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Yes please, we need this! "all history" takes quite some time to load and is (almost) never the time-frame that one would want to look at. upvoted
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Thanks alot Armi! All of a sudden my code didnt work, previously it worked flawlessly but since we enabled the new "integrated chat" option it stoped working. This solved it for us with 8 departme...
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We'd also would very much like this feature. As mentioned before me, we'd use votes to see where we can improve the information (as would be the expected way to use it). Lets say we totally revamp ...
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Hi @Trapta and thank you so much for getting back to me! I know some basic coding but unfortunately im not a developer si I cant seem to find out how to use "{{category_tree_with_article}}". I kno...
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Hello everyone and thank you Wes for this post! Im looking to edit the number of shown articles listed in the category page as well, but i want to make it so it shows 10 articles. I found this post...
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Thank you so much @Sergiu, you are amazing! Just to let you and all the ones who find themselves in a similar situation know that this worked for us and now we're able to control online/offline st...
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[quote]Genres: comedy
Plot Summary: Bonobono is a simple, good-hearted sea otter who lives near a large forest. Every day he has small adventures with his two best friends, Shimarisu the mischievous squirrel and Araiguma the short-tempered raccoon. Based on the four-panel gag manga by Igarashi Mikio.
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Frank Yost was biking riding when he noticed a bag with $4,700 in it. He then turned the money into the police, but who's money was it??
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This is my second story about Cartagena. (I have 2 stories about Cartagena because this time when we changed hotels we stayed in Cartengena. 😄 so that's why i'm writing about it again) plus it's my sister's birthday 🥳 . This time our hotel was called Holiday inn. We saw my aunts and grandmother there. (There are 10 of us alltogehter we got 5 rooms all they had where two beds a TV and a bath room that's why we got 5 room's. After we sorted out our room's we went to the city and had a ice cream and some pizza. It was YUMMY!!! When we got back to the hotel it was 10:00 PM. The next day we went to the pool and beach half the day nothing cool happened expext in the pool we did volley ball🏐 and we were supriseingly good. We went to the city a bit later and explored a bit with our aunt's and grandmother because they had'nt seen the city and they went shoping☹. Plus we went to this horse and it had a cart on the back and pulled us. It was a bit bumpy but we saw some cool buildings on the horse ride. And in the city my aunt's and one of my sister's tried doing dancing but because of fireworks it was closed so we went to my dad's favourite beer bar and played a round of dopplekoft (Josina won all the rounds). The next day was CHRISTMAS!!! we did'nt get much presents. Because we would'nt be able to bring it with us but the presents were cool we got a ball of putty and a voucher to get 6 kinds of lollies. For example ice cream, sprite and anything else you want😃. Christmas was almost the same as yesterday expect my aunt's and sisters's went shoping and i stayed and did volley ball. Then when we went to the city we had pizza it was the best or second best pizza i ever ate we ate at this place under the trees the had glowing stars hanging off them. The next moring we had a 4 hour drive to Santa Marta.
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With that being said, tea has been used for centuries to treat a variety of ailments and there are several tried and true varieties that will settle your stomach and help kick your digestion into gear.
Studies have shown peppermint oil to relax the digestive tract and prevent the smooth muscle from contracting, assisting in stomach spasms. It has also proven helpful in treating patients suffering from IBS as well as reducing nausea in chemotherapy patients. Research on peppermint tea is not available, but it makes sense that its compounds would garner similar effects.
Ginger tea has been long used to treat nausea, and there are plenty of studies to back up its effectiveness. It's also been shown to speed the emptying of the stomach into the small intestine, which is beneficial to those who often experience indigestion after eating .
Frequently used in traditional herbal medicine, fennel has an impressive array of health benefits. Tea made from the leaves or seeds is highly effective at easing gastrointestinal issues and improving digestion. It accomplishes this by expelling excess gas in the gut & calming production of gas in the first place. It also promotes blood flow to the digestive tract.
Angelica Root
A plant with many medicinal qualities, there is evidence that a certain polysaccharide in angelica root has potential to be protective against intestinal distress, such as ulcers. It also shows promise in treating constipation, making the tea a great choice for a soothing after dinner drink.
Probiotic Drinks
There are also a number of healthy probiotic drinks available on the market these days. Though not yet an exact science, these probiotic drinks are supposed to mimic similar strains of bacteria found in the gut, making them ideal for aiding digestion after dinner.
For those who have somehow missed the kombucha craze sweeping the nation, kombucha is a fermented drink, usually made with a green or black tea base, sugar and bacteria. It is created through something called a S.C.O.B.Y. which stands for "Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast", a live bacteria. Somewhat tart in flavour, it is common practice to add other flavouring agents to the beverage, such as ginger or berry juice to make it more palatable.
If you have patience and a little bit of skill, you can also make your own kombucha at home. If you fall in love with the drink it might be worth figuring out how to do this properly, as store bought brands of kombucha can get a little pricey.
Similar to kombucha, kefir drinks are fermented drinks packed with naturally occurring probiotics. Kefir also has a distinctly sour taste, not unlike kombucha. The beverages are traditionally milk based, but rice, almond, soy, or coconut milk can be substituted as well. Kefir is made by adding kefir grains, which are colonies of yeast and lactic acid bacteria to the warm milk of your choice for about 24 hours. Essentially the kefir grains are used as a "starter" for your kefir beverage. They can also be reused so you can have kefir for days!
Why Probiotics are Important
Probiotics are imperative for the overall functioning of the immune system. They play an important role regarding nutrient absorption, can help treat intestinal infections and IBS, and protect against harmful pathogens.
Other Drinks Worth Mentioning
Now that the most popular groups of drinks geared towards digestion have been covered, let's take a look at a couple of the rogue ones.
Coffee, whether caffeinated or not, has be shown to provoke rhythmic contractions of the GI tract. While this is not necessarily beneficial for digestion at all times because it stimulates the urge to have a bowel movement and can lead to rapid transit through the colon, it can definitely be helpful for times you're feeling a little backed up.
Sparkling Water
It is thought that sparkling water may aid in the release of gas build up, but more research is needed on why this sensation occurs. There has, however, been promise shown in its ability to relieve constipation, as well as its ability to improve symptoms of indigestion such as stomach pain.
The Take-Away
Depending on the symptoms you're experiencing, or if you are just interested in being a helping hand to your body's physiological agenda, there are a variety of appropriate after dinner drinks to help solve your digestive problems. It's up to you to decide which ones work best for your tummy and your taste buds.


