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Mr. Stephen Dorrell (Charnwood) (Con): I, too, welcome the publication of the national service framework. I do not claim to have read every word of it, but I have read a fair number. It reads well as a clear aspirational statement of a joined-up serviceto use the modern idiomthat is built around the needs of individual patients. It gives patients and service users in the social care system a clear framework within which the service will be delivered. The NSF is an entirely welcome and overdue statement of our aspirations for the service that we all want delivering, and nothing that I go on to say should be interpreted as resiling from or qualifying that in any way. I genuinely buy into the description of the service set out in the framework.
Having read several documents produced by the Department of Health over the past few years, I wonder what linking or delivery mechanism will connect the clear and attractive description of the service that we want with the actual service on the ground. My hon. Friend the Member for South Cambridgeshire (Mr. Lansley) also made that point. I agree with the Minister that we do not want a snowstorm of micro-targets to define every single output. However, there is a difference between a snowstorm of targets and, to use the Minister's words, a statement of aspiration under which occasional audits will be conducted, but with the eventual target of delivering an up-and-running service in its entirety some 10 years from now.
The hon. Member for South Swindon (Ms Drown) described the kind of maternity service that she wanted, which is one of the subsets of the services defined in the framework. I agreed with virtually everything that she said, but I have heard similar views expressed in the House since the day on which I was first appointed as a Health MinisterI am sorry to admit that that was 14 years ago. It was not the case that our ambitions for the services lacked clarity, but something more urgent always tended to squeeze out important aspirations such as those about which she spoke.
If we really want to depress ourselves for a moment, I can remind the House of the history of mental health service delivery over the past 40 years. During that period, the vision of how our mental health services should develop has been debated, but if hon. Members read Enoch Powell's speeches as Health Minister in the early 1960s, they will find something that is recognisably the same definition of the mental health service that we want to see and which has been redefined and redefined over in official documentsI was responsible for some, as both a junior Health Minister and as Secretary of Statefor 40 years. The difficulty is not defining the aspiration, which the national service framework does admirably, but getting the connection mechanism between the aspiration and the delivery.
My hon. Friend the Member for South Cambridgeshire was right to emphasise the danger of defining something that is important because it is in today's headlines or is a life-and-death matter in the short term. That always puts it ahead of the delivery of long-term objectives, whether it is maternity care,
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mental health services, which are part of the national service framework, or the other longer term aspects of health care delivery.
I say to the Minister in all seriousness that the document is good, but it is not good enough to say that we will look back in 10 years' time to see how we got on. I know that he is not saying that, but the danger of doing that is inherent in what he says. How many documents issued in 1994 has he checked to see whether their aspirations were delivered in the intervening 10 years? That is, perhaps, the test because many of the aspirations have not changed much over the years. It is, of course, an easy escape to say that a Tory Government were in office at the time, but if he reads the definitions of service ambition in terms of service delivery that were issued by the Department under Tory Ministers, and not even those issued by the professionals under Tory Ministers, he will find that they have not changed much, any more than the definition of maternity services has changed. The description of maternity services by the hon. Member for South Swindon was, I am sure she would agree, identical to the one that was issued in my time as a Health Minister when Julia Cumberlege was responsible for changing childbirth. That story repeats itself throughout health care.
The real challenge for Health Ministers is to find a connection mechanism. When my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) was Health Secretary, he used to say that it was a wonderful job with a good office. The officials presented him with an enormous array of impressive levers and he had to decide their positions and which one he wanted to pull, but he always doubted whether the levers he was invited to pull were connected to anything. That test needs to be applied to the national service framework.
Against that background of a degree of scepticism born of disappointmentthat is, I think, the best way to put itI offer a couple of thoughts on how we might improve our chances of delivering this noble ambition, which I think is a shared objective. The first is to consider the concept set out in the NSF of children's trusts. I read the wording of that with interest and there is a kernel of a good idea, but the problem with children's trusts, as with so much else in the document, is that they rely on improving co-operation between agencies.
We can all agree that most of the difficult problems to do with children's services rely on social services, the NHS, the education service and often the probation service and the law-enforcement agencies all working together, which requires them to understand each other's agenda in the case of a particular child or group of children. Many of the reports to which I have referred have relied on the assertion that this Government, with this new set of Ministers and this new political will, will crack inter-agency co-operation. With respect to the Minister, the NSF relies on the same analysis. It does not propose that we change the institutions but aims to ensure that, at last, we achieve genuine co-operation between the agencies. Children's trusts, if they are to add value and not just be barnacles on existing institutions, must do more than send missives that say "Wouldn't it be good if such-and-such happened for this child?". They must be able to break down the statutory
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distinctions between local authority social services and education departments, and they must have the capacity to tie in with the NHS.
Dr. Ladyman: The right hon. Gentleman has made some excellent points. For what it is worth, the Children Bill places a statutory duty on those organisations to co-operate, which is a new factor in the equation. There will be a director of children's services with a wide remit who will make sure that they honour their statutory obligation.
Mr. Dorrell: I welcome the statutory obligation to co-operate, but it is like saying, "This time, we are really going to make it happen." I do not remember a Minister coming to the Dispatch Box to say that they are in favour of agencies not co-operating. Ministers always say that they are in favour of co-operation and if they are to deliver it effectively, the agencies must respond.
I should like to offer the Minister some thoughts on the way in which children's trusts could develop. Local authority children's services and the department in the local education authority that deals with difficult children are, in effect, dealing with exactly the same group of individuals, and have far more in common than the LEA department has with other LEA employees who administer a normal school system for children who do not have special needs. I have always thought that there is a case for looking at the structure of local authorities. Instead of separating social services and education along functional lines, we should draw a line between the delivery of a normal education service to normal childrenI use shorthandand the more intensive specialist services required for individuals who rely both on children's social services and on the low achievers' services of the local education authority. If children's trusts developed in that way, instead of merely aspiring to better inter-agency co-operation, we would establish a machinery for delivering it, and children's trusts would be responsible for procuring services from the NHS, social services departments and LEAs to tackle the needs of particular children. I urge the Minister not to be seduced into believing that he has a wholly exceptional political will that can achieve the inter-agency co-operation that all his predecessors failed to deliver.
I should like to detain the House a little longer on a tiny matter arising from inter-agency co-operation. I declare a personal interest in the inspection regime for independent schools, as I am a trustee of Uppingham school, an independent school that serves the needs of people at the opposite end of the advantage scale. I am wholly in favour of inspection for such schools and I am not arguing that they should not have an inspection regime. However, as we are talking about the importance of joined-up government and inter-agency co-operation, I should point out that schools that parents pay in excess of £20,000 for their children to attend are inspected by the independent schools inspectorate as educational establishments. They are also subject to a wholly separate inspection regime run by the social services inspectorate, which has almost no track record in this field. It seems a rather obvious question to ask the Department of Health why it is not
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possible to have a joined-up inspection regime for independent schools. That is a very particular subject, but I ask the Minister to reflect on it. If he could write to me and let me know his views, I should be grateful.
Nothing that I have said will detract, I hope, from my initial enthusiasm for the service framework. It is a genuinely good document. It reads well, like a new beginninga new opportunity to improve the services available. We must look beyond the aspiration to the delivery. That is the area where the real challenge, as always, lies for Ministers. They have done the easy bit. Now we must hold them to deliver it month by month, year by year, so that when the Minister is sitting on the Opposition Benches and I am sitting on the Government Benches in 10 years' time, he will remind the future Minister of the aspirations set out, and the mechanism that he put in place will have made delivery of the aspirations inescapable.
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It gets worse. Assistant Secretary of State John Bolton, visiting the Royal Institute of Foreign Affairs in London, was already musing publicly on a coming pre-emptive strike on Iran. Russia is building Iran a nuclear capability that could give it weapons within months, he said. Better to knock it out first - a necessity as soon as it is spoken. For Iran faced with Iraq as a US satellite on one side with Israel's nuclear power on the other will respond to this pincer threat. The director of the Royal Institute listened to Bolton aghast. US conviction that a free Iraq will spread light and freedom all about it is not shared by those who know the region.
Nor does most of Europe believe in Blair's happy ending. Indeed, Powell killed it in Brussels. Since it has taken until now for the Germans and French finally to say in public that they hope Saddam will lose the war, there is hardly a close rapprochement on either side.
