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Two full days in Kyoto
I'll be two full days in Kyoto. I would like to visit:
Can I use my JR Pass for some of these destinations? If not, I appreciate advise for a pass.
Thank you so much for helping me.
Hi Isabel,
Almost all local transports in Kyoto are run by other companies than JR, so unfortunately they are not covered by the JR-Pass. Still it is relatively cheap to get around in Kyoto. City buses will get you anywhere, most rides will only cost you 100 Yen in the city. Also an all day bus pass is available for 500Yen, which is a great deal if you plan on using the bus a lot.
Personally I think the best way to get around in Kyoto are bicycles. There are almost no mountains and you may find many great places that you would otherwise not see, there are numerous bicycle hires available at the station and in the city center.
When you are in Kyoto don't forget a visit to Gion, the old Geisha district and walk the narrow streets of Kawara Matchi for a real feel of downtown Kyoto.
Hope this helps!
Thank you so much Daniel, you always help a lot!
Riding a bicycle would be nice, the problem is to find the way...
Hi Isabel,
Kyoto is not hard to navigate, most big streets run parallel or vertical from each other, also most way signs display place names in English. It is normal to bicycle on the walk ways so it is very safe.
You can always bring a map and show it to someone and point where you would like to go, than people can simply point the direction you have to go. I once asked this old lady for directions and she called her husband on her cellphone, so he could explain in English how we had to go. Truly remarkable.
If you have a device with a GPS you can download mapswithme and use it while moving around. More about this in our blog post.
Let me know if I can assist in any other way :)
Thank you again Daniel, I'll get back to you later.
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Measurements of an ES9023 DAC
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Several members commented on the quality of audio achievable with an inexpensive DAC chip like the ES9022 or ES9023. I'm impressed with the subjective quality and objective measurements as well.
I started out at 44.1/16 for the measurements and quickly realized that the board is much better than this is capable of demonstrating so 24 bits was the way to go. I also could only find a 24 bit JTEST wav file at 48KHz sample rate so that is what I used. Measurements at 44.1 are for all practical purposes identical…
The analyzer is a UPV from R&S running 256K point FFT with no averaging. The one I have does not include the digital interface option so I use a PC running DR Jordan Designs' function generator as the source and a Highface USB to SPDIF converter in 48KHZ 24bit using ASIOforall v2. Measurements that used two tones (IMD and DNR) required ASIO to be disabled so they are at 192KHz to make up some of the noise floor lost running without ASIO and driving with two function generator instances.
The first picture is THD at 1KHz and 2V RMS. At a little less than 0.006% it is not earth shattering but very respectable.
The second picture is IMD 18K+20K.
The third picture is DNR at 1KHz with a 10KHz 2V RMS tone. With a noise floor of a microvolt or so RMS the -125 db 1KHz peak is readily visible peeking above the noise. That is ~21 bits of useful resolution. This DAC is dead quiet with a completely black background to the music!
The fourth picture is of the 48/24 JTEST. The -133db peaks are inherent (they are essentially the same with either a single 12KHz tone or with the JTEST signal) and represent jitter of around 3pS. There is almost no measureable increase of data correlated jitter for this board with the Highface.
I notice even low levels of jitter in cymbal ring decay and in the percussive sounds around piano and plucked string instruments. If the cymbals in a good recording sound soft and fuzzy, if the ring decay seems attached to some other sound source, or if the ring decay seems disconnected from the cymbal location it really grates at my preception of the music. The same holds true for the upright bass. Since the fundamental tone and the string plucking/rattling sounds that naturally occur are octaves apart it is a good indicator for my ears. If the string sounds are separate in physical space or out of time from the attack or ring of the note, it really sticks out. The realism of reproduced music for me is strongly tied to how well these attack and decay sounds are placed in the image and in time.
The last picture is of the DAC board itself. I have a final revision I want to make to the PCB to remove some passives and filters I added for testing purposes, as well as to accept different capacitors in the output filter. Other than that it is pretty well finished for now.
Good job! Where do we sign up for these? :)
Hi Fitzfish,
Interesting job! What is the DIR chip of that dac? Did you try spdif sources with different clock jitter?
Very interesting plots, thanks for sharing. :)
Dave is using WM8804 SPDIF receiver with 12MHz crystal, and 50MHz XO for the ES9023. See here for more details :
We have a similar setup with WM8804 and ES9022 (Citizen Xtal with mica load caps), but we have also experimented with 48MHz Crystek XO feeding the ES9022 direct, and at the same time feeding the WM8804 after dividing by 4 using 2 high speed single gate Flip Flops from On Semi. Our experience is that the one-clock-drives-all-approach has much better clarity and details.
There are some differences in our approaches and choices of components, and Dave and I have been discussing AB tests to optimise both our implementations. But I am too busy right now and is hindering his progress. Sorry about that, Dave.
Maybe you should also consider publishing some of your objective and subjective comparisons with the ES9018 evaluation board.
I also recently received feedback from someone who had a balanced 9022 module from me, and he clearly preferred the 9022 to his Buffalo II + various IVs. I have asked if he would also publish his impressions some time.
I am the first to say that I want to build discrete for my own reference system, and the 9022/9023 is not the ultimate DAC available on earth. But when done right, it sounds really damn good, and Dave's different approach has shown that neither of us have really found the optimum of this yet. I sincerely hope that more people will join in to experiment, rather than just copy what we are doing. Only that way can we compare notes and results to discover the remaining potentials of these chip.
One of the test that we plan to do soon is a direct AB comparison between 9022 and 9023, using the same setup.
Thanks! No where yet... I am not quite finished and I would really prefer to have some other ears listen to it first. It has also only been connected to two a handful of different systems to audition. I want to hear it in other setups to see if it holds up as well as it has in the limited set so far.
Doing an objective measurement comparison that followed with a blind listening test (by more than one person, and excluding the person doing the measurements of course to minimize bias) would make a very interesting read... Someone with a local audio support group should take this on!
More in the next post
It is obviously a subjective measure as I described it, but I was able to back it up with circuit improvements during development that reasonably correlated to measurement improvements. One still baffles me though and I didn't find a correlation in measurements.
I built two boards at each step and always did A/B testing, both subjectively and objectively.
My hearing is pretty good, but I figure I am hearing the differences caused by time inaccuracy and intermoduation effects in the complex music sounds, not by the direct spurious spikes we can see in the simple repetitive sinewave measurements.
The beauty of listening to instruments like the cymbals in my experience is the absolute predictability of the decay if they are allowed to ring naturally. Top hat is great because of its mix of mid and high frequency components. I love that sound in good recordings. Similarly the upright bass fundamental frequencies in the mid range of the instrument are such a long wavelength (yet still directional) compared to the transient of plucking or the rattle of the string when played loudly that it makes any disparity in the timing or placement of these audible cues easier to pick out.
The requirement for the second toroid is that I included a JFET follower buffer configured as a second order output filter instead of the RC (the R is internal to the 9023) described in the dataheet. I wanted to be able to drive a pot or other volume control directly... The power supply topology was specifically tailored to get the best performance out of the JFETs I chose and required a seperate supply.
Hi Patrick,
Thanks for the link!
Don't get me wrong, I think there is potential in the 9018 and plan to build one of my own at some point with a similar approach to that used with the 9023. The 9023 just does so much right for a budget build.
Great Job Dave!! what did you end up with in the filter pps? or np0? i cant see close enough to pick out of those 1210 size are panasonic pps or perhaps rubicon hybrid polymer/film. I think you'll find you take a pretty different tack with the 9018, the demo board is not a good indication of this chips sonic abilities.
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How are you trying to retain heat?
I've incorporated a modifications in an attempt to retain heat. First off I'm using a 20k BTU Heatstar LPG heater as my primary. I have covered the northernmost side and roof with used 6 mil uv resistant heat retaining poly. I got the poly from a friend who's recovering his hoop house. I covered the interior of those walls with 3/4" foil backed foam panels, and insulated the base and lower wall with covered straw. The factory supplied polycarbonate is a double wall 6mm and rather inefficient. Any future replacement will be with heavier triple wall to defray the increased material cost. Ric
I forgot to mention I have old cast iron radiators painted black under the sunward bench to collect solar. I plan to fill these with antifreeze and possibly attach a collector.
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Holly's Greenhouse HFGH 2 Heating
How are you trying to retain heat?
Just saw this post, love the idea of the reflective panels.
They really seem to be working, were not expensive, and I probably can # them and store them in the barn. Ric
what size is the greenhouse? what temps can u keep in there?
great pics.. good luck !!!!
It's a 10x12 and we keep it in the mid 50s. You can see the whole story on this link http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1243490/ Ric
Heat requirements have been a bit higher than predicted by the gas co. Today I covered the northeast end of the GH with left over 6 mil poly. It seemed to make a real difference and I will soon see just how much pretty quickly with the weather headed our way. Ric
Looks good Ric; your posts help me be grateful that we live in a warmer climate. Still we've had yet another winter with temps below average (third in a row for us.) So retaining heat is retaining money spent on my electric heaters.
I used foil faced insulation on the inside north wall of my GH and I do think it helps. I am able to leave mine up year round since the north side of my GH is close to our house, and wouldn't get much sun anyway. If I had to, I think I could also cover the lower half of the north side of my roof, too. I don't really think my plants would lose that much light, and I have read that most greenhouse heat is actually lost through the roof.
I have considered adding bubblewrap to the inside of the greenhouse roof for winter, but my bills have not been high enough to force me to do that extra work. ;-)
You may have read this elsewhere, but if you replace any poly panels in the future with thicker panels than the Harbor Freight supplied 4mm, watch out for the roof. The small channel at the peak of the roof will only accept 4mm thickness, so you'll have to be a little creative to figure out how to use thicker poly on the roof, or perhaps crimp or modify the top edge to slip into that channel. (From your posts, I'm sure you will have no problem finding a way to defeat this challenge.) Same with the panels in the roof windows and doors...I think those may have to stay 4mm to fit into the grooves.
The wall panels could be ordered in any lovely thickness with no problem, since they just sit in the outside of the frame.
Your beautiful photo above just makes me crazy. You have no idea how luscious that looks to a person trying to garden in the Chihuahuan desert. Good job!
Sheri, The upper edge of 4mm roof channel could be cut off and replaced with a piece of flashing riveted or screwed in place and calked. Working both sides at once you could just clamp both flashings in place at once and rivet or screw them after the new panels are in place. I've already thought about it a bit. LOL Ric
