text:
Tag Archives: Alfred Conteh
NATE LEWIS exhibits in "Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary" at California African American Museum
Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary
March 8 – August 25, 2019
curated by: Essence Harden, independent curator, and Leigh Raiford, Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley
A prolific painter, printmaker, muralist, draftsman, and photographer whose career spanned more than half a century, Charles White's artistic portrayals of black subjects, life, and history were extensive and far-reaching. Plumb Line features contemporary artists whose work in the realm of black individual and collective life resonates with White's profound and continuing influence.
From abstraction to figuration, the artists of Plumb Line (listed below) find conversation with White through the largesse of their canvases, expansive renderings of black skin and black community, and in the treatment of black past and presence in ways that are both epic and intimate.
The plumb line, an architectural tool used to determine verticality, is a featured element in White's Birmingham Totem, suggesting the work of black artists as architects of change. White himself can also be considered an artistic plumb line: a builder of black artistic opportunities and a compass directing us toward new aesthetic, liberatory possibilities.
Plumb Line is curated by Essence Harden, independent curator, and Leigh Raiford, Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, for the California African American Museum. The exhibition is presented as a companion to the LACMA exhibitions Charles White: A Retrospective and Life Model: Charles White and his Students.
Complete list of artists: Derrick Adams, Sadie Barnette, Dawoud Bey, Diedrick Brackens, Greg Breda, Bisa Butler, Alfred Conteh, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Ariel Dannielle, Kenturah Davis, Torkwase Dyson, Kohshin Finley, Derek Fordjour, Ficre Ghebreyesus, EJ Hill, Yashua Klos, Nate Lewis, Michelangelo Lovelace, Christopher Myers, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Deborah Roberts, Lava Thomas, Charles White, and Deborah Willis
Exhibitions. Programs. Workshops. Events. Conversations.
CAAM is not just a museum. We are a living, breathing experience, a thriving center for dialogue and discourse about art, culture, history, and identity. We promise you'll find something to love and to take part in here — so visit, and visit often! Located in the heart of LA's Exposition Park, we are also surrounded by some of the city's most vibrant institutions, including the Natural History Museum, the California Science Center and the forthcoming Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, Sunday from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm, and is closed on Monday (except MLK Day!).
Admission is always free.
If you are driving, CAAM is at the corner of Figueroa Street and Exposition Boulevard, just west of the 110 Freeway. Please note that our parking lot entrance is at 39th and Figueroa. Please put that cross section into your maps search or GPS device.
Available artwork by NATE LEWIS
Tags: Alfred Conteh, Ariel Dannielle, Bisa Butler, CAAM, California African American Museum, Charles White, Christopher Myers, Dawoud Bey, dc, Deborah Roberts, Deborah Willis, Derek Fordjour, Derrick Adams, Diedrick Brackens, EJ Hill, Essence Harden, Ficre Ghebreyesus, Greg Breda, Kenturah Davis, Kohshin Finley, Lava Thomas, Leigh Raiford, Michelangelo Lovelace, morton fine art, Nate Lewis, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Plumb Line, Sadie Barnette, torkwase dyson, Toyin Ojih Odutola, washington, Yashua Klos


Is there any chance that Artrage could have the ability to use the new Logitech Craft keyboard at some point in the future?
If you looking for programmable keyboard, Logitech G13 is it. It's marketed for PC gaming, but it works fantastically on all the programs. I use it for all 2D and 3D programs, It has replaced my $$$ Space Navigator 3D mouse. For digital drawings, I don't even use Citiq's side panels once I have G13 programmed.


View individual graphs with details for each TempTRIP record. Results are automatically "bracketed" to reflect updated stop and start times. Events during each trip are "marked" for easy reference.
• Data dashboards get you to the results quickly.
• No time wasted sorting through unneeded records.
• Everything is on the Web and at your fingertips.


text:
Q: Bindings not working in WPF window user control I have this User Control XAML:
<Window x:Class="MyProj.Dialog"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
        xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
        xmlns:shell="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation/shell"
        mc:Ignorable="d">

    <Grid>
        <ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding Foos}">
            <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
                <DataTemplate>
                    <TextBlock Text="ASd" />
                </DataTemplate>
            </ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
        </ItemsControl>
    </Grid>

</Window>

and the corresponding code behind:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Input;
using System.Windows.Media.Effects;
using System.Windows.Threading;

namespace MyProj
{
    public partial class Dialog : Window
    {
        public Dialog() : base()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            //DataContext = this;
        }

        public ObservableCollection<string> Foos = new ObservableCollection<string> { "foo", "bar" };
    }
}

The problem I'm having is that for some reason the ItemsControl does not display anything. The odd thing is that I don't even get binding warnings in the output.

A: In WPF, the Path component of a binding can only refer to properties (or property paths), not fields. Try encapsulating your collection in a property:
private ObservableCollection<string> foos =
    new ObservableCollection<string> { "foo", "bar" };

public ObservableCollection<string> Foos
{
    get { return foos; }
}

Also, you need to uncomment the line where you set the DataContext:
DataContext = this;

A: You can also bind fields (easiest if you name the component, but you need to reference it somehow) :
<ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding}" Name="myItems">
    <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
        <DataTemplate>
            <TextBlock Text="{Binding}"/>
        </DataTemplate>
    </ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
</ItemsControl>

with
private ObservableCollection<string> Foos =
  new ObservableCollection<string> { "foo", "bar" };

public Dialog() : base
{
    InitializeComponent();
    myItems.DataContext = Foos;
}

