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SEMATECH Engineers Achieve Breakthroughs Enabling
Implementation of High-k Dielectrics at 45
nm Technology Node
Austin, TX (25 April 2005) -Using a selected set of tools and processes, SEMATECH
engineers have achieved twin breakthroughs in channel mobility and reliability
of high-k/metal gate transistors, putting high-k technology for CMOS within
reach at the 45 nm technology node.
The SEMATECH advance involves a titanium nitride (TiN) metal gate on a hafnium
silicate (HfSiO) dielectric with an equivalent oxide thickness (EOT) of roughly
10 angstroms (Å), with mobility at 90 percent of the universal mobility
curve for silicon dioxide (SiO2), the historic gate dielectric material. These
EOT and mobility metrics meet the 45 nm technology node specifications listed
by the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS).
The achievement caps a lengthy effort within SEMATECH's Front End Processes Division,
and is part of a program to fully enable the eventual introduction of high-k/metal
gate technology in volume manufacturing. The process is not expected to add significant
cost to current CMOS product flows.
"SEMATECH's high-k process represents a significant step in the search for
a complete solution to planar CMOS at the 45 nm node and beyond," said Byoung
Hun Lee, manager of the Advanced Gate Stack Program. "We are also working
to produce a dual metal gate that can work with this process. Plus, these breakthroughs
have applications for specialty architectures, such as FinFETs or fully depleted
SOI devices."
Tests of SEMATECH wafers at Yale University confirmed the quality of the high-k
dielectrics, according to T.P. Ma, chairman of Yale's Department of Electrical
Engineering. "The mobility results that we recently obtained on SEMATECH's
test wafers were truly outstanding, which are consistent with the low densities
of interface traps in these wafers. Having seen these results first-hand, I am
a lot more optimistic than ever before about the practical implementation of
high-k gate dielectrics in the foreseeable future."
In explaining the significance of the SEMATECH process, Lee said that new materials
and techniques must be found for transistors as their size decrease into the
deep sub-100 nm regime. One of the serious challenges the industry faces is developing
new gate dielectric materials. For decades, silicon dioxide (SiO2) was a reliable
dielectric, but as transistors have continued to shrink, the reliability of the
SiO2-based gate dielectric is reaching its physical limits, while the technical
challenges of using that dielectric are increasing rapidly.
One solution is to use other materials, such as hafnium-based metal oxides, for
gate dielectrics. These high-k materials, so-called because of their high dielectric
constant (k), can be made much thicker than SiO2 while achieving the same gate
capacitance - the ability to turn a gate on and off, allowing it to process data.
SEMATECH has aggressively pursued the high-k option for the past eight years,
in broad collaboration with several universities and equipment suppliers to identify
materials and processes in time to meet member company and industry manufacturing
Lee noted that in order to implement metal/high-k technology at the 45 nm node,
slated by the ITRS for initial volume production in 2010, metal/high-k devices
must perform well in three areas: mobility, reliability, and threshold voltage
(Vth) controllability.
Mobility is the speed at which an electron can travel through a material, such
as silicon channel region. Critical to electron mobility in a silicon-based transistor
is the interface between silicon and the gate dielectric, with the SiO2 gate
dielectric setting the standard. While high-k dielectrics historically have tended
to show low electron mobility, SEMATECH's Hf-silicate performed at 90 percent
of universal mobility, which is very close to a SiO2-based gate dielectric at
similar EOT.
Also, Lee said SEMATECH's Hf-silicate process demonstrated exceptional results
not only for mobility, but also for reliability, as measured by Vth instability.
For an optimized process, the SEMATECH material reached one of the project's
goals by showing a Vth instability of less than 10 millivolts (mV) after 1,000
seconds of constant voltage stress at 22 megavolts per centimeter (MV/cm). This
result is about 10 times better than the comparable reliability of high-k materials
typically shown in industry reports.
"What this means is that we have a high-k process with mobility similar
to the heavily nitrided silicon oxynitride [SiON] dielectric which is currently
in manufacturing, but with reduced gate leakage current," said Paul Kirsch,
manager of SEMATECH's Advanced Gate Dielectric Project. "We have established
a tool set and have identified several process parameters to reach this point." Kirsch
added SEMATECH is making rapid progress in solving the challenge of Vth controllability
and plans a subsequent announcement on that issue.
"This is a significant enabler for SEMATECH member companies to continue
traditional planar CMOS transistor scaling," Lee said. "As manufacturers
make their decisions on how to approach the 45 nm node, they will find that SEMATECH's
work enhances the availability of high-k for that node. Our expectation is that
within a year, we will resolve the key issues in the implementation of metal/high-k
gates stack into conventional CMOS flow."
Lee credited Kirsch and SEMATECH engineers Naim Moumen, Prashant Majhi, Seungchul
Song, Rino Choi and Gennadi Bersuker with developing these breakthroughs in the
consortium's high-k dielectric process.
is a global semiconductor technology development
consortium that has effectively represented the semiconductor
manufacturing industry on innovation issues since
1988. SEMATECH conducts state-of-the-art research,
and is a highly-regarded technology partner whose
goal is to promote the interests common to all chipmakers.
It has extensive experience collaborating with equipment
and materials suppliers, as well as government and
academic research centers, to refine the tools and
technology necessary to produce future generations
of chips. Additional information may be found at
www.sematech.org <http://www.sematech.org>.
SEMATECH, the SEMATECH logo, AMRC, Advanced Materials
Research Center, ATDF, the ATDF logo, Advanced Technology
Development Facility, ISMI and International SEMATECH
Manufacturing Initiative are servicemarks of SEMATECH,
Inc. All other servicemarks and trademarks are the
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We spent a large chunk of today outside: playing, drawing and football! It's warm and not humid at the moment so embracing all the time outside.
Whilst I was working on my Latin they got on with drawing. It was interesting seeing how their drawings developed through copying and helping each other. Zoey told me she was drawing a skateboard:
Nomi decided she would draw skateboards too. One for her, Zoey and Daddy. She outlined and then colored them in.
Both girls were happily looking at each other's drawings, and are not in the least bit bothered by copying at this age. Zoey went to draw again and Nomi told her it needed four wheels so Zoey drew these skateboards:
It's really nice seeing them work together yet separately.

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I want to sell our house and buy an RV. Then I want to spend a year traveling the country, eating at diners, seeing national parks and learning the history of the states, going to amusement parks and American malls and science museums and art galleries. And then I want to come back here, rent an apartment in a great school district, send my kid to free school, and look for a new home.
There are two reasons I want to do this:
1. I do not want to spend the absurd and obscene amount of money it's going to cost to send G to a DK, or developmental kindergarten, which is the school between preschool and kindergarten.
2. I want to know a lot more about this great country we live in, and I want Garrett to see it.
Oh, and 3. I really like diners.
It'd have to be a nice RV. I think we've established I'm a bit of a princess. I'm thinking somewhere between RV and Tour Bus. I'd want to cook, because man can't live by diner alone. It'd probably have to be used, but it'd be clean and lovely and have a comfy, big bed in back and some bunks. And couches. And a table to eat at or play games and do arts and crafts. And two TV's.
