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Pats, Lady Pats Sweep Track Titles
Wednesday, May 8, 2019 12:00 PM
Rivers Futral lands in the pit.
FLOWOOD – The MRA Athletics Twitter timeline blew up early Saturday evening, full of congratulatory remarks referencing the Patriots and Lady Patriots both winning MAIS AAAA-Division I Track and Field championships at the Overall meet.
One follower included the hashtag #TrackSchool at the end of her post. While that may be somewhat debatable – longtime MRA boys basketball coach Richard Duease, for one, may have an argument considering the numerous games and championships his teams have won over the last three-plus decades – she certainly may be on to something.
After all, the Lady Patriots have now won back-to-back state championships. The Patriots, meanwhile, have won three of the last five. Not to mention the fact that MRA also swept both titles at the junior high district meet a few weeks ago. Clearly, MRA has emerged as a major player when it comes to track – girls and boys.
MRA coach Melanie Black remembers a time not so long ago in which she had a hard time convincing girls to come out and/or stay out for track. The Patriots, on the other hand, hadn't won a state title in track prior to coach John Weaver pulling the trick in 2015. Look at both programs now.
There they were Saturday, on center stage, at the end of a long, rain-filled day, collecting trophies. First, it was the girls' turn, followed shortly by the boys. The Lady Patriots won in dominant fashion, tallying 192 points, bettering runner-up Jackson Prep by 22.5 points. While things were more nip-and-tuck on the boys' side throughout most of the day, the Patriots emerged from the pack with 173 points, 18 points more than runner-up Jackson Academy.
"Both teams winning made it even more special," Black said. "It's a big accomplishment for both of our programs and the school. A lot goes into winning one, much less two (titles) in the same year. I'm super proud of the girls and boys."
Said Weaver: "It just goes to show you what type of kids we have . . . we some great kids on both teams. They come to practice every day, they work hard, and they're willing to do whatever it takes to get better. And that competitive edge carries over into the meets. It's important to them."
That was evident throughout the course of the two-day event, never more so than near the conclusion of Day 2. Leading by 20.5 points leading into the final event of the meet – the 1600 meter relay – the Lady Patriots could've easily chosen to coast through on their way to the title. That's just not in their collective DNA. With Laurel Fulcher providing a gutsy final leg on the heels of Hunter Thompson, Evie Ewing and Lily Kate Farrar, MRA won the final event with a school record time of 4:11.06 – adding the proverbial cherry on top to the youthful Lady Patriots second title in a row.
"They are competitors," Black said. "All of our girls are. They have such a competitive spirit. I knew once they got out there and started running, they weren't going to settle for anything less than first place. They didn't have to win that race, we didn't have to have it. And they were tired. Their legs were dead. But they wanted to win it. It was a great way to finish it. That put an exclamation mark on an outstanding performance."
Likewise, the senior-laden Patriots also had the title wrapped up prior to the 1600 meter relay. While the quartet of Russ Sceroler, Luke Barr. Landes Purnell and Walker Watters didn't win the event – they came in second - they did run a season-best time of 3.35.89 to run the Patriots team total to 173 points. It's the most the boys have ever scored at the Overall meet. MRA compiled 80 points in the field events on Friday, building a 14 point lead over second place JA entering Saturday's running events.
"I'm super proud of our guys," Weaver said. "We only won one race on the track, same thing we did in 2017 when we won it. There's a lot of pressure when you've been leading pretty much the whole time. Our lead s got down to nine points at one time. There was a two-hour stretch or so where nothing was going right for us. I thought the (second) weather delay helped us. I gathered them on the bus, told them to stop pressing, and just do what they were trained to do. I thought that helped us regroup. We were able to come back, settle in, and go ahead and win it."
The Lady Patriots carried a 12.5 point lead over Jackson Prep (69-56.5) into the running events. They proceeded to win the first three events on Saturday – Fulcher in the 300 meter hurdles, Alex Cullom, Thompson, Ewing and Fulcher in the 800 meter relay and Savannah McIntosh, Lydia Snopek, Sloane Vinson and Everett Heard in the 3200 meter relay – to build a 24.5 point lead and were never seriously challenged the rest of the way.
The Lady Patriots' time of 9:56.02 in the 3200 meter relay established new Overall meet record, bettering the time of 9:56.08 set by PCS a year ago.
"I thought that really set the tone for the day, us winning those first three events like we did," Black said.
Fulcher won the 300 meter hurdles, finished third in the 400 meter dash, and was a part of winning relay teams in the 800 and 1600. She also was a part of the 400 meter relay team which got second, meaning she had a hand in 44 of her team's points on Saturday. Ewing, meanwhile, won the 400 meter dash, finished fourth in the 200 meter dash, was part of the winning 800 meter and 1600 meter relay teams, in addition to being part of the 400 meter relay team which got second – making her a part of 43 points. Thompson you ask? She had a hand in 42 points, including a second place finish in the 100 meter dash and a third place finish in the 200 meter dash to go along with the relays.
That's a combined 129 points that those three girls were a part of on Saturday.
"Our sprinters did everything today," Black said. "And our distance runners, who were a question mark coming in because of all they had been through this year, really came through for us. They were real troopers running out in the rain the way they did today. It was a total team effort for us, going back to the field events on Friday."
The same can be said for the Patriots, who wouldn't have been where they were without Will Seabrook coming up huge on his last toss of the day to vault into a second place finish in the discus on Friday. Or Jake Flynt finishing third in the shot put despite the fact that he hadn't thrown in a meet the entire season. Or little-known Will Triplett finishing third in the 3200 meter, shattering his personal best time by a 17 seconds. Or Walker Watters placing second in the 400 meter dash. Or Will Fairly getting second place in the 800.
The list of heroes goes on and on . . . "It was a gutsy performance by all of our kids," Weaver said. "I thought our seniors really stepped up."


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Steve helped to support LeadingAge's Legal Committee and to establish the In-House Counsel Network. He has also spoken to scores of boards of directors at LeadingAge member organizations about trends in the field of long-term services and supports. Prior to joining LeadingAge, Steve was in private practice in Seattle, working with many LeadingAge members on legal issues.
"Steve has experienced our field from the inside out and the outside in," says LeadingAge President and CEO Katie Smith Sloan. "There is no question that he has accomplished much in his time with LeadingAge, has taught us all a great deal, and has made a positive difference in our field."
"We wish Steve endless adventures, happy times with his grandchildren, much luck with his golf game, and all that he hopes for in this next chapter," added Sloan.
Here, in the "other Washington" we know Steve as a trusted voice and expert on all things that impact skilled nursing facilities, Life Plan Communities and Assisted Living, as well as, fair housing laws and their applicability to independent housing settings. Steve has practiced in Seattle at Ryan Swanson for a number of years; teaching, advising and representing nursing homes under new federal laws and regulations adopted in the late 80s and early 90s. Before practicing law with Ryan Swanson, Steve served as General Counsel to the Washington Health Care Association for a number of years. He has long been a friend to me personally and as a colleague and to many of you as well. We wish Steve the very best and know that we will continue be in touch and perhaps even have sightings when he returns to catch some Husky football games.
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Q: How to PIVOT data from MSSQL query and Fetch to PHP view I have a MSSQL 2005 Database with query content like this :

nopas
code
name
order

00115301
D031
ADAM
1

00130015
D031
ADAM
2

00149998
D026
JAMES
1

00149970
D028
FIKI
1

00142641
D028
FIKI
2

00127700
D028
FIKI
3

For report reason, I need Output a table like :

ADAM
JAMES
FIKI
...(dynamic content based new record)

00115301
00149998
00149970
...

00130015
-
00142641
...

-
-
00127700
...

Can anyone help me??