See, I knew that wouldn't slow you down one bit. :-) Seems like there is a solution to everything, if you're willing to put a bit of time and work into it.
Part of my concern about that particular problem is working on it up high; I do better work with my feet on the ground. My husband would probably be game, but I'm a little more wobbly working on a ladder. If I lived in a colder climate like you do, though, I might be motivated to try it. I'm guessing you'd see a nice difference in heat retention with thicker poly on the roof.
When you cross that bridge I hope you'll do a thread about it, no doubt it would help others facing the same challenge with the HFGH.
I got a like new Anderson sliding glass door with screen and plan to replace the awful leaky Harbor Freight door with it. It will reduce my opening from 6' to just under 3', but should save a whole lot of heat and expense.
I'm not too happy with his plan as I like the wider opening, but I must agree it will conserve some heat.
no greenhouse here..yet..:) but..where the 1st one is going up..probably june/july 2014..
it will be on north side of back of house..gets good sun though..but using the insulated reflective
panel on north side..i like.. reflects back light..good..but also..added insulation to that side of
greenhouse..which i know im gonna need winter 2014.. at least so heat costs dont bust the bank..
much thanks to u all for your ideas and postings of experiences !!!!
777, Your welcome, I too like the reflective insulation, and will post more pics when the door is done.
Hope to be able to see your improvements soon, look forward to it.
I had back surgery on Veterans Day and didn't get my new door in. With the current temp of 3*F and gusty I wish I'd have made it a priority.As I watched the temp drop to 40 and just below I realized I had to take action. My heater is rated 20k BTU and just could not keep up. According to the charts I only needed 14K, I ASSumed a 40% overkill was enough. Last night I added 2 5k electric heaters and it was enough to reach a stable 55-56*F temp. I will undoubtedly will be adding some more insulation to the north wall and possible some bubble wrap to the roof.
I also need to add an alarm,last month, for some unknown reason the heater did not come on one night and we lost some tropicals, coleus cuttings, and a few of my begonias.:-{
A Sliding Door on the Harbor Freight Greenhouse
By Ric Sanders (@Eric4home) on October 27, 2014
After the brutal winter of 2013 I realized that I needed to improve my HFGH if I was going to use it year-round. I believed the doors were one of the major problems. I was able to get a very good Andersen 6' sliding patio door and wanted to incorporate it into the existing structure.
The first step was to disassemble the door end of the GH, retaining all parts for potential reuse. I constructed a frame of pressure-treated 2x6s, with a 6x 5/4 base. I cut out the base frame of the GH and inserted the PT frame. The frame is set off-center by about 3' because only one side of the patio door opens. I used the cross support I had added (1� aluminum angle) to square the frame into the front of the existing gable.
After fabricating an aluminum flashing for the top outer side of the 2x6 frame, it was inserted with the upright bars outside the flashing, which were shortened and bolted in place. The original cross pieces were shortened and bolted in place, without the door track.
To serve as upright bars for the wood frame, the doors were disassembled and the uprights were screwed into the wood with stainless steel screws.
One was placed back to back to the reused door jamb. All parts were assembled, using sil foam to seal them to each other.
The rest of the job was cutting the glazing to fit and inserting it using clips, screws, and caulk.
Exposed wood surfaces were painted with an enamel, and the windows were cleaned.
he north facing wall of our greenhouse is bordered by a mixed evergreen planting so it contributes very little light. It also is the predominantly windward side, the impact in the winter is significant. I decided to replace it with a more efficient wall.
The first step was to replace the poly panels with painted concrete panels. This material is often called Hardie Board. Ours were cut from 4x8' sheets and painted with enamel. The panels were caulked and secured with stainless steel self tapping screws.
4" bolts were fitted into the stud tracks and 3" foam panels were put in place using adhesive to secure them together. The foam is a non-absorbent type used in basements. We were very fortunate and got ours from Freecycle.
PVC shower panels were fitted over the foam and secured using the bolts and stainless steel washers and nuts were used to prevent rust stains. I still need a small piece to complete the entire wall but most of this material was salvaged from construction sites.
The result is a attractive water proof wall as a backdrop for our plants that is probably R20+. The panels I removed were saved and will be cleaned and added to the other side doubling the glazing and thermal integrity of that side as well.
Ric, good to hear from you again. Those changes look wonderful. A lot of work, to be sure, but those changes will surely make a difference for you. An added bonus is the new wall and sliding glass doors look great, too. Such a nice, clean job on all of it, including that north wall, with the waterproof surface (great idea to use those PVC shower panels.)
We enjoy re-purposing and scrounging materials whenever we can. Freecycle can be a great source. We haunt our local ReStore frequently too. Good for you for being able to salvage these materials. Love it.
I take it your original Harbor Freight panels are still holding up okay? If so, this must be evidence that folks in colder climates, perhaps with less brutal sun, get many more years out of their HF panels. (At least more years than we do, down here in the hot sunny southwest.) It's great you will be able to reuse the panels you removed, by moving them to the other side.
Have you added any extra poly panels to your roof? Just wondered if you had resolved the challenge of adding extra thickness to that (skinny) little groove built into the roof ridge framework. Or did you decide to add bubble wrap to the roof, instead, as mentioned above?
Here's hoping your winter will not be as brutal this year. I am still loading plants into my HF greenhouse; almost done with the annual Great Plant Stuff-In. Each year it's a challenge since I tend to keep most of the same plants, and they are always bigger than last year! I still have screen panels on the south side, but in the next week or so our night temps will fall low enough so the summer screen days are over. My two electric heaters are in place and ready.
Once again, your posts help me to be thankful that our winters here are not as tough as yours. You've done a great job!
I have read these posts with much interest and need to ask your help with something. I have the smaller hf greenhouse and my panels need replacing, as almost all the panels especially the roof have holes in them. Could someone please suggest a supplier for replacements?
I was also thinking of perhaps trying to put some sort of poly over them, like in a hoop house, has anyone tried that?
I havent really been able to use it much, its so small and only has 1 roof vent, that it gets too hot during the day and does not retain heat well at night. If i could figure out something that might help at least keep it water tight and not allow such extreme temp fluctuations, i might be able to actually make use of it for winter sowing
I do not have a HF greenhouse, but one thread down is a discussion on a solar pool blanket and I have ordered one to cover the roof, a bit of the south side, and the upper 4 ft of east and west side over my home made greenhouse. My bottom portion is plywood so I used Owens corning pink between framing and contractor's trashbag moisture barrier.
The windows and gaps around them , and storm damage to one edge of my clear fiberglass waffle roof have served as vents in our Texas heat, so rather than replacing and attempting a perfect seal I'm putting a 14 mil solar blanket from roof edge down with tucks and folds. The south side windows get little winter wind so I'm not worried about a tight cover over them, as they are what I would open for venting.
Climate is interesting around here. Last Saturday it was 90, it may freeze here tonight...
Dragonfly53, I had to replace the roof panels on my HFGH 3 years ago (holes, yellowing, brittle.) I researched prices on materials, and finally cheaped out, ordering more panels from Harbor Freight. However, I know I'll have to replace them again, in time. Right now I need to replace the side panels, but I've been buying time by simply patching the small holes with clear duct tape. The tiny holes are only in the exterior layer, and so far my walls aren't as badly deteriorated as my roof panels were.
In October of 2011, my price research for roof panels turned up the following:
The Harbor Freight price for 12 roof panels with shipping was $135. No crating fee; shipped by Fedex Ground in a cardboard box for $12.99. They arrived in about a week in good condition, and of course were already the right size to install quickly, no work to cut the material to fit.
I found a distributor for Solexx (a white translucent material, not quite as rigid as polycarbonate; it ships in rolls.) The price for enough Solexx to cut twelve roof panels would have been about $300 (including shipping to my location.) I've read Solexx is a good material, but I wasn't sure I'd like the white color, and I was worried I might lose too much light, when I used my 60% roof shadecloth on top (I didn't want to buy new shadecloth, too.)
The best price I found on high quality (10 year warranty) 4mm twinwall polycarbonate was from FarmTek. My price was $435, including the crating and shipping fees, at that time. This would have been the best solution, since it would last a long time, but the cost was so much higher than HF...I cheaped out.
When you talk to companies, be sure to inquire about the additional crating and shipping fees, as those can be quite high with sheets of polycarbonate (except those from Harbor Freight.)
I haven't covered a frame with poly plastic, but this heat calculator might be helpful. You can input the size of your greenhouse, and your average winter temps, to see what kind of heat is required to keep your desired temperature. You can play with different kinds of covering materials (4mm polycarbonate, thicker polycarbonate, fiberglass, 4mm and 6mm polyethylene plastic, etc.)
As you can see, the sheets of polyethylene plastic are not as efficient at retaining heat as the other materials (even the cheapo Harbor Freight 4mm polycarbonate panels do a better job, on that front.) So, you may find you still need to add heat, somehow, depending on your plant needs.
I hope you find a solution, I know the panel problem is annoying with these greenhouses! Other than that, I'm very happy with mine. Too bad their panels don't hold up in some climates, though.
Gypsi, I have read good things about using solar pool covers. Others have told me most heat is lost through the roof, so it sounds like a good solution. My two little electric heaters seem to handle our fairly mild winters here, but adding a solar pool cover would be my next step to try. I hope it works well for you. Glad it's not freezing here...yet!
well even without the pool cover didn't do too badly last night. See my post on the pool cover thread. I designed it to hopefully NOT add to my electric bill.
Thanks for the information everyone; I think that is going to be a project for next year, as it does make sense to just replace the panels, rather than trying to fit plastic over the frame and then have to heat it. Getting my finances in line right now for Christmas and next years taxes so no extra spending money right now, at least not in that large an amount, LOL!
Terri, if your panels are not too badly deteriorated you could just attach GH plastic over them. I got a used piece last year from a local grower and put it over the north side and roof and it worked fine.
I am thrilled with my pool cover so far. Need to hook up the clothes dryer to its vent into the greenhouse but the tube seems to be suffering from dog or cat damage, then I can actually dry my clothes and heat the greenhouse too. (I disconnected in summer for a reason, still had plants in it.)
Last winter I tried adding a pool solar cover (clear) and saved nearly 1/3 the heating cost.
I've come up with a vent system for a small GH that works with covering the top and sides with poly of a solar cover. As soon as I build and install it, I will share it with you.
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Is it safe to eat freezer burned food? Freezer burn is simply the result of air coming into contact with food, and while the color changes and dry spots it creates may not look appetizing, freezer burned food is, in fact, completely safe to eat.