Oh! I just thought of another reason. 4. It'd give me a chance to get rid of a whole lot of shit and start over when we got home.
This whole "looking for a school for next year" thing is really getting me down. Technically, G meets the cut-off date for kindergarten next year (for public school), but he'd be one of the very youngest for sure. And I don't think that's fair, especially since the trend seems to be going more and more toward holding kids (especially boys) back until they're six. But our options for DK are very slim and they are all very expensive. Then there's the following year to think about. I don't love our school district, so I feel like we might be leaning toward private school. But the money that will take, paired with the fear that he might not be getting the "life lessons" he would get by being at a larger school, make me question whether or not private school is the way to go.
When I grew up, this discussion didn't exist among the people I knew. You went to the school in your district. Period. Maybe it was different with the rich kids. Maybe their parents were fretting over which private school was best, filling out hundreds of applications, touring thousands of campuses. But my parents weren't. Just typing this is filling me with so much anxiety I'm finding it hard to breathe.
The fact of the matter is, sending G to private school will stretch our finances in a way I don't think we're prepared for. And it will leave us with little extra for trips, or extracurricular activities. But sending him to public school might make me feel like I'm not doing enough for him. Like he's not getting the attention and care he deserves, and like his intelligence might be overlooked because of the class size and student to teacher ratio.
This is all we talk about, by the way. The other moms and I. This is our main discussion. Which schools have you seen? How many are you applying to? How much is it? Are you applying for financial aid? Do they even have financial aid available? Do you know anyone else who has gone there? I hear you have to apply now if you want your kid to go there in two years. I don't like their philosophy. I don't like the way their bathrooms are set up. Did you see they have chickens? Their music program is great! They have yoga twice a week. Are they affiliated with the church or just renting space? Do they have options for after-school care?
It's driving me batty, folks. It is. And I figure the only way to avoid it for a year (before I absolutely HAVE to deal with it), is to sell the house, buy an RV and run away. We'll come back in time for kindergarten tours, but we'll be so full of pancakes and knowledge about the USA, nothing will seem too daunting.
Now all I have to do is convince my husband that we can do this. And that we can totally take a year off of work. Or maybe it's better if I just put the house up for sale without telling him. That'll work, right?


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Despite Iranian President Ahmadinejad's evil intentions, the new Yad-Vashem Persian website had more than 10,000 visitors since it went online last Thursday. The site contains pictures, information on post-war trials including Nuremburg, and poems written by victims of the Holocaust. Read more on IsraCast.
The resolution, co-sponsored by 103 countries, comes on the heels of a December conference in Iran questioning whether the Holocaust really took place. The United States submitted the resolution on January 23rd and Canada, Australia, Israel, Turkey, Russia and the European Union lobbied to garner majority support for it. The resolution was passed by consensus, without a vote; Iran dismissed it as a political ploy.
Belz's spokesman Rabbi Eichler: 'They are a small group of anarchists, of which the Iranians made a cynical use'.
Leaders of Orthodox Streams in Judaism Condemn the Group of Hassidic Jews, Belonging to Anti-Zionist 'Neturei Karta' Stream, who Participated in the Iranian Holocaust Convention. Israel's Chief Rabbi Calls for an International Boycott - A Severe and Dramatic Act According to Jewish Law.
Addressing participants in the International Conference on 'The Holocaust, Global Vision' in Tehran, Ahmadinejad said those who have rendered support to the Zionist regime should be aware that the lifetime of Israel will be soon over. 'The same way the ground was paved for the creation of such a regime, the Zionist regime will be dismantled by its supporters' he stressed.
Meeting of Ahmadinejad and Palestinian President Haniyeh reminds of the meeting between Hitler and the Palestinian Mufti in 1941
Iran opened a conference on Monday to question whether the Holocaust ever took place, despite widespread condemnation by Western countries, including Germany. The conference will question whether gas chambers were used to exterminate six million Jews. The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly questioned the truth of the Holocaust, at one point describing the event as a "myth" and casting doubt on the scale of the killings.
Officials at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, an institution that has played a major role in raising public awareness of the continuing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan and galvanizing Jewish groups on the issue, are frustrated that the killing continues despite the worldwide outcry.
Listen to Gideon the late Gideon Hausner's Opening Speech at the Eichmann trial
Better late than never, the Ministerial Committee on Ceremonies and Honors has decided that Israel will conduct an official ceremony where a special honor will be given to everyone who participated in the capturing of Nazi criminal Adolph Eichmann and bringing him to justice in Israel.
Edgar M. Bronfman, the president of the World Jewish Congress, has urged United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan to re-stage last year's UN Holocaust exhibition during next week's visit by Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Simon Wiesenthal, 96, the Nazi hunter who pursued hundreds of war criminals after World War II and was central to preserving the memory of the Holocaust for more than half a century, died today in Vienna, Austria, his base of operations.


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2012 Best Books of Indiana - Fiction
Winner: Safely Buried by John Pesta
Set in the low hills of southern Indiana, Safely Buried is a riveting mystery featuring newspaper reporter Phil Larrison, whose well-intended act of kindness soon lands him into a tangled web of murder and corruption. Author John Pesta gracefully balances strong character and plot development with an action-packed storyline. Though a first-time author, Pesta's background in journalism is readily apparent through his immense storytelling ability that rivals that of seasoned of mystery writers.
While we would recommend this book to mystery enthusiasts, it is also a great book for novices due to its well-developed characters and swift, suspenseful pace. It is the ideal choice for the 2012 Best Fiction Book of Indiana award due to the book's entertaining, compelling and suspenseful storytelling, as well as its setting in southern Indiana.
Finalist: For Sale By Owner by Kelcey Parker
A stunning book even if it were only a book of beautiful photographs of lovingly restored buildings; A Home of Her Own is much more. A woman who had given up her a home during World War II and found healing work afterward in restoring the shell of an 1828 rural house, a Chicago artist who left a traditional house that had become an empty nest to turn an industrial loft into a haven for herself and her art, and a child who fell in love with an 1891 Victorian house that she bought and renovated as an adult are just a few of the fascinating women who formed connections with their homes that were often more lasting than some of their human relationships. The majority of the houses in the book are located in Indiana, and some have considerable historical significance. This book also won the 2012 silver medal in the Home and Garden Category of the Independent Publishers Awards.
Finalist: Four for a Quarter by Michael Martone
Bean Blossom, in Brown County, Indiana was a very isolated small town--the local highway unpaved until the mid-1930's and electric service unavailable until 1936. Local music traditions thrived in Brown County, and radio created an appetite for live radio barn-dances that led to local and regional live shows. The Brown County Jamboree arose in Bean Blossom around 1939, featuring free shows and an open-air platform. Audience size was impressive, so promoters turned the shows into a moneymaker. From big top tent to an old barn, the venture grew, and was bought in 1952 by the father of bluegrass, Bill Monroe, who founded the Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival in 1967. Adler's book is a well-documented, enjoyable history of the place, the time, and the music.


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Sunday, October 25, 2015
3 morning planets and this weeks's astronmy hi-lites
eastern pre-dawn sky for the next week or so .
