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The present invention relates to porous materials, typically xerogels or aerogels, having a low dielectric constant but relatively poor mechanical strength. The present invention relates to polymeric coatings, preferably parylene, coated on inorganic xerogels or aerogels so as to increase the mechanical strength while not substantially degrading the dielectric properties of the resulting coated material. Silica xerogel conformally coated with parylene AF-4 is described.
1. A dielectric material comprising:
a) a nanoporous material comprising a skeletal structure of interconnected fibers separated by pores; and,
b) a polymer coated on the surfaces of the fibers generally throughout said nanoporous material without filling said pores, thereby increasing the mechanical strength of said nanoporous material.
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The present invention relates to porous materials, typically xerogels or aerogels, having a low dielectric constant but having a disadvantage of relatively poor mechanical strength. The present invention also relates to polymeric coatings, preferably parylene, coated on inorganic xerogels or aerogels so as to increase the mechanical strength while not substantially degrading the dielectric properties of the resulting coated material. Silica xerogel conformally coated with parylene AF-4 is described. An advantage of the present invention is to provide a low dielectric material having increased mechanical strength in comparison with the uncoated porous material, as would be advantageous in the fabrication of semiconductor electronic devices.
1. Technical Field
This invention relates generally to low dielectric constant porous materials and, more particularly, to porous materials conformally coated with polymeric materials for enhanced mechanical strength as well as low dielectric constant.
2. Description of Related Art
Porous materials have been used for a variety of applications including thermal insulators, heat storage systems, acoustic damping materials, and electrical insulators. In recent years, there has been particular interest in developing porous materials as insulators for use in semiconductor devices.
As feature sizes in integrated circuits are decreased to 0.18 μm and below, problems related to signal delay, power consumption, and crosstalk become increasingly significant. Signal delay arises because the RC time constant of the materials becomes increasingly significant as interconnect linewidths and spacings have shrunk. Miniaturization also generally results in increased crosstalk or capacitive coupling between nearby conductors. One possible means for reducing the RC time constant and the capacitive coupling is to decrease the capacitance between the conductors. Since the capacitance between two conductors increases substantially in proportion to the dielectric constant of the medium separating them, this can be achieved by using a dielectric material with reduced dielectric constant separating the conductors.
Silicon dioxide (SiO2) has long been used in integrated circuits as the primary insulating material. With a dielectric constant of approximately 4, SiO2 has been an acceptable intermetal dielectric for many years. With the continuing shrinkage in film thickness and intermetal spacings, the SiO2 dielectric constant of 4.0 is now too high for optimum operation of high speed integrated circuits such as MPUs. One means for achieving a dielectric material with a lower dielectric constant than SiO2 is to use certain organic or polymeric materials. However, such materials tend to have limited thermal stability and mechanical strength. A number of materials are known to have dielectric constants around 2.6, such as polymers known commercially as SILK, FLARE and HOSP. Others such as parylenes have dielectric constants down to 2.24 (Parylene AF-4), and other variants are being tested which may have even lower dielectric constants. TEFLON, or related fluoropolymers are known to have dielectric constants down to approximately 1.7. However, because of their poor thermal and mechanical properties they are extremely hard to use in the manufacture of integrated circuits, where temperatures of 400 C. to 425 C. are normally encountered during subsequent processing steps. The dielectric constant of vacuum or dry air is about 1.0. Thus, one way to obtain a material with a low dielectric constant is to use a porous or sparse, low density material in which a significant fraction of the bulk volume consists of space or air. Other gases having low dielectric constant may also be acceptable. The effective dielectric constant will be determined by the combination of the dielectric constants of air and the porous material (or materials) and lie somewhere between the dielectric constants of air and the largest dielectric constant of the bulk material(s). Porous materials may be fabricated in many different structural forms with many different compositions. Therefore, such materials offer the possibility of achieving a low dielectric constant and having composition and/or structural features resulting in acceptable mechanical, thermal, electrical and chemical properties.
A low effective dielectric constant may be achieved by means of a porous structure in which a large fraction of the volume consists of space or low dielectric gas. However, it is not inherently necessary that such structures be open to the free flow of gas. Closed cell structures containing designed spaces containing vacuum or low dielectric constant gas, not open to free flow of gas throughout the structure, also achieve low dielectric constants.
One class of porous materials is foams. Typically, foams are made by producing a structure of the material and blowing air or other gases through the structure to create voids or by liberating gas throughout the material to create cells or pockets. Foams may be useful as thermal insulators and energy absorbers. However, the voids are typically on a macroscopic scale too large to be used in semiconductor devices with sub-micron characteristic feature sizes.
Another class of porous material that has been extensively investigated is sol-gel derived materials termed xerogels or aerogels. Sol-gel synthesis of oxide materials is typically based upon the hydrolysis and condensation of alkoxides M(OR)n where M is typically a metal atom (Si, Ti, Al, etc.) and R is typically an alkyl group. A common precursor for SiO2 xerogels and aerogels is tetraethoxysilane ("TEOS"), when M=Si, R=C2H5 and n=4.
Aerogels of main group oxides, and of transition and semimetal oxides, as well as carbon aerogels and aerogels of organic compounds, have been produced. Aerogels consist of molecular sized clusters which are connected in such a way that a three dimensional structure is formed resembling a microscopic "string of pearls." The rigid skeleton of the aerogel may occupy only a very small fraction of the total volume.
The most thoroughly studied xerogel system is probably silica, that is xerogels derived from silicon dioxide. As described, for example, in L. Hrubesh, Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 381, p. 267 (1995) and in Fricke et al., Structure and Bonding 77, p. 37 (1992), silica xerogels are typically prepared by the controlled hydrolysis and condensation of a silicon alkoxide precursor such as tetraethoxysilane (TEOS), equivalently named tetraethylorthosilicate. A precursor solution of TEOS, alcohol, water, and an acid and/or base catalyst is typically mixed together. Hydrolysis and condensation first results in a "sol" defined as a solution of polymeric or colloidal materials. The colloidal materials continue to agglomerate to form a "gel". A gel is generally defined as a material composed of two phases, generally having a three-dimensional network of solid material with spaces within the network occupied by a liquid.
The next step in preparing a silica xerogel or aerogel is typically to dry the liquid or alcohol-filled gel without collapsing the structure. One method for drying the gel while avoiding the formation of a liquid-vapor meniscus is the method of supercritical extraction (also called "hypercritical extraction"). This method avoids the creation of a liquid-vapor interface by the utilization of supercritical conditions of temperature and pressure during the solvent extraction process. Such conditions avoid surface tension forces and the collapse of the material due to the surface tension. Carbon dioxide is typically used for supercritical extraction since the critical point occurs at convenient values of temperature and pressure. However, the use of other solvents such as water is not inherently excluded. The material formed by supercritical extraction of the solvent is termed an aerogel.