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nathan-online.org/includes/80/seh-blauer-haken.php Today, lasers are key tools in manipulating and communicating information in CD and DVD players, supermarket barcode readers and broadband telecommunications , in measurement surveying and environmental studies , chemical analysis of foods, medical specimens and materials and, increasingly, in transforming materials welding, cutting and etching, printing, and surgery. Research into lasers continues apace — new types of laser are being developed with a variety of characteristics and potential applications. In some cases, the result is a cheaper, more compact portable device designed for a specific use, or a more powerful laser used to generate power, for instance.
UK university physics departments are at the forefront of many of these areas.
A laser beam has the special property that the light waves emitted are all in step with one another — coherent — and usually of one wavelength, or colour. Items related to Principles of Lasers and Optics. Publisher: Cambridge University Press , About the Author : William S. Case study: Lasers Lasers provide the archetypal example of how a discovery in basic physics led to an invention, several decades later, that was unpredictably world-changing. In preparing the second edition the hope has been that both these aims will be better served as a result of the various improvements made. Types of Lasers.
In particular, physicists in the Central Laser Facility CLF at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory develop novel high-powered laser systems and make them available for both pure and applied research. The laser would never have been developed without a profound understanding of an area of fundamental physics — quantum theory. Einstein had previously shown that light was composed of tiny packets of wave energy called photons the wavelength depending on the energy.
He theorised that if the atoms that make up a material are given excess energy and so emit photons, these photons could stimulate nearby atoms to emit further photons, creating a cascade effect. All the photons would have the same energy and wavelength and move off in the same direction. However, it was not until 40 years later that physicists were able to convert this idea into a practical laser.
The resulting stimulated light emission is then amplified by bouncing the light back and forth through the lasing material in a mirrored cavity, so stimulating more emission, before it escapes through a transparent mirror section as a laser beam. A device that amplified microwaves was constructed in by Charles Townes and colleagues at Columbia University. Townes shared a Nobel Prize in Physics in with Nikolay Basov and Aleksandr Prochorov of the Lebedev Institute in Moscow who independently also demonstrated what came to be called a maser.
The next few years saw a race to build the first visible light laser. When an electron absorbs energy either from light photons or heat phonons , it receives that incident quantum of energy. But transitions are only allowed in between discrete energy levels such as the two shown above. This leads to emission lines and absorption lines. When an electron is excited from a lower to a higher energy level, it will not stay that way forever.
An electron in an excited state may decay to a lower energy state which is not occupied, according to a particular time constant characterizing that transition. When such an electron decays without external influence, emitting a photon, that is called " spontaneous emission ". The phase associated with the photon that is emitted is random.
A material with many atoms in such an excited state may thus result in radiation which is very spectrally limited centered around one wavelength of light , but the individual photons would have no common phase relationship and would emanate in random directions. This is the mechanism of fluorescence and thermal emission. An external electromagnetic field at a frequency associated with a transition can affect the quantum mechanical state of the atom.
As the electron in the atom makes a transition between two stationary states neither of which shows a dipole field , it enters a transition state which does have a dipole field, and which acts like a small electric dipole , and this dipole oscillates at a characteristic frequency. In response to the external electric field at this frequency, the probability of the atom entering this transition state is greatly increased. Thus, the rate of transitions between two stationary states is enhanced beyond that due to spontaneous emission.
Such a transition to the higher state is called absorption , and it destroys an incident photon the photon's energy goes into powering the increased energy of the higher state. A transition from the higher to a lower energy state, however, produces an additional photon; this is the process of stimulated emission. The gain medium is put into an excited state by an external source of energy. In most lasers this medium consists of a population of atoms which have been excited into such a state by means of an outside light source, or an electrical field which supplies energy for atoms to absorb and be transformed into their excited states.
The gain medium of a laser is normally a material of controlled purity, size, concentration, and shape, which amplifies the beam by the process of stimulated emission described above. This material can be of any state : gas, liquid, solid, or plasma. The gain medium absorbs pump energy, which raises some electrons into higher-energy " excited " quantum states.
Particles can interact with light by either absorbing or emitting photons. Emission can be spontaneous or stimulated. In the latter case, the photon is emitted in the same direction as the light that is passing by. When the number of particles in one excited state exceeds the number of particles in some lower-energy state, population inversion is achieved and the amount of stimulated emission due to light that passes through is larger than the amount of absorption. Hence, the light is amplified. By itself, this makes an optical amplifier. When an optical amplifier is placed inside a resonant optical cavity, one obtains a laser oscillator.
In a few situations it is possible to obtain lasing with only a single pass of EM radiation through the gain medium, and this produces a laser beam without any need for a resonant or reflective cavity see for example nitrogen laser.
The optical resonator is sometimes referred to as an "optical cavity", but this is a misnomer: lasers use open resonators as opposed to the literal cavity that would be employed at microwave frequencies in a maser. The resonator typically consists of two mirrors between which a coherent beam of light travels in both directions, reflecting back on itself so that an average photon will pass through the gain medium repeatedly before it is emitted from the output aperture or lost to diffraction or absorption.
If the gain amplification in the medium is larger than the resonator losses, then the power of the recirculating light can rise exponentially. But each stimulated emission event returns an atom from its excited state to the ground state, reducing the gain of the medium. With increasing beam power the net gain gain minus loss reduces to unity and the gain medium is said to be saturated. In a continuous wave CW laser, the balance of pump power against gain saturation and cavity losses produces an equilibrium value of the laser power inside the cavity; this equilibrium determines the operating point of the laser.
If the applied pump power is too small, the gain will never be sufficient to overcome the cavity losses, and laser light will not be produced. The minimum pump power needed to begin laser action is called the lasing threshold. The gain medium will amplify any photons passing through it, regardless of direction; but only the photons in a spatial mode supported by the resonator will pass more than once through the medium and receive substantial amplification.
In most lasers, lasing begins with stimulated emission amplifying random spontaneously emitted photons present in the gain medium. Stimulated emission produces light that matches the input signal in wavelength, phase , and polarization. This, combined with the filtering effect of the optical resonator gives laser light its characteristic coherence, and may give it uniform polarization and monochromaticity, depending on the resonator's design. Some lasers use a separate injection seeder to start the process off with a beam that is already highly coherent. This can produce beams with a narrower spectrum than would otherwise be possible.