This can be more flexible than hard-coding the binding in the XAML since you are not binding to a specific property of your class but rather to any object which exposes the correct properties.  Supposing you had a number of collections, you could easily display any of them in the ItemsControl simply by changing (programmatically) its DataContext to whatever collection you wished to display.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
Michael Geist
Full CV
Columns Archive
Regulation of Internet Commerce – January 2021
Technology Law Internship
Global Technology Law and Policy
Committees and Consultations
Law Bytes Podcasts
Tech Law Topics
Bill C-10
Digital Trade
Lawful Access
Online Harms
Your Information is Not Secure: Thousands of Government Privacy Breaches Point to Need for Reform
Appeared in the Toronto Star on April 27, 2013 as Your Information is Not Secure in Ottawa
As Canadians focused last week on the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing and the RCMP arrests of two men accused of plotting to attack Via Rail, the largest sustained series of privacy breaches in Canadian history was uncovered but attracted only limited attention. Canadians have faced high profile data breaches in the past – Winners/HomeSense and the CIBC were both at the centre of serious breaches several years ago – but last week, the federal government revealed that it may represent the biggest risk to the privacy of millions of Canadians as some government departments have suffered breaches virtually every 48 hours.
The revelations came as a result of questions from NDP MP Charlie Angus, who sought information on data, information or privacy breaches in all government departments from 2002 to 2012. The resulting documentation is stunning in its breadth.
Virtually every major government department has sustained breaches, with the majority occurring over the past five years (many did not retain records dating back to 2002). In numerous instances, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada was not advised of the breach.
Some of the most vulnerable departments are those that host the most sensitive information. For example, Citizenship and Immigration Canada suffered 161 breaches in 2012 – more than three per week – affecting hundreds of people. The department only disclosed the breaches to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada on five occasions.
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada famously suffered a massive breach last year – 588,384 individuals were affected – but less well known is that the department has had thousands of other breaches over the past few years. In 2007, a breach affected 28,651 people, yet the Privacy Commissioner of Canada was not informed and the department is unsure of whether the breach resulted in criminal activity.
Virtually no department has been immune to security breaches with nearly 100,000 individuals affected by breaches at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada since 2008, almost 5,000 individuals hit at Fisheries Canada with no reporting to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, and just under 200 breaches at the RCMP affecting an unknown number of people.
If a similar situation occurred involving a major Canadian bank, retailer, or telecom company, there would be an immediate outcry for tougher rules on mandatory disclosure of security breaches. Yet the federal government plays by different rules, with no liability and no legal requirements to disclose the breaches.
Successive federal privacy commissioners have urged the government to reform the badly outdated Privacy Act to at least hold government to the same privacy standard that it expects from the private sector. But those calls for reform have been repeatedly ignored.
Most recently, Privacy Commissioner of Canada Jennifer Stoddart identified twelve seemingly uncontroversial reforms, including strengthening annual reporting requirements by government departments, introducing a provision for proper security safeguards for the protection of personal information, and creating legislated security breach notification requirements. None of the recommendations have been implemented.
In fact, Canadian privacy failures dot the legislative landscape. Bill C-12, the Canadian private sector privacy bill intended to implement reforms that date back to hearings conducted in 2006 lies dormant in the House of Commons. A review of the private sector privacy law that was required by law in 2011 has seemingly been forgotten. Anti-spam legislation passed in 2010 and touted as a key part of the government's cybercrime strategy is stuck as Industry Minister Christian Paradis dithers on the applicable regulations.
No institution has greater access to the personal information of Canadians than the federal government. The public entrusts it to keep their information secure and to take all appropriate action should a security breach occur. The latest revelations indicate that the failure to live up to that trust is spread across virtually all government departments and to the political leaders that have failed to introduce much-needed legislative privacy safeguards.
Michael Geist holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. He can reached at mgeist@uottawa.ca or online at www.michaelgeist.ca.
Tags: privacy / security breach
Law Bytes
Episode 113: The Year in Canadian Digital Law and Policy
byMichael Geist
Episode 112: Aaron Perzanowski on the Right to Repair
Episode 111: The Story Behind JusTech – How Three University of Ottawa Law Students Created a Technology Compliance Solution for Privacy Breach Rules
Episode 110: Waiting to Connect – Karen Barnes and Catherine Middleton on the CCA's Report on Internet Access in Canadian Rural, Remote and Indigenous Communities
Episode 109: Striking the Balance on Misinformation and Freedom of Expression – My Examination of Canadian Policy Solutions
Law Bytes – Subscribe
International Association of Privacy Professionals: Michael Geist Calls for More Robust Privacy Law at the IAPP Canadian Privacy Symposium, 2018
Talks At Google: Professor Michael Geist – Talks at Google
The (Still Secret) Online Harms Consultation: What the Government Heard, Part Two
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 113: The Year in Canadian Digital Law and Policy
Why the Digital Services Tax Act Violates Canada's OECD Commitment to a Tax Moratorium
Law, Privacy and Surveillance in Canada in the Post-Snowden Era (University of Ottawa Press, 2015)
The Copyright Pentalogy: How the Supreme Court of Canada Shook the Foundations of Canadian Copyright Law (University of Ottawa Press, 2013)
From "Radical Extremism" to "Balanced Copyright": Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda (Irwin Law, 2010)
In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law (Irwin Law, 2005)
Get Postings via Email
.form-preview .preview-input-field input:-ms-input-placeholder { color: #000000; }
.form-preview .preview-input-field input::-ms-input-placeholder { color: #000000; } .form-preview .preview-submit-button { margin-top: 10px; width: 100%; } .form-preview .preview-submit-button button { width: 100%; height: 40px; border: 0; border-radius: 6px; line-height: 0px; } .form-preview .preview-submit-button button:hover { cursor: pointer; }
Broadcasting and Telecom Legislative Review Panel Report (BTLR)
Jump to... The Broadcast Panel Report and Canadian Stories: Take the Cancon Quiz CBC Leads Call for New Government Regulations to Support "Trusted" News Sources Broadcast Panel Commissioned Report Found Canada Ranks First Among Peer Countries in Spending on TV Production, Domestic TV Production, and Employment Per Capita The BTLR and USMCA, Part Two: Why the Broadcast Panel Recommendations Could Cost Canadians Millions in Retaliatory Tariffs The BTLR and USMCA, Part One: Why the Broadcast Panel Recommendations Conflict With Canada's Emerging Trade Obligations Higher Costs and Less Choice: Why Consumers Will Pay the Price for the Broadcast Panel's Plans to Increase Costs of Internet Services and Sites The LawBytes Podcast, Episode 38: Debating the Broadcast Panel Report – A Conversation with BTLR Panel Chair Janet Yale The Broadcast Panel Report and Discoverability of Canadian Content: Searching for Evidence of a Problem Not Neutral: Why the Broadcast Panel Report Weakens Net Neutrality in Canada Weak Walk-Back: Why Steven Guilbeault's Reversal on Government Licensing News Sites Still Leaves a Huge Regulatory Structure in Place Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault on Regulating Foreign News Sites: "What's the Big Deal?" The CRTC Knows Best: Panel Report Recommends Costly Overhaul of Canadian Communications Law to Regulate Internet Sites and Services Worldwide A Demonstrably False Premise: Why "Inevitable" Canadian Internet and Cancon Regulations Won't Level the Playing Field, Support Canadian Stories or Save a Thriving Industry
mgeist@uottawa.ca
This web site is licensed under a Creative Commons License, although certain works referenced herein may be separately licensed.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
The sea, ships, mariners, naval affairs and the actions of the Royal Navy at war have attracted writers from a broad background, including academia and the Service itself. The following list of titles, some of which have descriptive annotation, is organised in sections relating to the key aspects of naval, nautical and maritime history subjects and their study. The inclusion of titles here reflects some of the research demands and personal and professional interests of the compiler; it is not exhaustive and any omissions do not indicate a qualitative judgment – there are many other books long and short which deserve to be read or consulted by the professional or amateur historian, for work or for pleasure. Many of the titles listed here have ample bibliographies which will fill the inevitable gaps in this list. The list will be frequently extended and suggestions for other titles supported by annotated comments are welcomed.
Naval History (including strategy, geopolitics, adminstration, organisation, and main events)
Davies, J. D. Pepys's Navy: ships, men & warfare, 1649-1689 (Barnsley 2008)
Encyclopaedic in scope and depth, this is essential reading for research into the early years of the Royal Navy.
Grove, Eric. The Royal Navy since 1815: a new short history (Basingstoke 2005)
A concise account of the Royal Navy's policies, organisational structure, technical development and operations in the 200 years following the end of the Napoleonic Wars, by a master historian; excellent as an authoritative introduction to the subject for students and lay readers.
Harding, Richard The Royal Navy, 1930-2000: innovation and defence (London 2005)
Harding, Richard A great and glorious victory: new perspectives on the Battle of Trafalgar (London 2008)
Hattendorf, John B et al (eds.) British Naval documents, 1204-1960 (Navy Records Society, Aldershot 1993)
Herman, Arthur To Rule the Waves: how the British Navy Shaped the Modern World
an easily assimilated overview of how the Royal Navy created Britain's prosperity and influence – a good introduction for the general reader
Hill, J R and Ranft, B (eds.) The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy (Oxford 2002)
a series of essays concerning key periods of British naval history by leading specialists
Hore, Peter The Habit of Victory: the story of the Royal Navy 1545-1945 (London 2005)
an entertaining and very useful book based on letters, reports, dispatches, and memoirs from a wide range of naval people of all ranks and departments, skilfully edited by an historian and former serving naval officer; especially helpful in studying how technological changes in the modern era drove operational strategy and tactics
Hore, Peter Dreadnought to Daring: 100 years of comment, controversy and debate in The Naval Review (Barnsley, 2012)
Humble, Richard Naval Warfare: an illustrated history (TimeWarner, 2002)
Ireland, Bernard Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail (London 2000)
a well-illustrated, informative and readable introduction to the ships and tactics of the Georgian period; note: do not confuse this with the more technical book on naval fighting tactics of the same title by Brian Tunstall, listed below
Kennedy, Paul The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery (London 2006)
one of the most accessible but well-researched analyses of the political and technical foundations and development of the Royal Navy, a masterpiece of modern history writing with a broad perspective
Lavery, Brian Nelson's Navy: the ships, men and organisation 1793-1815 (London 1989)
Lee, Christopher Nelson and Napoleon (London 2005)
Lewis, Michael England's sea-officers : the story of the naval profession (London 1948)
Lewis, Michael The history of the British Navy (London 1959)
Lewis, Michael A social history of the navy, 1793-1815 (London 1960 and 2004)
Mackinder, HJ 'The geographical pivot of history', in Geographical Journal, vol 23/4 (1904), pp298-321; published online in facsimile as vol 170:4 (2004)
an original approach to the concept of geo-political power by an early academic geographer, widely viewed as the proponent of continental power bases over-riding maritime power as advocated by Alfred Thayer Mahan (see below) – influential in the 1920s and 1930s and still an important element in current debate about the role of naval power projection by emerging states
Maffeo, Steven E Most Secret and Confidential: intelligence in the age of Nelson (New York 2000)
a fascinating overview of naval intelligence in the age of sail by a former intelligence officer in the US Naval service; the occasional reference to fictional characters is idiosyncratic but often illuminating
Mahan, Alfred Thayer The influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783 (London 1893)
one of the most influential books in naval historiography and the study of naval strategy resonating geopolitics of today's great powers, Captain Mahan posits an argument that maritime states naturally have a leading role in the geopolitics of our maritime planet; his arguments – while disputed (see Mackinder above) – are still valid elements in the geopolitical strategy of maritime states today and this seminal volume offers much for the naval historian studying sea-power in every era
Nicolson, Adam Seize the Fire: heroism, duty and the battle of Trafalgar (London 2005)
Rodger, NAM The Admiralty (Lavenham 1979)
a study of the organisational structure of the Admiralty throughout its history, part of a series of studies by various historians of the great offices of state; Dr Rodger feels this work needs revising but it stands as an important introduction to the specialist area of naval history, essential reading to understand the nature of naval operational management in a political context
Rodger, NAM The Wooden World: an anatomy of the Georgian navy (London 1988)
a comprehensive study of the British navy in its social context afloat and ashore, scorching previous myths and setting a new standard in naval historical writing of this important aspect of the subject
Rodger, NAM The Safeguard of the Sea: a naval history of Britain (London 1997)
the best general naval history of this period, by the greatest naval historian of our generation, in two magisterial volumes; this first volume takes us from the early days of naval activity around the coasts of the British Isles up to the end of the period of 'King's ships'
Rodger, NAM The Command of the Ocean: a naval history of Britain 1649-1815 (London 2004)
this second volume in Nicholas Rodger's series begins with the Commonwealth navy and the origins of a properly constituted naval administration leading to the establishment of the English 'Royal' Navy, through the Golden Age of the Georgian navy; Dr Rodger's third volume taking the study of the Royal Navy into the Twentieth century is eagerly awaited
Sumida, Jon Tetsuro Inventing grand strategy and teaching command: the classic works of Alfred Thayer Mahan reconsidered (London 1992)
analysis of the influence of Mahan's theories on the naval strategy and geo-policy of several generations of Western nations
Tunstall, Brian Naval warfare in the Age of Sail: the evolution of fighting tactics 1650-1815 (London 1990)
an excellent book on signaling and naval fighting tactics in the Georgian period, especially good on comparisons with other European navies
Wheeler, James Scott The making of a World Power: war and the military revolution in seventeenth-century England (Stroud 1999)
highly recommended survey of the development of English geopolitical power, placing it earlier in the 17th century than received wisdom, supported by an intensive analysis of naval and military expenditure during the Commonwealth and Restoration, from a wide range of well-chosen primary sources
Naval Characters
Biographies written by naval historians tend to focus on their subject's major actions; a few also analyse the character of their subject and the relationships with officers and men under their command, and also the difficulties of working under political control in the service of the state. This list includes some of the very best examples of naval biographical writing. A separate list covering the life and career of Samuel Pepys is in preparation.
Bennett, Geoffrey Nelson the Commander (London 1972)
an excellent survey of Nelson as a tactician and as a leader of men in warfare by an experienced naval officer
Cochrane, Thomas (10th Earl of Dundonald) Autobiography of a Seaman (London 1860 and 1890, online editions available)
sometimes contentious and often self-aggrandizing, this 'life' by one of the most important and interesting characters of the age of sail covers his naval career in the Royal Navy and in the nascent naval services of Chile, Peru, Brazil and Greece in some detail, but large proportions are devoted to Cochrane's dispute with Admiral Gambier over the action at Aix Roads in 1809 and a defence of Cochrane's character arising from his prosecution in the Stock Exchange fraud of 1812; the descriptions of his most exciting naval actions provide useful insights into naval warfare and life at sea in small warships in the Napoleonic era, and from analysis against primary source material can be seen to have been faithfully recalled in old age
Davies, J D Gentlemen and Tarpaulins: The officers and men of the Restoration Navy (Oxford 1991)
revised from David's DPhil thesis, this book – still available as print-on-demand from OUP – is the seminal work in the discussion about the social origins of the British naval officer cadre
Grimble, Ian The Sea Wolf: the life of Admiral Cochrane (London 1978)
Harding, Richard and Le Fevre, Peter Precursors of Nelson: British Admirals of the Eighteenth Century (London 2000)
Lambert, Andrew Nelson, Britannia's God of War (London 2004)
a very readable and well-researched biography by a leading naval and military historian and academic, placing Nelson in the context of British history
Le Fevre, Peter Contemporaries of Nelson: British Admirals of the Napoleonic Wars (London 2005)
Mahan, Alfred Thayer The life of Nelson: the embodiment of the sea power of Great Britain, 2nd edition (London 1899)
one of the earliest biographies of the great naval hero to place Nelson in the wider context of geopolitics and operational maritime strategy
Mahan, Alfred Thayer Types of naval officers, drawn from the history of the British navy (London 1902)
a fascinating study of the psychological make-up of the naval officer cadre of the Royal Navy
Oman, Carola Nelson (London 1947)
frustrating due to the paucity of references typical of histories and biographies prior to the more structured approach of the late twentieth century, this is a fascinating and sympathetic study of the psychology of a complex man and his relationships with professional and social contacts
Pocock, Tom Horatio Nelson (London 1988)
perhaps the best "life" of Admiral Lord Nelson, analysis of Nelson's complex personality combined with good factual history
Pocock, Tom "Remember Nelson": the life of Sir William Hoste (London 2005)
by one of the masters of naval biography, this study of the dashing frigate commander and Nelson's Norfolk protégé reads like naval fiction but Pocock's historical research and analysis is reliable
Reay, Justin 'The Fighting Cochranes: a naval dynasty like no other', in The Trafalgar Chronicle vol 23 (The 1805 Club 2013)
Rodger, NAM The Insatiable Earl: a life of John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich, 1718-1792 (London 1993)
this biography, from a leading naval historian, covers the life and work of one of the most interesting and important naval administrators, who was First Lord of the Board of Admiralty for three periods; noted for his capacity for hard work and effectiveness in his first two terms, his reputation was (perhaps unfairly) marred by the loss of the American colonies during his third term, and by his scandalous personal life
Villiers, Alan Captain Cook, the Seaman's Seaman (Harmondsworth 1967 and 2002)
one of the best naval biographies, written by one of the last master mariners to work large sailing vessels; perceptive of Cook's character and appreciative of the difficulties and dangers of global voyaging in the age of sail, and also engagingly written
Wareham, Tom The Star Captains: frigate command in the Napoleonic Wars (London 2001)
taken from research for his PhD thesis this volume is a wide-ranging, well written and very useful survey of the operational careers of commanders of the vitally important lower-rated RN warships of the age of sail, such as Thomas Cochrane, William Hoste, George Mundy and their brother officers; highly recommended
White, Colin 1797: Nelson's Year of Destiny (Stroud 1998)
White, Colin Nelson the Admiral (Stroud 2005)
White, Colin '"A Man of Business": Nelson as Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean May 1803-January 1805', in Mariner's Mirror 91: 2, pp 175-194 (Society for Nautical Research 2005)
by the leading Nelson historian, the late Dr Colin White, these titles offer a fascinating study of Lord Nelson's fateful year of success and danger, an excellent study of Nelson as a fleet commander, and a penetrating survey of Nelson's day-to-day management of the Mediterranean fleet during the Trafalgar Campaign from the summer of 1803
White, Colin (ed.) The Nelson Companion (Stroud 1995)
a compendium of interesting essays edited by the leading Nelson historian; a few niggling inaccuracies and omissions but generally sound and a useful addition to the bookshelf
White Colin (ed.) Nelson the New Letters (Stroud 2005)
a large set of letters to and from Nelson, most previously unpublished, discovered during Colin's long project identifying Nelson's uncatalogued correspondence; expertly edited and a lasting memorial to the life's work of a great historian
Naval Actions: Campaigns and naval aspects of larger conflicts
Ferguson, Harry Operation Kronstadt (New York 2010)
well-researched and ranging wider than its title suggests, this is the first proper study of a fascinating and important but almost forgotten incident in the Royal Navy's campaign to contain the Bolshevik Baltic Fleet during the Russian Civil War. An article based on Justin Reay's lectures about Captain Gus Agar VC and the Kronstadt raids of 1919 will be hosted on this website shortly.
Gardiner, R (ed) Nelson against Napoleon: from the Nile to Copenhagen 1798-18 (London 2001)
essays charting the frustration of Napoleon's strategy in the Mediterranean and the Baltic squadrons under Nelson's command, with a rare essay on the role of the USA in the period
Gardiner, R (ed) The Campaign of Trafalgar 1803-1805 (London 2005)
the long run-up to the battle of Trafalgar in October 1805 is covered by a series of essays looking at the essential aspects of thwarting Bonaparte's ambitions at sea
Harding, Richard (ed) A Great and Glorious Victory: new perspectives on the Battle of Trafalgar (Barnsley 2008)
Hore, Peter Sydney, Cipher and Search (Rendlesham 2009)
the story of the sinking of the Royal Australian Navy's light cruiser Sydney in 1941, by the armoured raider Kormoran, and how Captain Hore decrypted and analysed German coded documents to unravel the last great mystery of WWII – highly regarded by distinguished historians
Lavery, Brian Nelson and the Nile: the Naval War against Bonaparte 1798 (London 2003)
a readable and valuable reference to the battle of the Nile
Padfield, Peter Maritime Supremacy and the opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World 1588-1782 (London 1999)
the over-long title describes precisely what this useful and well-argued book is about, essential for the study of geopolitics in the modern world
Reay, Justin '"A Place of Considerable Importance": Lord Cochrane and the Siege of Roses 1808′, in Mariner's Mirror, vol 95:4 (Society for Nautical Research 2009), pp400-428
Tracy, Nicholas Nelson's Battles: The Art of Victory in the Age of Sail (London 2002)
Voelcker, Tim Admiral Saumarez versus Napoleon: the Baltic, 1807-12 (Woodbridge 2008)
Warwick, Peter Voices from the Battle of Trafalgar (Newton Abbott 2005)
fascinating and thought-provoking first-hand accounts from men of all ranks who fought in the battle on each side
Boudriot, Jean The seventy-four gun ship : a practical treatise on the art of naval architecture (Rotherfield 1988)
Boudriot, Jean John Paul Jones and the Bonhomme Richard (Paris 1987)
Colledge, JJ and Warlow, Ben (compilers) Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th century to the Present (Newbury 2010)
Cordingly, David Billy Ruffian: The Bellerophon and the downfall of Napoleon: the biography of a ship of the line, 1782-1836 (London 2004)
Deane, Anthony Nelson's Favourite: HMS Agamemnon at War 1781-1809 (London 1996)
Lyon, David, and Winfield, Rif The sail & steam Navy List: all the ships of the Royal Navy, 1815-1889 (London 2004)
Winfield, Rif British warships in the Age of Sail 1793-1817: design, construction, careers, and fates (London 2005)
Winfield, Rif British warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792: design, construction, careers and fates (London 2008)
List in preparation
Stevens Cox, Gregory The Guernsey merchants and their world in the Georgian era: an investigation (Guernsey 2009)
an extensively researched study of the international trading of Guernsey merchant families including illumination of their business relationships with France, Spain and the Americas during various conflicts with Britain; includes many fascinating and useful data of a little-known but important aspect of maritime trade in the age of sail
Marine or maritime art comprises paintings in oils and watercolour, drawings and prints, and in the current era, documentary photographs and film. It is a discipline important for anyone interested in nautical affairs, and also provides some of the most satisfying examples of artistic endeavour. Unlike Art History and Naval History however, the discipline has rarely attracted proper research, analysis and presentation other than a few studies of the key artists such as the Van der Veldes and Nicholas Pocock . The titles listed below deal with a genre of art important both as a cultural medium and potentially as historical evidence.
Cordingly, David Marine Painting in England 1700-1900 (London 1974)
perhaps the best introduction to the genre, this book offers a broad survey of some of the most evocative and beautifully executed paintings of the sea and ships
Gaunt, William Marine Painting (London 1975)
Harland, John (ed) Ships and Seamanship: the Maritime Prints of JJ Beaugean (London 2000)
a fascinating facsimile edition of the superbly observed portraits of vessels of the Napoleonic era by Beaugean, with an introductory essay and useful commentaries by one of the leading experts in the technical aspects of the age of sail
Leek, Michael E The Art of Nautical Illustration: a visual tribute to the achievements of the classic marine illustrators (Royston 2002)
Reay, Justin The Fortune of the Sea: marine paintings as historical evidence (forthcoming)
a study of the potential usefulness and problems of using paintings and engravings of ships and naval actions as source material for naval history, exemplified by a detailed analysis of depictions of the Battle of Trafalgar; written by a naval and art historian this illustrated monograph includes a practical guide to the use of marine art as historical evidence
available as a downloadable monograph on the BNH website from January 2014
Naval and Maritime Reference
Cock, Randolph and Rodger, NAM A guide to the naval records in the National Archives of the UK, 2nd edition (London 2008)
essential for anyone using primary sources for naval or maritime history
Falconer, William A New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (London 1815)
the classic source, a fascinating and important contemporaneous encyclopedia of the Georgian navy in the age of sail, especially valuable for its descriptions of technical matters; available in facsimile in modern editions
King, Dean et al A Sea of Words, 2nd edition (New York 1997)
Philipps, Lawrie The Royal Navy Day by Day, 4th edition (Stroud 2013)
much more than just the diurnal aide memoire its title and format suggest this is chock full of information, much of it not published elsewhere, and the fruit of intensive research
Naval Historiography
Geoffrey Callender (compiler) Bibliography of Naval history (London 1924-25)
Laughton, JK The scientific study of naval history (London 1874)
Naval Fiction
Davies, J David The Quinton Journals
set in the late Seventeenth century, this canon from a distinguished naval historian featuring the 'Gentleman Captain' Matthew Quinton currently extends to four novels, with a fifth eagerly anticipated
Forester, CS The Hornblower Companion
this fascinating reference companion to Forester's Hornblower series of naval novels describes all the actions in the series and their geographical settings, with maps, charts, and sketches
Marryat, Frederick Frank Mildmay, or The Naval Officer (London 1864)
the first proper naval novel, written by a former Royal Naval Captain and largely autobiographical; it includes (chapter seven) a detailed account of the defence of Trinity Castle at Rosas in 1808 by Captain Lord Cochrane and his men, which analysis against primary evidence indicates to be an accurate eye-witness account only slightly embellished for literary purposes. The writing style is dated but this is a "rattling good read", as good as anything in the genre, and offers the social historian valuable insights into the psychology of command in sailing ships at war
O'Brien, Patrick Master and Commander
a very enjoyable naval history novel set during the Napoleonic Wars, the opening of the 20-volume Aubrey-Maturin canon inspired by the real-life exploits of Captain Thomas Cochrane and other dashing naval officers; with high-quality writing, Jane Austen-like complex characterisation and well-researched descriptions of life in the Royal Navy in this era. O'Brian's wit is dry and his pace is sometimes as slow as a long watch in the Doldrums, but the descriptions of warships in action are exciting and generally accurate. Only the title of this novel was taken for the excellent film of the same name featuring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey and Paul Bethany as Stephen Maturin, of which the main action was an amalgam of two later novels in the canon
The Naval Historians Bookshelf was compiled and annotated by Justin Reay
BNH bookshelf v2 September 2013
Reading Guide: Pepysian Documents At the Bodleian Library
In 2013, I met Justin Reay, then of the Bodleian Library, at the Navy & Nation conference at the National Maritime Museum. Upon hearing about how he was working on BritishNaval[...]
Comps Reading Guide: Early America Pt 2
Thank you to Katrina Ponti for this contribution to the PhD Reading Guides resource. This round of books are less maritime, but nonetheless vital to the vast Early America narrativ[...]
Tag colonialism, Early America, Imperialism, literature, PhD Reading Guide
Reading Lists from Lincoln Paine
Thank you to Lincoln Paine, who has contribute the bibliographies to his books Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World and Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclope[...]
Tag Bibliography, LIncoln Paine, Reading Guide, Sea and Civilization, ships


