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I mixed up my DIY white chalk paint mixture, then tinted it a dark grey with black acrylic paint. I applied 3 coats to the tray, then rubbed it all over with chalk, wiped it off and presto! A very quick and simple project with a great result.
I loved it so much that I propped it up on our entryway table for everyone to see when they walked in.
3 years later and I still love and use it in the entryway and on the coffee table in the lounge room.
I have a few of these chalkboard trays hanging around too!


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Local Legoland
A strange world exists in a back room of Aloha Pools & Spas in Paducah. It encompasses a city street, the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower, the London Bridge, the Millennium Falcon from the Star Wars movie franchise and more.
And it's all made of LEGO bricks.
"It is, I think, really good for him," Tiffany Watson says of her son, Walker—the boy who assembled the LEGO sets. "He really enjoys it, and it's good when you can see that in your kid—something that they just absolutely enjoy and gives them a sense of accomplishment."
For the past eight years, Walker Watson, 12, has spent countless hours piecing LEGO bricks together to create miniature wonders. He says he began his first major project, the Eiffel Tower, with his uncle when he was about four years old, and by the time he finished it, he was hooked.
"It's just something that I really like to do," he says. "I can't really explain it. … I just really like things to be organized and to look nice."
Tiffany says her son follows the LEGO instructions meticulously and gets into a zone when he builds. He's completely focused. Plus, when he works on his models, that's probably the only time he gets a break from his three younger siblings, and she believes that might be a draw as well.
Either way, Tiffany and her husband are so proud of Walker's accomplishments that they gave him a room in Aloha Pools & Spas, where Tiffany serves as manager, as a display area for his sets. They also purchased cheap display cases to house some of his work.
"We enjoy seeing him do it," Walker's father, Chris Watson, says. "We live vicariously through our children."
The boy's LEGO prowess has also become known among his friends and among some of the store patrons. One summer, he even taught "LEGO consulting classes" at Aloha Pools & Spas, and he helped local children build their own sets. In addition, he's attended a LEGO Robotics Camp offered at West Kentucky Community and Technical College and has taken father/son LEGO classes with Chris.
All of this work has resulted in a room full of interesting creations. Walker says some of the sets have increased in worth since he built them. He says the Eiffel Tower is now valued at about $3,000. Tiffany jokes that the LEGO models might put her son through college.
But until then, Walker plans to continue building. One of his ongoing projects is a quaint city street scene consisting of buildings with removable floors. Each floor has its own décor and LEGO people. Walker says he hasn't collected all of the buildings yet and needs to save a bit more Christmas and birthday money to buy them.
The boy gives every indication that his LEGO world will keep expanding. As it does, his parents might need to start looking for more display cases.

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This was a really enjoyable project we completed last August, and a great example of how with a little planning you can create an entirely new space for the whole family to enjoy. Its a small property, but one with lots of potential; the homeowners were looking to make their outdoor space more functional and welcoming. They wanted to create a space that their kids could enjoy which also required minimal maintainance.
Enter the LITTLE Landscapes crew!
New (and much safer) steps to the basement using Unilock Pisa II retaining wall blocks.
With a stunning design that was created by Sylvie De Brabandere, and a modern grey colour scheme created using Unilock Umbriano stones in Midnight Sky and Winter Marvel we were able to create an inviting, eye catching space that makes you excited to be outdoors with family & friends.
We kept the palette clean and sleek with tones ranging from dark slate to light grey, and tied it all together with easy-to-maintain hostas from the client's previous gardens. The seat walls are made out of Unilock's new Rivercreast wall system, and are topped with Banas Kota Black coping stones. This feature offers extra seating when entertaining or relaxing with the kids in the summer, and separates the two areas beautifully. To take you up to the back patio area, we tied it all together with a stunning Banas Kota natural stone step which compliments the colours of the design and keeps the overall look clean & modern.
One of the elements this couple was excited about was the addition of a section of synthetic turf. This is a high quality, very natural looking product that offers comfort for tiny feet as well as the added bonus of a zero maintenance lawn. No more worrying about watering the grass-patch or having to cut the lawn. Since this is the only "grass" on the property it was a perfect way to cut down on maintenance while leaving all the added function of a green space.
Another stunning feature of this job was the addition of carefully placed lighting fixtures. Outdoor lighting is a detail that not only adds safety and visablity to your space but also an element of elegance. Here we inserted lights from InLite into the new deck steps, and on the edges of the Natural Stone Step in the backyard. You'll notice that we've also added accent lighting in the front yard and in the garden areas as well. The extra hint of light in the evenings offers both functionality and beauty.


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Midsomer Murders At The Six Bells In Warborough
Warborough has all the markings of a typical Midsomer village – a cricket pavilion, village green, pretty church and country pub. Located at the side of The Green is The Six Bells pub which has appeared in at least six episodes, once under its own name, but also in the guise of The Quill Inn, The Black Swan and The Luck in the World. Fans of the series will most definitely recognise where DCI Barnaby and Sergeant Troy used to sup a pint whilst discussing the latest case.
Midsomer Mallow in Bloom was filmed on the Green where there is a not dissimilar village festival held every year and the cricket pavilion on the Green appeared as Badger's Drift Village Hall in The Great and the Good.
We recently welcomed the Midsomer team back to the Six Bells for a month of fiming for an episode that will be shown next year! - We will have a showing of the episode in the Pub when it is broadcast!
On Location in Warborough
You will recognise the picturesque village of Warborough in these episodes of the Midsomer Murders series:
The Six Bells has featured in:
BREAKING THE CHAIN ***NEW***
For more information on the Midsomer Murders series and locations, please visit these websites: www.midsomermurders.org -- www.visitmidsomer.com -- www.itv.com/midsomermurders


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It's always a great adventure to hear the songs singers bring to an Open Mic. This February's Open Mic seemed ripe with love songs — as Valentine's Day was just a few days later in the week.
There were traditional love songs and some non-traditional ones sung. But, as an audience member said — "it was all about love".
The DC Cabaret Network Open Mic was held Feb. 10 at the Warehouse with Jeff Tucker on sound and Reenie Codelka as musical director.


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TADAO ANDO'S ARCHITECTURE IN THE LIGHT OF JAPANESE AESTHETICS Jale Nejdet ERZEN In Japan, aesthetics is sovereign in every realm, quotidian or exceptional.... The "traditional Japanese house" is often thought of as a light, airy structure, built of wood, with sliding paper walls lfusuma), translucent paper windows (shojI), straw-matted floors (tataml), and an elaborated display alcove (tokonoma).
Japanese Architecture; Small Houses Ground and Above Roof House: Light Manipulation In Osaka, Japan, this family home for a couple and their two children rises to meet the lack of privacy and day light.... Learn about the important role light plays in Japanese architecture with architects Aki Ishida and Mina Hatano-Kirsch and then experiment with light and shadow by making models with paper and wood.
Japan has an ancient architectural tradition, but is also at the forefront of modern design. In this lesson, we'll explore modern Japanese architecture and see what defines it.
I wish to embody spaces that comprehend Japanese sensitivities in modern architecture. For instance, the continuity between interior and outside space is one of the typical characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture. I often incorporate the space between inside and outside in my architectural proposals, which is similar to the traditional veranda known as engawa.


