address, the EEPROM will again respond with a zero, and then clock in the first 8-bit data word. Following receipt of the 8-bit data word, the EEPROM will output a zero. The addressing device, such as a microcontroller, must then terminate the write sequence with a stop condition. At this time, the EEPROM enters an internally-timed write cycle, tWR, to the nonvolatile memory. All inputs are disabled during this write cycle and the EEPROM will not respond until the write is complete (See Figure 7-1). Figure 8-1. Byte Write S T A R T Device Address W R I T E First Word Address Second Word Address S T O P Data SDA Line M S B Note: R A / C W K A C K A C K A C K * = Don't care bit Page Write: The 128K EEPROM is capable of 64-byte page writes. A page write is initiated the same way as a byte write, but the microcontroller does not send a stop condition after the first data word is clocked in. Instead, after the EEPROM acknowledges receipt of the first data word, the microcontroller can transmit up to 63 more data words. The EEPROM will respond with a zero after each data word received. The microcontroller must terminate the page write sequence with a stop condition (See Figure 8-2). Figure 8-2. Page Write S T A R T Device Address W R I T E First Word Address Second Word Address Data (n) S T O P Data (n + x) SDA Line M S B Note: R A / C WK A C K A C K A C K A C K * = Don't care bit The data word address lower six bits are internally incremented following the receipt of each data word. The higher data word address bits are not incremented, retaining the memory page row location. When the word address, internally generated, reaches the page boundary, the following byte is placed at the beginning of the same page. If more than 64 data words are transmitted to the EEPROM, the data word address will roll-over and the previous data will be overwritten. The address roll-over during write is from the last byte of the current page to the first byte of the same page. Acknowledge Polling: Once the internally-timed write cycle has started and the EEPROM inputs are disabled, acknowledge polling can be initiated. This involves sending a start condition followed by the device address word. The read/write bit is representative of the operation desired. Only if the internal write cycle has completed will the EEPROM respond with a zero, allowing the read or write sequence to continue. Atmel AT24C128C [DATASHEET] 8734B–SEEPR–9/2012 10 9. Read Operations Read operations are initiated the same way as write operations with the exception that the read/write select bit in the device address word is set to one. There are three read operations: Current Address Read Random Address Read Sequential Read Current Address Read: The internal data word address counter maintains the last address accessed during the last read or write operation, incremented by one. This address stays valid between operations as long as the chip power is maintained. The address roll-over during read is from the last byte of the last memory page, to the first byte of the first page. Once the device address with the read/write select bit set to one is clocked in and acknowledged by the EEPROM, the current address data word is serially clocked out. The microcontroller does not respond with an input zero but does generate a following stop condition (See Figure 9-1). Figure 9-1. Current Address Read S T A R T Device Address R E A D S T O P Data SDA Line M S B N O R A / C WK A C K Random Read: A Random Read requires a dummy byte write sequence to load in the data word address. Once the device address word and data word address are clocked in and acknowledged by the EEPROM, the microcontroller must generate another start condition. The microcontroller now initiates a Current Address Read by sending a device address with the read/write select bit high. The EEPROM acknowledges the device address and serially clocks out the data word. The microcontroller does not respond with a zero but does generate a following stop condition. (See Figure 9-2) Figure 9-2. Random Read S T A R T Device Address W R I T E First Word Address S T A R T Second Word Address Device Address R E A D S T O P Data (n) SDA LINE M S B R A / C W K A C K Dummy Write Note: L A S C B K R A / C WK N O A C K * = Don't care bit Atmel AT24C128C [DATASHEET] 8734B–SEEPR–9/2012 11 Sequential Read: Sequential Reads are initiated by either a Current Address Read or a Random Address Read. After the microcontroller receives a data word, it responds with an acknowledge. As long as the EEPROM receives an acknowledge, it will continue to increment the data word address and serially clock out sequential data words. When the memory address maximum address is reached, the data word address will roll-over and the Sequential Read will continue from the beginning of the array. The Sequential Read operation is terminated when the microcontroller does not respond with a zero but does generate a following stop condition (See Figure 9-3). Figure 9-3. Sequential Read S T A R T Device Address W R I T E First Word Address Second Word Address ... SDA LINE R A / C W K M S B L A S C B K A C K Dummy Write S T A R T Device Address R E A D Data (n) Data (n + 1) Data (n + 2) S T O P Data (n + x) ... R A / C WK A C K A C K A C K N O A C K Note: * = Don't care bit Atmel AT24C128C [DATASHEET] 8734B–SEEPR–9/2012 12 10. Ordering Code Detail AT 2 4 C 1 2 8 C - S S H M - B Atmel Designator Shipping Carrier Option B T Product Family 24C = Standard I2C Serial EEPROM Device Density 128 = 128K