The Missouri Building Block Picture Book Award, sponsored and selected by the Youth Services Community of Interest (YSCI), is presented annually to the author and illustrator of the picture book voted most popular by preschool children in Missouri's public libraries and is designed to encourage reading aloud to children from birth through kindergarten age.
Designed to encourage reading aloud to children from birth through kindergarten age, the award was first given in 1996. Parents and other caregivers are encouraged to read aloud to children from a list of ten titles selected annually by a group of Missouri children's librarians. Colorful posters, bookmarks, activity sheets, and a manual of great ideas add to the fun.
See the Missouri Building Block Picture Book Award Procedures and the Missouri Building Block Picture Book Award Committee Handbook in Appendix G of the MLA Handbook MLA Handbook for details.
The winner of the 2018 Building Block Award is…Pug Meets Pig, written by Sue Lowell Gallion, and illustrated by Joy Wan.
Members of the Building Block Award subgroup of YSCI are listed on the YSCI page.
Have you found an excellent read-aloud book for young children (birth-kindergarten)? The committee is seeking both fiction and non-fiction titles with the qualities of a great read-aloud, such as a rich vocabulary, flowing language, and engaging illustrations.
All nominations must be published within the last two years (December 2017-November 2019). Holiday books do not qualify.
Nominations of books for 2020 are made through the online form (form will go live in July 2019) during the nomination period (July 2019 to November 2019); the committee generally reads these nominations in December 2019 and January 2020.
Individuals and groups may vote using the online ballot or the paper ballot.
Librarians and teachers can use the paper ballot to gather individual votes, then input totals on the online ballot.
Is there not a way to send in votes for the Building Block Picture Book Award by class or school? I do not want to enter each student in individually!
Would it be possible to see the total number of votes per title? I would like to see how the state totals compare to my library totals.
I am new to this process, how is the voting process handled in the library? Is there a form the parents fill out? Do we mail these in? Do they vote online???
kind.) Parents may read the books to their children in the library or at home and vote in the library. Many libraries hold voting during a story time—read 5 books, then vote. (We understand you can't read all 10 during one story time.) Some libraries read one or two nominees a week for 5-10 weeks (using the activity guides) and vote after all the books have been shared. Hopefully those who vote had a chance to hear at least 5 books.
I found the links for activity sheets for each 2015 Building Block nominees, but I was wondering if there is a link for the whole activity packet.
I would like save and print out it as a whole packet. Please email me back to let me know. If not I can save each one individually, but having a link to the whole packet would be very helpful.
Are any of these books available in Spanish?
When will the 2016 preliminary nominees be available? I would like to order them as soon as possible. Thank you !
On January 22 the committee will come up with a list of our favorite 30 books . On January 29 the list will be narrowed down to 10.
Is there any kind of social media image or blurb we can send out? Thanks for your response in the matter.
high quality, enjoyable picture books on our list of nominees.
– Copyright must be within the last two years (2014-2015).
– May be fiction or nonfiction.
– Can *not* be a holiday book.
would send the title, author, illustrator, publisher and publication date.
Deadline for submissions is November 30.
I do not know if you have to join.
Oh So Brave Dragon was available from Amazon.com but it looks like they are only listing it.
I have not checked WorldCat. I hope this helps.
Hello! I was wondering when the bookmarks for the 2016 MO Building Block Picture Book Award would be available?
Hi Marlana, The person to contact is Jerilyn Hahn from the Callaway County Public Library. She is the chair of the Building Block Subcommittee. Her e-mail is jhahn@dbrl.org.
I was wondering when the 2017-18 list will be posted. I am trying to spend the last of my budget money so the next librarian won't have to worry about what to order (I get to retire!!!). Thanks!
The list has been posted! Webmaster's still waiting for activity sheets & other material, but the actual list is linked from this page now.
I don't remember receiving an email announcement for the BB winner, but I see it has been announced. Would you please email me a breakdown of the votes. My students are always interested in knowing which books won 2nd and 3rd place. Thanks!
It's been a heated battle to the end. In fact, we believe this may have been one of the tightest races in Missouri Building Block Award history! At the final hour, Bunnies!!! snuck past Little Penguin Gets the Hiccups by Tadgh Bentley and Rex Wrecks It! by Ben Clanton.
I have currently been asked when the 2018 nominee book list will be out for the Building Block Award. I am new to being a Children's Librarian and do not have the answer to this. Could someone tell me when I will be able to find the new list?
We hope to have the new list decided by the end of this week. We will be working on suggestions of activities to accompany each book and hope to have everything posted by mid March.
Can you tell me when the 2018 list will be announced?
Hi, Mark. They are up! We hope you enjoy this year's books.
Is there a way to see the previous year's activity sheets?
Can you tell me the label number for the spine label templates?
The spine label templates aren't formatted to a specific label size. You would want to print them on colored paper, cut them out, and cover them with clear label protectors.
When is the nomination period for 2019?
Is there a poster of the Building Block books? If so where can I get one from?
I just received the Building Block Award list from BTSB for 2019 but one book is missing from the list. I am not seeing it here on the website. Will that be posted soon?
What is the tenth title for next year?
When will the list of nominees for the Building Blocks for 2019-2020 school year be available? I saw one email that gave 9 of the nominees. Thank you!