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About Paul Mercs Concerts
Paul Mercs Concerts (PMC) is a fiercely independent concert promotion company based in Vancouver B.C. that promotes events in venues of every size, throughout all of Canada: from major pro-sports facilities to smaller city arenas, and world-renowned symphony halls to local community theatres.
PMC is extraordinarily proud of the relationships it has nurtured with these venues throughout the country, as well as the media outlets it works with nationwide. PMC is a complete one-stop concert promoting shop for any artist and their representatives, who want to work with one company that truly knows the complete and current guide to concert promoting in all of Canada.
Paul Mercs Concerts was founded by it's President in 1991. By that year Paul Mercs was already an industry veteran having promoted concerts since 1973, when on eleven days notice he presented two sold out Captain Beefheart shows at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver. This was not only the beginning of the modern era of concerts at the Commodore, but it was also the first show of thousands promoted by Paul Mercs and PMC throughout Canada and the U.S. Pacific Northwest.
Forty-five years later, PMC has not lost any of the joy in presenting a great show. Complete artist satisfaction, a full house and an impeccable attention to detail in all aspects of marketing and production have always been of the utmost importance to Paul Mercs, and are the cornerstone of PMC's operation in 2018.


Thinking 'big' can lead to achievement but also trigger fears.
Personal development leaders often counsel us to "think big" about our career dreams and life ambitions, and there are many notable lives of accomplishment we can look to for inspiration.
But dreaming big can also trigger our fears.
In his article What will be your Life Monument?, Mike Litman includes Napoleon Hill, J.K. Rowling and Benjamin Franklin as examples of people who have "built something that will SERVE OTHERS (inspire, entertain) for decades, centuries.
"Their life has been one of SERVICE and with service comes riches and fulfillment.
"Napoleon Hill [author of Think and Grow Rich] passed away almost 27 years ago and he's changing my life right now," Litman adds.
Ben Franklin, he notes, "was a leading author, politician, printer, scientist, philosopher, publisher, inventor, civic activist, and diplomat.
The immediate, what we think and do today is the ground from which we grow our lives, not just our grand dreams.
The image above (by Aliza Dzik) is from the book The Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila.
The castle is in the shape of a spiral – significant as an image of personal growth and change, and of taking on the evolution of our selves and lives as a process.
Our life is not a "monument" we design and build in a short or finite time.
"Maybe 'thinking big' has worked for others, but not me. For years I thought big, big monthly, yearly goals and it was like crawling on hot coals. My progress was sloooww.
"And then I got SO FED UP with 'thinking big' and 'big goals', I knew I had to do something else. So I did the opposite. I made my goals small. Tiny.
"I was furious. I either had to make my business work or go work more hours at a job. So instead of my goal being $10,000 this month. My goal was $300.
"Then I accomplished it. The goal went to $700. Then $1,500.. $4,100. Call this controversial, but for beginner entrepreneurs I believe in the 'magic of thinking small'.
This is an issue that psychologist Robert Maurer, PhD talks about in his article 'Thinking big' could be making you FAIL!
He writes, "When client after client came back to me frustrated, dejected, and overwhelmed with guilt because they hadn't been able to stick to their plan — and had consequently "failed" to achieve what they had set out to do — I began to question the standard approaches to personal change … and to look for a different way.
He goes on to explain that large changes we face – even positive ones – are likely to trigger the fight-or-flight response in the brain; just the thought of change ignites fear.
See his book: One Small Step Can Change Your Life.
J.K. Rowling worked for years to create her first Harry Potter novel, often working at pubs and cafes during her lunch breaks from jobs.
She completed it while unemployed, living on welfare.
In his article Facing The Enemies Within, Jim Rohn declares, "Perseverance is about as important to achievement as gasoline is to driving a car.
This also relates to the idea of obsession, which can of course be "bad" or pathological and destructive, but can also fuel achievement.
There are a number examples of "obsessed" entrepreneurs in the book The Hypomanic Edge : The Link Between (A Little) Craziness and (A Lot of) Success in America.
He cites Van Gogh, Dostoevsky, and Georgia O'Keeffe as examples.
Conversations with Millionaires by Mike Litman.
One Small Step Can Change Your Life – The Kaizen Way to Success CD program by Robert Maurer.


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Longer deal for Longman
Albion winger signs new contract
By Andy Naylor Chief sports reporter
Ryan Longman (centre)
Albion wing prospect Ryan Longman has signed a new one-year deal.
It extends the free-scoring 18-year-old's stay with the Seagulls until July 2020.
Longman has progressed to the under-23s squad this season after impressing last season in the under-18s with 11 goals in 31 league appearances.
Under-23 coach Simon Rusk said, "Ryan has worked very hard during his time at the club, and we have been very impressed with his recent development.
"He put in a number of good performances for the under-18s last season, and I am looking forward to seeing how he progresses with us in the under-23s set-up.
"This new contract is a reward for all of his hard work, and hopefully he can continue to push on and develop even more."
Longman was called up to the under-23 squad on a number of occasions last season. He scored once in nine outings, against Chelsea on the final day.
He also featured three times in the FA Youth Cup, netting in a memorable 3-1 win over Manchester United in the fourth round.
Bosses past and present stick up for Maupay after scuffle
Bournemouth defender Cook ruled out of Albion clash
Maupay involved in heated exchange after final whistle as Albion draw with Villa
Potter disappointed to see points slip away
Grealish punishes Albion again after Trossard opener
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Dial Watches - Our Story - Art for your wrist!
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Alumni works featured at art show
Various alumni show off their art pieces at the Alumni Invitational Art Show after graduating Francis Marion University.
Megan Ogiltree, Staff Writer
The Department of Fine Arts has filled the gallery in the Hyman Fine Arts Center with artwork from FMU graduates for the 2012 Alumni Invitational Art Show.
This year's show is a collection of 35 pieces from 15 FMU graduates that have graduated within the past 17 years. The most recent graduates featured in this year's show graduated this past May.
The Department of Fine Arts puts on an alumni art show every five to seven years. Any alumni who studied art at FMU are invited to display their post-graduate work in the show.
The show features paintings, drawings, ceramics, photographs and graphic design pieces. Each of the four disciplines of art, art education, theatre arts, visual arts and music is represented in the show.
Some of the featured alumni include jewelry designer Raschedda Hannah, who graduated in 2005, and photographer Amber McKenzie, who graduated in 2008.
The show opened on Tuesday, Oct. 2nd, and closed on Friday, Nov. 8th. On the last day, the Department of Fine Arts hosted a closing reception in the gallery from 5-7 p.m. to celebrate the work of the graduates.
Many of the artists that have their work featured in this year's show were in attendance. All alumni, current students and staff were welcomed at the reception.
Following the reception, there was a recital at 7:30 p.m. in the Adele Kassab Recital Hall in FAC.
According to Douglas Gray, a visual arts professor and showcase organizer, there are a number of reasons why the Department of Fine Arts puts on the art show.
Gray explained that showcasing the work of alumni encourages students currently studying art at FMU.
"We hope that it's helpful to current FMU students and it shows them that they can continue producing art even after they graduate," Gray said.
Gray further explained that the Department of Fine Arts also uses this time to speak with the graduates about their experiences at FMU and their post-graduate careers.
"It was good to put the show together because I got to touch base with all of the alumni and hear about what they have been doing since they graduated," Gray said.
Gray expressed his satisfaction with the quantity and quality of the pieces that he received from the alumni this year.
"We seem to have a nice variety, and I think there is something for everyone," Gray said.