Device Revision = Bulk (tubes) = Tape and reel Operating Voltage M = 1.7V to 5.5V Package Device Grade or Wafer/Die Thickness H = Green, NiPdAu Lead Finish, Industrial Temperature Range (-40°C to +85°C) U = Green, Matte Sn Lead Finish, Industrial Temperature Range (-40°C to +85°C) 11 = 11mil wafer thickness Package Option SS = JEDEC SOIC X = TSSOP MA = UDFN ME = XDFN C = VFBGA WWU = Wafer Unsawn WDT = Die in Tape and Reel Atmel AT24C128C [DATASHEET] 8734B–SEEPR–9/2012 13 11. Part Markings AT24C128C: Package Marking Information 8-lead SOIC 8-lead TSSOP 8-lead UDFN 2.0 x 3.0 mm Body 8-ball VFBGA 8-lead XDFN 2.35 x 3.73 mm Body 1.8 x 2.2 mm Body 2DCU @YMXX Note 1: ### [email protected] YXX ATHYWW 2DC% @ AAAAAAA ATMLHYWW 2DC% @ AAAAAAAA 2DC YXX designates pin 1 Note 2: Package drawings are not to scale Catalog Number Truncation AT24C128C Truncation Code ###: 2DC Date Codes Y = Year 2: 2012 3: 2013 4: 2014 5: 2015 Voltages 6: 2016 7: 2017 8: 2018 9: 2019 M = Month A: January B: February ... L: December WW = Work Week of Assembly 02: Week 2 04: Week 4 ... 52: Week 52 Country of Assembly Lot Number @ = Country of Assembly AAA...A = Atmel Wafer Lot Number Trace Code % = Minimum Voltage M: 1.7V min Grade/Lead Finish Material U: Industrial/Matte Tin H: Industrial/NiPdAu Atmel Truncation XX = Trace Code (Atmel Lot Numbers Correspond to Code) Example: AA, AB.... 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Crimes Against Property
Public Safety
What does this measure?
The number of property crimes, per 1,000 residents. These crimes include arson, burglary, theft, fraud, embezzlement, and destruction/vandalism.
Why is this important?
Crime detracts from the quality of life of those who directly experience and witness it, but it also impacts the lives of others within the community, as well as housing stability, and a community's attractiveness as a place to live, work, and do business.
How is our county doing?
The rate of reported property crimes in Essex County in 2015 was 23 per 1,000 residents, just below the state rate of 24. The state and Essex County have each reduced their rates slightly from the previous year. There has been an overall reduction in Essex County's rate since 2007, when it peaked at 30.
The highest property crime rates were in the cities of Salem (49), Lynn and Saugus (both at 40). Of the 10 towns with the highest rates of crimes against property in 2015, 8 reflected a reduction in rate from the previous year.
How do we compare to similar counties?
Middlesex (21 per 1,000 residents) and Essex County had similar rates in 2015. Comparable data for Lake, IL and Westchester, NY was not available.
Notes about the data
The City of Lawrence did not report data to the State Police. Property crime includes burglary, larceny, and motor vehicle theft. Comparable national data and rates for comparison counties were not available. Data for this indicator is expected to be released annually in July.


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I've been doing a few jobs today so we've got more done for when Mum and Dad come to visit! First I've been painting the skirting boards and door frames in the hallway, next job in the hallway is to paint the walls. We're just giving it a quick paint so it looks fine for now then we will come back to it another time to sort the walls our or put some new wallpaper up. Then we need to sort the tiled floor out!
Then I did a bit in the garden. We've got quite a lot of daffodils coming up now, only one is flowering though so far! We bought a welly plant pot the other day so I've put a strawberry plant in it we had from last year! I also decided I wanted to outline the border with something and as we had some bricks left over from knocking out the fireplace I pulled some out of our pile for the skip! I'm going to dig them into the ground so they are level with it and I think it looks quite nice! Nathan's she'd is going at the back of the garden so I'm not sure how far back to go with them yet!


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The San Diego City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a series of ordinances to implement the Mid-City Community Plan, a sweeping blueprint for economic revitalization and improvement of city services in some of San Diego's oldest residential and commercial neighborhoods.
Like other inner-city neighborhoods, the Mid-City is experiencing a steady population increase, creating a housing demand that has encouraged developers to tear down single-family homes to make way for new apartment and condominium complexes. Some Mid-City residents have complained that the growth is unchecked and that there are inadequate parks, crowded schools, deteriorating businesses and overtaxed municipal services such as roads and sewers.
"City services really are not adequately meeting its needs--we have an ancient infrastructure there, and the schools are badly overcrowded," Councilwoman Gloria McColl said two weeks ago at a public hearing on the ordinances. "There are serious deficiencies with the parks, and commercial centers are deteriorating."
To slow the growth, the Mid-City plan was approved by the council a year ago after intense public debate. The plan encompasses the area bounded by Interstate 805 on the west; the City of La Mesa on the east; California 94 on the south, and Fairmount Avenue, Montezuma Road, Collwood Boulevard and El Cajon Boulevard on the north. The area is home to 10% of the city's residents, Planning Director Jack Van Cleave said in a report.