Another technique for drying the gel while reducing surface tension forces makes use of evaporation, often preceded by a solvent exchange to achieve a reduction in surface tension forces during evaporation. One way to accomplish this is to perform a solvent exchange with a solvent that replaces the OH groups of the gel, but presents a hydrophobic surface when so bonded (or repulsive to the solvent if a non-aqueous solvent is employed). This reduces the solvent binding to the gel surface such that surface tension of the solvent does not substantially affect the structure of the gel during evaporation. Solvent exchange typically works best when employed in connection with thin film gels. The material produced in this way is generally termed a xerogel. The distinction between an aerogel and a xerogel lies in the processing method rather than in the final structure of the material. For economy of language we will use the term "xerogel" herein to refer to either xerogel or aerogel intending thereby that the present invention does not inherently exclude either procedure for forming the porous material. The present invention is independent of the formation processes leading to the particular porous material, xerogel or aerogel.
The potential utility of porous silica as a low dielectric constant insulating material has been recognized. (See, for example, Hrubesh (supra), Ramos et al. Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 443, p. 91 (1997), and U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,470,802, 5,569,058, and 5,847,443.) However, as described by Ramos et al., (supra) for example, although porosity leads to a lower dielectric constant as compared with the corresponding dense material, certain disadvantages also arise. In particular, a tradeoff between dielectric constant and mechanical strength has been recognized. As a material is made more porous, the dielectric constant is decreased, but at the cost of a decrease in mechanical strength.
Another disadvantage of silica xerogels is their sensitivity to moisture. The inner surface of silica xerogels is very polar due to residual hydroxy or alkoxy groups bonded to silicon, which promotes adsorption of water. Chemical methods to modify this property by modifying the sol-gel synthesis method have been described by Schubert in Tailor-made Silicon-Oxygen Compounds, R. Corriu (Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn, 1996) pp. 263. However, this approach does not address the problem of mechanical fragility of porous materials. Another method to modify xerogel properties, using chemical vapor infiltration, in which a reactive gas is flowed through an xerogel placed in a furnace, has been described by Hunt et al., J. Non-cryst. Solids, 185, p.227 (1995). However, chemical vapor infiltration is described as resulting in new composite materials. These new composite materials may not retain the porosity of the original xerogel.
A way is needed to increase the mechanical strength of porous materials while retaining the advantageous low dielectric constant and other properties of these materials. Furthermore, for porous dielectric materials, it would be desirable if the method of increasing mechanical strength were readily integrated with standard semiconductor fabrication processes.
The approach taken in the present invention is to coat the porous material with a thin film of polymeric material to enhance mechanical strength while not unacceptably increasing the dielectric constant.
The figures herein are not to scale.
FIG. 1a: Schematic perspective depiction of porous xerogel material.
FIG. 1b: Schematic depiction of linear arrangements of xerogel particles.
In the following description and figures, similar reference numbers are used to identify similar elements.
Porous materials, and in particular, films of porous materials, can be produced by a variety of processes. One representative process is the sol-gel process for producing a silica xerogel film on a wafer. As described, for example, in Nitta et al., J. Vac. Sci. Technology B 17(1), 205 (1999), a silica xerogel is prepared by the hydrolysis and condensation of alkoxysilanes. Tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) is hydrolyzed by reacting with water in the presence of an alcohol solvent, typically ethanol, and in the presence of HCl as an acid catalyst. The acid catalyzed solution is mixed with a base catalyst such as ammonium hydroxide. Immediately following base catalysis, the solution is filtered and spin-deposited on a clean silicon wafer. A solvent-saturated atmosphere is maintained during the spin deposition. In the early process after deposition, the spun-on film is gelled for 45 minutes on the spin coater and aged. After aging, surface modification and solvent exchange is performed by immersing the aged film in a solution of hexane and trimethylchlorosilane. The film is furnace dried in a dry air or nitrogen atmosphere. Other methods for producing porous materials are also known in the art.
A silica xerogel is a porous material composed of molecular sized clusters connected to form a three dimensional skeleton that has a fibrous structure. FIGS. 1a and 1 b provide a schematic representation of such a xerogel, 10, including molecular sized clusters 12, 14, 16, 18, and 20, which together constitute a fiber 30. The strength of the material is essentially controlled by the number of fibers, the degree of branching of the fibers and the strength of the individual fibers. Stronger structures typically have more fibers and more branches at the expense of a loss of porosity. As depicted in FIG. 1b, the fibers consist of clusters joined together. The clusters 12, 14, 16, 18, and 20 are typically significantly larger in diameter than the joints 13, 15, 17, and 19 between the clusters. The strength of the resulting material is largely controlled by the strength of the joints and the density of fibers and branches. However, for a given density of xerogel, increasing the strength of the joints, 13, 15, etc. increases the overall mechanical strength of the material.
Although the particular example of a silica xerogel was presented above, xerogel, 10, can be alternatively be composed of alumina, zirconia, or a variety of main group oxides and transition metal and semi-metal oxides, as described, for example, in Fricke et al (supra). The coating processes and compositions described herein are not inherently limited to a particular structure or composition of xerogel.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, the strength of the porous material, 10, is increased by changing the structure of the fibers, such as fiber 30, that make up the material structure. The diameter of the fiber is dominated by the diameter of the clusters or "beads" 12, 14, etc. The strength of the fiber (for a fixed density of xerogel) is largely determined by the strength of the joint regions, 13, 15, etc. The strength of such joint regions is determined primarily by the intrinsic strength of adhesion between beads (per unit surface area) and the surface area of bead-bead (inter-bead) contact. The approach of the present invention is to increase the inter-bead joint strength by depositing a film of a strengthening material over the joint regions. In practice, the material coats the entire fiber, 30, including the joint regions but the diameter of the clusters is typically increased by the coating film by a fractionally insignificant amount. However, the coating film will typically increase the diameter of the joint regions by a relatively large fractional amount when compared to the uncoated inter-bead joints. Thus, the strength of the joint regions is increased by the strength of the film, which may be a significant amount.
The present invention relates to the coating of porous materials such as xerogels by a polymeric film. Preferably, the material forming the film should penetrate throughout the structure of the xerogel for good coating of all fibers. This may be done by deposition of the film material onto the xerogel fibers or by means of inducing the chemical processes forming the film to occur substantially on the surface of the fibers and not elsewhere.
