Not sure, the two piece soft ball is not for me. but, I didn't notice the SS came out in new colors. I am sure there's reviews on youtube.
New version comes in matte. Other than that I've tried every iteration of the Supersoft and they all play the same. 30ish compression, High launch, straight and not much greenside spin. Approaches usually stop pretty quickly cause of the steep decent angle.
Ya, this is truly a great ball. I think what throws people off, is it gos the exact direction the club face is pointed at impact, because it compresses so much on the face. So with this ball, instead of aiming at setup, were you want the ball to end up, aim were you want the ball to go. I hope that makes sense. Cheers!


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Hyundai Motor rolls out eco-friendly electric bus
By Kim Da-sol
Published : Jun 29, 2020 - 13:55 Updated : Jun 29, 2020 - 13:55
County Electric (HMG)
Hyundai Motor said Monday it has launched an upgraded midsized electric bus -- County Electric -- which can be used as a town shuttle bus or school bus for children.
The County Electric has been extended by 600 millimeters compared to the previous diesel version. An additional lithium-ion 128-killowatt-hour battery has been attached to the bottom of the 7,710-millimeter-long car body, the automaker said.
This allows the vehicle to travel up to 250 kilometers on a single full charge at around 28,000 won ($23), about one-fourth of the price when fully charging the diesel model, it added. It takes about 72 minutes to fully charge the vehicle by using DC combo Type 1 charger.
Various safety features have been added to the County Electric, such as an ultrasonic sensor and a touch sensor which prevents entrapment. When the ultrasonic sensor detects the passenger's movement at the door, the vehicle does not start even when accelerating, the company said.
In the front seat, a 7-inch color LCD dashboard and a 4.2-inch additional screen offers wide and intuitive driving information, while an electric steering wheel and a smart key allows easy and convenient control of the car.
"County Electric is a non-polluting bus with upgraded efficiency and convenient features, and we expect the model to secure higher competitiveness in the growing commercial electric bus market," said a Hyundai Motor official.
By Kim Da-sol (ddd@heraldcorp.com)

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Q: When does the SQL Server write the results of each Set Statement In and UPDATE I have two update statements.  Both are similar but operate on different sets of tables. One works, the other doesnt. I am not sure why.
I have a table called UPLOAD. It contains the results of a parse from another data system.

*

*VendorText (nVarChar(50))

*VendorID (BigInt)

*ModelText (nVarChar(50)

*ModelID (BigInt)

*UnitText (nVarChar(50))

*UnitID (BigInt)

*SubUnitText (nVarChar(50))

*SubUnitID (BigInt)

Intially the four text fields are filled in from the parse.
There are four tables that we are pulling information from.

*

*VendorTable

*ModelTable

*UnitTable

*SubUnitTable

The Model table has an integer field that links it to the Vendor Table.
The Subunit table has an integer field that links it to the Unit Table.
There are four Scalar Functions that we use.

*

*FindVendor  - Takes a text value and searches the Vendor Table for
the name and returns the PK.

*FindModel - Takes a text value and and integer value (PK of the
Vendor).  Returns the PK of the Model Number.

*FindUnit - Takes a text value and searches the UnitTable for a match
and returns the PK of the unit.

*FindSubUnit - Takes a text value and an integer value(PK of the UNIT)
and returns the PK of the SubUnit.

UPDATE STATEMENT THAT WORKS
UPDATE UPLOADTABLE
  SET
      VendorID = FindVendor(VendorText),
      ModelID = FindModel(ModelText, VendorID)

I have tested this and it gives the proper results.
This however fails.
UPDATE UPLOADTABLE
  SET
      UNITID = FindUnit(UnitText),
      SubUnitID = FindSubUnit(SubUnitText, UnitID)

All I get back are Zero's in the SubUnitID.
This however does work.
UPDATE UPLOADTABLE
  SET
     UnitID = FindUnit(UnitText);

UPDATE UPLOADTABLE
  SET
     SubUnitID = FindSubUnit(SubUnitText, UnitID)

Not sure why the first one works and the second one fails. Unless the UPDATE for the model number is just working by chance.  I dont know when the update statement writes the results of eadch of the Set statements.
Any ideas?

A: Assuming no triggers are defined, and neither update violates any constraints, the difference between
UPDATE UPLOADTABLE SET
  UNITID = FindUnit(UnitText),
  SubUnitID = FindSubUnit(SubUnitText, UnitID)

and
UPDATE UPLOADTABLE SET
  UnitID = FindUnit(UnitText);
UPDATE UPLOADTABLE SET
 SubUnitID = FindSubUnit(SubUnitText, UnitID)

is that in the first case, the UnitID that gets passed to FindSubUnit is the old value of UnitID: you haven't updated it yet. If UPDATE did not work that way, you would not be able to write swapping statements like UPDATE table SET field1 = field2, field2 = field1. You would be able to execute that, but it would not do what you would want.
One possible way to write it in a single update is
UPDATE UPLOADTABLE SET
  UNITID = FindUnit(UnitText),
  SubUnitID = FindSubUnit(SubUnitText, FindUnit(UnitText))

A: It is not an answer to your question, and I think hvd has already explained how the update statement works, so I think the key to answering your question is in the definition of the UDF FindModel. However, I thought I would point out you can perform all these updates at once without any problems (and more efficiently) by simply using JOINs in the update:
UPDATE  UPLOADTABLE
SET     VendorID = v.VendorID,
        ModelID = m.ModelID,
        UnitID = ut.UnitID,
        SubUnitID = s.SubUnitID
FROM    UPLOADTABLE u
        LEFT JOIN VendorTable v
            ON v.VendorText = u.VendorText
        LEFT JOIN ModelTable m
            ON m.VendorID = v.VendorID
            AND m.ModelText = u.ModelText
        LEFT JOIN UnitTable ut
            ON v.UnitText = ut.UnitText
        LEFT JOIN SubUnitTable s
            ON s.UnitID = v.UnitID
            AND s.SubUnitText = u.SubUnitText;

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Die Sklaven-Daguerreotypien von Louis Agassiz sind eine Serie von Daguerreotypien, die 1850 im Auftrag von Louis Agassiz, Naturforscher und Hochschullehrer der Universität Harvard, angefertigt wurden. Sie sollten die physiologischen Unterschiede von Afrikanern gegenüber Europäern dokumentieren und, davon abgeleitet, Argumente für die Überlegenheit der weißen Rasse liefern. Es handelt sich um 15 Silberplatten, die 1977 in den Beständen des Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology in Harvard entdeckt wurden und die aufgrund ihrer technischen Qualität 1992 in der Ausstellung "Nineteenth-Century Photography" des Amon Carter Museums präsentiert wurden. Diese Platten sind die frühesten Daguerreotypien afroamerikanischer Sklaven und insofern ein bedeutendes Dokument des Gesellschaftssystems vor dem Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg.

Kontext der Aufnahmen
Um seine rassistischen Theorien zu beweisen, suchte Agassiz "reine" Afrikaner, was sich zunächst als schwierig darstellte, da der Import afrikanischer Sklaven in die Vereinigten Staaten ab dem 1. Januar 1808 verboten war (Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves (1807)). Der amerikanische Paläontologe Robert W. Gibbes, der selbst aus South Carolina stammte, schlug ihm vor, die Plantagen im Umkreis von Columbia zu besuchen. Da in Columbia um 1850 rund 6000 "Weiße" lebten und über 100.000 Sklaven, war die Behandlung dieser Sklaven äußerst repressiv.

Bei einer Rundreise durch die Plantagen rings um Columbia wählte Agassiz die Sklaven aus, von denen Daguerreotypien angefertigt werden sollten. Gibbes notierte: "Agassiz war erfreut von seiner Untersuchung der Ebo-, Foulah-, Gullah-, Guinea-, Coromantee-, Mandrigo- und Kongo-Neger." Sowie Agassiz abgereist war, brachte Gibbes diese Menschen zum Daguerreotypisten Joseph T. Zealy, der die Aufnahmen anfertigte. Gibbes dokumentierte sorgfältig Namen, Verwandtschaftsverhältnisse, afrikanische Herkunft und Besitzer der Sklaven. Dann schickte er die Platten an den Auftraggeber, und sie gelangten in das Museum of Comparative Zoology, von wo sie 1935 an das Peabody Museum übergeben wurden.