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Jose Mourinho is pressing ahead in his pursuit of Gonzalo Higuain, according to reports.
The Napoli forward, who hit 38 goals last season, has been on United's radar for some time.
And Italian journalist Emanuele Giulianelli claims on Tuesday Mourinho phoned Higuain's brother, Nicola, to discuss a deal.
But Higuain is concerned over United's lack of Champions League football next term and is demanding lucrative wages.
United are reportedly plotting a £54million swoop for Atletico Madrid's Saul Niguez.
Mourinho, it is understood, is a big fan of the Spaniard's playing style.
Express Sport understands the former Chelsea boss will be handed a £200m transfer kitty when he takes the reins at Old Trafford.
And the Daily Mail claim Mourinho wants to spend £54m of it on bringing Niguez to England.
Mourinho has also reportedly set his sights on Chelsea midfielder Willian.
The Brazilian was crowned Chelsea Player of the Year and Players' Player of the Year at the west London outfit's awards ceremony last month.
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A nondestructive method is proposed for measuring stripe dimensions in order to grade light-emitting structures such as lasers. The width of the near-field emission parallel to the stripe is measured while the laser is operating below threshold. This measurement is correlated with the actual stripe width and with the possibility of kinks developing in the light output. The width of the far-field emission perpendicular to the junction plane can also be measured, and the product of the two widths can be correlated with the stripe area and the possibility of kinks in the laser output.
This invention relates to the manufacture of semiconductor light-emitting devices and, in particular, to the grading of semiconductor lasers for appropriate applications.
Semiconductor lasers can exhibit nonlinearities or "kinks" in their light output versus current characteristic. The presence of such kinks could disqualify the laser from use in systems requiring high accuracy. Thus, detecting kinks in the light output can be a critical step in reliability. To make matters worse, it is hypothesized that some devices may not exhibit the kink until after field installation when it becomes difficult or impossible to replace the laser. It is, therefore, highly desirable during the manufacturing process to be able to identify devices which exhibit or have the potential for exhibiting kinks in their output. This identification could be done on final device structures. However, it would also be highly beneficial to identify problems early in the fabrication stage to avoid costly processing. For example, if defects could be detected during the wafer state of processing, subsequent metallizations and cleaving could be avoided for unsuitable devices.
It has been suggested that the appearance of kinks depends upon stripe width and stripe thickness (see, e.g., Paoli, "Nonlinearities in the Emission Characteristics of Stripe-Geometry A1GaAs Double Heterostructure Junction Lasers," IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Vol. QE-12, pp. 770-776 (1976), and Dutta et al, Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. LT-2, pp. 160-164 (1984)). In addition, other phenomena which adversely affect laser performance, such as beam wander, may be correlated with the size of the stripe. Thus, a measure of stripe width and thickness could provide a means for determining the acceptability of a laser for high reliability applications. In fact, since stripe thickness is easier to control during laser fabrication, a measure of stripe width alone could be used for grading the laser. Unfortunately, the standard method of measuring stripe width involves techniques which destroy the laser facet or could otherwise introduce damage to the laser.
Consequently, it is a primary object of the invention to provide a nondestructive method of measuring the stripe width of light-emitting structures in order to grade the reliability of the final devices.
This and other objects are achieved in accordance with the invention which is a method of grading the accuracy of the output from a light-emitting stripe geometry structure. An excitation is supplied to the structure so as to produce a spontaneous light emission. The intensity profile of the near-field emission of the structure is measured. The width of the measured intensity profile is then determined, and the laser is graded according to whether the width is above or below a predetermined cut-off value.
FIG. 9 is a graph of far-field width and near-field width for a group of lasers tested in accordance with said further embodiment.
It will be appreciated that for purposes of illustration, these figures are not necessarily drawn to scale.
FIG. 1 illustrates, in cross section, a stripe geometry semiconductor laser, generally known as an etched mesa buried heterostructure, which can make use of the invention. It will be appreciated that this structure is an example only, and the invention should be useful for all stripe geometry light-emitting semiconductor devices.
In this example, the laser included a substrate, 10, which was n-type InP. Formed over the substrate was a buffer layer, 11, which was also n-type InP. Blocking layers 12 and 13 comprising p-type InP were formed over the layer 11 on either side of the active region 14. In this example, the active region was InGaAsP with a thickness of 0.2 μm. The stripe width was in the range 1-4 μm.
Layers 15 and 16 comprising n-type InP were formed over the blocking layers 12 and 13, respectively. A p-type InP clad layer, 17, was formed over the active stripe region, 14. The layers, 15 and 16, were capped by layers, 18 and 19, comprising n-type InGaAsP, while layer, 17, was capped by a p-type InGaAsP layer, 20. A layer, 21, of Cr/Au made electrical contact to the p-side of the semiconductor through a window in insulating layer, 22, which was SiO2. Contact to the substrate was provided by a layer, 23, of Au/Sn.
A schematic illustration of the measurement of near-field emission from such lasers is provided in FIG. 2. The laser, 30, was placed in a cradle, 50, which was mounted on a holder including a stationary portion, 53, and a movable portion 52. A micrometer, 51, provided a fine-tune adjustment of laser position and moved the laser into electrical contact with wires, 54 and 55, which were mounted on the stationary portion of the holder. These wires were coupled to a current source, 37, for driving the laser, while the voltage was monitored across resistor, R, by a voltmeter, 38. The holder was, in turn, mounted on a microscope stage, 32. Attached to the microscope stage were focus knobs, 33, and positioning knobs, 34 and 35, for positioning of the laser in relation to the microscope objective lens, 36.
The laser was viewed through eyepieces 39 and 40 for alignment. A portion of the laser light was projected by lens, 41, into an infrared camera, 42. The camera transmitted the image to a standard video analyzer, 43, which converted the spot from the laser into an intensity profile curve. Coupled to the analyzer was a TV monitor, 44, which displayed the intensity profile of the light output. A standard recorder, 45, was also coupled to the analyzer to produce a permanent recording of the intensity profile in the general form illustrated in the Figure.
Typical near-field intensity profiles obtained from the above technique while the lasers were driven below threshold levels are illustrated in FIGS. 3 and 4. Both curves show the intensity of light output (in arbitrary units) as a function of lateral position across the width of the stripe (a direction parallel to the junction plane). FIG. 3 is the profile for a laser having a stripe width of 1 μm, while FIG. 4 is a profile from a 3 μm stripe laser.
It was determined that for any given near-field width, the uncertainty in the inferred stripe width was ≦±0.05 μm.
The correlation between the occurrence of kinks and stripe width in the laser of this example is illustrated in FIG. 6. Each dot on the Figure represents one laser, with open dots indicating lasers with no kinks and black dots indicating lasers which exhibited kinks upon initial testing. It is also apparent from FIGS. 5 and 6 that the lasers with kinks (e.g., region III) can be separated from most of the lasers without kinks (e.g., region I) by establishing a cut-off based on near-field width. In this example, the cut-off could be approximately 1.7 μm as determined by near-field FWHM. Thus, during manufacture, any lasers with near-field widths above the cut-off would be presumed to either exhibit kinks or have the potential for exhibiting kinks and therefore be down-graded for uses which do not require high accuracy. Of course, the cut-off point for any particular laser structure can be raised or lowered according to the specifications of the system in which the lasers will be installed. Curves similar to those shown in FIGS. 5 and 6 can be generated for other types of stripe geometry lasers in order to correlate the near-field width, the stripe width, and the occurrence of kinks.
One of the advantages of near-field measurements is that they can be performed well below the laser threshold. In this example, laser threshold was approximately 20 mA, and the measurements were made at a current of approximately 1 mA. Subthreshold operation is important since it eliminates spurious modes which can be present in the light output near or above threshold. The use of a small driving current also insures that the test will be harmless to the laser. It is recommended that the current through the laser during near-field measurement be as small as possible so the spontaneous emission will be dependent essentially only upon stripe width. A recommended maximum is less than 10 percent of threshold, but currents as high as 50 percent might be useful. Near-field measurements are also advantageous since they are not affected by phase shifts across the stripe as is often the case with far-field measurements.
It will be understood that in the context of this application, "near-field" emission is intended to mean the light output within a distance of one wavelength of emitted light from the laser facet.
Since the near-field width at half maximum is proportional to the active layer width and the perpendicular far-field width at half maximum (as represented by the far-field angle) is proportional to the active layer thickness, the product of the two values provides a representation of the active layer area. A cut-off value can therefore be based on this product, rather than stripe width alone, in order to separate lasers without kinks from those with kinks. For example, FIG. 9 shows a distribution of laser devices on a plot of perpendicular far-field width at half maximum and near-field width at half maximum, as determined in accordance with the previously described procedures. Here, lasers without kinks are represented by the symbol "0" and lasers with kinks by the symbol "+". The solid line 56 is a line of constant area which provides a useful cut-off value for separating the lasers tested. In this example, the cut-off value was 60 degrees-microns. Again, the cut-off value can be adjusted according to particular needs, and desirable boundaries can be found empirically for other types of lasers.
While the invention has been described in terms of measuring spontaneous emission from completed stripe geometry laser devices, it should not be considered so limited. Since several lasers are usually fabricated from a single semiconductor wafer, it may be possible to grade all such lasers once semiconductor wafer processing is completed and prior to formation of metallization and cleaving into individual devices. This can be done by any excitation of the semiconductor wafers which will produce spontaneous light emission from the stripe region. This excitation can be electrical, as in the previous example, or emission can be induced by application of an appropriate photo-excitation. Grading can also be done, according to the invention, prior to bonding of the devices to heat sinks, since measurements are made well below threshold. Finally, it may be possible to apply the present invention to light-emitting devices other than lasers, such as edge-emitting light-emitting diodes.
It should be understood, therefore, that in the claims, the term "light-emitting stripe geometry structure" is intended to include any structures from wafers to final devices which spontaneously emit light from a stripe upon an appropriate excitation. The term "excitation" is intended to include photo or electrical pumping of the carriers in the semiconductor to produce light emission. Further, the light-emitting structure is not limited to a laser unless otherwise specified.
Various modifications of the disclosed subject matter will become apparent to those skilled in the art. All such variations which basically rely on the teachings through which the invention has advanced the art are properly considered within the spirit and scope of the invention.
grading said structure according to whether the width of the intensity profile is above or below a predetermined cut-off value.
2. The method according to claim 1 wherein the width of the intensity profile is determined by measuring the width of the profile at half its maximum intensity.
3. The method according to claim 1 wherein the light-emitting structure is a laser having a lasing threshold, and the light emission is below the lasing threshold.
4. The method according to claim 3 wherein a current is supplied through the laser during the measurement of the intensity of the near-field and said current is less than 10 percent of the lasing threshold.
5. The method according to claim 1 wherein the cut-off value is chosen to determine if the emission will exhibit a kink.
6. The method according to claim 3 wherein the laser is a buried heterostructure laser.
grading the structure according to whether the product is above or below a predetermined cut-off value.
8. The method according to claim 7 wherein the width of the second intensity profile is determined by the width of said second intensity profile at half its maximum.
D. Botez, "InGaAsP/InP Double-Heterostructure Lasers: Simple Expressions for Wave Confinement, Beamwidth, and Threshold Current over Wide Ranges in Wavelength (1.1-1.65 μm)," IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. QE-17, No. 2, Feb. 1981, pp. 178-186.
E. Oomura et al, "Transverse Mode Control in InGaAsP/InP Buried Crescent Diode Lasers", Electronics Letters, vol. 17, No. 1, Jan. 8, 1981, pp. 83-84.
H. C. Casey, Jr. et al, Heterostructure Lasers, Part B, Academic Press, 1978, pp. 207-217 and 240-242.
K. Mizuishi et al, "Reliability of InGaAsP/InP Buried Heterostructure 1.3 μm Lasers," IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. QE-19, No. 7, Jul., 1983, pp. 1294-1301.
N. K. Dutta et al, "Criterion for Improved Linearity of 1.3 μm InGaAsP-InP Buried-Heterostructure Lasers", Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. LT-2, No. 2, Apr. 1984, pp. 160-164.
T. L. Paoli, "Nonlinearities in the Emission Characteristics of Stripe-Geometry (AlGa) As Double-Heterostructure Junction Lasers", IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. QE-12, No. 12, Dec. 1976, pp. 770-776.