A: You can do a pivot with CASE statements. It's basically the manual way of pivoting and if you were using a version of SQL Server before 2005, you would need to go that route. SQL Server 2005 added the PIVOT function.
Because you need it to be dynamic, you will need to use dynamic SQL. It's a lot of leg work but definitely doable.
I'm going to create your table content in a global temporary table (has to be global to work in dynamic SQL).
-- CREATE GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE
CREATE TABLE ##tablename (
  [nopas] VARCHAR(8),
  [code] VARCHAR(4),
  [name] VARCHAR(64),
  [order] SMALLINT
);

INSERT INTO ##tablename
  ([nopas], [code], [name], [order])
VALUES
 ('00115301','D031','ADAM',  1)
,('00130015','D031','ADAM',  2)
,('00149998','D026','JAMES', 1)
,('00149970','D028','FIKI',  1)
,('00142641','D028','FIKI',  2)
,('00127700','D028','FIKI',  3);

Next, I'm going to SELECT just the unique names into another temporary table and associate them with an IDENTITY with which I can iterate through in a for loop.
SELECT IDENTITY(INT, 1,1) as [id], [name]
INTO #temp
FROM ##tablename
GROUP BY [name];

Now comes the difficult part. The PRINT @dynSQL generates what I'm trying to achieve dynamically (below). We need to SELECT the [order], [name], and [nopas] for the final result. We are pivoting on the [name] in the second part of the statement, and aggregating by MAX([nopas]); but because we contain an [order] grouping in your original table content, it will only retrieve the MAX([nopas]) based on the MAX value of a single row. So, the result is that it removes aggregation. If you did not have an [order] column in your original content, we would need to use the ROW_NUMBER() function* PARTITIONED BY the [name] to generate that [order].
EDIT: I discovered that the ROW_NUMBER() function is only available in SQL Server 2012 and newer. See @Andriy M's comment below.
-- PRINT @dynSQL result
SELECT * FROM
(SELECT [order], [name], [nopas]
  FROM ##tablename) AS sourceTable
PIVOT(
MAX([nopas])
FOR [name] IN ([ADAM],[FIKI],[JAMES])
) AS pivotTable;

-- The leg work to create the dynamic SQL.
DECLARE @count INT = 1;
DECLARE @max INT = (SELECT MAX(id) FROM #temp);
DECLARE @dynSQL VARCHAR(2048) = 'SELECT * FROM
(SELECT [order], [name], [nopas]
  FROM ##tablename) AS sourceTable
PIVOT(
MAX([nopas])
FOR [name] IN (';

SET @count = 1;
WHILE(@count <= @max)
BEGIN
  SET @dynSQL += '[' + (SELECT [name] FROM #temp WHERE id = @count) + '],';
  SET @count += 1;
END

SET @dynSQL = LEFT(@dynSQL, DATALENGTH(@dynSQL) -1) + ')
) AS pivotTable;';

PRINT @dynSQL;
EXEC (@dynSQL);

DROP TABLE ##tablename;
DROP TABLE #temp;

Oh, if you want to remove the [order] column, from the result. You could  use SELECT * INTO ##newGlobalTable in the dynamic SQL and then ALTER the new table and DROP the column.

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The Outer Banks, and especially Hatteras Island, is well known for its long history of ships and shipwrecks. Lesser known, however, is the history of Richard Etheridge and his all-black crew who not only performed one of the greatest rescues in the history of Hatteras Island, but whose story is also a testament to the cooperation between black and white surfmen at a time in America's history when this was rare.
The precursor to the United States Coast Guard, the U.S. Life-Saving Service was responsible for vigilantly monitoring our nation's shores and protecting citizens from the frightening unknowns of the sea. Despite facing serious discrimination, a crew of African American surfmen, led by Richard Etheridge, not only remained faithful to their duties, but also performed one of the most heroic rescues on the open ocean.
As the descendants of a man who worked as a surfman during this monumental period, Joan and Darrell Collins are cousins with a personal connection to the Pea Island Life-Saving Station.
When they discovered the exciting facts of their relatives' past, they were determined to make the heroic history of these African American lifesavers known.
As members of the Pea Island Preservation Society, Inc., the Collins cousins, along with James Charlet portraying Keeper James of the Life-Saving Service and his wife Linda Molloy portraying the Keeper's wife (both in period-correct dress), have created an interactive presentation entitled, "Freedmen, Surfmen, and Heroes™." The program first debuted at the North Carolina Aquarium in Manteo in February of last year. Since then, the team has presented their research 14 times at the aquarium and subsequently to every elementary school in Dare County.
Fourth graders at Cape Hatteras Elementary School were engaged in a vibrant storytelling experience on Tuesday as presenters related the tale of Etheridge and his crew's bravery and heroism.
Afterwards, students were prompted to identify some qualities of these surfmen which made their noble pursuits possible such as honor, dedication, service, teamwork, determination, bravery, and perseverance.
Students then identified each quality with a particular surfman in Etheridge's crew, and were awarded ceremonial medals of honor.
The interactive experience of the presentation served to both keep students engaged while also teaching them the importance of diversity.
The Pea Island Preservation Society, Inc.'s presentation at Cape Hatteras Elementary School on Tuesday was particularly special, presenters said, because Richard Etheridge and his crew's historic rescue occurred just off the coast of Hatteras Island.
After the Civil War ended, Richard Etheridge returned to his home on Roanoke Island and got a job at the Bodie Island Life-Saving Station, just one of 29 that were to be built along the North Carolina's coast.
Etheridge was given the position of Surfman No. 6, the lowest rank among lifesavers, despite his lifetime of experience on the water. It was the job of his and his fellow surfmen to monitor the beach every day from sunup to sundown from a lookout tower. In the evenings, these same surfmen would patrol the beach on foot, walking three miles in one direction until meeting another patrolling surfman with which they would exchange tokens before walking the three miles back.
Patrols persisted no matter the weather conditions, and the presenters suggested that it was this persistence which bonded the surfmen together across racial barriers. The stations would also often come together to assist each other during rescue missions, creating a sense of unity among all-white and all-black lifesaving stations.
In 1880, Etheridge was promoted to the highest position at the Pea Island Life-Saving Station as Keeper, but even then the prejudice continued. All the white surfmen at the Pea Island Station refused to work for him and the station was suspiciously burned down. Etheridge did not let these circumstances deter him, however, and he built a new station at Pea Island with the help of his all-black crew.
Etheridge and his crew are most known for their heroic rescue of the crew and passengers aboard the E.S. Newman, a three-masted schooner, during a hurricane in 1896.
When the boat began sinking just off the shore of Hatteras Island, the surfman on duty in the Watchtower at the Pea Island Station was barely able to make out a flare going up over the ferocious waves. Etheridge and his crew arrived on the scene and rescued Captain Silvester Gardner and his entire crew by miraculously swimming to the wreck and retrieving the shipwrecked crew one at a time.
Despite their heroism, the crew never received recognition for this rescue during their lifetime. Indeed, it wasn't until 100 years after the E.S. Newman rescue, in 1996, that the Coast Guard awarded them the Gold Life-Saving Medal.
Etheridge's legacy continued, despite this lack of recognition, as the Pea Island Life-Saving Station continued to be manned by African American keepers and crew for the next 67 years until that station closed in 1947.
Though Etheridge died in 1900, he remains an example of service, dedication and perseverance. The new bridge located just south of Pea Island is set to be dedicated to him in a ceremony soon to be announced by NCDOT.
Joan and Darrell Collins, along with Keeper James and his wife Linda, believe Etheridge's story is worth being told, especially to young children, because it showcases the power of difference as well as perseverance in the face of discrimination.
"It's always important to tell stories like this, because it shows the importance of diversity; I think it's just pretty special," Joan Collins said.


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Sihugo Green (* 20. August 1933 in New York; † 4. Oktober 1980 ebenda) war ein US-amerikanischer Basketballspieler in der nordamerikanischen NBA.

