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Welcome to the first installment of my annual weekly harvest update! I have been doing this portion of my blog since 2010. Week 1 is always the first week in August regardless of fruit or not. I originally picked the first week in August because I thought it would be the earliest any fruit would come in. This year due to the super early harvest we are having, that thought proved to be correct. This year Week 1 also coincides with seeing our first grapes at the winery. We are picking Sauvignon Blanc on Wednesday. This is the earliest non-sparkling harvest that I have experienced in my 8 years in California. Heck, it's the earliest non-sparkling harvest that I've ever experienced in any region I've worked in. I suppose that is what the warmest vintage in over 15 years will do for you.
Last year we received grapes on Week 2. In 2011, we were still going through veraison and didn't get moving until Week 5, just to give you an idea of the wide swings from those extreme vintages. Hopefully I don't need to adjust my calendar to include a Week "0″.
The weather this summer has been hot and relatively humid for this area. Powdery Mildew has been rampant and growers have had to really watch their spray programs. We've had multiple days over the 100 degree mark and what seems to me warmer nights for the area (upper 50s and low 60s at night although I have no actual evidence to support the claim that the nights are warmer than usual).
My prediction from earlier in the season, just after flowering, seems to have been spot on. The ripeness within the clusters are all over the place. Cluster sampling for harvest Brix will be a must this year. Veraison was nice and even in 2013 and very rapid which led to a very even harvest. This year Veraison has taken almost a month and in some clusters there are still green berries with berry samples approaching 20 Brix! Not fun. I had thought that we would be able to counter act the further behind fruit during the green drop however since it seems to be a berry by berry issue that will only be helped by harvest timing. Understanding what the average sugar, acid, and flavor profile of a particular block is will be key to making the best wine this year. Best case scenario and one that I am excited about in the Pinot Noir is that this variability of ripeness will allow for lots of complexity in the final wines. The less ripe fruit will provide acid and backbone while the more ripe fruit will add body and fruit. Picking when the average of the two are ripe may result in some amazing wines with fresh acid but ripe fruit profiles. Picking too early will result in green tannins with harsh acids and picking too late may result in prune raisin characters.
Then there are the vineyards which may need to be picked twice like the one below.
Half of the vine is through veraison and is moving towards harvest. The other half of the same vine with a younger trunk is not even thinking about veraison or harvest! This will have to be harvested in two passes. Pinot is just too delicate to try to average fruit this spread out.
Meanwhile, there is this little issue of water. Well, ok, it is a really big issue. Most of our growers are still ok but I know of growers who are not. All you have to do is drive around the valley and check out the irrigation ponds to know that if we don't get rain this winter, we are in serious trouble. Funny enough, our dry farmed blocks of To Kalon look fine. They aren't even stressed. Granted the yields are much lower than our irrigated blocks (1-2 tons/acre as opposed to 4 tons per acre) but should we be looking at returning the valley to dry farming to protect our water resources? Granted, not every vineyard can be dry farmed and not every rootstock does well with dry farming, however I think we should really take a second look at it.
Update 8/6/14: Our first grapes arrived today despite some scattered showers yesterday.


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Mirror's Edge
Developer: EA D.I.C.E.
Publisher: EA
Release Date: November 12, 2008
Genre: Parkour-Sim/First-Person Platformer
Mirror's Edge is one of those wonderful games that reminds me what true innovation is. This parkour-sim/first-person platformer is the love child of baby unicorns and magical rainbows. It's clear how happy I was when I saw this game. Playing it however is another story. I only owned Mirror's Edge for a total of one day. It made me so motion sick that I could only play it for roughly 30 minutes before becoming too sick to even look at the tv screen. That's OK though since the game is only seven hours long. For the time that I did play Mirror's edge though, I found it just a much frustrating as it was fun. The two button control is reminisent of the old days of video games but is so hard to get used to that I could see it turing away a lot of potential players. One button for up movements (jumping, vaulting) and one button for down movements (sliding, rolling). The problem with it is that in a game the needs to to keep moving as fast as possible this control scheme causes you to constantly get fingered tied as you roll off a building when you meant to jump up to a ladder.
Visually, the game is one of the most hauntingly beautiful games I've seen in a long time. In fact- I'd like Squenix to take a page out of Mirror's Edge book and make their next big name RPG more bright and colorful. The almost single color backdrop with bits of red hidden throughout can leave you breathless at times. For players that are not that good at the game though- this type of backdrop would make it very hard to play this game on higher difficulties when it takes away the red and leaves you to guess where all the steps are.
The story for Mirror's Edge is pretty fantastic. The government-conspiracy story may be over done and needs to be put out to pasture but every now and then a game like Mirror's Edge comes around and reminds me of why I love it. Actually, If I had to compare the games story to anything it would be the game Beyond Good and Evil, which is possibly the best game you've never heard of. It will keep you interested enough to keep you playing though all of the games chapters.
Overall: As much as I praise this game... it doesn't feel... right. It feels more like someone came up with an idea (first-person platformer) and then made a tech demo for it, albeit a long tech demo. This is a great step forward in the genre and I can't wait to see where it leads too. Maybe Sonic team will take the idea and use it for the next re-re-re-reboot of the sonic series.
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Fight against Sydney's private beaches
Fight against Sydney's private beaches
How can the public reclaim their right to access to Sydney's harbourside reserves? This 1980 clip from ABC's 'Nationwide' program shows reporter Richard Palfreyman discussing with conservationist Vincent Serventy the battle between private and public interest around the edges of the Sydney Harbour. They discuss ways private property owners block or discourage public access to harbourside reserves and give examples of 'psychological barriers' to public access. Serventy suggests some ways councils could change the situation.
Things to think about
Before viewing
What examples of public land can you find in your local area where all people have a right to go and enjoy themselves?
How would you feel if wealthy landowners decided to take over that land and prevent others from using it?
What could you do to prevent this from happening?
As you view
Who does Serventy feel is ultimately responsible for managing the reclamation of the foreshore for public use?
What four actions does Serventy think local councils should undertake to ensure greater public use of the foreshore?
Who is likely to have a vested interest in preventing foreshore accessibility to the public?
What has been done at Beauty Point to dissuade the public from gaining access to the foreshore?
After viewing
Put yourself in the shoes, firstly, of a member of the public who wants to assert his or her right to have access to the Sydney foreshore, then in the shoes of a person whose house is next to a public foreshore reserve and who wants to restrict access. Outline the case each person might put to support their opinions about public access to the foreshore.