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While you're out there working up a sweat and soaking up the city, be sure to tag your iconic Columbus photos on Instagram with #FITcolumbus. You never know, your photo may end up on Bend Active's upcoming FIT Columbus yoga pant (just like these!).
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Sunday, September 28, 2008
Stickley Footstool, Part 3
The Stickley footstool is finished and in place next to the extra large Morris chair. I finished it to match the chair and used matching fabric for the cushion. Pam was very happy when I bought it into the house and immediately curled up with her book in the chair.
One of the most rewarding things about being a woodworker is making high quality furniture for your home. I'm slowly filling my home and those of my friends with furniture that I've made. You can't find furniture like this in most stores and if you do you can't afford it. It gives me a huge amount of satisfaction to take rough boards and transform them into fine furniture.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it. - Mahatma Gandhi
Labels: "Arts and Crafts", furniture, Mission, Morris Chair, Stickley, woodworking
2 comments:
- Captain Skully said...
I'm concerned about my Morris chair being too short. Can you point me in the right direction for "oversized" plans? Love both!
- September 29, 2008 at 10:36 PM
- Brad Ferguson said...
I've come up with my own plan for this morris chair based on the original New Yankee Workshop plan. I first used it to make a Paddle Arm Morris Chair plan than I expanded the width of that plan. I've never seen a comercial plan for a wide morris chair. The front of the seat for a chair should be 16-18 inches off the floor to be comfortable for the average person.
- September 29, 2008 at 11:03 PM
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4-H Alberta - Beef Heifer Show
|Deadline: June 01, 2018 11:59 PM
|Start Date: July 09, 2018 12:00 AM
|End Date: July 12, 2018 1:00 PM
|Location: Olds Regional Exhibition, Olds AB
Program Description:
Load your trailer, fill the tank with gas and head to Olds for three jam-packed days of competition, networking and all-around beef-heifer bliss! Not only is this provincial show a great opportunity to share your passion for cattle with fellow 4-H beef project enthusiasts from across the province but it allows you to sharpen your skills in showmanship, judging, grooming and marketing - plus show off your prized project animal in a series of conformation classes! In addition, you'll learn from industry experts as they share their knowledge and know-how on the latest trends and topics related to the beef industry.
Don't have a female project but don't want to miss out? Say no more! Come and soak up the atmosphere, help out a fellow 4-H member and take part in all of the opportunities that don't require you to bring your animal.
Beef-Heifer show participants are invited to partake in Summer Synergy and compete for Summer Synergy scholarships. For more information on Summer Synergy visit www.summersynergy.ca.
Dates: July 9 – 12
Location: Olds Regional Exhibition, Olds AB
Registration Deadline: June 1
Early Bird: May 15
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- Online Registration opens at 12:00 am on the first day of registration and is available 24 hours a day until midnight of the registration deadline.
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- An administrative fee of $50.00 will be retained on all cancellations. Cancellations received less than 14 days before the event start date will forfeit the entire registration fee unless a delegate replacement is available or extenuating circumstances are at play.
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|Cost: $75.00 CAD
|Region: Provincial
|Who can apply: Clubs , Leaders , All Members
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I made this pizza cookies for my son's birthday. We invited a few of his friends for a sleep over party, we had pizza and pasta followed by these cookies. The boys came to our house with big bags, not full of clothes but full of water guns and toy guns that they had so much fun playing that they don't need much of a sleep.
This cookies is inspired by the Betty Crocker Cookie Book. If you don't want to bake, you can use store bought sweet cookies then ice the cookies with frosting and decorate with some chocolate and lollies for small pizza. It will be a crowd pleaser at any kids party!
Birthday Pizza Cookies
1/3 cup caster sugar
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup butter, soften
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 egg
2 cups plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
For the frosting:
100g dark chocolate
1 tablespoon butter
1/2 cup icing sugar
4 tablespoons or more milk
For decoration:
mini marshmallow
white chocolate, melted
- Preheat oven at 180c. Beat sugar, butter, vanilla together until creamy. Add egg and stir in flour and baking powder. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate until firm.
- Roll dough to the base of the pizza pan or shape dough into small round shape for small pizza. Bake about 30 minutes or until the cookies is golden brown. Cool cookies at wire rack.
- For the frosting: melt chocolate and butter in a small saucepan under low heat. Add in sugar and enough milk to make a smooth paste.
- Use a knife to spread frosting to cool cookies. Then top with marshmallow and smarties. Drizzle cookies with melted white chocolate. Keep cookies in tin to retain freshness.


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Come now, let us reason together.