A big day for Magellan AO today. As planned, we packed up our computers and the NAS and moved them to the summit.
We first had to put a little work into the cable that runs power, data, and cooling to the NAS. This is the cable that needs to be wrapped up.
Our computers and ASM electronics are in these nice wheeled racks. It makes us look like a rock band on the road.
The first run to the top was our electronics racks and the CCD cooling system.
This video shows the truck leaving the cleanroom. This was the practice run for the much more delicate NAS.
The Magellan telescopes with the Aux building in between. You can see the truck with our racks and pump just backing up. Click for high resolution.
After lunch, we moved on to the NAS itself. We homed our stages, put on our dust covers, installed the electronics box lids, and threw it on a truck.
Laird and Jared roll the NAS over to the loading dock.
The team is making sure the kick stands on the cart will clear.
The NAS being rolled from the lift onto the truck.
The NAS makes it onto the truck.
All strapped down, we're ready to start the drive.
Jared, Laird, and Jason wait for the drive to start.
The NAS has just left the building. The truck is very carefully backed out of the parking lot so no sharp turns are made.
The NAS about half way up the hill.
This video shows most of the loading process and the drive up the hill.
This video shows the NAS making the last turn at the top.
Just pulling in at the Clay telescope. Home at last.
The NAS arriving at the Clay telescope. Finally.
Unloading got a little tricky. The kickstands again.
The NAS lives in the Aux building between the telescopes when we aren't using it. It's all tucked in for the night.
The last thing we did was fire up the computers in their new home. We've been talking about whether our racks would fit in the equipment room for years. They do.
Tyson, Jared, and Povilas discuss the finer points of caring for lifting straps.
Our mascot supervised most of today's work from a high vantage point.
But our friend couldn't bear to watch the drive up the mountain. Too scary.
The other big news from today was the run's first Guanaco sighting. Laird caught some movement on the side of the hill on our way to lunch, and Jason and I got as close as we could to investigate.
A lone Guanaco watches us suspiciously. Click for high resolution.
This is as close as it let us get. Based on last time, this probably means they'll be all over the place tomorrow. Click for high resolution.


