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life's Short Play hard: Seven Short Plays From Mark Harvey Levine
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Life, love, Fruit Loops and more take center stage over the course of life's Short Play hard from Above the Curve Theatre. Comprised of seven short plays, life's Short Play hard covers the full spectrum, from laughing to crying, love to cereal. The pieces were penned by festival- and ACT-favorite playwright Mark Harvey Levine (Scripted, Surprise, Superhero), an L.A.-based writer who specializes in the short form. Phil Asta, Kristen Boule, Sarah Desage, Vanessa Forster, Abby Lorenz and Emily Grace Murray direct this ACT production at Actors Workout Studio.
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Regarding the venue - It's a small theater, probably around 50 seats? The seats are low and a bit uncomfortable as they seem to be pretty worn. I had read a tip that it gets cold in there, so I took a shawl, which I used for part of it, but my friend was a bit hot, so go figure. There is one bathroom each for men and women. It's next door, but this is a building where the doors and the venue/offices are rightnexttoeachother, so it's not a big deal. You do have to climb stairs, though.
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They had drinks before the show. I just got a bottled water but my friend got a beer called Tallulah. Cool. There was another called Prohibition. I'm not sure what they had during intermission. We ate after the show at this place called Little Toni's which is right next door. They didn't close until 2am on Saturday, so it was perfect. Food was good. It's like an old-school Italian restaurant.
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About the Ticket Supplier: Above the Curve TheatreAbove The Curve, founded May 2006, in Los Angeles, CA, is a women-driven, actor-derived, nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering female artists and strengthening our community.
Above The Curve Theatre provides a fun and safe environment for artists to cultivate new and current talents. All members are encouraged to write, act, produce and direct, and, while our primary creative outlet is the theatre, we encourage all of our members to explore every medium of the entertainment industry. Our goal is to develop versatile artists capable of creating more dynamic work for women and tackling the most challenging roles.
At the same time, Above The Curve Theatre strives to provide the community with professional productions held to the highest standards of excellence. Through the awesome power of the performing arts, the ensemble hopes to educate and entertain, but it does not stop there, members are also encouraged to give back to our community through group sponsored charity events and outreach programs.


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I have had my rises and falls with bread making over the years, mostly falls, but that can be passed off as the flat foccacia. I usually just grab a packet of dried yeast and go from there, but sourdough is worth pursuing.
Why is Sourdough so good?
Because this traditional bread making method produces the best tasting bread and the best texture.
With its beginnings lost in the mists of time Sourdough or Fermented Dough encourages the baker to work with and enhance the bread's natural ingredients as opposed to the modern method of engineering the end product to fit a plastic bag.
The making of sourdough bread dates back thousands of years, all bread was sourdough before the advent of commercial yeast.
Sourdough bread has a lovely chewy crust and moist wholesome centre, it is more flavoursome than conventional bread and keeps exceptionally well.
It is easy to make in the home kitchen once the starter is established.
Basically sourdough bread is made with a "starter" instead of commercial yeast.
The starter is made by allowing a flour and water mixture to ferment, collecting natural yeasts from the surrounding air.
The starter requires daily feeding with flour and water (similar to a ginger beer "plant").
If you are not making bread on a daily basis the starter can be refrigerated for up to a few months (without feeding), this is called a dormant starter.
Last March as part of the Slow Food group on the mountain I organised 2 sourdough bread making days with a lady at Logan.
Interestingly she started to make her own bread because her children were gluten intolerant, but they can tolerate the sourdough.
We were all very enthusiastic and we came home with a jar of starter and a booklet of recipes. I am sure that we all made a couple of loaves to begin with and then the starter stayed in the fridge and was forgotten about.....and eventually...died.
So it's back to square one, I could contact the baker for some more starter, but I am having a go at making my own!!
There a numerous ways to make it, but they all have one thing in common, and that is the use of organic flours- the processed supermarket ones won't work.
There is one recipe that just uses flour (a mixture of rye and wholemeal) and water, it is left on the bench and beaten twice a day to encourage the natural yeast spores in the air into the dough.
The other two ways are with the addition of grapes and potato water.
So I have three bowls bubbling away; my kitchen looks more like a laboratory than a food preparation area! So in about a week I will be making my own sourdough bread again!
It is thrilling to bake your own beautiful bread!
There are pleasures to every bake that I never tire of: the wonderful aroma that fills the house during the bake, the rising of the dough, the first exposure of the 'crumb' (inside of the bread) when you cut your initial slice – and best of all, the first taste.
There is something grounding, calming, and deeply satisfying about baking.
It really is worth baking your own bread so I am going to persist with the sourdough, but if that fails there are plenty of good bakeries that make it, including a local one at Eagle Heights, here on Tamborine Mountain.
Sour dough comes up beautifully toasted as a winter accompaniment to hot soups and under eggs. I like to use it toasted is as a base for Bruscettas. It looks great with a mixture of colorful vegetable based toppings. They look very impressive on a large white platter.
Here are some of my favorites using produce in season.
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Reply to: A Golden Opportunity?
This is a win-win for both the post office and for low income citizens. Not to mention those in rural locations. These services should be offered in the P.O. as soon as possible.
Reply to: The Postal Service and Its Obligation
Dear Moderator- That does not help at all. I live in the same area as this person and Consumer affairs simply routes the complaint to the local postmaster who then ignores it.
Reply to: The Postal Service and Its Obligation
I have the same experience that you do. I work from home and when a package is scheduled for delivery by the USPS, they never attempt delivery. Never. They always leave a notice that reads 'Sorry we missed you' which if taken literally is not true. No delivery attempts are made and I am forced to drive more than 20 miles to pick up the package that I paid the USPS to deliver to my door. Have I complained officially? Yes. Many times. I file the complaint which is routed directly to the local postmaster who promptly closes the case without contacting me or bothering to address the issue. The one time the local postmaster did address the issue, they informed me that the standard operating procedure for all packages in my area is to not attempt delivery if the mail carrier does not have room in their vehicle for all of the mail plus packages.
Bottom line? The USPS is a system of local fiefdoms where the local postmaster can do as they see fit. When you complain, they ignore it. When you complain to the postmaster general, they also ignore it. It is as if these people want to lose their jobs because I have stopped using the USPS altogether because UPS and FedEx ALWAYS deliver to my door and ON-TIME, EVERY TIME. The USPS, at least in my area, is to be avoided at all costs.
Reply to: Postal Service Customer Service Is It Working for You?
I dont understand , i mail an overnight express,i track it in the middle of the night., it shows when i left at my post office,then it shows acceptance at sorting facility then less than an hour later it shows back at my local p.o. these are different zip codes and the label is a newer one , easy to tell ,to and from, this is not the first time that these same offices did the same thing causing it to not show up for days like 4 days. I overnight because i need it overnight. Why do they make such a unconcerned mistake. And the woman in chrge at my local office is just absolutely mean and says shy don't care and go ahead and report her. She told me off. Told me nothing will happen to her and she hung up on me. I wonder if i will have to deal with her again if this fails. Again. Uuggg!!!
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Not knowing a better forum to pose this question: Can a stamp image (theme) be forthcoming
celebrating our national industry of agriculture? The fields of corn, wheat, fruits and vegetables in its grandeur of production meeting the high yield expectations of our demanding food market - farmers, marketers, machine makers, seed producers, storage operators, fertilizer producers, et al. Our blessings from their efforts and production are not celebrated enough by its (USA) citizenry. Please send this suggestion to a responsive agency.
Thank you very much.
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Reply to: A Golden Opportunity?
Yes, I believe the Post Office should offer non-mail services. Paycheck cashing should be the first and probably easiest. If you offered savings accounts in the past, then I don't see why you couldn't start doing so again. You could also provide an easy way for people to purchase government and savings bonds.