Beschreibung
Eine Gruppe von Daguerreotypien zeigen den ganzen, nackten Körper in Vorder-, Seiten- und Rückansicht. Auf diese Weise wurden Alfred, ein Foulah, und Jem, ein Gullah, fotografiert. Die zweite Gruppe von Daguerreotypien sind Nahaufnahmen von Kopf und Oberkörper der jeweiligen Person. Auf diese Weise wurde der Fahrer Jack (Guinea) und seine in Amerika geborene Tochter Drana fotografiert, Renty (Kongo) und seine in Amerika geborene Tochter Delia, außerdem der Zimmermann Fassena, ein Mandingo.

Es handelt sich nicht, wie bei zeitgenössischen Daguerreotypien sonst, um Porträts; die Menschen wurden darauf reduziert, typische Vertreter ihrer Ethnie zu sein. Deshalb verzichtete Zealy auf alles, was Individualität hätte ausdrücken können: Accessoires, Kleidung, Gesten.

Rezeption
Die Arbeiten von Carrie Mae Weems, From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, sind eine fotokünstlerische Auseinandersetzung mit den Sklaven-Daguerreotypien.  Weems fotografierte die Platten und bearbeitete sie in mehreren Schritten, um den Dargestellten ihre Individualität zurückzugeben und die Pseudo-Objektivität des Daguerreotypisten zu hinterfragen. Diese Arbeiten wurden 2020 in einem umfangreichen Werk der Autorinnen Ilisa Barbash, Molly Rogers, Deborah Willis dokumentiert.

Rechtsstreit

Vor einem Zivilgericht des Staates Massachusetts verklagte Tamara Lanier am 20. März 2019 die Universität Harvard darauf, die Daguerreotypien ihrer Vorfahren, des Sklaven Renty und seiner Tochter Drana, an die Nachkommen der gegen ihren Willen fotografierten Personen herauszugeben. Bei Entdeckung der Daguerrotypien war in den 1970er Jahren angedacht worden, mögliche Nachkommen der fotografierten Sklaven zu ermitteln; Harvard unternahm aber keine Schritte in diese Richtung. Im Sommer 2019 veröffentlichten 53 direkte Nachkommen des Harvard-Professors Agassiz eine Erklärung, mit der sie die Herausgabe der Fotos unterstützen.

Den Recherchen Laniers zufolge war Renty etwa 65 Jahre alt, als die Aufnahme entstand, und lebte auf der Baumwollplantage von Benjamin Franklin Taylor. Vermutlich kam er, etwa fünfzehn Jahre alt, um 1800 mit einem spanischen Sklavenschiff nach New Orleans und von dort dann mit dem Sklavenhandel nach South Carolina. Da ein in Afrika geborener Sklave zu seiner Zeit ungewöhnlich war, hatte Renty den Beinamen "der schwarze Afrikaner" und war eine respektierte Persönlichkeit unter den Sklaven auf Taylors Plantage, da er vorlesen konnte und Gottesdienste leitete, die die Sklaven für sich feierten, neben denen, die sie im Auftrag ihrer Herren besuchen mussten.

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

 Elena Bulat, India Spartz, Brenda Bernier, T. Rose Holdcraft: A Case for Preservation: Revisiting the Agassiz Collection of Daguerreotypes from the Peabody Museum Archives at Harvard University
 Esteban Arellano, Hadley DeBello: The Zealy Daguerreotypes: Power and Possession (Harvard Political Review, 8. Februar 2018)

Literatur
 Brian Wallis: Black Bodies, White Science: Louis Agassiz's Slave Daguerreotypes. In: American Art, Vol. 9, Nr. 2 (Sommer 1995), S. 38–61. (PDF; 7,6 MB, englisch)
 Molly Rogers, David W. Blight: Delia's Tears: Race, Science, and Photography in Nineteenth-century America, Yale University Press, New Haven / London 2010.
 Ilisa Barbash, Molly Rogers, Deborah Willis (Hrsg.): To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes. Aperture, New York 2020, ISBN 978-1-59711-478-3.

Geschichte der Fotografie
Sklaverei in den Vereinigten Staaten
Afrikanische Diaspora
Porträtfotografie
Harvard University
Werk (19. Jahrhundert)
Kulturelle Kontroverse
Geschichte der Ethnologie

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A captivating and profound debut novel, "Fans of the Impossible Life" is a story about complicated love and the friendships that change you forever.
This storyline just sounds so intriguing. And, while normally I'd rather read the book from one of the boys' perspectives, I think it'll be interesting to read the book from Mira's point of view.


The book concerns a brother and sister, Mark and Filipa, and their encounter with the famous pretty horsebreakers of Hyde Park.
They are, that familiar pattern of British aristocrats, asset rich and cash poor. Having lost their mother and father they are somewhat lacking in guidance. Filipa is a bit unworldly as having lost her mother before her coming of age she was not automatically presented at court. Lacking female relatives or money and influence she has no one else to present her either. This means she cannot enter society and must stay in the country. However, she is energetic, bright and good natured so she applies herself to gaining useful accomplishments, not least a high standard of horsemanship.
Mark on the other hand has joined the exclusive Gentleman's Club, White's. This club was notorious for its extravagant gambling (two members once bet £3,000 on which of two raindrops would reach the bottom of a window pane first). So many fortunes were squandered in this club that Swift described it as the "bane of the English nobility". Filipa frequently has to sell family property and juggle finances to pay Mark's debts.This is what precipitates the events of the story.
At his club Mark has fallen in with a fast set surrounding the sporting Marquis of Kline. All these gentlemen have amours among the horsebreakers. Kline decides to throw a weekend house party centred around horse races with a costumed pageant on the first day. There is a 1,000 guinea prize on the main race. Mark's ladyfriend Lulu (I kid you not) is one of the most accomplished horsebreakers and they have had medieval outfits made for the pageant and are certain to be the stars of the event. Unfortunately Lulu is more than a little out of Mark's league and is lured away by another gentleman with an extravagant diamond necklace. This leaves him in a real quandary as he cannot go on his own.
Mark seizes on his unfortunate sister who can ride and is roughly the same size as Lulu and inveigles her into pretending to be his girlfriend for the weekend. As the Marquis lives not far from them the intention is that she will hack home in the evening. Unfortunately circumstances prevent this and our gently bred, naieve heroine must stay the night. She does not really even understand a lot of what is going on and has made an enemy of Lulu by being the star of the pageant and beating her in a ladies race. She has quite a time of it and gets beaten up by one of the gents, but does discover and thwart his plot to dope Kline's horse to manipulate the betting in the 1,000 guinea race.
The Marquis comes to her rescue and discovers her true identity, his horse wins the race and he proposes. Mark has won heavily on the betting. Seaforth, the horse doping woman beater, is made to resign from all his clubs and withdraw from society. The Marquis sends Mark on a horse purchasing mission to the Middle East (ensuring he won't be able to squander his dough for a long while). And they all live happily ever after.
The book has been translated into Spanish under its original title, into German as "The Beautiful Lady Riders" and into French as "Strange Amazons". The latter is an odd cultural reference as when ladies first started to wear riding habits it was regarded by some people, particularly on the continent, as a bit masculine.
The book has terrific pace and the author obviously has a great knowledge and feel for the period. About twice as much is going on between the lines as in them. Filipa is not quite as appealing a heroine as Alita in "The Race for Love". The author does pull off the trick of making it a compelling read in that, although you know all will come out right in the end, you have to keep reading as you want to know what happens.
Another aspect in the book is it shows the beginnings of the flight away from colour in ladies riding habits which started as a reaction to the horsebreakers. I am out of touch with the showing scene, but even 20 years ago I remember a lady causing a whole afternoon's worth of gossip by turning up in a grey habit (a "quiet" tweed was acceptable in the morning, black or navy in the afternoon). Prior to the horsebreakers you could have seen burgundy, jade, white or even red (though red was a bit ott even then).


