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|Anant Achyut Setlur, Alok Mani Srivastava, Holly Ann Comanzo
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The present invention relates to phosphor compositions, particularly phosphors for use in lighting applications. More particularly, the present invention relates to a phosphor for converting UV light to red light for use in an LED or LCD and a lighting apparatus employing the same.
Light emitting diodes (LEDs) are semiconductor light emitters often used as a replacement for other light sources, such as incandescent lamps. They are particularly useful as display lights, warning lights and indicating lights or in other applications where colored light is desired. The color of light produce by an LED is dependent on the type of semiconducting material used in its manufacture.
Colored semiconductor light emitting devices, including light emitting diodes and lasers (both are generally referred to herein as LEDs), have been produced from Group III–V alloys such as gallium nitride (GaN). To form the LEDs, layers of the alloys are typically deposited epitaxially on a substrate, such as silicon carbide or sapphire, and may be doped with a variety of n and p type dopants to improve properties, such as light emission efficiency. With reference to the GaN-based LEDs, light is generally emitted in the UV and/or blue range of the electromagnetic spectrum. Until quite recently, LEDs have not been suitable for lighting uses where a bright white light is needed, due to the inherent color of the light produced by the LED.
LEDs rely on its semiconductor to emit light. The light is emitted as a result of electronic excitation of the semiconductor material. As radiation (energy) strikes atoms of the semiconductor material, an electron of an atom is excited and jumps to an excited (higher) energy state. The higher and lower energy states in semiconductor light emitters are characterized as the conduction band and the valence band, respectively. The electron, as it returns to its ground energy state, emits a photon. The photon corresponds to an energy difference between the exited state and ground energy state, and results in an emission of radiation.
Recently, techniques have been developed for converting the light emitted from LEDs to useful light for illumination purposes. In one technique, the LED is coated or covered with a phosphor layer. By interposing a phosphor excited by the radiation generated by the LED, light of a different wavelength, e.g., in the visible range of the spectrum may be generated. Colored LEDs are often used in toys, indicator lights and other devices. These LEDs typically contain a UV emitting LED and a red, blue, green or other color emitting phosphor. Manufacturer's are continuously looking for new colored phosphors for use in such LEDs to produce custom colors and highly luminosity.
In addition to colored LEDs, a combination of LED generated light and phosphor generated light may be used to produce white light. The most popular white LEDs consist of blue emitting GaInN chips. The blue emitting chips are coated with a phosphor that converts some of the blue radiation to a complimentary color, e.g. a yellow-green emission. Together, the blue and yellow-green radiation produces a white light. There are also white LEDs that utilize a UV emitting chip and a phosphor blend including red, green and blue emitting phosphors designed to convert the UV radiation to visible light.
One known yellow-whitish light emitting device comprises a blue light-emitting LED having a peak emission wavelength at about 450 nm combined with a yellow light-emitting phosphor, such as cerium doped yttrium aluminum garnet Y3Al5O2:Ce3+ ("YAG:Ce"). The phosphor absorbs a portion of the radiation emitted from the LED and converts the absorbed radiation to a yellow light. The remainder of the blue light emitted by the LED is transmitted through the phosphor and is mixed with the yellow light emitted by the phosphor. A viewer perceives the mixture of blue and yellow light, which in most instances is perceived as a whitish-yellow light. Such a device, while suitable for limited applications, fails in applications where a true bright white light of high intensity and brightness is desired.
In addition to this somewhat limited emission intensity, the color output of such an LED-phosphor system varies greatly due to frequent, unavoidable routine deviations from desired parameters (i.e. manufacturing systemic errors) during the production of the light. For example, the color output of the finished device is very sensitive to the thickness of the phosphor layer covering the LED. If the phosphor is too thin, then more than a desired amount of the blue light emitted by the LED will penetrate through the phosphor and the combined phosphor-LED output will appear bluish. In contrast, if the phosphor layer is too thick, then less than a desired amount of the blue LED light will penetrate through the phosphor layer. In this case, the combined phosphor-LED output will appear yellowish. Therefore, the thickness of the phosphor layer is an important variable affecting the color output of a blue LED based system. Unfortunately, the thickness of the phosphor layer is difficult to control during large-scale production of LED-phosphor lamp systems, and the variations in phosphor thickness often result in relatively poor lamp to lamp color control. In addition, lamp to lamp variations occur due to the varying of the optical power from chip to chip.
The use of a UV LED chip to manufacture such a white-light system should give superior color performance compared to those based on blue LED chips since the UV chip is not appreciably contributing to the visible color of the LED. Recent advances, such as those disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,255,670, are directed to the use of specific phosphor systems in conjunction with a UV emitting LED to emit white light. While effective, new phosphor combinations are needed to produce efficient white light with various spectral outputs to meet the needs of different market segments.
Particularly, phosphor blends utilizing deep red phosphors are desired to produce light sources having a high color rendering index (CRI). Two deep red phosphors currently being used in such applications are (Ca,Sr)S:Eu2+ and 3.5MgO*0.5MgF2*GeO2:MN4+ (MFG). However, new deep red phosphors exhibiting stronger near-UV absorption and more flexible emission spectrums are currently being sought. Thus, a need exists for a new deep red phosphor emitting in the 620–700 nm range and displaying high quantum efficiency and strong absorption of UV radiation to produce both colored and white-light LEDs as well as for use in liquid crystal display (LCD) devices.
In a first aspect, the invention provides a white-light emitting device including a UV semiconductor light source having a peak emission from about 250 to about 430 nm and a phosphor blend including a blue emitting phosphor, a green emitting phosphor, and a deep red emitting phosphor comprising (Ba,Sr,Ca)3MgxSi2O8:Eu2+, Mn2+, wherein 1≦x≦2.
In a second aspect, the present invention provides a phosphor blend comprising a blue emitting phosphor, a green emitting phosphor, and a deep red emitting phosphor comprising (Ba,Sr,Ca)3MgSi2O8:Eu2+, Mn2+, wherein 1≦x≦2, and further wherein said phosphor blend is capable of producing white light when excited with UV radiation.
In a third aspect, the invention provides an illumination system including a UV semiconductor light source and a phosphor comprising (Ba,Sr,Ca)3MgSi2O8:Eu2+, Mn2+, wherein 1≦x≦2.
Phosphors convert radiation (energy) to visible light. Different combinations of phosphors provide different colored light emissions. The colored light that originates from the phosphors provides a color temperature.
An ultraviolet (UV) conversion phosphor material (phosphor material) converts generated UV and near-UV radiation to visible light. The color of the generated visible light is dependent on the particular components of the phosphor material. The phosphor material may include only a single phosphor composition or two or more phosphors of basic color, for example a particular mix with one or more of a yellow and blue phosphor to emit a desired color (tint) of light. As used herein, phosphor material is intended to include both a single phosphor as well as a blend of two or more phosphors.
