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Amendment of Laws Relating to Fisheries and Other Occupations in Alaska: Statement of Hon. James Wickersham, April 19, 1910 (Classic Reprint)
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Title: Amendment of Laws Relating to Fisheries and Other Occupations in Alaska: Statement of Hon. James Wickersham, April 19, 1910 (Classic Reprint)
Author: James Wickersham
Amendment of Laws Relating to Fisheries and Other Occupations in Alaska Statement of Hon James Wickersham April Classic Reprint Excerpt from Amendment of Laws Relating to Fisheries and Other Occupations in Alaska Statement of Hon James Wickersham April A bill Making additional and amendatory provisions for civil gover
Excerpt from Amendment of Laws Relating to Fisheries and Other Occupations in Alaska Statement of Hon James Wickersham, April 19, 1910A bill Making additional and amendatory provisions for civil government in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, ThatExcerpt from Amendment of Laws Relating to Fisheries and Other Occupations in Alaska Statement of Hon James Wickersham, April 19, 1910A bill Making additional and amendatory provisions for civil government in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section one of an act entitled An act for the protection and regulation of the fisheries of Alaska, approved June twenty sixth, nineteen hundred and six, is hereby amended to read as follows.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find at forgottenbooksThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses state of the art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Super Eagles Defender, William Ekong Leads Charge Against Neglected Tropical Diseases That Affect Over 120 Million Nigerians
…the Super Eagles defender is campaigning in partnership with the END Fund and Common Goal
LAGOS, Nigeria, December, 3rd, 2019 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Nigeria national team defender William Ekong has started a campaign to draw attention to neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) that affect more than 120 million Nigerians. In partnership with the END Fund and Common Goal, William appears in a public service announcement where he calls on affected Nigerians to seek free treatment.
Neglected tropical diseases are a group of parasitic and bacterial infectious diseases that affect more than 1.7 billion of the world’s most impoverished people, including 1 billion children. They include intestinal worms, schistosomiasis (bilharzia), river blindness, trachoma, and lymphatic filariasis.
Translated in pidgin, the public service announcement sheds light on how NTDs affect all aspects of life. Thus, calling upon Nigerians to take advantage of the ongoing mass administration of medication (MAM) efforts being led by community health workers all throughout the country.
Please visit your local health center for more information on how to get treatment in your local government area in Nigeria.
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Is Dave Pack Doing His "Utmost To Deceive You?"
Apostle Malm has a letter on his site today from a person that claims to have known Dave Pack before he started Restored Church of God and was then with him as he started RCG. It's in the post where Malm plagiarized my earlier post about Schurter "washing his mind." Dale Shurter repents: Bob Thiel Justifies: One Accord out
This person has one very telling observation about Pack that many have recognized over the years. Notice particularly the last paragraph
We were one of the first brethren to join Dave Pack in this exciting new venture, we loved his enthusiasm and great oratory but soon and I mean immediately soon, trouble began. As time passed, my only comment I can say to the brethren is the Dave Pack has built the Restored Church of God on spiritual blood and many brethren have been murdered along the way financially. It is a sad organization of brutality, enforcement, immaturity and greed via the many sermons and messages based on ”the get system” which is the opposite of what Mr. Armstrong taught in the 1980’s.
HERE IS WHAT IS REALLY INTERESTING: In the “early years” just months after he started the church he gave a sermon and said, in quote, “ that if he ever proclaimed he was an apostle or some greater position higher than being a humble minister….he would be deceived”. Further, he said, “that if he was deceived, he would do his utmost due to his dynamic personality to deceive YOU the brethren AND that we should not follow him”….in quote.
What a narcissist! Dynamic personality?
This dude is a case study for the next edition of DSM 5.
Douglas Becker said...
The Current DSM is DSM IV.
The DSM V may be out in 2015, but don't count on it: There are some project management problems along with some gross incompetence.
Over where we are, we're going to try to get British Israelism in the DSM as a Mental Disorder.
One of my favorite parts of Pack's autobiography (or biography-whatever he's calling it now) is the pork chop story. A young David Pack learns that he must give up all the "unclean meats" to follow God. At first he resists, but when he finally decides to go with the program he goes out big. He stuffs himself with five or six pork chops. The story ends with a note that the smell of pork would afterwords make David sick. How convenient.
I think that little episode tells much about David Pack. That, and the disagreements he seems to get into with everyone from his high school swim coach up to Spanky.
Speaking of David C's auto-biog....I have never heard one write their own biog and refer to themselves as "Mr. Pack then did this," "Mr. Pack was always.." "Mr. Pack knew.."
Is that how you talk about yourself? Does he have so much respect or himself he has a rule he has to call himself "Mr."
I also was around DCP when some of his life events transpired. I don't quite remember them the same way.
Also amazing how every church Dave pastors "Is the fastest growing Church in the world at the time." That's nuts.
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NO2HWA said...
Thanks Douglas. I changed the DSM 6 to a 5
That title cracks me up!!! Armstrongism is a deception. Dave Pack has always done his best to preserve and advance Armstrongism, ergo......
Were I he, I certainly would not be bragging about aquiring someone who had already thoroughly devalued himself by stating that he was a young earth creationist! I mean, even if you don't happen to watch Nova on PBS, you can walk out into your back yard every night and see stars which are millions of light years away!
Pack also takes his views on government from the Old Covenant, when only some of the leaders (prophets, priests, and kings) had the Holy Spirit. In the New Testament, the early chapters of the book of Acts reveal that Peter did not practice government from the top down. Discussion regarding the choosing of a replacement for Judas Iscariot was held, and lots were cast to obtain God's decision on this. James didn't practice government from the top down, either. The Jerusalem Council discussed the materials presented by Paul, there was discussion, a guided concensus was reached, with James simply presenting that concensus. Not requiring circumcision must have been a very deeply controversial decision to all of the Jewish and Judaizing Christians, as there were many deep implications which even Armstrongism failed to realize and appreciate. St. Paul elaborated on these in his epistle to the Romans.
Dave's statements and actions would seem to suggest that he is somewhat of a prophet, but it's the self-destructive kind. As the old beatniks might have said, "like, strictly Deuteronomy 18sville, man!"
For some quirky reason Pack's honesty or slip up reminds me of the former US President George "Dubbya" Bush's honesty when he let slip back in 2004 how "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful. And so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people. And neither do we."
Like the saying goes, "That their own words may be used against them" or as another ex prez put it, "Read my lips..." we're seeing more of these sheep-like saviours coming out and speaking more like dragons and hence revealing their true, beastly nature.
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Hillman , T. J. | rotifers
The influence of seasonality and duration of flooding on zooplankton in experimental billabongs.
Nielsen, D. L.
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Smith, F. J.
Shiel, R. J.
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England : John Wiley & Sons,
The regulation of Australian lowland rivers such as the River Murray has resulted in changes to the flooding characteristics of many associated wetlands. It has been suggested that these changes in flooding have changed the pattern of response of many wetland biota. The substantial variability in the size and shape of these wetlands makes limited field observations difficult to interpret. To overcome this variability 16 experimental billabongs were constructed in which factors that may cause changes to populations within billabongs could be manipulated. In this paper we report on experiments that test the hypothesis that changing the pattern of flooding alters the density and diversity of rotifers and microcrustaceans in billabongs. The experimental billabongs were sampled fortnightly for two years. During this time four flood events were imposed. Flooding of the experimental billabongs resulted in increased microcrustacean abundance. Rotifer abundance rarely increased following flooding. Changing the time of flooding did not modify this response. Observed changes in community structure following flooding result from changes in the relative densities of taxa already present rather than changes in the community composition.
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Not everyone up here in the 21st century gets the chance to build a farm from scratch.
But Josh Schiff did.
And not for himself. He works as farm manager at The Chatham Bars Inn, growing flowers and vegetables for its four restaurants. It’s a farm-to-table venture where he works hand in glove with executive chef Anthony Cole, raising everything from arugula to zucchini.
“We’ve developed a close relationship over past five years,” Schiff says. “He’s at the farm three times a week to see what the kitchen can utilize, and that pushes us both.”
It’s an eight-acre affair, with a greenhouse. When Schiff first saw the property, it was covered in pitch pines and scrub oaks. They all had to go.
“We hired an excavation company that cleared the wood, and flattened as much as it could,” he says. “Every off season I get on a bulldozer or bobcat – I’m trying to make the best with what I have.”
It’s no walk in the park. The soil is sandy, the wind is salty and there’s no shortage of fog and mist. “We can’t grow melons because there’s no heat in the summer,” he says. “And there are no apples because of diseases.”
His biggest ally is compost – he’s spread 2,000 yards of it over the past five years, to the tune of a quarter million dollars. He also uses poultry manure and cover cropping – like rye, hairy vetch and buckwheat, in an effort to enrich the sandy base.
“The good thing about sand is that it’s easy to work with and it drains easily,” he says. “The bad thing is that it’s very droughty and doesn’t hold water or nutrients well.”
The growing season gets off to a slow start. The first crop is planted on April 14 and runs through Dec. 1. He and his staff of 10 store root vegetables, potatoes and onions crops in a walk-in cooler.
And he mixes up his crops. “The rotation is really important because a small farm produces a lot of crops,” he says. “There’s never a fallow field –every winter I make a really extensive spread sheet to show where every crop was planted.”
The harvest is not just for the inn. Schiff sells to other restaurants, and has set up a subscription model, or CRA program, for the locals. “It’s a 20-week season, and they pick up a big bushel of vegetables – whatever’s fresh at the moment,” he says. “We have 110 subscribers right now – it’s a great way to connect with the community and it’s good for revenue.”
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:Scale the Fourier-transformed fields in <code>flux</code> by the complex number <code>s</code>. e.g. <code>load-minus-flux</code> is equivalent to <code>load-flux</code> followed by <code>scale-flux-fields</code> with <code>s=-1</code>. :Scale the Fourier-transformed fields in <code>flux</code> by the complex number <code>s</code>. e.g. <code>load-minus-flux</code> is equivalent to <code>load-flux</code> followed by <code>scale-flux-fields</code> with <code>s=-1</code>.
- === Frequency domain solver === + === Frequency-domain solver ===
- Meep contains a frequency-domain solver that directly computes the fields produced in a geometry in response to a constant frequency source, using an iterative linear solver instead of timestepping. Preliminary tests have shown that in many instances, this solver converges much faster than simply running an equivalent time domain simulation with a continuous wave source, timestepping until all transient effects from the source turn-on have disappeared. To use it, simply define a <code>continuous-src</code> with given frequency, initialize the fields and geometry via <code>(init-fields)</code>, and then: + Meep contains a frequency-domain solver that directly computes the fields produced in a geometry in response to a constant-frequency source, using an iterative linear solver instead of timestepping. Preliminary tests have shown that in many instances, this solver converges much faster than simply running an equivalent time domain simulation with a continuous wave source, timestepping until all transient effects from the source turn-on have disappeared. To use it, simply define a <code>continuous-src</code> with the desired frequency, initialize the fields and geometry via <code>(init-fields)</code>, and then:
;<code>(meep-fields-solve-cw fields tol maxiters L)</code> ;<code>(meep-fields-solve-cw fields tol maxiters L)</code>
- The parameters to the frequency-domained solver are <code>tol</code> the tolerance (10<sup>−8</sup>, by default), a maximum number of iterations <code>maxiters</code> (10<sup>−4</sup>, by default). Finally, there is a parameter <code>L</code> that determines a tradeoff between memory and work per step and convergence rate of the iterative algorithm [http://www.math.uu.nl/people/sleijpen/CGSTAB_software/CGSTAB.html biCGSTAB-(L)] that is used; larger values of <code>L</code> of will often lead to faster convergence at the expense of more memory and more work per iteration. The default is <code>L</code>=2, and normally a value ≥ 2 should be used. + The parameters to the frequency-domaine solver are <code>tol</code> the tolerance (10<sup>−8</sup>, by default), a maximum number of iterations <code>maxiters</code> (10<sup>−4</sup>, by default). Finally, there is a parameter <code>L</code> that determines a tradeoff between memory and work per step and convergence rate of the iterative algorithm [http://www.math.uu.nl/people/sleijpen/CGSTAB_software/CGSTAB.html biCGSTAB-(L)] that is used; larger values of <code>L</code> of will often lead to faster convergence at the expense of more memory and more work per iteration. The default is <code>L</code>=2, and normally a value ≥ 2 should be used.
+ The frequency-domain solver supports arbitrary geometries, PML, boundary conditions, symmetries, parallelism, conductors, and arbitrary nondispersive materials. Lorentz–Drude dispersive materials are not currently supported in the frequency-domain solver, but since you are solving at a known fixed frequency rather than timestepping, you should be able to pick conductivities etcetera in order to obtain any desired complex ε and μ at that frequency.
==Run and step functions== ==Run and step functions==
Meep manual
Here, we document the features exposed to the user by the Meep package. We do not document the Scheme language or the functions provided by libctl (see also the libctl User Reference section of the libctl manual).
This page is simply a compact listing of the functions exposed by the interface; for a gentler introduction, see the Meep tutorial. Also, we note that this page is not, and probably never will be, a complete listing of all functions. In particular, because of the SWIG wrappers, every function in the C++ interface is accessible from Scheme, but not all of these functions are documented or intended for end users.
See also our parallel Meep instructions for parallel (MPI) machines.
