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Charles Anderson Dana
(1819-08-08)August 8, 1819
Hinsdale, New Hampshire
October 17, 1897(1897-10-17) (aged 78)
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Charles Anderson Dana (August 8, 1819 – October 17, 1897) was an American journalist, author, and senior government official. He was a top aide to Horace Greeley as the managing editor of the powerful Republican newspaper New York Tribune until 1862. During the Civil War, he served as assistant secretary of War, playing especially the role of the liaison between the War Department and General Ulysses S. Grant. On becoming the editor of the high quality newspaper, the New York Sun, in 1868 he announced his credo:
It will study condensation, clearness, point, and will endeavor to present its daily photograph of the whole world's doings in the most luminous and lively manner."[1]
He at first appealed to working class Democrats but after 1890 became a champion of business-oriented conservatism.
1.1 Early years
1.2 Journalism
1.3 Civil War
1.4 Return to journalism
2 Writing
3 Art collecting
Dana was born in Hinsdale, New Hampshire. He was a descendant of Richard Dana, progenitor of most of the Danas in the United States, who emigrated from England, settled in Cambridge in 1640, and died there about 1695. At the age of twelve, Charles Dana became a clerk in his uncle's general store at Buffalo, until the store failed in 1837. At this time, he began the study of Latin grammar, and prepared himself for college. In 1839 he entered Harvard, but the impairment of his eyesight forced him to leave college in 1841. He also abandoned his intentions to study in Germany and enter the ministry. From September 1841 until March 1846 he lived at Brook Farm, where he was made one of the trustees of the farm, was head waiter when the farm became a Fourierite phalanx, and was in charge of the Phalanx's finances when its buildings were burned in 1846. During his time with Brook Farm, he also wrote for the Transcendental publication, the Harbinger. In 1846, he married widow Eunice MacDaniel.[2]
Dana during his tenure at the Tribune
Dana had written for and managed the Harbinger, the Brook Farm publication, devoted to social reform and general literature. Later, beginning 1844, he also wrote for and edited the Boston Chronotype of Elizur Wright for two years. In 1847 he joined the staff of the New York Tribune, and in 1848 he wrote from Europe letters to it and other papers on the revolutionary movements of that year. In Cologne he visited Karl Marx and Ferdinand Freiligrath. (From 1852 to 1861, Marx was one of the main writers for the New York Daily Tribune).
Returning to the Tribune in 1849, Dana became a proprietor and its managing editor, and in this capacity actively promoted the anti-slavery cause, seeming to shape the paper's policy at a time when Horace Greeley was undecided and vacillating. The extraordinary influence and circulation attained by the newspaper during the ten years preceding the Civil War was in a degree due to the development of Dana's genius for journalism, reflected not only in the making of the Tribune as a newspaper, but also in the management of its staff of writers, and in the steadiness of its policy as the leading organ of anti-slavery sentiment.
In 1861 Dana went to Albany to advance the cause of Greeley as a candidate for the U. S. Senate, and nearly succeeded in nominating him. The caucus was about equally divided between Greeley's friends and those of William M. Evarts, while Ira Harris had a few votes which held the balance of power. At the instigation of Thurlow Weed, the supporters of Evarts went over to Harris.
During the first year of the war, the ideas of Greeley and those of Dana in regard to the proper conduct of military operations were somewhat at variance; the board of managers of the Tribune asked for Dana's resignation in 1862, apparently because of this disagreement and wide temperamental differences between him and Greeley.
When Dana left the Tribune, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton immediately made him a special investigating agent of the War Department. In this capacity, Dana discovered frauds committed by quartermasters and contractors. As the eyes of the administration, as Abraham Lincoln called him, Dana spent much time at the front, and sent to Stanton frequent reports concerning the capacity and methods of various generals in the field. In particular, the War Department was concerned about rumors of Ulysses S. Grant's alcoholism. Dana spent considerable time with Grant, becoming a close friend and assuaging administration concerns. Dana reported to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton that he found Grant "modest, honest, and judicial. . . . 'not an original or brilliant man, but sincere, thoughtful, deep, and gifted with a courage that never faltered.' Although quiet and hard to know, he loved a humorous story and the company of his friends."[3][4]
Dana went through the Vicksburg Campaign and was at the Battle of Chickamauga and the Third Battle of Chattanooga. He urged placing General Grant in supreme command of all the armies in the field, which happened in March 1864. Dana was Assistant Secretary of War from 1863 to 1865.
Return to journalism
In 1865–1866, Dana conducted the newly established and unsuccessful Chicago Republican, when the paper was owned by Jacob Bunn, and published by Alonzo Mack. He became the editor and part-owner of The Sun (New York) in 1868, and remained in control of it until his death.
Under Dana's control, The Sun opposed the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson; it supported Grant for the presidency in 1868; it was a sharp critic of Grant as president; and in 1872 took part in the Liberal Republican revolt and urged Greeley's nomination.
Dana made the Sun a Democratic newspaper, independent and outspoken in the expression of its opinions respecting the affairs of either party. His criticisms of civil maladministration during General Grant's terms as president led to a notable attempt on the part of that administration, in July 1873, to take him from New York on a charge of libel, to be tried without a jury in a Washington police court. Application was made to the United States District Court in New York for a warrant of removal, but in a memorable decision Judge Blatchford, later a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, refused the warrant, holding the proposed form of trial to be unconstitutional. Perhaps to a greater extent than in the case of any other conspicuous journalist, Dana's personality was identified in the public mind with the newspaper that he edited.
In 1876, the Sun favored Samuel J. Tilden, the Democratic candidate for the presidency, opposed the Electoral Commission, and continually referred to Rutherford B. Hayes as the "fraud president". In 1884 it supported Benjamin Butler, the candidate of Greenback-Labor and Anti-Monopolist parties, for the presidency, and opposed James G. Blaine (Republican) and even more bitterly Grover Cleveland (Democrat). Circulation peaked about 150,000, and the advent of Joseph Pulitzer and the New York World cut deeply into the Sun's circulation. Dana was a very old-fashioned publisher who distrusted the Linotype and relied not on advertising but on the two-cent cover price for his funding. In 1888 it supported Cleveland and opposed Benjamin Harrison in 1888, although it had bitterly criticized Cleveland's first administration, and was to criticize nearly every detail of his second, with the exception of Federal interference in the Pullman strike of 1894; and in 1896, on the free silver issue, it opposed William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic candidate for the presidency. In a word, the Sun had abandoned its original working-class clientele and was now a staunch supporter of the conservative business community.[5]
Dana's literary style came to be the style of The Sun—simple, strong, clear, boiled down. He recorded no theories of journalism other than those of common sense and human interest. He was impatient of prolixity, cant, and the conventional standards of news importance. Three of his lectures on journalism were published in 1895 as the Art of Newspaper Making.
With George Ripley he edited The New American Cyclopaedia (1857–1863), reissued as the American Cyclopaedia in 1873-1876.
Dana had an interest in literature. His first book was a volume of stories translated from German, entitled The Black Aunt (New York and Leipzig, 1848). In 1857, he edited an anthology, The Household Book of Poetry. His translation from German of "Nutcracker and Sugardolly: A Fairy Tale" was published in 1856 by the Philadelphia publisher C.G. Henderson & Co. In addition to translating German, Dana could read the Romance and Scandinavian languages. With Rossiter Johnson, he edited, Fifty Perfect Poems (New York, 1883).
Dana edited A Campaign Life of U. S. Grant, published over his name and that of General James H. Wilson in 1868. His Reminiscences of the Civil War and Eastern Journeys, Some Notes of Travel in Russia, in the Caucasus, and to Jerusalem were published in 1898.
Early in his journalism career, 1849, he wrote a series of newspaper articles in defense of anarchist philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and his mutual banking ideas. They were published in collected form in 1896 as Proudhon and his Bank of the People by Benjamin Tucker, who did so partly to expose Dana's radical past as Dana had late in life become quite conservative, editorializing against radicals, "reds", and the free silver movement. This book remains in print today through a Charles H. Kerr Company Publishers edition with an introduction by Paul Avrich.
Dana was an art connoisseur who amassed a large collection of Chinese porcelain during his lifetime.
↑ Frank M. O 'Brien (1918). The story of the Sun: 1833-1918. p. 199. http://books.google.com/books?id=c43uFLQAiDgC&pg=PA199.
↑ O'Brien, Frank Michael (1918). The Story of The Sun. New York: George H. Doran Company. pp. 207–208. Archived from the original on 16 May 2007. http://books.google.com/ebooks?id=_U4CAAAAYAAJ. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
↑ Dana, Charles A. (8 June 2013) (E-Book). Recollections of the Civil War (Project Gutenberg E-book #42892 ed.). New York, NY, USA: D. Appleton & Co.. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42892/42892-h/42892-h.htm. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
↑ John D. Winters, The Civil War in Louisiana, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1963, ISBN 0-8071-0834-0, p. 177
↑ Mott (1960)
Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1900) "Dana, Richard" Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography New York: D. Appleton
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Honeyman, Gail (author.). McCarron, Cathleen, (narrator.). Penguin Audio (Firm) (Added Author).
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Summary, etc.: Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. But meeting two other loners may rescue them each from their lives of isolation.
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*Starred Review* Despite the title of this delightful Scotland-set debut novel, 30-year-old Eleanor Oliphant is not completely fine. Sporting a deep scar on her face and lacking friends and social graces, Eleanor spends weekends alone in her apartment eating pizza, drinking, and fantasizing about a local pop star. Slowly, we learn the truth about Eleanor's scar, childhood, and mother, whose weekly phone calls are most upsetting. McCarron's reading is nothing short of stupendous: the array of dialects she seamlessly weaves into her narration puts us smack-dab in Glasgow. Coworker Raymond's accent is a bit less refined than Eleanor's, and his tones are deeper. McCarron quickly changes pitch to represent Mummy's vocal patterns, going from sickeningly sweet to bitterly nasty in an instant. Inebriated characters, elderly persons, and sympathetic mental-health professionals also receive distinct characterizations. McCarron obviously takes great joy in Honeyman's sharp and witty writing, and her deadpan delivery of Eleanor's description of a stranger's face being "as pasty as someone who's never eaten an apple" is an LOL moment. Eleanor is by turns quirky, humorous, sad, sympathetic, and—eventually—pretty darn fine. Catch the audio version of this fan-favorite novel, which has been optioned for a movie by Reese Witherspoon's production company. Copyright 2019 Booklist Reviews.
Gail Honeyman is a graduate of the universities of Glasgow and Oxford. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine won the Costa First Novel Award and the British Book Awards Book of the Year, was short-listed for the Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize, the Desmond Elliot Award, and the Author's Club Best First Novel, and was long-listed for the Women's Prize for Fiction. This is Honeyman's debut novel and she lives in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Midfielder Isco has welcomed being compared to the legendary Clarence Seedorf by Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti.
The 21-year-old has started only 15 La Liga games for the leaders this season following his move from Malaga in June.
Ancelotti has struggled to fit Isco into his system in his first campaign with the Spanish giants, but last weekened likened the talented playmaker to Seedorf - who played an integral role in the Italian tactician's UEFA Champions League-winning side at Milan a decade ago.
The former Chelsea manager has revealed that such praise was music to Isco's ears and he has no doubt that the rising star's time will come.
Ancelotti said: "I have talked to Isco about me comparing him with Seedorf and he was happy because he enjoyed watching Seedorf play.
"Moreover I have talked to Seedorf and he was happy as well, because he considers Isco a great player with a big talent.
"We will see, but I am pretty sure Isco can play in an advanced midfield position without any problem."


