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Under-19 World Cup: Manjot ton brings India their fourth World Cup triumph
Reference: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/u-19-world-cup/under-19-world-cup-manjot-ton-brings-india-their-fourth-world-cup-triumph/articleshow/62767093.cms
NEW DELHI: 2000, 2008, 2012 and now 2018. India pulled off a sensational eight-wicket win over Australia in the big final of the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup to become the only side in history to lift the coveted title for a record fourth time. A clinical bowling performance by India saw them restrict Australia to 216, a total that Prithvi Shaw and his men gunned down comfortably in the end – with 235 balls remaining – to etch their name in history books.
The platform for the big win was laid by, first, the bowlers, who staged a terrific comeback to remove the last six Australian wickets for just 33 runs, and later by opener Manjot Kalra, who struck a 101-ball century to lead India to victory. Kalra got vital partnerships going with each batsman he batted with – 71 with Shaw, 60 with Shubman Gill and an unbeaten 89 with Harvik Desai and formed the fulcrum around which the chase revolved.
Considering the kind of form India's batting was in, getting 217 was never going to be much of a hassle, and that's exactly how things panned out. Kalra and Shaw provided India a brisk start, putting on 71 inside 12 overs despite a slight intervention due to rain. Even as play resumed, the openers went about scoring at over six and saw through the first period. Shaw spanked thunderous back-to-back cover drives for four that brought up India's fifty in double quick time.
Shaw's short but solid knock of 29 ended when he played down the wrong line to Will Sutherland and was bowled. But there was nothing stopping Kalra, who inflicted a brutal carnage on Australia. Once he tonked Zak Evans for a six off a free hit, the left-hander looked in complete control of his innings. He brought up his fifty off 47 balls. The impact of his knock can be gauged by the fact that his partners – Shaw and Gill seemed content playing second fiddle. He played shots all round the ground and smoked three colossal sixes during his knock.
The Australian bowlers were made to sweat. Although they were extremely neat in the outfield, the bowling just didn't look near about threatening to dislodge the Indian batting. Gill was outdone by a smart piece of work from Param Uppal, to whom he danced down the wicket and got bowled for 31- his first score of under 50 in the tournament. But Desai (unbeaten on 47) showed no nerves, and along with Kalra took India over the line with a four towards extra cover, shortly after Manjot had reached his century.
Rahul Dravid, who coached this side to World Cup glory, said: "Really proud of the boys and the effort they put in. Proud of the effort they put in and couldn't be happier for them. Hopefully it's a memory they cherish for a long, long time, but hopefully not the lasting memory and they have many more great moments and bigger things in future. I don't want to mention names but everyone in the support staff has put in a great effort. We do the best for the kids."
Earlier, in overcast conditions, Australia showed no hesitation in opting to bat first. The openers creamed their way to 32 in two overs with Jack Edwards and Max Bryant collecting boundaries frequently between them. The breakthrough was provided by Ishan Porel, once again getting into the thick of things and removing both openers in a span of four overs. Skipper Jason Sangha signalled his arrival with a boundary but struggled to rotate strike since. He went hard after a ball outside off and slashed it for Desai, who had dropped a chance earlier, to take a fabulous catch.
At 59/3, India were on top. With spinners Shiva Singh and Abhishek Sharma operating in tandem and runs not easy to come by, the Australian innings showed character through Jonathan Merlo and Uppal as both batsmen began collecting boundaries at ease. The Indian bowlers were equally guilty of bowling too short, something that Merlo and Uppal dealt extremely well by rocking back onto the backfoot and sending the ball crashing towards the point boundary. The 50-tun partnership was brought up off 68 deliveries and was beginning to look threatening.
The promising stand was broken by Anukul Roy. Uppal, having battled hard for 34, trying to flick one to the on-side offered a leading edge and a return catch to the left-armer. Another partnership blossomed for Australia with Nathan McSweeney supporting Merlo well for 49 runs, until the batsman offered India a second caught and bowled. With five down, Merlo remained the key for Australia but Shaw rotated his bowlers so well that the boundaries dried up and Australia banked heavily on rotating strikes.
India kept dealing telling blows and that mounted the pressure on Merlo, who finally perished for 76, lofting a reverse sweep for Shiva to take the catch in the deep and make Anukul the joint highest wicket-taker in the tournament. Baxter Holt was run out thanks to a beautiful piece of work in the field by Shiva and then Desai, Nagarkoti and Mavi returned to wipe out the tail.
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Cylindrical vector beams for rapid polarization-dependent measurements in atomic systems
F. K. Fatemi
F. K. Fatemi*
Optical Sciences Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, 20375, USA
*Corresponding author: coldatoms@nrl.navy.mil
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F. K. Fatemi, "Cylindrical vector beams for rapid polarization-dependent measurements in atomic systems," Opt. Express 19, 25143-25150 (2011)
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Azimuthally polarized beams
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Atomic and molecular physics (020.0020)
Original Manuscript: September 28, 2011
Revised Manuscript: November 7, 2011
Manuscript Accepted: November 10, 2011
2. CVB formation and beam quality
We demonstrate the use of cylindrical vector beams – beams with spatially varying polarization – for detecting and preparing the spin of a warm rubidium vapor in a spatially dependent manner. We show that a modified probe vector beam can serve as an atomic spin analyzer for an optically pumped medium, which spatially modulates absorption of the beam. We also demonstrate space-variant atomic spin by optical pumping with the vector beams. The beams are thus beneficial for making single-shot polarization-dependent measurements, as well as for providing a means of preparing samples with position-dependent spin.
In recent years, significant attention has been devoted to the optical properties of cylindrical vector beams (CVBs), which are cylindrically-symmetric hollow beams that have radial or azimuthal polarization [1]. For example, a tightly focused radially polarized beam has a strong longitudinal field component that is smaller than achievable with linearly polarized light [2, 3]. The optical propagation and focusing characteristics have been examined in detail [2–6]. Their unique propagation characteristics and potential applications have led to several simple and inexpensive techniques for generating them [1, 2, 7–10] and they have been proposed for applications such as optical trapping [11], atom guiding [12], laser machining [13], charged particle acceleration [14,15], and polarimetry [16].
Yet despite numerous reports discussing their characteristics, generation, and potential applications, it has only been in very recent years that some of these ideas have been implemented and demonstrated experimentally. They have been used for probing molecules [3], trapping microspheres [11], generating surface plasmon resonances [17], entangling spatial and polarization degrees of freedom [18], and optical microscopy [19].
In this paper, we extend the domain of CVB interactions to polarization sensitive diagnostics and manipulation of atomic systems. Although much of the prior interest in these beams derives from their unique focusing behaviors, their use here is motivated by the spatially varying polarization profile. While earlier works have generally used spatially-varying linear polarization (radial or azimuthal), we modify the beams to have azimuthally-varying elliptical polarization so that the space-variant spin in the laser beam can be transferred to the atomic medium. Therefore, these modified CVBs offer a unique way to manipulate atoms spatially. Atomic systems can be probed with light carrying all degrees of elliptical polarization simultaneously, or prepared in a position-dependent way. Here, we demonstrate polarization multiplexing in warm rubidium vapor by preparing and detecting properties of the medium with CVBs. This could be of interest in coherent or nonlinear processes in two dimensions. For example, spatial modulation of light in atomic vapor has been proposed using input beams with spatially-varying intensity [20], and entanglement of multimode images using linearly polarized light has been shown in rubidium vapor [21].
In the paraxial approximation, a CVB has either radial or azimuthal polarization:
(1)E→r(r)=E0rexp(−r2ω12)r^
(2)E→φ(r)=E0rexp(−r2ω12)φ∧
where ω1 is the waist parameter and φ is the azimuthal coordinate. We have generally found that fiber-based CVB generation [8, 9] is both more compact and stable compared to the SLMs used in our prior work [12, 22], with the added benefit that time-dependent fluctuations due to SLM refresh rate are eliminated. Though the technique here is similar to that of [9], we summarize it and the resulting beam qualities for our wavelength and fiber as we have found that these parameters markedly affect the output mode profiles.
