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W. Douglas Berry, Esq.
General Counsel, Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig, LLP
Member, TVC National Volunteer Corps
As an analyst and litigator of first and third party coverage disputes with policyholders, W. Douglas Berry's law practice centers on extra-contractual claims, appellate advocacy, municipal liability and reinsurance coverage. He also currently serves as general counsel for his Tampa-based firm, Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig, LLP, after 14 years as managing partner. Yet somehow, Berry has found the time, since 1994, to represent veterans as part of The Veterans Consortium's national volunteer corps. His 20 years as a U.S. Marine must have taught him the precision to juggle so many tasks.
In honor of his legal service to veterans, Berry, 70, has been chosen as The Veterans Consortium Volunteer Inspiring Pro Bono for February 2018. He says he's "honored but undeserving." But that's not what the half dozen or so veterans he's served would say. He's worked tirelessly to represent them, though he's never personally met one of them. There have been no court appearances. "I do it all from my desk in Tampa," says Berry, a Pennsylvania native who moved to nearby St. Petersburg Beach, FL (now known as St. Pete Beach) when he was five years old.
In addition to the pro bono work, any attorney fees he or colleagues from his firm earn from these cases under the Equal Access to Justice Act are donated back to TVC to help more veterans. His firm has made separate donations, as well. That translates to nearly $55,000 since 2003.
Berry got his start with TVC after his good friend, now a Senior Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, Lawrence Hagel, created the structure and became a founding member of TVC. Berry and Hagel have a long history dating back to being classmates at the U.S. Naval Academy. They went through U.S. Marine Corps basic training together in Quantico, Va., served in Vietnam at the same time and both spent their final tours in the Office of the Judge Advocate General of the Navy in Alexandria, Va. "The door was opened and I was either pulled through or pushed through by Judge Hagel," Berry jokes of his start with TVC. Either way, it was a natural next step for Berry to join Hagel in yet another venture.
"What an honor it is to have such a strong legacy as part of TVC's national volunteer corps," said Courtney Smith, TVC's director of volunteer outreach and education. "Doug's investment of his time, knowledge, and skills to helping our nation's Veterans has been invaluable."
Click here to read his full biography ».