1 Input Variables
2 Predefined Variables
3 Constants (enumerated types)
4.1 lattice
4.2 material-type
4.3 geometric-object
4.4 symmetry
4.5 pml
4.6 source
4.7 flux-region
5 Miscellaneous functions
5.1 Geometry utilities
5.2 Output file names
5.3 Misc.
5.4 Field computations
5.5 Reloading parameters
5.6 Flux spectra
5.7 Frequency-domain solver
6 Run and step functions
6.1 Run functions
6.2 Predefined step functions
6.2.1 Output functions
6.2.2 Harminv
6.3 Step-function modifiers
6.3.1 Miscellaneous step-function modifiers
6.3.2 Controlling when a step function executes
6.3.3 Modifying HDF5 output
6.4 Writing your own step functions
7 Low-level functions
7.1 Initializing the structure and fields
7.2 SWIG wrappers
Input Variables
These are global variables that you can set to control various parameters of the Meep computation. In brackets after each variable is the type of value that it should hold. (The classes, complex datatypes like geometric-object, are described in a later subsection. The basic datatypes, like integer, boolean, cnumber, and vector3, are defined by libctl.)
geometry [list of geometric-object class]
Specifies the geometric objects making up the structure being simulated. When objects overlap, later objects in the list take precedence. Defaults to no objects (empty list).
sources [list of source class]
Specifies the current sources to be present in the simulation; defaults to none.
symmetries [list of symmetry class]
Specifies the spatial (mirror/rotation) symmetries to exploit in the simulation (defaults to none). The symmetries must be obeyed by both the structure and by the sources. See also: Exploiting symmetry in Meep.
pml-layers [list of pml class]
Specifies the absorbing PML boundary layers to use; defaults to none.
default-material [material-type class]
Holds the default material that is used for points not in any object of the geometry list. Defaults to air (ε of 1).
geometry-lattice [lattice class]
Specifies the size of the unit cell (which is centered on the origin of the coordinate system). Any sizes of no-size imply (effectively) a reduced-dimensionality calculation (but a 2d xy calculation is especially optimized); see dimensions below. Defaults to a cubic cell of unit size.
dimensions [integer]
Explicitly specifies the dimensionality of the simulation, if the value is less than 3. If the value is 3 (the default), then the dimensions are automatically reduced to 2 if possible when geometry-lattice size in the z direction is no-size. If dimensions is the special value of CYLINDRICAL, then cylindrical coordinates are used and the x and z dimensions are interpreted as r and z, respectively. If dimensions is 1, then the cell must be along the z direction and only Ex and Hy field components are permitted. If dimensions is 2, then the cell must be in the xy plane.
m [number]
For CYLINDRICAL simulations, specifies that the angular φ dependence of the fields is of the form eimφ (default is m=0). If the simulation cell includes the origin r = 0, then m must be an integer.
accurate-fields-near-cylorigin? [boolean]
For CYLINDRICAL simulations with |m| > 1, compute more accurate fields near the origin r = 0 at the expense of requiring a smaller Courant factor. Empirically, when this option is set to true, a Courant factor of roughly min[0.5,1 / ( | m | + 0.5)] (or smaller) seems to be needed. The default is false, in which case the Dr, Dz, and Br fields within |m| pixels of the origin are forced to zero, which usually ensures stability with the default Courant factor of 0.5, at the expense of slowing convergence of the fields near r = 0.
resolution [number]
Specifies the computational grid resolution, in pixels per distance unit. Defaults to 10.
k-point [false or vector3]
If false (the default), then the boundaries are perfect metallic (zero electric field). If a vector, then the boundaries are Bloch-periodic: the fields at one side are times the fields at the other side, separated by the lattice vector . The k-point vector is specified in Cartesian coordinates, in units of 2π/distance. (This is different from MPB, equivalent to taking MPB's k-points through the function reciprocal->cartesian.)
ensure-periodicity [boolean]
If true (the default), and if the boundary conditions are periodic (k-point is not false), then the geometric objects are automatically repeated periodically according to the lattice vectors (the size of the computational cell).
eps-averaging? [boolean]
If true (the default), then subpixel averaging is used when initializing the dielectric function (see the Farjadpour et al. reference in Citing Meep). The input variables subpixel-maxeval (default 100000) and subpixel-tol (default 1.0e-4) specify the maximum number of function evaluations and the integration tolerance for subpixel averaging. Increasing/decreasing these, respectively, will cause a more accurate (but slower) computation of the average ε (with diminishing returns for the actual FDTD error).
force-complex-fields? [boolean]
By default, Meep runs its simulations with purely real fields whenever possible. It uses complex fields (which require twice the memory and computation) if the k-point is non-zero or if m is non-zero. However, by setting force-complex-fields? to true, Meep will always use complex fields. See also: Complex fields in Meep.
filename-prefix [string]
A string prepended to all output filenames. If "" (the default), then Meep uses the name of the current ctl file, with ".ctl" replaced by "-" (e.g. foo.ctl uses a "foo-" prefix). See also Output file names.
Courant [number]
Specify the Courant factor S which relates the time step size to the spatial discretization: cΔt = SΔx. Default is 0.5. For numerical stability, the Courant factor must be at most , where nmin is the minimum refractive index (usually 1), and in practice S should be slightly smaller.
output-volume [meep::geometric_volume*]
Specifies the default region of space that is output by the HDF5 output functions (below); see also the (volume ...) function to create meep::geometric_volume* objects. The default is '() (null), which means that the whole computational cell is output. Normally, you should use the (in-volume ...) function to modify the output volume instead of setting output-volume directly.
output-single-precision? [boolean]
Meep performs its computations in double precision, and by default its output HDF5 files are in the same format. However, by setting this variable to true (default is false) you can instead output in single precision which saves a factor of two in space.
progress-interval [number]
Time interval (seconds) after which Meep prints a progress message; default is 4 seconds.
extra-materials [list of material-type class]
By default, Meep turns off support for material dispersion, nonlinearities, and similar properties if none of the objects in the geometry have materials with these properties—since they are not needed, it is faster to omit their calculation. This doesn't work if you use a material-function, though (materials via a user-specified function of position, instead of just geometric objects). If only your material function returns a nonlinear material, for example, Meep won't notice this unless you tell it explicitly via extra-materials. extra-materials is a list of materials that Meep should look for in the computational cell, in addition to any materials that are specified by geometric objects. You should list any materials (other than scalar dielectrics) that are returned by material-functions here.
The following require a bit more understanding of the inner workings of Meep to use (see also the SWIG wrappers).
structure [meep::structure*]
Pointer to the current structure being simulated; initialized by (init-structure) which is called automatically by (init-fields) which is called automatically by any of the (run) functions.
fields [meep::fields*]
Pointer to the current fields being simulated; initialized by (init-fields) which is called automatically by any of the (run) functions.
num-chunks [integer]
Minimum number of "chunks" (subarrays) to divide the structure/fields into (default 0); actual number is determined by number of processors, PML layers, etcetera. (Mainly useful for debugging.)
Variables predefined for your convenience and amusement.
air, vacuum [material-type class]
Two aliases for a predefined material type with a dielectric constant of 1.
perfect-electric-conductor or metal [material-type class]
A predefined material type corresponding to a perfect electric conductor (at the boundary of which the parallel electric field is zero), technically .
perfect-magnetic-conductor [material-type class]
A predefined material type corresponding to a perfect magnetic conductor (at the boundary of which the parallel magnetic field is zero), technically .
nothing [material-type class]
A material that, effectively, punches a hole through other objects to the background (default-material).
infinity [number]
A big number (1.0e20) to use for "infinite" dimensions of objects.
pi [number]
π (3.14159...).
Constants (enumerated types)
Several of the functions/classes in Meep ask you to specify e.g. a field component or a direction in the grid. These should be one of the following constants:
direction constants
Specify a direction in the grid. One of X, Y, Z, R, P for: x, y, z, r, φ, respectively.
boundary-side constants
Specify particular boundary in some direction (e.g. + x or − x). One of Low or High.
component constants
Specify a particular field (or other) component. One of Ex, Ey, Ez, Er, Ep, Hx, Hy, Hz, Hy, Hp, Hz, Bx, By, Bz, By, Bp, Bz, Dx, Dy, Dz, Dr, Dp, Dielectric, Permeability, for: Ex, Ey, Ez, Er, Eφ, Hx, Hy, Hz, Hr, Hφ, Bx, By, Bz, Br, Bφ, Dx, Dy, Dz, Dr, Dφ, , μ, respectively.
derived-component constants
These are additional components, which are not actually stored by Meep but are computed as needed, mainly for use in output functions. One of Sx, Sy, Sz, Sr, Sp, EnergyDensity, D-EnergyDensity, H-EnergyDensity for: Sx, Sy, Sz, Sr, Sφ (components of the Poynting vector ), , , , respectively.
Classes are complex datatypes with various "properties" which may have default values. Classes can be "subclasses" of other classes; subclasses inherit all the properties of their superclass, and can be used any place the superclass is expected. An object of a class is constructed with:
(make class (prop1 val1) (prop2 val2) ...)
See also the libctl manual.
Meep defines several types of classes, the most numerous of which are the various geometric object classes (which are the same as those used in MPB. You can also get a list of the available classes, along with their property types and default values, at runtime with the (help) command.
The lattice class is normally used only for the geometry-lattice variable, which sets the size of the computational cell. In MPB, you can use this to specify a variety of affine lattice structures. In Meep, only rectangular Cartesian computational cells are supported, so the only property of lattice that you should normally use is its size.
size [vector3]
The size of the computational cell. Defaults to unit lengths.
If any dimension has the special size no-size, then the dimensionality of the problem is (essentially) reduced by one; strictly speaking, the dielectric function is taken to be uniform along that dimension.
Because Maxwell's equations are scale-invariant, you can use any units of distance you want to specify the cell size: nanometers, inches, parsecs, whatever. However, it is usually convenient to pick some characteristic lengthscale of your problem and set that length to 1. See also Units in Meep.
material-type
This class is used to specify the materials that geometric objects are made of. Currently, there are three subclasses, dielectric, perfect-metal, and material-function.
An electromagnetic medium (possibly nonlinear and/or dispersive); see also Materials in Meep. For backwards compatibility, a synonym for medium is dielectric. It has several properties:
epsilon [number]
The (frequency-independent) isotropic relative permittivity, or dielectric constant. Default value = 1. You can also use (index n) as a synonym for (epsilon (* n n)); note that this is not really the refractive index if you also specify μ, since the true index is .
Using (epsilon ε) is actually a synonym for (epsilon-diag ε ε ε).
epsilon-diag and epsilon-offdiag [vector3]
These properties allow you to specify ε as an arbitrary real-symmetric tensor, by giving the diagonal and offdiagonal parts. Specifying (epsilon-diag a b c) and/or (epsilon-offdiag u v w) corresponds to a relative permittivity tensor
The default is the identity matrix (a = b = c = 1 and u = v = w = 0).
mu [number]
The (frequency-independent) isotropic relative permeability μ. Default value = 1. Using (mu μ) is actually a synonym for (mu-diag μ μ μ).
mu-diag and mu-offdiag [vector3]
These properties allow you to specify μ as an arbitrary real-symmetric tensor, by giving the diagonal and offdiagonal parts exactly as for ε above, again defaulting to the identity matrix.
D-conductivity [number]
The (frequency-independent) electric conductivity σD. Default value = 0. You can also specify an diagonal anisotropic conductivity tensor by using the property D-conductivity-diag [vector3], which takes three numbers or a vector3 to give the σD tensor diagonal. See also Conductivity in Meep.
B-conductivity [number]
The (frequency-independent) magnetic conductivity σB. Default value = 0. You can also specify an diagonal anisotropic conductivity tensor by using the property B-conductivity-diag [vector3], which takes three numbers or a vector3 to give the σB tensor diagonal. See also Conductivity in Meep.
chi2 [number]
The nonlinear (Pockels) susceptibility χ(2). Default value = 0. See also Nonlinearity in Meep.
The nonlinear (Kerr) susceptibility χ(3). Default value = 0. (See e.g. Meep Tutorial/Third harmonic generation.) See also Nonlinearity in Meep.
E-polarizations [list of polarizability class]
List of dispersive polarizabilities (see below) added to the dielectric constant ε, in order to model material dispersion; defaults to none. (See e.g. Meep Tutorial/Material dispersion.) See also Material dispersion in Meep. For backwards compatibility, a synonym of E-polarizations is polarizations.
H-polarizations [list of polarizability class]
List of dispersive polarizabilities (see below) added to the permeability μ, in order to model material dispersion; defaults to none. (See e.g. Meep Tutorial/Material dispersion.) See also Material dispersion in Meep.
perfect-metal
A perfectly conducting metal; this class has no properties and you normally just use the predefined metal object, above. (To model imperfect conductors, use a dispersive dielectric material.) See also the predefined variables metal, perfect-electric-conductor, and perfect-magnetic-conductor above.
material-function
This material type allows you to specify the material as an arbitrary function of position. It has one property:
material-func [function]
A function of one argument, the position vector3, that returns the material at that point. Note that the function you supply can return any material; wild and crazy users could even return another material-function object (which would then have its function invoked in turn).
Instead of material-func, you can use epsilon-func: for epsilon-func, you give it a function of position that returns the dielectric constant at that point.
Important: If your material function returns nonlinear, dispersive (Lorentzian or conducting), or magnetic materials, you should also include a list of these materials in the extra-materials input variable (above) to let Meep know that it needs to support these material types in your simulation. (For dispersive materials, you need to include a material with the same γn and ωn values, so you can only have a finite number of these, whereas σn can vary continuously if you want and a matching σn need not be specified in extra-materials. For nonlinear or conductivity materials, your extra-materials list need not match the actual values of σ or χ returned by your material function, which can vary continuously if you want.)
Complex ε and μ: you cannot specify a frequency-independent complex ε or μ in Meep (where the imaginary part is a frequency-independent loss), but there is an alternative. That is because there are only two important physical situations. First, if you only care about the loss in a narrow bandwidth around some frequency, you can set the loss at that frequency via the conductivity (see Conductivity in Meep). Second, if you care about a broad bandwidth, then all physical materials have a frequency-dependent imaginary (and real) ε (and/or μ), and you need to specify that frequency dependence by fitting to Lorentzian resonances via the polarizability below.
Dispersive dielectric materials, above, are specified via a list of objects of type polarizability, which is another class with four properties:
Specifies a single dispersive polarizability of damped harmonic form (see Material dispersion in Meep), with the parameters:
omega [number]
The resonance frequency fn = ωn / 2π.
gamma [number]
The resonance loss rate γn / 2π.
sigma [number]
The scale factor σn. You can also specify an diagonal anisotropic σ tensor by using the property sigma-diag [vector3], which takes three numbers or a vector3 to give the σn tensor diagonal. See also Material dispersion in Meep.
geometric-object
This class, and its descendants, are used to specify the solid geometric objects that form the dielectric structure being simulated. The base class is:
material [material-type class]
The material that the object is made of (usually some sort of dielectric). No default value (must be specified).
center [vector3]
Center point of the object. No default value.
One normally does not create objects of type geometric-object directly, however; instead, you use one of the following subclasses. Recall that subclasses inherit the properties of their superclass, so these subclasses automatically have the material and center properties (which must be specified, since they have no default values).
In a two-dimensional calculation, only the intersections of the objects with the x-y plane are considered.
A sphere. Properties:
radius [number]
Radius of the sphere. No default value.
A cylinder, with circular cross-section and finite height. Properties:
Radius of the cylinder's cross-section. No default value.
height [number]
Length of the cylinder along its axis. No default value.
axis [vector3]
Direction of the cylinder's axis; the length of this vector is ignored. Defaults to point parallel to the z axis.
A cone, or possibly a truncated cone. This is actually a subclass of cylinder, and inherits all of the same properties, with one additional property. The radius of the base of the cone is given by the radius property inherited from cylinder, while the radius of the tip is given by the new property, radius2. (The center of a cone is halfway between the two circular ends.)
radius2 [number]
Radius of the tip of the cone (i.e. the end of the cone pointed to by the axis vector). Defaults to zero (a "sharp" cone).
A parallelepiped (i.e., a brick, possibly with non-orthogonal axes). Properties:
The lengths of the block edges along each of its three axes. Not really a 3-vector, but it has three components, each of which should be nonzero. No default value.
e1, e2, e3 [vector3]
The directions of the axes of the block; the lengths of these vectors are ignored. Must be linearly independent. They default to the three lattice directions.
ellipsoid
An ellipsoid. This is actually a subclass of block, and inherits all the same properties, but defines an ellipsoid inscribed inside the block.
