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Personal Branding: What Can You Learn from the Brand of the Year?
Happy New Year! Welcome to 2011.
What's ahead for your brand this year? As you plan your 2011 marketing efforts, consider some valuable lessons modeled by 2010's Brand of the Year.
Accelerate your sales cycle with a powerful introduction
Convey style AND substance online
Unleash the power of story
International Media Attention
The 2010 Brand of the Year is a story of surprising success. Over the course of a just few weeks it climbed from obscurity to national and international prominence, attracting coverage on every Canadian TV network, plus CNN and the BBC.
40% Market Share
In a crowded market with 15 competitors, the Brand of the Year claimed 40% market share. The Brand of the Year triumphed over established and much better known competitors in a realm where conventional wisdom states "name recognition is everything."
The Brand of the Year had a much smaller marketing budget than its major rivals. It captured loyal followers based on the strength of ideas.
The 2010 Brand of the Year is a person, a previously unknown university professor, Naheed Nenshi, now the mayor of Calgary.
An Amazing Accomplishment
Naheed Nenshi's ascent from nowhere to the mayor's chair is an amazing accomplishment. Going into the race his only political experience was as a fourth place aldermanic candidate in 2004. He is now the first member of a visible minority to hold the top elected position in a city with an old west, conservative reputation.
In the mayoralty election he beat a popular TV news anchor, a corporate executive and six candidates with City Council experience, including Alderman Ric McIver, a fiscal hawk who was endorsed by the city's largest and most influential newspaper.
From Unknown to Mayor in Six Weeks
Six weeks before the election, Naheed Nenshi was an unknown with a name that wasn't recognized by spell check or by the vast majority of Calgary voters.
When I first saw the name in a newspaper headline, I wondered if Naheed Nenshi was the 2010 version of Alnoor Kassam. In the 2007 mayoralty campaign Kassam, a businessman from Kenya, poured $1.5 million of his own money into an unsuccessful attempt to unseat Dave Bronconnier.
Despite enormous odds, Nenshi emerged triumphant, due in large part to his ability to create and portray a professional and credible personal brand.
Three Powerful Lessons
Nenshi's campaign triumph offers three insightful lessons for every personal and corporate brand: mastering the introduction, balancing style and substance online, and capitalizing on the power of story.
A Masterful Introduction
My formal introduction to Naheed Nenshi as a candidate came after a business meeting on the University of Calgary campus. It was mayoralty forum day so all of the major candidates had displays set up in the student centre.
Sensing a personal branding market research opportunity, I chatted with volunteers of several candidates. At the Nenshi table I told a volunteer that I had heard about her candidate, but didn't really know much about him. She responded with a natural sounding, brilliantly scripted introduction.
The Brilliant Opening
"Naheed was born in Toronto, but grew up here in Calgary. His family moved here when he was very young. He was educated here at the University of Calgary where he was Student Union President. Then he went to Harvard for a Master's degree in Public Policy, where he was a Kennedy Fellow. After he graduated he went to work for McKinsey. While he was on an assignment at the United Nations, his father suffered a stroke. To help care for his father, he soon returned to Calgary. He is now a professor in the city at Mount Royal University."
Leveraging Respected Brands
It was an outstanding introduction. In less than a minute the script diffused objections, presented positive attributes and leveraged the reputation of respected brands – Harvard, President John F. Kennedy, the U.N. and McKinsey & Company, a top tier, big money consulting firm with a reputation of hiring only the brightest minds from the best schools.
The script established that Nenshi is not a foreigner or an Alnoor Kassam. He's a Calgarian, he's one of us. He has a long history of contributing and being involved. He is very bright. He has the capability to play in the big leagues. He is dedicated to his family and willing to put family interests ahead of his own career aspirations.
Creating the Desire to Learn More
The introduction elevated Nenshi into a new category – from unknown with a strange name to credible candidate. The intro script, repeated countless times on door steps and in chance encounters throughout the campaign, set the stage for further discussion.
Every brand needs a powerful opening. Do you have an introduction that stirs interest for customers to learn more?
Balancing Style & Substance Online
The second branding lesson from Nenshi's campaign is the skilful balance of style and substance online.
In the online marketing world every brand needs to cater to a customer's appetite for details and craving for an entertaining presentation.
Depth of Details
In substance, Nenshi had home field advantage. As a highly articulate professor, and the lead author of a book on the future of Canadian cities, Nenshi had a large volume of clearly reasoned ideas to present. During the campaign he frequently pointed out that his website had the most detailed platform covering a wide range of issues.
Nenshi was the leader in substance.
An Approachable Style
But substance is only half the battle. Good ideas poorly presented never get the attention they deserve. Nenshi's ideas took the spotlight because of his presentation skills and his skilful use of online video.
Skillful Use of Online Video
The featured videos on his campaign website (nenshi.ca) gave Nenshi major points on style. The lead video, recorded on the steps of City Hall during the summer, set the tone.
Outlining Nenshi's main platform, the opening video was positive and approachable. It positioned Nenshi as solid, reasonable, strong and most importantly, likeable. He focused on constructive campaign themes while still including enough edginess to make the case for change and differentiate himself from other hopefuls.
The video was a professional production, but it did not come across as overly slick.
Conversational Delivery
Nenshi's delivery was conversational not authoritative. His verbal tone provided a sharp contrast to the speaking style of his main rivals, Ric McIver and TV anchor Barb Higgins.
During the campaign, opposing candidates frequently questioned how 20 years of reading TV news qualified Higgins for the mayor's chair. Perhaps to reinforce her credibility, she rolled out her polished, authoritative newscaster speaking style. This verbal cadence with predictable downward inflections, is very effective in the broadcast realm of traditional media, but is a major turn off in the YouTube era.
The Language of We
Nenshi understood this. He didn't speak from on high. His tone was inclusive. He used the language of we rather than I. His video was more of an invitation to participate, than a proclamation from someone with all the answers.
How Do You Say Naheed?
Nenshi also used video to overcome the strange name obstacle and to demonstrate he doesn't take himself too seriously. The third of the featured videos on the website is a fun exploration of the topic: "How do you say Naheed?" It stars more than a half dozen citizens representing various ethnic groups, all with exaggerated facial expressions and differing opinions on how to say the candidate's name. It is peppered with appearances by Nenshi himself gently correcting mispronunciations and adding moments of levity.
Like the Nenshi introduction and other videos, it is both strategic and brilliantly scripted. By repeating Naheed Nenshi over and over again, the video builds familiarity with an unusual name. At the end of the three and a half minutes, the name doesn't feel quite so peculiar. The video also includes a variety of faces suggesting widespread support.
A Page From Obama's Playbook
How do you say Naheed? was likely inspired by the opening video on the obama.com website when another candidate with an odd name was seeking political office in 2008. And for the record, the correct pronunciation of his first name is NAH-hehd. The second syllable has a short "E" sound and rhymes with red rather than reed.
The final branding lesson from the Nenshi campaign is the power of story.
According to Nenshi's website, his campaign organizers were surprised by the number of questions about his family background. Rather than just post a webpage that stated the facts – Nenshi is single, was born in Toronto and raised in Calgary – the campaign launched a new video that harnessed the power of story.
Naheed Nenshi: A Family Journey stars the candidate's older sister, Shaheen Nenshi Nathoo, a mother of two young daughters.
The Classic Immigrant's Story
It is a personalized portrayal of the classic immigrant's story – a young couple, desiring a better life for their children, takes the courageous step of leaving their home country of Tanzania and moves halfway around the world. Faced with significant challenges, they work hard to make ends meet and give their children the support they need to succeed.
Personal, Conversational & Heart-Warming
The Family Journey video is personal, conversational and heart-warming. Filled with pictures from the Nenshi photo album and shots of Naheed interacting with his two young nieces, the video does far more than just present the facts. It gives the viewer the opportunity to get to know the candidate as a person through the eyes of a proud and appreciative family member.
The video provides some inside information that would never make it onto a fact sheet. When Naheed was with McKinsey in New York, he tired of having a cramped apartment with only ketchup in the fridge. He paid off his student loans. He serves as baby sitter and chauffeur to his nieces. Naheed's parents live half time with him and half time with his sister.
Family Values & Dr. Seuss
The video capitalizes on a story's ability to create rapport, hold attention and engage emotions. It models family values, an appreciative spirit, respect for parents and community service. It closes with Nenshi reading Dr. Seuss' Cat in the Hat to his young niece. How can you not like a university professor candidate who takes time to read Dr. Seuss?
The Family Journey video was designed to build an emotional connection between voters and the candidate. After viewing the video, voters ended up liking Nenshi as a person.
An Example Worth Emulating
The Nenshi campaign did a phenomenal job of building and presenting a credible and appealing personal brand. It is an example worth emulating whether you're trying to sell widgets or ideas.
Implement these ideas from 2010's Brand of the Year for your 2011 success. Happy New Year!
Tagged: Brand of the Year, Branding, Calgary, Naheed Nenshi, Online Video, Personal Branding
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The Origins of Freemasonry
In the Middle Ages, the term "freemason" was awarded to highly skilled stonemasons who were hired as free agents to build castles and cathedrals in England and Scotland. Because of the inherent danger of their work, stonemasons formed local organizations, called lodges, to take care of sick and injured members as well as the widows and orphans of those who were killed on the job. Eventually, men who were not skilled stonemasons wanted to join the group for the many advantages it offered. These men were known as "accepted masons." This is how the group began to shift from a craft guild to a fraternity.
The first Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons was established in 1717 in London. In 1718, English Freemasonry spread to France and Spain, and after 1729, to India, Italy, Poland, and Sweden. Freemasonry spread to other parts of Europe and eventually made its way to the American colonies. In 1733, the first American lodge was established in Boston, under the authority of the Grand Lodge of England. The United States now has grand lodges in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Masonry in California
Masonry has been an integral part of California for more than 150 years. During the Gold Rush of 1849, thousands of settlers came to California in search of fortune. Many of these men were Masons and brought with them Masonic values and traditions. Not surprisingly, some of California's first Masonic lodges were established in the mining towns of the Gold Country. In 1850 - the same year that California became a state - the Grand Lodge of California was established in Sacramento.
Within 10 years, the number of Masonic lodges in the new state had grown from 11 to 130, while membership soared from 258 to more than 5,000. Over the years, the Masons have played a key role in shaping the history of California. To date, 19 California governors have been Masons, and at least four California Masons have been elected to the U.S. Senate. Today there are more than 50,000 members and about 330 lodges, making the Grand Lodge of California one of the largest in the world.