The postwar landscape looks bleaker by the day, international law fractured, the UN bust. The only optimism comes from triumphalist White House hawks or from the Downing Street dream factory - though their visions are quite different. Elsewhere it is hard to find observers who feel anything but alarm at what is yet to come. Look back at Afghanistan, controlled by warlords still, severely underfunded and underpoliced, all reconstruction money still spent on basic feeding, a place forgotten as the world moves on.
There is one streak of hope on the grey horizon. All Europe, Britain included, is agreed that Iraqi reconstruction must be done under UN auspices - and that means what it says. Across Europe there is a new sense of purpose, as people wake up to their new responsibilities now they have let go of the American umbrella they have idled under.
Wars are political milestones. The EU trauma over Iraq could now forge a stronger Europe, better connected to its peoples, who have stood almost unanimously against the war.
Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist.
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Published: Saturday, January 11, 2014 at 3:07 p.m.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Throughout this season, Florida coach Billy Donovan has tried different ways to prod the versatile talents out of sophomore forward Dorian Finney-Smith.
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On an afternoon when No. 10 Florida needed him most, Finney-Smith delivered.
There were plenty of heroes in UF's dramatic 84-82 overtime win Saturday at Arkansas. Senior point guard Scottie Wilbekin, out two practices with a mild ankle sprain, came up with a game-tying, bank-shot with two seconds left to send the game to overtime. Patric Young came off the bench to finish with 10 points and seven rebounds on balky knees before fouling out in overtime. Sophomore guard Michael Frazier II hit a 3-pointer with under two minutes left in regulation to tie the score at 64.
But it was Finney-Smith who finally displayed the talents that those who watched him in practice last season beamed about. Stepping in for UF's leading scorer, senior forward Casey Prather, who was out with a knee injury, the Virginia Tech transfer finished with a career-high 22 points, 15 rebounds, three assists and three steals.
"I just tried to stay aggressive, keep attacking," Finney-Smith said. "I knew Casey wasn't playing. As a team we wanted to get this win for him."
Finney-Smith scored five of the 22 points in overtime, including an open 3-pointer that extended UF's lead to 75-69 with 1:49 left in the extra session.
"It felt good," Finney-Smith said. "Coach D told me, if I get a shot, my team told me, if I get a shot, just shoot it with confidence."
After sitting out last year due to NCAA transfer rules, Finney-Smith has tried to find his way as a sixth man off the bench. Donovan said following UF's win over South Carolina he felt like Finney-Smith could do more after an eight-point, four-rebound, four-turnover effort.
Finney-Smith went 3 of 7 from 3-point range. Of his 15 rebounds, nine were offensive rebounds.
"The one guy who I've tried to instill just a level of confidence in is (Finney-Smith)," Donovan said. "Just be aggressive, play through mistakes. He takes things so personal when he doesn't do what he feels he should be doing out there and he gets down sometimes and sometimes it drains his energy. Maybe I have to do a better job of trying to get him to move past the next thing."
Florida (13-2, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) extended its win streak to seven games and snapped Arkansas' 23-game win streak at Bud Walton Arena. Florida also avenged an 80-69 loss at Arkansas last season that snapped a 10-game winning streak.
"We didn't want anything less," Wilbekin said. "That's all we were thinking about, especially, unfortunately, after our last game here last year. We wanted to go out with a win as seniors."
But it didn't come easy. Chances for a win appeared dire when Arkansas forward Coty Clarke hit a free throw to put Arkansas (11-4, 0-2) up 64-57 with 4:43 left. After a Young dunk cut Arkansas' lead to 64-59, the Razorbacks could have extended their lead to seven again, but Clarke missed a wide-open dunk.
That was the opening the Gators needed to rally. Freshman point guard Kasey Hill hit a driving layup to cut Arkansas' lead to 64-61, then, off an Arkansas turnover, Frazier hit a 3-pointer from the corner to tie the score at 64 with 1:52 left.
Junior Rashad Madden then hit a jumper with 1:34 left to put Arkansas up 66-64. On Florida's next two possessions, Frazier missed a 3-pointer and Hill traveled with 17.7 seconds left.
At that point, Arkansas could have finished off the game with free throws. But forward Alandise Harris missed the front end of a one-and-one, another break the Gators capitalized on. Holding for the last shot, Donovan didn't call a timeout but called a pick-and-roll play from the bench involving Wilbekin and Finney-Smith. Madden defended Wilbekin on the play.
"It was just a read play," Wilbekin said. "My man stepped down on me. I thought about shooting the 3(-pointer). I made the right decision and went to the lane and tried to get the easy two."
Wilbekin used the window for an eight-foot bank shot that tied the score at 66 with two seconds remaining.
"We executed the play fairly well in terms of what we got," Donovan said. "We got an eight-foot, pull-up bank shot."
Florida carried the momentum into overtime. Young forced a travel, then hit a 14-footer to put Florida ahead 68-66. Wilbekin then got a steal, and on the offensive end, drained an open 3-pointer to extend UF's lead to 71-66.
"We tried to dig in and play the best defense we've played the whole game," Wilbekin said. "We looked at it like a whole new game, 0-0 with five minutes, Pat did a great job hitting that mid-range jumper and then I came down and hit the three."
Florida led by as many as eight points in overtime before a late Arkansas charge. With 21 seconds left, Wilbekin missed a pair of free throws and Arkansas had a chance to tie the game down 82-79. But Florida guarded the 3-point line and Harris inexplicably tried a drive to the basket that missed with seven seconds left.
"Coach D told us to play on the three, make them drive and he drove," Finney-Smith said. "I was happy with it."
It wasn't a perfect Florida effort by any stretch. Arkansas scored 23 points off 20 offensive rebounds. Donovan said the Gators were "annihilated" on the offensive glass.
But Florida pulled out another close game, improving to 3-1 this season in games decided by five points. Wilbekin had 18 points and two assists, while Frazier had 14 points on 4-of-7 shooting from 3-point range.
"It feels really good going forward, especially having a 2-0 start in our league is huge," Young said. "Because our league is really tough. Anybody can get beat on any night, especially on the road."
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"We'll deliver a big victory in the House tomorrow, and then this fight will move over to the Senate, where it belongs. I expect my Senate colleagues to be up for the battle."
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The first non-classical entropy was proposed by Rényi in 1960 [
These divergences have the form of the relative entropy or, in the thermodynamic terminology, the (negative) free entropy, the Massieu-Planck functions [
After 1961, many new entropies and divergences were invented and applied to real problems, including Burg entropy [
The idea of Bregman divergences [
The divergence between the current distribution and equilibrium should monotonically decrease in Markov processes. It is the ultimate requirement for use of the divergence in information processing and in non-equilibrium thermodynamics and kinetics. In physics, the first result of this type was Boltzmann's
In his well-known paper [
is the ergodicity contraction coefficient,
Under some additional conditions, the property to decrease in Markov processes characterizes the
The dynamics of distributions in the continuous time Markov processes is described by the master equation. Thus, the
For each new divergence we have to analyze its behavior in Markov processes and to prove or refute the
It is obvious that the equilibrium
These solutions are minima of
Using this general
We consider continuous time Markov chains with
It is useful to mention that the
is a particular case of master equation for normalized variables
A digraph is
The Markov chain in
One of the paths can be degenerated: it may be
Now, let us restrict our consideration to the set of the Markov chains with the given positive equilibrium distribution
For the next transformation of master equation we join the mutually reverse transitions in pairs
Let us rewrite the master
The reversible systems with detailed balance form an important class of first order kinetics. The
For the systems with detailed balance the quasichemical form of the master equation is especially simple:
It is important that any set of nonnegative equilibrium fluxes
In other words, for every general system of the form (13) with positive equilibrium
The inequality d
A convex function on a straight line is a Lyapunov function for a one-dimensional system with single equilibrium if and only if the equilibrium is a minimizer of this function. This elementary fact together with the previous observation gives us the criterion for universal Lyapunov functions for systems with detailed balance. Let us introduce the
Combination of this Proposition with the decomposition theorem [
These two propositions together form the general
Let us stress that here the partial equilibria criterion provides a necessary condition for systems with detailed balance (and, therefore, for the general systems without detailed balance assumption) and a sufficient condition for the general systems (and, therefore, for the systems with detailed balance too).