It was determined that an LED lamp that produces a bright-white light would be useful to impart desirable qualities to LEDs as light sources. Therefore, in one embodiment of the invention, a luminescent material phosphor conversion material blend (phosphor blend) coated LED is disclosed for providing white light. The individual phosphors and a phosphor blend including the individual phosphors convert radiation at a specified wavelength, for example radiation from about 250 to about 430 nm as emitted by a UV LED, into visible light. The visible light provided by the phosphor blend comprises a bright white light with high intensity and brightness.
With reference to
The lamp may include any semiconductor UV light source that is capable of producing white light when its emitted radiation is directed onto the phosphor. In a preferred embodiment, the semiconductor UV light source comprises a LED doped with various impurities. Thus, the LED may comprise a semiconductor diode based on any suitable III–V, II–VI or IV–IV semiconductor layers and having an emission wavelength of about 370 to 450 nm. Preferably, the LED may contain at least one semiconductor layer comprising GaN, ZnSe or SiC. For example, the LED may comprise a nitride compound semiconductor represented by the formula IniGajAlkN (where 0≦i; 0≦j; 0≦k and i+J+k=1) having an emission wavelength greater than about 370 nm and less than about 450 nm. Preferably, the UV chip has a peak emission wavelength from about 400 to about 410 nm. Such LED semiconductors are known in the art. The radiation source is described herein as an LED for convenience. However, as used herein, the term is meant to encompass all semiconductor radiation sources including semiconductor laser diodes.
The LED chip 12 may be encapsulated within a shell 18, which encloses the LED chip and an encapsulant material 20. The shell 18 may be, for example, glass or plastic. Preferably, the LED 12 is substantially centered in the encapsulant 20. The encapsulant 20 is preferably an epoxy, plastic, low temperature glass, polymer, thermoplastic, thermoset material, resin or other type of LED encapsulating material as is known in the art. Optionally, the encapsulant 20 is a spin-on glass or some other high index of refraction material. Preferably, the encapsulant material 20 is an epoxy or a polymer material, such as silicone. Both the shell 18 and the encapsulant 20 are preferably transparent or substantially optically transmissive with respect to the wavelength of light produced by the LED chip 12 and a phosphor composition 22 (described below). Alternately, the lamp may 10 may only comprise an encapsulant material without an outer shell 18. The LED chip 12 may be supported, for example, by the lead frame 16, by the self supporting electrodes, the bottom of the shell 18, or by a pedestal (not shown) mounted to the shell or to the lead frame.
The structure of the illumination system includes a phosphor composition 22 radiationally coupled to the LED chip 12. Radiationally coupled means that the elements are associated with each other so radiation from one is transmitted to the other. In a preferred embodiment, the phosphor composition 22 is a blend of two or more phosphors, as will be detailed below. This phosphor composition 22 is deposited on the LED 12 by any appropriate method. For example, a water based suspension of the phosphor(s) can be formed, and applied as a phosphor layer to the LED surface. In one such method, a silicone slurry in which the phosphor particles are randomly suspended is placed around the LED. This method is merely exemplary of possible positions of the phosphor composition 22 and LED 12. Thus, the phosphor composition 22 may be coated over or directly on the light emitting surface of the LED chip 12 by coating and drying the phosphor suspension over the LED chip 12. Both the shell 18 and the encapsulant 20 should be transparent to allow white light 24 to be transmitted through those elements. Although not intended to be limiting, in one embodiment, the median particle size of the phosphor composition may be from about 1 to about 10 microns.
In any of the above embodiments, the lamp 10 may also include a plurality of scattering particles (not shown), which are embedded in the encapsulant material. The scattering particles may comprise, for example, Al2O3 particles such as alumina powder or TiO2 particles. The scattering particles effectively scatter the coherent light emitted from the LED chip, preferably with a negligible amount of absorption. The coupling of the diffuse scattered LED light with the phosphor is advantageous in reducing optical saturation effects and physical damage of the phosphor material.
As shown in a fourth embodiment in
In one embodiment, the phosphor composition 22 used in the invention is a composition having the general formula (Ba,Sr,Ca)3MgSi2O8:Eu2+, Mn2+. The total doping levels of Eu2+ and Mn2+ can range from 0.1 to about 40%, with Eu2+ ranging from about 0.1–40% and Mn2+ ranging from 0.1 to 20%. In such an embodiment, the resulting lighting system will produce a light having a deep red color, the characteristics of which will be discussed in more detail below. Alternatively, an excess of Mg2+ may be included in the phosphor to produce an "off-stoichiometry" phosphor having the formula (Ba,Sr,Ca)3MgxSi2O8:Eu2+, Mn2+, wherein 1≦x≦2. For convenience, when used herein, the formula (Ba,Sr,Ca)3MgSi2O8:Eu2+, Mn2+ is intended to include these off-stoichiometry formulations as well unless stated otherwise.
In another embodiment, the phosphor composition 22 is a blend of three or more phosphors. When used in a lighting assembly in combination with a UV LED emitting radiation in the range of about 235 to 430 nm, the resultant light emitted by the assembly will be a white light. In one embodiment, the phosphor composition comprises a blend of at least one blue emitting phosphor, a green emitting phosphor, and a deep red phosphor having the general formula described above. The (Ba,Sr,Ca)3MgSi2O8:Eu2+, Mn2+ phosphor for use in the phosphor composition may be produced by a method comprising the steps of: (1) providing stoichiometric (or an excess of Mg as detailed above for an off-stoichiometric phosphor composition) amounts of oxygen-containing compounds of Ba, Sr, and/or Ca; oxygen-containing compounds of Mg; and oxygen-containing compounds of Si; (2) mixing together the oxygen-containing compounds to form a mixture; and (3) firing the mixture in air or a reducing atmosphere at a temperature and for a time sufficient to convert the mixture to a cerium and terbium-activated phosphor having the above formula.
A fluxing agent may be added to the mixture before or during the step of mixing. This fluxing agent may be NH4Cl or any other conventional fluxing agent, such as a fluoride of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of terbium, aluminum, gallium, and indium. A quantity of a fluxing agent of less than about 20, preferably less than about 10, percent by weight of the total weight of the mixture is adequate for fluxing purposes.
The oxygen-containing compounds may be mixed together by any mechanical method including, but not limited to, stirring or blending in a high-speed blender or a ribbon blender. The oxygen-containing compounds may be combined and pulverized together in a bowl mill, a hammer mill, or a jet mill. The mixing may be carried out by wet milling especially when the mixture of the oxygen-containing compounds is to be made into a solution for subsequent precipitation. If the mixture is wet, it may be dried first before being fired under a reducing atmosphere at a temperature from about 900� C. to about 1700� C., preferably from about 1000� C. to about 1600� C., more preferably from about 1200� C. to about 1500� C. for a time sufficient to convert all of the mixture to the final composition. The firing may be conducted in a batchwise or continuous process, preferably with a stirring or mixing action to promote good gas-solid contact. The firing time depends on the quantity of the mixture to be fired, the rate of gas conducted through the firing equipment, and the quality of the gas-solid contact in the firing equipment. Typically, a firing time up to about 10 hours is adequate. The reducing atmosphere typically comprises a reducing gas such as hydrogen, carbon monoxide, or a combination thereof, optionally diluted with an inert gas, such as nitrogen, helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, or a combination thereof. Alternatively, the crucible containing the mixture may be packed in a second closed crucible containing high-purity carbon particles and fired in air so that the carbon particles react with the oxygen present in air, thereby, generating carbon monoxide that is needed to provide the reducing atmosphere.
