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KYOCERA Develops Temperature Characteristics-Free Etalon Filter
KYOCERA Develops Temperature Characteristics-Free Etalon Filter
Crystal device applies atomic diffusion bonding technique for first time in the industry, contributing to downsizing and energy conservation in tunable laser modules for optical communication WDM
KYOTO, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Kyocera Corporation (NYS: KYO) (TOKYO:6971) today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Kyocera Crystal Device Corporation, in charge of development and manufacturing of crystal devices, has succeeded in developing a temperature characteristics-free etalon filter — a crystal device which has applied the atomic diffusion bonding technique for the first time in the industry*1.
An etalon filter is a component which detects deviations in multiple light wavelengths in high-capacity optical communication transmissions systems. For this new product, Kyocera Crystal Device has realized a temperature characteristics-free etalon filter with high-accuracy, high-reliability and smaller size due to its success in developing a crystal device applying the atomic diffusion bonding technique. The product will be available on a sample basis starting January 2013.
|Product name:
|Temperature characteristics-free etalon filter (C type)
|Tunable laser module for optical communications and industrial use
|Main specs:
- External dimensions: >1.2mm squared
- Adaptive wavelength: 1,520 to 1,620nm
- Temperature characteristics: ±0.15pm /°C typ. (pm/°C = 10-12m/°C)
- FSR: 50/100GHz
- Extinction ratio or reflectance: Custom
|Starting in January 2013
|Production facilities:
|KYOCERA Crystal Device Hokkaido Corporation (Japan)
Main Features
1.Industry-leading product specifications enable freedom from temperature characteristics
The new product has achieved an industry-leading level of temperature characteristics of ±0.15pm/°C. This was achieved by applying a design technique combining positive temperature characteristic crystals with negative temperature characteristic crystals and an advanced crystal processing technique, along with industry's first application of the atomic diffusion bonding technique. Furthermore, since the temperature characteristics-free etalon filter does not require a Peltier device for temperature adjustment, it can contribute to downsizing and energy conservation in tunable laser modules.
2.Industry's first crystal device to apply atomic diffusion bonding technique
The atomic diffusion bonding technique is a direct bonding technique developed by Tohoku University's Professor Takehito Shimatsu. It entails bonding the wafer and substrate together without applying heat, pressure or voltage, nor using organic adhesives. Through the joint-development with Professor Shimatsu's research group, Kyocera Crystal Device has succeeded in bonding a crystal wafer in an extremely thin metal film thickness of several atomic layers to several dozen nanometers*2 with high strength by applying the atomic diffusion bonding technique for crystal devices. This method has solved the problems of optical contact*3, a conventional bonding method with lower bonding strength, and that of bonding using organic adhesive, for which the management of bonding thickness is difficult. It has also improved accuracy and reliability while reducing the size of the etalon filter.
Development Background
An etalon filter is a component which monitors whether oscillation of light wavelength is steadily conducted in the tunable laser module — an essential device used for high-capacity optical communication transmission systems — which transforms electric signals to optical signals for oscillation.
In recent years, optical communication has become increasingly essential to achieve higher capacity and higher transmission speeds with the dramatic increase in information volume due to the rapid spread of the Internet and transmission of high-volume data. To respond to such requirements, the utilization of the WDM*4 transmission system, which can transmit more optical signals (information volume) with one piece of optical fiber, has become the mainstream method. Since a WDM transmission system requires many tunable laser modules for each station from mid- to long-distance to short-distance transmissions, further reduction in size and electric power consumption is required.
As the product does not require a Peltier device for temperature control due to the aforementioned features, it can contribute to reduction in the size and electric power consumption of tunable laser modules. Even with its small size, this product has realized freedom from temperature characteristics, high accuracy and high reliability, and has superior stability against changes in external temperature.
Kyocera Crystal Device has an integrated production system, in which all the processes from cultivation of crystal materials to design, processing, coating and characteristics evaluation are all conducted internally. The company will continue to enhance its support of optical transmission-related fields in order to contribute to the further progress and development of high-capacity, high-speed optical communications networks.
*1 As of November 15, 2012. Based on a survey by Kyocera Crystal Device.
*2 1 nanometer (nm) = 1.0x10-9m.
*3 Bonding method that does not use adhesive but bonds flat surfaces of the wafer together.
*4 WDM: Wavelength Division Multiplexing. A communication technology that utilizes optical fiber.
For see more info and images of this product:http://global.kyocera.com/news/2012/1202_hina.html
Kyocera Corporation (NYS: KYO) (TOKYO:6971) (http://global.kyocera.com/), the parent and global headquarters of the Kyocera Group, was founded in 1959 as a producer of fine ceramics (also known as "advanced ceramics"). By combining these engineered materials with metals and plastics, and integrating them with other technologies, Kyocera has become a leading supplier of electronic components, semiconductor packages, telecommunications equipment, solar power generating systems, printers, copiers, cutting tools and industrial ceramics. During the year ended March 31, 2012, the company's net sales totaled 1.19 trillion yen (approx. USD14.5 billion). The company is ranked #426 on Forbes magazine's 2012 "Global 2000" listing of the world's largest publicly traded companies.
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... have a Texas governor pass a bill mandating insurers pay for cardiovascular screening. The conflicts of interests involved, as I've reviewed earlier here and here, are staggering, but hey, it's all about making sure more people are considered sick so we can make them better, right?
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well, the game is called free market economy: live like there is no tomorrow. mastery is to create demand for your product; voila you can too take advantage of our great national treasure just like those irresponsible wall street gangs did. come to think of it though this tradition probably began with the snake oil sellers, so we keep repackaging our gift of entrepreneur nature.
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French writer Jules Janin, attending the first night of Giselle in 1841, forgot for a moment that he was sitting in a theatre. 'The night throws its soft vapours over the entire countryside', he wrote, 'around us all is silent… The vapour is Myrtha, the Queen of the Wilis, and the first ray of the September moonlight has imparted to her the fine contours of her beautiful body.' Around him sat an enraptured audience, delighted to let the dancers, costumers, scenery painters and lighting men transport them from a dusty Paris summer to the spirit-haunted forest of Giselle Act II.
People loved moonlight scenes in theatre, and the rays of the moon, usually painted falling through a window or across a painted ruin, were lit by a flood of green or blue light from the wings and flys. The 'White Acts' of Giselle and La Bayadère notwithstanding, blue and green is an integral feature of stage moonlight. John B. Read, relighting the balcony scene in The Royal Ballet's Romeo and Juliet in 2007, remarked, 'What colour is moonlight? Is it dark blue? Is it light blue? Is it even blue at all? Maybe it's green, I don't know. It could be white.'
Shakespeare, in broad daylight at the Globe or the Rose, never worried about stage moonlight at all and conjured up its beauty with his verse alone. But when his plays were staged in interior theatres nobody could resist lowering the lights (by swivelling the candles round on battens so they appeared to go out) and painting in the moon.
By the mid-18th century the moon was even perceived to shine. This was done by cutting a circular hole in the backdrop, to represent the moon, pasting a transparent gauze over the hole and shining an oil lamp on the gauze. A similar effect is used on the modern stage, with the hole replaced by a disc set behind a cyclorama, and the light shining on it the focussed beam of an electric lamp.