The simplest Bregman divergence is the squared Euclidean distance between
For the Itakura-Saito distance (
If the single equilibrium in 1D system is not a minimizer of a convex function
The partial equilibria criterion allows a simple geometric interpretation. Let us consider a sublevel set of
We illustrate this condition on the plane for three states in
The points of intersection
All the
Conic combination: if
Convex monotonic transformation of scale: if
Using these operations we can construct new universal Lyapunov functions from a given set. For example,
is a universal Lyapunov function that does not have the
The following function satisfies the partial equilibria criterion for every
It is convex for 0
Several formalisms are developed in chemical kinetics and non-equilibrium thermodynamics for the construction of general kinetic equations with a given "thermodynamic Lyapunov functional". The motivation of this approach "from thermodynamics to kinetics" is simple [
GMAL is a method for the construction of dissipative kinetic equations for a given thermodynamic potential
that is, "gain minus loss" in the
One of the standard assumptions is existence of a strictly positive stoichiometric conservation law, a vector
A nonnegative extensive variable
Let us consider a domain
The dual variables, potentials, are defined as the partial derivatives of
This definition differs from the chemical potentials [
For each reaction, a
In the standard formalism of chemical kinetics the reaction rates are intensive variables and in kinetic equations for
A nonnegative extensive variable
The kinetic equations for a homogeneous system in the absence of external fluxes are
If the volume is not constant then the equations for concentrations include
The classical Mass Action Law gives us an important particular case of GMAL given by
For the perfect entropy function presented in
and for the GMAL reaction rate function given by (21) we get
The standard assumption for the Mass Action Law in physics and chemistry is that
Thus, the following entities are given: the set of components
An auxiliary function
With this function,
The auxiliary function
which is the initial mechanism when λ=1 the reverted mechanism with interchange of
It is easy to check that
The inequality
The detailed balance condition consists of two assumptions: (i) for each elementary reaction
After this joining, the total number of stoichiometric equations decreases. We distinguish the reaction rates and kinetic factors for direct and inverse reactions by the upper plus or minus:
The kinetic equations take the form
The condition of detailed balance in GMAL is simple and elegant:
For the systems with detailed balance we can take
M. Feinberg called this kinetic law the "Marselin-De Donder" kinetics [
Under the detailed balance conditions, the auxiliary function
The explicit formula for
A convenient equivalent form of
is a normalized
The detailed balance condition reflects "microreversibility", that is, time-reversibility of the dynamic microscopic description and was first introduced by Boltzmann in 1872 as a consequence of the reversibility of collisions in Newtonian mechanics.
The complex balance condition was invented by Boltzmann in 1887 for the Boltzmann equation [
Formally, the complex balance condition means that
Let us consider the family of vectors {
We can rewrite
The Boltzmann factors
This is the general
It is easy to check that for the first order kinetics given by
The complex balance conditions defined by
Let us assign to each edge (
Let us use for the vertices the notation Θ
The graph of the transformation of complexes cannot be arbitrary if the system satisfies the complex balance condition [
First of all, let us formulate Kirchhoff's first rule (42) for subsets: if the digraph of transformation of complexes satisfies
We say that a state Θ
Assume that the edge Θ
This property (every edge is included in a simple cycle) is equivalent to the so-called "weak reversibility" or to the property that every weakly connected component of the digraph is its strong component.
For every graph with the system of fluxes, which obey Kirchhoffs first rule, the cycle decomposition theorem holds. It can be extracted from many books and papers [
Let us consider a digraph
Let a function
Assume that supp
This decomposition theorem explains why the complex balance condition was often called the "cyclic balance condition".
The class of systems with detailed balance is the proper subset of the class of systems with complex balance. A simple (irreversible) cycle of the length
For Markov chains, the complex balance systems are all the systems that have a positive equilibrium distribution presented by
In nonlinear kinetics, the systems with complex balance provide the natural generalization of the Markov processes. They deserve the term "nonlinear Markov processes", though it is occupied by a much wider notion [
Nevertheless, in some special sense the classes of systems with detailed balance and with the complex balance are equivalent. Let us consider a thermodynamic state given by the vector of potentials
Because of the cycle decomposition (Proposition 4) it is sufficient to prove this theorem for simple normalized cycles. Let us use induction on the cycle length
At the equilibrium, all systems with detailed balance or with complex balance give Ṅ
Let us find a kinetic factor
By the induction assumption we proved that theorem for the cycles of arbitrary length and, therefore, it is valid for all reaction schemes with complex balance. □
The cone QDB (
This follows from the form of the reaction rate presented by
Consider GMAL kinetics with the given reaction mechanism presented by stoichiometric
Therefore, nonnegativity is the only a priori restriction on the values of
One Lyapunov function for the GMAL kinetics with the given reaction mechanism and the detailed balance condition obviously exists. This is the thermodynamic Lyapunov function
Assume that we select the thermodynamic Lyapunov function
For a given reaction mechanism we introduce the partial equilibria criterion by analogy to Definition 1. Roughly speaking, a convex function
For each elementary reaction
Definition 2 (Partial equilibria criterion for GMAL).
The partial equilibria criterion is necessary because
For the general reaction systems with complex balance we can use the theorem about local equivalence (Theorem 2). Consider a GMAL reaction system with the mechanism (18) and the complex balance condition.
The theorem follows immediately from Theorem 3 about Lyapunov functions for systems with detailed balance and the theorem about local equivalence between systems with local and complex balance (Theorem 2). □
The general
In all versions of the general
For the kinetic Lyapunov functions that satisfy the partial equilibria criterion, we use, actually, a rather weak consequence of convexity in restrictions on the straight lines
A function
In particular, a function
Among many other types of convexity and quasiconvexity (see, for example [
Finally, we can relax the convexity conditions even more and postulate
Relations between these types of convexity are schematically illustrated in
Many non-classical entropies are invented and applied to various problems in physics and data analysis. In this paper, the general necessary and sufficient criterion for the existence of
If an entropy has no
The general
For the reversible Markov chains presented by
These inequalities are closely related to another generalization of convexity, the Schur convexity [
Introduction of many non-classical entropies leads to the "uncertainty of uncertainty" phenomenon: we measure uncertainty by entropy but we have uncertainty in the entropy choice [
It is not possible to compare different entropies without any relation to kinetics. It is useful to specify the class of kinetic equations, for which they are the Lyapunov functionals. For the GMAL equations, we can introduce the dynamic equivalence between divergences (free entropies or conditional entropies). Two functionals For all
For all
For the Markov kinetics, the partial equilibria criterion is sufficient for a convex function
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The triangle of distributions for the system with three states
Monotonicity on both sides of the minimizer
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- Jim RogersDuke Energy CEO
It's time to Quit Coal
Duke Energy and its CEO Jim Rogers spend a lot of time talking about clean energy and the need to take action on climate change. In fact, in 2010, Rogers said "we're in a unique position in the power industry to deploy the solutions, to raise the capital and not raise the national debt, to do it at scale, and to do it in China time."
Unfortunately, the reality doesn't match that rhetoric. Every year, Duke burns millions of tons of coal from mountaintop removal mines in dozens of old coal-fired power plants. And instead of investing big in renewable energy like wind and solar, they're running up regular peoples' electricity rates to build more coal and nuclear power plants.
Green-sounding talking points aren't enough to save the climate or the hundreds of people who lose their lives and livelihoods to Duke's coal addiction every year. Help us send 50,000 letters to Duke CEO Jim Rogers and let him know we can't wait another day for companies like Duke to put their money where their mouth is and kickstart a renewable energy revolution.
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As Duke Energy's CEO, you've talked a lot about the need to take action on climate change. Unfortunately, your actions don't match your rhetoric.
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While there are other issues surrounding the wrong set of 4 wheeler tires on your vehicle the most important issue is of course safety. And to answer the question yes, the incorrect 4 wheeler tires can be a huge risk to your safety. While occasionally falling from your vehicle can be expected and you will no doubt be wearing all the correct safety equipment that does not mean that you want to increase your chances of endangering your safety.
