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Collagen Pineapple Mint Smoothie Recipe
I'll tell you this... I'm having the best time in Cabo with my family in friends! We've been swimming, golfing, sight-seeing and so much more! One thing that we've been basing our days around is our meals. Something that's been consistent for me every day is my collagen pineapple mint smoothie.
It's really easy to get caught up with eating poorly when you're taking a break from reality. I aways try to continue to eat as clean as possible with smoothies and supplements.
This recipe that I'm sharing with you is beyond refreshing and pretty nutritious. The pineapple contains high amounts of Vitamin C and manganese. Tropical fruits are also a great way to incorporate fiber and bromelain (an anti-inflammatory and anti-swelling agent).
The mint is not only in there for taste, but for health benefits. Mint is a calming and soothing herb to help with an upset stomach or indigestion.
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- 2 cups Fresh pineapple peeled, cored and cubed
- 6-7 leaves Mint chopped
- 1 Cup Ice
- 1/4 Cup Water add more if needed
- 2 Tbsp collagen peptides
- 1 lime (optional, to garnish)
Blend all ingredients together in the blender and serve
Slice limes and place on glass.
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Monday, February 16, 2009
A Pattern for Good Measure!
Measuring Spoons Bookmark
(c) Designed and written by Beansieleigh (TS)
February 15, 2009
A cute little teaspoon and tablespoon bookmark, for your favorite cookbook!... OR, if you are giving a cookbook for a special occasion, what a sweet accompaniment would this be?!
Skill Level: Beginner
Gauge: Not important
Finished size of teaspoon: Approx. 3 and 1/2" long.
Finished size of tablespoon: Approx. 4".
sc= single crochet
hdc=half double crochet
sl st= slit stitch
Materials needed: Small amounts of scrap acrylic yarn(s), Size G crochet hook,
3 (9x6mm) pony beads, a small (1/2") plastic ring, and a yarn needle for weaving in ends.
Starting with your teaspoon:
Ch 2.
Rnd 1: 6 sc in second chain from hook, sl st to first st to join the round.
Rnd 2-3: Ch 1, 2 sc in each st around, join.
For handle, ch 11. Hdc in second ch in hook and in each remaining chain, for a total of 10 hdc.
Fasten, but leave a tail of yarn long enough for weaving and sewing. Join last hdc with a sl st
to the nearest st in the last round of the spoon-part of your teaspoon, being careful of placement
so that handle will set straight. Weave yarn through handle so to now sew the other end onto your plastic ring. Now fasten off and weave in end. Proceed to tablespoon.
For your tablespoon:
With same color yarn, or another of your own preference, ch 2, and repeat Rnds 1 and 2 of your teaspoon.
Rnd 3: (2 sc in next st, sc in next st) around.
Rnd 4: Sc in each st around. (18 sc)
For handle, ch 12. Hdc in second ch in hook and in each remaining chain, for a total of 11 hdc.
Fasten, but leave a tail of yarn long enough for weaving and sewing. Join last hdc with a sl st
to the nearest st in the last round of the spoon-part of your teaspoon, being careful of placement so that handle will set straight. Weave yarn through handle, so to now sew the other end onto your plastic ring, just behind the teaspoon. Now fasten off and weave in end.
Finishing your bookmark:
Attach a new yarn, in color of your choice, to ring. Crochet a chain of any length,
perhaps 40 or 50, or depending upon the size of the cookbook you intend to use your bookmark with. Fasten at desired length, leaving a tail of yarn to now thread pony beads, and then to add a pompom, tassel, charm, or other embellishment.
(c) This pattern designed and written by Beansieleigh (TS), February 15, 2009
19 comments:
- studioodd said...
what a cute cookbookmark!!!
- February 16, 2009 at 12:33 PM
- nawlinsjanet said...
See, I told you that you had the makings of great designer! This bookmark proves it! Thanks for sharing. Love the blog!
- February 16, 2009 at 8:19 PM
- Beansieleigh said...
Janet!! I'm so glad you came to see!! Thank you for taking the time to stop by, and for your kind words!! I am having so much fun with this; and God willing, I look forward to sharing many more patterns with you and all my ATCT friends. ((Hugs))
- February 16, 2009 at 8:35 PM
- Beansieleigh said...
studioodd, Thank you for posting your comment! I am so happy to hear you like it!!
- February 16, 2009 at 8:37 PM
- yarn_lady said...
Thanks for the lovely idea and pattern!
- February 17, 2009 at 8:26 PM
- Beansieleigh said...
To Yarn Lady: Hello! I see we are BOTH new to the blogging scene! I will be sure to peek in on yours as often as I can! Have fun with it, and thank you for your kind words here!
- February 18, 2009 at 3:52 AM
- Sally said...
Oh this is an AWESOME bookmark!!!
Your blog is really coming along nicely!!
I'm linking some of your patterns in my forum HappyHooker A Crocheters Paradise on yuku. Hopefully you'll get more blog followers from it!! Thanks for the great patterns!!
- February 21, 2009 at 11:36 AM
- Beansieleigh said...
Ooooh... You are making me blush!! Thanks so much Sally!! Good to hear from you again, and I'm happy to hear you like the bookmark! It was a fun little idea!
- February 21, 2009 at 1:45 PM
- tisme said...
What a great idea! I want to make one for my sons girlfriend. She is a dietician working on her masters in nutrition. She will love it!
Thanks so much for the pattern.
- March 9, 2009 at 1:42 PM
- Beansieleigh said...
Tammy, I'm so happy to hear this!! I do hope she likes it! Thank you!!
- March 9, 2009 at 3:02 PM
Love your site. I went to another link from your and put your's and it on my favorites. Didn't know there was site on here like this. Thank you.
- March 24, 2010 at 6:45 AM
- Jane said...
I absolutly love your blog. I have bookmarked it. What a great job you have done. Thank you for sharing the spoon bookmarks pattern. I will give them a try! I will be back.
- March 24, 2010 at 6:50 AM
i belong to a weight watchers group.I have lost about 102 pounds in almost 2 years.We focus on measuring and servings.I was so glad to see your pattern.Will make a few and give to the girls at meeting.
thank you again
- March 24, 2010 at 1:33 PM
- Carol N said...
This is a fabulous, easy pattern to make to give with a cookbook gift. TFS
- May 4, 2011 at 5:10 AM
- Bring The Needle Down. said...
I love it! I just made it. I posted a link to the pattern on your blog! I posted a photo of the finished work among other projects!