Der Guard spielte an der Duquesne University und wurde in den Jahren 1954, 1955 und 1956 zum All-American ernannt. Zudem erreichte er in der Zeit an der Duquesne University zweimal das Finale des National Invitation Tournament (1954, 1955). Er wurde dann beim NBA-Draft 1956 an erster Stelle von den  Sacramento Kings, vor Bill Russell gedraftet. In seiner Karriere erreichte er viermal die Playoffs und gewann einen Titel mit den Boston Celtics. Seine Stärke waren Assists.

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NY rabbi arrested on sex abuse charges; Pressures to report allegations mount
This week, Yoel Malik, a rabbi at a religious school in New York's ultra-orthodox Jewish community, has been arrested on charges of sexually abusing students, the Associated Press reported.
Former students claim Yeshiva University officials ignored sex abuse allegations
Earlier this month, the Jewish Daily Forward published an investigation into sexual abuse allegations against two former staff members at a high school for boys run by Yeshiva University. According to the Forward, the students asked Y.U., the premier educational institution of Modern Orthodox Judaism, to investigate their claims that a former principal had repeatedly abused students in the all-male high school that is part of the university. Another former high school student said Y.U. covered up for a staff member who sodomized him.
Second child sexual abuse claim made against Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash
***MEDIA ALERT*** NEWS CONFERENCE TODAY Second child sexual abuse claim made against Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash Lawsuit filed today by attorney Jeff Herman alleges voice of Elmo trolled gay telephone chat line rooms to meet and have sex with underage boys. WHAT: Attorney JEFF HERMAN (www.hermanlaw.com), a nationally-recognized attorney for victims of sexual abuse, announces the filing of a lawsuit against KEVIN CLASH for the sexual abuse of a 15-year-old boy. According to the Complaint: · When CECIL SINGLETON, the victim in this case, was just fifteen years old, he called a gay chat line seeking friends. […]
Child molesters count on us to blame the victim
School district trustees in California have apologized to a former student for implying in legal papers that she was partially to blame for the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her former teachers.
Former Honolulu principal accused of child sex abuse
Brother Karl Walczak, a former Honolulu principal, resigned as principal of O'Dea High School in Seattle Wednesday, the same day the school announced he is accused of sex abuse of a minor.
Victims' group holds two events in Miami
Victims' group blasts Catholic archbishop on abuse Group says he must explain why he put predator back into parish" And they want priest sent to a remote treatment center right away SNAP asks "How many other Miami pedophiles are still on the job?" Group will distribute fliers about recently ousted child molesting cleric What Clergy sex abuse victims will hold two events in Miami today. Holding signs and childhood photos at a sidewalk news conference, they will urge Miami's Catholic archbishop to –explain why he quietly suspended and re-assigned a controversial priest who has been sued at least four times […]
Sandusky blames accusers on the eve of sentencing
The evening before his sentencing, Jerry Sandusky released a recorded statement in which he proclaimed his innocence and blamed his accusers and others for his conviction.
Florida leads the nation in tough child sex abuse reporting laws
Last month, I praised California lawmakers for passing a new law that requires coaches and administrators in the state's K-12 schools and all higher education employees to report suspected child abuse.
Penn State Trial: Motions to Drop Charges Denied
A judge in Pennsylvania denied a bid by two former Penn State officials to dismiss perjury charges arising from the case against Jerry Sandusky, the ex-football coach convicted of abusing boys, Reuters reported. Gary Schultz, former vice president, Tim Curley, the athletic director at the time, will go to trial in January to face charges they lied to a grand jury about a 2001 sex-abuse allegation against Sandusky.
Sex Abuse Attorney Jeff Herman to Present at 2012 National Crime Victim Bar Association National Conference
Attorney Jeff Herman, a nationally recognized advocate for survivors of rape and sexual abuse, is honored to be speaking at the 2012 National Crime Victim Bar Association National Conference in New Orleans. Herman, a trial lawyer dedicated exclusively to representing victims of sexual abuse and one of the nation's leading childhood sexual abuse attorneys and pioneers, will lead a presentation on preparing child sex abuse victims to testify on Thursday, September 20th.
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Carlton Waterhouse
* Began his legal career as an attorney with the EPA
* Was a board member of the Environmental Law Institute from 2019-21
* Was nominated by President Biden in 2021 to be Asst. Administrator of Office of Land & Emergency Management
* Accuses America & the West of "environmental racism"
* Advocates reparations for slavery
* Believes the U.S. should pay climate reparations to poor communities at home and to poor countries abroad
* Favors the defunding of police
Carlton Mark Waterhouse graduated from the Howard University School of Law in 1991 and then began his legal career as an attorney with the Environmental Protection agency (EPA), where he served in the Office of Regional Counsel in Atlanta and the Office of General Counsel in Washington, D.C. Waterhouse also holds two degrees from Emory University: a Master of Theological Studies degree and a Ph.D. in Social Ethics (2006). "I pursued my doctorate in social ethics to learn how to create laws and policies that treated people rightly and promoted justice for all," Waterhouse said in a written statement in 2021, emphasizing that his research and writing were focused on "correcting environmental and other social injustices."
In 2018, Waterhouse was in Brazil as a visiting professor on a Fulbright Scholarship conducting research on "social dominance in the criminal justice system, and police brutality against unarmed citizens."
In 2019 Waterhouse took a job as a Professor of Law at his alma mater, Howard University. He had previously served as a Professor of Law, a Dean's Fellow, and the Director of the Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Law Program at Indiana University's Robert H. McKinney School of Law.
From 2019-2021, Waterhouse served on the Board of Directors of the Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Law Institute.
In early 2021, the Joe Biden administration nominated Waterhouse, who at the time was the Deputy Assistant Administrator for the EPA's Office of Land and Emergency Management (OLEM), to become OLEM's Assistant Administrator. (Until 2015, OLEM — which develops guidelines for waste disposal, supports states and localities in redeveloping brownfields, and deals with accidental chemical spills through the Superfund program — had been called the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response).
As of July 2022, Waterhouse's nomination for the post of OLEM's Assistant Administrator had not yet been confirmed by the U.S. Senate, as the committee considering the nomination had deadlocked twice in its votes.
Waterhouse's Job As OLEM's Deputy Assistant Administrator
The trade publication Waste Dive published an interview that it conducted with Waterhouse in May 2022. In it, Waterhouse pushed the idea of so-called "environmental justice," even though the environment has no legal standing because it is not a person. Noting that President Biden had directed EPA leaders to focus on "integrating environmental justice considerations into our plans and actions," Waterhouse explained: "Environmental justice begins with understanding what impacts you're having across all of your activities in the communities where you are located. One example is just to be a good neighbor, meaning you understand the footprint that you have in your neighborhood. You're aware of the noise impacts; you're aware of the odor impacts; you're aware of disease vectors that might be associated with your operation. You're aware of how particulates from your facility are impacting your neighbor; you're conscious of surface water runoff coming from your facility and how that's impacting your local community as well as groundwater impacts that come from your operations. Even truck traffic."
The EPA's approach to "environmental justice," said Waterhouse, "is the way that these programs and efforts make sure, from the beginning, that no communities are left behind and that these industrial operations don't have to be adversarial in their relationships with communities. In fact, they can enhance community life through employment and through good green practices."
Claiming that recent data showed "the very close relationship between people's exposure to pollution and historic practices of redlining across many places in the country," Waterhouse said: "So operations can understand how they fit within that historical footprint as a better way of getting a sense of environmental injustice as well, to see how past practices of racial discrimination may have influenced some of the zoning and land-use decisions around them. It will help them to better understand how their communities came to exist, who came to live there then, who does live there now, and what limited options might they have had historically."
Reparations for Slavery
In his 2006 doctoral dissertation at Emory University, titled "The Full Price of Freedom: African American's Shared Responsibility to Repair the Harms of Slavery and Segregation," Waterhouse argued that the U.S. owed black Americans, many of whom were descended from slaves, compensation for slavery and the deleterious effects that their ancestors' servitude supposedly had on present-day blacks. Reparations "usually refers to the debt to be paid to blacks by the American government, corporations, or individuals for the bondage and mistreatment that characterized the bulk of American history," Waterhouse wrote. "This debt remains a critical feature of social justice in America today."
In the same dissertation, Waterhouse proposed a model for reparations that "would allow funding to originate from a variety of sources including black communities themselves, the United States government, individual state governments, philanthropists, United States corporations, the United Nations, or a host of other places." Moreover, he proposed that $50 billion be paid out for reparations — of which $25 billion would be for "economic reparations," $20 billion would be for "educational reparations," and $5 billion would be for "political reparations."
This funding was needed because America had not done enough for blacks, Waterhouse wrote:
"[B]lack communities suffered numerous and diverse harms," including "political, economic, and educational harms caused by the three hundred forty-four years of slavery and segregation."
"Although law occasionally served to provide or protect the rights of blacks, it routinely excluded them from the rights provided to others and denied them access to the economic, political, and educational goods they needed."
"[T]he reconstruction amendments to the Constitution and the post-Civil War civil rights legislation, like the civil rights laws of the 1960s and 1970s, failed to remedy the denials of the past by providing the victims of slavery and segregation, respectively, with resources to remedy the harms they suffered. Because of law's inconsistency in protecting black rights and ineffectiveness in remedying the historic harms suffered by their communities, it represents an inadequate tool for making black reparations."
Climate Reparations
Although support for slavery reparations has been popular among leftists for some time, reparations related to the climate is a more abstract, exotic concept that has yet to be widely embraced, even among radicals. Waterhouse wants that to change. He believes that the United States should have to pay so-called climate reparations to poor communities in the U.S. and to poor countries abroad, on the theory that American economic success impoverishes others. This belief is central to the zero-sum world of leftist thinking in which people can only become wealthy under capitalism by taking from others.
How exactly such a climate reparations scheme, which would be extremely complex in nature, would be carried out is unclear. At the same time, Waterhouse is critical of the environmentalist movement itself, arguing that it has left poor people and nonwhite minorities behind. As he said at the American Climate Leadership Summit in August 2020:
"Climate reparations is really just calling for the equitable redress for the harm that has been caused historically. That's what it's about—making amends. I think climate reparations are essential and an important part of having an equitable climate vision."
"I think we have to understand that we're not able to get to an equitable climate solution if we don't address the inequities in our society. So ultimately, our environment is just one larger part of the social world in which we live."
"When we think about an equitable climate solution, we've got to think about how to equitably deal with this social inequality and injustices that result from our history of gender, race, and class discrimination. And that kind of reality means that we have to envision a space where those are not present. As long as gender and race and class discrimination define people's experiences in our society, they will also define their experiences in relationship to the environment. And so that has to be the central part of really moving us forward to address an accurate and equitable climate vision."
"[It is vital to be] engaging as allies and as advocates for marginalized communities, for communities of color, for working class, and low income communities. If you're a part of an organization, or a church, or you're just an individual who's concerned about addressing climate change, then it's important for you to serve as an ally, for those on the ground community-based environmental justice organizations, social-justice organizations that are fighting around issues of environmental justice."
"As long as the people who are most at risk and most marginalized are neglected, we'll never really have an equitable climate solution. But if we begin by looking to those who are most threatened, like those in Flint [Michigan], and in other cities like East Chicago, Indiana, when you look to those communities that are most threatened, most harmed, then you're going to find solutions that are going to allow everyone to be able to succeed."
American economic preeminence was to blame for the world's most serious problems, Waterhouse argued at the same 2020 Summit:
"With regards to climate reparations, I might start off by saying the United States historically is one of the biggest contributors by itself, probably the largest historically of any contributors to climate problems at all, followed by Europe. When you put Europe and the United States together, you're kind of talking about 90 percent of the contributors to the greenhouse gases that we are now suffering the consequences from. In contrast, the rest of the world combined probably has contributed roughly 10 percent."
"We can … address climate change, and make the people who have the least responsibility shoulder the greatest burden of harm and the costs. But that's just not right. It's not right. It's wrong. It's not just, it's unjust. It's not equitable at all, and it's unfair. And so as a result, climate reparations … help other countries prepare for and deal with the problems of climate. I think climate reparations are essential and an important part of having an equitable climate vision."
Also at the American Climate Leadership Summit of 2020, Waterhouse expounded on the leftist theory of environmental racism, saying that:
"Marginalized communities within those countries that have gotten the least benefits out of that pollution, are also going to suffer some of the greatest harms from that. And around the world, countries that have had very little if any contribution towards climate change are suffering some of its worst consequences. Climate reparations is really just calling for the equitable redress for the harm that has been caused historically."
It is impossible to achieve "an equitable climate solution" without addressing existing social inequities.
The environment "is just one larger part of the social world in which we live."
In the early days of the environmental movement the environment — i.e., "the wilderness spaces, the untouched spaces" — were often viewed "as something separate from where people lived," as "a place you go to go away from people." But that perspective was racist and classist: "That kind of romanticism-based environmentalism really excluded people who lived in cities, working class people, poor people, people of color, largely from participating in being part of that movement."
Much of the environmentalism which focused on preservation and conservation "was really grounded in protecting and preserving those spaces that people who had leisure time and had wealth had the ability to go away to and enjoy."
This attitude hurt "other spaces," which "were often neglected and unprotected." These were the spaces "where people lived, where people work, where people played, who weren't wealthy, who weren't white, didn't have the ability to be able to go away, and who were locked into inner cities or locked into barrios or locked onto reservations, their environments were where they lived primarily."
Because environmentalism did not focus "on this constituency and these people until more recently … we've got to think about how to equitably deal with this social inequality and injustices that result from our history of gender, race, and class discrimination."
EPA Nomination Troubles Because of Waterhouse's Radical Track Record
As of July 2022, Waterhouse had twice failed to win Senate confirmation for the post of Assistant Administrator of the EPA's Office of Land and Emergency Management. In December 2021, and again on April 7, 2022, the deadlocked Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works had voted 10-10 on Waterhouse's nomination, thereby failing tp advance it.
Ranking GOP committee member Shelley Moore Capito (R-West Virginia) said at the Senate committee meeting on April 7, 2022, that she was "troubled by Dr. Waterhouse's personal views on the energy sector and capitalism." "Dr. Waterhouse's previous statements calling for the U.S. and other developed countries to pay 'climate reparations' to the rest of the world has given me pause," Capito said in her opening statement. "I believe these viewpoints would impede his ability to carry out the Office of Land and Emergency Management's duty to impartially consider stakeholder input and would unnecessarily politicize its mission of protecting public health from legacy pollution."
Waterhouse's Twitter feed, which had been unearthed by Capito, showed the nominee to be a staunch advocate of "social justice." For instance, in a post suffixed with the hashtag "#ResistCapitalism," he had tweeted on April 25, 2015: "The ugly truth about energy. The ends don't justify the means." A few weeks later, on May 17, 2015, Waterhouse had used the same hashtag for a tweet that read: "Inexpensive products have a high cost. Workers pay with their happiness, health & their lives."
Conservatives pushed back against the Waterhouse nomination, BuzzFeed News reported on September 14, 2021:
Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, a Republican, described Waterhouse as an "extremist" who "supports fringe environmental and racist policies."
Thomas Jones of the American Accountability Foundation called the nominee "a racist" who was "obsessed with pushing racially-divisive rhetoric and policies into every aspect of public life."
Reaction to Waterhouse's views also spurred additional revelations about the nominee's radicalism. For example, it was learned that in June 2020, Waterhouse had appeared on the China Global Television Network (CGTN) — an entity controlled by the government of Communist China — to call for the defunding of police forces in the United States. Among his noteworthy quotes during that appearance were the following:
"The idea of defunding the police generally means we should reallocate the funds that are used for policing toward the actual services that are needed by communities."
"There are places where we see that they don't have robust police forces and they seem to be able to live their lives in a way that is acceptable and comfortable for them. In all honesty, if you think about all of our major police forces, we have spent all of our money on a possible cure rather than putting it into education, into health and into social services."
By no means was this the first time that Waterhouse had publicly advocated the defunding of police. In August 2021, for instance, he and a number of fellow academics had signed an open letter stating that they were "inspired" by communities that had chosen to slash their police budgets. "Today's calls to defund the police stem from a recognition that policing is rooted in anti-Blackness and the policy choices to impoverish people and then punish them for the predictable consequences of poverty," the letter said.


