"Many smaller steps forward, a couple bigger steps back, and just a few concepts that have overstayed their welcome."
Pokemon is fun. That's the basic summary of the series, I suppose. For all its up and downs, its strengths and weaknesses, it is essentially a fun game for all kinds of players. The real issue series veterans like me have is, is it worth dropping money on? Is it worth $40 I could be using to keep the lights on or eat something other than uncooked ramen marinated in my tears every night? I'll approach this review partly from both angles, but mostly as a Pokemon veteran analyzing how it differs from prior games and if it's truly worth the investment.
But first, a disclaimer. While I've always regarded Pokemon as good fun, I became somewhat disillusioned with it after Gen IV (Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, etc.) due to a perceived lack of change and improvement. Why spend money on more games when they're not so different from the rest, right? (I know, I'll be "that guy" in this review, but bear with me.) Therefore, I skipped Gens V (Black and White) and VI (X and Y), enticed back only by the promise of something brand new for Gen VII. I have cursory knowledge of the stories and game mechanics of the two generations I missed, but I'm not intimately familiar with them, so some of what I say will probably come across as ignorant.
Pokemon is part bright and cheery turn-based-battle JRPG, part collectathon, in that you are a kid whose mother trusts too much and lets run around alone in a region populated with absurdly deadly creatures called Pokemon. You can catch these Pokemon, usually in the wild, and use them to battle other Pokemon Trainers to grow your critters, improving their stats and teaching them new moves. With the power of strategy (and a healthy dose of friendship, 'cause why not), you will rise to the top, conquer the region's trials and challenges, and become the fabled "Champion."
Where previous games took place on landmasses inspired by Japan, New York City, and Paris, Sun and Moon take place in the Alola Islands, inspired by Hawaii. What's the story this time?
"I'VE NEVER PLAYED POKEMON BEFORE! SHOULD I GET THIS GAME?"
Sure. If you're into JRPGs, you like collecting things, yet you're tired of Shin Megami Tensei kicking you while you're down, Pokemon is a great outlet. It's a deep game with some good replay value and not too much challenge to keep you down long. It's the most streamlined Pokemon game I've played; much of the filler and junk that's plagued the series for so long has been stripped down, leaving a (usually) much faster-paced, better-playing adventure. If you're going to start Pokemon anywhere, try Sun or Moon.
"GET ON WITH IT, YOU TWIT, I'VE GOT EFFORT VALUES TO GRIND. WHAT'S NEW THIS TIME?"
- There's a bigger focus on story and characters this time around. Pokemon has sloooowly been getting better in that regard, and I hear Black/White had a pretty well-rounded plot, but again, I skipped Gens V and VI, so I can't comment much on them. To be clear, Sun/Moon still doesn't have a stellar plot. The storyline is simple, subplots go nowhere, certain characters are underdeveloped, and interesting concepts are never properly explored. As fascinating as they are, Ultra Beasts and their extradimensional origins feel less like an exciting new part of Pokemon lore and more like the Distortion World from Platinum - a cheap story gimmick that the next gen will probably drop by the curb and forget about. All that being said, this was the very first Pokemon game that actually made me CARE about the characters. I wasn't on the edge of my seat, but I at least cared about what the Aether Foundation was up to. My eyes remained dry, but I cared about my ever-smiling friend Hau and the shy-but-budding Lillie as they journeyed with me. Pokemon's storytelling isn't yet where it needs to be, but it's been taking a lot of steps in the right direction, and that needs to be encouraged.
- So much has been streamlined since Gen IV. This needs to be in bold: THEY REMOVED HMs. No more carting around Bibarel (or his generational equivalent) and taking up valuable party member slots with Pokemon you'll never use, just because the game says you can't just tiptoe around that tree, you "must" cut it with an HM technique. The game flows so much better without the hindrance of HMs, and it's practically this change alone that makes me hesitant to go back to any previous Pokemon game after this. I know they introduced this in earlier games, but I have to say the revised Exp. Share also helps the pace dramatically, reducing the time spent grinding and allowing battles to rest on the Pokemon you think will work best, not on who needs to sneak in a KO for EXP. Text in general has been cut down to not waste so much of your time; to surf (when the ability is unlocked), you walk to the water's edge, press A, say yes, and boom, you're surfing. No need to jam A through a bunch of text boxes and a cheap animation to get from A to B. It's hard to put into words, but the pacing has been vastly improved in Sun/Moon, and there are tons of streamlined changes the games have added that I can't list here because you'll have clicked away in boredom by then.
- PEOPLE ACTUALLY RECOGNIZE YOU AS THE CHAMPION AFTER YOU BEAT THE MAIN STORYLINE. The title of Champion actually feels like it has some weight in Sun/Moon. Where previous games just sort of pretended you DIDN'T defeat the most powerful Trainer in the region, which came off as cheap and insulting, Sun/Moon actually have people call you Champ after finishing the initial storyline. It's refreshing. I love it. It doesn't change gameplay much, but it's a step in the right direction.
- They're not totally game-changing, but I liked the addition of Totem Pokemon, and to an extent, Ultra Beasts - essentially, bosses in Pokemon form, not Trainers. Depending on your team, they may not always be the most challenging, but they certainly can be, and more than one had me backed into a corner and furiously strategizing for victory. With boosted stats and ally Pokemon occasionally swooping in to mess up your day, they often add a layer of thought and tactics that hasn't really been seen in previous games. It's different, and it's good.
- Character customization is fun to play around with. I still think it needs to go much more in-depth with letting you change physical characteristics and not just hair and skin color, and the lack of clothing that isn't tropic-related is mildly off-putting, but as my first experience with a custom Pokemon avatar, I'm pleased. This is something that must continue and improve with each release.
- Team Skull is my favorite villainous team now. They're not very challenging, intimidating, or impressive, but the game knows that, and deep down they know it, too. Game Freak finally got away from their villainous teams being a bunch of ragtag idiots with dumb hair and a paper-thin plot a 5-year-old could debunk. Now they're just shady thugs, but gosh darn it, they're lovable shady thugs. They're over-the-top, they're funny, and they actually spice up the story with their presence. They remind me of Team Rocket, but genuinely funny and original.
- Quick note: the graphics are pretty nice, and being able to move freely in any direction has been a long time in coming. Nothing to lose one's mind over, but worth mentioning briefly.
- Am I the only one who misses the 3D? I get that Sun and Moon are supposed to be gargantuan 3DS games (I had to buy the physical copy because the download size was so absurdly huge), but I think it's kind of a shame the 3DS's selling point - that being, you know, 3D - got completely nixed here. That might be something of a growing trend with 3DS games now, considering Hyrule Warriors Legends nixed 3D for its non-New-3DS versions, but time will tell.
- New to the Pokemon series are S.O.S. battles, where wild Pokemon will occasionally call for backup, and if it comes, you get a 2-against-1 battle, and not in your favor. It's not a totally awful concept, but it overstays its welcome. For whatever inane reason, you can't catch a Pokemon if there are two standing against you, so you must drop one to catch the other, but sometimes they'll just immediately replace their fallen comrade with another dude, and the cycle of mind-numbing frustration continues. No joke, I spent about 20-30 turns trying to catch one Elekid because it just kept summoning allies to replace the one I'd just downed. Again, not an inherently awful idea, but poorly implemented.
- Less than half of the current Pokemon are in Sun/Moon. There is an "Island Radar" feature that will let you catch a small fraction of the Pokemon not found on Alola, but that still leaves some 400-500 Pokemon unaccounted for. There's also not a National Dex yet for that reason; Game Freak promises one will be patched in January 2017, along with Pokemon Bank connectivity, and I'm sure Game Freak has their reasons, but to me, this just feels lazy. I have heard absolutely nothing on any plans to patch in the remaining Pokemon so we can catch them naturally, so I must assume for now they're just unobtainable if you don't have the previous games and use Poke Transfer. I missed the last two gens and was really, really looking forward to seeing all of the Pokemon I'd missed, but without spending money I could be using to keep the lights on and eat fresh food, that's still a fool's dream for me. As much fun as I had (and continue to have) playing Sun, I can't deny that the game feels a bit incomplete. It's a little reminiscent of the plot in Shadow of Mordor in that it just feels like there should have been so, so much more, but a lot of it was cut because the developers couldn't figure out how to fit it in.
I don't like the thought that developers can just release an incomplete game and promise to make the rest later. That's a growing trend in video games these days, and it makes me nervous.
- This has been a problem since the series' inception, but it's still true now, and going in blind as I was, it hit me hard this time: the game doesn't tell you nearly enough about how to catch or evolve certain Pokemon. It either expects you to get indescribably lucky and stumble upon the answer yourself, or look it up online, which is what I had to do all too often. Many Pokemon only appear as rarely-summoned allies during an S.O.S. battle, something the game never once alludes to. You can stumble around forever in the Lush Jungle looking for Goomy, but guess what? It only appears as a rare S.O.S. ally summon while it's raining in-game (natural rain, not from Rain Dance or Drizzle). The Poke Dex tells you what areas you might find it in, but not the rest of it. Another example is Salandit's evolution to Salazzle. Only female Salandit will evolve at Level 33, and they're rare compared to their male counterparts. I would have raised my male Salandit forever wondering why it wouldn't evolve if I hadn't eventually broken down and looked it up online. The game just doesn't give you all this crucial information, and it's frustrating when the series' tagline is "Gotta catch 'em all!" (or was before they shrugged and said, "Eh, guess you can't anymore"). Some of you may be going, "Nyehh! Spoilers, man!" But honestly, this is stuff you should know. You'll thank me later.
- Fishing was boring, repetitive, and archaic in previous games. Sun/Moon add "frustrating" to that list of adjectives. Ladies and gentlemen, they broke fishing. Not only must you stand in front of the water like a drooling idiot with a game mechanic that takes no skill or foresight, but all you'll be catching is Magikarp. No joke, they turned virtually every single Water-type Pokemon that isn't Magikarp into a rare Pokemon. Yeah, if you fish at bubbling spots instead of regular spots, your chances of a not-Magikarp go up slightly, but that shouldn't be necessary for a new Water Pokemon. We're on an island, for crying out loud! You're telling me water's hard to come by around here?! Here's some food for thought: Shellder, a Pokemon that was common in pretty much all previous gens and nobody uses (well, I don't) has the same base encounter rate as Dratini, the famously rare, powerful Dragon Pokemon: 1%. Here's some more food for thought: I spent more time and effort (about 10 minutes) trying to catch the rare Bagon than it took me to catch that Shellder (about 1 hour, using the bubbling spots). That is, in a word, bullcrap. Fishing is a boring, outdated mechanic anyway, but they officially broke it. Next gen, they need to either get rid of it altogether or make it more interactive and skill-based.
Scoring Pokemon Sun is a bit hard for me. On one hand, I am so, so proud of how far it's come. A story I give a hoot about? Streamlined game mechanics? Pretty visuals? People recognizing me as Champ? Smoother, more strategic combat? This is the best Pokemon game I've ever played, so I want to give it a high score. On the other hand, it does take at least one massive step back (where are the other 400+ Pokemon?!) and doesn't go as far as it should have with some areas like story and relaying information, making it hard to recommend as a must-have. In the end, I had a lot of fun with it despite its imperfections, and I think you will, too.
It's hard for me to rate Sun without feeling hypocritical somewhere. Part of me wants to rate it high for taking so many steps forward for the series, but the other part of me says, is it fair to praise it just for moving forward, even if it's still not where it should be? My personal score probably hovers around an 8.5/10. Rest assured, it is the best Pokemon game I've played and it's vastly improved in many ways over prior games; it just has a few gaping holes and a few more old restrictions that mean it may not live up to the hype for Poke veterans.