If the damaged area is small, cut it off before or after cooking to preserve the quality of your meal. If the damage is extensive, consider tossing the food. While safe to eat, the quality will be poor.

Prevent Freezer Burn

All foods get freezer burned eventually, but most foods should maintain their quality in the freezer for six months to a year. If you find that your frozen foods are developing freezer burn sooner than that, it's time to do a bit of investigating to root out the cause. Things to consider:

How foods are being wrapped: If you don't plan to use something right away, it's a good idea to remove foods from their store packaging, so you can wrap them better. This is certainly true when it comes to meats. The thin cellophane used to wrap meat isn't thick enough to keep air from getting in. Freezer paper or a freezer bag is much more suited to the job. Here's how meat should be repackaged for the freezer. Tip: If you ask, often times the butcher will wrap your order in freezer paper. That'll save you the work of having to repackage everything when you get home.

What types of containers you're using in the freezer: Not all food storage containers are designed for freezer use. The ones that are made of thicker plastic or glass. So, while it may be tempting to reuse grocery store packaging to freeze foods, these types of containers just aren't up to the task. Ditto for regular plastic bags. Only use bags, jars, and containers that are labeled for freezer use.

Whether you're trapping air in containers: Air is the enemy of frozen foods. If you aren't squeezing the air out of your freezer bags before you stick them in the freezer, you're setting yourself up for early freezer burn. This is why vacuum sealers have become so popular in recent years.

Still not sure why your foods are getting freezer burned so quickly? Check out this article to explore more possibilities.

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Some foods last longer in the freezer than others. Use this chart to familiarize yourself with the shelf life of frozen foods.