I looked at quite a few. Then found the following, and it appeared to be good.
The code can be edited, which is the most important for the purpose. One cannot provide a standard input data, which is bad. But one can provide an input file. The solution is to name it always "input.txt". So the example that i provided earlier, that inputs and outputs a list, becomes the following.
What was added is only file open and file close, and the file is always the same. The black triangle above there, runs it.
To get some idea, parse a csv line from oscilloscope output, using the function nextt().


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Q: Unity 3D C# Watson Visual Recognition Parsing Data I am trying to figure out how to parse the data returned during a response from the Visual Recognition service
  [07/05/2018 20:39:40][ExampleVisualRecognition.OnClassifyPost()][DEBUG]
  {"images":[{"classifiers":
  [{"classifier_id":"Shapes_925471689","name":"Shapes","classes":
  [{"class":"Square","score":0.787}]},

I know that customData["json"].ToString()) prints this output, and it a dictionary object but how would I extract specific data from the dictionary/Json such as "class" value "Square" ?

A: You should be able to use the ClassifiedImages object to get those values.
private void OnClassify(ClassifiedImages classify, Dictionary<string, object> customData)
{
    Log.Debug("Classification result", "class: {0}", classify.classifiers[0] );
}


This is the first of the new wall chargers unveiled at CES. We know of at least four more. You can learn more here.
The PowerPort II PD features one USB-C Power Delivery port, capable of delivering 30W at the typical PD standards, and one PowerIQ 2.0 port, which seems to have been tweaked slightly.
Now, the PIQ2 port appears to output a max of 19.5W vs 18W previously. The exact charging specifications remain unavailable, so we don't know what's changed, but feel free to speculate!
As far as pricing and availability, the PowerPort II PD goes in stock March 21 on Amazon for $36. This product is not available to order from the Anker website just yet.
It's good to finally see more PD products from Anker, and I'm excited for the others we should see releasing very soon!
Anker often makes errors, let's wait on the weight.
Nice find! I'm glad to see more USB-C wall chargers.
So I am assuming this would be perfect for the person who has a USB-PD laptop and a QC3 phone. This person now has 1 charger.
We do look forward to being able to drive deeper into the more taxing situations of someone who also has a powerbank. Which Powerbank would they have? Most laptops would be lasting long enough to not need a Powerbank so chances are they'd have a QC3 Powerbank. So then they'd ideally therefore like 2 QC3 and 1 PD.
I mention this as I did a 4-day business trip with a 15W tablet, OnePlus DASH phone, the Powercore II 6700, Powercore 10000, Slim+, Life, LC40, Powerport4 and the Aukey 12W dual socket and I think about 5 cables to recharge everything at once. I used the power socket on the two flights to land with fully charged phone and used the Powercore 10000 to keep my tablet charged during the day and the Powercore 6700 to recharge my buds. Anything which compacts it down one notch smaller is of interest. I travel as light as possible because that allows to walk and change flights and not care about last to board flights.


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England Quotes
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Alex would never manage England, so Ireland, a country and people he knows well, would be the one for him.
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I know one day I will return to England and I wish it was at United.
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The Gaelic League is founded not upon hatred of England, but upon love of Ireland. Hatred is a negative passion; it is powerful - a very powerful destroyer; but it is useless for building up. Love, on the other hand, is like faith; it can move mountains, and faith, we have mountains to move.
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Donations came from around the world: from England, France, the United States and even Japan. There was a tremendous outpouring of friendship and support that allowed us to rebuild the church.
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Q: Python / Pandas Comparing records on column All,
I have a csv file of about 16k users. I am trying to compare each user record by their access. I want to find out how many users have the exact same combos of access. Not only I want to find this out but I want to return it so I can analyze it further.
A users access will look like this (access1|access2|access3|12345|855|specialaccess|etc.|etc|). Users have different lengths of access too.
I have come up with something that I THINK works lol. I just want to know what the best route is to find this type of data. I want to make sure if there is a better way to compare each users access lists.
access= users_with_access["access"]

access_dups = pd.DataFrame(users_with_roles[access.isin(access[access.duplicated()])].sort_values("usersjobcode"))

Edit *** - Here is some sample / example data.
users = {'UserName': ['Bob Ross','Darth Vader','John Henry','Dolph Lungren', 'Simon Riley', 'John Price'],
         'UserID': ['bross', 'dvader', 'jhenry', 'dlung', 'simri', 'jprice'],
        'Access': ['access1|access2|site1|site3|testing|etc|8556','access30|access3|access2|access1','access1|access2|site1|access3','access1|access2|access3|site1', 'access1|access2|site1', 'access2|access1|site1']
        }

df = pd.DataFrame(users, columns = ['UserName', 'UserID', 'Access'])
print (df)

A: Case 1
If you care about the order of the access items for each user you can use a pandas.DataFrame.groupby instruction. For example with your sample data and three more users to have some duplicated access in two cases an one with same items but in different order:
users = {'UserName': ['Bob Ross',
                      'Darth Vader',
                      'John Henry',
                      'Dolph Lungren',
                      'Simon Riley',
                      'John Price',
                      'Jhon Doe',
                      'Jane Doe',
                      'Pedro Perez'
                     ],
         'UserID': ['bross',
                    'dvader',
                    'jhenry',
                    'dlung',
                    'simri',
                    'jprice',
                    'jdoe',
                    'jadoe',
                    'pperez'
                   ],
         'Access': ['access1|access2|site1|site3|testing|etc|8556',
                    'access30|access3|access2|access1',
                    'access1|access2|site1|access3',
                    'access1|access2|access3|site1',
                    'access1|access2|site1',
                    'access2|access1|site1',
                    'access1|access2|site1|site3|testing|etc|8556',
                    'access1|access2|site1|site3|testing|8556|etc',
                    'access30|access3|access2|access1',
                   ]}

df = pd.DataFrame(users, columns = ['UserName', 'UserID', 'Access'])
df

To get the number of users with exactly the same access (same order) use groupby by this way. Note the access value with two users:
df.groupby(['Access']).agg({'UserID': 'count'})

To get the name of users with exactly the same access (same order) use groupby by this way. Note that each access values list all the users in group and the count must be one if there is not duplicated users::
df.groupby(['Access', 'UserName']).agg({'UserID': 'count'})

Case 2
If you don't care about the order of the access items will be useful to split the items
df['Access'].apply(lambda x : x.split('|'))

[Out x]:

0    [access1, access2, site1, site3, testing, etc,...
1                [access30, access3, access2, access1]
2                   [access1, access2, site1, access3]
3                   [access1, access2, access3, site1]
4                            [access1, access2, site1]
5                            [access2, access1, site1]
6    [access1, access2, site1, site3, testing, etc,...
7    [access1, access2, site1, site3, testing, 8556...
8                [access30, access3, access2, access1]

Or something like that that: split the string in a list, convert to set to preserve only unique values, then convert again to list to be sorted:
 df['SortedAccess'] = df['Access'].apply(
     lambda x : '|'.join(sorted(list(set(x.split('|'))))))

And then groupby again.
df.groupby(['SortedAccess']).agg({'UserID': 'count'})

df.groupby(['SortedAccess', 'UserName']).agg({'UserID': 'count'})


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Az Ősök (vagy Alteraiak, ahogy önmagukat hívják) egy faj a Csillagkapu filmsorozatban.

Az Ősök építették fel a csillagkapuk rendszerét. Dr. Daniel Jackson számos írásukat lefordította, és a CSK-1-gyel a "kapuépítők" nyomába eredt a csillagkapun át. Minden rendelkezésre álló információ szerint megjelenésük alapján emberek, különleges képességekkel, hosszú élettartammal, és rendkívül fejlett technológiával. Eredetileg egy másik galaxisban éltek, majd mikor a technológiájuk elérte azt a pontot, mikor űrhajókat tudtak építeni, elindultak, hogy felfedezzék az Univerzumot. Így jutottak el a Tejútrendszerbe.

Az Ősök felfedezték galaxisunkat, majd egy szerkezet által (mely a Dakarán található) életet teremtettek benne. Ezekre a világokra mind csillagkapukat építettek, hogy könnyebbé tegyék a bolygók közötti közlekedést.