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Recognising the huge difference you make
Thomas Whitelaw and Caroline Alexander
Nursing, midwifery and care
This week patient and carer advocate, Tommy Whitelaw, will share some inspirational stories with nursing, midwifery and care staff at Barts Health NHS Trust highlighting the huge impact they have for people and patients in their care. The chief nurse previews his visit:
Many will be familiar with the fantastic work of Thomas Whitelaw, known commonly as 'Tommy' across the country; but always as 'Thomas' to his mum Joan, who had vascular dementia and sadly passed away in 2012.
Thomas has become a well-respected patient and carer advocate, and is the UK Project Lead for Dementia Carer Voices, Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland.
Tommy regularly speaks to health and care staff about the distressing challenges he experienced when caring for his mum. He has taken that very personal first-hand knowledge to explain how an inequity of service can have a devastating effect on families and carers, to thousands of staff across the country; while at the same time highlighting the incredible difference that great care also made to him and his mother at a very difficult time when their lives were affected by dementia.
Colleagues attending those talks are invited to reflect on how they can and will lead change and make a pledge of their own practice. Pledge trees have been created in hospitals, care homes, universities and workplaces all across the country and these also offer a reflective place for frontline staff.
Tommy says as a result of his visits and talks with staff, more than 20,000 pledges have been made across the country and as these numbers increased, recognised that the pledges needed a formal structure around them to ensure that, what were obviously good intentions, turned in to something which could be clearly identified, addressed, measured and turned into a purposeful action.
After conversations with the senior nursing team at NHS England it was agreed that the national framework for nursing, midwifery and care staff 'Leading Change, Adding Value' (LCAV) could offer a solution to formally ensuring that these pledges made a difference, and importantly could be shared elsewhere to spread good practice. Tommy was delighted that a partnership was established last year linking his work with the LCAV framework.
The framework has been used in various ways to help turn pledges into excellent practice, many of which can be found on the recently published LCAV Atlas of Shared Learning, a growing collection of case studies that clearly illustrate and quantify the contribution of nursing, midwifery and care staff, demonstrating the delivery of the Five Year Forward View (FYFV) and other national, regional and local policy initiatives.
Since starting his talks and visits across the country, Tommy has spoken at 750 events with 150,000 members of staff across health and care, all of whom are making a huge difference to the care of the patients, individuals and populations.
This week, he will be co-leading a series of visits to all sites across Barts Health NHS Trust with me, visiting hundreds of staff who want to make a difference. Sites that will be visited include the historic St Bartholmew's Hospital, the Royal London Hospital, Newham Hospital and Whipps Cross Hospital.
We will be encouraging staff to think about how they can use the LCAV framework to identify unwarranted variation in practice and make a pledge to start to make those changes that improve outcomes, experiences and use of resources for patients and those we care for.
Tommy's visits will contribute and add value to some of the fantastic work already taking place at Barts Health NHS Trust in identifying and addressing unwarranted variation and aligns with our 'Getting to good and outstanding – next steps for safe and compassionate care improvement plan'.
An example from this I would like to highlight, led by specialist chemotherapy nurses at St Bartholomew's is the introduction of a new 24-hour advice line, which has been recommended as a national standard of care. Any patient having chemotherapy at any of our hospitals is encouraged to call the hotline number at any time if they feel unwell. Patients speak direct to a nurse, who will ask them to describe their symptoms and decide on a course of action. This means that any illnesses or infections are picked up quickly and dealt with immediately, leading to better patient outcomes, experiences and use of resources.
Tommy's visits will also help to further empower and inspire staff to recognise the changes they can make, turning their intentions into purposeful actions. My job and that of senior colleagues at Barts Health NHS Trust will be to make it as simple as possible for staff who make pledges to achieve their ambition.
At Barts Health NHS Trust, our nursing, midwifery and allied health professionals priorities are linked to each of the ten commitments from Leading Change, Adding Value and in doing so, embed LCAV as every day practice for all our staff. At Barts Health NHS Trust, we are delighted to be working with Tommy and the LCAV operational team.
A film of Tommy discussing the links between his work on dementia and LCAV can be viewed here.
A twitter chat will take place on Monday 1 October from 8pm – led by Tommy. He will ask 'what matters to you?, exploring how this simple question can open up a very different and meaningful conversation between patient, carers and staff.
Other examples of Barts Health NHS Trust are creating safe, supportive and compassionate environments for patients include:
Bedside cafés and gardens encourage recovery
Hospital garden at Newham Hospital to support people with dementia
Investment at Whipps Cross Hospital to become dementia friendly
Thomas Whitelaw
Thomas Whitelaw is the UK Project Engagement Lead – Dementia Carer Voices.
For five years he was a full-time carer for his late mother, Joan, who had Vascular Dementia, and in 2011 Tommy undertook a walk around Scotland's towns and cities to collect hundreds of life story letters detailing the experiences of individuals caring for a loved one living with dementia.
Since then, he has engaged with thousands of carers through his 'Tommy on Tour' blog and as UK Project Engagement Lead with the Health and Social Care Alliance's Dementia Carer Voices Project, conducting frequent talks to health and social care professionals and carer organisations across Scotland, to raise awareness of the impact of dementia on families and the importance of empowering carers in carrying out their difficult but vital role.
Tommy's passion for his work and the Dementia Carer Voices Project has not gone unnoticed. He was the winner of the 'Age Scotland Jess Barrow Award' in 2013; Finalist Campaigner of the year 2013 for 'The Herald Scottish Politician of the Year Awards', won the NHSGGC Chairman's Ambassador Award 2013 and in 2015, Tommy was awarded the 'British Citizen's Medal for Services to Healthcare' in recognition of his work to raise awareness of dementia and promote a fuller understanding of the carer journey.
Tommy was shortlisted as a finalist for the Kate Granger awards 2016 and received an Honorary Master of the Open University for Health, Social Care, Education and Policy making influence.
Groups and boards Tommy represents the project and the ALLIANCE on are: Fair for all Board Member North Ayrshire Council, Girvan Community Hospital Dementia Friendly Steering Group Member, Member of Scottish Government Dementia Strategy 2016-2019 Expert Advisory Group and NHS Education Scotland Promoting Excellence Dementia Programme Board Member.
Caroline Alexander
Caroline has significant nursing leadership experience at director level across a breadth of portfolios – healthcare provision, commissioning and system leadership.
She was director of nursing and therapies for Tower Hamlets PCT and then director of nursing and quality For NHS ELC, then NHS NEL clusters of primary care trusts. Caroline was regional chief nurse for NHS England in London for three years before taking up her current post as Chief Nurse for Barts Health.
She graduated as a nurse in 1987 from Edinburgh University (BSc/RGN) and has an MSc in Nursing Studies from South Bank University. Caroline was a 2008 Florence Nightingale Leadership Scholar and is a Visiting Professor at Bucks New University.

