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Marina Bay Sands is set to redefine the exhibition and meeting experience, and further reinforce Singapore's reputation as one of Asia's best cities to hold a convention. The Sands Expo and Convention Center will not only be Singapore's largest and most flexible exhibition and meeting venue, but the island's largest hotel as well. Marina Bay Sands is an integrated resort that offers anything and everything a visiting delegate could ask for, and more. All your business and leisure needs are conveniently located on site. Marina Bay Sands is located at along the Marina Bay waterfront, in the heart of Singapore, only 15 minutes from Changi International Airport.
- Free shuttle buses to BroadcastAsia2015
The pickup and drop off points are located at:
- Esplanade Mall Entrance Taxi Stand fronting Raffles Avenue (facing Marina Square)
- The lobby of Swissotel the Stamford
Timing:2 – 4 June 2015:8.00 am to 7.00 pm5 June 2015:8.00 am to 5.00 pm
Frequency: 20-min intervals
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* Please check that the particular train is heading to Bayfront MRT before boarding. If the train ends at Promenade station, you will need to transfer to the next train heading towards Bayfront MRT
- DT16 (Exit D) along the Downtown Line
- CE1 (Exit D) along the Circle Line Extension
- By Public Bus
Bus Service: 97/97E, 106, 133, 502/502A, 518/518A
- By Taxi
Taxis may access Bayfront Avenue via Raffles Boulevard or Marina Boulevard (ERP charges apply). A surcharge of S$3 is imposed for taxis leaving Marina Bay Sands.
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Gustavus Spring Reunions
Gathering Again Atop the Hill
We welcome back the classes of 1950, 1955, 1960, 1965 & 1970 to celebrate with a reunion in the Spring around Commencement weekend. At this time, we will honor the Golden Gusties of the 50 Year Club, alumni who have graduated from the College more than 50 years ago.
Spring reunions will include a memorial service, Alumni College, social hour and campus tours. The weekend is capped off with the annual Gustavus Alumni Banquet, honoring the recipients of the year's alumni awards. Weekend details and registration materials will be mailed to all alumni in March 2015.
Hotels off-campus
Blocks of rooms have been reserved at the following Mankato hotels. Reservations must be made one month in advance. Mention Gustavus Spring Reunions when reserving your room.
Dorms are available all weekend and reservations can be made when registering with the College.
|Hilton Garden Inn Mankato Downtown
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Schedule of Events
|Friday, May 29 (1965 only)
|1:00 - 4:00 pm
|Campus Center
|3:00 pm
|1965 Memorial Service
|Christ Chapel
|4:30 pm
|Social & Dinner
|Alumni Hall
|7:00 pm
|Torrey Atrium
|Saturday, May 30
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|Torrey Atrium
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|11:30 am
|1970 Memorial Service
|Christ Chapel
|11:30 am
|50 year Club Lunch
|Alumni Hall
|12:30 pm
|1970 Class Lunch
|The Dive
|1:30 pm
|1960 Memorial Service
|Christ Chapel
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|Campus Tours
|Campus Center
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|Misc. rooms
|3:30 pm
|1955 & 1950 Service
|Christ Chapel
|5:00 pm
|Alumni Banquet
|E. Young
|8:00 pm
|Orchestra Concert
|Recital Hall
If you are interested in helping plan your reunion please contact email@example.com or call 800-487-8437. We appreciate your help to make the reunion special and personal to your class.
|Today 5:30–7:30 pm
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- Complement the festive light displays with holiday music from the provided ear buds
- Disembark the bus at Honolulu Hale and get an up-close look at the city's legendary seasonal decorations
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Relax on the bus listening to classic holiday tunes through complimentary ear buds as it makes a complete loop, giving you an up-close view of the sparkling display. After making the 30-minute loop through the Ward Entertainment Center, head to the Honolulu Hale, located on Punchbowl Street, where you can hop off for a half-hour to explore.
Hawaii's laid-back vibe is on full display at Honolulu Hale, the seat of the city's government and the focal point of the holiday celebrations. On the lawns surrounding the government building, you can spot palm trees strung with lights, oversize gingerbread men and a barefoot Santa flashing the "shaka" sign. Enter the actual Hale building to view the handmade wreath competition and trees decorated in the year's theme. A local tradition, the family-friendly celebration also includes rides for little ones and a giant Christmas tree, adorned with twinkling lights and Hawaii-themed ornaments. Spend as much time as you'd like enjoying the local celebration, before hopping back on the bus to the stop nearest to your hotel.