Figure 1(a) shows the setup. A Gaussian beam of wavelength 795 nm passes through a π-phase plate formed by depositing 390 nm of SiN onto one half of a quartz plate. This approximately produces a TEM01 free space mode, and is coupled into Corning HI 1060 optical fiber with specified cutoff wavelength λc ≈920 nm and numerical aperture of 0.14. At 795 nm, this fiber supports only the fundamental HE11 mode and first excited TM01, TE01, and HE21 modes. Because of the π phase shift, there is strictly no overlap with the HE11 mode for a well-aligned input beam so the light is in a superposition of the three other supported modes.
Fig. 1 (a) Setup for CVB formation. A Gaussian beam passes through a π phase plate, producing a close approximation to a TEM01 beam. A polarization controller (PC) and λ/2 waveplate adjust the profile in 1060 nm fiber. An output profile with azimuthal polarization is shown. (b) Two different output profiles formed by rotating the half-wave plate. The total power throughput is approximately the same (~10% more for the CVB than for the two-lobed profile). Fits to Eq. (1) are shown (dotted lines). (c) Profiles after passing the azimuthally-polarized CVB through a linear polarizer with horizontal (blue) and vertical orientation (red). Minima are ~1-2% of the maxima. Azimuthal intensity without any polarizers shown in black.
Mode conversion between these higher orders is effected with the half-wave plate in front of the fiber and the stress-induced birefringence of the polarization controller (PC). In principle, the waveplate is not needed (and was not used in [9]), but it provides a reproducible handle for control – the PC applies stress and torsion to the fiber, but there is noticeable hysteresis. The typical output from our mode converter is shown in Fig. 1(a). We also show, in Fig. 1(b), a two-lobed output beam for a different orientation of the waveplate, along with the CVB. The total power output does not change appreciably when varying the waveplate, yet the output profile can be adjusted from circular to lobed, indicating that mode conversion within the fiber is essentially lossless. At the fiber output, transverse cuts of the intensity fit well to |Er(r)|2 in Eq. (1). We note that although these higher order fiber modes in the core are Bessel functions and depend on the fiber geometry and refractive indices [23], our fiber and wavelength combination produces a mode that overlaps well with |Er(r)|2.
Because the conversion between the two-lobed profile and CVB profile occurs without loss of power, we can calculate an approximate overlap integral using the modified Gaussian beam and the two-lobed, TEM01-like output in Fig. 1(b), which has a field profile |Er(r)|sin(φ)ŷ. Modifying the Gaussian with a π phase plate yields:
(3)E→MG=E1exp(−r2ω02)sign(y)y^
where y = rsin(φ) and sign(x) = x/|x|. The optimum overlap integral occurs when ω0 = 21/2ω1, at which value the overlap integral is π-1/2(4/3)3/2 = 0.87, or a power conversion of 75%. The exact overlap integral will depend on the specific fiber, due to deviations of the waveguide mode from that of Eq. (1), but for our fiber and wavelength this is a good approximation. With fiber coupling losses, we typically achieve over 50% conversion efficiency.
The specific fiber used is important for optimizing mode purity. If the fiber can accommodate more than just the first excited modes, mode selection is difficult. This is because the number of available modes grows with the fiber core area, so slight perturbations decompose the input beam into a superposition of a large number of modes. From λc, we can estimate the CVB cutoff wavelength λCVB = 2.4/3.8 λc [24], at which higher orders become available. For our fiber, with λc ≈920 nm, λCVB ≈580 nm, giving ~340 nm range of CVB operation before other modes can be excited. Mode propagation constants near cutoff conditions, however, are sensitive to small perturbations of the fiber geometry. We tested this using SMF-28 optical fiber, which has λc ≈1260 nm, λCVB = ~790 nm. With 795 nm input light, 0.6% away from λCVB, the stability of the CVB beam was severely compromised and it was more difficult to mode-select the CVB. At the other extreme, if λc is very close to the operating wavelength, output intensity profiles can also deviate substantially from those presented here and have poor coupling efficiency. Finally, because instability grows with fiber length, we used short fiber sections. With our setup, a 15-cm-long Corning HI 1060 fiber operating at 795 nm, the output mode remains stable for several weeks.
Within the paraxial approximation, a CVB can be decomposed into the sum of orthogonally-polarized TEM10 and TEM01 modes. The purity of the CVB polarization profile is monitored by passing the CVB through a Wollaston polarizer having a 10−5 extinction ratio, which shows this decomposition (Fig. 1(c)). We show these profiles for vertical and horizontal polarization, and plot the intensity as a function of angular position on the CCD camera. For this paper, the minima are typically <1-2% of the peak intensity. Furthermore, a well-aligned CVB typically has < 3% azimuthal intensity variation, shown in Fig. 1(c).
Once a beam with radial or azimuthal polarization is formed, interconversion is done trivially with bulk waveplates. For example, two half-wave plates oriented by an angle θ relative to each other rotate an arbitrary input linear polarization by 2θ. Hence a radially-polarized beam can be formed by passing a CVB with azimuthal polarization through two half-wave plates with θ = 45 degree relative orientation (Fig. 2 ). Furthermore, a quarter-wave plate can change the CVB from one that contains all linear polarizations (all points on the equator of the Poincaré sphere) to one having all elliptical polarizations (all points on one longitude line of the Poincaré sphere). The polarization profiles and conversions in this work are shown in Fig. 2. Note that, as in Fig. 1(c), because the beam may be considered to be an in-phase superposition of orthogonally-polarized TEM10 and TEM01 modes, the effect of the quarter-wave plate is to produce a beam that is a superposition of TEM10 and TEM01 modes with opposite spin.
Fig. 2 Polarization profiles used in this work.
Light polarization plays a crucial role in atomic state preparation, manipulation, and detection. Changing the polarization alters the selection rules and transition strengths, but with standard Gaussian beams, which have uniform polarization profile, the effect of polarization can only be studied by adjusting waveplates and other bulk optics components. Spatial dependence of signals occurs through the intensity variation of the Gaussian beam, but this is usually avoided rather than utilized.
With CVBs, polarization effects can be determined rapidly because the sample can be probed with all light polarizations simultaneously. For a uniformly-prepared atomic sample, such as a vapor cell or large ensemble of cold atoms, one can image the effect of incident polarization in a single measurement cycle. This drastically lowers measurement time and improves reproducibility. While it reduces the number of photons available for a given polarization, this is often not the limiting factor in the measurement. One can also prepare a sample with a spatially-varying profile to measure the effect of different spin polarizations quickly. These two uses of CVBs – parallel preparation and detection – are demonstrated in this section.
3.1 Atomic spin analyzer
In this subsection, we demonstrate the parallelization of the measurement process by monitoring optical pumping of a 85Rb vapor cell using a CVB containing all degrees of ellipticity. We observe spatial modulation of the CVB through polarization-dependent absorption, showing that a CVB can serve as a spatial atomic spin analyzer. The experimental setup and beam profiles are shown in Fig. 3 . A strong Gaussian pump beam at 795 nm is collimated from a PM optical fiber to a 1/e2 radius of 2.6mm with power 1mW (peak intensity 11mW/cm2). This beam passes through a 7.5-cm-long vapor cell, which is heated to 60º C and kept inside a housing formed out of 3-mm-thick μ-metal. A coaxial solenoid surrounding the cell is also inside the housing, and provides a small (<100mG) field as a quantization axis. The beam is generated by an external cavity diode laser (New Focus Vortex II) and amplified to 100 mW by injection seeding a slave diode. Part of this light passes through the CVB mode converter to produce an azimuthally polarized beam with peak-peak diameter of 1.5mm and power of 1 μW (peak intensity 0.03mW/cm2) at the cell entrance.
Fig. 3 Top: Setup for optical pumping. The CVB probes the atoms that were opticaly pumped by the Gaussian beam. QWPC: λ/4 plate for the CVB; QWPG: λ/4 plate for the Gaussian. Bottom: Line profiles of the CVB (blue) and Gaussian (black) beams. The 1/e2 Gaussian diameter is 5.2 mm; the CVB peak-peak separation is 1.5 mm. Fits to Gaussian and CVB intensity profiles are shown as solid lines.