Other upcoming sky events this week:
A newly found asteroid of notable size - known as asteroid 2015 TB145 - will
safely pass Earth on October 31, 2015. It should be visible moving in front
of the stars, with the help of a telescope, the night before. It is the
biggest known asteroid that will come near Earth until 2027. The asteroid -
found as recently as October 10 - will fly past Earth at a safe distance, or
about 1.3 times the moon's distance. Closest approach to Earth will be
October 31 at 2 p.m. ADT
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October 25: Sheratan
Sheratan, the second-brightest star of Aries, the ram, is low in the east as
night falls this evening, far to the left of the Moon. To the eye alone, the
star looks like a single pinpoint of light, yet Sheratan actually is a
system of two stars.
October 26: Hunter's Moon
The Hunter's Moon strides boldly across the sky tonight. It is the first
full Moon after the Harvest Moon - a bit of skylore inherited from some
older cultures of Europe and the Americas.
October 27: Clusters
The two most prominent star clusters in the night sky are in good view on
autumn evenings. The V-shaped Hyades cluster outlines the face of Taurus,
the bull, while the smaller, dipper-shaped Pleiades cluster represents his
October 28: The Plow
Ursa Major hunkers low in the north on autumn evenings. Americans see its
brightest stars as the Big Dipper. In England, though, these stars are seen
as a plow. October is a good time to visualize a plow because it stands just
above the horizon.
October 29: Moon and Aldebaran
Aldebaran, the bright orange star that represents the eye of Taurus, the
bull, stands close to the upper right of the Moon as they climb into good
view in late evening.
October 30: Halloween Star
Algol, a star whose name means "the demon," creeps up the northeastern sky
this evening. It's actually a close pair of stars in which one is
cannibalizing the other. The system is in Perseus, the hero, which is in the
northeast at nightfall.
October 31: Halloween Dragon
A dragon haunts the night sky: the constellation Draco. Its coils wrap
around Polaris, the North Star. In mythology, it guarded a golden apple tree
for Hera, the queen of the gods. As a reward for its service, Hera placed
the dragon in the stars.
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Here are two ideas for integrating math and language arts skills into your physical education lesson.
Submitted by Susan Kunelius from Richfield, Minnesota. 1-5
Background: Here are two ideas for integrating math and language arts skills into your physical education lesson.
Tangrams are often used by classroom teachers as a math manipulative to discover the math concepts of patterns, similarity, and congruency. Today's Tangrams originated from an old Chinese puzzle game consisting of seven pieces – a small square, two small congruent triangles, two large congruent triangles, a medium-sized triangle, and a parallelogram.
The Original Rubic's Cube: The goal is to be able to construct a variety of geometric shapes using the seven puzzle pieces. For example, can you…
How We Do It: For this activity, we divide the students into six or more groups. The first player in line runs to the "puzzle bucket" and selects one tangram piece. The player runs back to his group and places the piece on the puzzle card provided for each team. Each puzzle card has a series of exercises on it. As the correct tangram piece is placed on the puzzle card, all of the students perform that exercise.
For Example: Here is an example of an "easy" tangram puzzle using two squares and four small triangles:
In the above example, each of the teams would have two squares and four small triangles placed in their team's bucket. As they cover up each section, their group must complete the designated exercise before the next person may run for another puzzle piece.
Using the available tangram pieces found at your school, you can make the puzzles as easy or as hard as you want. The hardest puzzle cards only have the outside lines. We generally use these only after the students have been successful with a puzzle that has the inside lines drawn in as a reference.
Background: One of the activities I have developed to incorporate language skills with physical education is a Spelling Run.
Set-Up: Each student is provided with a spelling word sheet with 10 words with missing letters. We have about 16 variations of word sheets using a list of "high frequency" words and spelling words provided by the classroom teachers. Examples:
We purchased a set of self-inking alphabet stamps from Oriental Trading Company (www.orientaltrading.com). We selected the words so only ten stamps (vowels and some common constants) were needed for this activity. Each of the ten stamps were placed in ten separate buckets.
The buckets were placed outside in a variety of places (by the basketball goal, the softball backstop, on the fence, etc). On the teacher's signal, the students ran with their individual sheet from bucket to bucket, stamping the correct letter to spell the words listed on the sheet.
Teacher Tips: Be sure to remind students to recap the marker and drop the stamp back in the bucket so it is there for the next runner. The further away you place the buckets, the more exercise the students get!


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Life in the urban and suburban parishes in Newfoundland and Labrador experiences fluctuation over the summer months. Most of the families within our parish do not come from the city; they have moved here from outports and islands in Trinity, Placentia, and Notre Dame Bays. Many are faithful throughout the year up until mid-May or early June: thereafter these individuals and families hold to a somewhat nomadic, transient life. People head 'home' for the summer, or they head to the cabin and camper, to get closer to their roots, to get away from the hectic pattern of life on this part of the Avalon Peninsula.
The worship life in the parish adjusts, and some may think that the worship life and spirituality of the 'transients' might be non-existent. That is not so. I am frequently reminded through interaction with colleagues in ministry, through bulletins deposited on my desk, and through reminiscences from parishioners, the importance of prayer and worship in the leisure times.
It is wonderful to hear of excursions during the food fisheries, or at cabins or a camping site, that persons turn to prayer, and not only to address concerns in weather! These persons and families connect with the homes and parishes of their birth. These small communities have opportunity for an insurgence during the summer months in their congregations. I hear of Eucharist being celebrated and many engaging in the life of the parish in meaningful ways. Children have opportunity to attend Vacation Bible Schools; people have the opportunity to explore their faith in the context of childhood memories, with different leadership and spiritual support.
There are many ways that people engage, and for those of us that are tied to the urban and suburban life for parts of the summer due to commitments, we are called to engage in the life of faith as well. We are called to explore our spirituality through the regular pattern of reading, reflection, prayer, and engagement in worship. As we celebrate the gift and growth that summer brings, let us continue to move deeper and more profoundly into God's love and service.
How will this be for you? Will you abandon the encounter with the sacred once outside of the regular pattern of life and ministry? Will you strive to reconnect more deeply with the God who created you, as you revel in the change of routine that summer brings?
No doubt the patterns of life and ministry are somewhat similar across this great country. We are called to engage more deeply each and every day, whether it is summer or not. We are called to this ever deepening relationship as we respond to the God who loves us and brings us transformation.
As we perhaps transform to the nomadic life this summer, let us be mindful that God will be with us, following us, no matter where we go.


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They produce a wide range of award-winning wines from smaller growers that subscribe to sustainable growing practices. Their wines demonstration a nice balance and character and focus on pairing nicely with foods. Some of the major varietals found at Urbano Cellars include Chenin Blanc, Grenache, Barbera, Sangiovese, Mourvedre, Tempranillo and Zinfandel. Most of their grapes are sourced from smaller growers who maintain sustainable growing practices.
The 2015 Viognier from Bokides Ranch in Clements Hills Lodi has a beautiful golden color and intense aromas of citrus, floral and honeysuckle. As you taste the wine you will enjoy the citrus and peach flavors along with lychee and a touch of apple. Urbano Cellars suggests you pair this with steamed mussels, a lobster roll or roasted chicken. The price is $19.