—Isaiah 1:18
The following is a list of free resources (except for books, unless borrowed from your local library). The information is under three categories: video, audio, and text (including books). It includes both philosophic and scientific proofs for a "super-intelligent, transcendent, creative power standing at the origins of our universe."[1]
Science, God & Creation
Magis Center of Reason and Faith, Vimeo
See the Text section below for the related study guide.
Finding God Through Faith And Reason (online or mp3)
HOST: Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D.
NOTE: To access the mp3 format: The following are direct links to listen online; right click on the audio bar to download the mp3.
The series can also be accessed via the above link which is to the Audio Search page.
- EPISODE 1: How Can You Prove God's Existence?
- EPISODE 2: St. Thomas Aquinas' Proof of an Uncaused Cause
- EPISODE 3: Metaphysical Proof Part One: Proof of an Unconditioned Reality
- EPISODE 4: Metaphysical Proof Part Two: Proof of an Absolutely Simple Reality
- EPISODE 5: Metaphysical Proof Part Three: Proof of a Unique, Unrestricted Reality
- EPISODE 6: Metaphysical Proof Part Four: Proof of a Continuous Creator of All Else That Is
- EPISODE 7: A Priori Cosmological Proof Part One: Proof that Past Time is Finite and Requires a Creator
- EPISODE 8: A Priori Cosmological Proof Part Two: Proof that the Creator of Past Time is not Conditioned by Time and is Therefore Absolutely Simple
- EPISODE 9: A Posteriori Cosmological Evidence: The Universe is Finite in Time and Space, Implying a Creator
- EPISODE 10: Teleological Evidence, Part One: The Extreme Improbability of the Universe Being Capable of Sustaining Life
- EPISODE 11: Teleological Evidence, Part Two: The Extremely Improbably Universe Betokens a Super-Intellect Designer
- EPISODE 12: Manifestations of God's Absolute Simplicity: Truth, Love, Goodness, Beauty and Being
- EPISODE 13: Evidence of the Human Soul: Our Desire for Perfect and Unconditional Truth, Love, Goodness, Beauty and Being
- EPISODE 14: The Proofs in Light of Christian Faith: One God, Three Persons and the Incarnation
Peter Kreeft, Ph.D. (professor of philosophy, Boston College)
- Arguments For God's Existence
- Desire (a broader treatment of the text version below)
Catholic Answers Live
- Call-in radio show. Listen live, or via podcast or free mp3, or watch live or archived on YouTube.
- Although CAL covers many topics, they regularly have shows on God's existence and atheism from a scientific and philosophical position. A good search term for this would be "Trent Horn" who is the guest on many of this topic's episodes.
Summa Theologiae
Question 12. How God is known by us
Peter Kreeft, Ph.D. (professor of philosophy, Boston College)
Arguments for God's Existence:
- Can You Prove God Exists?
- Argument from Design
- The First Cause Argument
- The Argument From Conscience
- The Argument From History
- The Argument From Pascal's Wager
- The Argument From Desire (A broader treatment is available in audio format above.)
- The Divinity Of Christ
- Resurrection Evidence
- 20 Arguments For God's Existence (Includes discussion questions.)
Strange Notions
Description: "…the central place of dialogue between Catholics and atheists."
Magis Center for Reason and Faith (Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D.)
Science, Reason & Faith: Additional Resources
This is a list of six resources:
- VIDEO: Science, God & Creation (above)
- PDF: Study guide to the above video. Comprehensive and self-contained, this is a free 128 page booklet that gives more detailed information than is found in the video and gives step-by-step explanations.
- PDF: Evidence for God from Physics and Philosophy
- PDF: Thomistic Metaphysical Proof of God
- PDF: Lonerganian Proof of God
- PDF: Science, Medicine, and Near Death Experiences
God and Modern Physics: Facts About the Beginning and Design of the Universe (pdf)
New Proofs for the Existence of God: Contributions of Contemporary Physics and Philosophy
Robert J. Spitzer [Ph.D.]. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Grand Rapids. 2010.
- 320 pages
- Topics include: universal space-time asymmetry, cosmic coincidences, the intelligibility of reality, string theory, quantum cosmology, mathematical thoughts on infinity, and much more.
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Optometrist - Mold, Flintshire
Role summary
Specsavers are currently looking for bright, eager and outgoing candidates for the position of Optometrist based at our store in Mold. As well as outstanding development, there's the buzzing atmosphere you'd expect in a place where everyone works together because everyone counts.
Specsavers Mold:
Due to the continued success within Specsavers Mold they have recently added an extra test room to the store and therefore are looking to now expand their team of Optometrists. The store is over two floors and working in a team of 3 other Optometrists and an Optometrist Director. With great equipment including Nidek Phoropters and the dispensing team using the new I Harmony equipment.
This store is an accredited Platinum Employer, which means you can expect an exceptional employee experience every single day you work here. The Platinum Employer Scheme is part of our drive to become a famous place to work. Stores with this accreditation have been verified on five key employer standards: Recruitment, Performance Management and Reward, Talent Management, Learning and Development and Employee Engagement.