- May 9, 2015 at 5:48 PM
- Caren Franco said...
i found your pattern via Ravelry when i was looking for a spoon pattern. a friend of mine is a "spoonie" (someone with chronic illness that uses "spoons" as units of measuring her energy, first attributed here - http://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/), and i told her that if i could, i'd share some of my spoons with her. and now that i found a spoon pattern, i'll be making her some spoons for her birthday next month. thank you for a great little pattern!
- June 17, 2015 at 10:28 AM
- Carrisa Klasen said...
I love this pattern! I was searching for a spoon pattern for a spoon swap for my ra group and came upon this!thank you!
- September 23, 2015 at 1:14 PM
- Carrisa Klasen said...
I looked up this pattern for the same reason! I looked it up for my ra group :)
- September 23, 2015 at 1:16 PM
- Carrisa Klasen said...
I love this pattern! I was searching for a spoon pattern for a spoon swap for my ra group and came upon this!thank you!
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The filming is a search for correct contours, and is activated by a physical sense that is similar to trying to find a location that has been seen only once. Memory searches for the right direction. Drawing together details and hints, this sense is nearest to touch in its awareness of proportion. It is this quality in the filming that I compare to the roots of a plant."
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Western Carolina heads into this matchup after finishing last year with a mark of 9-22. They had a point differential of -11.9 as they averaged 61.4 points per contest while giving up 73.3 per game. Clemson had an overall mark of 16-14 last year. They averaged 75.0 points per contest and gave up 71.5, which was a point differential of 3.5.
Valuable Western Carolina Catamounts Betting Trends
The Western Carolina Catamounts were 10-16 against the spread last season
The Western Carolina Catamounts were 12-13 against the over/under last year
Important Clemson Tigers Betting Trends
The Clemson Tigers were 14-15 against the spread last season
The Clemson Tigers were 16-11 against the over/under last year
Key Western Carolina Catamounts Injuries
12/31/16 G Deriece Parks Knee out for season
Key Clemson Tigers Injuries
No key injuries to report
Player Spotlight
Haboubacar Mutombo averaged 11.7 points per game while playing 32.3 minutes per night last season. He pulled down 5.3 rebounds per game and dished out 2.2 assists per game as well. His field goal percentage was 50% while his free throw percentage finished at 48%. Devin Peterson averaged 10.5 points per game in 31.2 minutes per contest last season. He averaged 3.6 assists per contest and 2.5 rebounds per game. His field goal percentage was 35% for the year while his free throw percentage was 76%.
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Jaron Blossomgame averaged 17.7 points per game while playing 34.3 minutes per contest last year. He grabbed 6.3 rebounds per game and had 1.5 assists per contest on the year. His field goal percentage was 50% and his free throw percentage was at 71%. Shelton Mitchell averaged 10.8 points per game last season and he saw the court an average of 27 minutes per contest. He also averaged 2.3 rebounds per contest and 3.6 assists per game. His field goal percentage was 46% and his free throw percentage was 80%.
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Western Carolina averaged 61.4 points per contest last season, which ranked them 347th in the nation. Their average scoring margin was -11.9 and their shooting percentage was 39% as a team, which had them ranked 345th. Behind the arc they shot 31% which was good for 334th in the country. They averaged 36.2 rebounds per game and 11.3 assists per game, which ranked them 152nd and 305th in those offensive categories. In the turnover department they ranked 7th with 16.1 per game. The Catamounts allowed 73.3 points per game to their opponents which ranked them 217th in Division 1. They also allowed a 45% shooting percentage and a 36% average from behind the arc, ranking them 217th and 214th in those defensive categories. Opponents averaged 35.5 rebounds a game which ranked 201st and they gave up 14.3 assists per contest, which put them in 266th place in college basketball. They forced 13.5 turnovers per game which ranked them 207th in the nation.
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Clemson was 133rd in the country with 75.0 points per game last year. They were 135th in D-1 in shooting at 45%, while their average scoring margin was 3.5. They shot 36% from 3-point range, which was good for 140th in college basketball. They were 266th in the nation in rebounding with 34.1 boards per game, and 246th in assists per contest with 12.4. The Tigers were 331st in turnovers per game with 10.8. The Tigers surrendered 71.5 points per contest, which ranked them 158th in the country. Their defense allowed a 45% shooting percentage and a 36% average from 3-point range, ranking them 255th and 225th in those defensive statistics. They ranked 153rd with 12.9 assists allowed per contest and 152nd with 34.8 rebounds surrendered per game. The Tigers were 216th in Division 1 in forcing turnovers with 13.6 per game last season.
Advanced Statistics
The Catamounts were 246th in the country in defensive rating last season with 105.6, and their offensive rating of 88.4 was ranked 350th. They were 195th in college basketball in pace with 69.5 possessions per 40 minutes, and their eFG% of 44% was 345th. As a unit they were 349th in the nation in true shooting percentage with 47% and they shot 3-pointers on 32% of their shot attempts, ranking 279th in D-1. Western Carolina was 7th in turnovers, as they turned the ball over an average of 19.9 times per 100 possessions while forcing 17.2 on defense. Their defensive eFG% for the year was 52%, which was 240th in the country.
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Clemson was 327th in college basketball in turnovers, as they turned the ball over an average of 13.8 times per 100 possessions while forcing 17.4 on the defensive end. Their defensive effective field goal percentage for the season was 52%, which was 251st in the nation. The Tigers were 56th in the country in offensive rating with 110.4, and their defensive rating of 105.2 was ranked 235th. In terms of pace they were 268th in Division 1 with 67.6 possessions per 40 minutes, and their effective field goal percentage of 51% was 148th. As a team they were 138th in D-1 in true shooting percentage with 55% and they shot 3-pointers on 35% of their shots, ranking 224th in the nation.
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When the load on the generator becomes unbalanced, negative phase sequence currents flows. The negative sequence components produce a rotating magnetic field which rotates at synchronous speed in a direction opposite to the direction of rotor field. Hence effectively the relative speed between the two is double the synchronous speed. Thus double frequency currents are induced in the rotor. These currents cause sever heating of the rotor and can cause damage to the rotor. The unbalanced stator currents also cause sever vibration and heating of stator. Hence it is necessary to provide the negative sequence protection to the generators against the unbalanced load condition.
The negative phase sequence filter alongwith the overcurrent relay provides the necessary protection against the unbalanced loads.