Here are some examples of geometric objects created using the above classes, assuming mat is some material we have defined:
; A cylinder of infinite radius and height 0.25 pointing along the x axis,
; centered at the origin:
(make cylinder (center 0 0 0) (material mat)
(radius infinity) (height 0.25) (axis 1 0 0))
; An ellipsoid with its long axis pointing along (1,1,1), centered on
; the origin (the other two axes are orthogonal and have equal
; semi-axis lengths):
(make ellipsoid (center 0 0 0) (material mat)
(size 0.8 0.2 0.2)
(e1 1 1 1)
(e2 0 1 -1)
(e3 -2 1 1))
; A unit cube of material m with a spherical air hole of radius 0.2 at
; its center, the whole thing centered at (1,2,3):
(set! geometry (list
(make block (center 1 2 3) (material mat) (size 1 1 1))
(make sphere (center 1 2 3) (material air) (radius 0.2))))
This class is used for the symmetries input variable, to specify symmetries (which must preserve both the structure and the sources) for Meep to exploit. Any number of symmetries can be exploited simultaneously, but there is no point in specifying redundant symmetries: the computational cell can be reduced by at most a factor of 4 in 2d and 8 in 3d. See also Exploiting symmetry in Meep.
A single symmetry to exploit. This is the base class of the specific symmetries below, so normally you don't create it directly. However, it has two properties which are shared by all symmetries:
direction [direction constant]
The direction of the symmetry (the normal to a mirror plane or the axis for a rotational symmetry). e.g. X, Y, ... (only Cartesian/grid directions are allowed). No default value.
phase [cnumber]
An additional phase to multiply the fields by when operating the symmetry on them; defaults to 1.0. e.g. a phase of -1 for a mirror plane corresponds to an odd mirror. (Technically, you are essentially specifying the representation of the symmetry group that your fields and sources transform under.)
The specific symmetry sub-classes are:
mirror-sym
A mirror symmetry plane. Here, the direction is the direction normal to the mirror plane.
rotate2-sym
A 180° (twofold) rotational symmetry (a.k.a. C2). Here, the direction is the axis of the rotation.
A 90° (fourfold) rotational symmetry (a.k.a. C4). Here, the direction is the axis of the rotation.
This class is used for specifying the PML absorbing boundary layers around the cell, if any, via the pml-layers input variable. See also Perfectly matched layers. pml-layers can be zero or more pml objects, with multiple objects allowing you to specify different PML layers on different boundaries.
A single PML layer specification, which sets up one or more PML layers around the boundaries according to the following four properties.
thickness [number]
The spatial thickness of the PML layer (which extends from the boundary towards the inside of the computational cell). The thinner it is, the more numerical reflections become a problem. No default value.
Specify the direction of the boundaries to put the PML layers next to. e.g. if X, then specifies PML on the boundaries (depending on the value of side, below). Default is the special value ALL, which puts PML layers on the boundaries in all directions.
side [boundary-side constant]
Specify which side, Low or High of the boundary or boundaries to put PML on. e.g. if side is Low and direction is X, then a PML layer is added to the − x boundary. Default is the special value ALL, which puts PML layers on both sides.
strength [number]
A strength (default is 1.0) to multiply the PML absorption coefficient by. A strength of 2.0 will square the theoretical asymptotic reflection coefficient of the PML (making it smaller), but will also increase numerical reflections. Alternatively, you can change R-asymptotic, below.
R-asymptotic [number]
The asymptotic reflection in the limit of infinite resolution or infinite PML thickness, for refections from air (an upper bound for other media with index > 1). (For a finite resolution or thickness, the reflection will be much larger, due to the discretization of Maxwell's equation.) The default value is 10−15, which should be suffice for most purposes. (You want to set this to be small enough so that waves propagating within the PML are attenuated sufficiently, but making R-asymptotic too small will increase the numerical reflection due to discretization.)
pml-profile [function]
By default, Meep turns on the PML conductivity quadratically within the PML layer—one doesn't want to turn it on suddenly, because that exacerbates reflections due to the discretization. More generally, with pml-profile one can specify an arbitrary PML "profile" function f(u) that determines the shape of the PML absorption profile up to an overall constant factor. u goes from 0 to 1 at the start and end of the PML, and the default is f(u)=u2. In some cases where a very thick PML is required, such as in a periodic medium (where there is technically no such thing as a true PML, only a pseudo-PML), it can be advantageous to turn on the PML absorption more smoothly (see Oskooi et al., 2008). For example, one can use a cubic profile f(u)=u3 by specifying (pml-profile (lambda (u) (* u u u))).
The source class is used to specify the current sources (via the sources input variable). Note that all sources in Meep are separable in time and space, i.e. of the form for some functions and f. (Non-separable sources can be simulated, however, by modifying the sources after each time step.) When real fields are being used (which is the default in many cases...see the force-complex-fields? input variable), only the real part of the current source is used by Meep.
Important note: These are current sources (J terms in Maxwell's equations), even though they are labelled by electric/magnetic field components. They do not specify a particular electric/magnetic field (which would be what is called a "hard" source in the FDTD literature). There is no fixed relationship between the current source and the resulting field amplitudes; it depends on the surrounding geometry, as described in the Meep FAQ.
The source class has the following properties:
src [src-time class]
Specify the time-dependence of the source (see below). No default.
component [component constant]
Specify the direction and type of the current component: e.g. Ex, Ey, etcetera for an electric-charge current, and Hx, Hy, etcetera for a magnetic-charge current. Note that currents pointing in an arbitrary direction are specified simply as multiple current sources with the appropriate amplitudes for each component. No default.
The location of the center of the current source in the computational cell; no default.
The size of the current distribution along each direction of the computational cell. The default is (0,0,0): a point-dipole source.
amplitude [cnumber]
An overall (complex) amplitude multiplying the the current source. Default is 1.0.
amp-func [function]
A Scheme function of a single argument, that takes a vector3 giving a position and returns a (complex) current amplitude for that point. The position argument is relative to the center of the current source, so that you can move your current around without changing your function. The default is '() (null), meaning that a constant amplitude of 1.0 is used. Note that your amplitude function (if any) is multiplied by the amplitude property, so both properties can be used simultaneously.
The src-time object, which specifies the time dependence of the source, can be one of the following three classes.
continuous-src
A continuous-wave source proportional to exp( − iωt), possibly with a smooth (exponential/tanh) turn-on/turn-off. It has the properties:
frequency [number]
The frequency f in units of c/distance (or ω in units of 2πc/distance) (see Units in Meep). No default value. You can instead specify (wavelength x) or (period x), which are both a synonym for (frequency (/ 1 x)); i.e. 1/ω in these units is the vacuum wavelength or the temporal period.
start-time [number]
The starting time for the source; default is 0 (turn on at t = 0).
end-time [number]
The end time for the source; default is infinity (never turn off).
width [number]
Roughly, the temporal width of the smoothing (technically, the inverse of the exponential rate at which the current turns off and on). Default is 0 (no smoothing). You can instead specify (fwidth x), which is a synonym for (width (/ 1 x)) (i.e. the frequency width is proportional to the inverse of the temporal width).
cutoff [number]
How many widths the current decays for before we cut it off and set it to zero; the default is 3.0. A larger value of cutoff will reduce the amount of high-frequency components that are introduced by the start/stop of the source, but will of course lead to longer simulation times.
gaussian-src
A Gaussian-pulse source roughly proportional to exp( − iωt − (t − t0)2 / 2w2), It has the properties:
The center frequency f in units of c/distance (or ω in units of 2πc/distance) (see Units in Meep). No default value. You can instead specify (wavelength x) or (period x), which are both a synonym for (frequency (/ 1 x)); i.e. 1/ω in these units is the vacuum wavelength or the temporal period.
The width w used in the Gaussian. No default value. You can instead specify (fwidth x), which is a synonym for (width (/ 1 x)) (i.e. the frequency width is proportional to the inverse of the temporal width).
How many widths the current decays for before we cut it off and set it to zero—this applies for both turn-on and turn-off of the pulse. The default is 5.0. A larger value of cutoff will reduce the amount of high-frequency components that are introduced by the start/stop of the source, but will of course lead to longer simulation times.
custom-src
A user-specified source function f(t). You can also specify start/end times (at which point your current is set to zero whether or not your function is actually zero). These are optional, but you must specify an end-time explicitly if you want functions like run-sources to work, since they need to know when your source turns off.
src-func [function]
The function f(t) specifying the time-dependence of the source. It should take one argument (the time in Meep units) and return a complex number.
The starting time for the source; default is (- infinity) (turn on at ). Note, however, that the simulation normally starts at t = 0 with zero fields as the initial condition, so there is implicitly a sharp turn-on at t = 0 whether you specify it or not.
flux-region
A flux-region object is used with add-flux below to specify a region in which Meep should accumulate the appropriate Fourier-transformed fields in order to compute a flux spectrum.
A region (volume, plane, line, or point) in which to compute the integral of the Poynting vector of the Fourier-transformed fields. Its properties are:
The center of the flux region (no default).
The size of the flux region along each of the coordinate axes; default is (0,0,0) (a single point).
The direction in which to compute the flux (e.g. X, Y, etcetera). The default is AUTOMATIC, in which the direction is determined by taking the normal direction if the flux region is a plane (or a line, in 2d). If the normal direction is ambiguous (e.g. for a point or volume), then you must specify the direction explicitly (not doing so will lead to an error).
weight [cnumber]
A weight factor to multiply the flux by when it is computed; default is 1.0.
Note that the flux is always computed in the positive coordinate direction, although this can effectively be flipped by using a weight of -1.0. (This is useful, for example, if you want to compute the outward flux through a box, so that the sides of the box add instead of subtract!)
Here, we describe a number of miscellaneous useful functions provided by Meep.
See also the reference section of the libctl manual, which describes a number of useful functions defined by libctl.
Geometry utilities
Some utility functions are provided to help you manipulate geometric objects:
(shift-geometric-object obj shift-vector)
Translate obj by the 3-vector shift-vector.
(geometric-object-duplicates shift-vector min-multiple max-multiple obj)
Return a list of duplicates of obj, shifted by various multiples of shift-vector (from min-multiple to max-multiple, inclusive, in steps of 1).
(geometric-objects-duplicates shift-vector min-multiple max-multiple obj-list)
Same as geometric-object-duplicates, except operates on a list of objects, obj-list. If A appears before B in the input list, then all the duplicates of A appear before all the duplicates of B in the output list.
(geometric-objects-lattice-duplicates obj-list [ ux uy uz ])
Duplicates the objects in obj-list by multiples of the Cartesian basis vectors, making all possible shifts of the "primitive cell" (see below) that fit inside the lattice cell. (This is useful for supercell calculations; see the [user-tutorial.html tutorial].) The primitive cell to duplicate is ux by uy by uz, in units of the Cartesian basis vectors. These three parameters are optional; any that you do not specify are assumed to be 1.
(point-in-object? point obj)
Returns whether or not the given 3-vector point is inside the geometric object obj.
(point-in-periodic-object? point obj)
As point-in-object?, but also checks translations of the given object by the lattice vectors.
(display-geometric-object-info indent-by obj)
Outputs some information about the given obj, indented by indent-by spaces.
Output file names
The output file names used by Meep, e.g. for HDF5 files, are automatically prefixed by the input variable filename-prefix. If filename-prefix is "" (the default), however, then Meep constructs a default prefix based on the current ctl file name with ".ctl" replaced by "-": e.g. tst.ctl implies a prefix of "tst-". You can get this prefix by running:
(get-filename-prefix)
Return the current prefix string that is prepended, by default, to all file names.
If you don't want to use any prefix, then you should set filename-prefix to false.
In addition to the filename prefix, you can also specify that all the output files be written into a newly-created directory (if it does not yet exist). This is done by running:
(use-output-directory [dirname])
Put output in a subdirectory, which is created if necessary. If the optional argument dirname is specified, that that is the name of the directory. Otherwise, the directory name is the current ctl file name with ".ctl" replaced by "-out": e.g. tst.ctl implies a directory of "tst-out".
(volume (center ...) (size ...))
Many Meep functions require you to specify a volume in space, corresponding to the C++ type meep::geometric_volume. This function creates such a volume object, given the center and size properties (just like e.g. a block object). If the size is not specified, it defaults to (0,0,0), i.e. a single point.
(meep-time)
Return the current simulation time (in simulation time units, not wall-clock time!). (e.g. during a run function.)
Occasionally, e.g. for termination conditions of the form time < T?, it is desirable to round the time to single precision in order to avoid small differences in roundoff error from making your results different by one timestep from machine to machine (a difference much bigger than roundoff error); in this case you can call (meep-round-time) instead, which returns the time rounded to single precision.
Field computations
Meep supports a large number of functions to perform computations on the fields. Currently, most of them are accessed via the lower-level C++/SWIG interface, but we are slowly adding simpler, higher-level versions of them here.
(get-field-point c pt)
Given a component or derived-component constant c and a vector3 pt, returns the value of that component at that point.
(get-epsilon-point pt)
Equivalent to (get-field-point Dielectric pt).
(flux-in-box dir box)
Given a direction constant, and a meep::volume*, returns the flux (the integral of ) in that volume. Most commonly, you specify a volume that is a plane or a line, and a direction perpendicular to it, e.g. (flux-in-box X (volume (center 0) (size 0 1 1))).
(electric-energy-in-box box)
Given a meep::volume*, returns the integral of the electric-field energy in the given volume. (If the volume has zero size along a dimension, a lower-dimensional integral is used.)
(magnetic-energy-in-box box)
Given a meep::volume*, returns the integral of the magnetic-field energy in the given volume. (If the volume has zero size along a dimension, a lower-dimensional integral is used.)
(field-energy-in-box box)
Given a meep::volume*, returns the integral of the electric+magnetic-field energy in the given volume. (If the volume has zero size along a dimension, a lower-dimensional integral is used.)
Note that if you are at a fixed frequency and you use complex fields (Bloch-periodic boundary conditions or fields-complex?=true), then one half of the flux or energy integrals above corresponds to the time-average of the flux or energy for a simulation with real fields.
Often, you want the integration box to be the entire computational cell. A useful function to return this box, which you can then use for the box arguments above, is (meep-fields-total-volume fields), where fields is the global variable (above) holding the current meep::fields object.
One powerful feature is that you can supply an arbitrary function of position and various field components and ask Meep to integrate it over a given volume, find its maximum, or output it (via output-field-function, described later). This is done via the functions:
(integrate-field-function cs func [where] [fields-var])
Returns the integral of the complex-valued function func over the meep::geometric_volume specified by where (defaults to entire computational cell) for the meep::fields specified by fields-var (defaults to fields). func is a function of position (a vector3, its first argument) and zero or more field components specified by cs: a list of component constants. func can be real- or complex-valued.
(If any dimension of where is zero, that dimension is not integrated over. In this way you can specify one-, two-, or three-dimensional integrals.)
(max-abs-field-function cs func [where] [fields-var])
As integrate-field-function, but returns the maximum absolute value of func in the volume where instead of its integral.
(The integration is performed by summing over the grid points with a simple trapezoidal rule, and the maximum is similarly over the grid points.) See also Meep field-function examples for illustrations of how to call integrate-field-function and max-abs-field-function. See also Synchronizing the magnetic and electric fields if you want to do computations combining the electric and magnetic fields.
Occasionally, one wants to compute an integral that combines fields from two separate simulations (e.g. for nonlinear coupled-mode calculations). This functionality is supported in Meep, as long as the two simulations have the same computational cell, the same resolution, the same boundary conditions and symmetries (if any), and the same PML layers (if any).
