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Q: Blazor's InputSelect Component not updating form validations errors on it's value change I am using Blazor's InputSelect Component on a field called LocationId.
[Range(1, int.MaxValue, ErrorMessage = "Please Select Location")]
public int LocationId { get; set; }

On my razor component, where form validations are taking place, I am calling a child component like this:

    Location
    <ValidationMessage For="@(() => StudentData.LocationId)" />
    <SelectCommon RowType="Location" RowData="Locations" @bind-MyPhrase="@StudentData.LocationId">
        <SelectOption>
            <option selected disabled value="0">Choose a Location</option>
        </SelectOption>

        <OptionValue Context="p">
            <option value="@p.Id">@p.City, @p.State</option>
        </OptionValue>
    </SelectCommon>

In the child component there is the InputSelect component whose code is:
@typeparam RowType

<InputSelect class="form-control" @bind-Value="HandleChange">
    @if (SelectOption != null)
    {
        @SelectOption
    }

    @foreach (RowType item in RowData)
    {
        @OptionValue(item);
    }
</InputSelect>

@code {
    [Parameter]
    public RenderFragment SelectOption { get; set; }

    [Parameter]
    public RenderFragment<RowType> OptionValue { get; set; }

    [Parameter]
    public IEnumerable<RowType> RowData { get; set; }

    [Parameter]
    public int MyPhrase { get; set; }

    [Parameter]
    public EventCallback<int> MyPhraseChanged { get; set; }

    public int HandleChange
    {
        get { return MyPhrase; }
        set
        {
            MyPhrase = value;
            MyPhraseChanged.InvokeAsync(MyPhrase);
        }
    }
}

The work of @bind-Value="HandleChange" is to create blazor chain binding thing which is working perfectly. The parent component has this attribute @bind-MyPhrase="@StudentData.LocationId" which send the value of the model to the child for binding.
The problem is happening when i change the value of the select but the validation messages are not updated. However when I click the button which submits the form the validation messages updates. You can see the below gif which is showning this thing.

I have also notices that If id do not go with the chain binding approach and keep my InputSelect directly inside the EditForm component then this problem does not happen. It happens only in the parent-child way of coding (chain binding).
How can i correct this things?

A: Thanks to @dani-herrera
ApplicationUserDropDown.razor (child component):
    <TelerikComboBox id="userbox" @bind-Value="@Value"
             Data="@Data" TItem="UserListVM"
             TValue="Guid?" Placeholder="Select User"
             ValueField="Id" TextField="FullName">

ApplicationUserDropDown.razor.cs (child component):
public partial class ApplicationUserDropDown
{
    #region Value two way binding
    [CascadingParameter] EditContext EditContext { get; set; } = default!;
    [Parameter] public Expression<Func<Guid?>> ValueExpression { get; set; }

    private Guid? _valueId;
    [Parameter]
    public Guid? Value
    {
        get => _valueId;
        set
        {
            if (_valueId == value) return;
            _valueId = value;
            ValueChanged.InvokeAsync(value);
            var fieldIdentifier = FieldIdentifier.Create(ValueExpression);
            EditContext.NotifyFieldChanged(fieldIdentifier);
        }
    }
    [Parameter]
    public EventCallback<Guid?> ValueChanged { get; set; }

    #endregion Value two way binding

razor page using child component:
<ApplicationUserDropDown @bind-Value="Account.OwnerId"></ApplicationUserDropDown>
            <ValidationMessage For="@(() => Account.OwnerId)">Owner is Required</ValidationMessage>