Eggs N Things (Saratoga) - 6:20pm
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December 2013
Advertised as "ear buds" to listen to Holiday music. No ear buds were supplied. It was advertised as approx. 4 hrs. Duration. We enjoyed getting off to view beautiful decorations at the Federal bldg. for 1 1/2 hrs. Bus ride was definitely rushed not giving time to view much on way there and back.
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Thanks for reposting that article. I recall vividly coming across this passage in Alma the very first time I seriously read the Book of Mormon (I'm an adult convert).
I remember a shiver running down my spine as I read this taut, compact account with so much going on behind the surface. I had read but a little about ancient kingship year rites, and the worldview in which this things were terribly important (even in societies which retained only an echo of former practices). But upon reading Alma 51-52, I experienced a vivid sensation – the acute and sudden realisation that this really happened.
The sneak assassination of Amalickiah was, I apprehended, a brilliant and daring piece of psychological warfare. There was nothing in the text to shout "look at me! I'm being clever here!" It was a sober account of a bloody time, written by a hand that had no wish or need to glorify or call undue attention to these acts of gritty wartime. And yet, the reality of it shone through to me at once. It had no need to pretend. It just was.
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Former NHL Players Jean-Francois Jomphe, Rich Costello Arrested After Late-Night Scuffle With 'Kids' at Jack In the Box
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LOS ANGELES - MARCH 16: Dallas Drake #10, Murray Baron #23 and Mike Sillinger #18 of the St. Louis Blues celebrate Drake's goal as Derek Armstrong #7 of the Los Angeles Kings looks on in the first period on March 16, 2004 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Victor Decolongon/Getty Images)
Former NHL player Jean-Francois Jomphe dropped the mitts in the 1990s with such players as Dallas Drake, Shane Doan and Brandon Convery. On Thursday night in Laguna Beach, Cali., however, he tried got into a little scrap with a group of kids. According to CoastLinePilot.com, Jomphe and fellow NHL alum Rich Costello were arrested around 1 a.m. after an alleged fight outside a Laguna Jack In the Box. Jomphe, 39, was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor battery and vandalism. Costello, 49, was arrested on suspicion of assault, Laguna Beach Police Department Lt. Jason Kravetz said. "It's not uncommon in the early morning hours after the bars have closed that we have people going to get food who get in fights when alcohol is involved," Kravetz said. According to reports, Jomphe and Costello arrived to the fast-food eatery's drive-thru line in a cab and cut off a car carrying a group of young adults. "One of the kids [in the Jetta] did a hand gesture like, 'Hey, what's up' and Jomphe got angry, got out of the cab and went to the guy," Kravetz said. "Costello went to restrain him, but he's pretty upset and shatters the back window." Things then got out of hand when a bystander tried to step in, according to the report: "Glass shards from the broken reportedly cut the face of one a 20-year-old man in the back seat. The altercation escalated when a 44-year-old man tried to get Jomphe and Costello back into the cab because they're 'just kids' in the Jetta. "Costello allegedly threw a punch at the 'good Samaritan' but missed when the man ducked. Costello then tried to kick him." Jomphe played 111 career NHL games for the Ducks, Coyotes and Canadiens from 1995-1999 while Costello played in just 12 games for the Maple Leafs in the early 80s. Thumbnail via Facebook/Jack In the Box
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Light emitting devices (LED) and methods of fabricating such, comprising a substrate, a light extraction structure, and an emitting layer sandwiched between a plurality of semiconductor layers of the first and the second type. The said extraction structure is processed into preferred geometric shapes using preferred methods.
1. A light emitting device comprising of:
a light emitting structure having an active region sandwiched between a plurality of layers of the first type and a plurality of layers of the second type;
a p-n junction is formed at the interface between the two types of layers and electron-hole injection is provided by applying a sufficiently large forward bias at the electrical terminals to the first and the second types;
a substrate that is on one side of the said light emitting structure;
a plurality of layers processed into a geometrical shaped extraction structure;
the said extraction structure is formed either on the exit surface or between the said active region and the exit surface.
2. The said extraction structure in
3. The said geometrical shapes in claims 1 are distributed orderly or randomly over the surface of the said extraction structure.
4. The geometrical shapes of the said extraction structure in
5. The profile of the said geometrically shapes in
6. The shape profile of the said photoresist resist pattern in
7. The shape profile of the said photoresist resist pattern in
8. The device in
9. The device in
10. The said extraction structure in
The present invention is in the field of light emitting devices such as a light emitting diodes (LEDs) or organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), and more particularly to the enhanced light escaping or extraction from emitters.