I think the biggest hurdle would be getting approval to start these services, whether it's congressional or internal Postal Service approval. But these seem like good ideas, and you have a history of doing similar things in the past, so hopefully approval will actually not be that big of a hurdle.
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Realign rural routes so that territory is not covered by multiple carriers or miles are not wasted deadheading from one area of a route to another. (You can see an example of this problem on usps.com)--Amen to this! I see a carrier from Sterling entering Great Falls just to get to an area accessible only through a road on Great Falls. I deliver on the right side while she hits the homes on the left side of the street. WE both have to use the same road to get in and out???!!!! Then she goes back out of Great Falls to the rest of her route....it's at least a 5 mile trip for her BEFORE she reaches the mailbox!
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I live in rural Eastern Washington (state) and access to financial services can be difficult at times. Banks are few and far between. Having the option of having some financial services available at post offices would be greatly appreciated. Hopefully, this would also have the benefit of keeping those post offices that are slated for closing to remain open. Unless you have lived in this area, you really do not know the importance to a town to have a post office, it functions as so much more than a place to mail a letter. It literally becomes the hub of the community. it can be a meeting place, a source of local news and information, and a driving force in the local economy. Adding financial services would strengthen an office's role in each community it serves.
Reply to: If you have been to a Post Office with a kiosk, but opted to wait for a clerk instead, what was the basis for your decision?
I am a perfect example of how using self serve can go bad. I was approached at the local post office by an employee as I was standing in a long line. As I had never used the self serve for express mail the employee guided me. Now at the end a very tiny piece if paper came out. Thinking it was my receipt for using my debit card,I asked the employee for my customer tear off copy d om the to and from slip thats put on the outside if the envelope that has the tracking number. The empliyee told me that when you use the machine,you are not allowed to get that copy. Not ever using the self serve before that day,I thanked him and left. The next day I wanted to track my package only to find out,that I could not,because I did not have my copy which I found out infact was suppose to receive that as I requested and the very tinyreceipt that came out of the machine must have dropped out if my pocket so I had nothing to track my very important check. Anyone using this,take a lesson from me and insist on getting YOUR copy of the custom receipt. This employee was absolutely incorrect and was suppose to give me my copy. Now the check I sent has still not been received and it was for a very very important payment,which will now jeopardizes my credit,but will also caused a big problem as a result,which has caused alot stress. We rely on the knowledge and proper training of the post office employees and this was a huge costly lesson for me. Its now 5 days and still did not arrive to the destination and I have no way to track it. The post office blamed me when I asked for their assistance,not holding the employee accoutable at all. When I specifically found out from a good source that the employee was totally incorrect. In the end, I am the one paying the price and they did not even ask anything about their employee.ost office if you are going to put your employees out on the floor to assist customers with self serve,Please make sure they are trained to do so. When we send mail out your errors could really damage us,the public.
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I'm quite enthusiastic over USPO projected plans to expand the breadth and range of services. Citizens are looking to USGOV to give them services in retrn for their hard'earned taxed dollars. So many tax-payer dollars have slipped into the already overstuffed pockets of overpaid CEOs because they were considered too big to pay the price for their sins like tbe rest of us have to. Broader USPO Services are a way USGOV can soothe our ruffled patriotic Bald Eagle feathers!
Reply to: A Golden Opportunity?
This is a great idea; hopefully USPS can also expand in other directions. The Post Office belongs to all of us. Let's keep it that way.
Peace and Good,
Reply to: A Golden Opportunity?
If there were a public, non-profit postal bank that could accept deposits and facilitate (electronically and hard copy) funds transfers, payments and other debits, I would immediately transfer my account there. On a national scale, it means that no matter where I moved, my bank could be my nearest postal branch of appropriate size to handle banking functions. I am on social security now, so why shouldn't my monthly benefit payment go easily from SSA to USPS bank--no need to involve the private banksters in the process. Perhaps I would be able to handle my taxes i n the same way. I TRUST the USPS in a way I will NEVER trust private banks. I encourage USPS to think in terms of facilitating the movement of all kinds of information in service to the public good.
Reply to: A Golden Opportunity?
I am a retired federal employee. I strongly support the US Postal Service but I do not favor the post office offering so many ancillary services. Most lines already are so long at every post office you go to to mail a package, get stamps, or pick up mail. A typical transaction today at the counter takes twice or three times as long as it used to when the PO just sold stamps and excepted packages. Other services should be provided by a separate agency monitored by the government to make sure it doesn't rip off people like Amscot does. Mail services should remain with the federal government and there is no excuse why our PO can't be self supporting the way it was before making it a quasi-federal agency.
Reply to: If you have been to a Post Office with a kiosk, but opted to wait for a clerk instead, what was the basis for your decision?
Can you use the self serve shipping console to ship a box of books via the media rate?
Reply to: A Golden Opportunity?
I strongly support the expansion of the USPS into financial services as a viable business line that would offer expanded and valuable customer services, especially to sectors of American society that now lack low or no-cost mechanisms for fiscal transactions. The development of credit union-type savings and micro-loan programs are badly needed by the working poor as an alternative to predatory businesses that thrive from their misery.
This expansion of services would be a great public service, consistent with the USPS mission. The proposed mission expansion has worked quite well around the world; if properly constructed and managed, it should do likewise here.
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Need to make the entire process easier for International buyers. They are hit with customs charges and brokerage fees that they don't realize are coming in many cases. Integrating those at the point of sale would help. That said, China seems to have a huge advantage on shipping prices that we can't compete with in the USA. As long as that exists, our exports are heading down, not up.
Reply to: If you have been to a Post Office with a kiosk, but opted to wait for a clerk instead, what was the basis for your decision?
I calculated on line the cost to mail a small object in a standard envelope and the price ranged from .71 to .93, However, when I mailed it at the post office counter it cost $2.54! What accounts for the difference??
Reply to: A Golden Opportunity?
Millions of US residents have no bank account and limited internet access. They frequently pay exorbitant fees for simple financial transactions. Implementing these proposals would help them greatly and provide the USPS with additional revenue.
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Hi Dear
Why my package is still in Hollywood ????
Same day I receive package I refuse and Return to Sender, may 23 and today Day is june 2 is 10 days all ready and nothing new , please if you guys no sender they no give me my money back ok
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As we know that shipping costs are so complex and its not that much easy to calculate the price which make customers very sick. so there must be flat rate shipping so that its easy to understand.
Reply to: A Golden Opportunity?
Please save our post offices
Reply to: A Golden Opportunity?
I totally support the Postal Service, its vital to this nations growth. FedEx and UPS can't begin to perform the services that the USPS does and at no where close tot he cost. We should all be calling our idiot congress people and telling them to get their heads out of their arshes and stop the stupid postal service bill that has them paying for medical coverage for workers not born yet, that is just stupid!! Only could our congress pass such a law, they don't even read what they put forward, idiots! We have to demand more from these clowns, for once get something right!
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I feel the American people deserve to keep our U.S Postal Service. There is no reason to dismantle this critical institution. We all depend on our convenient postal infrastructure. Privatization would be a disruption for all of us and should be avoided at all costs. The postal service must be restored to the its prior levels.
I am very concerned about the recent efforts to destroy our U. S. Postal Service. The American People are being misled, the post office is able to pay its bills and is not broke. We have one of the finest systems in the world, it is a safe, accountable and uncorrupted system. It is completely unacceptable and unnecessary for our postal system to be dismantled. It is part of our infrastructure, our communities and our lives. Our postal workers are our trusted friends and neighbors. The retiree prepaid healthcare retirement should be eliminated and the overpaid funds should be returned to the postal service so it can operate as it should. This would not cost us anything, as I understand it, and it could save 120,000 to 220,000 living wage jobs. I am very concerned about this and want to ask you to do everything you can to save our postal system. Dismantling this system would truly be devastating for the American People.