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Two 5k's? That's awesome, Charlotte! I can organize one, but I can't run one. 😀 I laughed out loud at that last graphic. There is NO WAY I would mess with marathoner! lol Happy Thanksgiving!!!!
Yeah, 2! I'm nuts. It's my first Turkey day run. I have read that it's the biggest running holiday of all. It's downtown STL so hope it doesn't get canceled due to the issues going on there. Boots and Badges 5k got canceled but I guess all cops and firemen were needed elsewhere. Happy Thanksgiving, Rob!
Enjoy your food and family! So glad you're back into the groove!
Love that quote at the bottom 😉 The Hungry Turkey race looks so cool too! I am signed up for a Dash for the Beads 5K in Feb (I did it last year) and def looking forward to it!!


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Like the news....... I really dislike the volume on button place just above the iPad home button. Too many times I go to close the app and the news starts, embarrassingly, blaring. The volume off button is in a different place on the app........ Please please please fix this.
Love NPR and this app does an okay job of delivering its contents. Perhaps thought might be given to separating streaming content from textual articles. I have to smile, however, whenever NPR advertises this app by enthusiastically reminding everyone that it 'listens to you' and 'learns about you'! In these days of government snooping and privacy concerns this seems to be culturally tone deaf. This capacity is the LAST thing I want. And your curated offerings based on what I have chosen should not be your concern. Your next on air promo should be a solemn pledge to mind your own business!
With the latest update, I have to "Find a station near me,"then select the one I want to listen to every time. There's an option to save it as my primary, which I always select, but it never saves. Every time I use the app, I have to find my station again.
I am very disappointed with the latest update. I cannot share and it is not easy to move from one article to the next. The older version was much easier as far as universal design.
Use this app to stay connected every day. Runs smooth, and layout os almost perfect! Just one thing... please make it easier to delete unplayed items from the playlist. I use the "play all" function but if am unable to listen to the entire batch, I generally dont want to listen to yesterdays the next day. soo.. maybe a "delete all" button for the playlist. Sorry for being so picky.. love NPR!
I am a dedicated fan of NPR but the changes in the various apps are so frustrating I no longer use them as once I did...Fix!
For some reason, NPR has decided to kill playlists on its non-iPad version of this app, and now the playlist function on this app seems to have stopped working: you can put a bunch of stories on your playlist, but unlike before when you could press play and all of your stories would play continuously, now you have to press play for each segment every few minutes. This makes listening to playlists at night or while driving much more cumbersome and less user friendly. Please don't kill the playlist on the iPad app (and bring it back for the iPhone) and please fix the functionality.
Please add Clear Playlist button!
I love being able to listen to NPR programming on my iPad or iPhone. However, I often don't get through all of my playlist each day. When I start up the next day I want to clear the playlist and add that day's programs, but it takes 5 button presses to just clear the playlist. Please add a button to the home page to clear the playlist with one touch. It doesn't even need a confirmation button because I can always re-add programs if I need to. Thanks NPR!
Using share to forward article on iPad has a bug. You can write and address the e-mail correctly but there is no SEND button. So your message just sits there with nowhere to go.
I do like news from npr but more sections would be nice. I like that I can read the story instead of listening to them. It's a good start for an app. It needs a bit more effort.
Does not go story to story like the fabulous NPR One (even if you do queue stories) so I'm going back to NPR One, even though NPR One does not have an iPad landscape view.
Was it tested before release?
It appears the app was not adequately tested prior to release. On my iPad mini, you don't even get to change font size. Yes there is the "change font size" button, ...which opens a blank window.
Terrible! Not same as iPhone version.
Crashes a lot but I don't see any particular pattern or when, what condition, triggers it. Otherwise, I'm just glad to be able to access NPR on my iPad.
Not being one who uses a radio but really loves NPR, this app find my two local stations. I catchup on both local and world news which is what I want the app to do. The other NPR app, NPR one, has way too much fiddling. I can just get what I want from NPR and keep my regular shows in my podcast app.
My continued frustration with this app has finally pushed me to the delete button where, in a moment of overwhelming pique and disappointment, I have pushed the little X. In many cases, the stories shown in the app have swaths of pictures and links unavailable or inactive. Even more damaging, the stories that refer to multiple audio clips have but one. I assume this is a failure of the news items' syndications coupled with limitations in the presentation of that content.
From the color scheme to the article flow and general layout of this app, it just doesn't draw me in. Whenever I open this app, I almost always immediately close it and open up the BBC app instead. Which is too bad, because I really like NPR on the radio! Their app just doesn't do it for me.
Used to be great now doesn't work on my (old)iPad.
The app crashes or just doesn't work recently. Seems ok on my newer iPhone. Frustrating.
Not user friendly. Uses too much memory.
I love NPR, but the app uses way too much storage space, I deleted it from my phone. There is no easy way to go back to a show that had been paused on a previous day.
NPR News works flawlessly on my iPad 3. It is so refreshing to read and/or listen to the news without commercials, pop-ups, or advertisements. If you are able, please support NPR News for this great application.
Broken. Did anyone even test this app before it was released?
The app works most of the time. I check it daily for news. Sometimes the thumbnail opens an entirely different news story. Hyperlinks NEVER work. Often, whole sections in the story, quotes, graphics, or text, are referenced and discussed, but omitted. I have to go to the NPR web page to see them. Worst of all, there are often only 1 or 2 stories posted for today, and occasionally no new news at all. Come to think of it, the app is pretty worthless for news.
This app crashes 100% of the time. When will it get fixed. I have better luck streaming through TunedIn Radio. It has great features too bad I you can't get to use them. This has been a LONG TERM issue. How about someone create a work order to finally fix it. Geez.
The NPR [News] for iPad app on my iPad 3 has stopped displaying On The Media show selections. I have deleted the app and reinstalled it, with no success. The On The Media section under Programs is still blank! Anyone else seeing the same issue?
Defaults to whatever volume was set for any previously used app. If there's aneasy way to change this annoying quirk , i not found it. Also, on occasion the buttons freeze requiring a restart of my iPad2.
This is a horrible app! It provides links to additional content as good apps do... But none of the links actually work. None of them! Headlines extend beyond the edge of the little boxes that represent the stories so you can't read the entire headline, and if you've left your app open overnight, it will very likely be out of sync with the NPR server and there is no way I've found, short of closing the app, to refresh the selection of stories. I don't know what NPR does with the proceeds of those never ending beg-a-thons, but I'm pretty sure they didn't use them to create an app of even average quality.
I use to love this app, but I just deleted it from my IPad. Not sure when the problem started but it crashes before it even opens.
Very unstable and each new release promises a fix but it still crashes often.
Sad that I can't get this app to work on my iPad!
I LOVE NPR, and support it as a sustainer. It's the ONLY news show that I listen to. I'm very frustrated that I cannot, no matter what I do or how many times I try, get this app to work. I can play current streams on my iPhone, but for the life of me can't get a stream to work on my iPad. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE fix this.
The stream still stops for no apparent reason.
Podcasts are easy to access and interesting to listen to.
I like the convenience of apps on my iPad Air 2. I follow NPR for their great coverage of news and culture. However, this app is terrible! None of the links work, including "rate this app". You can do better!
I'm able to open the app and see stories, but the menu items do not respond -- at all. I cannot adjust size of text, I cannot open links in the browser (as offered) nor can I even get anything to happen when I click on Contact Us. Also, when I search for stations to play, often the app crashes. Search for "New York" and when it comes up in the list, tap it and CRASH. Is this because I have an iPad 4 Mini with iOS 9?
Some news programs take full 24 hrs to update!
Honestly, spend a nickel to make this thin in any way reasonably functional.
I used this app every day for a long time - great design - but it simply stopped fetching new stories a while ago. I don't see any way to force it to refresh. So I guess its the trash can for it, really sorry it worked out this way.
Crashing when loading simple things like station finder and top level articles. Impossible to use until bugs are fixed.
So, They are always up selling their app, "find the stories you listen to and share them with others". But I can't find the search feature. What the hell?
Needs update for iOS 9?
This app worked great with iOS 7s, but stations started occasionally crashing with iOS 8, and now that I've updated to iOS 9 it crashes every time I try to play a station. "Contact Us" link is dead as are other links. Time for a new version, please!
I love NPR, but this app keeps crashing. Please fix.