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GAY GUIDE TO TAIPEI 2020
Vibrant, tolerant and tropical, Taipei exudes sex appeal. Add in some sleek skyscrapers, ancient temples and musclebound natives and you have the perfect mix for a city island escape!
Discovering Taipei – Asia's No 1 Gay Friendly Destination
Taipei is a city of contrasts. Surprisingly good ones at that! From the typical tourist attractions of night markets, temples and hot springs to the sophisticated hotel, restaurant and cafe scene, the city is emerging as one of the most gay friendly and welcoming destinations in Asia.
Home to more than 3 million people, Taipei City is also known as the San Francisco of the East. Tolerant, open and progressive, the city attracts guys and girls from all over Asia and beyond who want to be themselves without being judged or labelled.
Same sex sexual activity is legal. Workplace discrimination based on Sexual orientation is banned and the annual gay pride attracts more than 50,000 people each year.
Taipei's Gay Scene and Districts
The gay scene is wild and vibrant. Combine tropical weather with gourmet food, stunning shopping experiences and a rich history of culture and art, Taipei is a city oasis that never ceases to surprise. Add in a cruising gay beach, gay hot springs, circuit parties and the hot and muscled native Taiwanese guys and you are set for a holiday to remember.
Taipei has become famous for its large scale circuit parties, usually taking place on public bank holidays. These events attract large number of visitors from other Asian countries including Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Thailand. These parties sell-out fast and hotels can be fully booked for weeks in advance so plan and book early.
Taipei's main gay scene is centered around the Red House entertainment complex and Ximan, a veritable gay village full of bars with large outdoor terraces.
The main gay scene is centered around the Red House entertainment complex and Ximan, however there are many other gay venues dotted around the city, most notably in the Jhongshan area just north of Ximen, Zhongshan Dunhua and Taipei City Hall to the east.
The Red House district is home to more than 25 different gay bars, shops and restaurants. There is a bar for everyone, Karaoke to Leather and S&M to Bears and their admirers. Most of the bars have large outdoor terraces perfect for watching the hot guys walk by.
Getting around Taipei is quick and convenient. The MRT or subway makes getting around the city a breeze. Taxis are available 24 hours a day. Unless you speak Mandarin, make sure you keep a card of your hotel with its address so you can easily find your way back home after a night of partying as few drivers will speak English.
Taipei effortlessly combines the old with the new, a city at home with the past but constantly evolving and setting new trends.
Clubbing – Where to Party
The clubbing scene in Taipei is one of the hottest in Asia, most notably thanks to the efforts of the G5 party organisers. The party moves around different venues depending on the event with the most recent events taking place in the ATT4Fun complex. The queues can be long so go for a VIP ticket if you can.
Jump is a popular gay club hosting theme parties every Saturday such as Follow Me and Woof. The club plays a mix of house, electro, club and tribal. The space is divided into three main areas offering a different ambiance in each one. Tickets should be purchased in advance.
Circuit parties during public holidays, prides and long weekends, attract thousands to the island, so be warned and book tickets and hotel early.
Funky, one of the oldest gay clubs in Taipei offers a fabulous 70's style disco complete with underfloor lighting, mirror balls and lots of kitsch!
Finally Luxy, Taipei's luxurious night club and the largest in the city offers regular theme parties featuring top DJs, artists and performers. The bars and clubs section of the guide has full details of the best gay bars and clubs to see and be seen.
Taipei Saunas
Taipei has some of the best gay saunas in Asia. Aniki is one of the most famous in the region. The facilities and service are renowned and comes complete with an large dark room and 28 luxury suites which can be rented out per hour or overnight. The sauna attracts a mix of fit Asian guys and foreign tourists. Weekends are busiest with several themed parties and foam nights. The sauna is open 24 hours per day but is busy from 6pm onward. For more check out the detailed Sauna listings.
We will come back to presenting Taipei soon. In any case, this is destination we could strongly recommend for COVID19 affected travel in 2021/2022.
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In the blink of an eye, a wave of visible light completes a quadrillion (1015) oscillations, or cycles. That very large number presents both opportunities and a challenge. The opportunities promise numerous applications both inside and outside of laboratories. They go to the heart of our ability to measure frequencies and times with extremely high precision, a skill that scientists rely on for some of the best tests of laws of nature—and one that GPS systems, for instance, depend on. The challenge has centered on the impossibility of manipulating light with the techniques that work so well for electromagnetic waves of much lower frequencies, such as microwaves.
Now, thanks to a decade of revolutionary advances in laser physics, researchers have at hand technologies that can unlock the latent potential that visible light's high frequencies previously kept us from realizing. In particular, scientists have developed the tools to exploit a type of laser light known as an optical frequency comb. Like a versatile ruler of light with tens or hundreds of thousands of closely spaced "tick marks," an optical frequency comb provides exquisitely precise measurements of light. Such a comb can form a bridge spanning the huge frequency gap from microwaves to visible light: very precise microwave measurements can, with an optical comb, produce equally exact data about light.
Myriad applications are in the pipeline. Optical combs will enable a new generation of more precise atomic clocks, ultrasensitive chemical detectors and the means to control chemical reactions using lasers. The combs could greatly boost the sensitivity and range of lidar (light detection and ranging)—and also provide a vast increase in the number of signals traveling through optical fiber.
Combs will greatly simplify the task of measuring optical frequencies with extremely high precision. In the 20th century such a measurement would have required a team of Ph.D.s running rooms full of single-frequency lasers. Today a graduate student can achieve similar results with a simple apparatus using optical frequency combs. The new optical atomic clocks also spring from this simplification. Much as a pendulum in a grandfather clock requires gears to record its swings and slowly turn the clock's hands, an optical atomic clock uses an optical frequency comb to count the oscillations of light and convert them into a useful electronic signal. In just the past year, researchers have used optical combs to surpass the cesium- based atomic clocks that have been the best system available for decades.
In some respects, the scene-changing advent of optical combs is similar to the leap forward that resulted from the invention of the oscilloscope about 100 years ago. That device heralded the modern age of electronics by allowing signals to be displayed directly, which facilitated development of everything from television to the iPhone. Light, however, oscillates 10,000 times faster than the speed of the fastest available oscilloscopes. With optical combs, the same capability to display the waveform is becoming available for light.
Optical frequency comb applications require exquisite control of light across a broad spectrum of frequencies. This level of control has been available for radio waves for a long time but is only now becoming possible for light. An analogy to music helps in understanding the required level of control. Before the development of combs, lasers could produce a single color, like a single optical tone. They were akin to a violin with only one string and no fingerboard, capable of playing only one note (ignore for the moment that musical notes are much richer than pure tones). To play even a simple piece would require many different instruments, each painstakingly tuned. Each violin would require its own musician, just as every single-frequency laser requires its own operator.
In contrast, one operator can use an optical comb to cover the entire optical spectrum, not merely like a pianist at a piano but like a keyboardist playing an electronic synthesizer that can be programmed to mimic any musical instrument or even an entire orchestra. Comb technology, in effect, enables symphonies of hundreds of thousands of pure optical tones.
Optical frequency combs are generated by devices called mode-locked lasers, which create ultrashort pulses of light. To understand the important features of such pulses, begin by imagining the light wave of the other chief kind of laser, a continuous-wave (CW) laser. Ideally, such a wave would be an endless stream of perfectly regular oscillations (representing the light wave's electric field), every wave crest and trough having the same amplitude and arriving at an unchanging rate. A pulse from a mode locked laser, in contrast, is a short series of wave crests and troughs whose amplitude rises from zero to a maximum and then falls back to zero. The shortest pulses, with durations of less than 10 femtoseconds, contain just a few full oscillations of the light wave. The general outline of the pulse—its overall rise and fall—is called its envelope. One can think of the pulse as being like the earlier continuous wave (the "carrier wave"), with that wave's amplitude multiplied by the changing height of the envelope.
The carrier wave consists of light of one pure frequency. A plot of its spectrum would have a single spike at that frequency, representing the presence of that frequency alone. You might expect that the pulse you are imagining would also consist of light only at that frequency—after all, it is just the single-frequency carrier wave with its amplitudes changed—but that is not how waves and spectra work. Instead the pulse is made up of light of many frequencies all traveling together. The frequencies form a small, continuous band centered on the carrier frequency. The shorter the pulse, the broader the spread of frequencies.
Two additional features of the pulses emitted by mode-locked lasers are keys to the development of optical frequency combs. First, shifting the envelope a little relative to the carrier wave results in slightly different pulses. The peak of the pulse envelope may occur at the same time as a crest of the carrier, but it may also be shifted to any other stage of the oscillation. The amount of displacement is called the phase of the pulse.
Second, mode-locked lasers emit trains of pulses at a very regular rate, called the repetition rate. The frequency spectrum of such a train of pulses does not form a continuum spread on each side of the carrier frequency but rather breaks into many discrete frequencies. Plotted, the spectrum looks like the teeth of a hair comb, spaced at precisely the laser's repetition rate.
A typical repetition rate is around one gigahertz (a billion cycles per second), somewhat slower than modern computer processors. An optical comb that spanned the visible spectrum would have 400,000 teeth if they were spaced at one gigahertz. Scientists can measure repetition rates in the gigahertz (microwave) range very accurately using high-speed photodiodes, which detect each pulse in turn—and an optical comb would appear to leverage that accuracy up to visible wavelengths. Why not, then, use the teeth of the frequency comb as reference points to measure against?
There is, however, a catch. It relates to the phase. Everything is fine if the phase of every pulse in the train is exactly the same, because in that case the comb teeth will be precisely at integer multiples of the repetition rate. Thus, you would know the teeth positions once you had measured the laser's repetition rate.
But it usually happens that the phase changes from one pulse to the next by some unpredictable but fixed amount. In that case, the comb teeth are shifted in frequency away from the exact integer multiples of the repetition rate by an amount called the offset frequency. To know the frequencies of the comb teeth, one must measure that frequency as well as the repetition rate. Measuring the offset frequency was a barrier to progress with optical combs. This barrier fell resoundingly in 2000. It took the combined efforts of scientists from two separate branches of laser research and the discovery of a new material.
For most of the past 40 years, ultrafast-laser researchers—those who focus on making and using the shortest pulses—largely ignored the pulse phase and the theoretical comblike spectrum of an ideal series of pulses. Their experiments typically only depended on the intensity of individual pulses, in which case the phase has no effect. Although the members of the ultrafast community often measured the spectrum of their mode-locked lasers, they rarely did so with sufficient resolution to observe the underlying comb spectrum; instead the lines would blend together and look like a continuous band of frequencies.
High-resolution measurements were the domain of specialists in precision spectroscopy and optical frequency metrology, wherein highly stable CW lasers reigned as the preferred tools. As mentioned earlier, a CW laser sends out a steady stream of light at a precise frequency, and its spectrum looks like one sharp spike. Not many researchers in the metrology community were cognizant of the workings of mode-locked lasers, and those who did know about them were skeptical that such lasers could produce a well-defined comb spectrum in practice. They expected that modest fluctuations in the timing or the phase of the pulses would wash it out.