The Gaussian pump and CVB probe beams are coaxial and counterpropagate, and their frequency is tuned approximately 300 MHz red of the F = 3 to F' = 2 transition so that effects of F' = 3 transitions are reduced. Furthermore, the Gaussian pump contains 3-5% repump light connecting F = 2 to F' = 2 by double-passing a 1.5 GHz acousto-optic modulator. To observe selective absorption, we use a Gaussian beam with σ- polarization. An azimuthally-polarized CVB passes through a rotatable quarter-wave plate (QWPC) prior to entering the cell so that it has position-dependent ellipticity (Fig. 3, top). QWPC is initially set with its fast axis along the y-axis, so that the first and third quadrants contain predominantly σ+ polarization, and the second and fourth quadrants have predominantly σ- polarization. Rotating this waveplate also rotates this profile: e.g. a 45º clockwise waveplate rotation puts σ+ on the x-axis (to help distinguish angular measurements, we use radians for azimuthal location, and degrees (º ) for waveplate orientation). The CVB is imaged onto a CCD camera to observe the absorption.
Figure 4(a) shows the transmitted beam for various orientations of QWPC. For a σ- Gaussian beam, only the σ- portions of the CVB, peaking in quadrants 2 and 4, are transmitted. As the waveplate is rotated, the transmitted beam orientation is also rotated. We also show the azimuthal profiles for different orientations to measure the transmission contrast ratio (ratio of maximum to minimum intensity along the azimuthal coordinate), which, for some waveplate orientations, exceeds 50. Some CVB beam orientations are not as pure (see Fig. 1(c)), so the contrast is reduced to 6-7. The transmission contrast for this work is limited by the input beam quality or nonuniform optical pumping. In situations where large magnetic fields exist, however, magneto-optic polarization effects could also become important.
Fig. 4 Optical pumping using a CVB as probe. (a) σ- Gaussian pump beam, probed with a CVB profile similar to that used in Fig. 3. QWPC is oriented with the fast axis at the orientation shown. Azimuthal intensity profiles for the transmitted CVB probe. (b) Rotation of QWPG to angles as shown in the images. For 0 degrees, the Gaussian is vertically polarized; at 45 degrees, it has σ- polarization (Media 1).
The azimuthal profiles shown in Fig. 4(a) are sinusoidal, indicating that the atomic medium is acting as a fixed, narrowband optical polarizer for the CVB with high extinction ratio. The σ- components are almost entirely transmitted, and the σ+ components are absorbed by the optical depth of the medium to produce beams similar to a CVB that has passed through a linear polarizer (e.g. Figure 1(c)). In this configuration it is analogous to a "polarization axis finder" for linearly polarized light.
The orientation of the quarter-wave plate after the Gaussian beam (QWPG) determines the overall degree of spin polarization of the sample, which in turn controls the extinction ratio. Figure 4(b) shows the transmission as a function of the Gaussian beam ellipticity, with QWPC = 0º. When the Gaussian has σ+ (σ-) polarization, all atoms are pumped to the mF = F (-F) state, and the σ+ (σ-) portions of the CVB are transmitted. When the Gaussian pump beam has linear polarization (QWPG = 0º, 90º), the σ+ and σ- portions are equally transmitted so that no spatial modulation of the beam occurs. Azimuthal profiles of the images are shown. Without analysis, the transmitted CVB images serve as a measure of the net spin analyzer of the ensemble; in principle, a quantitative measure of the spin could be determined through calculations or calibration, but this is outside the scope of this paper.
Using a CVB probe provides common-mode rejection so that comparisons between changes in probe polarization are made rapidly. For example, when the pump polarization is linear, then by symmetry there is no azimuthal intensity variation, as noted in Fig. 4(b). However, deviations from a linear pump are readily detected in a single image as spatial modulation of the probe CVB. As above, this sensitivity depends strongly on the pump power and optical depth of the vapor cell and is outside the scope of this paper, but for our parameters even a 1 degree (17 mrad) rotation of QWPG resulted in a clear modulation of the output profile. Such relative measurements can be made with standard Gaussian beams and bulk optics, but by putting all polarizations into one beam, the measurement is simultaneous.
3.2 Spatially-modulated spin-polarization
If the CVB is significantly stronger than the Gaussian beam, their roles are reversed and the pumping becomes position dependent. This can be used to prepare the atom sample in a spatially varying way. This situation could be particularly useful for multiplexing effects that depend on spin-polarization or nonlinear processes, such as electromagnetically-induced transparency [20, 25], or investigating spatial dynamics in systems with strong atom-atom interactions, such as Bose-Einstein condensates. To demonstrate spatially-modulated spin polarization, we increase the power of the CVB to 1 mW and decrease the power of the Gaussian beam to 10 μW. The Gaussian beam profile at the cell output is imaged onto the CCD camera. The CVB now contains about 5% repump light using a double-passed 1.5 GHz AOM. The cell contains 10 Torr of neon buffer gas to prevent atom movement during the imaging, but to freeze the spatial features further, the Gaussian probe is pulsed for only 2 μs by an AOM. Motion blur becomes noticeable after about 20 μs.
Figure 5(a) shows the Gaussian beam and CVB profiles. QWPC was rotated so that the locations of pure circular polarization were approximately aligned with the Cartesian axes. The atomic medium, pumped by the CVB, has a spatially-varying spin with mF = F close to the y-axis, and mF = -F close to the x-axis. In Fig. 5(b), we show transmitted images (normalized by the Gaussian profile) with different orientations of QWPG. For QWPG = 45º (135º), the Gaussian probe has σ- (σ+) polarization, and the beam is transmitted along the x(y)-axis. In between these circular polarizations, the transmission profile becomes more clover-like as the Gaussian probe beam has equal amounts of σ+ and σ-. When it is purely linearly polarized (QWPG = 0º, 90º), transmission on these axes are equal. Nodes occur at locations where the CVB is linearly polarized, because at those locations the medium has no net spin polarization, and those portions of the Gaussian are more strongly absorbed.
Fig. 5 Top: (a) Top: Gaussian profile; bottom: CVB profile. (b) Gaussian probes with indicated orientation of QWPG. (Media 2) (c) Images of the movement of optically pumped atoms within the buffer gas for 200 μs after the optical pumping pulse is extinguished.
Because the atoms are contained in a 10 torr buffer gas of neon, these profiles diffuse slowly, and the diffusion can be monitored by pulsing a σ- Gaussian probe beam after shutting off the optical pumping beam. Figure 5(c) shows images using a 2 μs pulse of the Gaussian beam at different times out to T = 200 μs. The profiles diffuse ~1 mm in 100-200 μs, which is consistent with the 100 μs diffusion time approximated by [26]
(4)τdiff=a21.15PNePatm
where a is the distance in centimeters, PNe is the neon pressure, Patm is atmospheric pressure, and τdiff is measured in seconds. Diffusion effects can of course be measured without CVBs, and have been studied in warm vapor [27], but because spatial information is inherent to these experiments, these results are included here.
We have demonstrated the use cylindrical vector beams for rapid, single-shot atomic spin visualizations in a vapor cell. In uniformly prepared vapors, we have shown that these beams can act as atomic spin analyzers. Additionally, higher-power CVBs were used to spatially modulate the spin of the atoms in the vapor. Temporal dynamics of the spin polarization were recorded by pulsed, uniform-intensity probe beams. We have also discussed the performance of fiber-based CVB generation at rubidium wavelengths.
This work was supported by the Office of Naval Research and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. We acknowledge G. Beadie and J. Pechkis for helpful discussions throughout the work.