Often times foods become freezer burned when they get pushed to the back of the freezer and forgotten. Start a freezer inventory list to stay on top of what you have on hand, so you can plan meals around it. And make sure everything that goes into the freezer gets labeled with its name and the date it was frozen. Things start to look the same in the freezer after a while.


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The cost of free speech can still be a high price
The death of former IRA bomber Dolours Price has sparked a war of words in cyberspace. Walter Ellis reports
Do some people own the truth and others not? How much do you have to know about someone before you can arrive at a reasonable judgment?
Last week, Ed Moloney, author of the magisterial Secret History of the IRA, and one of our greater chroniclers of the Troubles, issued a joint statement on his blog, The Broken Elbow, with his academic colleague Anthony McIntyre.
The statement followed the death of the former Provisional IRA activist Dolours Price, whose claims about Gerry Adams's career as an armed struggler have been a long-time source of embarrassment to the TD for Louth.
Price was one of those, including famed IRA gunman Brendan Hughes and one-time UVF bomber David Ervine, who gave interviews to the Boston College Oral History Archive. The deal was, and remains, that the interviews could only be made public once the subjects died.
Alas for the research team, the PSNI, with the approval of the Home Office, demanded that Boston College should hand over the interviews to assist them in their investigations into various unsolved murders.
Moloney and McIntyre's refusal to comply initiated a legal stand-off that could go all the way to the US Supreme Court.
The Moloney/McIntyre statement began by expressing the researchers' "great sadness at the death of Dolours Price, who was both a friend and a valued participant in the Belfast Project".
"Our greatest fear," it went on, "was always for the health and well-being of Dolours. Now that she is no longer with us, perhaps those who initiated this legal case can take some time to reflect upon the consequences of their action."
I found this jarring. Perhaps I was a little harsh.
In a comment on Ed's Broken Elbow blog, I wrote: "I would like, respectfully, to enter a word of dissent, having nothing to do with the Belfast Project, or your campaign to withhold material from the PSNI.
"Dolours Price was an active terrorist for a number of years. She bombed the Old Bailey; she drove Jean McConville to her place of execution; she almost certainly took part in other IRA operations.
"She opposed the Good Friday Agreement, which brought a fractious peace to the north, and, logically, she must have had sympathy with the Continuity, or Real, IRA.
"However pleasant she might have appeared when relaxed and in company, she was a committed urban guerrilla, who regarded murder as the principle means of advancing her political agenda. She had great courage, but also a cold heart."
A train of events then unfolded.
Ruth Dudley Edwards, a Dublin Catholic, but trusted friend of England, lifted my comment and translated it to her blog for the Daily Telegraph. This had nothing to do with me, but Ed now saw red.
"Unlike yourself and, I suspect, Ruth Dudley Edwards, who I see is singing from the same hymn book as yourself, I at least knew Dolours Price and had many conversations with her. I would be surprised if you ever did.
"We discussed many issues and one was the question of republican dissidents and on this question I can say with complete confidence that you, and Ms Dudley Edwards, are utterly wrong. Far from sympathising with their methods or aims, Dolours was firmly of the view that groups like the Real and Continuity IRAs had no future, that their violence was both wrong and pointless and that they should end their activities."
Ed's diatribe, centring on the contempt he felt at my "level of ignorance" (compared, presumably, to his privileged level of knowledge) went on for more than 500 words.
I took issue (325 words, if you must know), suggesting that Ms Price had not so much repented as retired, and wondered if Ed had succumbed to a new strain of Stockholm Syndrome, in which captives end up empathising with their captors.
He wasn't having any of that.
Another 843 words of bile followed, in which the "fallacy" of my argument was dissected and my standard of journalism impugned.
I made "sweeping judgments"; I knew "next to nothing"; I was prejudiced and hadn't bothered to talk to people or gather facts – all this, bear in mind, in order to append a brief comment to a blog.
"You make these judgments based on total ignorance of, and no contact with, those you condemn. I was going to say that borders on McCarthyism, Walter, but it doesn't border on it, it is McCarthyism."
Much ado about nothing, you might think. Two silly sods falling out needlessly in public, while rioters crowd the streets of Belfast in much more ado about even less.
But it got me thinking.
Do none of us have the right to an opinion unless we have researched it fully?
On that basis, democracy itself would be a sham, for which of us honestly reads the party manifestos and turns up at public meetings, or talks to friends and colleagues of those standing for election?
Looked at another way, it could be argued that the most reliable historian of the Third Reich was Albert Speer, an intimate of the Fuhrer, who spoke at length to everyone who was anyone in the Nazi Party, yet claimed to be detached from its ideology.
The only thing is, I'm pretty sure Ed wouldn't agree.
And he'd be right.
He's no Albert Speer. And I'm no Joe McCarthy.
Belfast Telegraph