An object of the present invention is to achieve improved mechanical strength of xerogel dielectric materials while not seriously degrading (increasing) the dielectric constant. Since the coating material will typically have a dielectric constant higher than that of air, it is desirable to keep the coating thin. However, the strength will increase progressively with thicker coatings, achieving a maximum when the structure is totally filled. This means in practice using the smallest feasible amount of coating material that will provide the necessary strength enhancement. Since the coating will displace air, a thicker coating will necessarily increase the overall dielectric constant of the air-xerogel-film composition. However, the present invention makes use of conformal coating as an achievable coating process in practice. Conformal coating need not add substantially to the fractional thickness of the beads but significantly strengthens the joints and walls.
The coating material should have as small a dielectric constant as practical so its presence only modestly increases the overall dielectric constant of the system. The coating film should not have undesirable mechanical, thermal, electrical or chemical properties for the environment in which the coated xerogel is to be used, typically integrated circuits.
Parylene is a generic name for a family of poly p-xylylene polymers which are typically deposited by CVD p-xylylene monomer. The polymers are generally known as "living polymers" because of the continuing activity at the ends of the polymer chains which can extend during subsequent depositions. The monomer is typically generated by pyrolysis from a dimer of the type shown in Eq. 1. The most commonly available dimer is parylene-n in which X is hydrogen. Many other versions exist in which one or more of the X's may be substituted by chlorine, fluorine or cyano groups. A particularly advantageous form is known as poly (σ,σ,σ,σ-tetrafluoro-p-xylylene) of AF-4, which has 4 substituted fluorine atoms in the polymer cell (8 in the dimer).
In addition to parylene N and AF-4 depicted in Eq. (1), other forms of parylene known in the art include parylene C, parylene D, cyanoparylene, etc.
Parylene is a family of polymeric coatings having a reasonably low dielectric constant (in the range of 2.0 to 2.6, e.g. AF-4 is 2.24 at 1 MHz) that has been tested as an intermetal dielectric in the fabrication of integrated circuits. Coating of parylene onto wafers and other substances is known in the art (for example, see Plano et. al. Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 476, pp. 231 (1997), Olson et. al. U.S. Pat. No. 5,709,753 and references cited therein).
Parylene coatings are typically obtained from the dimer precursor of Eq. (1) by vaporization of the crystalline dimer precursor followed by pyrolysis into the monomer form while in the vapor. The monomer in the vapor phase is typically fed to a deposition chamber in which the monomers deposit on the surface of the substrate to be coated within the deposition chamber (e.g. the xerogel). Polymerization occurs on the surface forming the parylene film. This reaction sequence is depicted in Eq. (2) for parylene AF-4.
Xerogel Preparation
There are a variety of processes for making a porous xerogel film. The present inventors produced a porous xerogel silica film substantially as carried out by Nitta et. al. (supra). Although the practice of the present invention is described herein in terms of a silica xerogel film, other types of base films (such as aerogel) are also suitable for use with the coating of the present invention. The present invention is not limited to silica as a base material and can readily be practiced with other xerogel (or aerogel) base materials such as alumina, zirconia, etc.
The typical process of xerogel preparation consists of six basic steps: (1) acid catalysis, (2) base catalysis, (3) spin coating, (4) gelation and aging, (5) surface modification, and (6) drying.
The acid catalyzed sol preparation is typically carried out by reacting a mixture of tetraethoxysilane (TEOS), water and HCl at 60° C. for 90 minutes using ethanol as a solvent. A molar ratio of reactants may be used in the proportion (TEOS, water, ethanol, HCI) as (1:2: 3.8: 7.3×10−4). The base catalysis is typically carried out by mixing 10 ml of the acid catalyzed solution with 1 ml of 0.05 M ammonia.
Immediately following base catalysis, the solution is typically filtered and deposited on a clean wafer surface in a spinning apparatus. The sol may be spun at about 2000 rpm for about 12 seconds. A solvent-saturated atmosphere is typically maintained during the spinning in order to reduce evaporation rate.
Following spinning, the wafer is typically left in the spinner for a period of time (for example, 45 minutes) to permit the commencement of gelation and aging. Immediately prior to removal of the wafer from the spinner, 2 ml of a mixture of ammonia and ethanol is typically deposited on the wafer to avoid drying. The wafer may then be transferred to a container of ammonia/ethanol solution and immersed for a period of time, typically at a constant temperature of about 40° C.
Following this aging step, a surface modification (typically silylation) may be performed. The silylation and solvent exchange are typically carried out by immersing the wafer containing the aged silica film in a solution of hexane and approximately 1%-2% trimethylchlorosilane (TMCS) for 60 minutes. The film is then typically dried with dry air or nitrogen in a furnace having gradually increasing temperature. The furnace may be controlled to increase its temperature from 50° C. to 450° C. at a rate of 1° C. per minute (for example).
Parylene Deposition
The starting point for deposition of parylene AF-4 film (in this example) is the crystalline dimer depicted in Eq. (1) with X=F. The chemistry of formation of the parylene AF-4 film is given in Eq. (2). The procedures given herein derive from those of Plano et. al. (supra).
The crystalline solid dimer is vaporized to a pressure of about 100 mT (milliTorr) at a temperature of about 100° C. The resulting vapor is allowed to flow into a pyrolysis chamber maintained at a temperature of approximately 650° C. where the dimer cracks into the monomer tetrafluoro-p-xylylene as depicted in Eq. (2). The monomer vapor is then directed into the deposition chamber which is maintained at a pressure of approximately 20-40 mT. The monomer gas condenses onto a cold surface in the deposition chamber where the polymerization reaction occurs to yield the parylene AF-4 film, as depicted in Eq. (2). The substrate temperature is typically maintained in the range 0° to −20° C. The deposition rate increases with decreasing substrate temperature in this temperature range. Deposition rates of 1000 A are easy to obtain under these conditions and deposition rates up to 1 μm per minute can readily be achieved. Deposition and coating of xerogels where very thin coatings are required should be performed under conditions of slower deposition than typically used for coating a substantially flat parylene film onto a substrate. In the experiments conducted, temperatures as high as +20 C. were used to slow the deposition rate to a convenient value.
Coated xerogels as described above were prepared. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy ("FTIR"), Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy ("RBS"), secondary ion mass spectroscopy ("SIMS"), scanning electron microscopy ("SEM"), UV spectroscopy and other conventional techniques of analytical chemistry were used to confirm the coating of parylene AF-4 onto the silica xerogel. Greatly increased mechanical strength was observed in the coated film as determined by the stud-pull test procedure.
Although the invention has been described with reference to particular materials, the description is only an example of the invention's application and should not be taken as a limitation. Various adaptations and combinations of features of the deposited films and porous materials disclosed are within the scope of the invention as defined by the following claims.
Historically, the term "aerogel" has been used to indicate a porous structure in which supercritical drying is employed and "xerogel" when dried by solvent extraction. However, the coating of porous structures as described herein is not intended to be limited by the method of preparation of the porous substrate to be coated. Rather, we use the term "nanoporous material" to denote a porous structure having structure substantially equivalent to that depicted in FIGS. 1a and 1 b including historical aerogels and xerogels.