When I have a news app, I want it to be a news app. The news portion is tiny and only a third of the screen. Please rename the app or beef it up in the news category.
Please, hire someone to fix the UX.
Ignored Wikileaks and Project Veritas exposés on Hillary and the DNC while pushing any negative and scurrilous Trump rumor as gospel. Your cover is blown, Pravda!
Was great until most recent version CRASHES!
Slow to update..sometimes not at all...poor poor poor...catch up NPR!
NEWS fair and balanced - truly.
Many claim fair and balanced but NPR delivers. This app lets you collect the NEWS topics you may have started listening to but just did not have time to finish. Enjoy the best way to hear NPR.
Great for listening to hourly news updates, horrible at everything else. Don't expect the top stories to be from the day you're viewing the headlines, and don't expect those headlines to link to the stories they claim to represent. Do expect those hourly news headlines to play when you close the app without having bid them play. Also, do expect a heavier emphasis on hip-hop and hip-ster music and cultural coverage than broadcast NPR by about 2000 percent. Let's put it this way-if stories about a "Punky Brewster" themed hotel and a new "Vampire Weekend" tribute album were slated to run on the day that Trump launched a preemptive nuclear attack on Pyongyang, you won't have to Worry about the North Korea story ruining your day for a while.
News headlines are cut off. Impossible to browse.
Click on an article and it opens a different article. Bizarre...the app seems confused.
I cannot understand the low rating this app has. You can easily listen to your local station, find individual programs, and listen to news the way you want to. Simply great.
When trying to share an NR story from my iPad, the "tweet"button doesn't actually show up! There's s no way to actually get the tweet / story to be posted. The tweet button doesn't show up until you've added enough spaces to pass the 140 character limit. In other words, you can't share to Twitter!
App works great but it kills my battery. Please update and address.
When will they fix the interruptions?
Listening to my local NPR station is a joy -- except when using the app. The interruptions for station promos are constant and interrupt the listening experience. Instead, I stream from the website in Safari. NPR, this problem has been going on for a year. It's time you fixed it.
My best resource is sadly letting me down.
There is only one place I turn to for reliable news, and it's NPR. The app is part of my daily life and is invaluable to my family and I. It is, however, not very useful at the moment. This is because the app seems to always cut to the ads typically delivered at the start of the app. This trend of interruption while listening, has grown over the last year & cuts vital information from the news one is actually listening to! Fix this please. I really do appreciate the information provided by NPR and it's partners but if I cannot actually absorb this information, the point of the app is moot. I understand that ads are vital to the continuity of the organization but perhaps reduce to ads to less than once every couple of minutes.
I use the NPR News app on my iPad mostly to listen to my local NPR station or the top of hour news. I read the articles too once in a while and usually when I'm listening to the station in the background. There is no way to refresh the news items/stories on the screen. If it has not done its automatic refresh, clicking on an item can bring up a different story that has now replaced the story you clicked on in its current position. The links to the articles don't seem to work directly from the app. Other than that, I think it's a great app to get the summary of the stories on NPR or to listen to your local NPR station.
iPad version of this app has much poorer user interface than the iPhone version. Do not like the layout of 3 rows and often stories missing when opening. Hope NPR will change or replace layout. I do enjoy the iPhone version.
Without NPR programming I would be lost. But the app is making my daily fix of reality and entertainment ever more problematic. The folk there need to fix the buggy clunky front end so that selection is easier and choices do not default back all the time. Running the latest iOS is a nightmare with continual restarts and frozen screens. I know the money is not there for this type of service but couldn't some kind hearted hacker put it all right?
Update 3/2017: The app designers still don't get it. In addition to poorly managed Ads, the text font for the story synopsis's has shrunk to a point it is extremely! difficult to read. I suppose this is to free up space for a second scrolling window at the bottom of the reading pane, which now makes the story reading area only about 60% of the screen. We need a "reader" version of this app so we can actually read what you write. Get smart and quit short-changing both your writers AND readers! Original: Been using this app for several years, and for the most part, I like it. Starting with IOS 8 however, I could no longer open Safari from web links in the NPR story. An inconvenience, but not a showstopper. After the IOS 8.1(01?) update though, the app will no longer open. It loads, then immediately exits. Come on NPR, update your app to work on the new IOS releases!!
My iPad is hard-mounted in landscape position. NPR ONE is the only app I have that does not accommodate for this. I love NPR, and I love the content, but why not include this most basic function?
I love this app! Yes, there are some commercials but FAR less than my public radio station. It keeps me informed and delivers me stories that I like and introduces me to stories that I would otherwise not listen to. Highly recommend!
Liked it a lot. Now, it no longer updates unless closed first and then reopened. Looks like no update since 2016. Gonna miss it.
UPDATE: This app continues to display the same bad behavior noted below. I have used this app for years to read NPR news stories but most importantly to listen to my local station's news feed and live programming. Sadly, it has become unusable over the past 6 months or so. The live stream will play for about 10 minutes or so, then it stops. Must restart feed. Stops. Repeat. There is some variability, but this occurs on multiple stations' feeds. I am using current iOS and iPad Pro, and yes I've uninstalled/installed the app. Too bad, because I have been a $$ contributor for years and consider NPR to be my core news source.
I listen to NPR on this app regularly. It works well. I would like to see a sleep feature, like on the podcast apps.
I love the app and would rate it more if I could listen to an NPR radio station on my iPad. I deleted and reinstalled the app several times but nothing changed, even after filing a complaint. Other than that, I enjoy listening to my favorite NPR radio stations on my iPhone 6 and have done so for years... My other issue is that I can not access links that are mentioned in articles that I read on the app. I trust that the internet links appear in the same articles on the npr.org website but are removed from the app articles which typically only include 1 picture and the rest text.
I love the app and would rate it more if I could listen to an NPR radio station. I deleted and reinstalled the app from the App store several times but nothing changed, even after filing a complaint. Other than that, I enjoy listening to my favoriteNPR radio stations on my iPhone 6. I wish I could access links that are mentioned in articles that I read on the app. I trust that the links appear in the articles on the npr.org website.
3.1 does not load on 2017 iPad.
The interface for the iPad version of the app is horrible. I just want to install the normal npr app on my iPad as the interface for the iPhone version is great. Right now on my iPad I just go to npr.org in Horne for a much better experience.
Love NPRs content, but disappointed in the app. It's laid out very poorly for browsing, you can't see more than a couple of headlines at a time without scrolling through banners, or flipping through stories one at a time. Also, the adjustable fonts aren't nearly adjustable enough for my aging eyes, and you can't zoom or wrap text. It would be really great if one of our best news services had a more accessible app.
The NPR News APP is my #1 source for news! I start my day off with NPR News and in the mornings I listen to member stations from all over the country. I proudly support my member station and the app also help in keeping me up to date on local stories from local member stations where family are. The app has a few streaming issues with the stations that I hope will be addressed in the next update. One minor issue though I don't see away to update the app from the App Store. When you search for it, the store only has version. 2.5.3 there.
...but I would certainly like to utilize the app in landscape mode, so that I don't have to bend my head around 90 degrees to use my iPad when I use my attached keyboard (which is always). Almost none of my multitude of iPad apps have this same issue. I will modify my review to 5 stars if you could just fix this.
This app is a good idea, but needs some work. There is a volume problem which manifests too loud and too soft volume when the app transitions between the opening to the actual broadcast (national) and then to the local broadcast. I am constantly running to the radio to change the volume. When it jumps to loud, it is really loud. Then when it switches to local, I have to turn the volume up. I have been giving feedback about this to NPR since the beginning. Nothing has changed. Otherwise, it is great to be able to change to the top-of-the-hour news.
The play list stalls at the end of a story when the screen is locked. Also no controls on the lock screen. Great app if not on iOS 11.
NPR is one of the best sources for news. The app has no bells and whistles but, the content is great.
To listen to any sound or video link, you have to go to the website- it never works through the app. And wanna share an article with someone? The send button disappears the minute you enter their email. Wanna see a tiny desk concert? Click on the link and a window tells you "not found". Great information- but you can't access it. These are basic media 101 lessons...and it has been this way at this app for YEARS. Sad.