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De quartaire sector in Nederland is de economische sector van de niet-commerciële gesubsidieerde en of collectief gefinancierde dienstverlening. De benaming hoort thuis in de meso-economie, die bedrijfstakken bestudeert. De quartaire sector is de enige economische sector zonder winstoogmerk.

Definiëring
De quartaire sector omvat de niet-commerciële dienstverlening. Daarbij gaat het om diensten als openbaar bestuur, defensie, onderwijs, zorg, openbare orde en sociale zekerheid. Deze diensten zijn vooral gericht op het welzijn van de burger, maar faciliteren ook het goed kunnen functioneren van de marktsector.

In de quartaire sector vallen zowel de overheidsdiensten als de door de overheid deels of geheel gesubsidieerde diensten. Voorbeelden zijn ziekenhuizen, verpleeghuizen, brandweer, justitie, defensie, sociaal werk, cultuursector, wetenschapssector en scholen.

SCP
Het Sociaal Cultureel Planbureau (SCP) hanteert een iets ruimere definitie voor de quartaire sector en stelt dat de quartaire sector "ruwweg" de niet-commerciële dienstverlening omvat. Met het woord "ruwweg" geeft het SCP aan dat ook enkele wel-commerciële dienstverleners tot de quartaire sector worden gerekend. Het SCP schrijft:
Tot de quartaire sector worden een aantal maatschappelijke functies gerekend, te weten: openbaar bestuur, openbare orde en veiligheid, sociale zekerheid, onderwijs en onderzoek, zorg en welzijn, cultuur en recreatie, maatschappelijke organisaties, infrastructuur, milieudienstverlening en volkshuisvesting. Genoemde functies sporen min of meer met bedrijfstakken. Aldus afgebakend omvat de quartaire sector de gehele collectieve sector alsmede alle (private) non-profitorganisaties.
De commerciële producenten die tot de quartaire sector worden gerekend behoren grotendeels tot twee categorieën: 1) producenten die voor een belangrijk deel uit collectieve middelen worden gefinancierd zoals vrijgevestigde medische beroepsbeoefenaren, apothekers en het openbaar vervoer, en 2) commerciële diensten die substituten zijn voor publieke of non-profitdiensten zoals particulier onderwijs en commerciële omroeporganisaties.

De reden dat het SCP sommige commerciële dienstverleners tot de quartaire sector rekent, is dat ze het soort diensten leveren die vallen binnen de maatschappelijke functies waar de overheid zich mee bemoeit. Het SCP werkt voor de overheid en gaat daarom bij zijn werkzaamheden uit van deze functies en is daarbij niet geïnteresseerd of deze diensten worden geleverd door commerciële, private of publieke organisaties.

Omvang
De quartaire sector is over het algemeen een grote sector. In 2000 omvatte deze sector in Nederland 36 procent van het bruto binnenlands product en bood aan 2,3 miljoen mensen werk. De Nederlandse quartaire sector werd in 2000 voor 61% gefinancierd uit collectieve middelen.