Next steps
Use the internet to research recent development in improving public access to the harbour foreshore in Sydney. Note examples of recent development of coastal walkways; consequences of the 1998 Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority Act; or evidence of the North Sydney Foreshore Access Strategy in action. Look for any critical articles on harbourside access, such as the paper from the NSW Greens calling for gaps in the coastal walkway to be plugged. Locate any new public areas, such as the Barangaroo Foreshore and the Glebe Foreshore Walk.
Using the information you have gained from your research, compose a letter to Vincent Serventy reporting on how things have changed since the 1980s 'Nationwide' program was made.
00:00:00:14REPORTER:Sydney has 240km of harbour foreshore. Naturalist and conservationist Vincent Serventy believes there's an urgent need to open more of it to the public.00:00:10:24VINCENT SERVENTY:I'm appalled at the slowness of it all. It's over ten years since I first started to fight to get the harbour foreshores back again under public control. It seems to me the minister responsible should call a conference of councils and conservation groups and citizen groups who are interested and try and work out a system so that we can get more public access. And if that doesn't happen then it's up to the councils to publish maps of all the reserves, signpost them all and then make sure there are no psychological barriers as we've seen today. And they should also get landscape gardeners to work so they make them public places with seats where people can sit. And in some spots, barbecue places, things where people can come and enjoy for several hours.00:00:53:17REPORTER:Is there a powerful lobby within Sydney against opening up harbour areas? Are there vested interests that might be persuading the government to slow down on these things?00:01:01:00VINCENT SERVENTY:I'd imagine everyone who has a foreshore property might be tempted. Certainly, not enthusiastic about having more people coming to enjoy the public land. Because if you or I had those places we'd also be much happier if they were all for us. But that's not what it's about. It is public land and, therefore, the public are entitled to use it.00:01:19:01REPORTER:The public is also entitled to use another forgotten park across the harbour at Beauty Point, just around from the Spit Bridge. Like the Hermitage Reserve, it, too, has fallen victim to the apathy of the local council and to the encroachment of private residents. Vincent, Mosman Town Council says that this is a public roadway and it leads down to a public reserve. In fact, it's supposed to be 33 feet wide and it's supposed to be public access. Is this the sort of thing that you're complaining about when you're looking at the encroachment into harbour foreshores?00:01:51:24VINCENT SERVENTY:Well, it's one step better than many shire councils, or other councils, which block... ..or owners block the access by means of garden rubbish. At least here you have got a sign. But it would take a very courageous person to imagine this is actually a public pathway. It seems to be more like a house drive. So, psychologically, it's a barrier.00:02:16:03REPORTER:The camouflaging of public rights of way around the harbour is commonplace in the battle between private and public interests. The residents can safely rely on most intruders being repulsed by the apparent sanctity of private property. We've negotiated the current private driveway but we've still got this in front of us.00:02:37:02VINCENT SERVENTY:Yes, this is a typical way of disguising public land by dumping rubbish on it, so people think it can't be public, it must be a private rubbish dump.00:02:46:08REPORTER:At the moment, can you see any way that people could be using this as an access to a reserve?00:02:50:24VINCENT SERVENTY:The way I see it is a landscape architect could come here, perhaps put a seat there so people could look out at the view then steps leading down here and ending where that rock is another seat, so people could sit there and admire the view in the sun.
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Strand: Historical Knowledge and Understanding
Substrand: Students investigate one major global influence that has shaped Australian society in depth, including the development of the global influence during the twentieth century. Students study ONE of these electives: Popular culture or The environment movement or Migration experiences.
Content code: ACDSEH126
Description: The growth and influence of the environment movement within Australia and overseas, and developments in ideas about the environment (notion of 'Gaia', 'limits to growth', concept of 'sustainability', concept of 'rights of nature')
Strand: Historical Knowledge and Understanding
Substrand: Students investigate one major global influence that has shaped Australian society in depth, including the development of the global influence during the twentieth century. Students study ONE of these electives: Popular culture or The environment movement or Migration experiences.
Content code: ACDSEH125
Description: The intensification of environmental effects in the twentieth century as a result of population increase, urbanisation, increasing industrial production and trade
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I was scrambling to get stuff out of the dryer just now, and dropped my underwear and felt really embarrassed. This other girl getting her clothes out saw, purposefully dropped hers and shrugged and smiled as a sort of "Don't worry, me too".
I was scrambling to get stuff out of the dryer just now, and dropped my underwear and felt really embarrassed. This other girl getting her clothes out saw, purposefully dropped hers and shrugged and smiled as a sort of "Don't worry, me too".
I made a vow before I left for Colchester that I'd only be seen here looking as decent as possible. Yeah, no. I really like that I can just roll out into the kitchen and sit down for a chat, looking like a greasy arse mess. I mean, I sometimes go to the convenience store having just washed my hair, doing nothing with it. It doesn't sound like much, but when my hair's just dried, it looks like a pet sitting atop my head, and that's taken most of my adolescence to accept.
I booked train tickets to London for Friday earlier. The return on Sunday hasn't been sorted out yet, but I'll get to it (I hope). I don't feel excited so much as I do happy. Just really, really happy to be spending this weekend at home. I can feel this year drawing to a close even though we don't break up until March 23rd, and even then we have the summer term. But that'll be exams, mainly, and I'm starting to miss my first year here even though I'm still in it. I feel a little like I'm running downhill and I can feel the end of term but I can't distinguish it from the work I have to do now. Being back in Caesar's Walk will provide some sort of marking point, like a moment to stop and let things sort themselves out. I need that.
And I just want to be home for a little while. Go to sleep one night in my bedroom and pad barefoot into the kitchen, not having to worry about when to sort out breakfast or lunch or dinner. I haven't seen my mum or my sister since January 12th, I think. Phone conversations don't count, even if they are almost daily. Truth be told, above all else, I just want a hug from them both. I keep thinking about how I'll be able to sprawl out on my mum's bed and chat on Saturday morning, and eat junk and laugh like an idiot with my sister at everything on the t.v late at night, and I feel a little giddy.
Having breakfast/lunch right now, meaning two slices of processed cheese dipped in Nando's sauce. My favourite part is reading the ingredients on the slices' packet and finding it begins with:
"cheese (42%)"
Going to the Vietnam War Memorial with your Vietnamese roommate can get kind of awkward
Like, here's a memorial for the 58,000 Americans that died. Sorry we don't have one for the millions of Vietnamese civilians we killed/maimed
I just found 80p.