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Les catepsines tenen una importància fonamental en el recanvi proteic de les cèl·lules de mamífers, més concretament en la reabsorció òssia, on s'encarreguen de la degradació de proteïnes.

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A classic non-alcoholic drink recipe for Chocolate Crunch Chuckle.
A classic Spanish recipe for Toreador Chocolate.
A classic recipe for Rice Pudding.
A delicious and unique spring recipe for Strawberry Risotto.
A delicious drink for a cool day; Strawberry Atole (Atole de Fresa).
This is another great chocolate pudding recipe.
A good basic pudding recipe from which you can make a variety of puddings.
A recipe from Union Oyster House on Union Street in Boston.


SUNRISE, Fla. – Florida Panthers General Manager Jacques Martin announced today that the club has agreed to terms with D Rory Fitzpatrick, F Steve MacIntyre and G Chris Beckford-Tseu on two year contracts. In addition the Panthers signed D James DeLory to a three-year entry level contract. As per club policy, financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Fitzpatrick, 33, has played in 287 National Hockey League contests with Montreal (1996-97), St. Louis (1996-97), Nashville (2000-01), Buffalo (2001-06), Vancouver (2006-07) and Philadelphia (2007-08) registering 35 points (10-25-35) and 201 PIM. The 6-foot-2, 210-pound defenseman has also played in 20 NHL playoff games scoring one goal with five assists and 22 PIM.
The Rochester, NY native split time last season playing for both the Philadelphia Flyers and the Philadelphia Phantoms (AHL). Fitzpatrick's American Hockey League playing experience includes 121 games played with the Rochester Americans from 2001 to 2005. He was originally drafted by the Montreal Canadiens with their 2nd choice, 47th overall, in 1993 NHL Entry Draft.
Beckford-Tseu, 24, made his NHL debut, as a member of the St. Louis Blues, on Feb. 21, 2008 at Los Angeles in a relief effort and turned away eight of nine shots in 27 minutes played. Beckford-Tseu played in 34 games last season for Peoria (AHL) going 15-14-2 with a 2.63 GAA and a .889 save percentage. He also appeared in 16 games with Alaska (ECHL) posting a 12-4-0 record with a 2.34 GAA and a .923 save percentage.
The 6-foot-3, 201-pound goaltender backstopped Alaska (ECHL) to the 2006 Kelly Cup Championship. He appeared in 12 games during the Kelly Cup playoffs going 8-4 with a 2.04 GAA, three shutouts and a .930 save percentage. Beckford-Tseu was originally drafted by the Blues in the 5th round (159th overall) in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft.
MacIntyre, 27, played in 62 games for the Providence Bruins (AHL) last season scoring two goals with three assists and led the Bruins and was 13th in the AHL with 213 PIM.
The 6-foot-6, 265-pound forward was signed as a free agent by NY Rangers on Aug. 15, 2005. He then signed as a free agent with Quad City (ECHL) on Aug. 24, 2006. In 92 career AHL games with Hartford and Providence, MacIntyre has three goals and four assists with 420 PIM.
DeLory, 19, spent the last three seasons playing for the Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Hockey League. In 61 games played last season, DeLory scored 25 points (4-21-25) with 167 PIM. In three years with the Generals he has 62 points (11-51-62) in 189 games played with 385 PIM.
The 6-foot-4, 235-pound defensemen was originally drafted by the San Jose Sharks in the 4th round (98th overall) in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft.


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A richly illustrated chronological account of the units of the Luftwaffe, which were involved in the defense against invasion from 6th of June 6 til to 31st of August 1944.
372 b/w pictures, 19 color profiles, 10 pages with pictures about uniforms and equipment, one map, organization. The appendix contains 28 pages with "hit list", losses and inventory.
Mit der Kamera an der Front. Als Kriegsberichter bei der I.(J)/LG 2 und dem JG 77.
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Big-Headed Kid and Small-Headed Father () is a 1995 Chinese animated cartoon television series jointly produced by CCTV and Shanghai Oriental TV. It was starring a family in Shanghai. Small-Headed father caters to the needs of his wife and child. Charles Liu of The Beijinger stated that unlike Homer Simpson, Small-Headed Father lacks selfishness, but otherwise it "firmly has The Simpsons in mind when it comes to dopey dads."

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External links
 Big-Headed Kid and Small-Headed Father on iQiyi

Chinese animated television series


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The origin of cosmic magnetic fields in the early universe is one of the most actual problems of high energy physics. Numerous theoretical descriptions of large-scale magnetic field generation are discussed in the literature \cite{Grasso:2000wj,Elizalde:2012kz}. One of the elegant mechanisms is the spontaneous vacuum magnetization at high temperature. The possibility of the phenomenon has already been shown by both the analytical and numerical methods in the SU(2) gluodynamics \cite{Enqvist:1994rm,Skalozub:1996ax,Skalozub:1999bf,Demchik:2008zz}, in the SU(3) gluodynamics \cite{Skalozub:2002da}, in the standard model (SM) \cite{Demchik:2001zq}, and the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) \cite{Demchik:2002ks}. The stability of the spontaneously generated fields at high temperature was shown in Ref.~\cite{Skalozub:1999bf}.
Actually, the spontaneous vacuum magnetization is one of the distinguishable features of asymptotically free theories \cite{Skalozub:1999bf,Savvidy:1977as}.

In the SU(2) gluodynamics only one neutral magnetic field can be spontaneously generated, whereas in the SU(3) gluodynamics there are two possible spontaneously generated neutral chromomagnetic fields ($H_3$ and $H_8$ in case of the standard Gell-Mann matrices). The spontaneous vacuum magnetization phenomenon was investigated for the SU(2) gluodynamics on a lattice in \cite{Demchik:2008zz}, where the magnetic field was introduced with the twisted boundary conditions. The magnetized state was obtained by comparison of the free energies for the trivial vacuum state ($H_c=0$) and the magnetized vacuum state ($H_c\not=0$). In this paper we propose a new approach to study the effect. In contrast to setting external fields on a lattice, it should be reasonable to try to detect the presence of the condensed fields directly in the standard Monte Carlo (MC) techniques.

In \cite{Skalozub:2002da} the spontaneous generation of neutral SU(3) fields in the high-temperature limit $T\gg H^2$ was studied by analytical perturbative methods and the possibility of vacuum magnetization was shown. Nevertheless, the question about simultaneous generation of neutral chromomagnetic fields in the SU(3) gluodynamics still remains. In particular, the mutual spatial orientation of these fields should be qualified.

In the present paper the spontaneous vacuum magnetization at high temperature is investigated in the SU(3) gluodynamics on a lattice. We developed the procedure for detection of the condensate fields by direct analysis of lattice gauge configurations. This procedure is general for the deconfinement phase of any SU($N$) lattice gauge theory. It is grounded on the statistical analysis of chromomagnetic fields extracted from lattice configurations. The Cartesian components of quantum chromomagnetic fields have to be Maxwell distributed in simulations, whereas the presence of condensate fields should change this distribution. Relative spatial direction of the condensed chromomagnetic fields is a priori unknown and can be treated as a random quantity.
The complete electromagnetic tensor can be directly measured by taking the trace of a plaquette multiplied additionally by the gauge group generators. The deconfinement phase is spatially homogeneous, so the field tensor can be averaged over a lattice configuration to estimate the homogeneous vacuum state beyond quantum fluctuations. The statistical distribution of these averages is comparing with the Maxwell distribution to detect possible condensates. We show that the vacuum is magnetized for both the neutral fields $H_3$ and $H_8$ whereas for the other fields the vacuum magnetization is absent.

The paper is organized as follows. Sect.~2 provides the theoretical background of our approach to detect the condensed chromomagnetic fields. The results of Monte-Carlo simulations are described in Sect.~3. The temperature behavior of the condensate fields is derived and  compared with known results from the literature in Sect.~4. The discussion and possible applications are provided in Sect.~5.

\section{Detection of the chromomagnetic fields on a lattice}
We consider SU($N$) gauge theory on a lattice with the standard Wilson action
\begin{equation}\label{S}
 S_W=\dfrac{\beta}{N}\sum_{x\in\Lambda}\sum_{\mu<\nu}\mathrm{Re}\mathrm{Tr}(\mathds{1}-U_{\mu\nu}(x)),
\end{equation}
where $\beta={2N}/{g^2}$ is the inverse coupling, $\mathds{1}$ denotes the $N\times N$ identity matrix, and $U_{\mu\nu}(x)$ is the plaquette variable.
The sums run over all the lattice sites $x$ and directions $\mu,\nu$, and the isotropic lattice spacing $a$ is supposed.
The plaquette is constructed from the lattice field variables -- links,
\begin{equation}\label{u}
U_\mu(x)=\exp{(ia\lambda^bA^b_\mu(x))},
\end{equation}
where $\lambda^b$ is the $b$-th SU($N$) group generator, and $A^b_\mu(x)$ is the field potential in the continuous limit.

