![]() ![]() TGG crystals characterized in the High Power facility. Faraday magnetic system during the assembling TGG crystal installation in its copper holder The Faraday isolator prototype for Advanced Virgo Description and assembling procedure, Virgo internal note, VIR-0283A-10.Ħ TGG crystals characterization and FI final assembling ![]() → Assembly completed in March 2010 once the coated optics were available. Zheleznov) in January 2010 in Virgo clean rooms. Prototype assembled by our colleagues of IAP (O. → we chose to produce a 20 mm aperture with reinforced magnetic field Faraday isolator, half waveplate for compensation of Verdet constant change with temperature and DKDP crystal for thermal lensing compensation.ĥ High vacuum Faraday isolator for AdV: Magnetic system assembling. A collaboration between IAP and EGO started in July 2008 and a report on the study of different FI design with various aperture options delivered in March 2009 ( See IAP report “AdV Faraday isolator design study”, VIR-0245A-10). → in order to reach these performances, we have contacted Efim Khazanov (IAP, Russia) who already produced HP-compatible FI for LIGO. UHV compatible: residual pressure ≤10-6 mbar. Be insensitive to thermal conditions changes going from air to vacuum. The requirements for the AdV Faraday isolator (FI) are: Isolation factor > 40 dB with 250W laser power going through the FI. Input Power Control system (IPC 1) Beam pointing control system Beam analysis system (cameras, Hartmann sensor,…) In-vacuum optics: 144 m long Resonant Input Mode-Cleaner (IMC) High power Faraday isolator ITF Mode-Matching Telescope (MMT) PSL intensity stabilization photodiode Reference cavity (RFC) Steering optics Input Power Control system (IPC 2) For more information on the subsystem: AdV INJ preliminary design study, VIR-0023A-09 AdV INJ design requirements, VIR-0628A-09 - AdV baseline design, VIR-0027A-09 In-air optics: EOM system for IMC and ITF control IMC mode-matching telescope. High power compatible components: Faraday isolator for AdV High power beam dumps Electro Optical Modulator for AdV AdV Input Mode Cleaner: what to do to upgrade Virgo IMC for AdV. Outline Advanced INJ subsystem: overview. Paoletti LIGO-G VIR-0515A-10Ģ Advanced INJ subsystem: overview. Genin for AdV INJ team European Gravitational Observatory with the contribution of B. Genin for AdV INJ team European Gravitational."- Presentation transcript:ġ Advanced Virgo INJ: Faraday isolator, Electro-optical modulator, high power beam dump and Input mode-cleaner E. (License No.Presentation on theme: "Advanced Virgo INJ: Faraday isolator, Electro-optical modulator, high power beam dump and Input mode-cleaner E. Notwithstanding, instructors are permitted to photocopy isolated articles for noncommercial classroom use without fee. 16-19, May 2022.Īll rights are reserved and no part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. This value is ~1/4 that with the circuit using a conventional mirror (~0.45 dB).Īutomatic gain-control / Semiconductor optical amplifier / Polarization-independent / / / / / The polarization dependence of the gain is ~0.12 dB with the circuit using an FRM. It was clarified that the polarization dependence of the gain is decreased with the double-pass type AGC circuit using a circulator and a Faraday rotator mirror. In this paper, the gain control characteristics of a polarization independent configuration of all-optical FF-AGC circuit using a semiconductor optical amplifier are experimentally studied. Kokoro Kitamura ( Shimane Univ.) OFT2022-4Īn all-optical feedforward automatic gain control scheme is applicable to a multicore erbium-doped amplifier. Gain Control Characteristics of a Polarization-Independent Configuration Using a Circulator and a Faraday Rotator Mirror in All-Optical Feedforward Automatic Gain Control Scheme Ken-system: Gain Control Characteristics of a Polarization-Independent Configuration Using a Circulator and a Faraday Rotator Mirror in All-Optical Feedforward Automatic Gain Control Scheme IEICE Technical Committee Submission System ![]()
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Big Daddy Kane was firmly in the silken post-Madonna Sex book era. It was after Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer, and leather-suited rappers wanted that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze money. Rap-A-Lot was carving up its empire in the South. Death Row and West Coast gangsta rap dominated the charts and mass media oxygen. New York street culture was losing its birthright to hip-hop's evolution. The Columbia press sheet that accompanies it opens: "While it's sad that there's so much frontin' in the rap world today, this should only make us sit up and pay attention when a rapper comes along who's not about milking the latest trend and running off with the loot." Hip-hop was a teenager when Illmatic dropped*.