Having described the invention in detail, those skilled in the art will appreciate that, given the present disclosure, modifications may be made to the invention without departing from the spirit of the inventive concept described herein. Therefore, it is not intended that the scope of the invention be limited to the specific and preferred embodiments illustrated and described. Rather, it is intended that the scope of the invention be determined by the appended claims.
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The Nemesis Bestiary Volume One
Timothy B.
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Date Added: 05/13/2013 14:32:30
An interesting concept. 20 monsters complete with stat-blocks, art and description of their special abilities. There is almost no "fluff", just "crunch" to this book. The idea is you create the background yourself.
A lot of the monsters have origins that can be explained (undead, abberation) others just beg for their story to be told (whore eater and God Sperm for example).
Each monster was created in response to a piece of art. So somethings form can flow from function (Arm Stealer) or something else entirely.
If you want a book of ready use monsters, sans backgrounds, then this is a good choice.
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Ghosts and Promises: The Secrets of Kodiak Island
Richard A S.
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Date Added: 05/09/2013 14:33:51
I can't believe i actually wasted my money on this... I'd have been better off going to the movie theater to watch JJ Abrams Star Trek (2009) at $40 for tickets and snacks.
[1 of 5 Stars!]
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Otherverse America Campaign Setting
Richard A S.
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Date Added: 05/09/2013 14:13:44
In a quick word on what's wrong with this product.... this setting is beyond ridiculous. The political strawmen that makes up the setting is so far out there that it's not even funny. But the premise that Pagans and Pro-Choicers are the good guys, while Christians and Pro-Lifers are the bad guys goes into a whole new shock fest that has basically made up 'Otherverse Games' stock setting.
With the fact that this product line makes heroes of men like Kermit Gosnell makes me wonder just how far our entire society and culture has gone in what can only be classified as a free-fall.
The setting is colored by the worse aspects of creating Strawmen to argue against... and that's saying a lot after having taken the time to read the blog of the creator of this setting and quickly learned just how thin-skinned the guy actually is... and how quickly he wants to get into other peoples faces when it comes to his own stances, and then takes an overblown amount of offense when they don't automatically agree with him and yet still wish him well.
Now I admit that I gave this product a chance because I've liked much of what Skortched Urf' Studios has put out, and have parted ways with my money so I can get them... and i was sorely disappointed with this product, and felt like someone had taken a 50lb. Sledge Hammer to my head with the incredibly one-sided view on what should be an open and honest debate between two points of view. My personal belief is pretty much that the procedure should be legal, but it should be rare and not used as a form of birth control... nor do i support those who want to give mothers the right to kill a child after it's been lucky enough to actually be born.
Now the Pro-Choicers like to say that they want Abortion to be a rare occurrence, but at the same time they remain silent when butchers like Kermit Gosnell and the many other abortion mils show just what is actually happening in many of these clinics. They completely gloss over how these organizations were founded as a method of Genocide against minority groups. They don't want to stand up against the way these abortion mills have made select few billions of dollars at the expense of broken lives and dreams. And yet when someone on the Pro-Life side of the debate does get violent and kills someone... the entire movement comes together to decry this as going against the vary basis of what the movement has been about since it's founding.
And to have this history of actions is completely ignored or derided kind of shows where this setting is all about. Creating a political strawmen to tilt at while making the author feel superior to all those whom they despise for no good reason. And for that reason, I won't be making anymore purchases of anything associated with this product or it's creators. It's their right to write this, produce this and market this. My broken body, along with the honored dead I have had the honor of serving beside defending those freedoms of the creators of this product to do what they wish with their lives and their careers. But i still retain the right to decide that I will not purchase their products in the future. And I will continue to exercise this right by ensuring that I will not be having anything to associate with them.
And I will remain willing to die so that others may express themselves in this manner... but I will not be a patron of their products.
[1 of 5 Stars!]
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Space Monsters, Volume Three!
Megan R.
[Featured Reviewer]
Date Added: 03/21/2013 11:17:23
Claiming inspiration from low-budget 1970s space epics, it's not just stock-art that has been used to illustrate - indeed spawn - each and every monster. Some ideas and concepts are clearly there... take for example the adorable little Breeder Poof, a tiny fluffy beast that reproduces like crazy, or at least exponentially, at the drop of a hat. The notes do not mention if they like triticale seeds, but any follower of the original Star Trek will recognise the inspiration for these little menaces!
There is a whole collection of other critters here, all with copious notes on appearance and behaviour along with stats and a picture, plus a section headed 'Role-Playing' that covers not just the creature in question but their role in society as well. Excellent material to help you embed your space monsters into the universe rather than just use them as a monster-of-the-week to provide a spot of combat exercise for the characters.
There are constructs and ancient dinosaur-like creatures, even humanoids, all ready to stride across worlds and do battle... or even be cute and cuddly. It's good to see the 'monster' concept firmly embedded into space gaming, it's not just a fantasy thing!
[4 of 5 Stars!]
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The Nemesis Bestiary Volume One
Megan R.
[Featured Reviewer]
Date Added: 03/09/2013 12:29:52
This is 'yet another monster collection' with a few outstanding and unusual features that makes it noteworthy over and above the general usefulness to any GM of having even more monsters to hand...
Conceptually, it's interesting because each beastie has been created in response to a piece of art rather than a load of monsters being dreamed up and then artists commissioned to provide the illustrations. It's an approach which resonates, I once invented a monster when looking at a patch of light on the side of the bath... and it was such a good monster that a whole 3-part adventure grew up around it!
Even better is the way in which they are presented. Along with that inspirational illustration and a standard stat block, the descriptive material - background, behaviour, ecology, etc. - is written up in the style of a 'field report' - not only does this work remarkably well as an in character resource giving verisimiltude to each monster, it suggests the existence in your world of people who go around collecting and describing just like real-world naturalists do. Many suggest adventure ideas even as you read through them. Or perhaps you'll be inspired to play a naturalist character, it's a good role for rangers and certain types of mage for a start, or perhaps a cleric of a nature deity.
The creatures themselves are fascinating, ranging from quite vile (the Arm-Taker) to something that's beautiful (the Diamond Owl) or just plain strange (nearly all of them!). Many will work well in games where barriers between planes or dimensions are weak, you can just imagine them having come from somewhere that is a twisted parody of your own world, having slipped through a crack and possibly being as baffled by this reality as your characters are by them.
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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The Modern Spellcaster Basic Class
Timothy B.