Links (\ref{u}) are subject to MC simulations. We implement standard boundary conditions: the sites on the opposite lattice edges are simply looped by the proper links.
The result of a MC run is a Boltzmann sequence of configurations with some numeric values for links. Then, any physical observable can be measured for each configuration and averaged over the Boltzmann ensemble.

We are interested to detect a kind of Savvidy vacuum in the deconfinement phase of the SU(3) gluodynamics. This means possible existence of a homogeneous field strength in the whole volume being a background of quantum fluctuations. In contrast to the confinement phase, which can be spatially fragmented to bound states, the deconfinement phase always occupy the whole lattice, so the homogeneous vacuum can be extracted as the field strength averaged over all the lattice sites. Actually, the huge lattices can show some domain structure, but relatively small lattices are expected to produce the condensate in some random direction.

The first step to detect a non-trivial vacuum state is the measurement of the field strength by a given lattice configuration. In fact, the field strength enters the plaquette variable used to construct the Wilson action (\ref{S}). Let us recall the plaquette definition:
\begin{equation}\label{umn}
 U_{\mu\nu}(x)=U_\mu(x)U_\nu(x+a\hat{\mu})U^\dag_\mu(x+a\hat{\nu})U^\dag_\nu(x),
\end{equation}
where $\hat{\mu}$ is the unit vector in direction $\mu$.
The expansion of link variables (\ref{u}) for small lattice spacing is well known (see for example \cite{Kogut:1979wt}):
\begin{equation}\label{pf}
 U_{\mu\nu}(x)=1+ia^2F^b_{\mu\nu}(x)\lambda^b-\frac12 a^4F^b_{\mu\nu}(x)F^{b'}_{\mu\nu}(x)\lambda^b\lambda^{b'} +\mathcal{O}(a^5).
\end{equation}
By applying the trace, one immediately obtains the field strength squared, which gives the correct continuous limit for the Wilson action.

As far as the Wilson action is considered as a good approach to field strength squared, we can use the same plaquette to extract the field strength (its flux through the plaquette, actually).
This could be done by multiplying plaquette (\ref{pf}) by generators $\lambda^b$, then taking the trace:
\begin{equation}\label{f}
a^2 F_{\mu\nu}^b(x) = -i\, \mathrm{Tr}\left[U_{\mu\nu}(x)\lambda^b\right] + \mathcal{O}(a^4).
\end{equation}
We will concentrate on the chromomagnetic part of the field tensor $F_{yz}=H_x$, $F_{xz}=-H_y$, $F_{xy}=H_z$.

The average of the chromomagnetic components of (\ref{f}) over a simulated lattice configuration gives us a direct measurement of the homogeneous chromomagnetic field generated spontaneously in the deconfinement phase, which will be called the {\it condensate} for brevity. In what follows we will mark these averaged values as $\vec{H}$,
where vector means spatial direction. These values are distributed within the Boltzmann ensemble with some probability density function $p(\vec{H})$  (p.d.f.). We suppose Cartesian components of $\vec{H}$ to be Gaussian with the variance $\sigma^2$, which is usual in MC simulations. The variance can be easily measured as the sample variance taken by the MC run. Then, the simulated field strength $\vec{H}$ is described by the following p.d.f.,
\begin{equation}\label{g}
 p(\vec{H})=\dfrac{1}{(2\pi)^{3/2}\sigma^3}\,e^{-(\vec{H}-\vec{H}_c)^2/2\sigma^2},
\end{equation}
where $\vec{H}_c$ is the condensate. The spatial direction of $\vec{H}_c$ appears to be unknown at each configuration generated in the MC run. It is random (at least, it has a random part), so p.d.f. (\ref{g}) could be written accurately as $p(\vec{H},\vec{H}_c)$. This is the reason against naive average of the Cartesian components of $\vec{H}$ over the run as a way to extract the condensate value from the generated Boltzmann ensemble.

Actually we are not interested in the random direction of $\vec{H}_c$, the question is what the absolute value of the condensate.
Using the spherical coordinates, we can rewrite probability in terms of the absolute values of the vectors, $H$ and $H_c$, as
\begin{equation}\label{gs}
 p(\vec{H})dH_x\,dH_y\,dH_z=\dfrac{1}{(2\pi)^{3/2}\sigma^3}\,\mathrm{e}^{-(H^2+H_c^2-2H_c H\cos\theta)/2\sigma^2}H^2dH\,d\phi\,d\cos\theta,
\end{equation}
where $\theta$ is the angle between $\vec{H}$ and $\vec{H}_c$, and $\phi$ is the azimuthal angle. Let us notice that the absolute value of the condensate $H_c$ is not random.

It is a well known fact, that the cosine of the angle between two random spatial vectors is distributed uniformly. It allows us to integrate
 (\ref{gs}) over angular variables obtaining the p.d.f. for the absolute value of the field strength:
\begin{equation}\label{d}
 p(H)=\dfrac{4\pi}{(2\pi)^{3/2}\sigma^3}\,H^2\mathrm{e}^{-H^2/2\sigma^2}\mathrm{e}^{-H_c^2/2\sigma^2}\dfrac{\sinh({HH_c}/{\sigma^2})}{HH_c/\sigma^2}.
\end{equation}
As a result, we get the value of the condensate $H_c$ as a parameter of the distribution of some directly measured variable. Thus, we can determine $H_c$ by analysis of the MC statistics obtained for $H$.

In case of condensate absence, $H_c=0$  and p.d.f. (\ref{d}) becomes the ordinary Maxwell distribution. A non-Maxwell shape of the p.d.f. means condensate generation. Since the p.d.f. contains only one unknown parameter $H_c$, it can be determined by fitting the theoretical expectation of the mean value by the corresponding sample mean from the MC run.

For qualitative analysis it is convenient to rewrite Eq.~(\ref{d}) in dimensionless (normalized) terms. Let us introduce the quantity
\begin{equation}\label{v0}
 H_0=\dfrac{4\sigma}{\sqrt{2\pi}},
\end{equation}
which is just the mean value of $H$ in case of $H_c=0$. Then, we can consider dimensionless variable $\eta$ with the following p.d.f.:
\begin{equation}\label{pHHc}
 \eta=\frac{H}{H_0},\qquad  p(\eta)=\frac{16 \eta}{\zeta\pi^{3/2}} \mathrm{e}^{-\zeta^2/4} \mathrm{e}^{-4\eta^2/\pi} \sinh\frac{2\zeta \eta}{\sqrt{\pi}},
\end{equation}
where $\zeta=H_c\sqrt{2}/\sigma$ depends on the condensate.

The mean value of $\eta$,
\begin{equation}\label{vt}
 \overline{\eta}=\frac{16}{\zeta\pi^{3/2}} \mathrm{e}^{-\zeta^2/4}\int\limits_0^\infty \eta^2\mathrm{e}^{-4\eta^2/\pi} \sinh\frac{2\zeta \eta}{\sqrt{\pi}}\,d\eta =f(\zeta),
\end{equation}
can be associated with its estimator from lattice simulations. To compute the condensate, $f(\zeta)$ must be inverted numerically. Function $f(\zeta)$ is plotted in Fig.~1.
\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
 \includegraphics[bb=0 1 258 170,width=0.75\textwidth]{fz.eps}\\
\end{center}
  {\footnotesize {\bf{Figure 1:}}
Function $f(\zeta)$ from Eq.~(\ref{vt}) used to fit the p.d.f. of the field strength.}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
  \includegraphics[bb=1 3 257 155,width=0.75\textwidth]{dh8.eps}\\
\end{center}
  {\footnotesize {\bf{Figure 2:}}
The probability density function of the normalized field strength ($H_8/H_0$) obtained on a $18\times24^3$ lattice for $H_8$ field at $\beta=8$. The histogram corresponds to the lattice data (10\,000 measurements), the dashed line describes the absence of the condensate, and the solid line represents the p.d.f. fit assuming the condensate existence. The field $H_3$ behaves similarly to this plot.}
\end{figure}

In Figs.~2 and 3 we show an example of the described approach. The actual p.d.f. of the field strength is compared with the Maxwell distribution corresponding to the absence of the condensate ($H_c=0$ or $\zeta=0$, dashed lines). The parameter $\zeta$ is fitted by the sample mean obtaining either zero or non-zero value. We also check that the fitted value of $\zeta$ produces a good fit of the actual p.d.f. in case of condensate existence (solid lines correspond to (\ref{pHHc})). As it can be seen, the neutral SU(3) component $H_8$ has the condensate whereas there is no condensate for the charged component $H_1$. It should be noted that the condensation is also present for the neutral SU(3) field $H_3$ and absent for all the charged fields $H_2$, $H_4$, $H_5$, $H_6$ and $H_7$, as it can be expected from the theoretical reasons.
\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
  \includegraphics[bb=1 3 257 155,width=0.75\textwidth]{dh1.eps}\\
\end{center}
  {\footnotesize {\bf{Figure 3:}}
The probability density function of the normalized field strength ($H_1/H_0$) obtained on a $18\times24^3$ lattice for $H_1$ field at $\beta=8$. The histogram corresponds to the lattice data (10\,000 measurements), the dashed line describes the theoretical expectation for the absence of the condensate, and the solid line represents the fitted p.d.f. which confirms the condensate absence. Fields $H_2$, $H_4$, $H_5$, $H_6$ and $H_7$ behave similarly -- they demonstrate the absence of condensates.}
\end{figure}

Thus, to find the spontaneously generated field strength one should measure the field tensor components $F_{xy}$, $F_{yz}$ and $F_{xz}$ in lattice simulations, average them over configurations ($H_x$, $H_y$, $H_z$), calculate their variance over the run ($\sigma^2$), compute the absolute values ($H=\sqrt{H_x^2+H_y^2+H_z^2}$) and their mean value over the run ($\overline{\eta}=\overline{H}/H_0$). Then, solving Eq.~(\ref{vt}) numerically with respect to $\zeta$, the condensate value $H_c=\sigma\zeta/\sqrt{2}$ can be derived.