But a few researchers, most notably Theodor W. Hänsch of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, had faith that mode-locked lasers could one day be a useful tool for high-precision spectroscopy and metrology. In the 1970s, while a faculty member at Stanford University, Hänsch used mode-locked dye lasers (which have a colorful liquid dye as the medium where the laser light is generated) to do a series of measurements that established the basic concept of the comb spectrum and its offset frequency. These seeds then lay dormant for almost 20 years until laser technologies had advanced enough for further progress with combs to be practical.
In the late 1980s Peter Moulton, then at Schwartz Electro-Optics in Concord, Mass., developed titanium-doped sapphire as a laser gain medium with a large bandwidth. Wilson Sibbett of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland pioneered its use in mode-locked lasers in the early 1990s. Within only a few years, titanium- sapphire lasers were routinely generating pulses shorter than 10 femtoseconds, corresponding to only three cycles of light [see "Ultrashort- Pulse Lasers: Big Payoffs in a Flash," by John-Mark Hopkins and Wilson Sibbett; Scientific American, September 2000].
With these titanium-sapphire lasers available, Hänsch dusted off his 20-year-old idea of optical frequency combs. He performed a series of experiments in the late 1990s that demonstrated the latent potential of mode-locked lasers. In one measurement, he showed that comb lines at opposite ends of the output spectrum are well defined with respect to one another. The comb teeth were revealed to be like the marks engraved on a steel ruler and not like lines drawn along a rubber band. In another experiment, he measured the frequency of an optical transition in cesium atoms (a change in their state that absorbs or emits light at a precise frequency) using a mode-locked laser to span the difference in frequency between two CW lasers. His results inspired a group of us to undertake serious research in this arena.
At JILA, a joint institute between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado at Boulder, we were in a unique position to take the technological advances in two branches of laser physics and run with them. JILA has a strong tradition in optical frequency metrology and precision spectroscopy, largely built on the ultrastable CW laser technology developed over 40 years by one of us (Hall). In 1997 another one of us (Cundiff) joined JILA, bringing expertise in mode-locked lasers and short-pulse techniques. It took many hallway and lunch table conversations before we surmounted our conceptual divide and decided to join forces, along with a pair of postdoctoral fellows: Scott Diddams, now at NIST, and David Jones, now at the University of British Columbia. The third of us (Ye) joined the fun at JILA in the summer of 1999, just as the revolution began in earnest; he soon led the way to finding applications for the new frequency combs.
As impressive as Hänsch's results were, we knew that his motivation was to dispose of most of his complex apparatus. The techniques to accomplish this simplification, however, required that a mode-locked laser produce an enormous bandwidth, preferably an octave. (An octave is a factor of two in frequency, whether it be in music, electronics or optics.) Although titanium-sapphire lasers produced impressive bandwidth at the time, they could not yet yield an octave of light.
The final puzzle piece fell into place at the 1999 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics where Jinendra Ranka of Bell Laboratories presented a paper on a new kind of optical fiber known as microstructure fiber. In this medium, micrometer-size airholes in the fiber guide light along its core. The fiber's properties allow pulses at the frequencies produced by a titanium-sapphire laser to travel along it without being stretched (as occurs in ordinary fiber and most other optical media). The lack of stretching keeps the pulse intensity high, which in turn leads to much greater spectral broadening than occurs in ordinary optical fiber [see "The Ultimate White Light," by Robert R. Alfano; Scientific American, December 2006]. The results are visually stunning. The output of a titanium- doped sapphire laser is in the near-infrared, just beyond the limits of human vision. It appears as a faint red color to the eye. Spectral broadening in microstructure fiber converts that faint red to visible wavelengths, causing the fiber to glow with successive colors of the rainbow.
In the fall of 1999 we managed to acquire some of this magic fiber. The timing could not have been more perfect. We had just completed a series of experiments demonstrating the use of a titanium-sapphire laser to span a gap nearly three times wider than Hänsch's initial demonstration. We already had an operating setup into which we could almost drop the new microstructure fiber. Within two weeks of receiving the express package from Bell Laboratories, we had done a proof-of-principle experiment showing that the spectral broadening in the microstructure fiber preserved the frequency comb structure in the original laser pulse.
The importance of an octave-spanning spectrum is that it allows the offset frequency to be measured directly as a radio frequency, thus surmounting the aforementioned barrier to using combs to measure other frequencies. There are several specific methods of determining the offset frequency given an octave-spanning spectrum, many of which can be traced to techniques employed in radio engineering for measuring frequencies before high-speed counters were readily available. (Counters do the job by simply counting how many oscillations occur in a radio wave per unit of time but cannot keep up with the much higher frequencies that light has.) We will now describe the simplest and most versatile of the methods for measuring the offset frequency— self-referencing.
The key idea is that an octave-spanning spectrum enables scientists to compare the frequencies of two comb lines at opposite ends of the spectrum with each other. If the offset frequency is zero, then each line at the low-frequency end of the spectrum has a corresponding line with exactly twice its frequency at the high-frequency end. Any deviation from this exact ratio turns out to be precisely the offset frequency. The scheme is called self-referencing because one is comparing the comb's light against itself.
Self-referencing is carried out in practice by passing some of the laser light through a so-called second-harmonic generation crystal, which doubles the light's frequency. Thus, one can split off the light that forms the lower-frequency end of the comb using a mirror that only reflects longer-wavelength light but passes shorter wavelengths, then send it through the doubling crystal, and finally direct both it and the light of the higher-frequency end of the comb onto the same photodetector. The combined light oscillates in intensity—it "beats"—in just the same fashion as the combined sound of a tuned and a mistuned note beats. In both cases, the frequency of the beats equals the amount of mistuning. For the light pulses, the beats have the same frequency as the comb's offset frequency because every doubled low-end line will be mistuned by that amount from a high-end line. In electronics and optics, this procedure of combining signals to get the beat frequency is called heterodyne detection.
The simplicity of optical frequency metrology based on optical frequency combs can only be appreciated in comparison to techniques used prior to their development. Briefly, these techniques consisted of frequency multiplication chains, where each link in the chain consisted of an oscillator that had a multiple of the frequency of the previous link. The first link in the chain was a cesium clock, a kind of atomic clock used as the international time standard that defines the second. The cesium clock is based on nine-gigahertz microwaves absorbed by cesium atoms. To reach all the way from nine gigahertz to the frequency of visible light (a factor of at least 40,000) required about a dozen stages. Each stage used a different technology, including lasers for visible light. Running these chains was resource- and personnel-intensive; just a few in the world were built, and measurements were made only intermittently. In addition, in practice the many links in the chain impaired the accuracy of the ultimate optical frequency measurement.
Once stabilized optical frequency combs were invented, it was much easier to precisely measure the frequency of a CW laser. As with a frequency chain, comb-based frequency measurements still must be referenced to a cesium clock. As we will now see, a cesium clock's ability to measure frequencies up to about nine gigahertz is all that you need to use an optical comb to determine the frequency of a laser line. Several pieces of information involving the comb are needed. First, as we discussed earlier, the comb's offset frequency and the spacing of its lines must be measured. From those two numbers the frequencies of all the comb's lines can be calculated. Next, the unknown laser light is combined with the comb's light to get the beat frequency (that is, the difference in frequency) between it and the nearest comb line.
These three frequencies are all within the microwave range that can be measured extremely accurately using a cesium clock. Recall that the comb's line spacing is the same as the repetition rate of the pulses producing the comb. Most mode-locked lasers operate at a repetition rate of 10 gigahertz or less, making that quantity easy to measure against the cesium clock. Both the offset frequency and the beat frequency are also within range to be measured by the cesium clock because they must be smaller than the comb spacing.
Two further pieces of data must be determined: to which comb line was the unknown laser light closest and on which side of the line? Commercial wave meters can measure an optical line's frequency to within less than one gigahertz, which is good enough to answer those two questions. In the absence of such a wave meter, you can systematically vary the repetition rate and the offset frequency to monitor how the beat frequency changes in response. With enough of those data points, you can work out where the line must be.
The simplicity of optical combs has not only increased how often scientists around the world make these extremely precise frequency measurements but also greatly decreased the uncertainty in those measurements. Such benefits may one day lead to an optical time standard replacing the present microwave cesium-based one. With this in mind, groups at NIST led by James C. Bergquist and at JILA led by Ye have been measuring frequencies relative to clocks that use light and a comb to produce the output signal. Already the uncertainties in measurements using the best of these clocks are smaller than those in measurements using the very best cesium standards. It is an exciting time, with many laboratories around the world poised to build optical frequency standards that can surpass what has been the primary frequency standard for many decades. Measurements by Leo Hollberg's group at NIST, as well as by other groups elsewhere, suggest that the intrinsic limit of the optical comb is still a couple of orders of magnitude better than the uncertainty in current optical frequency measurements.
Adopting an optical time standard remains years in the future, however. Metrologists must first carefully evaluate numerous atomic and ionic optical transitions before selecting the one that seems to be the best for a standard. In addition to the many practical applications of combs, fundamental comb research continues apace on many fronts. For example, Ye's group can use a single comb to detect very sensitively many different transitions of atoms and molecules all at once. Thus, the whole range of energy states of an atom can be analyzed in one measurement. Alternatively, this technique can be applied to detect many trace species in a sample.
Comb technology has already had a large impact on studies of how atoms and molecules respond to the strong electric fields obtainable in intense, ultrashort light pulses. Much of this work has been led by a collaborator of Hänsch's, Ferenc Krausz, who is now at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics. Among other achievements, his group has used the response of electrons to measure the electric field of a laser's ultrashort pulses and display the waveform, much like displaying a radio-frequency wave on an oscilloscope. Krausz used optical combs to stabilize the pulses' phase to have an unchanging waveform from pulse to pulse.
Another very active area of research is the quest to push comb techniques to higher frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum. (Producing lower-frequency combs, including combs that run from microwaves all the way to visible light, is straightforward.) In 2005 Ye's group at JILA and Hänsch's group in Garching generated a precise frequency comb in the extreme ultraviolet (not far below x-rays in frequency). Scientists are using this extended comb to study the fine structure of atoms and molecules with extreme ultraviolet laser light.
In the space of a few short years, optical frequency combs have gone from being a research problem studied by a small number of scientists to being a tool to be used across a broad gamut of applications and fundamental research. We have only begun to explore the full potential of these rulers of light.
Steven Cundiff, Jun Ye and John Hall bring different backgrounds to their collaboration on developing and applying femtosecond optical frequency combs. Hall has been a leader in precision measurement using ultrastable continuous-wave (CW) lasers for more than four decades. In 2005 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work, including development of comb techniques. Ye began his career about 15 years ago with a focus on ultrastable CW lasers, but since the advent of comb techniques he has been making significant contributions to the broad field of ultrafast science. Cundiff worked in ultrafast science, mainly spectroscopy but also on mode-locked lasers, before teaming up with Hall and Ye 10 years ago. All three are fellows at JILA, a joint institute between the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado at Boulder.