Many lasers produce a beam that can be approximated as a Gaussian beam ; such beams have the minimum divergence possible for a given beam diameter. Some lasers, particularly high-power ones, produce multimode beams, with the transverse modes often approximated using Hermite — Gaussian or Laguerre -Gaussian functions.
Some high power lasers use a flat-topped profile known as a " tophat beam ". Unstable laser resonators not used in most lasers produce fractal-shaped beams. Near the "waist" or focal region of a laser beam, it is highly collimated : the wavefronts are planar, normal to the direction of propagation, with no beam divergence at that point.
However, due to diffraction , that can only remain true well within the Rayleigh range. The beam of a single transverse mode gaussian beam laser eventually diverges at an angle which varies inversely with the beam diameter, as required by diffraction theory. Thus, the "pencil beam" directly generated by a common helium—neon laser would spread out to a size of perhaps kilometers when shone on the Moon from the distance of the earth. However even such a divergent beam can be transformed into a similarly collimated beam by means of a lens system, as is always included, for instance, in a laser pointer whose light originates from a laser diode.
That is possible due to the light being of a single spatial mode. This unique property of laser light, spatial coherence , cannot be replicated using standard light sources except by discarding most of the light as can be appreciated by comparing the beam from a flashlight torch or spotlight to that of almost any laser. A laser beam profiler is used to measure the intensity profile, width, and divergence of laser beams. Diffuse reflection of a laser beam from a matte surface produces a speckle pattern with interesting properties.
The mechanism of producing radiation in a laser relies on stimulated emission , where energy is extracted from a transition in an atom or molecule. This is a quantum phenomenon discovered by Einstein who derived the relationship between the A coefficient describing spontaneous emission and the B coefficient which applies to absorption and stimulated emission. However, in the case of the free electron laser , atomic energy levels are not involved; it appears that the operation of this rather exotic device can be explained without reference to quantum mechanics.
A laser can be classified as operating in either continuous or pulsed mode, depending on whether the power output is essentially continuous over time or whether its output takes the form of pulses of light on one or another time scale. Of course even a laser whose output is normally continuous can be intentionally turned on and off at some rate in order to create pulses of light.
When the modulation rate is on time scales much slower than the cavity lifetime and the time period over which energy can be stored in the lasing medium or pumping mechanism, then it is still classified as a "modulated" or "pulsed" continuous wave laser. Most laser diodes used in communication systems fall in that category. Some applications of lasers depend on a beam whose output power is constant over time. Such a laser is known as continuous wave CW. Many types of lasers can be made to operate in continuous wave mode to satisfy such an application.
Many of these lasers actually lase in several longitudinal modes at the same time, and beats between the slightly different optical frequencies of those oscillations will, in fact, produce amplitude variations on time scales shorter than the round-trip time the reciprocal of the frequency spacing between modes , typically a few nanoseconds or less. In most cases, these lasers are still termed "continuous wave" as their output power is steady when averaged over any longer time periods, with the very high-frequency power variations having little or no impact in the intended application.
However, the term is not applied to mode-locked lasers, where the intention is to create very short pulses at the rate of the round-trip time. For continuous wave operation, it is required for the population inversion of the gain medium to be continually replenished by a steady pump source. In some lasing media, this is impossible.
In some other lasers, it would require pumping the laser at a very high continuous power level which would be impractical or destroy the laser by producing excessive heat. Such lasers cannot be run in CW mode. Pulsed operation of lasers refers to any laser not classified as continuous wave, so that the optical power appears in pulses of some duration at some repetition rate. This encompasses a wide range of technologies addressing a number of different motivations.
Some lasers are pulsed simply because they cannot be run in continuous mode. In other cases, the application requires the production of pulses having as large an energy as possible. Since the pulse energy is equal to the average power divided by the repetition rate, this goal can sometimes be satisfied by lowering the rate of pulses so that more energy can be built up in between pulses. In laser ablation , for example, a small volume of material at the surface of a work piece can be evaporated if it is heated in a very short time, while supplying the energy gradually would allow for the heat to be absorbed into the bulk of the piece, never attaining a sufficiently high temperature at a particular point.
Other applications rely on the peak pulse power rather than the energy in the pulse , especially in order to obtain nonlinear optical effects. For a given pulse energy, this requires creating pulses of the shortest possible duration utilizing techniques such as Q-switching. The optical bandwidth of a pulse cannot be narrower than the reciprocal of the pulse width. In the case of extremely short pulses, that implies lasing over a considerable bandwidth, quite contrary to the very narrow bandwidths typical of CW lasers. In a Q-switched laser, the population inversion is allowed to build up by introducing loss inside the resonator which exceeds the gain of the medium; this can also be described as a reduction of the quality factor or 'Q' of the cavity.
Then, after the pump energy stored in the laser medium has approached the maximum possible level, the introduced loss mechanism often an electro- or acousto-optical element is rapidly removed or that occurs by itself in a passive device , allowing lasing to begin which rapidly obtains the stored energy in the gain medium. This results in a short pulse incorporating that energy, and thus a high peak power. A mode-locked laser is capable of emitting extremely short pulses on the order of tens of picoseconds down to less than 10 femtoseconds.
These pulses will repeat at the round trip time, that is, the time that it takes light to complete one round trip between the mirrors comprising the resonator. Due to the Fourier limit also known as energy-time uncertainty , a pulse of such short temporal length has a spectrum spread over a considerable bandwidth.
Thus such a gain medium must have a gain bandwidth sufficiently broad to amplify those frequencies. An example of a suitable material is titanium -doped, artificially grown sapphire Ti:sapphire which has a very wide gain bandwidth and can thus produce pulses of only a few femtoseconds duration. Such mode-locked lasers are a most versatile tool for researching processes occurring on extremely short time scales known as femtosecond physics, femtosecond chemistry and ultrafast science , for maximizing the effect of nonlinearity in optical materials e.
Due to the large peak power and the ability to generate phase-stabilized trains of ultrafast laser pulses, mode-locking ultrafast lasers underpin precision metrology and spectroscopy applications. Another method of achieving pulsed laser operation is to pump the laser material with a source that is itself pulsed, either through electronic charging in the case of flash lamps, or another laser which is already pulsed.
Pulsed pumping was historically used with dye lasers where the inverted population lifetime of a dye molecule was so short that a high energy, fast pump was needed.