Focussed light, whether from a lump of overheated lime, or an electric carbon arc, was one of the great theatrical innovations of the 19th century. The appearance of a shaft of moonlight bright enough to create a shadow took everyone's fancy. However, once the beam began to move, people became hyper-aware of the spotlight operator. W. S. Gilbert, for one, couldn't see a spot without immediately thinking of the man behind it. Watching an improbable tidal wave effect in The Nightingale he noted, 'The house is swamped and disappears. Mary alone on the wild waste of waters in a boat. Happily the presence of a lime light suggests that human aid is not far off…'.
But what if the moonlight was supposed to be eerie rather than brilliant? Well, a gauze shadow could pass over the moon, or the lighting men could attach a 'gobo' (a disc with punched out patterns) on to a lamp, to diffuse the beam.
But in ballet, it seems that you can ditch an actual moon and trust the scenery, costumes, dry ice and sheer technical brilliance of the dancers to induce a proper ghostly effect. The hypnotic opening of Act III of La Bayadère with its perfectly executed arabesques, repeated over and over again by the white-clad Shades, doesn't need a moonbeam, and nor do the weightless, gliding veiled Wilis in Act II of Giselle.
This is an extract from Sarah Lenton's article 'Well Lit by Moonlight', available to read in full in the Giselle programme book. This is available in the theatre at performance times and from the ROH Shop.


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Video and computer games have become a basic part of kids' lives: nearly all youth play electronic games at least occasionally. Many parents, though, feel they don't know enough about the games their children are playing, and worry about the role gaming plays in their children's lives. Fortunately, there are steps parents can take to make sure that video games are a healthy part of their kids' lives, and a fun part of family life as well.
It's important to know what the ratings mean on the video games your children play. The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is an industry organization that has developed a rating system for computer, Internet and video games. Most games sold in North America are rated using this system.
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We talk a lot here about how mental health is just as important as physical health. This is often in the service of pointing out that even if losing weight were in and of itself a healthy goal — and there's plenty of evidence that things aren't that simple, and that in fact the pursuit of weight loss can be physically harmful — you would also have to take into account the violence that dieting can perpetrate on your emotional well-being.
What we don't often discuss is how deeply intertwined mental and physical health can be. This week there's a fascinating article in New Scientist that delves pretty deeply into that connection. We all know about the placebo effect — that you can see benefits from a treatment you're not really getting, as long as you think you are. And if you've ever looked at the results of clinical drug trials and seen how many control subjects experience side effects from a medication they're not taking, you know something about its shadow partner the "nocebo effect," where the same nonexistent treatments cause harm. But the power of somatization is even stronger than that. Apparently it's so strong, at least in some people, that just being convinced that you're about to die can actually kill you.
Fat people are unceasingly told that the size of their bodies will kill them — if not personally by their doctors, families, and acquaintances, then collectively by the media or by strangers. Trolls like to tick off all the diseases your fat ass is going to get; one commenter at Powell's actually implied that people would get heart disease just from reading the book. There's a constant cultural susurrus about diabetes, heart attacks, health care costs, living to see one's children grow up. Even leaving aside the fact that this inescapable refrain can make people fear exercise or stop getting medical care, it tells us we're already doomed. And look what that can do.
Think about it. Being convinced you're sick can kill. Being convinced you're well can cure. If indeed fat folks are iller, can we really be surprised?


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Summit County Fishing Report: Most rivers and streams remain 'high and roily'
Other than tailwater fisheries — the Blue River below Dillon Reservoir and Green Mountain Reservoir, Dream Stream and Frying Pan River — most rivers and streams remain high and roily. The good news is the rivers appear to have peaked and flows are dropping. With each passing week, the rivers will become increasingly fishable.
Near Kremmling, the Colorado River has been fishing well despite the high flows. Anglers have been experiencing some nice evening caddis hatches. For the tailwaters, scud, mysis and midge patterns continue to produce. Plan on fishing during the week to avoid the heavy angler "hatch."
South Park's Spinney Mountain Reservoir has been producing some solid action for those trolling small crankbaits and working tube jigs and other crayfish patterns in shallow water. Weeds along the western shore are heavy at this time. Eleven Mile Canyon Reservoir has slowed substantially, although there are reports of an occasional hefty trout.
The word is out that Jefferson Reservoir has plenty of open water. One angler indicated the number of fishers was high enough they could link arms and encircle the lake. Rather doubt it was that bad, but don't expect solitude if you go. Still, fishing has been good, although primarily for small rainbows.
Turquoise Lake has been fishing well, despite the low water levels. Lures or bait have both been producing with some consistency. This is one of the few waters reporting decent lake trout action. With the warming waters, the lake trout are transitioning to deeper waters and have not yet established a summer pattern.
The boat ramp at Stillwater Campground north of Granby should be open by the weekend, as rangers have been working on it and channel markers are now in place. Water is stained, and there is a fair amount of floating debris, so use caution if boating. Rainbows are still fairly active, but the lake trout have been generally inoperative.
Now is a great time to make a foray to some of the High Country lakes. While spinners often work well, a fly and bubble worked slowly are often the ticket to a day's productive fishing. Fish it slow! Any wave/wake at all is often too fast.
Dave Coulson is the Colorado editor for http://www.fishexplorer.com. He contributes a weekly fishing report to the Summit Daily News.
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Scrapbook How To: Title on Photo
Title possibilities are endless in a digital realm. From clipping photos to match word art or using a photograph to house your title, you can use digital techniques on a hybrid or completely digital layout.
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Autumn Delights by Jana Morton, as seen on page 79 of the September/October 2013 digital issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine.
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text: Back in the 18th Century, armies had all kinds of polite rules about how they waged war. The American Revolution was won, in part, by breaking those rules with what we know call guerilla warfare. Ubisoft's developers took inspiration from those old-timey hit-and-run tactics to develop an all-new fighting style for Assassin's Creed III. The video above highlights the evolution of the threequel's combat and looks at the weapons that main character Connor will be using in the upcoming game.


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Women's Lobby to honor 3 lawmakers – two are men
Two of the three Colorado lawmakers to be honored for their perfect voting record on priority issues affecting women are men. Go figure.
The three are Democratic Reps. Jerry Frangas of Denver, Sal Pace of Pueblo and Su Ryden of Aurora.
They will be honored Tuesday night at the Women's Lobby of Colorado annual event celebrating women, politics and art.
The lobby scored all 100 members of the legislature on bills that were considered priority issues. Here's what the lobby found:
While 40 percent of votes on issues of concern to women were bi-partisan, slightly more than half did divide along party lines. Male legislators continue to lag behind women legislators in voting on women's issues however. The average score for male legislators averaged 61 percent, that's 16 percent less than the average score for female legislators which was 77 percent.
"We still have a ways to go to make women's issues a top priority for all elected officials," Chaer Robert, co-chair of the issues committee for the Women's Lobby, said in a statement.
The bills that Frangas, Pace and Ryden supported include bills that capped interest rates on payday loans, created gender equity in private insurance rates and provided insurance coverage for maternity care and mammograms.
The senator who scored the lowest rating on women's issues was Republican Dave Schultheis, with 8 percent, while the House member with the lowest score, at 23 percent, was Republican Kent Lambert. Both are from Colorado Springs.
To read the full scorecard or get more information about Tuesday night's event, click here. The event is scheduled for 6 to 8 p.m. at the Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. 1st Ave.


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BarkTweetMeowStuff needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 133 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
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This is an excerpt from Dance Anatomy by Jacqui Haas.
