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The Queen of Katwe
How a new star of the chess world rose from the slums of Kampala.
ŌĆØPhiona Mutesi is a young chess prodigy from Uganda whose fierce mind has sparked notice not only because itŌĆÖs relatively rare to see an African woman playing elite chess, but also because sheŌĆÖs from Katwe ŌĆō an impoverished corner of UgandaŌĆÖs teeming capital city of Kampala. Phiona is UgandaŌĆÖs national chess champion, a title she earned as a teenager. She competed at the World Chess Olympiad ŌĆō the worldŌĆÖs most prestigious team chess event ŌĆō in Siberia in 2010 and just weeks ago in Istanbul, Turkey, where she won a title that points her toward becoming a grandmaster.
PhionaŌĆÖs story is worth attention, and sportswriter Tim Crothers caught on. His article about Phiona for ESPN: The Magazine was a finalist for a National Magazine Award and has been optioned by Disney films. HeŌĆÖs now expanded his feature into a book: The Queen of Katwe.
One of four children, Phiona lost her father to AIDs when she was still a little girl. Living in a shack with her mother and siblings and unable to attend school because of the familyŌĆÖs poverty, Phiona was about 9 years old ŌĆō and hungry and illiterate ŌĆō when she first met Robert Katende, a war refugee and soccer player-turned-missionary who hatched the seemingly unlikely plan of teaching chess to impoverished children in Katwe. Katende succeeded in getting a group of kids so enthused about chess that they began playing on their own with bottle caps. And along the way he discovered a giant talent in Phiona.
In book form, Crothers is able to broaden and deepen PhionaŌĆÖs remarkable story. He digs into the people and places surrounding her. He narrates the curious history of KatweŌĆÖs settlement, the difficulties navigated by several generations of PhionaŌĆÖs family, and the tradition of chess as a game for elites. He spends substantial time with Katende.
KatendeŌĆÖs methods of teaching chess to restless children are fascinating. At its best, ŌĆ£The Queen of KatweŌĆØ channels the metaphors implicit in chess to reveal how limits, possibilities, and high stakes shape life in this corner of the world. Crothers quotes Katende, speaking as a teacher: ŌĆ£Someday you will be able to read your opponentŌĆÖs mind many moves in advance.... You will see what is going to happen on the chessboard before it happens. You are all going to be prophets.ŌĆØ
ItŌĆÖs a gorgeous moment that speaks to the power of this story. But ŌĆ£The Queen of KatweŌĆØ was rushed from article to book ŌĆō only 20 months separate their publications ŌĆō and the haste is obvious. Not enough substance comes through to justify the broadened scope.
Reporting poverty is a tricky, albeit urgent, act, and challenges escalate when youŌĆÖre an outsider in both culture and language. Katherine Boo is author of ŌĆ£Behind the Beautiful Forevers,ŌĆØ another book about young people in slums (she focuses on IndiaŌĆÖs Annawadi). In her afterword, Boo discusses the need to compensate for her shortcomings by working ŌĆ£slowly and patientlyŌĆØ ŌĆō she spent about three years reporting ŌĆō with the classic tools of journalism: ŌĆ£time spent, attention paid, documentation secured, accounts cross-checked.ŌĆØ
This was not the recipe for ŌĆ£Queen of Katwe.
Crothers, as a sportswriter, knows that the action is better than the post-game interview. So itŌĆÖs surprising that so much of the book hinges on after-the-fact explanation, rather than real-time observation. While he recreates scenes, theyŌĆÖre leadened by quotes that feel ŌĆ£told,ŌĆØ unlike living language, and by the curse of ŌĆ£first-this, then-thatŌĆØ chronology. It conveys the tenor of a dispatch, rather than a fully realized book.
More dangerously the portrayal of poverty in "Queen of Katwe" lacks nuance. Crothers generalizes about ŌĆ£desperate slum children,ŌĆØ and sometimes extends what he sees in Katwe to encompass the whole 54-country continent. He writes of ŌĆ£a uniquely African peace of mindŌĆØ that is ŌĆ£more serene than the average American.ŌĆØ Why? It ŌĆ£has to do with access. Many people in Katwe do not know there is anything better for which to strive, which leads to an odd kind of tranquility, which some might call ŌĆślethargy.ŌĆÖŌĆØ The use of such sweeping language to describe the ŌĆ£average AfricanŌĆØ is questionable, to say the least.