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The nation's largest group of nuns, LCWR, are under fire from the Vatican.
Nuns' fight with Vatican highlights Catholicism's global struggle
By Eric Marrapodi, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor
Washington (CNN) - The charges ranged from promoting "radical feminism" to espousing religious teachings out of step with the Catholic Church. Now, six weeks after many American nuns said they were blindsided by a bruising Vatican assessment, a key nuns' leadership group is meeting to decide how to respond.
The board of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which represents the leadership of the vast majority of the nation's nuns, began a four-day meeting in Washington on Tuesday, with church watchers dissecting the 22-member board's every move.
It's a fight that pits church men and against church women, and it could have broader implications for the global church.
One side is pushing the nuns to fight back against a church that they think has lost its way. The other is championing the Vatican against a group of aging nuns whom they say are on the verge of extinction unless they reform.
The powerful Vatican office, the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, launched an investigation for several years. It issued a report in April charging that America's nuns had largely gone rogue, warning that the American nuns could be a negative global influence on the church.
The Vatican report said that at an annual gathering of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, guest speakers who preached "radical feminism" went unchallenged. The report also alleged sins of omission, saying the nuns were too focused heavily on social justice and not enough on opposing abortion, euthanasia and same-sex marriage.
Many nuns have publicly chafed at the report.
"For myself, the shock made me numb at first, and then I was profoundly sad that my life as a woman religious and my commitment to serving the poor would be so denigrated by the leadership of our church," says Sister Simone Campbell, who heads NETWORK, a liberal advocacy group in Washington. "All we do is work for love."
For the report to say "you don't do everything," Campbell says, is "ridiculous."
Some in the pews seemed to agree with that sentiment, even staging small protests across the country to support the nuns. During a recent stop at Campbell's office, she showed CNN cards and letters of support.
The Vatican office that issued the assessment said it was a first step in reforming American nuns. "The renewal of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious," the report says, "… is the goal of this doctrinal Assessment."
Pope Benedict XVI, a theologian by training, was the head of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith for decades before he was elevated to papacy. In interviews conducted while he held that earlier post, he spoke often about growing the church by pruning - becoming smaller but more devout before expanding.
"Maybe we are facing a new and different kind of epoch in the church's history where Christianity will be characterized more by the mustard seed, where it will exist in small, seemingly insignificant groups that nonetheless live an intensive struggle against evil and bring the good into the world-that let God in," he told Peter Seewald in an interview for the book, "Salt of the Earth: Christianity and the Catholic Church at the End of the Millenium."
That vision has support from ardent Catholics.
"Far from a crackdown, the Vatican is asking the LCWR to prayerfully return to their roots and to the reasons their religious institutes were founded," says Raymond Arroyo, a host on the Catholic Cable Channel EWTN.
"These monasteries were not founded 100 or 200 years ago to picket and contradict church teaching or the bishops," he says. "They were founded to faithfully serve brothers and sisters throughout society in the spirit of Christ."
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious is a group of 1,500 nuns who lead over 300 religious orders. Together, its members represent 80% of the 57,000 nuns across the United States.
Church experts say that the nuns have a few options in responding to one of the most powerful offices in the church. They could accept the assessment, negotiate or resign en masse and form a new group outside the watchful eye of the Vatican.
In a statement, the group said it would conduct this week's special meeting "in an atmosphere of prayer, contemplation and dialogue and will develop a plan to involve LCWR membership in similar processes."
"The conference plans to move slowly, not rushing to judgment," the statement said. "We will engage in dialogue where possible and be open to the movement of the Holy Spirit."
Even before the controversy broke, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious was already thinking seriously about its future with the church.
Nuns in the conference had long ago removed their habits and shifted away from the traditional roles within church structures, like working in parochial schools and hospitals. Today you are more likely to find a nun in contemporary dress at a soup kitchen than in a full habit cracking a ruler over a grade-schooler's knuckles.
But the leadership conference is shrinking as it ages.
"They're certainly not getting new vocations, new members, at the rate they had been before the Second Vatican Council," says Kathleen Cummings, associate director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame. "Since the late 1960s, their numbers have declined dramatically."
The median age of American nuns is 70, she says, noting that career opportunities once available only to nuns inside the structure of the church are now open to women outside the church.
"Changes for women in America have far outpaced changes for women inside the church," Cummings says.
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious once represented nearly 100% of the nation's nuns. In the 1990s, though, a number of orders broke away and formed the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious, returning to many of the older traditions of religious life, including wearing the habit.
The Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious is growing at a faster rate than the leadership conference, but Cummings said the numbers of new vocations there are "miniscule" as well.
While leadership conference nuns viewed the evolving role of women to give them more of a social justice focus, Cummings says that "Vatican officials, and many Catholics, too, see those changes as startling and disturbing.
"What's happening here with the doctrinal assessment is just the latest, and will have the most lasting effects, of a Vatican attempt to reassert the power they traditionally held over women's religious life," Cummings says. "Power that they lost a lot of over the last 50 years."
But conservative Catholics say the groups that are most beholden to that power are the ones that are growing.
"Some communities are clearly doing something right, others are moving to extinction," says Arroyo. "Bottom line: a faithful witness is attractive and undeniably draws young people.
"The Vatican is throwing a life line to the leadership of female communities that are not thriving and attempting to facilitate a reform that will allow them to rediscover their initial calling and draw young vocations into the future," he says. "That's not a crackdown, it's a seek-and-rescue mission."
As the sisters debate and pray on how to respond, they realize they are in the center of a broader global power struggle.