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One final quick note on the Rockies ticket sales debacle - following up on my previous posting on the subject. This note discusses how to including the humans in your system design can improve both your perceived availability and your customer satisfaction while cutting your costs.
Pacolian did tweak their application to be a little more friendly to their infrastructure and perhaps fixed some networking issues, so that people did eventually get tickets to the Rockies/Red Sox games in Denver. But, many, many people got told they were going to get tickets, but the system was still so slow and under such heavy load that it timed out many or even most users before they could pay for their tickets. So, even the second try was highly unsatisfactory, and increased infrastructure costs. Although you could argue that the system didn't crash, having it be so slow as to be unusable certainly creates the perception of unavailability in the minds of many users.
If you want to sell tickets to a hot event, there are many ways to do it. For any system you come up with, you can expect the users who use it to try and game the system somehow to increase their odds.
What are the goals of selling tickets to events?
Announce a registration period of 8-18 hours where people can register for which games they want to buy tickets for, and which price ranges they're willing to buy.
Anyone registering during this time can register once, and give an email address where they can be reached, and which can be accessed from this computer. Warn people not to do this on shared computers.
Each computer gets one cookie and one email address for registering. If you try and re-register the same browser or use the email address multiple times, you're rejected.
At the end of the registration period, winners are randomly selected, and notified by email including a random cookie which is correlated to the cookie given to their browser earlier. (you have to have both the cookie and the email to purchase a ticket).
They have a specified period of time to purchase the tickets, and any given credit card number can't be used more than once per game. Any tickets not paid for by that time get sold to other applicants.
This means that there is no advantage to registering early or late. As long as you register, you have the same chance as anyone else. The peak load on such a lottery system system is probably one or two orders of magnitude below that of the Pacolian thundering herd design.
The possibility of gaming the system still exists, but is probably no worse than the original Pacolian system.
All in all, a big win. To be fair, I didn't think of this idea myself, but before the Rockies/Pacolian debacle, I'd never put much thought into ticket sales either. Because I'm not an expert in this area, there are no doubt many improvements that an expert would make to my proposal to make it harder to game. However, from an availability perspective, this application design is much more robust than the original Pacolian system because it takes into account the motivations of the humans that are part of the computer system.
Today, the good people of Major League Baseball suffered what looked like a denial-of-service attack which kept them from selling tickets to the (at least) the World Series games in Denver (at Coors Field). This "attack" started at the same time as tickets sales began - 1000 MDT.
Amusingly enough, this apparent denial-of-service attack was probably caused by customers. This year's World Series promises to be a good one, between the venerable Boston Red Sox and the unbelievably hot and exceptional Colorado Rockies (Go Rockies!), who are in the World Series for the first time ever, and who have played some absolutely amazing baseball in recent weeks.
As a result of this first-of-a-kind opportunity, many Coloradans stayed home from work, or took a "break" from work to order tickets all at once. The server infrastructure couldn't stand up to the load, and no one got enough packets through to be able to order any tickets.
Since I was one of those trying to order tickets, and this was clearly a lack of availability in a critical time, I did a tiny bit of investigation. It appears that they had about 15 servers in their mix. The ticket sales are being managed by Paciolan.
In an event like this, it is vital that they have both a load balancing methodology and a load-shedding methodology. It appears that they had both. However, the symptoms suggest that their load-shedding methodology was insufficient to this incredible load. Some of us Coloradans may be fickle Rockies' fans, but we're sure loyal when they're hot - especially when our other teams aren't going anywhere! Unfortunately, the Rockies were too hot and and their fans too loyal for Pacolian's load shedding infrastructure.
They have external web servers which put you in a holding pattern, and try and get through to the inner sanctum of web servers once a minute.
If you get in to the inner web servers, you can then order tickets, presumably without a heavy overload, since the inner infrastructure limits the number of simultaneous users.
However, there is an Achilles' heel here - which both the loyal and the fickle Rockies' fans ran immediately into. You have to have enough network bandwidth to allow people access to the outer infrastructure. If you don't, various bad things can happen - your load balancers can crash, your routers can crash. I'm not a networking expert, but if the offered load is an order of magnitude or two higher than the incoming infrastructure can support, most packets won't get through. If most don't get through, then it doesn't matter how good the load shedding methods are, or how robust your servers are. Customers can't buy your product. OOPS!
Pacolian claimed that they were the victims of a real DDOS attack, and that they measured 8.5 million hits in an hour. Quite honestly, that doesn't sound that high to me. Personally, I had 4 browsers going at once. 8.5 million hits and hour is only 2361 hits/second, which is less than 142K hits/minute. In my judgment, between people like me, school kids, scalpers, etc. 142K people isn't very many. If they were all running 3 or 4 browsers, it would only take about 35K people - which is basically nothing. Also, when you look at network bandwidth, ethernet links, no matter how fast they are, can only support a relatively small number of packets/second maximum because of minimum times required between packets. IIRC, that number is something like 1000 packets/sec. If they only had a single gigabit link to their infrastrucure, 142K people would be 2 orders of magnitude larger than that - which would put us in the right ball park (pun intended) for the behavior that was observed.
One can look at the fact that they almost certainly had only a single site to take this load as a single point of failure. The networking infrastructure to that site failed. Exactly how it failed, I can't say. The fact that it failed is indisputable.
But, this will take longer, and has already aggravated customers a great deal. The Rockies will probably survive this error - after all that's not their specialty - they're baseball players. But, it will take Paciolan a while to live this down. They underestimated the load, maybe they bid too low for selling the tickets, maybe it was done with too little lead time, whatever. In the end, this is their failure. This will have cost them a good bit of reputation. If they had succeeded, they would probably have the World Series business and maybe other sports for several years to come. Under the circumstances, this will no doubt be a tremendous opportunity cost - the cost of lost opportunities.
Although I can't quantify the size of their opportunity loss, it is a clear illustration of how it is that lack of availability translates directly into the bottom line of companies - even if it's future revenues. To be fair to Paciolan,I believe that this is the first time anyone has attempted to sell World Series tickets only by the web. Hopefully, it won't be the last.
IBM has done some very high-profile sports web sites in the past, and I can tell you from the people that I've worked with who worked on those, that they required lots of money, incredible planning, always at least three geographic sites with separate networking infrastructure. Fortunately, so far, IBM has not suffered any embarrassing failures of this magnitude.
Maybe you're saying "I don't sell World Series Tickets, so this doesn't apply to me". Probably you don't sell World Series tickets. But, you do probably do something vital for your company's future health. But, if you take this catastrophe to heart, maybe you can avoid the same embarassing and expensive fate as Paciolan.
If anyone from Paciolan reads this article, I'm sure our readership would love to hear what actually went wrong, and how, in your opinion, it might have been avoided. Of course, feel free to correct the things I guessed at as well!
Even more than usual, I commend my disclaimer page to you. I don't speak for anyone but myself. Not my employer, the Boston Red Sox, the outstanding Colorado Rockies, nor the unlucky/unfortunate Paciolan.
See also my follow-up posting  on this subject.


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\section{Introduction}
In recent years there has been increasing interest on the multicritical behavior of disordered systems. Special attention has been given to models with the inclusion of random fields, in the case of disordered magnetic systems, both for theoretical interest and also for its correspondence with the experimental results \cite{Belanger}.  Among those models, the Blume-Capel model \cite{Blume, Capel} and some of it extensions has received a lot of attention. The Blume-Capel is itself  an extension of the classical Ising model for spin-1 which takes into account the effect of a local crystal field anisotropy. Its phase diagram displays a line of continuous transition line which meets a first-order transition line which meet at a tricritical point \cite{BlumeEmeryGriffiths}. From the theoretical point of view a particularly interesting question is how such phase diagrams are changed under the effect of quenched randomness \cite{Harris, ImryMa, Berker, Hui}. Because of that, Kaufman and Kanner \cite{Kaufman} studied the Blume-Capel model under a random magnetic field and obtained a rich variety of phase diagrams.The effect  of random crystal field has been considered by a several authors \cite{Benyoussef,  Boccara89, Carneiro89, Carneiro90, Kaneyoshi, Maritan, Buzano, Borelli, Branco97, Lara98, Branco99, Salmon10, Albayrak, Gulpinar11, Yuksel, Gulpinar12, Lara12}. Besides the approach adopted, in some of these works the choice of the random crystal field distribution is also different. However, in all cases the phase diagrams display a rich behavior with the presence of critical and coexistence lines, as well as many multicritical points and re-entrant phenomena. In their recent work, Salmon and Tapia studied an infinite-range Blume-Capel under a quenched disorder crystal field following a superposition of two Gaussian distribution and classified the phase diagrams according to their topology \cite{Salmon10}. Recently, the effect of a special discrete random crystal field distribution was investigated by the pair approximation approach \cite{Lara12}. The same type of random crystal field distribution had already been investigated by the real-space renormalization-group approach, as well as by the mean-field approximation \cite{Branco97, Branco99}. However, as far as the results can be compared they lead to qualitatively different phase diagrams for low temperature. For instance, while the pair approximation predicts first-order transitions between the paramagnetic and ferromagnetic at zero temperature as in Figure 2 of \cite{Lara12}, the conclusion of the single-site mean-field approximation is that the ground state is always ordered according to Eq. (3) of \cite{Branco99}. Thus, we decided to investigate this point further by considering an exactly version of the Blume-Capel model under the random crystal field distribution considered by \cite{Branco97, Branco99, Lara12}. Besides, we are also interested in investigate the possible topologies for phase diagrams predicted by this sort of mean-field treatment along the lines of the continuous distribution started by\cite{Salmon10}. Finally, since the re-entrant phenomena in random spin-1 models has attracted some recent interest (see, for instante, \cite{daCosta} and references therein), our results may give some hint as to what expect in more disordered system as in the case of the Blume-Capel spin-glass under a random crystal field \cite{Ferrari}.