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Honey, you're running a blog. A blog consists of your opinions. Credible or not, we follow you because we like reading them.
You are a very nice person. So much so that I trust you'll know that me saying the same goes for you isn't just done out of obligation.
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its ok bby all i blog about nowdays is my eyebrows and my dogs.
Jus Reign wanted to hang out with you - you're doing something right. Your dogs have the cutest names, by the way.
I've started doing this thing where I read through my posts. I need to stop, because I start realising that this blog really isn't as credible as I like to think. And then I don't know whether to be grateful that you all follow me, or just judge you for it. It's the former, always. But sometimes I wonder…
We had a Gilmore Girls night last night, and everyone left at around 1am. I felt so happy and energetic, and I told myself I was gonna wash my hair and stay up all night writing a post about being a nice person. And then I'd have time to do my hair and eat a good breakfast, and go to both my lectures feeling all chirpy and chipper.
I made a post about paedophiles, went to bed at 6am, got out of bed at 3pm and changed into a different set of pyjamas. Breakfast/lunch consisted of porridge and raspberryade.
that started out as a post about things people should remember, like the joys of science and art, and how nice it is to not be mean to people.
Also, I have no appropriate gifs for how I feel about that, and I've been dying to use this one for so long.
It's completely justified to feel sick at the thought of what paedophilia means, but you have to remember that it's defined by a sexual attraction, not a sexual attraction and no control. Whilst acting on the urges is a definite component in the definition, a paedophile can also be somebody with the attraction who does not act on the urges, but is distressed by them. There's a difference between wanting something that is fundamentally wrong, and acting on it. There's no disputing that the desire isn't right, but the desire is not a conscious decision. It doesn't condone or justify it, but it does mean that threatening a paedophile with capital punishment or imprisonment is essentially turning a blind eye to an issue. Whilst detaining a paedophile may keep them at bay from any potential harm they could cause, you're not making any progress if you make no effort to piece things together while they're being held there.
It's not a given that a paedophile will leap at the chance to be with a child; some acknowledge the dangers of their attraction and are frightened by it because they're also aware of the importance of the child's welfare and the subsequent damage they could cause to them. If you assume a paedophile is the same thing a child molester, you're allowing a system that punishes two different types of behaviour in the same way. I'm not saying that a sexual attraction to children isn't a cause for concern, I'm saying that any potential legal consequence of child molestation can act as a deterrent to a paedophile with no intention of harming a child, who would otherwise admit themselves for some sort of analysis or treatment but can't because of definite punishment. Which, unaffected and unhelped, may evolve into the type that actively pursues children. I'm not saying that it isn't worthy of punishment, or that there isn't something 'wrong with you' if you feel what they feel, or that you should let a paedophile babysit your kids, and that you shouldn't feel uneasy, sickened, uncomfortable and/or disgusted. But it is a reminder that a distinction between the two things - and the 'types' of paedophiles - has to be made.
A delivery man buzzed our flat so I picked up over the intercom to let him through. He said he had a delivery for someone in 2.5. I told him we were 3.1 and that he was probably looking for the building next to us, so he headed that way.
The delivery was flowers.
Somebody ordered someone in 2.5 flowers.
And they arrived.
On Valentine's Day.
I don't want to talk to you if you don't appreciate how adorable that is.
I feel a lot closer to the people I follow than I actually am. Especially when you all post about what happened during your day, and I feel like dropping you a message that's all, "Heeeeeeey", until I remember that the last time we spoke was a 'Thanks for the follow!' message several months ago.
I say this every year, but I love Valentine's Day. Beyond the usual jokes about reduced chocolate prices in the following week, and backhanded comments involving judging couples and eating ice cream.
It makes sense. All the songs and movies and books and plays and adverts that involve love. There'd be an uproar if there wasn't a day to celebrate it. I really do understand the dislike; if not for personal experiences, than for being alone on a day where everything centres around having someone else. But it just seems so petty sometimes. For every song about a significant other, there's a magazine article or short film about the joys of being alone. It's nice to see the colour red everywhere without it meaning something dangerous and upsetting, though somebody will probably twist that to make a joke about love being that way. I feel like it's almost too easy to hate it, and the effort to do otherwise doesn't seem cool. It's twenty-four hours to celebrate something that makes people happy. For every rubbish thing in the world that it's possible to feel, it exists too. There's something so fundamentally nice about having a day that makes you shut up and acknowledge it.
And it's just one day. One day, out of an entire year.
Things that do not make you a bad person:
- Struggling with a substance abuse problem
- Falling for an abusive partner
- Dying "before your time"
Things that do make you a bad person:
- Claiming a substance abuser is sub-human
- Blaming the victim in an abusive relationship
- Mocking an untimely death
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Which is why "strong black woman" has never been a goddamn compliment. It is code for "Thank you for being a mule."
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oh, how this brings me back to the last time someone told me I was "really strong" when I was asking for their help. Even then, it sounded a hell of a lot like, "but thinking about this is itchy & takes away from my being-frivolous time!"
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[Trigger Warning: Colonialism, Imperialism, Racism, Rape, Death]
Before I begin this poem, I'd like to ask you to join me in a moment of silence in honor of those who died in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001.
I would also like to ask you to offer up a moment of silence for all of those who have been harassed, imprisoned, disappeared, tortured, raped, or killed in retaliation for those strikes, for the victims in Afghanistan, Iraq, in the U.S., and throughout the world.
And if I could just add one more thing…
A full day of silence… for the tens of thousands of Palestinians who have died at the hands of U.S.-backed Israeli forces over decades of occupation.
Six months of silence… for the million and-a-half Iraqi people, mostly children, who have died of malnourishment or starvation as a result
of a 12-year U.S. embargo against the country.
…And now, the drums of war beat again.
Before I begin this poem, two months of silence… for the Blacks under Apartheid in South Africa, where "homeland security" made them aliens in their own country
Nine months of silence… for the dead in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where death rained down and peeled back every layer of concrete, steel, earth and skin, and the survivors went on as if alive.
A year of silence… for the millions of dead in Viet Nam—a people, not a war—for those who know a thing or two about the scent of burning fuel, their relatives bones buried in it, their babies born of it.
Two months of silence… for the decades of dead in Colombia, whose names, like the corpses they once represented, have piled up and slipped off our tongues.
Before I begin this poem,
Seven days of silence… for El Salvador
A day of silence… for Nicaragua
Five days of silence… for the Guatemaltecos
None of whom ever knew a moment of peace in their living years.