The relative asymmetry of a three phase generator is given by the ratio of negative sequence current to the rated current. Mathematically it can be expressed as,
% S = (In/I) x 100
Where %S = Percentage asymmetry
In = Negative sequence current
I = Rated current
The negative sequence protection scheme is shown in the Fig. 1.
|Fig. 1 Negative sequence protection
A negative phase sequence filter is connected to the secondaries of the current transformers. A negative phase sequence filter consists of resistors and inductors. These are so arranged that under normal operating conditions, the relay is inoperative. The filter circuit is stable for the symmetrical overloads up to about three times the rated full load.
When unbalanced load occurs, the negative phase sequence filter circuit produces an output proportional to the negative phase sequence components. This is directed through the relay coil. Hence the relay operates to open the circuit breaker to isolate the generator.
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The New York Jets, needing to sweep its final three games to have any chance at the playoffs, travel to Tennessee tonight in what may be the least appealing matchup in Monday Night Football history. Both teams are decimated by injuries: the Titans with their offensive line and the Jets are hurting at the skill positions.
Tennessee has lost three in a row, including a tough loss on the road in Indianapolis last weekend. New York, in contrast, has won four of its last five to give itself a long-shot chance at making the playoffs. Ignore the fact the last two wins have come against laughingstocks Arizona and Jacksonville; a win is a win is a win in the NFL. Style points don't matter.
The game opened with Tennessee as 2.5 favorites. Early money came in on the Titans, pushing the line up to -3 at one point in the week. Jets money dropped that line down to two where it has since settled. The total is 42, with the weather expected to be a comfortable 55 degrees at kickoff.
Both New York and Tennessee enter the game with struggling offenses, especially at quarterback. Mark Sanchez has thrown 15 interceptions and lost nine fumbles for the Jets, while Jake Locker has been picked off nine times and lost five fumbles. Both teams will try to run the ball. Chris Johnson remains the Titans main weapon, but he is a shadow of his old self this season. Johnson has run for 100 yards or more just four times this year. He'll be facing a Jets defense that has allowed 136 yards per game this year, good for 29th in the NFL.
The Titans haven't been much better, allowing 127 rushing ypg, 24th in the league. Shonn Green and Bilal Powell will be the primary ball carriers for New York; the duo combined for 155 yards rushing last week in Jacksonville.
Expect a dull, low-scoring game tonight. The Jets threw the ball just 19 times last week against the 31st ranked defense last week; a similar game plan is most likely tonight. Tennessee should follow the same routine, content to let Chris Johnson carry the load.
Neither team deserves a bettor's money. A gambler needs a rooting interest, however, especially in a dog game like this. Pick of the Day: Under 42.


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How amazing is it that Jesus is for me? For us?
I think that the most exciting thing, for me, as of now, at least, about building up some sort of consistency in plugging into the word of God, and taking advantage of the relationship that Jesus offers me, is that I no longer feel obliged to care for and love others, but I desire it. I get stoked about being able to start the day and just be with people and love them and cherish those blessings. I am becoming ever more thankful for the people I have around me, for those that I'm close to and for those that I've yet to meet. And I know that my relationship with God and others is not about feeling and butterflies, but it's just so exciting when it does feel that way. And it does. And it's noticeable to me. And it's AWESOME.
More of the dates have been coming through on the July tour that I'm doing with In the Midst of Lions (www.myspace.com/inthemidstoflions) and All Or Nothing (www.myspace.com/aonmetal). There's a chance that I'll be doing some dates with a band called Syrens (www.myspace.com/syrenstx) in August, as well. I'm still just trying to figure it all out. Prayer request, though - there's a chance that I'm going to need to get to Denver in order to meet the band because they won't be able to come this far south to pick me up anymore. That wouldn't be a problem except that Veil Arms has a huge show the night before, and that's really my last chance to make any money before the run, and that makes getting to Denver really complicated. So, if you would, please pray with me that the planning with run - at least - relatively smoothly.
I'm also in the process of selling my car. (Honda Accord - if anyone wants something cheap to drive with mewithoutYou lyrics all over it. I'm trying to get $400 out of it, but will probably settle for less.) A friend of mine has an old 80s Suzuki GS 750 cc for sale that he said is in good condition that he's selling for around the same price as I'm trying to get for my car, and said he'd help me get it top-notch so I don't die. So that's kind of what I'm thinking at the moment. Who knows. I'm the most indecisive person in the world. I can't even decide what kind of candy I want at the gas station.
Can't really think of anything else to write. Thanks for loving me. If any of you have any prayer requests for me, I would love to keep them in mind. Just a thought. Message me if you don't want them all over the internet for everyone to see. I would be honored to pray for you. God knows I need it, too.
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Two new corporate responsibility guides from the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility have been released. Entitled "the Governance of Corporate Responsibility" and "Communicating Corporate Responsibility effectively", both are now available to download free from the Doughty Centre Website.
How to 'do' corporate responsibility: the Governance of Corporate Responsibility
The fourth in the series of 'How to do Corporate Responsibility' guides from the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility is now available. The latest guide entitled; The Governance of Corporate Responsibility assesses and then advises organizations on successful tactics for ensuring a robust approach to governing its corporate responsibilities.
Commenting on the guide, Director of the Doughty Centre, Professor David Grayson said: "In the wake of the financial crisis it is even more critical that boards and management assess their approach to their governance of responsibility. The traditional approach needs to make room for an integrity and corporate responsibility leadership approach."
"Attempting to integrate CR and sustainability issues within the governance framework of an organization can be inherent with pitfalls. However, governing effectively and responsibly is critical for ensuring long term business viability. We have researched best practice and reviewed the management literature to compile a set of critical success factors for achieving successful CR governance as well as typical barriers and how to avoid them."
Author of the guide, Dr Heiko Spitzeck, also highlights the importance of the tone from the top – from both CR committees and also the Board in their roles and responsibilities. "The board has a responsibility for strategic planning and communicating, especially in relation to appropriate moral and ethical standards for how the company conducts its business. Board members also need to ensure their company complies with the spirit, and not just the letter, of the law."
"Corporate responsibility governance in this context is not a 'one size fits all' approach, but we hope our advice and recommendations will help as a health check of your governance arrangements."
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As of 01 April, the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility is please to confirm that a guide written in collaboration with Ogilvy PR Worldwide on Communicating Corporate Responsibility is now available for free viewing.
Corporate responsibility has often been described as a journey with challenges and opportunities along the way. Inspiring trust and engendering goodwill with stakeholders as you travel on this journey is essential for success. The strategic value of communicating corporate responsibility should not be underestimated – likewise, if communication is done wrong the opportunities can be eroded and further risks created.
