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Meep Reference
Revision as of 17:52, 31 March 2015; Stevenj (Talk | contribs)
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
4.5.1 absorber
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 Force spectra
5.8 LDOS spectra
5.9 Near-to-far-field spectra
5.10 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.
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.
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). See also epsilon-input-file below.
epsilon-input-file [string]
If this string is not "" (the default), then it should be the name of an HDF5 file whose first/only dataset defines a scalar dielectric function (over some discrete grid); alternatively, the dataset name can be specified explicitly if the string is in the form "filename:dataset". This dielectric function is then used in place of the ε property of default-material (i.e. where there are no geometry objects). The grid of the epsilon file dataset need not match Meep's computational grid; it is scaled and/or linearly interpolated as needed to map the file onto the computational cell (which warps the structure if the proportions of the grids do not match, however). Note: the file contents only override the ε property of the default-material, whereas other properties (μ, susceptibilities, nonlinearities, etc.) of default-material are still used.
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-susceptibilities [list of susceptibility class]
List of dispersive susceptibilities (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, synonyms of E-susceptibilities are E-polarizations and polarizations.
H-susceptibilities [list of susceptibility class]
List of dispersive susceptibilities (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. For backwards compatibility, a synonym of H-susceptibilities is H-polarizations.
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 (and/or Drude) resonances via the lorentzian-susceptibility (or drude-susceptibility) classes below.
Dispersive dielectric (and magnetic) materials, above, are specified via a list of objects that are subclasses of type susceptibility.
Parent class for various dispersive susceptibility terms, parameterized by an anisotropic amplitude σ (see Material dispersion in Meep):
sigma [number]
The scale factor σ. You can also specify an anisotropic σ tensor by using the property sigma-diag [vector3], which takes three numbers or a vector3 to give the σn tensor diagonal, and sigma-offdiag [vector3] which specifies the offdiagonal elements (defaults to 0). That is, (sigma-diag a b c) and (sigma-offdiag u v w) corresponds to a σ tensor
lorentzian-susceptibility
Specifies a single dispersive susceptibility of Lorentzian (damped harmonic oscillator) form (see Material dispersion in Meep), with the parameters (in addition to σ):
frequency [number]
The resonance frequency fn = ωn / 2π.
gamma [number]
The resonance loss rate γn / 2π.
drude-susceptibility
Specifies a single dispersive susceptibility of Drude form (see Material dispersion in Meep), with the parameters (in addition to σ):
The frequency scale factor fn = ωn / 2π which multiplies σ (not a resonance frequency).
The loss rate γn / 2π.
Meep also supports a somewhat unusual polarizable medium, a Lorentzian susceptibility with a random noise term added into the damped-oscillator equation at each point. This can be used to directly model thermal radiation in both the far field (as described in Luo et al., 2004) and the near field (as described in Rodriguez et al., 2011). (Note, however that it is more efficient to compute far-field thermal radiation using Kirchhoff's law of radiation, which states that emissivity equals absorptivity. Near-field thermal radiation can usually be computed more efficiently using frequency domain techniques, e.g. via our SCUFF-EM code, as described by Rodriguez et al., 2013.)
noisy-lorentzian-susceptibility or noisy-drude-susceptibility
Specifies a single dispersive susceptibility of Lorentzian (damped harmonic oscillator) or Drude form (see Material dispersion in Meep), with the same σ, frequency, and gamma) parameters, but with an additional Gaussian random noise term (uncorrelated in space and time, zero mean) added to the P damped-oscillator equation.
noise-amp [number]
The noise has root-mean square amplitude σ⋅noise-amp.
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.
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))).
Instead of a pml layer, there is an alternative class called absorber which is a drop-in replacement for pml. For example, you can do (set! pml-layers (list (make absorber (thickness 2)))) instead of (set! pml-layers (list (make pml (thickness 2)))). All the parameters are the same as for pml, above. You can have a mix of pml on some boundaries and absorber on others.
The absorber class does not implement a perfectly matched layer (PML), however (except in 1d). Instead, it is simply a scalar electric and magnetic conductivity that turns on gradually within the layer according to the pml-profile (defaulting to quadratic). Such a scalar conductivity gradient is only reflectionless in the limit as the layer becomes sufficiently thick.
The main reason to use absorber is if you have a case in which PML fails:
No true PML exists for periodic media, and a scalar absorber is cheaper and is generally just as good. See Oskooi et al. (2008).
PML can lead to divergent fields for certain waveguides with "backward-wave" modes; this can easily happen in metallic with surface plasmons, and a scalar absorber is your only choice. See Loh et al. (2009).
PML can fail if you have a waveguide hitting the edge of your computational cell at an angle. See Oskooi et. al. (2011).
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 and in our book chapter online.
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.
As described in section 4.2 of our book chapter online, it is also possible to supply a source that is designed to couple exclusively into a single waveguide mode (or other mode of some cross section or periodic region) at a single frequency, and which couples primarily into that mode as long as the bandwidth is not too broad. This is possible if you have MPB (version 1.5 or later) installed: Meep will call MPB to compute the field profile of the desired mode, and uses the field profile to produce an equivalent current source. (Note: this feature does not work in cylindrical coordinates.) To do this, instead of a source you should use an eigenmode-source:
eigenmode-source
This is a subclass of source and has all of the properties of source above. However, you normally do not specify a component. Instead of component, the current source components and amplitude profile are computed by calling MPB to compute the modes of the dielectric profile in the region given by the size and center of the source, with the modes computed as if the source region were repeated periodically in all directions. (If an amplitude and/or amp-func are supplied, they are multiplied by this current profile.) The desired eigenmode and other features are specified by the following properties:
eig-band [integer]
The index n (1,2,3,...) of the desired band ωn(k) to compute in MPB (1 denotes the lowest-frequency band at a given k point, and so on).
direction [X, Y, or Z; default AUTOMATIC], eig-match-freq? [boolean; default true], eig-kpoint [vector3]
By default (if eig-match-freq? is true), Meep tries to find a mode with the same frequency ωn(k) as the src property (above), by scanning k vectors in the given direction (using MPB's find-k functionality; alternatively, if eig-kpoint is supplied, it is used as an initial guess and direction for k ). By default, direction is the direction normal to the source region, assuming size is d–1 dimensional in a d-dimensional simulation (e.g. a plane in 3d). Alternatively (if eig-match-freq? is false), you can specify a particular k vector of the desired mode with eig-kpoint (in Meep units of 2π/a).
eig-parity [NO-PARITY (= default), EVEN-Z (= TE), ODD-Z (= TM), EVEN-Y, ODD-Y]
The parity (= polarization in 2d) of the mode to calculate, assuming the structure has z and/or y mirror symmetry in the source region. If the structure has both y and z mirror symmetry, you can combine more than one of these, e.g. EVEN-Z + ODD-Y. The default is NO-PARITY, in which case MPB computes all of the bands (which will still be even or odd if the structure has mirror symmetry, of course). This is especially useful in 2d simulations to restrict yourself to a desired polarization.
eig-resolution [integer, defaults to same as Meep resolution]
The spatial resolution to use in MPB for the eigenmode calculations. This defaults to the same resolution as Meep, but you can use a higher resolution (in which case the structure is linearly interpolated from the Meep pixels).