This work is organized as follows. In Section 2 we introduce the Blume-Capel model under the presence of a random crystal field and obtain the basic equations. In Section 3 we present the obtained phase diagrams. Finally, we present our conclusions in Section 4.
\section{The Model}
Let us consider the infinite-range Blume-Capel model described by the following Hamiltonian:
\begin{eqnarray}
{\cal H}=-\frac{J}{2N}\sum_{(i,j)}^{N} S_{i} S_{j} + \sum_{i=1}^N {\Delta}_{i} S_{i}^{2}\  ,
\label{eq:hamiltonian_BC}
\end{eqnarray}

\noindent
where $N$ is the number of spins and $S_i=-1, 0, +1$, for all sites $i = 1, \cdots, N$. The first sum runs over all pairs of spins $(i, j)$. The ferromagnetic coupling takes the form $J/N$ to account for the free energy extensivity. The random crystal fields ${\Delta}_i$ are quenched variables, independent and identically distributed according to the following probability distribution:
\begin{eqnarray}
P({\Delta}_i;  D, p)= p\delta({\Delta}_i-D)+(1-p)\delta({\Delta}_i+D)\ .
\label{eq:probability_function}
\end{eqnarray}

As far as we know, the above probability distribution was introduced by Branco and Boechat \cite{Branco97} and Branco \cite{Branco99} and has been recently considered by Lara \cite{Lara12}. The
transformation ${\Delta}^{\prime}_i = ({\Delta}_i + D)/2$ leads to the probability distribution mostly used in the study of the Blume-Capel in discrete
random crystal field as, for instance, in \cite{Benyoussef, Carneiro90}, but also produces a slight change in the Hamiltonian. The general properties of the phase diagram should not depend on the particular form of the discrete random crystal field distribution. Thus, besides our interest in making comparison with known results (\cite{Branco97, Branco99, Lara12}), another reason for our choice of the probability distribution is the symmetry inherent in Eq.~(\ref{eq:probability_function}) which can be expressed by:

\begin{eqnarray}
P({\Delta}_i; D, p) =  P({\Delta}_i; -D, 1-p).
\label{eq:sympd}
\end{eqnarray}
Therefore, in order to determine phase diagrams for fixed values of $p$ it is sufficient to consider
the domain defined by $D \geq 0$ and $1/2 \le p \le 1$.

Using the replica method (see the Appendix for details), we obtain the free-energy density, in units of $J$:
\begin{eqnarray}
 f(t,d,p;m)= &\displaystyle{\frac{1}{2}}m^2 - pt\ln\left[1+ 2\exp(-d/t)\cosh\left(m/t\right)\right] \nonumber \\ &-\left(1-p\right)t\ln \left[1+ 2\exp(d/t)\cosh\left(m/t\right)\right] ,
\label{eq:fed}
\end{eqnarray}
where $t= k_BT/J$, $d=D/J$, and $m$ is the magnetization. The equation of state can be obtained
by taking the minimum of the above free-energy functional with respect to $m$, which leads to
\begin{eqnarray}
m = \frac{2p \sinh\left(m/t\right)}{\exp(d/t)+2\cosh\left(m/t\right)} +\frac{2\left(1-p\right) \sinh\left(m/t\right)}{\exp(-d/t)+2\cosh\left(m/t\right)}.
\label{eq:mag}
\end{eqnarray}

The thermodynamic properties of the model is completely determined by  Eqs.~(\ref{eq:fed}) and (\ref{eq:mag}) which, in turn, reveals clearly the  symmetry expressed by Eq.~(\ref{eq:sympd}). For given values of $p$, $t$ and $d$ the physical solution corresponds to the global minima of the free-energy density. Thus, for a given value of $p$ we can determine the $d-t$ phase diagram. Eq.~(\ref{eq:mag})  always have a trivial solution corresponding to the paramagnetic phase \textbf{P}, with $m=0$. The corresponding paramagnetic free-energy density is given by
\begin{eqnarray}
	f_P(t,d,p)= - pt\ln\left[1+ 2\exp(-d/t)\right] -\left(1-p\right)t\ln \left[1+ 2\exp(d/t)\right] .
	\label{eq:fpara}
\end{eqnarray}
Besides the paramagnetic solution, Eq.~(\ref{eq:mag}) may present distinct non-trivial solutions,  corresponding to different ferromagnetic phases.

Let us consider the ground state. For $d > 0$, the free-energy density $f_P$ for the paramagnetic solution becomes
\begin{eqnarray}
f_{0} \equiv f_P(t=0, d, p)= -\left(1-p\right)d.
\label{eq:f0}
\end{eqnarray}

Apart from the paramagnetic phase, we find two ferromagnetic solutions. The first type (\textbf{F1})  is characterized by $m_1=1$, with the free energy density given by:
 \begin{eqnarray}
 	f_{1} \equiv f(t=0,d,p;m=1) = -\frac{1}{2}+ \left(2p-1\right)d, \quad \mbox{for} ~ d<1 .
 	\label{eq:f1}
 \end{eqnarray}
 The second type of ferromagnetic solution (\textbf{F2}) is given by $m_2= 1-p$, with the free energy density given by:
 \begin{eqnarray}
 	f_{2} \equiv f(t=0,d,p;m=1-p) = -\frac{1}{2}(1-p)^2 - (1-p)d , \quad \mbox{for} ~ d \ge 1-p .
 	\label{eq:f2}
 \end{eqnarray}

 From Eqs.~(\ref{eq:f0}) and (\ref{eq:f2}), we note that $f_2 \le f_0$ wherever the \textbf{F2} phase exists. Moreover, from the analysis of Eqs.~(\ref{eq:f0})$-$(\ref{eq:f2}) we find that the ground state
 consists of the  \textbf{F1} phase for $d < d_0$, while for $d > d_0$ it corresponds to the \textbf{F2} phase. At zero temperature, $t= 0$, we determine a first-order transition between the  \textbf{F1} and \textbf{F2} phase at $d_0$ given by
 \begin{eqnarray}
 	d_0=1-\frac{1}{2}p .
 	\label{eq:d0}
 \end{eqnarray}
 Therefore, except for $p$ strictly equals to 1 the paramagnetic phase is never realized at zero temperature.