3. L. Novotny, M. R. Beversluis, K. S. Youngworth, and T. G. Brown, "Longitudinal field modes probed by single molecules," Phys. Rev. Lett. 86(23), 5251–5254 (2001). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
4. Q. Zhan and J. R. Leger, "Focus shaping using cylindrical vector beams," Opt. Express 10(7), 324–331 (2002), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-10-7-324. [PubMed]
5. K. S. Youngworth and T. G. Brown, "Focusing of high numerical aperture cylindrical-vector beams," Opt. Express 7(2), 77–87 (2000), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-7-2-77. [CrossRef] [PubMed]
6. D. P. Biss and T. G. Brown, "Cylindrical vector beam focusing through a dielectric interface," Opt. Express 9(10), 490–497 (2001), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-9-10-490. [CrossRef] [PubMed]
7. K. J. Moh, X.-C. Yuan, J. Bu, R. E. Burge, and B. Z. Gao, "Generating radial or azimuthal polarization by axial sampling of circularly polarized vortex beams," Appl. Opt. 46(30), 7544–7551 (2007), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ao/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-46-30-7544. [CrossRef] [PubMed]
8. G. Volpe and D. Petrov, "Generation of cylindrical vector beams with few-mode fibers excited by Laguerre-Gaussian beams," Opt. Commun. 237(1-3), 89–95 (2004). [CrossRef]
9. T. Grosjean, A. Sabac, and D. Courjon, "A versatile and stable device allowing the efficient generation of beams with radial, azimuthal, or hybrid polarizations," Opt. Commun. 252(1-3), 12–21 (2005). [CrossRef]
10. N. Passilly, R. de Saint Denis, K. Aït-Ameur, F. Treussart, R. Hierle, and J.-F. Roch, "Simple interferometric technique for generation of a radially polarized light beam," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 22(5), 984–991 (2005). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
11. Y. Kozawa and S. Sato, "Optical trapping of micrometer-sized dielectric particles by cylindrical vector beams," Opt. Express 18(10), 10828–10833 (2010), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-18-10-10828. [CrossRef] [PubMed]
12. F. K. Fatemi, M. Bashkansky, E. Oh, and D. Park, "Efficient excitation of the TE(01) hollow metal waveguide mode for atom guiding," Opt. Express 18(1), 323–332 (2010), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-18-1-323. [CrossRef] [PubMed]
13. V. G. Niziev and A. V. Nesterov, "Influence of beam polarization on laser cutting efficiency," J. Phys. D 32(13), 1455–1461 (1999). [CrossRef]
14. C. Varin and M. Piché, "Acceleration of ultra-relativistic electrons using high-intensity TM01 laser beams," Appl. Phys. B 74, S83–S88 (2002). [CrossRef]
15. L. J. Wong and F. X. Kärtner, "Direct acceleration of an electron in infinite vacuum by a pulsed radially-polarized laser beam," Opt. Express 18(24), 25035–25051 (2010), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-18-24-25035. [CrossRef] [PubMed]
16. S. Tripathi and K. C. Toussaint Jr., "Rapid Mueller matrix polarimetry based on parallelized polarization state generation and detection," Opt. Express 17(24), 21396–21407 (2009), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-24-21396. [CrossRef] [PubMed]
17. G. M. Lerman, A. Yanai, N. Ben-Yosef, and U. Levy, "Demonstration of an elliptical plasmonic lens illuminated with radially-like polarized field," Opt. Express 18(10), 10871–10877 (2010), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-18-10-10871. [CrossRef] [PubMed]
18. C. Gabriel, A. Aiello, W. Zhong, T. G. Euser, N. Y. Joly, P. Banzer, M. Förtsch, D. Elser, U. L. Andersen, Ch. Marquardt, P. St. J. Russell, and G. Leuchs, "Entangling different degrees of freedom by quadrature squeezing cylindrically polarized modes," Phys. Rev. Lett. 106(6), 060502 (2011). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
19. A. V. Failla, S. Jäger, T. Züchner, M. Steiner, and A. J. Meixner, "Topology measurements of metal nanoparticles with 1 nm accuracy by Confocal Interference Scattering Microscopy," Opt. Express 15(14), 8532–8542 (2007), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-15-14-8532. [CrossRef] [PubMed]
20. L. Zhao, T. Wang, and S. F. Yelin, "Two-dimensional all-optical spatial light modulation with high speed in coherent media," Opt. Lett. 34(13), 1930–1932 (2009), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-34-13-1930. [CrossRef] [PubMed]
21. V. Boyer, A. M. Marino, R. C. Pooser, and P. D. Lett, "Entangled images from four-wave mixing," Science 321(5888), 544–547 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
22. M. Bashkansky, D. Park, and F. K. Fatemi, "Azimuthally and radially polarized light with a nematic SLM," Opt. Express 18(1), 212–217 (2010), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-18-1-212. [CrossRef] [PubMed]
23. E. A. J. Marcatili and R. A. Schmeltzer, "Hollow metallic and dielectric waveguides for long distance optical transmission and lasers," Bell Syst. Tech. J. 43, 1783–1809 (1964).
24. See, for instance, B. E. A. Saleh, and M. C. Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics (Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1991), Chap. 8.
25. S. E. Harris, "Electromagnetically-induced transparency," Phys. Today 50(7), 36–42 (1997). [CrossRef]
26. E. Arimondo, "Relaxation processes in coherent-population trapping," Phys. Rev. A 54(3), 2216–2223 (1996). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
27. M. Shuker, O. Firstenberg, R. Pugatch, A. Ron, and N. Davidson, "Storing images in warm atomic vapor," Phys. Rev. Lett. 100(22), 223601 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
L. Novotny, M. R. Beversluis, K. S. Youngworth, and T. G. Brown, "Longitudinal field modes probed by single molecules," Phys. Rev. Lett. 86(23), 5251–5254 (2001).
Q. Zhan and J. R. Leger, "Focus shaping using cylindrical vector beams," Opt. Express 10(7), 324–331 (2002), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-10-7-324 .
K. S. Youngworth and T. G. Brown, "Focusing of high numerical aperture cylindrical-vector beams," Opt. Express 7(2), 77–87 (2000), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-7-2-77 .
D. P. Biss and T. G. Brown, "Cylindrical vector beam focusing through a dielectric interface," Opt. Express 9(10), 490–497 (2001), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-9-10-490 .
K. J. Moh, X.-C. Yuan, J. Bu, R. E. Burge, and B. Z. Gao, "Generating radial or azimuthal polarization by axial sampling of circularly polarized vortex beams," Appl. Opt. 46(30), 7544–7551 (2007), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ao/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-46-30-7544 .
G. Volpe and D. Petrov, "Generation of cylindrical vector beams with few-mode fibers excited by Laguerre-Gaussian beams," Opt. Commun. 237(1-3), 89–95 (2004).
T. Grosjean, A. Sabac, and D. Courjon, "A versatile and stable device allowing the efficient generation of beams with radial, azimuthal, or hybrid polarizations," Opt. Commun. 252(1-3), 12–21 (2005).
N. Passilly, R. de Saint Denis, K. Aït-Ameur, F. Treussart, R. Hierle, and J.-F. Roch, "Simple interferometric technique for generation of a radially polarized light beam," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 22(5), 984–991 (2005).
Y. Kozawa and S. Sato, "Optical trapping of micrometer-sized dielectric particles by cylindrical vector beams," Opt. Express 18(10), 10828–10833 (2010), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-18-10-10828 .
F. K. Fatemi, M. Bashkansky, E. Oh, and D. Park, "Efficient excitation of the TE(01) hollow metal waveguide mode for atom guiding," Opt. Express 18(1), 323–332 (2010), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-18-1-323 .
V. G. Niziev and A. V. Nesterov, "Influence of beam polarization on laser cutting efficiency," J. Phys. D 32(13), 1455–1461 (1999).
C. Varin and M. Piché, "Acceleration of ultra-relativistic electrons using high-intensity TM01 laser beams," Appl. Phys. B 74, S83–S88 (2002).
L. J. Wong and F. X. Kärtner, "Direct acceleration of an electron in infinite vacuum by a pulsed radially-polarized laser beam," Opt. Express 18(24), 25035–25051 (2010), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-18-24-25035 .
S. Tripathi and K. C. Toussaint., "Rapid Mueller matrix polarimetry based on parallelized polarization state generation and detection," Opt. Express 17(24), 21396–21407 (2009), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-24-21396 .