One or more of the starting materials for the phosphor synthesis may be oxygen-containing compounds other than oxides, such as nitrates, sulfates, acetates, citrates, carbonates, hydroxides, or oxalates of the metal constituents. These compounds may be blended and dissolved in a nitric acid solution. The strength of the acid solution is chosen to rapidly dissolve the oxygen-containing compounds and the choice is within the skill of a person skilled in the art. Ammonium hydroxide is then added in increments to the acidic solution. An organic base such as methanolamine, ethanolamine, propanolamine, dimethanolamine, diethanolamine, dipropanolamine, trimethanolamine, triethanolamine, or tripropanolamine may be used in place of ammonium hydroxide.
The precipitate is filtered, washed with deionized water, and dried. The dried precipitate is ball milled or otherwise thoroughly blended and then calcined in air at about 400� C. to about 1600� C. for a sufficient time to ensure a substantially complete dehydration of the starting material. The calcination may be carried out at a constant temperature. Alternatively, the calcination temperature may be ramped from ambient to and held at the final temperature for the duration of the calcination. The calcined material is similarly fired at 1200–1600� C. for a sufficient time under a reducing atmosphere such as H2, CO, or a mixture of one of theses gases with an inert gas, or an atmosphere generated by a reaction between a coconut charcoal and the products of the decomposition of the oxygen-containing compounds to covert all of the calcined material to the desired phosphor composition.
Similarly, as seen in
In a second embodiment, the phosphor composition includes a blend of the (Ba,Sr,Ca)3MgSi2O8:Eu2+, Mn2+ phosphor described above and a green, blue and, optionally a blue-green, yellow-orange, and/or red emitting phosphor to create a white light emitting phosphor blend. Any known green and blue phosphor suitable for use in UV LED systems may be used. In addition to the green and blue phosphors, a yellow-orange and/or red phosphor may be used in the blend to customize the white color of the resulting light. Other blue-green, green, orange or additional phosphor may also be included based on the needs of the manufacturer. While not intended to be limiting, suitable phosphorfor use in the blend with the (Ba,Sr,Ca)3MgxSi2O8:Eu2+, Mn2+ phosphor include:
The weight ratio of each of the individual phosphors in the phosphor blend may vary depending on the characteristics of the desired light output. The relative proportions of the individual phosphors in the various embodiment phosphor blends may be adjusted such that when their emissions are blended and employed in an LED lighting device, there is produced visible light of predetermined x and y values on the CIE chromaticity diagram. As stated, a white light is preferably produced. This white light may, for instance, may possess an x value in the range of about 0.30 to about 0.45, and a y value in the range of about 0.30 to about 0.45.
The relative amounts of each phosphor in the phosphor composition can be described in terms of spectral weight. The spectral weight is the relative amount that each phosphor contributes to the overall emission spectra of the phosphor blend when excited by UV light. The spectral weight amounts of all the individual phosphors should add up to 1. Although not intended to be limiting, the phosphor composition of the present invention may generally contain, in spectral weight amounts, about 0.01–0.3 of a blue phosphor, about 0.1–0.5 of a green phosphor, and the balance including the red (Ba,Sr,Ca)3MgSi2O8:Eu2+, Mn2+ phosphor and, optionally, a yellow-orange phosphor and/or an additional red phosphor. As stated, however the exact identity and amounts of each phosphor in the phosphor composition can be varied according to the needs of the end user.
The phosphor composition described above may be used in additional applications besides LEDs. For example, the material may be used as a phosphor in a fluorescent lamp, in a cathode ray tube, in a plasma display device or in a liquid crystal display (LCD). The material may also be used as a scintillator in an electromagnetic calorimeter, in a gamma ray camera, in a computed tomography scanner or in a laser. These uses are meant to be merely exemplary and not exhaustive.
For example, in another embodiment, the (Ba,Sr,Ca)3MgSi2O8:Eu2+, Mn2+ phosphor can be used to generate red photons in an LCD backlight phosphor blend.
The invention has been described with reference to various preferred embodiments. Modifications and alteration will occur to others upon a reading and understanding of this specification. The invention is intended to include all such modifications and alterations insofar as they come within the scope of the appended claims or the equivalent thereof.
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My name is Keith and I'm delighted to make this very special announcement.
I've been talking with Adora for several weeks about the future of the site. We've come to an agreement where I will be taking on ownership and technical responsibilities for the site.
I can appreciate that this might surprise many of you. Rest assured that all of your stories are safe and the site will continue to exist for a long time to come.
Adora will continue to be very much involved with the site as the founder and moderator. You'll still be able to reach her using her site related e-mail address.
Adora has done an incredible job growing the community over the past 7-years and I'm super excited about helping take the site to the next stage as a team. Expect an all new design, new features and lots more over the coming month or two.
Please shoot an email to us using the contact form if you spot anything that's not working on the site or if you'd like to chat!
I'll post more information about the plans real soon.
Speak to you again soon,
[61 Comments]
Furthermore, I am a little concerned about the legal aspects here. Fanfiction by its nature occupies a grey zone in the copyright and IP debates, and while I do think of fanfiction as trannsformative work that fulfils the requirements of fair use, the moment you try to earn money with it, it becomes quite a different matter. The Tolkien Estate particularly is very, very protective of their copyright, and I'd hate to see our entire fandom targeted because of this.
Mostly though, regardless of the legal issue, fandom, for me and many, is a gift industry. Fandom at large has never reacted well to companies trying to make money from them. Google "Fanlib", if you want an example. That said, I do not quite see why I should create content for free which you will turn into money, especially when there are enough by-fans for-fans alternatives. I've been a vocal supporter of the Archive Of Our Own and the OTW since its planning stage, because I've always feared that something like this would happen in in our near future. I'm really sad to see it start at an archive that has become my main archive, which I've used for so many years. One of my stories is the 5th most read story of the archive, with around 68 000 hits, and I can see no reason at all why all these hits for my stories should make money for you in the future, when I've always seen my stories as a gift to fandom - not as free content for a company to turn into money.
Fandom is about the gift, yes. I get that.
That is exactly why I've chosen to devote the time, effort and expense required to run the site for the past seven years. I wanted to give back to the community. This is also why I've never cluttered the site up with ads or attempted to profit off of it in any way.