(integrate2-field-function fields2 cs1 cs2 func [where] [fields-var])
Similar to integrate-field-function, but takes additional parameters fields2 and cs2. fields2 is a meep::fields* object similar to the global fields variable (see below) specifying the fields from another simulation. cs1 is a list of components to integrate with from fields-var (defaults to fields), as for integrate-field-function, while cs2 is a list of components to integrate from fields2. Similar to integrate-field-function, func is a function that returns an number given arguments consisting of: the position vector, followed by the values of the components specified by cs1 (in order), followed by the values of the components specified by cs2 (in order).
To get two fields in memory at once for integrate2-field-function, the easiest way is to run one simulation within a given .ctl file, then save the results in another fields variable, then run a second simulation. This would look something like:
...set up and run first simulation...
(define fields2 fields) ; save the fields in a variable
(set! fields '()) ; prevent the fields from getting deallocated by reset-meep
(reset-meep)
...set up and run second simulation...
It is also possible to timestep both fields simultaneously (e.g. doing one timestep of one simulation then one timestep of another simulation, and so on, but this requires you to call much lower-level functions like (meep-fields-step fields).
Reloading parameters
Once the fields/simulation have been initialized, you can change the values of various parameters by using the following functions:
Reset all of Meep's parameters, deleting the fields, structures, etcetera, from memory as if you had not run any computations.
(restart-fields)
Restart the fields at time zero, with zero fields. (Does not reset the Fourier transforms of the flux planes, which continue to be accumulated.)
(change-k-point! k)
Change the k-point (the Bloch periodicity).
(change-sources! new-sources)
Change the sources input variable to new-sources, and changes the sources used for the current simulation.
(More to come...)
Flux spectra
Given a bunch of flux-region objects (see above), you can tell Meep to accumulate the Fourier transforms of the fields in those regions in order to compute flux spectra. See also the transmission/reflection spectra introduction and the Meep tutorial. The most important function is:
(add-flux fcen df nfreq flux-regions...)
Add a bunch of flux-regions to the current simulation (initializing the fields if they have not yet been initialized), telling Meep to accumulate the appropriate field Fourier transforms for nfreq equally spaced frequencies covering the frequency range fcen-df/2 to fcen+df/2. Return a flux object, which you can pass to the functions below to get the flux spectrum, etcetera.
As described in the tutorial, you normally use add-flux via statements like:
(define transmission (add-flux ...))
to store the flux object in a variable. add-flux initializes the fields if necessary, just like calling run, so you should only call it after setting up your geometry, sources, pml-layers, etcetera. You can create as many flux objects as you want, e.g. to look at powers flowing in different regions or in different frequency ranges. Note, however, that Meep has to store (and update at every time step) a number of Fourier components equal to the number of grid points intersecting the flux region multiplied by the number of electric and magnetic field components required to get the Poynting vector multiplied by nfreq, so this can get quite expensive (in both memory and time) if you want a lot of frequency points over large regions of space.
Once you have called add-flux, the Fourier transforms of the fields are accumulated automatically during time-stepping by the run functions. At any time, you can ask for Meep to print out the current flux spectrum via:
(display-fluxes fluxes...)
Given a number of flux objects, this displays a comma-separated table of frequencies and flux spectra, prefixed by "flux1:" or similar (where the number is incremented after each run). All of the fluxes should be for the same fcen/df/nfreq. The first column are the frequencies, and subsequent columns are the flux spectra.
You might have to do something lower-level if you have multiple flux regions corresponding to different frequency ranges, or have other special needs. (display-fluxes f1 f2 f3) is actually equivalent to (display-csv "flux" (get-flux-freqs f1) (get-fluxes f1) (get-fluxes f2) (get-fluxes f3), where display-csv takes a bunch of lists of numbers and prints them as a comma-separated table, and we are calling two lower-level functions:
(get-flux-freqs flux)
Given a flux object, returns a list of the frequencies that it is computing the spectrum for.
(get-fluxes flux)
Given a flux object, returns a list of the current flux spectrum that it has accumulated.
As described in the Meep tutorial, for a reflection spectrum you often want to save the Fourier-transformed fields from a "normalization" run and then load them into another run to be subtracted. This can be done via:
(save-flux filename flux)
Save the Fourier-transformed fields corresponding to the given flux object in an HDF5 file of the given name (without the ".h5" suffix) (the current filename-prefix is prepended automatically).
(load-flux filename flux)
Load the Fourier-transformed fields into the given flux object (replacing any values currently there) from an HDF5 file of the given name (without the ".h5" suffix) (the current filename-prefix is prepended automatically). You must load from a file that was saved by save-flux in a simulation of the same dimensions (for both the computational cell and the flux regions) with the same number of processors.
(load-minus-flux filename flux)
As load-flux, but negates the Fourier-transformed fields after they are loaded. This means that they will be subtracted from any future field Fourier transforms that are accumulated.
(scale-flux-fields s flux)
Scale the Fourier-transformed fields in flux by the complex number s. e.g. load-minus-flux is equivalent to load-flux followed by scale-flux-fields with s=-1.
Frequency-domain solver
Meep contains a frequency-domain solver that directly computes the fields produced in a geometry in response to a constant-frequency source, using an iterative linear solver instead of timestepping. Preliminary tests have shown that in many instances, this solver converges much faster than simply running an equivalent time domain simulation with a continuous wave source, timestepping until all transient effects from the source turn-on have disappeared. To use it, simply define a continuous-src with the desired frequency, initialize the fields and geometry via (init-fields), and then:
(meep-fields-solve-cw fields tol maxiters L)
The parameters to the frequency-domaine solver are tol the tolerance (10−8, by default), a maximum number of iterations maxiters (10−4, by default). Finally, there is a parameter L that determines a tradeoff between memory and work per step and convergence rate of the iterative algorithm biCGSTAB-(L) that is used; larger values of L of will often lead to faster convergence at the expense of more memory and more work per iteration. The default is L=2, and normally a value ≥ 2 should be used.
The frequency-domain solver supports arbitrary geometries, PML, boundary conditions, symmetries, parallelism, conductors, and arbitrary nondispersive materials. Lorentz–Drude dispersive materials are not currently supported in the frequency-domain solver, but since you are solving at a known fixed frequency rather than timestepping, you should be able to pick conductivities etcetera in order to obtain any desired complex ε and μ at that frequency.
Run and step functions
The actual work in Meep is performed by run functions, which time-step the simulation for a given amount of time or until a given condition is satisfied.
The run functions, in turn, can be modified by use of step functions: these are called at every time step and can perform any arbitrary computation on the fields, do outputs and I/O, or even modify the simulation. The step functions can be transformed by many modifier functions, like at-beginning, during-sources, etcetera which cause them to only be called at certain times, etcetera, instead of at every time step.
A common point of confusion is described in the article: The run function is not a loop. Please read this article if you want to make Meep do some customized action on each time step, as many users make the same mistake. What you really want to in that case is to write a step function, as described below.
Run functions
The following run functions are available. (You can also write your own, using the lower-level C++/SWIG functions, but these should suffice for most needs.)
(run-until cond?/time step-functions...)
Run the simulation until a certain time or condition, calling the given step functions (if any) at each timestep. The first argument is either a number, in which case it is an additional time (in Meep units) to run for, or it is a function (of no arguments) which returns true when the simulation should stop.
(run-sources step-functions...)
Run the simulation until all sources have turned off, calling the given step functions (if any) at each timestep. Note that this does not mean that the fields will be zero at the end: in general, some fields will still be bouncing around that were excited by the sources.
(run-sources+ cond?/time step-functions...)
As run-sources, but with an additional first argument: either a number, in which case it is an additional time (in Meep units) to run for after the sources are off, or it is a function (of no arguments). In the latter case, the simulation runs until the sources are off and (cond?) returns true.
In particular, a useful first argument to run-sources+ or run-until is often given by (as in the Meep tutorial):
(stop-when-fields-decayed dT c pt decay-by)
Return a cond? function, suitable for passing to run-until/run-sources+, that examines the component c (e.g. Ex, etc.) at the point pt (a vector3) and keeps running until its absolute value squared has decayed by at least decay-by from its maximum previous value. In particular, it keeps incrementing the run time by dT (in Meep units) and checks the maximum value over that time period—in this way, it won't be fooled just because the field happens to go through 0 at some instant.
Note that, if you make decay-by very small, you may need to increase the cutoff property of your source(s), to decrease the amplitude of the small high-frequency components that are excited when the source turns off. (High frequencies near the Nyquist frequency of the grid have slow group velocities and are absorbed poorly by PML.)
Finally, another two run functions, useful for computing ω(k) band diagrams, are
(run-k-point T k)
Given a vector3 k, runs a simulation for each k point (i.e. specifying Bloch-periodic boundary conditions) and extracts the eigen-frequencies, and returns a list of the (complex) frequencies. In particular, you should have specified one or more Gaussian sources. It will run the simulation until the sources are turned off plus an additional T time units. It will run harminv (see below) at the same point/component as the first Gaussian source and look for modes in the union of the frequency ranges for all sources.
(run-k-points T k-points)
Given a list k-points of k vectors, runs run-k-point for each one, and returns a list of lists of frequencies (one list of frequencies for each k). Also prints out a comma-delimited list of frequencies, prefixed by freqs:, and their imaginary parts, prefixed by freqs-im:. (See e.g. this band diagram tutorial.)
Predefined step functions
Several useful step functions are predefined for you by Meep.
Output functions
The most common step function is an output function, which outputs some field component to an HDF5 file. Normally, you will want to modify this by one of the at- functions, below, as outputting a field at every time step can get quite time- and storage-consuming.
Note that although the various field components are stored at different places in the Yee lattice, when they are outputted they are all linearly interpolated to the same grid: to the points at the centers of the Yee cells, i.e. in 3d.
The predefined output functions are:
output-epsilon
Output the dielectric function (relative permittivity) ε. Note that this only outputs the frequency-independent part of ε (the limit).
output-mu
Output the relative permeability function μ. Note that this only outputs the frequency-independent part of μ (the limit).
output-hpwr
Output the magnetic-field energy density
output-dpwr
Output the electric-field energy density
output-tot-pwr
Output the total electric and magnetic energy density. Note that you might want to wrap this step function in synchronized-magnetic to compute it more accurately; see Synchronizing the magnetic and electric fields.
output-Xfield-x, output-Xfield-y, output-Xfield-z, output-Xfield-r, output-Xfield-p
Output the x, y, z, r, or φ component respectively, of the field X, where X is either h, b, e, d, or s for the magnetic, electric, displacement, or Poynting field, respectively. If the field is complex, outputs two datasets, e.g. ex.r and ex.i, within the same HDF5 file for the real and imaginary parts, respectively. Note that for outputting the Poynting field, you might want to wrap the step function in synchronized-magnetic to compute it more accurately; see Synchronizing the magnetic and electric fields.
output-Xfield
Outputs all the components of the field X, where X is either h, b, e, d, or s as above, to an HDF5 file. (That is, the different components are stored as different datasets within the same file.)
(output-png component h5topng-options)
Output the given field component (e.g. Ex, etc.) as a PNG image, by first outputting the HDF5 file, then converting to PNG via h5topng, then deleting the HDF5 file. The second argument is a string giving options to pass to h5topng (e.g. "-Zc bluered"). See also the Meep tutorial.
It is often useful to use the h5topng -C or -A options to overlay the dielectric function when outputting fields. To do this, you need to know the name of the dielectric-function .h5 file (which must have been previously output by output-epsilon). To make this easier, a built-in shell variable $EPS is provided which refers to the last-output dielectric-function .h5 file. So, for example (output-png Ez "-C $EPS") will output the Ez field and overlay the dielectric contours.
(output-png+h5 component h5topng-options)
Like output-png, but also outputs the .h5 file for the component. (In contrast, output-png deletes the .h5 when it is done.)
More generally, it is possible to output an arbitrary function of position and zero or more field components, similar to the integrate-field-function described above. This is done by:
(output-field-function name cs func)
Output the field function func to an HDF5 file in the datasets named name.r and name.i (for the real and imaginary parts). Similar to integrate-field-function, func is a function of position (a vector3) and the field components corresponding to cs: a list of component constants.
(output-real-field-function name cs func)
As output-field-function, but only outputs the real part of func to the dataset given by the string name.
See also Meep field-function examples. See also Synchronizing the magnetic and electric fields if you want to do computations combining the electric and magnetic fields.
Harminv
The following step function collects field data from a given point and runs Harminv on that data to extract the frequencies, decay rates, and other information.
(harminv c pt fcen df [maxbands])
Returns a step function that collects data from the field component c (e.g. Ex, etc.) at the given point pt (a vector3). Then, at the end of the run, it uses Harminv to look for modes in the given frequency range (center fcen and width df), printing the results to standard output (prefixed by harminv:) as comma-delimited text, and also storing them to the variable harminv-results. The optional argument maxbands is the maximum number of modes to search for; defaults to 100.
Important: normally, you should only use harminv to analyze data after the sources are off. Wrapping it in (after-sources (harminv ...)) is sufficient.
In particular, Harminv takes the time series f(t) corresponding to the given field component as a function of time and decomposes it (within the specified bandwidth) as:
The results are stored in the list harminv-results, which is a list of tuples holding the frequency, amplitude, and error of the modes. Given one of these tuples, you can extract its various components with one of the accessor functions:
(harminv-freq result)
Return the complex frequency ω (in the usual Meep 2πc units).
(harminv-freq-re result)
Return the real part of the frequency ω.
(harminv-freq-im result)
Return the imaginary part of the frequency ω.
(harminv-Q result)
Return dimensionless lifetime, or "quality factor", Q, defined as .
(harminv-amp result)
Return the complex amplitude a.
(harminv-err result)
A crude measure of the error in the frequency (both real and imaginary)...if the error is much larger than the imaginary part, for example, then you can't trust the Q to be accurate. Note: this error is only the uncertainty in the signal processing, and tells you nothing about the errors from finite resolution, finite cell size, and so on!
For example, (map harminv-freq-re harminv-results) gives you a list of the real parts of the frequencies, using the Scheme built-in map.
Step-function modifiers
Rather than writing a brand-new step function every time we want to do something a bit different, the following "modifier" functions take a bunch of step functions and produce new step functions with modified behavior. (See also the Meep tutorial for examples.)
Miscellaneous step-function modifiers
(combine-step-funcs step-functions...)
Given zero or more step functions, return a new step function that (on each step) calls all of the passed step functions.
(synchronized-magnetic step-functions...)
Given zero or more step functions, return a new step function that (on each step) calls all of the passed step functions with the magnetic field synchronized in time with the electric field. See Synchronizing the magnetic and electric fields.
Controlling when a step function executes
(when-true cond? step-functions...)
Given zero or more step functions and a condition function cond? ( a function of no arguments), evaluate the step functions whenever (cond?) returns true.
(when-false cond? step-functions...)
Given zero or more step functions and a condition function cond? ( a function of no arguments), evaluate the step functions whenever (cond?) returns false.
(at-every dT step-functions...)
Given zero or more step functions, evaluates them at every time interval of dT units (rounded up to the next time step).
(after-time T step-functions...)
Given zero or more step functions, evaluates them only for times after a T time units have elapsed from the start of the run.
(before-time T step-functions...)
Given zero or more step functions, evaluates them only for times before a T time units have elapsed from the start of the run.
(at-time T step-functions...)
Given zero or more step functions, evaluates them only once, after a T time units have elapsed from the start of the run.
(after-sources step-functions...)
Given zero or more step functions, evaluates them only for times after all of the sources have turned off.