The area of Mold:
The county of Flintshire is situated in North East Wales. Cheshire lies to the east, Denbighshire to the West and Wrexham to the south. Flint and Mold are the main town areas.
It is an area rich in history and well worth visiting in its own right. However, the numerous attractions of North Wales in general coupled with Roman Chester make this an ideal tourist base.
The ins and outs:
- You'll provide an outstanding clinical service – from eye tests to contact lens fitting
- You'll also maintain an exceptional standard of customer care
- Work with the Dispensing Optician to ensure clinics run like clockwork
- Take full responsibility for inspiring and coaching your colleagues
What's on offer?
- Competitive salary
- Flexible working hours either part time 3 days or full time 5 days per week
- Extremely progressive store, get involved in clinical specialities
- Working closely to local hospitals
- 33 days' holiday
- GOC fees paid
- Medical and dental package
- Private pension
- No Late nights
- Not high sales, customer service is the main focus
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In an undisclosed overseas country, Mine Host props up the bar, his only accompaniment a glass of champagne.
In the almost empty bar the late night conversation is between two foreign (western) women and the bartender (a local).
Mine Host cannot help but overhear the bartender talk to the two women of the sad tale of a proposal for a resort development by a foreign entrepreneuer. A development that had been scotched from afar, by the national government acting under pressure from various groups.
The bartender's meaning: A great opportunity lost for the people of his district, in the form of jobs, brand naming of the district on the international tourist scene, and ancillary development, jobs businesses, etc. Perhaps his kids wouldn't have needed to have moved away, or overseas, to find a life.
The response of the only of the two of the vapid western women still able to string a sentence together:
(She'd completely missed the bartender's meaning.....)
"Haha, the [overseas developer] will just have to go & spend all his money at home on fancy cars, luxury holidays & new villas, ha ha ha ha....."
The bartender, bland faced, said nothing....
Mine Host near choked on his champagne. Yes, people really are this stupid. Seeing a resort development only in terms of how much money it will make for the developer (making money is baaad).... and being stupid enough to think that 100% of the cost of constructing the resort was discretionary disposable cash burning a hole in the developer's pocket.
One supposes that there are, somewhere, developments that are not done with borrowed money, but such circumstance would be very rare.
Even less likely would be a developer, who when stymied by vapid western green groups, just spends an equal amount of money on lifestyle.
Have either of the two women mentioned above ever heard of the phrase "raising capital", or thought about the meaning behind that phrase?
Have either of them thought of how they seem, laughing to a resident of a district with limited economic propects, at how the district, on the whim of already affluent pressure groups, being arbitrarily denied a life-changing chance at some of the properity enjoyed by those same two women?
They walk among us........
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Cash Burning Hole in Pocket!
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5 comments:
- kae said...
They walk among us.
And they probably vote, which is scarier!
- 25/10/12 11:49 pm
Still not as vapid as the moron who says we have plenty of money - just print more bills.
Yes, seriously.
- 27/10/12 12:38 am
- Moist von Lipwig said...
Sounds like you were in New Zealand.
- 27/10/12 12:36 pm
They walk, they vote, and they sometimes.....reproduce.
- 29/10/12 12:09 pm
- kae said...
Okay, JeffS.
You win for scariness!
- 30/10/12 11:46 pm
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) recently released Report 427 about the relationship between investors' behavioural biases and their decision to invest in hybrid securities, as compared to less complex financial products such as bonds and shares. The report, which discusses the findings of a pilot study commissioned by ASIC and produced by Queensland Behavioural Economics Group, builds on earlier ASIC and ASX commentary regarding hybrid securities.
The study was prompted by ASIC concerns that, despite the information made available by ASIC and ASX to the public and improved disclosure by issuers, retail investors are still struggling to understand the complexity of hybrid securities and the risks they pose.
What are hybrid securities?
'Hybrid' securities have characteristics of both debt and equity. Like debt securities such as bonds, hybrid securities offer a fixed or variable rate of return for a specified term. However, they also include equity-like features proposed to provide investors with a higher rate of return than regular debt securities. The equity component may arise because they give investors an option to convert the hybrid securities into shares, or because they are accompanied by equity-like risks such as market price volatility and issuer credit risk. Broadly, hybrid securities fall into the following three categories, either alone or in combination:
- convertible debt securities - debt securities that convert into equity securities
- preference shares - equity securities with debt-like features, and
- capital notes - debt securities with equity-like features.
The multifaceted nature of hybrid securities means they attract a higher level of risk than debt securities, while their inherent complexity may make those risks difficult for retail investors to fully understand.
ASIC has indicated that prospectus disclosure for hybrid securities should be informed by the way investors make decisions. Regulatory Guide 228 refers to a 2012 paper by the Commonwealth Office of Best Practice Regulation about using behavioural economics to design more effective regulatory interventions, a concept which serves as the foundation for the ASIC-commissioned pilot study and Report 427.