The way to overcome this problem was to charge up large capacitors which are then switched to discharge through flashlamps, producing an intense flash. Pulsed pumping is also required for three-level lasers in which the lower energy level rapidly becomes highly populated preventing further lasing until those atoms relax to the ground state. These lasers, such as the excimer laser and the copper vapor laser, can never be operated in CW mode.
In , Albert Einstein established the theoretical foundations for the laser and the maser in the paper Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung On the Quantum Theory of Radiation via a re-derivation of Max Planck 's law of radiation, conceptually based upon probability coefficients Einstein coefficients for the absorption, spontaneous emission, and stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. Ladenburg confirmed the existence of the phenomena of stimulated emission and negative absorption.
Fabrikant predicted the use of stimulated emission to amplify "short" waves. Lamb and R. Retherford found apparent stimulated emission in hydrogen spectra and effected the first demonstration of stimulated emission. Gordon and Herbert J. Zeiger produced the first microwave amplifier, a device operating on similar principles to the laser, but amplifying microwave radiation rather than infrared or visible radiation.
Townes's maser was incapable of continuous output. These gain media could release stimulated emissions between an excited state and a lower excited state, not the ground state, facilitating the maintenance of a population inversion. In , Prokhorov and Basov suggested optical pumping of a multi-level system as a method for obtaining the population inversion, later a main method of laser pumping.
Townes reports that several eminent physicists—among them Niels Bohr , John von Neumann , and Llewellyn Thomas —argued the maser violated Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and hence could not work. Others such as Isidor Rabi and Polykarp Kusch expected that it would be impractical and not worth the effort. Townes, Nikolay Basov, and Aleksandr Prokhorov shared the Nobel Prize in Physics , "for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser—laser principle".
As ideas developed, they abandoned infrared radiation to instead concentrate upon visible light. The concept originally was called an "optical maser".
In , Bell Labs filed a patent application for their proposed optical maser; and Schawlow and Townes submitted a manuscript of their theoretical calculations to the Physical Review , published that year in Volume , Issue No. Simultaneously, at Columbia University , graduate student Gordon Gould was working on a doctoral thesis about the energy levels of excited thallium. When Gould and Townes met, they spoke of radiation emission , as a general subject; afterwards, in November , Gould noted his ideas for a "laser", including using an open resonator later an essential laser-device component.
Moreover, in , Prokhorov independently proposed using an open resonator, the first published appearance in the USSR of this idea.
Elsewhere, in the U. Gould's notes included possible applications for a laser, such as spectrometry , interferometry , radar , and nuclear fusion. He continued developing the idea, and filed a patent application in April The U. Patent Office denied his application, and awarded a patent to Bell Labs , in That provoked a twenty-eight-year lawsuit , featuring scientific prestige and money as the stakes. Gould won his first minor patent in , yet it was not until that he won the first significant patent lawsuit victory, when a Federal judge ordered the U. Patent Office to issue patents to Gould for the optically pumped and the gas discharge laser devices.
The question of just how to assign credit for inventing the laser remains unresolved by historians. On May 16, , Theodore H. Maiman's functional laser used a flashlamp -pumped synthetic ruby crystal to produce red laser light at nanometers wavelength. The device was only capable of pulsed operation, due to its three-level pumping design scheme. Bennett , and Donald Herriott , constructed the first gas laser , using helium and neon that was capable of continuous operation in the infrared U.
Patent 3,, ; later, Javan received the Albert Einstein Award in Basov and Javan proposed the semiconductor laser diode concept. In , Robert N. Later that year, Nick Holonyak , Jr.
Since the early period of laser history, laser research has produced a variety of improved and specialized laser types, optimized for different performance goals, including:. The device has potential for applications in quantum computing. Following the invention of the HeNe gas laser, many other gas discharges have been found to amplify light coherently. Gas lasers using many different gases have been built and used for many purposes. Commercial carbon dioxide CO 2 lasers can emit many hundreds of watts in a single spatial mode which can be concentrated into a tiny spot.
This emission is in the thermal infrared at A nitrogen transverse electrical discharge in gas at atmospheric pressure TEA laser is an inexpensive gas laser, often home-built by hobbyists, which produces rather incoherent UV light at Like all low-pressure gas lasers, the gain media of these lasers have quite narrow oscillation linewidths , less than 3 GHz 0. Chemical lasers are powered by a chemical reaction permitting a large amount of energy to be released quickly. Such very high power lasers are especially of interest to the military, however continuous wave chemical lasers at very high power levels, fed by streams of gasses, have been developed and have some industrial applications.
Excimer lasers are a special sort of gas laser powered by an electric discharge in which the lasing medium is an excimer , or more precisely an exciplex in existing designs. These are molecules which can only exist with one atom in an excited electronic state. Once the molecule transfers its excitation energy to a photon, its atoms are no longer bound to each other and the molecule disintegrates. This drastically reduces the population of the lower energy state thus greatly facilitating a population inversion. Excimers currently used are all noble gas compounds ; noble gasses are chemically inert and can only form compounds while in an excited state.
Excimer lasers typically operate at ultraviolet wavelengths with major applications including semiconductor photolithography and LASIK eye surgery. Solid-state lasers use a crystalline or glass rod which is "doped" with ions that provide the required energy states. For example, the first working laser was a ruby laser , made from ruby chromium -doped corundum. The population inversion is actually maintained in the dopant. These materials are pumped optically using a shorter wavelength than the lasing wavelength, often from a flashtube or from another laser.
The usage of the term "solid-state" in laser physics is narrower than in typical use. Semiconductor lasers laser diodes are typically not referred to as solid-state lasers. They are used for cutting, welding and marking of metals and other materials, and also in spectroscopy and for pumping dye lasers. However, in thermal equilibrium, stimulated emission does not account to a significant extent. The reason is there are far more electrons in the ground state than in the excited states.
And the rates of absorption and emission is proportional the number of electrons in ground state and excited states, respectively. If the higher energy state has a greater population than the lower energy state, then the light in the system undergoes a net increase in intensity. And this is called population inversion. But this process cannot be achieved by only two states, because the electrons will eventually reach equilibrium with the de-exciting processes of spontaneous and stimulated emission.
Then external energy is provided to excite them to level 3, referred as pumping. The source of pumping energy varies with different laser medium, such as electrical discharge and chemical reaction, etc. In a medium suitable for laser operation, we require these excited atoms to quickly decay to level 2, transferring the energy to the phonons of the lattice of the host material.