In general the $d-t$ phase diagrams for a given value of $p$ can be determined numerically from  Eqs.~(\ref{eq:fed}) and (\ref{eq:mag}). However, the stability of the paramagnetic phase can be determined analytically. From this analysis we can find critical frontiers as well as possible tricritical points. For this purpose, let us introduce the following parametrization:
\begin{eqnarray}
a=\mbox{exp}(d/t) .
\label{eq:parametrization}
\end{eqnarray}
Nearby a continuous transition from ferromagnetic to paramagnetic phase, we consider a small magnetization $m \simeq 0$ and write a Landau-like expansion for the free energy density:
\begin{eqnarray}
f(t, d, p; m) = A_0 + A_{2}m^2 + A_{4}m^4 + A_{6}m^6 + \cdots .
\label{eq:Landau}
\end{eqnarray}
The coefficient $A_0$ corresponds to $f_P(t,d,p)$ given by Eq.~(\ref{eq:fpara}), while the remaining coefficients are given by:

\begin{eqnarray}
A_2 & =& \frac{1}{2} -\frac{p}{2t} q - \frac{(1-p)}{2t} r  ,
\label{eq:f_2} \\
A_4 &=& -\frac{p}{24t^3} (1-3q) q -\frac{(1-p)}{24t^3} (1-3r) r,
\label{eq:f_4} \\
A_6 &=& -\frac{p}{720 t^5} (1 - 15q + 30q^2) q  -\frac{(1-p)}{720 t^5} (1 - 15r + 30r^2) r,
\label{eq:f_6}
\end{eqnarray}

\noindent
where $q$ and $r$ given by
\begin{eqnarray}
q = \frac{2}{2+a} , \quad r = \frac{2a}{2a+1}.
\label{eq:q&r}
\end{eqnarray}
These new parameters $q$ and $r$ are not independent and can be interpreted as the density of spins $S_i = \pm 1$ in the paramagnetic phase for the pure cases $p=1$ and $p=0$, respectively.

A continuous transition line from the ferromagnetic to paramagnetic phase is given by
$$ A_2 = 0, \quad \mbox{while} ~~ A_4 > 0 . $$
From ~(\ref{eq:parametrization}), one has the following expression for the critical line:
\begin{eqnarray}
t=\frac{2p}{2+a}+\frac{2\left(1-p\right)a}{2a+1} ,
\label{eq:tcrit}
\end{eqnarray}
which is valid as far as $A_4 > 0$.

As in the pure case $p =1$, we can find tricritical point when

$$ A_2 = 0, ~~ A_4 = 0, \quad \mbox{while} ~~ A_6 > 0 . $$

Since the coefficients $A_2, A_4$ and $A_6$ are functions of $t$, $d$ (trough $a$) and $p$, we find a threshold for the tricriticallity as $ A_2 = A_4 = A_6 = 0 $, which corresponds to a multicritical point when $A_8 > 0$ (sometimes called the last tricritical point). Thus, we determine the value
\begin{eqnarray}
 p^{\star} = 0.978400\dots ,
 \label{eq:pstar}
\end{eqnarray}
such that for $p^{\star} < p \le 1$ there are tricritical points in the $d-t$ phase diagrams.

For $p < p^{\star}$ the tricritical behavior disappears leaving room to other critical or multicritical behavior as the appearance of critical endpoints. Finally, we can also determine a value of $p = p_r = 0.982811\dots $ such that the tricritical point coincides with the maximum of the critical line $d = d(t)$ implicitly determined from Eq.~(\ref{eq:tcrit}). Thus, for $p^{\star} \le p < p_r$ there are  re-entrant phenomena from the ferromagnetic to the paramagnetic phase associated with the tricritical behavior. In the following section we present our results in terms of the $d-t
$ phase diagrams.

\section{Phase Diagrams}

The phase diagrams were determined by numerically finding the global mininum of the free energy density given by Eq.~(\ref{eq:fed}). In general the $d-t$ phase diagrams consists of continuous transition as well as first-order transitions lines and some special, or multicritical, points. The pure case, which corresponds to $p=1$, is well-known to display both first-order as well as continuous transition lines
separating the ferromagnetic and paramagnetic phase. These lines meet at the so-called tricritical point \cite{BlumeEmeryGriffiths}. Since we are interested in the disordered case, we will no longer discuss the phase diagram for the pure case. As in similar models, the tricritical behavior is affected by the randomness. Besides, the randomness may cause the appearance of ordered critical point, which is the end of the coexistence line between two ordered phases, as well as critical endpoint, which is the end of critical line on a coexistence curve. Following \cite{Salmon10}, we use the following convention in our phase diagrams:
\begin{itemize}
	\item continuous transition or critical line: continuous line;
	\item first-order transition line: dotted line;
	\item tricritical point: located by a black circle;
	\item ordered critical point: located by an asterisk;
	\item critical endpoint: located by a black triangle;
\end{itemize}

Depending on the value of $p$ we found essentially three topologically distinct phase diagram in the $d-t$ plane.

The phase diagrams belonging to Topology I occurs for $1/2 \le p < p_{l} = 0.926277\dots$. They present
a continuous transition line between the paramagnetic and ferromagnetic phases, as displayed in Figure 1.
For low temperatures there is a first-order order transition line separating distinct ferromagnetic phases \textbf{F1} and \textbf{F2}. This line ends at an ordered critical point.

The Topology II phase diagrams appear for $ p_{l} < p < p^{\star}$. Their general behavior is ilustrated in Figure 2. The paramagnetic phase is separated from the ordered (ferromagnetic) phases by first-order and continuous transition lines. For low temperature and $d \gtrsim 1-p/2$ there is a critical line between the paramagnetic and the ferromagnetic
\textbf{F2} phase. Also, for low temperatures and $d \cong 1-p/2$ there is a first-order transition between the \textbf{F1}$-$\textbf{F2} phases. These two lines meet at a critical endpoint with a second first-order transition line between the paramagnetic \textbf{P} and the \textbf{F1} phase. This new line ends at another critical endpoint common to the critical line between the paramagnetic and ferromagnetic phases. Finally, this second critical endpoint belongs to a second first-order line between the ferromagnetic phases \textbf{F1} and \textbf{F3}. This kind of topology is also characterized by re-entrant effects for intermediate temperatures and $d$ slight greater than $1-p/2$.

The third type of phase diagrams defines the Topology III. They are obtained for $p^{\star} < p < 1$. The intermediate to low temperature regime is quite similar to Type II phase diagram. However, the paramagnetic and ferromagnetic \textbf{F1} phase are separated by a coexistence line at intermediate temperatures and a continuous transition line for higher temperatures. These two lines meet together at a tricritical point. In this case, for a small $p$-window we have reentrant phenomena ($p^{\star} < p <p_r$). A typical case of Topology III phase diagram is shown in Figure 3.