[Featured Reviewer]
Date Added: 03/07/2013 11:18:37
This book is for the d20 Modern Game, Pathfinder and a few other d20 based games. It presents a generic form of a spellcaster that isn't a wizard, cleric, witch or druid. In a sense it is a throwback to the older "Magic User" class. The basic premise here is to provide full powered (up to spell level 9) spellcasters from D&D like games to your Modern Games. I am not sure how this works out in play, but the concept on it's own is interesting enough. There are new feats and a fun "arcane death" table. Frankly I would like to see that expanded into an "Arcane CSI" to be used in any modern game with magical elements.
[4 of 5 Stars!]
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The Niishima Inn
Megan R.
[Featured Reviewer]
Date Added: 03/04/2013 08:55:29
This is a delightfully atmospheric little piece, set in the Tatakama World but with a portal to a shabby backstreet in modern Tokyo. The people and places are well-described and come to life well, a real feeling of an alternate reality that's out there somewhere.
The setting is a township, Niishima, and much of the main street and surroundings are described as well as the Niishima Inn itself. There's a lot going on, many stories being told and waiting to be told. Several key NPCs are given full stat block treatment, and there are four pre-generated characters (all native to the Tatakama world) that you can use. Other useful things include a Samurai template.
Now, whilst there is a lot going on, a lot to explore and discover here, there is no real 'adventure' as one might define it. Perhaps - especially if using the pre-generated characters - the aim is to find the portal. Or you may choose to turn things on their head and have modern characters find (or fall through!) the portal from modern Tokyo and attempt to survive in this strange world in which they find themselves. The Inn has a couple of haunts which may provide a challenge to those interested in finding out why they are there and how they can be laid to rest.
It's also worth a look if you are running or considering a 'fantasy Japan' setting using Dungeons & Dragons 3.X or the Pathfinder RPG.
Illustrations are beautiful, evocative, traditional Japanese in the main, it's a feast for the eyes as well as a good read!
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Nobility and Eros: The Noble Succubus
Timothy B.
[Featured Reviewer]
Date Added: 02/19/2013 09:53:58
Love is a disease.
At least that is how the succubi might feel if you use this supplement in your OGL games. The Noble Succubus (not 100% sold on that name, but it does work and I can't come up with anything better) is a succubus that has become infected. She is no longer a demon, but a creature with a soul that feels. In a sense a "good" (if chaotic) succubus. The role-playing options here abound.
There is plenty of background information that can be used and plenty of hooks into various game worlds including modern, sci-fi and the standard fantasy.
The real meat though is in the crunch on what the differences between the Noble and Demonic Succubi and how to use Noble Succubi as characters.
Myself I would make them much rarer, and still have it be a process that maybe one in 100 Billion succubi could go through. I also think it would be interesting to have a Noble Succubus and for whatever reason choose to remain evil. That would be an adversary worth having.
11 pages with cover and OGL page (13 total). At 2 bucks that's a good deal.
[4 of 5 Stars!]
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D20 Decade: The 1980s
Timothy B.
[Featured Reviewer]
Date Added: 01/18/2013 11:43:45
It is difficult not to compare this to Damnation Decade or Solid! in terms of capturing the feel of a decade.
For starters this is for the d20 Modern RPG, which I am not even sure is still being supported by anyone. That all being said, there is a lot of great stuff in this book. There are some pages spent on modifying the d20M skills, in particular how Computers worked then. That and the new Perform (Break Dance) and Perform (Free Style Rap). No Perform (Gymkata!) though. Of particular use to any 80s-based game is the list of common items we take for granted today that just wasn't there then. Easy stuff like Smartphones, but other not so obvious things like Caller ID. Sure there were cellphones, but they were huge and the batter life was only a couple hours. Chapter 1 covers the 80s. At 20% of the book content is really worth the price of the book. It is a great overview of 80s tech, culture and pop psychology. Its not a history book, but it shouldn't be either. Even at 30+ pages somethings are going to be missing; but this is the 80s writ large, not Master's Thesis.
Chapter 2 covers the "Imaginary 80s", an 80s that never was. Among the new races there is also a list of other games you can look into to help you out. With the OGL they could have simply included what they wanted from many of those games, but I thought it was kind of neat to include them. Speaking of the new races, they are really new. Some are twists on familiar concepts, but others are new and all fit the 80s to a tee. My favorite might be the Arcadians (Video game fey) or the Spetsnazski, the Russian Super Soldiers. Cause the only thing more fun than Nazi Weird Science is Russian Weird Science. The Crow Folk and High Solstice Sidhe could work just as well in a Pathfinder game. There are also about 16 new occupations for your 80s character. There are also, surprisingly, 144 new feats! Going past those for a bit there are also 5 new Advanced classes. If you were wondering when the Miami Vice influences would appear then take heart with the Blue Equalizer, which let you play any sort of 80s "Super Cop". Perfect foil for the Drug Lord Advanced Class. These are followed by a few new spells.
The last part, Confetti, has a few bits for the GM for adding 80s flavor to their game. These are also useful for any 80s game.
There is fairly good list of resources both non-fiction and fiction, and a good list of movies, TV shows and graphic novels.
Final the OGL where everything is released as Open Gaming Content. Very nice.
Ok, so this is a really cool idea and a lot of work went into these 164 pages.
Otherverse Games did a great job with this, but I am not without some quibbles.
I am not going to mention anything missing from the 80s. Trying to squeeze an entire decade into a game book is hard and something is going to get left out. If it's not there and you remember it add it on your own. Though missing *something* about a Valley Girl seems a bit like a huge omission to me.
The art is all over the place. Most is fair, but none of it is great.
The layout has a number of issues. The background on the pages is not great. In most cases it is only just there, in others the "page number block" obscures some text. It's the 80s, where are the pastels?
I have mixed feelings about even mentioning it since I have seen newer products of theirs and they look great. This one is an early effort.
Going back to my totally unfair comparison to Damnation Decade, I think it would be interesting to see this updated to something like True 20 (which is at the time of this writing just as dead as d20 Modern) with better layout.
Despite all that I can't help but really like this product. At 6 bucks it is a great buy.
[4 of 5 Stars!]
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Autorun -Generic Cyber-Hacking for D20 Modern
Megan R.
[Featured Reviewer]
Date Added: 01/09/2013 05:12:03
Being a computer geek in real life, when playing contemporary/future games I often gravitate towards the 'hacker' character... when I can persuade the GM to accept one, that is! Now I did have one tolerant GM in a Spycraft game who actually spent time creating a system for my character to hack into - just the once, then he found out that my hacking was superior to my character's!
But here is a delightful abstraction that means you do not have to know beans about cyber-intrusion and yet have as much fun with it as our fantasy wizards can have chucking spells around, and face your own style of peril whilst the gunners-and-runners of the party are busy shooting their way into trouble in the meat part of your shared alternate reality.