Then electrons on level 2 will decay by spontaneous emission to level 1, labeled as L, meaning laser. If the life time of L is much longer than that of R, the population of the E 3 will be essentially zero and a population of excited state atoms will accumulate in level 2. When level 2 hosts over half of the total electrons, a population inversion be achieved. Because half of the electrons must be excited, the pump system need to be very strong.
This makes three-level lasers rather inefficient. Most of the present lasers are 4-level lasers, see Fig. Laser transition takes place between level 3 and 2, so the population is easily inverted. In semiconductor lasers, where there are no discrete energy levels, a pump beam with energy slightly above the band gap energy can excite electrons into a higher state in the conduction band, from where they quickly decay to states near the bottom of the conduction band.
At the same time, the holes generated in the valence band move to the top of the valence band. Although with a population inversion we have the ability to amplify a signal via stimulated emission, the overall single-pass gain is quite small, and most of the excited atoms in the population emit spontaneously and do not contribute to the overall output [6]. Then the resonator is applied to make a positive feedback mechanism. An optical resonator usually has two flat or concave mirrors, one on either end, that reflect lasing photons back and forth so that stimulated emission continues to build up more and more laser light.
More importantly, there may be many laser transitions contribute in the laser, because of the band in solids or molecule energy levels of organics. Optical resonator also has a function of wavelength selector. It just make a standing wave condition for the photons:.
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Only wavelengths satisfying eq 2 will get resonated and amplified. The output of a laser may be a continuous constant-amplitude output known as CW or continuous wave ; or pulsed, by using the techniques of Q-switching, model-locking, or gain-switching. In many applications of pulsed lasers, one aims to deposit as much energy as possible at a given place in as short time as possible. Some dye lasers and vibronic solid-state lasers can produce light over a broad range of wavelengths; this property makes them suitable for generating extremely short pulses of light, on the order of a few femtoseconds 10 s.
According to the gain material, lasers can be divided into the following types. Several common used lasers are listed in each type. In Albert Einstein first raised the concepts of probability coefficients later to be termed 'Einstein coefficients' for the absorption, spontaneous emission, and stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. It was confirmed in s.


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"What?" Heidi asked, and then, "Who? You mean Rick?" and she shrugged. "No, not really. I think he's a lot more like his Mom."
"Sookie," Bernard mouthed.
"He's got her stubborn," Hunter chimed in, "and her grit, but I'd say he has my Uncle's luck."
"Uncle?" Bernard asked, and then he stared hard at Hunter. "Of course," and he forced himself to look away. 'Leif!'
In an instant, he was back in the coffin, being held by those arms. Leif had known how to kiss and stroke. It had left every part of him tingling, begging. Leif had known things about him before he did. It had been the best sex of his life. He'd murmured things, they'd made promises to each other, and Bernard couldn't help spinning tales in his head in the aftermath about how things would be. After all, no two people shared the kind of experience they did and then walked away! But, Leif did.
Bernard dug his nails into the palms of his hands, focusing on the pain to keep the knot in his chest from giving him away. Heidi was a tracker. If he didn't pull himself together, Bernard knew he'd cry and that would prompt questions. He looked at the trees they passed and counted road markers until he had his emotions under control. It had been over twenty-five years and the bitter pill of Eric Northman's betrayal still burned.
Bernard swallowed, trying to push the memories back but found he couldn't. It was the hurt he had felt rising alone that next evening, that was clearest. He knew his lover was older, but he'd been sure his next rising would be in Leif's arms. He remembered his surprise to find himself alone. He hadn't bothered dressing, rushing downstairs to look through the donors' rooms. He'd searched the grounds, asking everyone he saw, but Leif was well and truly gone. He remembered walking back to his room, how he searched the coffin and the dressers, looking for a note. It hadn't occurred to him to look for his car keys until Betty Jo arrested him.
"Idiot!" she'd jeered as he defended Leif. It seemed stupid now, his refusing to believe anyone who had been so giving could be so cruel.
They'd taken him down to the dungeons and shown him video surveillance. He saw Leif rush from the front door of the Palace and across the grounds, never looking back. He heard Weres howling in pain a few rooms away. Betty Jo told him they were the day guards. Bernard would hear them howling for a long time, paying the price of their failure. In the end, their sentence seemed merciful compared to his.
They'd told him who it was who used him and they'd told him why. He knew Lorena, the King's guest, was dead and that the woman, Sookie Stackhouse, was the reason. They told him how tricky the Viking was and mocked Bernard for being so easily fooled. "It was never about you!" Betty Jo hissed at him. "He was only here for her, the telepath!"
For his sins, Bernard was sentenced to ten years wrapped in silver and locked in a coffin. Guards opened the lid every few days to feed him a couple drops of precious blood. It was enough to keep him going, but never enough to heal the burns that covered his body. By the second year the guards started talking to him. They fed him bits of information and because they wanted him to suffer, they told him about Eric Northman.
Bernard heard about the takeover in Louisiana and how Eric Northman was the only Sheriff to survive. They told him about Northman's infamous marriage and how badly things were for him under De Castro. Russell Edgington had forgiven Northman by then, even allowing him to officiate at his wedding, but that didn't mean he forgot. The guards whispered that Northman petitioned the King, asking him as Clan Chief to intervene with De Castro. Russell refused and Northman was shipped off to Oklahoma. Bernard remembered his surprise when he realized he could still feel sorry for the vampire who'd betrayed him. He'd cried that night, the salt in his tears stinging the open sores on his face. 'At least he doesn't have her anymore,' he'd whispered.
"What's wrong?" Heidi was looking at him in the rearview mirror and Bernard realized he'd made a sound.
"Just thinking about poor Talbot," Bernard lied. "I miss him."
Bernard had emerged from the coffin thin, gray, and filthy. Betty Jo was waiting for him. "What have you learned?" she asked him as he stood swaying between the guards.
"Never to trust strangers," he'd whispered. "I'm sorry."
"So, you can learn," she'd replied. It took another two years, living in darkness, but he recovered. It was near the end of his convalescence that one of the guards noticed his doodling. He'd always had a fair hand for graphics, so he was given a computer.