eig-tolerance [number, defaults to 10–7]
The tolerance to use in the MPB eigensolver. (MPB terminates when the eigenvalues stop changing to less than this fractional tolerance.)
component [as above, but defaults to ALL-COMPONENTS]
Once the MPB modes are computed, equivalent electric and magnetic sources are created within Meep. By default, these sources include magnetic and electric currents in all transverse directions within the source region, corresponding to the mode fields as described in our book chapter. If you specify a component property, however, you can include only one component of these currents if you wish. Most people won't need this feature.
eig-lattice-size [vector3], eig-lattice-center [vector3]
Normally, the MPB computational unit cell is the same as the source volume (given by the size and center parameters). However, occasionally you want the unit cell to be larger than the source volume. For example, to create an eigenmode source in a periodic medium (photonic crystal), you need to pass MPB the entire unit cell of the periodic medium, but once the mode is computed then the actual current sources need only lie on a cross section of that medium. To accomplish this, you can specify the optional eig-lattice-size and eig-lattice-center, which define a volume (which must enclose size and center) that is used for the unit cell in MPB (with the dielectric function ε taken from the corresponding region in the Meep simulation).
Note that MPB only supports dispersionless non-magnetic materials (but it does support anisotropic ε). Any nonlinearities, magnetic responses µ, conductivities σ, or dispersive polarizations in your materials will be ignored when computing the eigenmode source. PML will also be ignored.
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:
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). Technically, the "Gaussian" sources in Meep are the (discrete-time) derivative of a Gaussian, i.e. they are , but the difference between this and a true Gaussian is usually irrelevant. 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).
The starting time for the source; default is 0 (turn on at t = 0). (Not the time of the peak! See below.)
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. The peak of the gaussian is reached at the time t0= start-time + cutoff*width.
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!)
Miscellaneous functions
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.
Force spectra
Very similar to flux spectra, you can also compute force spectra: forces on an object as a function of frequency, computed by Fourier transforming the fields and integrating the vacuum Maxwell stress tensor
over a surface S via . We recommend that you normally only evaluate the stress tensor over a surface lying in vacuum, as the interpretation and definition of the stress tensor in arbitrary media is often problematic (the subject of extensive and controversial literature). (It is fine if the surface encloses an object made of arbitrary materials, as long as the surface itself is in vacuum.)
See also the optical forces Meep tutorial.
Most commonly, you will want to normalize the force spectrum in some way, just as for flux spectra. Most simply, you could divide two different force spectra to compute the ratio of forces on two objects. Often, you will divide a force spectrum by a flux spectrum, to divide the force F by the incident power P on an object, in order to compute the useful dimensionless ratio Fc/P (where c=1 in Meep units). For example, it is a simple exercise to show that the force F on a perfectly reflecting mirror with normal-incident power P satisfies Fc/P=2, and for a perfectly absorbing (black) surface Fc/P=1.
The usage is similar to the flux spectra: you define a set of force-region objects telling Meep where it should compute the Fourier-transformed fields and stress tensors, and call add-force to add these regions to the current simulation over a specified frequency bandwidth, and then use display-forces to display the force spectra at the end. There are also save-force, load-force, and load-minus-force functions that you can use to subtract the fields from two simulation, e.g. in order to compute just the force from scattered fields, similar to the flux spectra. These types and functions are defined as follows:
force-region
A region (volume, plane, line, or point) in which to compute the integral of the stress tensor of the Fourier-transformed fields. Its properties are:
The center of the force region (no default).
The size of the force region along each of the coordinate axes; default is (0,0,0) (a single point).
The direction of the force that you wish to compute (e.g. X, Y, etcetera). Unlike flux-region, you must specify this explicitly, because there is not generally any relationship between the direction of the force and the orientation of the force region.
A weight factor to multiply the force by when it is computed; default is 1.0.
In most circumstances, you should define a set of force-regions whose union is a closed surface (lying in vacuum and enclosing the object that is experiencing the force).
(add-force fcen df nfreq force-regions...)
Add a bunch of force-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 force object, which you can pass to the functions below to get the force spectrum, etcetera.
As for flux regions, you normally use add-force via statements like:
(define Fx (add-force ...))
to store the flux object in a variable. add-force 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 force objects as you want, e.g. to look at forces on different objects, in different directions, 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 force region, multiplied by the number of electric and magnetic field components required to get the stress 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-force, 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 force spectrum via:
(display-forces forces...)
Given a number of force objects, this displays a comma-separated table of frequencies and force spectra, prefixed by "force1:" or similar (where the number is incremented after each run). All of the forces should be for the same fcen/df/nfreq. The first column are the frequencies, and subsequent columns are the force spectra.
You might have to do something lower-level if you have multiple force regions corresponding to different frequency ranges, or have other special needs. (display-forces f1 f2 f3) is actually equivalent to (display-csv "force" (get-force-freqs f1) (get-forces f1) (get-forces f2) (get-forces 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-force-freqs flux)
Given a force object, returns a list of the frequencies that it is computing the spectrum for.
(get-forces flux)
Given a force object, returns a list of the current force spectrum that it has accumulated.
As described in the Meep tutorial, to compute the force from scattered fields 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-force filename force)
Save the Fourier-transformed fields corresponding to the given force object in an HDF5 file of the given name (without the ".h5" suffix) (the current filename-prefix is prepended automatically).
(load-force filename force)
Load the Fourier-transformed fields into the given force 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-force in a simulation of the same dimensions (for both the computational cell and the force regions) with the same number of processors.
(load-minus-force filename force)
As load-force, 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.
LDOS spectra
Meep can also calculate the LDOS (local density of states) spectrum, as described in the Meep LDOS tutorial. To do this, you simply pass the following step function to your run command:
(dft-ldos fcen df nfreq)
Compute the power spectrum of the sources (usually a single point dipole source), normalized to correspond to the LDOS, in a frequency bandwith df centered at fcen, at nfreq frequency points.
The resulting spectrum is outputted as comma-delimited text, prefixed by ldos:,, and is also stored in the dft-ldos-data global variable (after the run is complete).
Analytically, the per-polarization LDOS is exactly proportional to the power radiated by an -oriented point-dipole current, p(t), at a given position in space. For a more mathematical treatment of the theory behind the LDOS, we refer you to the relevant discussion in chapter 4 of our book, but for now we simply give the definition:
where the normalization is necessary for obtaining the power exerted by a unit-amplitude dipole (assuming linear materials), and hats denote Fourier transforms. It is this quantity that is computed by the dft-ldos command for a single dipole source. (For a volumetric source, the numerator and denominator are both integrated over the current volume, but "LDOS" computation is less meaningful in this case.)
Near-to-far-field spectra
Meep (1.3 or later) can compute a "near-to-far-field transformation" in the frequency domain: given the fields on a "near" bounding surface inside the computational cell, it can compute the fields arbitrarily far away using an analytical transformation, assuming that the "near" surface and the "far" region lie in a single homogeneous non-periodic 2d or 3d region. That is, in a simulation surrounded by PML that absorbs outgoing waves, the near-to-far-field feature can compute the fields outside the computational cell as if the outgoing waves had not been absorbed (i.e. in the fictitious infinite open volume). Moreover, this operation is performed on the Fourier-transformed fields: like the flux and force spectra above, you specify a set of desired frequencies, Meep accumulates the Fourier transforms, and then Meep computes the fields at each frequency for the desired far-field points.