It's a simple turn-based 'skirmish' on a hex board (supplied for you to print out) pitting Hackers against Programs. Mechanically, its based on your Computer Use skill plus the resources in terms of hardware and software that you are bringing to bear on the challenge defined by the nature of the system that you are hacking into, but instead of a mere die roll to decide the outcome, you game it out move by move as the attacked system attempts to keep you out.
You can describe it any way you like from full-blown Virtual Reality encounters to keyboard tapping realistic intrusions, the real joy is that the hacker gets to be actually doing something just as a combat is not determined by a single roll but involves combatants making choices about how they are going to brawl...
This is a real delight, well worth adding to your contemporary or cyberpunk/near future games. It wouldn't take much work to modify it to run alongside a different ruleset than D20, either, if that is what you need.
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Dept. 7 Adv. Class Update: Perfect Archer
Lord W.
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Date Added: 01/04/2013 08:06:15
Very awesome addition, but for the life of me I can not locate the Skill Points that the Perfect Archer gets at each level.
[4 of 5 Stars!]
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Free20: Details of the Future
Stephen L.
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Date Added: 11/17/2012 22:21:04
Cons: The description overstates the amount of actually convertible material here. Most of the ideas and tables in here are too heavily dependent on the Otherverse America fluff to be easily adapted to other settings. A couple of the topics and items stray into "you did not just go there" territory (such as the "accidentally shot your best friend" traumatic past option) or are handled in an almost insultingly trivial manner (such as the entire Serial Killer/Sexual Predator section.) Overall, about half the material is too political to make much sense outside of an Otherverse America game.
Pros: It's free. There are about a dozen entries in the Street Vendor section who can be easily divorced from their political allegiance and dropped into a Shadowrun or Cyberpunk game without too much effort. And about half of the tattoo ideas are apolitical enough that they would make sense in a cyberpunk verse that isn't as politically-focused as Otherverse. Did I mention it's free?
[2 of 5 Stars!]
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Otherverse America Campaign Setting
Stephen L.
Verified Purchaser
Date Added: 11/17/2012 21:50:40
It feels bad rating something free so lowly but honestly... I guess I should start from the beginning.
Otherverse America is a near-future cyberpunk campaign setting designed by Skortched Urf' Studios. It's the near-future and the Abortion Wars have finally ended yet neither the pro-life Lifers nor the pro-choice Choicers are ready to give up just yet. Honestly this summery should have set off alarm bells in my head. In my experience politics and entertainment are like cough syrup and ice cream, most of us can't live without them yet mixed together they form an awful mess that no one with any brains would want to eat. So naturally I was a little apprehensive, but for the price of free I'd take the risk of Otherverse America turning out to be a Pen and Paper soapbox for one side or the other.
Unfortunately, the free PDF is such a disorganized mess I can't even begin to tell you what I'm supposed to be reading let alone whether or not it manages to be entertaining or apolitical. First of all, the PDF lacks a table of contents. For a small PDF up to ten or twenty pages, that could be forgiven. But for 256 pages? I'm not familiar with composing PDFs but is a table of contents really much to ask for in a document that big? Unfortunately it only gets worse...
Someone at Skortched Urf', in their infinite wisdom, decided to toss the traditional format of separating fluff and mechanics into neat orderly chapters in favor of literally mixing the two elements together. The end result is something that reads like a history textbook, gameplay mechanics serve as breaks between pages of lore explaining the fictional series of events leading up to 2091 AD when the game takes place... There's obviously a game in here but it's buried under such a mess of largely irrelevant text I'd be pressed to tell you if it was any good or not.
Bottom Line: While you shouldn't expect much for free, you should definitely expect more then what you get here. Simply put, this is a train wreck.
[1 of 5 Stars!]
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Psi-Watch: Zero Issue!
Angelo C.
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Date Added: 08/06/2012 18:05:29
This is a pretty good supplement for anyone trying an Iron Age supers campaign regardless of setting.
The high points of this book are the Codename Generator and the new armor pieces for female characters, they are hilarious. I'd almost like to see the Codename Generator released on its own.
A good point of the book is that it really makes you want to play in the Psi-Watch setting which the Psi-Watch campaign books didn't really. The art is nicely done although those that have a dislike of Poser may find it a turn off as that makes up the large majority of the artwork. The campaign modifiers are also an interesting concept but they're kind of a mixed bag; some are really interesting, like Combat Simulation Opening which lets your players declare their terrible defeat was really a training hologram and others just don't come off well like Alpha Males, which lets male characters add their STR mod when making interaction checks against women if they're being sexist about it, which I don't think anyone would be okay with at their table.
Perhaps a problem with the book is that there is a lot of added material (talents, feats, classes, occupations, templates etc.) which, depending on the gm and players, can make things difficult. It also frequently references a number of other products in the Otherverse line (mostly the Fursona and Synthetic Heroes products) which if you are trying to be budget conscious can be a bit annoying.
[4 of 5 Stars!]
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Nathan Winburn Illustration: Dark Fantasy Vol. One Stock Art
Timothy B.
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Date Added: 07/26/2012 13:37:33
Excellent collection of "dark" art that can be used with any project (subject to attached license). 15 pages, 13 images. My issue with this is that pages are PDF and that makes them a little harder to work with. TIFF or PSD files would have been better.
[4 of 5 Stars!]
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Newsly Hack Is Tinder For News Articles
Tinder's interface for quickly filtering people you might like to date from those you definitely don't is being applied to all sorts of other sorting tasks. We've had multiple Tinders for shopping, for instance. And here at the Disrupt Europe 2014 hackathon in London we've just seen a Tinder for news stories, called Newsly, presented on stage. Read More
Iranian Users Petition Microsoft For Greater Windows Support
Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system preview has attracted more than 1 million testers to date, and tens upon tens of thousands of votes on its user forums. Curiosuly, one dominating theme has emerged over the past few days: Requests for better support in Iran. The Verge's Tom Warren wrote a post last week detailing the top 10 Windows 10 requests, noting that users are… Read More
Passage Replaces Your Passwords With Images
Passage, from the Edinburgh-based team behind Peekabu, replaces your passwords with images. So instead of typing in a password, you simply hold a previously registered image up to your screen — maybe a photo of your family you have on your desk or your driver's license. The team, which built this service over the course of the last 24 hours during our Disrupt London hackathon… Read More
With Laplock, You Get A Text Message When Somebody Unplugs Your Laptop
Fresh off the hackathon dungeon, Laplock is a nifty little app developed at our TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon in London. Martin Saint-Macary and Ivan Maeder worked tirelessly for the past 24 hours to build an easy-to-use software lock for your Mac. Here's how it works. At heart, Laplock is a menubar app for your Mac. You install it, enter your phone number and/or Yo account, and… Read More
Pizza, Beer, Glory, And The All-Night London Hackathon
Here in London, the Disrupt Europe hackathon is racing towards its conclusion, with its participants all prepping their presentations for judging later today. Last night, however, around midnight, fueled by a recent infusion of pizza and beer, TechCrunch went around to ask a few questions and cause a little mayhem. Between a spider robot, far too many blinking lights and house plants… Read More
Watch The Disrupt: London Hackathon Judging Live Stream Right Here!