Fejlődésükben odáig jutottak, hogy elértek a létezés egy magasabb síkjára, ahol tiszta energiaként élhettek. Ez időszak előtt elhagyták a Földet, és a Pegazus galaxisba költöztek repülő városukkal, Atlantisszal. Már a Földről való távozáskor fejlettebbek voltak, mint az Asgard napjainkban. Itt is elindították az emberi faj evolúcióját, aminek kellemetlen következményeként egy, az övékénél alig fejletlenebb faj, a lidérc is kifejlődött. Hosszú védekező háborúra kényszerültek ellenük, melynek részeként a várost az óceán mélyére süllyesztették. Később Atlantis közeledő veresége láttán visszatértek a Földre, a város pedig az óceán mélyén várta visszatérésüket.

A Pegazus galaxisban lévő csillagkapuk közül csak az Atlantiszinak a tárcsázójában volt meg az az eszköz amivel képesek a kapu nyolcadik ékzárját kódolni, és így más galaxisokat elérni. Ez nagy előny volt a lidércekkel szemben, ugyanis a lidércek hajói túl lassúak a galaxisok közötti hatalmas távolságok megtételéhez, és mivel nem tudták elérni az Atlantisz tárcsázóját, képtelenek voltak a megmaradt Ősöket követni a Tejútrendszerbe, a Földre.

Miután az atlantiszi Ősök visszatértek a Tejútrendszerbe, egy titokzatos kór miatt teljesen kihaltak, azonban a fejlettségi szintjüknek hála képesek voltak egy magasabb létezési síkra emelkedni. Közülük egy Myrddin nevű Ős a történelmi Merlin varázsló lett. Másikuk segített Elizabeth Weirnek abban, hogy az Atlantiszra történő sikertelen misszió után, és miután egy időgéppel visszautazott az Ősök Atlantiszába, hibernálják. Az Atlantiszról szóló történeteket valószínűleg a Földre menekült Ősök terjesztették el az emberek között, továbbá ők segítették elő a tudományok kifejlődését. Ezzel magyarázható, hogy a latin nyelv nagyon hasonló az Ősök nyelvéhez.

Az ötödik évad végén Daniel Jackson sugárfertőzést kap a Langara bolygón (Jonas Quinn otthona), és meghal. Az Oma Desala nevű Ős segítséget nyújt a felemelkedéshez, akivel Daniel régebben már találkozott a Kheb bolygón. Oma segítségével Jackson csatlakozhat az Ősökhöz, de később lemond erről, hogy megmentse a Földet Anubisz támadásától. Mivel a felemelkedett lények szigorú törvényeik értelmében nem szólhatnak bele semmilyen formában sem a többi, alsóbbrendű, még nem felemelkedett lény életébe, ezért Danielt, aki a CSK-1 segítségére sietett, száműzik, elfelejtetve vele minden tudást, amit tőlük tanulhatott.

Az Ősök a Négyek szövetségének tagja volt. A csillagkapukon kívül az Ősök hátrahagytak számos egyéb létesítményt is. Dakara bolygóján egy galaxis-szerte pusztítani képes fegyvert (ugyanez képes életet is teremteni, ugyan ezzel népesítették be a Tejútrendszert), előörsöt az Antarktiszon, Atlantisz városát a Pegazus galaxisban, és számos egyéb apró eszközt.

A Stargate SG-1-ben szereplő többi fajhoz hasonlóan, az Ősök is megjelennek a Föld korábbi civilizációiban, ez esetben a Római Birodalomban. Őket illették az "utak építői" jelzővel, és nyelvük alapja megtalálható a latin nyelvben. Az utolsó érintkezés az Ősök és a Föld között tízezer évvel ezelőtt történt, amikor az Atlantiszról a Földre visszatértek, még Róma alapítása előtt. A Stargate SG-1 hatodik évadjában megtalálnak egy fagyott Őst az Antarktiszon, aki egy rejtélyes kórban szenvedett. Miután megfertőződött tőle a CSK-1-es csapat, meggyógyította (saját gyógyításával nem törődve) őket fejlett képességeivel, majd meghalt. Az Ősök emberi kultúrára gyakorolt hatása még homályos. Az egyik elmélet szerint az Ősök visszatértével kezdődött meg az emberré válás második evolúciója, és az emberek egyes csoportja kifejleszthetett kezdetleges Ős-szerű mentális képességeket, ezáltal az Ősök utódjaivá válva.

Azon Ősök, akik név szerint is említve vannak a sorozatban:
 Ayiana
 Chaya/Athar
 Janus
 Oma Desala
 Orlin
 Shifu
 Moros
 Ganos Lal / Morgan Le Fay
 Merlin

Technológia

Zéró Pont Modul
()A Zéró Pont Modul, rövidítve ZPM egy Ős energiaforrás, erőforrás. A ZPM alapvetőleg egy másik tér-időbe nyíló szubtéri kapcsolat segítségével nyer hosszú távra tartós és stabil energiát. Ennek az energiának a segítségével kódolható a 8. és a 9. ékzár (lásd: Csillagkapu (eszköz) ). így más galaxisba nyitható féregjárat, illetve ennek az energiának a segítségével húzható fel Atlantisz pajzsa és indíthatók el a város hipertér-hajtóművei is.

Csillagkapu-fajok


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Volcanoes, Dinosaurs, and High-Tech Labs Highlight Geology Celebration
LAWRENCE — From cola-fueled volcanoes to free showings of the movie "Jurassic Park" and demonstrations of high-tech equipment, the University of Kansas Department of Geology will provide a lively introduction to the geosciences and the department's new home during an opening celebration at the Earth, Energy & Environment Center, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. May 5.
The open house, free and open to the public, includes activities for children and adults. Located on Naismith Drive between Crescent Road and 15th Street and featuring an atrium with a 45-foot-long mosasaur skeleton diving after a sea turtle, the EEEC was dedicated April 25.
"We're so fortunate to have this new facility, which was made possible by the generosity of donors," said Jennifer Roberts, geology department chair and professor. "The open house gives us an opportunity to share this world-class facility, our research and our passion for science with our KU colleagues and the general public. We're pleased to be able to show both the traditional aspects of our field like fossil and rock identification and the modern, highly analytical and technological aspects of the geosciences."
A rock pile where children of all ages can search for stones and fossils and then take their discoveries to geologists to have them identified. This activity is in the G-Hawk Courtyard between the three buildings that make up the EEEC. Participants will be able to keep their discoveries.
An opportunity to play with an augmented reality sandbox, which incorporates computer graphics with real sand so participants can use hand gestures to instantly create models of geologic events and features like floods, landslides and lakes.
A demonstration of the movement of glaciers.
A core sample exhibit. Core samples are cylindrical sections of rock that geologists use to examine details of the subsurface. Cores are punched out of the ground using drills and are usually not available to the public.
Demonstrations of the department's state-of-the-art laboratory equipment such as its Raman spectrometer, which creates a structural fingerprint that geologists use to identify molecules, and the spectrometers geologists use to date geologic formations.
Rock and fossil identification by KU geologists in a scientific version of TV's "Antiques Roadshow."
A cola-fueled volcano will be erupting frequently in the G-Hawk courtyard, and Jurassic Park will be shown throughout the day in 164 Ritchie Hall, one of the buildings that make up the EEEC. Demonstrations involve the geoscience disciplines of sedimentary geology, geophysics, tectonics, geobiology, geochemistry and paleontology. People interested in the inner workings of the facility can take a guided tour. Maps are available for self-guided tours.
The open house will also feature a fair with representatives of the EEEC's architects, builders and designers: Gould Evans, Turner Construction and CannonDesign. Officials from the academic units associated with the geosciences and the EEEC will also attend. These are the Kansas Geological Survey, KU's Tertiary Oil Recovery Project, KU Petroleum & Chemical Engineering, KU Innovation & Collaboration, the KU Office of Facilities Planning & Development, KU Environmental Studies and the new geology Professional Science Masters in Applied Science program at KU's Edwards Campus.
Dedicated to teaching and basic and applied research across the earth sciences, the EEEC encompasses three different buildings and partnerships among the departments of Geology, Geography & Atmospheric Science, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering and the Environmental Studies Program.
Ritchie Hall, at the corner of Naismith Drive and Crescent Road, is named after KU alumni Scott and Carol Ritchie of Wichita, who donated $10 million to the project. Slawson Hall, at the corner of 15th Street and Naismith Drive, is named after Donald Slawson, a KU alumnus from Wichita and a past chair of the Kansas Board of Regents who died in 2014. His family made a $16 million gift for the project. Slawson Hall features the Robert M. Beren Petroleum Conference Center, named for the founder of the oil and gas exploration firm Berexco in Wichita. The Beren Center includes an auditorium for lectures, training, workshops and conferences. The G-Hawk Courtyard, an outdoor learning lab, is located between the two buildings and the other building in the EEEC, Lindley Hall.
Parking for the open house is available at the parking lot between Murphy Hall and the Law School on Naismith Drive between 15th Street and Irving Hill Road.
Photos, from top: The Earth, Energy & Environment Center's Slawson Hall (right) and Ritchie Hall (left). Credit: Michael Robinson Photography. A mosasaur fossil cast hangs in the atrium of the EEEC's Slawson Hall. Credit: Michael Robinson Photography. The G-Hawk Courtyard is an outdoor lab at the EEEC, populated by boulders of geological interest. Credit: Meg Kumin/KU. One of the large, collaborative classrooms, which feature multiple digital displays. Credit: Michael Robinson Photography.
Updated on: 04/26/2018