G. M. Lerman, A. Yanai, N. Ben-Yosef, and U. Levy, "Demonstration of an elliptical plasmonic lens illuminated with radially-like polarized field," Opt. Express 18(10), 10871–10877 (2010), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-18-10-10871 .
C. Gabriel, A. Aiello, W. Zhong, T. G. Euser, N. Y. Joly, P. Banzer, M. Förtsch, D. Elser, U. L. Andersen, Ch. Marquardt, P. St. J. Russell, and G. Leuchs, "Entangling different degrees of freedom by quadrature squeezing cylindrically polarized modes," Phys. Rev. Lett. 106(6), 060502 (2011).
A. V. Failla, S. Jäger, T. Züchner, M. Steiner, and A. J. Meixner, "Topology measurements of metal nanoparticles with 1 nm accuracy by Confocal Interference Scattering Microscopy," Opt. Express 15(14), 8532–8542 (2007), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-15-14-8532 .
L. Zhao, T. Wang, and S. F. Yelin, "Two-dimensional all-optical spatial light modulation with high speed in coherent media," Opt. Lett. 34(13), 1930–1932 (2009), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-34-13-1930 .
V. Boyer, A. M. Marino, R. C. Pooser, and P. D. Lett, "Entangled images from four-wave mixing," Science 321(5888), 544–547 (2008).
M. Bashkansky, D. Park, and F. K. Fatemi, "Azimuthally and radially polarized light with a nematic SLM," Opt. Express 18(1), 212–217 (2010), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-18-1-212 .
E. A. J. Marcatili and R. A. Schmeltzer, "Hollow metallic and dielectric waveguides for long distance optical transmission and lasers," Bell Syst. Tech. J. 43, 1783–1809 (1964).
See, for instance, B. E. A. Saleh, and M. C. Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics (Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1991), Chap. 8.
S. E. Harris, "Electromagnetically-induced transparency," Phys. Today 50(7), 36–42 (1997).
E. Arimondo, "Relaxation processes in coherent-population trapping," Phys. Rev. A 54(3), 2216–2223 (1996).
M. Shuker, O. Firstenberg, R. Pugatch, A. Ron, and N. Davidson, "Storing images in warm atomic vapor," Phys. Rev. Lett. 100(22), 223601 (2008).
Aiello, A.
Aït-Ameur, K.
Andersen, U. L.
Arimondo, E.
Banzer, P.
Bashkansky, M.
Ben-Yosef, N.
Beversluis, M. R.
Boyer, V.
Bu, J.
Burge, R. E.
Courjon, D.
de Saint Denis, R.
Elser, D.
Euser, T. G.
Failla, A. V.
Fatemi, F. K.
Firstenberg, O.
Förtsch, M.
Gabriel, C.
Gao, B. Z.
Grosjean, T.
Harris, S. E.
Hierle, R.
Jäger, S.
Joly, N. Y.
Kärtner, F. X.
Lerman, G. M.
Lett, P. D.
Levy, U.
Marcatili, E. A. J.
Marino, A. M.
Marquardt, Ch.
Meixner, A. J.
Moh, K. J.
Nesterov, A. V.
Niziev, V. G.
Novotny, L.
Oh, E.
Park, D.
Passilly, N.
Petrov, D.
Piché, M.
Pooser, R. C.
Pugatch, R.
Roch, J.-F.
Ron, A.
Russell, P. St. J.
Sabac, A.
Schmeltzer, R. A.
Shuker, M.
Steiner, M.
Toussaint, K. C.
Treussart, F.
Tripathi, S.
Varin, C.
Volpe, G.
Wang, T.
Wong, L. J.
Yanai, A.
Yelin, S. F.
Yuan, X.-C.
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Home Motorcycle Racing News Jerez: Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup Results
Jerez: Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup Results
MotoGP Rookies Cup Results
Daniel Ruiz won his home Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup road race ahead of Danny Kent and Daijiro Hiura. The motorcycle racing action was packed with 16 laps of edge-of-the-seat action with up to 8 men fighting for the lead.
The 18 year old Spaniard was squeezed either side by Hiura and Kent into the last hairpin corner but fought them off to take his first Red Bull Moto GP Rookies Cup victory.
Daniel Ruiz says "It's a dream come true," said Ruiz. "To win at my home Grand Prix is just incredible. When I got in front early on in the race I thought I should try and get away but it just wasn't possible. When Daijiro came past I followed him a bit and changed my plan. I knew it would come down to a last lap battle. I got in front again on the last lap but even at the last corner I had Daijiro up the inside and Danny outside, I just had to keep going and get on the gas as soon as I could."
Hiura, the 15 year old Japanese, had the frustration of 3rd after 2nd on Saturday.
Daijiro Hiura says: "I tried to get away but again it was not possible. We were all together on the last lap and I thought I could win. Then at the end of the back straight Kent and I went wide and Dani Ruiz got ahead, that's where I lost the race today."
Fourth man home was 17 year old South African Mathew Scholtz and he was a lot happier than he had been on Saturday.
Mathew Scholtz says: "That was a much better race, cleaner and faster, a lot more fun. The front guys had got away a bit but towards the end I really got my rhythm together and closed back up to them. Going onto the last lap I thought I was in a good position but just at the last corner it all got too tight and the best I could do was to chase them across the line. I am happy with that though and we go to Mugello next. That's a track that I love so I hope I can get on the podium."
Scholtz out-dragged Harry Stafford to take that 4th place but the 16 year old Briton had a brilliant race. He pulled a chasing pack of 5 through to join Ruiz, Hiura and Kent to make it an 8 man lead battle that also included Jake Gagne, Niccolo Antonelli and Florian Alt. Stafford was the fastest man on the track as he charged through and had pace enough to take the lead.
Harry Stafford says: "It was great fun, I loved catching those guys it was a great feeling and I thought I might win it. Then we also started passing and re-passing each other and I couldn't get clear. It was still a great race and I can't wait for Mugello."
It was another fine ride from Jake Gagne but the 16 year old Californian was not happy with 6th.
Jake Gagne says: "Not really, it was OK, I got some points but it's not where I want to be, I just didn't really have it together here. At least we are a bit closer on bike setting going to the next race and Mugello doesn't have the same slow corners so it should be better anyway. I want to go much better there."
Niccolo Antonelli, the 14 year old Italian in his 2nd Rookies race was a superb 7th and had thoughts of even better.
Niccolo Antonelli says: "I had a great race, a lot of fun. I was going to try for the podium but braking into the last corner Scholtz was inside and I got pushed wide so couldn't make it. I'll try again in Mugello."
Josh Hook's 8th was impressive, coming as he did from 20th on the grid.
Josh Hook says: "That wasn't too bad, I am happy with the way the weekend ended because the crash I had on Friday took my confidence away and I didn't qualify well. So I've got my confidence back with that and am looking forward to the next race," concluded the 17 year old Australian.
The 14 year old German Florian Alt was also pleased with his 9th. He had been with the lead 8 man battle for much of the race.
Florian Alt says: "I could stay with them but only when I had the slipstream, when I lost it there was nothing I could do and I dropped back. Still I have learnt a lot and really enjoyed the weekend.
There were a number of crashers, mostly without injury but Brazilian 14 year old Antonio Chiari is nursing a plastered left forearm after badly wrenching his thumb and unfortunately Alan Techer, the 15 year old Frenchman, was taken to hospital with moderate concussion and a broken left upper arm that will probably require and operation to reset.
MotoGP Rookies Cup Road Racing Point Standings
Daijiro
HIURA
SCHOLTZ
GAGNE
Niccolo
TECHER
KRISTIANSSON
VAVROUS
NGR
PINSACH
CUDIC
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I do not remember when I joined RTMM, but it's a long time ago..somewhere around the beginning of the web site, and in all that time I have never visited Halibut cove..Today I saw it mentioned somewhere and decided to take a look.. stunning! What a great piece of scenery!..my new "home" as of today..thank you, thank you, thank you for all your great work.. Teecee.
... and it has season switching elements too. It IS a very cool location, for sure! Thanks Teecee.