45 seconds of silence… for the 45 dead at Acteal, Chiapas…
1,933 miles of silence… for every desperate body
That burns in the desert sun
Drowned in swollen rivers at the pearly gates to the Empire's underbelly,
A gaping wound sutured shut by razor wire and corrugated steel.
25 years of silence… for the millions of Africans who found their graves far deeper in the ocean than any building could poke into the sky.
For those who were strung and swung from the heights of sycamore trees
In the south… the north… the east… the west…
There will be no dna testing or dental records to identify their remains.
100 years of silence… for the hundreds of millions of indigenous people
From this half of right here,
Whose land and lives were stolen,
In postcard-perfect plots like Pine Ridge, Wounded Knee, Sand Creek, Fallen Timbers, or the Trail of Tears
Names now reduced to innocuous magnetic poetry on the refrigerator of our consciousness…
From somewhere within the pillars of power
You open your mouths to invoke a moment of our silence
And we are all left speechless,
Our tongues snatched from our mouths,
Our eyes stapled shut.
A moment of silence,
And the poets are laid to rest,
The drums disintegrate into dust.
Before I begin this poem,
You want a moment of silence…
You mourn now as if the world will never be the same
And the rest of us hope to hell it won't be.
Not like it always has been.
…Because this is not a 9-1-1 poem
This is a 9/10 poem,
It is a 9/9 poem,
A 9/8 poem,
A 9/7 poem…
This is a 1492 poem.
This is a poem about what causes poems like this to be written.
And if this is a 9/11 poem, then
This is a September 11th 1973 poem for Chile.
This is a September 12th 1977 poem for Steven Biko in South Africa.
This is a September 13th 1971 poem for the brothers at Attica Prison, New York.
This is a September 14th 1992 poem for the people of Somalia.
This is a poem for every date that falls to the ground amidst the ashes of amnesia.
This is a poem for the 110 stories that were never told,
The 110 stories that history uprooted from its textbooks
The 110 stories that that cnn, bbc, The New York Times, and Newsweek ignored.
This is a poem for interrupting this program.
This is not a peace poem,
Not a poem for forgiveness.
This is a justice poem,
A poem for never forgetting.
This is a poem to remind us
That all that glitters
Might just be broken glass.
And still you want a moment of silence for the dead?
We could give you lifetimes of empty:
The unmarked graves,
The lost languages,
The uprooted trees and histories,
The dead stares on the faces of nameless children…
Before I start this poem we could be silent forever
Or just long enough to hunger,
For the dust to bury us
And you would still ask us
For more of our silence.
So if you want a moment of silence
Then stop the oil pumps
Turn off the engines, the televisions
Sink the cruise ships
Crash the stock markets
Unplug the marquee lights
Delete the e-mails and instant messages
Derail the trains, ground the planes.
If you want a moment of silence, put a brick through the window
of Taco Bell
And pay the workers for wages lost.
Tear down the liquor stores,
The townhouses, the White Houses, the jailhouses, the Penthouses
and the Playboys.
If you want a moment of silence,
Then take it
On Super Bowl Sunday,
The Fourth of July,
During Dayton's 13 hour sale,
The next time your white guilt fills the room where my beautiful brown people have gathered.
You want a moment of silence
Then take it
Before this poem begins.
Here, in the echo of my voice,
In the pause between goosesteps of the second hand,
In the space between bodies in embrace,
Here is your silence.
Take it.
Take it all.
But don't cut in line.
Let your silence begin at the beginning of crime.
And we,
We will keep right on singing
For our dead.
It seems to always snow in February, but now doesn't feel right. It's not that I dislike this kind of weather; it's great to look at and fun when in the mood for it. The impracticality is what gets me. And I like snow the way I like snow. I don't have a problem with anyone wanting to be pelted by snowballs, but I prefer sitting inside and just knowing it's there. Or taking a walk at my own pace. I think it's the obligation to act like you've never seen it before, when there's nothing at all wrong with enjoying it the way you want.
But it's pretty. I'll give it that.


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Quantum Optics fails to explain origin of natural line width?
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May14-13, 12:36 AM
"Quantum Optics," by Scully and Zubairy, attempts to explain the natural line width of an emitting atomic ensemble (in a resonant cavity with leakage) using random spontaneous emission events of the atoms (which in turn is due to interactions with the vacuum field). The basic idea and corresponding mathematics describe a single resonant frequency with random phase shifts, where the phase shifts are due to the randomness of the spontaneous emission events. The net effect of the random phase shifts result in the line width--the spread of the spectrum from a "pure", single mode emission. The resonant cavity is important because it is supposed to constrain the field to a single mode/frequency, but due to the leakage at one side, the interaction with a reservoir of vacuum modes leads to the broadening.
The given mathematics start with a single-mode description (e.g. P-representation), which time evolution is described by some phase-dispersion equation, but ultimately ends in a description of the same mode. By definition, a particular mode is exactly that: A single, particular frequency in a particular direction with a particular polarization. Although the distribution of numbers states (or, likewise, coherent states) within that mode may change in time, the entire calculation and the result are still in the same mode--of the exact same single frequency.
The whole point of the discussion in the book was to justify and explain the natural line width in a pure quantum mechanical picture. Although discrete eigenstates are defined, no mechanism is outlined which transforms one mode into another. How can mathematical manipulation of the same mode really explain the evolution of the line width, which must include many modes?
For a pure coherent state, one can show mathematically that the classic expectation value of the field results in radiation of the same frequency as the mode of the coherent state (and its component number states). It's therefore easy to assume that the mode of the quantum mechanical states always translate directly to the same mode (frequency) of the classical field. But is this always true? Although the derivation I speak of is all done within a single mode of the field states, can the observed classical frequency of the field be different? If the answer is "no, the modes should be the same", then I think the quantum explanation fails to explain the line width. If "yes", then what is the real meaning of a "mode" and what is the relationship between the quantum mode and the classical mode/frequency?
(Classically, the explanation using a phase-dispersion equation seems reasonable. In that case, the generation of different modes, aside from the central resonant mode, is not constrained by discrete eigenstates of the field, so that the field can be described by a time and spatial phase dependence which leads to the broadened modes. Also, the Fourier-transform of a classical signal of a "single frequency" with random phase shifts results in a broadening of the spectrum--the many random discontinuities destroy the pure monochromaticity of the overall spectrum.)