Erin Amos is our coach and riding instructor. Erin grew up at Top of the Hill and has been riding since she was two years old. She grew up riding with her idol and mentor, Cathy Inch, a Level 3 instructor, at Foothills Farm in Sudbury, ON. There she progressed from camper, to counselor, to instructor for their summer camp programs, while continuing to ride and compete on the Trillium and A circuit. She taught her own summer camp programs and spent one summer working as one of the head instructors at the RCRA riding school (formerly York Equestrian Center) She has also been the barn manager, coach and riding instructor at several Ontario facilities. Erin attended the Equine Studies Program at Kemptville College. She tried working in the corporate world but always came back to her riding.
Erin has been competing on both Trillium and A circuits in both Hunter and Jumper for 25 plus years. As well as competing provincially, Erin also travels to the USA several times a year to compete internationally. Erin enjoys teaching and training and gets great satisfaction from bringing along young riders and horses. Erin is loved by all her students and is famous for her fair, firm and friendly teaching style.
Erin has taken numerous clinics over the years with many of Canada's foremost equestrians including: Eric Lamaze, Mac Cone, Jay Hayes, John MacPhearson, Yann Candele, and Albert Voorn. Each year Erin with the Top of the Hill team qualify several horses and riders for the Provincial Trillium Championships.
Lesley brings 40 years of experience in the horse industry and is a former student of the Halton School of Equitation. Lesley owned her first horse when she was just eleven years old and has never been without one since. She moved through the ranks to the Trillium and A circuits as a competitor, purchasing and training young horses on her own. While continuing to ride Lesley spent 24 years working for TD Bank and retired as a corporate analyst. She has done everything from rider, competitor to farm owner. She was the co-owner of Quiet Winter Farm, focusing on Hunters and Jumpers with the addition of a small breeding program. She has organized shows and with that expertise keeps our barn running smoothly. Lesley joined Top of the Hill in 2010 full time and lives on the property. We feel incredibly lucky to have her as part of the Top of the Hill team.
Mary Lou and Paul Amos purchased the Top of the Hill Farm in 1975. At that time it was just 50 acres and a house. Soon after they moved in they built what is now the small barn. Paul and Mary Lou are both retired Simcoe County high school teachers that have fulfilled their daughters dream by building Top of the Hill on the family homestead. Mary Lou is supportive of all the riders at Top of the Hill and is always an active presence during lessons, shows and barn activities. Paul can be found driving the tractor, cutting the grass and is active in farm maintenance. Top of the Hill wouldn't be the same without them here.
Mike Coulson is our go to handy man. Without Mike our barn wouldn't function. He was a familiar barn dad face around Top of the Hill and it wasn't long before Top of the Hill knew he would be a great part of the team.
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Mother of child sex abuse victim screams at suspect, collapses in court
By Noah Goldberg
Federal prosecutors say Orlando Lopez, a Queens handyman, sexually abused more than a dozen children over the course of a decade, distracting them with sweets as he made video recordings of the heinous acts, (Twitter)
The distraught mother of a child sex abuse victim collapsed to a courtroom floor in sobs Wednesday after yelling at the man accused of molesting her daughter.
The woman showed up to Brooklyn federal court hoping to testify in the case of Orlando Lopez, 54, a handyman charged with abusing more than a dozen boys and girls over the course of a decade.
"Orlando! Let me speak," the mother shouted in Spanish from the gallery before falling to the floor. Court staff surrounded the weeping woman before removing her from the courtroom.
The woman later said her daughter tried to kill herself several times due to the abuse she suffered at the hands of Lopez.
"Right now my daughter is in the house and I don't know what she's doing. I speak with her but I'm still frightened," she said through an interpreter outside court. "Three times she tried to commit suicide," added the mother, who did not specify her daughter's age.
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Lopez pleaded guilty in Queens Supreme Court to state charges of repeated sexual conduct with a child on Feb. 13, which his federal defense attorney said carries a promised sentence of 19 years in prison. He is set to be sentenced in that case on April 24.
The state case only includes one victim, according to federal prosecutors. The case in Brooklyn federal court is more sweeping, with eight known minors that Lopez allegedly abused and at least four unknown child victims.
Lopez allegedly distracted his victims with candy, ice cream and other treats while he made video recordings of the heinous acts, according to federal prosecutors.
"Several images recovered from the defendant's residence depict an unknown victim, who appears to be approximately 3 years old, holding a blue-colored popsicle in her hand," court papers filed by prosecutors read. "The victim is naked from the waist down and crying."
Prosecutors said he began abusing one girl who lived in his building in Jamaica, Queens, in 2010 when she was just 2 years old and continued to molest her up until 2018. He also used the child to get access to other underage victims, prosecutors allege.
Several family members of victims showed up Wednesday to speak in front of the judge under a law that allows testimony from crime victims or their family members if a defendant is seeking to be released.
Because Lopez did not present a bail application, the judge did not allow the family members to speak.
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Lopez is due back in Brooklyn Federal Court on March 10. He's charged with intent to commit aggravated sexual abuse of a child, as well as sexual exploitation of a child and possession of child pornography, and faces 30 years to life in prison.