Bamboo plants are used widely in Melbourne as screening plants as well as ornamental plants in the garden border. Many bamboo varieties are cold climate and grow well in the cooler climate of Victoria.
From our specialists in bamboo sales for Melbourne you can expert advice on the right type of bamboo for your landscaping requirements.
Used as a screening plant as well as an ornamental feature in many Japanese style gardens it is important to look for the clumping or 'non – invasive' types.
Any good nursery will consult about the estimated final height and the nature of the root system before recommending a bamboo variety for the Melbourne soil and climate.
For may years bamboo has been grown successfully in the Melbourne Botanical Gardens, some excellent specimens can be seen in the South China collection.
Growing bamboo in large pots or containers can provide an added feature. Clumping, Cold Climate bamboos are the most popular in Melbourne, an excellent choice for a Japanese or Balinese style garden, or for use as a screening plant in the garden or on a terrace. Many bamboo suppliers also supply a range of bamboo poles or stalks.
Bambusa textiles var. gracilus also known as 'Slender weavers Bamboo'. Dendrocalamus minor var. amoenus or 'Ghost Bamboo' is another. The popular Blue Bamboo ' Bambusa chungii and the attractive Himalayan weeping bamboo which is Drepanostachym falactum along with Alphonse Karr Bamboo and Bambusa Oldhamii are two more to consider.
With so many varieties of bamboo used in Melbourne for landscaping, ornamental plantings in retail and commercial developments, screening plantings and as features in Japanese style gardens, we look at varieties for sale for all situations.
Bamboo is a fascinating plant, used for landscaping, as a building material and even to make musical instruments. From dwarf varieties and screening plants, to giant ornamental varieties and of course those magical weeping varieties that create a sense of stillness and gently move in the wind.
It is essential to consider climate when selecting bamboo, some are suited to cold climates and others will struggle. Black bamboo is the classic example, a few different types are available, and some will struggle in cooler climates such as Melbourne, other bamboo types will thrive in cool climates.
It is sometimes disappointing when supplier sell plants that will struggle to survive in the Melbourne's cold wet winter, so ask carefully about location, soil type and aspect before purchasing.
Most gardens are suited to some form of bamboo, carefully selected and correctly planted bamboo can be a wonderful addition to many landscape design projects.
You can get bamboo in a range of colors including red. The best red bamboo we have seen is Fargesia Jiuzhaigou (red caned bamboo) well suited to cooler climates. Himalayacalamus asper is another red bamboo and Himalayacalamus falconeri 'Damarapa' is a red and green striped bamboo.
So we also have blacks, blues and greens and different shades in all of these as well. Many bamboos will emerge one color and change on maturity, so what you see in a new shoot is not necessarily what you will get in a mature plant.
Clumping, Hedging and Ornamental Non Invasive Bamboo. Supplying Pakenham, Sale, Traralgon, Orbost, Gippsland and Eastern Victoria.


Playing Jinx has been anything but a jinx for Bobby Randle.
It turned into a savvy career move that's helping preserve one of his favorite musicals and might lift him to the next level in New York theater.
"It's great to be able to teach the guys what I was taught and bring a performance out of the guys that suits the theme," said Randle, who's evolved from playing Jinx, a character in "Forever Plaid," to directing the nostalgic musical comedy's touring production. "I sort of grew up with this stuff. It's a period piece that I hope doesn't lose its zeal.
"It's not a Justin Bieber- or rapper-type show. Someday there might be a show about Justin Bieber. I'm sure someone will write a show about Kanye West. This is about an art form that's part of American history. I just hope it doesn't fade out too soon."
The sport-coat colors will be just as vibrant and the pop songs just as resonant when Randle's "Forever Plaid" is staged Monday at Lodi's Hutchins Street Square.
"Forever Plaid," first staged in 1990, revisits an era of vocal harmony groups and crooners that rock 'n' roll ended.
"Part of it's a walk down memory lane," Randle said of the 26-song, 90-minute show. "It's great to look out and see people mouthing the words. The second they hear some of these tunes, you see them go, 'Oh, I remember that.' "
Randle, 48, hasn't forgotten his formative years in "Plaid," when 20 versions were touring nationally and he was Jinx in Cincinnati; Tampa, Fla.; and other locales.
"I pass on what I was taught," said Randle, who's directing a cast of 20-somethings. "It's great fun to watch their faces and watch what they bring to the roles. It's something fresh. It's fun teaching the heart of the production to the guys."
The songs are the show's sturdy heartbeat: "Three Coins in the Fountain" (Dinah Shore, 1954), Johnny Ray's "Cry" (1951), "Lady of Spain" (1947), "Rags to Riches" (Tony Bennett, 1953), "Undecided" (Ames Brothers, 1951) and a Perry Como medley, including "Catch a Falling Star" (1957).
Then there's "Our 11 o'clock song. Our trophy song," said Randle: "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing," a No. 1 single for the Four Aces in 1955.
The funny stuff is a hit, too. The clean-cut '50s "Plaid" premise is that four high school students - aspiring to become the hit parade's next big thing - are killed in a collision with a bus transporting Catholic girls to see the Beatles make their U.S. debut on TV's "Ed Sullivan Show" (Feb. 9, 1964).
Having been resurrected, the guys aren't supposed to be funny. They're getting laughs but can't figure out why.
"Teaching the comic timing and how the jokes will work is difficult," said Randle, who also portrayed Frankie in New York. "The second you try to push the jokes, they don't land."
Randle edged into a entertainment career. He first sang in junior high but had "no inkling ... till my high school band director needed a tenor in choir," said Randle, who also rode quarter horses in equestrian competitions before being injured in a fall. "I said, 'I don't sing.' He said, 'Yes, you do.' He made me do it."
He first sang "Seek Ye the Lord," an old hymn, and finished in Arizona's all-state choir. He majored in trumpet and voice at Arizona State University.
Randle's career started in opera and light opera, including a brief period at Opera San Jose.
In 1987, he ventured to New York. Unlike many aspirants, he was hired immediately and spent three "very, very long" months singing "Broadway stuff" on a cruise ship that visited the Panama Canal and sailed through a hurricane.
Back on solid ground, he stayed active in musical theater, including "La Cage aux Folles," "H.M.S. Pinafore," "The Student Prince," "Fiddler on the Roof," two "Camelot" runs with Robert Goulet and "Funny Girl" with Deborah Gibson.
He also acted on TV's "All My Children" and "Guiding Light" and participated in two tributes to songwriter Alan Jay Lerner, one of them for PBS.
"I went from show to show to show," Randle said. "After 9/11, things kind of came to screeching halt."
In 2010, he directed "Forever Plaid" at the Barter Theatre in Arlington, Va., hoping it would serve as a directing audition.
He didn't showboat by moving "Forever Plaid" - released in a movie version in 2009 - to Shakespearean times.
"It's pretty good by itself," Randle said. "No, it is. It's, um, what do they say? 'Don't fix what isn't broken.' It's been great for 20 years."