As illustrated in
The electrical to optical power conversion efficiency can be viewed as a product of internal quantum efficiency (IQE), energy state efficiency (average photon energy divided by applied voltage), and light extraction efficiency (LEE). The LEE is due to the fact that most of the semiconductor materials have large index of refraction. As a result, the critical angle at which emitted light experience total internal reflection at the exit surface is quite small, as depicted by the light rays enclosed between 21 and 22 in
In U.S. Pat. No. 6,091,085, Lester disclosed several interesting methods to enhance the LEE of GaN-based LEDs. The first method involves roughen the front surface of the sapphire substrate before growth of GaN takes place by mechanical scratching and grinding or simple grow on incompletely polished substrates, or by conventional lithography to define openings on photoresist and then transfer to the said substrate by etching. The second method uses lateral growth of GaN through patterned SiO2 on grown LED structures. This leads to faceted pyramids, which according to the inventor, would couple more light out. The third method involves etching into GaN to form trenches, which are subsequently filled by a lower index material such as SiO2. Acting like light pipes, the protrusions then extract light from LED stack underneath. The fourth method involves in a flip chip design where a reflective metal is deposited on microscopic pits or depressions from GaN surface formed during growth under certain conditions. According to the invention, the metal on facets of the hexagonal shaped pits would enhance light extraction by reflection the incident light. These methods are based on readily available technologies and are conceivably easier to implement. However, to our knowledge, none of these methods are adopted by LED manufacturers since their disclosure in 1998.
An aspect of the present invention provides improved light extraction from light emitting devices. It is a further objective of the present invention to replace hard-to-control manufacturing process with more mature processes, thereby, improving yield and reducing manufacturing cost.
According to the present invention, a light emitting device comprises a substrate, a light emitting layer sandwiched between a plurality of layers of the first type and a plurality of layers of the second type. Electrical injection is provided by connecting electrical terminals to the first and the second types.
In one embodiment of the invention, the top layer of the first type is light extractor in preferred geometries where light exit. When the conductivity of the first type is insufficient for uniform current injection, a contact layer and a transparent conducting layer are deposited on the extractor.
In a second embodiment of the invention, an extraction structure is formed between a transparent substrate and the LED stack. A reflector is formed on the LED stack, which is mounted facing down in a flip chip configuration. Light exits the device from the substrate side.
In a third embodiment of the invention, the device is in a flip chip configuration where light is reflected by a reflector and extracted from the transparent substrate which is process into preferred extraction structure.
In a fourth embodiment of the invention, an extractor is formed on top of the first type as described in one of the first four embodiments, and a reflective layer with low absorption is inserted between the bottom of the second type and the substrate.
The fifth and sixth embodiment of the invention, are variations of the third and fourth embodiments, respectively, with side walls of the chip processed to preferred angles with respect the to growth surface.
An exemplary cross sectional view of a preferred embodiment of the present invention for light emitting device (LED) is shown in
The substrate may be the natural substrate used in the deposition or epitaxial growth of the LED stack. Or it may be a substitute attached to the LED stack using wafer bonding techniques, with or without using a metallic interlayer to reflect light rays and/or provide electrical contact. The substrate need not be electrically conductive, such as in the case of a sapphire substrate. The reflector, 120, shown in
In a preferred embodiment of this invention, the top surface of layer 114 is processed into geometrically shaped extraction structures or extractors, 151, to enhance LEE. An explanation of how an extractor functions is depicted by way of simplified example in
The gap determines the surface coverage of the extraction structures. The efficiency for some of the extraction structures is sufficiently high such that LEE does not drop significantly at reduced coverage. This allows high degree of design flexibility to meet processing requirement, such as incorporation of contact fingers and transparent conducting layer (TCL). The extraction structures can be arranged periodically according to their natural symmetry or randomly to minimize wave guiding.
For a larger extractor angle, the height of a full pyramid increases as a/2 tan δ. Since the lateral dimension of the extraction structure is limited by the resolution and smoothness of the photolithography, large δ may require growth of a very thick film for the extraction structure. To solve this problem, we also studied truncated extraction structures. When the height is less than the full pyramids (h<a/2 tan δ), the pyramid or cone is truncated. Truncated extractors also have the advantage of keeping large portion of as grown surface for electrical contact and current spreading purposes. We found that although LEE is the highest in embodiments of the present invention with full extractors, the LEE for in embodiments of the present invention with truncated extractors does not drop significantly. This can be advantageous for the design and manufacturing of LEDs with extraction structures.