By the time he was ready to rejoin the Palace, he'd created banners for the King's Internet site. It was something new they were trying, a way to 'relate' to humans. "We need to seem accessible," the head of the area told him. A series of rooms had been converted into business offices, and that's where Bernard reported. "We need someone with your flair," he was told, and then the vampire laughed. "Just imagine!" and he'd angled a mirror so Bernard could see his own sunken features. "Something this beautiful coming from someone who looks like you!"
It was an easy job and Bernard found he had a talent for converting the patterns he saw in his head to the screen using a keyboard and mouse. He knew when the positioning wasn't quite right and he happily pushed and shaded until the images gained a harmony. It required his full concentration and that kept other thoughts from intruding.
Slowly, the old Bernard started to peek out once more. He bought a scarf, and the day he couldn't detect the gray pallor in his face, he bought himself a bright pink tank top. When he wore it, one of the new boys complimented him, and Bernard smiled, really smiled for the first time in years.
After that, Bernard started mingling with the others around the pool or out on the grounds. He danced and after some persuading, joined the orgy that happened every night in the pool house. Bernard still remembered how anxious he'd felt, careful not to shut his eyes lest he forget where he was and who was not there. When he'd returned to his room it was impossible not to compare those he'd kissed with Leif and he allowed himself bitter tears.
Still, his unlife was back on track. He'd see Russell walking the grounds from time to time and while they weren't friendly, Russell didn't look away. The King's marriage to Bartlett Crowe was still happy. The Indiana King would visit, bringing his retinue, and then Russell would visit Indiana, taking his favored courtiers, sometimes for months at a time. Bernard was never asked to go.
It was during one of those trips that Bernard found Talbot. "Look, darling, our peacock is back!" Talbot teased. The 'darling' Talbot was talking with was a very limp human.
"You took too much," Bernard cautioned. "He needs a transfusion."
Talbot's eyes narrowed in a way Bernard would come to recognize. It was when Talbot was at his most dangerous. "What do I care!" he hissed, dropping fang. "What are they going to do? Punish me?" and he'd thrown the barely conscious boy off the recliner. "Let him die!"
Accidents happened from time to time, but not on the King's grounds. It brought the kind of trouble no one needed. Bernard made his decision, and adopting his most servile simper, said, "Don't be a silly! No one as pretty as you deserves one moment of trouble. Let me take him! I'll have him healed up and out of here in no time. You just look up at the stars and enjoy this wonderful night."
"Oh!" and Talbot's defiant face crumbled into self-pity. "What do I have to look forward to? I'm here all alone, left behind like trash!" He'd locked eyes with Bernard as the slighter vampire hoisted the human on his shoulder. "Like you!"
It stung, but Bernard forced his lips upward. "Now, you know that's not right. You're no one's trash," and Bernard stood. "You are the King's favorite. He's just doing what he needs to do to satisfy his contract. If he really didn't love you, Russell would have banished you from his kingdom."
Bernard had no idea if what he was saying was true, but it worked. "You're sweet," Talbot told Bernard, and then he said, "Thank you." It was enough.
Bernard started to see Talbot more often. He didn't know if it was just coincidence, or if Talbot engineered their chance encounters. They'd nod and after a bit, they started exchanging greetings. Several weeks passed before Talbot showed up in the business offices. He walked up behind Bernard, his hand stealing up to rest on Bernard's shoulder. "Oh, it's you who does all the artwork!" Bernard was pretty sure Talbot knew already. It was a small Palace and everyone knew everyone's business.
"I loved how you arranged the photos for the Spring Festival," Talbot purred.
Bernard clicked until they were looking at the screen Talbot mentioned. "You mean this one?" he asked, pointing to a series of photos that featured Talbot.
"You really captured me," and Talbot squeezed Bernard's shoulder before leaning forward a little more. Bernard turned and Talbot kissed him. "Thank you," he whispered to Bernard. "You made me look desirable," and he was gone.
It wasn't Leif. It was Talbot, the King's forgotten lover, and for the first time since that night, Bernard felt desire. Talbot knew. He must have known because, despite his searching, Bernard didn't run into him. One night passed and then another. On the third night, they encountered each other near the pool house. "Were you looking for me?" Talbot asked.
"I was," Bernard told him, and then confessed. "I was hunting you."
"How flattering!" and Talbot reached out his hand. They made love once that night, one encounter amidst the many encounters one had in the pool house, but Bernard remembered it. They were both naturally submissive, but they made it work.
The next night they were at the pool house again, and the next. It wasn't just the sex. It was the talking afterward. They'd sit on the benches or walk the grounds. Bernard talked about work. Talbot shared gossip. Eventually they shared their pain at being left behind. "I'm lonely," Talbot said.
"I'm sorry," Bernard replied.
"Sleep with me." It was a simple request and one Bernard willingly accepted.
Of course, the other vampires in the Palace knew. Bernard's co-workers cautioned him not to get too close. "You know how they are," they whispered. No one believed Russell Edgington could remain forever faithful. It wasn't in his nature and when he strayed, it would be to Talbot. "Where will that leave you?" they asked.
Bernard had seen it before. Russell would return. Talbot would take the King back and whoever was comforting Talbot in the interim would be pushed to the side or sent away. Russell with his affections elsewhere was one thing. Russell returned to Talbot was jealous and petty.
It didn't matter. Bernard was happy for the first time in so many years and so, night by night, he and Talbot grew closer.
It seemed happiness had found him. The ten years in silver were replaced by ten years of contentment. There were parties and outings. He and Talbot, while not quite a couple, were more than friends. Bernard's services extended, and while he would never be trusted to run security, he did help with correspondence, coordinating special events, and party planning. That's how he gained access to the King's official email.
Every monarch had those accounts, the ones they used for official business with their fellow monarchs. Mostly they shared information about Summits and trade deals, but sometimes they shared gossip. When Stan Davis wrote Russell Edgington, telling him how well Eric Northman was doing with Freyda, ('He's seducing her into a crown,' he'd written), it brought back all Bernard's unhappiness. "Don't worry," Talbot soothed him later, "Someday the Viking will pay." He'd lifted Bernard's tear-stained face to kiss him, joking, "No one puts Bernie in the corner!"
It wasn't long after that Talbot realized he had his gift.