(This is based on the principle of equivalence — given the Fourier-transformed tangential fields on the "near" surface, Meep computes equivalent currents and convolves them with the analytical Green's functions in order to compute the fields any desired point in the "far" region.)
There are three steps to using the near-to-far-field feature: first, define the "near" surface(s) as a set of surfaces capturing all outgoing radiation in the desired direction(s); second, run the simulation, typically with a pulsed source, to allow Meep to accumulate the Fourier transforms on the near surface(s); third, tell Meep to compute the far fields at any desired points (optionally saving the far fields from a grid of points to an HDF5 file). To define the near surfaces, use:
(add-near2far fcen df nfreq near2far-regions...)
Add a bunch of near2far-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 near2far object, which you can pass to the functions below to get the far fields.
Each near2far-region is identical to flux-region except for the name: in 3d, these give a set of planes (all of which should lie in a single homogeneous material with isotropic ε and μ) surrounding the source(s) of outgoing radiation that you want to capture and convert to a far field. Ideally, these should form a closed surface, but in practice it is sufficient for the near2far-regions to capture all of the radiation in the direction of the far-field points. Important: as for flux computations, each near2far-region should be assigned a weight of ±1 indication the direction of the outward normal relative to the +coordinate direction. So, for example, if you have six regions defining the six faces of a cube, i.e. the faces in the +x, -x, +y, -y, +z, and -z directions, then they should have weights +1, -1, +1, -1, +1, and -1 respectively. Note that, neglecting discretization errors, all near-field surfaces that enclose the same outgoing fields are equivalent and will yield the same far fields (with a discretization-induced difference that vanishes with increasing resolution etc.).
After the simulation run (usually for a pulsed source) is complete (so that the fields have decayed away and the Fourier transforms have finished accumulating), you can compute the far fields
For a scattered-field computation you often want to separate the scattered and incident fields. Just as is described in the Meep tutorial for flux comptuations, you can do this by saving the Fourier-transformed incident from a "normalization" run and then load them into another run to be subtracted. This can be done via:
(get-farfield near2far x)
Given a vector3 point x (which can lie anywhere outside the near-field surface, including outside the computational cell) and a near2far object, returns the computes (Fourier-transformed) "far" fields at x as list of length 6nfreq, consisting of fields (Ex1,Ey1,Ez1,Hx1,Hy1,Hz1,Ex2,Ey2,Ez2,Hx2,Hy2,Hz2,...) for the frequencies 1,2,…,nfreq.
(output-farfields near2far fname where resolution)
Given an HDF5 file name fname (does not include the .h5 suffix), a volume given by where (may be 0d, 1d, 2d, or 3d), and a resolution (in grids points / distance a), outputs the far fields in where (which may lie outside the computational cell) in a grid with the given resolution (which may differ from the FDTD grid resolution) to the HDF5 file as a set of twelve array datasets ex.r, ex.i, ..., hz.r, hz.i, giving the real and imaginary parts of the Fourier-transformed E and H fields on this grid. Each dataset is an nx×ny×nz×nfreq 4-dimensional array of space×frequency (although dimensions that =1 are omitted).
Note that far fields have the same units and scaling as the Fourier transforms of the fields, and hence cannot be directly compared to time-domain fields. In practice, it is easiest to use the far fields in computations where overall scaling (units) cancel out or are irrelevant, e.g. to compute the fraction of the far fields in one region vs. another region.
(save-near2far filename near2far)
Save the Fourier-transformed fields corresponding to the given near2far object in an HDF5 file of the given name (without the ".h5" suffix) (the current filename-prefix is prepended automatically).
(load-near2far filename near2far)
Load the Fourier-transformed fields into the given near2far 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-near2far in a simulation of the same dimensions (for both the computational cell and the near2far regions) with the same number of processors.
(load-minus-near2far filename near2far)
As load-near2far, 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-near2far-fields s near2far)
Scale the Fourier-transformed fields in near2far by the complex number s. e.g. load-minus-near2far is equivalent to load-near2far followed by scale-near2far-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, especially if the fields are desired to a very high accuracy. 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)
After the fields variable (a global variable pointing to the meep::fields* object initialized by init-fields, see above), the next two parameters to the frequency-domaine solver are the tolerance tol for the iterative solver (10−8, by default) and a maximum number of iterations maxiters (104, 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.
The frequency-domain solver requires you to use complex-valued fields, via (set! force-complex-fields? true).
After meep-fields-solve-cw completes, it should be as if you had just run the simulation for an infinite time with the source at that frequency. You can call the various field-output functions and so on as usual at this point.
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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Government misses pay-day for clean-up workers
(CNS): At the end of last week’s roadside cleanup, many workers on the Christmas job scheme were left empty handed when government failed to make the pay-day. Police were called out in George Town on Friday evening after many of the temporary workers who had been given ten days work on the project turned up at the bank for their pay only to discover there was no cash for their labours. Cayman27 caught the disappointed and increasingly angry large group of workers and police on film. The workers were due to be paid on at 3pm on Friday afternoon but for at least the second time there were problems with government meeting the pay day.
According to government, the Christmas roadside cleanup is designed not only to spruce up the islands for the festive season but also to give local unemployed workers a chance to earn some cash for the holiday, especially given the recent tough times. Around 800 workers have been given only ten days work this year on the project, which was first funded by the UDP administration in 2009 to the tune of more than $1million.
Go to Cayman 27 video
Maybe Mckeeva didn't have enough money after the big ole dinner party he hosted!!! Oh well clean up crew, HOPE you know better next time! The truth of the matter is, NO ONE IN GOV'T GIVES A DAMN! And worse if yah didn't clean up their yard properly either! ;(
Bushwacker says:
This fiasco clearly highlights that these numskull’s that were elected have no clue whatsoever about running a Government with Fifty plus Thousand souls at sake much less a rather small exercise such as this clean-up effort. Their befuddling antics as “elected members” have caused them to become the laughing stock of the Cayman Islands, the region and now it appears the world. Imagine they are tasked to negotiate with tycoons such as Mr. Kenneth Dart and large conglomerates like CHEC, yet to reiterate they cannot even organize and operate correctly a rather minor operation such as this clean-up effort.
Let’s break down how rather simply this exercise should have been.
Mr. Ellio Solomon stated that the number of crews and their sizes had to be restricted due to these austere economic times (establishment of the number of crews and their sizes);
Each crew was “managed” by a Foreman;
Considering the effort, it is reasonable to say that every “worker” is a Contract employee;
Every Crew’s Foreman should have register every individual at the commencement of the clean-up;
Considering that these are Contract Employees their contracts are fixed for a limited period of time. Therefore it is not unreasonable to have all Crews start work at let’s 7:00 am and ending at 3:00 pm.
Having completed all five (5) of the small and simple steps mentioned above at the commencement of this exercise. The Treasury could have easily commenced the creation of the pay cheques at the least by midweek of the contract period for their delivery at 3:30 pm on Friday.
However, it appears that all of the “time-sheets” were only handed into the Treasury towards the end of the work day on Friday with expectation to have the hundreds of said cheques completed in a matter of a couple of hours.