Pebble is a Debian distribution customized for small systems that boot from read-only media, such as a CD or a CompactFlash disk. It is designed to be used for routers, firewalls, wireless access points, or NAT boxes. Right now, all I have here is some kernels, but in the future I'll add some other contributions here.
This is an updated kernel package, using the same configuration as the original Pebble kernel. The MadWiFi driver has also been updated to the most recent CVS version. Install these packages on your Pebble box, update /etc/lilo.conf, run lilo, and reboot. Hopefully it should work. However, if your Pebble box is not physically accessible, I do not recommend installing, as your system may not boot properly with the new kernel.
This is a replacement for Pebble's default kernel. Its adds the IPv6 module, ebtables for Ethernet bridge filtering, TCP ECN and SYN cookies. This kernel will work very nicely with my 6to4 package which automatically configures IPv6 on Debian Linux (coming soon). The madwifi package contains the Atheros drivers for this kernel. You need the ebtables Debian package to use Ethernet bridge firewalling. After installing the new kernel, don't forget to fix /etc/lilo.conf, rerun lilo, and run depmod. This package was built using my Debian kernel package builder.


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Selena Gomez Is Going To Keep Her Blonde Hair
"She's not going anywhere."
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Selena Gomez is going through a bit of a reinvention right now. She's back together with ex Justin Bieber; she's been putting out new music; and, most recently, she dyed her signature dark hair platinum blonde. And, according to the singer herself, it doesn't seem like her metamorphosis is going to stop any time soon.
After Selena debuted the stunning new look at the American Music Awards last month, E! News asked the "Wolves" songstress if the blonde dye was here to stay. "She's not going anywhere," she replied, referring to her (apparently female-identifying) strands. Selena added that she's "still getting to know" her new 'do. It's especially wise of her to keep the dye job a little bit longer, seeing as it took so long to achieve the jaw-dropping look in the first place. In a recent Instagram post, Selena's colorists, Nikki Lee and Riawna Capri, called the color "Nirvana Blonde" and revealed that the transformation took a whopping nine hours.
Selena has clearly been having fun with her makeover: She added rainbow bangs to her look last week to complement the Minnie Mouse ears she stole from her little sister, and she recently rocked a two-tone updo with a bright yellow dress. Clearly, Sel has come a long way since that mid-2000s hair phase that included chunky blonde highlights and extensions.
Hair aside, Selena has been having an overall incredible year. Besides the aforementioned changes, she also went through life-saving kidney transplant surgery and claimed the title of most-followed person on Instagram, scoring half of the top-10 most-liked pictures of the year on the social media app. She's so influential, she recently told Billboard that Kevin Systrom, the co-founder of Instagram, gets mad at her when she doesn't post for a while. Uh, same. More hair pics, Selena!
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Q: Converting SparkR predictions to readable format (number or string) I'm using Spark with R to create a RandomForest model (spark.randomForest) and then predict the labels (classification) for the testing data. The issue I have is that I not only need the 'prediction' column with its label/prediction, but I also need the 'probability' column to be able to export/save that to a file, 'csv' would be great, but in a readable format. The 'probability' column seems to be, from what I've read, an S4 vector and I've been unable to convert that to any readable double/string so far. The resulting data frame is, of course, a Spark DataFrame.
I'm primarily using the 'SparkR' library due to project restrictions.
Could anybody point me in the right direction? TIA.

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Heading into the Christmas season might be the best time of all to consider overhauling or introducing another surveillance camera framework for your home or business. Costs will be lessened for the occasions, and you'll have the capacity to show signs of improvement security innovation than you did only a couple of years back. Hope to pay around $400 for a fundamental arrangement of 4 cameras and an account framework, up to $5250 or more for 16 cameras with low light identification, movement affectability, shading, and indoor in addition to open air capacity. Before you get confounded and run shouting from the room, here are the real indicates consider as you consider your new framework.
It doesn't get more muddled than that, despite the fact that on the off chance that you do what's needed perusing about observation frameworks, you'll absolutely observe enough data to befuddle. Perceive a surveillance camera framework is just an obstruction, not an assurance that you won't have a burglary in your home or business. The main thing the cameras do is catch the occasion. Getting the terrible person is dependent upon you or the police.
It isn't inside and out important to employ a checking organization https://www.securitycameraonline.net/guide/best-4k-security-camera-systems-best-4k-surveillance-system.html to watch your home or business. Upwards of 95% of all alerts created swing going to be false cautions. Numerous organizations charge the property holder, or security administrator for these false cautions on the off chance that they need to send a unit to explore. What you are doing with your surveillance camera framework, is giving an obstacle to the eventual terrible person. You are making your property somewhat less alluring than maybe your neighbors or somebody not far off. We'll take a shot at a home undertaking for this article. Begin your undertaking by mapping the potential zones of breech that may happen. Entryways and windows are obviously the fundamental spots, however there might be specific entryways or windows that you can recognize as a high hazard. Windows that are not confronting a road, for instance, have an abnormal state of interruption probability. Same for entryways.
Once you've chosen where the break ins can happen, search for mounting areas for your security framework. Its here you will need to answer the subject of wired or remote. All cameras ARE wired in some shape or mold. They all need capacity to work, so do search for areas where control is accessible. Wired frameworks for this situation implies a camera that conveys its flag back to the chronicle gadget by utilization of a hard wire association, versus the remote communicate of camera video. There are cameras that work on battery just, however these are not savvy for our venture. A decent method to spare yourself cash is to utilize a solitary gadget to cover various potential assault focuses. One camera can cover different rooms, just by being put in the correct area. Your guide of potential targets will enable you to find the spots you can set aside extra cash.
Note the lighting in the zones that will be checked. Make a camera determination in view of these criteria; a) the most reduced measure of light that may be accessible in the territory b) wired or remote camera area c) movement location with respect to the camera d) shut circuit (CCTV) or advanced (on board recording). Whatever is left of your choice will be about the manner in which the gadget looks, not about the capacity. Select the camera compose and number you have to finish the activity and you are mostly home. One other cash sparing tip. Its NOT the camera that is the costly part – its the camera focal point. A less expensive camera, with an overhauled focal point, can furnish you with the best quality picture at a fundamentally bring down cost. I've utilized this strategy in various homes where I've introduced these frameworks.


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Cross is a well-respected expert in the structural steel industry and has been actively involved in the engineering community for more than four decades. He also has authored more than 50 publications on various industry topics. Prior to joining AISC in 2001, he served as executive vice president of STS Consultants and regional vice president for Beling Consultants.
Cross holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, a master of divinity degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and an MBA from the Keller Graduate School of Management. He has served as a member of the National Board of Advisors and the Commission on the Future at Rose-Hulman and on the Board of Directors of People International USA.