Findings of ASIC Report 427
In the pilot study conducted in May 2014, subjects were tested to reveal their behavioural biases and their perceptions of risk, and then participated in a test of allocating an investment portfolio across bonds, hybrid securities and shares. The study identified several cognitive and emotional biases that influenced the participants' decision making with respect to allocating their investment portfolio. Allocation to hybrid securities:
- increased 14% for participants exhibiting an illusion of control, an 'unfounded belief that a person can exert control over their environment and influence the outcome of uncertain events', manifested by believing they could control the risks associated with hybrid securities
- increased 10% for participants exhibiting overconfidence, an 'unwarranted belief in a person's own cognitive abilities, intuition and judgment', manifested by their underestimation of the risks associated with hybrid securities and lack of portfolio diversification
- increased 10% for participants exhibiting framing basis, 'decision making influenced by the way that choices are presented to a person', manifested by their choice of hybrid securities over bonds and shares because the risks were less readily apparent, and
- decreased 11% in favour of shares for participants exhibiting ambiguity aversion, 'preference of known risks over unknown risks', manifested by their preference for shares over other securities because the associated risks were better understood.
While hybrid securities were perceived overall as more risky than bonds and marginally less risky than shares, only the risk criterion 'distrust of product/producers' influenced the participants' decision not to invest in hybrid securities. In particular, 'poor knowledge of the product' did not discourage participants from investing in hybrid securities. These findings indicate that behavioural biases have a greater role in investment decision making than perceptions of risk.
What do the findings mean for issuers of hybrid securities?
The findings of Report 427 appear to support ASIC's concern that, while retail investors may correctly perceive hybrid securities as riskier than debt securities such as bonds, their behavioural biases affect their ability to appreciate the form and scope of those risks in relation to their underlying investment.
ASIC states in the report that the findings will inform their conversations with industry, assist in developing regulatory interventions, and contribute to their programs to educate investors on making more informed decisions (e.g. through ASIC's MoneySmart website).
No doubt the findings will flow through into further commentary on prospectuses and other disclosure obligations in respect of hybrid securities. In the meantime, issuers of hybrid securities can at the very least expect additional scrutiny from ASIC on the form and content of their disclosures in the capital raising process.


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What a goldmine
Reading through the 2012 revised and updated edition of the Spurs Miscellany - newly released this month - I realised something that about the old enemy from down the road (aside from the fact they were called Woolwich and played their football in Plumstead and attempted to merge with Fulham). Before they made their journey to North London, the local residents objected about the prospective move. Yet people turned up for their home matches. That's the same people probably bitching about the move, the same people living in North London, some of which probably frequented White Hart Lane before Highbury.
So the old enemy is not only a football club with nomadic tendencies and no true identity but also one whose new founded fanbase just down the road on the Seven Sisters is made up of turncoats and deserters. The ilk of fan that turns their back on their own. They're fundamentally Tottenham rejects. Their original North London fanbase is made up of football fans that turned their back on their local club and pledged allegiance to one uprooted from elsewhere and dumped in our back yard. That and the fact they are the only club in history not to be promoted on footballing merit. History is what defines you right? Even history that takes you back several decades.
I knew all this already of course. I've read the Spurs Miscellany before. But now the prolific Martin Cloake and Adam Powley have updated their labour of love with new wonderful gems of facts, feats, records, anecdotes, classic matches, quotes, quirky info and trivia along with essential historical timelines that serve to remind all why we are a club bestowed with such rich colourful history. There's also biographical sections on club heroes like Paul Gascoigne, Danny Blanchflower, Steve Perryman, Gary Lineker and Chris Waddle as well as detailed season-by-season records for the geeks that wish to overdose on stats. There's also stories on some of our other famous Lilywhite legends and players you might not know (Walter Tull, Vivian Woodward) but you really should.
There's also a chapter dedicated to Mr Tottenham Hotspur, Bill Nicholson. And yes, Harry Redknapp and Gareth Bale are also included - as cited, it's revised and up to date (to the end of last season with the stats correct up until the start of the 2012/13 season).
The brilliant thing about this book is that you can literally pick it up, turn to any page and either read something you didn't know about Spurs or be reminded about something utterly irreverent yet funny or just down right glorious about our N17 haven. Love the entry on our crest (Badge of honour, page 31) along with our origin story and yes, even though I throw a cheap shot or two at Dial Square their own origins play such a big part in what is surely one of the most bitter rivalries in football (because love them or hate them, our rivalry is about football...rather than politics or religion or class wars). The story of our first ever game against them is also ironically funny.
Look, it's Spurs. You're Spurs. The book is jam-packed with quick-fire brilliance on Spurs. Ossie Ardiles foreword. Get on it.