Natalie Sarkic-Todd, editor and contributing author of the guide, notes that: "The paradigm shift that we have seen in attitudes to business, and their responsibility to contribute to a sustainable society, is unprecedented. What better time to take a look at how companies can communicate their corporate responsibility?"
Professor David Grayson concurs: "Effective communications are essential for engaging stakeholders, which in turn will be critical for restoring trust in business so that we can work together to create the low carbon economy critical for the future of our planet and our children."
This guide provides the 'golden rules' to empower communication and corporate responsibility experts, as well as delving into further detail on the use of language, the critical link with corporate values, engaging with digital communications, and thinking beyond Copenhagen. The fluid book version also provides case studies that the reader can view to see real examples from across the globe of how the recommendations have worked in practice.
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Week 5: 140.1 lbs, lost 1.7 from last week.
Watch it all or watch a little...
OK, I'd shit my pants if I were that lady. WHY WHY WHY...do we still insist that if there is no pain there is no gain. Somehow, I'm convincing myself that I can do Jillian Michael's 30 day shred. Am I really this desperate to lose weight? Yes, I'M READY TO CHANGE!
On a side note, I started this workout last week at 141.8 and am 140.1 now...let's see just how much will actually be SHREDDED!
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I know, I know, what happened to Day 2? Well, between busy sessions, picking up the kids, and teaching my night class at Brevard Community College, blogging fell to the way side. For my three avid fans, I sincerely apologize, but by now you are used to it :)
So Day 2 of the workshop, in all honesty was a bit of a fire fighting exercise. Since we are working with the very latest code for the platform (and I mean VERY latest), we ran into a couple of problems during the Subscriptions session that prevented us from seeing the results of the subscribed bursting examples that we set up. But the content was good and subscriptions in the stable builds is very very powerful. We have the ability with the platform to relieve the administration and information overload that occurs with the typical scheduled reporting process. Subscriptions also prove to be flexible and easy to use, which makes it a nice tool for consumers of Pentaho reports, analysis, ETL and processes.
The Day 2 afternoon session was all about advanced deployments of the platform, as well as customizing deployments for each user's environment. Brian Hagan walked through the complex details of manually deploying web application through JBoss and Tomcat, focusing on the touch points that are required when you have your own app server installation already in place. Overall a good session that could be helpful to anyone that struggles with J2EE deployments today.
Day 3 started out with Bill Seyler, a stellar Pentaho engineer, presenting the life cycle management features within Pentaho. For anyone who is not familiar with the term and what it means in Pentaho, life cycle management is versioning solution content for the platform. Bill covered the architecture of how Pentaho interacts with version control systems, which seems to be a very clean and simple implementation. The beauty of life cycle management in Pentaho is that due its simple interface, any version control system can be used, as well as using multiple systems for one Pentaho deployment.
Next up was Anthony DeShazor, our engineering wrangler, talking about scalability and clustering. Much of this session covered the general topology and infrastructure issues that prevent almost any application from scaling. The point I took away is we can control what the Pentaho application does, but how you get at your data and how you deliver it out to consumers can bottleneck any good app. It was great to participate in tis discussion, since many in the room are experienced in the field and had much to contribute. Anthony then took us through the JBoss Clustering presentation that James Dixon presented at JBossWorld late last year. It was a simple architectural discussion covering JBoss Clustering, ending with some pretty impressive benchmarks that proved Pentaho's ability to scale. The most interesting news that came out at the end of this session is that Pentaho has started to build a BI benchmarking bundle, based on the Transaction Processing Performance Counsel processes, and plans to release it to the open source community for benchmark responses. Feel free to email James (firstname.lastname@example.com and it will get forwarded) if you are interested in participating in that effort!
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I could not be prouder of our SAASTA team and we finished second over all - a score based on sports, grades, attendance and behaviour. Well done!Some of the many highlights:
- Kayla was recognised as a nominee for SAASTA Student of the year as well as SAASTA academic of the year
- All students completed their Senior First Aid.
- We participated in a beach volleyball carnival, netball carnival, surf life saving and went bowling. Phew!
- We saw Anthony Mundine and had a performance by the rapper Capper. Brilliant!
Our Year 3, 4 and 5 students enjoyed a morning of friendly rivalry last Friday playing in the annual Diamond Cricket competition against students from Ardrossan Area School. The oval was in pristine condition and the parents and friends who gathered to cheer on our four teams were treated to some great sporting behaviour and skill. Each of the four teams played four 20 minute games of cricket. Diamond Cricket is fast moving and requires excellent team cooperation and maximises the participation of all competitors. It was with bated breath that the final tally was counted, as after round 3 the scores were tied. In the final round both schools won 2 games each and so the result was a Draw. This seemed fitting as both schools played like winners!
On the 16th of May "The Screaming Eagles" went to Adelaide for the Aboriginal Power Cup. The team is a combined team and has students from four different schools that meet up at Maitland Area School every Tuesday. The team consist of Kirsty Weetra, Kiara Miller, Kiyanne Sansbury, Lynette Wilson, April Wilson and Nicole Walker from Maitland. Willis Daveson, Teekah Chantrill, Tianna Sansbury and myself (Kayla Masters) from Moonta. Stacey Pratt and Sam Power from Ardrossan and Mikey Aplin from Kadina.
In P.E with Miss Koch we have been learning how to play European handball.
It's a cross between netball, basketball and soccer.
We have learnt the rules of what to do and what not to do.
During last term Georgie, Bethany, Ezra and I all tried out for the SAPSASA netball team.
We went to three trials to impress Lucy Tilbrook (The Coach) she had three others to help her pick her 2 teams.
Georgie, Bethany, Ezra and I all made the team.
So in week 5 of this term we get to play in a carnival in Adelaide for the whole week with 20 other girls from SYP!
On Friday May 4th our Cross Country team of 40 students travelled to Kadina to participate in the annual Yorke Peninsula Primary event.
Students from Years 3 - 7 were fortunate to participate in a Hockey Clinic on Wednesday April 4th . Dale from Hockey SA conducted the "Hockey2Hockey" clinic, which is a fresh and fun way of introducing students to this sport.The students had a great time and displayed some excellent coordination skills. The sessions were held on our turf area which was perfect for the exercises undertaken. We would like to thank Melissa Moloney, Megan Falco and Julia Poole for their organisation and support of the programme. Maitland Hockey funded this clinic and we are grateful for their positive promotion of the game and encouragement of team work and healthy lifestyle choices.
Our school based Cross Country was run here last Friday.