"What's really at stake here, in the larger significance, is the future of the church," says Sister Maureen Fiedler of the order of Sisters of Loretto, which is represented by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. "Whether we're going to go back to the old church before the Second Vatican Council."
The leadership conference plans to announce its next steps in responding to the Vatican on Friday.
Eric Marrapodi - CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor
Filed under: Belief • Catholic Church • Vatican
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Phil in Oregon
Since they are American nuns, they will probably go on strike. Then they will break away and form an organization that allows them to be more liberal.
They're just hell bent to put the women in their place, sop with the giant misogyny machine.
Rob Lanken
Another day, another CNN hit piece on Christianity. Your deep bias and hatred are showing, CNN. Curious that there is never a negative piece about islam or buddhism here.
XxMacleodxX
islam is the same as christianity....you two just can't see that....but you really have a problem with Buddhism? it is a religion of total peace ...you have issues ...like a rat you want to drag everyone down to your miserable level
sbasler
As a catholic I am so proud of these nuns for keeping the focus on love and helping the dissenfranchised. Time for U.S. Catholics to break away from Rome.
Maccabeus24
That mentality is called the heresy of Americanism, my friend, and its not Catholic for a reason. Maybe you should consider learning why the Church teaches what it teaches before you buy into the liberal rhetoric. The Church's teachings are tried and true for over 2000 years. What you want is only 100 years old at best. A society built on a 100-year-old "wisdom" is a society that frankly lacks wisdom. Learn your faith, man.
May 31, 2012 at 10:05 am |
@Maccabeus24...so followng your line of 'logic' this 200 year old country should shut up and learn something from older civilizations...like, say, Iran? democracy should give way to ancient totalitarianism, where women knew their place and were constantly threatened back into it. people like you are the ones who are most threatened by any societal improvements. I forgot...the sun revolves around the earth (which is flat, by the way) and science and medicine are witchcraft. progress? we don't need no stinkin' progress! just ask your master.
Nuns are HOT!
This article reminds me of how much I don't like religious people
Gordon Kamish
I grew up Catholic. The "nuns" would always trick the kids out of ice cream money for "the missions". I now live in an apt above a nun. How can someone who took "a vow of poverty" afford an apartment, new furniture, etc. at age 65? My mission money??? This woman does NOT wear her "uniform", but rather dresses in men's sweatpants most of the time. Nuns are a scam. The Church isn't far behind.
gatecrasher1
Don't eat lunch today, instead hand over your money for "the missions" and "pagan babies".
JCQueipo
Girls is a tough job market out there !!
WillB
Obviously, the nuns should offer a bribe to the Vatican, that's the language they understand the best according to the latest revalations from insiders there.
Davd
The Catholic Church has the same problem that traditional Islam has. Both really wish it could still be the 12th century and keep trying to turn the clock back.
Romeyn
I think it is misleading of CNN to make it sound as if all American nuns are under scrutiny, they are not – rather one of the two main groups of nuns are being investigated for being unorthodox. This has nothing to do with unchecked "control" on the part of the Vatican, but has to do with reforming those orders in question so that they reflect the overall global mission and beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church, of which they claim to belong. Furthermore, it is poor sport of CNN to post a picture of habited Dominicans (?), they are NOT under investigation by the Vatican and are irrelevant to this discussion. Most of the orders of religious sisters being investigated do not even wear habits – which may be part of the problem...
PulTab
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sarahsaint
@ PulTab
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MarkinFL
it is misleading of CNN to make it sound as if all American nuns are under scrutiny, they are not "
CNN made it VERY clear that only the vast majority are under scrutiny and that a small group that split off several years ago are not.
sir_ken_g
No don't resign. Impeach the pope. An agent of Satan.
Amen. There are allegations that he himself shielded child molesting priests from retribution.
This should free up some p u s s y.
Catholic Girl
"median age of 70." just wanted to remind you. 😉
I'm with the nuns here. Keep up the good work sisters. The Catholic Church leadership is child molesting and thieving its way into extinction and they want to take you with them.
The issue goes way beyond petty disagreements between nuns and a out-of-touch Vatican.
Putting the kibosh/"google" on religion:
• There was probably no Abraham i.e. the foundations of Judaism, Christianity and Islam are non-existent.
• There was probably no Moses i.e the pillars of Judaism, Christianity and Islam have no strength of purpose.
prob•a•bly
Adverb: Almost certainly; as far as one knows or can tell.
• There was no Gabriel i.e. Islam fails as a religion. Christianity partially fails.
• There was no Easter i.e. Christianity completely fails as a religion.
• There was no Moroni i.e. Mormonism is nothing more than a business cult.
• Sacred/revered cows, monkey gods, castes, reincarnations and therefore Hinduism fails as a religion.
• Fat Buddhas here, skinny Buddhas there, reincarnated Buddhas everywhere makes for a no on Buddhism.
Added details available upon written request.
A quick search will put the kibosh on any other groups calling themselves a religion.
e.g. Taoism
"The origins of Taoism are unclear. Traditionally, Lao-tzu who lived in the sixth century is regarded as its founder. Its early philosophic foundations and its later beliefs and rituals are two completely different ways of life. Today (1982) Taoism claims 31,286,000 followers.
Legend says that Lao-tzu was immaculately conceived by a shooting star; carried in his mother's womb for eighty-two years; and born a full grown wise old man. "
Ekaterina Kaverina
You claim you don't believe... Deny the existence of God so you can sin freely... Well, He believes in you. He was born as a (Jewish) man and died for you on the cross. Some day you'll stand in His presence.
vbscript2
Making unsupported claims for which you have no evidence doesn't put the kibosh on anything except your own credibility.
Only for the those interested in a religious update: (ONLY FOR THE NEW MEMBERS OF THIS BLOG)
1. origin: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20E1EFE35540C7A8CDDAA0894DA404482
"New Torah For Modern Minds
Abraham, the Jewish patriarch, probably never existed. Nor did Moses. The entire Exodus story as recounted in the Bible probably never occurred. The same is true of the tumbling of the walls of Jericho. And David, far from being the fearless king who built Jerusalem into a mighty capital, was more likely a provincial leader whose reputation was later magnified to provide a rallying point for a fledgling nation.
Such startling propositions – the product of findings by archaeologists digging in Israel and its environs over the last 25 years – have gained wide acceptance among non-Orthodox rabbis. But there has been no attempt to disseminate these ideas or to discuss them with the laity – until now.