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5th February, 2000
I've been spending a lot of time lately with the literary movement that Spanish calls Modernismo, which is a different beast from the Anglo-Celto-American novels and epic poems we usually refer to as modernism in English: primarily a poetic flowering (the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío kickstarted it in the 1880s), influenced by the French Symbolists but without the strict metrical heritage to rebel against (and so equally influenced by the French Parnassians), deeply romantic in the Harlequin-novel sense as well as the Keats-and-Shelley sense, and very much a Europe-oriented movement, with its its Latin American poets and feuilletonists like Leopoldo Lugones or Horacio Quiroga just as identified with their nations' European elite as Spaniards like Antonio Machado or Juan Ramón Jiménez. It's a whole world of literature I was largely unaware of before the past year, but which my newly-discovered facility with reading Spanish has opened up to me, and which I'm still excited to explore.
I bring all this up because Ricardo Arjona is from Guatemala, but his music is not particularly Guatemalan. Like Enrique Gómez Carrillo, the Guatemalan Modernista poet who spent his career in Europe boosting the Estrada Cabrera dictatorship, Arjona is an internationalist, which (in Latin America) is to say a European; and if I'm particularly sensitive to this point in regards to Guatemala when it doesn't necessarily bother me from any other Latin American nation, it probably has more to do with my own bad conscience towards the place I spent my teenage years than with Guatemala's particular ethnic or aesthetic identities.
But I also bring it up because Arjona is himself a Modernista, aesthetically if not chronologically: "Desnuda" could have been written by Jiménez or Darío, it so thoroughly examines its central image ("desnuda" can be both the adjective "nude" and the imperative "take [your] clothes off") and complicates it, turning it inside out so that a shedding becomes a filling up, and he applies all the rhetorical tricks at his disposal to convince his apparently shy lover of the naturalness, the profitability, and the giddy lunacy of nakedness.
It's one of the best lyrics we've encountered in this travelogue, judged simply as a lyric, poetic and erotic and funny, so it's a bit disappointing that the musical backing is so soft-rock standard. It's as professional and tasteful as Arjona's text, with Elizabeth Meza's harmonies and wordless sighs adding erotic weight to the guitar curlicues and accentuating percussion. Arjona's voice is a fine, burnished instrument in the post-stadium rock tradition -- a little gritty, a little sensitive -- but his performance doesn't live up to his writing. He's a generic Western singer, in other words, which is why I think of him as failing to be particularly Guatemalan.
But Guatemala is not one thing. (Nothing is ever one thing.) Although it is has one of the largest indigenous populations by percentage in the Americas, it is just as much a Western nation as Argentina, or yes, the United States -- if we want to talk about non-Western nations as those with impoverished underclasses, stratified by race and language, that's not a conversation that will flatter the traditional great powers. Art for art's sake has historically been the province of the elite, in every culture, and at least in Arjona's case, his mass art, blanketing radios, constantly on tour, and accessible via every cell phone in the hemisphere, is more widely available, and more widely beloved, than that of any of the precious, finicky Modernistas of a century before.


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President Barack Obama is promising to fix the problems that are plaguing Mississippi's health insurance exchange website. MPB's Jeffrey Hess reports glitches still render the site nearly unusable since it opened three weeks ago.
Mississippi's exchange is run by the federal government and, while improving, mountains of problems have prevented many uninsured Mississippians from enrolling.
Tech experts, like Mississippi based network consultant Anthony Nocentino, say problems with popular websites are not uncommon and could have been predicted.
"Generally when a flood of people rush to a website, the general case in insufficient resources. It is not unlikle the end of the Texas A&M-Ole Miss game. When everyone tries to leave campus at the same time, everything gets jammed up," Nocentino said.
Nocentino says physical infrastructure and programming updates could be needed to make the site more reliable, which is complicated, time consuming work.
The president did not offer a time table for when it would be fully functional, but some reports indicate that as many as 5-million lines of code could need to be rewritten.
Dr. Michael Minor, who is running one of two navigator programs to enroll Mississippians, says most people he has heard from are willing to push through.
"We have people that, before it got better, were getting up in the middle of the night just to try and log on because they want coverage. I am sure that there are some people that are a little bit frustrated, but the feedback we are getting from the field people are going to perserve because they want the insurance," Minor said.
Minor says he is not frustrated yet, but that could change if the website is not fully functional by mid-November when outreach efforts hit high gear.
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Danny Wegman is mad about obesity.
In an interview with Supermarket News, Wegman said the right measurements must be in place to win the war on fat. Specifically, who is measuring and tracking people's health? Wegman said there are a lot of programs, but no one knows if they're working.
Wegmans is monitoring its own 44,000 workers. Wegmans stopped selling tobacco products and offers employees a variety of food and exercise programs. It's using specific measurements to track success. Supermarket News reports:
So what's been the impact of all this? Danny noted that in measuring results, Wegmans focuses on high blood pressure over weight, because it's a less charged topic, and the necessary lifestyle changes have a beneficial impact on weight as well. The retailer began measuring results in 2008, and most recently reported that the percentage of its employees with high blood pressure has dropped from 24% in 2008 to about 14% today.