An important consequence of the random anisotropy distribution used in the present work is that the paramagnetic phase cannot be realized at zero temperature for $p$ strictly less than 1. Thus, in our case there is no phase diagram corresponding to topology I described by \cite{Salmon10}. In particular, our findings do not reproduce the structure of the phase diagrams obtained by \cite{Lara12} who find stable paramagnetic phases at zero temperature as can be seen in their Figures 1 and 2. Also, our low temperature results are at variance with those obtained by real-space renormalization group analysis \cite{Branco97} for low dimensional systems. Perhaps these disagreements are due the mean-field character of our infinite-range model. We plan to investigate this further in future works.

\begin{figure}[!htbp]
	\centering
		\includegraphics[scale=0.38]{grafico_p=0,5_corrigido.eps}
	\caption{$d-t$ phase diagram for $p=0.5$, corresponding to Topology I, displaying a continuous
		transition and a first-order transition line, as well an ordered critical point.}
\label{fig:grafico_p05}
\end{figure}

\begin{comment}
\begin{figure}[!htbp]
	\centering
		\includegraphics[scale=0.38]{grafico_p075_corrigido.eps}
	\caption{Phase Diagram of the BC model whose crystal field obeys the equation (2) for $p=0.75$.}
\label{fig:grafico_p075}
\end{figure}
\end{comment}

\begin{figure}[!htbp]
	\centering
		\includegraphics[scale=0.38]{grafico_p=0,9_corrigido.eps}
	\caption{$d-t$ phase diagram for $p=0.9$, corresponding to Topology II, with three
		first-order transition lines (coexistence of \textbf{F1-F2}, \textbf{F1-P} and \textbf{F1-F3} phases), and two critical lines separating the paramagnetic from the
		ordered ferromagnetic. A re-entrant effect is clearly noted in this phase diagram. It is also shown an ordered critical point and two critical endpoints.}
\label{fig:grafico_p09}
\end{figure}

\begin{comment}
\begin{figure}[!htbp]
	\centering
		\includegraphics[scale=0.38]{grafico_p095.eps}
	\caption{$d-t$ phase Diagram of the BC model whose crystal field obeys the equation (2) for $p=0.95$.}
\label{fig:grafico_p095}
\end{figure}
\end{comment}

\begin{figure}[!htbp]
	\centering
		\includegraphics[scale=0.38]{grafico_p=0,98_corrigido.eps}
	\caption{$d-t$ phase diagram  for $p=0.98$, corresponding to Topology III and displaying
		two first-order transition lines (coexistence of \textbf{F1-F2} and \textbf{F1-P} phases), and two critical lines separating the paramagnetic from the ferromagnetic phases \textbf{F1} and \textbf{F2}. In this case we have a tricritical point and a critical endpoint.}
\label{fig:grafico_p098}
\end{figure}

 \newpage
\section{Conclusions}
In this work we studied the infinite-range Blume-Capel model under a quen\-ched random crystal field.  The exact free energy density was determined by means of the replica method. A variety of rich phase diagrams, displaying critical and coexistence lines as well as ordered critical, tricritical and critical end points was obtained. These phase diagrams can be classified according to three classes, designated as topologies I, II and III, with increasing values of the parameter $\textit{p}$ which is a measure of the crystal field randomness. Topology I is characterized by a continuous critical line separating the high temperature paramagnetic phase from the ordered ferromagnetic phase. For low temperatures we have two ferromagnetic \textbf{F1} and \textbf{F2} phases, which are separated by a first-order transition line ending at an ordered critical point. For Topology II the paramagnetic phase is separated from the ordered ferromagnetic phases either by critical or coexistence lines. For low temperatures the critical \textbf{P}$-$\textbf{F2} line meet two coexistence lines (\textbf{F1}$-$\textbf{F2} and \textbf{P}$-$\textbf{F1})  at a critical endpoint. On the other hand, for intermediate temperatures the critical line between the paramagnetic and ferromagnetic phases ends at a second critical endpoint. This critical endpoint is also the terminus of the \textbf{P}$-$\textbf{F1} coexistence line as well as of the  \textbf{F1}$-$\textbf{F3} coexistence lines which, in turn, ends at a common critical point.  The third class of phase diagram belongs to Topology III. It is marked by the disappearance of the ferromagnetic \textbf{F3} found in the previous case so that the critical \textbf{F1}$-$\textbf{F3} point merge with the  \textbf{P}$-$\textbf{F1}$-$\textbf{F3} critical endpoint, giving rise to a tricritical point which is the meeting point of the critical \textbf{P}$-$\textbf{F1} boundary with the \textbf{P}$-$\textbf{F1} coexistence line. In case of Topology II we always have the possibility of reentrant phase transitions, whereas for Topology III reentrant phenomena can only occur for a narrow window in terms of $p$. It remains to be seen whether these effects are present in more realistic short-range models.

\section*{Acknowledgement}
The partial financial support from Capes (Brazilian agency) is acknowledged.