The height of the extraction structure, h, is one of the determining factors for an optimal thickness for layer 114. Layer 114 is chosen to be relatively transparent to light emitted from the active region, i.e., its absorption bandgap is larger than the photon emission energy. However, there is non-negligible amount of absorption at larger thickness, causing loss of efficiency. Other practical factors such as growth time, etching time, and effect on underlying layers during high temperature growth of layer 114 also put an upper limit on its thickness. On the other hand, for an effective optical extraction, extractor height should be at least a fraction of the wavelength in the material. For example, for blue emission from InAlGaN LEDs, the extractor should be at least 0.02 μm (about tenth of the wavelength in GaN). Other practical considerations such as resolution of the lithographic methods described later and safeguard for the extractors not penetrating layer 114 may also set a limit for extractor height in some applications. Combining these considerations, the extractor thickness should typically be in the range of 0.01 to 100 μm to be practical. More preferably, however, this thickness should be in the range of 0.02 to 10 μm. The optimal thickness is selected using aforementioned relation: h ˜a/2 tan δ when lateral size or extractor angle is small, or use truncated pyramids when the result from such calculation is too large.
Preferred methods to produce these extraction structures are based on photo lithography, which are mature technologies, allowing high yield and throughput, and consequently, lower manufacturing cost. One of the preferred methods is to use reflow photoresist technique used in micro lens manufacturing. An array of square, hexagonal or circular shaped photoresist pattern is generated using this process. During reflow, surface tension causes the edges to thin down, while the center to become thicker. After a hard bake at high temperature, they form the desired shapes shown in
It is worth to note that, in the preferred embodiment, regions for thick metal bond pads and contact fingers preferably do not contain these geometrical shaped extraction structures. This is especially important when a contact layer, for example, a heavily doped material with good electrical conductivity, is grown on top of 114 to reduce contact resistance. Etching of the contact layer underneath the metal contact would cause poor electrical contact. In addition, surface roughness and surface texturing under metallization tend to disrupt the continuity and adhesion of the metallization, resulting in poor electrical performance, lower yield and degradation over usage (or poor lifetime). Thus, maintaining a planar surface underneath the metallization is critical to achieve low operation voltage, high manufacturing yield, and good long term reliability. In the application of the present invention, the photo mask for the extraction structure is designed to leave photoresist on the bond pad regions intact to prevent etching of the underlying layer. An exemplary contact arrangement of is depicted in a cross sectional view of the device in
If electrical conduction of layer 114 is sufficient for the application, such as thick n-type GaN layer, or thick p-type GaP layer, additional layers 155, 156 are not necessary. However, when the electrical conduction of layer 114 is insufficient for the application, a contact layer, 155, and a transparent conducting layer (TCL), 156 may be necessary to spread the current uniformly. The preferred method for contact layer 155 is to epitaxially regrow a thin and highly doped material, for example, InGaN for GaN system, InGaAs or GaAs for AlGaAs, InGaP, InAlGaP systems. Subsequently, a TCL such as a thin Ni/Au layer, or an indium tin oxide (ITO) or other transparent conducting oxides (TCO) is deposited, by way of example, and not limitation, by using e-beam sputtering process or other deposition processes.
The enhancement of LEE for a bare (without index matching encapsulation) InAlGaN chip on sapphire emitting at 460 nm using a ray trace calculation is shown in
Similar LEE enhancement is observed for InAlGaP based LEDs using the preferred embodiment. The InAlGaP LED stack is attached to a transparent conducting GaP substrate using known wafer bonding technology. The growth substrate, typically, but not limited to, GaAs which absorbs emitted light strongly, is removed and replaced with a GaP substrate. It is also possible to grow InAlGaP directly on GaP substrate using optimal buffer growth techniques, which will be readily recognized by those skilled in the art. A thick GaP window layer is formed on the InAlGaP LED for epi side up applications. Extractors are formed on the thick GaP layer. Results for 630 nm emission without encapsulation are shown, by way of example, in
A second embodiment of this invention is shown in
A third embodiment of this invention is combined with epi-side-down designs. The top surface of the LED stack is coated with highly reflective metal contact layers and mounted "face down" as shown in
A fourth embodiment of this invention is shown in
A fifth and sixth embodiment of this invention, illustrated in
Some exemplary manufacturing techniques for some embodiments of the present invention will now be described to enable those skilled in the art to readily adapt the teachings of the present invention into a multiplicity of alternative material combinations and known processing techniques.
InAlGaN p-up LED on sapphire, First Embodiment:
Typically, for commercial products, processed wafers will subsequently go through testing, lapping (thinning down the substrate), scribe and break, sorting onto tape according to their performance characteristics before shipping to packaging manufactures. These steps will be omitted in examples hereafter (as they are well known to those skilled in the art) unless some of them require considerations specific to this invention.
InAlGaN on sapphire with regrown contact layer, First Embodiment:
InAlGaN on Sapphire Flip Chip, Second Embodiment
Note, a flip chip is mounted epi side down. Light is collected through the substrate side.