May14-13, 01:24 AM
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"All fields possessing first-order coherence, we show, may be regarded as ones in which only a
single mode is excited; this mode need not, however, be a monochromatic one." (U. M. Titulaer and R. J. Glauber, "Density Operators for Coherent Fields", Phys. Rev. 145, 1041–1050 (1966)).
May14-13, 12:49 PM
Let's consider a new set of orthogonal modes (as described by Titulaer and Glauber), which can also be used to define a coherent state, a state that keeps its "shape" as it propagates, etc. These new modes can be a superposition of multiple modes from the previous basis. That means the new coherent state is not monochromatic in terms of the original modes. As Titulaer and Glauber did, we can use L to enumerate the new modes, where k still enumerates the original modes.
I can thus imagine that the derivation of the natural line width could be done within context of a new single mode L. If the final result of the derivation is still within the same mode (as was part of my concern), one could transform the resultant state back into the original basis where one would find a broadened (non-monochromatic) spectrum.
Perhaps that sounds reasonable on the surface, but it would be deceptive. If the chosen L basis in which the derivation is performed is already a combination of multiple spectral modes (k basis), then such a chosen basis would already impose non-monochromaticity on the field--it's spectrum in our desired basis would of course have some spectral shape and width to begin with. Further manipulations within a single mode L would still result in the same combination of the multiple spectral modes (k's). There can be no new spectral information obtained in this way.
So back to the original concern, that the derivation in question shows no mechanism of creating new modes from the original mode, no matter the basis.
May14-13, 01:02 PM
Quantum Optics fails to explain origin of natural line width?
Strictly speaking, for the discussion of the line width where we ignore the direction of the radiation, it doesn't need to be a plane wave. It could be a combination of other basis waves. However, to represent a "single mode" --a single frequency-- in the strictest sense, the set of basis waves (whether planar or speherical, etc.) must be of the same frequency. In that case, it simplifies the problem then to just consider a single direction, or in other words a plane wave.
But the point of the quantum optics derivation attempts to explain the origin of the line width. It can't be explained just by calling a narrow spectral peak "single mode". When I read "single mode probability distribution", I interpret that to be a delta function, defined exactly at one mode. A sharply peaked spectrum (i.e. probability distribution) with some width is only "single mode" in that it might not be possible to get narrower because of the "natural line width". We just come back to the question of "where does the natural line width come from".
May14-13, 01:29 PM
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May14-13, 05:09 PM
I think I defined very clearly what I understand a mode to be. Since you feel it so unfortunate that I and others have this notion, would you please give your precise definition of a "mode"?
I realize that the dispersion relation of the wave may change so that [itex]\nu = kc[/itex] doesn't hold in all systems. I also see now from Glauber that a new mode basis can be defined where a mode is no longer specified by a single k vector. I already conceded in my reply that they don't have to be related one-to-one, but I think choosing to stay in the basis where they are directly related is reasonable. Also, the book I'm following often uses the frequency in defining the field and operators and implies the relationship between mode and frequency that I use, especially when describing classical and semi-classical solutions.
Specifically, I'm looking at section 11.4 (page 341) of "Quantum Optics". If you do read it, be aware that 11.4.1 uses a classical approach, which is apparent in the form of the field in Eq. (11.4.1). It might be a bit deceiving, since the notation might look like it's a quantum mechanical treatment, but the authors even say it's classical in the beginning of the next section. The "fully quantum mechanical" arguments are very briefly outlined in section 11.4.2. The "single-mode-ness" of the equations and field representations are not stated explicitly, but they are implied by the notation (carried over from the previous chapters which are predominantly for a single mode), and Zubairy explained that the line width is described by a single mode of the cavity and emission from the atoms.
May14-13, 06:01 PM
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1) Any assembly of indistinguishable photons. If one cannot distinguish these photons in principle, they need to be considered as a single mode. Unfortunately the concept of indistinguishability in quantum optics is also full of pit traps. This directly relates to point 2, so I continue the discussion there.
2) Any field possessing first order coherence. This is close to Glauber's way of explaining it. As all photons inside a coherence volume are inherently indistinguishable, this is basically just a different aspect of point 1. First-order coherence implies a fixed phase relationship between fields at different times and positions. This does not require monochromaticity. However, the spectral distribution limits the timescale over which a fixed phase relationship can be kept (first order temporal coherence is just the Fourier transform of the power spectral density). As a visualization, consider the intensity distribution caused by the interference of two beams. This will have three components. One proportional to the square of the first field, one proportional to the square of the second field and one corresponding to cross terms containing both fields. These are obviously interference terms. They also exist if the two beams are not of the same frequency. This keeps true, if you go away from the classical intensity down to the single photon level. Even for single photon detection events there may be interference terms due to two fields of different frequency. If a photon is detected due to these cross-terms, one cannot in principle say that it came from which of the fields it originated - although they have different frequencies. So I consider anything which shows genuine interference (or equivalently first order coherence) as one mode.
3) Anything with a unimodal photon number distribution. Any light field which has a photon number distribution given by just one distribution (Poissonian or Bose-Einstein, it does not really matter). This is also a consequence of indistinguishability. Identical photons can be described by a single mode distribution.
In this respect, spectrally broad light fields can form a single mode. The obvious example is spectrally broad thermal light. In some sense another example are short laser pulses. Short laser pulses (say 100 fs) typically have a spectrum which is about 10 nm broad. Ultrashort laser pulses may be even broader. Despite this spectral width, the pulses show nice interference patterns. The community working on laser optics, however, typically also uses the convention of calling the spectral basis "modes" and therefore calls fs lasers mode-locked.
In a nutshell: I also consider superpositions of the monochromatic "modes" as single modes if they are superposed with a well defined phase relationship.
edit: I do not know whether the explanation given in the Scully/Zubairy is good or handwaving. For a rather detailed analysis (for a lossless cavity, however, so strong coupling is discussed in detail) see Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 550–553 (1983) (Theory of Spontaneous-Emission Line Shape in an Ideal Cavity) by J. J. Sanchez-Mondragon et al. and some of the articles which are citing this one and cited articles therein.
edit: Do they by chance give the relative magnitude of light-matter coupling and cavity decay rate in the book. Or put differently, do they assume weak or strong coupling? Do they discuss a regime where the Purcell effect becomes important or is it just a very lossy cavity? It is quite uncommon to introduce a cavity and only consider simple spontaneous emission without considering complicated stuff like strong coupling and such stuff. Another good overview of what can happen when introducing a cavity is given in one of Jon Keeling's lecture notes:http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~jmjk/ke...tum-optics.pdf, starting from chapter 3.