These new definitions for an inept and incompetent Gowermint could not tear their way out of a dripping wet paper bag! Considering the totality of blunders and their wastrel ways since taking office it is reasonableto say that this Territory cannot sustain another term of this churlish and numskull behavior. Dear God please help us all by enlightening the West Bay voters!
MER says:
This is serious stuff!!! The people who desperately need the help from Government are the one's who are getting only excuses! Mckeeva found $4 million to give to churches, excuse me but I did not hear of any church being effected by the economic meltdown!!!!
LMAO says:
That is what happens when you want to "help" the people and give them temporary jobs so they can earn a little Christmas cash BEFORE you confirm that you actually have money to pay them.
The Premier wants to viewed as some kind of "saviour" to theseislands and how he is bending over backward to help people but now he has egg on his face.
" Government misses payday"? Are you serious. These workers expected to get their money on time, like they were told. Im sure a few days late may be nothing to you, but to them that don't have stable income its a lot. How can you manage to mess this up? Aren't you all the ones that planned it and had everything prepared?.. Nevermind..I guess not.
Annnie Green Gables says:
I am wondering what you people will say six months after you vote in a new government. Lol You people just cannot satisfy.
My word, some posters on here really have an axe.
Its Treasury that prints the cheques, and i can imagine that generating / approving 200 cheques takes quite a while.
Its funny how the ignorance of the locals is always highlighted for amuzement. Why didn't the TV / New Forums publish how good some workers are cleaning up the place – rather than focusing on a few rotten apples of the local populace that believe they can behave like animals whenever they dont get what they want?
Just Sayin says:
You make it sound as though the Treasury has the authority to approve and print all cheques coming from the Government which I don't believe is the case, otherwise why would they have all those CFO's?
Maybe the Ministry responsible for paying these people just didn't have the funds and therefore didn't approve the cheques to be printed.
all the money spent on these clean ups could have been used to get them qualified for some sort of trade – plumber, construction worker, food & beverage server, bar tender, etc. etc. so that they could support themselves all year round.
Knot S Smart says:
Maybe Mac thought that they were his enthusiastic supporters who volunteered to clean up his island.
30/11/-0001 at 12:00 am
"According to government, the Christmas roadside cleanup is designed not only to spruce up the islands for the festive season but also to give local unemployed workers a chance to earn some cash for the holiday, especially given the recent tough times."
Unlike many of the commenters here, I appreciate the hard work of the crews on-island, particularly in my own district, BT. I just think its a crying shame that some genuinely unemployed locals turned up to work yet were turned away in favour of people who had no right being offered work with these crews. And I am not talking gossip I talking fact – seen plenty people who already employed on them crews and an expat here on a 6 month work permit working with them too, and I have relatives and friends who turned up for work and were told there was no more room left. Those people should be ashamed taking work away from people who genuinely need it, particularly at Christmas. And then to add insult to injury the government don't get their act organised enough to pay these people too.
Disgraceful.
Some people are so pathetic! The so called workers who did'nt receive their cheques on friday afternoon, were those who showed up to work for a day or two and expected a full weeks pay. Their hours and cheques had to be adjusted, maybe that is something Government should look into and get rid of all those on their payroll who sit idle all month, until payday, full of energy, running to the bank and taking care of personal business. CIVIL SERVICE FULL OF THEM! GET RID OF THEM, WOULD SAVE THE COUNTRY ALOT OF CASH!
What's ironic is the Gowerment reinstated CS 3% this month and couldn't pony up the dough to pay these ppl who were actually working. McKweewa you see what you gone done now? Stirred the shit and made it stinker! If I could get away with it I might spontaneously vomit on his shoes the next time I see him.
Given their behaviour, you can understand why of them are unemployed.
Correction. Given the behaviour of the minority of Caymanians, the marjoity of Caymanians suffer.
Super Dart to bail us out again!
Where did the Lunch come from? I was hoping maybe the Church in each district as the clean mover around could give a little back.
You expect to get lunch from the churches?
They are here to eat your lunch. You see those expensive cars the ministers drive?
Not every minister, but most of the false prophets that are predicting dooms day. Frightening their congregations into putting more money in the collection plates, so they can live the large life. False Prophets.
False prophets: that's every Minister, right?
Anonnymous says:
Guess you don't know about the church(es) whose members maintain a pantry and consistently give food to the needy, not only at Christmas. You really shouldn't generalize. Your moniker fits you to a 'T'.
FBB says:
That is quite an unfair comment to make about 'the expensive cars' that the ministers drive.
People always seem to assume that because someone is a pastor or a minister and if they live in a 'nice' house or a drive a 'nice' car they are robbing people.
Do they ever stop to think that the minister/pastor is getting paid a salary from the church, sometimes a lot less than most people think and that they have taken out a mortgage/car loan just like every one else and is paying that.
It saddens me to hear how a lot of the people here always tearing down other people without any facts to support their accusations. There are a lot of "haters" here for an island who calls itself "a christian community".
Judge not less you be judged. Now with that said to all those ministers/pastors out there who are just taking the collection money for their own personal gratification, shame on you but God will deal with you accordingly.
More to Come get rid of the Government
Yes that's the truth everybody was running around on Saturday morning from CNB to the MLA office at the four way stop looking for their monies.
Also, it was said that the organizers would deduct CI$10.00 a day for lunch for the workers and the workers had to end up throwing the food away as it was not even cooked properly and raw most of the time.
The organizers are having different people cook lunch at their home for the workers I wonder if Environment Health checked on the kitchens where they are cooking to see if it is healthy to sell food. How does Environmental Health let them get away with it.
The clean-up crew had very little or nothing to do in my area. The frons cut from a tree were left on the the side of the road, while some took turns resting in a sand hole, and others smoking or drinking white rum. What a disgrace. Taxpayers money handed out to the not so ambitious.
It took 12 to 15 to stand motionless around one person holding an garbage bag. These were only a few of the incidences/happenings witnessed in the neighbourhoods or on the roads. They need help but they don''t need work. By the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread. Stop encouraging laziness, give them the tools to work and encouragement to improve and move upward.
Check the side roads and see how much litter is still left behind. Good job. Raise their pay.
Ellio was busy negotiating with CHEC so he will personally hand over the cheques and remind them of whom they have to thank at a later date.
Yep – that sounds like our current government. Incompetent, unorganized, selfish and arrogant!
Ah, come on……. They weren't that bad!
I guess Ellio has moved on to the "Dock" spotlight and no longer wanting to play hero handing out the Friday cheques as he did in the past. Watch out CG he may influence the premiere for you to take up that role!
Typical of the McKeeva Bush government. Lots of hot air. No real benefit to Caymanians.
Slavery has not been abolished in Cayman!
How typical of our Government. Champagne taste with only beer money to spend. Sad and disgusting how our Government behaves especially at Christmas.
I ran into a few of the workers at the bank on Saturday. The bank had to open up an "express" line for them, I guess to try and ease the tension. That was the most alert I've ever seen the security guards. The was all very professional.