While riding an ATV is predominantly an adrenaline rush a disregard to safety can extinguish your rush very rapidly. All ATV competitions, camps and tracks ensure that every rider wears a helmet and now most are checking that tires are to a good standard and are correct for the terrain. The choice of 4 wheeler tires has advanced so much in recent years that there is a wide variety of tires suited to every possible terrain, condition and experience. This advancement is ensuring that all riders' issues surrounding safety are as minimal as possible.
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Random Blogging For Friday October 11th
Good Morning! Happy Friday! Hope you have a great weekend.. I'm lookin' forward to enjoying a relaxing weekend at home.. Whatever you're doing hope you have a great time. Here's what you missed on today's show.
The Morning Brain Buster:
Q. This board game dates all the way back to pre-civil war times and was know as
A. The Game of LIFE!
Bonehead Of The Day
A janitor for an elementary school in Michigan was fired after she paid two fourth graders to beat up another student.
The woman gave the two fourth graders $1 each to beat up a student who made fun of her.
The janitor was fired on Monday after it was reported by another person at the school. The mother of the kid who got beat up said the two fourth graders were bullying her child.
No word if the two kids who accepted the money got in trouble.
Drunk Dial Congress.org.. Drink, Get Drunk, then Dial
DrunkDialCongress.org wants people to complain to a Congress member about the government shutdown.
Once people get to the site, they have to type in their phone number. An automated message then says, "is this government making you want to drink? When I drink I like to tell people what's on my mind."
The call is then transferred a random member from the House of Representatives.
Paging Tony Stark.. Iron Man Suit Under Development By US Army
The Army is working on an Iron Man suit.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Army Research, Development and Engineering Command and other groups are joining forces to create a Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit.
(Allegedly).... The suit will include integrated 360-degree cameras, sensors that can detect injuries and apply a wound-sealing foam, and a bulletproof exoskeleton made of fluids that can change from liquid to solid in milliseconds when a magnetic field or electrical current is applied.
Obie Is No Longer The Obese Dachshund.. He's Dropped 50 Pounds
Obie, a dachshund that tipped the scales at 77 pounds has dropped 50, after more than a year of strict dieting, a tummy tuck surgery and lots of long walks.
The pooch, living in Portland, Oregon, is down to a healthy weight of 27lbs.
High School Rule.. You Can't Graduate Unless You Get Accepted To College
The Corbett, OR school district wants to make it a requirement that you get accepted into college in order to graduate from high school.
The principal of the high school says they wouldn't have to actually follow through and attend the college, but he wants it to be part of the requirement.
If the kids can't afford the application fees, the school has grants that can cover the costs.
The new regulations wouldn't start until 2017.
~~Actress Emily Deschanel (Bones) is 37.
~~Actress, Michelle Trachtenberg is 28 (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Gossip Girl; Weeds)
~~Actor, Stephen Moyer (True Blood) is 44
~~Actress, Constance Zimmer is 43 (Boston Legal; Entourage)
~~Actor, Luke Perry is 48 (Beverly Hills 90210's Dylan McKay, Buffy the Vampire Slayer; The Fifth Element; Jeremiah)
~~Actress, Joan Cusack is 51 (John's sister; Saturday Night Live member 1985-86; Addams Family Values, Broadcast News, Married to the Mob, My Bodyguard, Sixteen Candles, Working Girl, Toys, In & Out, High Fidelity, Where the Heart Is, School of Rock, Ice Princess; many more)
~~Pro rodeo/bull rider, Ty Murray is 44 (Jewel's hubby)
~~Actor Trevor Donovan ("90210") is 35
~~Actress, Jane Krakowski (30 Rock) is 45 (Ally McBeal; Ice Age)
~~Actor/comedian, Artie Lange is 46 (MAD TV, The Norm Show)6
~~Actor, David Morse is 60 (St. Elsewhere; The Green Mile; The Rock; The Hurt Locker; Treme)
~~Actor Stephen Spinella ("24") is 57
~~NFL legend, Steve Young is 52
~~NFL star, Terrell Suggs is 31
~~Golfer, Michelle Wie is 24
~~Singer, Daryl Hall is 67 (Hall & Oates; solo)
~~Guitarist Scott Johnson (of Gin Blossoms) is 51.
~~Rapper, M.C. Lyte is 42
~~Rapper U-God (of Wu-Tang Clan) is 43
~~Country Singer, Gene Watson is 70
~~Country Singer, Paulette Carlson is 62
In Theaters This Weekend
Captain Phillips (PG-13)
Tom Hanks stars as Captain Richard Phillips whose container ship was hijacked (in 2009) by a crew of Somali pirates. Also stars Catherine Keener, Max Martini. (PROJECTION: $18-$20 MIL.)
Machete Kills (-R-)
Stars Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Amber Heard, Sofia Vergara, Mel Gibson, Jessica Alba. (PROJECTION: $8-$9 MIL.)
** "Gravity" is expected to gross $28 million or more in its second weekend.**
Would You Bring Your Parents To Work? Linkedin Thinks So
LinkedIn has created a bring your parents to work day.
The social network for professionals has designated November 7th as Bring In Your Parents Day in which employees are encouraged to invite their mother, father or grandparents into the office.
The company hopes the day will help explain what people do at work better: Research finds one in three parents don't understand what their children do for a living.
Life Hacks For Cheap Skates
-- If you don't throw away your Starbucks cup, refills are only 50 cents.
-- In fact, reloading and reusing your Starbucks gift card can qualify you for free refills.
You have to register and use the card a few times beforehand, but you will unlock special instructions for free coffee and tea!
-- If you have cool neighbors, share Wi-Fi and split one bill.
-- Reasonably threatening to leave your cable company can compel them to give you an "exclusive" discounted rate.
-- If your original discounted cable/internet rates will expire, cancel your account and have your roommate re-sign up.
-- You can buy retailer gift cards online for cheaper than their loaded value.
Either at the company website, or specialty gift card outlets.
-- Use Google Voice to call people on your computer.
It's free!
-- Be a "hair model" for stylists-in-training at trendy salons. Your cheap cut will look über-expensive.
-- Join "For Sale" Facebook groups to nab freebies or steals. It has better stuff than Craigslist and it's less creepy.
Find completely random *AND FREE* things.
-- Heading home for an extended holiday? Sublet your apartment when you're gone.
-- Leave Tupperware at work so you can take those free company meals home.
Everyone might judge you a little bit, though.
-- Get free week gym passes. At different facilities. Every week. Until you can't.
-- Coffee shops and bakeries usually give out their baked goodies at the end of the day.
-- As do pizza places and movie popcorn stations.
-- Local gallery openings usually serve free wine and a classy environment to get tipsy.
Also, free food (sometimes)!
-- Arrange clothing swaps with your most fashionable friends.
-- There are a thousand ways to effectively clean household things with vinegar.
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Does this work? Prevage eye anti aging moisturizing treatment, £75, 15ml
Our expert tells the truth about the promises beauty products make
This week we check out the best-selling eye cream from Prevage, a joint venture between Elizabeth Arden and Allergan, the manufacturers of Botox.
They say With I-seryl complex and Idebenone, a powerful antioxidant, this cream will fade the signs of ageing.
We say This product looks more like a medical device than a tube of eye cream. But does it really harness the powers of science, or are you paying for an average eye cream in an expensive bottle?
What's the science? Prevage says the I-seryl complex is a mixture of peptides, soy proteins and algae extract. Peptides still lack any convincing evidence to suggest that they can stave off wrinkles. As for soy proteins, a promising study by Johnson & Johnson suggests that they…


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Community Profiling and Setting Priorities (INDH5211)
This is the first of six sequential, interdependent modules, only provided for students enrolled in the Graduate Diploma in Indigenous Health Promotion. Students will be introduced to the overarching principles of health promotion, its conceptual and technical components and its role in preventing or reducing the impact of injury and ill health. Different concepts of health will be explored with a particular emphasis on indigenous approaches to understanding health and wellbeing. Students will then commence the development of a comprehensive profile of their chosen community. Particular attention will be given to finding, understanding, managing and presenting statistical, epidemiological and other forms of data in a way that is accessible to the students, their professional colleagues, other health and funding agencies and community members. The development of a community profile will enable students to define and understand how their community functions, the determinants of health that impact on their chosen community, and identify priority health issues. It will act as a foundation for the development of appropriate and effective health promotion programs. The final 20 per cent of INDH5211 will be dedicated to commencing INDH5212.