Meanwhile, even though Wegmans hasn't specifically focused on weight, it does track body mass index, and found the percentage of its employees with healthy weights rose from 29% to 40% in the same period, and those considered obese dropped from 32% to 25%.
So what is Danny urging? "As individual companies we should be measuring these things," he said. "Communities should be measuring these things. Then we'd begin to see how we can make a difference."
His recommendation is that companies focus on five standard measures: blood pressure, body mass index, sugar, cholesterol and smoking versus nonsmoking.
How would you feel if your company, which may subsidize your health insurance, measure you? While this raises privacy questions, it's possible there could be an opt-out provision.
Links of the Day:
– Governor Cuomo is floating the idea of a non-Indian casino in Niagara Falls. The move could get the Senecas to pay money they're withholding from the state. The tribe believes video slots at racetracks violates its gaming compact.
– The University of Rochester has an old swimming pool that's now filled with chairs and desks. Check out these eerie photos.
– The Albany Times Union contrasts two very different neighborhoods and points out more of America is divided by class.
– Health care aides are awaiting a decision on whether they can get minimum wage and overtime.
– The New York Times profiled the case of a young man who killed himself after a long addiction to ADHD medication. It's a sad, infuriating read.


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Sgt. Alex Vasquez, 32, was found in his parked car Wednesday evening with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, HudsonTV.com reports.
He received immediate medical attention at a nearby hospital, but is currently fighting for his life, the article says.
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LITTLE EGG HARBOR Residents are panicking over a township-wide reassessment of real estate values. In some cases, property owners are seeing thousands of dollars in sudden tax increases this year.
"In 2013, Little Egg Harbor was mandated by the (Ocean) county tax board to conduct a reassessment, a revaluation of the town," said John Barrett, a Brick-based consultant who advises the township administration on its financial affairs. "And the reason why you have that mandate come down from the county Board of Taxation, the ratios are out of whack. Meaning the assessed values compared to market values were not at the ideal point of 100 percent."
As a result of the reassessment, Barrett said that the value of the average assessed home in Little Egg Harbor Township had fallen from $263,000 in 2011 to $193,000 in 2015. Indeed, the entire taxable real estate of the township has fallen from $2.9 billion in 2010 to the current estimate of $2.2 billion.
A combination of the "Great Recession," the collapse of the real estate bubble in the mid-2000s and the catastrophic damage inflicted on Little Egg Harbor in superstorm Sandy in 2012 contributed to the township's current financial crisis.
"Three things that are certainly out of the control of any government entity or elected leaders," Barrett said as he spoke before a horrified public at a recent Township Committee meeting.
"Mr. Barrett said things were out of whack," said Murray Piazza, 81, of Golf View Drive. "My taxes have gone up 62 percent. I think that's out of whack. … I spoke to the tax assessor's office and the tax collector's office, and I asked them if they thought it was out of whack, and they just gave me a blank stare. They said this is the function of Hurricane Sandy. I have no place to turn to; no one seems to take responsibility for what's been happening."
Arthur Mooney, 77, of Windstar Drive, said he and his wife were not certain what they are going to do.
"I myself lost an evaluation of $70,000 on a home that I worked my whole life to get," Mooney said. "Seventy grand. At the same time, you increase my taxes by over $800. I don't have the flexibility of going back to work. I'm 77 years old. Can't do it. I live on Social Security. On a pension."
Mooney asked: How could the government let this happen in a town where the majority of residents are senior citizens on fixed incomes?
"Something has to be done to give assistance to the seniors," he said. "This whole tax thing in the state of New Jersey is so screwed up; it's pathetic. My wife and I are seriously thinking of leaving town. On my street alone, there's something like 15 'for sale' signs."
Barrett said he has heard from senior citizens whose taxes have gone up as high as $2,000. The best news he could give them was that after this kind of reassessment the tax rate does stabilize, so this kind of tax shock will not be an annual event. APP
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Monday, September 7, 2015
Reassessment schocker in Little Egg Harbor, could Lakewood have same results?
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- AnonymousSeptember 7, 2015 at 6:06 PM
Is this where the yeshiva is building houses for youngeleit?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 7, 2015 at 6:09 PM
Rumors bmg opening a new yeshiva and kolell in little egg harbor and building 2000 houses thereReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 7, 2015 at 6:11 PM
Makes sense to buy if houses are cheap and residents are moving out.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 8, 2015 at 5:07 AM
Not in Little egg harbor but rather in EggHarbor Township near Atlantic city. As many casinos are shuttered they can be used as schools shuls and what not.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 8, 2015 at 8:34 AM
A chabura from bmg was offered extra money to commute daily to Egg harborReplyDelete
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