Thanks, Teecee! An interesting story....when ORBX PAHO came out, we discovered that the elevations in Halibut Cove were changed virtually destroying our scenery. After chatting with Holger and Alex at ORBX, an ORBX PAHO update came out that reduced the range of the specialized PAHO airport mesh so that it did not impact Halibut Cove. So besides the RTMM team that put Halibut Cove together, we got a great assist from ORBX to maintain Halibut Cove as one of the great RTMM sceneries.
Thanks for the video Rod, I truly had not realised how you guys strive for the "real life" look.. magical.. thanks again..Teecee.
I consider myself "one of the lucky ones". At eighty next birthday I get to spend as much time as I like on the Sim (I have a VERY understanding wife, either that or she is glad to have me out from under her feet.) Anyway, I get hours every day to fly, and since I started this thread some days ago I have been mainly flying the Homer/Halibut Cove area and as of today I have not tired of it, there is so much to see there. The real treat though is that I know there are still dozens of similar area for me to fly.. Thank again to this great team..Teecee.
At 75 I guess I'm just a young feller.
I too have been enjoying the Homer to Halibut Cove scenery.
Henrick has a drill rig headed toward Homer that caught my attention just the other day, and Kenai makes for a neat loop; Homer - Halibut Cove - Kenai and back to Homer.
Thank you for the comments on Halibut Cove. I saw a TV show about purchasing property up in Alaska and one of the episodes was at Halibut Cove. They took the boat over from Homer and as the camera's started showing the homes on stilts and how they all had that unique look, I knew RTMM had to make a scenery package for this place. I contacted Rod Jackson and we started brainstorming. Xavier Carre' helped with making some excellent custom objects based on real world structures and we were on our way.
As it took on a life of it's own, the team effort from RTMM is definitely on display at Halibut Cove. From Dex Thomas's AI boats to Robert Pomerleau's videos, and all the little touches in between. We all come together to make this one of our most detailed and special places.
I'm using 4.1 and they all work for me.
Yep, Halibut Cove was a great project. I have listed below a few facts and some interesting (and in one case sad) information related to our Halibut Cove project .
Brad contacted me with the Halibut Cove sceney project idea on February 15, 2013. We began work immediately. There were nine developers including myself and 3 beta testers. The scenery was finally released on July 19, 2013 after 5 months of work.
Over the last few years, the real life counterparts of two of the Halibut Cove scenery structure sets were featured on TV shows about buying real estate in Alaska. One of the shows was originally aired before we built Halibut Cove (this show was probably Brad's inspiration though I didn't see it till after the project was done) and the other episode was on the air well after we released Halibut Cove.
It was very neat to see the inside of the house I built called the "twin boathouse house" as well as the beautiful inside of the house set Xavier built called the "big yellow house." See pics at the end of this posting of the structures as they appear in our Halibut Cove scenery.
Living Alaska - Season 1, Episode 9. The title of the episode was "Hammershoy's Halibut Cove". Its original air date was April 6, 2014. The asking price for the 7,000 sq. ft. "big yellow house", that included the barn and boathouse/docks below the house was $1,700,000. It includes 8.65 acres. The inside of the house is gorgeous. However, the couple that was looking did not buy this house but instead bought a different house that we did not model in our scenery. Again, you might see it in reruns or you can license viewing of the episode for about $2 via Amazon or You Tube.
If you haven't yet visited RTMM's Halibut Cove, you need to think about making it your next stop!
Thanks for your great memories of this wonderful scenery Rob. I had nor realised that it was released so long ago. I have been flying RTMM for it seems eons, and only this last month got to visit Halibut..
A sad story about the pilot, but it's one of the prices pilots pay for their great lifestyle, and no matter how careful and well trained they are, "something" can always go wrong.
I only found out last night that a pilot I knew back in Aus died a few years ago. He was the "caretaker" and training pilot for a little airstrip in the Blue Mountains out of Sydney called Katoomba (YKAT) No doubt some of you have flown out of there in the sim. "something" went wrong for him, and he crashed and died on approach.
On a more Cheerful note, I'm off to fly Misty's.. Thanks again for all your efforts. Teecee.


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Celebrity News February 24, 2013
Video! Footage of the Fiery Crash at the NASCAR Daytona Race
A fan watching the pre-Daytona 500 NASCAR race captured shocking footage the moment when debris from the massive multi-car pile-up flew into the packed crowd, injuring at least 28 fans.
The terrifying scene unfolds during the last lap as rookie Kyle Larson's car is catapulted by the crash into a catch fence separating tens of thousands of fans from the track, almost shearing the car in half.
Race officials said 14 fans were sent to nearby hospitals and another 14 were treated at the Florida track. No deaths have been reported.
The prestigious 55th Daytona 500 race went on as planned on Sunday, with Jimmie Johnson winning the race at the Daytona International Speedway. Dale Earnhardt Jr. finished second while pole-sitter Danica Patrick was eighth.
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Why relational dreamwork. We live in a relational world affected by our ability to relate and engage on a conscious and unconscious level. How we live within our bodies, relate to other humans, engage the landscape around us, utilize the materials of the landscape to nourish and provide sanctuary, how we relate to other beings intricately weaves in our make-up, influencing, and guiding how we not just survive but thrive on this planet. Every movement, every use of our senses, our basic needs, emotional, spiritual, physical depend on our ability to be in relationship.
Even within the context of conventional western psychology where the notion of self, independence, individuation, and autonomy are explored there remains the inherent need for connection on a physical spiritual and emotional level. To become aware of the body's needs, to awaken to the essence of self and to feel love from another are all tied to a relational understanding. In some ways the idea of independence is a false concept because to be independent there is also a need for relationship in some form.
If we observe what is the root cause of suffering, we may discover it grows from our need and struggle to be in healthy relationships to all aspects of life. The desire for love, physical health, safety, friendship, a better life free from violence, discrimination etc. are tied to this notion of relationship.
We cannot thrive or flourish without healing and nourishing our connections and relationships to self, other and the world around us. We are bound together in this vast meshwork of life and our dreams can be a path to showing us the way to wholeness in relationship to all of who we are.
Why are Dreams Important…….
Dreams are alive in us. They excite, disturb, inspire, scare, encourage, and awaken us. They invoked in a curiosity to explain their mystery and uncover the wisdom, guidance, and hope we know they can offer.
In wandering the dream, we discover they can speak to the story of who we are, where we have traveled, how we engage the world and what keeps us from embodying our true selves. Dreams are a threshold to the mystery of who we are wrapped in the greater context of the world around us.
In relational and embodied dreamwork the approach holds every dream as an invitation to our unfolding soul story. These dream stories invoke feelings, associations, and memories that are unique to each of us. And when we acknowledge, gaze upon, and work with these stories we open to remembering. The dream calls us….
Opening us to love
Revealing our gifts while giving voice to the pain of our wounds
Healing and nurturing our playful creative expression
Touching the heart of longing to open to the depths of our callings
Reflecting our beingness as a mirror to the journey of our becoming
Arousing the sensual body memories of our wild primal self
Discovering the places that keep us hidden, exiled from wholeness
Bringing us home to the sanctuary of who we are
If we desire, they will transform us
As a dreamwalker and guide I invite you on a journey of remembering..awakening to the essence of who you are…….
The What of Relational Dreamwork
Relational dreamwork believes that all aspects of understanding and working within a personal developmental framework come from exploring with curiosity the inner and outer relationship with self and the world. In working with the dream we are searching for the the relationships between all aspects of the dream story and the dreamer. The connections, places, characters, stories where the dreamer is aroused in some way. The associations, feelings, and memories that link the dreamer to a deeper understanding of who they are, how they navigate the landscape around them and what remedies are offered in the dream for healing or awakening.
Relational dreamwork invites us to imagine our wholeness.
The approach within the relational dreamwork framework focuses on working with the dream as as a reflection of the inner and outer life of the dreamer. Each dream is unqic to the dreamer. Dreamwork is a sacred encounter of collaborative partnership between you, the dream, and if you work with someone, the dream practitioner. There is a cultivation and nurturing of not only the narrative of the dream but also the relationship developing between the dreamer and their dreaming life and the dreamer, dream, and practitioner
The focus is to nurture and nourish an environment within all aspects of the dreamwork process which encourages support, insight, and healing. An environment which awakens the ability to grow into wholeness by tending to relationship between, mind, body, soul, and community.