The American People deserve the safe, secure, integrated and accountable system that we have always depended on, the postal service we have always known. I think expanding payroll check cashing, domestic electronic money transfers between post offices, and walk-up bill paying would all be a great idea.
Reply to: A Golden Opportunity?
i support the great postal services the people of this country have now and deserve to have going forward. We cannot afford to lose these services and lose jobs the USPS provides for middle class americans. We have lost so much to privatized businesses and outsourcing , we cannot afford to lose anymore. The growth of financial services other than the issuance of money orders would be a great way to keep the jobs ant the post office and help middle income americans at the same time.
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I'm glad the office of inspector general found out that closing the post office(s) would be wrong for the public. I use it and I do not want it to go to the highest bidder just because the people running the business of delivering mail can't manage the mail correctly. Its been a long time since its been screwed up so the time to fix it is now. Don't punish the public or the workers they did not do this. Inspector General please don't play politics and help fix it. Thanks.


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A smoked-glass backsplash and marble counter add glamour to this room designed by Calgary's McIntyre Bills design firm. Sculptural pendants and oversized topiaries highlight an island that was redesigned with a streamlined silhouette to accommodate more seating.
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Bob Barker may have retired from his legendary game show, but the price is right tonight in Corpus Christi.
With the help of local sponsors, KOUL-FM/103.7 presents a free concert today at Concrete Street Amphitheater.
Though the show is free, tickets are required, and the only way to get hold of those babies is through the station. Would-be concertgoers had to tune in to the station or log on to its Web site to learn the location of the daily ticket stop. Today marks the last handout. Entrance to the show goes to the first 3,000 ticketholders to arrive.
KOUL Program Director Jim Dandy said the station's free concert series originated as a gesture of gratitude to loyal listeners.
"You can only say 'thank you' in so many ways. This is an opportunity to bring the radio station live to them," he said.
Tonight's line-up includes local acts The Scott Wiggins Band and Robin English.
And behind door No. 1 is country staple Ty Herndon, the event's headlining act. The 1993 Texas Entertainer of the Year enjoyed mainstream popularity in the '90s with hits such as "It Must be Love" and "I Want My Goodbye Back."
The singer reprised his status recently with the release of "Mighty Mighty Love."
Herndon's show marks the second KOUL free concert in 2007. Typically, the station organizes four free shows each year. Dandy said all 3,000 tickets were used for the Tracy Lawrence concert in April, and he expects a similar turnout tonight.
The program director said Herndon will appeal to Texas music fans. Those whose tastes veer toward Texas country music that is more distilled will find a prize in Robin English as well as The Scott Wiggins Band.
The latter describes its genre as progressive country.
"We're not really honky tonk but we're not too rocked up, either," said frontman Scott Wiggins.
Wiggins and his bandmates recently recorded their sophomore album. After exhausting the bar circuit, the group, which formed in Corpus Christi, cannot help but take stock. Last month, the band helped open for Robert Earl Keen at Texas Uprising.
"It feels like we're going somewhere," Wiggins said.
When he heard Herndon was headlining tonight's concert, Wiggins looked him up on MySpace. To his delight, he realized the star was an old favorite of his.
"I used to jam him when I was in junior high. I love his music," the 23-year-old said.
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By Linda D. KozarynAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 19, 2000 In the midst of the pomp and circumstance, the ruffles and flourishes, a simple gesture by Navy Secretary Richard Danzig showed the regard senior leaders have for members of the military team.
The Pentagon celebrated the 50th anniversary of Armed Forces Day with a full honors review here May 18. Defense Secretary William S. Cohen and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Henry H. Shelton 'trooped the line' of service members assembled at the River Parade Field.
Following relatively brief remarks by the two Pentagon leaders, the military units 'passed in review.' That's when the Navy secretary stepped out of line.
As flag-bearing service members paraded past Cohen and Shelton, the wind took a sailor's hat. Those following carefully stepped around the white 'dixie cup' where it came to rest on the green parade field.
When the marching troops cleared, Danzig briskly stepped out from the VIP section. Striding across the field, he grabbed the errant cap and turned back toward his seat. Passing Cohen and Shelton, the Navy secretary waved the dixie cup, smiled and said, "I think this is my job."
Danzig, the Navy's top civilian leader, demonstrated the credo common throughout the services, 'The military takes care of its own.' That inherent obligation is at the heart of the military's total force team. As Danzig showed, it applies to those at the top of the flagpole as well as to those who swab the decks.
What Danzig's spontaneous gesture and off-the-cuff remark expressed, Cohen and Shelton put into words. Both paid tribute to the men and women in uniform and the defense department civilians who make up the military team.
Cohen recognized 300 service members and DoD civilians in the audience chosen to represent "all those who perform extraordinary deeds on behalf of the nation."
"They do this each day with little fanfare and all too little recognition to keep this country safe and strong," Cohen said. They are the nation's "unsung heroes" because they "preserve the blessings of freedom through lives of dedication and devotion."
Cohen closed his remarks quoting World War II correspondent Ernie Pyle who wrote about average American GIs. Cohen said: "He captured the essence of our celebration with these words, 'In the end, they're the ones that wars can't be won without.'"
Shelton opened his tribute highlighting the history of Armed Forces Day. "Fifty years ago," he said, "President Truman issued a proclamation establishing Armed Forces Day to celebrate the consolidation of all military forces under a single department.
"The theme for that day in 1950 was 'Teamed for Defense,'" Shelton said. "Fifty years later, that truth rings truer than ever. Today's defense team is a dedicated and hardworking group of individuals from every service, to include the civil service."
Shelton saluted military men and women at home and overseas who provide the "grit, and the muscle, the courage and the sweat that makes our military work." He said the military team also includes "the great civilian workforce whose hard work and dedication are indispensable and contributes immeasurably to helping maintain the preeminent military force in the world today."
Just as the wind had lifted the sailor's hat, Mother Nature also had a hand in bringing the morning's military review to an unexpected and rather unceremonious close. Instead of a dozen Army Golden Knight paratroopers descending on the parade field as planned, only two reached the intended target. The others landed safely -- wherever the winds took them.
Motorists passing the Pentagon must have been surprised to see a Golden Knight and his billowing orange parachute come to rest near a nearby highway.


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The two clubs are set to meet in a highly charged FA Cup second-round clash this weekend, the first game between them since AFC were formed 10 years ago in response to Wimbledon's move to Milton Keynes.
"They asked us not to (go)," Robinson told the Football League podcast.
"That's what we've got to respect. They played at Morecambe at the weekend and (MK Dons scout) Alex Rae went down. We've watched DVDs and everything else and we've tried to do our job.
"We're a professional football club and we've got to rise above any negativity. I'm sure AFC Wimbledon want to do the same."
AFC Wimbledon have told BBC Sport that MK Dons staff were welcome at Kingsmeadow but suggested they should not wear club clothing. The club also expressed concern that Robinson's presence at the ground could prove inflammatory.


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A method of fabricating an array of vertical-cavity, surface-emitting lasers that allows the lasers to be phase-locked and the resulting device. The growth of the laterally unpatterned epitaxial vertical-cavity structure includes an upper mirror which is only partially reflective. A gold layer supplies the final reflectivity. A grip pattern is then etched in the gold layer, and a lower reflectivity metal layer is deposited over the gold layer and into the grid. The lower reflectivity metal both provides a common contact to the laser elements but also degrades the mirror reflectivity in the grid portion. The lower reflectivity prevents the grid portion from lasing. The areas within the grid pattern are separate lasers, but they are so closely separated that they lase coherently among themselves.