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Nick Kinseley to take charge of game with Chesterfield
Officials for Tuesday evening's game at the Checkatrade Stadium confirmed
Nick Kinseley will take charge of Tuesday evening's game with Chesterfield at the Checkatrade Stadium (7-45pm).
The Essex based official was the man in the middle for the side's Checkatrade Trophy tie against Charlton Athletic at the end of August and has refereed nine games across the EFL and it's competitions so far this season - brandishing 39 yellow cards and three reds.
Mr Kinseley took charge of the Reds on three occasions last year. He was the man in the middle for the opening game of the 2016-17 season when the Reds beat Wycombe Wanderers 1-0 at the Checkatrade Stadium.
He was also the referee for the side's 3-1 home win over Newport County and the 2-1 away defeat to Notts County at Meadow Lane at the end of January.
He will be assisted by Mr Thomas Ramsey and Mr Ben Cobb - the fourth official will be Mr Andrew Webb.
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Sailor identified through DNA testing given proper burial.
OSAGE, Iowa - People gathered at Sacred Heart Cemetery on the east edge of Osage to pay their respects to Seaman First Class Leon Arickx.
Arickx was part of the crew of the USS Oklahoma, which sank during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Thanks to advancements in DNA testing, Arickx's remains were identified by the Navy, who contacted Arickx's niece Mary Galey to start the process of getting him laid to rest in his hometown and near other members of his family.
"Here in the cemetery, you'll see some saddles on top of the graves that are red white and blue, and two American flags. There's 8 of them buried here in the cemetery that we made these so they could identify the Arickx family," Galey says.
Both Galey and another niece of Arickx, Jean Lonergan, find it appropriate that their uncle would be laid to rest surrounded by family members, and will bring closure for the family.
"They still have, in Punchbowl [was where he was], they still have stakes with his name on stuff over there, and his name is on the Oklahoma chart, and...they got enough of him there, so we decided the rest should be brought home."
Family members remembered Arickx as a jokester who loved to tease all family members, and also loved to dance. He is survived by 17 nieces and nephews and numerous cousins.
Governor Kim Reynolds ordered all flags in Iowa to fly at half-staff from sunrise to sunset Saturday to honor Arickx.