Your mind plays an intense role in dance anatomy and improvement in technique. Imagining moving faster or lifting your legs higher is part of being a dancer in motion as well as understanding primary muscle movement. Visualization can also be a tool for helping you dance more effectively. How many times do you practice the act of développé? How many times do you feel gripping in the thigh and anxiety because you are unable to raise the leg higher? Imagine what it would be like to know which muscles need to contract, lengthen, and stabilize without gripping. Imagine your leg elevating higher without anxiety. This is using your mind along with physical ability.
Visualization, imagery, and mental simulation are terms used to describe creating a picture in your mind without doing the physical activity. There are many kinds of imagery, but for this text let's focus on basic visualization skills to improve performance. You can use simple positive images and focus on maintaining a calm center to release unwanted tension. Visualize exactly what you want your body to do and keep your thoughts positive. Eric Franklin is a master at visualization; I love his term seed imagery—planting an intuitive thought and letting that image grow to increase performance. When you repeatedly train your actions (as you do in class and rehearsal), you induce physiological changes and increase accuracy. Take a little time every day to find a quiet spot, close your eyes, and just listen to yourself breathe. Now, imagine the dancer you want to be, and see yourself moving with ease. Focus on how clean your lines are. Continue to visualize how much control you have with every combination you perform. You can see it in your mind, you can hear the music playing, and you can feel your body executing the sequences with detail. Now, all you have to do is do it! Let everything else go, and focus on your technique. You are training the relationship between your mind and your muscles. They must work together to help you reach your goals.
Your state of mind will definitely influence the outcome of your work. If you prepare for a pirouette with tension in the upper body, stress about having to execute two, and anxiety about losing your balance, how on earth can you turn? Visualize beautiful multiple turns around a firm but calm center and breathe! Dance your way into the pirouette, enjoy turning, release the fear, use rhythm to help you, and turn!
Research continues to look at the proven connection between stress and injury. You seek perfection and you push yourself beyond your limits. Dance, like any other sport, requires intense levels of training and conditioning to maintain the highest level of physical performance. When you allow competition anxiety or fear of failure to overwhelm your mind, you lose the ability to cope, and you put yourself at risk of getting hurt. When you can't maintain motivation, you create disruptions in attention, lose momentary awareness, and put yourself at risk for an acute injury. All of these stressors can also lead to hesitation, weakness in balance skills, and unwanted muscle tension.
The best dancers keep a healthy, positive conversation going within themselves to create motivation and encouragement. This inner dialogue can reduce tension and create an ease in your movement. Remember, you are building a healthy connection between mind and body. Accept yourself and love dancing—it's that easy! Be firm and tell yourself that it's possible. Unfortunately, you might be full of criticism and doubt; if you love to dance and want to improve, you must stop the negativity and dissatisfaction with yourself. Stay away from telling yourself you cannot do something or that some movement is too hard.
There is a distinct relationship between each exercise and the illustrations in these chapters. Throughout the exercises, visualize ease and balance in your neck as well as stability throughout your center, and allow those skills to carry over in your technique. For example, when performing the exercises for your legs, visualize ample joint mobility, not tension, in your hips. Remember to keep the images positive and brief. After practicing visualization skills during the exercises, send those brief images through your mind before classes, rehearsals, and performances. Notice how your skills improve; notice how you work more effectively with less gripping in your muscles. Keep using positive visualization skills. They are exercises of the mind and they require practice. Don't let negative thoughts creep back in and ruin your technique. Each chapter has a section called Dance-Focused Exercise guiding you on applying these skills to the exercises in that chapter.
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Ultimately, gardening is the act of 'controlling' plants and shaping the landscape to our own designs. Topiary takes 'gardening' to a higher level.
The evergreen topiaries at Longwood Gardens, with their varied shapes and sizes, are enormous.
Topiary, the art of training live plants to grow into a myriad of shapes and forms by clipping foliage and branches has been practiced since Roman times. The word itself comes from the word topiarius, a description of an ornamental landscape gardener or the creator of topia, or places that were landscapes created in frescos. Pliny the Younger described topiary in a letter about the creations of elaborate plant forms at his villa. What topiary is not are the green meatballs sheared to within an inch of their green lives.
For many centuries topiary fell out of favor, only to be revived in the 16th century. One of the most well-known topiary gardens is the Palace of Versailles in France with its hedges throughout the gardens accented by obelisks on the corners of the garden. Topiary regained popularity during the Victorian era and could be found at some of the great estates in Europe, including Great Dixter in Sussex, England.
Here in America, topiary was brought to the forefront during the reconstruction of the gardens at Colonial Williamsburg, Va., and the topiary maze was replanted at the Governor's Palace. The Victorian era also ushered in portable topiary.
The Victorians treasured their houseplants and many had conservatories in which to grow them. The portable topiary was a small plant, usually in a pot that could be moved around the home, showcasing them during parties and other social events. One particular type was a funeral piece. It was a stylized piece made of wire designed for a funeral. One of the more popular designs was a chair called the "Empty Chair" to depict sorrow.
Orchids are grown in standards at Longwood Gardens' conservatories.
There are several public gardens in the United States known for their topiary gardens including Filoli Gardens in Woodside, Calif., Ladew Gardens in Monkton, Md., The Old Deaf School Park in Columbus, Ohio, and Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pa. The topiary at the Old Deaf School Park is unique in the fact that it is based on an Post-Impressionist painting, Georges Pierre Seurat's "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte." It is the only known topiary to be based on a painting. It is in fact a "landscape of a painting of a landscape" and contains 54 topiary people, eight boats, a cat, a monkey, three dogs and an actual pond. For true whimsy and outlandish but spectacular topiary visit Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., where topiaries have been created to represent many of the Disney characters including the hippos from Fantasia and the mouse himself, Mickey Mouse.
Topiary encompasses many ways of training plants. There are shrubs that are grown inside wire cages until they fill them then are trimmed on a regular basis. The most familiar form in the United States is the classic shearing of evergreens into balls, cones, obelisks, animals, boxes, spirals and other shapes. There are the forms that are stuffed with potting mix and moss, with plants inserted in them until they grow roots and cover the form. Sometimes they are filled with flowering plants or different colored foliage to create a pattern. There is the familiar wire form for training ivy or some other vine into a circle or a heart and plants that have been trained from a single stem into a standard.
Bonsai is a form of topiary but the thought processes behind it are different. Bonsai recreates the natural form of a tree affected by wind and weather as it would grow in nature but in miniature. Bonsai plants are trained with wires and judicious pruning of foliage as well as roots.
Choices for Topiary
When choosing your plants for topiary you should consider the size of your topiary, the color, leaf shape, growth rate and habit, flowers and cost. The plant should be scaled to the size of the topiary. Using a boxwood to create a basket topiary is obviously not the right choice whereas using ivy or creeping fig might be ideal. Using a slower-growing plant is sometimes helpful when growing smaller topiary to keep it under control.
Indoors or Outdoors?
Caring for your topiary depends if it is an outdoor or indoor plant. For those grown outside, regular watering and fertilization according to plant needs as well as a scheduled maintenance trim once a month. Good sharp pruning shears are necessary for small plants and sharp hedge shears or clippers are used for larger ones. Depending on your location, your topiary may need to be moved indoors if it is portable and not likely to survive a winter. Cool temperatures and bright light provide adequate conditions. Rose standards should be moved to a protected location or protected according to the All-America Rose Selections (rose.org) recommendations.
There are some insect problems that can occur on topiaries that live indoors, such as whiteflies, spider mites, scale and aphids. To discourage those invaders, there are some simple rules to follow. Keep plants in the proper conditions. Don't allow them to become stressed by overwatering or underwatering.