1. In an array of lasers, an optical structure comprising:
a crystalline substrate;
a lower interference mirror epitaxially formed on said substrate and comprising a plurality of pairs of layers of differing refractive indices and of optical thickness λ/4;
an active layer epitaxially formed over said lower mirror and emitting at a wavelength equal to λ;
an upper interference mirror formed over said active layer and comprising a plurality of pairs of layers of differing refractive indices and of optical thickness λ/4, a optical distance between said upper and lower interference mirrors having a predetermined relationship to λ; and
a laterally arranged array of reflectively differing portions, comprising first portions of higher reflectivity and second portions of lower reflectivity, formed on said upper interference mirror with said second portions of lesser reflectivity electrically coupling said first portions of higher reflectivity.
2. An optical structure as recited in claim 1, wherein said array of reflectively differing portions comprises
a laterally arranged array of metallic reflectors formed over said upper interference mirror, wherein said lower interference mirror, said active layer, and a major portion of said upper interference mirror are laterally unpatterned below said array of metallic reflectors.
3. An optical structure as recited in claim 2, further comprising a conductive metal of lower reflectivity than said metallic reflectors formed between elements of said array of said metallic reflectors.
4. An optical structure as recited in claim 2, further comprising a plurality of electrical contacts connected to respective ones of said metallic reflectors.
5. An optical structure array of lasers as recited in claim 11, wherein said lower and upper interference mirrors and said active layer produce an array of laser elements laterally defined by said reflectively differing portions, neighboring ones of said laser elements being sufficiently optically coupled across said portions of lesser reflectivity that said array of laser elements are capable of emitting light conherently between them.
6. An optical structure as recited in claim 1, wherein said reflectively differing portions are arranged in a repeating structure.
7. An optical structure as recited in claim 6, wherein said repeating structure is a linear array.
8. An optical structure as recited in claim 1, wherein said reflectively differing portions define an array of laser elements and further comprising separate electrodes attached to respective ones of said laser elements.
9. In an array of lasers, an optical structure comprising:
a crystalline substrate;
a lower interference mirror epitaxially formed on said substrate and comprising a plurality of pairs of layers of differing refractive indices and of optical thickness λ/4;
an active layer epitaxially formed over said lower mirror and emitting at a wavelength equal to λ;
an upper interference mirror formed over said active layer and comprising a plurality of pairs of layers of differing refractive indices and of optical thickness λ/4, a optical distance between said upper and lower interference mirrors having a predetermined relationship to λ; and
a laterally arranged array of reflectively differing portions formed on said upper interference mirror with portions of lesser reflectivity formed therebetween, wherein said laterally arranged array is a repeating structure of a circularly arranged array closed upon itself and having 2N laser elements laterally defined by said reflectively differing portions, N>2.
10. An optical structure as recited in claim 9, wherein N=3, and further comprising another laser element defined by said reflectively differing portions disposed within said circularly arranged array, all of said laser elements having hexagonal shapes.
11. An optical structure as recited in claim 9, wherein said reflectively differing portions are electrically connected.
12. In an array of lasers, an optical structure comprising:
a crystalline substrate;
a laterally undefined structure formed on said substrate including a lower interference mirror, an active region, and an upper interference mirror, said active region capable of emitting light of a wavelength under electrical excitation, said upper and lower interference mirrors being separated by an optical distance related to said wavelength; and
an array of highly reflective metallic portions formed on said laterally undefined structure and separated by portions of lower reflectivity, whereby resonant cavities are formed for light of said wavelength beneath respective ones of said metallic portions, neighboring ones of said metallic portions being separated by a sufficiently small distance such that light in said resonant cavities beneath said neighboring metallic portions is phase locked.
The invention generally relates to surface emitting lasers. In particular, the invention relates to arrays of vertical-cavity, surface-emitting lasers defined by reflectivity variations.
The first sizable array of vertical-cavity, surface-emitting lasers was disclosed by Jewell et al. in U.S. Pat. No. 4,949,350. They first grew a vertical-cavity Fabry-Perot resonator structure on a substrate. The initial structure was laterally undefined. Vertically, it consisted of upper and lower interference mirrors separated by an optical distance equal to the lasing wavelength. The mirrors sandwiched an active layer of several quantum well layers, which emitted light at the lasing wavelength when current was passed through them. All the layers were III-V semiconductors epitaxially deposited by molecular beam epitaxy on the conductive GaAs substrate. The layers above the active region were p-type, while those below were n-type so as to form a laser diode. A layer of gold was then deposited over the upper mirror.
The laser array was then laterally defined by a photolithographic definition of a nickel mask above the intended lasers followed by chemically assisted, ion-beam etching. The ion-beam etching was carried through the entire vertical-cavity structure so as to create an array of pillars having heights of more than 5 μm. Each pillar was a separate laser and was electrically selected by contacting the metal at the top of the respective pillar. The conductive substrate served as a common counter electrode. Light was emitted through the substrate. Jewell et al. demonstrated their invention with lasers having diameters ranging down to 2 μm. Thus, it became possible to fabricate extremely dense arrays of lasers.
The pillar lasers of Jewell et al. suffer from several problems. Electrical contact needs to be made to the top of the high aspect-ratio pillars. For small pillar lasers, the relatively large sidewalls cause excessive recombination. Heat cannot be efficiently dissipated in the pillar structure. The sophisticated processing of Jewell et al. raises questions of manufacturability. They suggested planarization with polyimide which would maintain the index-guide optical waveguiding function and current confining function of the previously defined pillars and ease the contacting problem. Work is progressing on this approach and on regrowth with insulating AlGaAs, which would help solve the recombination and thermal dissipation problems, but the results are not totally satisfactory.
Orenstein et al. have disclosed a planarized array of vertical-cavity, surface-emitting lasers in U.S. patent application, Ser. No. 480,117, filed Feb. 14, 1990, in "Lateral definition of high performance surface emitting lasers by planarity preserving ion implantation processes," Conference Proceedings, CLEO, May 21-25, 1990, pages 504-505 and in "Vertical-cavity surface-emitting InGaAs/GaAs lasers with planar lateral definition," Applied Physics Letters, volume 56, 1990, pages 2384-2386. They grew the same vertical-cavity structure as in the Jewell et al. array. However, they performed the lateral definition by ion implanting protons in regions surrounding the intended lasers and extending down to just above the active layer. The protons reduced the conductivity of the implanted region. Thereby, current was guided through the laser area. Thus Orenstein et al. retained the current guiding of Jewell et al. but sacrificed their index guiding since the protons did not have a significant effect on the refractive index. The deep ion implantation of their technique places a lower limit on the size of the lasers and the separation between lasers.
Although vertical-cavity, surface-emitting lasers provide the advantage of lasers of very small area and low threshold current, some applications require high optical power. In principle, a surface-emitting laser can achieve high-power by a simple increase in the cross-section of the lasing region with a constant current density. We have performed experiments that have demonstrated that this technique works only poorly. For larger sized surface-emitting lasers, the produced laser light is filamented into irregularly shaped and perhaps separated lasing areas. Similar filamentation has been observed in edge-emitting diode lasers due to inhomogeneities in the gain and refractive index distributions of the optical waveguides. For vertical-cavity diode lasers, filamentation may additionally arise from spatial variations in mirror reflectivities, which are above 99% because of the short gain length and high cavity finesse. The spatial variations are enough to induce lasing preferentially in some regions but not in others. A side from efficiency and thermal problems, the sparsely connected filaments are not likely to be phase-locked or even to have precisely the same frequency. That is, a large area surface-emitting laser tends to lose its laser characteristics. Furthermore, even medium sized lasers (˜5-40 μm in diameter) are bound to oscillate in a large number of modes, the distribution of which is uncontrollable. Some applications need a single mode of high-power lasing light.