I'm tired and I didn't do anything. After coding for 24 hours, the participants of the first TechCrunch Disrupt: London hackathon will now present their creations on the massive Disrupt stage. From developer geek to investor chic, these judges are ready for anything and will assess hackathon participants on a scale of technical difficulty, usability, usefulness and creativity. In… Read More
Andrei Cherny's 'Aspiration' Brings The Investment Tools Of The 1% To The Other 99%
At 39 years old, Andrey Cherny has advised presidents, consulted with Fortune 100 companies, worked as a state prosecutor, served as a Naval reserve officer, founded a think tank and policy journal, and written a couple of books. Now he's adding entrepreneur to the list with the launch of Aspiration Partners LLC. Read More
Travel, Retail And Media Are 3 Industries Taking Over The App Store
Mobile apps have come a long way since Apple launched the App Store in 2007, with over 5 million apps available across the leading app stores. While many factors have contributed to the growth, the ability to reach a global audience with a relatively small upfront investment has certainly been a significant contributor. The potential ROI if an app is successful is huge — just ask… Read More
The Future Of AI Will Be Stacked
We are entering an exciting period for Artificial Intelligence. We're seeing more consumer impacting developments and breakthroughs in AI technology than ever before. And as Nova Spivack recently argued, it's reasonable to expect that major players like Apple, IBM, Google and Microsoft, among others, will lead a fierce consolidation effort for the AI market over the next 5 years. Read More
10 Trends Transforming Enterprise IT
When it comes to corporate IT, revolution is in the air. The way companies buy, build, manage, optimize and secure information technology is changing dramatically. From cloud computing to big data analytics to ubiquitous mobile connectivity, corporate IT systems are getting faster, more efficient, cheaper to operate and easier to use. In the process, a new wave of tech companies has emerged… Read More
iMac With Retina 5K Display First Impressions: A Screen In Which To Lose Oneself
Apple's new iMac boasts a screen with an almost preposterous resolution of 5180×2880 pixels, which makes it the world's highest resolution display. The screen is the key ingredient here, despite changes under the hood, and after a couple of days of use, it's still the screen that (stating the obvious here) catches my eye. Amid the flurry and elbow-throwing of the… Read More
A Guide To Co-Leadership: Why It's Hard, Why It's Good, And How To Make It Work
In September Larry Ellison stepped down from the helm at Oracle and appointed a co-CEO pair as his successors. Articles about the announcement spoke of such dual arrangements in discouraging and doubtful tones. Meanwhile, in NYC, a well-regarded VC recently told me that she thought at least 50 percent of early-stage startup failures are rooted in co-founder conflicts. Read More
Bag Week: Daame Bags
While I can't say that Daame Bags are the best daame bags we've tested (see what I did there?), I can say that they are definitely an interesting rethinking of the women's laptop bag. We tested two types – a wide leather laptop tote and other 13-inch model. I showed both of these to a human woman, my wife, who said that she liked the elegant and spare design but noted… Read More
Are American Tech Companies Disloyal?
FBI Director James Comey had some choice words this week for startups and technology companies about their increasing use of encryption and their responsibilities to law enforcement. Speaking at Brookings, Comey argued that "…if the challenges of real-time interception threaten to leave us in the dark, encryption threatens to lead all of us to a very dark place." He… Read More
Handbook For A New Era Of Crowdfunding
Ever been to Indiegogo? Kickstarter? Spend any cash? What'd you leave with? Why does anyone buy a product that doesn't exist yet…and may never exist? On the surface, crowdfunding seems to defy logic. Economists find the phenomenon of crowdfunding startling. If you think like an economist, crowdfunding shouldn't work. But it does. And those who understand why it works… Read More
#Gamergate Shows Tech Needs Far Better Algorithms
If Gamergate teaches us anything — beyond, of course, vastly obvious observations about the toxicity of certain Internet demographics (which is hardly new news) — it's that algorithms and formulaic behaviour can and are being gamed. Read More
The Disrupt Europe Hackathon Kicks Off At Old Billingsgate In London
The Disrupt Europe hackathon began just a few hours ago at Old Billingsgate in London. Participants are now gathered in The Vault, the venue's ominously-named underground area — but earlier, when everyone was still waiting for the doors to open, Mike Butcher and I walked the line and talked to a few of the hackers about why they'd came and what they're planning to… Read More
Gillmor Gang: Solar Panel
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, October 17, 2014. This year's Dreamforce 2014 overshadowed another Apple reveal of new hardware and consolidation of the mobile operating system platform. Hilary Clinton set the tone for the week by reminding us that vocabulary is the doorway to opportunity, and Al Gore and Neil… Read More
Convergence In The Internet Of Things Is Priming The Tech World For A Major Cultural Shift
To anyone who is tuned into the tech world, it should not come as earth shattering news that machine-to-machine (M2M) technology and the Internet of Things have hit a major convergence point in the tech industry. What is fairly new however is that the two have become so closely intertwined with each other that you can no longer think about one without thinking of the other. Read More
You Too May Be A Victim Of Developaralysis
Dear developers: Do you feel insecure because you're only fluent in a mere eight programming languages used across three families of devices? Does exposure to yet another JavaScript framework make you shudder and wince? Have you postponed a pet project because you couldn't figure out which cloud platform would be best for it? You too may suffer from Developaralysis. Be afraid. There… Read More
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New York City Center Presents Barcelona Ballet
Barcelona Ballet (formerly known as Corella Ballet) returns to New York City Center April 17 – 20 for a second engagement following several U.S. tours. Artistic Director Ángel Corella will dance with his company in the world premiere of Pálpito, a full-company ballet by Ángel Rojas and Carlos Rodriguez. The program also features Clark Tippet's Bruch Violin Concerto and Christopher Wheeldon's For 4.
"2012 comes with an exciting change for my company," Corella said, "something that I have been working on since the creation of the Ángel Corella Foundation in 2001: the establishment of Spain's only classical ballet company in Barcelona. With this move comes a new name for the company, Barcelona Ballet. The company is the same only it now has a new home and a new name. I created the company for the dancers and the audiences of Spain and not for myself, so I think it fitting that the company take on the name of one of the greatest cities in the world. All major European cities have a classical ballet company: Paris, London, Berlin and now Barcelona."