He'd stumbled across it, really. Talbot liked to glamour humans and make them do silly things. They'd cluck like chickens or fart when a certain word was said. Someone always took pity and removed the glamour, but it was amusing. One night, Talbot glamoured a human, planting the suggestion that every time he saw someone feed, he'd start singing Ain't Nothing but a Hound Dog. Bernard watched him do it, but right away, it felt different, and he told Talbot so. His friend just laughed, and sure enough, when someone decided to take a taste, the young man broke out in song. They all laughed, but the boy had no voice and after seeing it twice, Bernard decided to intervene. He looked into the man's eyes, felt for the thread and came up empty. He tried again, and then again, with the same result. "I can't find it!" he hissed to Talbot.
Talbot did, but even he had difficulty removing the glamour he'd placed. Before long, they were experimenting, discovering what this new kind of glamour meant. Talbot announced he'd like to keep his new gift a secret but Bernard realized now that Talbot already had a plan.
It was the summer the Stackhouse woman resurfaced. It was the only thing that monarchs talked about and emails were flying, fast and furious. Felipe de Castro was crowing to everyone about how he'd hired the most famous telepath, and she was now a member in his retinue. Sibyl of Alabama sniped that Sookie Stackhouse was angling for another vampire lover. Phoebe Golden advocated for appealing to the Pythoness if De Castro didn't allow the Stackhouse woman the ability to negotiate her own contracts. Once more, the name of Eric Northman was mentioned and all the old stories revisited. Did he know she'd resurfaced? Had he really moved on? No one forgot how hard he'd fought to set aside his contract with Freyda, and they traded experiences; who he'd asked for what favor and what he was willing to pay, each tidbit reminding Bernard how little he'd meant to his one-time lover.
He was so preoccupied he didn't notice Talbot's scheming. The first sign was a breach between Bartlett Crowe and Russell Edgington, one big enough to cause fighting and shouting. Russell announced he was coming home having cut short his visit, and everyone started speculating.
The story arrived ahead of the King. There were humans who confessed to being Bartlett Crowe's lovers. They'd been examined, but there was nothing found to suggest they were lying. The details were lurid and everyone knew Russell Edgington was in a fury. Bernard found Talbot to let him know, but his friend seemed oddly complacent. "Fancy that," he'd purred, and then said, "Probably better that you and I don't look too friendly. You know how Russell can be…" It was how he said it and Bernard knew.
Within the week Talbot was back on the King's arm. For his part, Bernard didn't begrudge them. He spent more time in the offices, figuring it would be better to stay out of sight, but even laying low didn't insulate him altogether.
It was like living in a soap opera. For a while, it was amusing, but soon the Palace tired of it. Bartlett protested his innocence. Russell forgave him. More problems surfaced and more fights ensured. Talbot should have stayed out of it, but he didn't. He stirred up Russell's suspicions, playing on his worst tendencies. It was inevitable that Talbot would slip, he was too emotionally invested. Russell found out it was Talbot behind the glamour, or 'deep glamour' as they started calling it. The King was furious, but by then it was too late. The royal marriage between Russell and Bartlett was in shambles.
Russell extracted his revenge. He forced Talbot to use his gift to make spies. He took other lovers and made Talbot watch. Bernard tried to stay out of it, but Talbot refused to let him escape. He'd corner Bernard, stroking and hissing, saying and doing the things the small vampire loved best.
To add to Bernard's miseries, the worst news came from the West. The Viking had escaped Oklahoma and was now in Louisiana as King, and worst of all, he'd taken that Stackhouse woman back as his consort. Bernard found himself dreading each rising. It was as if he was living a nightmare. Good things had come to bad people and he found himself dodging Talbot, fearing what Russell would do should he catch them together. He thought about leaving, but found he couldn't, he was so mired in his misery.
Bernard was in the throne room talking with Betty Jo when the news about the dhampir came through. "A child!" Russell was almost foaming. "He made a biological child with that redneck trash Queen of his!" Bernard remembered feeling as if someone punched him in the gut. Bernard couldn't explain it, but his sense of betrayal twisted into something else. His anger made him feel less lonely for Talbot. He fed his rage every night, dreaming up ways to take revenge, and that led to a discovery. Bernard had a rare gift for hatred.
It didn't take much to stoke Russell Edgington's paranoia when it came to the Viking. A word here, a slight alteration to an email there. Soon enough, Russell had Talbot working overtime, sending spies into Northman's Kingdom. Even Talbot didn't seem to understand why Bernard was so angry at Northman, but he didn't protest, actively helping take every opportunity to try to harm the Viking.
When Heidi appeared, Bernard pondered ways he could use her against Northman, but she disarmed him. She was kind and helpful. She kept to herself and when given the opportunity, defended him rather than join in the teasing with the others. And then, Talbot was killed.
It was a blow, but not in the way people assumed. With Talbot's death, there were no more spies, no more ways to punish Leif. Bernard did mourn and he let people assume the reason. And then, out of nowhere, he intercepted the email from Edward Madden. The English King's Second was talking about Fae and Cranes. These Fae were offering money for help kidnapping Northman's dhampir and his mate. They failed in England and heard the dhampir moved to north Louisiana, just a few hours from Jackson. They knew of Russell's hatred and thought he'd help.
It was the answer to Bernard's prayers. What better revenge against the Viking than the loss of his child?
It was all so easy, the meeting, the introduction as Russell Edgington's agent. Bernard met the Fae man once but everything from that point forward was done through intermediaries. Bernard hired locals and the Fae paid the money. He could tell they wondered that he was willing to accept so little, but fortunately, they looked at his appearance and assumed he was foolish.
They wanted the woman alive. It was all the same to Bernard. The men he hired were thugs. The only thing that really went wrong was Rick, the dhampir, wasn't there. The others died, but no one that was really connected to Leif. The leader told him they were trying to drag the woman from the house. The Fae was there on the other side of the cemetery. It seemed he didn't quite trust Bernard and had gone to Bon Temps himself to collect her. The Were intervened. There was a scuffle and the woman fell, impaling herself on a piece of broken fencing. The Were died, too, and his henchmen ran. Bernard had killed their leader. He was the only one Bernard actually met and it didn't pay to have someone who could connect his face with the deaths.
The Fae weren't pleased and they demanded their money returned, but Bernard dared them to try pushing things with vampires. He hadn't heard from them lately and figured if they did sue, it would be Russell Edgington they'd chase, 'and he'll be dead!' Bernard thought.
The car stopped, interrupting Bernard's thoughts. "Time to settle accounts," Hunter announced from the front seat. The way he said it, with such authority had Heidi turning her head. Bernard couldn't figure out the dynamics between the couple in the front seat, but he suspected Hunter wore the pants. 'Good,' he thought. 'It will make your loss all the more painful to your Uncle.'