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Chris Skidmore MP asked Burstow whether personalisation of care budgets would be embraced by the government in order to help provide individualised and integrated services. Burstow said he was not convinced that personal budgets were the only way forward, but said that they could be a "powerful" tool to ensure that services were commissioned to best suit the individual.
Jonathan Reynolds MP received an answer to his written question about progress in implementing the recommendations contained in the report of the Dilnot Commission. Paul Burstow replied saying that the coalition programme set out the Government's clear commitment to reforming the system of social care to provide much more control to individuals and their carers, and to ease the cost burden that they and their families face. This commitment to reform is why the Government acted quickly to set up the Commission on Funding of Care and Support, which published its report in July 2011.
Government welcomed the report as a valuable contribution to the debate on social care reform, but funding reform is not the only thing that needs to change in the social care system. He wanted a package of reforms that goes much wider, addresses the key failures of the current system, and ensures that people get the best possible social care.
This is why the Government has spent the last few months engaging with stakeholders from across the social care community to identify the priorities for reform, and the trade-offs between them. The results of this engagement will inform a White Paper on social care and a progress report on funding reform, which the Government will publish in the spring.
Jonathan Reynolds MP also received a reply to his question on whether the Minister would consider raising the means-tested threshold above which people are liable for their full care costs to £100,000. Paul Burstow said that the coalition programme set out the Government's clear commitment to reforming the system of social care to provide much more control to individuals and their carers, and to ease the cost burden that they and their families face. This commitment to reform is why the Government acted quickly to set up the .
how its preferred option can be delivered, including an indication of the timescale for implementation, and its impact on local government (and the local government finance system), the national health service, and-if appropriate-financial regulation."
He added that in response to this challenge, the Commission recommended a cap on people's lifetime care costs, set at between £25,000 and £50,000. The Commission also recommended that the upper asset threshold of the current means-tested system (which would remain in place with a cap) be raised to £100,000-and this is the recommendation to which the question refers. The Commission said that the extended means test would work with the cap to ensure that, if the cap were set at £35,000, no one has to use more than 30% of their assets paying for care.
The Commission's report has formed the basis of Government's recent engagement with stakeholders. This engagement exercise brought together the priorities for reform from across the social care system, and examined the trade-offs between them. The results of the engagement are now published, and Government are using them to inform a White Paper on social care, and a progress report on funding reform, which will be published in the spring.
Jonathan Reynolds MP final related question on introducing national eligibility criteria and portable assessments for the provision of adult social care this topic was also answered. Paul Burstow replied saying that the coalition programme set out the Government's clear commitment to reforming the system of social care to provide much more control to individuals and their carers, and to ease the cost burden that they and their families face. In response to this challenge, the Commission made recommendations on a number of aspects of the social care system, including eligibility.
Local authorities are currently required to use the same assessment scale, but are free to set their eligibility threshold at any point on this scale. The Commission recommended that a a national threshold was set at "substantial" need.
Care users who move from one local authority to another currently lose their eligibility to care until they are reassessed. The Commission recommended that the rules be changed so that they retain eligibility until they are reassessed.
The Commission's report has formed the basis of Government's recent engagement with stakeholders. This engagement exercise brought together these recommendations with other priorities for reform from across the social care system, and examined the trade-offs between them. The results of the engagement are now published, and Government are using them to inform a White Paper on social care, and a progress report on funding reform, which will be published in the spring.
Last week Ben Bradshaw MP asked a series of questions around the rates of admission to hospital for patients over 74 years with a secondary diagnosis of dementia in each primary care trust in England in each of the last 12 months. Replies were placed in the House of Commons Library on Thursday. The figures showed that there had been 321,159 finished consultant episodes and that there had been 2,603,887 bed days recorded during that time.
Lord Lester of Herne Hill asked the Government when they intend to implement Section 29 of the Equality Act 2010 on the prohibition of age discrimination in the provision to the public of goods, facilities and services. Baroness Verma said that the Government will announce how it intends to proceed in the Government's published response to the age discrimination consultation in due course.
Posted by Steve Smith, Public Affairs Officer at 00:00 Friday, 27 January 2012.
Baroness Jolly asked the Government what support and guidance is being offered to pathfinder clinical commissioning groups in commissioning integrated health and social care services. A reply is expected after 12 January.
The Department of Health published a package of data. This included November's figures for the delayed transfers of care. In comparison with October, November's figures showed a drop in delays in total days from 118,664 to 116,572 made up of improvements in both acute and non acute delays. However, numbers of cases were up slightly from 4,196 to 4,215.
A new survey of care provided by local councils, published by Labour, reveals increases and disparities in charges for services for vulnerable elderly and disabled people.
These increases mean the average yearly cost for an older person who pays for ten hours of home care a week is now £7,015 a year. Older people who also get Meals on Wheels every day now pay an average of £8,271 a year. With transport charges to go to a day centre three times a week an older person now pays £8,633 per year. There are differences in the price people pay for care, depending on where they live. This ranges from free home care in Tower Hamlets to care costing £20.34 per hour in Cheshire East.
The Department of Health announced that additional sums of money are being made available for social care and housing support. The Department made an additional £150 million revenue available via primary care trusts in order to address delayed discharges, and a further £20 million capital expenditure to add to the Disabled Facilities Grant, making it easier for disabled people to live in their own homes.
strength and regain their independence.
for the benefit of patients."
In a letter published in the Daily Telegraph today, a group of more than 60 government advisers, charity directors and independent experts called on the government and the Labour Party to overhaul England's "failing" social care system. The letter follows new evidence last week of rising care bills for families, and costs to the NHS of 'delayed discharges'. It argues that, alongside celebrating the fact that the UK population is living longer, action must be taken to meet the 'unavoidable challenge' of how to support increasing numbers of older and disabled people who need care.
The letter argues that the current social care system is failing this challenge, with serious consequences for society, family life and the economy - leaving older and disabled people at risk, families facing huge care bills, businesses losing staff who are forced to give up work to care for loved ones and the NHS coping with avoidable hospital admissions and 'bed blocking'.
In the early part of the week political commentators speculated that the Queens Speech, outlining the legislative programme for the coming year, will take place on 9 May, with a fall back to 16 May if this does not work.
It was reported that three million lives could be improved across England thanks to new high-tech healthcare. After seeing the technology in practice in Cornwall, Care Services Minister Paul Burstow pledged to make it available to more people with long term conditions.
In order to make this a reality, over the next five years the Department of Health will work with industry, the NHS, social care and professional organisations to bring the benefits of assistive technology such as telehealth and telecare to millions of people with long term conditions. Telehealth and Telecare use electronic equipment to read vital health signs such as pulse, weight, respiration and blood oxygen levels, which can be read remotely by health professionals in a different location. It means that people can stay in the comfort of their own homes with the peace of mind that a doctor or nurse will be alerted should there be a problem.
arranging for adaptations and home repairs to be made, including grab rails, stair-lifts and major work such as ground floor extensions.
These agencies also offer hospital discharge services - ensuring older people leaving hospital care are given the support they need to be able to recuperate in the comfort of their own homes. He has also announced £1.5 million funding for FirstStop, which provides independent advice to older people looking to plan their future housing needs - whether in their own homes, or in care homes.
A number of bodies including WRVS called on the Government to affirm its commitment to volunteering by making portable Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks free to volunteers.
Whilst the Government has confirmed that CRB checks themselves will remain free for volunteers, a decision has yet to be made about the cost of the online system that will ensure volunteers will not have to be checked every time they begin a new role. In the current system CRB checks are free but not portable, but Government risks solving one problem only to create another if in the proposed new system they are portable but not free.
The King's Fund and the Nuffield Trust jointly called for an ambitious new goal to be set to ensure that delivering integrated care assumes the same priority over the next decade as reducing waiting times was given over the last. The new goal to improve the experience of patients with complex health needs is the central recommendation in a new report published by the two think tanks. The report argues that integrated care - which aims to co-ordinate care more effectively around the needs of patients - is essential to meet the needs of the ageing population and transform the way care is provided to people with long term conditions. The report follows the Prime Minister's pledge earlier this year to make integrated care one of his five key priorities for the NHS.
On the same day it was reported in Thursday's Guardian that David Cameron has ordered health and social care services to be brought together in order to benefit patients in a move which government advisers are calling the NHS's most urgent overhaul. Reports suggest that the prime minister has been persuaded by senior doctors and Downing Street health advisers that, without integration, the NHS could become unsustainable due to rises in the number of patients with long-term health conditions such as obesity, diabetes and breathing problems.