Good air circulation is vital for all houseplants. Keep the foliage clean by wiping it down once a week with a damp cloth. Don't mist it because that can cause fungal problems. By following these suggestions, you should avoid most, if not all, pest problems.
Plants that are trained into a shape, rather than sheared into shape, benefit from regular trimming. Topiaries such as bay laurel (Laurus nobilis) or rosemary (Rosmarinus spp.) should be clipped on a regular basis and, as a bonus, the clippings are edible as well.
|Bumblebees come to life as moss-stuffed wire forms planted with multicolored plants. These bees buzz at Longwood Gardens' conservatories.
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The big yellow school bus could be the only thing that's the same from when I went to school.
At the very least, it certainly seems like that.
This week marked the actual "back to school" part that the retail stores have been getting you prepared for over a month. Thanks to them and their discount prices, your children are now equipped with enough No. 2 pencils, assorted colored folders and big erasers to go into their oversized backpacks for a whole year of learning.
Back to school is a big deal for everyone, even those without kids (a traffic ticket in a school zone is quite detrimental to the pocketbook). Up until this week, I nostalgically recalled the first day of school from my own memory banks every time I saw the big yellow "cheesewagon" (that's what we called it back in the sticks of Pennsyltucky in the age of rotary phones).
This week, after watching my son get onto the big yellow cheesewagon for the first time as he enters his first year of being at school for the full day, I realize that my own notions of back to school will forever be changed.
It goes now from fondly looking back to obsessively thinking ahead.
Now, as you sit at a red light or pass a big yellow school bus, I realize that no longer will I be remembering my old "Muppets" lunchbox or the little red haired girl in seat 6 of bus #34 that always was holding "smarties" or "nerds". Rather, I will be thinking if I've signed permission slips, packed healthy enough lunches (or at least lunches that will have value in the underground-school-cafeteria-trade-circuit), and I must worry about getting to the bus stop or the school parking lot to pick him up on time.
And so it begins.
When I was a kid, school meant a new year, a new teacher, and perhaps a few new faces in my classroom. I went to a small private school so it lacked the staggering parade of cars that come and go from the public school parking lots and the masses of strange faces. There was a stretch of three years (grades 3-5) that I had the same teacher. It was, to say the least, anti-climactic and almost impossible to get stoked for beginning of fourth grade. This past Tuesday, I looked at my son and felt overwhelmed for him as I thought that the whole circus that is the "first day of school" must have been a lot for him to handle especially from his vantage point of "almost waist high."
I am a pretty laid back father, but you find yourself looking around to the other kids in his class or bus to see who might be the troublemakers or the one's that might give him a hard time. As an alumni/victim of "schoolyard tom-foolery", and by that I mean I was the one to be made to look like a fool, usually by someone called Tom, I know how to pick out the ones who like to have fun at other's expense. I think the reason that parents get so upset and teary eyed when they're dropping their kids off because of a weird cocktail of three equal parts:
1. Their babies aren't babies anymore, and don't need to be saved every moment of the day.
2. They are leaving the comfort of the nest for eight hours a day.
3. School kids can be ruthless to each other and we know that fact all too well.
Yet, to my surprise, and despite my mini-parenting-meltdown, I couldn't help but beam with pride at the sight his face was so full of vigor to just get in there and learn. Perhaps it was the school supplies in his backpack or maybe it was his friends in the class, or maybe he was just excited to spend his days with someone other than his weird father and loving mother, but he was truly elated about the idea of school and spending all kinds of time there.
The irony is that he will spend the next 15 plus years of his life in school and he will now spend more time with his teachers than he does with my wife and I. Perhaps the vigor and the elation starts to fade from these kids eyes when they realize that or when they start to experience the normal growing pains that we are still sometimes haunted by as adults. Sometimes, I just want to bottle up his happiness or energy and save it for a day when he's older.
It always amazes me that we pay teachers the salary we pay them, and we ask them to do so much for our kids. Yet, the median salary for a teacher is pretty much entry level for other businesses. Isn't it a bit skewed that we trust our children with these people, but we pay more to our accountants?
Yes, I've heard the old joke that says that the top three reasons to be a teacher are 1. June 2. July 3. August, but how can you not find something wrong with the fact that a guy that hits .235 and has 15 RBI's this season can make over a million bucks a year, and the teachers of the next generation makes maybe 30-40K per?
I realize that I'm not the first one to make that argument and I'm not the first person to ever get teary eyed when their kids start to need them less and less. It's a bittersweet feeling to watch your babies become little people, who these days, have to start acting like adults at a very young age.
I know that sometimes, parents say that they wish they could turn the clocks back in time and have them be little kids again. I selfishly agree with that on weeks like this.
But, the beauty and perhaps the irony is that on this back to school week, when many of us parents are getting all vaklempt at the idea of junior learning multiplication tables, your kids put you right back in your place of knowing that you are borderline embarrassing them, just like our parents embarrassed the hell out of us.
I looked at my son on Tuesday, almost overwhelmed with the new chapter in his life, the many years and things that lie ahead, and hoped that he would fare better in the petri dish of the classroom, the politicking on the playground and would be smart enough to stray from being anyone named Tom's "fool."
He just gave me a hug and gave me a look as if to say,
"Relax dad, I've got a bus to catch."
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Monday, May 24, 2010
Coconut Chest Rub
Well, the damp chilly weather of late has gotten to me ... I guess it's my first cold of the season. And that means thick socks and hot soup and green tea and olive leaf extract and vitamin C and decongestant ... (and maybe the occasional moan for sympathy ... )
One of the things I remember about getting sick as a kid was getting some Vicks rubbed onto my chest and upper back. That super-strong smell just cleared out your whole head. Unfortunately, that particular product of my childhood days has turpentine and petroleum products in it- not really what I'm into these days.
So, I made my own version. It did clear up my sinuses and make me feel nice, but just a note: it seems to require more regular application than the storebought version. But given how good coconut oil is for your skin, your chest will probably appreciate it ...
And if you have any good cold remedies, please send them my way!!
1 heaping spoonful extra virgin coconut oil, in solidified state
3 drops eucalyptus essential oil
3 drops lemon essential oil
*3 drops peppermint essential oil
*my first batch didn't include this, but my next one did!!
As always, remember to keep essential oils out of the reach of children, and try to use organic ingredients when you can.
1. Mix them together in a small pot and rub into your chest and upper back.
2. If it's coldish in the house (say, less than mid-20c C or 60s F) you can keep this out at room temperature. Otherwise, put it in a cool place (like the fridge or entryway) so the coconut oil doesn't liquify.
Probably around $0.50 per batch. The coconut oil cost me around $0.30 and the oils were probably the same as I used such small amounts.
Better go for now, I hear a cup of tea calling me ...
Amanda xx
24 comments:
- Witch of Stitches said... [Reply to comment]
Great recipe! I love coconut oil on my skin - soothing and soaks right in.
- November 3, 2011 at 11:25 AM
- cyd said... [Reply to comment]
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- December 16, 2011 at 4:16 AM
- Mustang65 said... [Reply to comment]
Hi-I just saw this posted on Pinterest and am curious about your olive leaf extract information. I saw the link to wiki but am wondering what you do personally with olive leaf? Thanks!
- October 9, 2012 at 11:14 PM
- Easy peasy organic said... [Reply to comment]
@Mustang65 When I remember, I choke down droppers of olive leaf extract ... supposedly it increases immune function (but it *does* taste pretty awful :) ) A
- October 20, 2012 at 4:23 PM
- Hippy Chick said... [Reply to comment]
Then add some menthol crystals in there!