As DC's first Chief Resilience Officer, Bush leads citywide efforts to build resilience to shocks and stresses and oversee the development and implementation of a comprehensive Resilience Strategy. Bush has extensive experience building coalitions to design and execute award-winning resilience initiatives, including: Rebuild by Design, the National Disaster Resilience Competition, and the Multifamily Better Buildings Challenge. He previously led efforts at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to plan for the impact of climate change. Bush also served on President Obama's Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force and at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
He has also been both a Presidential Management Fellow and City of Chicago Mayoral Fellow. Bush is a widely recognized expert in urban resilience, climate change mitigation and adaptation, disaster recovery, affordable housing, and infrastructure. Bush holds a Masters of Urban Planning from the University of Michigan and a Bachelors of Arts in Business from Michigan State University.
Envirorun will meet at WeWork K Street before going out on the fun run at 6:00 PM. There will be a place to store bags while runners are on the trails. After the run, we will return to the venue for networking and hear from the speaker at 7:00 pm. Non-runners welcome to join!
Envirorunners may store personal belongings, at your own risk, before the start of the Envirorun at the host location. The room will be monitored during the run, but again, please note that the host location and/or the Envirorun are not liable for theft or damage.
The Envirorun will provide a safety and route briefing before the runners begin, but Envirorun and/or the event sponsors are not liable for injury or damage caused because of participation in the fun run.
The networking session following the run is designed to provide an opportunity for connecting with the environmental community, with food and drink available for purchase.
We welcome you to wear your best enviro shirt and share #envirorun photos on Twitter (@envirorun) and Facebook (Envirorun). Prizes go to the top tweeters!


text:
This Two-Door Lamborghini Urus Abomination Might Be the Least Blasphemous Mansory Creation
Like everything Mansory touches, it's awful. But it started out as a Urus, so...
Collin Woodard
Photo: Mansory
If you've been reading Jalopnik for more than a couple of weeks, you probably know that we don't exactly have a friendly relationship with Mansory. I won't go so far as to say that new hires are told on their first day to dislike the affronts to God that they call cars, but somehow, everyone manages to pick up on our institutional position pretty quickly. And yet, looking at the terrible things Mansory did to this Lamborghini Urus, I can't help but think it's not completely blasphemous. In its own way, it actually kind of works?
To be clear, I don't like the Mansory Venatus Coupé EVO C. I hate that it exists. Even if I were the world's first trillionaire, the only way you'd catch me behind the wheel of this abomination is if some Russian gangster had me killed and dumped my body in the front seat as one final insult after I bought Mansory specifically to shut it down and punish its executives to their crimes against my eyeballs.
Every time I look at the photos, I throw up in my mouth a little bit, and blood starts to drip out of my right ear. But at the same time, think about the kind of person who actually wants to own a Urus. You know for a fact that every single one of them who sees this monstrosity immediately wanted one. All Mansory did was take a Urus and add more Urus.
Which is ironic since, with two fewer doors, you could argue there's less Urus here. But it's wider, the doors are about eight inches longer (Mansory says it moved the B-pillar back to accommodate longer doors), it now makes 900 hp, and the styling takes "gaudy" to new levels. It's everything someone who loves the Urus could want and more. All it's missing is a whale-penis leather interior.
If you give an Aston Martin DBS the Mansory treatment, a massive percentage of owners are going to have an aneurysm when they see it. It's the same with most cars that Mansory ruins. But this is the essence of the Urus distilled into an even more potent form.
The press release even says, "The basic idea for the construction of this vehicle was brought to MANSORY by its customers several times as part of the "MANSORY Bespoke" conversion program." Urus owners were begging Mansory to do its worst. It's what they wanted. And arguably, it's what the Urus deserved.