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using System;

namespace InstaSharp
{
    /// <summary>
    /// The Configuration
    /// </summary>
    public class InstagramConfig
    {
        private const string ApiUriDefault = "https://api.instagram.com/v1/";
        private const string OAuthUriDefault = "https://api.instagram.com/oauth/";
        private const string RealTimeApiDefault = "https://api.instagram.com/v1/subscriptions/";
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the API URI.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value>
        /// The API URI.
        /// </value>
        public string ApiUri { get; set; }
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the o authentication URI.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value>
        /// The o authentication URI.
        /// </value>
        public string OAuthUri { get; set; }
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the real time API.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value>
        /// The real time API.
        /// </value>
        public string RealTimeApi { get; set; }
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the client identifier.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value>
        /// The client identifier.
        /// </value>
        public string ClientId { get; set; }
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the client secret.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value>
        /// The client secret.
        /// </value>
        public string ClientSecret { get; set; }
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the redirect URI.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value>
        /// The redirect URI.
        /// </value>
        public string RedirectUri { get; set; }
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the callback URI.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value>
        /// The callback URI.
        /// </value>
        public string CallbackUri { get; set; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="InstagramConfig"/> class.
        /// </summary>
        public InstagramConfig()
            : this(null, null, null, null, ApiUriDefault, OAuthUriDefault, RealTimeApiDefault)
        {
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="InstagramConfig"/> class.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="clientId">The client identifier.</param>
        /// <param name="clientSecret">The client secret.</param>
        public InstagramConfig(string clientId, string clientSecret)
            : this(clientId, clientSecret, null, null, ApiUriDefault, OAuthUriDefault, RealTimeApiDefault)
        {
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="InstagramConfig"/> class.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="clientId">The client identifier.</param>
        /// <param name="clientSecret">The client secret.</param>
        /// <param name="redirectUri">The redirect URI.</param>
        public InstagramConfig(string clientId, string clientSecret, string redirectUri)
            : this(clientId, clientSecret, redirectUri, null, ApiUriDefault, OAuthUriDefault, RealTimeApiDefault)
        {
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="InstagramConfig"/> class.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="clientId">The client identifier.</param>
        /// <param name="clientSecret">The client secret.</param>
        /// <param name="redirectUri">The redirect URI.</param>
        /// <param name="callbackUri">The callback URI.</param>
        public InstagramConfig(string clientId, string clientSecret, string redirectUri, string callbackUri)
            : this(clientId, clientSecret, redirectUri, callbackUri, ApiUriDefault, OAuthUriDefault, RealTimeApiDefault)
        {
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="InstagramConfig"/> class.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="clientId">The client identifier.</param>
        /// <param name="clientSecret">The client secret.</param>
        /// <param name="redirectUri">The redirect URI.</param>
        /// <param name="callbackUri">The callback URI.</param>
        /// <param name="apiUri">The API URI.</param>
        /// <param name="oauthUri">The oauth URI.</param>
        /// <param name="realTimeApi">The real time API.</param>
        public InstagramConfig(string clientId, string clientSecret, string redirectUri, string callbackUri, string apiUri, string oauthUri, string realTimeApi)
        {
            ApiUri = apiUri;
            OAuthUri = oauthUri;
            ClientId = clientId;
            ClientSecret = clientSecret;
            RedirectUri = redirectUri;
            RealTimeApi = realTimeApi;
            CallbackUri = callbackUri;
        }
    }
}

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Q: Linq RemoveAll output? Is there a way to find out which elements where removed using RemoveAll() Linq method?
I want to log which elements were removed if a particular criteria is met.

A: RemoveAll is not a LINQ method, but method defined on particular collection(s?)(List for example). For List it accepts a predicate delegate, which you can define as a statement lambda:
new List<int> { 1 }
    .RemoveAll(i =>
    {
        var toRemove = true; // your logic
        if (toRemove)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(i); // "log"
        }
        return toRemove;
    })

A: List<T>.RemoveAll() doesn't report back what it removes, only how many items it removed, so you'll have to write something yourself. So instead of:
list.RemoveAll(l => l.Foo == 42);

You do it yourself:
foreach (var l in list.ToList())
{
    if (l.Foo == 42)
    {
        // log: removing list
        list.Remove(l);
    }
}

Or move it into a method and pass that as a predicate:
public static void Main()
{
    var list = new List<string> { "11", "22", "33", "42" };

    list.RemoveAll(ToRemove);

    Console.WriteLine(string.Join(", ", list));
}

private static bool ToRemove(string s)
{
    if (s == "42")
    {
        Console.WriteLine($"Removing '{s}'");
        return true;
    }

    return false;
}

A: 1 - Keep original list
var originalList = list.ToList();

2 - Remove items form list
list.RemoveAll(u => u.Id == 1);

3 - Get removed elements
var removedList = originalList.Except(list).ToList();

I hope you find this helpful.

A: What you can do is use the same predicate you pass to RemoveAll to get a list of items:
var mylist = new List<thing>();

var itemstoremove = mylist.Where(x=>x.property == "something").ToList();
_logger.LogItems(itemstoremove);
mylist.RemoveAll(x=>x.property == "something");

If you want to improve the above code, you could create a predicate and share it between the two operations.

A: You could write an extension method for List<T> to help with this, so that you can just pass it a predicate plus a logging Action<T> that will get called with each item that's being removed:
public static class RemoveAllExt
{
    public static int RemoveWithLogging<T>(this List<T> self, Predicate<T> match, Action<T> log)
    {
        bool matchAndLog(T item)
        {
            if (!match(item))
                return false;

            log(item);
            return true;
        }

        return self.RemoveAll(matchAndLog);
    }
}

An example using this to put all the removed items into a separate list:
var numbers = Enumerable.Range(1, 20).ToList();
var removed = new List<int>();

// Remove all numbers that are a multiple of 3, and put removed items into removed[]:

numbers.RemoveWithLogging(n => n % 3 == 0, n => removed.Add(n));

Console.WriteLine("After removal: " + string.Join(", ", numbers));
Console.WriteLine("Removed items: " + string.Join(", ", removed));


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Long live the people's candidate for deputy in the USSR Supreme Soviet, Great Stalin!
Technical Information on Poster: Publication No. 6915; Volume 2 sheets of paper; L.M. 302; Price 1 ruble
Catalog Notes: PP 935 Stalin b
Artist: Vatolina, Nina Nikolaevicha — Ватолина, Нина Николаевна
Nina Vatolina began producing posters in late 1930s and she went to become one of the leading Soviet poster artists of all time. She was a graduate of the Ogiz Technical School for Arts and of the Moscow Art Institute (class of 1942). Vatolina additionally acquired illustration skills from the master poster designer Viktor Deni. In fact, Deni considered Vatolina one of his most talented students. Vatolina married Viktor Deni's son, Nikolai Denisov. They attended th...
Artist: Denisov, Nikolai Viktorovich — Денисов, Николай Викторович
The son of the renowned Soviet poster artist Viktor Deni, Nikolai Denisov became a successful artist in his own right. He began his design career prior to World War II and he often worked in collaboration with his wife, Nina Vatolina, who happened to be one of his father's favorite students. Denisov and Vatolina graduated from the Moscow Art Institute (class of 1942) and had married during the time they were students. Many of Vatolina's ea...
Publisher: Iskusstvo (Art Publishing House), Moscow-Leningrad — Искусство, Москва-Ленинград
Iskusstvo was the Art Publishing House (A.K.A. Visual Arts Publishing) that was created in 1936 from Ogiz-Izogiz (State Art and Literature Publishing House). It disseminated books and journals dealing with graphic design and the fine arts, and it issued numerous posters. Since the Iskusstvo banner was part of the State Printing Works in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and Moscow, its two main offices were located in those two cities.