- December 5, 2012 at 8:40 PM
Hello! Can I add beeswax to make it more like a salve type homemade product?
And thank you so much fro sharing this recipe. Blessings!!
- December 14, 2012 at 6:58 PM
- Unknown said... [Reply to comment]
Put your drops in capsules.
- January 6, 2013 at 5:05 AM
You can also whip the solid coconut oil and essential oils with a mixer for about 5-7 minutes and it will be more spreadable.
- January 7, 2013 at 3:22 PM
- Unknown said... [Reply to comment]
I made this with the solid coconut oil. It's great!! A tiny bit goes a long way. I made it over a month ago, and what is left in the jar still smells as strong as it did when I made it.
- January 7, 2013 at 11:11 PM
- Leelyn said... [Reply to comment]
I was thinking of adding Lavender oil to this mix since it is usually hard to sleep when sick, do you think this will mess the mixture up or help it?? thanks
- January 8, 2013 at 6:47 AM
- Easy peasy organic said... [Reply to comment]
@Leelyn Great idea, L! I don't think that would harm ... you might just have to experiment with making a pretty smell out of them all :)
- January 8, 2013 at 10:39 AM
I just want to make sure this is children safe as well. Thank you!
- January 22, 2013 at 8:13 AM
- Easy peasy organic said... [Reply to comment]
Absolutely - much more so than the vaporubs you buy at the chemist! I make this for my own little girl.
The amount of essential oils in this recipe should be low enough even for sensitive skin, and coconut oil is a great moisturiser, but if you're worried just start with a small bit on the first go.
Always use your own best judgement, particularly with anything that goes on your skin or in your mouth.
- January 22, 2013 at 4:22 PM
I just found you & THANK YOU! this is wonderful! Kind of strange question about this - we use the OTC kind by rubbing on the bottom of the feet to help with coughing at night - do you think your version would work in the same way?
- February 12, 2013 at 2:45 PM
Is there an oil you can substitute for the Eucalyptus for someone with an allergy to it?
- February 12, 2013 at 4:25 PM
- Paula Parrish said... [Reply to comment]
Wonderful recipe, I am going to make some to have on hand in our home. I love handmade skin care products with organic ingredients. ;o)
- February 12, 2013 at 5:42 PM
- Unknown said... [Reply to comment]
I am EXTREMELY allergic to peppermint.....is there another option that would still be effective?
- February 12, 2013 at 6:04 PM
- Easy peasy organic said... [Reply to comment]
Michelle - we used to do the same thing! Give it a go - a 'free' foot massage can't hurt a cough :)
Anon - I'd try subbing with peppermint essential oil. The menthol in the mint should have a similar effect.
- February 12, 2013 at 6:07 PM
- Easy peasy organic said... [Reply to comment]
@Lauri Garrison Eek! Wouldn't want that, then! :)
I did a quick google search to see what other oils are 'expectorants' - those are the ones that induce productive coughs and help clear the lung passages. You might try a combination of frankincense, rosemary and/or marjoram instead. I've not used them in this balm before, but they seem to have similar expectorant properties to eucalyptus or peppermint, so worth a go. I reckon it'd smell quite nice with citrus plus a combination of the above. You might like to play around with relative proportions, to get something that smells nice for you ... a winter-cold perfume, so to speak :)
Always be sure you don't react to new essential oils, if you haven't tried them before. And hope you feel better soon!
- February 12, 2013 at 6:16 PM
Try adding an emusifier like bees wax to bring the melting point up so it is more room temperature stable.
- February 23, 2013 at 10:02 AM
- Brittany Maxwell said... [Reply to comment]
Hi there! Do you need to store it in a blue container? At my health food store, I know they sell blue and clear/white plastic/glass containers.
- May 4, 2013 at 4:03 AM
- Easy peasy organic said... [Reply to comment]
@Brittany MaxwellNot necessary, but anything with essential oils in it (like eucalyptus or peppermint or lavender, etc) is best kept out of direct sunlight or it loses its potency. Which is why I usually go for dark jars for this kind of stuff. :)
- May 4, 2013 at 11:11 AM
- Kerri said... [Reply to comment]
Great recipe! One thing I would change in the recipe though...a glass pot is mandatory...essential oils will pull the petrochemicals out of the plastic pot/container and leech the chemicals into the chest rub. www.aromatools.com has awesome dark and clear glass jars to buy, fyi. As another reader posted, you don't have to buy the dark colored glass, just store in in a pantry or refrigerator. :-)
- June 17, 2013 at 10:15 AM
- Easy peasy organic said... [Reply to comment]
@Kerri Great point, Kerri! Axx
- June 20, 2013 at 4:57 AM


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Hmm. So I'd reached the grand old age of 47 and I'd never seen Buckingham Palace or any other of the London iconic buildings, despite us only living an hour away from London! So, we decided to have a tourist day. Very Picture heavy.
Trafalgar Square.
|The Blue Cockeral... a gift from France apparently. It's very bright.
Along the Mall now, and Horse Guards Parade.
|The wording above the arches reads...In the tenth year of king Edward vll to Queen Victoria from most grateful citizens. 1910
Buckingham Palace.
We had lunch in St James Park.
On the way to Downing Street.
The very impressive Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament.
The London Eye (only Justin and Matthew went on it)
The Shard.
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Here's a Chris Christie quote that may come back to haunt him: "I'm not much different from Andrew Cuomo. I probably agree with him on 98% of the issues."
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Recording non stop with 48V Phantom powered Mic (Rode NTG-1) on my #Tascam DR-40 … wait for it … 4h..42min..16sec … NON STOP! … and I still have standby time and can record internal stereo mic.
A/B stereo is really nice to capture stereo nat sound fx …love it more than x/y setup. You can switch from A/B to X/Y stereo mic setup really nice and quick.
And probably the best part on the DR-40 are the rock solid XLR inputs …nothing slips out!
That's about it. A great & solid recorder for the money. The Inputs are a bit noises maybe (really just a bit) but that is no issue if u keep your levels nice and tight and there is a good Limiter as well. I don't really care about all there other "fancy" recording modes. It's just nice for recording for Shotgun Mic-Recording for interviews and stuff. And of course for SoundFX (Nat-sound) recordings.
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Everyone always compares first-year coaches and their progress. How about we check up on second-year coaches? For Colorado, as you can imagine, it isn't pretty.
Jon Embree is one of 21 coaches in their second year at their school. He is the only one who's 0-3. Think he had a tough rebuilding project? How about Minnesota's Jerry Kill? The Gophers were picked 11th in the Big Ten, only ahead of Indiana, and are 3-0. OK, they won at UNLV and at home against New Hampshire, an FCS school, and Western Michigan.
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Rich Girl Gone Bad—Really, Really Bad
|Annoyance Theatre presents
|40 Whacks
|Book/Lyrics by Aggie Hewitt
Music/Lyrics by Lisa McQueen
Directed by Irene Marquette
at Annoyance Theatre, 4830 N. Broadway (map)
through August 6 | tickets: $15 | more info
reviewed by Paige Listerud (and, after the break, Barry Eitel)
Just who is Lizzie Borden to the average person today—a reclaimed feminist icon from the 19th-century or a poor little rich girl gone really, really bad? Lisa McQueen (music and lyrics) and Aggie Hewitt (book and lyrics) get to have it both ways with their masterful musical comedy 40 Whacks, now playing Fridays at the Annoyance Theatre. Truth to tell, Lizzie (Ellen Stoneking) wins audience applause at the end of the show because – after a wild ride of mayhem and mistrial – she gets away with it all.