Join us twice a month for Jazz Thursdays! There's no better place on the lakeshore to listen to jazz music.
The music of My Thin Place ranges from Jazz Standards out of the American songbook to more open jazz styles that leave room for improvisation and color. They are a Jazz Consort, performing both original works and covering the music of other artists.
The name My Thin Place is a term from long ago when people believed there were special places on Earth where Heaven and Earth were closer together. They were termed 'Thin Places' and were where angels descended from Heaven; one felt closest to the creator here. The band took on the term as their name because, for them, playing jazz takes them to a place - a frame of mind - where they are filled with joy, and all earthly problems fade away for a while. For this reason, playing jazz is their 'thin place'.


text:
Shep Rose's Family Gave Him All That 'Southern Charm' But He's Taking It In His Own Direction
By Jodi Walker
Of the cast of Southern Charm, Shep — or William Shepard Rose III, as he's more formally known — doesn't wear his wealthy boy status on his seersucker sleeve quite as prominently as, say, Whitney, but he's been flying pretty fast and loose with what it means to have family money and southern status in recent episodes of the show. His concern for Craig's party boy ways doesn't extend to himself or Thomas because Shep and Thomas have their family's money as a protective net to catch them if they fall... or so says Shep. And Shep has the family lineage, 35-year-old playboy status, and gourmet hot dog restaurant to prove it.
Kathryn Calhoun Dennis and Thomas Ravenel aren't the only Southern Charm-ers with impressively southern names in their family trees. Shep is the nephew of former SC Department of Public Safety director, B. Boykin Rose. B. Boykin Rose comes by that middle name by way of his mother's family, the Boykins, who have a whole town in South Carolina is named after them. So, while Shep may not truly by from the Holy City that plays the background of Southern Charm, with a town (oh yeah, and the South Carolina state dog) named after his family, and a childhood spent in Hilton Head, Shep and his family are truly South Carolina natives.
Boykin, SC
OK, technically Boykin is an unincorporated community, but it's the community's surroundings in Kershaw County that make it a significant place in South Carolina. For example, just over in Camden is the Mulberry Plantation, current National Historic Landmark, and former home of James and Mary Boykin. The home is nationally significant because its where Mary Boykin's impeccably detailed wartime diaries are kept, acknowledged as the most important piece of Confederate literature by the National Parks Service because of "its contributions to our understanding of southern culture and society." I hear the broom-making in Boykin is also a real hit.
The State Dog
Of course, the Boykin moniker is also known for being the namesake of South Carolina's state dog, the Boykin spaniel. Boykin Spaniels were bred for hunting water fowl. With his blonde hair and stature, I'd always read Shep as more of a Golden Retriever person, but I can still see the resemblance in the puppy face.
Shep in South Carolina
But even with the deepest of South Carolina family roots, Shep's read on making a significant impact on the culture of South Carolina seems a little different than other Boykins and Roses who came before him. Ever the fun-lover, Shep is focused on bringing gourmet hot dogs and cold PBRs to his fellow Charleston partiers in the form of his newly opened restaurant, the Palace Hotel. It may not be a National Historic Land mark one day, but something tells me that's not what Shep is going for.
Images: Brianna Stello/Bravo; jetsonphoto/Flickr


text:
Information for Bucharest
If you wish to travel from Dnepropetrovsk to Bucharest, Rumbo offers you the best last minute offers so that you can travel taking advantage of every discount and special promotion. Your cheap flights from Dnepropetrovsk to Bucharest are in Rumbo.
You might also be interested in Cheap flights to Dnepropetrovsk or are looking for Cheap flights from Bucharest to Dnepropetrovsk Book now!
Cheap flights from Spain to Bucharest (BUH)
Cheap flights Barcelona - Bucharest
Departing on Friday, March 25, 2022 and returning on Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Cheap flights Bilbao - Bucharest
Departing on Friday, February 25, 2022 and returning on Thursday, March 3, 2022
Cheap flights Gran Canaria - Bucharest
Departing on Saturday, March 5, 2022 and returning on Saturday, March 12, 2022
Cheap flights Madrid - Bucharest
Departing on Wednesday, March 23, 2022 and returning on Monday, March 28, 2022
Cheap flights Malaga - Bucharest
Departing on Sunday, March 20, 2022 and returning on Saturday, March 26, 2022
Cheap flights Oviedo - Bucharest
Departing on Tuesday, March 29, 2022 and returning on Sunday, April 3, 2022
Cheap flights Palma Mallorca - Bucharest
Departing on Sunday, March 27, 2022 and returning on Thursday, March 31, 2022
Cheap flights Seville - Bucharest
Departing on Monday, March 28, 2022 and returning on Monday, April 4, 2022
Cheap flights Tenerife - Bucharest
Departing on Sunday, April 3, 2022 and returning on Sunday, April 10, 2022
Cheap flights Valencia - Bucharest
Departing on Thursday, March 17, 2022 and returning on Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Cheap flights Vigo - Bucharest
Departing on Friday, April 1, 2022 and returning on Sunday, April 3, 2022
Cheap flights Zaragoza - Bucharest
Departing on Friday, March 18, 2022 and returning on Friday, March 25, 2022
Cheap flights from Dnepropetrovsk (DNK) to the following airports in Bucharest (BUH)
Dnepropetrovsk - Otopeni International
Cheap flights from outside of Spain to Bucharest (BUH)
Cheap flights Brussels - Bucharest
Departing on Wednesday, February 23, 2022 and returning on Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Cheap flights Cluj - Bucharest
Departing on Friday, March 25, 2022 and returning on Sunday, March 27, 2022
Cheap flights Lisbon - Bucharest
Departing on Tuesday, March 15, 2022 and returning on Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Cheap flights London - Bucharest
Departing on Saturday, March 5, 2022 and returning on Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Cheap flights Milan - Bucharest
Cheap flights Paris - Bucharest
Departing on Friday, March 4, 2022 and returning on Saturday, March 12, 2022
Cheap flights Rome - Bucharest
Departing on Wednesday, January 26, 2022 and returning on Monday, January 31, 2022
Cheap flights Sofia - Bucharest
Departing on Friday, April 1, 2022 and returning on Monday, April 4, 2022
Cheap flights Idaho Falls - Oakland


Before learning how declare back PPI, you need to ensure that you are qualified to apply for being offered a repayment. Generally, you can expect to receive PPI compensation if you find yourself in the situation of experiencing paid for this insurance policy in vain. So, typically, you will be qualified for receive compensation if you were not even eligible for a PPI policy from start off. It sounds a little confusing, but here is how things.
Now, consumers are also able to claim back PPI not because PPI was illicit in first place, but because it often miss-sold by different lenders. PPI (or payment protection scotland protection Insurance) can be choice option, in normal examples. Therefore, not anyone is eligible to receive compensation.
The policy should protect consumers once they find themselves in a personal crisis that has an impact over their finances. Therefore, if the consumer unexpectedly becomes unemployed, ill or disabled and cannot repay the loan, PPI coverage protects him by covering the monthly payments when the consumer faces the inability to earn income. Should the situation were precisely as it was supposed to, there would be no need to learn how to claim back PPI.
The messy situation comes from how much many financial institutions and lenders have miss-sold this policy, now making consumers eligible for claiming back PPI. Brought on you are entitled to receive compensation if you weren't eligible for PPI from the start. One of the most common ways of miss-selling PPI is to trade the policy individuals who would get no benefit out of it. Customers who are facing the inability to earn income in those days when they buy the insurance policy (with or without knowing it) will not be able to claim it. So, if perhaps you were retired, unemployed, actually self employed at the time when you were sold the loan, and the PPI along with it, you are now able to resort to solicitors or claim management companies inform you how to claim back PPI and help you get back the money tend to be owed.
Another situation which you eligible to receive compensation is as soon as the lender did not offer you another type of in regard to paying for PPI along with a lending product or credit device. If your lender did not say anything about PPI or has even denied you mortgage loan or credit card in the absence of a PPI policy, forcing you to pay extra money for PPI, you turn out to be eligible to receive compensation, and develop learn how to claim back PPI.
In short, you are eligible for compensation a person's did not understand/ have not been explained the the agreement at time when taking your loan, and the PPI along with it, or you might like to have never had the capacity to benefit away from your PPI, so you paid for the protection in vain.