The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, which represents the 1.5 million Conservative Jews in the United States, has just issued a new Torah and commentary, the first for Conservatives in more than 60 years. Called "Etz Hayim" ("Tree of Life" in Hebrew), it offers an interpretation that incorporates the latest findings from archaeology, philology, anthropology and the study of ancient cultures. To the editors who worked on the book, it represents one of the boldest efforts ever to introduce into the religious mainstream a view of the Bible as a human rather than divine docu-ment. "
2. Jesus was an illiterate Jewish peasant/carpenter/simple preacher man who suffered from hallucinations (or "mythicizing" from P, M, M, L and J) and who has been characterized anywhere from the Messiah from Nazareth to a mythical character from mythical Nazareth to a ma-mzer from Nazareth (Professor Bruce Chilton, in his book Rabbi Jesus). An-alyses of Jesus' life by many contemporary NT scholars (e.g. Professors Ludemann, Crossan, Borg and Fredriksen, ) via the NT and related doc-uments have concluded that only about 30% of Jesus' sayings and ways noted in the NT were authentic. The rest being embellishments (e.g. miracles)/hallucinations made/had by the NT authors to impress various Christian, Jewish and Pagan sects.
2 b., Luther, Calvin, Joe Smith, Henry VIII, Wesley, Roger Williams, the Great "Babs" et al, founders of Christian-based religions or combination religions also suffered from the belief in/hallucinations of "pretty wingie thingie" visits and "prophecies" for profits analogous to the myths of Catholicism (resurrections, apparitions, ascensions and immacu-late co-nceptions).
Current problems:
Adulterous preachers, pedophiliac clerics, "propheteering/ profiteering" evangelicals and atonement theology,
3. Mohammed was an illiterate, womanizing, lust and greed-driven, warmongering, hallucinating Arab, who also had embellishing/hallucinating/plagiarizing scribal biographers who not only added "angels" and flying chariots to the koran but also a militaristic agenda to support the plundering and looting of the lands of non-believers.
This agenda continues as shown by the ma-ssacre in Mumbai, the as-sas-sinations of Bhutto and Theo Van Gogh, the conduct of the seven Muslim doctors in the UK, the 9/11 terrorists, the 24/7 Sunni suicide/roadside/market/mosque bombers, the 24/7 Shiite suicide/roadside/market/mosque bombers, the Islamic bombers of the trains in the UK and Spain, the Bali crazies, the Kenya crazies, the Pakistani "koranics", the Palestine suicide bombers/rocketeers, the Lebanese nutcases, the Taliban nut jobs, the Ft. Hood follower of the koran, and the Filipino "koranics".
And who funds this muck and stench of terror? The warmongering, Islamic, Shiite terror and torture theocracy of Iran aka the Third Axis of Evil and also the Sunni "Wannabees" of Saudi Arabia.
Current crises:
The Sunni-Shiite blood feud and the warmongering, womanizing (11 wives), hallucinating founder.
4. Hinduism (from an online Hindu site) – "Hinduism cannot be described as an organized religion. It is not founded by any individual. Hinduism is God centered and therefore one can call Hinduism as founded by God, because the answer to the question 'Who is behind the eternal principles and who makes them work?' will have to be 'Cosmic power, Divine power, God'."
The caste/laborer system, reincarnation and cow worship/reverence are problems when saying a fair and rational God founded Hinduism."
The caste system, reincarnation and cow worship/reverence.
5. Buddhism- "Buddhism began in India about 500 years before the birth of Christ. The people living at that time had become disillusioned with certain beliefs of Hinduism including the caste system, which had grown extremely complex. The number of outcasts (those who did not belong to any particular caste) was continuing to grow."
"However, in Buddhism, like so many other religions, fanciful stories arose concerning events in the life of the founder, Siddhartha Gautama (fifth century B.C.):"
Archaeological discoveries have proved, beyond a doubt, his historical character, but apart from the legends we know very little about the circu-mstances of his life. e.g. Buddha by one legend was supposedly talking when he came out of his mother's womb.
Bottom line: There are many good ways of living but be aware of the hallucinations, embellishments, lies, and myths surrounding the founders and foundations of said rules of life.
Then, apply the Five F rule: "First Find the Flaws, then Fix the Foundations". And finally there will be religious peace and religious awareness in the world!!!!!
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It's all about control, it's all about control..............What is interesting though, is we are, after 2000 years, watching the decline of one of the largest brainwashing organizations in history. Due to its shear size it will take a while, but the writing is on the wall.
Agreed. The only question is: how long will "a while" take.
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1. ¨ On May 24, 2002, Charles Townes wrote a letter to the compiler T. Dimitrov. To the inquiry, "What do you think about the existence of God?" Prof. Townes gave the following answer: "I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge." (Townes 2002a).
So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake... Religion is all bunk. [Thomas Edison]
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. [Thomas Alva Edison, Columbian Magazine]
I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States. [Thomas Edison]
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So what? Think for yourself.
i guess if townes says it, it must be true. by the way, what was the scientific proof?
It would be great to see the nuns take down this unholy pope
Hear, hear! The best thing for Catholics is to get away from Rome altogether and form their own American Catholic Church. I am not Catholic, by the way.
The nuns are abiding by the rules, by God's word that is. It obviously makes more sense to serve and educate the poor which among other things will lower the rate of unwanted pregnancies, than to try and make abortion illegal, for instance. So let's imagine it is illegal – you'll have a statistics of illegal abortions, that is all. The nuns are working on abortion prevention much more effectively. And so it goes with all other issues. Women are simply more smart and efficient than men.
@ Ekaterina Amen.
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The problem the nuns have is that they voluntarily enlisted and agreed to abide by the rules set by others, the male hierarchy. If they find the rules that unpalatable, the only recourse they have is to leave the organization, and that means the Church as well. BTW, I am a non-believer and think that adults arguing points of religion is akin to 6 year-olds arguing over whose invisible friend is best.
My invisible friend is way better, he has a motorcycle
It is worth debating when people insist that everyone accepts the rules of their particular invisible friend.
You seem not to know it, but in this case everybody's (and yours too, yes) Invisible Friend is the same Person. And He already died for you.
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A: Hint $\rm\ \mathbb Z_m[x]/(x^n-1)\:$ domain $\rm\:\Rightarrow\: m\:$ prime (or $0$) in $\rm\mathbb Z,\:\ x^n-1\:$ prime in $\rm\:\mathbb Z_m[x]\:$ $\Rightarrow$ $\rm\: n=1\ (or\:\ 0).\:$