Irene Marquette directs a cunning comidic cast, who lay it all on the line about the good ol', bad ol' days surrounding this murder, America's sordid Gilded Age. Even if Lizzie is no feminist heroine—largely because the glass ceiling she bumps into is about sharing part of her inheritance with her stepmother, Abby (Jennifer Estlin)—the show is, nevertheless, very conscious about the limitations women faced in the 1892, in and out of marriage. Lizzie's father, Andrew Borden (Noah Gregoropolous), gets thoroughly hosed in the script as the Borden family's patriarchal douche bag. But Gregoropolous's dry, deadpan pronouncements on women's menstrual cycles and mental states make us wish he wasn't off to see his maker so quickly.
What amazes most about this production is its restraint. Marquette has adhered to a little more class and period consciousness than one usually sees in Annoyance productions. Higher production values in scenic design and costuming, coupled with hints of ragtime in McQueen's musical score, give the audience a stronger sense of old-timey mass murder–all the better with which to sail into the production's more off-the-wall, anachronistic moments. After a steady diet of arsenic poisoning and a failed attempt at getting medical help, Abby starts to make Uncle John's (Mike Maltz) bed on the second floor. We know that her mortal comeuppance at Lizzie's hands is imminent. However, Abby still gets a glorious swansong before her demise, covering the Carpenters' 1972 hit "I'll say goodbye to love."
That's not the end to this show's imaginative flights of fancy. The cast knows how to pour it on for Lizzie's trial, which Lizzie gets to observe through nothing less than a court-ordered morphine haze. Maltz is charming as Uncle John Morse–what with his little crush on the family Irish maid Bridget (Chelsea Farmer)–but he really excels at delivering the trippy, whacked out opening remarks as the prosecuting attorney. Cristin McAlister, demurely spoiled and vindictive as Lizzie's sister Emma, really gets to step out and shake it as Lizzie's defense. Sherman Edwards, as the casual and celebrity conscious judge overseeing trial proceedings, seals the circus for what it is. "Will you be dignified and respectful of the court system?" he mildly asks of the audience before Lizzie arrives. His understated delivery already informs us we need not be.
What seals the deal for this show is its excellent music. There are times when the score strays into operetta territory and that's when I begin to ask whether the producers have created something a little beyond Annoyance's typical schlock comedy fare. 40 Whacks definitely delivers more sophistication, while keeping a light, crude touch to get across Lizzie's overwhelming sense of entitlement. I, of course, am screaming for more and I hope Annoyance's audiences will too.
|Rating: ★★★½
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Yesterday, Chief Justice Roberts embraced a ludicrous, Tea Party reading of the two key provisions of the Constitution, tossing out nearly two centuries of established law in the process. Yet, after he also refused to join a deeply partisan decision tossing out President Obama's signature accomplishment — agreeing with several leading conservative judges in the process — the right-wing did not waste any time drawing its knives upon him. In just 24 hours, he was accused of everything from caving to non-existent "bullying" to being mentally unfit for duty.
It's tough to imagine a more flagrant display of ungratefulness than the pushback Roberts is now receiving from his fellow conservatives. The reality is that Roberts consistently advanced the right's agenda from the moment he joined the Court:
1) Corporate Money In Elections: Roberts jonied the majority in Citizens United, holding that wealthy corporations should have a nearly unlimited power to buy and sell American elections. Roberts also voted to undermine public financing laws in a way that severely undermines candidates without well-moneyed backers' ability to compete in elections.
2) Judges For Sale: Roberts wrote a dissent in Caperton v. Massey that would have allowed a wealthy coal CEO to pay $3 million to put a sympathetic supreme court justice on that court. The same justice would then go on to $50 million verdict against the big spender's company.
3) Corporate-Owned Courts: Roberts consistently votes to give corporations a nearly unlimited power to force workers and consumers into a privatized, corporate-run arbitration system that overwhelming favors corporations.
4) Dividing And Conquering Ordinary Americans: Roberts voted in AT&T; Mobility v. Concepcion to allow corporations to strip their workers and consumers of their ability to bring class action lawsuits. Because of this decision, corporations now have a nearly unlimited power to cheat the people who do business with them — so long as they only do it a few dollars at a time.
5) Corporate Immunity To The Law: Roberts voted to give generic drug makers immunity to key state laws after one of their drugs caused a condition called tardive dyskinesia in many of the people who took it. Tardive dyskinesia is an horrific neurological condition that causes sometimes crippling, uncontrollable bodily movements, often in the face:
6) Abortion: Roberts also joined the Court's decision restricting reproductive freedom in Gonzales v. Carhart, which reasoned that a woman's right to choose must be cut back because "it seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained."
7) Race: Roberts has also consistently resisted attempts to eradicate the legacy of racism in America. Most notably, in Parents Involved v. Seattle School District No. 1, he claimed that a plan to desegregate public schools violates Brown v. Board of Education.
8) Gitimo: Roberts twice sided with President George W. Bush on questions of detainee treatment — as a lower court judge in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, and as Chief Justice in Boumediene v. Bush.
9) Unequal Pay For Women: Roberts joined the Court's discredited decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire rolling back women's right to receive equal pay for equal work.
10) Older Workers: Roberts also joined the Court's 5–4 decision in Gross v. FBL Financial Services limiting older workers' ability to be free from age discrimination in the workplace.


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The Independent Alliance
The Independent Alliance is a global alliance of UK publishers and their international partners who share a common vision of editorial excellence, original, diverse publishing, innovation in marketing and commercial success.
The founding publishers of the Independent Alliance were Faber and Faber, Atlantic Books, Portobello Books, Canongate, Icon Books, Profile Books and Short Books, who came to partnership in July 2005. The group now also includes Granta Publications, David Fickling Books, Pushkin Press, Scribe, Lonely Planet, Murdoch Books, Daunt Books, New York Review of Books, Pavilion and Old Street Publishing. Faber and Faber provides the sales force and administrative team for Independent Alliance publishers and, in March 2008, The Book Service Ltd (TBS/GBS) became sole distributor.
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Borrowing something can be the hardest part of following the "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue" tradition, especially if you don't share a shoe size or taste in jewelry with your mom and close friends. So what's a girl to do? I have five clever ideas for getting your borrow on, so that even if you just can't bear the thought of wearing your aunt's totally-not-you garnet ring, you can honor her by wearing something else she loves. To see my beauty suggestions, just click through.
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During Asia Pacific Forestry Week (APFW), private enterprises, non-governmental organizations, and influential players in the environmental and forestry sector came together to debate the challenges and opportunities that Asia's forests face. Kristen Carusos of IUCN's China office gives her take on the proceedings.
All APFW participants agreed that the impact of reforestation, afforestation, and forest management programmes should extend far beyond the protection and management of forests to improve not only the livelihoods of indigenous and local peoples but also promote biodiversity and reduce carbon emissions.
The condition of Asian forests affects local communities, countless plant and animal species, natural disaster prevention, and food security. Many non-profit non-governmental organizations and intergovernmental organizations have done an excellent job of raising the living standards of forest communities while incorporating green sustainable development and promoting responsible forest management. These organizations truly set an example for the private and public sector because they maximize the benefits of protecting and managing Asia's forests.