Within relational dreamwork we will enter the dream story in whatever form it comes as a full story, a moment, a feeling or image with curiosity and openness. In the beginning the dream's story is told either by the dreamer or me. We will search the dream's landscape, its characters, and the unfolding narrative for the places of energy that connect the dreamer to feelings, associations, and memories. It is here we are guided to explore what arises and how this mirrors the waking life. The unique cultural, spiritual, physical, and personal traditions and experiences of the dreamer are weaved in the ways we understand and work with your specific dream.
My journey to relational dreamwork lies in a foundation explored through various modalities and techniques of dreamwork and earth centered practices. The work of Sue Scavo and Bill St. Cyr of Embodied Dreamwork, Carl Jung, Jeremy Taylor, Marion Woodman, and the Senoi peoples as well as shamanic and Toltec practices.
I bring an understanding of depth psychology, mythology, alchemical theory, somatic experiences, narrative work, gestalt, awareness techniques, and dream re-entry as a foundation to support the dreamwork experience. I work to open up a deeper sense of knowing by assisting the dreamer in developing skills to access the imaginal realms of their psyche. We learn to journey to the dream in waking or sleeping life by activating our relationship to the deeper unconscious where we then become receptive insight, intuition, and feeling.
Every session is a stepping into sacred relationship with the dream, dreamer, and practitioner, a co-creative ceremony which moves and changes as curiosity about the dream story expands, narrows, and deepens. The beauty of this process is that both the dreamer and practitioner can bring the support and guidance of allies such as animal guides, elemental beings, symbols, personal talismans and more as the dream is unfolding its wisdom.
Each dreamer has a unique dream and waking life story to share. I use active listening, awareness styles, intuitive work and my relationship to the dream as a way to follow the dreamer on their journey of opening. As the dreamer dives into their inner work I may make suggestions through my own curiosity yet know the dreamer guides the process. My hope is to offer a safe container for the dreamer to explore and dance among the dream elements to discover its wisdom. To witness and offer support the dreamer in their own becoming.


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Whitman Partners Launches CNO Search Practice
October 6, 2014 – Executive search firm Whitman Partners, Inc. has launched a CNO search practice to focus on the placement of chief nursing officers. Greg Masson, partner and healthcare team leader, will head the division and will be joined by Tyler Leonard who will serve as an executive recruiter in the new practice. Mr. Leonard previously worked for the North American merchant gas division at Air Products and Chemicals. "I am thrilled about our new line of business. Tyler Leonard worked very hard in preparing the division for launch and Greg Masson was a terrific choice to lead the group," said Josiah Whitman, managing partner. The CNO team is actively working on over 120 vacancies that are published at whitmanpartners.com/cno/. With over 30 years of combined healthcare recruitment experience, Whitman Partners has been recognized as a top placement resource for hospitals and surgery centers of all sizes throughout the U.S.
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In a recent presentation at MLConf, Xavier Amatriain described 10 lessons that he has learned about building machine learning systems as the Research/Engineering Manager at Netflix.
In this you will discover these 10 lessons in a summary from his talk and slides.
We will look at each in turn through the rest of the post.
To sum up, if you have limited resources, add more data rather than fine-tuning the weights on your fancy machine-learning algorithm.
He also points to Novig's 2009 talk to Facebook Engineering on More Data vs Better Algorithms.
He then points to a the paper "Recommending new movies: even a few ratings are more valuable than metadata" where the point out the obvious that less data that is highly predictive is better that more data that is not.
It is not or, it's and. You need more data and better algorithms.
In this lesson he points out that just because you have big data does not mean that you should use it.
He comments that samples of big data can give good results, and smarter sampling (such as stratified or balanced sampling) can lead to better results.
This next lesson is a subtle but important reminder about feature engineering.
He comments that adding more complex features to a linear model may not show an improvement. Conversely, using a complex model with simple features may also not lead to an improvement.
His point is that sometimes a complex model is required to model complex features.
I would also point out that complex features may be able to be decomposed into simple features for use by simple linear models.
Xavier comments on the difficulty that can exist in denormalizing user behavior data. He points to the problem of selecting positive and negative cases where decisions of where to draw the line have to be made thoughtfully up front before modeling the problem. It's a data representation problem that has an enormous impact on the results that you can achieve.
I would suggest you generate ideas for many such possible lines and test them all, or the most promising.
He also cautions that if you see great results in an offline experiment, that you should check for time traveling – where a prediction decision made use of out of sample information, such as a summary that includes a users future behaviour.
Lesson five is about the problem that all possible choices presented to the user do not have uniform probability.
The user interface and human user behavior influence the probability that a presented item will be selected. Those items that were predicted but not presented may not have failed and should not be modeled as such.
This is a complex lesson about the need to model the click behavior in order to tease out the actual performance of model predictions.
Related to lesson 5, this is the observation that the modeling algorithms and the user interface are tightly coupled.
A change to the user interface will likely require a change to the algorithms.
Xavier gives a great summary of the online-offline test process that is used.
The image shows the back-testing of models offline to test a hypothesis and the verification of those results with A/B testing online. This is a valuable slide.
He points out that a model can be optimized for short term goals like clicks or watches, but that user retention is the one true goal, called the overall evaluation criteria.
He cautions to use long-term metrics whenever possible and only short-term metrics when they align with the long term.
Related to their offline-online approach, Xavier comments on the open problem of relating offline metrics to online A/B tests.
He points to three levels that a given experiment can be divided in order to test a hypothesis, and that each level has a different set of requirements.
Xavier cautions that it is important to choose the right metric when tuning models. But he also mentions that including something like model complexity is also an important concern.
In addition to grid or random parameters searches, Xavier reminds us to look at probabilistic methods that can decrease search time.
The final lessons cautions to spend time thinking about when elements of a model need to be computed and compute those things as early as possible. He points out that in addition to offline and online computing, you can do near-time (he calls it nearline).
It's a great set of lessons that you can apply to your own modeling.


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Man from Crown Heights: Landlord Is pushing him out of a $450-a-Month Apartment
Francis Roberts, 77, told The New York Times how horribly he is being treated as a tenant in the disturbing story.
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Family members Curen Sutherland-Goddard, far left, Amanda Sutherland and Bella Clarke visited Mr. Roberts last week. The apartment has not had heat since the property changed in hands in April, Mr. Roberts said.
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On Sunday, The New York Times reported that Francis Roberts—who has resided in his Crown Heights apartment for more than 20 years —is allegedly being harassed by his landlord in attempts for him to vacate. Roberts' rent is currently $450 per month since his apartment is rent-stabilized.
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His neighborhood is quickly becoming gentrified, with the average rent being around $3,000 a month according to StreetEasy. Roberts also said that green liquid leaks from his kitchen ceiling and music as loud as jackhammers comes from the apartment above him on and off throughout the day.
He believes this is a scheme to get him to leave as soon as possible. Roberts also said that squatters put up tents in front of his apartments and that two portable clogged toilets were put in front of his bedroom windows. He claims he hasn't had heat since April.
Now, with the help of Brooklyn Legal Services' Tenant Right Coalition, Roberts is suing 972 Park Place L.L.C. which purchased the brownstone for $1.3 million. His lawyer, Liam McSweeney, says "they took the harassment to another level."
Yehuda Gruenberg, who is the head officer of the company that owns the property, expressed to The New York Times through his legal team that harassment isn't happening. Gruenberg's lawyer, Julius Toonkel, said that Roberts is possibly dealing with a "dispute between tenants" and that the landlord has "no control of third parties and other tenant/s on the premises."
However, Roberts claims that other tenants who lived in the building for many years either took buyouts or simply left because of horrible living conditions. In addition to suing the corporation, he is also suing its agents and New York City's Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
Roberts wants them to fix more than 200 open violations including sewage backup, mold and lead paint. A spokesperson for the Department of Housing Preservation and Development stated the agency has "initiated legal action against the owner."