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Tigerschiöld avlade avgångsexamen vid Kungliga tekniska högskolan 1917. Han var ingenjör vid aktiebolaget Ferrolegeringar och Cyanidverken i Trollhättan 1918, vid Söderfors bruk 1918–1925 och vid Fagersta bruk 1925–1934. Tigerschiöld var överingenjör och chef för tekniska byrån vid Jernkontoret 1935–1951, innehade motsvarande befattning inom Grängesbergskoncernen 1951–1956 och var direktör där 1956–1960. Han var ledamot av statens tekniska forskningsråd 1942–1957, av överstyrelsen för de tekniska högskolorna 1947–1959 och i styrelsen för statens provningsanstalt 1939–1954. Tigerschiöld publicerade uppsatser i Jernkontorets Annaler med flera tidskrifter. Han översatte Sara Teasdales dikter (1938). Tigerschiöld promoverades till filosofie hedersdoktor vid Uppsala universitet 1945. Han invaldes som ledamot av Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien 1934 (hedersledamot 1958) och av Vetenskaps-Societeten i Uppsala 1956. Tigerschiöld blev riddare av Vasaorden 1940 och av Nordstjärneorden 1949 samt kommendör av Vasaorden 1963. Han vilar på Djursholms begravningsplats.

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Law Minister Kapil Sibal Clears Put and call Options in M&A Deals
In the second successive signal in as many days to foreign investors about India's willingness to clear hurdles in the way of investment, law minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday cleared a Sebi regulation which permits put and call options in mergers and acquisitions.
"Yes, I have cleared it and send it to the law ministry," he told ET. He said the move would help investors.
The revised Sebi regulation is expected to be notified soon.
Reacting to the development, Tarun Gulati, partner PDS Legal, said that the move would bring down disputes involving put and call options.
"Put and call options are normal transactions in the M&A sphere, but it was just viewed with suspicion," he said. The change in the law would allay such suspicions, he said.
JSA partner Lalit Kumar described it as a progressive step that will boost M&A activity.
Earlier, market regulator Sebi used to treat such options as spot deliveries or forward contracts. In both the Diageo-United Spirits deal and the Cairn-Vedanta deal, Sebi had insisted that the option be dropped to clear the deals.
But a Bombay High Court ruling in the MCX SX case has clarified that they were not affected by spot deliveries. Then Sebi started treating them as forward contracts.
It will help both listed companies and unlisted public companies, he said.
Sebi in the United Spirits case had insisted that Diageo drop the option before the open offer went through.
Wednesday's decision makes such options enforceable under the shareholder's agreement under the FCRA, he said. "It brings to an end much uncertainty and brings about clarity in the law."
Economics Times, New Delhi, 17-05-2013