text:
Five against the world perl jam
Five against the world - perl jam Five Against the World There are two Eddie Vedders. One is quiet, shy, barely audible when he speaks. Loving and loved in return. The other is tortured, a bitter realist, a man capable of pointing out injustice and waging that war on the homefront, inside himself. On a warm and windy late-spring day in the San Rafael, Calif., it's easy to see which Eddie Vedder is shooting baskets outside the Site, the recording studio where Pearl Jam are finishing thei...
Florence D
Florence D. Griffith By: Tatyana Florence D. Griffith nicknamed Dee Dee, Was born on December 21 195. She grew up in a project in Watts, a poor section in Los Angeles California. Florence had 11 brothers and sisters. She would often ask why there were so poor? Her mother would tell her that they were rich as a family Florence was stubborn as a child. Sometimes she would go for days without speaking to anyone. She just read her books. She loved poems. Florence always wanted to stand out a...
Florence Nightengale
Florence Nightengale Florence Nightingale is remembered throughout the world for her heroic, almost superhuman labors in the field of nursing. Florence Nightingale was born in Italy in 1820 and was named Florence after her birthplace. A brilliant child, Florence attained outstanding academic achievement in her years attending school. Florence grew up to be a lively and attractive young woman, admired in her families elite social circle and was expected to make a good marriage, but Florenc...
Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin
Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin Probably hardly a shape of aviation history is part of as many legends as Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin. He was born on July 8, 1838 in Konstanz at the Bodensee. He was educated at the Ludwigsburg Military Academy and the University of Tübingen. He entered the Prussian army in 1858 and went to the United States in 1863 to work as a military observer for the Union army and observed the Civil War. Zeppelin served in the Franc...
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan Ferdinand Magellan was bornabout 1480 in Sabrosa of a noble Portuguese family. His parents, who were members of nobility, died when he was about10 years old. At the age of 12, Magellan became a page to Queen Leanor at the royal court. Such a position commonly served as a means of education for sons of the Portuguese nobility. At the court, Magellan learned about the voyages of such explorers as Christopher Columbus of Italy and Vasco da Gama of Portugal. He also le...
Fidal Castro
Fidal Castro In 1959, a rebel, Fidel Castro, overthrew the reign of Fulgencia Batista in Cuba; a small island 90 miles off the Florida coast. There have been many coups and changes of government in the world since then. Few if any have had the effect on Americans and American foreign policy as this one. In 1952, Sergeant Fulgencia Batista staged a successful bloodless coup in Cuba . Batista never really had any cooperation and rarely garnered much support. His reign...
Fidel castro 2
Fidel castro 2 In 1959, a rebel, Fidel Castro, overthrew the reign of Fulgencia Batista in Cuba; a small island 90 miles off the Florida coast. There have been many coups and changes of government in the world since then. Few if any have had the effect on Americans and American foreign policy as this one. In 1952, Sergeant Fulgencia Batista staged a successful bloodless coup in Cuba . Batista never really had any cooperation and rarely garnered much support. His reign ...
Fidel castro In every society, culture,country there are turning points or key developments that change a nation's history. Fidels Castro's takeover in Cuba effected Cuba's society and the country drastically. Fidel is a Cuban revolutionary who took control of Cuba in the year 1959 and he was the one that turned Cuba into a Communist dictatorship. Castro is a very hardened man. Before he became dictator of Cuba he had to go to prison for being the leader of an attack on Batista. He ...
FDRs influence as president
FDRs influence as president By: wyatt s. E-mail: beshort@bytethis.com Franklin Delano Roosevelt�s Influence as president Some have called him the best president yet. Others have even claimed that he was the world's most influential and successful leader of the twentieth century. Those claims can be backed up by the overwhelming support that he received from his citizens throughout his four terms in office. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt began a new era in American history by end...
Famous Explorers of Africa
Famous Explorers of Africa Mungo Park Mungo Park was a Scottish explorer who led one of the first expeditions to investigate the course of the Niger river in Western Africa. Mungo Park was a 23 year-old scottish surgeon surgeon who had just returned from a journey to Sumatra on a ship of the East India Company. There he had discovered 6 species of fish, he had published descriptions in a Scientific Journal. In 1795, Park had gone to Piscina, on an offer to research further into Africa. Park...
Famous people with mental illnesses
Famous people with mental illnesses Psychology Research Paper: People with Mental Illnesses Virginia Wolf was a British novelist. Virginia suffered from mood disorder and her mood symptoms redated their other conditions. The nature and course of her mood and behavior symptoms were consistent with a diagnosis of an independently existing affective illness. Her family histories of depression, manic-depressive illness, and suicide coupled with their own symptoms were sufficiently strong...
Farai Chideya
Farai Chideya By: Sheena Harrison E-mail: harri188@msu.edu Farai Chideya has accomplished many things at 28 years old that many journalists can only hope to achieve. She began her career as an intern at Newsweek while studying at Harvard. After her graduation, she was hired at Newsweek as a reporter and stayed on from 1990-1994. Chideya covered news in Newsweek's New York and Chicago bureaus, as well as in the Washington bureau, where she covered national politics, from an article titl...
Feminism Mary Wollstonecraft is held as being the first modern feminist. She was born in 1759 to a gentry farmer and an unloving mother and is said to have began her protests at an early age by protecting her mother from an abusive father and resenting her brother's favored position. She worked as a governess for a number of years however she chose to make an unconventional career as an editor and a journalist. In 1786 she wrote the Thoughts on the Education of Daughters and in 1790 publishe...
Everyday Use Everyday Use Dee stands out from her family in views of their heritage In Alice Walker's short story, "Everyday Use" she discuss the life of an African American family of a mother and her two daughters. The mother has a tremendous amount of love for both of her daughters, but the two are different individuals in terms of their personality. Maggie, the younger of the two, was much like her mother. Her and the mother both thought of themselves to be shy, not well spo...
Examples of charles dickens chthonic journeys
Examples of charles dickens chthonic journeys Question- In Charles Dickens autobiographical memoir Fragments of an Autobiography what are three chthonic journeys that he faces? In Charles Dickens autobiographical memoir Fragments of an Autobiography he has many chthonic journeys that he never fully recovered from. The essay starts off with Charles Dickens having to work at a blacking warehouse with a pay of six pints at the age of ten or twelve, even though he wants to go to school. Hi...
F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald once said \"Mostly we authors must repeat ourselves�that\'s the truth. We have two or three experiences in our lives� experiences so great and moving that it doesn\'t seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up\" (de Koster n. pag.). Fitzgerald\'s works contain many themes that are based from experiences in his life. Many of these experiences he talks about were with the women in his life. People like his mother, Ginerva King, ...
FDR The world has known many great leaders, especially in the post-Civil War era. Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Harry Truman all rank with the most prominent leaders of all time. However, in my opinion President Franklin Roosevelt made the most difference out of anybody in this century. He began a new era in American history by ending the Great Depression that the country had succumbed to in 1929. Without him ending the Depression, who knows where this country could have go...
Ethan Frome Essay
Ethan Frome Essay Ethan Frome Essay Could you ever imagine living your entire life in the same town and if you try to leave something will keep bringing you back. In the novel, Ethan Frome, the main character Ethan Frome lives his life in this way. Through his silence, isolation, and illusions he causes himself to be trapped in Starkfield. In the beginning, on the outside Ethan Frome seems like a normal middle-aged farmer but deep down there is a different story. Ethan is a very...
Ethan Frome Ethan Frome, the main character in the book entitled Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton, has many complex problems going on at the same time. His family has died and he has a wife that is continually sick, and the only form of happiness he has is from his wife's cousin Mattie. This, however, at times proves to be hard because of Ethan's wifes interference. Nothing seems to be going in Ethan's favor. The main theme of the book is failure, and this is shown through marrying his wife, no...
Eva Peron Maria Eva Duarte was born on May 7, 1919 in Los Toldos Argentina. She was the youngest illegitimate child of Juan Duarte and his mistress Juana Ibarguen. Eva had a difficult childhood, her father had his own wife and children, and he gave Juana�s Ibarguen children his last name and would visit them once in a while. When Eva was seven her father died living them in very poor conditions, all the family, her mother and the five children lived in a tiny one room and in order to pay t...
Ernesto che guevara Ernesto "Che" Guevara Che Guevara was the Argentine born Marxist guerrilla who helped oust the corrupt Cuban government and set up a communist system 90 miles from the US. Che under the leadership of Fidel Castro helped lead a small guerrilla band of soldiers to take over the country. After the old government was out Che helped Castro decide communism as the way to go for Cuba. He helped Castro try to quickly industrialize the country, set up social refor...
Ernesto guevara de serna
Ernesto guevara de serna Ernesto Guevara de Serna was born in Argentina in 1928 into a fairly privileged family. He developed serious asthma at the age of two, which would plague him throughout his life. He was home-schooled by his mother, Celia de la Serna. It was these early years when he became an eager reader of Marx, Engels, and Freud which all were all part of his father's library. He went to secondary school in 1941, the Colegio Nacional Dean Funes, Cordoba, where he excelled in l...
Escher M. c. escher ESCHER... Escher was an early graphic artist. His art work were confusing pictures of mainly buildings and architecture. He was born in Leeuwarden on the 17 th of June 1898 and died in holland on the 27th of march 1972. Echer lived in Italy in 1922 and settled in Rome in 1924. He stayed in Rome for 10 years but went on many tours to such places as Calabria, Sicily, Corsica and spain. In 1934 he moved to Switzaland for 2 years and then he moved to brussles for 5 yea...
Essay on Jefferson
Essay on Jefferson Jefferson had destroyed political traditions. From his contradictions and defecting his priciples, Jefferson destroyed the political precedent and is a exemplatory hypocrite, which can be seen throughout his administration. Jefferson was an admired statesman who was grappling unsuccessfully with the moral issue of slavery. Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, opposed slavery his whole life, yet he never freed his own slaves. He championed Enlig...
Essay on the life of frederick douglass
Essay on the life of frederick douglass In Frederick Douglass' Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Mr. Douglass gives many examples of cruelty towards slaves as he shows many reasons that could have been used to abolish slavery. Throughout the well-written narrative, Douglass uses examples from the severe whippings that took place constantly to a form of brainwashing by the slaveholders over the slaves describing the terrible conditions that the slaves were faced with in the ...