He'd thought he knew what he needed to do. He'd had a plan. Russell Edgington would die, but seeing Leif… 'The dhampir,' he reminded himself. The plan was shifting. It was like snakes in his brain, making him doubt, forcing him to remember promises he made himself. 'You'll lose them all,' he thought. It wasn't enough to kill Leif, no, the Viking had to suffer, and tomorrow night he would.
When Hunter awoke it was late. He didn't need to see light to know it. Years of living in the backwaters told him. Heidi was cold beside him. He smiled, thinking of how he'd pushed her last night. 'Last night,' a voice whispered. "Damn stupid!" he said aloud.
They were in the rooms above the garages. Bernard told them it would be easiest to get in and out of the Palace from here. The guards knew Heidi was entertaining and there'd been some teasing, but Hunter could tell the Weres here liked her. He was pretty sure no one would question his wandering a bit during the day. It was expected of human companions.
He leaned over and switched on a light. These were the same rooms Bill Compton was held in years ago when Aunt Sookie was just learning about vampires. Heidi told him. There was no sign of struggle or anything that might suggest the room was anything but a guest room. Still, that they were put here seemed more than a coincidence and Hunter felt the hairs on his arm stand.
He checked the clock. It was only four hours until sunset. He rolled from bed and found the burner phone. There was a text from Rick asking where he was. He considered making the drive there and back, but decided against it. The department store where he could get the clothes on the list was close. He could get there and be back in time for Heidi's rising. He figured in a place like this there would be vampires who rose earlier than Heidi. Best not to be wandering when they started stirring.
"Stay put," he texted Rick. "See you at 9."
"Come get me," Rick texted back.
"Too late," Hunter sent. "I'm getting the clothes. See you later."
Rick sent several emojis that had Hunter chuckling as he dressed. He rolled downstairs, pulling Bernard's keys from his jeans. 'Bernard.' There was something about Heidi's friend that didn't sit right. He'd asked Rick if he read him, but his cousin rolled his eyes. Hunter knew Rick was creeped out by Bernard, too. It wasn't just the way Bernard kept touching Rick; it was something more. He shook his head, "At least he has a big car," Hunter sniffed.
The clothes shopping was easy. Heidi had been to the store before, as had Bernard. With their perfect memories, it was like grocery shopping. They knew what brand, size, and roughly where in the store everything was located. Heidi included clothes for him on the list, but since he was supposed to stay outside the club, they were basic black. "Pool cue boxes!" Hunter remembered. The store that had the billiard supplies was well across town, and he and Heidi had discussed it last night. The whole idea that carrying boxes into Club Dead wouldn't be noticed seemed farfetched.
"Just leave it to us," she'd told him. "We smuggle swords all the time."
On the way back to the Palace, Hunter wondered what Bernard had in mind for Rick. There were no clothes on the list for his cousin, but Bernard said several times he had it well in hand. "He will look perfect," the smaller vampire said as he left them last night.
The Weres at the gate waved as Hunter drove through. "Got to hurry!" he called out. "She'll want me there when she rises."
Everyone was smiling. Hunter didn't think they'd be smiling in another few hours.
Russell Edgington was in the Palace. The itinerary was set. There was mention he had guests. Hunter hoped whoever it was, they'd know to hightail it out of the Club when things got started. He grabbed his bags as he got out of the car. The guards were watching him, so he waved to them, showing them the familiar logo on the bags. They must have been satisfied because they turned away, resuming their conversation.
He was barely settled when Heidi opened her eyes. It always surprised him. One minute she was a lump of grey and the next, animated and so alive. "Got the clothes!" he told her.
"Are you worried?" she asked.
"No," he lied, and then, "Well, maybe." He drew her to him, "I want you to keep out of it. Guard the door, but you don't need to charge in; Karin can handle things, and Rasul. This is why they've come. Stand back and let them take care of it."
"Don't you know guarding the door is the most dangerous detail?" Heidi laughed. "It's always the guy who has no real purpose in these things who gets whacked."
"Don't say that!" Hunter exclaimed, then catching himself, said, "Well, you do have a job, guarding me!"
There was a knock on the door and Bernard walked without waiting. "Well, lovebirds, ready?"
Heidi nodded, rising from the bed and Hunter handed her the shopping bag with her outfit. Bernard reached out, taking the bag from her. "That can wait," he fussed." I've arranged extra donors. Why not feed and then shower?" He gave Hunter a glancing look, "And you should go with her. I did my best, but there's at least one in this group who's going to push his luck. In case she hasn't mentioned, the boys around here are hardly discrete!"
Heidi protested, but Hunter just laughed. "Of course, I'll come. Someone has to guard your honor!"
Bernard followed them, waving them toward the larger room at the end of the short hall. Heidi was laughing, but then Hunter was shoved hard from the back. Heidi half-turned and then she was screaming. It all happened so quickly. Hunter felt something wet against his shirt. He reached down and his hand came back red. Then he felt it, the slow bloom of pain at his neck. 'Bernard cut me.' Some part of his brain understood that, but another part of his brain couldn't accept what was happening.
He fell. Heidi's arms were around him. They were jostled again and then it was dark. "Don't leave me!" Heidi was crying.
"I won't," he said, but even he couldn't hear the words.
He was tired now, and cold. His head hurt, and then his neck hurt more. "Drink!" Heidi was saying, and for the first time, her blood was warm in his mouth.


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October Baseball has arrived. And the Yankees are the first to advance to the Championship Series round, by sweeping the Minnesota twins in absolutely dominating fashion.
They were relentless up and down the lineup (with particularly great performances by Judge, Gleyber, Didi, DJLM, and Brett Gardner), played *incredible* defense (led again by Judge, Gleyber, Didi), and got gutty strong starting pitcher performances (especially Tanaka and Severino) and lock down performances by the bullpen.
Manager Aaron Boone was aggressive and flawless in pulling the strings.
Baseball is a rich tapestry of thousands of little moments. Playoff baseball is an ode to the poetic power of stress and tension in competition. The moment when they knew they had won is a great moment to slow down and watch.
Here is Jomboy, who captured the moment from all angles:
Yankees final out reactions. pic.twitter.com/y5u059sohk
— Jomboy (@Jomboy_) October 8, 2019
Photo Credit: YouTube/Jomboy Media