Yoo et al. have disclosed an array of small, phase-locked lasers in "Fabrication of a two-dimensional phased array of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers," Applied Physics Letters, volume 56, 1990, pages 1198-1200. In a refinement of the Jewell et al. technique, they fabricated a rectangular array of more than 160 lasers formed within a 25 μm circle. Each laser element had a square size of 1.3 μm and was separated from neighboring laser elements by less than 0.1 μm. The circular array was planarized with polyimide and a common upper electrode attached to all the lasers. The angular distribution of the far-field optical intensity showed substantial, though possibly not complete, phase locking between the lasers. Yoo et al. were able to achieve phase-locking between the strongly waveguiding pillars of Jewell et al. only by the very small separation between pillars and the small areas of the pillars. The calculations of Yoo et al. in "Array Mode Analysis of Two-Dimensional Phased Arrays of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers," IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, volume 26, 1990, pages 1039-1051 have shown this requirement of small laser spacing for strongly waveguided structures. However, such a structure and associated processing produce very high surface recombination on the sides of the pillars because of the large surface-to-volume ratio. As a result, their phase-locked array showed poor efficiency and threshold current, and their phase locking was not complete.
Deppe et al. have disclosed another phase-locked surface-emitting laser array in "Phase-coupled two-dimensional Alx Ga1-x As-GaAs vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser array," Applied Physics Letters, volume 56, 1990, pages 2089-2091. They stopped the epitaxial growth of the vertical cavity with the upper spacer. They then formed a 2 μm wide Mn-Al metallization grid on top of the upper spacer and an insulating dielectric stack on top of the grid-covered spacer. Lasing did not occur beneath the grid.
Phase-locked arrays of lasers present several unique applications. If the laser elements are phase locked with non-zero phase differences, the far-field intensity assumes a multi-lobed or at least off-axis pattern with the details of the patterns depending on the number of elements and the relative phase differences between the elements. If the phase differences are controlled, then the intensity pattern can be controlled.
Accordingly, an object of the invention is to provide a phase-locked array of vertical-cavity, surface-emitting lasers.
Another object of the invention is to provide a planarized array of such lasers.
It is a further object of the invention to control the phase differences of the elements of the array of lasers.
The invention can be summarized as an array of vertical-cavity, surface-emitting lasers in which separate lasers are defined by lateral variations in the reflectivity of the mirrors. For example, an upper interference mirror is only partially reflective in a laterally undefined vertical-cavity laser structure. A high-reflectivity metal covers the upper interference mirror only in the laser portions. A low-reflectivity metal is filled into the gaps of the high-reflectivity metal in the portions between the lasers.
FIG. 1 is a cross-section of an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a graph of light vs. intensity for the embodiment of FIG. 1.
FIGS. 3 and 4 are plan views of further arrangements of phase-locked lasers.
An embodiment of the present invention, illustrated in cross-section in FIG. 1, includes a two-dimensional array of vertical-cavity, surface-emitting lasers in which the laser elements of the array are defined by loss modulation of the upper mirror.
A laterally undefined vertical-cavity laser structure based on InGaAs/GaAs was grown by molecular beam epitaxy, generally following the process disclosed by Jewell et al. but using many of the processing parameters disclosed in the Orenstein et al. patent. A semi-insulating GaAs wafer was used as a substrate 10 on which was deposited a n+ contact layer 12 of GaAs. This structure allows contact to the lower mirror to be made from above the substrate 10. Then there were grown an n-type lower interference mirror 14, an n-type lower spacer 16, an active layer 18, a p-type upper spacer 20, and a p-type upper interference mirror 22. Both the lower and upper mirrors 14 and 22 were composed of alternate quarter-wavelength λ/4 thick layers of AlAs and GaAs, where λ is the emitted laser wavelength of 958.8 nm. Interposed between the AlAs and GaAs layers were AlGaAs superlattices with graded Al concentrations in order to smooth out the layer interfaces, as has been disclosed by Lee et al. in "Room-temperature continuous-wave vertical-cavity single-quantum-well microlaser diodes," Electronics Letters, volume 25, 1989, pages 1377-1378. The lower mirror 14 comprised 20 pairs of AlAs/GaAs pairs; the upper mirror 22 had only 12 pairs in order to make it only partially reflecting. The active layer 18 was centered between the mirrors 14 and 22 and included three In0.2 Ga0.8 As quantum wells, 8 nm thick and undoped. The quantum wells were separated by GaAs barrier layers, 10 nm thick and undoped. The active region was chosen such that it would emit at λ. The spacers 16 and 20 had thicknesses such that the mirrors were separated by an optical distance λ, so as to form a Fabry-Perot cavity. The contact layer 12, the bottom mirror 14, and the bottom spacer 16 were doped with Si to be n-type, while the top spacer 20 and top mirror 22 were doped with Be to be p-type. An unillustrated heavily doped p+ -type layer of GaAs having a 10 nm thickness was the last semiconductor layer deposited on the top mirror 22.
A 300 nm thick gold layer 24 was deposited on the upper mirror 22 and photolithographically masked to define a broad laser area, e.g., 200×200 μm2. The unmasked gold was removed by Ar+ ion milling (500 V, 0.25 A). The gold layer 24 serves both as part of the upper reflector and as the p-contact for the upper mirror 22. The same photoresist mask defining the gold layer 24 further served as an ion-implantation mask for the three-step proton implantation described in the Orenstein et al. references, which created an insulating region 26 surrounding the broad laser area. An alternate method for forming the insulating region 26 is to initially coat the substrate 10 with a SiN4 layer, which is then removed in the broad area of the lasers. The subsequent growth of the vertical-cavity structure forms epitaxially in the opening but is polycrystalline over the SiN4. The polycrystalline material electrically conducts much less than the epitaxial material and thus electrically isolates the broad laser area.
Another photolithographic step formed a photoresist mask which was, for example, a 2 μm wide rectangular grid between 7×7 μm2 small-area lasers arranged in, for example a 20×20 two-dimensional array. Ion milling with Ar+ ions of 500 V at 0.25 A removed the exposed gold and formed individual gold mirror contacts 28. A metal layer 30 of 250 nm of Ti (or Cr) and 3000 nm of Au provided a laterally uniform current contact and also filled the strips between the mirror contacts 28. The Ti/Au or Cr/Au material has a lower reflectivity than Au so that a loss or reflectivity modulation arose between the gold contacts 28 and the Ti/Au or Cr/Au layer 30 filling the intervening strips. An unillustrated contact to the n+ layer 12 was accomplished by chemically etching down to the n+ layer 12 and depositing an AuGe/Au film.
Light was emitted from the bottom of the substrate 10. The light intensity vs. current of a 4×4 array distributed over 40×40 μm2 was measured and is illustrated by curve 40 in FIG. 2. For comparison, a 40×40 μm2 broad-area laser with no reflectivity modulation was fabricated and tested. A comparison of its intensity vs. current curve 42 with that of the micro-laser array shows that the threshold current of 55 mA and efficiency of 14% for the reflectivity-modulated array are somewhat worse than the values of 50 mA and 16% for the broad-area laser. However, the broad-area laser showed severe filamentation already at 110% of the threshold current when its light intensity was measured in the near field. Its far-field pattern was broad and relatively featureless, indicating a lack of coherency across the broad-area laser.
In contrast, the near-field pattern for the loss-modulated laser array showed emission from each of its elements. The far-field patterns were highly featured, regular, and indicated a completely phase-locked emission from the elements. For two-dimensional rectangular arrays, the array always appeared to be in the highest-order supermode, i.e., the anti-phase mode. That is, although all the elements were phase-locked, any element was 180° out of phase with its up to four neighboring elements. The far-field pattern for the highest-order supermode is a 2×2 angularly distributed beam array for any size of rectangular array of coherent lasers. This pattern was observed for a wide variety of rectangular arrays, up to a 25×25 array over an area of 250×250 μm2.