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Jesse Nolan describes the name of his band 'Caught A Ghost' as referring to the sensation of being filled with the spirit of the past. "It's an old expression," he says, "musicians used to say you caught a ghost if you gave a good performance. Like you were possessed."
As the songwriter, producer and lead singer of the band, Nolan is a devotee of music from bygone eras. But he eagerly expounds upon his affection for vintage soul, delta blues, and 90s rap alike. As Nolan explains, "It's definitely like being possessed. It's an obsession. What's not to be obsessed about? I don't think it makes me unique, it makes me human."
What does make Nolan unique is his musical dexterity (he plays all of the instruments on his recordings except horns and some of the drums) combined with the effortlessness with which he seems to pull from many different genres. His music recalls influences from the soul and rock n' roll traditions (Stax, Motown, Sam Cooke, the Rolling Stones) yet still feel distinctly modern with references to hip-hop and electronic recordings from the 90s to contemporary tracks. The diversity of influences in Caught a Ghost that spawned from Jesse Nolan's mad scientist approach to composition has sparked several comparisons to another Los Angeles native, Beck.
"I had a very rich musical upbringing." Nolan says. "My dad, who is a musician himself, exposed me to a lot of great music. He's a stax/Motown fanatic, and obsessed with seeing live concerts. I also grew up in the 90's watching MTV and listening to rap, so I'm into tracks that hit hard."
The result: Caught a Ghost produces a sound and aesthetic that separates them from the rest of their neo-soul contemporaries. Of course there are threads of classic influence that are apparent, but, for example, the hypnotic synth line on "Time Go" as well as the use of dubstep wobble bass with a full Motown horn section on "Sleeping at Night," quickly sets the band apart from others that have tried to directly revive the Motown sound.
Every song feels on some level like a great remix. "I love the aesthetic of taking something old and repurposing it." Nolan says. "But another difference with my music is that I don't tend to use samples- I'm just sampling my musical memory. It's a very imprecise process really, like a Jackson Pollock painting. I'm just splashing sounds around. I'm an imperfectionist."
"Caught a Ghost is ultimately about a collective experience." Nolan says. "It may have genesis in my weird brain, but it's ultimately about creating community." That spirit is reflected in the makeup of the band, which includes Stephen Edelstein on drums, who was Jesse's kindergarten classmate.
Anyone who has seen Caught a Ghost play live can also testify to that notion. In addition to playing high energy shows with as many as nine musicians and various dancers onstage, the group often makes use of projections and performance art as a means of shaking people out of their comfort zones.
Part of that approach comes from Nolan's desire to stay active. He describes his last label experience as a disaster. Early on in his career, Nolan found himself in another band that was signed to a relatively big record contract that ultimately fell apart just before the release of the first record, ending in the dissolution of that band. The experience left him with the desire to completely re-imagine his approach to music. "I was crushed," He says. "But like anything else, often the best work comes from the darkest turmoil. For me, Caught a Ghost was truly a self-reinvention, on a musical, personal and spiritual level.
Caught a Ghost has signed to +1 Records (The Heavy, The Morning Benders, The Postelles), and their debut EP "Nightworks" will be released on February 12th, 2013. When asked about the title, Nolan says wryly, "I stay up late. It's what Franz Kafka said about writing- that it was nightwork. The night offers peacefulness and the opportunity to go deep into your own head."
The Memphis Dawls are known as the crowning jewel of the Memphis folk scene. The core group is made up of three veteran musicians who have played with several successful local bands. Brought together by their similar tastes in melody and style, and maybe a slight nod from fate, Holly Cole (guitars, vocals) Jana Misener (cello, vocals), and Krista Wroten (viola, mandolin, accordion, vocals) deliver hauntingly romantic and lyrical folk music with a modern flare.
The themes of the band's music tend to lean toward the power of love and heartache, just like their musical mentors: Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt. Their harmonies and music push folk, country and rock through the filter of southern hymns. Religious only in the context of their dedication to their respective crafts, they deliver a unique and hypnotizing sound that jumps from genre to genre. The Dawls are not afraid to be inventive, exploring soundscapes ranging from complex vocal harmonies similar to bands like Fleet Foxes to the more complex string arrangements of The Decemberists.
The threesome originally began playing together in high school, but The Dawls didn't make their debut professionally until 2010. After high school, Wroten, Cole, and Misener all sought musical careers — but they went in three different directions. Cole travelled west to Los Angeles, Wroten went to Boston, and Misener left for Chicago. As time would pass, each would work their way back to Memphis.
Upon returning to Memphis, Cole began playing the solo circuit, and was asked to join local collective Makeshift Music. The established alternative label, known for releasing music from popular Memphis bands like Lucero, Snowglobe, The Coach and Four and Two Way Radio, released her first solo effort Fearless and Free back in 2006. Cole put together a full band before releasing her next effort, called Holly and the Heathens. The group featured some of Memphis' finest talent, including Greg Faison (Jump Jack Jake, Tiger High), Brandon Robertson (Snowglobe) and Jake Vest (Third Man, Tiger High, Bullet Proof Vests).
The act would also bring her in back to working with Wroten, who would play countrified violin with the Heathens project. The result would be a less folksy, more boozy, honky tonk sounding album that was well received by critics.
During this time, Misener was playing cello for road warriors Giant Bear as well as playing with The Sultana. When Cole began toying with more romantic arrangements of some of her songs, she called upon Wroten and Misener to add strings to her music and the Memphis Dawls were born.
Although all three ladies have busied themselves with various artistic endeavors, Wroten touring with Amy Lavere, Misener continuing to play with The Sultana, and Cole finishing up a BA in Sculpture at The University of Memphis, The Dawls would be the main focus for the trio much of 2011. In that year, a fated call from engineer Matt Brown would get them in the studio to record their first release. Their debut was a 4 song EP with spacious arrangements and passionate lyricism. Noted for its scope in atmosphere, emotion, and sense of texture, the Dawls' initial release is an involving experience worth diving into. Over the past year, the Dawls have focused and sharpened their sound, poised for national exposure.
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The Westminster Jubilee Singers is a multicultural, multiracial and interdenominational choral ensemble.
The Westminster Jubilee Singers, conducted by J. Donald Dumpson, will present a concert entitled We Need One Another on Sunday, November 22, at 7:30 p.m. in Bristol Chapel on the campus of Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton.
The program will feature inspirational songs that will inspire listeners to love and care for each other more compassionately. It will include traditional and contemporary gospel music and spirituals and arrangements by Bill Withers, Moses Hogan, Hezekiah Walker, J. Donald Dumpson and more. The ensemble will be joined by soprano Deborah Ford.
The Westminster Jubilee Singers is a multicultural, multiracial and interdenominational intimate choral ensemble composed of students from Westminster Choir College who are selected by audition. Part of Westminster's Department of Sacred Music, the ensemble is modeled after the historically acclaimed Fisk Jubilee Singers. Its repertoire, while specialized and select, is very diverse. Its repertoire includes African-American spirituals and folk songs, classical music by African-American composers, African chants and dances, and gospel music and secular songs.
J. Donald Dumpson is active as an educator, master keyboardist, conductor, vocal coach, composer and arranger as well as a clinician and production administrator. He is also president of the entertainment production company J. Donald Dumpson Productions. In addition, he is minister of music at Bright Hope Baptist Church, whose Bright Hope Celestial Choir he has taken from the church sanctuary to television and Broadway.
Since her professional debut at Washington's Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 1985, critical accolades have become the norm for Deborah Ford. She has received recognition as winner of the New Jersey State Opera Competition and as the first prize-winner of the prestigious American Institute of Musical Studies Competition in Graz, Austria. Most recently she won first place in the Savannah On Stage Vocal Competition in Savannah, Ga.
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the beneficiary on my sister in laws life ins can not be found but we need to make arrangements because she passed away how can we do this we want the money to go the funeral home but they need the sister who is on the paper work to sign the papers to release the money to the home
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If the selected beneficiary is deceased, or in the event that there is no beneficiary selected, the funds would simply be poured into your sister-in-law's estate. If nobody has probated your sister-in-law's estate, you should speak to an attorney about starting that process. Our office represents executors and administrators (representatives) of estates, and would be happy to assist you.
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CARP Institutional Assessment in a Post-2008 Transition Scenario: Toward a New Rural Development Architecture
The main objective of the paper is to explore possible institutional arrangements among the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) implementing agencies in a post-2008 transition scenario for CARP. There were three reasons cited for the implementation of the agrarian reform program, namely: (i) to increase productivity, (ii) to reduce inequality particularly in the countryside, and (iii) to address one of the main causes of the persistent Communist insurgency in the country. After reviewing previous studies on new institutional arrangements, the paper recommends the following based on two scenarios. For scenario 1: (extension of CARP for another 7 to 10 years), the following are proffered: a) shifting manpower and resources toward units in DAR that are engaged in LAD and AJD; b) identification and publication of privately agricultural lands that will be covered by the LAD component; c) retooling of DAR personnel to assist in establishing agricultural enterprises out of a partnership between ARBs and agribusiness firms; d) providing capacity-building training for LGUs in preparation for the closure of the program; and e) exerting efforts to collect amortization payments from the ARBs. For Scenario 2 (closure of CARP is envisioned in the next 3 to 5 years), the following are recommended: a) an attractive retirement package should be given to DAR personnel; b) creation of a Land Tenure Administration; c) conversion of PARC into a Joint Commission on Rural Development (JCRD); d) renaming of the Department of Agriculture (DA) to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD); e) capacitating LGUs to provide support services to the ARBs; f) passage of a "Progressive Agricultural Land Tax" for private agricultural lands and "Progressive Rents" for public lands; and g) deregulation of land tenure contracts and land markets.
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Huskies into 'The Process'
Fri., Sept. 20, 2013
UW works on practicing with equal vigor each day
SEATTLE – Kasen Williams doesn't need to point fingers at anyone else.
You want to know about the maturation of this Washington football program? You want to know why the Huskies, at No. 17, have their highest ranking in 10 years, why they're staring down their first 3-0 start since 2001? Why some believe they could challenge for the Pac-12 North title?
Look no further than Williams.
Two years ago, as a touted true-freshman receiver, Williams didn't understand the value of bringing his best every day. He lived only for the thrill of a Saturday.
But the monotony of a Monday? Meh.
"When I was a freshman, I hated practice. Hated it," Williams said this week. "It was mainly because I knew in the games (was when) I could do my stuff. In practice, I just didn't want to do it."
He knows better now, as a junior searching for consistency in himself. And he's trying to make sure his younger teammates don't fall into the same pitfalls that trapped him early in his career.
"What I tell the freshmen now is, 'You don't want to do what I did, because I limited myself,' " he said. "I limited myself by not studying as much as I should have and I didn't take practice as seriously. That's one of the things that's really helped us mature, by taking that knowledge that us older guys have and putting it in the young guys."
Washington coach Steve Sarkisian has talked a lot lately about "The Process" – the weekly repetition of preparing for every opponent in the same manner and with the same intensity each week, and not relying on "external factors" for motivation. Sure, it's another way to state the old cliché of "taking it one day at a time," but there's a reason it's a cliché: It tends to work.
"I've never been around a team where, man, we just all want to win," junior tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins said. "It's different."
It all sounds good. More importantly, it sounds more and more like the Huskies are actually believing what they say.
There is some irony in "The Process" this week, though. Because what should be the Huskies' easiest test of the season – UW opened as a 53-point favorite over Idaho State – could also be the biggest challenge to The Process. The Huskies could likely, in effect, take the week off, show up Saturday and, no doubt, still beat the Bengals, an FCS team that finished 1-10 in 2012.
But that hasn't been the case this week, Sarkisian insisted.
"We had another upbeat, live practice today," he said Thursday. "Guys flying around and locked in to what they're responsibilities are – and having fun doing in. That's one of the great things about these guys: They have a real sense of when to enjoy 'The Process,' but also when to be locked in and focused. I think we're really improving in that area."
Thursday's Top 25 game
(3) Clemson 26, N.C. State 14
Tajh Boyd threw for 244 yards and three touchdowns to help the Tigers (3-0, 1-0 ACC) defeat the Wolfpack (2-1, 0-1) at Raleigh, N.C.
Boyd's second scoring pass, a 30-yarder to Martavis Bryant, capped a critical third-quarter sequence that allowed the Tigers to seize momentum.
Clemson pulled away from there. Boyd found Bryant for another touchdown, with Bryant snatching the ball from defender Niles Clark for a 15-yard score.