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Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers received the award for Best NFL Player Wednesday night at the annual ESPYS awards show in Los Angeles.
Rodgers was presented with the trophy by former Packers QB Brett Favre on the pre-ESPYS red carpet show.
With online voting determining the winner, Rodgers beat out J.J. Watt, Tom Brady, DeMarco Murray and Antonio Brown for the honor. He was also a finalist for Best Male Athlete, along with Watt, LeBron James and winner Stephen Curry.
The reigning NFL MVP, Rodgers passed for 4,381 yards with 38 touchdowns and just five interceptions in 2014.
Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers has been nominated for an ESPY, one of the annual awards handed out by ESPN.
Rodgers is again nominated for Best NFL Player, an award he won in 2011 and 2012. Rodgers is up against Detroit Lions WR Calvin Johnson, Denver Broncos QB Peyton Manning, Minnesota Vikings RB Adrian Peterson, and Houston Texans DE J.J. Watt.
Online voting is underway, and fans will determine the winners by voting online at ESPN.com/espys. Voting will run through 8 p.m. CT on July 17. The winners will be announced during The 2013 ESPYs, televised live from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 17, at 8 p.m. CT on ESPN.
For the second straight year, Packers QB Aaron Rodgers was named Best NFL Player at the 20th annual ESPY awards on Wednesday night. Rodgers won the award last year coming off of Green Bay's Super Bowl triumph and his Super Bowl MVP award. This year he won the NFL MVP award after breaking the single-season league record for passer rating with a 122.5 mark.
So, over the last couple of weeks, Rodgers has been named the top player in NFL Network's "Top 100," Ron Jaworski's top quarterback in his QB countdown on ESPN, and now Best NFL Player at the ESPYs.