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A Quiz Question
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Two multimode fibers with different core sizes but same numerical aperture are spliced together. Light is sent into the fiber with the smaller core. How about the splice loss?
(a) The losses at the splice can be substantial, since the mode sets do not fit.
(b) There cannot be significant splice losses, since all light gets into the core of the second fiber.
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Frequency Metrology
7 suppliers for frequency metrology equipment
are found in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide. Among them:
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Ask RP Photonics for advice on laser sources for frequency metrology, the characterization of their noise properties, etc.
Definition: the field of technology dealing with precise frequency measurements
More general term: optical metrology
German: Frequenzmetrologie
Category: optical metrology
URL: https://www.rp-photonics.com/frequency_metrology.html
This article is focused on optical frequency metrology, even though the connection from optical frequency to microwave frequencies is also of central importance. For a range of applications it is necessary to determine accurately the absolute frequencies of optical signals. For the highest precision, it is not sufficient to measure a wavelength and convert it into a frequency by using the vacuum velocity of light as defined within the International System of Units (SI system): the accuracy of wavelength measurements (e.g. with wavemeters) is limited by effects such as wavefront distortions. Much higher accuracy can be achieved with real frequency measurements, where an optical frequency, or a difference between two optical frequencies, is related to a microwave reference. Note that the second as the basic time unit is currently defined in the SI system of units via a 9.192631770-GHz microwave frequency of a certain transition between hyperfine levels of the cesium-133 atom.
Frequency Differences and Absolute Frequencies
A relatively easy task is to compare the difference between two optical frequencies with a microwave reference, using a beat note, if that frequency difference is of the order of some tens of gigahertz or less. One simply superimposes the two beams on a fast photodetector and obtains an electronic beat signal. The latter can then be compared with a microwave reference either by counting the cycles or by monitoring an electronic beat between the two microwave signals.
A much more difficult task is to measure absolute optical frequencies. An early approach, taken by several metrology laboratories in the world, was based on a frequency chain which started with a stable microwave reference (linked to a cesium atomic clock) and generated exactly known higher frequencies with a number of other oscillators. The frequencies of the latter were connected to the lower frequencies by recording beat signals with harmonics of the lower-frequency signals, and automatically adjusting the oscillator frequencies so as to maintain not only given beat frequencies, but a phase-coherent connection. Various kinds of nonlinear devices (Schottky diodes, metal–insulator–metal diodes, and nonlinear crystals) were used for generating harmonics in different spectral regions. By operating the intermediate oscillators as so-called fly-wheel oscillators, good temporal coherence was achieved all the way from the RF region to microwaves, the far- and mid-infrared regions and further to visible light. However, the technology was very demanding, and having the whole system perfectly working over long times was a substantial challenge.
Frequency Comb Techniques
In the late 1990s, a new technique based on frequency combs from mode-locked lasers revolutionized optical frequency metrology. It is based on the fact that the optical spectrum of the output of a mode-locked laser consists of a comb of exactly equidistant lines (disregarding noise influences). This means that such a frequency comb is determined by only two parameters: the frequency spacing (which equals the laser's pulse repetition rate) and the absolute position, specified as the carrier–envelope offset frequency. If these two parameters can be related to a microwave reference, all optical frequencies of the comb are known. Subsequently, any optical frequency within the range of the comb can be measured by determining beat frequencies with comb lines.
Obviously, the frequency comb technique is much simpler than that based on a traditional frequency chain, and it makes it possible to construct very compact frequency reference sources and frequency measurement devices. Moreover, it delivers closely spaced lines of known frequencies in a wide spectral range, allowing for frequency measurements in this wide range, rather than only around a single optical frequency as for a frequency chain. Nowadays, frequency comb laser sources are commercially available and are beginning to be widely used for metrology purposes.
Technological and Scientific Applications
There can be no doubt about the technological and scientific importance of frequency metrology. The next generation of atomic clocks will be based on optical frequency standards, combined with optical clockworks. Such optical clocks would allow time or frequency measurements with a precision beyond that of the currently used cesium atomic clocks, which already let the frequency be the physical quantity which can be measured with by far the highest precision.
Extreme precision in time measurements has many technological implications, as is obvious even considering only the many existing or envisaged applications of the American GPS system and the European Galileo system.
The measurement of other physical quantities such as electrical voltages and currents and also magnetic field strengths can also strongly profit from accurate and precise frequency standards. Furthermore, the clarification of fundamental scientific questions depends on ultraprecise time or frequency measurements; for example, such measurements are vital for checking whether there might be any time dependence of certain quantities (e.g. the fine structure constant α) which are so far considered as physical constants. If any changes of such quantities could be detected, this would have a profound impact on future theoretical descriptions of most fundamental phenomena.
Also, some kinds of scientific devices, such as free electron lasers for the generation of ultrashort pulses and arrays of radio telescopes for astronomy, require extremely precise timing synchronization of different parts, which can e.g. be done with actively stabilized fiber-based timing links.
The RP Photonics Buyer's Guide contains 7 suppliers for frequency metrology equipment. Among them:
Silentsys
The optical frequency discriminator (OFD) system of SILENTSYS smartly delivers a voltage signal that is proportional to the excursions of optical frequency of the input laser beam. This turn-key module is suitable for laser frequency noise characterization and/or for laser frequency stabilization to drastically reduced its optical full width at half maximum linewidth. The OFD features ultralow noise performances being successful in achieving frequency noise level as low as 0.1 Hz2/Hz with >60 dB noise reduction; and that is achieved in a compact and user-friendly package.
This product is available in a huge wavelength range from UV, VIS to NIR, with one or two optical modules inside to be a very versatil tool.
Enhance your laser with simplicity!
TOPTICA Photonics
TOPTICA's frequency metrology product line uses TOPTICA proprietary CERO-technology which is based on difference frequency generation (DFG). It is inherently fCEO-stable and is characterized by a high robustness combined with high-end performance.
[1] T. Udem et al., "Absolute optical frequency measurement of the cesium D1 line with a mode-locked laser", Phys. Rev. Lett. 82 (18), 3568 (1999), doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.3568
[2] T. Udem et al., "Accurate measurement of large optical frequency differences with a mode-locked laser", Opt. Lett. 24 (13), 881 (1999), doi:10.1364/OL.24.000881
[3] S. A. Diddams et al., "Direct link between microwave and optical frequencies with a 300 THz femtosecond laser comb", Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 (22), 5102 (2000), doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.5102
[4] J. Stenger et al., "Ultraprecise measurement of optical frequency ratios", Phys. Rev. Lett. 88 (7), 073601 (2002), doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.073601
[5] T. Udem, R. Holzwarth and T. W. Hänsch, "Optical frequency metrology", Nature 416 (6877), 233 (2002), doi:10.1038/416233a
[6] H. R. Telle et al., "Kerr-lens mode-locked lasers as transfer oscillators for optical frequency measurements", Appl. Phys. B 74, 1 (2002), doi:10.1007/s003400100735
[7] T. Udem et al., "Optical frequency metrology", Nature 416, 233 (2002), doi:10.1038/416233a
[8] J. Kim et al., "Drift-free femtosecond timing synchronization of remote optical and microwave sources", Nature Photon. 2, 733 (2008), doi:10.1038/nphoton.2008.225
[9] M. Lezius et al., "Space-borne frequency comb metrology", Optica 3 (12), 1381 (2016), doi:10.1364/OPTICA.3.001381
[10] NIST Time and Frequency Publication Database, https://tf.nist.gov/general/publications.htm
[11] International System of Units (SI), http://www.bipm.fr/en/si/
[12] For German readers: R. Paschotta, "Frequenzkämme und optische Frequenzmetrologie", Photonik 3 / 2006, p. 60
(See also the references in the articles on frequency combs and optical frequency standards.)
See also: optical frequency, frequency combs, optical frequency standards, optical clocks, optical clockworks, beat note, stabilization of lasers, synchronization of lasers, laser absorption spectroscopy
and other articles in the category optical metrology