The text also contradicts itself. Because of its proximity to the equator, ŌĆ£Katwe has no seasons, which adds to the repetitive, almost listless, nature of daily life. Every day is just like the next.ŌĆØ On the very same page: ŌĆ£In Katwe, life is so transient that it is often hard to identify which children belong to which adults. It is a population of single mothers and their kids tossed randomly from one shack to the next. Everybody is on the moveŌĆ".ŌĆØ
Which is it? Is life constantly the same, or constantly changing? This bookŌĆÖs answer seems to be ŌĆ£everything bad.ŌĆØ This is not to say that Phiona and her family don't face serious challenges. But Crothers makes the mistake of thinking that the more terribly Katwe is portrayed, the more heroic Phiona becomes. Playing into the extremes of clich├® diminishes the more fascinating and harrowing dimensions of this truly astonishing story.
Anna Clark is a freelance writer in Detroit.


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There is disclosed a technique for growing, from a melt, doped single-crystal fibers for use as lasers or other active or passive optical devices of a size that is compatible with proposed optical fiber communications systems. A rod of undoped material has deposited thereon, by mechanical means, a powder or a slurry of a compound of the active ion or other dopant. A melt is formed at the end of the rod with a laser beam and a reduced diameter doped single-crystal fiber is grown or drawn from the melt by pulling with a wire or, when desired crystalline orientation is needed, by pulling with a pointed and oriented seed crystal. The pulling step, at least in the specific case of a neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) fiber, is repeated a plurality of times with approximately a 3:1 diameter reduction each time in order to obtain the desired fiber size; but only one deposition of the dopant compound is needed.
1. A method for drawing a craze-free single-crystal fiber of YAG (yttrium aluminum garnet) of diameter less than about 200 micrometers, doped with neodymium to a uniform concentration of about 1 percent by weight comprising the steps of:
mechanically distributing a deposit of dopant consisting of a powder or slurry of neodymium oxide over an entire axial length of a rod of YAG, the concentration of applied dopant being within the range from about 1 percent to about 5 percent by weight,
creating a melt at one end of the rod by focusing a laser beam thereon,
pulling a reduced diameter single-crystal rod from said melt, the ratio of the diameter of the feed rod to that of the drawn rod being less than about 3:1,
repeating the above steps of melting and pulling until the rod is reduced to a fiber having a diameter of about 200 micrometers,
repeating the above melting and pulling steps at a pull speed of less than about one half centimeter per minute, until the desired diameter of fiber is reached.
This invention relates to a technique for growth doping, or growth by pulling from a melt, of single-crystal fiber devices.
The advent of low-loss glassy material optical fibers has created interest in fiber-compatible optical devices, many of which require crystalline materials. Nevertheless, a lack of single-crystal materials with the dimensions of fibers has been an obstacle to their realization. We describe here the adaptation of a pedestal growth (modified zone melting) technique, previously used for the growth of relatively large single-crystal fibers from refractory materials for applications requiring extreme strength, to the fabrication of a single-crystal Nd:YAG fiber laser. The technique obviously is not restricted solely to the growth of YAG fiber, but also may be used with suitable materials in the fabrication of a number of single-crystal fiber-geometry optical devices including, for example, other types of lasers, modulators, switches, Raman and Brillouin amplifiers, polarizers, and three-wave-interaction and parametric devices. The small cross section of fiber permits high optical power density for nonlinear effects without overheating, and also provides opportunities for phase matching through angle (mode) matching to obtain long interaction paths; thus a number of such devices for low-power continuous-wave applications should be feasible. In the antecedent single-crystal fiber growth that preceded the discovery of our present invention, single-crystal Nd:YAG fibers were grown as follows. A preform rod about 2 millimeters square, cut from a bulk sample of 1 percent Nd-doped YAG, was fed upward into the focused beam of a CO2 laser having sufficient power to melt the tip of the rod. A platinum wire 25-50 micrometers in diameter was dipped into the melt and raised slowly, pulling a crystal with an approximately round cross section from the melt. With appropriate differential feed rates for the source rod and the regrown crystal, stable growth of crystals with a diameter reduction of 2-3� from the original could be obtained. Successive regrowths have produced fibers with diameters as small as 50 micrometers and lengths to about 20 centimeters, limited only by our present equipment design. The required laser power ranged from 25-30 watts for the initial growth to 2-5 watts for the smaller sizes. At growth rates of approximately 0.5 centimeter/minutes, fibers smaller than about 250-micrometers diameter could be grown free of the "cracked" cores typically obtained in conventionally grown Nd:YAG. Larger fibers showed core cracking at this growth rate. Any imperfections in the fiber were highly visible during growth due to scattering of the light from the incandescent melt, and absence of visible cracking or inhomogeneities in the growing fiber could be taken as an immediate indication that a single-crystal fiber was being formed.