The above process was also used to fabricate various array configurations, one of which was a hexagonal array of lasers similar to one suggested in the Yoo et al. article. As illustrated in plan view in FIG. 3, six lasers 44 having a generally hexagonal shape were arranged in the shape of an empty hexagon or ring. This represented the minimum even number 2N of lasers arranged in an empty circular ring. The lasers 44 were spaced on 10 μm centers, and neighbors were separated by a strip of lower reflectivity of width 2 μm. On testing, the near-field pattern for the six-laser ring showed emission from all elements. The far-field pattern showed a six-beam pattern, which indicates anti-phase locking between neighboring elements. These results demonstrated the feasibility of fan-out to 2N far-field lobes from circular arrays with 2N elements. Yet another array, illustrated in plan view in FIG. 4, was fabricated that differed by the addition of a central laser 46 so that seven lasers were formed in an hexagonal close-packed array. Its near-field pattern showed emission from all lasers 44 and 46. However, the intensity of the central laser was substantially brighter. The far-field pattern showed a hollow-ring structure. Such a pattern is consistent with the hexagonal-ring lasers 44 being phase locked with 0° difference between them, but the central laser 46 being 180° out of phase. Such a result is not unexpected since the close-packed structure does not allow a 180° phase difference between all neighboring lasers 44 and 46. A comparison of these two results shows that a far-field intensity pattern can be controlled by isolating the lasers 44 and 46 and then separately contacting and selectively activating the central laser 46. The electrical isolation can be achieved by extending the duration of the ion beam milling of the gold layer 24 in forming the grid pattern so that it also removed the p+ GaAs layer on the top of the top mirror stack and not filling the milled strips with a conductor. Related control of intensity patterns was demonstrated with a three-element linear array. The far-field intensity pattern changed between activation of: (1) a single laser, (2) two neighboring lasers, (3) the two outside lasers, and (4) all three lasers.
Some of the work underlying the present invention has been disclosed by Orenstein et al. in "Phase Locking of Two-Dimensional Vertical Cavity Semiconductor Laser Arrays with Dynamic Mode Control," Technical Digest of CLEO 1990, Postdeadline paper CPDP29-1, pages 665-666, in "Effects of Array Geometry on the Supermodes of 2-Dimensional Vertical Cavity Semiconductor Laser Arrays," Technical Digest of the LEOS 1990 Annual Meeting, Boston, Mass., paper SDL1.2/MKK7, and in "Planar 2-dimensional arrays of coherently locked vertical cavity surface emitting InGaAs/GaAs laserlet arrays," Program: 48th Annual Device Reserach Conference, June 25-27, 1990, paper VIIIA-4.
The embodiment of FIG. 1 relied upon a differential reflectivity of the metal part of the upper mirror. There are other methods for laterally varying the mirror reflectivity. A photoresist mask patterned into a grid over the gold layer 24 of FIG. 1 could be used to mask a relatively shallow ion implantation performed through the gold layer 24. The implantation can amorphise or simply mix constituents of portions of the upper mirror. Thereby, the refractive indices are changed, and the quarter-wavelength structure in the upper mirror is degraded with a loss of the reflectivity in that portion.
The ability to define the elements in the phase-locked arrays by relatively small patterned changes in the mirror reflectivity relies on the fact that the single-pass gain in these structures is very small. They thus require high reflectivities in the end mirrors, above 99%. Hence, a slight controlled lateral variation of the cavity finesse can define the area. In contrast, filamentation probably results from slight, inadvertent nonuniformities in the cavity finesse caused by variations in the composition or layer thickness across the laser area. If filamentation is to be suppressed, the controlled variations in reflectivity need to be larger in amplitude than the inadvertent variations.
Phase-locking is promoted in the loss-modulated arrays because of the lack of index guiding in the individual lasers. Therefore, there is strong diffraction spreading from the highly reflective portions of the mirrors which operates to spread the optical modes between neighboring lasers. As a result, phase locking can be achieved with relatively large laser separation available with conventional processing in contrast to the 100 nm laser separation required by Yoo et al. to achieve phase locking.
The ability to phase lock an array of lasers is required if the array is to produce steerable beam by introducing a controlled amount of phase difference between the lasers of the array.
The four-beam far-field pattern produced by the rectangular arrays of the embodiment of FIG. 1 would be useful when 4-to-1 fan-out is required. On the other hand, one method to convert the anti-phase supermode to the fundamental mode is to use a phase mask similar to one described by Taneya et al. in "Stable quasi 0° phase mode operation in a laser array diode nearly aligned with a phase shifter," Applied Physics Letters, volume 50, 1987, pages 783-785. The substrate 10 must be thin enough to place its back within the near field of the lasers. A 180° phase-mask array is then formed on the substrate back in registry with the lasers. That is, the optical distance introduced by the phase mask differs by λ/2 between neighboring elements in the rectangular array. Thereby, 180° is added to the phase of alternate elements, bringing all the elements into phase.
The invention thus provides an simple method of defining an array of vertical-cavity, surface-emitting lasers. The method is particularly useful when it is desired that the lasers within the array be phase locked.
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MERCERVILLE, Ohio — The South Gallia volleyball team improved to 6-3 overall this season following a 25-16, 25-19, 25-14 victory over visiting Symmes Valley Monday night in a non-conference matchup in Gallia County.
The host Lady Rebels shook off a slow start in Game 1, rallying back from an 11-6 deficit while scoring 19 of the next 24 points — including the last dozen — to claim an early 1-0 match lead. SGHS never trailed in Game 2 and scored the final seven points in Game 3 to wrap up the straight-game decision.
Shelby Sanders led the Lady Rebel service attack with 19 points and six aces, followed by Brynn Adams with 10 points. Ellie Bostic and Meghan Caldwell both chipped in seven points apiece to the winning cause, while Alicia Hornsby added three points. Sara Bailey and Bailie Corbin also had two points each in the triumph.
Bostic and Caldwell both led the net attack with nine kills apiece, with Caldwell adding three blocks and Bostic adding one block. Adams was next with seven kills, while Corbin recorded one kill. Bailey led the defense with two digs, while Corbin and Sanders had one dig each. Hornsby led the passing game with 25 assists.
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Unlike most Fanfare reviewers, I stumbled into classical music all on my own at age 11 in 1969, with no previous family exposure whatsoever. My mother's preferred "easy listening" music station in the Detroit suburbs was advertising a six-LP set of "100 Great Moments in Music" (actually 150), featuring two-minute excerpts from famous classical works (mostly 19th-century orchestral). My mother said of a couple of snippets from those, "That sounds nice," and my brother and I decided to order it for her as a Christmas present. My mother never listened to a note of it, and my brother soon gravitated to rock music, but I was deeply hooked from the start and have never looked back. (I remember making a list of 21 works from that set and thinking that if I bought those, I would have all the music I would ever need!)
As a teenager buying budget LPs at Korvette's, I acquired a few Odyssey LP issues with Bruno Walter, and with those a musical hero who remains my touchstone for great conducting. In my early 20s my horizons were expanded to opera and historical recordings by a good friend, a philosopher with a Ph.D. in logic and an encyclopedic knowledge of acoustical and early electrical-era singers, who sharpened both my intellectual skills and musical standards. The historical angle dovetailed nicely with my B.A. in history from Wayne State University in Detroit, and an M.A. in history and work on a Ph.D. in the history of science at the University of Chicago. Alas, said Ph.D. was not quite completed, but the research on it provided two unforgettable experiences—eight months in East Berlin in the old DDR during the fall of the Wall and reunion of Germany in 1989–1990, and three months in Jerusalem in 1994. The stay in Berlin included attending the fabled "Ode to Freedom" performance of the Beethoven 9th led by Leonard Bernstein.