Our courses that offer this unit of study
Further unit of study information
6-day intensive workshop
written assignment (75%), class presentation (20%) and reflective practice journal (5%)
Plater S. & Dickson M. (2013). The Chook Book: A step-by-step guide to the development, planning, implementation and evaluation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health promotion programs. Unpublished; Nutbeam D. & Bauman A. (2006). Evaluation in a Nutshell. McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd, North Ryde; Nutbeam D. Harris E. & Wise M. (2010). Theory in a Nutshell: 3rd Edition. McGraw Hill Australia Pty Ltd, North Ryde. In addition, students are expected to undertake their own reviews of the literature.
Faculty/department permission required?
Study this unit outside a degree
Non-award/non-degree study
If you wish to undertake one or more units of study (subjects) for your own interest but not towards a degree, you may enrol in single units as a non-award student.
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If you are from another Australian tertiary institution you may be permitted to underake cross-institutional study in one or more units of study at the University of Sydney.


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Higher education plays a central role in preparing students to live and work in a society where one out of three Americans will be a member of a racial/ethnic minority and most of the growth in new jobs will require a college degree. What new skills do students need to become engaged citizens in the future?
To find out, the U-M and nine other public research universities are working together to explore how diversity is linked with learning on college campuses and to share promising practices that enhance their goal of preparing students for engagement in a diverse society.
Preparing College Students for a Diverse Democracy, launched April 7 at Arizona State University, also includes the University of California, Los Angeles; University of Maryland; University of Massachusetts-Amherst; University of Minnesota; University of New Mexico; Texas Southern University; University of Washington; and University of Vermont.
The main goal of the project is to understand how different campuses achieve goals for student learning and address the skills needed for participation in a democracy through initiatives designed to increase student engagement with diverse perspectives.
According to Sylvia Hurtado, associate professor of education and the projects principal investigator, colleges have developed a wide range of initiatives that include such practices as community service learning programs, facilitated intergroup dialogues and a variety of curricular initiatives. However, we have yet to understand how students develop cognitive, social and democratic skills through campus initiatives and informal interactions with diverse peers during their college experience, Hurtado says.
We will use different methods to collect information including a longitudinal survey of students that will track their college experience, several focused classroom-based studies and student focus groups. We expect that each campus will be able to utilize student data in future planning activities and share promising practices that may serve as a model for other institutions across the country.
Hurtado says the project is a significant attempt to bring empirical evidence to inform the practice of educating a diverse student body. It intends to move beyond the current affirmative action controversy to provide action and discussion about the types of education that will be necessary for citizenship in a diverse society with a common destiny. Timed to coincide with the national elections, we have a unique opportunity to learn about student orientations regarding self-interest or public interest, their conceptions of democracy, and engagement in formal democratic processes. Institutions are searching for a new vision and are eager to acquire research and theory that can guide practice.
Therefore Hurtado adds, this project is important in revitalizing higher educations mission to prepare a diverse student body for future democratic citizenship. The project is endorsed by the American Association for Higher Education, the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and the American Council on Education. It is funded with a three-year grant of $872,000 from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement.
For further information, contact the Diverse Democracy Project, (734) 647-7439; 610 East University Ave., 2022M SEB 1259; or email@example.com.


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The U.S. Geological Survey Maine Water Science Center has worked with the Federal Emergency Management Agency for decades to document the magnitude and extent of major floods in Maine. Reports describing the May 2006 and April 2007 floods in southern Maine are examples of this cooperative relationship. The documentation of peak stream elevations and peak streamflow magnitudes and recurrence intervals provides essential information for the delineation of flood plains and for flood-mitigation decisions by local, State, and Federal emergency management officials.
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This review was originally published at Good Letters, the blog hosted by Image.-As I'm writing this, my magnificent mutt of a cat—Jonathan Mardukas—is purring like he's never been happier.Mardukas (or "The Duke") does this when he knows I'm not feeling well, or when he's feeling neglected.This time, he's climbed onto my chest so he can stand between me and my laptop. Big, black, and beautiful, he's overpowering my protests.His timing is uncanny. I'm trying to write about a mov … [Read more...]


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Cowboy Mouth brings a bit of the bayou up for Summerfest
Summerfest offers its crowd a taste of just about everything – spiral dog, anyone? – including a little Creole-spiced kick thanks to the presence of New Orleans-based rockers Cowboy Mouth. In its over 15-year existence, the band has kept busy, touring to about 150 shows every year, recording 11 studio albums, appearing in a movie or two and in general bringing the bayou across the nation.
A bit of Southern comfort is exactly what a so-far mildly chilly, very foggy Summerfest could perhaps use, which is exactly what Cowboy Mouth will bring Thursday, July 3 to the group's headline gig at the Johnson Controls World Sound Stage. Before then, however, OnMilwaukee got a chance to chat with the Cowboy Mouth's frontman Fred LeBlanc about the band's new album, the art of the cover and his once-tight relationship with critically acclaimed filmmaker Steven Soderbergh.
OnMilwaukee.com: Your "Born to Run" cover is one you've done in a lot of your live shows and is very beloved by many fans. What was your thought process when you decided to cover such a popular song and put your stamp on it?
Fred LeBlanc: Honestly, I wanted to pick the most recognizable song, a song that people don't think anybody would ever have the guts to cover and not only cover it, but kick the hell out of it.
OMC: Was it hard to do what you wanted to do with it but still staying true to the original song? Or did you just kind of kick the original song out?
FLB: A good song is a good song, and "Born to Run" is an excellent song. It's well written, there's a lot going on in the song and at the same time, it's an incredibly basic song. You can play it with all the extra accoutrements – time changes, tempo changes – or you can keep it basic, and it retains its essence. I think what we wanted to do is keep it simple.
Basically, I wanted to play it like The Clash would've played it: simple, rocking. It sounds a lot more ornate when you listen to the Springsteen version, because he just piles and piles and piles stuff on there on the recording. Obviously, it sounds wonderful, but I wanted to get down to the essence of the song and just keep it as simple as possible. The emotion and the idea has to connect with the audience on a very basic level. It wasn't very hard to do.
OMC: Just this month, you guys released a new album "Go!" What were kind of your goal, inspirations and motivations for the new album?
FLB: For our albums, I like them to have some sort of a theme. Even if they don't have the same cerebral theme, I want them to have an emotional thread through them. The thing about "Go!" I guess for me, it was an album about looking forward and looking back, longing for the past but at the same time accepting growing up.
Like the song "Go!" is a punk rock song about growing up and accepting that the best may be ahead of you instead of behind you. We live in such a kid-oriented culture, as basically the growing up experience gets co-opted by corporate America and the mainstream media and all that kind of stuff. It's hard to find and tell of the human experience from an honest level without trying to sell them something.
I wanted to be a part of something that would be uplifting, that would be an emotional, visceral, powerful rock 'n' roll experience that would leave people feeling better, not only about the experience they just had but about themselves. I think "Go!" touches on those things. Like the song "My Little Secret" is about that first time you fall in love with somebody, but you also have a song like "Where's The Rain?" which is about my dad passing away. It's looking forward and looking back, and understanding that the best is still ahead.
OMC: How do you try to go about bringing a live performance energy to an album?
FLB: It's difficult because recording and performing live are two very different animals. When you first start recording, you think all you have to do is go in there and bash it out, but that doesn't always translate because the way the audience experiences a live performance and the way they experience a recording are two very different things. One's very communal, and one is very intimate, so you have to translate that same energy and feeling to an intimate experience.
The way to record a live feel in the studio is just to go in there and get it done. Don't stop until you get it perfect. Don't stop until you get it the way you want it, and if it feels good to me, then it'll feel good to the audience. That's about the only criteria that I've got.
OMC: The weather so far for Summerfest has been a bit eclectic: a bit of fog, a bit cold, a bit warm, a bit rainy. What were the craziest weather conditions you've had to perform in?
FLB: I played a college in Mississippi in 19-degree weather. There was a thousand college kids all bundled up like one giant organism. It doesn't sound that unusual, but for me, being the drummer and lead singer, I have to play in shorts and a cut-off shirt because if I decided to wear a long pants and a long-sleeve shirt, I still sweat. It was like having five-pound dumbbells on my arms.