InAlGaP on GaP, First and Third Embodiment:
Note, the extraction structure can also be made on the n-type GaP substrate surface according to the third embodiment. A metal reflector stack is deposited on p-type GaP surface to act as reflector and electrical contact. Chip is mounted with p side facing down.
InAlGaP on GaP, First Embodiment and Third Embodiment:
Note, the extraction structure can also be made on the p-type GaP substrate surface according to the third embodiment. A metal reflector stack is deposited on n-type InAlGaP surface to act as reflector and electrical contact. Chip is mounted with n side facing down.
InAlGaP on Si, Fourth Embodiment:
Having fully described at least one embodiment of the present invention, other equivalent or alternative methods of implementing light emitting devices according to the present invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art. The invention has been described above by way of illustration, and the specific embodiments disclosed are not intended to limit the invention to the particular forms disclosed. The invention is thus to cover all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling within the spirit and scope of the following claims.
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Fair-haired baby-faced pretty-boy-on-the-rise Hunter Hayes is commonly referred to as the Justin Bieber of Country, mostly because he sells himself in song as a heroically supportive and loving fantasy boyfriend and looks like he was genetically designed to pop off the pages of Seventeen magazine.
So is it just a coincidence that Hayes scored his first No. 1 hit (for his piano ballad "Wanted") the same week that the Bieb returns to Nashville? And is it just a coincidence that tonight, while Bieber's gettin' the seats wet at Bridgestone Arena, Hayes will be across the street making an Opry at the Ryman appearance? Yes, it is just a coincidence. Nevertheless, in a matter of hours, the two dreamboats' worlds come dangerously close to colliding here in Nashville.
I'm having a hard time figuring out what makes Hunter Hayes' music country music. (I know what makes Justin Bieber Justin Bieber.) Isn't "Wanted" just a Fray song sang in a slight (very slight) Southern drawl and with the occasional pedal steel flourish thrown in? Calling that country is like saying the shred-heavy guitar solo in Michael Bolton's "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" makes it a metal song. Moreover, I've heard that motherfucker talk: He speaks the King's English and he ain't got no Southern accent. Sorry, but Hunter Hayes could kill a man in Reno just to watch him die and I still wouldn't call him a country singer. Isn't the only thing truly "country" about Hunter Hayes something that's more circumstantial than musical: the fact that he moved to Nashville to make it?
Of course, calling country radio's regular rotation staples du jour pop songs, thinly veiled by slight garnishes of fiddle and twang, is by no means any new observation. But when it comes to parsing aesthetics and making genre distinctions, shouldn't hardwired Top 40 compositional DNA trump festooned hints of "country" instrumentation? I mean, a Christmas tree is still called a Christmas TREE, not a Christmas ornament hanger, right?
Take for example Taylor Swift's recent smash "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together." The song sounds about as country as Styx's "Mr. Roboto." And the Swift camp knows it. So because Music Row still wants to claim millions-selling Swift — and because Swift's country toehold still garners her increased airplay, chart prestige and CMA nominations — she released a different, gloss-stripped, countrified mix and arrangement of the originally electronic-heavy, Blink-182-style-melody-boastin' single to country radio than she did to Top 40 radio. Click the preceding hyperlinks to Pepsi-challenge that shit. The country version's got acoustic (sounding) drums, the original has got handclaps and beats; the country version has the acoustic guitars and room mics turned way up, stuff like that. But the difference is negligible; They are still the same not-country song.
Now, had the ballads on Hayes' self-titled debut been switched at birth with those on Rascal Flatts' last album, would you be able to tell the difference? In a post today on Seattle Weekly's music blog titled "Rascal Flatts Is Nashville at Its Worst," writer Mike Seely categorically incinerates notions of Rascal Flatts claiming a place in the same sonic continuum as Hank Williams and Loretta Lynn:
The music Rascal Flatts makes is not country. The band's lead singer, Gary LeVox, sounds like Brian McKnight, and orchestral instrumentation is all over their tracks. The guys are forever dressed like they're heading to a senior prom, with overstyled hair and tweezed eyebrows to boot. And if you've never seen guitarist Joe Don Rooney eye-fuck a camera, then you are truly missing out on one of the supreme dojos of eye-fuckery.
Occasionally, the Rascals will attempt to validate their presence in the country sphere with a hicked-out scorcher like "Banjo." But whenever they do this, it feels beyond forced; they look to be counting the minutes until they can hop back into their Ferraris or automatically ignite a gas fire in an ultra-modern condo where rose petals strategically cover the bedroom floor and a bottle of prosecco is forever on ice.
"Nashville is not merely its own musical genre but a parallel universe," Seely also surmises. It's a universe with its own boy bands, and Rascal Flatts is the (markedly less attractive) answer to 'N SYNC or Backstreet Boys.