It should be noted that the developed method is applicable for SU($N$) gauge group for any $N$ in the deconfinement phase.

\section{Monte-Carlo simulations}
The main aim of the paper is the investigation of chromomagnetic field condensates in the SU(3) gluodynamics. There are two neutral chromomagnetic fields in the model, $H_3$ and $H_8$, which correspond to the diagonal Gell-Mann matrices. Their condensates are expected to be generated at high temperatures.

The simulations are performed on the lattices of size up to $6\times32^3$ and $18\times24^3$ for various values of $\beta$ corresponding to the deconfinement regime. The lattice is updated by the heat-bath algorithm. To thermalize the system, $1000$ MC sweeps are used. All the measurements are performed on $10000$ configurations separated by $10$ sweeps. The MC kernel tries to update every lattice link on each sweep up to $10$ times.

MC simulations are performed on graphics processing units (GPU) on a HGPU cluster (AMD Radeon HD 7970, HD 6970, HD 5870 and NVidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti). The trivial parallelization scheme is implemented -- each GPU device simulates one lattice for a single parameter set per run. The subroutines for MC simulations on GPU (GPU kernels) are written in the Open Computing Language (OpenCL) \cite{OpenCL}. All the MC simulations and measurements are performed with the full double precision. All the necessary data are stored on GPU memory during a run, so the lattice size is restricted by the GPU device memory.

The ~Cartesian components ~of the chromomagnetic part of the field strength (\ref{f}) are measured at every working configuration for all the SU(3)-directions. Their averages over the lattice (denoted as $H_{a,i}$, $a=1,\ldots,8$; $i=x,y,z$) play a role of primary data for further statistical analysis.  The primary data are processed for every component separately in accordance with the approach described in Sect.~2. First, we compute the variance $\sigma_i$ over the run for each Cartesian component $H_i$. By averaging these variances over spatial directions we obtain the variance entering p.d.f. (\ref{g}), $\sigma = 1/3 \sum \sigma_i$. Then, the value of ${H}_0$ from Eq.~(\ref{v0}) can be found, which is used as a unit for $H$. Finally, we calculate the normalized absolute values $\eta=H/H_0=\sqrt{H_x^2+H_y^2+H_z^2}/H_0$ appeared in the run and analyze the distribution of the obtained sample.

To fit distribution (\ref{pHHc}) describing the condensate generation, we compute the average over the run (sample) $\overline{\eta}$, and find the parameter $\zeta$ as the numerical solution of Eq.~(\ref{vt}). After that, the histogram of the sample of $\eta$ is plotted to be compared with the fitted distribution (\ref{pHHc}) and the Maxwell distribution (the case of $\zeta=0$ meaning the condensate absence). An example of the histogram is shown in Fig.~1 for the lattice $18\times24^3$ and $\beta=8$ for the field $H_8$. The dashed line in Fig.~1 corresponds to the Maxwell distribution (no condensate), and the solid line represents the fitted distribution with the condensate. It can be seen that the histogram indicates the presence of the condensate rather then the condensate absence. Thus, the fitted parameter $\zeta$ gives the estimate of the field condensate,  $H_c=\sigma\zeta/\sqrt{2}$.

Analyzing all the SU(3) components of the chromomagnetic field tensor we find the condensates of neutral fields ($H_3$ and $H_8$), On the other hand, no condensates are detected for the rest of the SU(3) components.

In order to convert the obtained lattice values into the physical ones the standard relations are used,
\begin{equation}\label{lph}
 H=\dfrac{\varphi}{a^2},\qquad T=\frac{1}{aL_t},
\end{equation}
where $\varphi$ is the flux of the condensate field through the plaquette, $a$ is the lattice spacing and $L_t$ is the lattice size in the temporal direction. The values of the lattice spacing $a(g)$ have been computed using the standard technique described, for example, in \cite{Gattringer:2010zz}.

\begin{table}[ht]
\noindent
{\footnotesize {\bf{Table 1:}} The condensates of chromomagnetic fields for different lattices.}
\vskip 0.3cm
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}
\hline
\rule{0pt}{2.5ex}$\beta$&$a$,&$T$,&$\varphi_3/2$,&$\varphi_8/2$,&$H_{3c}$,&$H_{8c}$,\\
\rule{0pt}{2.5ex}&$\times10^{-2}$ fm&GeV&$\times10^{-3}$&$\times10^{-3}$&GeV$^2$&GeV$^2$\\
\hline
\multicolumn{7}{|c|}{\rule{0pt}{2.5ex}$12\times24^3$}\\
\hline
 8 &  1.994  & 0.825 & 3.716 & 2.239 &  0.7277 &  0.4385 \\
 9 & 0.6335  & 2.596 & 3.056 & 1.781 &   5.931 &   3.456 \\
10 & 0.2002  & 8.213 & 2.582 & 1.487 &   50.17 &   28.89 \\
11 & 0.06301 & 26.10 & 2.282 & 1.325 &   447.7 &   259.9 \\
12 & 0.01976 & 83.22 & 1.931 & 1.160 &   3853 &     2314 \\
\hline
\multicolumn{7}{|c|}{\rule{0pt}{2.5ex}$18\times24^3$}\\
\hline
 8 &   1.994 & 0.550 & 3.710 & 2.176 & 0.7266 & 0.4261 \\
 9 &  0.6335 & 1.730 & 3.108 & 1.797 &  6.032 &  3.486 \\
10 &  0.2002 & 5.476 & 2.649 & 1.589 &  51.47 &  30.88 \\
11 & 0.06301 & 17.40 & 2.241 & 1.299 &  439.7 &  254.9 \\
12 & 0.01976 & 55.48 & 1.987 & 1.144 &   3963 &   2283 \\
\hline
\multicolumn{7}{|c|}{\rule{0pt}{2.5ex}$6\times32^3$}\\
\hline
 8 &   1.994 & 1.649 & 3.686 & 2.239 & 0.7219 & 0.4384 \\
 9 &  0.6335 & 5.191 & 3.113 & 1.809 &  6.040 &  3.511 \\
10 &  0.2002 & 16.43 & 2.610 & 1.545 &  50.71 &  30.02 \\
11 & 0.06301 & 52.20 & 2.190 & 1.302 &  429.7 &  255.3 \\
12 & 0.01976 & 166.4 & 1.863 & 1.105 &   3716 &   2204 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}

The numerical results of Monte Carlo simulations for lattices $6\times 32^3$, $12\times 24^3$ and $18\times 24^3$ are presented in Table~1. In the first column of the table the inverse coupling $\beta$ is shown. The lattice spacing $a$ in physical units is given in the second column. The third column contains the temperatures $T$ in GeVs. The fluxes of condensate chromomagnetic fields through the plaquette are shown in the fourth and fifth columns. When all the quantities are measured in the energy units, the fluxes are dimensionless. The last two columns contain corresponding values of the condensate chromomagnetic fields $H_{3c}$ and $H_{8c}$ in GeV$^2$.