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Dispute resolution regulations for bunkering operations
Transport Malta's Ports and Yachting Directorate recently issued Port Notice Number 07/20 entitled "Dispute Resolution and Procedures in Connection with Bunkering Operations" to remind recipients about the Dispute Resolution (Procedures) Regulation under Subsidiary Legislation 545.30 of the Laws of Malta.
The port notice highlighted that authorised providers and customers can make complaints to the regulator to settle any disputes between them.
In accordance with the port notice, the regulation applies to bunkering operations where a dispute has arisen between the bunkering fuel operator and provider and the receiving vessel. The procedure provides for an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanism that aims to be swift, economical, transparent and simple.
Much of the port notice's attraction lies in the fact that disputes between authorised providers must be settled within four months, while disputes between an authorised provider and a consumer must be settled within 90 days, with extensions allowed only in exceptional circumstances.
Complaints and supporting documentation may be filed with the regulator online and, subject to certain conditions, the regulator's decisions are binding on the parties to the dispute with administrative fines imposed for non-compliance. However, this procedure is entirely voluntary and does not affect the parties' rights to proceed to arbitration or court should they prefer.
Dispute Resolution (Procedures) Regulation
The relevant parties under the Dispute Resolution (Procedures) Regulation are as follows.
Authorised providers
The regulation is not limited to bunkering operations and defines an 'authorised provider' as any natural or legal person, whether privately or publicly owned, which is authorised to operate, provide or carry out any activity or operation or provide any service relating to energy and water services.
A 'consumer' means any person who uses or requests a service or product, the provision of which is regulated by the act, for purposes outside of their trade, business, craft or profession. This definition raises the question as to who can qualify as a consumer; however, the port notice explains that it applies to "bunker operations where a dispute arises between the bunkering fuel operator and provider and the receiving vessel".
The regulator, established under the Regulator for Energy and Water Services Act, is composed of a chair and no fewer than four and no more than six members. Members are appointed by the minister for five or seven-year terms and may be reappointed only once.
Proceedings before regulator
The Dispute Resolution (Procedures) Regulation provides for two scenarios: dispute resolution where the parties are both authorised providers and dispute resolution where the parties are an authorised provider and a customer. The regulation seeks to provide authorised providers and consumers with an ADR mechanism that aims to be simple and transparent, offering binding decisions in a swift and economical manner.
Where a dispute arises between authorised providers, the regulator must initiate an investigation into the dispute as soon as possible and seek to resolve the dispute within four months from the date on which it was notified. This timeframe may be extended by a further two months where additional information is sought and the parties agree to such an extension.
Under the regulation, the regulator has the power to initiate an investigation on its own initiative. However, the regulator's jurisdiction is not automatic and they may refuse to initiate an investigation where they are satisfied that other means of resolving the dispute in a timely manner are available to the parties.
The regulator may also refuse to initiate an investigation where the dispute is already subject to legal proceedings. Where a decision has been taken to refuse to initiate an investigation, the regulator must inform the parties as soon as possible. However, where the dispute has not been resolved or the party seeking redress has not initiated legal proceedings within four months from such a decision, the regulator may, at the request of a party, initiate an investigation.
Subject to possible appeal, the regulator's decision will be binding on the parties and failure to abide by the decision will be considered an infringement of the regulation, subject to an administrative fine.
Under the regulation, the regulator will also have jurisdiction in cases where a consumer alleges that an authorised provider has infringed the Regulator for Energy and Water Services Act or subsidiary legislation made thereunder. When referring a dispute, a consumer must show on a prima facie basis that it has been affected by an act or omission of the authorised provider. In resolving the dispute, the regulator may, among other directives, order the authorised provider to effect reimbursement of payments received or to make compensation payments. Such payments may include the whole or part of the costs relating to the engagement of a lawyer or technical adviser engaged in submitting the dispute. Should a party fail to abide by an order given, the regulator may impose an administrative fine of not more than €600 for each day of non-compliance.
Notably, the regulator is not a compulsory dispute settlement mechanism for disputes arising between authorised providers and consumers. In fact, the regulation makes clear that "the provisions of this Regulation shall be without prejudice to the right of a consumer to have recourse to any other body in resolving any such dispute".
As many other ADR mechanisms, the regulator aims to be expeditious in its investigations, with the regulation setting out a 90-day period within which disputes must be resolved. This timeframe may be extended only in exceptional circumstances. The regulator aims to increase efficiency by allowing complaints and supporting documentation to be submitted online. Official communication may also be made electronically or if applicable, by post.
When faced with a consumer complaint against an authorised provider, the regulator may refuse to deal with complaint in the following circumstances:
Where the consumer did not first attempt to contact the authorised provider in order to discuss their complaint and seek to resolve the matter with the authorised provider directly.
Where the dispute is frivolous or vexatious.
Where the dispute is or has been considered by another dispute resolution entity or a court.
Where the consumer did not submit the complaint to the regulator within one year from the date on which the consumer submitted the complaint to the authorised provider.
Where dealing with the dispute would seriously impair the regulator's effective operation.
Where the consumer did not submit the complaint to the regulator within two years from the date on which the facts constituting the substance of the complaint first arose.
According to the regulation, decisions are binding on the parties to the dispute. However, where the dispute is between an authorised provider and a consumer, it is only binding on the consumer if they have been informed of the binding nature in advance and have specifically accepted this.
Although decisions are binding, they are not final and decisions taken by the regulator are subject to appeal before the Administrative Review Tribunal within 20 days of the decision. Appeals may be filed on the following grounds:
a material error as to the facts has been made;
there was a material procedural error;
an error of law has been made; or
there was some material illegality, including unreasonableness or lack of proportionality.
The Dispute Resolution (Procedures) Regulation aims to provide for an ADR mechanism that seeks to increase consumer protection in a timely and cost-effective manner. In times where courts have been forced to close due to COVID-19 containment measures and where there may be significant backlogs as they slowly open up again, authorised providers or consumers looking to settle disputes quickly may consider this mechanism as a valid alternative. Nonetheless, it is advised that disputes involving complex legal issues, including bunkering operations, should continue to be referred before a court so that the parties can make full use of all of the legal mechanisms available therein.
by Dr Martina Farrugia, Fenech & Fenech Advocates
Source: ILO
Filed Under: COVID-19, International Law News, Latest, Malta