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Wet tantalum capacitors housed in surface-mountable, molded package
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Malvern, Pa.Vishay Intertechnology Inc. has released two wet tantalum capacitors that it says are the industry's first such devices to be offered in a true surface-mountable molded package.
According to Vishay, the M34 and M35 wet tantalum electrolytic chip capacitors incorporate the advantages of all varieties of electrolytic capacitors and eliminate most of the disadvantages. The devices have a higher ripple current capability than any other electrolytic type with similar combinations of capacitance and case size, the company said. In addition, the M35 features a 3-V reverse voltage capability at + 85 °C.
Optimized for power supplies in all avionics, military, and space applications that currently use Vishay's ST -T1 (M34) or 135D- C/T1 (M35) case ratings, the devices' new surface-mountable case allows designers to eliminate the last through-hole component on their PCB, reducing overall PCB assembly cost.
With a wide capacitance range of 10 µF at 125 V to 120 µF at 25 V for the M34, and 1.7 µF at 125 V to 220 µF at 6 V for the M35, the devices feature all industry-standard T1 wet tantalum ratings. The capacitors offer tin/lead or 100 % tin (RoHS complaint) terminations.
The M34 and M35 operate over a temperature range of -55°C to + 85°C, and up to + 125°C with voltage derating. The devices offer a ±20 % standard capacitance tolerance at 120 Hz and + 25°C, with tolerances of ±5 % and ± 10 % also available.
Pricing: For U.S. delivery is $41.15 each for the M34, and $29.10 each for the M35.
Availability: Samples and production quantities are available now, with lead times of approximately 20 weeks for larger orders.
Datasheets: M34 and M35.
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Phase-change memory found in handset
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LONDON Engineering consultancy UBM TechInsights has announced it has found a phase-change memory die inside a multi-chip package inside a mobile handset.
TechInsights (Ottawa, Ontario), part of the same group that publishes EE Times, has found a NOR flash memory compatible phase-change RAM, from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. in a mobile handset but declined to reveal the model of handset citing reasons of customer confidentiality. "We will be able to reveal it in the near future once our work with this client is done," a spokesman for UBM TechInsights said.
Samsung had said in April 2010 it would be shipping a multi-chip package memory, including a 512-Mbit phase-change memory die in the second quarter of 2010 (see Samsung to ship MCP with phase-change). At the time Samsung was not clear about the process technology in use describing it as "equivalent to 40-nm-class NOR flash memory." The process is thought to be at about 65- to 60-nm minimum dimensions. The half-pitch memory distance shown in the microphotograph below (8 cells per micron) bears this out.
Numonyx, now Micron Technologies Inc., released a 90-nm 128-Mbit phase-change memory in 2008, which it formalized as the Omneo range of serial and parallel access memories in April 2010. But the company has not said anything about design wins or volume production. Numonyx has been developing a 1-Gbit phase-change memory in a 45-nm process, but there has been no news of sampling or volume production for a device that was expected to appear early in 2010.
UBM TechInsights has confirmed the commercial availability of a 512-Mbit PRAM die, labeled KPS1N15EZA, and packaged with a Samsung 128Mbit UtRAM die in a multi-chip package in a mobile phone. The Samsung PRAM die is comprised of four aluminum interconnect layers with the memory elements and the top and bottom electrode contacts built between the aluminum metal 1 and the silicon substrate.
"Recent debate on the scaling limitation of phase change memory technologies, combined with production delays from Numonyx, had left many wondering if PRAM would ever realize its promise as a next-generation memory," said Young Choi, senior consultant for professional services at UBM TechInsights, in a statement. "The discovery of this product in a mobile application is a clear sign that designers are now open to using this promising technology."
Cross-section of Samsung 512-Mbit phase-change RAM.
Packaged MCP that includes phase-change memory die.
Mobile phone main board including phase-change memory MCP
Related links and articles:
CTO confirms IBM's PCM expectations
Grandis: STT-RAM to replace DRAM, flash
PCM scalability: the myth (Part II)