The students did a mighty job with course lengths varying from 1000 metres for the 5, 6 & 7 year olds to 3000 metres for the 12 year olds and over. First, second and third place getters for both boys and girls received ribbons with all students who participated receiving a certificate of achievement.Miss Koch and I are in the process of choosing the school team to represent us at the YP Cross Country event which will be held in Kadina on Friday May 4th. Selection will be based on our school Cross Country results as well as long runs in PE lessons. In line with our Sports policy behaviour at school and attendance will also be taken into consideration. Letters of offer to participate will go out on the first day back next term.


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Cultural Resources Inventory Report on Four Proposed Well Pads (Federal #1-13, #1-19, #1-25, #1-30) & Access Roads for Rio Blanco Natural Gas
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Gene Roberts and Alabamian Hank Klibanoff have won the Pulitzer Prize for "The Race Beat," so it is not very risky for me to say it is terrific. But it really is.
This is not another general history of the civil rights movement but rather a focussed study of the role played by reporters, newspaper editors, radio reporters, still photographers, and, finally and most importantly, television reporters and their crews: cameramen and sound technicians.
Roberts and Klibanoff begin their history with a discussion of a man and a book now little known.
In 1944, the Swedish social scientist Gunnar Myrdal and his associates published "An American Dilemma," a study of race and racism in America.
Among its conclusions was that only when the rest of America became aware of the racial oppression in the South - Jim Crow, abject poverty, violence, humiliation of minorities - would a civil rights movement have any real chance of success. Before national media coverage, the rest of America was simply ignorant of the "gothic region where pervasive inhumanity had become a perverse condition and custom."
And even when informed, the rest of the nation needed to be moved, emotionally, before private citizens and legislators would be energized to act.
At first, the media situation favored the segregationists. Only the black reporters, writing for the black press, covered the race beat.
But then, slowly at first, with the horrific murder of Emmett Till in Money, Miss., and then the Montgomery bus boycott, the national white press began to arrive in significant numbers.
What they saw was shocking to them, even though most of these reporters were of necessity Southerners. (With their Southern accents, they could communicate with the locals.)
It didn't take long, however, for all the national press to become personae non grata, and in a big and violent way.
At the Ole Miss riots, half the federal marshals were wounded and the press was mostly holed up in the Lyceum Building. In the morning, a French reporter's body was found in the bushes, shot execution style.
In Anniston, Birmingham, Philadelphia, Miss., and Little Rock, Ark., where daily television coverage was born, to be a reporter was to be in combat. Toughs would rough up reporters, beat them with fists and pipes and clubs.
Reporters, nearly all white since black reporters would have been murdered, hid their notebooks, moved in groups, lived together and watched out for one another.
Most vulnerable and most courageous of all were the photographers, both still photographers and video cameramen.
The sight of cameras was infuriating to the segregationist mob, who often destroyed the equipment and beat the newsmen.
Among the bravest of the cameramen was Charles Moore, an Alabamian whose pictures, taken in the tear gas of Ole Miss and at Kelly Ingram Park, close up, with a short lens, during the days of dogs and hoses, appeared all over America, in the daily papers and the weekly magazines, but not in The Birmingham News, to its everlasting shame. (The Montgomery Advertiser is described thusly: "put out by a mismatched collection of hard-drinking has-beens and inexperienced wannabes.")
Roberts and Klibanoff pull no punches, but they heap praise on reporters such as Claude Sitton and editors like Ralph McGill, Harry Ashmore, Hazel Brannon Smith and Tuscaloosa's own Buford Boone, who won a Pulitzer Prize for The Tuscaloosa News.
The still photographs and especially the television coverage in Birmingham can be at least partly credited with the passage of the Civil Rights Act, and the footage of Bloody Sunday in Selma can be credited with the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
Some southern segregationists understood the media and their message. The Movement in Albany, Ga., failed because a canny segregationist sheriff, Laurie Pritchett, forbid his men to hurt anyone. Bull Connor of Birmingham and James Clark of Selma were less sophisticated, shall we say, and, while the world watched, their actions helped speed the civil rights movement toward its goals.
This review was originally broadcast on Alabama Public Radio. Don Noble is professor emeritus of English at the University of Alabama and host of the Alabama Public Television literary interview show Bookmark.
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Savvy fleet professionals are aware that telematics is enabling the future of transportation; Forbes affirms that fact and predicts it will also "fundamentally change communities, business and the environment." However, if your current fleet management system isn't changing your company for the better, it may be time to consider making a switch.
Start researching your options now if you're experiencing any of the following:
#1 Limited scalability
A telematics solution should not only help you address current problems but should also scale as your business grows and innovations come to market. Fleets of every size can benefit from telematics, often implementing features incrementally, and a wide menu of options is critical for you to remain competitive in today's evolving economy. You need to be able to prioritize and budget for each stage with confidence that your fleet's needs will be met and that you will have access to emerging technologies as they become available.
#2 Lack of integration
The right system will integrate with your existing software and third-party solutions seamlessly.
Without integration, you will not be efficient or competitive. Increased efficiency is a hallmark of a quality fleet tracking program, and you shouldn't be settling for anything less when it comes to syncing all aspects of daily operations.
#3 Poor customer service
Because of the sophistication and complexity of today's telematics solutions, occasional technical issues should be expected. When this happens you'll need to rely on your provider's help and support—without it, you won't be productive and, more importantly, profitable.
Beware of these red flags of poor customer service:
1. Lack of up-front training and ongoing support
2. No assistance with implementation
3. Additional cost for customer support
4. Support hours limited to Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. (with no accounting for differences in time zones)
5. Lack of response to calls and e-mails
6. When customer service is reachable, they aren't knowledgeable or helpful
The Right Choice
Choosing a new fleet tracking solution may be the next step you need to take to grow your fleet into a digitally mature and competitive operation. The right solution should help you increase efficiency and productivity while reducing costs – offering you actionable insights to improve the company's bottom line.
According to Automotive Fleet's forecast of future fleet management trends, "Telematics continues to dominate the current fleet space and is only expected to grow more in the ensuing years." The up-front cost of switching to a proven system will be worth it in the long run, equipping you to compete successfully in a digital era where the right technology makes all the difference.
If you have experienced consequences of partnering with the wrong provider, consider these factors when making your next choice:
1) Reputation: Partner with a company who has a proven track record of success and who is more likely to be around for the long-term to meet the growing needs of your fleet. Talk to current customers to make sure they are happy with the scalability, integration and customer service of their provider.
2) Resources: Choose a provider who has the ability to offer the best coverage and solutions and who can afford to keep up with rapidly evolving technology and regulations.