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aint goin down til the sun comes up
so, where do i start???
for christmas my mom knew of my obsession with garth brooks and was so incredible to get me a ticket to the show in vegas that i def told her about a million times (cause, you know, a dream is like a river) linds and al got tickets too and my cousin christopher and tiff.
lets start by saying a little bit about our man garth. (he's sun and rain- hes fire and ice; a little crazy but its nice) garth is so amazing that he only wanted the tickets to cost 143 bucks for every seat, from the front to the back. he knew that some of his fans couldnt afford to come to vegas, pay for plane tickets and pay 1000 dollars for concert tickets. (apparently beyonce had a similar gig and she charged like 500-1000 dollars a ticket.) so, because he wanted to keep it cheap, he made a rule on the ticket that they can not be resold for more than 143 dollars and you can only buy them in groups of 6.
we didnt know that when we got the tickets and they were sold out before we could buy them. so we got them from a broker online for more than $143. we didnt know that it was illegal but we did know that it was pretty hard to get in touch with the guys that we bought the tickets from. we could never get a last name or a cell phone number and they were pretty bad about calling right back...
so, all that said, *tom, a coworker of the guy who sold us the tickets called about 4 on sunday for us to go with him to get our tickets. we all had to be there to pick them up with our IDs and we talked to him for a while outside while he tried to memorize our names and things like that. he was nice but once we went to get the tickets he was very quiet and distant. it was taking a while to get the tickets and we thought it was pretty weird. then they asked to talk to him alone. then security escorted him outside and down the hall. then they took us outside and told us they needed to ask us more questions and we went downstairs to the bottom of the hotel very oceans 11 style. it was NUTS. (we were def not standing outside the fire)
we were so thrown off and did not know why all this was going on.
it started to get crazier when they brought us paper to write out our statements and the sheriff and more police and security showed up.
at this point, i just knew that we werent gonna get to go to the concert and that we had been ripped off. we were kinda all in tears.
then the VP of security showed up, james is his name (we LOVE him) and took us upstairs.
he told us that we had been ripped off and that they hoped that they would be able to get tickets for us from somewhere but that the people who sold us the tickets were scammers.
the wynn people found all of this out because the night before the same brokers that sold us our tickets had sold tickets to people for the saturday night show. they had only wanted two tickets and our brokers made them buy three. then when it came time for the concert the brokers would not let the people have the third ticket that they had been forced to buy. this made them mad and they got into a fight in the lobby (face to face). security arrested the brokers and searched their rooms. they found drugs, all kinds of crazy things and a list with our names on it and *tom, the guy who brought us the tickets, on sunday.
so, when we showed up with *tom to pick up the tickets at will call, his name was flagged, as well as ours, and they had just been waiting for us to show up.
when we were in james's office he was so kind. he felt so bad for us because we couldnt go to the concert and we kept crying and laughing and talking about the infamous shirts we had made and we had also paid more money than we should have and got major ripped off. we were detained in his office and then i went with the detectives and gave them my statement (for all of us really. a lot like a lonesome dove) for about three hours. inspite of the craziness of the afternoon it was so much fun and the biggest adrenaline rush ever!!
and then they told us the best news ever.
we were still gonna get to go to the concert!!!
we were so grateful and ecstatic. then they comped us a meal before the concert and bought us drinks. (i mean, bring us two pina colodas!) unbelievable. then james escorted us into the concert area and we didnt have to wait in line at all. we were split up at the actual concert and almost in the last row, but because it was such a small room it was not that far away.
since we are total geeks about our shirts we rushed to put them on after dinner (but we didnt have time to shower so excuse my crazy hair). we had made a shirt for tom because we thought he was going to the concert with us but since he screwed us we gave the shirt to james. (he was super sweet about a homemade screen printed shirt when he works directly under steve wynn).
and it gets even better.
we had to sit pretty high up but we were just so excited to be there and be done with the drama and still be getting to see garth. we didnt get to sit by christopher and tiff but al and linds and i got to sit together.
the concert was amazing. just him and his guitar. and a hoodie and a baseball cap. un be lieve able. truly. we cried multiple times, the girl next to me kept her tissue out at all times and i think cried the whole time. everyone sang so loud. it was perfect.
then he ended it with piano man by billy joel. i mean, c'mon. not even ending with your own song??? we of course werent ready for it to be over at all so even though the lights came on and people left and tanya tucker songs were being played we screamed 'encore' and went crazy from our balcony seats. he eventually came back out and the crowd that had stayed went wild. he sang for an hour more after that. and in the middle of all of this our and our screaming, he yells up to us (because we were so loud and jumping up and down so much) and asks allison what her name was!! so we all yelled back and he asked where we were from and we yelled "texas!" and then told him we made shirts for him (we are soooo obnoxious about our shirts!!) and he asked us what we wanted to hear and we said "shameless". he said he couldnt do shameless because he cant play it on his guitar. but he did it guys. acappella. unreal. it was unreal! then he made the symbol of our logo/crossed his heart and held up three fingers to us!! we could have literally died in that moment!!! it was just so unbelievable.
afterwards we told james thanks for everything and he said he would have garth sign something for us and send it to us!!! woo hoo!!!
and, people came up to us after and said that WE were their favorite part of the concert!! best night of our lives!!
it was just so surreal with the gambling, meeting up with tom, the detainment, getting to go to the concert, garth talking to us and spending 3 days in vegas on top of it all!!
really the best weekend of my life.
he is definitely moooore than a memory.
Oh my gosh Kristen! That is AMAZING!!!! What a weekend!!!!!
Camila said...
This story is NUTS! I would have peed in my pants with nervousness when they took you underground and sheriff came! So did he not have the tickets or did they just know he was a con man? I hope you can get your money back from him!! Agree that this was the best concert of my life. Seriously. T shirts look awesome. Ya'll let us know when you go for Celine. Sean will probs want to wait in the casino while I go to that one alone. hahaha!
jojo said...
You three girls brought a whole new level of excitement to Vegas. I am so glad it all turned out ok. I love seeing you guys having so much fun. You all are great moms and deserve a fun weekend in Vegas!!!
It was seriously the best night of my life...I can't even explain it.....just fantastic!
I want to be your friend. like real friend. I laughed out loud at this several times. I love it so much.
Shelbi and Preston Rampy said...
BEST. STORY. EVER!!! I love it!!! I want to come when you go to Celine!!! We saw her in 2007 in Vegas and I most definitely cried!!!
The Benders said...
UM I feel like I just read the script to some CSI show or better yet that Las Vegas show with Molly Sims and Fergie's hubby. I just love this story, told well, I feel like I was there. PS my second fav is Jeff's massage. What a life, so James Bond: Casino Royale.
Aw, what a great story!! Just stumbled across your blog through party perfect, and I'm finding myself reading the whole thing!
I feel compelled to tell you my GB story (hope that's not too weird, but it affirms what a great person he is!!) - back in 1998, my 2 roomies and I bought tickets to his concert in College Station, TX. They were nosebleed seats in the last row of the top level. We got there kind of early and we were in our seats and one of the roadies came up to us and asked us if we would like front row seats. At first we were skeptical, but he was entirely serious!! He explained to us that Garth likes the fans in the first 2 rows to be people that are so excited to be there because they'd been surprised with the tickets! It was an AMAZING night, of course!!
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eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series – Roush Fenway Advance
March 20, 2020 Mike
eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series – Advance
Teams: No. 6 Oscar Mayer Ford Mustang & No. 17 Fastenal Ford Mustang
Drivers: Ross Chastain (No. 6) & Chris Buescher (No. 17)
Twitter: @RoushFenway, @Roush6Team, @17RoushTeam
Hashtag: #ProInvitationalSeries
eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series – Sunday, March 22 at 1:30 p.m. ET on FS1, FOX Sports App
Titled FOX NASCAR iRACING, the 90-minute, simulation style eSports program includes a cross-section of competitors from the NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR Xfinity Series, NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series and a group of NASCAR dignitaries.
FS1 and the FOX Sports App will carry all of Sunday's action from the virtual Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Ross Chastain will run Sunday's race from his iRacing rig at his home, while Chris Buescher will use a customized rig from Roush Fenway's campus in Concord, NC.
Buescher at Homestead-Miami Speedway
Buescher has six career NASCAR starts at Homestead-Miami, including four in the Cup Series. His best finish came in the season finale last year, where he drove the No. 37 machine to a 16th-place finish.
In two Xfinity races at the 1.5-mile track, Buescher earned finishes of fifth (2014) and 11th (2015) in the No. 60 for Jack Roush.
Chastain at Homestead-Miami Speedway
Chastain enters Sunday's action with 13 career NASCAR starts on the 1.5-mile Homestead pavement, including two in the Cup Series.
In Xfinity Series action, the Melon Man has a best finish of 14th, which came back in 2014 in the No. 10 car.
Chastain's best career result at Homestead came in the Truck Series just last season, where he drove the No. 45 entry to a fourth-place run, just missing the series championship.
On the eCar
Keeping true to their on-track Roush Fenway Racing schemes, both Buescher and Chastain will run their respective partner colors in Sunday's iRacing event at Homestead. Buescher will carry longtime No. 17 team partner Fastenal aboard his Ford Mustang, while Chastain will run the bright orange and yellow Oscar Mayer scheme.
NASCAR/iRacing History
NASCAR and iRacing have an unprecedented history in the esports space, currently in the 11th season of the longest-running officially sanctioned esports racing series, the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series. It features 40 of the best sim racers in the world competing for more than $300,000, one of the richest payouts in esports racing competition.
Roush Fenway's 2020 lineup includes Nathan Lyon, driver of the No. 6 and a native of St. Louis Missouri, and Kollin Keister, driver of the No. 17, who hails from Frostburg, Maryland.
Roush Fenway Gaming Familiar with Homestead
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Drummer Lucas Zimmerman has announced he has left Paradise Fears.
A statement from Lucas addressing the news can be found below.
"Sadness, Excitement, Angst, and Cause -- A Commentary on Change" from Lucas.
The past almost 4 years have been an incredible gift of experiences and opportunities. I have been able to travel across the entire country and see the world with my best friends. I learned more in that amount of time than I ever could have imagined, from everything I've gotten to see and the people that I've had the pleasure of meeting and getting to know. From the leap of faith we all took four years ago, across all of the experiences we shared together, I wouldn't trade the life we lived for anything.
However, it also opened my eyes to the reality of the state of the planet. Seeing the world showed me many, if not most, people do not have the opportunities that I was given. A brief trip to China showed me enough to get me researching the nature of poverty on our planet. It baffled me. As a human race, we forget to care that much of the world population doesn't have what it needs, because we're too wrapped up in the things that we find important in our own lives or the lives of a few people that we choose to care about. The thought of the starving children in Africa or the overpopulated people of eastern Asia seldom crosses our minds, or we choose to overlook it. I don't feel that luxury anymore. After learning what I've learned and seeing what I've seen, I can't get these things out of my head. My complaints seem completely meaningless compared to those people's problems. I have clean water. I have access to medical attention if needed. My country isn't being torn apart by useless wars.
So it is with sadness, excitement, angst, and cause that I have decided to change my life path. I want to be spending my time and efforts in third world, developing nations aiding the efforts to get them clean water, feasible infrastructure, medical help, and ultimately create sustainable living conditions. For anyone interested, I will be attending a technical school this Fall to learn the necessary Civil Engineering skills to work for a program specializing in water sanitation in the third world. It's my first step in what I hope to be a long, humanitarian, life-giving existence.
I can't express enough how much the time that I've spent in this band and the people I've met have meant to me. I am grateful for every person that has been a part of any step of the way. I could not be more excited for my friends and what they have in store. To call them friends is an understatement—come to think of it Family might even be an understatement. I am honored that I was able to be a part of all of the art they have created, and I am more excited than anyone for the art that they will continue to create. Every single person who was a part of Paradise Fears was a part of my story, and will continue to be a part of my story, it will just be a different kind of story now.
I realize this is a sudden change, and will be hard for some people to understand, but for me, it is the right one. I urge anyone else who doesn't know what they want to do with their future to at the very least look into short term volunteer programs, because those are they types of people that the world needs right now. I believe that if we solve these problems, the human race can progress to a true golden age, but in order for us as people of this planet to evolve spiritually or consciously, we must all do it together. No one can be left behind.
I don't know what else to say but I love everything that has happened to me and the person that it has made me. I'm excited to go really be that person now. The universe sends us on interesting paths. I hope that you have the courage to follow them.