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Focus on Haiti: Washington's Militarized Takeover
Top Priority is Command & Control, Hindering Desperately Needed Humanitarian Aid
US troops control Port-au-Prince's airport and port facilities, blocking and slowing aid, including relief flights from NGOs, France, Brazil, Italy and other countries, diverting them to the neighboring Dominican Republic, hours from Port-au-Prince on bad roads.
Haiti is no stranger to adversity and anguish - over 500 years of severe oppression, slavery, despotism, colonization, reparations, embargoes, sanctions, deep poverty, starvation, unrepayable debt, and natural calamities from destructive hurricanes to a dozen magnitude 7.0 or greater Caribbean region earthquakes in the past 500 years. The last major one was in 1946 at 8.1 in the adjacent Dominican Republic, also striking Haiti. Earlier catastrophic ones were in 1751 and 1770, both devastating Port-au-Prince, and the 1842 one destroying Cap-Haitien in the north.
On September 25, 2008, Phoenix Delacroix quoted geologist Patrick Charles of Havana's Geological Institute saying:
"conditions are ripe for major seismic activity in Port-au-Prince. The inhabitants of the Haitian capital need to prepare themselves for an event which will inevitably occur."
Citing a real danger, he explained that the dangerous Enriquillo Fault Zone extends across Port-au-Prince, starting in Petionville, traversing the Southern Peninsula to Tiburon. Noting earlier tremors in the area, he said a larger earthquake usually follows, yet no precautions were taken, leaving Haitians vulnerable to what happened - vast destruction, perhaps hundreds of thousands dead, countless numbers seriously injured, and disease, depravation, and militarized occupation haunting survivors in the aftermath.
After Washington ousted President Jean-Betrand Aristide in February 2004, UN Blue Helmets (MINUSTAH) occupied Haiti as paramilitary enforcers. They still do, subordinate to around 20,000 US land and sea based troops, including Marines, Army 82nd Airborne paratroupers, Navy assault ships, and Coast Guard vessels offshore, a powerful force for indefinite occupation, severe repression, and ruthless exploitation for American interests - obstructing, not providing, humanitarian aid, and facilitating potentially hundreds of thousands of deaths from starvation, dehydration, disease, untreated wounds, trauma, and for some perhaps just giving up and expiring unnoticed, unreported, and uncared about by forces able to help.
It's an old story for Haitians, beleaguered for over 500 years and under America's thumb for nearly two centuries, unrecognized, embargoed, exploited, and slaughtered to assure their freedom is denied. Now again, but first some background.
Occupied Haiti
On April 30, 2004, the UN Security Council authorized MINUSTAH - paramilitary peacekeepers, illegally sent for the first time ever to support a coup d'etat regime in place of a democratically elected president.
Rebel thugs got free reign to join them in the streets, the result being hundreds turned up dead or missing. The state Port-au-Prince morgue was swamped with bodies. Many showed up with their hands tied behind their backs and bags placed over their heads. Ruthlessness was empowered. Orders came from Washington.
Bodies turned up everywhere, in streets, on beaches, abandoned as food for pigs, and anyone connected with Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas party (FL) was fair game.
US Marines and foreign troops arrived, not to deliver aid or for protection, but to intimidate, terrorize, crush resistance, solidify coup d'etat rule, and destroy Haitian democracy under Aristide and prevent any chance of it returning.
MINUSTAH and the reconstituted Haitian National Police (the force Aristide abolished with the army) took over from the initial Multinational Interim Force (MIF), terrorizing Haitians through thousands of political killings, disappearances, torture, and unlawful arrests and incarcerations.
FL was effectively destroyed and Aristide's remarkable accomplishments ended in areas of healthcare, education, free expression, economic and social reforms, human rights and justice, lost under coup d'etat rule and thereafter under the Preval government, a pseudo one subservient to Washington.
In the 2006 presidential and parliamentary elections, he agreed to painful concessions, surrendered his authority, and yielded power to US and elitist Haitian interests - a shameless betrayal of his people.
After the coup and thereafter, episodes like the following were commonplace:
On December 22, 2006, Blue Helmets assaulted Cite Soleil (one of Port-au-Prince's most impoverished communities), randomly shot and killed 30 or more people, supposedly to capture a gang member, but in fact to terrorize.
In an earlier July 6, 2005 incident, hundreds of heavily armed troops attacked Cite Soleil with an array of powerful weapons - high-powered assault ones atop armored personnel carriers, precision rifles for assassinations, and a type of gattling gun firing depleted uranium tipped armor-piercing bullets. Thousands of rounds were indiscriminately fired. About 70 people were murdered, and many were left unattended to bleed to death on streets or in their homes.
On January 23, 2007, MINUSTAH forces were back, open fired randomly for hours, and used helicopters to reign death from the skies, killing dozens, then removing the dead to prevent a body count.
From February 2004 - December 2005 alone, Wayne State University School of Social Work researchers estimated that 8,000 people were murdered and 35,000 women sexually assaulted in the greater Port-au-Prince area - attributed to MINUSTAH, the Haitian National Police (PNH), Haitian demobilized army members, and anti-Aristide paramilitary gangs enlisted to commit terror. Also reported were documented kidnappings, extrajudicial detentions, assaults other than rape, death threats, physical threats, and threats of sexual violence against helpless people. The report concluded that "crime and systematic abuse and human rights were common in Port-au-Prince" involving criminals but also "political actors and UN soldiers."
Today, similar abuses crush resistance, prevent the restoration of democracy, and keep Haitians cowed, abused and exploited. Washington decides their fate, and now the Marines are back along with thousands of combat paratroupers and naval forces (an authorized 20,000 force mostly arrived), not to provide aid, to deny it and perhaps let hundreds of thousands perish - a crime of genocidal proportions, a US specialty, honed and perfected from decades of ritual slaughter, especially against people of color, deemed inferior to American "exceptionalism" and "moral superiority."
Marines came earlier in 1915, stayed 20 years, ravaged the country, destroyed Haitian society and institutions, and committed horrendous crimes against humanity. Most notorious was the infamous 1929 slaughter of 264 peasants protesting in Les Cayes. In addition, corvee or forced labor was employed, brutally exploited, and new weapons tested like today, including aerial bombing years before the Nazis did it against Guernica (in April 1937) in support of Spanish fascists in the country's civil war.
Haiti's Catastrophic Tragedy
After its worst catastrophe in nearly 170 years, millions in the country need everything, not Marines - food, water, medical care, shelter, and deep compassion at their greatest time of need.
Instead, the country is occupied, militarized, denied aid, and taken over for greater exploitation. General Ken Keen, in charge of forces, says US troops will "be here as long as needed," signaling an open-ended commitment for years.
On her January 16 photo-op visit, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton practically announced an emergency decree, suspension of the rule of law, and authorization of curfews and martial law under Pentagon control. She said:
"The decree would give the government an enormous amount of authority, which in practice they would delegate to us," omitting that its choice was do it or else.
Despite the calm and lack of disorder, it's now official under Pentagon command enforcing a state of emergency and martial law. US troops control Port-au-Prince's airport and port facilities, blocking and slowing aid, including relief flights from France, Brazil, Italy and other countries, diverting them to the neighboring Dominican Republic, hours from Port-au-Prince on bad roads. In addition, the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders report aid flights can't land for fast access to treat the injured, ill and dying. Pentagon troops obstruct them, willfully letting people suffer, die, and be ethnically cleaned from Port-au-Prince areas wanted for new development. More on that below.