May21-13, 05:17 PM
As I already said, I appreciate the discussion and I've learned something here, but I'm not hopeful that I can reconcile our differences in definitions at the same time I'm trying to understand the minutia of the book I am already learning from.
The concepts you outlined in defining a "mode" are not foreign to me, but rather than defining a "mode", they are simply properties of the field that can exist for various distributions of different modes. Frankly, your various definitions of modes seem rather abstract. Can all of those points be described with self-consistent mathematical forms? Perhaps that's not a universal requirement, but the definition I gave of a mode has a very simple, straightforward mathematical form. The other various properties, like coherence, etc. do not define a mode, but rather are the result of operations on the field which can be defined as a superposition/distribution of modes. I'll stop here since I fear that we'll just go in circles trying to define the terms.
From my circle, Zubairy and Scully are considered leaders in the field. I suppose they know their stuff, but from other reviews I've read, their book is actually not the most clear text to learn from. I will study further the references you gave.
So, I now have more to think about, but just more that I don't understand.
May22-13, 02:14 AM
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Getting back to chapter 11.4.1, the classical approach is pretty cheap. They say their field is proportional to [tex]exp(i(\theta(t)-\nu_0 t))[/tex], where the theta is just a random variable with Gaussian distribution. This is not different from assuming that the frequency itself is a random variable with Gaussian distribution, so essentially they already put the line width in. They just derive a microscopic formalism to back it up, but basically they just make the replacement [tex]\nu(t)=\nu_0+\theta'(t)[/tex] here and perform ensemble averaging.
This is where it gets a bit fishy. One can still claim that one treats a monochromatic field and treats a diffusing phase as a small perturbation which allows to keep the monochromatic mode picture without really having a monochromatic mode. It is kind of intuitive as it allows to keep a "this is the mode and that is the effect causing broadening"-picture, but it is not really thorough. Still it saves a lot of time and pages in the book. Strictly speaking a true monochromatic mode must have non-diffusing phase for all eternity, however treating this as a perturbation instead of going to a treatment involving several modes is way less painful.
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The final choice came down to The Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey or Virginia Tech and after a drive-through and some meetings in Blacksburg last Friday, we decided, without any reservations, that NPS was the best fit for us. Although it is going to be incredibly far away from family and everything familiar to us, we can't wait for the opportunity for this kind of adventure. We figured we will be able to see and do things that we otherwise never would, we are looking forward to living on post and being part of the military family and the program itself is best fit Kev's learning style and will best prepare him for his next position in the Army.
So the plan for now is to pray that the baby decides to come a little (healthily) early and to move out of our house in Winston around the 20th of June. From there, the kids and I will head to Luray and set up shop at my parents' farm while Kev treks cross country in my Yukon to sign in, get our house and homegoods delivered and figure out his class schedule. Meanwhile, Cullen, baby and I will be able to have a little extra help from family for a few weeks, plus give all our east coast people a chance to meet baby. Then, once the little one is about 6 weeks old, we will fly to California to be reunited as a family. So the next 2-3 months will be a little crazy, but I am honestly so at peace with the decision and can't wait to experience something so different from what I am used to. Plus, let's be honest, who wouldn't want to look at this everyday: And of course, visitors will always be welcome!
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- Erin said...
You lucky dog! I may just have to take you up on the visitors welcome.
- April 12, 2011 at 11:38 AM
- ann's daughter said...
Congrats!!! I have a ton of family in the Bay Area, and my memories of visiting the parks in Monterey and the awesome aquarium are some of my favorites. I hope you're able to see the state, it's chock full of beauty! (I volunteer my services as a tour guide)
- April 12, 2011 at 12:42 PM
- fittingbackin said...
EEEEE so exciting! Sounds like you guys have a wonderful plan that's going to work out perfectly!! I love it and am so happy for you on making this exciting decision!
- April 12, 2011 at 3:57 PM
- Tyler said...
I'm so excited for you guys! I can't wait to hear about all of your adventures!
P.S. Where did you get the scented nail polish? I may need it!
- April 12, 2011 at 9:11 PM
- Ericka B. Jackson said...
Exciting!!! California is on my list of places I want to go... spent 2 summers in Oregon and I do love the West Coast! What a fun family adventure for you guys :)
- April 13, 2011 at 7:10 AM


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Chapter 1: Burdens of a Troubled Soul.5 Reviews
Forced to compete in the Triwizard Tournament against his will, Harry faces things which no fourteen year old wizard should. A loss of innocence, coupled with betrayal, causes Harry to either give ...
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Summary: Starts during the Triwizard Tournament in Harry's 4th year. Harry comes to the realization that Voldemort is not going to stop coming after him. With the school turning on him, Harry feels lost and betrayed. Deciding that he has to train for the future Harry throws himself into his schoolwork and tournament preparation.
Chapter 1: Burdens of a troubled soul.
It was a cool Saturday morning and there was a mist drifting across the great lake in the gentle breeze. Sunlight was beginning to stream out over the castle bathing the grounds in warm amber light.
Underneath a large tree next to the lake a lone figure sat on the otherwise deserted grounds. He was so wrapped up in his thoughts that he never noticed the young woman walking down from the castle heading straight for him. Without a word, the second figure sat down on the ground next to the young man and handed over a bacon sandwich wrapped in a napkin that she pulled out of her shoulder bag.
"Thanks, Hermione." Harry croaked as he began to eat his sandwich. Side by side in silence, Harry and Hermione sat and watched the sunrise over the castle.
In a voice so low Hermione had to strain to hear it over the sounds of the awakening forest, Harry whispered, "I'm so scared…I don't think I'm ready for this."
Hermione could hear the fear in his voice and it shook her composure slightly. "Harry…" she began, only to be interrupted before she could continue speaking.
"Crouch Sr. says that my name coming out of the Goblet of Fire is a magically binding contract even though I didn't enter myself." Harry whispered while his eyes never strayed from the mist drifting across the Great Lake. Letting out a sigh, he continued, "They all thought that I had gone back to Gryffindor tower after they dismissed me but I stayed in the hallway to hear what was going on instead.
He paused momentarily to regain his composure before continuing in a venomous tone, "Snape suggested that they use me to draw out the person that put my name into the Goblet of Fire and Dumbledore agreed. They are using me for bait, Hermione."