Zie ook
 Primaire sector of agrarische sector
 Publieke sector
 Secundaire sector of industriële sector
 Tertiaire sector of commerciële dienstensector

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Prime Minister yet to speak to father of London Bridge terror attack victim
UK News | Published: Dec 8, 2019
Mr Merritt said Jack would be 'livid' if he could comment on his death.
Incident on London Bridge
The Prime Minister has admitted he is yet to speak to the father of London Bridge terror attack victim Jack Merritt, who accused him of trying to "make political capital" from his son's death.
Mr Johnson sought to blame Labour for the early release of convicted terrorist Usman Khan who killed 25-year-old Jack and 23-year-old Saskia Jones in the attack at London's Fishmongers' Hall last month.
He claimed Khan, who was freed halfway through a 16-year jail sentence, was on the streets because of laws introduced by a "leftie government" and has committed to changing sentencing law.
Usman Khan (BBC News)
But David Merritt said his son, who was the course co-ordinator of a prison rehabilitation programme, "would not wish his death to be used as the pretext for more draconian sentences or for detaining people unnecessarily".
Speaking to ITV News London, Mr Johnson said: "I have every sympathy with the families of both Jack and Saskia, who lost their lives at London Bridge in the attack by Usman Khan.
"What I would say, with great respect, is that I stick to my position, which is that actually I don't think its sensible for people who are convicted of crimes of terrorism such as Usman Khan to be out automatically on early release.
"I said that long before the event took place – I said it in August."
Pressed on whether he would pick up up the phone to speak to Mr Merritt, Mr Johnson replied: "With great respect, I will keep my contacts with families of victims private, if that's alright."
#LeadershipDebate points missed (or deliberately avoided by Johnson): we don't know all the facts about this case yet, and we won't know for some time – the inquest could take up to 2 years. We don't know why Khan killed, or what, if anything could have been done differently 1/
— David Merritt (@butwhatifitsall) December 7, 2019
Previously writing in the Guardian, Mr Merritt said Jack would be "livid" if he could comment on his death.
"He would be seething at his death, and his life, being used to perpetuate an agenda of hate that he gave his everything fighting against," he said.
Mr Merritt later accused the Prime Minister of lying during the BBC Election Debate with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, saying Mr Johnson was taking people "for a ride".
When discussing security in the debate Mr Johnson said the automatic release of offenders like Khan was "wrong".
But Mr Merritt said on Twitter that there was no justification for cutting the early release tariff and claimed it was just trying to "look tough".
"If prisoners have engaged with rehabilitation and turned their lives around, why should they be punished for what Khan did?" he said.
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Twin girls Esme and Iris Wilson born at 23 weeks and six days go home from Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital with mum Josie Wilson
Published: 8:24 AM April 14, 2017 Updated: 11:02 AM October 10, 2020
Iris and Esme Wilson as they prepare to leave Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. Picture: Shellie Wall Photography - Credit: Archant
Two babies born at just 23 weeks and six days have come home from hospital with their mum for the first time.
From left, Esme and Iris Wilson, shortly after their birth Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. Picture: Courtesy NNUH - Credit: Archant
Esme and Iris Wilson were born more than 16 weeks early on December 16 and cared for by the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.
The twins spent 113 days in the unit and went home one day after their original due date of April 7.
Mother, Josie Wilson, from Norwich, said she was thrilled to finally be taking her 'little fighters' home.
Ms Wilson said: 'Seeing them for the first time in the incubator was surreal.
Dr Priya Muthukumar, consultant neonatologist. Picture: Archant Library - Credit: Archant
'The girls were both so tiny; we knew we had to be prepared for a tough journey ahead and it was going to be down to the girls to fight through.'
Ms Wilson went to the hospital's delivery suite last December having felt uncomfortable.
Upon examination, she was told that she was 5cm dilated and her babies were on their way.
Iris arrived first, weighing just 1lb 7oz (660g).
The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. Picture: James Bass. - Credit: Evening News � 2009
Fifteen minutes later, Esme was born weighing 1lb 6oz (630g). After a quick cuddle, the twins were transferred to the specialist services of the hospital's NICU for monitoring.
A 'wonderful day' for the hospital
The NICU at the hospital cares for babies requiring the most complex care, supervision and treatments including surgery.
Dr Priya Muthukumar, consultant neonatologist, was part of the team looking after Esme and Iris.
She said: 'This is a wonderful day for the family and our teams here at the hospital.
'Esme and Iris will be some of the shortest-gestation twins in the region to have been treated and successfully returned home.
'When babies are born this early, they can face huge challenges in terms of their healthy development and it is testament to the strength of the family, the hard work and expertise of our professionals and wider advances in neonatal care that we can celebrate this superb milestone.'
Dr Muthukumar said her team was humbled by the strength and determination Ms Wilson had shown, and were grateful to her for agreeing to take part in research studies in the unit.
Esme and Iris progressed well during their time on NICU, breastfeeding throughout.
Both girls were given a toy rabbit following their birth, at which time the rabbits were considerably larger.
They have now outgrown their cuddly companions with Esme and Iris now weighing 5lb 7oz and 5lb 4oz, respectively.
Ms Wilson said she wanted to give her heartfelt thanks to the hospital team.
She said: 'Everyone involved in the care of Esme and Iris has shown kindness and dedication, from the team who helped to deliver them, to the NICU staff who have been on this journey with us every step of the way.
'I'd like to offer them all my thanks.'