The 2013 Sangiovese uses fruit form the Arbor Vineyards in Lodi. The climate and sandy soils of this area produce grapes much like they do in Italy. The wine has intense aromas and flavors of red raspberries and cherry with a touch of strawberries, topped off with hints of mint, oregano, spice and leather. Urbano Cellars suggests you pair this with a margharita pizza, pasta dishes with tomato sauce or even a steak. Price is $23.
The 2013 Cote du Clements is a beautiful red blend of Grenache (34%), Syrah (33%) and Mourvedre (33%) from the Clements Hills region of Lodi. This is a nice blend exhibiting the black cherry, raspberry and blackberries of Grenache, the violets, spice, cloves and cinnamon of the Syrah, plus the mushrooms, earthiness of the Mourvedre. Urbano Cellars suggests pairing this with a herb crusted lamb or pork, or with cheese. The price is $23.
The Urbano Cellars tasting room in Berkeley is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. You will usually find Bob or Fred there and they will be glad to tell you more about Urbano Cellars.
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Errata mentioned aboved is for pattern published on magazine The Knitter issue 41.
written instruction:
Row 19: K3, " SSK, K2tog, P2, K2tog, (YO, K)x 2, (YO, K)x 2, (P2, K2tog)x 5, (YO, K)x 2x 5, (YO, K)x 2, P2, K2tog, K3tog ", K, repeat " to ", K3.
Row 25: K8, K3tog, YO, Ktbl, YO, (K5, K2tog, YO, Ktbl, YO)x 12, K5, K3tog, YO, Ktbl, YO, K, YO, Ktbl, YO, SSSK, K5, (YO, Ktbl, YO, SSK, K5)x 12, YO, Ktbl,
Blyth is the first shawl design of mine that got published in a UK knitting magazine, the Knitter. It is a bottom up shawl that knitted with fingering weight yarn. Two beautiful lace stitch patterns are picked for the shawl body and I especially enjoy making the last part of the pattern.
This is a fun, elegant one skein yarn lace project. The border pattern might be challenging but I hope you all will enjoy making it!
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Is a myth, or maybe propaganda spread by vile Mookiemockers opposed to the just rule of Lord Dominus. There is, in fact, no situation which cannot be improved by showing the behind of a female character. Especially well suited are scenes when the character in question is either dying, traumatised, despaired or fighting her former friends. In short, drama and tragedy are enhanced by ass shots. The more you know!
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Here's a Photo of my Grandfather Lester Leon Channell when he was a young man. Here's a photo of Lester tooken about the same time with an old plow and horses. Most likely on the old Channell's farm in London, Ohio? My grandmother (Lesters 1st wife) Ellen Margaret Whalen as a young lady.
My mother grandfather (her father side) as a young man John Walter Jones Jr (1876-1941).. Photo must have been tooken in the 1890's. John Walter in his Elder years . A photo of my grandfather Ralph Everett Jones tooken at his work. He won a photo contest with it.
I also have Tombstones Photo's. Here's a photo of my Great grandparents William H. Channell(March 28,1875-Nov 29, 1947) and Eva (Risinger or Reisinger)Channell (June 6, 1882-May 31, 1970) .There Daughter Bessie (Channell) White (1903-1968) and her husband Herbert.Here's a photo of my dads half brother,Thomas Channell( April 10, 1938-Sept 2, 1943) . Here's One of my G,G,G,G,Grand Father John Hidy who was a Sergent in the American Revolution.


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Before joining the Guggenheim in 2006, Munroe was Vice President of Arts and Culture, Japan Society, an American organization dedicated to cultural and policy exchange between Japan and the United States, and was director of its museum. She led the society's expansion of contemporary arts programming through such exhibitions as Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subcultures (2005) curated by Takashi Murakami, and organized the society's first inter-Asia exhibition, Transmitting the Forms of Divinity: Early Buddhist Art from Korea and Japan, which The New York Times selected as #1 Best Show of 2003.
Munroe is a trustee of the Aspen Music Festival and School; Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Intelligence Squared US; Longhouse Reserve; and the US-Japan Foundation. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a former member of the Association of American Museum Directors (AAMD). She currently serves on the advisory boards of Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong; Jnanapravaha Mumbai; Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai; and Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing. She lectures at museums around the world and has spoken at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia University and the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing and the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, one of Japan's National Institutes for the Humanities. In April 2011, she spearheaded the Guggenheim's international museums petition calling for the release of Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei. With broad support from ICOM, the American Association of Museum Directors (AAMD) and PEN America, the petition garnered over 145,000 signatures from around the world on the activist online site change.org.
Munroe was born in the United States and raised in Mexico and Japan. She completed freshman and sophomore years at Brown University and later received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Japanese Language and Culture from Sophia University Tokyo in 1982. She earned a Masters degree in art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University and in 2004, was awarded a Ph.D. in history from New York University, with a thesis on postwar Japanese art and politics completed under the supervision of Professor Harry Harootunian. Her philanthropic giving through the AKM Fund at New York Community Trust focuses on end-of-life and palliative care training at Yale and Harvard medical schools.


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As the 14 weeks comes to a close (I'm in the week of the final exam!), I begin to feel the pull of the kitchen. A pull I have had to resist, as I'm not finished yet. I begin to daydream about different types of cookies, more moon pies, mashed potatoes, bacon, cheesecake...and I can't seem to focus on my homework. All I can think about it making that cheesecake. What kind will I make? I stare at the pile of cookbooks I've laid out on my bedroom floor. The pile was originally and strategically placed there as a motivation, a reminder of sorts, of why I am working my ass off to get through this class. I want to better my professional life. I want bigger and better things for myself, and cooking and all the lessons I have learned in the last year and a half have brought me to this point. Succeeding in the kitchen has ultimately given me the drive to want to succeed in my life. Do more, do better, just do.
As this urge to stop in the eleventh hour, to forget about all the work I've put in for 13 1/2 of 14 weeks,and run back to the kitchen is growing and growing, this morning, as my jaws hurt from the clenching of resistance; I get this in my inbox:
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"50 Shades of Grey" actor Luke Grimes and "Dear White People" star Kyle Gallner are both in negotiations to star alongside Bradley Cooper in the upcoming army drama, "American Sniper," report Variety and The Wrap, respectively.
The film is based on the story of Chris Kyle (Cooper), a Texas native who becomes a Navy Seal Chief with the highest number of sniper kills in U.S. military history. Grimes is set to play Marc Lee, a fellow Navy Seal alongside Kyle, while Gallner will play a sniper who earns the nickname "Goat" after his first kill ends up being a goat. Sienna Miller, Jake McDorman and Cory Hardrict also star.
The script was written by Jason Hall, along with Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz and Andrew Lazar. Eastwood is set to direct and Cooper will produce as well as star.
Grimes is known for his recurring role in the vampiric series "True Blood" as well as just wrapping filming for "50 Shades of Grey" as Grey's brother. Gallner starred in the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" remake with Rooney Mara and YA adaptation "Beautiful Creatures."