Nevertheless, fibers grown by that technique for laser purposes had to be grown from bulk rods which were already doped with the neodymium ion. The requirement of doping of the preform introduces an additional complication which we now recognize to be unnecessary. Indeed, more versatile techniques are desirable in order to obtain the optimum advantage from the new single-crystal fiber techniques and devices.
According to our invention, doped single-crystal fibers are grown for laser use with a modification of our above-described technique in which a suitable form of the dopant is deposited in contact with the undoped preform prior to pulling the single-crystal fiber from a melt created at one end of the preform. Our new technique can be used with crystals which are rejects from other growth processes or are pure, undoped crystals; whereas our prior technique involved the doping of large quantities of material all to a common concentration, so that potential waste was involved or a plurality of identical fibers had to be drawn. With the new technique each fiber can be provided with its own unique dopant composition and concentration.
Another aspect of the adaptability of our present invention resides in the fact that we believe it to be applicable to a large number of other crystals which could now readily be doped for laser action or active optical devices in single-crystal fiber form, regardless of the difficulties of doping some of these crystals uniformly in bulk form.
Further features and advantages of our invention will become apparent from the following detailed description, taken together with the drawing, in which:
FIG. 1 is a partially pictorial and partially block diagrammatic illustration of the apparatus in which the method of the invention is practiced;
FIGS. 2, 3 and 4 show ways of depositing a suitable form of a compound of the dopant in contact with the rod prior to pulling from the melt, including grooving, hollowing out the rod axially, and depositing a powder or slurry over the entire outer surface of the preform rod;
FIG. 5 shows an embodiment of a single-crystal fiber laser integrally mounted with a light-emitting diode which pumps it;
FIG. 6 shows a more conventional mounting arrangement for an optically pumped laser of the single-crystal fiber type; and
FIG. 7 shows a typical assembly of fibers grown according to the invention which are about to be endpolished.
In FIG. 1 host rod or preform 11 is of the type shown in a cross section in FIG. 2 or FIG. 3 with a powder 12 of the dopant compound deposited along an axial scratch or in the hollowed-out core of the host. The preform 11 can be, for example, a neodymium doped yttrium aluminum garnet rod of the type previously used for bulk-type optically pumped neodymium ion lasers, except that the preform 11 need include nothing except yttrium aluminum garnet outside of the area of the deposited powder 12. Rod 11 is supported vertically in a conventional holder 16.
A melt is created at the end of rod 11 by a CO2 laser 17, the output of which is focused by lens 18 on to the end of the rod. The melt in this case takes the form of a molten zone 13 to which a platinum wire or pointed seed crystal 15 is touched. A pulling force is then applied to the wire seed crystal 15 to pull a drawn, doped single-crystal fiber 14 from the molten zone 13. The temperature in the molten zone 13 is typically of the order of 2000� C. To achieve this molten zone 13, the power output of CO2 laser 17 is illustratively about 30 watts and is focused to a spot size of about 1 millimeter at the end of the rod.
The dopant is deposited in a suitable form on the undoped preform 11 in a powder or a finely-divided slurry-deposited form as shown in FIS. 2 through 4. In FIG. 2 the yttrium aluminum garnet or other host 21 simply has an axial scratch or groove into which powdered neodymium oxide (Nd2 O3) or praseodymium oxide (Pr2 O3), for example, or other material is deposited. It is preferred that the proportion by weight of this powder to the weight of the host 21 be not more than about 5 percent and that it be distributed preferably uniformly along the axial extent of host 21.