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General Mills is recalling about 414,000 cases of Totino's and Jeno's frozen pizzas with pepperoni that may be linked to an outbreak of E. coli.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service said the problem was discovered after an investigation by the Tennessee Department of Health and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention into an outbreak of 21 cases of E. coli O157:H7 in Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin.
The illnesses occurred between July 20 and Oct. 10, the FSIS said Thursday in a release.
Nine of the 21 people reported having eaten Totino's or Jeno's pizza with pepperoni topping prior to becoming ill. Since July 1 of this year, Totino's and Jeno's have distributed more than 120 million pizzas nationwide.
The recall includes packages of Totino's Original Crisp Crust Party Pizza and Jeno's Crisp 'N Tasty Pizza containing pepperoni or a combination of pepperoni and sausage. The packages show "EST. 7750" inside the USDA mark of inspection as well and a "best if used by" date on or before "02 APR 08 WS."
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Crescent Credit Union, Brockton, Mass., announced that after eight years as chairman of the credit union's board of directors, Herbert S. Nagle is passing the gavel to newly elected Chairman William Rosa. Nagle will continue to serve as a director, a position he has held since 1959. Rosa joined the board in 2002. He has served as vice chairman since 2007. Rosa is a graduate of Rutgers University and holds a degree from the New England School of Law. A partner at the law firm of Wynn & Wynn P.C. in Raynham, Mass., he is also a member of the Taunton Bar Association and the Rhode Island Bar Association.
Credit Union of Georgia, Woodstock, Ga., announced the appointment of Kathi Williamson to vice president of member services. Williamson has more than 20 years of experience in the credit union industry and holds bachelor's and master's degrees in business administration from the University of Phoenix. The credit union also announced the promotion of Amanda Arnold to vice president of marketing and business development. Arnold holds a bachelor's in business administration from Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Ga.
BrightStar Credit Union, Sunrise, Fla., announced the naming of James Egan as vice president of lending. An accomplished and award-winning sales executive, he is responsible for loan originations and lending at the credit union's six locations in Broward County. Previously, Egan was vice president of HSBC North America in Miami-Ft. Lauderdale. He holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from St. Thomas University.
UW Credit Union, Madison, Wis., announced the appointment of Mike Sauk, chief information officer of UW Hospital and Clinics, to serve on its audit committee. Sauk is a member of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives and served for three years on the Siemens executive advisory team. He holds a BA in communication from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a master's degree in science administration from Central Michigan University.
Oregon Credit Union Foundation, Beaverton, Ore., elected its officers for 2010. Carlyn Roy, executive vice president and chief operating officer of OSU Federal Credit Union, was elected the chair of the foundation's board of directors. Brooke Van Vleet, executive vice president and chief administrative officer of First Tech Credit Union was elected vice chair. Kathy Garner, executive vice president of Southwest Corporate Federal Credit Union, and Robert Barzler, president/CEO of Point West Credit Union, were elected treasurer and secretary, respectively. Rounding out the foundation's board was Shirley Cate, president/CEO of Providence Health System Federal Credit Union, Barbara Mathey, president/CEO of IBEW & United Workers Federal Credit Union, and Kyle Frick, vice president of marketing & sales of Mid Oregon Federal Credit Union.
Great Basin Federal Credit Union, Reno, Nev., announced the promotion of Kristina Schaffer to the position of mortgage loan officer. In this position she will be responsible for all mortgage processing, disclosing and education. Schaffer joined the credit union as a teller and soon after was promoted to member service representative.
KeyPoint Credit Union, Santa Clara, Calif., announced that its CEO, Tim Kramer, received an "Unsung Hero" award from the California Credit Union League. With more than 35 years of credit union experience, Kramer has been at the helm of the credit union for nearly 24 years. He has served on numerous boards and in 1995 traveled to Russia, under the auspices of the World Council of Credit Unions, to provide technical assistance to credit unions there. In addition Kramer is active with Habitat for Humanity, assisting in the construction of homes and inspiring others to get involved. He and his credit union employees also have participated in various community programs.
Kinecta Federal Credit Union, Manhattan Beach, Calif., announced that Susan Williams joined the credit union as vice president/treasurer. Williams previously acted as a treasury consultant on contingency and liability projects. Prior to that, she served as executive vice president at Countrywide Bank. While at Countrywide, Williams held numerous other positions.
Global Credit Union, Spokane, Wash., announced the hiring of Morgan Collett as commercial loan processor in its member business services center. Collett previously worked as a private banking representative for Americanwest Bank.
Columbia Credit Union, Vancouver, Wash., announced the promotion of Michael Florea to senior vice president, chief information officer. Florea will supervise information and technology services at the credit union, leading the strategic development and management of information resources and planning. He has worked in the credit union's information technology department for the past 11 years, serving most recently as the interim chief information officer.


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With the help of Alice the Elephant, I came to the realization somewhat late in life that I was born to FREAK. It is my dream that by confessing my own strangeness and sharing tales of epic FREAKY awesomeness, other irrepressible humans might get the memo earlier in their lives that they, too, were born to FREAK. Through my personal work and my work with clients and groups, I've made so many connections between ADD, high sensitivity, Asperger's syndrome, autism, addicts of every kind (sex, drugs, alcohol, gambling, shopping), depressed/anxious/manic people, intense people, change agents, black sheep, adrenaline junkies, irrepressibles, rebels, bohemians, life pirates, bad asses, artists, innovators, performers, comedians, and healers … and I believe we were all born to FREAK. We were all put here not to fit in, but to see things differently, to ruffle feathers, and to return balance to the world and our communities by using our creative abilities, our healing presence, and our eccentric gifts. I wrote this book to help you discover your own wondrous inner multitudes, so you'll share your fantastic, strange, and entirely original notions with the world. We need you. ~Author
Book review: Calling all nonconformists: Explore your inner FREAKDuluthian Sarah Seidelmann's "Born to FREAK: A Salty Primer for Irrepressible Humans" is a bold, funny, in-your-face memoir/self-help manual with a funky presentation that sets it apart from mainstream advice books.By: Maureen Maloney, For the Budgeteer News
Sarah Seidelmann's "Born to FREAK: A Salty Primer for Irrepressible Humans" (self-published, 2012) is a bold, funny, in-your-face memoir/self-help manual with a funky presentation that sets it apart from mainstream advice books.
In addition to her credentials as a physician specializing in pathology, Seidelmann is a certified life coach and, at the time of the publication of "Born to FREAK," was enrolled in a Shamanic Studies program. New Age meets "Saturday Night Live" in this sort of surfer girl's guide to inner peace.
With her traditional, whole-person, and spirit-world approaches to addressing mental and physical health, plus her artistic drive, thirst for adventure, and extrovert tendencies, Seidelmann has produced a sassy and humorous "primer" of lessons extracted from her own personal experiences. She reaches out to like-minded people and also encourages those who want to understand "freaks" to read this book.
What Seidelmann has to say about finding your strengths, accepting your shortcomings, and following your dreams may not be entirely new. However, she puts it into language that probably appeals more to those who think outside the box of traditional self-help advice.
The book's topical chapters are arranged in an alphabet book for adults (rated R for strong language), complete with illustrations, talking animals, and jazzy fonts. Seidelmann's unique lexicon of self-help includes off-beat terms such as Change Agent, Divine Porpoise, Hocus-Pocus Focus, Jonesing, Kerfuffle, Off-Leash, and Reckless Disregard.
Seidelmann employs a sort of alter ego, an elephant named Alice (a symbol of wisdom) to dole out nuggets of advice throughout the book. Alice's advice is the kind you might see on decorative signs in an alternative gift shop; instead of the more prosaic "Keep calm and carry on" or "Live well, laugh often, love much," Alice encourages: "Let your defects shine. They're what make you so f***ing kick-a**" and "Be a student of absurdity. Tap into some whack-a-noodle. Doodle. There's magic in the impossible."
There are other lessons from the animal world, too — you'd be surprised what you can learn from the black mamba snake and the honey badger.
The art of encouraging people comes naturally to Seidelmann, dating back to her days as a mascot at Duluth's Cathedral High School. "Even back then
I was cheering people on," she recalls. Later, in her professional career, it played a part in her humane approach to patient care. She and her sister, comedian Maria Bamford, share a passion for confronting mental health issues head-on with humor and compassion.
At one point in her life, Seidelmann took a six-month sabbatical to step back from her demanding career and spend more time with her husband and four children. She spent a good deal of it walking in the woods with her dog, and came out feeling more connected to the wilderness and what it can teach us.
Seidelmann is no stuffy dispenser of platitudes or anemic pats on the back. From A (for Attention Deficit Disorder) to Z (for Zugunruhe), she inspires confidence to boldly go where conventional folk dare not go. Who cares if people look at you funny? Express your strangeness proudly and go after what makes you happy! It's the first step toward bringing about positive change in the world around you.
Seidelmann's counseling style is very personable. It's easier to imagine discussing life issues with her over a bottle of wine than in an office with a desk between the two of you. Although she does engage in some shameless self-promotion throughout the book, she is self-effacing, honest, and engaging, and profound.
One of the most entertaining parts of the book appears at the very end. Normally a book's index is intended to be a useful referential tool that's consulted only when the reader is looking for a specific bit of information and doesn't want to browse the main body of the book to find it. The index of "Born to FREAK," while maybe not terribly useful, is hilarious. You won't find entries for "anthropology" or "melanoma" or "empathy" there, but who cares: You'll just get distracted by "abby-normal," "mayhem, unwanted," and "dolphin, inflatable" anyway, and want to read the whole index just for laughs.
As much effort as it takes to publish her book, it is apparent that Seidelmann took a lot of pleasure in crafting this one. She says of her decision to self-publish, "It's like running a marathon. Once you decide to do it, you just go for it." She hired an editor and a designer to help carry out her vision and researched the various avenues to get it into print. "Born to FREAK" is also available for Nook and Kindle e-readers.
Not the least of Seidelmann's many gifts is her fabulous ability as a storyteller. It would be wonderful to see fiction from her — it would no doubt be FREAKY and kick-a** and
Maureen Maloney is a reference librarian at the downtown Duluth Library.