(after-sources+ T step-functions...)
Given zero or more step functions, evaluates them only for times after all of the sources have turned off, plus an additional T time units have elapsed.
(during-sources step-functions...)
Given zero or more step functions, evaluates them only for times before all of the sources have turned off.
(at-beginning step-functions...)
Given zero or more step functions, evaluates them only once, at the beginning of the run.
(at-end step-functions...)
Given zero or more step functions, evaluates them only once, at the end of the run.
Modifying HDF5 output
(in-volume v step-functions...)
Given zero or more step functions, modifies any output functions among them to only output a subset (or a superset) of the computational cell, corresponding to the meep::geometric_volume* v (created by the volume function).
(in-point pt step-functions...)
Given zero or more step functions, modifies any output functions among them to only output a single point of data, at pt (a vector3).
(to-appended filename step-functions...)
Given zero or more step functions, modifies any output functions among them to append their data to datasets in a single newly-created file named filename (plus an .h5 suffix and the current filename prefix). They append by adding an extra dimension to their datasets, corresponding to time.
(with-prefix prefix step-functions...)
Given zero or more step functions, modifies any output functions among them to prepend the string prefix to the file names (much like filename-prefix, above).
Writing your own step functions
A step function can take two forms. The simplest is just a function of no arguments, which is called at every time step (unless modified by one of the modifier functions above). e.g.
(define (my-step) (print "Hello world!\n"))
If one then does (run-until 100 my-step), Meep will run for 100 time units and print "Hello world!" at every time step.
This suffices for most purposes. However, sometimes you need a step function that opens a file, or accumulates some computation, and you need to clean up (e.g. close the file or print the results) at the end of the run. For this case, you can write a step function of one argument: that argument will either be 'step when it is called during time-stepping, or 'finish when it is called at the end of the run.
Low-level functions
By default, Meep reads input functions like sources and geometry and creates global variables structure and fields to store the corresponding C++ objects. Given these, you can then call essentially any function in the C++ interface, because all of the C++ functions are automatically made accessible to Scheme by a wrapper-generator program called SWIG
Initializing the structure and fields
The structure and fields variables are automatically initialized when any of the run functions is called, or by various other functions such as add-flux. To initialize them separately, you can call (init-fields) manually, or (init-structure k-point) to just initialize the structure.
If you want to time step more than one field simultaneously, the easiest way is probably to do something like:
(init-fields)
(define my-fields fields)
(set! fields '())
and then change the geometry etc. and re-run (init-fields). Then you'll have two field objects in memory.
SWIG wrappers
If you look at a function in the C++ interface, then there are a few simple rules to infer the name of the corresponding Scheme function.
First, all Meep functions (in the meep:: namespace) are prefixed with meep- in the Scheme interface.
Second, any method of a class is prefixed with the name of the class and a hyphen. For example, meep::fields::step, which is the function that performs a time-step, is exposed to Scheme as meep-fields-step. Moreover, you pass the object as the first argument in the Scheme wrapper. e.g. f.step() becomes (meep-fields-step f).
To call the C++ constructor for a type, you use new-type. e.g. (new-meep-fields ...arguments...) returns a new meep::fields object. Conversely, to call the destructor and deallocate an object, you use delete-type; most of the time, this is not necessary because objects are automatically garbage-collected.
Some argument type conversion is performed automatically, e.g. types like complex numbers are converted to complex<double>, etcetera. vector3 vectors are converted to meep::vec, but to do this we need to know the dimensionality of the problem in C++. The problem dimensions are automatically initialized by init-structure, but if you want to pass vector arguments to C++ before that time you should call (require-dimensions!), which infers the dimensions from the geometry-lattice, k-point, and dimensions variables.
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Re: The 13th Tribe Book II: A Symphony of War
Post by Eternal_Freedom » 2019-07-06 12:00pm
Since I know a lot of you enjoy keeping score, I've tallied up exactly what was lost on both sides...and this was definitely a bloody engagement!
Covenant losses:
They opened the battle with seven supercarriers, 35 assault carriers, 68 light carriers, 200 battlecruisers, 200 destroyers and 300 frigates. 810 ships, plus 550 corvettes.
They lost: two supercarriers (Purifying Flame and Incorruptible, twenty-four light carriers and ten assault carrier groups, totaling 10 assault carriers, 50 battlecruisers, 50 destroyers and 80 frigates. They also lost all their 550 corvettes, 95% of their fighters (those ODP canister rounds are a real bitch aint they) and their ground forces took ~60% losses.
That's 216 ships (or ~26% losses) with disproportionate losses in corvettes and fighters. Oh, and the Sanghelli have now lost (in the span of a couple days) lost five Supreme Commanders.
UNSC/Alliance Losses:
The UNSC began with 248 vessels and 20 ODP's of various classes. They lost the heavy cruiser Rememeber the Alamo, the light carrier Langley, fifteen destroyers and thirty-four frigates. They also took severe damage to the light carrier Hiryu, moderate damage to the heavy carriers Dawn Under Heaven and Hugh Dowding and the heavy cruiser Leviathan. Light damage was suffered by all remaining ships in Battle Groups Keyes and Zulu.
That's 51 ships dead, another carrier crippled and three more capital ships out of action for a while. Harper's First Strike Fleet is their only formation that is able to carry out offensive actions at this point.
So with 55 ships dead or out of action, the UNSC have taken 22% losses. They've also taken 30% losses (killed or wounded) for their ground forces and 20% losses in fighters.
The Alliance force jumped in with 95 ships - they've lost one Battlestar (sniff...goodbye Pegasus), two cruisers (Cassandra Cameron and Stephen Falken) and two destroyers (Adroa and Ikenga). Nemesis has taken severe damage and will be out of action for while while the Asgard Forgeship makes repairs. Light/moderate damage was suffered was also suffered by Galactica and Temeraire. They lost 10% of their Vipers/Cobras/Raptors/Scythes and 20% of their Marines (killed/wounded).
The Combined Fleet has effectively lost en entire Battle Group and one of the two Warstars. Ouchies.
So in terms of proportion it's about even but absolute numbers favour the UNSC/Alliance forces - they held the planet after all. Still, a very bloody engagement!
Baltar: "I don't want to miss a moment of the last Battlestar's destruction!"
Centurion: "Sir, I really think you should look at the other Battlestar."
Baltar: "What are you babbling about other...it's impossible!"
Centurion: "No. It is a Battlestar."
Corrax Entry 7:17: So you walk eternally through the shadow realms, standing against evil where all others falter. May your thirst for retribution never quench, may the blood on your sword never dry, and may we never need you again.
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Post by fnord » 2019-07-06 10:35pm
That's a proper shoeing all round.
How much will the loss of five Supreme Commanders weigh on the Sanghelli's chances in the upcoming Covvie civil war?
That's a first - a Warstar being badly damaged enough to require non-trivial yard time. Will there be the time to retrofit any new gubbins into Nemesis?
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Natzo
Post by Natzo » 2019-07-07 04:25am
It's nice that the Warstars are not invincible. They are already ridiculously powerful and have tanked a lot. If the UNSC play a role in the final book, it would be interesting to see how their fleets improve with this tech in conjunction with their canon upgrades. I think they have the most advanced ground forces, since both the Kobollians and Tau'ri fight mainly in space and don't use power armors or personal shields. With their combined tech, making personal shields for regular forces should be easier. The Infinity would be more of a beast than the Warstar I think. Can't say how its canon power is when compared to the warstar, but it could ram ships and keep its shield and have strong Super MACs. With further upgrades from BSG/SG tech who knows what it would do.
It would also be nice for the Tau'ri to have some more POVs or defining the roles. At this point, even the Colonials are taking a back seat to the Terrans in terms of characterization.
Post by Eternal_Freedom » 2019-07-07 06:08am
Fnord: Losing five Supreme Commanders would normally be a "meh" for the Sanghelli as it represents only about 1/4 their total...but they also lost five supercarriers as well, and they're the Sanghelli ace in the hole, the Jiralhanaedon't have anything that big.
As for refitting Nemesis, probably no new gubbins, the Forgeship can only do so much. It'll get her back into fighting trim but that's about it.
Natzo: Yeah, I decided it was time to take the Warstars down a peg or two. The UNSC will play a role in Book III and their fleets will continue to develop. As for how Infinity would square up against a Warstar...I honestly don't know, but even if she did mount the actual S-MACs like the orbital guns, rather than just uprated versions of the standard shipboard MAC, they'd still be a ways behind the Warstar-grade superlasers.
I also don't think technology plays a part in the UNSC having superior ground forces. THe Terran MArines do have shield generators for their ground vehicles and CAS craft, and their troops wear a form of light power armour. Where the UNSC really shine compared to the Terran or Tau'ri ground forces is numbers (they had something like twenty divisions worth allocated on short notice to defend the generators, the Terrans have a total of just four divisions, one on each Warstar and the other two split up among the Battlestars) and combat experience, both against the Covenant and in general. They've been a more-or-less unified ground force for several centuries now without any major changes in ground combat technology - the Terrans and the Tau'ri don't have a century of that combined.
And yeah I'm aware that the Terrans are rather stealing the show this book (Act One was almost entirely Terran, minus a few cameos and a Tau'ri presence). But the Colonials are still heavily involved - Jellicoe is in command after all, and he's essentially turning into the main/primary POV character for this whole story. The rest of the Colonial Fleet is here and fighting as well. I'm trying to keep things balanced but I've got a lot of characters from four different sources (five if you count the crew over at Atlantis)so it's a juggling act at times.
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Post by DKeith2011 » 2019-07-13 08:04pm
It occurs to me that, with the combined tech on hand, Iron Man level power armor isn't out of the question.
Out of the question? No. Likely to appear? Probably not. Just because something might be possible doesn't mean it's practical. The Terrans have some nifty kit but I'm not taking them to that level - I'm struggling to stop them being OP as it is, having entire divisions of Iron Man armour would be difficult. Plus it'd basically be an entire division of Spartan-II's minus the biological/cybernetic upgrades, and that definitely would be OP.
Any update on the 3D models for HMS Dreadnought by the way?
InsaneTD
Post by InsaneTD » 2019-07-13 09:04pm
DKeith2011 wrote: ↑
Mjolnir armour requires the genetic engineering just to survive wearing it.
Scary thought, if a Gou'ald took a Spartan as a host and still had the armour. Or Spartans that have been Jaffa-ised.
Post by DKeith2011 » 2019-07-14 01:40am
Eternal_Freedom wrote: ↑
Unfortunately the modeler has been hit with a barrage of life issues including divorce and unemployment, he works on it when he can but time is limited.
I'm looking into other options currently, including Sean Tourangeau, designer of the Luna Class for Star Trek. This would just be a multi-view instead of a 3d model.
The problem is that job would probably run about $100 at least. That makes it a bit out of my solo price range. If anyone is willing to kick in on a group effort, it might be more practical.
That's a pity. Having the artwork/models would have been a nice bonus but not really essential. Please pass on my thanks to your friend, and my sympathies.
May have progress on art of the HMS Dreadnought, stay tuned.
That's a delightful update, thanks. I am also working on the beginning of Act Five as well, no need to worry that this has died.
Act Five: Schism
Harsh Realities
Covenant Supercarrier Long Night of Solace, retreating from Reach
Imperial Admiral Wattinree did not know what to do next. His entire worldview, as well as that of every single Sanghelli in the massed Covenant armada had been irrevocably changed. The Prophets had lied to them, had done so for tens of cycles now, pushing them into a genocidal war against an innocent race, a race that could have been a strong asset to the Covenant if they had been given the chance to join as all the other races had been.
Worse still, the Prophets had lied to them about their very faith in the Forerunners. Twenty-seven cycles of warfare, all of it against the wishes of their Gods. Not only had the Gods turned against them and given the humans a fully-operational Dreadnought in recent weeks, they had never been on the Covenant’s side in the first place.
It was a staggering blow, one that would under most circumstances have been irrecoverable as doubt and indecision tore the scattered Fleets asunder. But these circumstances were unique – for the first time in more than a thousand cycles the massed ranks of the Covenant Navy were grouped in just four locations – his retreating force, the six Fleets occupying the two known Halo Rings, and the Defence Fleet guarding High Charity.
It gave the disheartened Sanghelli leader options he might not have had otherwise. Options, stratagems and contingency plans whirled in his mind for nearly a full hour before he realised that this was simply not a decision he could make on his own. With these revelations, the Covenant itself was on the precipice of a schism that would consume it utterly. He might have the right, indeed the duty, to decide things for the Sanghelli under his command, and the species as a whole, but he could not do so for the Unggoy, the Kig-Yar or the Lekgolo. Trying to convince the Jiralhane or the Yan’me to side with him against the thrice-damned Hierarchs would be a wasted effort and could cost them the element of surprise.
He moved away from the virtually silent command chamber and into the nearby meeting room, calling for a conference call with his Supreme Commanders, not only the four survivors from his armada but the remaining seven whose Fleets were at the Rings or defending the capital.
It took some time to arrange, even the Forerunner-derived communications systems were being stretched to their limits connecting twelve senior officers, on twelve different ships in four different locations in real-time. The holograms flashed into life one by one, and immediately the Imperial Admiral could see that, apart from Supreme Commander Narvik Arakee from the Defence Fleet, every one of his immediate subordinates felt the impact of these revelations as severely as the Imperial Admiral did.
“My fellows, my force is withdrawing from Reach and human space. Under the Martial Code, we have agreed a truce with the human’s Admiral Cole. You and your ships are to take no offensive actions against them.” There it was, baldly stated and in the open, even if it was surprising news for most of those hearing it.
Narvik Arakee was the first to voice his surprise – he had heard none of these revelations and was completely in the dark, a fitting situation given that his flagship was the Shroud of Deepest Night.
”Imperial Admiral, what has happened to cause such a truce? And if I may be so bold, where are the five other Supreme Commanders who were part of your armada?”
The Imperial Admiral answered him in a calm, level tone that he truly did not feel. “Dead, at human hands, but it was the Prophets who caused it. They have betrayed us in the worst way imaginable – we are not the Reclaimers, the humans are. The Hierarchs knew this and launched this war to destroy their rivals while they worked on their cursed Great Journey. Not one but two Oracles have confirmed this – one commanding the Dreadnought aiding the humans and the other controlling the Ring that Supreme Commander Ursunee was sent to garrison.”
Arakee may have been kept in the dark but he was as sharp as any other Sanghelli present. ”Then the schism we feared is at hand, us and our fellows against the Hierarchs.”
Admiral Wattinree nodded. ”Exactly so. We need a plan, and we need it fast. Nial Declanee, I agreed with your points before about needing to be seen as the victim, to not start this civil war. I think you would agree that the situation has changed.”
Declanee’s hologram bowed his head. ”Things are far too different now to play politics. We have to act as fast and as effectively as possible. My only source of hesitation is High Charity itself – it is far enough from human space, and the two Rings, that it will take nearly three days for us to get there at best speed – and it is our only remaining source of replacement ships until we can construct shipyards of our own, a process that will take many cycles. It would be far better to capture it if we can.”