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In order to get softer onions and that cream cheese incorporated into this soup, I start by cooking the onions and garlic in the skillet, followed by adding in the enchilada sauce and (this is KEY!) room temperature cream cheese. After that's out of the way, we can transfer into the crockpot and begin the easy-peasy slow cooking technique that speaks everyone's love language.
An easy and delicious skillet to crockpot recipe that's perfect for cold days in.
First, make sure your cream cheese is at room temperature and set aside. In a medium-large skillet, heat a tbsp of olive oil. Add in the diced onions and cook for about 5 minutes on medium heat. Add the garlic and stir. Cook for a few more minutes until the onions are softening.
Add in the enchilada sauce and cream cheese and stir until combined. The cream cheese might clump a bit but this will go away as it cooks longer and melts in the crockpot later.
Transfer this mixture to the crockpot.
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Hazel Reading Series, September 20th, 2015
by saramarinelli | Sep 18, 2015 | Past Readings
HAZEL RETURNS THIS SUNDAY AT 5 pm.
Our September reading features guest reader Toni Mirosevich along with:
Aimee Phan nominated by Marie Mockett
Donika Ross nominated by Jill Schepmann
Deborah Steinberg nominated by Sandra Wassilie
Huda Almarashi nominated by Ayesha Nura
& special addition Vanessa Hua
We will be celebrating with champagne, wine, and pastries courtesy of Arizmendi at the CIIS campus in SoMA. Find us on the 5th floor.
Toni Mirosevich is the author of six collections of poetry and prose, including a book of nonfiction stories, Pink Harvest, winner the First Series in Creative Nonfiction Award and a Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Her multi-genre work has been anthologized in Best of the Bellevue Literary Review, Best American Travel Writing, The Gastronomica Reader, The Discovery of Poetry, AutoBioDiversity: True Stories from Zyzzyva and elsewhere. Notable Mention in Best American Essays, 2013. New work appeared recently in Pleiades, North American Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Michigan Quarterly, Fourth Genre. These stories and others are included in her new manuscript "Murderer's Bread"–a finalist for the 2014 Spokane Prize in Short Fiction. She is an ever grateful recipient of writers residencies with the MacDowell Colony, Hedgebrook, Djerassi Resident Artists Program among others and is currently a professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University.
Aimee Phan is the author of the novel The Reeducation of Cherry Truong and the story collection We Should Never Meet, both published by St. Martin's Press. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, Salon and The Rumpus, among others. Her fellowships and residencies include the National Endowment of the Arts, Barbara Deming Memorial/ Money for Women Fund, Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, MacDowell Arts Colony and Hedgebrook. She currently teaches at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
Donika Ross Kelly is the author of american taxonomies, selected by Nikky Finney for the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, forthcoming from Graywolf Press. She holds an MFA in Writing from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin, and in 2013, she received a Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt. She is a Cave Canem Fellow and a 2004 June Fellow of the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets. Her poems have appeared in various journals including Hayden's Ferry Review, West Branch, Indiana Review.
Huda Al-Marashi is an Iraqi-American at work on a memoir about the impact of her dual-identity on her marriage. Excerpts from this memoir have appeared in the anthologies Love Inshallah: The Secret Love Lives of Muslim American Women, Becoming: What Makes a Woman, In Her Place, and Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women and Extreme Religion, a collection that theWashington Post listed among the best nonfiction for 2013. Other works have appeared in The Rumpus Funny Women Column and the anthology Rust Belt Chic. She is the recipient of a 2012 Cuyahoga County Creative Workforce Fellowship and a 2015 Aspen Summer Words Emerging Writer Fellowship.
Deborah Steinberg's writing has been published in Necessary Fiction, The Red Line, Monkeybicycle, riverbabble, great weather for MEDIA, and other journals. She is a founding editor of Red Bridge Press and is the fiction editor of the press's online journal Rivet: the Journal of Writing that Risks. Deborah lives in San Francisco, where she works as a freelance editor, facilitates writing workshops with a focus on healing, serves on the board of the literary reading series Bay Area Generations, and sings in the vocal ensemble Conspiracy of Venus.
Vanessa Hua received a 2015 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, FRONTLINE/World, PRI's The World, The Atlantic, Guernica, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. Previously, she was a staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and Hartford Courant, and has filed stories from China, Burma, South Korea, and Panama. She was a Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing and a recipient of the San Francisco Foundation's James D. Phelan Award for Fiction. Her debut short story collection, winner of the Willow Books Literature Awards Grand Prize, will be published in 2016. She works and teaches at the Writers' Grotto in San Francisco, and blogs at threeunderone.blogspot.com