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Welcome back! Here at Briefing Book, we hope you took some time over the vacation to take a well-deserved rest. Maybe you went to visit friends or relatives. Maybe you went skiing or maybe you went to some place warm instead. Or maybe you stayed home, relaxed, and took in a movie or two.
You know what did Sandy Grebinar did? She went fishing.
Ms. Grebinar, the indefatigable leader of our teachers' union, apparently decided to take matters into her own hands after last month's school board meeting, at which union leaders Geoff Curtis, Paul Saloom, and the rest of "The Gang That Couldn't Ambush Straight" tried and failed to get the school board to dump schools Superintendent Dr. Paul Kreutzer. So just a few days after her colleagues flopped on their tenured faces, Ms. Grebinar decided to go fishing.
Ms. Grebinar filed no fewer than six Freedom of Information Law ("FOIL") requests aimed at finding something — anything, really — that the teachers' union could use to take down Dr. Kreutzer. She demanded copies of Dr. Kreutzer's employment history, his résumé, and his curriculum vitae. She demanded his job application and all letters of reference that he submitted.
But Ms. Grebinar didn't stop there — not our Sandy! She also demanded copies of all expenditures made by the school board to the search firm that helped select Dr. Kreutzer and copies of all expenditures the school board made to Syntax, the school board's public relations firm. And she also wants copies of all communications among the school board, the superintendent search firm, and the members of the Governance Team.
Now, we have three reactions to Ms. Grebinar's fishing trip. First, what is a "Governance Team" anyway? And why do we have one? If we already have a school board, what exactly is the Governance Team supposed to "govern"?
Our second reaction is to feel a bit sorry for Ms. Grebinar, who apparently has to take over the heavy lifting on the union's Moby Dick-like obsession to get Dr. Kreutzer. It kind of reminds us, as most things do, of an old TV show — in this case the 1960s Batman TV series, when the Penguin would chastise his henchmen for botching the Penguin's fine-feathered plans:
Penguin: Quack! You were supposed to read that letter at public comment period! What happened?
Henchmen: Sorry, Boss! Boss, the Caped Crusaders — Yeah, we didn't know Batman was gonna show up!
Penguin: Quack! Don't tell me about Batman, you fools! I sent you to get Kreutzer! (muttering) You want something done right, you have to do it yourself! Bring me the FOIL requests! Quack!
Our third, more serious reaction is that there's a lot of information Sandy Grebinar didn't ask for — information that's a lot more relevant to taxpayers than what the BOE said to the Governance Team. Here is the information that Ms. Grebinar should be FOIL-ing for:
In 2003, enrollment in KLSD schools totaled 4,109 students. In 2013, enrollment in KLSD schools has dropped to 3,458 students, a drop of 16% in 10 years.
In 2003, we paid KLSD staff members $41 million in salaries. Ten years later, we are paying salaries of $58 million, an increase of 41% in 10 years.
In 2003, taxpayers shelled out $14 million to fund the cost of employee benefits for KLSD employees. In 2013, that number has more than doubled, to $32 million.
Oh, and the economy? Well, back in 2003, the economy was growing at a rate of 3.1%, unemployment was at 6% nationwide and at 6.4% in New York state. In 2013, the U.S. economy is growing at roughly 2% and unemployment is at 7.8% nationwide and at 8.3% in New York state.
So here it is in just four words for Ms. Grebinar — more spending, fewer kids. That's the information Ms. Grebinar should be fishing for, and the fact that she isn't sure seems fishy to us.


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The current economy is especially challenging for veterans. Yet, the experience and education learned in the military is an excellent basis for any business, especially because the military emphasizes action, not rote memorization or theoretical case studies. That is often the key factor responsible for personal and professional success.
For servicemen and women, the current economy is anything but hospitable. Prolonged unemployment and spending cuts confront military veterans with a variety of difficult situations.
Veterans seeking to join the civilian workforce face a situation where many companies remain unsure of their hiring plans for the foreseeable future. For veterans who want to dive into the civilian sector as entrepreneurs and business owners, the opportunities are still daunting, as financial lending options continue to be limited at best.
This situation -- while a problem for all job seekers and entrepreneurs -- is especially challenging for veterans who can -- and do -- make valuable contributions in the private sector. Veterans usually have considerable technical, leadership and life experiences that only the military can confer. The service offers situations that unite individuals of all incomes and backgrounds, and transform each person into a model of integrity, discipline and resourcefulness.
These are key strengths that every business needs. They are the very ingredients of long-term prosperity and respect.
As veterans ourselves, we can attest to the training and benefits the military provides to its personnel. Having served in the Navy, we may have a natural preference for our branch of the military, but we also strongly acknowledge and salute the service of our fellow comrades in arms, both active and retired, who have defended this nation and risked their lives for the cause of freedom.
There is no similar "on-the-job" training program in the civilian sector today. The military's ability to prepare its members for a variety of conditions -- from leading a division of personnel to mastering the most complex computer systems, from handling real-time crises to overcoming the harrowing experience of combat, from living in a diversity of cultures to building the most cohesive teams that can accomplish virtually anything -- is unparalleled.
The military creates outstanding leaders. Period! In fact, the skills our veterans possess would be difficult if not impossible (for reasons of cost and logistics) to duplicate in a civilian environment. And they last a lifetime.
The experience and education learned in the military is an excellent basis for any business, regardless of the specific industry or field served. Veterans have the benefit of practical experience because the military emphasizes action, not rote memorization or theoretical case studies, which is often the key factor responsible for personal and professional success.
For example, the military emphasizes a particular brand of study, where servicemen and -women learn to quickly survey a situation ("expect the unexpected") and make intelligent decisions, because the stakes can be far greater than diminished sales or missed profits; the stakes are life and death. That kind of sobriety offers perspective and patience.
Make no mistake, we respect and admire our civilian counterparts for the work that they perform. They also support our service, and can be our most dedicated advocates when we transition into private life.
We also believe that the vast majority of veterans have incredibly valuable skills -- strengths we should use -- that can enrich an organization and inspire fellow employees. These advantages are a key way for companies to grow, while enabling veterans to enjoy a smooth transition into the workforce.
We call upon these assets every day in our own work as business advisers, never failing to find a situation where the experience and education from our naval service continues to help us. While we may no longer wear the uniform, we retain the experience and wisdom obtained through years of "hands on" military service.
The experience and wisdom gained through military service can empower a variety of organizations to reach their goals.
Paul Cevolani and Olen Pepple are both Navy veterans. Cevolani is the President and CEO, and Pepple is the COO of Novus Origo, a Service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB), and a hybrid advisory firm dedicated to delivering human resources and information technology strategic consulting, outsourcing consulting and program and project management solutions strategically tailored to the success of middle-market companies and government agencies.