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It's hard to imagine a world without Wi-Fi. But it wasn't really that long ago that if you wanted to get online and get work done, you needed to be at your desk, plugged into a phone jack and waiting for the beeping and buzzing of the modem to subside. These days, you can generally expect to get online no matter where you are—especially if you're visiting a business.
Businesses provide Wi-Fi access not only to employees but also to customers and visitors. Let's walk through the history of Wi-Fi in the workplace and learn a little about where it came from, where it's going, and how your business can take advantage of it along the way.
Wi-Fi first started spreading around the turn of the century. The name was first introduced in 1999, and it wasn't long before it started to catch on. The first wireless access point available to the public, from D-Link, went on sale in 2001.
By 2004, the first mobile devices and cellphones with built-in Wi-Fi were hitting the market. PDAs like the HP Pocket PC were pretty popular in business settings. Then, in 2007, the iPhone launched, causing a revolution of its own. Partially spurred by the popularity of the iPhone and other Wi-Fi enabled devices, Starbucks began rolling out Wi-Fi to all its US locations in 2010, a trend that many other businesses—restaurants or otherwise—have since emulated.
Employees can be more productive when they have the freedom to be mobile. While there are arguments on both sides of the fence when it comes to open office floor plans, there's no denying that being stuck at a desk in the same spot all day doesn't help anyone get more done. And that's not to mention the meetings and collaborations that many office workers spend their days in. With wireless business internet, employees can take their laptops or tablets wherever they need or want to be and continue working.
Customers are more likely to stay on the premises if there is Wi-Fi available. Having a good Wi-Fi network available for customers and visitors can be a great way to keep them around longer—especially if your business involves a lot of waiting for customers. Keeping customers on premises can also lead to increased opportunities to upsell or put your brand in front of them. Plus, it gives them something to do while they wait. Bored customers aren't happy customers.
Wi-Fi networks may even attract additional business. Depending on your industry, you may find that simply offering a wireless network draws more customers compared to competitors that don't offer internet access. Providing free Wi-Fi for customers has been shown to increase foot traffic and the amount of money customers spend in a location, as well as the amount of time they spend there.
One of the biggest changes we've seen in business Wi-Fi is an incredible increase in maximum possible speeds as technology and new standards have evolved. The first Wi-Fi devices released way back in 1999, operating on the 802.11a and 802.11b standards, were only capable of a theoretical maximum speed of 11 Mbps. These days, with the newest 802.11ac devices, Wi-Fi can reach Gigabit speeds. That's 1,000 Mbps—almost 100 times as fast as the original Wi-Fi standards.
These increasing speeds have had a large impact on the structure and layout of offices. With it now being possible to have wireless devices with maximum internet speeds faster than your wired connection might be rated for, there's less reason to be tied down to a desk all day. Employees can take their laptops wherever they feel they'd be most productive without sacrificing the ability to get things done. This wireless capability has also contributed to the rise of remote working as a viable option for many offices.
Clearly, Wi-Fi has come a long way. And with new standards like 802.11ad with speeds up to 4.6 Gbps coming out in the next few years, there's still a long way to go. It will be very interesting to see how more powerful wireless internet continues to revolutionize business in the coming years.
Wherever the future of Wi-Fi takes us, Frontier will be right there. If you're ready to take your business Wi-Fi to the next level, check out our Managed Wi-Fi solutions.
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The Papillon is one of the oldest dog breeds known to mankind. It was formerly known as "Espagneul Nain" or Dwarf Spaniel in the country where it originated, France. It was very popular among members of Europe's highest societies, like Louis XIV of France. It has also been seen in some Italian frescoes and Renaissance paintings during the 13th century.
In the 18th century, it became a regular at myriads of French dog shows. Then it crossed over to the rest of England and America. In the years to follow, it became known as the Continental Toy Spaniel, which explains why it is such a popular toy dog.
Aside from its aristocrat background, the Papillon dogs are known for their resemblance to a butterfly due to their ears. And its name in French actually translates literally to 'butterfly'.
Today, there are two ear types for this dog breed - erect-eared and drop-eared. The former is much more popular as the breed standard. The other type is known as phalene, which is also a French term for moth, an insect also close to the butterfly family.
Its tail is its other feature that always gets noticed. It is long, well fringed and looks like a thick plume arched over its body. Its coat is abundant, long and silky too.
The Papillon is known as a calm and gentle dog. With such characteristics, it is one of the dog breeds that could go well mingling with older children and even cats. It can also get playful, affectionate and be very lively at the sight of its owners.
But it could get aggressive when confronted by larger dogs as it tends to be possessive of its owner. It would bark with all its might in response to people it is not familiar with or to nearby noises.
Once it goes through proper training, it could be very obedient in following instructions. It could be easily taught performance tricks, and trained for agility, and even being a watch dog. Since this dog thrives on attention from its owner, praising it every once in a while during training would pump up its energy.
Papillons live an average lifespan of 12 to 15 years.
The minor concerns suffered by this dog breed include PRA or Progressive Retinal Atrophy and patellar luxation. Its knees and eyes must also be checked on a regular basis by a qualified veterinarian.
The Papillon dog breed has been around for centuries and that is due to its genetic longevity.
Despite the elegance this dog projects, its grooming requirements are quite easy to handle. It is known as a "wash and wear" dog breed. All it needs are an occasional bath and a few brushings of its coat a week. It might also need its nails cut, ears cleaned with an acidifying cleanser and teeth brushed.
This is your chance to add your feedback. Do you have a Papillon in your family, or know one in someone elses? Do you have a story to tell related to that Papillon? Or maybe you have more questions that either DogNation.net or another of our visitors might be able to help you with? Feel free to add your comment or question below.


Of the Gaza Strip's 1.8 million inhabitants, roughly 40,000 earn their living through fishing, according to the Palestinian Fishermen's Union.
Israeli naval forces opened fire on Palestinian fishermen off Gaza shore on Monday.
"Three fishing boats sustained minor damage," Nezar Ayash, spokesman for Gaza's fishermen, told Anadolu Agency.
Israel allows fishing in a six-mile zone off the Gaza shore.
When it first imposed its blockade on the strip in 2006, Israel had specified a three-nautical-mile fishing zone for Palestinian fisherman.
Gaza fishermen say the measure has adversely impacted their business, complaining that their annual hauls of fish had since fallen from pre-blockade levels of some 4,000 tons to a current 1,500 tons.
For the fifth day in a row, Israel on Tuesday will maintain its closure of the Karam Abu Salem commercial crossing linking it to the southern Gaza Strip, a Palestinian official said Monday.
"Israeli authorities told us they would keep the terminal closed on Tuesday in response to rockets fired at southern Israel from Gaza," Raed Fatouh, head of a Gaza Economy Ministry committee tasked with coordinating traffic through the crossing, told Anadolu Agency.
On Monday, Israel alleged that seven rockets fired from the Gaza Strip had landed in the country's south.
The reported rocket attacks, however, had caused no human casualties, Israeli army spokesman Peter Lerner declared via Twitter.
Fatouh said Israel would only permit the entry of limited amounts of diesel, gasoline and butane gas – as well as some fuel for Gaza's sole power plant – into the strip via Karam Abu Salem.
Based on earlier official statements, Israel had been expected to open the crossing on Tuesday, following the end of Jewish Passover celebrations.
Palestinian Authority border chief Nazmi Mehanna told AA last week that Israel would close the crossing from Friday to Tuesday to coincide with the Passover holidays.
Mehanna warned, however, that the closure of the Karam Abu Salem crossing in particular threatened to "paralyze commercial activity" in Gaza.


We have full reindeer skins / hides and occasionally full boar skins for sale. The reindeer skins come from the wilds of Lappland in the Arctic and herded by traditional Saami farmers. The boar skins come from the Black Forest in Western Europe.


Pinnacle Care Ltd. is pleased to announce that their Manor House dementia care home in Bilton, Rugby, Warwickshire is graded as "good in all areas ". This is following an inspection from the CQC using their new inspection guidelines.
The inspection overview shows that the Bawnmore Road care home is safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led. The care home manager, Emma Hunt, commented that Manor House is committed to providing specialist support which inspires people living with dementia to thrive as individuals and to lead a happy and fulfilled life.


This entry was posted on	October 14, 2010 at 1:44 pm	and is filed under Energy Chaos.
You do a lot of ranting. Stop, take a deep breath…..that's it settle down.
Yes, I have taken economics. Several classes. Have even used some of what I learned.
Here are a couple more articles you can read. So much to learn. Must be hard.
Now think………….what do these articles have in common with the original article?
False intelligence permeates your post. You need to read the post and try to understand it before you make baseless comments.
Read the article linked to below, maybe it will give you a hint as to why the above post is sooooo correct.
Spain has tried the solar efficiency experience. It is costing them dearly in jobs and in their general economy.
If you had taken a class in basic economics you would have understood. But I'm thinking you haven't. Too bad, ignorance is not bliss if you want to make coherent statements.
Real "efficiency" improvements would mean we don't have to cut back on anything, it just takes less energy for the exact same thing. It would mean we can drive the exact same full size SUV with the exact same horsepower, but use less gas.
– NOBODY disagrees with this concept!
Most of what the greenies want is not improving efficiency, but to ration our use of resources at all costs. It's things such as eating less meat, using less water in the shower, less water in the toilet, to turn down the thermostat in winter, and up in the summer. Remember the singer that wanted us to use only one sheet of toilet paper? This is what they call efficiency!
The true cost of solar and wind renewables is nearly a magnitude higher than conventional fossil energy.
When the cost of purchased energy is higher in one state than in another, businesses and companies leave. When the cost of energy in the country is higher than in other countries, businesses leave.
We do not import coal. But under the proposed cap and trade rules, power companies will be required to burn natural gas. We do import natural gas and oil.
It is STUPID to think "green" is good if the end result is unemployment.
Making the use of "green" power even STUPIDER!
It is even STUPIDER to think that coal is causing catastrophic anthroprogenic global warming. If you buy into this drug, you haven't done your homework.
The use of the word STUPIDER was inspired by someone using the word STUPID. Both words are inappropriate.
The Federal Government spent an estimated $16.6 billion in energy-specific subsidies and support programs in Fiscal Year (FY) 2007. Energy-specific subsidies have more than doubled since FY 1999.
Solar is the most expensive way to generate electricity. Solar is about 35 to 50 cents per kilowatt-hour (unsubsidized), compared to 3 to 5 cents per kilowatt-hour for natural gas and coal.
Your choice of quoting the "97% of active climate scientists is wrong.
Only 17.75% agree or strongly agree with the statement, "The state of theoretical understanding of climate change phenomena is adequate." And equal percentage disagreed or strongly disagreed.
There are 32,000 scientists convinced that CAGW is not a problem, and the list probably contains the name of Steve Milloy. You should read some of his articles. You might learn something.
CO2 is not a pollutant. If you still feel that way, quit exhaling.
Here is the link to the article that got me thinking and looking.
Gas production companies are looking forward to replacing coal with their natural gas in power plants to help decrease carbon emissions. And of course the consumer will have to pay the add-on cost.
Making the corelation between energy efficiency and loss of jobs might be a forthnight to furlong comparison. Many of the energy efficient state have higher utility rates, which has a larger effect on employment.
Also I would love to see the back up data used. Telling me the slope is only the beginning. Make a comparison to energy cost and unemployment per stae would probably show a closer corelation.
I am an energy and operations and maintenance consultant. More than one of my clients have told me the energy we are saving may mean they have to lay off one or two fewer people, or even keep their doors open.