Another interesting question is the mutual spatial orientation of the condensate fields $\vec{H}_3$ and $\vec{H}_8$. The relative angle between the third and eighth fields can be found for every measurement in the run, since we know all the Cartesian components of the corresponding vectors. The cosine of the angle is
\begin{equation}\label{c38}
\cos\theta^*=\frac{H_{3,x}H_{8,x}+H_{3,y}H_{8,y}+H_{3,z}H_{8,z}}{H_3 H_8}.
\end{equation}
In Fig.~4 we show the histogram for $\cos\theta^*$ obtained for lattice $18\times 24^3$ at $\beta=8$. The fields seem to be co-directed, since the p.d.f. does not evidently fit the uniform distribution expected for two non-correlated vectors. To provide statistical estimates, let us note that random quantity (\ref{c38}) is expected to be distributed as the sample correlation for two Gaussian quantities. Namely, applying Fisher's transformation, we obtain Gaussian quantity $\mathrm{artanh}(\cos\theta^*)$, which mean and variance can be easily computed. In Fig.~4 we also present the fitted distribution, the mean value of $\mathrm{artanh}(\cos\theta^*)$ corresponds to $\cos\theta^*\simeq 0.829$ confirming the hypothesis of co-directed fields.

\begin{figure}\label{Fig:4}
\begin{center}
  \includegraphics[bb=0 1 258 162,width=4in]{cos.eps}\\
\end{center}
{\footnotesize {\bf{Figure 4:}} Probability density function of the cosine of the angle between the condensates $\vec{H}_{3c}$ and $\vec{H}_{8c}$ on $18\times24^3$ lattice at $\beta=8$. The solid line represents the fit using Fisher's transformation.}
\end{figure}

\section{Temperature dependence of the field condensates}
In the previous section it was found that both the chromomagnetic fields ${H}_{3c}$ and ${H}_{8c}$ are generated in the SU(3) gluodynamics (see Table~1). It can be seen that the field condensate values are temperature dependent. In order to analyze this dependence, we plot the field strength versus the corresponding temperature squared. These plots for ${H}_{3c}$ and ${H}_{8c}$  for lattices $6\times 32^3$, $8\times 28^3$, $12\times 24^3$ and $18\times 24^3$ are shown in Fig.~5 in the logarithmic scale. The field strengths for various temperatures for each lattice size are plotted by different markers. The scatter plots demonstrate  linear dependence in logarithmic coordinates for various lattice sizes. The field condensates are practically independent of the lattice size in spatial and temporal directions for fixed $T$, so finite-size effects seem to play no crucial role in the observed effect.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
 \includegraphics[bb=0 3 254 246,width=0.43\textwidth]{h3.eps}
 \hskip 0.075\textwidth
 \includegraphics[bb=0 3 254 246,width=0.43\textwidth]{h8.eps}
\end{center}
{\footnotesize {\bf{Figure 5:}} $T^2$-dependence of the field strength ${H}_{3c}$ (left) and ${H}_{8c}$ (right). The dashed lines correspond to the data fits by Eq.~(\ref{pr}). The solid line corresponds to the analytic perturbative approach \cite{Skalozub:2002da}.}
\end{figure}

\begin{table}[ht]
\noindent
{\footnotesize {\bf{Table 2:}} Temperature dependence of the condensate fields fitted by the power law $H=kT^2(T/T_0)^{-b}$ with $T_0=0.2$\,GeV.}
\begin{center}
\nopagebreak
\vskip 0.3cm
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c||c|c|}
\cline{2-5}
\multicolumn{1}{c|}{\rule{0pt}{2.5ex}} & \multicolumn{2}{c||}{$H_3$}&\multicolumn{2}{c|}{$H_8$}\\
\hline
lattice            & $k$  & $b$  & $k$  & $b$  \\
\hline
\rule{0pt}{2.5ex}  $6\times32^3$ & 0.33 & 0.12 & 0.20 & 0.12 \\
\rule{0pt}{2.5ex}  $8\times28^3$ & 0.60 & 0.13 & 0.38 & 0.14 \\
\rule{0pt}{2.5ex} $12\times24^3$ & 1.29 & 0.13 & 0.75 & 0.13 \\
\rule{0pt}{2.5ex} $18\times24^3$ & 2.65 & 0.13 & 1.52 & 0.12 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}

Obviously, the plotted temperature dependence of the field condensates can be fitted by the power law
\begin{equation}\label{pr}
 H_c=kT^2\left(\dfrac{T}{T_0}\right)^{-b},
\end{equation}
where $T_0$ is some arbitrary normalization scale. We choose $T_0=0.2$ GeV.

The fit results for each lattice size are shown in Table~2. The first column contains the information about lattices, the same as in Fig.~5. The fitted parameters $k$ and $b$ for the field ${H}_3$ are present in the second and third columns. The same parameters corresponding to the field ${H}_8$ are shown in the last two columns.
As it can be seen from Table~2, the slope parameters $b$ are very close for different lattices. This parameter is just `the anomalous dimension' of the field condensate, and it can be set to 0.13 for the SU(3) gluodynamics. The coefficient $k$, which defines the level of the fitting curve, grows with the increasing of temporal lattice size, but remains independent of the spatial one. This means, probably, either some finite-size effects, or systematic errors of the approach.

As it can be seen from above, both of the fields has similar magnitudes and identically grow in the investigated temperature range. No field dominates in the temperature range considered.

As it can be expected from the dimensional analysis, the dependence of the condensate field strength on the temperature is close to the quadratic function, ${H}\sim T^2$. The non-trivial behavior is described by the phenomenological law with the anomalous dimension $b$. It is interesting to compare the obtained results with analytic approaches assuming the continuous space-time. In \cite{Skalozub:2002da} the generation of chromomagnetic fields at high-temperature limit ($T\gg\sqrt{gH}$) was derived within the perturbative effective potential including the one-loop and daisy diagrams. Therein the following law was claimed
\begin{equation}\label{ss}
 {H}_{3c}=0.2976\dfrac{g^3T^2}{\pi^2},\hskip 2cm
 {H}_{8c}=1.8351\dfrac{g^3T^2}{\pi^2},
\end{equation}
where $g=g(T)$ is the running coupling. We can take the QCD running coupling to estimate the temperature behavior of $H$. At high temperatures the QCD coupling constant $\alpha=g^2/(4\pi)$ can be written as
\begin{equation}
 \alpha=\dfrac{1.38808}{\ln(T^2/(0.217\mbox{ GeV})^2)},
\end{equation}
where the numeric parameters were obtained by fitting the data from \cite{PDG}. The temperature dependence of ${H}_3$ and ${H}_8$ from (\ref{ss}) is shown in Fig.~5 by the solid lines. The slope and level of these lines are in a good agreement with the phenomenological law (\ref{pr}) from our MC results.

\section{Discussion}
In the paper spontaneous generation of chromomagnetic fields in the lattice SU(3) gluodynamics is investigated in the deconfinement phase. An approach for the detection of homogeneous condensate fields by direct measurements of the Cartesian components of the field tensor on a lattice is developed. The method is based on two steps. First, the homogeneous background field is found at each simulated configuration by averaging the components of the field tensor over the lattice. Second, the presence of condensate fields affect the statistical distribution of the extracted homogeneous background over the MC run. The p.d.f. of the absolute value of the background field depends only on the absolute value of the condensate field being distributed in accordance with the Maxwell distribution in case of no condensate fields. A non-Maxwell shape of the distribution indicates spontaneous generation of the condensate fields and allows to fit the value of the generated condensate. Probing different lattice geometries and various temperatures (see Table~1 and Fig.~5), we found the evident spontaneously generated magnetic components of the field tensor in the `neutral' SU(3) directions (both in the third and eight ones) whereas other SU(3) directions show the clear zero background. This serves as an additional argument that our approach reflects well motivated physics and cannot be interpreted as some random artificial lattice effects. In the physical units, the strength of condensate chromomagnetic fields monotonically grows with temperature increasing. We successfully fit the collected MC data by the phenomenological law with `anomalous dimension':
\begin{equation}\label{prdisc}
 H_{3c},H_{8c}\simeq T^2\left(\dfrac{T}{200\mbox{ MeV}}\right)^{-0.13}.
\end{equation}
This law incorporates the results obtained by analytic perturbative approach \cite{Skalozub:2002da} as a high-temperature asymptotics.

Both the neutral chromomagnetic fields $H_{3c}$ and $H_{8c}$ are simultaneously generated in the deconfinement phase in the whole temperature range investigated. These condensate fields have the same functional temperature dependence, the same order of magnitudes, so they evolve in a balanced manner. The direct analysis of the Cartesian components of the condensed fields shows that the fields are spontaneously generated in the same spatial direction.

The main results of the paper are obtained in physical units. It is checked that the condensate field strengths are independent of the spatial lattice size.

In general, the homogeneous chromomagnetic field in the whole space breaks the gauge invariance. Thus, the formation of domain structure at large scales is expected, which should restore the gauge invariance. So, the investigation of domain structure on huge lattices is also an interesting subject of further studies.

The method developed in Sect.~2 to determine the magnetized vacuum state is quite general. It can be applied for any SU($N$) lattice gauge theory. In this paper we restrict the investigation to the SU(3) gluodynamics as an important example.

In Sect.~4 we show that both the chromomagnetic fields $H_{3c}$ and $H_{8c}$ are simultaneously generated in the deconfinement phase in the wide temperature interval from 200 MeV to 200 GeV. These condensate fields have the same functional temperature dependence, so they evolve in a balanced manner. Moreover, both the fields appear to be spontaneously generated in the same spatial direction. It is derived in MC simulations that the spontaneous vacuum magnetization takes place only for $H_3$ and $H_8$ chromomagnetic fields ($H_{3c}\not = 0$, $H_{8c}\not = 0$), whereas there is no condensation of other chromomagnetic fields ($H_{1c},H_{2c},H_{4c},H_{5c},H_{6c},H_{7c}=0$).

In \cite{Demchik:2001zq} it was shown in the `one-loop plus daisy' perturbative approach that the chromomagnetic field $H_{3c}$ is generated in the standard model. The source of spontaneous magnetization effect is in the gauge sector of the model. The fermionic sector of the standard model slightly weakens the effect only.
The spontaneous vacuum magnetization was also studied in the MSSM \cite{Demchik:2002ks}, where the fermionic sector of the model is extended with the s-particles. It was obtain therein that doubled fermionic sector of the MSSM does not eliminate the effect.
As for our results, fermions should be accounted in further investigations.