According to General Keen:
"If an air traffic controller doesn't know what's on an incoming plane, then he doesn't know what priority to give it."
Military flights in and ones out with US citizens and foreign nationals have top priority. Saving lives don't matter. They're just Haitians, poor, black, unimportant, to be removed, using the earthquake as a pretext to do it, dead or alive.
In natural disasters, immediate aid is critical. After that, casualties multiply fast and in Haiti they're exploding, from a lack of medical supplies and equipment, vital surgeries, infections, diseases, extreme trauma, and inadequate essential to life supplies not let in or delayed. Three million or more Haitians need help. A fraction of that number are getting it. As a result, thousands are dying daily.
Phillippe Bolopion from FRANCE24 TV said supplies are piling up at the airport and not being delivered. Desperate people can't "understand why the generosity of the world isn't getting to them. It's really hard to comprehend."
Radio Television Esponola's (RTVE) Fran Sevilla reported:
"There continues to be no distribution of humanitarian aid, of food and water. I ask myself how all these human beings survive. I ask if anyone is helping them, if they are receiving anything, and the answer is always no. They survive thanks to the solidarity between them, sharing between families and groups of friends what little they have, what they can get."
President Rene Preval is disturbingly absent and silent, reportedly at the airport, out of sight, playing no role in the relief effort - something he should lead, not abstain from, and do it visibly, actively, on the ground in Port-au-Prince, what Aristide would do if there.
Despite the obstacles, some nations are doing what they can, Venezuela for one, a critical Hugo Chavez saying on his weekly Sunday broadcast:
"It seems that the United States is militarily occupying Haiti, taking advantage of the tragedy....Thousands of (soldiers) are disembarking in Haiti as if it were a war. (Haiti) needs doctors, tents, rescue teams and machinery....Now, who said soldiers, rifles and machine guns are necessary?"
Venezuelan and Cuban aid were some of the first to arrive, and Chavez and Castro promise more, including food, water, doctors, medical supplies and rescue equipment, yet Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicholas Maduro said shipments were diverted to the Dominican Republic, losing precious hours to deliver it to victims.
So far, Venezuela alone has sent fuel, 616 metric tons of food, and 116 metric tons of equipment, including water purification systems, electrical generators and heavy equipment for moving rubble, Chavez saying:
"The Venezuelan people (will do more and) will donate all the fuel the Haitian people need. We are coordinating with the president of the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernandez, who put the terminal of the refinery of his country at our service."
Chavez later announced that another five ships loaded with food and medical supplies left for Haiti on January 19 with Venezuelan soldiers on board to "protect the safety of everyone, but not to militarily occupy (the country) as the US intends to do."
Venezuela and other ALBA nations (Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas) pledged generous aid, additional shiploads already sent carrying thousands of tons of food and other supplies.
America's Response - Occupation, Not Aid
In a show of strength, US paratroupers took control of the Presidential Palace, symbol of the nation's sovereignty, wanting it for a command center, and angering one Haitian to say:
"I haven't seen the Americans in the streets giving out water and food, but now they come to the palace."
From another:
"It's an occupation. The palace is our power, our face, our pride," now taken, occupied, a deep humiliation while critical needs go begging.
Besides control, security is top priority, never mind how calm, resilient, compassionate, and committed able Haitians are to help, asking no more than for vital supplies to survive at a time they can't provide them on their own. Yet Keen claims:
"incidents of violence (are) imped(ing) our ability to support the (Haitian) government and answer the challenges that this country faces as they're suffering a tragedy of epic proportions," one America exacerbates along with repressive MINUSTAH forces, to be reinforced with thousands of additional troops.
In separate incidents, they fired tear gas and rubber bullets at a crowd close to the Port-au-Prince airport, and Hatian police did as well against civilians in the city center. Another report said police were shooting Haitians and letting them bleed to death in the street.
"We don't need military aid. What we need is food and shelter," shouted one man at UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during his one-day visit with officials and UN forces, not to assess the tragedy and direct massive aid to address it.
Arriving on January 17, he left the same day, an appalling display of arrogance and indifference. During a photo-op near a tent city, he was heckled by angry crowds demanding help from the international community. Instead he said:
"Coordination will improve as we are better organized. Deliveries are now being made in a more effective and efficient manner."
In fact, they're being obstructed and prevented from landing, and much getting in is stacked at the airport, not delivered or delayed. The result is death, devastation, and human suffering everywhere while Ban, Hillary Clinton and husband Bill come for photo-ops and shameless comments like the former president saying:
"There was an extraordinary amount of time devoted to try and dig through those buildings to try to find living and dead."
If fact, no heavy equipment was delivered. UN and US troops didn't help, and Haitians had to use small implements and their bare hands to rescue a bare handful of people on their own while perhaps hundreds of thousands perished.
At the same time, desperation grows, arousing one woman to say:
"I have been here every day. I heard they gave away some food but there was a riot....we have been on this spot since the day of the earthquake and we have not seen anyone give away anything but water," and not enough.
Another man shouted:
"Have we been abandoned? Where is the food?"
Head of mission of Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Michelle Chouinard, described their enormous challenges:
limited supplies of everything;
extreme crush injuries, partial amputations and open fractures;
people in severe pain with festering wounds;
a young man, typical of others, with a traumatic crush injury; he was young and strong, but his leg was dead and had to come off;
gangrenous limbs removed to save lives;
after surgeries, patients can't go home; they have none and need care - to prevent infections, change dressings and control pain;
many amputees and the paralyzed need lifelong care, but from where, by whom, and the numbers are so great it's impossible to help everyone;
thousands of children have been orphaned;
shocked, traumatized people are everywhere;
the number of people needing surgery is overwhelming; teams work under makeshift conditions around the clock with inadequate supplies running out as well as enough fuel for refrigerating medicines; and
people are dying and will die without essential treatment, and for the seriously ill, survival depends on leaving Haiti for what's not available internally - but Washington is blocking Haitian citizens from leaving, even parents whose children are US citizens; they can go, not their parents.
Two million or more are homeless, living on streets or, if lucky, in tents. Partners in Health, (with 25 years experience providing healthcare to Haitians), estimates 20,000 are dying daily from lack of surgery and essential treatment. The human tragedy is incalculable. Tens of thousands of bodies get dumped in mass graves like garbage.
MSF's Dr. Greg Elder fears:
"The next health risk could include outbreaks of diarrhea, respiratory tract infections, and other diseases among hundreds of thousands of Haitians living in overcrowded camps with poor or nonexistent sanitation."
On January 20, even The New York Times reported that:
"....people (are) writhing in pain (in squatter camps around the capital), their injuries bound up by relatives but not yet seen by a doctor eight days after the quake struck. On top of that, the many bodies still in the wreckage increase the risk of diseases spreading, especially, experts say, if there is rain."
The Wall Street Journal reported that Port-au-Prince General Hospital is besieged by over 1,000 patients needing surgery. "....thousands of injured, some grievously, wait outside virtually any hospital or clinic, pleading for treatment."
BBC correspondents said aid arriving by sea is taken to the airport, "where it is piling up and not being distributed to those who need it." As a result, most Haitians are getting little or nothing. An estimated two hundred thousand or more have died. Many more will perish for lack of help.