"[While] a few purists cringed when the three-piece Rascal Flatts came on the scene (signed by Disney, natch) at the dawn of the 21st Century, most shrugged them off as part of Music City's ever-expanding imprint," he observes. "But unlike most boy bands, Rascal Flatts have persevered into middle age, peddling the same mushy ballads designed to get training bras chucked at them onstage."
And that makes me wonder: Will "being country" give Hunter Hayes staying power beyond Justin Bieber's inevitable Top 40 shelf life? Is it better to break big in Nashville's 2-percent-twangy parallel-universe secondary market for peddling pop music? Does Music Row's model for an artist's career sustainability actually work better than the other music industry's model?
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+1 What he said.
Big turnout today, nice meeting everyone, though I've forgotten all your names already...
I left early to go to the motorcycle show but decided to stay home and
I have to say, last time I went for a Sat Ride with Dunerat and Nowwhat and them guys, was not really fun. I dropped my bike in my own parking lot before I even left. I got wet, it was bite assed cold, the dirt was like talcum powder, I crashed a lot, hurt myself, the food @ Newcombs sucked and the waitress was fugly...
Plus, Nowwhat was just showing off, he was riding so well was just to embarrass me I'm sure.
Today, I got off to a rocky start by getting an earplug stuck WAY up in my ear. Then, just because that's how I roll, I got the other one stuck too!
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The vault mission is simple, once one knows what to do and with whom. If one's team is OK, it can be done with one player doing the objectives while another serves as a wingman, and the rest on guard duty.
I have already a few missions under the belt, and failed only a few at the start. In the end, it is easier then the elite STFs.
But again, there is a huge problem with this mission, or even two. For starters the bloody schedule means one can only do it every other day, perhaps even once per week, especially for European players such as myself.
I've done it a few times since last Friday only because I can only play STO while at work. But finding competent people to play with, it gets really frustrating fast. If you don't have the freedom at your workplace as I do, then you're screwed.
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Good work guys. If you want it to be more realistic than PR, It has to be REALLY realistic. Good Luck!
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Hello patient Insurgent strike fans. It has been quite a while since the last update, but over that time of silence, the development team here at insurgent strike has been effortlessly working on getting insurgent strike ready for it's v0.11 release. the main reason for the release taking so long were some complicated issues with getting single player to run stable, but some compromises were made so that insurgent strike could move on and get to this stage. For any of you insurgent strike fans that have played our ancient 0.1 beta FROM LONG AGO, the .11 release will be far different. Expect realistic game play that will better immerse you into the virtual combat situations you experience on the battlefield 2 engine. WE'VE BEEN HARD AT WORK GETTING NEW MAPS READY, ADDING NEW WEAPONS, AND NEW FACTIONS, AS WELL AS TWEAKING CURRENT VEHICLES, AND WEAPONS. WE ARE SURE INSURGENT STRIKE v0.11 WILL NOT DISAPPOINT, AND WE ASSURE YOU THE WAIT HAS BEEN WORTH IT.So without further ado, we present you, insurgent strike v0.11
We'd also like to give you a little bit of info on what to look forward to in the v0.12 update of insurgent strike. This update will mainly include various bug fixes, and updates, but will also have some other goodies. Like the FV107 scimitar that the U.K. faction will get their hands on, and the Militia and Insurgents will be getting a new AK-74.Also look for the USMC faction to appear in .12
Good work guys. If you want it to be more realistic than PR, It has to be REALLY realistic. Good Luck!
Very well done maps in the teaser. :)
I don't think you can go more realistic than PR...
It looks really good so far.Everything is possible MuffinSoldaat.
Good work.
After PR it looks like .... it looks
Every single person comparing it to PR,is now giving me a bit of a headache,lol..We're aiming for something a tad bit different than PR..Maybe something a little more relaxed/fun,but still realistic.
You tell em scar!
we'll see,
hopefully it will be
either way I'm gonna give it a try when a closer to final version is complete
Looks awesome.
looks good, but with PR as a competitor you will probably be better off joining theire dev crew XP
youre soooo right on the song part.. oh lord how youre right...
stop comparing this mod with stupid and **** pr !
Well, first off, PR is most certainly not a "stupid and ****" modification. It's a fairly prominent modification, has won several awards on this site alone, and has a massive userbase, compared to other BF2 mods. The reason most people are comparing this to PR is that both mods have very similar components. Just looking at the mod description;
...mainly centered around current day combat in the Middle-East against Insurgent groups : PR's done that (Insurgency Mode)
...combat against militia groups,such as in Western Russia : PR's done that (Chechen Rebels)
...factions,kits,vehicles,maps,and everything in-game has been adjusted to be as realistic : PR has done this as well (and added several new factions to boot.)