OMC: I'm a big film guy, so I have to ask: You worked on the film "The Underneath" with director Steven Soderbergh. What was it like working on that film with him?
FLB: It was easy! Steve Soderbergh and I were actually friends. He's from Baton Rouge – that's where he grew up – and I knew him from the scene there. He actually did a video of an old band of mine years ago as a favor back when he was just d*cking around in film labs in Baton Rouge at LSU.
But I've known him for years. Obviously, we haven't been in touch because our paths have wildly diverged, but he was always good, back in the old days, of helping out friends. Like he was friends with Cary (Bonnecaze) the original drummer for Better Than Ezra, and he put a song of theirs in one of his movies, and he got us in "The Underneath," and it was fun. It was three days in a nice hotel, and every once and awhile, I get a little residual check – something I can bring the wife to Chili's on. (laughs)
But Soderbergh's an incredibly talented guy and an incredibly creative guy, and he always was. I was really glad to see things pop for him, and the fact that he came back to try and give us a helping hand says a lot about him. I haven't spoken to him in probably about 15 years, but that's cool. I wish him nothing but the best.
OMC: I didn't know you guys were so tight.
FLB: Yeah, we were big Beatles fans. He used to have this really swank stereo set-up in his house, long before people started listening to everything on MP3s. He was such an audiophile because he was such a cinephile, and we would just pour through these Beatles albums when they first came out, just digging the sound. He loved music – I don't know if he still does – but he had such a passion for music.
He was a fan of the band I was in at the time, and then he was a fan of a later band Dash Rip Rock. It was so funny; I was playing a Dash Rip Rock gig in Baton Rouge, and he took off to do a documentary on the prog rock band Yes. That was one of his first big gigs, and he came back I guess about a year later and was like, "Hey man, what's up. I'm making a movie! I got some money for my movie!" I said, "Oh really? What's it called?" He said "Sex, Lies and Videotape," and I was like, "That's a pretty stupid title; you might want to think about changing that." (laughs) And then literally three months later, he was on the front page of the newspaper having won the Palme d'Or and all that stuff.
He's a good guy. He was very focused, he had a vision, and it's pretty cool that he's not only succeeded in the art form that he's chosen, but he changed it in a very tangible way to make it better. That's pretty cool. Whatever his work is or is not, he's made a palpable impression on the art form itself. The guy I knew back in Baton Rouge would've just sh*t a brick if he knew that was going to happen. (laughs)
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A crowned figure, having a pentacle over his crown, clasps another with hands and arms; two pentacles are under his feet.
Then, 'round him, I drew upon the floor the figure of a pentacle, in chalk.
Standing in the centre of the pentacle he stooped down and pressed hard on one of the little pieces of dark parquet.
I felt happier then; for this pentacle is, as you all know, a wonderful 'Defense.'
There was something in the hall with us that had passed the Barrier of the pentacle about one of the dogs.
A youthful figure, looking intently at the pentacle which hovers over his raised hands.
S'pose those devils, pentacle gangers they was fer sure, nipped 'im?
A very popular sign in those days, in Germany, and especially in the neighborhood of Frankfurt, was the pentacle.
It was only a partial 'defense' therefore, and I nearly died in the pentacle.
As you know, my friend, the pentacle is a star formed by two equilateral triangles intersecting so as to form a six-pointed star.
1590s, from Medieval Latin pentaculum "pentagram," a hybrid coined from Greek pente "five" (see five) + Latin -culum, diminutive (or instrumental) suffix. OED notes other similar words: Italian had pentacolo "anything with five points," and French pentacle (16c.) was the name of something used in necromancy, perhaps a five-branched candlestick; French had pentacol "amulet worn around the neck" (14c.), from pend- "to hang" + a "to" + col "neck." The same figure as a pentagram, except in magical usage, where it has been extended to other symbols of power, including a six-point star. Related: Pentacular.


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Lawrence, Kan. • Ben McLemore scored 24 points, Kevin Young added 16 points and eight rebounds and ninth-ranked Kansas rolled to a 90-54 victory over former Big 12 member Colorado on Saturday.
Elijah Johnson hit three 3-pointers and finished with 11 points, and Travis Releford added 10 points and six assists for the Jayhawks (7-1), who have won seven straight since losing to Michigan State early in the season.
Kansas used an 18-3 run in the opening minutes to silence a small but vocal section of Colorado fans, pushed the advantage to more than 20 by halftime and kept building on it throughout the second half. The lead surpassed 30 with 17 minutes left and reached the 40-point mark with about 8 minutes to go.
Josh Scott finished with 19 points to lead the Buffaloes (7-2), who have lost two of three after rattling off six straight wins to start the year. Askia Booker added 15 points, while leading scorer Spencer Dinwiddie was held to four points on 1-for-4 shooting. Xavier Johnson missed all four of his field-goal attempts before fouling out.


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- ptBR (Portuguese) (Mostly good now, maybe a touch here and there)
- esES/esMX (Spanish)
- frFR (French)
- itIT (Italian)
Currently these languages have poor or no support in DBM which causes fights blizzard likes to use yells/emotes as triggers (instead of CLEU) to be unsupported or poorly supported in DBM.
This also causes warning text or option text to display in english for features added to DBM since last time these languages were updated.
We cannot add translations for languages wow itself does not support so the languages above are the ONLY languages we're looking for.
You don't have to be a programmer to help is localize text. If you see something in english and want it in your own language, you can post updates on forum or in a PM to me. If you are familiar with svn and editing localization files in UTF-8 format, we can give you svn access to do the updates yourself. All DBM code is in Lua.
This is a volunteer gig only to help make mod more functional and usable by your peers and is not a paid opening. The work involved is also very little. Once things are localized the work is usually maybe a couple minutes here and there to localize anything I update or change every once in a while. If you are thinking this is a full time or payed job opportunity, it is not.
How To:
- The main thing that needs translation, are localization files inside Blackrock Foundry folder, Hellfire Citadel folder, DBM-Core folder and DBM-GUI folder.
- Basically, open localization.en (english file) and then compare with existing local files in your language (or if they don't exist in your language yet, copy english file and then translate the text to your language using the english file as a template.
- After making edits, you can share them on sites such as pastebin.com or paste2.org. Then post link to that paste here. Alternatively you can PM me to ask me for an email you can send files to. If your work looks good and you are comfortable with direct svn access I may grant you a login so you can do further commits on your own. However, I like to review your work first before I do that to ensure you have a basic understanding of the file editing before risking harmful commits to main repository so I generally prefer you send me edited files or paste them online first.
Additional Notes:
- "Option" and "Warning" lines generally can be translated best wording you choose. "Mi [...]


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Subject: Re: [htdig] applet toc and htdig OR java vs javascript
From: Gilles Detillieux (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Date: Wed Aug 30 2000 - 11:57:53 PDT
According to Frances Santiago:
> I understand the difference between the java applet I have running the toc
> and the numerous javascript links I have calling internal links. I was
> hoping that htdig could at least follow the links in the pages - I still
> don't know the answer to that question. The HREFs are listed FIRST and
> happen to include javascript after - so I guess a better question is how
> does htdig recognize the end of a link? By the closing ?
No, what Torsten was trying to explain is that a link like this:
Record Loading
is not a Java or JavaScript link at all. It's a standard HTML link,
which just happens to contain snippets of JavaScript code as the
values of some parameters added to the HTML tag. This is altogether
different from link data that's generated on the fly by the browser
while it's executing Java or JavaScript code. In your example, the
JavaScript code merely plays around with the status line, and does not
generate the hypertext reference. htdig will pick up the hypertext
reference from the HREF parameter in the  tag, and then keep storing
away the link description text until it hits the closing  tag, at
which point it processes the reference.
> I am moving a site from an NT server to Apache. It's very messy and I have
> to get it up and running quickly. I'm trying to determine how much it will
> be reworked.
Unless the code is server-generated, then your choice of server probably
won't have any impact on how the documents will be handled by htdig.
Java and JavaScript are client-side issues, with the exception of Java
servelets which I don't believe you've brought up as an issue here.
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Lindsay Lohan Choked By Congressional Staffer! Plus, Other Weekend Weddings!