I have paid out my ass for server fees for nearly a decade that I cannot afford. People love to talk about the supportive nature of fandom, but that doesn't extend to financial matters. I have requested donations several times over the past few years, in addition to providing a donation button directly on the site.
Do you know how many people have contributed over the years? I can count them on one hand.
I'm not criticizing people for that. I'm just saying that even within a fandom that ideally, shouldn't have anything to do with financial issues, someone has to pay.
I don't think it's necessarily fair to get all idealistic about the concept of someone making a little profit off of a site, when nobody seems to be bothered by the alternative of someone having to strain their own finances to keep a site open in the first place.
I've reached the point where I either needed to close the site... or I had to let go of financial responsibility. I felt that selling to Keith and working with him as a team was my best option.
That being said, I didn't just sell the site without extensive negotiation and stipulations in the contract that would allow me a high level of permanent involvement in the community and would protect members and their work.
I wish people would withhold judgment and talk to me about it directly if they have concerns, rather than assuming the worst.
I've chosen an option that not only allows us to keep the site open, but gives me the ability to work with someone who has the time and resources to improve the site in ways that I simply can't do at this time.
People will still be able to read, share and review stories, which was the entire point of the site in the first place.
Brandy (Haldirsbaby)
Also, a chat/message feature would be totally awesome!!!
Adora, congrats for sticking with the site for seven years, that's more than I could ever do! Glad you'll still be involved as well!
Abby, aka Erulassë
How, when you gave us no chance to do so? Apparently you and Keith Manders have been talking about this for weeks, but you never said a word to the users of the archive. The first we knew of this was when the archive was gone, and all that remained was a note from Keith that he was the new owner - which caused lots of panic for us, and hours of work for Samtyr who tried to backup as much of our reviews as she could.
It's your website, which you can sell if you want. But my stories are mine, and he did not buy them together with the site.
I would have had no problem at all had you slathered the archive with ads in order to pay for the server. But I do have a problem when a company buys the site and does the same, not only to pay for the server, but to make a profit of it.
Take back my last comment... Esteliel and NiRi are absolutely right. Oh and just so you know, Fanlib doesn't exist anymore. What does that tell you about lotrfanfiction's future.
Bye lotrfanfiction.com. Oh and please remove my account too.
Secondly, I'm very unhappy that there was no warning or discussion with people on the site about this. Because this site was friendly to the kind of stories I write, I have used this as my primary archive and invested a tremendous amount of time to post nearly 9 years worth of creative output here. I wrote these stories to share with other fans, not because I desired to be a slave using my hard labor to enrich some corporation. I completely understand that there are expenses involved and therefore that ads (which I hate having to look at) may be a necessary evil, but when the stated goal as expressed in interviews and your own blog Keith, is to acquire the site to make money, no I don't appreciate that.
I'd like to know honestly what you plan to offer to make this worth my time to continue being here and to put hours and hours into producing free content for you? In addition there are real concerns about fanfic for profit. As long as this is a hobby and we're sharing for free, we fly under the radar. The minute this is a for-profit venture, watch out.
I hate to see this site go...The Elves of Tolkien's world are sailing away from here now, cause they can't stand to see it go to pots.
I say this is a mutiny and no one can sue us for it!
I hate to see this site go...The Elves of Tolkien's world are sailing away from here now, cause they can't stand to see it go to pots.
I say this is a mutiny and no one can sue us for it!
And they do so with ads and we all were well aware of what the sites do to make money to remain in business. This is not really the same, is it. we joined 'A Tolkien Loving Community" that was dedicated to us - the fans who read and write fanfiction. We who choose to post on ff.net or other for profit sites did so knowing what the sites were about and that ads would always be part of the scene. Those who chose to join here did so on the idea that this was 'our' place, a place only other people who love what we love would spend time in. This depressing event is like finding out your sister sold the house your family lives in to the local slumlord.
The most recent news post explains that all plans are on hold and that we're inviting you to speak about the site management.
I want to address some comments here that have not been responded to.
@Lisse: This is discussed further on the FAQ thread. The policy regarding NC-17 content is not set to change. Could it change in the future? Yes, but only if requests by you the users.
@erobey: Your account has been removed, as requested.

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Follow along with step-by-step beading projects and share your designs with beaders around the world—it's quick & easy!
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About this design:
Last fall I did a fresh pick with those elements, took me another year to make something from it.
Components:Patricia Healey wolf pendant, Czech glass, Agate, freshwater pearls, leather cord,copper plated chain all Lima. I made the copper clasp and the spiral spacers.
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I like this….there is so much interest, and the colors are great!
Sometimes it takes a while, but in this case, it was worth the wait!
Love your spiral spacers, Asia – - what a great idea ! And the whole necklace is fabulous – - a perfect spot for that magnificent wolf – - -
Love every thing about this!!!! You rock, girl!!
LOVE!! I would so wear this!!
Wonderful craftsmanship and the colors are fab.
Great color and design. Love the wolf and the way you used it.
Stunning use of the hand made spacers. Love that wolf!!!! Beautiful design. Inspiring!!!
VERY cool Asia! I really like the touch of leather. The Czech dangles all match but are all different!
Yep… I'm so stealing the spiral spacers!!!
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Research Mission
Mission: To build upon the theme of governance to understand and address major societal problems.
Vision: The Ostrom Workshop will serve as a campus asset for all social scientists and help the social sciences play a more prominent role in the future of Indiana University.
* * *
Governance consists of the formal and informal rules that shape human behavior. Both the origins and rich intellectual trajectory of the Ostrom Workshop are infused with the notion of governance in various forms and across several domains of study. For instance, Vincent Ostrom's pioneering studies on metropolitan governance along with Elinor (Lin) Ostrom's empirical work on polycentricity and local public economies focused on national problems. Later, Lin's extended studies on common-pool resources added both global dimension and a focus on self-governance. Indeed, toward the end of her career, Lin Ostrom was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences "for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons" (emphasis added). The Ostroms' persistent search to better understand the diversity of formal and informal rules that shape human behavior was also driven by a keen interest to better understand policy implications with practical solutions to societal problems, which explains the latter part of our renewed and simplified mission statement. Although our 2015-2018 Strategic Plan focuses on the immediate future, it is our hope that the strategies we pursue in the next three years will enable a long history of achievements for the Ostrom Workshop that continually honor the memory of its founders, Vincent and Lin Ostrom. In particular, we expect to:
- continue to be identified as a major player in governance circles;
- get novel ideas into the hands of those making important decisions and be recognized for the real-life applications of its work;
- have visibility and linkages locally, nationally, internationally, and be readily recognized as one of the leading social science research centers in the world; and
- become an IU Bloomington campus asset for faculty and students at IU Bloomington and elsewhere who will want to become involved with the Ostrom Workshop because the quality of its work is excellent.