Even the items that are upcoming (Scimitar, USMC) have been done and implemented with a high degree of polish in Project Reality. I think you need to clarify why this isn't just a new PR, what sets it aside from the already established modification. What kind of unique features is this bringing to the playing field? I think there is room for another kind of mod like this, it just needs to forge new ground instead of retreading the footsteps of an already successful mod.
I'd like to see where this mod goes, but you really do need to set yourself apart from PR in order to succeed. Look at your mod description, and compare it to that of PR, and see what you think for yourself.
My suggestion would be to talk with the PR dev team and see if you can't create a mini-mod with their oversight. Or join their team as someone else suggested.
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Why was the UN a bystander during the Rwandan genocide? Do its sins of omission leave it morally responsible for the hundreds of thousands of dead? Michael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda for much of the genocide. Based on his first-hand experiences, archival work, and interviews with many key participants, he reconstructs the history of the UN's involvement in Rwanda.
In the weeks leading up to the genocide, the author documents, the UN was increasingly aware or had good reason to suspect that Rwanda was a site of crimes against humanity. Yet it failed to act. Barnett argues that its indifference was driven not by incompetence or cynicism but rather by reasoned choices cradled by moral considerations. Employing a novel approach to ethics in practice and in relationship to international organizations, Barnett offers an unsettling possibility: the UN culture recast the ethical commitments of well-intentioned individuals, arresting any duty to aid at the outset of the genocide.
Barnett argues that the UN bears some moral responsibility for the genocide. Particularly disturbing is his observation that not only did the UN violate its moral responsibilities, but also that many in New York believed that they were "doing the right thing" as they did so. Barnett addresses the ways in which the Rwandan genocide raises a warning about this age of humanitarianism and concludes by asking whether it is possible to build moral institutions.
"This insightful, balanced book reveals an unsettling paradox: in making choices it deemed moral, the U.N. tolerated the ultimate immorality of genocide." Publishers Weekly
"A chilling work despite its pervasive academic jargon; recommended for all international affairs collections." Library Journal
"[T]his important, crucial analytical work tends to expose how the UN's decision-making bureaucracy, run by good people, can contribute to the evil and darkness of Rwanda." Booklist
"Michael Barnett offers a chilling explanation of why the UN froze while about 800,000 Tutsis and Hutu moderates were hacked to death in Rwanda in 1994. Mr. Barnett, a political officer in America's mission to the UN, blames an institutional culture which led the UN's well-intentioned staff to become entangled in conflicting interests and end up concluding that doing nothing was the proper way to proceed." The Economist
"This elegantly written book helps makes sense of the senseless: why the world, exemplified through the UN, stood by silently as hundreds of thousands of Rwandans were brutally murdered in the spring of 1994...[T]owering above all is Barnett's wedding of concise analysis, insider knowledge, ethical principles, moral outrage, the bureaucratic ethos in New York, misreadings of the situation on the ground, and a balanced attempt to assess blame. Highly recommended." Choice
"This is an unusual, thought-provoking and important book about the UN's response to the genocide in Rwanda. Barnett does not simply seek to document the monumental mistakes that were made and assign blame. He tries to explain those mistakes with reference to the structural characteristics of the UN, in particular the nature of the bureaucracy, and by recreating the universe of the Secretariat in terms of political constraint, moral concerns, and knowledge about Rwanda." Astri Suhrke, Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway. International Affairs
"I strongly recommend this interesting account to anyone interested in Rwanda and, even more so, to anyone interested in the relationship between the UN Secretariat and the Security Council. The facts and analyses presented by Barnett are fresh and passionate. I enjoyed reading the book and learnt much from it." Judge Richard J. Goldstone, Journal of Human Rights
"[Barnett's] very thorough and very personal account of the events and the decisions of that period is the most comprehensive study to date on that disaster. As the Force Commander of that ill-fated missions, who lived and worked through that genocide and lives with its horrendous memories on a daily basis, I strongly endorse and recommend this major intellectual contribution to our understanding of one of humanity's greatest failures....To those who truly desire that we never again bear witness to genocide, Dr. Barnett's book is a keystone work in understanding how we can and must prevent genocide." Lt.-Gen. (Ret.) Roméo Dallaire, United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda
"Eyewitness to a Genocide is an extremely important work of ethical history. Barnett carefully documents the actions and inactions of the United Nations and presents a highly cogent explication of the moral universe that permitted a horrendous sin of omission on the part of the international community....Barnett's work is a must read for anyone concerned with the role that international institutions play in crafting a more peaceful world order."Virginia Quarterly Review