Prime Minster David Cameron, made a speech in which he outlined plans to require nurses to make hourly ward rounds and for members of the public to make inspections of wards. Mr Cameron wants nurses to focus on "patients not paperwork" while all hospitals will be expected to implement regular ward rounds "to systematically and routinely check that patients are comfortable, are properly fed and hydrated". This follows a spate of critical reports last year over the levels of care of the elderly in hospitals including by the Care Quality Commission where it found a fifth of NHS hospitals were breaking the law on care of the elderly. Its study also found half of hospitals were failing to provide all-round good nutrition to elderly patients while 40% do not offer dignified care.
So not the usual cut and thrust you would find in the Chamber, but some interesting developments which set the scene for 2012. Both the Lords and Commons return on 10 January.
Posted by Steve Smith, Public Affairs Officer at 11:45 Friday, 06 January 2012.
At the beginning of the week The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu called for urgent and lasting reform of the way care is funded for older people in England, stating that the system is no longer fit for purpose. Writing an open letter to the Prime Minister, the Archbishop asked the Government to consider a new social covenant to protect the most vulnerable in society.
Richard Burden MP received an answer to his question to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change on what steps his Department is taking to ensure elderly and vulnerable people do not suffer ill health or die as a result of severe weather in the winter of 2011-12. In replying Gregory Barker MP said that the coalition Government is committed to tackling fuel poverty and supporting vulnerable consumers to heat their homes at an affordable cost.
This year is the first year of the mandatory Warm Home Discount scheme, which will provide over 600,000 of the poorest pensioners with a Core Group discount of £120 off their electricity bills. Other low income vulnerable households may also be assisted through the scheme. Overall the Government expected 2 million low income vulnerable households a year to be assisted through the scheme.
Funding of the Warm Front scheme was to be continued, providing low income vulnerable households, living in energy inefficient properties, with energy efficient heating and insulation measures. In addition, the Department for Work and Pensions provide pensioner households with winter fuel payments to help with additional heating costs during the winter. Cold weather payments are also made to low income and vulnerable households where there is an average temperature of 0°C or below for seven consecutive days. These payments have been increased to £25 per week and in winter 2010-11 over 17 million cold weather payments were paid in Great Britain worth an estimated £430 million.
He was working closely with the Department of Health on their cold weather plan, which aims to avoid the adverse health effects of winter by raising public awareness and triggering actions by those in contact with people most at risk. The plan sets out what needs to happen before and during periods of severe winter weather in England, and builds on established national and local campaigns for winter health with a more co-ordinated approach. The plan will work through a system of cold weather alerts in operation from 1 November to 31 March.
Chris Skidmore MP asked the Health Minister what proportion of users of adult social care services are not self-funding in each local authority area. The reply given by Social Care Minister, Paul Burstow on 15 December was that the information requested is not collected centrally.
During Commons Oral Questions to the Cabinet Office Julie Hilling MP asked what steps they are taking to support the voluntary sector. Cabinet Office Minister Nick Hurd MP said the Government was supporting the sector by cutting red tape, investing in transition funds for infrastructure and front-line organisations, creating significant new opportunities for the sector to deliver public services, and supporting new initiatives to encourage giving and social investment. He continued that the Government had put in place a £107 million transition fund to help the most vulnerable organizations.
Richard Burden MP asked Health Ministers what recent meetings the Department have had with representatives of the Care and Support Alliance and whether he plans to bring forward proposals to reform the care system. Paul Burstow responded by saying that the Care and Support Alliance have been involved throughout the engagement exercise, having met with officials and engagement leads to discuss their priorities for the reform of adult social care. Numerous events and meetings had also taken place with the constituent groups of the Care and Support Alliance, and a number of their members were chosen specifically to participate in Caring for our future engagement exercise. He added that Ministers have attended a number of these events and have met with many representatives of the Care and Support Alliance since Caring for our future was launched on 15 September 2011.
The feedback received from the engagement will be considered alongside the recommendations from the Commission on Funding of Care and Support and the Law Commission. The Government is committed to publishing a White Paper, and a progress report on funding, in spring 2012, and to legislating at the earliest possible opportunity.
Mark Menzies MP asked what assessment the Government has made of the likely effect of the proposed reforms of the NHS on dementia care for the elderly. Paul Burstow responded saying that improving the quality of care for people with dementia and their carers was a priority for the Government. Last year it launched a new outcomes focused implementation plan for the National Dementia Strategy. This makes a clear commitment to accelerate the pace of improvement through a greater focus on local delivery and local accountability and empowering citizens to hold local organisations to account.
Julian Sturdy MP asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he has any plans to provide further incentives for use of the Gift Aid scheme. Treasury Minister Chloe Smith said that the Budget 2011 announced a significant package of reforms to encourage charitable giving, including new measures on Gift Aid. These included raising the Gift Aid benefit limit from £500 to £2,500 and a Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme, so that charities can claim a Gift Aid style payment when collecting small donations and where circumstances for collecting the necessary donor details are difficult. The Government are also committed to reducing the administrative burdens on charities through the introduction of an online filing system for making Gift Aid claims and supporting the charity sector in developing a Gift Aid database. The Government keeps taxes and reliefs under review. Any changes are announced at Budget.
During Questions to the Leader of the House on Thursday, Tony Baldry MP asked for a debate early next year on social care and paying for the costs of care homes. He said that a White Paper had been promised for the Spring, but it appeared that this was going to be no more than a progress report and will not contain substantive policy decisions. He recognised that it is difficult to establish cross-party agreement on this issue, but a debate would indicate whether there was cross-party agreement on the funding of social care and the cost of care homes. As co-chair of the all-party group on carers, he wanted the matter resolved before he left Parliament. In replying Sir George Young said that one of the first actions the Government took was to establish the Dilnot report, which reported in July. There is a commitment to publish a White Paper in the Spring, which will outline the Government's response to the important issues. There have been a number of debates on this important subject, but he would welcome a further one. The Government had inherited a situation in which there were lots of White Papers but no action was taken during 13 years.
Andrew Gwynne MP asked the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the likely take-up of telehealth schemes and what discussions he has had with private companies on funding of telehealth schemes. Paul Burstow responded by saying that the Department's modelling suggests that at least 3 million people with long-term conditions could benefit from telehealth leading to a potential efficiency gain of around £1.2 billion over the next five years.The Department has been discussing with industry about new models of delivery but it will be for the NHS to commission services locally.
Over £40 million of funding over the next two years to support volunteering, giving and volunteering infrastructure by way of the Social Action Fund, Challenge Prizes and Local Infrastructure Fund. These funds have no upper age restrictions.
£1 million to support Youthnet which runs the volunteering website do-it.org.uk. Volunteering opportunities here do not have an upper age limit.
£400,000 support from Government and NESTA to trial 'Spice' in England which gives volunteers vouchers or discounts with local businesses when they do good things for the community. There is no upper age restriction on this trial.
Through the Social Action Fund, which launched in October 2010, The Government is seeking to fund programmes that encourage professionals who have retired, or are on the point of retirement, to use their experience and skills for community/public benefit.
Finally as part of the national work programme for the European Year of Volunteering 2011 the Office for Civil Society provided Age UK with a grant to promote the role of volunteering in enabling active ageing. This has been designed to lead into the European Year of Active Aging and Solidarity Between Generations in 2012.
Greg Knight MP asked what spending the Department of Health had recently spent on radio advertisements relating to dementia and for what reason it has commissioned such advertisements. The answer is expected on 11 January when the House returns.
Today was allocated as a Backbench Christmas Adjournment debate day. Over 30 debates were scheduled, including one tabled by Tracy Crouch MP on older people and the Campaign to End Loneliness. Speeches were kept to a maximum of six minutes so that all business could be covered during the session. During her speech, Tracy Crouch said that more than 1 million people aged over 65 say that they feel socially or emotionally lonely all or most of the time. It is heartbreaking that while many will be spending the festive season with family and friends, 500,000 older people will spend this Christmas Day alone. She added that many did not fully understand the severe social, health and financial consequences of loneliness. Researchers rate it as a higher health risk than lifelong smoking or obesity. Associated physical and mental health conditions include sleep deprivation, a weakened immune system, higher blood pressure, an increased risk of dementia and intense levels of depression. She praised the work of the Campaign to End Loneliness and of the work done in local communities. Special mention was given to the events that Medway council ran through its older people's partnership and its work with WRVS. She finished by saying that loneliness is not just for Christmas, but this seems to be a perfectly good time to highlight loneliness amongst older people.
The Lord Commissioner of Her Majesty's Treasury Angela Watkinson responded on behalf of Government. She welcomed the good work done by Independent Age, Age UK Oxfordshire, Counsel and Care, and WRVS on the Campaign to End Loneliness. She said that the Government recognised the terrible impact that isolation and loneliness can have on people's health and well-being. Government knows that multi-professional collaboration from a health and social care perspective on the needs of older people - including recognising isolation and those at risk from it - will make a huge contribution to keeping older people well and independent in their own homes, and to helping to maintain a decent quality of life for them. During the recently concluded the caring for our future engagement exercise the issue of loneliness and isolation among older people was raised. She concluded by adding that the Government is doing everything it can, and will also support the efforts of others, to ensure that older people have access to all the help they need to reduce social isolation.
Parliament resumes on 10 January.
Posted by Steve Smith, Public Affairs Officer at 00:00 Tuesday, 03 January 2012.