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Q: Jsp custom tags get replaced with html content in wrong order I have learned in last class that jsp's custom tags are replaced with html content after evaluation of custom tag.
But putting this concept in practice, I faced following problem.
I have 3 div inside a jsp , 2 of them are static and middle div has a custom tag in it. So html content generated by middle div's custom tag should be replaced in middle div only.
But, output suggests something else, please point me out if there is something wrong with the code, or the statement used in starting of question needs some modification.
home.jsp

    <%@ include file="banner.html"%>

    <connect:dbConnector user="root" password="" url="jdbc:mysql://localhost/musicstore" scope="session">
    </connect:dbConnector>

        <connect:Query where="select * from musicstore.songs;">
            <ui:addTable name="musicList">
                <c:forEach var="value" items="${result }">
                    <c:set scope="session" var="currentRow" value="${value }"></c:set>
                    <ui:addRow data="currentRow" scope="session">
                    </ui:addRow>
                </c:forEach>
            </ui:addTable>
        </connect:Query>

Footer
    content

html content that i can see on web browser are

    Tum hi ho
        Arjit Singh
        45

    Manjha
        Amit Trivedi
        30

    Ranjhanna
        A.R Rehman
        25

    Sawar Loon
        Monali Thankur
        20

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>

Footer
        content

AddRowTag.java
public class AddRowTag extends TagSupport {
        // some getter, setter and other utility methods here.
@Override
public int doStartTag() throws JspException {
    try {
        System.out.println("AddRowTag--> doStartTag");
        Row content = getDataToDisplay();
        StringBuilder htmlContent = new StringBuilder();

        htmlContent.append(startTableRow);

        htmlContent.append(startTableData);
        htmlContent.append(content.getTitle());
        htmlContent.append(endableData);

        htmlContent.append(startTableData);
        htmlContent.append(content.getArtist());
        htmlContent.append(endableData);

        htmlContent.append(startTableData);
        htmlContent.append(content.getPrice());
        htmlContent.append(endableData);

        htmlContent.append(endableRow);

        System.out.println(htmlContent.toString());
        pageContext.getResponse().getWriter().print(htmlContent);
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return SKIP_BODY;
}

}

Summarizing the problem:

*

*Where(in context of location of placement of converted code(html code)) jsp custom tag code is placed in final html file.

*What I need to modify in my current my current jsp code, if I want middle div should be updated on basis of custom tag.

Any suggestion/explanation is will be highly appreciated.

A: The tag should not write to the response directly. By doing that, it bypasses the JspWriter, which also writes to the response but buffers its output.
Replace
pageContext.getResponse().getWriter().print(htmlContent);

by
pageContext.getOut().print(htmlContent);


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After 12 years of service, Alison York has left ARCUS for a position at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Center for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR). Alison served as Witness the Arctic editor since 1998, investigating a wide range of arctic research issues and initiatives and working closely with the research community. While employing her breadth of scientific expertise, Alison played a critical role in newsletter content and development during her tenure.
In December 2009, Alison accepted a position with UAF's CANHR, which, along with eight other institutions, is building and implementing a national research resource discovery network prototype. Alison will be working with biomedical investigators to inventory their research resources and helping develop a system for the resources to be searched and shared.
Alison earned a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of California Berkeley in 1990; her research interests are in comparative neuroanatomy and behavior.
ARCUS would like to thank Alison for many years of hard work and wish her well in her new endeavors.
Questions regarding Witness the Arctic can be directed to Kristina Creek, Executive Coordinator at ARCUS (creek [at] arcus.org). You can contact Alison at ayork [at] alaska.edu.


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Myanmar 2.0 in the making?
[LONDON] Facebook has removed a feature that allowed users to translate Burmese posts and comments after a Reuters report showed the tool was producing bizarre results.
[YANGON] Myanmar rejected Wednesday the findings of a UN probe alleging genocide by its military against the Rohingya, in a strident government response to a damning report on the crisis.


Roderick Strong and tag team partner, BJ Whitmer (The Decade) would make a splash as part of a tag team Fatal 4 Way encounter on show 1 of the PCW & ROH Supershow of Honor. The match also featured reDragon, PCW Tag Team Champions, Team Single and former 8 time ROH World Tag Team Champions, the Briscoe Brothers. It was decided prior to the match that reDragon's ROH World Tag Team titles would be on the line. As the Briscoes and Team Single brawled into the crowd, The Decade's failure to co-exist would cost them the gold as reDragon put them away.
Strong would find more success in singles action that weekend, chalking up victories over Paul London and Mark Briscoe.