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House M.D. Episode 3.22 Resignation
Heel and Toe, Shore Z, Bad Hat Harry
http://www.fox.com/house/
Pamela Davis
Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House
Lisa Edelstein as Dr. Lisa Cuddy
Omar Epps as Dr. Eric Foreman
Robert Sean Leonard as Dr. James Wilson
Jennifer Morrison as Dr. Allison Cameron
Jesse Spencer as Dr. Robert Chase
Olivia Wilde as Dr. Remy Hadley / Thirteen
Peter Jacobson as Dr. Chris Taub
Kal Penn as Dr. Lawrence Kutner
Odette Yustman as Dr. Jessica Adams
Odette Annable
Tony Spiridakis
Eve Gordon
Tracy Howe
Shonda Farr
A young woman named Addie becomes dizzy in her karate class. She begins coughing up blood. Later, at the hospital, the team reviews the case. Cameron postulates drugs, toxins or infection. She figures that if Addie coughed up blood, then it came from the lungs. However, Addie has no fever or elevated white count, which rules out infection. A blood panel was negative for toxins and her bronchoscopy showed pristine lungs. Cameron then assumes it must have come from the girl's stomach, indicating an ulcer or GI bleed. Yet the ER also did an upper and lower GI. There's no occult blood in the stool, meaning no ulcer or GI blood. Basically, the blood didn't come from anywhere.
House enters asks the team if they've figured out yet that the blood came from nowhere. Cuddy pulls House and Foreman out into the hallway to inquire about Foreman's resignation. He's sure that he still wants to quit. Cuddy has him sign a form to make it official. House wonders why Cuddy isn't begging him to stay. She thinks it wouldn't make a difference. Back in the office, Foreman breaks the news to Chase and Cameron.
Resuming Addie's case, Chase mentions the possibility that a hyperdynamic heart could have forced too much blood into the lungs. It wouldn't leave a trace because the blood came from the veins. House orders Foreman to run an echo stress test on Addie. He sends Cameron to check out the girl's dorm before re-running the ER labs.
While performing the echo stress, Chase asks Foreman why he's leaving but Foreman doesn't give up anything. Chase wonders if that means Foreman is embarrassed about the reason. Addie's heart rate spikes to 170 and Chase can only see goose bumps on her arm. House still thinks it's an infection. He instructs Foreman to start treatment and get a lung biopsy. When Foreman leaves, Chase asks House why Foreman has resigned. House answers that Foreman has decided to raise llamas. Chase realizes that House is also ashamed of the real answer.
House tells Wilson that Foreman is leaving because he doesn't want to turn into another House. Wilson yawns, which House finds intriguing, and then suggests he try to bargain with Foreman. Maybe he can offer him a raise.
As the doctors discuss Addie's case, House asks them what pandiculation is symptomatic of. He is pretending this is in reference to Addie when really it's to learn about Wilson. House then makes a lame joke that Foreman chuckles at. Chase stops short, accusing Foreman of doubting his decision. He's never laughed at one of House's jokes before, but did now because he's nervous. House begins to realize that he was wrong about the infection. He tells the team to attend to Addie before she crashes. They rush in with the crash cart to find her gasping for air. The doctors slide a laryngoscope down her throat.
Chase later explains to the group that Addie couldn't breathe because she had a pleural effusion, which indicates either cirrhosis or heart failure. However, her heart is fine and the liver enzymes are normal. House keys in on the fact that there was blood in the pleural effusion. This confirms his supposition about infection, but Chase argues that it was only minute traces of blood in an otherwise clear liquid. House orders them to double the dosage of antibiotics and check the lungs with an arteriogram.
The arteriogram test comes back normal. House is still convinced it's an infection. The team is skeptical that Addie would keep fighting off an infection that returns, but House wonders if maybe she's missing a protein that cannot be tested. Picking up on his lead, Chase blurts out the disorder of complement factor H deficiency. That would mean Addie is as good as dead. Her body cannot fight off bacteria, and she will succumb to one infection after another until her body shuts down. Since there's no diagnostic test for complement factor H deficiency, House wants them to isolate the cells that are most attractive to that affliction. They need to stick a needle in her eye.
Despite the case, House is still subject to clinic duty. He treats a man named Steve who complains of floating stool. Accompanying Steve is his girlfriend, a free-spirited nutritionist named Honey. She is disappointed because Steve has been cheating on her by eating meat. House sees this as an opening to ask Honey out. She accepts.
House crushes up some amphetamine pills and secretly drops them into a cup of coffee for Wilson. Wilson is naturally suspicious of House being nice. So he grabs the cup that House isn't offering, but that is the one filled with the amphetamine.
Addie's macular biopsy comes back negative, proving that it is not complement factor H deficiency. House still thinks it's an infection. They take a brain MRI, and Addie cries out during the procedure that her head hurts. When the doctors pull her out from the machine, they are shocked to see that the top of Addie's head has somehow burst open, leaving blood and tissue oozing onto the table.
The doctors anesthetize Addie and begin debriding the tissue. Foreman notes massive tissue death and Cameron notes that it doesn't have any pus, which should rule out infection. House again refuses to back off his diagnosis. Chase thinks it's more likely to be autoimmune, which means they need to start steroid treatment immediately. House invites him to proceed as long as Cameron stands by with the crash cart. If Chase is wrong, Addie's heart will give up almost as soon as they start with the steroids.
House stands by in the hallway as Chase starts the steroid drip, eagerly anticipating the massive heart attack. Yet nothing happens. Cameron smiles and turns the crash cart off. House is somewhat annoyed.
Wilson calls Foreman to his office. Foreman immediately notices that Wilson is going a hundred miles an hour. Wilson blurts out that House wants Foreman to stay. Before he leaves, Foreman says that he knows House is a good doctor.
Wilson tracks down House at home and angrily accuses him of drugging the coffee. When Wilson yawns, House is positive that the yawning is a symptom of something else. He posits that Wilson is taking anti-depressants. House says he would be on them as well if he wasn't in denial about his depression.
That night, Cameron wakes House up because he wasn't answering the phone. She informs him that Chase was wrong. Addie's kidneys have shut down. House actually smiles at the news.
At the hospital, Cameron announces that hemolytic uremic syndrome is what caused Addie's kidneys to shut down. House remarks that this is usually caused by an infection or a protein deficiency. House gloats that he was able to diagnose an invisible disease based on coughed up blood. The team is more interested is what they're going to do next. If House is right, the steroid treatment means that Addie's next infection will be ferocious. So they decide to wait for a stroke or heart attack to confirm an infection.
Eventually, Addie suffers a heart attack. The doctors are barely able to save her. Foreman gives the news to House then asks if he even knows the patient's name. House doesn't, but he argues that this is not what is important to him or the family. House thinks Foreman doesn't want to quit. Foreman asks if that statement actually means House doesn't want him to quit. House scoffs that Foreman is under the impression he can make House a gentler person. Foreman cuts him off, charging that House is about to tell a young girl she's dying but all he can think about is himself. Foreman hopes to God he's not like House.
House walks into Addie's room, apologizes and then tells her she's dying. The infections will continue to get worse. She has two days or less to live. House attempts to explain the disease, but she doesn't want to hear it. House is amazed that Addie doesn't want to know what's killing her. She questions whether knowing will make her live longer. House wonders what life is without curiosity. As he talks about diagnosing problems, Addie notices that he is smiling. He catches a reflection of himself and she's right. House is actually smiling as he talks about this in front of a dying girl. He abruptly exits.
House barges into Wilson's office and blames him for dosing House with anti-depressants. Wilson smiles, unable to hide the truth. They've obviously worked. A miserable girl just noticed how happy he was. House counters that she wasn't miserable and has been in that same mood all along. House freezes with an epiphany.
House barges into Addie's room and orders her parents out. He sits down and tells Addie that depression manifests itself in many different ways. She tried to kill herself by downing kitchen cleanser. Since she is intelligent, she knew that it would sting her mouth and throat. So she must have wrapped the cleanser in a gel cap, which burned a hole in her intestine yet left no other trace behind. Scar tissue fixed the hole but also formed a bridge between a vein and an artery. Instead of her veins sending bacteria into her fecal matter where they should be eliminated, the bacteria was being sent back into her system. Yet does Addie want them to fix her? Surgery will only take two hours but the psychotherapy will take longer. Addie cries, confessing that she's never been happy. She begs House not to tell her parents because they will blame themselves.
As surgeons work on Addie, Cuddy tells Foreman that House isn't actually that bad. She questions whether he really is afraid of turning into House. Foreman says it's not worth it and leaves.
That night, House meets Honey at a bar. He orders the same peppermint tea that she's drinking. Honey is under the impression that House is interested in hiring her as a nutritionist for his team, but House has another, more personal, relationship in mind. He points out that he hates tea. Then he lists all of his many shortcomings. Honey is not put off by any of it.