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First of all, Rick Pitino has a lot of balls doing an interview with a Boston radio station after what he did to the Celtics. He may quite possibly be the biggest asshole this town has ever seen.
Nevermind all the terrible basketball decisions and horrendous coaching. The guy forced Red Auerbach to step aside as team president so he could take over (which conveniently isnt mentioned on his wikipedia page). That alone earned him the title of biggest asshole this town has ever seen.
Anyway, so the guy is peddling a new book and was supposed to do an interview on with Toucher & Rich on 98.5 The Sports Hub today. But instead of asking him a question, Fred Toucher proved that he has the biggest balls of them all and simply said, "you stink. You ruined the Celtics" and proceeded to hang up on the piece of shit.
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Clients who work with me expect results. Here's how I deliver them. When you work with me, you will achieve some of these outcomes.
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Profitability is not optional. You run your salon/day spa for many reasons and one very important one is to make a profit. Profit is not optional and I work very closely with owners/managers to do everything possible to increase their salon/day spa's overall profitability.
Salons/Day Spas can and should be great places to work. Sure you're in the business to make a profit, but if your people dread coming to work everyday because of the way the business is managed, you're going to have serious productivity issues. Working in a salon/day spa can be a fulfilling, rewarding, and satisfying experience.
It all starts with the owner/manager. There's an old Sicilian saying "the fish stinks from the head down." That's true for any business and salons/day spas are no exception. Your salon/day spa is a reflection of your thinking and the actions you take as a result of that thinking. So if your thinking is off, it only follows that your business will be too.
You don't need a degree from Harvard to run a widely successful salon/day spa business. Too many people in the salon/day spa business believe because they don't have a degree they somehow are not capable of learning the numbers, the marketing, systems design, and leadership. This couldn't be further from the truth.
The biggest obstacle to a salon/day spa owner's success is himself (or herself). I know that competition is fierce, money is an issue, clients can be fickle, and staff can be less than co-operative at times. These are things that every business deals with—they're just part of life. However, at the end of the day, the difference between being successful or not is your desire, your persistence, and your willingness to step out of your comfort zone.
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I'm above all, flexible. Different clients need different things. One size doesn't fit all. Although I have a variety of programs (see services page) that address a wide variety of issues, I approach each salon/day spa with the same attitude. I work with you to produce sustainable results for you and your business with the least amount of struggle.
Quick response is guaranteed. Nothing is more frustrating than working with a consultant or coach who will not answer their phone calls or return their e-mails. I don't just try to be responsive, I guarantee your calls or emails will be returned within 24 hours or less.
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When you're looking for help these days, there's a lot to choose from. What makes me different from the rest of the pack lies in the fact that I've been a successful salon/day spa owner-manager and for over twenty years, I've been working with the top people in the business. I don't just work with theory, but with practical "hands-on" approaches that are proven to work.
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I don't know how much attention other people put on the earthquake in Sichuan, China. I pretty much searched the news compulsively, as I'd spent three weeks there when I was 19. I knew that someone I remembered, someone I had developed a fondness for, was almost certain to be hurting. So many children died, so many families shattered, one whole village swallowed by mountains that moved closer together... The disruption of quake after quake, aftershocks measuring into the serious quake numbers, hundreds and hundreds of them...
One of the non-tragic stories was the forming (by earthquake) and draining (by strategic use of anti-aircraft weapons, I think) of a 'quake lake' - a lake formed by the blockage of a river because of rock and mudslides. The water flow out of the lake when they finally broke through the dam of rock and debris and mud was powerful, but a controlled release, and one that did not put hundreds of thousands of people downstream at risk. Hooray all around!
Last night, we had our own version of this.
I've been working at using the respectful communication, as I've noted. I'm focusing on the non-violent communication method, because it details exactly how to phrase what is a need, what is a choice, what is a feeling, what is a desire/want, etc. And it details how NOT to... rather mortifying to realize that I've been following the how NOT to, almost to the letter! And funny, when I read that saying, 'I feel that ...', is a cue that the following words will be thoughts or analysis and not feelings, I flashed back to probably hundreds of disagreements between me and epeepunk where I was sure I was communicating well and cleanly, and yet he felt blamed, guilted, or otherwise angry despite this, um, fact. I could hear me saying 'I feel that ...' over and over and over and over. Oops seems too small a word, here. (Fortunately he took my apology with only a little gleeful rejoicing that he was indeed right that I wasn't sticking to my side of the problem, even if he hadn't been able to identify why it seemed that way.)
Properly chastened, I started up again, working on doing it 'properly' - which sounds awkward at times, but seems to work, so... effective, prudent, true. Going to use it, even if it seems odd for now.
And then last night, on the heels of this understanding, I was alerted to a problem. Mr B was screaming at the top of his register, the scream of hurt and fury and retaliation, the scream that is meant to cause pain.
I found Mr G lying on the floor, and Mr B screaming and holding the side of his head. I (um) demanded to know what happened, and (crud) ordered them to tell me (argh!) whose fault it was. Can I start any worse than that without hitting them? Oh, and don't forget the intense expression and loud voice - not quite yelling, but close enough.
And of course, having done so, I set off another round - Mr B said that Mr G had thrown him into the sofa, and he'd hit his ear, and it wasn't his FAULT. I snapped my attention to Mr G, who then went straight into wounded fury.
It turned out that Mr G had built a small lego creation, and Mr B had accidentally knocked it off the stool and shattered it. Mr G had glowered at Mr B, who had wailed, 'I didn't MEAN to,' and when this was not met by instantaneous forgiveness (continued glower), Mr B leapt at Mr G, attacking him in fury. Mr G then pushed him off, where he then fell and hit his ear.
I apologized to Mr G, and followed him into his room (where he'd fled in despair and rage). And started over.
Listened. Asked for the emotion. Worked on identifying the need under the emotion. Coached him through it. And again. At first he didn't quite understand, but when he got that I needed to hear the real, deep, intense, NEED under the pain, and not just have him reiterate the pain alone...
Well, a surface-to-air missile was a close approximation to the impact.
His pain poured out in floods.
He poured out pain he's carried for years.
Pain of feeling supplanted by younger siblings, and needing to be valued.
Pain of feeling lonely and lacking friends, and needing to have community.
Pain of living far from the people he likes best, and needing to have choice and power in meeting his need to spend time with them.
Pain of being promised, and having the promise forgotten (that one TWO YEARS OLD, but still there, from a single event).
Need to be valued and treated as integral to the family at mealtimes, need to be valued by his cousin and not feel like a target for her own unhappiness about not having choice over where she spends her time in the summer (nothing drastic, just little niggling irritations constantly - he feels a lack of skill for handling this, too.).
Need to have choice over so many areas that really, he SHOULD have choice over, and often by the nature of life in a large family, he doesn't.
Need to be accompanied, to be in community, while working.
He feels alone and isolated in his own family.
It was pretty painful - for me. Hearing it and being open to the pain of all our errors, and the pain of all the circumstances beyond our control, of all the situations we chose and would not go back on but that come with uncomfortable edges or aspects... where we chose to live, how many kids we have, what we're doing for summer care, and so forth... hard work not snapping back into lecture, lecture, react, knee-jerk, hurt-back, and more lecture.