At the same time, MINUSTAH and US forces provide security, not aid, leaving Haitians on their own, at the mercy of what relief agencies can provide and doctors from Cuba, Venezuela and other concerned nations, not America, not the EU, not Canada, not the world's wealthiest states able to mount a sustained, large-scale effort but won't.
Instead, reports say flyers are being circulated throughout Port-au-Prince, telling people to evacuate to safer places. It's reminiscent of New Orleans post-Katrina, a mass ethnic cleansing exodus to level the city's most valued parts, prepare it for upscale development, and prevent poor Haitians from returning.
On January 22, AP reported that:
"Haitian officials are planning a massive relocation of 400,000 people from makeshift camps to the outskirts of the capital....to help residents survive the aftermath of the catastrophic earthquake."
In fact, Pentagon forces run everything, providing aid not their concern. They're relocating people, dumping and forgetting about them, out of sight and mind.
The New York Times ignores it, referring only to aid groups helping the homeless by "an epic relocation (of) up to one million people." Not a word about capitalizing on disaster for profit.
Before the quake, Haiti had over 10,000 NGOs profiteering on the nation's misery, preparing now for a bonanza at the expense of the poor, displaced and immiserated.
Blocking a Haitian Exodus
The Pentagon has Haiti under siege. Five US Coast Guard vessels and Navy warships patrol offshore to interdict those fleeing and forcibly return them back home.
On January 19, cnn.com reported that:
"A US Air Force plane serving as an airborne radio station is broadcasting messages to Haitians (warning) them not to attempt ocean voyages to the United States, saying they will be intercepted and turned back home if they do."
The message comes from Raymond Joseph, Haiti's US ambassador, saying in Creole:
"Listen, don't rush on boats to leave the country. If you do that, we'll all have even worse problems....If you think you will reach the US and all the doors will be wide open to you, that's not at all the case. And they will intercept you right on the water and send you back home where you came from."
If large numbers flee, they'll be incarcerated at Guatanamo's Krome Service Processing Center under conditions others earlier faced. After the 1991 coup deposed President Aristide, thousands fled to America. Most were sent home, but around 300 were held at Guantanamo because tests showed they were HIV positive. In subsequent years, thousands more were interned there.
Conditions were deplorable. Treated like prisoners, they were held behind razor wire in leaky barracks with bad sanitation, poor food, and little medical care even for the sick and pregnant women. After one protest and a hunger strike, crackdowns were severe, and many were imprisoned.
In October 2002, 212 Haitians reached South Florida seeking asylum and safety. Instead, they were rounded up, handcuffed, held in detention, and grossly mistreated. Families were separated from children, husbands from wives, and siblings from each other, but it wasn't an isolated incident under a secret Bush administration policy authorizing what now is the Department of Homeland Security to detain South Florida arrivals, regardless of their asylum eligibility.
It's how Washington always treated Haitians since they began arriving over 50 years ago to escape repression, only to be treated abusively once here.
Today, sick and dying Haitians are denied visas for emergency medical treatment and those with them can't leave. On January 19, the Miami Herald reported that commercial flights from Haiti are banned because checks can't screen out potential terrorists, a policy applying to Haitians, not US citizens or others allowed to depart.
Abducting Haitian Children
Noted international law and human rights expert Professor Francis Boyle reports the following:
"The USA is stealing the alleged 'orphans' of Haiti, taking them away from their families. Haiti is currently being occupied by the United States....Obama basically told Preval he was taking over the country, and Preval said OK -- no choice in the matter" as Washington does what it pleases, especially against defenseless countries like Haiti.
"....the Fourth Geneva Convention applies to this situation. It clearly states in Article 2:
'The Convention shall also apply to all cases of partial or total occupation of the territory of a High Contracting Party, even if the said occupation meets with no armed resistance.' "
Under Fourth Geneva, Haitian "orphans are protected persons under the terms of the (Convention). Hence, they cannot be moved from Haiti for any reason. To do so is a serious war crime."
Boyle added that Defense Secretary Gates said America won't police Haiti. However, under Fourth Geneva, occupying the country and displacing its sitting government (even in weakened form) is precisely what Washington is doing.
On January 19, The New York Times headlined, "53 Haitian Orphans Are Airlifted to US," then explained that some Haitian orphanages "are fronts for traffickers who buy children from their parents and sell them to couples in other countries." Now profiteers are stealing them.
According to UNICEF spokesperson Christopher de Bono:
"In orphanages in Haiti, there are an awful lot of children who are not orphans."
According to UNICEF adviser Jean Luc Legrand, children are also missing from hospitals.
"We have documented around 15 cases of children disappearing from hospitals and not with their own family at the time. UNICEF has been working in Haiti for many years and we knew the problem with the trade of children....that existed beforehand. Unfortunately, many of the....networks have links with the international adoption market."
Fast-track adoptions are proceeding in Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and America.
They're victims of child-traffickers, now aided by Homeland Security's January 18 announced policy of waiving visa requirements on humanitarian grounds for Haitian children approved for adoption, or perhaps abducted to be sold for profit, never to see their parents again or know if they're alive. DHS is facilitating a crime, a practice it's expert at targeting Latino immigrants, including documented US citizens.
Boyle asks who gives "the White Racist United States (the) Divine Right to go around the world (stealing) Black Children from Third World Countries, depriving those children and their countries of their future?"
"The forcible transfer of children of one group (Black Hatians) to another group (White Americans) is genocide under the 1948 Genocide Convention (besides violating Fourth Geneva)."
It may also violate America's "Genocide Implication Act as amended by the Genocide Accountability Act and perhaps the US War Crimes Act."
The White House pressured the Haitian government to comply, forcing it to be complicit in child abductions - trafficking potentially thousands of Haitian children for profit at a time they're most vulnerable.
"Notice the duress and coercion involved here. The Black Haitian government was forced by the White Racist USA to surrender up their Children to White American child thieves," parents complicit in a crime with lawyers helping them who know better but are well paid to stay silent.
Boyle asks:
"Are we American Lawyers going to stand by and let their genocidal thievery of Haitian babies happen? Or are we going to do something to stop it?"
This story was published on January 25, 2010.
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Geographical Index > United States > Michigan > Wexford County > Report # 26196
Report # 26196 (Class B)
Submitted by witness NO on Sunday, June 28, 2009.
Possible intimidation experienced by two bow hunters near Cadillac
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YEAR: 2000/01
MONTH: October
COUNTY: Wexford County
LOCATION DETAILS: South of 46rd. Between 17rd and 21rd.
NEAREST TOWN: Hoxeyville
NEAREST ROAD: S21
OBSERVED: A friend and I were Bowhunting in October of 2000 or 2001.We found the area we wanted to hunt the day before.We hiked into the woods together.He chose a spot down by the creek over looking a small swampy area.It was down a deep ravine.I continued on further down the path and found a spot and sat down in the tall grass.Neither one of us had a tree stand.