- Over the weekend, Lindsay Lohan was allegedly choked by a guy she met at NYC hotspot 1 Oak. LiLo met the fellow partier and asked him to join her and her friends back at her hotel room for further shenanigans. At some point, Lohan accused him of taking photos of her with his cellphone, an altercation occurred, the guy apparently pinned Lohan to the bed and began choking her, before being pulled off by one of Lindsay's friends. He was then arrested. Well, turns out the guy — Chris LaBella, 26 — is a congressional staffer for Illinois Republican Representative John Shimkus. (Awkwardly, LaBella's FB profile photo features him standing next to GOP Vice-Presidential candidate Paul Ryan.) Something tells me LaBella is about to pink-slipped. [NYMag.com]
- Poor Biebs. The singer drank some bad milk and puked onstage while performing in Glendale, Arizona. Sexy! [The Celebrity Cafe]
- Anne Hathaway had her big wedding this weekend in Big Sur, but she wasn't alone: Jared Followill from Kings of Leon married Martha Patterson, a model, this weekend in Charlotte, Tennessee. Question: are all the members of Kings of Leon married to models now? [People]
- Lisa D'Amato, who won "America's Next Top Model: All-Stars" and appeared on "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew," also married this weekend. Mazel tov! [Us Weekly]
- I saw this video on Friday and would have considered it the best thing I'd seen all day, but as Friday was also the day Wil Wheaton declared something I wrote "fantastic," this video of "Gangnam Style" sung in Klingon is the second best thing I saw that day. [The FW]
- Ditch the twinset for these five sweater alternatives. [A New Mode]
- Want to look better in photos? It's all about the pose — here are 10 tips for doing it well. [Gurl.com]
- T-Boz from TLC is headed to TLC — the network! She'll be starring in a new reality show about relaunching her music career. [Uptown Magazine]
- Rupert Everett has apparently received death threats after he spoke out against gay parenting (despite being a gay man himself). [Huffington Post]


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- Ssh Secure Shell Resources (my more general tip)
- Chaffee's port of ssh and SCP for Windows 95 and NT (command line only version)
free client for Windows
- Cygwin OpenSSH
- FiSSH Secure Shell Client for Windows 95 and NT 4.0
free client for Windows
- F-Secure SSH Client / Server
commercial product
- Labtam's SSH Pro : SSH Client
commercial product
- man pages / tutorials / howtos
- OpenSSH v2.9p2-3 on Windows
free, open source
- Piotr Kucharski _free_ version of SSH for Windows
- PuTTY
free SSH client for Windows
- Secure iXplorer
what you need for secure FTP, VNC and Terminal sessions
- ShellGuard
commercial product SSH2, SSH1, scp and Telnet are all supported in a single client
- TTSSH: An SSH Extension to Teraterm
free SSH client for Windows
- WinSSHD
commercial, a Windows NT4/2000 SSH Secure Shell 2 server
- WinSCP
WinSCP is a freeware SCP (Secure CoPy) client for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/ME using SSH (Secure SHell). Its main function is safe copying of files between a local and a remote computer. WinSCP can do all basic operations with files, such as copying and moving (to and from a remote computer). It also allows you to rename files and folders, create new folders, and change properties of files and folders.
- scanssh protocol scanner scans a list of addresses and networks for running SSH protocol servers
- Remote vulnerability in SSH daemon crc32
- Make SSH do more
- Secure forwarding of services with SSH
- A Quickstart Guide to the Secure Shell (SSH)
- SSH and beyond...
security issues when using SSH over NFS
- SSH documentation on www.heimhardt.de
If you are wondering about the telnet build into Windows 2000 and XP, it supports native NTLM authentication which encrypts passwords. This is only useful if its two W2K boxes communicating. Telnet to anything else and its all plain text passwords and commands. And guess what, even the W2K-to-W2K telnet only encrypts the passwords and nothing else.


text: Roberto Clemente Clemente's Social Significance Remembered By Megan Fair & Essential Pittsburgh • Jun 2, 2016 Anonymous / AP Images Listen Listening... / 11:55 Listeners may notice a decreased sound quality for this interview. We apologize and are working to remedy the situation. May 31 is Roberto Clemente Day, a day set aside to remember one of the most prominent heroes in baseball history. A pioneer for Latino players, he was the first to reach the Hall of Fame, and he lived his life with a great sense of pride for his roots. David Maraniss, sports journalist and author of Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero, spoke of Clemente's pride for his culture and his devotion to social justice. 'Landslide' Votes For Clemente Earn Him Spot At National Portrait Gallery By Essential Pittsburgh • Aug 27, 2015 Teenie Harris / National Portrait Gallery Listen Listening... / 10:52 A picture of Roberto Clemente warming up on field back in 1960 is being featured through November 1st at the National Portrait Gallery after being chosen by voters worldwide. The picture taken during that world series season by Teenie Harris was put head to head with shots of two other baseball legends; Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax, in a project know as "Recognize." Two Musicals Trace The Life of Roberto Clemente By Erika Beras • Sep 22, 2014 The Associated Press Roberto Clemente died on Dec. 31, 1972, but you'd never know it from the hundreds of people who show up to Pirates games wearing jerseys with his name and number — 21 — printed on them. Now two musicals will trace the life of "The Great One" from his childhood in Puerto Rico to his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates from the mid-50's to his untimely death at age 38. Composer Alki Steriopoulous to spend nearly a decade writing a musical about Clemente. It's called "21." The Great 21: Remembering Roberto Clemente By Essential Pittsburgh • Aug 18, 2014 Via Tsuji / Flickr Listen Listening... / 34:47 In October, a new play about Pirates legend Roberto Clemente is coming to Point Park University. The musical, entitled 21, is written and composed by Alki Steriopoulos, who grew up in Pittsburgh. Steriopoulos began working on the play in 2007 but October will mark the debut of 21 as a full production. Steriopoulos says he was compelled to write a musical about Clemente after writing a short story based on an incident where he first heard about Clemente's death. After a New Year's Eve party, Steriopoulos was falling asleep at the wheel. He had the radio on and woke up to the news flash of Clemente's plane going down, just in time to avoid crashing into the back of an 18-wheeler. "He had said, 'If a man has the chance to make a difference in someone's life, in life and doesn't, then he hasn't really been here.' It started me thinking in so many ways, in fate or coincidence or synchronicity, everyone influences everyone else in ways sometimes that we can't even know. In this case, I was here and was able to be a man and live a life because of Clemente's death and there was no way that he could ever know that his death had saved my life." The musical focuses on Clemente's life from his beginnings as a star in Puerto Rico until his death. Steriopoulos says the musical focuses on aspects of Clemente's life that many may not have heard before. Clemente was especially influenced by the women in his life, including a deceased sister whose influence Clemente always carried with him as he played. The musical 21 will premiere in Pittsburgh at the Playhouse Theater on October 17th and run through October 26th. It's presented by Point Park University's Conservatory Theater Company. Steve Blass and Clemente Former Pirates pitcher Steve Blass also remembers Roberto Clemente on his 80th birthday. Blass was a teammate of Clemente's for nine seasons and together they led Pittsburgh to the 1971 World Series Championship. Blass says Clemente was a guarded person as he tried to move beyond both the color stereotype and the language barrier between himself and the rest of the league. Despite these struggles, Blass remembers his former teammate as a kind person. The True Legacy of an Undying Hero By Katie Blackley • Oct 25, 2013 Katie Blackley / 90.5 WESA Listen Listening... / 20:26 Devoted father, philanthropist and baseball hero Roberto Clemente holds an impressive number of personal and professional accomplishments. In addition to being the first Latin American baseball player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, he was the 1971 World Series MVP and a 12-time Gold Glove winner. His family has written a new book, Clemente: The True Legacy of an Undying Hero, which reveals never-before-seen photographs and commemorates his legendary career through the voices of his children and wife. His youngest son and co-author Luis Clemente says the book remembers his father for his loyalty, honesty and relentless courage. 'Pops' Stargell Biography Highlights His Love for the City of Champions By Katherine Blackley • Jul 29, 2013 Triumph Books Listen Listening... / 18:04 National League and World Series MVP, Baseball Hall of Fame member and Pittsburgh Pirates all-time home run leader are only a few of the many titles held by the great Willie "Pops" Stargell. As a leader and advocate both on and off the field, Stargell remains one of the most beloved sports figures in Pittsburgh. His legendary status and continued admiration from baseball fans, prompted Pittsburgh native Richard "Pete" Peterson to author the player's biography, Pops: The Willie Stargell Story.