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Q: VBA # trim string to remove characters i have a file name the i need to remove some characters below is file name and the goal after trim filename.
My Current String = "text_12_12_19.pdl"
New String Goal = "Text.pdl"

A: You can use Split:
MyStringGoal = Split(MyCurrentString, "_")(0) & "." & Split(MyCurrentString, ".")(1)

A: 'Another solution (can also use left and right) :
Dim my_current_string As String
Dim New_String_Goal As String
Dim r As String, l As String

my_current_string = "text_12_12_19.pdl"
l = Left(my_current_string, 4)
r = Right(my_current_string, 4)
New_String_Goal = l & r
Debug.Print New_String_Goal

A: Assuming you are looking to obtain all characters preceding the first underscore, I would suggest the following:
Function TrimFilename(fnm As String) As String
    Dim i As Long, j As Long
    i = InStr(fnm, "_")
    j = InStrRev(fnm, ".")
    If 0 < i And i < j Then
        TrimFilename = Mid(fnm, 1, i - 1) & Mid(fnm, j)
    Else
        TrimFilename = fnm
    End If
End Function

?TrimFilename("text_12_12_19.pdl")
text.pdl


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Open Labs – still alive, kicking, and reports of demise overstated
Christopher Laird Simmons Open Labs, Victor Wong Aug 8, 2010
MuseWire Update: As a long time supporter and customer of Open Labs (see my reviews of the Neko TSE and XXL models on this site), I was surprised, like many, to see the notice of auction for OL's assets and IP announced July 30, 2010. Rather than jump in and comment on the potential demise of the company, or erroneously rant that "Windows might be the cause of its demise because Mac has been hitting a home run" (what a crock of sh*t), I waited patiently for an official statement from the company, past/future owners as to the status.
Over the past week, a number of speculations, crazy stories, "we won't miss them" comments from non-customers (=trolls), and mean-spirited comments about company exec Victor Wong being injured in a balcony collapse filled the blogosphere in the circles that follow electronic music instruments. I found the comment that somehow the "old" company over-spending on facilities to meet with clients in the music business was the cause of the financial crises, and then somehow the financial crises of the company had something to do with Wong and more than 20 other party guests being injured. Really?
Other folks sent me personal messages like, "If you only knew the REAL story of Open Labs," as if there were some deep dark insider story of devil worship and pimping going on in addition to building music instruments. All small companies have unique interpersonal situations, working conditions, management shake-ups, and staff migrations. One blogger wrote that the products need to be cheaper, made in America, and with free lifetime support. Of course this was one of the people who wanted to take up 10 hours of phone support time on stuff he should have looked up himself, but then complains when he can't get instant tech support on why his monitor doesn't change resolutions properly (um, try using the video control panel?). Sheesh. The vitriol from so many was really a surprise to me. Certainly there are people out there who "hate" the products they don't use, and others who complain about their waitress not bringing them lemon in their tea ("you never asked for lemon, sir"), but really amazing how abusive and violent some of these people write about a company simply having some hiccups in a tough economy.
All of this hullabaloo started from the classified in the Texas newspaper:
Original auction announcement in the Statesman: NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OPEN LABS, INC. MUSIC PRODUCTION EQUIP. Notice is hereby given that substantially all of the assets of Open Labs, Inc. will be sold at a public foreclosure sale to be held at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, August 4, 2010, at the offices of Open Labs, Inc., located at 3701 Drosset Drive, Suite 150, Austin, Texas 78744. The assets of Open Labs, Inc. consist primarily of the patents, trademarks, copyrights, and other IP associated with the following Open Labs products: NeKo XXL 61-Key Music Production Stations, NeKo QX6 61-Key Music Production Stations, MiKo LXD 37-key Music Production Stations, MiKo QC6 37- key Music Production Stations, DBeat Mobile Music Production Stations, SoundSlate Rack Units, SoundSlate FW Rack Units, Open RiFF 2.0 Software, MimiK Software, and other Open Labs products. The assets to be sold also include furniture and equipment, office supplies, artwork, and musical collectibles. For more info, contact Greg Young, Okin Adams & Kilmer LLP, 7004 Bee Cave, Bldg 1,Ste 110, Austin, TX, 78746, 512-681-3732.
Generally the comments from those who said they were in the know was that the bank and/or investors who had put up money one year ago wanted their money, and when the one year payment was due, the money wasn't there and so they put the assets and IP (intellectual property) up for auction to recoup their investment. Unofficial statements after the Aug. 4 auction in Texas, indicated that some of the existing staff/owners bought back the IP with the help of new money, and this new group makes up the de facto "new ownership" and everything is moving forward.
In fact, customers were receiving product all week, warranty work was being performed, tech guru Michael Corley was helping customers who didn't want to read the manual ("RTFM") or understand which jack on the back was for MIDI, and which was for a mic (seriously, some of the wing-nuts in the OL forum make me want to cry as to the future of the music business; and go ahead, call me a cry-baby troll-boy and I'll kick YOUR ass).
Late Friday night (Aug. 6), a statement was finally posted on the Open Labs website, which reads as follows, and so far is the only truly official statement regarding the whole issue:
"Thank you for being a customer of Open Labs products. As you probably heard, there are new owners of Open Labs. The primary reason we acquired the assets was the outstanding relationship that the artists and producers had with the old company.
We want to assure you that we are committed to you and the products that allow you to create, produce and perform. We will honor the warranties, orders, and upgrades that were taken by the old company and look forward to servicing your needs in the future.
While the IP is impressive, the products are outstanding, and the customer service is world class, we know that the company is dependent upon you for success. Therefore, we would like to present you an opportunity to upgrade to RiFF 2.0 at a reduced cost. We are offering a 25% discount to all current customers that would like to upgrade the products to RiFF 2.0 in the next 45 days.
Thank you for your support in the past. We look forward to a mutually beneficial relationship going forward.
The Open Labs Team and Owners."
Here's hoping the "new" company returns to full power, and has shiny new gear to demo at the upcoming January NAMM show. I truly think they have a unique product, and the deliverables are more than the sum of their parts.
Editor's Note: updated 1:35pm PDT to correct typo of the auction announcement from June 30 to July 30, 2010.
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Martin Hines
Aug 8, 2010	@ 10:15 PM PDT
I would assert that having a bank put up all your company's assets for sale at a foreclosure sale is more than just "simply having some hiccups". It's great for the new owners but I wonder how much money the bank lost in the transaction?
Regarding speculation during the last few weeks, what do you expect when the company provides zero information about what is going on? Even long-time fans/owners of OpenLabs products were worried due to the lack of information being provided.
Regarding the "Windows killed Open Labs" discussion, I wouldn't be so fast to dismiss those comments. While many hobbyists use Windows-based computers, the majority of pro musicians use Macs. OpenLabs charges premium prices for their premium products, while most Windows users are more price-sensitive.
Only time will tell whether the new owners can make enough changes to keep OpenLabs afloat.
Aug 9, 2010	@ 3:01 AM PDT
Great article, Chris. Thanks for the shout-out 🙂
Aug 9, 2010	@ 4:14 PM PDT
Response from Christopher Simmons:
All companies have hiccups, but many don't have them shared in the public eye. Many companies are simply purchased/acquired when in these situations, and so it's certainly not uncommon for the company to remain silent during the process. Although, I have to admit it was a longish 7 days for the company to post ANYthing at all in the OL forum, on their site, blog, etc., and might have been wise to state something (you may note I also requested some kind of update from both the staff and on the OL forum, but they were unable to say anything concrete).
I totally disagree with the idea that the fact that OpenLabs using Windows had anything to do with their situation. What else would they use, Linux? They cannot use Mac OSX. Their target market has generally been the same folks who would buy a Korg, Roland, or Kurzweil workstation, all of which are $3K plus products. The assertion by the Mac fanboys that Windows doomed OL is nuts. More people are making music with Windows than with Mac right this second. Both on the low end and on the high-end. Products like Cubase, Nuendo, Sonar, and Pro Tools all work just fine on Windows. And, the folks who want a crap $599 laptop, a bunch of 'warez' and the bottom of the line M-Audio keyboard controller are not the target audience for Open Labs products.
Granted you could buy a couple of high-end keyboard controllers, buy something like a PCaudioLabs, Carillon, or similar high-performance PC, and a touch-screen, buy some apps like Forte, and do something similar yourself, but OL make a niche product. People who try the notebook route and hate it, and who are thinking "I wish somebody would do …." is exactly who OL products are for. Savvy musicians are more interested in making music, and not the platform. The operating system is only that, the software you run on the OS is what you make music with. So, the OS is not that critical for "most" people.
Of course, I should disclose I just sold my Neko XXL and setup an 8-core 3ghz Mac Pro with 48GB RAM, an SSD, two velociraptors, a Euphonix control surface (doesn't work with Windows, YET), and am enjoying using Logic 9 very much.
My main complaint with the Gen6 OL products was more the choice of sticking with Windows 7 32-bit, over making a 64-bit offering. That is where they lost me.
But, I'm hopeful they will "refresh" and "reboot" their focus, and look to the future to conitnue their innovation. For the workstation market, and for those who want an "all in one" product, it's a very cool solution being offered and they do use very good components inside the boxes, whereas most "cheap" Windows PCs have crap (or in the case of Dell, who got caught knowingly putting defective stuff in their products – total crap) do not.
Thank you for the rational discourse, however. 🙂
Vince Gibbs
Aug 10, 2010	@ 9:15 PM PDT
Yep, it's always the Mac "fanboys" who are standing at the sidelines hoping OL will fail. And they are pissed off right now because OL did not fold as a company as they wanted them to.
I try not to have anything against Mac computers because they haven't done anything to piss me off. It's the Mac users who give Macs a bad reputation. I'll take a PC over a Mac any day of the week, but that's just me. I don't need to go around proclaiming PC superiority over Macs, like Mac people do. They need to let that old false and tired myth go.
Hooray for Open Labs is all I have to say.
Sep 15, 2010	@ 10:26 AM PDT
I follow Open Labs for some time now. The idea and the products are well thought out. Thing is when I'm buying a 7000 dollar workstation, I'm buying top of the line. I don't want to find a budget CPU, but at least a decent i7. It may do the job for most people, but that's not the point. Make it 7,500, but top of the line should be just that. 64 bit indeed would be needed, at least as a future upgrade.
It was also announced over a year ago that KARMA (KarmaLabs) would be implemented in these workstations. For me that would have been a major motivation. Never heard of again.
That does not give confidence. That might not be a problem with a 200 bucks controller, but at this price level it makes me think twice.
I hope it will turn out ok for them, as I have the utmost respect for these pioneers. To be successful in this niche market compromises should be avoided.
Supafleye
Dec 15, 2010	@ 8:14 PM PST
Eazy I agree with you totally on the price and 64 bit points. But when I saw that they were finally going to offer 64 bit, which is must for me I began checking Ebay for a good price on any of their 61-key keyboards. But upon seeing the ridiculous upgrade prices to get an i7 cpu, Windows 7, RAM, etc. I'm seriously rethinking buying one now. What's even more bizarre than those steep upgrade prices is why does their top of the line XXL only come with a measly i5? But they only offer the i7 for upgrades? So if you buy an XXL for $7000 you still are going to have to at least buy a new cpu and vid card which really doesn't add up? It could be me but something still isn't right with this company. I'm going to err on the side of caution and check back in about 6 – 8 months to see if the prices have dropped any or if they are still alive and kicking as the title of this post states?
Rodney D
Feb 24, 2011	@ 10:48 PM PST
I agree with Eazy too. 7k for a PC… are you serious?!i Who builds a Rolls-Royce with a Nissan engine and sells it as top of the line. The neko should have cost no than $4500. Why? BECAUSE IT'S A PC!!!!!! You could build a killer PC for about 1k and most PC users don't spend thousands on their systems. But MAC users will drop 3k on their apples. Most pros use MAC. It's pretty much a standard in the industry. Yet the 7k neko was on windows. This is not about MAC or PC (which I have both). It's about good marketing. The neko is a great piece of gear but was overpriced considering that it ran on windows. If the neko was MAC based, then 7k wouldn't be an issue. In fact we wouldn't be having this discussion. You can whatever about MAC but its reason why most pros use them. Openlabs comprised on this unit.
Ozem Goldwire
Jun 15, 2011	@ 8:53 PM PDT
I think it's about time for Open Labs to get it going with this business and to continue strong! I do support this company and that it will never disappoint its customers. The fact that most OL haters knew nothing about the potential this company has; surely, every company, young and old, are going through the crisis these days. But that does not stop any company from continuing their progress as business innovators. I believe that the haters are overtly jealous of this company as far as the status in the computer atmosphere. In truth, I am no Mac hater for I love these computers. However, I'm a PC person and I've been using PCs (custom-made from scratch) since I was in Job Corps. Or, as a matter of fact, my experience goes way back as far as 1989 when I was 11 when I first use an Apple computer at school, then in 1992 and 1996-1998 using the PC while in junior and senior high school.
I'll stick to Open Labs no matter what anybody say. Those haters are just a bunch of senceless, arrogant, whining babies. It is time for them to GROW-UP, period!
I will like to say to Christopher Laird Simmons concerning this report: you are the best, keep up the good work!