Thel Vadamee shook his head. ”While we began cycling ground forces back to the capital, most of the damnable Jiralhanae are there and they have an advantage over us and the other races, except the Lekgolo, in the close-quarters battles we would be fighting. Our forces will be outmatched and on the defensive until we can arrive. And I should stress that thanks to the Hierarch’s insistence on secrecy and keeping them outside our chain of command, we simply do not know where, or even how large, the Jiralhanae fleet actually is.”
Arakee answered that last point. ”I cannot give firm numbers or a location, but at an estimate they have something approaching three hundred vessels – but those are all battlecruiser-sized, and much more heavily armed than our own CCS class ships; they are pure ship-to-ship platforms and waste no space on hanger bays or ground forces.”
Nerak Mastanee spoke up next. ”Surely they have nothing to match our supercarriers?”
This time Silas Sorsanee answered. ”To the best of our knowledge, they have no such vessels – but we thought the humans had no such vessels either and now five of our fellows are dead in a day. We cannot make any assumptions that we can overwhelm the Jiralhanae with superior ships.”
Wattinree re-entered the conversation at this point. “Silas makes a good point. Assumptions here will get a lot of our people killed, and losses are something we simply cannot afford. I have decided on a course of action. Once this armada reaches the Ring that Supreme Commander Urunsee is near, we will incorporate his forces into this one, and then move on to the second Ring. Once we have consolidated as many of our forces as possible we will head to High Charity and demand that Truth and Mercy surrender, presenting the recordings we have of the Oracles confirming they have lied. I have a reliable Zealot commanding the capital’s guns, he will lower the defences and allow us to storm the capital with overwhelming numbers, kill Truth, Mercy and every other Prophet we find, while the Armada makes ready to defend us from the Jiralhanae fleet if they decide to engage us.”
Thel Vadamee growled in agreement. ”A bold plan, and a bloody one, but truly I see no other options. We must act now and seize the initiative.”
Arakee nodded as well. ”Agreed. I will quietly bring the Defence Fleet to full combat readiness and begin making plans with the Zealot you spoke of.”
One by one the other Supreme Commanders nodded or stated their agreement. The Great Schism had begun.
The lightning-handed figure allowed himself a trace of a smirk as the board shifted to show the outcome of his gambit. The statue representing the Covenant had split in two, one half remained on the side of the hooded opponent while the second stood equidistant from the other statues, signifying it was separate from both the Prophets and the human factions. The smirk faded imperceptibly as he considered the other, smaller statue behind the Prophets, a factor not yet brought into play but one that could cause all manner of difficulties. They had passed the fulcrum and the contest was swinging inexorably in favour of the lightning-handed player – but that did not mean that his opponent would not make him suffer.
This round was his, but the next might not be – and he may have a lot fewer pieces by the time this round actually ended.
Warstar Jupiter, Reach Orbit
In Fleet Ops, Admiral Jellicoe was leaning against the main plot table and wishing, not for the first time, that the senior commanders could have actual chairs while on duty. It would make dealing with the post-combat exhaustion a great deal easier, especially since he had to remain at his post as the senior most Alliance officer present in this universe.
Even though it had been more than three hours since the abrupt and astonishingly non-violent end to the battle and the Covenant armada leaving the system most of the assembled fleet remained on combat alert. The assorted air wings had been recovered and damage-control parties were doing what they could to shore up the more damaged ships until they could be moved into the orbiting dockyards for proper repairs, but the operational ships and the orbital gun platforms remained primed for further assaults.
The search for possible survivors in the remains of the destroyed vessels was still proceeding, though the odds of finding anyone alive were shrinking rapidly. Most of the destroyed vessels had died very violent deaths that left little chance for the crews. Some might have been saved by being in isolated compartments away from the main destruction but they would have had very limited air supplies – supplies that the various AI’s had grimly calculated would be quickly exhausted.
The Alliance forces held out little hope that any of their brethren from the lost ships could be saved. The Pegasus, Adroa and Ikenga had been evacuated before they were destroyed, so everyone who was going to survive from those ships was already safe. The cruisers Cassandra Cameron and Stephen Falken would both be recorded as lost with all hands – the damage had been too sudden, too all-consuming, to beam anybody off the ships before the end.
Jellicoe in particular was deeply furious about the loss of Pegasus. Not only was it the loss of another Battlestar under his command, but it was one of just three surviving Colonial Fleet units. Another irreplaceable link to their lost homes had vanished in the eye-searing flares of nuclear detonations – though these had been self-inflicted as part of a desperate and (in Jellicoe’s thoughts at least) gloriously defiant act to eliminate a colossal enemy warship. No doubt the Admiralty would prevail upon the Senate and the Quorum to fund a replacement for her, most likely with a second Phoenix class heavy Battlestar, but the painful point remained that the Colonial Fleet would inevitably fade away into memory despite their best efforts.
The heavy damage to the Nemesis was less concerning in a way. It was severe, but with the efforts of the Asgard Forge-ship she could be repaired and brought back to nearly full effectiveness. It was a sobering reminder that as powerful as the two Warstars were, there were definitely bigger kids on the block.
Jellicoe sighed again as Commodore Mace stepped up with a grim expression and a fresh report.
“Admiral, we’ve finally had confirmation on the enemy course and expected destination. They’re heading straight for Installation 04, presumably to link up with the major fleet element already present.”
John scowled. “What’s the estimate on that fleet’s strength?”
Mace consulted his datapad briefly. “Composition appears to be similar to what we faced just with smaller numbers. Three supercarriers, two dozen assault carriers and about four hundred lighter ships of various types. A nearly identically-sized force is around Installation 05.”
“Concentrating his forces for their imminent civil war. Makes sense I suppose.” John mused. “Ok. Harrison? get me a conference call set up with Cole, Hood, Harper and Whitcomb” he called in a slightly louder tone to attract the attention of the younger officer.
“Aye sir.”
Mace waited until the Commander was out of earshot before asking in a low tone. “What’s the next step John?” Despite the disparity in rank and position, the two were friends and had been since the Pegasus Campaign years before.
Jellicoe grimaced. “Right now I haven’t the foggiest Alan. Nemesis has only been able to recover half her Air Wing and we still have Pegasus’ fighters aloft as well. We’ve got to find a temporary home for nearly six hundred extra Vipers and Cobras, not to mention the eighty Scythes and Scimitars buzzing around. None of our ships can handle a heavy deck like that and even spread out we’re still looking at bunking four or so extra squadrons per Battlestar. Call up the two Yardships, Safe Harbour has some sizeable hangers since she was intended to act as a fighter ferry in dire conditions – we’ll split up the surviving Pegasus fighters to replace losses elsewhere and the rest will have to be based on the Yardship for the foreseeable future.”
Alan nodded. “I think that’s the best we can do. Putting the excess Vipers on the Yardship is probably a good idea anyway, she doesn’t exactly have much in the way of defences.”
John snorted derisively. “What else did you expect from a flying drydock Alan?” The Chief of Staff didn’t get a chance to react to that as the display beeped, showing that HMS Dreadnought and her escorting 304’s had returned to orbit – they had stayed in-atmosphere after the battle to provide assistance to the Marines with their Asgard sensors and beaming systems.
The huge British warship had done extremely well and had weathered the battle with only very minor damage; her shields had been on the point of collapse when the parley and truce were called, and whilst a single plasma torpedo had penetrated the defences it had been ablated enough that the armour held with no damage at all.
Mace shook his head. “I still can’t believe the balls those Brits have. Flying a Battlestar-size ship deep into atmosphere for close-range fire support? Remind me never to play cards with them.”
John actually managed a laugh at that. “Baird is their best officer and commands that ship for a reason. You’re right though, don’t ever play cards with him – especially if he offers to teach you Poker.”
The moment of levity passed when Commander Harrison announced the conference call with the UNSC commanders was ready. Four holograms appeared, collectively representing the very upper echelon of human forces in this universe. Jellicoe nodded at them before speaking.
“I’m assuming you’ve seen the report about just where this Armada is going?”
Hood answered for the others. ”Indeed we have. I think it’s imperative we go there and see for ourselves just what is going on – and check on the other Halo the Covenant were approaching since we never managed to check that one. We need a strong force but we’re going to have to start dispersing some of the Fleet back to nearby worlds anyway. What have we got that’s at full strength?”
Cole spoke first. ”Realistically we can’t spare much, and I have to go. It’s me that the various Monitors ultimately answer to and I’m also the one that agreed this truce – if the Covenant forces there haven’t got the message yet I can challenge them appropriately. So, me and the Keyship will go. John, can you spare the Jupiter and the Dreadnought? Those are our heaviest hitters that are at full strength and don’t need to head elsewhere.”
Jellicoe nodded. “Yeah, both Baird and I can be spared for the moment. I’ve called up the two Yardships, they should arrive momentarily to help with repairs – though I’m putting an absolute priority on getting Nemesis repaired, at least enough to get her complete Air Wing back aboard.”
Harper gave a grim half-smile of agreement. ”Makes sense, I’d want your superlaser-armed ships back at full strength ASAP as well. I could spare you the Shiroyama and Thermopylae as well if you need the extra firepower.”
Jellicoe shook his head. “I appreciate the offer Richard but you may need them here while we’re gone. I definitely want to meet the Thermopylae’s Captain for a drink though, the Combined Fleet owes them a debt for buying time to evacuate the Pegasus.”
Harper smiled, this time fully. ”I can arrange that. Sean Welch is one of my best officers, if he lives long enough I wouldn’t be surprised if he winds up taking my job someday.”
Jellicoe smiled back. “I look forward to that. We need to get moving though. Preston? Can Dying Light manage a slipspace portal for the four ships? I think that’d be better than using a mix of FTL’s, hyperdrives and slipspace engines.”
Cole nodded. ”Shouldn’t be a problem. What’re our Rules of Engagement?”
Hood replied to that question as the overall commander. ”The same as you agreed for the truce. Defensive actions only, keep your shields raised and guns hot. If they open fire, assume they’ve broken the truce and kill anything that tries to stop you from getting back here. Take the remaining NOVA bombs with you – if the Covenant are occupying Installation 05, or if you get a shot at High Charity, use them and blow the fuckers to hell.”
Both Cole and Jellicoe grinned fiercely at that. “Aye aye Sir, that’d be a real pleasure. Preston, let’s get moving” said John. The other Admiral nodded in approval and his hologram disappeared. John turned to Commander Harrison once again.
“Have CIC move us into close formation with the Keyship and pass those same orders on to HMS Dreadnought. Signal Sharpshooter and have him assume command until we get back, and tell the 304’s to take up escort positions around Nemesis until the Yardships get here.”
Harrison nodded in acknowledgement and left to pass on the orders. Jellicoe looked over at Mace and smiled grimly.
“Once more unto the breach then my friend. It’s time we found out just what is going on with the Halo Rings.”
So we're back in business. I'm afraid this chapter was a lot of talking and reactions, but events are diverging massively from canon by this point. Reach has been held, the Covenant Civil War is about to begin - but the good Imperial Admiral will not find things going as he thinks.
We also get a brief glimpse at our higher-dimensional chessboard. Iblis is still scheming and as the board shows, the Sanghelli and their fellows may now be opposed to the Prophets but that doesn't mean they're on the same side as the UNSC/Alliance - the UNSC will still take the chance to obliterate High Charity if they can.
Oh and we get a name-drop for Captain Sean Welch as well, because it felt appropriate.
Talky bits are good when needed.
I'm still hoping that Destiny can be worked into the story somehow, if only to get a wrap on that story. Maybe the mystery the ship was intended to investigate had something to do with the higher-dimensionals?
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Post by swelch51 » 2019-08-21 12:39am
The quiet interludes can be some of the best passages. Perfect way to kick off the Covenant Civil War too! The Thermopylae is always ready for continued service.
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Post by B5B7 » 2019-08-21 05:23am
I always check when this thread is updated, but some may think that simply one or two new comments have been made and might not check to find the surprise. It is good that the Sangelhi are now taking on the false prophets.
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Mwahaha. I know it's been a while, but RL decided to throw things at me with a blunderbuss for a few weeks. Eep.
As for the Destiny, interesting idea on the "message" they were going to find being part of the Jupiter/Iblis contest. May not work it in this book but it's definitely something I can factor in to Book III. I figure that it will be similar in structure to Book II, a first act wrapping up a few things left open from this book and generally establishing how the setting has moved onwards before opening up the main threat.
Swelch51, yeah the Thermopylae, Leonidas and crew are ready to go, but Harper needs all the ships he can get given the losses they took.
EDIT: As for the Sanghelli taking on the Prophets, I haven't really given them a choice. They have absolute proof that the Gods aren't on their side, the Prophets have been lying for decades, and the humans shouldn't be their enemy. Given that some of the senior leadership were skeptical before they called the truce this shouldn't be surprising. But like I said, it's a truce, not an alliance or a formal peace.
Post by Sky Captain » 2019-08-26 04:42pm
For some reason I have the feeling that soon the Flood will get released
Your feeling is absolutely correct. I had decided not to have them emerge, but then realised I needed something else for the heroes to fight in Act 5/6 before the climactic battle in Act 7.
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Post by fnord » 2019-09-05 03:29am
So the nuking from orbit will resume until the Flood improves?
Come to think of it, how about working in the "... nuke it from orbit - only way to be sure" line somehow - maybe Benton turns up again as a Colour Sergeant?
I'm pretty sure I already had the "only way to be sure" line at the end of Book I.
Well, much later than planned ladies and gentlemen but we are aback, this story is definitely not dead!
In reality, I got so tied up thinking out things and ship designs and plot threads for Book Three that I forgot I actually need to finish Book Two first. Oops. I even know how that book will end....but I ain't saying a word more. Mainly because it might change by then!
Anyways:
Installation-04, orbiting Threshold, Soell System,
Nine Hours Later
The Covenant armada had spent tense hours waiting for the Imperial Admiral and his larger force to arrive from Reach. The entire force was on a hair-trigger, not just because of the very real threat of hostile forces in the nascent civil war appearing at any moment but also because the Holy Ring had fired upon them when they attempted to land troops on the surface. The cloud of fist-sized fragments that were all that remained of the three battlecruisers was a silent, but very effective testament to the power of the Ring. Three capital ships utterly obliterated – as a warning shot.
The Oracle, which identified itself as 343 Guilty Spark, had been unfailingly polite but unflinchingly resolute in refusing to allow the Covenant to land. The one good thing that Supreme Commander Ursunee could find in the situation was that that Conservation, the Prophet who had accompanied the Fleet to oversee the efforts and provide “advice” to Ursunee had perished as well, foolishly deciding to ignore the Oracle’s orders and lead from the front. Conservation had been one of Restrictions’ subordinates in the Reclamation Group and had been as spectacularly arrogant as any Prophet the Sanghelli commander had ever encountered. He would not be mourned, even if it wasn’t for the apparent gross betrayal of the Prophets as a whole.
Ursunee was also troubled with the truce that had been called with the human forces. He understood perfectly the reasons why his superior had made the offer but in his heart he raged at the situation – the humans, and Preston Cole and these new “Alliance” forces had killed far too many of his fellows, including two of his siblings and three of his offspring for him to ever accept them as anything other than enemies. Military pragmatism prevailed, but only barely.