text:
New Devil Rays owner making right moves -- and I'm buying in
By Jemele Hill and Sentinel Columnist
You may not know Stuart Sternberg from Steve Guttenberg, but just know the new Tampa Bay Devil Rays owner has done something previously considered impossible.
Sternberg's accomplishment is more amazing than the Philadelphia Eagles' decision to shut down Terrell Owens.
It's more amazing than Coca-Cola's decision to nix Vanilla Coke.
It's more amazing than the idea of Allen Iverson having to purchase dress slacks.
Sternberg's feat?
He has made baseball relevant in Tampa Bay.
On Thursday, Sternberg introduced Gerry Hunsicker as the Devil Rays' senior vice president, just one of several perfect strikes the new owner has thrown since taking over a month ago.
Sternberg convinced a guy who spent nine seasons with the Astros to join an organization that made the Washington Generals look like the New York Yankees.
That should tell you something about Sternberg's charisma and the unbelievable progress he has made in altering the perception of the D-Rays.
First, he sweet-talked fans by announcing there would be free parking at D-Rays games, and fans could bring in their own food. And now the 46-year-old principal owner has hired an experienced baseball guy with a solid reputation.
For an owner, this is being "in the zone."
"Stuart Sternberg is a breath of fresh air," Hunsicker said.
Fresh air and Devil Rays?
Excuse us if we clutch our chests, a la Fred Sanford, because nobody around here is used to Tampa Bay's baseball team being associated with anything other than futility.
It's usually not wise to sip the Kool-Aid that is poured by any new management team. They all promise to spend more money, strengthen community ties and turn the team into a contender. Sternberg is no different.
But in this case, I'm sipping it. There is hope and belief in Tampa, which Vince Naimoli destroyed after a horrible eight-year reign.
Now, this doesn't mean the D-Rays will appear in the World Series in 2006, but Sternberg already has made Tampa Bay the most improved team in Major League Baseball.
Take that, Vince the Grinch.
"Our goal is to transform the Rays into a premier organization," Sternberg said last month.
The only way things were going to change in Tampa Bay is if an owner was daring enough to make decisions without feeling obligated to tradition.
Tampa Bay's upper management tree is The Dick Van Dyke Show meets The Real World.
The 55-year-old Hunsicker will work with 28-year-old executive vice president Andrew Friedman and 29-year-old team president Matt Silverman. That shows Sternberg believes in fresh blood and the old sage.
The D-Rays scrapped the idea of having a general manager, and in the next week and a half, Sternberg expects to pick a new manager.
If Sternberg's early decisions are an indication, there is no reason not to believe Sternberg won't make the right choice.
Imagine that, believing an owner will make a good decision.
Of course, Sternberg's actions haven't reduced the concerns about the D-Rays. Sternberg vows his estimated payroll will increase from 10 percent to 20 percent each year, but in a league where the batboy earns $5 million a year, Sternberg's figures won't exactly make George Steinbrenner up the limit on his Visa.
The fans bought in for now, but ultimately the team needs to win games to get their full support. Being able to bring a Wendy's hamburger to the games won't matter if the D-Rays finish last next year for the eighth time in nine seasons.
"The bottom line in most sports is if you don't win, people won't come out," Hunsicker said. "What Mr. Sternberg has done is send the clear message that we care about fans, and we want them as our partner."
Pass the Kool-Aid.


text:
Q: How to add Title to ggplot graph by condition in R? I have the following dataframe and a stacked area chart based on it:
df <- data.frame (Year  = c("2010", "2010",  "2010", "2010", "2011","2011","2011","2011","2012","2012","2012","2012","2013","2013","2013","2013"),
                  Sales = c(100000000,200000000,50000000,500000000,400000000,200000000,400000000,145000000,100000000,456000000,345000000,321000000,100000000,200000000,250000000,400000000),
                 Category = c("A", "B",  "C", "D","A", "B",  "C", "D","A", "B",  "C", "D","A", "B",  "C", "D"))

df$Year <- as.integer(df$Year)

df %>%
  ggplot(aes(x = Year, y = Sales, fill = Category)) +
  geom_area() + scale_x_continuous(breaks=2010:2013)

Now I want to automate the process to add a title to the chart based on the earliest year in the dataframe, so somehow I want to code this:
"Sale since min(df$Year) by categories".

A: You can use a paste in ggtitle() or labs(title = ) function.
library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)

df %>%
  ggplot(aes(x = Year, y = Sales, fill = Category)) +
  geom_area() +
  scale_x_continuous(breaks=2010:2013) +
  ggtitle(paste("Sale since", min(df$Year), "by categories"))

Data
df <- structure(list(Year = c(2010L, 2010L, 2010L, 2010L, 2011L, 2011L,
2011L, 2011L, 2012L, 2012L, 2012L, 2012L, 2013L, 2013L, 2013L,
2013L), Sales = c(1e+08, 2e+08, 5e+07, 5e+08, 4e+08, 2e+08, 4e+08,
1.45e+08, 1e+08, 4.56e+08, 3.45e+08, 3.21e+08, 1e+08, 2e+08,
2.5e+08, 4e+08), Category = c("A", "B", "C", "D", "A", "B", "C",
"D", "A", "B", "C", "D", "A", "B", "C", "D")), row.names = c(NA,
-16L), class = "data.frame")


text:
Vermont's electricity prices are high, but our usage is low, giving us comparatively low electric bills. That will change if we move to the state's goal of getting 90 percent of our energy from renewable sources by 2050. That goal, originally set by Gov. Peter Shumlin, has been endorsed by Gov. Phil Scott. To meet that goal, we're going to have to use a lot more electricity than we do today. We will have to plug in and charge our electric cars and trucks for transportation. We will have to use some sort of electric appliance to heat our homes and buildings as we move away from oil and natural gas-fired furnaces.
If that electricity is not going to come from burning fossil fuels, it's going to have to come from solar, wind, hydro, or nuclear. I doubt that it will be nuclear and there are not enough rivers in Vermont to generate all the hydropower we would need. Using a lot more electricity, and a lot less oil and natural gas, means higher electricity prices and more use of electricity in the future. By 2050, we are likely to still have one of the highest electricity prices in the nation and also one of the highest electricity bills.
Art Woolf is associate professor of economics at the University of Vermont.
Corrections Staff Directory Careers Accessibility Support Site Map Legals Our Ethical Principles Terms of Service Privacy Policy Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy
© 2021 www.burlingtonfreepress.com. All rights reserved.


text:
The Fanatic and the Opportunist
by Lawrence Davidson
What do opportunists and fanatics have in common? They both chronically exaggerate – the former often to con folks into doing their bidding, and the latter most often because they have already been conned by their own grossly distorted worldview. There are plenty of both types of people in today's America, and the uncertain political environment has brought a lot of them out of the woodwork. The recent marriage of convenience of the National Rifle Association (NRA) leadership (fanatics) and Donald Trump (opportunist) is a case in point.
The Fanatic
The NRA is one of the country's most influential advocacy organizations, with a membership of over 3 million. Its worldview, which can be neatly summed up as "freedom equals unrestricted gun ownership," almost certainly carries weight beyond its membership numbers. In the wilds of places such as Minnesota, Wyoming and Alabama, NRA principles might carry more weight than the Bible.
Wayne LaPierre is the executive vice president of the NRA and Chris Cox is its executive director for Legislative Action. LaPierre and Cox are typical of NRA stalwarts and we can see them as representative of a good percentage of the organization's members. On 20 May 2016 both men gave speeches before the NRA convention in Kentucky announcing the association's endorsement of Donald Trump for president. In his speech Cox spent a lot of time painting a picture of the United States as a place about to lose its "freedoms" if Hillary Clinton gets elected. Here is how he put it: the present political environment in the U.S. is mired in "dishonesty, corruption and contempt for everyday Americans" and the only thing that stands between those "everyday Americans" and "the end of individual freedom in this country" are "gun owners," who must turn out to vote "in droves this fall."
Wayne LaPierre painted a similar crisis picture, again emphasizing that it is only the country's gun owners who stand in the way of catastrophe. Here is how he put it: "We in this room, we are America's best hope, and this is our moment. In all of history, there's always been a time and a place when patriots stand up and rise up against the decree of the elites and shout, 'No more! Get your hands off my freedom!'… That time and place is now. … The revolution to take America back starts here."
Hillary Clinton was characterized as a "corrupt politician" whose "policies and Supreme Court picks would destroy individual freedoms, and therefore destroy the America we all love." According to Cox, Clinton's vision of the U.S. is a place "where only law enforcement has guns and everything is free: free meals, free health care, free education." It seems Cox has a real distaste for free access to anything that does not have lethal potential. He likens a society that provides no-cost availability to the items he lists to a prison.
As these sentiments suggest, the NRA's notion of freedom is harshly reductionist and based on its members' own idiosyncratic interpretation of the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. That interpretation is discussed in Part IV below. For the NRA, freedom is the right to own and carry a gun of any type. All other freedoms listed in the Bill of Rights are secondary, probably because without the right to own large numbers of assault rifles, the population cannot defend itself against an American government allegedly bent on dictatorship. Assigning such an exaggerated importance to the right to bear any arms is, of course, a gross distortion of the concept of freedom and demonstrates "contempt" for the ability of U.S. society to function based on the rule of law.
The NRA stalwarts live and breathe this exaggeration. There is something pathological going on here, for their obsession with gun ownership has also spun out conspiracy theories about looming oppression. There is here a general inability to analyze, in any reasonable way, the political and social environment around them. In other words, the NRA devotees are fanatics.
The Opportunist
The speeches of LaPierre and Cox laid the groundwork for the introduction of Donald Trump – now the NRA's endorsed candidate for president. Trump's appearance at the NRA convention marked his official acceptance of the organization's exaggerated reductionist position. Actually, it was but a culmination – months before, Trump had discarded his more moderate position and, upon launching his campaign for the presidency, almost immediately adopted the NRA's stance.
Now on stage at the Kentucky convention, he started off with what has become his characteristic patter for things he finds convenient to endorse: "I love the NRA. I love the Second Amendment." Then he moved on to, essentially, parrot Cox and LaPierre: "The Second Amendment is under a threat like never before. Crooked Hillary Clinton is the most anti-gun … candidate ever to run for office. And, as I said before, she wants to abolish the Second Amendment. She wants to take your guns away. She wants to abolish it." All of this is a mixture of lies and gross exaggeration. In addition, Trump pledged to "get rid of gun-free zones" because that will make us safer. Trump has claimed that if we all went around armed, the death toll during the terrorist attacks in San Bernardino and Paris would have been lower. At this point the Huffington Post contacted a number of Trump hotels and found that, lo and behold, most of them remain "gun-free zones."
The truth is that Trump is an opportunist and a chronic exaggerator. You might say that all politicians fit this bill. However, here we are dealing with a matter of degree, and most the key word is "chronic." Trump's practice in this regard is habitual and therefore may be pathological as well.
It is to be noted that this habit of persistently stretching the truth to the breaking point does not make Trump a fanatic. In fact, it causes his thinking and rhetoric to be all over the map. He even tells us that he values "unpredictability," and this means he is often inconsistent as to how and what he exaggerates. It's an orientation that precludes fanaticism but lends itself naturally to opportunism.
Just What does the Second Amendment Say?
As mentioned above, the NRA has its own peculiar interpretation of the Second Amendment. This piece of the U.S. Constitution reads as follows: "a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
The amendment has two parts, the first part contextualizing the second. The first part reads, "a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State." The term "militia" here is the late 18th century American way of referring to the military forces of the thirteen states then in the process of becoming the United States. These militias were not private organizations but were controlled by their respective "free State." That is what "well regulated" meant. The second part implies that these militias were to be democratically derived, that is, the "People" were to "bear arms" so a "well regulated militia" is possible. In other words, the "right to bear arms" is not open-ended or unregulated. It is tied to the maintenance of a regulated, democratically constituted armed force.
Nonetheless, what the NRA and other gun fanatics do is simply drop the contextualizing first part from their interpretation of the amendment. Having done so they are conveniently left with "the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." They put all their emphasis on this second part which, now taken out of context, inevitably distorts the meaning of the Amendment as a whole.
This is the kind of thing that both fanatics and opportunists are good at, and what comes so easily to them – the twisting of a text, and often reality itself, to conform to their point of view.
How long will the marriage of convenience between the opportunist Donald Trump and the fanatics of the NRA last? Well, that is really up to Trump, the self-styled unpredictable one. Fanatics rarely change, but opportunists are always playing the odds.
More articles by:Lawrence Davidson
Lawrence Davidson is professor of history at West Chester University in West Chester, PA.