I had sat down for a couple of hours and was awaiting the time my friend and I call "Crunch Time". That is the time when the wind usually calms down and Deer start to move.Off to my left I could hear what sounded like an animal moving very quietly.I'd like to add that where I sat there was a small hill between me and the spot where I had hoped to ambush a Deer.This animal kept quietly rustling about and I moved from a sitting position to a crouch, getting ready for a shot.All of a sudden a very large tree started to shake violently and whatever this animal was let out a roar/scream that scared the hell out of me.I could see up into the tree and saw nothing in the tree. I could not see the bottom of the tree as it was obscured by the small hill. I immediately got up and ran all the way back to the truck.When I arrived at the truck two DNR officers were waiting to probably check our licenses.One of the officers was a male the other a female.The officers questioned me why I was running. I told them what happened and also told them that my friend was still in the woods.One of the Officers unsnapped his holster but did not pull out his gun.At this time it was dark we walked into the woods looking for my friend.After a short walk we could see his flashlight. The first words out of his mouth were, "Did you hear that thing scream". I told him that I did. He also elaborated that immediately after the scream two deer ran through the swampy area at full speed.We all walked out of the woods together with the officers instructing us to leave. They didn't even bother checking our licenses. They were at a loss to explain what had happened.I have since bought a trailer down the road in Manistee County and am in the area quite a bit.In looking back the thing that scares me the most is the fact that this powerful animal was very stealth until it wanted me to know it was there.The area also has legendary creature known as the Dog Man.
ALSO NOTICED: Upon leaving the woods I was greeted by two DNR officers.
OTHER WITNESSES: My friend who I was hunting with at the time.
OTHER STORIES: Yes. Recent discussions with the locals in the area have revealed other incidents. Some of the locals won't talk about it. I think it's because I'm a "Flat-lander". Somebody from downstate Michigan.
TIME AND CONDITIONS: The incident occurred in the evening. It was sunny,cool and breezy.
ENVIRONMENT: Manistee National Forest. Very heavily wooded, hilly with a small creek and a swampy area.Poplar Creek runs through the area. It's basically a Brook Trout stream.
Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Don Peer:
I spoke at length with the witness. He seemed very honest and sincere. He stated the events above and said he first heard what he thought was a deer or squirrel quietly rustling around on the other side of the hill. He estimates the diameter of the tree that violently shook and swayed to have been between 12 and 14 inches in diameter and whatever was shaking it had to possess great strength.
The witness has since purchased a cottage in the area and said he will take me to the location the next time he is up for a weekend. I will update this report if I find any evidence at that time. This seems to have been a possible intimidation or a territorial threat display to get the hunters out of the area.
This witness wanted to tell his story and have it published so that others in the area who may have had similar experiences will come forward. He thinks many people may have had a similar encounter and never tell anyone, not knowing what to make of it.
About BFRO Investigator Don Peer:
Don Peer lives in northern Michigan and has studied the bigfoot phenomenon all his life. He has attended numerous Michigan expeditions and co-organized the 2011 Michigan BFRO expedition. He is an avid outdoorsman and works for the Michigan Department of Corrections.
Don Peer may be contacted at dpeer_mibigfoot@yahoo.com
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Africa Cancer Foundation: Eat and exercise your way out of cancer
By Chepkemoi Lasoi
Fun and informative. That is the simplest way to describe the ‘Move Eat family friendly’ event held by the Africa Cancer Foundation (ACF) at The Nairobi Arboretum on Saturday 7 July 2018 to educate Nairobi residents on living right, eating right so as to fight the scourge of cancer.
Founded in 2011, the Africa Cancer Foundation is focused on cancer awareness, prevention and treatment. Its vision is to have a cancer free Africa while its mission is “To promote the prevention of cancer and provide a holistic solution to people affected by cancer in Africa.”
ACF turned seven this year and to commemorate it, the Move Eat event was held, being the first of it’s kind as ACF has been primarily focused on screening tests. The aim of the event was to “pass on information on how to exercise in an individual’s own way and eat right”, said Dorothy Nyong’o, ACF’s Managing Director and Kisumu county’s first lady whose husband, Governor Anyang Nyongo of Kisumu County founded the organization after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer while serving as the Medical Services Minister.
According to the World Cancer Research fund, through regular exercise, nutritious diet and maintain a healthy weight, about a third of the most common cancers are preventable.
According to the Governor, he noticed the lack of resources and information on cancer and the stigma associated with it in Kenya. Many like him seek treatment outside the country.
ACF works closely with the government of Kenya through the county health facilities with nurses being given to them during the screening while private health facilities provide basic things like furniture. So far, ACF has screened more than 18,000 people in 12 different counties. Those they reach out to really appreciate free screenings. ACF’s major challenge is getting funding to go around the country.
Featured at the event were various partners ranging from medical care providers, medical equipment suppliers, fitness experts and healthy living advocates. These included Healthy U who offered free consultation on healthy living and diet including how to maintain healthy weight and skin care products.
They also sold some of their merchandise like omega supplements and organic seeds. Terra Lifestyle Company had fresh organic cold pressed juices, with offices at The Alchemist Bar in Westlands and Alpha Fit Gym on Ngong Road. Eco Fresh Limited displayed their vast array of m oringa products ranging from pure moringa in various forms, to spices mixed with moringa like garam masala, to teas with a mixture of moringa and other organic products with various focus points. Power Me is an energy booster, Beauty Me is for hormonal balance and healthy hair and skin, Balance Me is for calming nerves and relaxation, Detox Me is for detoxing, Skinny Me is for weight loss and boosting metabolism while Defend Me is for boosting immunity.
According to their catalogue, Moringa has 90+ nutrients and 8 essential amino acids. It is “perfect for prevention and management of lifestyle diseases as well as for restoring the body’s natural balance and vitality.”
Also, there was Sciencescope Limited, suppliers of machines/ equipment for laboratory/ MRI scans/ cancer screening among other things. Others who were there included Bio Foods Kenya, Nestle Kenya, Grange Park Drinking Water, The Pranic Healing Centre, Bubble Soccer Kenya, Bridges Organic Restaurant, Strength Kenya, Ultrafitness Gym, Doctor Fitness, MDA Kenya and AAR Insurance. Other products sold were raw shea butter, Himalayan bath salts, raw honey wax and honey by Mavuno Holdings and homemade granola ,in different flavors, by Simply Linah. Activities included bubble soccer, yoga, strength training, dancing, bouncing castles and a running.
The event attracted various types of people from relatives there to support their loved ones at ACF, to first timers to those interested in fitness, to some researchers. For starters there was Arnold Ambuga, a participant who was primarily interested in the 5km run around the arboretum, he wanted to learn more about the foundation because he and some of those he knows would want to contribute to ACF’s cause.
Apollo Murigi is a social scientist who has been volunteering at ACF for about four years according to him it’s his own way of interacting with people for a good cause. Also present was Doreen Mageto the Administration Assistant at ACF who started as a volunteer in 2014 before getting employed there. Working in a charitable trust according to Doreen, has impacted her life positively because she is able to learn a lot especially about nutrition and exercise and apply it in her personal life.
In attendance were also two students from the University of Toronto, Canada. Johnson Yu, studying Neuroscience specifically retinoblastoma, a rare form of cancer that develops in the retina which is in the eye, while Hodan Muhamud, studying Human Biology both being part of the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Program. They were present as observers and to discuss about their research with ACF. All in all, the event was a major success with the participants asking for it to be done quarterly each year. However, further plans have not been finalized yet.
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