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3 Tips for Genealogy Research in New England
New England has an abundance of records which go way back in time, often to the 1600s. For that reason many genealogists think that researching in New England can be fairly easy. But that abundance doesn't come without some pitfalls that are often unique to New England. By knowing what to look out for you'll avoid creating unnecessary obstacles in your research.
Here are 3 tips to help with your New England Genealogy Research:
1) Check the town settlement date
Colonial settlement and later migration westward created a situation in New England where original towns were broken up over time into new, smaller towns. This means your ancestor could have lived in two different towns without ever having moved. For this reason you will want to check both the settlement date and the incorporation date of a town.
Let's take a look at the town of Glastonbury, Connecticut. The land was first settled in 1636 as part of the town of Wethersfield. In 1693 Glastonbury was established as its own town separate from Wethersfield. To make things even more complicated Wethersfield was known as Watertown from 1634 until it changed its name in 1637. If you have ancestors who lived in what is now Glastonbury prior to 1693 you may need to search for their records in the town of Wethersfield.
How can you determine when towns were established as well as the names of their parent towns? The handiest reference is a book called Genealogist's Handbook for New England Research, now in it's 6th edition, and published by the New England Historic and Genealogical Society (NEHGS).
2) The oldest town cemetery might not be in the same town
Changing town borders in New England not only meant you might need to look in various towns for records but it also means you could have to search a different town to find a cemetery.
The town of Medway, Massachusetts was founded in 1713 from the town of Medfield. The eastern part of Medway was settled first and that's where the first church and graveyard were established. As more people settled in Medway a second church and graveyard were established in the western part of town. There was a bit of friction between the east and west side of town and ultimately, in 1885, the eastern half of the town broke off to form the new town of Millis.
This creates a complication for genealogists searching for their ancestors in Medway. They can see that Medway was established in 1713 but they often don't realize that Millis was part of Medway until 1885. Nor do they realize that the eastern part of Medway, now Millis, was the section that was settled first. Which means that Medway's oldest cemetery is actually located in the town of Millis.
Genealogists sometimes create memorials on cemetery websites for their ancestors in Evergreen Cemetery (established 1749) in Medway when the ancestor has already been documented as being located in Prospect Hill Cemetery (established 1724) in Millis. This can create duplicates or at the very least, confusion.
To get around this problem check the book A Guide to Massachusetts Cemeteries by David Allen Lambert. It includes both the year a Massachusetts town was established as well as the consecration date or oldest burial for each cemetery. For other New England states check with historical societies, USGenWeb sites or regional cemetery projects.
3) Check Town Reports for an alternate source of information
New England towns were founded by Puritan settlers whose governments were run at the town level. In the early years, important information such as births, marriages, deaths, and taxes were kept in town record books. In the 19th century these were transformed into an annual Town Report which summarized all the key information for the year. In some New England states annual Town Reports are still printed today.
Marriages from the 1919 Town Report, Concord, New Hampshire
Town Reports are an overlooked resource that may contain key details about the life of your ancestor. They are most often found in the local library, town hall or historical society but increasingly they can be found in digitized format on sites like Internet Archive. For best results search for annual report + town name. Here's a listing of the Town Reports for Concord, New Hampshire available on Internet Archive.
Deaths from the 1919 Town Report, Concord, New Hampshire
The next time you get stuck researching your New England ancestors be sure to check if you have a jurisdiction issue related the changing borders of the town or whether you need alternate sources of information which you can find in Town Reports.
Have you had success finding information about your New England ancestors? Tell us how you did it in the comments.
Marian Pierre-Louis is a house history and genealogy professional who specializes in educational outreach through webinars, internet broadcasts and video. Her areas of expertise include house history research, southern New England research and solving brick walls. Marian is the Online Education Producer for Legacy Family Tree Webinars where she produces online genealogy education classes. Check out her webinars in the Legacy library.
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"Circus by the Sea" is a vacation rental with 4 Bedrooms and 2 baths. With two oceanfront bedrooms everyone can enjoy the oceanfront view. You can sit in the rocking chairs on the deck while taking in the beautiful scenery. Easy walk to the beach with a private beach access. After you you enjoy a day of fishing, come back and use the fish cleaning station this vacation rental house provides. Linens provided (weekly stays only).