\section*{Acknowledgements}
Authors are grateful to Vladimir Skalozub for useful discussions and suggestions.

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The Beach at Galle Road
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When rumors of civil war between the ruling Sinhalese and the Tamils in the northern sector of Sri Lanka reach those who live in the south, somehow it seems not to be happening in their own country. At least not until Janaki's sister, Lakshmi—now a refugee whose husband, a Tamil, has disappeared—comes back to live with her family. And when Sam, an American Peace Corps worker who boards with Janaki's family, falls in love with one of his students, a young girl from the north, he, too, becomes acutely aware of the dangers that exist for any- one who gets drawn into the conflict, however marginally.
Skillfully weaving together the stories of these and other intersecting lives, The Beach at Galle Road explores themes of memory and identity amid the consequences of the Sri Lankan civil war. From different points of view, across generations and geographies, it pits the destructive power of war against the resilient power of family, individual will, and the act of storytelling itself.


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Perils of the Sentimental Swordsman (1982)
Director: Chor Yuen
Notable Cast: Ti Lung, Lo Lieh, Teng Wei-hao, Ku Kuan-chung, Linda Chu, Tai Liang-chun, Ku Feng, Yuen Wah
For the first twenty minutes or so, I was fairly confused by Perils of the Sentimental Swordsman. I had enjoyed the previous two entries of the series, but right away the tone of this film felt different – less dramatic, more off the cuff – and Ti Lung's character was completely different in his actions and demeanor. After a quick pause and five minutes of research I found out that Perils is actually not a sequel to the Sentimental Swordsman franchise, but it's a sequel to another wuxia series from Chor Yuen that stars Ti Lung. It's the same series that features films like Clans of Intrigue and Legend of the Bat. With proper expectations, Perils became a fun film filled with some outrageous fantastical set pieces and plenty of memorable battles that I was able to enjoy once my expectations had been adjusted for the proper franchise, but keep this in mind when going into the film. It is probably not the film you will be expecting to see from its title.
Liuxiang (Ti Lung) has been tasked with protecting the 8th prince from assassination, but the events of the night take a turn for the strange when it's revealed that he IS the assassin. On the run from the law, Liuxiang meets up with an old man on his way to a remote village hidden from the outside world. The remote village is a place where criminals and villains can take refuge for the rest of their life…for a hefty price. When Liuxiang gets there though, he finds that not everything may be as it seems and there is a much bigger conspiracy afoot than previously thought.
I always love Chor Yuen's use of sets.
Even without skewed expectations due to the strange titular issue that made me think Perils was a sequel to a whole different franchise, this film is meant to be somewhat confusing throughout its first half. Although I've seen Legend of the Bat (a film that is referenced at one point, although more as an offhand comment than a connection), I felt taken back by how the film opens and its treatment of the lead character. Liuxiang is not an assassin as much as he is a high energy wuxia Sherlock Holmes in previous films, so what in the world lead to the events of this film? Fear not, in true epic wuxia fashion, Perils does attempt to at least acknowledge its own mystery focused plot that leaves the audience unsure for the opening half. As the film works its way into the plethora of coils that the plot takes in the second half, it keeps things moving at a lighting pace. The battles are plentiful, the characters are colorful, and the narrative is fantastical in its embrace of some of the odd narrative elements. Within the first half hour, there are assassins for assassins, side plots that pop up and dissipate, and enough red herring characters that are established to keep the audience on their toes. It can be a lot to digest, for sure, and I would be lying if the second half actually covered everything in a way that made sense, but the film is a lot of fun with its gimmicks and quirky approach and that counts for a lot when it comes down to it.
It's the second half however that really earns some praise and lifts Perils into being one of the more entertaining wuxia films I've seen from the Shaw Brothers studio. The first half establishes a lot of odd characters and ones with shifty motives, all played with a sense of fun and glee – including a phenomenal supporting role for Lo Lieh who carries a ton of on screen chemistry with our lead Ti Lung, but it's the plot spins and pirouettes that occur in the second half that just strike home. No one is who they seem to be and the film machine guns out twists that just keep adding to the fun. The action remains tight, utilizing some phenomenally fun gimmicks and odd sets (with underground caverns and hidden ambushes galore), but it's the jack knife maneuvers for the audience that really make Perils a blast to watch.
Kickin' it with Ti Lung
One doesn't have to watch any previous Sentimental Swordsman or Liuxiang films to be able to enjoy Perils of the Sentimental Swordsman. It might be best to go into the film knowing as little about the plot as possible so that all of the twists and turns come as genuine surprises. I'm not so sure that this fantastical wuxia mystery film will hold up as well on repeated viewings, but it certainly took me by surprise as a fun and exciting popcorn martial arts flick. One that definitely gets a big recommendation.
Labels: Action / Adventure, Chor Yuen, Drama, Ku Feng, Lo Lieh, Martial Arts, Shaw Brothers, Ti Lung, Wu Xia
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Frances Madden & Band
Melbourne..
Sydney original songstress Frances Madden will be in Melbourne for one show only on Friday 6 December and part of the Melbourne Women's International Jazz Festival. One of Australia's most popular young singers and piano players, Frances has been described as 'one to watch' by ABC Jazz's Mal Stanley and 'a rising star of jazz and blues' by Sydney's Fine Music 102.5 FM. She recently completed recording her second studio album with Melbourne's ARIA-Award winning producer Chong Lim AM, to be released early next year. Frances' music is jazz-oriented but with a broad adult contemporary appeal. She captivates her audiences with a combination of her genuinely warm stage presence along with a voice and style that are uniquely her own. When she performs her own swinging tunes and beautiful ballads, they merge seamlessly with the timeless classics she covers. Frances has performed at major festivals including Wangaratta Jazz, Sydney International Women's Jazz, Manly Jazz, Hobart Festival of Voices, Devonport Jazz and Tamworth Country Music. She plays to capacity audiences at Australia's best venues for jazz-influenced music including The Basement and Foundry616 in Sydney, Birds Basement and the Paris Cat in Melbourne, and the Doo-Bop Jazz Club in Brisbane. Frances has also headlined at the renown JZ Club in Shanghai and supported international artists visiting Australia, including the legendary Dionne Warwick and Grammy Award winner Gregory Porter. Along with Frances on vocals and piano, this one-off show as part of the MWIJF will feature an all-star Melbourne band including: Sam Lemann - guitar Tom Lee - double bass Daniel Farrugia - drums Lachlan Davidson - tenor saxophone Harriet Allcroft - backing vocals Frances Madden & Band at Jazzlab, 8.00pm Friday 6 December, 2019. Tickets: $30.00.


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New poster size papercut in my shop.
It took me a month to finish because I am the ultimate procrastinator. Also, I was busy with commissions.
The panels were originally designed for my thesis project - a papercut artist book The Stag Folklore. They were used for the wood book sleeve. Now, though, they're a beautiful poster-size papercut. I do have a soft spot for woodland critters. I think I might do a squirrel and rabbit next.


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"""
Demo platform for the cover component.

For more details about this platform, please refer to the documentation
https://home-assistant.io/components/demo/
"""
from homeassistant.components.cover import CoverDevice
from homeassistant.helpers.event import track_utc_time_change

def setup_platform(hass, config, add_devices, discovery_info=None):
    """Setup the Demo covers."""
    add_devices([
        DemoCover(hass, 'Kitchen Window'),
        DemoCover(hass, 'Hall Window', 10),
        DemoCover(hass, 'Living Room Window', 70, 50),
    ])

class DemoCover(CoverDevice):
    """Representation of a demo cover."""