"Bait!" Harry hissed maliciously before standing up abruptly and walking over to the water's edge, stuffing his hands into his robe pockets in frustration as he went. "They aren't even going to give me any help, and I know that Madam Maxine and Headmaster Karkaroff are going to do everything that they can to help their champions win the tournament."
Hermione got up and wrapped Harry in a hug from behind. He stiffened for a brief moment with the initial contact but did not move away, so she buried her cheek against his shoulder and whispered, "You can do this Harry. I'll do everything I can to help you get through this." Then she felt it, Harry's breath caught in his chest and she knew that he was crying silently. Not knowing what else to do, she held him tighter until he was finished.
After a few moments, Harry gently tugged Hermione's hands apart and turned into the embrace so that they were facing each other. Pulling her into his chest, he returned the hug and whispered in her ear, "Thanks. I don't know what I would do without you."
"I'll always be there to help you Harry, you're my best friend." Hermione stated while pulling back to look at his face. "Besides, think of all of the new spells we are going to learn while preparing you for the tournament. We should write to Sirius and let him know what is going on. Do you think that he would give us some ideas to help with the tasks?"
"That's a good idea. Perhaps we can ask Professor Lupin to help too. He is the one that taught me the Patronus Charm last year and he was definitely our best Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher." Harry grabbed Hermione's hand and said, "Let's go visit Hedwig and send a couple of letters out." while tugging her back towards the castle.
Hermione was a bit surprised when Harry didn't let go of her hand as they walked back up to the castle. She knew he rarely initiated contact with anyone. Then it hit her like a well-placed Impediment Jinx and she stopped in her tracks. 'He isn't used to physical contact!' she realized.
Harry came to a quick stop because they were still holding hands. Confused, he turned to look at her and the expression that he saw on her face was murderous. Growing concerned, he quickly pulled out his wand and looked around at their surroundings. They were next to Greenhouse Seven but there was no one in sight. Softly, he asked, "What's wrong, Hermione? Are you okay?"
Her only response was to grab his hand and began dragging him towards the greenhouse. In her anger the door to the greenhouse burst open before they got within five feet of it and she strode in without a second glance. Once Harry was inside, she turned and cast a locking charm on the door before sitting down on one of the benches and pulling Harry with her.
After taking a few calming breaths, Hermione slowly reached out and took Harry's hands in hers while looking into his eyes before asking, "Harry, why did you stiffen first when I hugged you? When was the last time that you had a hug?"
This was not what Harry was expecting when Hermione dragged him into the greenhouse in a towering rage. As such, in his confusion he answered with complete honesty, "I'm not used to being touched at all, Hermione. The last hug that I had before today was the one from you at the end of last year when we got off the train. My aunt never touches me unless it's to grab my arm for something that she thinks I did wrong." Immediately after completing his sentence, Harry realized what he had said and his eyes went wide with fear before he hung his head down in shame.
"Harry, you didn't do anything wrong." Hermione whispered reassuringly. "That's called child neglect and your aunt and uncle are guilty, not you. Have you ever told anyone about any of this before?"
Harry still had not looked up but when he spoke the tears, pain, and bitterness in his voice was plainly audible, "Dumbledore knows. The address on my first letter from Hogwarts was to the cupboard under the stairs. I never brought it up before because I didn't think that he would do anything to help me with the Dursleys." With those simple words, the floodgates opened and Harry began telling Hermione everything that had ever happened to him in his time at his relatives. He held nothing back when he told her about starving, the mental and physical abuse, a lack of clothes that fit properly, being the Dursley's house-elf, and how he only got his own bedroom after coming to Hogwarts. When Harry was finished it was like a great weight had been lifted that he was not aware he had been carrying around.
Hermione was crying openly while holding his hands and doing nothing to hide her tears. Drying her tears, she said sincerely, "Harry, I think that we should talk to my parents and maybe a solicitor too. I know you don't want to, but I think it would really help."
"You're right, Hermione. I just don't like talking about any of that stuff. No one has ever helped me with any of this before. I don't want to live with the Dursleys anymore but I don't want to go to the Weasleys or an orphanage either." In a tiny voice, he asked, "What am I going to do?" while wringing his hands nervously.
"We," Hermione emphasized clearly, "are going to figure this out together. I'll write to my parents about the situation with your relatives to see if they have some ideas that could help you out. However, the tournament is going to be a priority right now."
After taking a few minutes to compose themselves, Hermione opened her bag and began pulling out quills and parchment so they could write letters to Sirius, Remus, and her parents. Harry put everything he could remember about Dumbledore and Snape's conversation about the tournament and how only Hermione seemed to believe that he didn't put his name in the Goblet of Fire. He finished his letter by asking Sirius and Remus if they knew of a quicker way to communicate with each other because owl post took too long. Hermione had also completed her letter, sealed it, and handed it to Harry to mail.
When they reached the tower, Harry called down Hedwig and told her to wait with Hermione's parents for a reply. After watching his snowy owl disappear over the horizon, Harry sighed and looked over at Hermione and said, "I guess we should head back to the tower so I can get my stuff and face the music."
"Okay. Do you want to go to the library afterwards or should we look for a place to practice spells?" Hermione said understandingly.
"I think that I'd rather look around the castle and try to find a place to practice. My mind is too cluttered to study right now."
As Hermione started to move towards the door of the Owlry, Harry reached out a hand, tentatively touched her shoulder, and gently turned her to face him while saying warmly, "Thank you."
No more words were necessary, Hermione could see the depth of thanks in Harry's emerald eyes. "You're welcome." she replied with a smile before heading towards the door.
Harry pulled the door open for her and they headed towards Gryffindor Tower, each of them thinking of the things that they needed to do to make sure he survived the tournament.
Stepping through the portrait into the common room, Harry was unprepared for the sight that greeted him. Neville was red in the face with his fists clenched by his side standing over the crumpled form of Ron Weasley. "Don't you ever say that about Harry again, Ron! You know he hates the attention. He said that he didn't put his name in that stupid goblet and I believe him." he half shouted at the red headed boy on the floor.
"Thanks, Neville." Harry said while stepping fully into the common room. Neither of them had noticed Harry and Hermione enter through the portrait. "It means a lot to me that you believe I didn't enter the tournament."
"You're welcome, Harry. Hello, Hermione." Neville said as he turned to face them with a sheepish grin on his face.
"Is there something that you want to say to me?" Harry asked Ron.
Without saying a word, Ron got up and walked past them out of the portrait hole.
"I take it that he is upset that my name came out of the Goblet and he still thinks that I entered the tournament on my own?" Harry asked Neville.