"In this short, troubling, and deeply thoughtful book, [Barnett] struggles with the reasons why the international community failed to stop the killing and with the moral implications of its inaction....[Eyewitness to a Genocide] brings conscience to bear on politics, not indulging in outrage or rushing to judgment, but rather seeking understanding — and forgiveness. One has the sense that this forgiveness will not breed tranquility, but rather renew determination to address the imperfections of this deeply troubled world." Robert H. Bates, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
"This is a chilling story, thoughtfully recounted. About the only person who comes out of it with his reputation intact is General Romeo Dallaire, a Canadian, who headed up the pitifully undermanned and undersupplied UN peacekeeping force on the ground. The other players, with a few exceptions, were honorable people who, for reasons that seemed to them morally compelling at the time, were deeply complicit in unspeakable wickedness." First Things
"A serious book that belongs in every collection that focuses on the problems and prospects of UN peacekeeping....An excellent book. It is highly recommended for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals." Richard S. Rhone, Drew University, Perspectives on Political Science
"This particular book, which is intellectual but not overly-academic, constructs the excellent and sophisticated argument that the UN official excuses for their inaction over genocide in Rwanda can be seen as more or less equivalent to pleading 'diminished responsibility' in the court of international public opinion....This study will be of interest and value to the informed general public, as well as to scholars interested in genocide, international relations, the UN, the bureaucratic culture and the wider question of how vastly varying interpretations of facts can be constructed (something Barnett uses to good effect)." Helen Hintjens, Ethnic and Racial Studies
"Barnett's chronology of international turpitude is compellingly written with an eye for telling details gleaned from UN internal documents and his own interviews with key participants....Barnett ends his narrative, in which Dallaire figures as the tragic hero, with a call for an ethic of personal responsibility in the face of pressures for bureaucratic self-protection and political expediency." Jack Snyder, Columbia University, Political Science Quarterly.
Why was the UN a bystander during the Rwandan genocide? Do its sins of omission leave it morally responsible for the hundreds of thousands of dead? Michael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda for much of the genocide. Based on his firsthand experiences, archival work, and interviews with many key participants, he reconstructs the history of the UN's involvement in Rwanda.
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Michael Barnett is Harold Stassen Chair at the Hubert H. Humphrey School and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. His previous books include Confronting the Costs of War: Military Power, State, and Society in Egypt and Israel, and Dialogues in Arab Politics: Negotiations in Regional Order.
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SUWANEE -- As a veteran real estate builder, Carl Riden likes to check out a property before he agrees to develop it.
At a cookout in 2007, Riden heard about the rare property that didn't even need a first look.
"Without even seeing it, I knew it was a great location," said Riden, who has worked in the industry since 1977.
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While 2010 was the most difficult year for both builders, McGinnis Reserve was largely insulated since 2007 from the housing meltdown that ravaged the rest of the state and country. The development maintained its progress, builders and sellers have said, because of three overarching factors: the access to Interstate 85 and Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, being situated next to a park and fountain, and perhaps above all, the Suwanee ZIP code.
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Hewell said the value of homes in the development has held since 2008. Hewell said one resident who bought in 2008 for $400,000 recently had his home appraised for $385,000.
"Location is optimum, but it's much better than Duluth or Lawrenceville," Hewell said. "Suwanee has a totally different character, a neighborhood feel. Most people know each other, it's close knit."
For the first time since 2005, home starts in Suwanee rose in 2011 from the previous year. The city reported that 59 homes were started last year, compared to 43 in 2010 and 32 in 2009. The 10-year high mark was 539 in 2005.
McGinnis Reserve represents a large slice of that growth as the subdivision had 26 of the 59 building permits applied for in Suwanee over the last 12 months. By comparison, the next closest subdivision for most building permits is Suwanee Station with 15.
Timing of the buildout of the subdivision was part of the development's success, Campbell said.
"They had literally just started when the bubble burst," Campbell said. "But they still had these nice assets to attact folks. Whereas in another neighborhood, they might have had some nice assets to attract folks, but the most attractive lots might have already sold if the neighborhood is farther along."
The occupancy rate in the subdivision has risen from 29 percent in 2008 to 72 percent last year.
"Last year was a big turnaround of the neighborhood as far as empty lots going away," said Hewell, who added that Home South sold six homes in December and five in January.
The Home South houses start in the $260,000 range for 2,500 to 3,900 square feet.
At the height of the housing bubble, Hewell said prices started at $329,000, and even touched $500,000.
David Ellis, the executive vice president of the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association, said that price range ($250,000 to $275,000) has been the "sweet spot for sales" in the metro Atlanta area.
The other top-selling areas of the metro area include south Forsyth County, east Cobb County and north Fulton County, Ellis said.
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