Funding Sources/Endowments
The Ostrom Workshop relies on a three-pronged approach to funding: university funds, the Ostrom Workshop's endowments, and external grants. On average, university funds make up roughly one-third of the Ostrom Workshop's annual budget. These varied sources of funding enable the Ostrom Workshop to engage in a wide range of activities, and to sustain its research interests over time.
In addition to university funding, the Ostrom Workshop draws on its endowments, the largest of which is the Tocqueville Fund for the Study of Human Institutions. It also receives generous support from a number of external granting agencies such as the National Science Foundation, Fannie E. Rippel Foundation, Jack Miller Center and VERITAS Fund for Higher Education Reform (Tocqueville Lecture Series).
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And my beat goes boom... tschak!
WaxDJ.com - an excellent source for free downloads and streams of original electronic music mixes of all sorts, from seasoned pros to beginning bedroom amatuers, all told numbering in the hundreds or thousands. My current brand new favorite is the very diverse and well-versed Detriot/Chicago techno stylings of DJ Rubsilent. Recomended mix: Future Funk 23: (Direct MP3 link) (Streaming mp3 link) But don't let me divert you - search for your favorite local DJ or browse for new ones.
Bedroom Music for Bedroom People
Bedroom Music for Bedroom People A veritable treasure trove of hours and hours of mixes of fine abstract headphone-fodder of varying flavours, be it compelling hiphop or weirdo IDM or just etcetera. A fine way to pass a lazy Sunday away ...
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I've been following performance of my website and out of all slow-executing code (>1s), more than 90% is because of System.Web.HttpRequest.GetEntireRawContent() (called by System.Web.HttpRequest.FillInFormCollection())
Is this normal for ASP.NET sites... to sometimes spend more than 10 seconds in FillInFormCollection method (obviously it's called from System.Web.UI.Page.PerformPreInit())?
Or there is a way to fix this problem?
I'm compiling for .NET Framework 3.5.
Page I'm mostly having trouble is Login page, although there is nothing unusual about it - two TextBoxes, Checkbox for RememberLogin and Login button. Request.ContentLength is around 5KB (I've logged Request.Form.ToString() - found nothing unusual). I've performed lots of tracing (were expecting huge POSTs) and debugging but couldn't find any rational reason for FillInFormCollection to take more than 10 seconds (I once had extreme example with 250 seconds). I've even tried slowing down my connection with Fiddler, but couldn't reproduce the problem.
EDIT: Thanks for all the comments guys. I've continued pursuing this issue... if it gets solved at least it'll save other people quite some time ;). Here are answers to some of the questions.
- It's plain HTTP (not HTTPS), 0 errors in Log (funny thing is that requests actually get completed ;)
- Site is not being loaded when user hits Login.aspx. Site is actually working pretty good 99% of the time (handles around 40 million HTTP requests per week with AVG CPU utilization below 10%)
- It's definitely application/x-www-form-urlencoded - ASP.NET Forms (runat=server) get submitted that way. The only thing I don't understand is why .NET needs >10 seconds to read POST that's less than 6KB.
- The only rational conclusion I came up with (so far) is -> customers accessing site from really slow connections (remember GPRS?). But I would really like to explore all other options rather than just resort to "it's user connection". And if that was the case - I expect I would be seeing similar thing happening for user on every page.
- Just hoping it's not something like this: IIS 6.0 Server Too Busy HTTP 503 Connection_Dropped DefaultAppPool
- Got referred to this page: Identifying Slow HTTP Attack Vulnerabilities on Web Applications It is possible that this is happening.


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Back in the Stone Age, homo sapiens realized a decisive step in human evolution: the invention of tools. The next thing cavemen knew, those thumbs became opposable, hunting was like a video game and life was much simpler. Here we are, just a few years later (relatively), and little has changed. Tools are beneficial. Even the bad kind, like the ones who repeat Dane Cook jokes as if they were originals and use the word "brah." They make stallions like us (isn't it universally understood that fantasy basketball general managers are virile beasts?) look that much cooler to potential objects of our affection. In the 21st century, the most evolved fantasy basketball owners are using tools to their advantage and looking beyond the box scores. This column will provide a weekly analysis of the preeminent fantasy hoops tool: the ESPN Player Rater.
Player Rater Explained
In each of the scoring categories, a number is calculated that represents the average total in that category. If a player has that average exactly, his rating for that category is 0.00. The numbers then represent how much a player is above or below that average. If the rating is positive, then that player is an above-average fantasy player in that category. If it is negative, the player is below average in that category. All ratings are then added together to get a grand total player rating, and the players are ranked accordingly.
I'll be monitoring whose stock is plummeting or soaring, whose ranking will surprise you and what kind of important information we can glean from the best tool available. This week, though, since it's a bit early to pay much credence to the Player Rater, I'm going to supply some tips about how to best use it to your advantage.
How to use the Player Rater as a tool
Overall value: At times, it's hard to tell what kind of overall impact a player has upon your standings. If he is a specialist and knocks down three 3-pointers a game, how negative of an effect does the fact that he gets no defensive stats have? Likewise, how valuable are filler-type players who put up decent stats across the board but don't shine anywhere specific? The rater is a helpful instrument when looking at the long-term outlook of your team and trying to get the most valuable players. You might need blocks early in the season and are thinking about picking up someone like DeSagana Diop, who will help there but barely anywhere else. Well, if your overall standings are mediocre to boot, adding a specialist like that is going to hurt. It would be smarter to add a player with a greater overall value and then address specific statistical needs later in the season when your needs becomes clearer.
Doesn't include turnovers: One mistake certain fantasy owners make is becoming a Player-Rater player-hater (I'm an emcee in my spare time) if they are in turnover leagues. Yes, the rater doesn't include turnovers, so it's important to temper the overall rating accordingly. But you still should use it on a category-by-category basis, because it's the best measurement of a player's actual contribution in the eight other categories. Don't hate.
Impact of percentages: One of the most difficult aspects of fantasy hoops is determining how much a player's good or bad percentages affect your team. Obviously, Tim Duncan's .637 free-throw percentage on seven attempts per game is going to have a much greater negative impact than Bruce Bowen's .589 percentage on 0.9 attempts per game. The Player Rater will tell you that. That's why the rater is superior to all other ranking systems, most of which count percentages as a total number rather than a ratio with those numerator and denominator things. Pay attention to the denominator, and you can become the dominator. Oh, snap! That might be the first single off my album.
Monitoring recent trends: Oftentimes, by midseason, your roster has become stagnant, and finding a difference-maker on the waiver wire can be nearly impossible. But if you click on averages for the past 15 days and see a name that surprises you, there is a good chance he isn't owned even though he is producing. In the NBA, any player can blow up on a given night, but two weeks of productivity typically means something. Sometimes it's capitalizing upon another player's injury, sometimes it's coming back from his own injury and sometimes it's simply proving to the coach that he deserves minutes. The rater will tell you who's been best for the past 15 days overall, as well as in specific categories. If you see a free agent on that list and need waiver-wire help, pay heed.