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Antoine-Vincent Arnault (Párizs, 1766. január 1. – Goderville (Le Havre mellett), 1834. szeptember 16.) francia költő, drámaíró, a Francia Akadémia tagja. Lucien Arnault költő és drámaíró apja.

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Miután elvégezte a jogot, irodalommal kezdett foglalkozni. Már első sikeres tragédiájával (Marius á Minturnes, 1791) megalapította költői hírnevét. Tetszéssel fogadták következő drámáját, a Lucrèce ou Rome libre-t is (1792), majd azt követte a Quintius Cincinnatus (1794), az Oscar, fils d'Ossian (1795), melyek mind a francia klasszicista dráma késői termékei. 1792 szeptembere után Angliába távozott, onnan Brüsszelbe ment. Hazatérése után, 1793-ban mint emigránst letartóztatták, de csakhamar elengedték.

Napóleonnak kedves embere volt, aki 1797-ben őt bízta meg a francia csapatok által megszállt Jón-szigetek szervezésének kidolgozásával, 1800-ban pedig a közoktatás miniszterévé tette. Harminc esztendős korában az Institut de France tagja, 1805-ben alelnöke, 1803-ben a Francia Akadémia tagja lett. Közben az Akadémia szótárának munkatársaként is dolgozott. Akkoriban írta egyik legjobb drámáját: Blanche et Montcassin, ou les Vénitiens (bemutatták 1798-ban). Napóleon bukása után kizárták az Institut-ből, el kellett hagynia az országot, ismét Brüsszelbe ment. Csak 1819-ben térhetett megint vissza. Közben megírta és külföldről hazaküldte újabb tragédiáját, a Germanicust (1816), melynek bemutatója heves összetűzést váltott ki a royalisták és a bonapartisták között. További ötfelvonásos tragédiái: Guillaume de Nassau, tragédia 5 elvonásban (1825), Le Proscrit, ou Les Guelfes et les Gibelins (1827). Arnault a romantika zászlóbontása idején is végig a francia klasszicizmus híve maradt. 1829-ben újra felvették az akadémiába, sőt állandó titkárává választották.

Drámáinál ismertebbek szatirikus meséi (Fables, 1802; Fables nouvelles, 1833) és lírai költeményei. Megírta Napóleon katonai és politikai életrajzát (Vie politique et militaire de Napoléon, 2 kötet). Ezért a munkáért Napóleon százezer franc-t hagyott rá. Munkáinak összkiadása 1818-ban Hágában (4 kötet), majd 1824–1827-ben Párizsban (8 kötet) jelent meg. Emlékiratait Souvenirs d'un sexagénaire címen adta közre 1834-ben.

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Q: Don't escape HTML with docutils.core.publish_parts(writer_name="html") I'm trying to convert some of my HTML content to ReStructuredText. The problem is that I have a lot of custom HTML, so much that I'd abandon conversion if I had to write a special parser for each thing.
By default:
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How do I tell publish_parts (or another function) to NOT convert the HTML?
Additional information:
I need this functionality for the following reasons:

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*Google Analytics

*Discus

*Facebook Plugins

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I've been told to switch to Markdown, but I'd rather use ReStructuredText. Is this possible?
Thanks in advance!
Edit: I should've included "without the raw directive" in the subject line. I'm guessing that this is impossible, but if anyone knows of a way around it, I'd be very great full.

A: You need to use the raw data pass-through directive. Your example would become:
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docutils.core.publish_parts(text, writer_name='html')['html_body']

You can also look into using pandoc to automatically convert the HTML to restructuredText.


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