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Collier project developer draws ire of nearby residents
Residents in Collier want township officials to take strong action against a developer whose property they say is causing flooding in residential areas.
Residents in the Cubbage Hill area say water runoff from the Prestley Heights development, which straddles Collier and Carnegie, has flooded basements and yards.
Township officials, including code enforcement officer Tom Plietz, met with representatives of Prestley Heights Sept. 5 to discuss storm-water issues. Representatives from Carnegie also were present.
"The bottom line is that we're trying to provide support for Collier so they can get the relief they need," Carnegie borough manger Steve Beuter said.
Prestley Heights developer Hiroo Patel, of Tri-State Design and Development, was at the meeting. Plietz said Patel offered several solutions for the runoff problem, including higher curbs, increased earthen berms and a larger detention area.
The township, through the state department of environmental protection, issued a compliance order July 25 requiring Patel to "cease all earth disturbance activities at the (site) except for the implementation and maintenance" that would lessen the runoff issue. The site previously had been cited by the county conservation district for ongoing violations.
Patel said corrective action has been implemented in one area of the development already.
DEP officials indicated the department cannot assist the township with cost recovery for clean-up expenses incurred by the township and residents.
Residents said they want compensated for the damage caused by the July 10 flooding, which they claim was a result of poor storm-water management at Prestley Heights.
Township commissioners reminded residents that the board voted unanimously against the development in 2004, but Patel filed a land-use appeal in the county court of common pleas. Patel won the appeal in 2005.
Megan Guza is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 412-388-5810 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The 500 seat Colonial Theater was damaged in a 1940 fire. The Colonial Theatre was rebuilt, with an increased seating capacity of 805, and operated at least into the 1950's.
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I've found that Boxoffice has quite a few misspellings and typos, and sometimes has dumb mistakes, such as items datelined to the wrong location (several instances of Lodi, California, for a Lodi Theatre in Lodi, Ohio, for example), but overall it is pretty reliable. Much of the content appears to have been compiled by the magazine's copy editors from notes or press releases by theater owners themselves.
The editors probably worked in haste, and many of the notes were probably hand written, accounting for the frequent minor errors. Harry Hart was one of their regional corespondents, though, and did a regular column for a few years, often going out to interview people in the industry, as well as doing the same sort of compiling that the staffers in Hollywood probably did, but for territory with which he was personally familiar, so he was less likely than them to make mistakes. I think he was based in Charlotte.
I have noticed that the seating capacities Boxoffice gives are sometimes way off. They are probably the least reliable figures the magazine published. Sometimes a photo of an auditorium published with an article about a theater will show that there are obviously many fewer seats than the article itself claims there are. The magazine is very useful for such things as opening and closing dates, though, and a lot of other information.
The Colonial Theater was on N. Main st. What you see on google maps is the area where Cannaon mills plant 1 was North Kannapolis is an area about 2 miles to the north the cordanates for google maps is
35°30'33.71"N 80°36'59.03"W it is just a parking lot now. The picture of the site is here
Finally found a picture of the Colonel to post you can see it here.
I am so impressed with the quality of research and the details presented. Where was the Palace located?
Ken Walter: Belated thanks for posting the photo links. I didn't get a notification for the page update back in April.
Thomas2: The Palace was located at 540 E. C Street. There are links to a couple of photos of it (thanks again to Ken Walter) on its Cinema Treasures page.
Joe, Thank you. I would like to read anything that you care to post
Hi Everyone, I would like to share a Google map with you. It indicates the theaters. Corrections or any other information is appreciated.
Chuck, very good idea about the addresses. All suggestions appreciated.
My mother saw "The Wizard of Oz" here in September, 1939. It was the very first movie she ever attended.
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Archives for the Month of October, 2005
got bored at 2am
Sunday, 30 October 2005
amongst other things,
Tuesday, 25 October 2005
this is why i havent been posting much. after a lot of work, the images above are now one continous 360 degree panoramic, with the levels and curves corrected so it's all pretty seemless.
backwards, in a way
Saturday, 22 October 2005
another from wales
Friday, 21 October 2005
more frequent images soon..
so much work
Wednesday, 19 October 2005
sorry. i'll post soon. i have a week off from college starting monday, so i'll have a lot more time then.
found object 5×4 – final print two
Friday, 14 October 2005
wales – colour film
Tuesday, 11 October 2005
sorry for the lack of updates recently. so much college work. but in theory that means i'll have more to post soon, so it should work.
because i like it enough to post it twice
Saturday, 8 October 2005
studio work – found object
Friday, 7 October 2005
this is the same golf ball as i found on the beach here. the idea was to bring the object we found in wales back to college and use studio lighting effectively to capture it differently. this isnt the final composition, and the final shots will be printed from 5×4 negatives, but here's the test […]
tom and the sky
Tuesday, 4 October 2005


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Kate Upton Spilled Out of Her Bikini and Showed Off Some Terrible Tan Lines
Are These the Ten Biggest D-Bags in Classic Rock?
5 Disgusting Things on Your Body Right Now
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Necessity's child
For the past two-plus decades, a professor has discovered more than 25,000 inventions created by ordinary people in rural India. He believes the best ideas for making life a little easier in the developing world won't come from corporate research labs in Silicon Valley, but from people struggling to survive.
That being said, we do hear the upgraded case on the new iPad can double as an areca-nut cracker.
Let's get busy: Concerned about an aging population and low birth rate, the clerics who run Iran have ordered their subjects to start making more babies.
To give the effort a much-needed boost, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered every married Iranian couple of childbearing age to be issued a copy of Barry White's 1974 album "Can't Get Enough."
Don't know much about history: On this day in 1956, at the height of the Cold War with the atheistic Soviet Union, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a measure making In God We Trust the national motto, replacing E Pluribus Unum (Out of many, one).
In today's credit crunch, a more apt motto might be Jean Sheppard's: In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff


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Read Quick has been updated with support for Readability. With the addition of Readability, Read Quick now supports the three major read-it-later services, including Instapaper and Pocket already present in the app. This release also contains layout updates and bug fixes.
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The Google Reader apocalypse sent many of us scrambling for replacements on both our iOS devices and our Macs. Some of the more popular options, such as Reeder, haven't updated in time for the Mac, or perhaps our new RSS service of choice isn't supported by our most used application. The scramble settled, eventually, and I found myself on Newsblur which then lead me to ReadKit for Mac. ReadKit goes far beyond just RSS, though, it'll pull in most of the popular reading services too. Let's take a look.
Looking for great free reading apps for your iPad? The App Store is home to over half a million apps and games, and a surprising number of them are available for free. Some of the most popular free apps are free reading apps. We're talking ebooks, comic books, web articles, and more. So start reading, and then start downloading!
Rene and Seth talk WWDC 2012 and iOS 6, Apple's Q2 2012 financial results, free iPhone games, Instapaper vs Pocket vs Readability, and Google Drive. This is iPhone & iPad Live!
Instapaper, Pocket (formerly known as Read It Later), and Readability are all great ways to "read later", or time-shift the Web articles and other content you don't have time to read now. (Think of them as TiVo for the web.) Some are highly focused on text, others also prioritize photos and videos. Some are highly focused on iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad only, others offer more cross-platform and Android support. Each one tries to solve the same problem -- letting you enjoy the content you want to enjoy, when you want to enjoy it -- but goes about it in a different way. So which one does it best, and for whom?
The popular reading platform Readability has finally made it's way to the iPhone and iPad and boy is it beautiful. Readability transforms web pages into a clean, simple reading view that can be read later on your iPhone, iPad, or computer. Once you've synced over your articles, you don't even need to be online to read them.
Readability, the service that takes the cruft out of online articles and gives you pure, gloriously legible text, has been rejected from the iPhone and iPad App Store due to Apple's new subscription service and its policies. If you're not familiar with Readbility, think Instapaper or the Reader button in the latest version of Safari (which ironically uses Readability's technology!) However, this has far wider ramifications as it suggests all iOS software-as-a-service (SaaS) front ends might like