* Old enough for biblical foundation, but young enough to be embroiled in an early identity crisis. I lay puzzled as I backtrack to earlier times. He was the spawn of the Wild Style, the first great to grow up with Park Jams as his earliest memories. He's carrying on tradition, defined as: "When it's real, you do it even without a recording contract." It's an oath of purity amidst poisons- something that seems sanctimonious in a post-Puffy world, but it assured the older gods that they would have a stake in the next generation. His brother Jungle snaps, "yo, Nas, what the fuck is this bullshit?" Nas tells him to chill. Nas calls his version "The Genesis", fusing his own story of origin with the culture. The track shifts to " The Subway Theme" from Wild Style, hip-hop's first creation myth, the 1983 film that exposed the routines of the South Bronx to the rest of the world. A VHS snippet from Wild Style immediately snarls, "Stop fucking around and be a man!" You hear a cassette tape hissing the verse from teenaged Nasty Nas on Main Source's " Live at the BBQ," 1991: " When I was 12, I went to Hell for snuffing Jesus." He anointed himself the "street's disciple." Everyone blessed him as the Golden Child. Illmatic starts with that rumbling of the train. It's just the attitude out there, it's just life. Everybody's mentality revolves around the projects. He explained the mentality to The Source in April 1994, the same month Illmatic was instantly canonized with a perfect 5-Mic score: "When I was a kid I just stayed in the projects… that shit is like a city. The neighbors are the rotting East River and the "Big Alice" power plant, its smokestacks hacking up black clouds. The pissy elevators only stop on every other floor. Queensbridge Houses, the largest projects in America, brick buildings dun as dead leaves, a six-block maze clotted with 7,000-plus trying to survive. I wanted to expand.The doors crumple open and the passengers vanish up half-lit stairwells into the Bridge. ![]() I didn't want to do a thousand "Men At Works", or a hundred " Road to the Riches". ![]() But I did want to rap about interesting shit. ![]() I would just let everything come natural, whatever took over my imagination I'd just roll with that. I like when other people make me laugh.Ĭoncept songs were very important but I never forced them. Everything is not always straight-faced or ice grilling for me. It was meant to get chicks interested in me in that kind of light but be funny at the same time. I wanted to make something in a different direction. I had always been a rapper for the thugs, the drug dealers, the goons, and the dudes locked up. "Talk Like Sex" was Kool G Rap's first dirty rap song and he recalled in a 2014 interview: "Talk Like Sex" was released as the second single from this album with "Fuck U Man" as a B-side. The song first featured as the fifth track from Kool G Rap & DJ Polo's 1990 album Wanted: Dead or Alive and was later included on the 1996 album Rated XXX, which comprised a number of classics and previously unheard songs. It was also featured on the compilation albums The Best of Cold Chillin' (2000), Greatest Hits (2002) and Street Stories: The Best of Kool G Rap & DJ Polo (2013). 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![]() ![]() "I've grown to realize that I am a man and being a prison ho is an act." In the meantime, prisoners like Rodney have been forced to make their peace with their "prison ho" fate. Several prisons operated by the CDCR have now established sensitive needs yard with some success, and the JDI is hoping that other states will adopt this model. JDI has been working with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to establish "sensitive needs yards" (pdf), where gay, transgender and other vulnerable inmates can serve out their time in safety. Just Detention International (JDI), an organization whose aim is to eradicate prison rape (pdf), is trying to change that. Until fairly recently, little has been done to help them. It's difficult to assess how typical Rodney's prison experience is, but numerous studies conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, based on anonymous inmate surveys, have shown that gay and transgender inmates are among the most targeted groups for sexual victimization. My way of thinking about myself and my sexuality has been permanently altered." The role of woman is forced upon us and any rebuttal is considered a sign of disrespect. To live with some standard of equality, we have to trade in our manhood. Gay men who do not attempt to hide their sexuality are forced into passive and submissive roles. "I've heard before that 'jail is a faggot's dream.' I assure you that cliché is not the case. There is nothing about the experience that could be considered enjoyable. This involved establishing a female name and identity, learning how to speak when spoken to, "respect his man" and emasculating himself to the point where he could not stand while urinating. He said he tried to do whatever his prison husband wanted or needed, including cleaning his cell, washing his clothes, preparing his food, and whatever else his "husband" wanted or needed, including, of course, being available for sex – because "he did what I wanted and needed – kept other inmates off me."Īs time wore on and "husbands" came and went, Rodney perfected the art of being a "prison ho", as his only means of surviving intact. Even though he was thereby essentially enslaved by his new "prison husband", he was grateful – because his days of "being the communal bitch were over". He went on to report how one of his rapists took a fancy to him and "purchased" him from the tier rep for $20. Having my mouth and anus aggressively penetrated by several strangers is anything but." "True enough, I am attracted to men and always have been, but in life, it's my choice whom I share a bed with it's intimate and personal. It is also rape, just like the three forcible rapes were. Nothing is heaven about being intimidated into performing sexual acts. "Against popular opinion, jail is not heaven for a homosexual. I quickly learned that a snitch is a worse label than a fag. "I dared not report anything because I was clearly warned that my life would be in jeopardy should I do so. ![]() I had no means to protect myself, being only 23 and scared for my life. After being raped, I performed acts by request. "My first week or so in general