The same proportions hold for the alternative embodiments of FIGS. 3 and 4. In FIG. 3 a central axial hole is drilled through the host rod or preform 31 and the powdered oxide of the host ion is packed into that hole. In FIG. 4 the powdered oxide is suspended in a liquid such as lacquer which can be readily flowed over the surface of the yttrium aluminum garnet host 31 and which will evaporate or decompose and vaporize upon heating to the melting point of the host. If the liquid has a high coefficient of adhesion to host 41 the slurry will distribute itself substantially uniformly about the preform 41 regardless of its orientation. When the liquid has dried the Nd2 O3 or Pr2 O3 or other powder will be deposited over the entire surface of preform 41 and preferably will be, at least axially, substantially uniform.
In the versions of FIGS. 2 and 3, the groove or hole is preferably etched, for example, in a weak hot nitric acid or other etching solution to remove impurities introduced by the scratching, grooving or drilling process before the deposition of the powdered dopant.
One variation of the technique of our invention involves using a different compound of the active ion than the oxide, for example, some other salt of that metallic ion. In any case, the proportions of the powder to the host should be such as to give the appropriate dopant concentration in the melt in molten zone 13. Too great a concentration of the metallic ion will lead to an increasing accumulation of that ion in zone 13 because of zone refining-type phenomena that we have found to be applicable to this process. In all the cases which we have investigated, the dopant ion appears to distribute itself throughout the regrown or drawn fiber 14 at the maximum concentration characteristic of that active ion in a single-crystal of the particular host forming rod or preform 11, provided only that sufficient dopant is supplied in the coating. A modification of these proportions is appropriate when needed to account for preferential evaporation of the dopant material or of the original host material. Zone refining can then alter the proportions to the desired final result.
Our invention now opens up the possibility of more conveniently studying various combinations of dopants in crystalline hosts to determine the most suitable combinations. Since properties of a given active ion, for example, Nd3 +, vary markedly and often unpredictably from host to host, it is of considerable interest to be able to examine as many different combinations as possible.
Examples of other host rods or preforms 11, 21, 31 and 41 which we are considering as hosts for at least the known laser ions include alumina (Al2 O3), gadolinium gallium garnet, lithium niobate (LiNbO3), and barium sodium niobate (Ba2 NaNb5 O15). We do not wish to rule out other crystalline materials which can be drawn as single-crystal fibers from a melt. In all such cases we believe that the powder or slurry-deposited compound of the active ion can be distributed axially along the preform and used to produce a drawn doped fiber 14 according to our invention.
Our invention has particular application to lasers which operate in the low-loss region of optical fibers, especially 1.0 - 1.2 micrometers, and which can be pumped in a fiber compatible arrangement, particularly using high radiance light-emitting diodes operating between about 7500A and 9200A. Such an embodiment is shown in FIG. 5.
The drawn doped fiber 51, which is provided with about a 50 micrometer diameter by repetitions of the melt-forming and drawing steps, is Nd3 + -doped YAG produced according to the technique described in connection with FIG. 1 and has deposited on the polished ends thereof the reflectors 53 and 54. One end, including reflector 53, is then cemented into the substrate opening of a gallium arsenide-gallium aluminum arsenide light-emitting diode 52 so that light emitted in the area of junction 55 can be efficiently collected by the end of fiber 51 within the cement 60. The light-emitting diode 52 is energized from source 59 through contacts 56 and 57.
The device of FIG. 5 is a readily portable source of coherent light at about 1.05 to about 1.07 micrometers. Further, the device of FIG. 5, if fiber 51 is made sufficiently short and small in diameter, has the potential of high mode purity and high spectral purity and thus may even compete in applications in which gas lasers heretofore have been the only readily feasible source.
In the alternative embodiment of FIG. 6, the drawn doped fiber 71, which is illustratively similar to fiber 14 of FIG. 1, is provided with end reflectors 73 and 74 and mounted with cement 80 in a capillary tube 68 which itself is mounted in the optical bench mount 69. The finished device may then be handled as any other device in the optical laboratory without fear of breakage, damage or necessity to use micromanipulators. It may be pumped with LEDs, or lasers such as argon ion, krypton ion dye lasers, injection lasers, flashlamps or the sun.
To polish these single-crystal fibers, it is desirable to insert a plurality 81 of them, all of which are like stiff little wires, into a capillary tube holder 88 into which they are cemented by DeKhotinsky cement or other suitable material. Typically, they would be cut off flush with the end of capillary holder 88 and then the entire end of the assembly would be polished, resulting in flat parallel surfaces on the ends of all the fibers 81. A like procedure would then be followed at the other ends of the fibers to yield reflective surfaces which are parallel to the first set of polished surfaces. If it is desired to mount each fiber 81 separately, then the DeKhotinsky or other cement can be dissolved from about them readily by warm alcohol or any suitable solvent, after which they are removed from capillary holder 88.