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PPA defers upward cargo and passenger tariff adjustment
There will be no increase in cargo handling rates and passenger terminal fees for the time being after the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) deferred the discussions on the upward adjustment proposals of Manila Port Harbor, Inc. (MNHPI) and Asian Terminals, Inc. – Batangas (ATIBI). This is to give way to further study to be conducted by PPA's Committee.
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EDC and Industry Leaders support full investment liberalization outside of the natural monopolies
The Export Development Council (EDC) manifests its support on the full investment liberalization outside of the natural monopolies through a joint statement of support with the Industry Leaders, namely the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), Philippine Exporters Confederation, Inc. (PHILEXPORT), Employers Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP), and Supply Chain Management Association of the Philippines (SCMAP).
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Mindanao-based Reefer Line offers US shipping services at lower cost
There is a silver lining on the issue of lack of vessel space and containers, as another Philippine shipping company based in Mindanao, the Reefer Express Line Filipinas, Inc. takes on long haul US route with its vessel MV Cool Spirit to help the exporters ship their goods amid the current global transport and logistics problem. The voyage started from General Santos City last 02 September 2021.
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PHILEXPORT P30: A Program for Resilient Philippine Exporters
The Philippine Exporters Confederation, Inc. (PHILEXPORT) is launching a digitalization program to ensure business sustainability and resiliency amid the pandemic's economic consequences.
Executive Vice President Senen Perlada introduced the PHILEXPORT: 30 and Future Ready, or simply P30, at the organization's third general membership meeting on September 14, 2021. P30 would also be the theme of the PHILEXPORT's 30th anniversary in October 2022.
The program has a two-pronged approach: aiming to leverage technology to enhance business decision-making; and fostering stakeholders' collaboration. Increasing productivity and business continuity while saving resources and continuously moving forward.
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Royal Cargo commences maiden voyage to LA by mid-September
The Royal Cargo, Inc. (RCI) will commence its maiden voyage to Los Angeles by mid-September this year. Its launch will be made through one of the vessels of Iris Logistics Inc. (Iris Paoay), a Philippine shipping company 80% owned by RCI. Iris Paoay is a general container cargo vessel with 1100 TEUs capacity.
The maiden voyage will be a direct, non-stop service between the Philippines (MNL-CEB-DVO) and the US (LA).
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DOF-BOC-ARTA headways onboarding activities of the 18 priority agencies in TradeNet
The Department of Finance (DOF), Bureau of Customs (BOC), together with the Anti-red Tape Authority (ARTA) headways the onboarding activities of the eighteen (18) trade regulatory priority agencies in TradeNet; Six (6) of which were recently onboarded which include BAFS, SRA, FPA, EMB, NMIS and OMB. These agencies are still finalizing their module manuals, operational guidelines, and helpdesk in preparation for their live implementation. The TradeNet Steering Committee also pledged to include another twelve (12) agencies to onboard by September 2021.
BOC prepares PH Live Exchange of the ASEAN Customs Declaration Document via TradeNet
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) prepares the PH live exchange of the ASEAN Customs Declaration Document (ACDD) by December 2021, via the TradeNet. The completion of the ACDD system's bidding process received concurrence from the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) on 05 August 2021. BOC is now crafting a national master data plan with the USAID ASEAN Policy Implementation (API) Project Team for Interoperability.
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DTI partners with Unionbank in fostering financial resilience for MSMEs
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) partners with the Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank) in fostering financial resilience for MSMEs. UnionBank presented during a webinar their initiatives on assisting the micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) amidst the digital shift, focusing on their products, namely the MSME Business Banking App, UPay, and SeekCap, all geared towards financial resilience.
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Posted on 9th August 2021
EDC lauds DOF and BIR deferment of 12% VAT on indirect exports
EDC lauds the Department of Finance (DOF) and Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) on deferring the implementation of Revenue Regulation (RR) no. 9-2021, which levies 12% VAT on indirect exports pending issuance of an amendatory regulation. BIR will provide the transition process for those who already paid the 12% VAT while the RR was in effect from June 27 to July 21, 2021.
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Reengineering Manual towards efficient Philippine government public service launched
The Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) virtually launched the Reengineering Manual towards Efficient Philippine government services. A reference that supports the whole-of-government approach in streamlining Philippine government systems and procedures in delivering public services. This initiative is the result of a Memorandum of Understanding between the UK Government and ARTA signed last 4 February 2020.
The manual aims to help realize the vision of AmbisyonNatin 2040, and is divided into four parts:
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In September, Irene Lemon presented her monograph, Innovation Has A Creative Mother, at the Australian Regional Development Conference, with thanks to Regional Arts NSW and a QUICKS grant. Commonwealth Bank's Unlocking Everyday Innovation report estimates $44 Billion AUD of innovation potential is waiting to be unlocked in Australia's regional economy, and Irene's presentation focused on the development of a strong regional creative economy as the key to unlocking this opportunity.
One of my main motivations that gets me jumping out of bed each morning is the chance to live a 100% creative life. As a performing artist and a creative industries business advisor, I have a wonderful opportunity to harness my skills in arts and business and share that knowledge with other creatives. I have been operating my own creative small business for 20 years in regional NSW, and there are some unique perspectives I bring to each conversation with clients, policy makers and basically anyone that will listen! In the last few years I have noticed something a bit scary happening: the divide between city and country is getting wider, and as a nation we are failing to address Indigenous disadvantage. We need to look at new ways of working, and I advocate that creative businesses are the most important opportunity we have to address disadvantage.
At the Australian Regional Development Conference, the theme this year was Uncovering Possibilities. Now, speaking to a room full of economic development managers and local government officials may not be your version of fun, but they had good wine there! What was really refreshing was the support from phenomenal women in local government who are aware of creative industries and they are keen to engage with artists to help their regions grow. From what I could see, there is huge potential for creative business to make an impact. But it is going to take some serious hard work to get us there.
The NSW Government's 20 Year Economic Vision for Regional NSW report has barely a whisper of Creative Industries in it, and the Create NSW Arts 2025 Summit summary paper has a long way to go to address chronic challenges to galvanise investment and policy directions for NSW creatives, especially in the regions. On top of the politics, there are some other uglier issues we must look at. As a regional creative, there are some nasty stereotypes and tropes that hark back to the days of cultural cringe and parochialism which undermine the confidence necessary for having a decent go at making a business success of an arts practice. What I asked for at the Conference was a seat at the Economic Development table and the right support and mentoring for regional creatives to help us realise our potential and contribute to the economy.
I make no excuses for artists who want to dismiss business as a viable opportunity for their arts practice. As an advisor, I have heard it all. From "ideologically, my work can't be commercialised" and "it's too hard", to "this business stuff is not important", and my favourite "my work speaks for itself and people should just buy it anyway". That's completely fine, but this attitude has the hallmarks of being a hobbyist. That's nothing to be ashamed of, but it's not a viable business model and certainly not a way to make money from your practice. However, for any artist who is disappointed with the hobbyist way of life – good news! Your community wants to support your work, provided they can find you and work with you easily.
There is a lovely research paper by Fleischmann (et al) about a Townsville project, which investigated the contribution creative industries makes to the innovation potential of a regional community. One of the key findings was that other businesses (in this instance, from construction, property and business services, and retail sectors) would like to keep their dollars local and engage local creatives are they are very keen to employ local creative businesses. This means an entrepreneurial lens really can help you unlock possibilities and engage in local industry.
The other exciting thing that came from the Townsville research paper was evidence to show that creative business are unlocking innovations for other industries. These are novel solutions that delight customers and improve the operations and processes for less creative businesses! We are so bloody useful, and we must get better at letting people know we exist.
Small Business Month NSW is a month-long celebration of small business. Throughout October you can access networking opportunities, workshops and support. Creative business is fun, but more than that, we have some really special skills at unlocking innovation and doing business in new ways. And there is $44 Billion worth of innovation opportunities to unlock! Surely, with some of that action we can close the gaps and have an impact that is more than profit. Perhaps we can change the world?
Click here to find out more about the Creative Plus Business October workshops.