Something that would have made him even more uncomfortable about his present situation was the fact that Preston Cole and John Jellicoe were at present less than a quarter-million kilometres away from his fleet, silently and patiently observing both the Covenant fleet and the Ring they had been sent to occupy. The small Alliance task force, comprised of just the Shield of Eternity, Everest, Jupiter and Dreadnought were hiding under the Keyship’s stealth field in a far orbit of Threshold. Cole and Dying Light were monitoring every move the Covenant made, and the rapid approach of the Reach assault force via a datalink from Guilty Spark.
Jellicoe on the other hand was reviewing all the available data from the recent battle, trying to fathom out the best strategies to use in future. Commodore Mace had tried to point out that they weren’t supposed to be fighting the Sanghelli after the truce, but Jellicoe had darkly responded that he wasn’t convinced the Sanghelli would honour the truce for long and that whichever side won their civil war, the UNSC and the Alliance would in all probability have to fight them again.
To that end, the UNSC had gone into overdrive. With a temporary ceasefire in place and Earth’s defence grid now fully operational, the Home Fleet had left the solar system along with the two Alliance yardships, heading straight for Reach. Absolute priority had been given to completing the initial wave of upgrades as fast as possible, with even new shipbuilding being temporarily suspended. The human forces didn’t need brand-new upgraded ships in a month’s time, they needed them now. This also served a double purpose – the first of the upgraded factories on Reach would soon be able to manufacture the new shields and ion cannon designs, allowing them to complete the currently-unfinished ships in drydock with the upgrades rather than having to tack them on afterwards in the cavernous hull of the Nidavellir.
Despite the heavy losses the UNSC had taken over Reach, they would soon be even stronger as new ships would start launching in a month, with dozens of improved frigates and destroyers nearly finished. They would be the vanguard of the UNSC forces as they planned to launch a counteroffensive to end the war. The new Alliance class heavy frigates and Vengeance class destroyers would decisively outmatch their Paris and Halberd class predecessors, even if they were built on the same spaceframes. The standard MAC’s would be replaced by Terran-designed hypervelocity guns, albeit in fixed mounts. These lacked the burst-fire ability of the earlier upgraded ships, but with each shot being equivalent to nearly two hundred conventional MAC rounds in terms of pure energy the trade-off was considered acceptable.
The new ships would also benefit from an increase in internal volume – with the slugs fired from their main guns being substantially smaller, and the loading mechanisms being correspondingly simpler, ammunition storage could be increased while still leaving volume available for larger fusion reactors and more missile pods. These reactors weren’t just larger but also incorporated the improvements designed by Catherine Halsey and pioneered on the Pillar of Autumn. The new power sources also meant stronger shields and the ability to mount four of the new ion cannons. A cursory analysis suggested that in offensive power alone, one Vengeance class destroyer would be equal to a dozen of the older Paris class frigates at minimum.
All of that was in the future however, but that future looked brighter for the UNSC than it had in two decades. They had launched their counterattack against Tau Ceti, they had weathered the Covenant general offensive, inflicting substantial casualties and they had held at Reach and now had a ceasefire in place. Combine those morale-boosting facts and the wave of new technologies making their ships stronger by the day with the spectacular return of Preston Cole and the population’s spirits had been buoyed to almost unheard of levels. Billions of humans now had hope that the war could actually end in something other than their extermination. Shipyard workers, miners, factory engineers and munitions workers strained to their limits, while farmers kept them fed and medics kept them healthy. The vast resources of the solar system and the other Inner Colonies, strained to almost breaking point barely months ago, now flowed freely to the shipyards and tens of thousands of volunteers came forward to crew the next generation of ships.
Jellicoe, however, was not so sanguine. If the truce held for a month and those promised new ships made it to the frontlines unmolested he was confident they could prevail, especially given the data from the captured battlecruiser that showed the Covenant capital was their only remaining source of new ships. The longer the enemy civil war dragged on, the weaker both sides would become while the humans could grow in strength while sitting on the sidelines.
But there was also the Flood to consider, and the Jiralhanae, an enemy they hadn’t faced before as the Sanghelli had been the Covenant military leaders. If the Flood were released, either deliberately or by accident, then the situation could change dramatically. And then there was that other mystery foe in the shadows that Prometheus had warned him about. He knew he couldn’t spend much time worrying about them, not with so little information and other more immediate threats.
He was also honest enough to admit that his intensive analysis of battle data was a delaying tactic. He really didn’t want to have to contact Terra and his superiors and explain the losses they had taken. Intellectually he knew that they had managed to pull a win out of thin air and that their only other options had been an ignominious retreat (something he would never do, not with billions of lives at stake on the surface) or a pointless last stand. With those facts in mind, taking as few losses as they had was almost miraculous, and his fleet had inflicted massive damage on the enemy at every turn.
But still, two destroyers, two cruisers and the Pegasus all lost, while the Nemesis was badly damaged and the Temeraire and Galactica being battered as well, not to mention the nearly ten percent losses in fighters and twenty percent casualties for the Marines on the ground weighed heavily on his soul. Combine that with Terran and Colonial losses earlier in this campaign and not even the Cylon assault on Terra could compare in terms of blood spilled and lives lost. He also didn’t want to tell Admiral Adama that his son Lee had only survived the destruction of his ship because a UNSC Captain had happened to be in position to act as a second set of shields, or that Kara Thrace had been severely injured ejecting from her Viper and had only just regained consciousness in Jupiter’s hospital.
Finally he was pulled from his musings by a signal from Mace that the Covenant armada was about to arrive. He headed back into Fleet Ops and moved straight to the central holo-display, showing the massive shape of Installation 04 on the far side of Threshold and the smaller Covenant occupation force holding position around the moon Basis. He grimaced at the sight of the huge ring, thinking how such a simple shaped could represent such a ghastly threat to sentient life in this galaxy. Then he remembered the mission reports from the Tau’ri and the Dakaara superweapon that could do much the same but was even more compact. If it wouldn’t have infuriated the Free Jaffa, he would have gladly annihilated that thing from orbit years ago.
One of the sensor crew gave them the final count:
“Covenant force arriving in three…two…one…slipspace rupture detected, Basis orbit. Covenant vessels emerging now, initial count is three hundred plus, five supercarriers detected.”
Jellicoe simply nodded in reply. Ship after ship continued to emerge from the massive hole in reality until the entire surviving Reach attack force had emerged and quickly linked up with the smaller force already present. The combined force was more numerous, if slightly weaker in the heaviest vessels, than the fleet they had faced at Reach.
For a moment, John wanted to order the deployment of the single NOVA warhead their force carried and wipe the bastards out in one stroke. He allowed that thought to germinate in his head for fully ten seconds before he ruthlessly suppressed it. That bomb was being saved for High Charity, and taking out that monster would be a far more devastating blow than even wiping out this concentration of ships.
On the display, the Covenant fleet began moving away from Basis and the Halo Ring. They had formed up into a spherical formation, with the eight supercarriers in the centre, surrounded by the assault carriers and light carriers in a tight defensive shell. Around them, the battlecruisers, destroyers and frigates formed an outer cordon, their guns primed and their shields raised to guard against any threat. It would have been a perfect target for the NOVA bomb if they could have gotten close enough, but that wasn’t feasible at the moment.
Another hologram appeared, this time of Preston Cole.
”John, Guilty Spark confirms that no troops managed to land on the surface and that three battlecruisers were destroyed as a warning. He still hasn’t had any contact from Installation 05 though, so I think that’s our next target.”
John nodded. “I agree Preston. Looks like they’re heading out on an exit vector for the Coelest system – and Installation 05. Before we head there though, can I prevail upon you and Dying Light to open a communications link with Terra? Its past time I reported in.”
”Not a problem. I’ll join you on the call if I may, it would be nice to at least talk to your fellow Kobolians.”
John smirked. “Preston Cole and William Adama in the same holo-conference…this should be fun.”
The War Room, Olympus Base, Terran Orbit
The assorted Kobolian and Tau’ri leaders had once more gathered in the large room to await news of their forces in the other universe. Lethbridge-Stewart, Adama, Roslin, Matthews, Hayden, Hammond and O’Neill were sipping at drinks and discussing matters in the Milky Way and Pegasus and the strain Second Fleet was under in trying to secure so much with so few ships. Luckily the threats were minimal at best. The Free Jaffa were friends, as were the Orbanians, Langarans, Hebridians and Galarians.
Only the Lucian Alliance remained a thorn in their sides, but with the massive technological disparity between them and the Tau’ri, and the numerical superiority the Jaffa enjoyed, the Lucians could do little in direct confrontation. With the departure of most of the Combined Fleet they had stepped up their smuggling operations but those were not a serious threat at present. Over in Pegasus the Genii were still causing trouble but again, they lacked both the numbers and the technology to pose a serious danger, and both sides knew it. A little over a week ago, one of the Atlantis Expedition teams had been kidnapped in a Genii ambush and taken to a new, secret facility on an otherwise uninhabited world to be interrogated.
That situation had lasted a mere forty-three minutes. The RFS Korolev had been able to track the captured team to that world and had immediately beamed up the team – and the planet’s Stargate and dialling device. Colonel Chekov had them demanded the small Genii force surrender, leaving behind all their weapons and equipment before being beamed up into the Tau’ri ship’s starboard hanger bay, right in front of the forcefield holding the atmosphere in.
There they watched as the Russian ship fired a single missile down into the atmosphere, the naquada enhanced warhead detonating directly over their base, completely destroying it and anything else within ten kilometres. Colonel Chekov then beamed them, and the Stargate and dialling device, back to the surface far enough from the detonation that they were safe, but close enough to see the hellish-looking mushroom cloud on the horizon. He told them that the Tau’ri would keep all their captured equipment and computer files as recompense, and told them to go home and warn their leaders – next time the Alliance forces wouldn’t beam the Genii away from the nuclear detonations in advance.
As a message it was blunt, impolite, undiplomatic and a host of other negative adjectives. But it was also very effective – the Genii leaders had apologised fulsomely, claiming it was a rogue operation and that those responsible would be tried for treason. It was a lie and both sides knew it, but the Genii now knew that if they pushed too far, the Alliance could annihilate them with little effort and no losses. Since then, not a single Genii had been seen on any planet that wasn’t theirs.
This discussion was interrupted by the incoming call from Jellicoe. The two holograms sprang to life, surprising everyone present as they hadn’t expected Cole to join them.
”Good day everyone. I am pleased to report that the Covenant offensive against Reach has been repelled and we are once again preparing to take the initiative. Overall human losses are approximately 22%, roughly the same for the Covenant. I regret to say that we lost the Adroa, Ikenga and Pegasus, each with about 30% losses to the crews – though Apollo and his command crew made it out.”
Adama sagged slightly in relief at that. Losing another Battlestar was bad, that it happened to be his son’s ship was worse, but Lee was alive, and that was what he focused on.
”We also lost the Samantha Calderon and Stephen Falken, both with all hands. They got caught by superior numbers and blew before they could be evacuated. The Nemesis has also taken substantial damage when an Assault Carrier exploded too close to her. Overall it was very close to being a disaster. Only our friend here saved the day. Speaking of which, may I present Admiral Preston J. Cole, United Nations Space Command.” The other Admiral bowed slightly in acknowledgement.
”Preston was able to use the Sanghelli Martial Code, with help from Dying Light, to convince the Sanghelli leaders that the Prophets lied to them, that the “Gods” don’t want humanity destroyed. He also managed to agree a ceasefire and a withdrawal of Covenant forces from Reach, they’ve gone off to start a civil war that will weaken them and give the UNSC vital breathing room to finish their upgrades and launch the first of the new wave of ships.”
The assorted Alliance leaders looked at one another before Lethbridge-Stewart, the ranking officer present, replied for all of them.
“I’m glad to hear that John. The losses are regrettable but a lot lighter than I feared given what you were facing. The ceasefire is practically a gift from the Gods.” Alistair noticed John flinch at those words and remembered that despite having spoken with them, and having been declared their Harbinger, Jellicoe was deeply uncomfortable with the Lords of Kobol being worshipped as deities.
”Yeah I’m not so sure about that one sir. The ascended don’t seem to be very big on the “helping others” thing. But that’s for another time. Myself, Preston, Commodore Baird and Dying Light, along with our flagships, are currently near Installation 04. The Covenant had detached a substantial Fleet to occupy the Ring but the Monitor refused them access and opened fire at them as a deterrent. The Reach force has now linked up with this fleet and both are heading for Installation 05, where another Covenant force is. This is the part I really don’t like sir, we have no idea of the current situation on that ring, and if the Covenant have been able to land and release the Flood…” he trailed off, looking expectantly at Preston, the resident expert on the damnable superweapons.
Cole didn’t disappoint. ”Even one Flood-infested ship escaping that ring is a potentially apocalyptic threat. They have most of the technical knowledge of the Forerunners and the ability to breed faster than we can destroy them, short of glassing entire planets. If it wouldn’t cause more problems in the long-term, I’d fire off the NOVA bomb we have and just destroy Installation 05 and be done with it.”
Doctor Hayden leaned forwards, not being very well-informed about the Halos and the threat they represented. “Why would destroying the thing be a longer-term problem Admiral?”
Preston had an answer ready. ”I checked with Dying Light. At the moment, I am the acknowledged Reclaimer and solely in command of the Array. But, there are reserve protocols in place. If a Ring is destroyed for some reason, a replacement ring immediately begins construction at the Ark and will be deployed to a suitable location once finished, a matter of months at most. If the Ring is destroyed by enemy actions, then not only is a replacement built, but the remaining six installations are brought to full readiness and permission to fire them is devolved to the local Monitors and whatever sentient being happens to be present. Even as the Reclaimer I can’t override those contingencies. Destroying Installation 05 would move every other Ring out from my control, and 343 Guilty Spark is already deeply unhappy with me as it is.”
Everyone shuddered at the idea. Adama spoke without really considering his audience. “And this is why I don’t like AI’s, especially when they have superweapons under their control.”
Surprisingly Preston agreed. “I agree with you Admiral, hence why I am emphatically not going to destroy Installation 05 unless I have no other choice. That bomb is being saved for the Covenant capital at any rate.”
That brought a vicious smile to Adama’s face. “Good. A massive nuke is about what those genocidal frakkers deserve.”
No one had any reply to that. The meeting ended shortly afterwards as the small Alliance force left to head for Installation 05, deliberately pacing themselves so that they would arrive about ten minutes before the massed Covenant fleet.
Neither Admiral expected that they’d be flying straight into a massive firefight. The Great Schism was in full swing.
Well here we go. Jellicoe reflects on the losses, the Covenant lick their wounds, we get some idea of events back in the SG/BSG universe, the Genii get a stern warning, and Preston explains why they can't just destroy Installation 05 - this was mostly put in so I could justify why they would have to fight to reclaim the Ring from the outbreak, and not just blow it to hell. Damn those contingency plans!
Anyways, hopefully I still have people following this and that I also have my groove back. THe next update should take less than five weeks it's been since the last one.
Interesting developments all around.
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Post by LadyTevar » 2019-10-05 08:06pm
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NYS education commissioner unexpectedly resigns
Monday, July 15, 2019 7:11 PM EDT
ALBANY -
The New York state education commissioner unexpectedly announced she is retiring.
New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia submitted her resignation letter to the Board of Regents Monday. She says her last day will be Aug. 31.
Elia was appointed to the position in July 2015. She succeeded the troubled tenure of former commissioner John King, who sparred with education leaders over the tougher standards under Common Core.
Elia is the state's first woman education commissioner.