Sorting by averages: It's easy to forget halfway through the season that a player who has been hurt for the past month was blazing when healthy. That's why examining average stats is helpful. If a mid-value player who has missed half the season is about to come back and was tearing it up beforehand, his superior average statistics still will be accounted for if you sort by averages. Pick him up when he returns and capitalize upon the fact that most will look at his overall stats and not notice the effect he can have on a fantasy team on a per-game basis.
Addressing needs: Need boards and steals without taking a hit in free-throw percentage? Well, look no further than the trusty Player Rater, in which you can sort by category and see which players positively contribute in whichever combination of categories your team needs. This tactic is simpler than looking at aggregate stats, because it's not always clear how much of an effect adding 1.4 steals per game will have on your standings. But if you see how much a guy with that many steals helps you over someone at league average, then you get a better idea of how making a trade or waiver-wire addition for a specific need will actually help your team.
Worst in a given period: It can be difficult to tell how cold a fringe player really is over the past few weeks when you see it only one bad night at a time. But when you click on "worst" and 15-day total or average, and you see one of your fantasy starters on the list, it's probably safe to say you can bench him until he gets his act together.
Just for fun, I'm going to highlight a few things from this year's 2-days-old Player Rater:
Channing Frye is the sixth-worst player according to the rater, which could point to the fact that it looks like LaMarcus Aldridge and Joel Przybilla will be the primary big men for the Portland Trail Blazers. Keep in mind, though, that Frye is just another Przybilla injury away getting big minutes, and with his efficient percentages from the center position, he could be big at some point of the season.
I love Granny Danger, er ... Danny Granger, who is ninth overall on the Player Rater after his 20-point, 13-rebound, five-3, two-steal and two-block statement game to start the season. I'm not afraid to admit my love.
It doesn't matter that Jason Terry is coming off the bench. If he fell in your draft because of it, whoever snagged him late will reap the benefits.
Martell Webster played well in the preseason, and in Portland's opening-night game, he flexed his 3-point skills on his way to the No. 36 spot on the Player Rater. If you're looking to improve your team's 3-point shooting, add him. Now. I dropped Jason Kapono for him in one league because Webster's upside is far greater.
Don't be a tool. Capitalize upon the evolutionary process and use the devices at your disposal. The Player Rater is a symbol of man's progress, and, if used correctly, can help your team progress toward your league championship.
Joshua Whitling is a fantasy analyst for ESPN.com.


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15 hot-button issues President Obama will face or may try to tackle in his second term
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I don't really see an issue with Obama and this list.
Obama got majority of the Latino vote with the Dream Act. Something his Republican counter parts refuse to talk about.
Obama secured the LGBT vote by ending DADT and being the first President against DOMA and to publicly support Monogamy for gay Americans.
Obama continues to get the Black vote due to supporting Affirmative action and education for minorities.
Obama decimated Mitt Romney on foreign policy, being the sitting President when the war in Iraq ended, having an exit date for Afghanistan and giving the order to get Osama Bin Laden.
Domestic issues have only been created by the Republican Party. Taxes, the Budget and gun control have been fabricated by Republican Obstruction and the constant gun deaths in America fuel the need for checks at gun shows.
No, I'd say Obama will be just fine.
And the more votes Obama got for his 2nd term, support that.
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You're right. Obama will do just fine because he will handout a laundry list of promises, which people will believe entirely, and not accomplish a single one, just like the last four years.
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Sorry SS, I have to report a factual error in your statement.
President Obama did accomplish one major promise, it was ObamaCare and like it or hate it, you got to give him his due on that one.
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You're right more takers than makers want obama to continue down this path of destruction.
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Obama got millions less votes this time around, and less than 51% of the total this time. There was no mandate in this election. Yet, he believes he is King.
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It would appear that he is going to make LBJ look like a right-wing conservative.
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@ Rvalens2,
Ya got me. My bad! Still, just proof that the things he does promise are worthless.
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Obama got 'less' votes than last time, so that is an indicator that Obama 'lost'?
Who was sworn into Presidential office in 2008 and again in 2012?
Talk is cheap.
And all I am seeing on this story is nothing but personal attacks.
So sad.
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27 Feb 2012 12:19 PM #1
Where and how to store images?
Pardon if I'm missing the obvious but I'm trying to add a custom image label to my app. By default when I add the img control it is populated with Sencha logo and is referenced as "resources/images/sencha.png". There's no "resources" directory in the project source tree so I'm assuming that this file is loaded remotely. Does that mean that I have to have a running webserver and specify my image source using "http://foo.com/resources/images/foo.png"? Is there a way to add a static image files to the project ans have these published as part of the deploy?
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These will be included along with your deployment. You can reference these files relative to your urlPrefix/where you are developing/deploying.Aaron Conran
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|Santa Fe/Albuquerque, New Mexico
United States
|2 KASA Fox (general)
News 13 (used during KRQE-produced newscasts)
|Your Home Team.
There's Only One 2.
Welcome Home.
|Digital: 27 (UHF)
Virtual: 2 (PSIP)
|2.1 Fox
2.2 Cozi TV
2.3 Ion Television
|41 low-power translators; see article
|Fox (1993–present) (soon to be Telemundo)
|Media General
(sale to Ramar Communications pending)
(LIN of New Mexico, LLC)
|First air date
|Call letters' meaning
|Based on Spanish word casa, meaning "home" or "house".
|Sister station(s)
|Former callsigns
|Former channel number(s)
|Former affiliations
|independent (1983–1992)
silent (1992–1993)
The Tube (2005–2007)
TheCoolTV (2010–2013)
|Transmitter power
|255 kW
|1278 m
|Facility ID
|Transmitter coordinates
|Licensing authority
|Public license information:
KASA-TV is currently the Fox network affiliate for most of New Mexico. It is licensed to the state capital, Santa Fe and broadcasts on digital channel 27 but is displayed as channel 2, its former analog channel number.
Currently it is owned by Media General and is a sister station to CBS affiliate KRQE. The two stations share a studio on Broadcast Plaza in Albuquerque. Syndicated programming on KASA includes The 700 Club, Family Feud, The People's Court, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Dish Nation. Additionally, KASA may air programming as an alternate CBS affiliate when KRQE is airing non-CBS programming. A sale to Ramar communications is pending.
In addition to the main KASA signal, there are 41 low-powered repeaters that carry its programming throughout New Mexico and parts of Colorado.