The Treedom group was one of the few private enterprises represented at APFW. The Treedom group works with several organizations to plant trees for carbon off-setting and for livelihood improvement. During their presentation they gave an open and honest insight into the challenges they faced during their carbon-offsetting reforestation project in Thailand. From threats of setting fire to the reforestation site to adverse climate conditions to basic logistical problems such as how to get the planting supplies to the site, they identified many common issues reforestation projects face, whether in the private or public sector.
The reality is that there are several international, regional, domestic, and local challenges that foresters face. There are countless variables that need to be considered for a successful forestry project, programme, or initiative and several problems that, try as they might, foresters have little to no control over. For example, when dealing with indigenous communities, the question of ownership is heavily disputed. It is difficult to break ground on a project without knowing whom the land belongs to. Many organizations have set up land tenure institutions in order to further clarify land ownership.
Forestry organizations throughout the region and the world must constantly balance several important components of forestry management projects. The livelihoods of forest communities, providing incentives to investors, carbon-offsetting, increasing and sustaining biodiversity, and logistical and technical aspects are just a few of the many complicated challenges that foresters face.
It is not just the amount of seeds planted, but the span of the benefits of these trees to the local communities and the environment. Foresters want to maximize the benefits across a wide variety of sectors and they must ask themselves what the most important goal is that needs to be accomplished. One issue that could have been further discussed is the extent that forestry projects take into consideration food security. Sometimes livelihood, reforestation, and afforestation projects shift local employment from agriculture to the cultivation of forests and this has an effect on food supply and food security.
Illegal logging is an international problem and international and regional organizations and institutions need to come together to curb the illegal timber trade. Every stage of the supply chain has to be fully monitored to ensure that documents are not being falsified and that the timber is actually being legally harvested. This supply chain ranges from the moment the tree is cut down by a local rural worker in one of Asia's forests to when a consumer on the other side of the world buys a wood product. Even the most socially and environmentally responsible corporations and enterprises cannot always fully guarantee that the wood used in their products has not been harvested illegally. It is an unfortunate truth that corruption, lack of transparency, and loose enforcement of forestry laws play a huge role in the uncertainty of legality of timber. Policy makers, NGOs, and IGOs are working together to create more safeguards in the timber trade to secure legally harvested timber such as the recent European Union Due Diligence legislature and technological advances that help further trade and monitor the timber supply chain.
Even when countries have strong domestic illegal logging laws and regulations, they cannot explicitly control how other countries harvest timber and deal with the illegal timber trade. Regional cooperation is vital and countries cannot just tackle illegal logging and forestation management within their own borders. Illegally logged timber can still be unknowingly imported and thus can also be exported all over the world. The implementation of safeguards to ensure that illegally logged timber is not imported was something that was not heavily emphasized during the week but it remains a huge issue throughout the region and across the world.
Progress is being made every day with the collaboration of local people, IGOs, NGOs, private enterprises, and governments throughout Asia. Forestry is a complex and complicated issue, but the benefits and impacts of responsible forestry span far beyond the forest communities themselves. Forests play such a vital role in the environment and ensuring that they are protected is a necessary step in saving our planet from degradation and destruction. Though faced with several obstacles and challenges, the organizations and individuals involved in APFW are promoting the global initiative to save, secure, and manage the world's forests. Their efforts are leading the international community towards a more environmentally-oriented society that understands the essential value of forests.


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Frank Langella gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
The Tony Awards Measures In Love
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It would have been a great show regardless. These are show people, so they put on a show, they prepare their speeches, prepare to belt their performances. The energy of live theatre beats in the blood of people who do it every day, and somehow they reproduce that energy in us. That's just day-to-day Broadway. Full Story
Boys can bitchface too!
Have finally watched most of the SAG clips. Thankfully didn't miss much. Meryl of course was delightful but for smutty tingles, the best speech of the night belonged to Sean Penn. Several reasons… First – Frank Langella's bitchface! Angelina Jolie has kicked off an awards season trend! Only Frank's, if you can believe it, is much worse. Full Story
Old Bat off her rocker
In what universe is Frank Langella more fascinating than Tina Fey??? Who? Frank Langella. Who? Exactly. With all due respect, as he is a fine actor, Frank's predicted Oscar "win" for Frost/Nixon is nothing if not premature. And, let's be honest, he has that "bad man" face. Full Story


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Thursday night was momentous for our Winnebago County Board, as board members pulled off a winning trifecta - affirming actions that will truly transform the economy of our region. In all my years, I don't ever recall an agenda as dynamic or with this amount of vision and positive impact.
First was the approval of an Aviation Maintenance Program. After eight years, everything came together, and in one week, something truly unheard of happened - three boards overwhelmingly approved the creation and funding of the program.
The project is a cooperative effort of Rock Valley College and the Chicago Rockford International Airport, with partial funding from county host fees.
Airport Board Chairman Paul Cicero commented on behalf of his board, "We are delighted to see the community moving in a visionary direction to create this economic opportunity. This project has been evolving since 2006, and the intergovernmental cooperation is both remarkable and appreciated by all sides."
A successful Aviation Maintenance Program is the first step in developing an MRO (maintenance repair operation), which will generate more high-paying jobs and create an upward expansion of aviation opportunities. In order to sustain an MRO and to meet our current industry needs, we need to expand the RVC program to a capacity of 150 mechanics.
Rock Valley College Interim President Mike Mastroianni is optimistic about the future success of the project.
"The college is excited to be a part of meeting the important need for greater workforce development, and we look forward to working together to attract an MRO. We feel this will complement our strong Liberal Arts and Sciences program. Our thanks to the boards of the airport, county and Rock Valley College for moving it forward."
And he's right. This is a really big deal. I believe we made a serious error getting out of vocational education, and I am impressed with this project, as well as RVC's plans to retool the Stenstrom Center in order to provide training for global manufacturing for today's world.
Secondly, the County Board approved funding for Reclaiming First. This project came about in an effort to sustain the already award-winning amateur sports market established by the Rockford Park District and the Tourism Bureau.
Reclaiming First will "retain, regain and grow" the sports market by developing an indoor sports facility and upgrading Sportscores One and Two. The new indoor facility will not only grow our already successful tourism economy, but will create new jobs by capturing a greater share of the profitable sports tourism market and by providing a new sports venue for local residents. County host fee dollars will help fund the improvements to Sportscore One and Sportscore Two.
The third win was two-fold for the Criminal Justice system. The board passed a resolution to establish a Youth Court, a program whereby young misdemeanant offenders are judged by their peers. The court is a cooperative effort of District 205, the city of Rockford and the States Attorney Office. This program has been very successful in redirecting the lives of young offenders.
Lastly, the board unanimously approved a three-year contract with the FOP Lodge 50 (Sheriff's Detective and Deputy Union). Contract talks can take a long time and often become contentious. We're happy to be able to say that both sides have ratified this agreement.
So, it's hats off to the Winnebago County Board for approving one of the most progressive agendas in recent history. These programs will bring new vitality to our region. I want to thank everyone who made it happen.
Oh, what a night!
Scott Christiansen is chairman of the Winnebago County Board.


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Court Reporting
What is court reporting?
Court reporting is the process which creates and preserves a record of words spoken in court, and when necessary, provides their timely and accurate transcription in the event that an appeal is filed.
What are the court reporting methods?
Court reporters are commonly understood to be operators of stenographic court machines. Modern court reporting however can rely on other technologies such as digital recording, which may be operated from an external location. In Florida's trial courts, a variety of methods are used to provide court reporting services. These methods include, but are not limited to, shorthand, stenography, computer-aided transcription, real-time court reporting, audio tape recording, and digital audio recording. Depending on local demographics, circuits may employ one or more of these methods in order to maximize efficiency and effectiveness. Read more about these methods here.