3) ROI: The right match may cost more up front, but reliability in products, training, customer service, and innovation will pay off in the long run. For the best return on investment (ROI), invest in a comprehensive tracking solution to address all the challenges of managing a fleet in today's tech-savvy, competitive marketplace.
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This article by Julie Warren originally appeared in Lexington Herald Leader on January 12th, 2018.
Gov. Matt Bevin's Justice Reinvestment Work Group announced last month that, without reform, the state's prison population is expected to grow by 19 percent, adding more than $600 million to the corrections budget over the next 10 years.
Given this heavy price tag, and a recidivism rate of a little more than 41 percent, the time is now to make changes to the state's criminal-justice system that will safely reduce growth in the prison population and improve public safety.
Over the last few years, Kentucky has undertaken thorough evaluations of both its juvenile and adult criminal justice systems and has taken critical steps toward a better justice system. However, the commonwealth cannot rest on its laurels.
Bevin has acknowledged that there remains "plenty of room for improvement," aptly noting the "rising prison population, severely depleted workforce participation rates, and the highest percentage in the nation of children with at least one incarcerated parent." These reasons prompted him to convene the work group to study Kentucky's growing prison population and to develop data-driven recommendations to protect public safety, hold offenders accountable, reduce corrections populations, and safely reintegrate offenders back into productive roles in society.
The work group found that Kentucky is spending significant resources on low-level, nonviolent offenders and incarceration remains the primary sanction for this group. Kentucky incurred a 32 percent increase in prison admissions in just five years, overwhelmingly driven by increases in Class D felony admissions, Kentucky's lowest felony class. In fact, admissions for one Class D offense, drug possession, increased a whopping 102 percent.
Also telling, 65 percent of new felony admissions in 2016 are serving sentences for nonviolent drug or property crimes, nearly half of which have no prior felony convictions. Recent figures show that four of every 10 offenders released from prison will return to custody within two years.
Moreover, Kentucky had the fifth-highest imprisonment rate for women in 2015, and will likely continue to climb the ranks. Recent trends show female prison admissions have grown 54 percent in the last five years. Perhaps more staggering, the number of women incarcerated for drug possession has grown 140 percent over the last five years.
Overall, the data reveal that the commonwealth's over-reliance on incarceration has failed to generate any societal benefits on behalf of the Kentuckians it was created to serve.
On Dec. 18, the work group issued 22 recommendations that, if enacted, will reduce the projected growth in the prison population by 79 percent in the next 10 years, saving nearly $340 million in corrections costs.
Among the recommendations are adjustments to pretrial, sentencing and supervision practices. These include broadening eligibility for the Administrative Release Program to allow defendants accused of nonviolent, non-sex Class D felonies to be released pending trial, as well as restricting the use of monetary bail to certain high-risk defendants.
To address the dramatic doubling in simple drug possession cases, the work group recommends that the first and second offense for drug possession be reclassified from a Class D felony to a Class A misdemeanor.
This change is consistent with neighboring states Tennessee and West Virginia. In order to reduce the number of parolees and probationers returning to prison, and to standardize responses to violations of their supervision, the work group recommends expanding the use of graduated sanctions. Graduated sanctions, which may include enhanced monitoring or referral to a treatment program, have proven more effective than revocation and imprisonment in reducing violations when applied in a swift, certain and proportional fashion.
The work group's 22 recommendations should be viewed as an opportunity for Kentucky to recalibrate its focus away from punitive incapacitation for nonviolent offenders, and instead focus on effective sanctions that rehabilitate offenders, restore communities and families, and promote public safety.
It's time to reinvest in treatment and programming that provide the greatest returns instead of continuing to pour money into a broken and ineffective system of incarceration.
JULIE WARREN is a graduate of Marshall University and of Regent University School of Law. She also attended Georgetown Law Center as a visiting student. While in law school, she clerked on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Julie served four years at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. After a few years in private practice as a civil defense litigator, Julie returned to public service and began her work in the Office of the West Virginia Attorney General where she primarily served as an appellate advocate for the State of West Virginia and as legislative counsel to the Attorney General.


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"That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh." Genesis 2:24
When man was first placed on this earth, he was alone. To solve this problem, God performed an amazing miracle. God took from the side of the man, a rib, and from that rib, God made a woman; from one He made two.
After this supernatural development in creating man and women, God started the process of His next great miracle. This miracle was in turning two back into one! First, one becoming two. Now, two becoming one. Both require a miracle!
Two becoming one is called marriage. It's not sex. Yes, sex is one aspect of two becoming one, but it's only one part. The two becoming one involves taking two completely separate people, each with their own personalities, dreams and selfish traits and molding them into one home, one family, one unit more powerful than if the two stayed apart.
But to accomplish this amazing act, it requires a miracle. The miracle part is Christ.
Culture will not make two into one. Our culture today doesn't even remember what marriage is supposed to be. Culture has even declared homosexual relationships as acceptable for marriage.
Common interests will not make two into one. Two people who enjoy the same music and the same restaurants will never experience the miracle of oneness. What happens when the music style changes and the restaurant closes down? Will the marriage also end?
Christ will make two into one! Just like Christ made one into two. So Christ only has the power to make two back into one!
So today, put Christ first in your life and in your home. Then you will experience what the Scripture says, "The two shall become one!"
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BOCA RATON. At its annual User Conference here this week, PeopleNet announced a new partnership with PAR Logistics Management Systems Corp., a subsidiary of PAR Technology Corp. (PAR LMS). Both companies expect the full integration of PeopleNet's onboard computing capabilities with PAR's complete suite of trailer management technology to provide new levels of actionable information to fleets about their trucks and trailers, drivers and cargo.
"Partnerships with leaders in complimentary technologies help us provide our customers with an increasingly comprehensive array of tools they need for maximizing productivity and driving bottom-line improvements across their businesses," said PeopleNet COO Brian McLaughlin.
PAR brings communication technologies to provide the managers of refrigerated (or other) fleets with information about their assets along the entire supply chain, from temperature monitoring, to cargo security, chain of custody, remote management and more. The tool set already includes PeopleNet's own electronic onboard recording, vehicle and driver performance management, automated driver workflow and electronic driver hours of service logs.
"We represent everything that is untethered," John Sammon III, president of PAR LMS, told Fleet Owner. "There are lots of issues we can address. PeopleNet users will tell us what they want to be able to do first, whether it is cargo protection, addressing mismanagement of trailer assets, monitoring and management of cargo temperature, cold chain of command custody, or something else.