Shortly after I started full-time teaching, a colleague sent me a hurried email, seeking my help in answering an A-level (pre-university exam) student's questions on the interaction between various Christian doctrines about God, cosmology and free will.
I present here a slightly tidied-up version of his email, together with my response.
It has been suggested that the problem of evil (both natural and moral) can in some way be explained by freedom. [This points to a kind of] God [who] lets the universe unfold, a God who allows humans to evolve in freedom. Roughly speaking [this equates to] the free will argument. The God in this instance appears to be apart from the universe - not interfering.
We then came to the question of miracles. Now it can be argued that the miracles in the Bible are mythological, recorded for reasons known best to the writers. If however they are not,then what does this say about the God who allows people to be free? In other words, is this not a case of an interfering God who impinges himself upon an unsuspecting people? Is this not inconsistent therefore with the God of the free will argument? In fact isn't the very 'miracle' of Christ the prime example of a God who does interfere in the world in the most definite way? And again if this is so then how can this be consistent with a God who is apart?
The question hangs upon theodicy and transcendence. I would appreciate your views, as a practicing Christian, on a subject that I might relay your reply to [a student] who has been struggling with this one.
What follows is a purely personal answer, and one which needs to be taken a step at a time. I have tried to use inclusive language but I always think of God as a He – this does not necessarily imply a lack of female attributes. It is going to be quite long, and possibly boring, if all the questions raised are going to be tackled honestly. I will rely on you to extract the level of detail that might be helpful to your student.
The issues are all inter-related, but I will try to isolate them one step at a time.
"It has been suggested that the problem of evil (both natural and moral) can in some way be explained by freedom. A God who lets the universe unfold, A God who allows humans to evolve (possibly) in freedom. Roughly speaking the free will argument."
As a Christian believer, I fully endorse the idea that moral evil is the consequence (but not the inevitable consequence) of human freewill. My son has a humanoid toy called Robo-Sapiens that can be programmed to do exactly what its owner wants but which has no free will to make its own choices. Free will logically has to allow the possibility of bad choices which in turn will have bad consequences, but the only alternative would be for us to be robots.
Some philosophers have said that this makes God the author of evil. In common with (presumably) all Christians, I believe that the moral responsibility for evil rests with humans, who universally abuse their gift of free will. We believe this because we do not believe that our God-given freewill logically has to result in bad choices. Indeed, we look to the example of Jesus, who we do not believe ever did wrong despite facing all the temptations we face as ordinary people.
The human abuse of free will for selfish purposes is the cause of all moral evil, but it unquestionably results in a great deal of the natural evil in the world. For example, a flash flood can occur naturally, but climate change resulting from pollution can increase the frequency of such disasters, while selfish land speculation (e.g. selling a dry river bed for poor people to build houses on) can vastly increase the suffering when flash flooding occurs.
Even so, there is natural evil that does not seem to result from any human choices, e.g. earthquakes. Many Christians look to the story of the Fall to explain this (Genesis 3). You do not have to take the story of Adam and Eve literally to observe that sin (abuse of freewill) has a three-fold consequence: firstly alienation between people and God, secondly alienation between humans and their environment, and thirdly alienation between individual people. (Some commentators would add alienation between the parts of the individual – body, mind, soul). Within this framework, many Christians interpret natural disasters, broken relationships and health breakdowns as symptoms of this alienation. You could call it God's judgement for this era of human history: handing people over to the consequences of their choices like a stern Deputy Head Teacher, but with the ultimate objective of reconciliation.
Step 2: TRANSCENDENT OR IMMANENT?
"The God in this instance appears to be apart from the universe. Not interfering."
At one extreme you have the god of the Deist movement: setting the universe in motion and then moving on to somewhere else. Some modern Christians hold a similar view to this, but they are far from historical orthodoxy.
A more moderate position is that taken by Karl Barth: God is the Wholly-Other; concerned with the salvation of individual souls, but utterly transcendent (above and beyond the created order, and beyond direct human experience).
At the opposite extreme, pantheists believe that God IS the universe: that God inhabits every atom and gives reality; that God is limited by the sun total of human experience; perhaps even that God is growing up with the universe (process theology).
This preamble was necessary background to the explanation that orthodox Christianity holds a distinctive position that has been called panentheism: God has a presence in the universe, constantly sustaining it from millisecond to millisecond, and yet maintaining (his) distinct divine essence. In other words, like oil in water, the divine nature does not become confused with created things – it is always recognizable, separate, and in some sense greater. (Many have argued from this that what we call natural laws are no more than observations of the way God most commonly works: If he performs a miracle, he does not interfere with some kind of laws that have a separate existence of their own; he merely chooses for once to work in a different way from the one we are used to. However, I am not going to rely on this argument here).
Thus from my viewpoint as a Christian, you are creating a false dichotomy in saying (as you appear to be) that the granting of free will to humans necessarily implies a God apart from the universe. Which brings us onto the next issue.
"In fact isn't the very 'miracle' of Christ the prime example of a God who does interfere in the world in the most definite way? And again if this is so then how can this be consistent with a God who is apart?"
In common with most Christians, I have been drawn into what has been scorned by some thinkers as the "scandal of particularity" – the belief that there is something qualitatively unique about the historical person of Jesus of Nazareth. In other words, I for one accept that the God who is in one sense universal - transcending all times, places and human cultures – chose to "interfere" in human history in one specific time, place and culture.
Far more significantly, for many Christians, the birth of Jesus (and even more his death) are symbols of what I referred to above as panentheism – the belief that God is in the world, not just as a vague "ground of our being" or a may-the-force-be-with-you kind of energy-field, but as a distinct and sentient being who lives, experiences, suffers and ultimately finds transcending joy and peace alongside of and within human life and experience.
Either way, most Christians would say that the prototype for all or any "interference" by God was at the moment of creation – even if you restrict God's role to simply "causing" the Big Bang. Indeed, Catholics would see both creation and the birth of Jesus as kind of informal sacraments – simply different ways in which the invisible presence and power of God are made detectable to fleshy beings like us. In a sense it is the Creation that is the real archetypal moment of God breaking into history, as (whether or not they believe in a god) most astrophysicists agree that time and space themselves are no more than by-products of that moment of creation. The incarnation is simply phase 2 of creation – a point of transition at which God injects not just his essence but some aspect of his personal consciousness into his handiwork.
"We then came to the question of miracles. Now it can be argued that the miracles in the Bible are mythological, recorded for reasons known best to the writers. If however they are not then what does this say about the God who allows people to be free. In other words is this not a case of an interfering God who inpinges himself upon an unsuspecting people. Is this not inconsistent therefore with the God of the free will argument."
I prefer "symbolic" to "mythological", since the latter word nowadays carries a clear undertone of falsehood which it did not carry when it was first coined as part of the infant science of literary criticism.
Scholars have spent nearly 2,000 years arguing over the extent to which Jesus knew he was God or had God's power in his hands. Whether or not his miracles literally happened is just a part (and actually only quite a minor part) of this argument. Even in their biblical context, Jesus' miracles are quite clearly used as a literary device to convey a theological point.
I personally like the theory of kenosis (Greek for "emptying") which says that the aspect of God which assumed flesh in the birth of Jesus chose to empty itself of the divine attributes – glory, majesty, power, etc. This is perfectly mainstream Christology, and it is a strange fit with ideas that he consciously wielded divine power at will.
The purpose of his divine assumption of human flesh, if we cut through the many generations of competing atonement theories, is ultimately that the reverse process should occur – that humanity should assume the divine nature. The curse of Eden is then reversed: the deceitful warning of the serpent ("God knows that if you eat the apple" – symbolic of the rebellious exercise of freewill – "you will become like gods") is ironically fulfilled, with the consequence that humanity is eternally able to use its freewill wisely and unselfishly to the universal good.
I have been trying to argue from a philosophical viewpoint – in the context of the whole Christian doctrine of God – that the idea of miracle is not incompatible with human free-will. Rather, whether they literally happened or not, Jesus' miracles are signs or symbols of the Kingdom of God – a new social order in which God's moral values become intuitive and therefore humans will avoid sinful behaviour while keeping their freewill intact: in a nutshell. the fulfilment of human freewill rather than a contradiction of it. But this leads us on to the question of modern miracles.
I want to make clear that I am open-minded about whether miraculous answers to prayer occur today. On the one hand, I have seen incidents that make it hard for me not to believe that God sometimes intervenes, and no amount of rational argument is going to shake me out of this. However, one of the very few areas in which arch-conservatives and arch-liberals agree is that we should NOT expect miracles to happen. The reasons are of course very different: Liberals say that miracles simply cannot happen because you cannot suspend the laws of nature. In contrast, many conservatives say that the miracles surrounding the life of Jesus were unique events associated with that crucial, mysterious time in history when God was physically on earth, and that their importance to us lies in their symbolism and what they teach – they are not meant to be role-models for our own religious experience.
In consequence, the most helpful idea of a miracle I have found is that it is a direct subjective experience of God being present and working in a situation. This leaves the way open to accept that the precise outcome (healing, rescue, inner strength, reconciliation, etc.) may be part of a totally rational chain of cause-and-effect, without denying that the lives and values of witnesses may have been transformed in the process.
A real-life example that I have heard told first hand: A drug-addict goes into a clinic to undergo "cold turkey", and is braced for a harrowing experience. He prays with a Christian nurse for God's help. The next day he has broken his addiction without going through any of the convulsions, fever, etc., normally expected. This experience results in a conversion experience. He in turn becomes a Christian worker, liberated, employed in telling his story and helping other addicts. Is this a miracle? I would say yes, despite the fact that his easy exit from the drug could have had purely physiological or psychological causes. The miracle lies more in the interpretation he places on his experience, and the way his life is transformed.
This approach to miracles has a sound biblical basis. One biblical account is that Jesus could do no major miracles in one particular town because the crowd was so sceptical. Unless we believe that the presence of sceptics was enough to block divine powers, we have to believe that the problem there was a psycho-social one: they refused to allow the things they saw to transform their attitudes to life. In another place it says that Jesus refused to do any miracles because all the people had turned out to see was a five-minute sensation – a similar conclusion can be drawn.
(a) It does not involve interference with the "laws" of nature.
(c) It does not rule out the possibility of God doing something precious in people's lives.
(e.g. "I ought to be praying for peace in Darfur, but I've only got five minutes to spare and I need to spend that time praying that I pass my driving test tomorrow).
In fact, it suggests that prayer is not a means of getting God to do what we want. Rather, it is a means of making ourselves available to God, to do what God wants. In other words, what is changed in prayer is not God's will, but our human wills and perceptions. In still other words, the process is not us changing the world by pestering God, but God changing the world by graciously allowing us to collaborate with (him).
I know a married couple in their twenties who spent nearly three years in Darfur, living in indescribable squalor and unbelievable physical danger, working for a Christian disaster-relief organisation. This happened because they spent several months praying to God to do something about the humanitarian crisis there.
Perhaps in one sense you could say that.
"Is this not inconsistent therefore with the God of the free will argument?
I think it is the fulfilment of what humans were given freewill for.
Don't get me wrong: I am well aware that many religious people (Christian or otherwise) have quite self-centred and tribal understandings of who God is and what they can expect God to do for them. Ultimately, they will have to take moral responsibility for that. However, it is my personal belief that this is a stage of spiritual adolescence (sorry if that sounds condescending) that people go through, and that they are better placed for future spiritual growth by having a God they believe is powerful enough to be worth praying to than are those who rule out the possibility of real spiritual experience.