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High Temp Super Conductance is New Phase of Matter
This work tips the balance for the phase shift theory and will certainly channel further work. On top of all that, it was recently announced that we are now able to approach room temperature. With some luck we may have a better theory to work with out of all this that allows prediction in the realm of higher temperatures.
The fact remains that we today have a palette of working materials and working engineering protocols all combining to bring superconducting into mainstream industrial applications. It may not be throw away consumer electronics yet but we will certainly take it.
This is more good news and pertinent to the development of Magnetic Field Exclusion Vessels which will soon be a priority engineering target..
High-temperature superconductor spills secret: A new phase of matter
An unprecedented three-pronged study has found that one type of high-temperature superconductor may exhibit a new phase of matter. As in all superconductors, electrons pair off (bottom) to conduct electricity with no resistance when the material is cooled below a certain temperature. But in this particular copper-based superconductor, many of the electrons in the material don't pair off; instead they form a distinct, elusive order (orange plumes) that had not been seen before. Scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and institutions in Japan and Thailand report their findings in the March 25 issue of Science. Credit: Greg Stewart/SLAC
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-high-temperature-superconductor-secret-phase.html
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley have joined with researchers at Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to mount a three-pronged attack on one of the most obstinate puzzles in materials sciences: what is the pseudogap?
A collaboration organized by Zhi-Xun Shen, a member of the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES) at SLAC and a professor of physics at Stanford University, used three complementary experimental approaches to investigate a single material, the high-temperature superconductor Pb-Bi2201 (lead bismuth strontium lanthanum copper-oxide). Their results are the strongest evidence yet that the pseudogap phase, a mysterious electronic state peculiar to high-temperature superconductors, is not a gradual transition to superconductivity in these materials, as many have long believed.
It is in fact a distinct phase of matter.
"This is a paradigm shift in the way we understand high-temperature superconductivity," says Ruihua He, lead author with Makoto Hashimoto of the paper in the March 25 issue of the journal Science that describes the team's findings. "The involvement of an additional phase, once fully understood, might open up new possibilities for achieving superconductivity at even higher temperatures in these materials." When the research was done Hashimoto and He were members of SIMES, of Stanford's Department of Applied Physics, and of Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source (ALS), where He is now a postdoctoral fellow.
The pseudogap mystery
Superconductivity is the total absence of resistance to the flow of electric current. Discovered in 1911, it was long thought to occur only in metals and only below a critical temperature (Tc) not far above absolute zero. "Ordinary" superconductivity commonly takes place at 30 kelvins (30 K) or less, equivalent to more than 400 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Awkward as reaching such low temperatures may be, ordinary superconductivity is widely exploited in industry, health, and science.
High-Tc superconductors were discovered in 1986. "High" is a relative term; the highest-Tc superconductors function at temperatures five times higher than ordinary superconductors but still only about twice that of liquid nitrogen. Many high-Tc superconductors have been found, but the record holders for critical temperature remain the kind first discovered, the cuprates — brittle oxides whose structure includes layers of copper and oxygen atoms where current flows.
In this phase diagram common to many cuprate superconductors, the insulating phase typical of undoped cuprate compounds appears at the far left (black). Other phases appear with increased hole doping -- the dome-shaped superconducting phase below Tc (blue), the mysterious pseudogap below T* (red), and a "normal metallic" phase (white). New evidence from studies of Bi2201 (crystal structure inset) along the temperature range shown in greeen strongly supports the idea that the pseudogap is in fact a distinct phase of matter that persists into the superconducting phase. If so the T* phase transition must terminate in a quantum critical point (Xc) at zero temperature. Credit: Ruihua He, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
In all known superconductors electrons join in pairs (Cooper pairs) to move in correlated fashion through the material. It takes a certain amount of energy to break Cooper pairs apart; in ordinary superconductors, the absence of single-electron states below this energy constitutes a superconducting gap, which vanishes when the temperature rises above Tc. Once in the normal state the electrons revert to unpaired, uncorrelated behavior.
Not so for cuprate superconductors. A similar superconducting gap exists below Tc, but when superconductivity ceases at Tc the gap doesn't close. A "pseudogap" persists and doesn't go away until the material reaches a higher temperature, designated T* (T-star). The existence of a pseudogap in the normal state is itself anything but normal; its nature has been heatedly debated ever since it was identified in cuprates more than 15 years ago.
Attempts to explain what's going on in the pseudogap have coalesced around two main schools of thought. Traditional thinking holds that the pseudogap represents a foreshadowing of the superconducting phase. As the temperature is lowered, first reaching T*, a few electron pairs start to form, but they are sparse and lack the long-range coherence necessary for superconductivity — they can't "talk" to one another. As the temperature continues to fall, more such pairs are formed until, upon reaching Tc, virtually all conducting electrons are paired and act in correlation; they're all talking. In this scheme, there's only a single phase transition, which occurs at Tc.
Another school of thought argues that the appearance of the pseudogap at T* is also a true phase transition. The pseudogap does not represent a smooth shift to the superconducting state but is itself a state distinct from both superconductivity and normal "metallicity" (the usual state of delocalized, uncorrelated electrons). This new phase implies the existence of a "quantum critical point" — a point along a line at zero temperature where competing phases meet. In theory, with competing phases wildly fluctuating in the neighborhood of a quantum critical point, there may be entirely new routes to superconductivity.
"Promising as the 'quantum critical' paradigm is for explaining a wide range of exotic materials, high-Tc superconductivity in cuprates has stubbornly refused to fit the mold," says Joseph Orenstein of Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division, a professor in physics at UC Berkeley, whose group conducted one of the research team's three experiments. "For 20 years, the cuprates managed to conceal any evidence of a phase-transition line where the quantum critical point is supposed to be found."
In recent years, however, hints have emerged. "New ultrasensitive probes have found fingerprints of phase transitions in high-Tc materials," Orenstein says, "although there's been no smoking gun. The burning question is whether we can discover the nature of the new phase or phases."
A multipronged attack on the pseudogap
In the Stanford-Berkeley study, three groups of researchers joined forces to probe the pseudogap phase on the same sample.
"Pb-Bi2201 was chosen because, first, it is structurally simple, and second, it has a relatively wide temperature range between Tc and T*," says Ruihua He. "This permits a clean separation of any remnant effect of superconductivity from genuine pseudogap physics."
Groups led by Z.-X. Shen at beamline 5‑4 of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) at SLAC and by Zahid Hussain, ALS Division Deputy for Scientific Support, at beamline 10.0.1 of Berkeley Lab's ALS, studied the sample with angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). In ARPES, a beam of x-rays directed at the sample surface excites the emission of valence electrons. By monitoring the kinetic energy and momentum of the emitted electrons over a wide temperature range the researchers map out the material's low-energy electronic band structure, which determines much of its electrical and magnetic properties.
At Stanford, researchers led by Aharon Kapitulnik of SIMES, a professor in applied physics at Stanford University, studied the same crystal of Pb-Bi2201 with the magneto-optical Kerr effect. In light reflected from the sample under a zero magnetic field, tiny rotations of the plane of polarization are measured as the temperature changes. The rotations are proportional to the net magnetization of the sample at different temperatures.
Finally, Orenstein's group at Berkeley applied time-resolved reflectivity to the sample. A pump pulse from a laser excites electrons many layers of atoms deep, temporarily affecting the sample's reflectivity. Probe pulses, timed to follow less than a trillionth of a second after the pump pulses, reveal changes in reflection at different temperatures.
All these experimental techniques had previously pointed to the possibility of a phase transition in the neighborhood of T* in different cuprate materials. But no single result was strong enough to stand alone.
ARPES experiments performed in 2010 by the same group of experimenters as in the present study revealed the abrupt opening of the pseudogap at T* in Pb-Bi2201. Variations in T* in different materials and even different samples, as well as in the surface conditions to which ARPES is sensitive, had left room for uncertainty, however.
In 2008, the Kerr effect was measured in another cuprate, also by the same group as in the present study, and showed a change in magnetization from zero to finite across T*. This was long-sought thermodynamic evidence for the existence of a phase transition at T*. But compared to the pronounced spectral change seen by ARPES, the extreme weakness of the Kerr-effect signal left doubt that the two results were connected.
Finally, since the late 1990s various experiments with time-resolved reflectivity in different cuprates have reported signals setting in near T* and increasing in strength as the temperature drops, until interrupted by the onset of a separate signal below Tc. The probe is complex and there was a lack of corroborating evidence for the same cuprates; the results did not receive wide attention.
Now the three experimental approaches have all been applied to the same material. All yielded consistent results and all point to the same conclusion: there is a phase transition at the pseudogap phase boundary – the three techniques put it precisely at T*. The electronic states dominating the pseudogap phase do not include Cooper pairs, but nevertheless intrude into the lower-lying superconducting phase and directly influence the motion of Cooper pairs in a way previously overlooked.
"Instead of pairing up, the electrons in the pseudogap phase organize themselves in some very different way," says He. "We currently don't know what exactly it is, and we don't know whether it helps superconductivity or hurts it. But we know the direction to take to move forward."
Says Orenstein, "Coming to grips with a new picture is a little like trying to steer the Titanic, but the fact that all three of these techniques point in the same direction adds to the mounting evidence for the phase change."
Hussain says the critical factor was bringing the Stanford and Berkeley scientists together. "We joined forces to tackle a more complex problem than any of us had tried on our own."
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In Japan the "Marriage For All" Movement Advances
Mrs. Yuriko Koike
The Tokyo region of Japan is preparing to enact a law recognizing same-sex unions. This is a probable prelude to a future national bill which still divides part of the political class and society.
Tokyoites will have to resolve to mourn the loss of the model of the traditional family.
It was the governor of the Japanese capital who announced it in person, on December 7, 2021: "in response to the wishes of the inhabitants of Tokyo and those who are concerned by this subject, we are going to make preparations to recognize same-sex unions," said Yuriko Koike, the first woman to hold the post.
"This initiative aims to reduce the number of problems that homosexual people can encounter in everyday life and to promote the understanding of Tokyoites on sexual diversity," explains Yuriko Koike.
This is a progressive advance that is not really to the liking of the national government, the majority of whose members belong to the Liberal Democratic Party (PLD), a rather conservative formation: "We need to think extremely carefully about the legalization of homosexual marriage."
"Introducing a system that would allow such unions would be a gesture that would directly touch the very heart of what a family should really be in Japan," Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida warned.
Despite everything, the propaganda in favor of marriage for all is gaining ground in the Japanese archipelago. According to a survey conducted by the Asahi newspaper in March, 65% of Japanese people declared themselves in favor of legalization, up from 41% in 2015.
Even among voters sympathetic to the PLD, the rate of people in favor of the recognition of same-sex couples rose to 65%, the newspaper said.
Although Japan is the last country in the G7 where same-sex marriage does not have legal status, homosexuality has been legal there since 1880, and the country is considered rather liberal in the field of mores, compared to other Asian states.
Japanese Catholics represent only 0.36% of the population of the archipelago, with Christianity traditionally seen as a foreign influence, incompatible with Japanese society.
The influence of the Church - apart from its charities - is therefore relatively weak, and when Japanese bishops step up, it is often more on environmental or nuclear issues.
(Sources : Reuters/La Croix – FSSPX.Actualités)
Illustration : Flickr / OECD (CC BY-NC 2.0)


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package com.amazonaws.services.budgets.model;

import java.io.Serializable;
import javax.annotation.Generated;
import com.amazonaws.protocol.StructuredPojo;
import com.amazonaws.protocol.ProtocolMarshaller;

/**
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 * The period of time that's covered by a budget. The period has a start date and an end date. The start date must come
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     * created your budget on January 24, 2018, chose DAILY, and didn't set a start date, Amazon Web
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     *        06/15/87 00:00 UTC. The defaults are the same for the Billing and Cost Management console and
     *        the API.