text:
Cannabis protects against Covid, study claims — Action News Now
The next breakthrough in stopping Covid-19 may come not from Big Pharma but from humble potted plants. Researchers in Oregon have found that two compounds found in devil's lettuce can stop the virus from spreading.
Rather than trying to gain immunity through smoking, a team of scientists at the University of Oregon isolated two compounds from marijuana — cannabidiolic acid (CBGA) and cannabidiolic acid (CBDA) — and found that they are linked to the coronavirus. The virus's spike protein binds and in turn prevents it from binding to the outer membrane of human cells.
The latter binding process is often how the virus enters the human lungs and other organs.
These two compounds are precursors to CBG and CBD, which are widely legal and available to consumers. CBG and CBD hemp oils and extracts are commonly used to treat anxiety, sleep disorders, epilepsy and various other conditions.
CBGA and CBDA "Not a controlled substance like THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, has a good safety profile in humans," said Richard van Breemen, a researcher at the Oregon Center for Global Cannabis Innovation. Van Breemen added that these compounds "It can be taken orally," and "Potential to prevent and treat infections" by the coronavirus.
Van Bremen and his team post Their study was published Tuesday in the Journal of Natural Products. However, they still have a long way to go before doctors start prescribing cannabis oil in large numbers. While the study found CBGA and CBDA to be effective against both Alpha and Beta variants of the coronavirus, it was performed on human cells in the lab, not on actual human test subjects.
Still, the scientist believes these cannabis compounds will eventually be used in vaccine manufacturing "A more challenging environment" for Covid-19. One of the main criticisms of the current batch of vaccines is that they use the virus' original spike protein as an antigen, meaning that when variants with new spike protein mutations emerge, they are more likely to evade the protection offered by the vaccine.
"These variants are known for evading antibodies against early lineages [Covid-19], which is clearly concerning given that current vaccination strategies rely on early lineage spike proteins as antigens," Van Bremen said. "Our data show that CBDA and CBGA are effective for the two variants we studied, and we hope this trend will extend to other existing and future variants."
Categories News Tags action, cannabis, claims, Covid, News, protects, study Post navigation
UK could be first country to emerge from pandemic, experts say
NATO chief says military alliance and Russia agree to try more meetings despite tensions in Ukraine


A Visionary Leader, Determined, A Perfectionist, Genuine, Reliable, Responsive, Patient And Humble.
BSc. (Hons.) FNIVS; IRRV (London); SCV (USA), Hon. Doctor of Management Science, FUTO.
Nsima Udo Ekere, 53, is an entrepreneur and innovative thinker with a short but impactful public service career. Since stepping unto the public service turf, he has brought freshness, dynamism and deep insights to bear on the running of government business.
Ekere loves to push the envelope. He life and career have been refined in the crucible of big challenges; he calls them his learning and growth opportunities.
Appointed to the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer in August 2016 Ekere and his colleagues knew they were on a mission to change; not just the negative narrative of the Commission, but the lives and fortunes of the region and its people.
So, while the four months between his appointment and inauguration in November 2016 provided the Board bonding opportunities, it served as well as a period to draw up a definitive roadmap for what they were determined to achieve.
With concurrent liabilities at N1.7 trillion, poor public image, declining Federal revenues, rising regional poverty and developmental needs across the communities of the Niger Delta region, Ekere and his colleagues knew a different style and mindset was imperative, vital and urgent.
That roadmap, code-named the 4-R Strategy, involved – and continues to involve – restructuring the Commission's balance sheet, reforming the governance systems, restoring NDDC to its core mandates and reaffirming the collective commitment to doing what is right and proper.
Implementing the 4-R Strategy has translated into the Board's decision to allocate 70 percent of its budget to the completion of on-going projects rather than start new ones and a comprehensive audit of all NDDC projects across the nine states so the Board can have full visibility of NDDC's performance on a state-by-state basis.
It has resulted to, among many milestones, the cancellation of 624 underperforming projects worth more than N200 billion, inspiring a new wave of commitment among contractors to perform with integrity and efficiency; payment of billions of Naira of inherited debts to contractors and service providers; a resolution to an 18 year-old impasse between the Commission and NLNG on the payment of its statutory obligations to the Commission; and the implementation of urgent and necessary emergency projects to rescue deteriorating roads across the nine states, in order to save lives and property.
It is also in keeping with the strategic roadmap that the Commission is now focused on projects with regional rather than isolated and local impact. In this regard, the Commission is now looking at such transformational projects as the Niger Delta Power Pool, designed to deliver 7000MW of power to the Niger Delta in support of initiatives to attract businesses to the region; the Niger Delta Enterprise Hub, a collaborative project to equip our young and enterprising people with the skills and resources to build global IT businesses and the Niger Delta E-Learning Project, a collaboration between NDDC and Microsoft, alongside other leading US – based ICT firms, to revolutionize the education sector in the region through the provision of tablets or laptops to every student, with a full suite of textbooks that would personalize learning.
Just this March, the NDDC Board and management were in Araromi, Ondo State to flag off the construction of a N19.2 billion Araromi-Akodo/Ibeju-Lekki Road, connecting Ondo and Lagos states. The 50km road which will cut travel time between Ondo State and Lagos to under 50 minutes is a testimony to the new collaborative spirit of the current Board and Management at NDDC.
Nsima Ekere studied Estate Management at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, graduating in 1986. In the years following, he has built successful businesses and garnered cogent national and international experiences in real estate, urban and regional planning, oil and gas, power and construction.
Ekere served briefly as Deputy Governor of Akwa Ibom State between May 2011 – October 2012. Prior to that, he was the Executive Chairman of the Akwa Ibom Investment and Industrial Promotion Council, AKIIPOC, the state investment agency (2007 – 2012). He also served as Chairman, Ibom Power (2008 – 2011).
At AKIIPOC, Ekere conceived and implemented the first private sector gas-to-power project in Nigeria, an innovative strategy to convert natural gas into feedstock for power generation, as a public – private partnership with the Akwa Ibom State Government. That project led to the investment of more than $1billion of private capital in gas production and distribution facilities in Akwa Ibom State.
He also developed and implemented a framework for State Governments to undertake power distribution within their states. He worked with the Office of the Vice President and the National Council on Power and the Governors of Cross River, Rivers, Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom to create a special purpose vehicle, 4Power Limited, to assume responsibility for power distribution across the four states.
Ekere is a teacher's son and grew up with the best assets teachers give: optimism, inventiveness, inquiry and passion for excellence. This has influenced his commitment to ensure that NDDC upgrades and strengthens educational institutions and infrastructure across the region. He is also an advocate for offering our children the 21st century education that they need to compete and succeed in today's technology-driven world.
Nsima Ekere holds a number of professional qualifications including Fellow of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers, Registered Member, Estate Surveyors and Valuers Registration Board of Nigeria ESVRBN; Senior Certified Valuer, International Real Estate Institute IREI. Minnesota, USA. He is an associate member of the Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation, IRRV, London.
Ekere served tutelage with the firm of Nwankwo and Partners before setting up Ekere and Associates, a real estate firm with offices in Abuja, Port Harcourt and Uyo. He was the founding Chairman, Modev Nigeria Limited which provides engineering-related solutions to the power sector; Chairman, Kanash Limited, a civil engineering and construction company and Chairman F.EE Solitz, a renewable energy company.
His unstated philanthropic gestures include strong investment in people development through regular award of scholarships and educational grants; provision of potable water to rural communities in his Edemaya Clan, Ikot Abasi and medical outreaches to rural communities. In 2012, Ekere, along with his siblings donated a state-of-the-art Accident and Emergency Ward/Trauma Centre to the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital.
In April 2018, he was conferred with the honorary Doctorate degree in Management Technology by the Federal University of Technology, Owerri in recognition of his innovative management style at the NDDC.
Nsima Ekere, Knight of John Wesley, KJW, of the Methodist Church Nigeria, is the winner of the New Telegraph's Corporate Leadership Award and The Sun Newspaper's Public Service Award, both in 2017, in recognition of his outstanding commitment towards transforming the Niger Delta Development Commission into an organization that works more efficiently and professionally to achieve its mandate.
He is also the recipient of numerous honours and merit awards, including traditional titles in recognition of endearing contributions and longstanding service to his diverse communities.
He is married to Mrs. Ese Ekere and they are blessed with children.