THE 2012 BARCELONA BALLET SEASONAT City Center:
Pálpito, by Ãngel Rojas and Carlos Rodríguez, (world premiere) is a full-company classical ballet that integrates classical ballet and traditional Spanish dance, with original musical composition by Héctor Gonzalez.
Ángel Rojas and Carlos Rodríguez, Artistic Directors of Nuevo Ballet Español. won first place at the Spanish annual dance and flamenco choreography awards in 1994 when they were still teenagers. Two years later, the duo established Nuevo Ballet Español to keep the traditions of flamenco alive into the 21st century. Since that time, the company has toured four continents and performed to sold-out houses.
Clark Tippet's Bruch Violin Concerto (1987) combines drama, complex choreography and duets of great athleticism, featuring seven Principal Dancers and a Corps of 16.
Clark Tippet (1955–1992), a dancer and choreographer, was a member of the American Ballet Theatre from 1972 to 1978, during which time he was promoted to Soloist in 1975 and Principal Dancer in 1976. He choreographed his first piece, Enough Said, in 1986. During his choreographic career Tippet choreographed five ballets for ABT and other works for Pacific Northwest Ballet and Kansas City Ballet.
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It has been an orderly October here at Organizing Made Fun. I hope you have enjoyed the inspiration and give aways we've had so far. From Pop's of orange to getting your tween out the door in the morning, there has been a little something to encourage your organizational creativity each week this month.
Thursday, October 30, 2014
An Orderly October
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Monday, October 27, 2014
How to Get your Spouse to Keep Organized: Advice from a Professional Organizer
I want to introduce a new helper to Organizing Made Fun! She's going to be such a big help because she's a professional organizer and amazing at helping all my organized and organized-wanna-be readers to answer some of the questions that I just can't answer! Beginning this month, and once each month, she will answer a tough question from one of you! Jill is the owner of Simply Organized and she's amazing!
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Thursday, October 23, 2014
Work Smarter, Not Harder: How to Stay Organized and Work from Home
Last month, I had the privilege to write a post for Hometalk about blogging. I've been in the business now for over 4 years and I really enjoy it. It has it's ups and down. Mostly ups, but I've been learning to manage things even better over the last year or so. I had another blogger ask me a question recently, and it turned into an entire post! So, blogger or not, I think you may enjoy this peak into my world. If you are a work from home mom {or hoping to be in the future}, this will definitely apply to you, as well.
I really admire how you run/manage your blog. I know you've said in the past that you view your blog as your business and you take that very seriously. You've also mentioned that you schedule Pinterest months in advance. I'm wondering if you have any tips for managing your blog, keeping on schedule, staying focused on your business, staying on top of social media...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Reglazing Update on Kids' Bathroom
It's been about two years since we updated the kids' bathroom by having all the outdated, original tile professionally sprayed white. It's gorgeous in there now -- as nostalgic as I am about our 1940s home is, their bathroom was just ugly. The white has refreshed and brightened it up in there ten fold! But, as promised years ago that I would let you know, how is it holding up?
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Monday, October 20, 2014
Early Christmas Gift for YOU!
Call this an early Christmas gift or just something fun to look forward to...but, I have teamed up with a group of wonderful ladies and we've got an amazing giveaway for those of you who are on Instagram! It's TWO $500 Amazon Gift Cards - one for you and one for a friend. That's $1000!!! All you have to do is go below and enter!
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Thursday, October 16, 2014
Fun Favorite Things to Try!
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Monday, October 13, 2014
Getting a Preteen Out the Door Faster!
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What in the world does having a hair brush have to do with getting your kids out the door faster? Well, stay with me...I have a plan! You see, getting the kids out the door for school or church or wherever you have to be, can be a big pain in the neck...add in a preteen girl who's nearly 11 going on 16 and wants to "look her best" and spends countless amounts of time in the bathroom brushing her long, thick, wavy hair, and you have my dilemma. Am I the ONLY one?
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Thursday, October 9, 2014
Gray and Orange Master Bedroom Makeover
If you knew me personally, you'd know I like to change things up when it comes to decorating my home. After four or five years, I'm ready to change it up! It may not be drastic, but it must look different and feel different! That's how I felt about our master bedroom recently. It was decorated so lovely - in blue and brown. Very much something that five years ago was pretty hip and nice. But...my taste and decorating style is constantly changing and I'm learning to find my true style. I think our bedroom truly reflects my style now -- and my colorful side. So, I left our blue walls and decided to add gray and orange to the bedroom to mix it up.
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Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Pinterest and Facebook Telling YOU What to See
I'm hear to share with you a little of frustration as a blogger and to share with you about how you can make sure you are seeing what you want to see via your social media. Maybe you don't even like social media...well, that's fine. But, it's an important way for me to let many of you know new things or share older posts that you may not know about, etc. Pinterest has now caught on to the ways of Facebook and are giving you a "smart feed". In my opinion, it's not so smart! So, let me show you how you can follow on Pinterest and Facebook and be SURE you are seeing what is posted from those you like or follow.
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Monday, October 6, 2014
11 Ways to Organize with Binder Clips
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Thursday, October 2, 2014
The Perfect Way to Eat a Snack and Stay Clean and Organized
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Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Top Organizing Blogger Home Tours - Kitchen Pantry
Myself and 6 other organizing bloggers are so very excited to start sharing our homes monthly with you. We want to focus on one area so that you can get some great ideas monthly from different styles of organizing. Today, we're heading into the kitchen to get you inspired to get your kitchen organized. I have the privilege of sharing my kitchen pantry. It's one of my favorite places in my kitchen! It's cheery and it's fun - not to mention total functional!
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Monday, September 29, 2014
September Synopsis
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Thursday, September 25, 2014
Fighting the Drought in California - Grey Water
{More organizing posts coming soon, but I want to share
with you about a project we are working on in our home}
Having lived in California my whole life, I've learned the words "water conservation" and "drought" many times here. It's something I remember my parents talking to us kids about when I grew up in Northern California. I remember that we only flushed after going "number 2", otherwise, you just left it in there and flushed at the end of the day so we wouldn't waste water. We couldn't run the water while brushing our teeth. It didn't seem horrible - just being careful with water. Now I live in Southern California, where we have even less rain than Northern California, and a drier climate. This year, they are saying is the worst drought in recorded history in the state of California - which may not bother you, but guess what? You probably get a LOT of your food from California. So, our decision to "go native" and plant a drought tolerant front yard couldn't have come at a better time! But, we've recently discovered something else - grey water. Do you know what that is?
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Monday, September 22, 2014
Procrastination: Organization's Enemy
{This post written by Tiffany, my wonderful assistant}.
This week I am doing battle against one of my biggest foe's: procrastination. When I'm overwhelmed with all there is to do and behind on my work and when the house has become a stopping-off point and ceased to feel like home, then I know it's time to tackle this all-too-familiar enemy.
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