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Deontological Guidelines
Download CEOM Deontological Guidelines in PDF Version
In 2010, the CEOM decided to update the Principles of European Medical Ethics of 1987 by distinguishing what is of Ethics, the moral thought which subtends action of what constitutes the Deontology, which is a codified concrete action inspired by moral thought.
In June 2011, the European Charter of Medical Ethics was adopted. Since then, the CEOM participants draft Deontological Guidelines.
In June 2013, the CEOM adopted its first Deontological Guidelines. These Guidelines have been updated during CEOM Plenary meeting in Madrid in November 2018.
Given the European Charter of Medical Ethics (Kos, 2011), principles 8, 9, 14, 15,
Adults and conscious patients
The consent of the examined or treated patient must be sought in all cases, including in the context of the telemedicine.
It must be free and informed by a fair and understandable information.
It may be withdrawn by the person at any time. Refusal to consent to a medical procedure does not remove the patient's right to receive quality care.
It must be written and recorded in the patient's medical record, especially for situations according to National Laws.
Minors or incapacitated patients
The physician must strive to contact patient's parents or legal representative to obtain their consent in the same cases as those required for an adult and conscious patient.
The minor or incapacitated patient should always be involved in decision-making regarding a medical procedure to be used to treat him/her. The communication should be commensurate with the patient's receptive skills.
Emergency Situations
In emergency situations and if there is uncertainty about the willingness of the patient, the doctor makes any necessary intervention in the interest of the patient.
Professional secrecy
Given the European Charter of Medical Ethics (Kos, 2011), principle 5,
The physician must ensure the patient absolute secrecy on all the information he has collected.
Confidentiality covers everything that physicians have learned in the exercise of their profession, that is to say not only what they were told in trust, but also what they may have observed, heard or understood.
Medical confidentiality is not abolished by the death of patients.
The physician informs people assisting him about their obligations as regards secrecy, asking, whenever possible to give a written undertaking.
Derogations*, when they exist, are strictly provided for in national legislations.
*Derogations will be analysed specifically.
Doping in sport
The physician should not advise, prescribe or administer pharmacological treatments or substances, or of a different nature, directly or indirectly modifying the natural psychophysical balance of the subject in order to modify the performances related to the sporting activity.
For the same reason, the physician should protect athletes against any external pressure encouraging them to use such methods, by informing them about the serious health consequences.
Relations with colleagues
Given the European Charter of Medical Ethics (Kos, 2011), principles 2 and 15,
Fraternity rules are laid down in the interest of patients.
The physician must ensure that his behaviour is characterised by respect and discretion towards his colleagues and by dignity towards himself, keen on defending the honour of the medical profession.
The physician should avoid situations leading to direct or indirect customer poaching.
The physician who experiences a disagreement with a colleague should, first and discreetly, seek conciliation. Any public conflict should be prevented.
The physician who notices serious breaches of ethics, deontology or medical practice from a colleague, likely to endanger the patient, should inform the fraternal competent authority.
Physicians should mutually assist and aid each other.
The physician should take into account the environment in which the human being lives and works, and should participate in preventive initiatives in order to safeguard citizens' live outside or on the workplaces.
The physician commits himself to favor individual and collective health through an adequate communication on environmental risks, by suggesting an appropriate usage of natural resources. This should ensure the ecosystem balance and make it leavable, also for future generations.
Refusal of Treatment
Given the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, art. 14,
Given the European Charter of Medical Ethics, principles 1, 2, and 3, 13, 14,
Ceom members recommend:
Except in emergency cases and when he/she fails to fulfill his/her duties of humanity, a physician may refuse his care for professional or personal reasons.
A refusal of medical treatment has to be grounded on regulatory or deontological texts.
A refusal of medical treatment, either explicit or implicit, may under certain circumstances be considered as discriminatory conduct by the physician.
The physician who finds himself/herself obliged to licitly refuse to treat a patient has to explain the reasons of the refusal to the patient, and seek the most appropriate solutions to the situation of the person, especially concerning the continuity of care.
Information and Advertising
Given the European Charter of Medical Ethics (Kos, 2011), principles 6, 11, and 15,
"Advertising" refers to any form of communication made by a physician or by a third person for the physician's profit, in order to promote his/her services or to increase the value of his/her image.
Comparative advertising is forbidden.
The information given by the physician must only concern objective data; it should be careful, precise, clear and in accordance with actual scientific data.
Advertising cannot encourage the use of tests and treatments for commercial ends.
The physician should not participate in medicine or health product promotion.
Patient's dignity and private life should not be harmed in any way.
This guideline applies to all media.
Medical Research and Therapeutic Tests
Given the Oviedo Convention, article 2,
Given the WMA Helsinki Declaration,
Given the European Charter of Medical Ethics (Kos, 2011), principles 6, 9 and 11,
The physician involved in medical research must, in compliance with the laws of his/her country, ensure that:
There is no conflict of interest with the project initiator,
Research has been the subject of a protocol duly examined by an independent ethics committee,
There is no other alternative technique to bring into play than research on the Human Being,
Expected benefits outweigh the risks incurred by the person undergoing research.
Free and informed consent was obtained in the manner of the European Deontological Recommendation on informed consent.
Medical research involving persons physically or mentally incapable of giving consent can only be conducted in the manner of the Helsinki Declaration.
The consent of an incapable person must always be obtained in addition to the consent of his/her legal representative.
The physician agrees to publish exhaustively the research results and to make them publicly available.
Given the European Charter of Medical Ethics (Kos, 2011), principles 11 and 15,
The obligation to practice with independence, the need of public trust in the medical profession, and the art of caring for one's health as a mission of public interest require doctors to let not personal interest influence their medical judgment.
Doctors spontaneously and seamlessly make public any interest link likely to generate doubt as to their independence, especially regarding research and training.
Appropriate Prescribing of Medications
Given the European Charter of Medical Ethics (Kos, 2011), principles 3 and 7,
When prescribing examinations and treatment, the physician must take into account the latest tested scientific knowledge, make optimal use of resources, while respecting the principles of clinical efficacy, safety, suitability and humanization.
The physician has the duty to always inform the patient, who must be able to give consent to the tratment, and to adjust the prescription to his/her specific needs.
Professional updating and CME/CPD
Given the European Charter of Medical Ethics (Kos, 2011), principles 6, 7 and 8,
The professional updating and the continuing medical education are a duty for all physicians during their professional life.
The physician must keep herself/himself constantly updated on the evolutions of science within the socio-economic context so as to maintain and develop knowledge and new skills in order to ensure the best quality of care, in respect of the trust relationship with citizens.
Complementary and alternative medicines
1) The physician who believes he can treat a patient with non-conventional practices in the medical field should fairly inform the patient about the scientifically validated treatments.
2) The physician cannot exclude the patient from scientifically validated treatments if this is harmful to his health.
3) The physician who uses non-conventional practices in the medical field must have acquired a special training and be able to present the documentation certifying his training program.
The Vulnerable or Fragile Patient
Concerned about the protection of the child against all forms of violence, physical or mental, the physician acts with caution, objectivity and kindness. The relationship of trust with the child is essential.
He or she demonstrates availability, listening skills and welcomes the child in an adapted environment that guarantees confidentiality.
The physician informs the child's relatives, or even the competent public authority, only in his or her interest.
When caring for frail elderly people or those in psycho-physical, social or civil vulnerable conditions, the physician adopts an empathetic attitude, attentive to possible injustices to which the patient may be subjected and concerned to improve his living conditions.
He provides conscientious diagnostic and therapeutic care.
Modification of the body aspect
When the doctor performs non-therapeutic acts intended to strengthen a patient's physical and cognitive capacities, he or she shall act with respect for the dignity, identity, integrity and genetic characteristics of the individual, guided by the principles of specificity and proportionality.
The physician must obtain the written consent of the patient who has been informed about the risks inherent in the acts performed.
The physician must refuse any disproportionate or excessively risky request.
In this assessment, it takes into account the invasive degree and potential irreversibility of the treatment, in the face of non-therapeutic but supposedly improving benefits.