The function of court reporting is frequently discussed in two major components. The contemporaneous recording of words and events in a courtroom, whether by stenographic or by other means, is referred to as recording. The subsequent conversion of the record into written text is referred to as transcription. The overall process is referred to as court reporting.
Why do we have court reporting?
Court reporting is a procedural safeguard that helps to ensure equal opportunity to appeal final decisions of lower courts. In considering an appeal, an appellate court relies upon transcripts to determine whether lower courts used proper procedures and the appropriate legal principles in reaching a final decision. If a transcript is unavailable, the appellate courts would have difficulty in determining whether a case was handled in a fair manner.
In America's court system, procedural safeguards such as court reporting are set in place to ensure individual rights to due process of law. Due process is based on the principle that governments shall not deprive any person of life, liberty or property without the guarantee of fundamental fairness and justice. In Florida, our court system depends on due process services to fulfill its mission to protect rights and liberties, uphold and interpret the law, and provide for the peaceful resolution of disputes.
Court Reporting Circuit Profiles
The Commission on Trial Court Performance & Accountability and Office of the State Courts Administrator have been working together to provide resource tools that can be used to evaluate and monitor court reporting operations.
One resource tool that has been developed is the Court Reporting Circuit Profile. A circuit profile is an annual summary of a circuit's court reporting fiscal allotments, staffing models, service delivery models, digital logistics, measurable workload outputs, and contract service provider rates.
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- Court Reporting Circuit Profiles, February 2015
- Court Reporting Circuit Profiles, February 2008
- Court Reporting Circuit Profiles, February 2007
- Court Reporting Circuit Profiles, February 2006
Court Reporting Performance and Accountability
Beginning in 2002, the Commission on Trial Court Performance & Accountability has been working to make recommendations on new policies and procedures on matters related to the effective and efficient functioning of court reporting services.
On July 16, 2009, the Supreme Court released SC08-1658, regarding the proposed rule amendment recommendations of the Commission concerning court reporting services and the use of electronic recordings of court proceedings. Subsequent to the release of the Supreme Court's opinion, the Commission issued a supplemental report recommending modifications to some of the standards of operation and best practices originally submitted in October 2007. On January 7, 2010, the Supreme Court issued AOSC10-1 which adopted the standards of operation and best practices proposed by the Commission in both the October 2007 report and as revised in the November 2009 report. Based on the trial courts' experience in implementing the standards of operation and best practices, these policies were revised on July 20, 2011, per AOSC11-22.
A listing of the Comission's reports issued to date is provided below:
- Supplemental Report – Recommendations for the Provision of Court Reporting Services in Florida's Trial Courts November, 2009
- Recommendations for the Provision of Court Reporting Services in Florida's Trial Courts October, 2007
- Court Reporting in Florida's Trial Courts Post-Revision 7, February 2005
- Final Report and Recommendations, December 2002
A summary of the court reporting standards of operation and best practices that have been approved by the Supreme Court may be found here: Compendium of Standards of Operation and Best Practices.
Court Reporting Related Links
- National Center for State Courts
- National Court Reporters Association
- American Association of Electronic Court Reporters and Transcribers
- Florida Court Reporters Association
- National Verbatim Reporters Association
International Alliance of Professional Reporters and Transcribers


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PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- A Canadian refueling ship disabled by an engine fire pulled into Pearl Harbor under tow Thursday morning with nearly 300 sailors aboard.
U.S. Navy tug boats guided the HMCS Protecteur to a pier after making a slow journey from Pacific Ocean waters north of Hawaii.
The ship got help from the U.S. Navy after the fire broke out last week, leaving 20 sailors with minor injuries, the Royal Canadian Navy said. The fire engulfed a space as large as a school gymnasium, three or four stories high. The Canadian navy said a doctor treated sailors for dehydration, exhaustion and smoke inhalation.
Sailors came off the ship having not shaved or showered in a week. The ship lost power amid the fire and did not regain it during the trip to Pearl Harbor.
Commodore Bob Auchterlonie, leader of the Canadian Pacific Fleet, said the ship encountered "an absolute worst-case scenario" of a major fire on board a tanker in the middle of the ocean at night, compounded by the power loss.
"The leadership on board, the professionalism of the sailors and the courage displayed to get through this has been absolutely exceptional," he told reporters after meeting the ship.
Auchterlonie expressed his gratitude for the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy's help during the ordeal. "I can't thank them enough for the great job they did in helping our sailors get back to port safely," he said.
Petty Officer 2nd Class Shawn Mosson said he had just sat down to have a cup of coffee in the cafeteria when he heard the alarm. He immediately went down below and grabbed a hose to cool off the deck.
The heat was so intense, his eyeglasses melted when he set them down.
"The boots were starting to melt to the deck from the heat," he said. "(We were) overcome with smoke. You couldn't see your hand in front of your face."
Mosson, from Brandon, Manitoba, said his training kicked in and his mind went blank as he focused on fighting the fire.
Now that he's back on land, Mosson said he'll first take a shower - "a very long one at that."
He's looking forward to returning to Canada.
"As soon as I get home, I'm going to grab my wife, my son, my stepdaughter and I'm never going to let them go," he said.
The fire was under investigation, and Cmdr. Al Harrigan of Maritime Forces Pacific Headquarters said getting the ship back to a dock was the first step in that process and eventually guiding the vessel back to Canada.
The 44-year-old Protecteur was on its way home from a three- to four-week deployment, he said.
The Protecteur is a supply ship that refuels and provides food and parts to other navy vessels at sea.
Earlier this week, an American guided-missile destroyer took 19 relatives of the Canadian crew back to Hawaii. The family members had been traveling with the Protecteur as part of a regular program allowing relatives to join crews on return trips from long missions. The rest of the crew stayed with the Protecteur, except for one crew member who had cut his hand, Harrigan said.
The tow was initially complicated by rough seas that caused the tow line to break Sunday. But the deep-water ocean tug USS Sioux took over the towing, and the escort saw better conditions later in the week.
The Protecteur was scheduled to be retired next year.


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ATLANTA, Ga. - For four years, VCU Head Coach Shaka Smart told anybody that would listen that Troy Daniels was the best shooter he's ever coached.
On Thursday night in Atlanta, the whole world got to see why as Daniels won the State Farm College 3-Point Championship, as well as the Pepsi Battle of Champions title, to kick off Final Four festivities on ESPN.
"It was a lot of fun to come down here and represent VCU among some of the best shooters in the country," Daniels said. "It was awesome to have my family and coaches in the stands cheering me on, just having fun doing what I love to do."
The Roanoke, Va. native was the first shooter of the night, scoring 16 in the first round and advanced to the second round on a tie-breaker since he hit more money balls (last ball of the rack). In the second round, he posted the highest score of the night on the men's side with 23, advancing to the finals to take on Indiana's Jordan Hulls.
Daniels went first, finishing with a score of 17, which would be enough to take home the men's title after Hulls posted 15 in his final go-round.
He wasn't done as he went on to battle Indiana's Aulani Sinclair in the Pepsi Battle of Champions, which pairs the men's 3-point champion against the women's. Daniels tied his best round of the night with another 23, while Sinclair posted 15.
Daniels isn't done in Atlanta as the Roanoke, Va. native will be a part of the Orange squad in Friday's NABC Reese's All-Star Game. Game time is set for 5 p.m. at the Georgia Dome.


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