Station history[edit]
Intellectual unit[edit]
The KASA intellectual unit began as KGSW on May 8, 1981 on channel 14. It was the state's second English-language general entertainment station. The callsign was derived from the station's original owners, Galaxy Communications and Southwest Television. Initially, the station carried drama shows, movies from the 1940s through the 1970s, sitcoms, and religious shows. In the fall of 1983, KGSW added more sitcoms and began running cartoons in the 7-9 a.m. and the 3-5 p.m. weekday slots. KGSW was managed by Erik Steffens. Its first programming director was legendary network sports producer Don McGuire, a native of Albuquerque. McGuire attained rights to UNM Lobo football and hired Connie Alexander and Gary Ness as announcers. In 1984, the Providence Journal Company bought KGSW from the original owners. The station affiliated with the Fox network when the network launched on April 5, 1987. The station continued a general entertainment format with a lot of cartoons, sitcoms and movies well into the 1990s.
Channel 2 history[edit]
Channel 2 signed on as KSAF in 1983 as a locally owned general entertainment independent station. The station initially ran old movies, westerns, drama shows, and religious programming. In the spring of 1985, channel 2 became known as KNMZ-TV and began running cartoons, old sitcoms and other shows that had previously aired on KNAT-TV (channel 23), which had recently gone dark (it returned the next year as a TBN affiliate).
Channel 2 was sold the next year to New Mexico Media Limited License Holdings, then in late 1987 to Las Vegas-based Sunbelt Communications Company. The deal closed in early 1988 and the format stayed the same, then in 1989 the station changed call letters to KKTO-TV. Shortly afterwards, the station began to suffer financial problems, and by 1991 channel 2 was running an all-barter lineup of a few classic sitcoms and first run cartoons as well as low budget movie packages.
In the fall of 1992, after being unable to turn a profit as an independent station and to focus on its profitable NBC affiliates in Nevada, Sunbelt took KKTO dark, with the station's strongest programming (including The Disney Afternoon) moving to KGSW. Later that fall, the channel 2 license was sold to the Providence Journal Company, which moved the KGSW intellectual unit to channel 2 and surrendered its old channel 14 license to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on April 5, 1993. (The channel 14 license is now occupied by KTFQ-TV, a Telefutura affiliate.) The call letters were changed to KASA-TV, based on the Spanish word casa ("home"). The move to the stronger channel 2 ushered in a new era for the station. With an over-the-air signal comparable to KOB-TV, KOAT-TV, and KRQE and Fox coming into its own as a network, KASA became more competitive in New Mexico than ever before.
The station signed on from Peralta Ridge near Jemez Springs, New Mexico, north of Albuquerque and about equidistant between it and Santa Fe. The power was 100 kilowatts and the height above average terrain was in excess of 1.900 feet (near the class maximum of 1,960'). The station signed on with a Larcan transmitter and a circularly polarized antenna, giving the station (at least theoretically) the best chance for success. In practice, however, the site was too far from viewers, too low in the sky, obstructed somewhat by terrain, and lacking in fresnel clearance. One factor in the station's later success was that the transmitter was relocated to the Sandia Crest site used by most other area stations.
KASA Fox 2 began evolving its programming. Daytime sitcoms were gradually replaced with talk and reality shows, though sitcoms still air in the evenings (many of the shows that would have been on KASA over a decade ago are now on KWBQ and KASY). A.H. Belo bought the Providence Journal Company, including KASA, in 1997. Later, in 1999, Raycom Media bought KASA, along with KHNL in Honolulu, Hawaii. The station phased out cartoons as Fox ended its weekday children's block in 2002.
After Raycom purchased The Liberty Corporation in August 2005, Raycom announced its intent to sell KASA and several other stations (most of which went to Barrington Broadcasting with one going to Quincy Newspapers). On July 27, 2006, Raycom announced that LIN TV, owner of CBS affiliate KRQE, was purchasing KASA for $55 million [1]. LIN TV took over operation of KASA on September 15, 2006 under a local marketing agreement, and LIN TV officially completed the purchase on February 22, 2007. [2] In most markets, a duopoly between two "Big Four" stations wouldn't have been allowed under the FCC's duopoly rules, which forbid one person from owning two of the four largest stations in a single market. However, the FCC allowed LIN TV to buy KASA since channel 2 was New Mexico's fifth-rated station at the time. To this day, KASA is the third-largest (or fourth-largest, if one includes WTTE in Columbus, Ohio, operated and effectively owned by the owner of that city's WSYX, Sinclair Broadcast Group) Fox affiliate owned in a duopoly with a "Big Three" station — and the second-largest such duopoly that is owned by LIN TV.
Even though KASA redesigned its logo shortly after LIN took over, its old WorldNow-powered website continued to use the Raycom era format until it was shut down on July 20, 2007 and replaced with a redirect to KASA's then-new website which, like the websites of the other LIN-owned Fox affiliates, used Fox Interactive's MyFox interface. However, in late 2008, the Web site address reverted to kasa.com (with myfoxnewmexico.com serving as a redirect), using a new interface jointly developed by LIN and Fox Interactive (now the EndPlay CMS platform).
On May 18, 2007, LIN TV announced that it was exploring strategic alternatives that could result in the sale of the company.[2] On March 21, 2014, it was announced that Media General would acquire LIN.[3] The merger was completed on December 19.[4] Just over a year later, on January 27, 2016, it was announced that the Nexstar Broadcasting Group would buy Media General for $4.6 billion. KASA and KRQE will become part of "Nexstar Media Group."[5] As KASA and KRQE were both ranked among the top four stations in the market during the November 2015 sweeps, Nexstar elected to divest one of the two stations to comply with the FCC duopoly rules;[6] on June 30, 2016, it agreed to sell KASA-TV to Ramar Communications, owner of Telemundo affiliate KTEL-CD (channel 15), Movies! affiliate KUPT-LD (channel 16), and MeTV affiliate KRTN-LD (channel 33), for $2.5 million.[7] Ramar intends to make KASA-TV a Telemundo affiliate, and operate its three existing full-power stations in the market — KRTN-TV (channel 33) in Durango, Colorado, KTEL-TV (channel 25) in Carlsbad, and KUPT (channel 29) in Hobbs — as satellites of KASA; it will not acquire KASA's Fox affiliation.[7] KRQE will pick up the Fox network affiliation on channel 13.2.[8]
Digital television[edit]
Digital channel[edit]
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
|PSIP Short Name
|Main KASA-TV programming / Fox
|Cozi TV
|Ion Television
On October 27, 2010, KASA added TheCoolTV on DT2. It also carried another music video channel called The Tube from 2005 until LIN TV took over in 2007 (the network ended later that year). No programming had aired on DT2 since then. On March 1, 2013 KASA dropped TheCoolTV. KASA was once again airing only one digital stream for over two years. On June 1, 2015 KASA added Cozi TV, a digital network from NBC Universal that airs mainly reruns of classic TV series. On November 30, 2015 KASA added Ion Television as a third digital subchannel. Ion features mostly reruns of contemporary crime-drama programs as well as movies.
As part of Ramar Communications' planned acquisition of the station, it disclosed that it would carry MeTV on KASA's second digital subchannel and Heroes and Icons on the station's third subchannel.[7]
Analog-to-digital conversion[edit]
KASA-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 2, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 27.[10] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 2.