"We have a two-way communications system," Sammon said, "so we can watch an untethered refrigerated trailer sitting in a yard, for instance, and reset the system remotely if necessary using two-way command and control. People like to schedule reefer deliveries ahead. We can remotely bring empty trailers down to temperature, as required, so they are ready-to-load without wasting fuel by chilling them too early."
PAR can also deploy its technology to help fleets meet California Air Resources Board (CARB) requirements for engine-off operation of refrigerated trailers, Sammon noted, providing the required documentation of how much fuel was consumed when at a particular location.
"Trailer tire pressure monitoring also seems inevitable," he added. "It has become a pretty big issue. We've been asked to incorporate security alerts on tires before it is a problem. In other words, the information must be actionable to be useful. The many new safety initiatives like CSA2010 also represent huge challenges and huge opportunities."
All these capabilities can give carriers a competitive advantage, according to Sammon. "Lots of shipper demands are being forced back down through the supply chain to carriers," he said. "McDonald's, for instance, has a cold chain requirement for monitoring every fifteen minutes. Their auditors come in and look at the PAR data to confirm compliance. If you can already provide that visibility and documentation, you have an advantage over another fleet that has to deploy the technology and become proficient with it in order to meet shipper requirements.
"The new relationship with PeopleNet is very synergistic," he observed. "It is a true integration."
Sammon sees enormous potential for the long-term as well as the more immediate future. "Vendors [like PeopleNet and PAR] are increasingly becoming not only suppliers to their customers, but analysts and consultants," he noted.


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It's Grilling Season!
I am so excited that the season has finally come to clean off the grill, stop using the oven and get outside! I am serious about grilling, so much so that I have a built in grill (I've been known to grill with snow on the ground). It's healthy, fast, yummy and seriously cuts down on clean up.
So, this recipe has been kicked around in my family since we were kids. My twin, Sharma, and I have done some serious tinkering with it and we feel we have reached perfection. It's Sesame Seed Chicken, and you're going to love it!
Sesame Seed Chicken
The Recipe...
4-6 Boneless skinless chicken breasts or your choice of fish
1/2 cup honey, heated
1/2 cup soy sauce
2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
1 teaspoon sesame seed oil
1 finger ginger, pealed and sliced
1 garlic clove, minced
3-4 healthy shakes from your sesame seed shaker
The technique...
First things first, put your chicken breasts in a large bag and add all of the ingredients. I love to marinate in a bag, it's clean and easy. I actually put the breasts in frozen, added all the ingredients and then let the chicken defrost in the marinade. Let marinate 8 hours or over night. If you're doing fish only marinate 30 minutes.
When you're ready to cook don't dump your marinade down the sink! Pour it into a sauce pan and bring to a simmer while you cook the chicken. You don't need to add anything, just cook it and it's fantastic as a sauce.
Now for the awesome part, the grilling. You are about to be let in on the grilling chicken secret to perfect breasts (hee hee). I'm pretty sure this technique came from Food Network, but I don't know by who. Preheat your grill to high then scrape and clean it off. Turn the heat to medium and give it a few minutes to adjust. Place your breasts on all going the same direction then set the timer for 2 minutes. I cut my breasts in half because they were huge, so they look more like giant chicken tenders. The hot grill will give you a nice seared line, and at the end of the two minutes do you flip it? NO!
You turn the breasts 1/4 of a turn and keep grilling them on the same side another 2 minutes. When you flip it, they will look like this...
So pretty! Now you're going to do the same thing on the other side. 2 minutes, turn a 1/4 of a turn and cook another 2 minutes. Now check the internal temp of the chicken. You want it to be 180 degrees. I usually have to cook an additional 2-4 minutes to reach that temp. When they're done, pull them off and tent with foil until you're ready to serve. Now, let's go back to the sauce...
Once it's had a chance to simmer you can either just spoon it over the chicken and rice and/or I sliced yellow squash, brushed it on top and then broiled it. It is a very delicious and sweet taste for veggies.
Grilled Chicken
I actually served mine over wheat bulgur. with the squash and a pasta salad. This will not be the last time I make this recipe this season. ENJOY!
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It's 1st December and I'm feeling all reflective about the past year.
It's seriously disappeared in the blink of an eye. I think part of me still thinks its February. Business wise SunSide Studio has gone from strength to strength, and rather embarrassingly as a result I still have no real website to show you. I cannot complain, I've been booked up all year without needing to promote the studio at all (thank you to all my wonderful clients and friends that have spread the word and kept me oh so busy!). The full website will be designed and built in 2016. There, I've said it, now it has to happen. Check back December 1 next year to see it in all its glory!
Now, because I still think its February, I haven't actually started my Christmas shopping yet. Tie that up with me flying out to New Zealand for a month on Christmas Eve and I am seriously unorganised this year. So, as a way to give myself a kick up the butt and also remind myself of some of the amazing, talented, creative people I've worked with or bought from in the past 12 months, I thought I'd do a Christmas gift guide advent calendar.
It starts today - yes, thats usually how advent calendars work, starting 1st December!
First up, last month (or was it October!?) I worked with the uber talented potter, Jon Curtis, on his new website www.joncurtisceramics.co.uk
Jon's stonewares are ridiculously beautiful with his signature celadon and copper reduction. Some pieces even include pieces of sea glass for an extra touch of natural beauty and shine. I chose the line 'Bringing beauty to everyday life' for Jon's site, as that is his aim. His work is completely functional and affordable to ensure that his pieces really can bring beauty to everyday life!
I've picked out a couple of my favourite pieces below, but take a look at his shop for more of a selection. PLUS - BREAKING NEWS! Jon has just put up a Christmas sale with 10% off for the next 12 days of Christmas. Just use the code 12DAYS at checkout. You're welcome!
P.S. A little secret, his pieces are a great gift, even Damian Hurst has been the recipient of rather a few!


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Monatomic PCMs: A New Direction
[The following is a guest post written by Ron Neale.]
Until now designers of PCM devices have tried to make PCM meet their expectations by experimenting with an almost infinite number of possible multi-element glass compositions, in order to tinker with or emphasise a particular composition-related device characteristic. The apparent advantage of this great variety of materials comes with the baggage of reliability and performance-compromising element separation, driven by the forces of electro-migration, electrostatic effects and phase separation.