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The climate crisis: one month on
Isobel Edwards
Category: Politics and International Studies
It's World Environment Day, and just over a month since MPs declared a climate change emergency, hailed as a "huge step forward" by Jeremy Corbyn and "historic and very hopeful news" by Greta Thunberg.
I'll be honest, when I first imagined this blog, I saw it as an angry tirade against the establishment, whereupon I would expertly lay into them for all that they haven't achieved to protect the climate in the month since declaring an emergency.
The problem is, dare I say it, I think we might be doing okay.
So, what's happened since May 1st?
Well, the Ultra Low Emission Zone has continued to be enforced in the capital, which has led to almost 10,000 fewer high polluting vehicles heading into central London.
In terms of wildlife protection, the Hares Preservation Bill has been read in parliament and there's talk of expanding the UK's marine protected area to create a 'blue belt'.
To increase their competitive angle, Labour has pledged to fit 1.75 million homes with solar panels, with a focus on these going to lower income families.
In the battle against plastic, straws, plastic stirrers and cotton buds are all facing their last hurrah as the government has proposed a blanket ban on their use.
And the Green Party returned more than double the number of MEPs to the European Parliament, in a campaign that prioritised the climate crisis.
All in all, between the public and parliament, I'm tempted to say that's not a bad effort.
Keeping the momentum
With the school strikes and Extinction Rebellion protests reaching a peak in April, the climate emergency was announced amid much pressure from the general public.
But with rebels taking a break to regroup, can we count on MPs to keep up that pressure?
The theme of World Environment Day this year is 'Beat air pollution', and its timing is apt. The UK has committed to reducing carbon emissions by 80% by 2050, and, while we have been making reductions, we're yet to see if these are enough to make a difference.
Although the government appears to be saying and doing the right things, they're currently considering a new coal mine and have approved expansion at Heathrow. An Environment Bill has been on the horizon since the end of last year, but this has come under fire in parliament recently for not providing adequate protection if the UK leaves the EU.
Perhaps we should encourage the government (i.e. protest peacefully but persistently until they have to) to collaborate with charities such as Greenpeace, who have outlined an alternative climate manifesto, to make sure we stick to the pledges we've made.
However we decide to put that pressure on, Environment Day is a timely reminder not to slow down in the race to save the planet from the climate crisis.