Since 1993 I have lived in Philadelphia, where I was finally blessed with a lovely wife (first time for both of us) in 2005. Music remains an avocation rather than a paying vocation (I earn my daily bread toiling in the bowels of the federal bureaucracy), but I attend a regular round of concerts at home and in New York, and avidly devour classical-music publications and broadcasts. My personal collection is modest by the standards of some Fanfare reviewers—about 3,500 CDs, 700 LPs, and a smattering of DVDs—but through other venues (e.g., collections of friends and university and public libraries) I have a far broader acquaintance with recorded repertoire. I am also blessed to have in my larger circle of friends professional musicians, music scholars, and dealers in used classical LPs and private-issue CDs. While my tastes run from Gregorian chant to Penderecki, among my particular interests are historic recordings; brass music (I played trombone, euphonium, and bass tuba as a student); sacred vocal music; and repertoire for the bass voice (my minimally trained basso profundo encompasses almost three octaves, and I serve as cantor at my small church parish). Favorite major composers include Tallis, Schütz, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorák, Bruckner, Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, Sibelius, Hindemith, Shostakovich, and Vaughan Williams; other composers whose works I collect include Bruch, Kalinnikov, and Magnard.


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I had every intention of attending last Thursday's show at Volcanic Theatre Pub by pop-punk-grass band Old Man Markley. Alas, when 9 p.m. rolled around, I was too worn out from fighting a bad cold that had been hanging around my head for a week, and I couldn't drag myself down there.
Fortunately, intrepid Bulletin photographer Andy Tullis was there and he shot a bunch of pictures of the show. Check 'em out!


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Nestling in a beautiful 12 acre woodland setting boasting magnificent views overlooking Watermouth Harbour and Castle, a warm welcome awaits visitors to this friendly family run park. A perfect base for exploring the glorious 'Golden Coast', Lorna Doone country, wild Exmoor and the lively towns of Ilfracombe and Barnstaple.
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Great budget stay. Accomdation was pretty basic, but the location & view at the club house made up for this. The children's outdoor play area was also made use of!
had a fantastic week in willows 4 lodge! great base for exploring North Devon. great facilities with pools and restaurant for food. only complaint- bed extremely hard and uncomfortable! would stay here again in the future
Fantastic time great site, close to everything in a great location, we will definitely go back
it was a lovely place 2 stay and we enjoyed it very much and the family enjoyed both pools thank you
Fifth time staying there. Lovely holiday. Will be going again.
Lovely location - good base for travelling around the area.
Apart from the pool being on the cold side, I cannot fault this place! Lodges were clean and had everything we needed. Location is great.
Westayed a week-restaurant open only evenings 5-8 friday to monday/no meals lunchtimes.Very disappointing as mid May-not out of season by any means
Comfortable, modern and in a beautiful setting, this was the perfect base from which to explore the beautiful North Devon coast. The lodges we rented were nestled behind the castle with lovely views over Watermouth Harbour. There is a variety of wildlife on the doorstep and beautiful coastal walks and not forgetting pretty Combe Martin, Ilfracombe and Woolacombe all close by. We wouldn't hesitate coming back.
excellent location and basic but adequate accommodation, need to try and cut some trees down to allow more sun in !!!, overall very satisfied
The only thing that it could do with is wifi in the cabins and not just the reception area
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We really enjoyed our time at Watermouth Lodges. It was a quiet place to stay and would possibly consider staying again in the future.
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Reception area & bar / restaurant welcoming. Although we didn't use them play area & pools looked inviting.
Very pleasantly surprised as they didn't put any pictures of the interior of willows 4 so we weren't expecting much but they were very clean and well kept lodges with everything you could need with great facilities in site


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While US customers are still waiting for the new F10 M5 to hit showroom floors later next year, European tuners have begun to have access to and tinker with the 2013 M5. Germany based tuner PP Performance have posted the first independent dyno runs of the F10 M5.
This F10 M5 put down 444 BHP to the wheels on a MAHA LPS 3000 dyno. This translates to an estimated engine power of 573.7 BHP and 721 NM of torque.
Other tuners such as G-Power have already got their … CONTINUED
The 2013 BMW F10 M5 recently made its US public debut at the LA Autoshow in a stunning frozen silver color.
From the event and next to this F10 M5, Matt Russell, Manager, M Brand BMWNA, provides this overview of the 2013 BMW M5 (F10) in 90 seconds.
One of only two F10 M5s rolled into a NJ Cars and Coffee meet this weekend, showing off its 6 speed manual transmission and posing with its M5 predecessors. The M5 was driven to the event by the US M division product planner.
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Semaj Christon earned another BIG EAST honor.
Jan. 27, 2014
CINCINNATI --- Xavier University sophomore Semaj Christon has been selected to the five-member BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll. Christon averaged 22.5 points per game in games this past week at DePaul and at Providence, while shooting 54 percent from the field (14-26) and 85 percent (17-20) from the free throw line. Christon also added 2.5 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game.
Christon has now been named to the five-member BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll selected by the BIG EAST Conference five times so far this season, including three out of the last four weeks.
For BIG EAST Conference play, Christon has averaged 21.1 points (third in the BIG EAST), 3.9 assists (seventh in the BIG EAST), 3.3 rebounds and 1.6 steals (fifth in the BIG EAST), while shooting 59.1 percent from the field (second in the BIG EAST), including 79.6 percent from the free-throw line (14th in the BIG EAST).
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By Karen ParrishAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30, 2011 Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta announced Dec. 28 that President Barack Obama has nominated Navy Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III for reappointment to the rank of admiral and for assignment as commander, U.S. Pacific Command, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Locklear is currently serving as commander, U.S. Naval Forces, Europe; commander, U.S. Naval Forces Africa; and commander, Allied Joint Forces Command, Naples, Italy.
Pacific Command is likely to assume increasing importance in the coming years, as senior government officials including Obama, Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton have all spoken in recent months about the Asia-Pacific region's increasing strategic importance.
During a visit to the region in November, Obama said as the United States plans for the future, "we will allocate the resources necessary to maintain our strong military presence in this region. We will preserve our unique ability to project power and deter threats to peace."
The nation's enduring interest in the Pacific region requires its enduring presence, the president said. "The United States is a Pacific power, and we are here to stay," he added.
Locklear this year commanded Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn, the U.S. part of the coalition effort aimed at protecting the people of Libya from forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi and establishing a no-fly zone over the nation. The overall name of the NATO-led operation was Operation Unified Protector.
Locklear graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1977. His career as a surface warfare officer culminated in command of the USS Leftwich. Subsequent fleet command assignments include commander, Destroyer Squadron Two; commander, Nimitz Strike Group; and commander, U.S. 3rd Fleet.
Locklear has served ashore as executive assistant to the vice chief of naval operations; the 78th commandant of midshipmen, U.S. Naval Academy; director, assessment division; and director, programming division. Before his current assignment, he served as director of the Navy Staff from July 2, 2009, to Sept. 10, 2010.
Locklear is a 1992 graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, and holds a master's degree in public administration from George Washington University.
If confirmed as Pacom commander, Locklear will replace Navy Adm. Robert F. Willard, who has served in that position since Oct. 19, 2009.
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Housing for New Hope celebrates graduates, milestones
The rain that fell Sunday was likened to the tears that were shed during the graduation and milestone ceremony for Housing for New Hope.
Inside the Duke University Chapel, people were recognized for having overcome adversity and taking another chance at happy, productive and successful life.
"These are people who have been faced with homelessness, addiction, having their families turn their backs on them and other internal things as well as external things," said Terry Allebaugh, executive director of Housing for New Hope. "It took perseverance to get to this point and we're here today to honor those who made that transition.
"You have been very successful in finding housing and maintaining a positive life and we want to say 'way to go.'