Is it possible to cast aside the problems of the multi-element PCM compositions and look at the possibility of monatomic PCMs? For a team at IBM, Zurich and Aachen University the answer is an unequivocal "Yes!" and recently they have published details of the remarkable progress they have made with amorphous antimony (Sb), as an initial candidate element. This research was published in a June 2018 paper in Nature Materials Letters titled: Monatomic phase change memory, by Martin Salinga et al, IBM and Aachen University).
A difficulty faces those venturing in this new direction: While it is possible to bring many elements to the amorphous state, they very quickly crystallize at room temperature and higher. The IBM researchers used simulations to find that the keys to obtaining a stable amorphous state is to control the quenching rate and the volume of the sample. That part of the antimony research is underpinned by some very impressive simulations that use only about 200 atoms.
Here's the issue that this approach Continue reading
Extending the Write/Erase Lifetime of Phase Change Memory: Part 4 – The Possible Implications for 3D XPoint and Optane
This is Part 4 of a series contributed by Ron Neale to the Memory Guy blog, in which Ron looks into some important detailed analytical work by a joint team at IBM and Yale University which might point to the way of achieving improved PCM endurance.
I want, in this final part, to focus on its possible implications for commercial PCM products.
When Intel and Micron first introduced 3D XPoint Memory the companies claimed that it would be 1,000 times as fast as flash memory with 1,000 times the endurance at ten times the density of standard memory (meaning DRAM). Now that Intel's XPoint-based Optane SSDs have been released and their specifications are public we can estimate what the technology's endurance might be.
The table below, explained in another Memory Guy blog post, gives estimates of best-case endurance for the cells in the XPoint memory in Optane SSDs. In other words, with a sophisticated enough controller, good DRAM buffering, and overprovisioning, all of which are techniques commonly used to extend the life of the media in a NAND flash SSD, the cell lifetime could be significantly lower than that shown in the last column of the table and the SSD would still provide the specified endurance. (These techniques are explained in detail in an SSD Guy blog post series for anyone who is interested in understanding them.)
As the calculated Continue reading
Making Sense of Intel & Micron's XPoint Breakup
On Monday, July 16, Intel and Micron announced the termination of the two companies' 3D XPoint Memory development efforts. The companies will complete development of the second-generation product after which the IMFT Lehi, Utah facility will continue to manufacture the product but the two companies will no longer co-develop new versions of the 3D XPoint Memory.
Most readers haven't been watching this business as carefully as The Memory Guy, and are puzzled by the move. I will share what I know in an attempt to make the decision a little clearer.
Three years ago in July 2015 the two companies held an event to launch 3D XPoint Memory technology. This upcoming technology would be 1,000 times faster than flash, and provide 1,000 times the endurance, on a chip that was 10 times as dense as "Standard Memory," which everyone was to infer was DRAM. This last implied that the technology would sell for a lower price than DRAM, and that's the most important way that a technology that's slower than DRAM can gain acceptance in a Continue reading
Extending the Write/Erase Lifetime of Phase Change Memory: Part 3 – Failure Modes for the Threshold Switch
This is Part 3 of a short Memory Guy series in which contributor Ron Neale continues to explore the possible future impact on PCM memory performance, especially write/erase endurance, building on the results of the IBM/Yale University analysis outlined in Part 1 and Part 2.
Part 3 of this series of articles triggered by the recently published PCM device analysis by a team from IBM/Yale University, moves to a look at its possible implications for the arsenic doped GST threshold switch. Although the threshold switch was not part of the IBM/Yale work, the implementation of the call for bipolar operation of PCMs means there will be a requirement for a threshold switch whose durability matches that of the memory with which it will be associated in a memory array.
If the study's finding for PCM can be applied to the arsenic-doped GST threshold switch which is used in today's commercially-available PCM arrays then the threshold switch might just be the weak link that accounts for the poor endurance of commercial PCM memory arrays.
One little conundrum we must address is: Which Continue reading
Extending the Write/Erase Lifetime of Phase Change Memory: Part 2 – A More Complete View of Element Separation
This is Part 2 of a short Memory Guy series in which contributor Ron Neale continues to explore the possible future impact on PCM memory performance, especially write/erase endurance, building on the results of the IBM/Yale University analysis outlined in Part 1.
After, in Part 1, summarizing the methodology my next step was to try to bring together in another simple diagram all the detail of the complexity of the movement of the different elements of the phase change memory material at different locations within the memory cell which the IBM/Yale work has disclosed. Movement which leads to the conclusion that bi-polar operation would be means of extending PCM endurance.
In this post's first diagram (below) the central region provides illustration of the paper's unique PCM device structure: A high aspect ratio tapered cell lined with a metal conductor. With the two-state memory switching region located (red coloured) roughly at the centre of the taper. This means that, Continue reading
Extending the Write/Erase Lifetime of Phase Change Memory: Part 1- PCM Element Separation and Endurance
This is the first of a new line-up of Memory Guy posts by Ron Neale. In this 4-part series Ron takes a look at the recently-published analysis by a team from IBM and Yale University (Wiley: Communications of Advanced Materials, Volume 30, Issue 9, March 1, 2018 "Self-Healing of a Confined Phase Change Memory Device with a Metallic Surfactant Layer," Xie et al) which has cast some new light on the complexity of the movement and element separation in phase change memory (PCM) device structures.
In this series of articles I will briefly review what I think is an important piece of work and its implications for the future of PCM write/erase (w/e) endurance in commercial PCM memory arrays. Today's production Phase-Change Memory, the basis of the Intel/Micron 3D XPoint Memory, wears out faster than expected. This series will investigate some of the potential reasons for this discrepancy.
Back in 2016 a research team led by IBM claimed the world record for PCM w/e endurance of greater than 2 x 10E12 cycles (ALD-based Confined PCM with a Metallic Liner Toward Unlimited Endurance, Proc IEDM 2016 ). As of today commercially available PCM memory arrays offer w/e endurance of some six orders of magnitude less. The table below Continue reading
Ron Neale To Share Posts
The Memory Guy is pleased to begin publishing posts from Ron Neale. Ron is a specialist in phase-change memory (PCM or PRAM) who has been contributing a lot of analysis of this technology in EE Times.
Ron's career has centered around phase-change memory. He was the lead author for the groundbreaking 1970 PCM article in Electronics Magazine, co-authored by Intel's Gordon Moore (of Moore's Law fame) introducing the world's first PCM, a 256-bit device.
Now that the Intel/Micron 3D XPoint Memory has been revealed to use the same technology as Numonyx' NOR-compatible PCMs, Ron's analysis of this technology is especially poignant.
Look for posts that feature his keen insight on the technology, its particular challenges, and the ways that PCM is applied to practical problems in advance computing.


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