New Orleans' Industrial Development Board on Tuesday (Jan. 14) opened the 150-acre former Six Flags amusement park site in eastern New Orleans to proposals from developers.
The former Jazzland and Six Flags site has been closed since Hurricane Katrina.
Last year, plans for the development of a 400,000-square-foot outlet mall were scrapped after the $70 million redevelopment of the Riverwalk outlet mall was announced. The developers chose in the last RFP, Provident Realty Advisors and DAG Development, said the market was not big enough for two outlet malls.
The IDB will evaluate the proposals according to the following criteria: developers' experience and past performance, finances including a market analysis and liquidity, potential tax revenue and job creation, commitment to involving disadvantaged business participation, and the overall development concept including sustainable building practices.
The selection process will be open to the public and the committee will seek community input. The deadline for the proposals is Feb. 28.
For all you developers out there, you can check out the entire RFP here.


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My dear readers,
Be sure that you are not alone in your anxiety with this election season. I do not know when you will read this; be it in the day-long lines of Election Day, or cradled in a quiet corner on Thursday, cloaked in the consequences of our choices. We have finally made it to the end, but we must also accept that the end is the beginning of everything else. The culmination of this election occurs in a thunderstorm of noise and dizzying rage. We're experiencing a sense of national vertigo, and we have to find a way to resist falling regardless of who ascends to the White House.
C.S. Lewis' 'The Screwtape Letters' is a satirical epistle novel consisting of letters exchanged between senior Demon Screwtape and his nephew Wormwood, a "Junior Tempter" demon learning how to sway Christians from their faith. In his first letter to Wormwood, Screwtape provides an analysis of humanity that reads as accurate and relevant to our current political climate:
"[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think of doctrines as primarily 'true' or 'false,' but as 'academic' or 'practical,' 'outworn' or 'contemporary,' 'conventional' or 'ruthless.' Jargon, not argument, is your best ally."
Polarizing dichotomies are ripping us at the seams, and the "jargon" Screwtape writes about has polluted political discourse and our American psyche. Lewis' letters were published during WWII while Hitler's Nazism plagued Europe. With Hitler, the absolutes, the dichotomies, the "us/them" factions were fueled by fear to the point that reason was almost stomped out.
Screwtape encourages Wormwood to drive his "patient" away from what centers him, and down a path that leads straight to Hell. Perhaps we as a nation have drifted away from what centers us. As individuals, we each define faith according to how we live and achieve happiness, be it faith in ourselves, our family, humanity, Yahweh, Allah, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster. As a collective, we now seem fragmented; disjointed. And the "jargon" of this election season that stimulates sound bytes by the hour seems to break us rather than bind us back together.
If there is a shared sentiment amidst the shouting, it is the frustration Americans feel toward Washington D.C. lawmakers, and those many consider to be "the elite" or "the establishment." And what has been a major element of the establishment is neoliberalism, which emphasizes free-market competition. Citizens are consumers, and consumerism makes the world go 'round.
Paolo Gerbaudo writes in openDemocracy, "The crisis of the neoliberal order, which has been spectacularly displayed in the victory of Brexit and the difficulties experienced by Hillary Clinton in the US presidential election campaign, has resuscitated one of the most time-honoured of political notions: the idea of sovereignty.
Usually understood as the authority of the state to govern over its own territory, sovereignty had been thought to have been consigned to the dustbin of history in the globally interconnected world of the internet and multinational corporations. But this notion is now almost obsessively invoked by the new populist formations and leaders that have emerged on both the Left and the Right since the 2008 financial crash."
The sovereignty and populism Gerbaudo writes about were at the forefront of Donald Trump's and Bernie Sanders' appeal to Americans who felt left behind or compromised for, what they felt was the sake of globalization. Hardship has resulted in an apprehension to believe our government can balance its role abroad and its responsibility at home. Many feel justified in feeling, "It's either them or us. And it's going to be us."
Whoever wins the election cannot ignore these concerns, but address them straight on. A dissonance has been occurring in the grey, nuanced fabric of our society. Things have never been black and white, nor can we let ourselves believe things would be better as such. We have to try to come out of this together, if for no other reason than to upset Screwtape and his demonic intentions.
Your affectionate columnist,
Adriene
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Q: Remote Validation doesnt receive the field value when is a FILE type I have a controller where user select a File with data to be load in the system, but I need to validate the file hasnt already been load before so I try to create a Remote Validation
I create a class:
public class FileUpload
{
    [Display(Name = "Archivo")]
    [Required(ErrorMessage = "Debe seleccionar un archivo.") ]
    [Remote("BackupFileExist", "ImportJobs", ErrorMessage = "El archivo ya fue cargado.")]
    public HttpPostedFileBase File { get; set; }

    [Display(Name = "Test")]
    [Required(ErrorMessage = "Debe seleccionar un archivo.")]
    [Remote("BackupTestExist", "ImportJobs", ErrorMessage = "El archivo ya fue cargado.")]
    public string Test { get; set; }
}

and a strong type view with jquery.validate and jquery.validate.unobtrusive:
@using (Html.BeginForm(null, null, FormMethod.Post, new { enctype = "multipart/form-data" }))
{
        @Html.ValidationSummary(true, "", new { @class = "text-danger" })

            @Html.LabelFor(model => model.File, htmlAttributes: new { @class = "control-label col-md-2" })

                @Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.File, new { type = "file" })
                @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.File, "", new { @class = "text-danger" })

        @Html.LabelFor(model => model.Test, htmlAttributes: new { @class = "control-label col-md-2" })

            @Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.Test, htmlAttributes: new { @class = "control-label col-md-2" })
            @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.Test, "", new { @class = "text-danger" })

                <input type="submit" value="Cargar Archivo" class="btn btn-default" />

}

@section scripts {

}

Then my controller:
public class ImportJobsController : Controller
{
    public JsonResult BackupFileExist(HttpPostedFileBase File)
    {
        return Json(!db.ImportJobs.Any(f => f.FileName == File.FileName),
                    JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
    }

    public JsonResult BackupTestExist(string Test)
    {
        return Json(!db.ImportJobs.Any(f => f.FileName == Test), JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
    }
}

My issue is the BackupFileExist function is call but the File variable is null
Edit: After posting the question I decide add a Test field with type string. That field work as expected. So looks like is an issue with the File type

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