population was hell on earth. ![]() ![]() The prison he was first sent to did actually have a separate tier for gay inmates, but according to Rodney, because he did not "appear overly effeminate" during his classification, he was placed with the general population and because it was supposedly rare to have a gay person slip through the cracks of the system, his fellow inmates took full advantage. Within days of his first entering prison, the 23-year-old Rodney claimed he was the victim of three separate sexual assaults, involving five different inmates. His account suggests that far from being a paradise, prison for gay men can be a living hell. He described a litany of brutal rapes, assaults, beatings and, eventually, the total abandonment of his male identity as his only means of survival in the hyper-masculine and often homophobic prison environment. One young man named Rodney, imprisoned for fraud and check-forging, sent me a detailed account of his life so far in prison. The reality of life in prison for homosexuals and transgender individuals does not appear to reflect this myth. His death sentence was later overturned (mostly because Burdine's public defender had slept through much of his trial), but the homophobic thinking – that prison is some kind of paradise for gay men – lingers on. After 17 minutes of deliberation, the jury obliged and sentenced Burdine to die. In 1984, when Calvin Burdine was awaiting sentencing for allegedly stabbing his gay lover to death, the prosecuting attorney encouraged the jury in his closing remarks to award Burdine the death penalty, rather than life in prison, on the grounds that sending a gay man to prison was akin to sending a kid to a candy store. ![]() ![]() ![]() How is this game coded? Have a look at the board and the numbering of the peg positions: If no addtional tricks are programmed to speedup the search. In 12 milliseconds and finds more solutions in additional fractionsĪ modern PC with 2,4GHz clock needs about 7.5 secs to solve the puzzle However, solitaire2.exe solves the solitaire puzzle The existence of search techniques, but never studied them.Īpproach is intuitive. Peg-Solitaire version 2 is ready now and has Recently I wrote another program, now in Delphi.Ĭamping in France (without PC) some ideas struck me how to speedup I remember that it took this giant machineĪbout 6 minutes to find the first solution. National supercomputer installed at the Academic Computer Center Was granted permission to run my Fortran program on the Cyber205, the My efforts to write a program that solves peg-solitaire go back to 1993.Ī hardware engineer, for the Control Data Corporation (CDC). This article will focus on the search option. Permutation filter removes similar solutions : Select 1 of 12 preset games, from easy to difficult Place balls at board to create starting position for search My version of Peg Solitaire has the following options: Peg that was jumped over is removed from the game.īelow for a reduced image of an initial- and a solved game. Over it's neigbour (horizontally or vertically) to an empty hole. The final, solved, game has one peg in the center positionĪfter 31 moves have striked the other pegs. Introduction Peg Solitaire is a single player puzzle. ![]() ![]() ![]() The message also highlights the hypocrisy of the conditioning: it may be true that “every one works for every one else,” but it is also true that certain castes have a much better time of it than others. This quote illustrates the power of mind-numbing repetitiveness of the hypnopaedic rules and beliefs that form the basis of World State society. She is reminded of the quote by a discussion with Henry Foster about the fact that all humans, regardless of caste, become equal after death. This quotation comes from Chapter 5, when Lenina remembers waking up as a small girl and, for the first time, hearing hypnopaedic messages whispered into her ear. The world “allows” them to be happy by creating a system in which not being happy-by choosing truth over soma-is forbidden. The World State is an enormous system of production and consumption in which humans are turned into machines for further production and consumption. Another facet of World State philosophy that is encapsulated in this quote is the idea of constructing a world in which human beings have only one way of behaving. John’s critique of this position is that stability and peace are not worth throwing away everything that is worthwhile about life-“mother, monogamy, romance” included. Mustapha is saying that by doing away with these things, the World State has finally brought stability and peace to humanity. And “feeling strongly” is what John values most highly, and also what leads to his eventual self-flagellation, insanity, and suicide. “Mother, monogamy, romance”can be seen as a concise summary of exactly the issues with which John will be most concerned. ![]() What with mothers and lovers, what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey, what with the temptations and the lonely remorses, what with all the diseases and the endless isolating pain, what with the uncertainties and the poverty-they were forced to feel strongly.Īnd feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could they be stable? This passage comes from Chapter 3, when Mustapha Mond is explaining the history of the World State to the group of boys touring the Hatchery. ![]() Their world didn’t allow them to take things easily, didn’t allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy. No wonder those poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable. 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