It should be noted that, at a preferred growth rate of one half centimeter per minute for all diameters of Nd-doped YAG fibers up to about 200 micrometers, there is no crazed core in the drawn doped fiber; even though there is typically such a crazed core in the growth of larger rods of a typical host material such as yttrium aluminum garnet, particularly when that host is already doped with an active ion. In other words, below a certain diameter threshold, the apparent incompatibility of the active ion and the host becomes negligible so that preferred single crystals are thereafter obtained in the successive stages of redrawing or repulling a fiber from a melt.
It should be appreciated that many modifications of our invention are possible within this scope, particularly those modifications which relate to choices of different host crystals and different active ions. Nevertheless, the basic steps of our process can continue to be applicable and should advantageously avoid any need for doping the preform. It should also be noted that undoped preforms are of higher quality and easier to grow, in general, than doped preforms.
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For more than a decade I have been researching the global Satanic conspiracy and I believe it to be true, and that it runs deeper than most people would imagine (entertainment industry, education, etc). I have a popular website about exposing the agenda.
There have been some "coincidences" in my life recently that I believe might not be coincidences at all, but some sort of spiritual or divine intervention to confirm that everything I have researched over the years is indeed true.
In this post I will describe the first "coincidence." I apologize in advance for being vague, but I feel it's necessary.
A few years ago a relative of mine became acquaintances with a popular professional athlete. I was invited to the athlete's mansion for a party.
It was at this party that I met a man who was involved with the music industry. He told me that he used to be part of a very successful record label, working with artists you have all heard of, and that he was still friends and did business with many players in the industry.
After I learned who he was I knew I had to at least try to ask him some questions because it's not every day you meet someone like that who knows what he could possibly know. Since I had a few drinks in me I wasn't nervous and didn't hesitate to just go for it.
I started to explain to him the weird satanic/illuminati/occult events and symbolism happening at the time in the music industry. I figured I would have a better chance of getting information out of him if I acted like it was kind of ridiculous and that I didn't even believe it, so I asked him something along the lines of "So is there anything to all of this Satanic crap? Or is it just conspiracy theorists making stuff up on the Internet?"
He was quiet and seemed uncomfortable from the moment I started talking about all of this. After my question to him he sort of just looked down at his phone and mumbled something about "Man, well you know, conspiracy theorists will (inaudible, inaudible)." I thought, okay that didn't really go anywhere, so I decided to ask him one last time. I laughed and said something like "Yea, but seriously man, is there anything to any of that stuff?"
Instead of addressing my question, this is when he seemed to "wake up" out of nowhere, all of the sudden he was very interested in me, as if I was the only one there (there were about 5 other people in the room). He sat up holding up a fancy diamond necklace towards me that he had been looking at asking me things like "This is nice huh?" "This cost twenty-five thousand." "You like nice things like this?"
The crazy thing is while he was asking me about it he was holding the necklace with two hands so that the necklace was in the shape of a triangle, and from where I was standing I could only see one of his eyes inside the triangle towards the top. So here I am staring at this guy who is giving off totally evil creepy vibes and he's basically looking at me through the eye in the pyramid. Now maybe he was doing this on purpose to mess with me, but at that same time a very strange feeling came over me, almost like I was being hypnotized by him. I could feel that he was projecting the feelings of evil and greed onto me and that all he cared about was money. I can't even really explain in words the way I felt at that moment but I was convinced that there was something wrong with this man, that he was possibly even possessed.
Shortly after this took place it was time for my relative and I to leave. We said bye to everyone and one of our hosts there walked us out the door, and as I walked towards the door I looked at the music industry man as he sat there and he was staring right back at me with an evil look that seemed to pierce right through me until I walked out the door and couldn't see him anymore.
This probably doesn't sound like much to you, and it's hard to describe, especially while being vague, but considering this man's history and the people he has been around I was convinced that I struck a nerve with him when I brought up the Satanic subject and was citing evidence to him. I believe he knew that what I was saying was true and that it was the first of other "coincidences" to come in my life to show me that it's all real.
If anyone even cares about this let me know and I'll post the next coincidence.
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