Neville paused for a moment in thought and then answered, "Yeah, that about sums it up. He isn't the only one that thinks that you entered on your own but he is the only one in Gryffindor that's mad at you for being a champion."
"What a load of rubbish! If he could get past his own jealousy maybe he would see that someone put Harry's name in the Goblet of Fire for a reason." Hermione fumed as she flopped down into her favorite seat by the fire. Turning to Harry, she said softly, "Don't worry Harry, he'll come around eventually when he realizes that he was wrong and things will go back to the way that they were before." As she said the last part, she hung her head in sorrow.
Harry was watching Hermione from the corner of his eye and noticed that she had slumped down after she finished speaking. Realizing that he hadn't been a good friend to Hermione at all when it came to the relationship between her and Ron, he said softly, "Hey," while reaching over to touch Hermione's arm, "I'm sorry. I should have stood up to him before for how he treats you. Things won't be going back to the way they were, ever. I told you that you are my best friend and it's about time I started acting that way."
"Oh, Harry!" Hermione sobbed as she threw herself into his arms.
Neville silently waved goodbye to Harry and headed up to their room to give them some privacy.
Chuckling a little, Harry said, "It's really been an emotional day hasn't it?" He broke out into a full laugh as Hermione started giggling into his chest. Once their laughter had died down, Harry said, "You know, I think I feel better about all of this now that you know everything I have gone through. It doesn't seem like such a burden anymore."
"I'm glad I could help." She replied before stating, "Talking about things makes you put them into perspective and allows you to move on." Hermione stood up from the sofa and pulled Harry to his feet while saying, "Now hurry up and get your stuff so we can find a place to practice."
Grinning, Harry walked up the steps to his dorm room and retrieved the Marauders Map and his Invisibility Cloak to aid them in their search.


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Dale Benham
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Your posting for Grant A Benham, Memorial 71284943, birth and death unknown.
His birth and death are as follows if you would like to add them:
Name: Grant A Benham
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Birth Date: 11 Jan 1910
Birthplace: Minnesota
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Hi Warren, My name is Susan Tynes-Wobken. You have a posting at Green Hills Memorial Park for my grandfather, William Henry Tynes. Just wanted you to know his date of birth was November 19, 1898 and date of death was October 3, 1970. Thank you. (As a side note, I never met him but have found this information from other family members)
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Ray O. Light
Today, the Revolutionary Organization of Labor or Ray O. Light — a Maoist-oriented 1961 splinter group from the Communist Party USA — takes several different positions within the Marxist-Leninist movement.
Contrary to the standard Maoist view of "two line struggle", which posits that a dialectical materialist understanding of socialist relations of production is characterized by struggle between a Marxist-Leninist line and a Right-revisionist line, ROL takes a position that it terms "three line struggle." Believing that the position of the Maoists in the Cultural Revolution led to overlooking the danger of ultraleftism and "left"-revisionism, ROL argues that the Marxist-Leninist position is the center position which must struggle against both "left" and Right lines. For this reason, ROL sees China as having deviated from Marxism-Leninism in 1966, the year the Cultural Revolution began.
Based on the criteria put forward by Joseph Stalin in Marxism and the National Question [1] regarding what qualities make up a nation as well as on the theories of African American Communist, Harry Haywood, Ray O. Light takes the position that there is an African American oppressed nation in the Black Belt Region of the United States with the right to self-determination and independence, and a substantial Chicano national minority in the US Southwest. While this position on the national question is not altogether that unusual, it is the only Marxist group in the US to propose that there also exists something like an Appalachian oppressed nation.
ROL has no website of its own; its writings, both old and new, are hosted on mltranslations.org. ROL also does not seem to have much of an active public presence on the United States activist political scene. Nevertheless, because of its history, Ray O. Light considers itself an important group within the communist movement. It's close to the Communist Party of the Philippines and has often been a participant or observer in the International Communist Seminar hosted every year by the Workers Party of Belgium; it also regularly attends the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (International Newsletter).
This group puts so much emphasis on national liberation because it considers a substantial portion of the US working class to be bought-off, that is, to be a part of the labor aristocracy which benefits too much from imperialism to have true revolutionary potential. It is noteworthy that this seems to be de-emphasized in their more recent writings. They consider the "main enemy of toiling humanity" to be imperialism, headed by US imperialism. They thus call for the unity of the economic anti-globalization movement with the political anti-war movement on a firm anti-imperialist basis. ROL views the most important task for communists today to be refounding the Comintern. In January 2008, the Ray O. Light group announced that the name of their organization was changed to the Revolutionary Organization of Labor.
Originally called Hammer & Steel (H&S) or, more infrequently, New England Party of Labor, they split from the CPUSA following Nikita Khrushchev's Secret Speech to the 20th Congress of the CPSU. The group changed its name to Ray O. Light in 1976, and to Revolutionary Organization of Labor in 2008. Many of its members were Northern Communists who came to the South to organize. Hammer & Steel was a small editorial board which grew out of the struggle against what it saw as revisionism in the CPUSA. It criticized the CPUSA for liquidating the revolutionary line on the African American national question, and for returning to a position of "American Exceptionalism" (by supporting the presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy) which had previously been upheld by Earl Browder. Though it was a small group, H&S was the only group to be attacked by name by Krushchev in his polemics against the Communist Party of China (CPC) for siding with the CPC and Party of Labor of Albania (PLA) in the Sino-Soviet Split. H&S was the only revolutionary group in the US to have a representative at the 5th Congress of the PLA in 1966. Hammer & Steel argued that there was a focal contradiction (see, contradiction) around the oppressed peoples fighting for national liberation. This was reflected in the United States in the African American struggle for self-determination.
A splinter group, "Youth for Stalin", broke off in 1968; this group soon changed its name to "Stalinist Workers Group for Afro-American National Liberation and a New Communist International", and published Stalinist Workers Group Bulletin until at least 1973.
- Ray O. Light, Towards Victorious Afro-American National Liberation: A Collection of Pamphlets, Leaflets and Essays Which Dealt In a Timely Way With the Concrete Ongoing Struggle for Black Liberation Over the Past Decade and More. A Ray O. Light Publication, Bronx: 1982.
- Ray O. Light, The Bush Led Global Imperialist War: From 9-11 to the Present: Writings in Opposition to the US Imperialist Led Global War of Terror and on Our Tasks. A Ray O. Light Publication, Boston: 2006.
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