    # pylint: disable=no-self-use
    def __init__(self, hass, name, position=None, tilt_position=None):
        """Initialize the cover."""
        self.hass = hass
        self._name = name
        self._position = position
        self._set_position = None
        self._set_tilt_position = None
        self._tilt_position = tilt_position
        self._closing = True
        self._closing_tilt = True
        self._unsub_listener_cover = None
        self._unsub_listener_cover_tilt = None

    @property
    def name(self):
        """Return the name of the cover."""
        return self._name

    @property
    def should_poll(self):
        """No polling needed for a demo cover."""
        return False

    @property
    def current_cover_position(self):
        """Return the current position of the cover."""
        return self._position

    @property
    def current_cover_tilt_position(self):
        """Return the current tilt position of the cover."""
        return self._tilt_position

    @property
    def is_closed(self):
        """Return if the cover is closed."""
        if self._position is not None:
            if self.current_cover_position > 0:
                return False
            else:
                return True
        else:
            return None

    def close_cover(self, **kwargs):
        """Close the cover."""
        if self._position in (0, None):
            return

        self._listen_cover()
        self._closing = True

    def close_cover_tilt(self, **kwargs):
        """Close the cover tilt."""
        if self._tilt_position in (0, None):
            return

        self._listen_cover_tilt()
        self._closing_tilt = True

    def open_cover(self, **kwargs):
        """Open the cover."""
        if self._position in (100, None):
            return

        self._listen_cover()
        self._closing = False

    def open_cover_tilt(self, **kwargs):
        """Open the cover tilt."""
        if self._tilt_position in (100, None):
            return

        self._listen_cover_tilt()
        self._closing_tilt = False

    def set_cover_position(self, position, **kwargs):
        """Move the cover to a specific position."""
        self._set_position = round(position, -1)
        if self._position == position:
            return

        self._listen_cover()
        self._closing = position < self._position

    def set_cover_tilt_position(self, tilt_position, **kwargs):
        """Move the cover til to a specific position."""
        self._set_tilt_position = round(tilt_position, -1)
        if self._tilt_position == tilt_position:
            return

        self._listen_cover_tilt()
        self._closing_tilt = tilt_position < self._tilt_position

    def stop_cover(self, **kwargs):
        """Stop the cover."""
        if self._position is None:
            return
        if self._unsub_listener_cover is not None:
            self._unsub_listener_cover()
            self._unsub_listener_cover = None
            self._set_position = None

    def stop_cover_tilt(self, **kwargs):
        """Stop the cover tilt."""
        if self._tilt_position is None:
            return

        if self._unsub_listener_cover_tilt is not None:
            self._unsub_listener_cover_tilt()
            self._unsub_listener_cover_tilt = None
            self._set_tilt_position = None

    def _listen_cover(self):
        """Listen for changes in cover."""
        if self._unsub_listener_cover is None:
            self._unsub_listener_cover = track_utc_time_change(
                self.hass, self._time_changed_cover)

    def _time_changed_cover(self, now):
        """Track time changes."""
        if self._closing:
            self._position -= 10
        else:
            self._position += 10

        if self._position in (100, 0, self._set_position):
            self.stop_cover()
        self.update_ha_state()

    def _listen_cover_tilt(self):
        """Listen for changes in cover tilt."""
        if self._unsub_listener_cover_tilt is None:
            self._unsub_listener_cover_tilt = track_utc_time_change(
                self.hass, self._time_changed_cover_tilt)

    def _time_changed_cover_tilt(self, now):
        """Track time changes."""
        if self._closing_tilt:
            self._tilt_position -= 10
        else:
            self._tilt_position += 10

        if self._tilt_position in (100, 0, self._set_tilt_position):
            self.stop_cover_tilt()

        self.update_ha_state()


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Q: SQL, Updates,and Inserts Hey so i'm supposed to write a procedure AddSaleDetail that will add a sale detail for a book purchased and will update the sale with that book information. The data that needs to be passed in is  sale number, ISBN and quantity. And i have to RaiseErrors for the following things which i have already done.
The ISBN and sale numbers are not valid
The ISBN is already on that sale.
And if there aren't any errors i have to insert the Sale Detail record into SaleDetail table. The selling price will be the Suggested Price for that ISBN.
Now everything i've got until the next two things that need to be done, this is where i'm unable to proceed.
Update the book in the Title table to reduce the number in stock by the quantity
Update the Sale record subtotal, total and GST fields in Sale table to include the sale amount of the book purchased.
Here is what i have:
ORIGINAL
Create Procedure AddSaleDetail
(
@salenumber int,
@ISBN char(10),
@Quantity int,
@NumberInStock smallint
)
AS

SELECT sale.saleNumber, title.ISBN, saledetail.quantity,NumberInStock
FROM   sale INNER JOIN
   saledetail ON sale.saleNumber = saledetail.saleNumber INNER JOIN
   title ON saledetail.ISBN = title.ISBN

IF @ISBN is null or @salenumber is null
BEGIN
RAISERROR ('Please enter valid ISBN and Sale Number',16,1)
END

Else
BEGIN
declare @sellingprice money
select  @sellingprice= suggestedprice from title where ISBN=@ISBN
declare @amount money = @quantity * @sellingprice

If exists (select * from saledetail where ISBN=@ISBN)
BEGIN
RAISERROR ('ISBN already exists',16,1)

END
ELSE
    if not exists (select * from saledetail where saleNumber=@salenumber)
    BEGIN
    RAISERROR ('Sale Number Does not exist',16,1)
    END

        ELSE
        BEGIN
            INSERT INTO saledetail(ISBN,saleNumber, sellingprice)
            values (@ISBN,@salenumber,@sellingprice )
        END
        END
            Else
            BEGIN
            Update title(NumberInStock =@NumberInStock - @Quantity where    ISBN=@ISBN)

Current
Create Procedure AddSaleDetail
(
@salenumber int,
@ISBN char(10),
@Quantity int,
@NumberInStock smallint
)
AS

SELECT sale.saleNumber, title.ISBN, saledetail.quantity,NumberInStock
FROM   sale INNER JOIN
   saledetail ON sale.saleNumber = saledetail.saleNumber INNER JOIN
   title ON saledetail.ISBN = title.ISBN

IF @ISBN is null or @salenumber is null
BEGIN
RAISERROR ('Please enter valid ISBN and Sale Number',16,1)
END

Else
BEGIN
declare @sellingprice money
select  @sellingprice= suggestedprice from title where ISBN=@ISBN
declare @amount money = @quantity * @sellingprice

 If exists (select * from saledetail where ISBN=@ISBN)

BEGIN
RAISERROR ('ISBN already exists',16,1)

END
ELSE
    if not exists (select * from saledetail where saleNumber=@salenumber)
    BEGIN
    RAISERROR ('Sale Number Does not exist',16,1)
    END

    ELSE
        Begin Transaction
        BEGIN
            INSERT INTO saledetail(ISBN,saleNumber, sellingprice)
            values (@ISBN,@salenumber,@sellingprice )
            if @@Error<>0
            Begin
            Raiserror ('insert failed',16,1)

            Rollback Transaction
            END

    Else
            Begin
            UPDATE Title
            SET NumberInStock = NumberInStock - @Quantity
            WHERE ISBN = @ISBN
            if @@Error<>0
                Begin
                Raiserror('Update failed',16,1)
                Rollback Transaction
                End

    Else
            begin
            Commit Transaction
            END
        END
    END
END

A: How about this update:
UPDATE Title
SET NumberInStock = NumberInStock - @Quantity
WHERE ISBN = @ISBN

The NumberInStock is a column, not a @ parameter.
Also, you can also do something like this, but you will have to create @total and @GST variables:
UPDATE Sale
SET subtotal = @amount,
total = @total,
GST = @GST
WHERE sale.saleNumber = @salenumber

I think your first SELECT query is not very useful.  Your procedure will print out everything.  But you already have the parameters you need, right?  They are input parameters.  I hope this helps?

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Moray & Agnew promotes 25 to senior roles
National law firm Moray & Agnew has named seven new partners, seven new special counsel and 11 new senior associates.
Earlier on Wednesday, 23 June 2021, Moray & Agnew announced 25 senior appointments across its practice groups and national network. The promotions are effective as of 1 July 2021.
Speaking about the promotions, national managing partner Geoff Connellan noted: "Each of these promotions is well deserved and further enhances the capabilities and strong teams we offer to our clients across the country.
"Congratulations to each of the lawyers as we formally acknowledge their hard work and dedication to the firm and to our clients."
The seven new partners are Prue Loader (Canberra), Danielle Pastor (Sydney), Lily Sher (Sydney), Nicholas Sullivan (Melbourne), Gabrielle Watts (Sydney), Joshua Wilcox (Perth) and Kara Yacoubian (Sydney).
The seven new special counsel are Tracy Bennett (Perth), Evie Defteros (Brisbane), Brooke Dennington (Canberra), Nicholas Pitt (Sydney), Shirley Xiang (Sydney), Julian Kenda (Sydney) and Alexandra Kyprianos (Sydney).
Finally, the 11 new senior associates are Cristian Apolloni (Melbourne), Jamie Bruce (Sydney), Nikolas Bossinakis (Melbourne), George Chadwick (Melbourne), Sophie Cooper (Sydney), Zoe Howard (Sydney) Jonathan Markowitz (Melbourne), Ryan Nattrass (Brisbane), Bronti Ness (Sydney), Kelly Poh (Sydney) and Rohan Reddy (Canberra).
The news follows Hall & Wilcox promoting 36 to senior roles, Dentons promoting 14 to new positions, and King & Wood Mallesons adding 10 to the partnership ranks.
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Q: Retrieving artifact release date using Aether Eclipse I am new to the Aether eclipse plugin, and I am wondering if there is a way (or a XXXRequest) that is able to retrieve the release date of a Maven artifact?
Any pointers would be much appreciated!
Cheers,

A: After some digging, it appeared that using Aether-Eclipse plugin API does not enable accessing the artifact release date. I've found a nice workaround in this post.


In today's A2 writing exercise: https://progress.lawlessfrench.com/my-languages/french/exercises/overview/160?utm_source=blk&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=msg_448551You give the hint: Use "faire la connaissance de" = to get acquainted with. But it is counted wrong. I wrote "et ses griffes ont deja fait la connaissance de notre canape. And "la" and "de" are crossed out and "de" replaced with "avec". -- Either the hint is wrong, our the correction is wrong. N'est-ce pas?