But, I did it.
I rode the wave. Kind of a crashing bumpy ride, like kayaking the surge out of the quake lake. Dangerous, in that tipping too far in any direction, losing the balance and flow of the outpouring, was likely to cause a lot of damage. Painful, like the amount of muscle strain working to stay upright while riding the flood would be. And, at the same time, exhilarating, powerful, awe-inspiring, humbling. Staying in balance through that flood left me feeling whole, competent, and true to myself, as well as aching with knowing how much my beloved son had been hurting without speaking.
It finally drained down to the steady pour of release, past the rage and sobbing, past the face flushed and body rigid, past the blame and anger and lashing out. Lake not empty, but now low enough to release over time (provided the spillway remains open), gently, steadily.
Then we could talk about my feelings and needs - with me asking if he could hear them, first. He agreed, and we discovered that his need for fun attention was intersecting badly with my need to maintain house, bodies, property. His resentment came out in the form of 'how come you care about perfect neat and tidy, and not US?' - um, perfect neat and tidy? Hello, that is so NOT what I care about! I care about usable space, some room to work, far from perfect! But to him, my need to put away clothes instead of sitting with him while he takes a bath, means 'put away' is more important than being with him. OUCH. YET, when I expressed my need to have a maintained space, property, and health, not perfect, and that I was working with many tasks that needed to be completed and limited time, he immediately understood that by helping more with the maintenance, he could free up more time and energy from me for fun stuff. He agreed that he would be willing to work out strategies for how he could help make that time for us. Openly, and looking more mature and thoughtful than I've ever seen. (Whoa.) I caught a glimpse of the young-adult in his face. Love those moments.
We also talked about strategies for solving the long laundry list of issues. He thought a family meeting might work (which always seemed like a really challenging concept to me - granted, two 3 1/2 year olds and anything related to serious discussions is challenging... we've tried them, but they haven't stuck. Maybe we didn't express well enough what they were for, how they'd help meet the kids' needs?).
Meanwhile, having left Mr B to his own devices, he spent the time I was talking with Mr G writing out, very carefully (two separate times), I'm sorry, I lied. About what? About it being your fault that you hurt me, and not my fault that I caused it.
Again, WHOA. He expressed it humbly, openly, and with sincerity. He then rebuilt Mr G's broken lego creation (in his own way). Which also brought up that we've been celebrating Mr B's talent with lego, but not Mr G's talent - smaller talent, but not insignificant, and really, we TRY (sigh) to celebrate their JOY with lego, their creations no matter what size or drama need to be valued. I don't want him to start declining to play lego because he can't compete... RIGHT smack back to the Siblings Without Rivalry book. Time for a re-read on that one, too.
Nobody had eaten, the girls were rambunctious (seeking attention for themselves), and it was getting late.
When I asked Mr G what he wanted for dinner, he didn't answer. (ARGH) I asked if he wanted pizza. He said yes. I made pizza. That wasn't what he wanted.
But instead of being grumpy at each other, I noted the facts of what happened. He realized he'd mis-heard me (thinking I'd asked him if he wanted to eat something with us), I'd therefore gotten the wrong message, and had acted on it. He winced ruefully, holding eye contact, and said, okay, he'd eat pizza then. Thanks.
Again, whoa. No grumping. Just acceptance. He wanted to have waffles along with pizza, too... I wasn't comfortable with this, and (woo, practice helps!) expressed it clearly as a concern (though still imperfectly overall - skipped the need to preserve our resources by not wasting food), and he shrugged, and said okay, he'd eat as much pizza as felt good, and then if he still wanted waffles, we'd go from there. He decided he didn't want waffles, half-way through the pizza. Again, no resistance, no internal pressure. The flood gates were already open.
I ended the day regretting deeply that I hadn't realized I wasn't using the method properly from the start. I was exhausted, though still feeling good, and despite the realization of soooo many mistakes on my part, not defeated. Still, exhausted is exhausted. I fear that I'm going to have to blast open a few more quake lakes before we're down to just the regular checking of the channels to make sure they're clear.
At the same time, I don't have any fear about the 'downstream' effects in the future - the flood of pain has been averted, it will not be able to build up to that extent again (I hope).
And many of my own needs (including to just have time to have fun) may find their way to being met. With willing assistance.


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Tennis Podcast: Roger Federer will finish 2017 as the World No 1
Roger Federer, who will turn 36 in August, will finish 2017 as the World's No 1 male tennis player if he stays healthy.
That's the view of David Law, the BBC 5 Live and BT Sport tennis commentator and one of the presenters of The Tennis Podcast, which is produced in association with Telegraph Sport.
Federer added the Indian Wells title to his win at the Australian Open in Melbourne in January, and Law said on the new edition of the podcast that, with the physical and form issues being experienced by Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic currently, added to the freshness and brilliance being exhibited by Federer, the Swiss player overhauling everyone by the end of the year.
Elsewhere, Law and co-host Catherine Whitaker, a tennis presenter for Eurosport, wonder why so many of the players in the latter stages of big tournaments tend to be over 30 these days, including the excellent Elena Vesnina, who won the women's title 15 months after finishing 2015 outside the world's Top 100.
There is concern over Murray and Djokovic who have both withdrawn from Miami with elbow injuries, reaction to the challenger victories of British player Alijax Bedene and Denis Shapovalov, and news of Wimbledon runner-up Milos Raonic signing up to return to the Aegon Championships at The Queen's Club in June.
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The future of digital retail for sporting goods brands
From the WFSGI magazine 2015, Keith Anderson shares his thoughts on the developments in digital retail and what we can expect for the future in such a fast developing market place.
Remember when technology was simply a 'sector" — one of many discrete industries? Today technology is pervasive, embedding itself in all areas of commerce including sports and fitness.
Sensor-enabled wearable devices have health and fitness at their core, promising better athletic performance and fewer injuries. Action-cam-equipped drones capture events from new angles, enriching the spectator experience. The merging of the physical and digital will undoubtedly change sport in profound, unexpected ways.
Technology is also transforming retailing, and perhaps at a greater pace In many developed markets (like the US and the UK), total retail sales are growing 1 to 5% year-over- year; digital retail is outpacing this growth by three times at a run-rate of approximately 15% year-over-year. In some regions, breakout players like Amazon are outpacing total online sales growth by an additional 1.5 to 2 times, capturing unprecedented share and disrupting established channels with seemingly endless selection, dynamic pricing, and an economic model that thrives on paltry profits.
And according to data from Deloitte, the stakes are even higher: in the US. greater than 50% of all retail sales are estimated to be "digitally-influenced." with decisions about where to shop and what to buy being researched digitally before or during a trip to a store.
No one can predict everything on the horizon but candid, frequently calibrated assumptions and new ways of working can help leaders develop the agility to manage accelerating change. Here are several 'working assumptions'" to consider:
- Digital will account for as much as 20% of retail sales in 2020. Precise forecasts vary by market, and their accuracy is often questionable but consider that Millennial—digital natives who already make a disproportionate share of their annual purchases online — are just entering their peak earning, peak consumption life-stage. And that brick-and-mortar retailers are shifting capital from net store growth to enabling flexible online fulfilment options like click and collect and ship from store. Through this lens, digital commerce may still be in its adolescence.