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Shucking Hell
Reviewed: King Corn
by Mark Jenkins October 19th, 2007 August 29th, 2020
Shuckin? A: King Corn?s buddies bite into agribusiness.
Conventional wisdom among producers, editors, and agents is that even the most interesting topic is nothing without a narrative. Taking that advice, New England-bred documentarians Aaron Woolf, Ian Cheney, and Curt Ellis decided to investigate the current American diet by transplanting themselves to Iowa, renting an acre of farmland, and spending a year cultivating corn. That's a narrative, all right, but it's still not much of a story. Even hard-core urbanites could probably guess most of what King Corn tells about growing and harvesting a cash crop. (To summarize: fertilizer, pesticides, tractors, and farm-support payments.) Fortunately for director Woolf and on-screen guides Cheney and Ellis, the topic picks up the slack, and even fans of such writers as Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma), who makes an appearance, will probably be surprised by the pervasiveness of corn's influence. The easygoing Cheney and Ellis, whose style suggests a less acerbic Morgan Spurlock, begin by getting their hair analyzed. It reveals that the two men, unapologetic burger fans, are nourished primarily by corn. That is, if you can call today's genetically engineered corn nourishing: Formulated to resist certain pesticides, Iowa's corn crop is an industrial product used principally for ethanol, animal feed, and high-fructose corn syrup, which has transformed American soft drinks from mere empty calories into dietary time bombs. Corn byproducts now feed most cattle, whose meat is much higher in saturated fat than it was back when the animals grazed on grass. Cheney and Ellis both boast great-grandfathers who once lived in the same small Iowa town, and they spend some time getting to know the locals. They also talk to experts, including Nixon-era Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, who's credited with creating the contemporary farm-support system. Yet the film's highlights all concern the properties of industrial corn and the product's effects on a population with epidemic growth in obesity and diabetes. If the corn the filmmakers grew tasted good, that's a piece of the narrative King Corn doesn't expand on.


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