Carly Rae Jepsen has released her brand new single 'Party For One' after teasing the track with a series of posts.
The Canadian pop star is expected to release her as-yet-untitled fourth studio album next year, which'll follow 2015's 'Emotion'. Jepsen last released new material back in May 2017 with the single 'Cut To The Feeling', which was originally intended for inclusion on 'Emotion'.
Today marks her return, with a single all about self-love and independence.
You can watch the video below and the artwork for the single below that.
The track was co-written by Jepsen and produced by Captain Cuts and HIGHTOWER, while the video was directed by Bardia Zeinali.
Jepsen is scheduled to perform the song live next week (November 5) on an episode of The Tonight Show.
Speaking of the forthcoming album, the 32-year-old said it will be predominantly inspired by disco, but failed to give fans an expected release date when asked about her next music project by a Japanese radio station.


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International community urges dialogue to resolve crisis in Southwest State
International envoys have called on Somali leaders to pursue dialogue to resolve political differences ahead of regional elections in South West State.
The envoys from the United Nations, EU, Africa Union, U.S., Britain, Germany, and France, among other nations, expressed concern over recent clashes in the regional state that led to the arrest of al-Shabab co-founder Mukhtar Robow.
"We extend our deepest condolences for the death of the South West State assembly member and others who have died in the violence in Baidoa. We deplore all violence and any other acts that could exacerbate the humanitarian situation," they said in a joint statement issued on Friday night.
Robow was arrested and handed over to the Somali National Security Intelligence Agency (NISA) on Thursday after being flown from Baidoa, about 270 km outside capital, Mogadishu.
The ex-al-Shabab leader was one of the candidates vying for presidency in Somalia's South West regional elections scheduled for Dec. 19.
His arrest sparked demonstrations between pro-Robow and Somali security forces on Thursday and Friday in Baidoa town.
A parliamentarian and a young boy were among more than 10 people killed in the ongoing clashes.
In a joint statement, the international partners underscored there should be unified support for the agreed framework governing the elections, and urged all parties to respect the integrity of the electoral process.
"We encourage constructive dialogue to resolve political differences and address other challenges in order to advance the political and economic progress of the country," said the partners, also including those from Denmark, Finland, Ireland and Italy.
The electoral commission in Baidoa, South West State has confirmed it planned to carry out the elections despite the arrest of Robow.


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Q: Apache Lucene - Optimizing Searching I am developing a web application in Java (using Spring) that uses a SQL Server database. I use Apache Lucene to implement a search feature for my web application. With Apache Lucene, before I perform a search I create an index of titles. I do this by first obtaining a list of all titles from the database. Then I loop through the list of titles and add each one of them to the index. This happens every time a user searches for something.
I would like to know if there is a better, more efficient way of creating the index? I know my way is very inefficient, and will take a long time to complete when the list of titles is very long.
Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.
Thanks

A: You should:

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*make Lucene index before you start application

*update index when you add/remove/update title in your database

Benefits of this approach:

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*One full index when application is offline

*incremental indexing, each time relevant information is changed

A: Before you optimize Lucene: SQL Server already has a full-text search feature. If this covers your use case then use it. It's the easiest way since SQL Server takes care of keeping the search index in sync with the database.
If the SQL Server full-text search does not fit your use case then your application has to create its own search index and keep it in sync with the database. To do this you should:

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*create / update the search index when your application starts

*update the search index when the application inserts, updates or deletes a title

Lucene is flexible where it stores the search index. You can store it in a directory in your file system or in the database (or write you own storage provider). I recommend to store it in the file system as the performance is much better than when you store it in the database.
If you don't have too many titles to index you could also use an in-memory search index which you recreate every time your application starts.