Debuting on September 16, 2006, KASA airs a one-hour nightly newscast produced by sister station KRQE. Originally titled News 13 on Fox 2, the newscast was renamed KRQE News 13 at 9 on August 8, 2010, the same evening KRQE began broadcasting all newscasts in true high definition. During KASA newscasts, and in cases of breaking news, KASA carries Fox News coverage, as it is a Fox affiliate, rather than the CBS News coverage used by KRQE, a CBS affiliate. Prior to September 16, 2006, KOB-TV produced the newscast, titled Fox 2 News at Nine, for five years.
KASA now features a morning news program simulcast with KRQE from 4:30 to 7 AM and airs local news from 7 to 9 AM when KRQE airs "CBS This Morning".
2 KASA Style[edit]
Since late 2010, KASA has produced the local lifestyle program originally titled "New Mexico Style" hosted by Nikki Stanzione, In 2014 the show was renamed "2 KASA Style" and is now hosted by Chad Brummett and Brittany Flowers. The show which airs from 9 to 10 AM covers things such as food, fashion and local entertainment.
KASA extends its coverage throughout the entire state of New Mexico, plus parts of Colorado, using a network of translator television stations listed below.
- ^ http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=32311&Callsign=KASA-TV
- ^ "LIN TV considering putting itself up for sale". TVNewsCheck. May 18, 2007. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
- ^ Sruthi Ramakrishnan (21 March 2014). "Media General to buy LIN Media for $1.6 billion". Reuters. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
- ^ Media General Completes Merger With LIN Media, Press Release, Media General, Retrieved 19 December 2014
- ^ http://www.mediageneral.com/press/2016/jan27_2016nexs.html
- ^ "Comprehensive Exhibit". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. March 2016. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
- ^ a b c "Application For Consent To Assignment Of Broadcast Station Construction Permit Or License". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
- ^ http://www.abqjournal.com/810810/switching-channels-purchases-will-move-telemundo-fox.html
- ^ RabbitEars TV Query for KASA
- ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-24.


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GREEN BAY,Wis. Ś Even Nick Foles wonders which game heĺs going to bring to Lambeau Field today when the Eagles take on the Green Bay Packers (1 p.m., Channel 29, WIP 94.1-FM).
Foles doesnĺt expect to drop seven touchdown passes on the Packers as he did last week in a blowout of the Oakland Raiders.
Nor does he anticipate playing as brutally as he did three weeks ago in a horrific loss to the Dallas Cowboys.
Foles suspects but cannot confirm his game is between those extremes.
ôWeĺll just have to find out,ö Foles said. ôIĺve got to keep working and weĺll find out. Itĺs a new week. The most important thing is putting more points on the board than the other team and getting the win.ö
Foles recalls just one other game comparable to how poorly he played against the Cowboys. And that was with Arizona in the 2009 Holiday Bowl. Foles completed 6 of 20 attempts for 28 yards and one interception in a 33-0 loss to Ndamukong Suh and Nebraska.
Packers head coach Mike McCarthy is no stranger to Foles, having watched tape of his career with the Wildcats in addition to last weekĺs game.
ôI think Nick does a good job of anticipation,ö McCarthy said. ôHe can make all the throws. Heĺs always come across to me as someone who has command. Itĺs a new system. And he looks pretty comfortable in it.ö
The Eagles (4-5) and Foles have a golden opportunity not only to climb back to .500, but with a victory over the Packers and a Cowboys (5-4) loss at New Orleans, share the same record in the NFC East.
Defending league MVP Aaron Rodgers is out for at least a few weeks with a crack in his collarbone. For the Packers, the pressure is squarely on 33-year-old backup Seneca Wallace, whose last win as a starter was more than three years ago with the Cleveland Browns.
The Packers (5-3) have had only a week to get Wallace acclimated to the basic components in the offense, most notably the run game featuring rookie power back Eddie Lacy.
ôWeĺre utilizing the strengths of our whole offense,ö McCarthy said. ôThatĺs really what this thing whole thing involves. Our plays are going to be called the same. We didnĺt bring in a totally different scheme. Weĺre not going to be in the pistol and running the option, if you want some inside scoop there. They donĺt have to worry about that. Our offense is going to look similar to what it did in the past.ö
One of the biggest challenges for the Eagles, who rank last in the league in yards allowed but have surrendered 21 or fewer points in each of their last five games, is to block out the situation at quarterback for the Packers. Then again, theyĺre not taking on Rodgers.
ôYeah, but Seneca Wallace is a very, I mean thereĺs a reason they have him there,ö Eagles linebacker Connor Barwin said. ôHeĺs been around the league for a long time. Heĺs a very smart player. If youĺre not ready for him, he will beat you. He can make plays on you. And thatĺs what the new focus is. The focus canĺt be on the guy weĺre not playing. Itĺs got to be on the guy we are playing.ö
Defensively the Packers welcome back pass rusher Clay Matthews, returning from a fractured thumb. Though the hand will be heavily padded, the Packers need any and everybody who can make a play with their superstar quarterback sidelined.
With defensive coordinator Dom Capers, the Packers figure to have a novel plan in store for the Eagles. Donĺt look for the Packers to defend Foles with a lot of zone coverage as the Raiders did. Look for the Pack to blow up the middle of the line with B.J. Raji and Ryan Pickett, as other teams have had success doing to the Eagles.
ôI wonĺt say I guarantee but I feel more comfortable going into this week that weĺre going to run the ball a little bit more,ö Eagles running back LeSean McCoy said. ôWe threw the ball so well the last game that a team will have to play us honest now, the way Nick is playing now and the wide receivers.ö
For the Eagles, the outcome depends on which Foles shows up. The Birds are in trouble if itĺs the guy who was unable to get his feet set against the Cowboys. Foles looked so comfortable during his record-setting day against the Raiders largely because he wasnĺt pressured.
ôDefenses are going to adjust,ö Foles said. ôThey get the game film, see what we did well and try to take that away. So I think itĺs the ability to play the game and adapt when the game is going on.ö


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Baked Turkey Breasts
The tender white meat from turkey breasts lends itself to a host of baked recipes from casseroles to meat sliced off the bone. These baked turkey breast recipes will fit perfectly into your family menu.See Popular Baked Turkey Breasts Recipes
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Cooking the turkey in an oven bag ensure a moist and juicy bird, and very little mess to clean up. It's a win-win recipe.
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For a more crusty, blackened-spice look, rub the spice mixture on the outside of the turkey breast.
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For an easy and delicious weeknight main dish recipe, try these irresistible Mexican enchiladas made with blended cheese and turkey breast.
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Using precooked bacon saves time when making these turkey wraps for dinner. A smoky mayonnaise sauce adds flavor.
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Chipotle peppers add a unique, smoky flavor to this turkey breast recipe.
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