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In 63 BC, the ambitious Roman populares politician Lucius Sergius Catilina organized a coup against the Republic that was only frustrated by the political skill of Marcus Tullius Cicero with a little help from Fortune. Two decades later, the historian Sallust, who had been an eyewitness, composed a monograph on the plot which remains a valuable read.
Building on Sallust, Prof. Odahl (Boise State) draws upon the writings of Cicero, later ancient historians, and modern scholars to give us a more nuanced account of the conspiracy , often coming down to an almost hour-by-hour treatment, while delving into the political, economic, social, and military factors that had brought the Republic to a state of almost continuous crisis . In addition, Odahl goes beyond the events surrounding the coup and its frustration to discu s s how the Roman Republic, particularly as depicted by Cicero, affected the thinking of the "Founding Fathers," while reminding us that all arguments about lessons from the past are not necessarily accurate for the present.
A volume in the Routledge series "Studies in Ancient History," Cicero and the Catilinarian Conspiracy will prove a useful read for those interested in the Roman Republic, and will also prove profitable reading for anyone interested in republican institutions or the coup d'etat as a political instrument.


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For Sean "Diddy" Combs and 2 Chainz, Buscemi's $1,000 shoes fit.
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In his 2014 track "Trap Back," hip-hop artist 2 Chainz put a little-known footwear brand on the map when he dropped the verse "You know I'm rocking Buscemis, and I'm as raw as sashimi." At a time when Gucci, Versace and Louis Vuitton reigned as hip-hop's high-end MVPs, an exorbitantly priced $890 pair of kicks known as the Buscemi 100mm were suddenly the apple of the music world's eye.
"I don't sit around thinking, 'I wish my name was in a song,'" says founder Jon Buscemi, 41, while walking through his Hollywood office, where candles sculpted in the shape of his head line the shelves. "But when it happens, it's cool."
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Raised on New York's Long Island, where he began customizing clothes as a kid during the rise of '90s hip-hop fashion, Buscemi went on to pursue a career in finance, working as a stockbroker on Wall Street to support his lifestyle. When the market crashed, however, his first love became his second career.
"I had a 'What the f— am I doing with my life?' moment," recalls Buscemi, who is married and has a 7-year-old son. "I realized I needed to get myself into the fashion industry by any means necessary." Through a friend who was connected to the skateboard clothing market, he says, he was "able to wiggle my way into it."
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In the two years since launching the Buscemi brand, an elite clientele that includes Swizz Beatz, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Justin Bieber and Quincy Jones has stocked up on pairs of the 100mm and newer silhouettes like the 90mm and 125mm, which are all made from Italian calf leather and embellished with 18K gold padlocks dangling from the ankle straps.
The rest of the world had to log on to Buscemi's website and get on what could be a monthslong wait list, though his shoes have since become available at Barneys New York.
"We're not doing any magic tricks," Buscemi, who resembles both a bouncer and Lex Luthor, says of the brand's short supply/high demand framework. "We might make 50 pairs of a certain color, and when they're gone they're gone — we won't make them again."
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Still, he insists, there won't be a shortage of new designs for fans.
"If the brand were a novelist, it would be like John Grisham," Buscemi says. "I'll be writing a lot more books. Or rather, a lot more shoes."
FUN FABRICS: "The majority of the fabrics and leathers are sourced from the top Italian suppliers in both leather and textile. We also have sourced leathers from Japanese and French artisanal producers."
COLORFUL KICKS: New York fashion house Rochambeau called on artist Aaron Curry to hand-paint the shoes for its spring runway.
CUSTOM SNEAKS: "This was custom-painted for me by Jake Dankfels. He knows my favorite sport shoe from my childhood is the Nike Air Tech Challenge, and he painted it as such."
BRANDED: Quincy Jones fronted the brand's spring 2015 ad campaign.
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Home Coronavirus Covid-19: Police granted access to details of people told to self-isolate by...
Covid-19: Police granted access to details of people told to self-isolate by Test and Trace
Police have been granted access to the details of people who have been told to self-isolate by the Test and Trace.
The Department of Health and Social Care confirmed tonight that the information will be shared with the police on a 'case-by-case' basis.
The Test and Trace information will assist the police in the enforcement of individuals who fail to self-isolate.
Officers will be granted access to the names and address of people who should be self-isolating if enforcement action is required for failing to self-isolate.
It was made a legal requirement for those who have tested positive for Covid-19 and their close contacts to self-isolate when formally notified to do so.
The information will provide officers to access to a case-by-case enabling information that will allow the officers to know if a specific individual has been notified to self-isolate.
Anyone who receives a positive result for COVID-19 is currently required to isolate for 10 days after displaying symptoms – or 10 days after receiving their result if asymptomatic.
Which also means people within the same household must also isolate for 14 days.
Failure to comply with these legal requirements could lead to a fine from £1000 for the first offences which can increase to £10,000 for repeated offences.
The Test and Trace team can now also pass details of people they know have failed to self-isolate "without reasonable justification" to be passed on to the local police.
Which could lead to enforcement action being taken against the person and include a fine.
Officers are now able to request information relating to positive Covid-19 tests from the NHS Test & Trace programme for someone who is not complying with the mandatory self-isolation period.
The offence will be dealt with by officers as a Fixed Plenity Notice.
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#1: Chun-Li
Series: Street Fighter
Debut: Street Fighter II
Premise: Street Fighter V
Complex Says: Chun-Li is arguably the most popular female video character ever created. Her debut in Street Fighter II was so influential that she, alongside Samus Aran, is the reason why female characters are included in video games playing the hero role instead of the damsel in distress. Since her inclusion in the Street Fighter series, fighting games have included at least one female character on their roster (Mortal Kombat, Fatal Fury 2, etc.) Chun-Li sits atop many fan polls ranking her as "the best," "the hottest," and "the most influential".
Chun-Li started off as young girl looking to avenge her father's death by the hands of Bison. Her character has since developed into an Interpol operative who worked to take down Shadaloo alongside Charlie and later with Guile in SFA3 (home consoles, official story.) Fast-forward to SF2 where she took down Shadaloo before its reemergence in SSFIV. In the SF3 series, she retires from street fighting to mentor students, but she comes out of retirement to save children from Urien's clutches.
We see Chun-Li starring in the next SF chapter of the series with a young mentor at her side. It looked as if Capcom wanted to phase out Ryu and Ken in the SF3 series by making Alex the star and Yun & Yang the victors of the tournament in 3rd Strike. If they wanted to take the series forward, they can use the new faces with Chun-Li being the only returning and starring face of the game.
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Directed hamiltonicity and out-branchings via generalized laplacians
Title: Directed hamiltonicity and out-branchings via generalized laplacians
Author(s): Björklund, Andreas ; Kaski, Petteri ; Koutis, Ioannis
Department: Lund University
University of Puerto Rico
Series: 44th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, ICALP 2017, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, Volume 80
DOI-number: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2017.91
Subject: Software, 113 Computer and information sciences
Keywords: Counting, Directed Hamiltonicity, Graph Laplacian, Independent set, Kinternal out-branching, Software, 113 Computer and information sciences
Björklund , A , Kaski , P & Koutis , I 2017 , Directed hamiltonicity and out-branchings via generalized laplacians . in 44th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, ICALP 2017 . , 91 , Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics , vol. 80 , Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing , pp. 1-14 , International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming , Warsaw , Poland , 10-14 July . DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2017.91
We are motivated by a tantalizing open question in exact algorithms: can we detect whether an n-vertex directed graph G has a Hamiltonian cycle in time significantly less than 2n? We present new randomized algorithms that improve upon several previous works: 1. We show that for any constant 0 < λ < 1 and prime p we can count the Hamiltonian cycles modulo p[(1-λ) n/3p] in expected time less than cn for a constant c < 2 that depends only on p and λ. Such an algorithm was previously known only for the case of counting modulo two [Björklund and Husfeldt, FOCS 2013]. 2. We show that we can detect a Hamiltonian cycle in O∗(3n-α(G)) time and polynomial space, where α(G) is the size of the maximum independent set in G. In particular, this yields an O∗(3n/2) time algorithm for bipartite directed graphs, which is faster than the exponential-space algorithm in [Cygan et al., STOC 2013]. Our algorithms are based on the algebraic combinatorics of "incidence assignments" that we can capture through evaluation of determinants of Laplacian-like matrices, inspired by the Matrix-Tree Theorem for directed graphs. In addition to the novel algorithms for directed Hamiltonicity, we use the Matrix-Tree Theorem to derive simple algebraic algorithms for detecting out-branchings. Specifically, we give an O∗(2κ)-time randomized algorithm for detecting out-branchings with at least k internal vertices, improving upon the algorithms of [Zehavi, ESA 2015] and [Björklund et al., ICALP 2015]. We also present an algebraic algorithm for the directed k-Leaf problem, based on a non-standard monomial detection problem.