- Stores will be re-imagined. Stores may never match the "endless aisle" of selection that pure-play online retailers boast. But they do benefit from proximity to where people live, work, and play; trained staff who can advise on purchase decisions; and physical product displays—enabling shoppers to actually see and feel a product before buying. Still, the rapid growth of e-commerce will force repositioning. In many segments of the market, store networks will be "right-sized," leading to fewer, smaller locations with tighter inventories and these future stores will be re-engineered to leverage their strengths efficiently.
- Transparency will increase. The threat of 'showrooming" was overstated, but shoppers unquestionably have more information and power than ever before. While shoppers research products' prices, reviews, and other key information occasionally, retailers and brands are beginning to systematically monitor the online retail environment to put themselves on more even footing with both shoppers and competitors like Amazon, which pioneered the use of competitive online price intelligence to optimize prices dynamically. In September 2014. Profitero monitored 100 sporting goods products' prices at Amazon and several US online competitors like Dick's Sporting Goods, Sports Authority, and Academy Sports Amazon and its third-party market place changed prices much more dynamically than competitors, with 100% of the products on Amazon and 88% of the products on the third party Amazon marketplace changing price over the 2-week period, versus 13% for Academy. 6% for Sports Authority, and 3% for Dick's Sporting Goods
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Colombo to Weligama, Sri Lanka - On Day 2 of the Best of Sri Lanka Food Tour with The Hungry Tourist (instagram.com/the.hungry.tourist/) we had lunch first in Colombo, before driving to the Southern coast of Sri Lanka, near Weligama. Along the way, we stopped to taste a bunch of local Sri Lankan fruit, including plenty of delicious durian.
Mayura Hotel - Northern Sri Lankan food - I had no idea what to expect this day, I didn't even really know the plan other than driving to Weligama. But we first headed into the busy Pettah area of Colombo for some serious Sri Lankan food from Northern Sri Lanka. Along with serving banana leaf rice and curry with a variety of different curries and seafoods, they also specialized in spicy omelets. The food was incredibly delicious, all the different curries, wrapped up with rice, and smothered in spicy omelet.
Weligama, Sri Lanka - The drive from Colombo to Weligama was about 2 hours, and once we arrived to the Southern coast of Sri Lanka, we noticed a truck full of durian. Durian is the King of Fruits, and anytime you see it, you have to stop. We stopped and ate a few durians, which were excellent and bought some to go as well. Just a few hundred meters up the road, we stopped again for another fruit stop to taste of of Sri Lanka's bounty of fruit. Delicious.
Zephyr Restaurant & Bar - Again for dinner, all I knew is that we were going to go to the beach and eat a meal on the beach. Zephyr Restaurant & Bar is actually quite a touristy restaurant, but Ruzaina had arranged a special local meal, including all southern Sri Lankan food. The meal was unbelievably good, dish after dish kept coming, including huge prawns and Sri Lankan crab. It was a meal to remember.
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There is a good news for those facing language barriers while pursuing their research.
Technology giant Google recently made an announcement about the launch of an upgraded version of the Google Translate App. This app will now allow instant visual translations of printed text in several languages. Take an easy breath as this also includes Hindi.
The process to operate this app is quite simple and handy. The only thing you need to do is to open the app and then click on the camera. Here you need to point it at the text for which you want translation.
The text could vary. It could be anything, from a street sign to a hoarding, from dials on a washing machine to text from a newspaper or else a book or from ingredient list to an instruction manual.
There is another good news! This translation process doesn't require either any Internet connection or any cell phone data. This is because Google here has used convolutional neural networks to help develop this technology.
There are basically seven languages which are English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. And to benefit more users, Google has now added 20 more languages.
Hence users can now benefit to and from English and Bulgarian, Croatian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Filipino, Dutch, Finnish, Indonesian, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Polish, Norwegian, Romanian, Swedish, Slovak, Turkish and Ukrainian languages. The other benefit is that users have the benefit to translate English printed text into languages like Hindi and Thai.
The Google professionals opine that over half of the content on the Internet is in English, however only around 20 per cent of the world's population speaks English. Hence, the Google Translate App helps users to communicate better. They can get the information they need on real time and without a data connection.
The modes operandi is quite simple! A user will see the text transform live on their screens into the language they prefer.
The technology firm has been updating the Google Translate app to ensure more number of people experience the world in their language.
The instant visual translation has been expanded to 20 additional languages thereby making a total of 27 languages, and this has made real-time voice translations a lot faster and smoother.


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I just had to try this colour Q challenge! Check out this group of colors! Aren't they awesome? Well, they really spoke to me, so I had to try. I pulled the cardstock and thought "what the heck am I going to do with these?" I remembered I had the Cottage Garden set that I've never used. It was the perfect set! I stamped 3/4 of a sheet of white cardstock with the different images in the challenge colors. Then, I decided to add the melon ribbon and add a sentiment. I used the punch for the sentiment and put some Tangerine behind it so that it would pop a little. I really love this set and see using it for One Sheet Wonders in the future! Perhaps my weekend project? :)
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Egypt isn't what it appears to be in the media...but that's no real surprise, since not much is. I moved here in the late 80's from Toronto, Canada, with my Canadian/Egyptian husband, my son and my daughter. The children adapted quickly and we decided that this country was a good place to live. Now I wouldn't change my home for anything.
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Keeping In Touch
I was chided this morning by an email correspondent who was worried that perhaps something was wrong because I hadn't posted for so long...almost two weeks. Well, there was a minor bug that was slowing me down, and I'm finding myself very busy these days on the work front. I've been mostly working my riding trips by word of mouth and such. My website is out there and I get quite a few inquiries from there, but I haven't done much advertising. A week or so ago, however, a newspaper from the UK was doing an article on unusual vacations and they listed my farm. Free advertising is always nice, and this prompted quite a few people to contact me about riding here. Between my usual daytime work with horses, lessons, rides and such, plus correspondence at night, I've been neglecting the blog. The fact that I am still cameraless doesn't help either. I really like having photos to illustrate my posts. But hopefully that will change for the better soon and I will be back to my chatty self.
copyright 2007 Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
3 comments:
- Mia said...
You go with your strong self, girl. Sounds like the fruits of your labors maybe be starting to come ripe.
Sending you extra prayers for strength to get it all done :)
- John said...
Even though I am the "chiding email correspondent", I do hope that that "minor bug" will soon be gone, if not already. I continue to love reading your blog(s) and website....and we are looking forward to the possibility of having dinner with you when we are in Egypt next month!! Our available dates will be emailed to you in the next 24 hours. Stay well!!