"Our success comes when you don't become homeless again but continue on with your lives," Allebaugh continued. "You make our housing into a home. There are two great things happening here, the change you're making in your life and each of you are making Durham a better place to live."
Housing for New Hope began in 1992 and is a non-profit organization that serves the needs of homeless individuals and those at risk of homelessness in Durham and Orange counties. Its mission is to prevent and end homelessness by providing access to healthcare, housing and integrated services.
The Rev. Robert Kaynor of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church told the graduates and those celebrating milestones that they "never cease to inspire me."
"If we don't keep focus on where we're going, we'll lose our way and that's why it's so important to honor those here today because they know what can happen when you lose your way," Kaynor said. "You have worked for it. You have paid your dues. You have struggles and you understand. Y'all know how precious a home is. It's not the four walls or the roof. It's you."
Several graduates have gone on to secure permanent employment and housing and even married. One is Danny Turner.
Recognized by Marigny Manson, a Housing for New Hope outreach nurse, Turner fought back tears as he said thank you.
"I know what it's like to be down and have nothing," he said. "But I never gave up. I know how hard it can get."
"Thank you. Thank you for your courage, your humility and for the ways you have let other people's love change you," Kaynor said. "Y'all have reached some important milestones and we take some comfort because if it is possible for you, it is possible for us."


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Federal health officials now recommend regular, routine testing for the AIDS virus for all Americans age 13 to 64, saying an HIV test should be as common as a cholesterol check. Question: Do you think Americans will adhere to this suggestion and test themselves for HIV regularly? [Read More]
Muslims vs. the Pope
Some Muslims insist that Pope Benedict XVI did not go far enough in an apology following comments he made last week about the Prophet Muhammad's teachings. Question: Do you think the Pope needs to go further? Also, read Imam Ahmed Kobeisy's view on this issue in his Perspective on Islam blog. [Read More]
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Bankruptcy and charity
A federal bankruptcy judge recently ruled against an Adirondacks couple who had filed a Chapter 13 petition, but asked to be allowed to continue making $100 monthly donations to their church while paying off debts. The ruling allows credit card companies and other parties owed money the first crack at debtors' income, but many consider the […] [Read More]
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Rensselaer County District Attorney Patricia DeAngelis agreed to a plea deal today in the case of Christine Wilhem, the woman convicted in 2003 in the drowning of her son, Luke, 4, and attempted drowning of his brother, Peter, then 5. Read the story. Following her conviction, Wilhelm had been sentenced to 46 years to life […] [Read More]
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Updated at: 11/08/2012 11:49 PM
By: Don Hudson
People in the Rochester area continue to help those in need down state. Nurses, Red Cross volunteers and firefighters are on the ground. Meanwhile, others are gathering supplies.
A 25 foot rental truck that is filled with emergency supplies from the Henrietta Fire Department and hundreds of donors is on its way to Staten Island.
News10NBC talked to donors, firefighters and a nurse on the ground on long island about the need for help and the incredible people making that happen.
Donations pour into Henrietta Fire Station Number Four on Bailey Road.
Anthony Deasserino said, "We brought in some batteries and some flashlights. Heard it on the news that they needed it down there."
Anthony Deasserino's supplies are added to donations from others, then stacked and then packed into a rental truck, along with a lot of concern, compassion and support.
Deasserino said, "I know how it come be if it were here. What goes around comes around. It might be here someday."
Firefighters and their families keep the emergency supplies also known as the precious cargo moving.
Lt. Hank Graf, Henrietta Fire Department said, "The stuff they are bringing in is exactly what they need."
The they that Lt. Hank graf is talking about are the people without electricity or running water or warm blankets in places like Staten Island. And a truck full of relief will be in the hands of those who need it in the morning.
Lt. Graf said, "This stuff is going from this community to that community it is not going to a warehouse it is going to the people."
Rochester nurse, Dorothy DeRoque, who is on Long Island providing first aid to rescuers and volunteers right now said the supplies are needed in a big way.
DeRoque said, "The site I am at is on generators and because of the snow storm a lot of the electricity that was restored was knocked out again."
DeRoque says the latest snow storm just added to the issues caused by Sandy.
DeRoque said, "I know we had trouble on the site with tents flying away and electricity going out. And on my way here there were trees on the highways and police were blocking the roadways."
Dorothy says she is just one of a wave of Rochester General Hospital nurses who are helping. She says 15 more nurses are headed that way and will be going door to door on Staten Island Friday to assist anyone with a medical problem.
Dorothy was actually headed out of the country to deliver aid, but then was rerouted to Long Island. She had actually planned a trip to Haiti to help out there with relief efforts, but Hurricane Sandy canceled that. So she says she already had the vacation time off so she thought it would be a perfect opportunity to help closer to home.


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Hello readers. Been away for about a month. Don't really have an accounting for myself. Time passed. Things were done. Other things weren't done. Back now.
Happy birthday to Harlan Ellison who turns 80 today. He is my absolute favorite short story writer and the most adorable curmudgeon out there. Read a story or ten of his to celebrate.
Many things have been piling up on my desktop over the last month. I hope you find them amusing!
Hey all -
Hope you've had a good last week. Amusingly enough, I didn't have a whole lot to post from last week so I had to wait a few extra days before some goodies came to my attention. I hope you enjoy these!
I'm still trying to find the time to finish the Berlin installment of the latest Shadowrun Returns game in order to review it properly here. So far it's great, but I'm only about 10 hours of gameplay in.
Also, I picked up a game for the iPad (and other systems) called Dragons of Atlantis: Heirs of the Dragon. It's a "free to play" city-building-in-a-pvp-world type game. I played Evony back in the day for a while until the pvp stuff eventually drove me away from it. The interface on a touch screen is great. And it has neat added features like building mythical troop units (minotaurs, dragons, ogres) and you can raise an epic dragon to defend your city. If you like this sort of game, give it a try.Read More
Hola all – please enjoy some amusements I found online in the past week!
Lastly, you know I'm a big fan of Tabletop, the Geek & Sundry web show hosted by Wil Wheaton on YouTube. They've decided to crowdsource the third season of the show over on Indiegogo. Check out the campaign and give if you can. If he can reach $1m, we will get a third season of Tabletop with 20 episodes AND a new spin-off show all about roleplaying games. THAT is something I really want to see!
Enjoy your week!Read More
|I caught Captain America: The Winter Soldier last night, and it is a fantastic film. (spoiler-free)
I wasn't a big fan of the first one. Sue me. Superman doesn't appeal to me for the same reason Captain America doesn't appeal. Do-gooders are boring.
This film, however, takes Cap and makes him interesting – which is a thing I never thought I'd see. There's plenty of action in the film, as one would expect from a Marvel superhero film, but the thing I noticed the most were the quiet scenes. And there were a good number of quiet scenes.
These scenes allowed the viewer to reflect, to appreciate the growing relationships between various sets of characters. You don't see a lot of quiet in action films these days.
Yes, Cap is still a do-gooder. But he agonizes over that fact. The fact that he is constitutionally incapable of taking the easy way, doing things expediently, taking missions which are morally grey, makes him agonize over his place in the world. As Nick Fury says early on, Black Widow has no such compunctions. That's what makes them such a great team. It certainly doesn't hurt that Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson have great on-screen chemistry.
Marvel fans will get a number of happy moments, none of which I'll spoil here. Suffice it to say – there are two "extras" at the end of the film. One mid-way through the credits and one at the very end of the credits. Stay for both!
If you are watching Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., you should get out to see this film within the next day. Marvel is doing an unprecedented thing by having Cap2 impact Agents starting tomorrow night. They've given fans opening weekend to see the film so that you're up to date.
If you want your spoilers, there are a couple of articles that have been written that do a far more exhaustive job pouring over the film than I would be able to do.