She calmed the waters with the teachers union, parents and students over the testing. Ultimately, the state Education Department and the Board of Regents scaled back the testing and no longer ties standardized tests to student or teacher performance.
"She helped us get through the whole Common Core mess that started before her," said Regents member Roger Tilles.
Tilles says while the timing of her resignation is a surprise, he expected Elia would step down at some point. He says Elia and board members have had several disagreements during the past year.
Elia did not offer an explanation for stepping down. The Board of Regents is expected to name an interim education commissioner as early as this week.
Tilles says a nationwide search will be conducted for a new commissioner. He says that search could take six to nine months.
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Chief Executive Officer transition update
Press Release – Air New Zealand
Air New Zealand will appoint an acting Chief Executive Officer while the final phase of recruitment is underway to replace Christopher Luxon when he leaves the role on September 25.21 August 2019
Air New Zealand will appoint an acting Chief Executive Officer while the final phase of recruitment is underway to replace Christopher Luxon when he leaves the role on September 25.
Chief Financial Officer Jeff McDowall will become acting Chief Executive Officer from September 26 until the successful candidate, selected through a global search process, starts. Mr McDowall is not seeking permanent appointment to the role.
Chairman Tony Carter says the Board is highly satisfied with how the global search for a new Chief Executive Officer is progressing.
Mr Carter will retire as Air New Zealand Chairman at the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on September 25 and be replaced by current Director Dame Therese Walsh, who is leading the search process on behalf of the Board.
“Air New Zealand is recognised as one of the leading airlines globally having won a multitude of awards and delivering consistently superior financial performance, outstanding operational excellence and customer service levels that are amongst the best of any business in the world. The strength of our brand and our people has attracted strong interest from candidates within New Zealand and overseas,” Dame Therese says.
Mr Carter says he is confident the Board will appoint an outstanding candidate who will inherit from Mr Luxon one of the strongest Executive teams in aviation.
Dame Therese says that given the calibre of the candidates being considered in the selection process it is possible that the new Chief Executive Officer of Air New Zealand will not start until the first quarter of 2020.
“We are fortunate to have a talented Executive team who are united in their support of Jeff to lead them and the business as acting Chief Executive Officer during this interim period. Jeff has held senior management roles across the airline for more than a decade and is well known to investors, stakeholders and key partners, such as the travel trade and unions,” Dame Therese says.
Mr McDowall’s previous roles at Air New Zealand include Group General Manager Corporate Finance and Group General Manager Commercial. Prior to Air New Zealand he worked across a variety of industries in Asia, the United States and the United Kingdom.
General Manager Corporate Finance Stephan Deschamps will take over as acting Chief Financial Officer on the Executive on September 26.
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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines [Theater]. The buzz on this wasn't very good, but we thought we should see it in the theater anyways. Its obvious that this wasn't directed by Cameron. Two stars. Click below for my full review.We saw this movie in the worst theater in Western Washington. The dank, run down Alderwood theaters. 10% of the seats were broken, it was dank and the movie was merely using stereo. But enough foreshadowing...
First off, I have to say, Arnie looked frigging incredible. I read that he doubled his normal workout (maintenaince mode, I would guess) to get back into T2 form for this. It paid off. But his character..oh what terrible writing and directing they put the venerable Model 101 through in the first scenes.
They essentially mimicked the T2 naked/bar scene, but humiliated the cyborg with a flaming gay stripper. Hilarity did not ensue. It was awkward and only mildly amusing. Then they put the cherry on top of this serving of bad taste with the sunglasses scene. Oh Arnold, did you have no input on this movie?
The new "Terminatrix" was easy on the eyes. Her casting for the part was an excellent choice. The abilities she had were a little over-the-top and hokey, such as remote controlling standard Crown Vic police cruisers. C'mon. A 3rd grader would see through that one...
John Conner was also well-cast, I found him a suitable replacement for the Eddie "the delinquint" Furlong. who would *censored* up their lives to the point of missing out on being cast for a role like that? You're no Leonardo, so take what you can get.
The action scenes were subdued, definately not the Cameron-style we'd hope for. The only substantial scene involved the mobile crane, which I will say, was the best of the movie.
The plot started slow but gained steam as the director finally managed to wipe the vaseline off the viewers glasses and clue them in on the actual story line. Though given the temporal plotline, he's working with both a prequal and sequel, so he's basically layout out the story line as it conforms to Terminator and T2, and the next movie.
Its extremely obvious that there will be a next installment, they left the viewer high and dry at the end, which I don't mind. The final scenes were intruguing and left me begging for more. Well directed. Cameron never did that kind of cliff-hanging with any of the previous installments, though I don't think he saw a franchise coming when he originally made Terminator.
Overall, the movie was a bit slow for what you'd expect. The F/X were well-done, I didn't see any major flaws. [I did notice that when John and Kate landed their cessna, they cast a shadow on top of the shadow left by the Cessna...]. It seemed like this was more of a story-telling movie than an action movie, setting up for the, what I assume, will be the real finale with the war between the resitance and Skynet.
If you can see it in a theater, pay matinee and pray they show it in SDDS or DTS at least. It does deserve that much.
I'd definately own it, round out the trilogy.
Two stars.
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ArkivDigital Celebrates 10 Years!
Posted on October 26, 2015 by ArkivDigital
We have delivered color images to researchers for an entire decade!
Ten years ago today, we founded ArkivDigital with the goal to facilitate and enrich the everyday lives of all Swedish genealogists. Since then, more than a hundred thousand family and historical researchers have made fascinating discoveries browsing in our color images.
Ten years of development
Within ten years, ArkivDigital has grown to a company with 37 employees and today the online digital archive contains 57 million newly photographed color images of historical records.
In the beginning, we sold images on CDs, but then after two years, we launched our first software program that enabled us to offer an Internet subscription service. Since 2007, all of our images have been available via ArkivDigital. We continue to go out to the archives and photograph records. About 600,000 new images are added each month.
As a result of the company’s rapid growth, ArkivDigital, has received the Di Gasell distinction, no less than two years in a row: 2013 and 2014. This award is given by Dagens Industri to the most rapidly growing companies within Sweden each year.
New program version with searchable databases!
Soon we will be launching a new version of ArkivDigital which includes a name searchable database of the 1950 Swedish population.
Looking ahead, we will be adding the 1960 Swedish population census. In addition, a searchable name index to the household records for the years 1880 to 1920 (approximately) will be added to the service. Not to mention, several other new features will be available within the new program in the future.
Photographing in the USA and Åland, Finland
Our photographing has not been limited to Sweden but we have also photographed records in Åland, Finland and in the state of Kansas in the United States.
The material from the USA focuses on the Swedish-American church books but we have also photographed protocols and account books of various types. Documents from more than thirty congregations in Kansas are currently available in ArkivDigital. More volumes will be added in the near future. Read more about USA records here.
Concerning Åland, currently we are photographing seamen house documents, but a massive amount of documents are already available in ArkivDigital. You will find church books for Åland’s sixteen parishes, estate inventories up to 1916, court records up to 1900, tax registers up to 1933 and village maps mainly from the 1700’s and 1800’s and much more. Read more about Åland records here.
We have also added records for a number of congregations outside of Sweden:
Svenska Gustafskrykan in Copenhagen.
Svenska Sofiaförsamlingen in Paris.
Svenska Victoriaförsamlingen in Berlin.
Ulrika Eleonora församling in London.
Svenska Margaretaförsamlingen in Oslo.
Svenska församlingen in Buenos Aires
Milestones Year By Year
Arkiv Digital AD AB founded.
Images sold on CDs.
1 million images in the archive.
Program software for subscription service via the Internet is launched.
Merger between ArkivDigital and DigiArkiv.
Göta Canal Company’s archive’s most commonly used documents photographed.
Main sponsor for Genealogy Days (Släktforskardagarna) in Falköping.
ArkivDigital purchases IT-company KITE AB.
Åland’s church books become available in ArkivDigital.
20 million images in the archive – 100,000 books photographed.
Main sponsor for Genealogy Days (Släktforskardagarna) in Örebro.
The first year the company reports a profit.
30 million images in the image archive.
Sweden’s older church books (up to 1894) are available in ArkivDigital: household records, moving records, birth, marriage and death books.
New logo symbol launched: the red shield.
Received the distinct award, Di Gasellföretag 2013, from the financial newspaper Dagens Industri.
App for IPad launched.
Increased presence in the USA through a partnership with the genealogy expert, Kathy Meade.
General muster rolls photography completed.
Estate inventories (bouppteckningar) photography complete up to 1900.
Main sponsor for Genealogy Days (Släktforskardagarna) in Köping.
Entered a research partnership with Blekinge Tekniska Högskola.
Modern church books available up to 1935 (if the book does not extend into further years).
Swedish and English blogs launched.
Received the distinction, Di Gasellföretag 2014, from the financial paper Dagens Industri, second year in a row.
Main sponsor for Genealogy Days (Släktforskardagarna) in Karlstad.
New service launched: ordering photographing of court books.
Photographing of Swedish American church books in Kansas, USA.
Many documents related to World War II photographed: Defense readiness, spy documents, documents from the so-called C-byrån (which covered military intelligence outside of Sweden), air crashes and much more.
New logo symbol launched: the blue key.
Main sponsor for Genealogy Days (Släktforskardagarna) in Nyköping.
Words from our managing director: Mikael Karlsson
Since its inception on October 26, 2005, we have had ten very eventful years where we have gone from a start-up small business into one of Sweden’s primary online destinations for genealogists and historians.
We are very pleased with our past successes but we are constantly moving forward. The company is in constant development and we have more news on the agenda. Many exciting years lie ahead of us!
We would like to thank all our customers for the great years that have passed, and look forward to many more rewarding years researching together.
Michael Karlsson, VD, ArkivDigital
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Bahamas Hotel & Tourism Association
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Thursday, 26 September 2019 14:24 News Editor
Nassau Paradise Island was unaffected by the recent storm. Our thoughts and support are with our neighbors that were severely impacted, The Abacos and Grand Bahama Island.
Nassau Paradise Island is open for business. All hotels, resorts, and attractions are open and welcoming visitors, and it’s business as usual for the Lynden Pindling International Airport.
Where did Hurricane Dorian impact The Bahamas?
The Bahamas is comprised of 700 islands and cays that are spread over a large area in the Atlantic Ocean. It’s about 600 miles from the northernmost island, Grand Bahama Island, and the southernmost, Inagua Island. From the westernmost point, Cay Sal, to the easternmost island of San Salvador, it is a distance of around 400 miles. For context, it would take a jet plane an hour to fly from one end of the Bahamian archipelago to the other.
Sadly, Hurricane Dorian devastated the islands of Grand Bahama and Abaco. These islands are located 132 miles and 86 miles, respectively, from Nassau Paradise Island. The Central and South Central Bahamas Regions (including Nassau Paradise Island, Eleuthera & Harbour Island, Andros, The Exumas, San Salvador, etc.), fortunately, were not impacted by Hurricane Dorian.
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Impact of Hurricane Dorian on Tourism Sector Business
Thursday, 26 September 2019 14:10 Admin
Message From The President of BHTA:
Bahamas Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) members including those in the hotel sector, have reported that the pace of forward bookings has softened, in some cases significantly, when compared to bookings for the same period last year.
“A number of factors, including the severity of the impact of Dorian on Grand Bahama and Abaco, the subsequent widespread coverage and the lack of understanding of Bahama Islands geography, has resulted in a marked impact on business, which is unfortunate but not unanticipated. This is certainly the case for Nassau, Paradise Island,” states Carlton Russell, President of the BHTA.
BHTA President: Impact Unfortunate But Anticipated
Tourism industry stakeholders are reporting that forward bookings in the wake of Hurricane Dorian has ‘softened’ when compared to the same period last year.
According to the Bahamas Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA), its membership including those in the hotel sector, have reported that “the pace of forward bookings has softened, in some cases significantly, when compared to bookings for the same period last year”.
CHTA Seeks Jobs for Hurricane-Affected Workers
Thursday, 26 September 2019 03:59 News Admin
MIAMI – Working with public and private sector tourism partners in the Caribbean, The Bahamas and South Florida, the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) and its counterpart the Bahamas Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) have launched “Tourism Jobs for Bahamians” to secure temporary employment for these industry professionals.
Hurricane Dorian, one of the strongest storms on record, blew more than 2,500 hospitality professionals out of work in The Abacos and Grand Bahama, eliminating jobs that were supporting more than 10,000 family members in these islands.
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Serena routs Sharapova to reach final
By : Brain Carroll
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Tag: Agnieszka Radwanska, Garbine Muguruza, Maria Sharapova, player, Russian, Serena, Sharapova, Thursday's 6-2, 6-4 loss, Venus, Williams, Wimbledon
To complete the “Serena slam” of four consecutive majors for a second time, she will play Garbine Muguruza, a Spanish upstart with a big serve and nothing to lose, in the Wimbledon final Saturday.
Thursday’s 6-2, 6-4 loss to the world number one in the Wimbledon semi-finals was her 17th in succession and 18th overall at the hands of the American.
Serena Williams has admitted she owes her calendar Grand Slam bid to Garbine Muguruza, the woman blocking her path to both that very target and a sixth Wimbledon title.
Maria Sharapova of Russian Federation wipes her face during the women’s singles semifinal match against Serena Williams of the United States at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Thursday July 9, 2015.
Muguruza’s tense three-set win over Polish 13 seed Agnieszka Radwanska in the last four made her the first Spanish woman to reach the Wimbledon final since Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario in 1996. At age 17, Sharapova beat Williams twice in 2004, including in the Wimbledon final – and hasn’t defeated her since.
Serena Williams’ rather easy and one-sided win in the semifinal match against Maria Sharapova was not surprising.
Standing in the world number one’s way is 21-year-old Muguruza, the 20th seed who is in her first Grand Slam final.
Playing for the Wimbledon title is going to be a different challenge.
Williams cites that result as the shock to the system which has spurred her remarkable title-winning run since, but Muguruza sees it another way, and considers it still relevant ahead of their Centre Court reunion. Standing 6ft tall, she is a powerful ball-striker who enjoys playing on all surfaces. She broke serve out of the gate and finished the set in 33 minutes with a backhand approach victor from off the ground.
Meanwhile, it was reported that Williams never won all four Grand Slams in one year, but she got victories in the Australian and French Opens.
“They’re going to be in Barcelona watching me from the TV”, she said. I was so desperate to do it. Williams has won 34 of her last 37 sets against Sharapova over the last 11 years. “You have to try to be more constant, you know”.
The spotlight is nothing new for Serena, though, who has been the center of attention since her and her sister Venus burst onto the scene at the turn of the century. “A lot of things that make her a great player“. Muguruza had a tactic that she applied perfectly and she played the best match of her career probably that day. The only time she reached a major final in the category was at the 2011 French Open. I didn’t see the results straightaway.
Her coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, gave a glowing scouting report on Muguruza. Williams was happy with her performance – so rare early at a grand slam – as she crushed Babos with relative ease. “Against her, you have to be able not to just produce your best tennis, but more”, Sharapova said about her loss to Williams, Wall Street Journal reported.
That’s because that match should move quickly, provide good shotmaking and allow them to get on with the show, with the next players on court a pairing to drive the British crowd to an emotional crossroads.
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