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From Wiki: Mount Rainier National Park is a United States National Park located in southeast Pierce County and northeast Lewis County in Washington state. It was established on March 2, 1899 as the fifth national park in the United States. The park encompasses 236,381 acres (369.35 sq mi) including all of Mount Rainier, a 14,411-foot stratovolcano. The mountain rises abruptly from the surrounding land with elevations in the park ranging from 1,600 feet to over 14,000 feet. The highest point in the Cascade Range, around it are valleys, waterfalls, subalpine meadows, old-growth forest and more than 25 glaciers. The volcano is often shrouded in clouds that dump enormous amounts of rain and snow on the peak every year and hide it from the crowds that head to the park on weekends.
This our second time exploring this Park, and we just never tire of this majestic mountain and it's beautiful piedmont. The drive up the mountain from our Camp Murray base in Lakewood on the JBLM was very pleasant. It was a clear warm day and we knew it was going to be warm in Paradise, at the Park's Visitor's Center.
These pics were taken by Nancy out the front window while rolling, so they may be a little fuzzy.
The above pic was zoomed out, so the creek looks closer than it really was. In fact, it was about 900 feet down to the bottom here. Watch that first step there Sonny.
Disclaimer: We make no apologies for the amount of pics in this blog of this mountain, but it is just too awesome not to share them, as each one is from a different location from Natonal Park Hwy, trough the Nisqually entrance and on up through Longmire on the Paradise Road East.
Had to get a little selfie of the RVing Beach Bums...
This area of the State was going through one of their longest spells of little precipitation for almost a year. Many of the glaciers and snow pack was melting down, and the rivers and creeks were just plain dry. When were here back in 2011, there was snow every where (in mid-may then) and there was approximately 12 feet of snow at Paradise.
In 2011, the entire mountain down to the 5000 foot level was packed in "feet" of snow. And look at it now: A lot of rocky veins showing through the snow pack, way up to the 12,000 foot level and higher.
The three pics below were of our trip to Mt Ranier back in 2011 in mid-May. In fact, an article I found on line stated that Rainier had received 39,100 percent of it's normal winter precipitation.
And below are three pics from our visit June 13, 2015. What a contrast...
Above, the parking lot behind the visitor's center, and below the visitor's center.
Note the dry creek bed...
While lunching at Paradise picnic area, this little fellow (Grey Jay I think) wanted our cherries, (Rainiers of course) so we gave him one and a few wheat chex.
Nancy finishing up lunch and checking the trails while I take in the nice fragrance of Lupine type of wildflower.
Some of the large streams closer to the upper piedmont had plenty of water from the larger glaciers but some just didn't have anything wet in them.
Here are a few pics from within the visitor's center. Ranger was giving a talk on the geological wonders of the mountains and the danger lurking within them.
These are pics of pics.
Above was an exhibit.
What an awesome eye-wonder. Thank God for his handiwork and the blessing of sight to view them.
Here was one of the rivers that had a lot of cold water running down the canyon rushing to the sea.
And it was quite a deep gorge here...
The above pic was a map of the Park painted, or somehow super-imposed onto the floor.
Here a couple of pics zoomed in with a 300mm tele. I'm guessing these snow meadows were some 6-8 miles distant from us.
An interesting cloud whisper with a cap...below, note the contrasting snow, rock and green meadow/tree line...
A small trickle of water down the middle of a large wash... and below, a few pics of the Paradise area of the Park...
Miss Nancy outside and inside the Inn...
Above, from the south side of the Inn portico looking south east...
I was lucky in that there was little wind, allowing me to get a couple of nice pics in the Reflecting Lake.
Well, that about wraps up our full day visit to Mt Rainier National Park. We had a nice time on a beautiful June summer day in fresh clean air. So, till our next blog, RVing Beach Bums signing off. This blog written contemporaneously and published from the Monaco Service Center in Coburg, OR on July 15, 2015.


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Ashes Of MidnighteBook - 2009
A woman driven by blood. A man thirsting for vengeance.
A place where darkness and desire meet...
As night falls, Claire Roth flees, driven from her home by a fiery threat that seems to come from hell itself. Then, from out of the flames and ash, a vampire warrior emerges. He is Andreas Reichen, her onetime lover, now a stranger consumed by vengeance. Caught in the cross fire, Claire cannot escape his savage fury--or the hunger that plunges her into his world of eternal darkness and unending pleasure.
Nothing will stop Andreas from destroying the vampire responsible for slaughtering his Breed brethren . . . even if he must use his former lover as a pawn in his deadly mission. Blood-bonded to his treacherous adversary, Claire can lead Andreas to the enemy he seeks, but it is a journey fraught with danger--and deep, unbidden desires. For Claire is the one woman Andreas should not crave, and the only one he's ever loved. A dangerous seduction begins--one that blurs the lines between predator and prey, and stokes the flames of a white-hot passion that may consume all in its path. . . .
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Enjoyable read, hot romance, fast paced adventure.
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In a whirlwind of feelings, Ashes of Midnight will scorch its way into your heart. The ending is thrilling and a bit shocking as the stakes get higher. Andreas and Claire's powerful and intense love will make you yearn for their happily ever after, even as it makes you long for the next book.
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Andreas Reichen is one out-of-control and angry vampire. Three months ago the Darkhaven compound housing his family and friends was annihilated and everyone killed by the Enforcement Agency. Andreas hatches a plan to kill the man responsible and goes to his mansion outside the city. With his newly released pyrotechnic skills blazing, Andreas mows through anything in his path. He wants gratification, and he wants it now. Burning anyone who crosses his path, Andre does not expect to see the one woman he can't forget - Claire Roth, his enemy's Breedmate and the only woman he has ever loved.
Claire Roth has spent the last thirty years regretting her decision to become Wilhelm Roth's Breedmate and yearning for news of the one man that she is unable to forget - Andreas Reichen. Now it is too late. Claire has gotten word that he, along with his family and friends perished after an attack on his Darkhaven compound. Silently mourning the man she secretly loved, Claire plans a memorial garden for him. When her bodyguards rush to her and beg her to leave because of an unseen danger, Claire reluctantly leaves her home only to be stopped by a power more deadly than nature - Andreas Reichen in pyrotechnic mode - and he is not happy.
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Final logo for non-profit, The Food Voice.
Identity work for To Market, a new food magazine from the publishers of Edible Boston.
To Market logo in black & white and knock-out versions.
Logo as applied on To Market business cards.
Abbreviated, black on white and knockout versions of To Market's logos for social media use.
Social media logos applied as avatars for Twitter and Instagram accounts.
2-sided business cards for food publications' staff.
Custom To Market logo and custom Edible Boston mark.
Logo work for homeschooling co-op.
Various print brand collateral for PR firm.
Designed and art directed 2010 holiday card. Mailer consisted of custom Post-It® Notes with 4 different decorative patterns, bellyband with greeting, and address label/envelope seal.
Deconstructed logo to create 3 snowflake designs for holiday insert and envelope.
Designed template for team-building scavenger hunt for annual Nantucket office retreat.
Designed mailer introducing new event planning service: marlo venues.
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Logo design for design-bacon.com, my former portfolio site.
Logo design. The client's aesthetic favors a classic, nautical look and feel. As a nod to the client's maritime flag collection, I incorporated the symbols in whimsical manner by spelling out, "hello".
Logo exercise for a bike path tours in Rhode Island. Personal project.
Logo exploration for brand refresh of high-end lighting design company.
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