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require 'deep_merge'
require 'copperegg/alerts'

module Copperegg
  module Alerts
    class Schedule
      attr_reader :schedules

      def initialize
        @client = Copperegg::Alerts::Client.instance
        @schedules = @client.get('alerts/schedules.json')
      end

      def create(name, tags = {})
        delete(name)
        add(name, tags)
      end

      def update(name, *args)
        body = {}
        args.each { |arg| body.deep_merge!(arg) }
        selected_schedules = @schedules.select { |h| h['name'] == name }
        if selected_schedules
          @schedules -= selected_schedules
          selected_schedules.each do |s|
            result = @client.put?("alerts/schedules/#{s['id']}.json", body)
            @schedules << if result.nil?
                            s
                          else
                            result
                          end
          end
        end
      end

      def add(name, *args)
        defaults = {
          'name' => name,
          'state' => 'enabled',
          'duration' => 10,
          'start_time' => Time.now.gmtime.strftime('%Y-%m-%dt%H:%M:%Sz')
        }
        args.each { |arg| defaults.deep_merge!(arg) }
        result = @client.post?('alerts/schedules.json', defaults)
        @schedules << result.parsed_response if result
      end

      def delete(name)
        selected_schedules = @schedules.select { |h| h['name'] == name }
        if selected_schedules
          @schedules -= selected_schedules
          selected_schedules.each do |s|
            if @client.delete?("alerts/schedules/#{s['id']}.json").nil?
              @schedules << s
            end
          end
        end
      end
    end
  end
end


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Onthophagus matae es una especie de insecto del género Onthophagus, familia Scarabaeidae, orden Coleoptera.

Historia
Fue descrita científicamente por Cambefort en 1984.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

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Color information hex 114536: RGB percentage, decimal and hexa, CMYK, HSL proportion, color gradient, tints, shades, tons, palettes color and other inspirations!
The color hexa 114536 is equivalent in RGB decimal 17, 69, 54 is 17 of red, 69 of green and 54 of blue. It can also be represented by the HSL (hue, saturation and lightness) parameters, which are 0.452 of hue (45), 0.605 of saturation (60) and 0.169 of lightness (16).


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ARDÈLE; A Pllay in Three Acts / By Jean Anouilh
Anouilh, Jean
London: Methuen & Co Ltd., 1951. First British Edition. Cloth. Small 8vo (7 1/2" x 5"), pale green cloth with gold title on spine, typographic dust jacket (unclipped) archival mylar-protected, 63, [64] pages. Jean Anouilh [pron.: An-ouil or A-nouil & not "anwi"] (1910 – 1987) was a prominent French playwrite..... More
DINNER WITH THE FAMILY; By Jean Anouilh / Translated by Edward Owen Marsh
London: Methuen & Co Ltd., 1958. First British Edition. Cloth. Small 8vo (7 1/2" x 5 1/8"), light red cloth with silver lettering on spine, pictorial cloth with red-black-white design (price-clipped) by Harry More-Garden, archival mylar-protected, 98 pages. Jean Anouilh [pron.: An-ouil or A-nouil & not "anwi"] (1910 – 1987)..... More
ORNIFLE; A Play by Jean Anouilh / Translated by Lucienne Hill / A Spotlight Dramabook
New York: Hill and Wang, 1958. First American Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 8vo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4"), lavender cloth with black spine lettering, scarlett script title on dust jacket (unclipped) archival mylar-protected, 140 pages. Jean Anouilh [pron.: An-ouil or A-nouil & not "anwi"] (1910 – 1987) was a prominent..... More
TIME REMEMBERED; English Version by Patricia Moyes
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., N.D. B&W photos. Fireside Theatre Book Club Edition. Cloth. 8vo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4"), beige cloth with scarlet lettering on spine, pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with photo montage of scenes from the play, illustrated with a few B&W photographs from the production, archival mylar-protected, 116..... More
THE WALTZ OF THE TOREADORS; By Jean Anouilh / Translated by Lucienne Hill
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1953. Fireside Theatre Book Club Edition. Cloth. 8vo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4"), green cloth with white lettering on spine, typographic dust jacket (unclipped) with writing on suspended drapery, illustrated with a few B&W photographs by Herb Nott, archival mylar-protected dust jacket (unclipped), 126 pages. Jean..... More
THE LARK; By Jean Anouilh / Adapted by Lillian Hellman
Anouilh, Jean [& Lillian Hellman]
New York: Random House, 1956. B&W photos. First Printing. Cloth. 8vo (8 1/4" x 5 5/8"), adapted by LILLIAN HELLMAN, gray buckram with black label and inset B&W photo of Julie Harris as Joan on front cover, illustrated with a few B&W stills from the production with Julie Harris &..... More
MADEMOISELLE COLOMBE; A Play by Anouilh, Jean / Adapted by Louis Kronenberger
Anouilh, Jean [& Louis Kronenberger]
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1954. Fireside Theatre Book Club Edition. Cloth. 8vo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4"), black cloth with tourquoise lettering on spine, pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a scene with Julie Harris & Eli Wallach, illustrated with glossy B&W frontispiece and a few B&W stills from the performance..... More
BALOON [with Autograph Manuscript Signed of Poem]; A Comedy in Four Acts
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929. Artzebasheff. First Edition. Cloth. INSCRIBED by the Author on the front free endpaper plus an AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED COPY of "THE LANDING" (2 sheets, 8 1/2" x 11" on Hotel Gotham stationery) SIGNED by the Poet and inscribed "For Harriet," [to whom the book..... More
THE WORLD'S OWN
Howe, Julia Ward
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1857. First Edition. Cloth. 12mo (7 3/8" x 4 7/8"), publisher's original brown cloth with gold lettering on spine and blindstamped centered floral oval and rules for border, yellow coated endpapers, 141 pages + [12] Ads for Ticknor & Fields. Julia Ward Howe (1819 – 1910)..... More
VIRGINIA; A Play by Edna O'Brien
O'Brien, Edna
New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1981. First American Edition, Second Printing. Cloth and boards. 8vo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4"), light blue quarter cloth with silver lettering on spine over off-white boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with portrait depicting Virginia Woolf's head using a linoleum..... More
A JEW TODAY; Translated from the French by Marion Wiesel
New York: Random House, 1978. First Edition, Third Printing. Cloth. SIGNED by the Author on the half title, 8vo, brown quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over beige boards with "EW" stamped on front cover, archival mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped), xii + 208 pages + [2] About the..... More
THE PLAYS OF OSCAR WILDE; Introduction by Edward Saltus
New York: The Modern Libary No. 83, 1952. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo, gray cloth with dark green label & gilt lettering, Introduction by Edward Saltus, archival mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped; price $1.25), gray pictorial ML Torchbearer design endpapers, publisher's gray topstain, iv, [v-vi] + 220 pages + [6] Ads for..... More


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